CROSSWORD SETTER: Barry C. Silk
THEME: None
BILL BUTLER’S COMPLETION TIME: 19m 31s
ANSWERS I MISSED: 3 … PODAL (pedal), SHAREWARE (stareware!), NOAH (neat!)
Today’s Wiki-est, Amazonian Googlies
After a week on the River Shannon moving from dock to dock, I am heading for dry land. I’m spending a long weekend at my brother’s cottage in the west of Ireland, where I am assured there is reasonable Internet access. Just in cast though, here are the essentials for today’s puzzle. I should have the full post available shortly.
Bill
For the sake of completion, here is a full listing of all the answers:
Across
1. Org. concerned with neglect SPCA
5. Rivera specialty SAVES
10. Group led by a council of 12 Masters JEDI
14. Dart FLIT
15. Restrict CRAMP
16. Team members OXEN
17. Cesar Millan, e.g. PET TRAINER
19. Kebab need SPIT
20. Child care option DAY NURSERY
21. “Too great a burden to bear”: M.L. King Jr. HATE
22. Spends time at home BATS
23. Synthetic rubber used in footballs BUTYL
24. Spoiler of a perfect GPA ONE B
28. Northwestern winter fruit BOSC PEAR
31. Foot-related PODAL
33. Acoustically, it affects treble but not bass CARPETING
36. Indian clay oven TANDOOR
38. Officer Poncherello portrayer of ’70s-’80s TV ESTRADA
39. Programs with previews SHAREWARE
41. Lay into SET AT
42. Wade Boggs book subtitled “My Favorite Chicken Recipes” FOWL TIPS
44. Alarm sounds EEKS
45. Restricts STEMS
47. Shell with fish, perhaps TACO
49. Mother of Hephaestus HERA
50. Rhythmic fitness routine JAZZERCISE
56. 10- or 13-digit ID ISBN
57. Dunkin’ Donuts order ONION BAGEL
58. TVA product ELEC
59. Had to accept the loss ATE IT
60. Ticket word LOGE
61. Skate on thin ice DARE
62. Square figures NERDS
63. Native to FROM
Down
1. Its HQ was once destroyed as the result of an earthquake SFPD
2. Bargaining focus PLEA
3. Map listing CITY
4. Fax abbr. ATTN
5. Ancient amulet SCARAB
6. Noble ARISTOCRAT
7. Genus of butterfly that includes the Red Admiral VANESSA
8. Urgent care abbr. EMER
9. Active SPRY
10. Desert plant named for a Biblical spy JOSHUA TREE
11. One likely to vote by absentee ballot EXPATRIATE
12. Krishna, for one DEITY
13. Surveillance product, briefly INTEL
18. Difficulty RUB
23. Sugar sources BEETS
24. Goes (for) OPTS
25. Ham kin NOAH
26. 1925 Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist EDNA FERBER
27. Top-10 Lady Gaga hit from “The Fame Monster” album BAD ROMANCE
29. Dude who totally lurks in the bushes CREEPAZOID
30. Ltr. extender PPS
32. Former MGM parent LOEWS
34. Flickertail St. N DAK
35. Heaters GATS
37. Wide-faced bird OWL
40. More chic RITZIER
43. Essences SCENTS
45. Backed (away) SHIED
46. Magnetic induction unit TESLA
48. “… the inconstant moon … that monthly changes in her circled __”: Juliet ORB
50. Actress Cusack JOAN
51. Initial payment ANTE
52. Baby elephant CALF
53. Classic name heard in the 1962 hit “Monster Mash” IGOR
54. Utah lily SEGO
55. I, O or U ELEM