Day: November 10, 2013

Today’s Wiki-est, Amazonian Googlies
Across
5. Sourpuss PILL
A bitter pill to swallow …

14. Leaves at the last minute, in a way JILTS
To “jilt” someone with whom you have a relationship is to drop them suddenly or callously. “Jilt” is an obsolete noun that used to mean “harlot” or “loose woman”.

20. Trendy berry ACAI
Açaí is a palm tree native to Central and South America. The fruit has become very popular in recent years and its juice is a very fashionable addition to juice mixes and smoothies.

21. Australian exports OPALS
97% of the world’s opals come from Australia, so it’s no surprise perhaps that the opal is the national gemstone of the country. The state of South Australia provides the bulk of the world’s production, about 80%.

22. Cat Nation people ERIES
The Erie people lived on lands south of Lake Erie. The Erie were sometimes referred to as the Cat Nation, a reference to the mountain lions that were ever-present in the area that they lived. The name “Erie” is a shortened form of “Erielhonan” meaning “long tail”, possibly a further reference to the mountain lion or cat, which was possibly used as a totem. The Erie people gave their name to the Great Lake.

25. __ Bell: Emily Brontë pen name ELLIS
The first work that any of the three Brontë sisters had go in print was an 1846 collection of poetry that they published jointly. This first work was titled “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, each using a male pen name. Charlotte Brontë published her novel “Jane Eyre” under the name Currer Bell. Emily Brontë followed soon after with “Wuthering Heights” published under the name Ellis Bell. The youngest sister, Anne Brontë, published “Agnes Grey” using the name Acton Bell.

27. Chocolate source CACAO TREE
The flowers of the cacao tree grow in clusters directly on the trunk, and on older branches. The pollinated flowers turn into ovoid cacao pods, each of which contain 20-60 seeds or beans. The seeds are used as the main ingredient in chocolate.

33. Enthusiasm VIM
“Vim” and “punch” are words that both mean “energy” and “power”.

34. Cath. church eponym ST MARY
An eponym is a name for something derived from the name of a person, as in the “sandwich” named for the Earl of Sandwich.

39. Probate concerns ESTATES
“Probate” is the process of establishing the validity of a will. The term derives from the Latin “probare” meaning “to prove”.

43. Qualifying races HEATS
The term “heat”, meaning a qualifying race, dates back to the 1660s. Originally a heat was a run given to a horse to prepare it for a race, to “heat” it up.

48. Spread unit ACRE
At one time, an acre was defined as the amount of land a yoke of oxen could plow in a day. This was more precisely defined as a strip of land one furlong long (660 feet) and one chain wide (66 feet). The word “furlong” is actually derived from the Old English words meaning “furrow-long”, the length of the furrow plowed by the oxen.

52. Cartoon dog REN
“The Ren and Stimpy Show” is an animated television show that ran on Nickelodeon from 1991 to 1996. The title characters are Marland “Ren” Höek, a scrawny Chihuahua, and Stimpson J. Cat, a rotund Manx cat. Not my cup of tea …

53. Flyers’ org. NHL
The Philadelphia Flyers hockey team was founded in 1967. The team’s name was chosen as using a “name-the-team” fan contest.

55. Museum opening? ART
The word “art” is the opening word in the term “art museum”.

58. Anka song with the phrase “kiss me mucho” ESO BESO
“Eso Beso” is Spanish for “That Kiss”, and is the name of a hit song recorded by Canadian-born singer Paul Anka.

60. Shot with lots of English MASSE
In billiards, a massé shot is one in which the cue ball makes an extreme curve due to the player imparting heavy spin on the ball with his or her cue.

In my misspent youth, I’d play a little snooker. When deliberately placing side spin on the cue ball, we Irish (and British) players would simply say “I put some ‘side’ on that shot”. The term used over here in the US for the same shot is putting “english” on the ball. Ironically, the term “english” comes from the French “anglé” meaning “angled”. “Anglé” sounds exactly like the word “Anglais”, which is French for “English”. There you have it …

63. Work on an arm, maybe TAT
The word “tattoo” (often shortened to “tat”) was first used in English in the writings of the famous English explorer Captain Cook. In his descriptions of the indelible marks adorning the skin of Polynesian natives, Cook anglicized the Tahitian word “tatau” into our “tattoo”.

68. Flaky fish COD
In the British Isles, the most common fish that is used in traditional “fish and chips” is Atlantic cod. Cod has been overfished all over the world, and is now considered to be an endangered species by many international bodies.

69. African hot spot SAHARA
The name “Sahara” means “greatest desert” in Arabic and it is just that, a great desert covering almost 4 million square miles of Northern Africa. That’s almost the size of the United States.

72. APB targets PERPS
Perpetrator (perp.)

An All Points Bulletin (APB) is a broadcast from one US law enforcement agency to another.

73. Galena, for one LEAD ORE
Galena is the most commonly used mineral to produce lead. It is a form of lead sulfide. Galena is the state mineral of Missouri and of Wisconsin.

77. Big name in food safety ECOLAB
Ecolab is a company that provides mainly cleaning products to the hospitality and foodservice markets. Ecolab was founded in 1923 as Economics Laboratory with the company’s first product being a cleaning solution for carpets in hotels.

78. P.I. TEC
“Tec” is a slang term for a private detective, a private investigator (PI).

81. Daly of “Wings” TIM
The actor Tim Daly is best-known for playing Joe Hackett on the sitcom “Wings”. Daly also provides the voice for Superman/Clark Kent in “Superman: The Animated Series”. Tim is the younger brother of actress Tyne Daly, who played Lacey in the cop show “Cagney & Lacey”.

83. Cold War concept advanced by Eisenhower DOMINO THEORY
IN the days of the Cold War, President Eisenhower referred to countries that were in danger of Communist takeover as “dominoes”. He was making an argument in favor of American intervention around the world in order to prevent the spread of Communism. The argument was that if one or two of these countries were taken over by Communists, then surrounding countries would also fall, in a domino effect.

87. Starkers, across the pond NUDE
The British slang term “starkers” means “nude”, coming from the expression “stark naked”.

93. Like attached baths, in Bordeaux EN SUITE
The expression “en suite” is an example of the French language being used in English, but with a new meaning. Firstly, the word “ensuite” translates from French as “then” or “later”. The phrase “en suite” translates as “as a set, series”. The French use the term “suite” as we do sometimes, as in a suite of connecting rooms. Over in the British Isles, “en suite”, and sometimes “en-suite” or “ensuite”, is a term used in the hotel industry for a bedroom that has a private bathroom or shower room attached. Some smaller establishments in that part of the word might rent out bedrooms with the occupants having to share bathing facilities.

Bordeaux is perhaps the wine producing capital of the world. Wine has been produced in the area since the eighth century. Bordeaux has an administrative history too. During WWII, the French government relocated from Paris to the port city of Bordeaux when it became clear that Paris was soon to fall to the Germans. After the German’s took France, the capital was famously moved to Vichy.

97. Retired boomer SST
Supersonic transports (SSTs) like the Concorde broke Mach 1, the speed of sound. As a plane flies through air, it creates pressure waves in front (and behind) rather like the bow and stern waves of a boat. These pressure waves travel at the speed of sound, so as an aircraft itself accelerates towards the speed of sound it catches up with the pressure waves until they cannot “get out of the way”. When the aircraft reaches the speed of sound, the compressed waves merge into one single shock wave, creating a sonic boom.

98. Image Awards org. NAACP
The full name of the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is remarkable in that it actually still uses the old offensive term “colored people”. The NAACP was founded in 1909, by a group that included suffragette and journalist Mary White Ovington, wealthy socialist William English Walling, and civil rights activist Henry Moscowitz. Another member of the founding group was W. E. B. Du Bois, the first African American to earn a doctorate at Harvard University.

The NAACP Image Awards are presented annually to recognise people of color in the worlds of film, television, music and literature.The first awards were presented in 1967, and the ceremony usually takes place in Los Angeles.

104. Martial arts maneuver JUDO THROW
Judo is a martial art from Japan that was developed relatively recently, in 1882. The name “judo” translates as “gentle way”.

109. Ripley’s closing words OR NOT
“Ripley’s Believe It or Not!” is a huge franchise on television, affiliated to a worldwide chain of museums. The franchise started out as cartoon feature appearing in newspapers in 1918.

110. Cousteau’s realm OCEAN
Jacques-Yves Cousteau started off his career in the French Navy, aiming for a working life in aviation. Because of a car accident, Cousteau had to abandon his first career choice and instead went to sea. Famously, he invented the Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA), also called the aqualung.

112. O’Neill’s daughter OONA
Oona O’Neill dated J. D. Salinger and Orson Welles in her teens, but ended up marrying Charlie Chaplin. Oona was still pretty young when she married Chaplin, much to the dismay of her famous father, the playwright Eugene O’Neill. After the marriage Eugene disowned Oona as he was pretty upset about 54-year-old Chaplin marrying his 18-year-old daughter.

113. O’Neal’s daughter TATUM
Tatum O’Neal is the youngest actress to win a “competitive” Oscar. She won the Best Supporting Actress Award in 1974 when she was just 10 years old, for her role as Addie in “Paper Moon”. The youngest person to win an honorary Academy Award was Shirley Temple, who was only 5 years old when she was presented with an Oscar in 1934.

114. “I can’t go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands” speaker RHETT
The character Rhett Butler says the following, in “Gone with the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell:

I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it’s not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I’m going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you’ll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can’t go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

117. Whack, biblically SMITE
“To smite” is to strike with a firm blow.

118. Rainy day brand TOTES
Totes Isotoner is based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company is the world’s largest supplier of umbrellas and other rainwear items.

120. Fraternal group ELKS
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE) was founded in 1868, and is a social club that has about a million members today. It started out as a group of men getting together in a “club” in order to get around the legal opening hours of taverns in New York City. The club took on a new role as it started to look out for poor families of members who passed away. The club now accepts African Americans as members (since the seventies) and women (since the nineties), but atheists still aren’t welcome.

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2. Arizona county or its seat YUMA
The city and county of Yuma take their name from the Quechan (aka “Yuma”) Native American tribe that inhabited the area.

3. Stonestreet of “Modern Family” ERIC
Actor Eric Stonestreet is best-known for playing Cameron Tucker on the hit comedy show “Modern Family”. Stonestreet is openly straight, but plays the gay partner of the character Mitchell Pritchett. Pritchett is played by openly gay actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson. Ferguson jokingly describes Stonestreet as being “gay for pay”.

5. Baklava, e.g. PASTRY
Baklava is a very sweet and rich (and delicious) dessert pastry made from layers of filo dough filled with nuts and sweetened with honey or syrup. The name “baklava” comes from the Ottoman Turkish name for the pastry.

9. “Casino” co-star JOE PESCI
Joe Pesci got his big break in movies with a supporting role in “Raging Bull” starring Robert De Niro, earning Pesci an Oscar nomination early in his career. There followed a string of gangster roles played alongside De Niro, namely “Once Upon a Time in America”, “Goodfellas” and “Casino”. But I like Pesci’s comedic acting best of all. He was marvelous in the “Home Alone” films, the “Lethal Weapon” series, and my personal favorite, “My Cousin Vinny”. Pesci gets a mention in the stage musical “Jersey Boys”, which isn’t too surprising as he is one of the show’s producers.

11. __ Lama DALAI
The Dalai Lama is a religious leader in the Gelug branch of Tibetan Buddhism. The current Dalai Lama is the 14th to hold the office. He has indicated that the next Dalai Lama might be found outside of Tibet for the first time, and may even be female.

13. Canadian pump sign ESSO
The brand name Esso has its roots in the old Standard Oil company as it uses the initial letters of “Standard” and “Oil” (ESS-O). The Esso brand was replaced by Exxon in the US, but ESSO is still used in many other countries.

14. Like Boston College, say JESUIT
Boston College is a private Jesuit school located in Chestnut Hill, just a few miles from Boston, Massachusetts. The list of notable Boston College alumni includes Secretary of State John Kerry and former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill.

15. Certain triathlete IRONMAN
An Ironman Triathlon is a race involving a 2.4 mile swim, a 112 mile bike ride, and a marathon run of just over 26 miles. The idea for the race came out of a debate between some runners in the 1977 Oahu Perimeter Relay. They were questioning whether runners, swimmers or bikers were the most fit athletes. The debaters decided to combine three local events to determine the answer, inviting athletes from all three disciplines. The events that were mimicked to come up with the first triathlon were the Waikiki Roughwater swim (2.4 miles), the Around-Oahu Bike Race (115 miles) and the Honolulu Marathon (26.2 miles). The idea was that whoever finished first would be called “the Iron Man”. The first triathlon was run in 1978, with fifteen starters and only twelve finishers. The race format is used all over the world now, but the Hawaiian Ironman is the event that everyone wants to win.

16. “… a tale / Told by an idiot”: Macbeth LIFE
There is a superstition in the theatrical world that uttering the name “Macbeth” in a theater will bring disaster of some sort. To avoid this, the euphemism “the Scottish Play” is often used instead.

18. Outdated geopolitical letters SSR
Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR)

28. They’re secured in locks OARS
Oars are locked into place in oarlocks, those stirrups into which the oars are positioned for rowing. Oarlocks … another word I had to learn when I arrived in America. We call them rowlocks (pronounced “rol-ox”) on the other side of the Atlantic.

30. Emmy winners, often TV STARS
The Emmy Awards are the television equivalent of the Oscars in the world of film, the Grammy Awards in music and the Tony Awards for the stage. Emmy Awards are presented throughout the year, depending on the sector of television being honored. The most famous of these ceremonies are the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Daytime Emmy Awards. The distinctive name of “Emmy” is a softened version of the word “immy”, the nickname given to the video camera tubes found in old television cameras.

32. Inamorato BEAU
“Inamorata” is an Italian term that we’ve imported into English. It describes a female lover. An “innamorato” is a male lover.

34. Western classic SHANE
The classic 1953 western movie called “Shane” was based on the novel of the same name by Jack Schaefer published in 1949. Alan Ladd had a rough end to his life. In 1962 he was found unconscious in a pool of blood with a bullet wound in his chest, an abortive suicide attempt. Two years later he was found dead, apparently having died from an accidental overdose of drugs and sedatives. He was 50 years old.

35. Geek Squad pros TECHS
Best Buy is a retailer specializing in the supply of consumer electronics. Best Buy services include the famous “Geek Squad”, a band of technical experts that will help solve your computer and other consumer electronic problems.

36. “That Girl” actress MARLO THOMAS
Marlo Thomas’s most famous role was playing the title character in the television sitcom “That Girl”. Thomas is also well known as a spokesperson for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

39. Where to leave Port. EUR
One would be in Europe (Eur.) if leaving Portugal (Port.).

Portugal is the most westerly country in Europe, located in the west of the Iberian Peninsula alongside Spain. The name “Portugal” comes from the Latin name for Porto, the country’s second largest city: “Portus Cale”. Portugal was a far-reaching power in the 15th and 16th centuries, at the center of the world’s first truly global empire. A legacy of the Portuguese Empire is that today there are more than 240 million Portuguese speakers across the world.

41. Duel tools EPEES
The épée that is used in today’s sport fencing is derived from the old French dueling sword. In fact, the the sport of épée fencing is very similar to the dualing of the 19th century. The word “épée” translates from French as “sword”.

45. Many sculptures TORSI
“Torso” (plural “torsi”) is an Italian word meaning the “trunk of a statue”, a word that we imported into English.

54. The classical elements, e.g. TETRAD
The Greek philosopher Empedocles proposed that there are four elements that made up the universe, namely earth, water, air and fire. Aristotle later proposed a fifth element which he called aether (also “ether”). Aether was the divine substance that made up the stars and planets.

57. Yankee slugger, familiarly A-ROD
Poor old Alex Rodriguez earned more nicknames than just A-Rod. He has been called “the Cooler” by some players as there is a perception that teams go cold when he joins them and hot when he leaves. He has also been called “A-Fraud” by teammates because of another perception, that he is over-demanding. Rodriguez is now seems to be in a world of hurt for using illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

59. False god BAAL
The name “Baal” was used for several gods and sometimes human officials by ancient Semitic peoples. In the Hebrew Bible, Baal is notably cited as a false god. As a result, we sometimes use the term “baal” today to mean a false god or an idol.

60. Florida’s __ Island, near Naples MARCO
Marco Island is the largest of the barrier islands in southwest Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands.

61. Wildspitze, for one ALP
Wildspitze is a mountain in the Alps, the second highest peak in Austria (after the Grossglockner).

66. Typical Nome winter highs TEENS
Nome, Alaska has over 3,500 residents, the majority of whom are Native American. The next largest ethnic group in Nome is the white population.

69. Twilled fabric SERGE
Serge is a type of twill fabric with diagonal ridges on both sides. The name “serge” comes from the Greek word for “silken”.

76. Rough stuff EMERY
Emery is a very hard type of rock that is crushed for use as an abrasive. Emery paper is made by gluing small particles of emery to paper. Emery boards are just emery paper with a cardboard backing. And emery boards are primarily used for filing nails.

84. One of a G.I.’s three squares MRE
The Meal, Ready-to-Eat (MRE) comes in a lightweight package that’s easy to tote around. The MRE replaced the more cumbersome Meal, Combat, Individual (MCI) in 1981, a meal-in-a-can. In turn, the MCI had replaced the C-ration in 1958, a less sophisticated meal-in-a-can with a more limited choice.

87. Like a short golf round NINE-HOLE
There’s an urban myth that the standard number of holes on a golf course is 18 because it takes 18 shots to polish off a fifth of scotch whisky. However, the truth is that the standard number of holes in the Old Course at St. Andrews in Scotland happened to settle down over time at 18, and that standard was adopted all around the world.

96. Sister of Peter FLOPSY
Beatrix Potter was an English author, famous for the children’s books she wrote and illustrated. The most famous character in her stories was Peter Rabbit, whose sisters were Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail. Potter put her talent as an artist to good use in the scientific world as well. She recorded many images of lichens and fungi as seen through her microscope. As a result of her work, she was respected as an expert mycologist.

98. Chip with cheese NACHO
The dish known as “nachos” were supposedly created by the maître d’ at a restaurant called the Victory Club in the city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico. The maître d’’s name was Ignacio “Nacho” Anaya.

100. Coated cheeses EDAMS
Edam cheese takes its name from the Dutch town of Edam in North Holland. The cheese is famous for its coating of red paraffin wax, a layer of protection that helps Edam travel well and prevents spoiling. You might occasionally come across an Edam cheese that is coated in black wax. The black color indicates that the underlying cheese has been aged for a minimum of 17 weeks.

101. Bath buggy PRAM
Another word used in the UK that’s rarely used over here is “pram”, which in my day was the most common term for what is called a baby carriage in the US. “Pram” is short for “perambulator”.

103. Civil wrong TORT
The word “tort” is a French word meaning “mischief, injury or wrong”. Tort law is generally about negligence, when the action of one party causes injury to another but that action falls outside of the scope of criminal law.

104. Shade of green JADE
Jade is actually the name given to two different mineral rocks, both of which are used to make gemstones. The first is nephrite, a mineral with a varying degree of iron content, the more iron the greener the color. The second is jadeite, a sodium and aluminum-rich pyroxene. As well as being used for gemstones, both jade minerals can be carved into decorative pieces.

105. Old Voice of America org. USIA
The United States Information Agency (USIA) was established under President Eisenhower in 1953, and continued operating until 1999. It’s mission was “public diplomacy”, another term for propaganda broadcast over radio airwaves. The intent from day one was to avoid having the broadcasts identified as propaganda, and speaking as a former listener to the USIA’s Voice of America (VOA) over in Europe, there were a lot of fun programs that had one coming back to hear more, but we all knew it was propaganda quite frankly …

109. NFL tiebreakers hidden in this puzzle’s nine longest answers OTS
Overtimes (OTs)

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For the sake of completion, here is a full listing of all the answers:
Across
1. Tournament exemptions BYES
5. Sourpuss PILL
9. Evaluate JUDGE
14. Leaves at the last minute, in a way JILTS
19. Fly, at times LURE
20. Trendy berry ACAI
21. Australian exports OPALS
22. Cat Nation people ERIES
23. Overlook OMIT
24. Registered, with “in” SANK
25. __ Bell: Emily Brontë pen name ELLIS
26. Up to this point SO FAR
27. Chocolate source CACAO TREE
29. One working with hammers PIANO TUNER
31. Bold move DARE
32. Suit BEFIT
33. Enthusiasm VIM
34. Cath. church eponym ST MARY
37. Heart container CHEST
39. Probate concerns ESTATES
43. Qualifying races HEATS
44. Scored 75, say HAD A C
45. Stretched to the max TAUT
47. “Don’t think so” NOPE
48. Spread unit ACRE
49. Pest-snaring device MOSQUITO TRAP
52. Cartoon dog REN
53. Flyers’ org. NHL
54. Sealing supplies TAPES
55. Museum opening? ART
56. Gathered REAPED
58. Anka song with the phrase “kiss me mucho” ESO BESO
60. Shot with lots of English MASSE
62. Underline, say STRESS
63. Work on an arm, maybe TAT
64. Classroom reminder NO TALKING
68. Flaky fish COD
69. African hot spot SAHARA
72. APB targets PERPS
73. Galena, for one LEAD ORE
77. Big name in food safety ECOLAB
78. P.I. TEC
79. Captain’s reference CHART
81. Daly of “Wings” TIM
82. CD-__ ROM
83. Cold War concept advanced by Eisenhower DOMINO THEORY
87. Starkers, across the pond NUDE
88. Snap up GRAB
90. Vessels at banquets URNS
91. Golfer’s choice WEDGE
92. Cotton thread FIBER
93. Like attached baths, in Bordeaux EN SUITE
95. Ends of the earth POLES
96. Sunday best FINERY
97. Retired boomer SST
98. Image Awards org. NAACP
100. “What __ could I do?” ELSE
101. Outdoor furniture piece PATIO TABLE
104. Martial arts maneuver JUDO THROW
109. Ripley’s closing words OR NOT
110. Cousteau’s realm OCEAN
111. Rush job letters ASAP
112. O’Neill’s daughter OONA
113. O’Neal’s daughter TATUM
114. “I can’t go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands” speaker RHETT
115. Lowers DIMS
116. Created fiction? LIED
117. Whack, biblically SMITE
118. Rainy day brand TOTES
119. Not a challenge EASY
120. Fraternal group ELKS

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1. Voting coalition BLOC
2. Arizona county or its seat YUMA
3. Stonestreet of “Modern Family” ERIC
4. Begin wedding plans SET A DATE
5. Baklava, e.g. PASTRY
6. Comforting comment I CARE
7. Roped-off pool area LANE
8. Facebook option LIKE
9. “Casino” co-star JOE PESCI
10. Elevate UPLIFT
11. __ Lama DALAI
12. Sun-on-ocean effect GLINT
13. Canadian pump sign ESSO
14. Like Boston College, say JESUIT
15. Certain triathlete IRONMAN
16. “… a tale / Told by an idiot”: Macbeth LIFE
17. Forgo scissors TEAR
18. Outdated geopolitical letters SSR
28. They’re secured in locks OARS
30. Emmy winners, often TV STARS
32. Inamorato BEAU
34. Western classic SHANE
35. Geek Squad pros TECHS
36. “That Girl” actress MARLO THOMAS
37. Discounted buy CASE
38. Command posts: Abbr. HDQS
39. Where to leave Port. EUR
40. Naval weapons launcher TORPEDO TUBE
41. Duel tools EPEES
42. Ships SENDS
44. Biker’s welcome HOP ON
45. Many sculptures TORSI
46. When some folks retire AT TEN
49. Postgrad degrees MAS
50. They may be assigned TASKS
51. Family adoptee PET CAT
54. The classical elements, e.g. TETRAD
57. Yankee slugger, familiarly A-ROD
59. False god BAAL
60. Florida’s __ Island, near Naples MARCO
61. Wildspitze, for one ALP
65. Agree to join OPT IN
66. Typical Nome winter highs TEENS
67. Driving hazard GLARE
69. Twilled fabric SERGE
70. Squash variety ACORN
71. On the verge of doing it ABOUT TO
74. Hatch back? -ERY
75. Subway patron RIDER
76. Rough stuff EMERY
79. Turn over CEDE
80. Fails to share HOGS
84. One of a G.I.’s three squares MRE
85. Unsolicited opinion TWO CENTS
86. Toolbar offering HELP
87. Like a short golf round NINE-HOLE
89. Escape, as a con BUST OUT
92. Ring weapon FIST
94. “Am I the problem?” IS IT ME?
95. It’s a matter of taste PALATE
96. Sister of Peter FLOPSY
98. Chip with cheese NACHO
99. Red as __ A BEET
100. Coated cheeses EDAMS
101. Bath buggy PRAM
102. Foe ANTI
103. Civil wrong TORT
104. Shade of green JADE
105. Old Voice of America org. USIA
106. Muddy up ROIL
107. .62 mi., in a race ONE-K
108. Rolls of notes WADS
109. NFL tiebreakers hidden in this puzzle’s nine longest answers OTS

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