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Today’s Theme: PT Exercise
Themed answers sound like common phrases, but with a letter P replaced by a letter T at the start of one word:
- 23A. Most highly regarded seasoning? : TARRAGON OF VIRTUE (from “paragon of virtue”)
- 46A. Brusque orchestral violinists? : TERSE STRINGS (from “purse strings”)
- 67A. Actress Helen with her personal programmer? : HUNT AND TECH (from “hunt and peck”)
- 91A. Kids responsible for breakfast bread? : TOASTER GIRLS (from “poster girls”)
- 114A. Well-ventilated chef’s hat? : TOQUE FULL OF HOLES (from “poke full of holes”)
- 36D. Chocolate-loving gang? : COCOA TOUGHS (from “Cocoa Puffs”)
- 42D. Measurement for meat rotating on a spit? : ROAST TORQUE (from “roast pork”)
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Bill’s time: 18m 37s
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6. Two-letter pop group : ABBA
I am an unapologetic fan of ABBA’s music. ABBA was the Swedish group who topped the charts in the seventies and eighties. The name ABBA is an acronym formed from the first letters of the given names of each of the band members: Agnetha, Benny, Bjorn and Anni-Frid. Early in their careers, the four fell in love and formed two married couples: Agnetha and Bjorn, and Benny and Anni-Frid. However, at the height of their success, the relationships became strained and both couples divorced.
15. Card in a wallet : VISA
Visa doesn’t actually issue any credit or debit cards. Visa just sells the electronic systems and infrastructure to banks who then put the Visa logo on their own cards. Seeing the logo, both customer and merchant know to use the VISA system when making a transaction.
19. Zagreb native : CROAT
Zagreb is the capital city of the Republic of Croatia. Zagreb has been around a long, long time, and dates back to the diocese of Zagreb that was founded at the end of 11th century.
22. It gives you the big picture : IMAX
The IMAX Corporation, which is behind the IMAX film format, is a Canadian company. The impetus for developing the system came after Expo ’67 in Montreal. Back then large format screenings were accomplished using multiple projectors with multiple screens, with images basically stitched together. The team behind the IMAX technology set out to simplify things, and developed a single-camera, single-projector system.
23. Most highly regarded seasoning? : TARRAGON OF VIRTUE (from “paragon of virtue”)
Tarragon is a herb in the sunflower family that is also known by the name estragon. There are several subspecies, with “French tarragon” being the variety most commonly used for cooking. Other subspecies are known as Russian tarragon, Spanish tarragon and wild tarragon.
A paragon is an model of excellence, a peerless example. Ultimately the term derives from the Greek “para-” meaning “on the side” and “akone” meaning “whetstone”. This derivation comes from the ancient practice of using a touchstone to test gold for its level of purity by drawing a line on the stone with the gold and comparing the resulting mark with samples of known purity.
27. Call for icing, maybe : SWELL UP
An injured joint might swell up, for example, and benefit from icing.
28. Author Binchy : MAEVE
Maeve Binchy was a fabulous Irish novelist, and in my day a famous newspaper columnist whose column I would read daily. A few of her novels have made it to the big screen, including two I would recommend: “Circle of Friends” starring Chris O’Donnell and Minnie Driver, and “Tara Road” starring Andie MacDowell.
29. Limo amenity : MINIBAR
The word “limousine” derives from the French city of Limoges. The area around Limoges is called the Limousin, and it gave its name to a cloak hood worn by local shepherds. In early motor cars, a driver would sit outside in the weather while the passengers would sit in the covered compartment. The driver would often wear a limousin-style protective hood, giving rise to that type of transportation being called a “limousine”. Well, that’s how the story goes …
31. Literally, “shady side” : YIN
The yin and the yang can be illustrated using many different metaphors. In one, as the sun shines on a mountain, the side in the shade is the yin and the side in the light is the yang. The yin is also regarded as the feminine side, and the yang the masculine. The yin can also be associated with the moon, while the yang is associated with the sun.
32. Like two Beethoven piano sonatas : IN E
In addition to 5 cello sonatas and 10 violin sonatas, Ludwig van Beethoven composed 32 piano sonatas. The most famous of his sonatas that have been “named” are probably “Pathétique”, “Moonlight”, “Waldstein” and “Appassionata”.
33. Groom on a 1952 Life cover : ABNER
Daisy Mae Scragg was the vampish woman who chased Li’l Abner trying to goad him into marriage. This went on for 15 years in the cartoon strip until creator Al Capp succumbed to public pressure and married the couple at the end of March 1952. The marriage was such a big event that it made the cover of “Life” magazine.
34. B, in a sandwich : BACON
The BLT (bacon, lettuce and tomato) is the second most popular sandwich in the US, after the plain old ham sandwich.
37. Bridget Riley’s “Movement in Squares,” e.g. : OP ART
Bridget Riley is a painter from England who expresses herself in the genre of op art. One of Riley’s most famous works is 1961’s “Movement in Squares”.
40. 23rd of 24 : PSI
Psi is the 23rd letter in the Greek alphabet, and the one that looks a bit like a trident or a pitchfork.
45. __ collar : ETON
An Eton collar is a wide, stiff, buttoned collar that is still part of the formal school uniform at Eton College near Windsor in England.
46. Brusque orchestral violinists? : TERSE STRINGS (from “purse strings”)
Someone described as “brusque” is “gruff, abrupt and curt in manner”. The term comes into English from French, in which language it means “lively, fierce”.
49. Alley in comics : OOP
“Alley Oop” is a comic strip that ran for four decades starting in 1932. “Alley Oop” was drawn by V. T. Hamlin. The title character lived in the prehistoric kingdom of Moo, although for much of the strip’s life, Alley Oop had access to a time machine. Alley Oop also had a girlfriend called Ooola. I had assumed that Ooola’s name was a play on “hula hoop”, but that wasn’t invented until the 1950s (a kind blog reader informs me) …
53. Singer DiFranco : ANI
Ani DiFranco is a folk-rock singer and songwriter. DiFranco has also been labeled a “feminist icon”, and in 2006 won the “Woman of Courage Award” from National Organization for Women.
54. Card game shout : UNO!
In my youth I remember being taught a great card game by a German acquaintance of mine, a game called Mau Mau. Years later I discovered that Uno is basically the same game, but played with a purpose-printed deck instead of the regular deck of playing cards that’s used for Mau Mau. I hear that Mau Mau is derived from the game called Crazy Eights.
55. “Trinity” novelist : URIS
“Trinity” is a 1976 novel by American author Leon Uris. The story is set in Ireland, with a storyline the runs from the Great Famine of the 1840s through the Easter Rising of 1916.
56. “__ Not There”: Zombies hit : SHE’S
The Zombies are a rock band from St. Albans in England that formed in 1962. The band’s big hits were “She’s Not There” released in 1964 and “Time of the Season” from 1968.
60. Homer’s “Northeaster,” for one : SEASCAPE
Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and illustrator active in the second half of the 19th century. His most famous work is probably the oil painting depicting a man and three boys sailing, which bears the title “Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)”, and which can be seen in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C.
“Northeaster” is a seascape painting by American artist Winslow Homer. Homer painted it in 1895, a few year after he moved to Maine. You can take a look at “Northeaster” in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
66. Italian noble family : ESTE
The House of Este is a princely dynasty in Europe. The House of Hanover that ruled Britain from 1714 to 1901 (when Queen Victoria died) was perhaps the most notable branch of the House of Este. The House takes its name from the town of Este in the province of Padua in northern Italy.
67. Actress Helen with her personal programmer? : HUNT AND TECH (from “hunt and peck”)
“Hunt and peck” is a way to describe two-fingered typing.
Helen Hunt is a very talented actress who first came to national attention playing opposite Paul Reiser in TV’s hit sitcom “Mad About You”. Hunt then starred in some major films including “As Good as It Gets” (for which she won the Best Actress Oscar), “Twister, “Cast Away”, What Women Want” and more recently “The Sessions”. Offscreen, Hunt was married for a while to Hank Azaria, a favorite actor of mine.
70. One of a program dozen : STEP
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) was founded in 1935, by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith in Akron, Ohio. As the organization grew, the guiding principles established by the founders were formatted into a 12-step program that was in place by the forties.
75. “Tristram Shandy” author : STERNE
Laurence Sterne is best known for his novel “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”. It is an epic work, that was published in nine volumes over ten years.
76. Bag by the barbecue : CHARCOAL
It is believed that our word “barbecue” (BBQ) comes from the Taíno people of the Caribbean in whose language “barbacoa” means “sacred fire pit”.
78. Lit : SOUSED
The word “souse” dates back to the 14th century and means to pickle, steep in vinegar. In the early 1600s the usage was applied to someone pickled in booze, a drunkard.
82. “Hamilton” award : TONY
“Hamilton” is a 2015 musical based on the life or US Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, as described in the 2004 biography by Ron Chernow. The show opened off-Broadway in February 2015, and transferred to Broadway in August of the same year. Advance ticket sales for the Broadway production were unprecedented, and reportedly amounted to $30 million. The representations of the main characters is decidedly ground-breaking. The show is rooted in hip-hop and the main roles such as Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington are all played by African-American and Hispanic actors.
84. Holiday drink : NOG
It’s not really clear where the term “nog” (as in “eggnog”) comes from although it might derive from the word “noggin”, which was originally a small wooden cup that was long associated with alcoholic drinks.
88. Glittery rock : GEODE
A geode is a rock in which there is a cavity that is lined or filled with crystal formations.
89. Logician’s letters : QED
The initialism QED is used at the end of a mathematical proof or a philosophical argument. QED stands for the Latin “quod erat demonstrandum” meaning “that which was to be demonstrated”.
90. Granite St. campus : UNH
The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is the largest university in the state. UNH was founded as the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts in 1866 in Hanover. The college was moved to Durham in the early 1890s, which is where UNH’s main campus is located to this day.
New Hampshire is called the Granite State, because it has lots of granite quarries and granite formations.
94. Town : BURG
“Burg” is an informal term used in the US for a smaller town, from the German word “burg” meaning “fortified city”.
95. Low choristers : BASSI
The bass is the lowest male singing voice. A man with such a voice might be called a “basso” (plural “bassi”).
102. Kiss at the mall, briefly : PDA
Public display of affection (PDA)
107. Large crosses : ROODS
A rood is a crucifix that specifically symbolizes the cross on which Jesus was crucified.
109. Head honcho, e.g. : MAGNATE
“Honcho” is a slang term for a leader or manager. The term comes to us from Japanese, in which language a “hancho” is a squad (han) leader (cho).
114. Well-ventilated chef’s hat? : TOQUE FULL OF HOLES (from “poke full of holes”)
A toque was a brimless style of hat that was very fashionable in Europe in the 13th to 16th centuries. Nowadays we associate toques with chefs, as it is the name given to a chef’s hat (called a “toque blanche” in French, a “white hat”). A chef’s toque is quite interesting. Many toques have exactly 100 pleats, often said to signify the number of ways that an egg can be cooked.
118. Language that gives us “kayak” : INUIT
There is a type of boat used by Inuit people called an “umiak”. . The term “umiak” means “woman’s boat”, whereas “kayak” means “man’s boat”.
119. “The Clan of the Cave Bear” author : AUEL
As Jean Auel prepared her first book in the “Earth’s Children” series, she did a lot of research about the Ice Age, the setting for her stories. She went as far as taking a survival course in cold conditions, learning to build an ice cave and how to make fire, tan leather and knap stone.
120. Old Eurasian rulers : TSARS
The last ruler of Imperial Russia was Tsar Nicholas II (of the House of Romanov). Famously, the Tsar and his family were murdered in 1918 in the basement of a house in Yekaterinburg, Russia by members of the Bolshevik secret police. The Tsar’s youngest daughter was 16-year-old Anastasia and rumors of her escape have persisted for years. The rumors grew with the help of numerous women who claimed to be Anastasia. In 2009, DNA testing finally proved that the remains of all of the Tsar’s immediate family, including Anastasia, have been found and identified.
123. Letters before Q? : LGBT …
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
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1. John follower : ACTS
The Acts of the Apostles is the fifth book of the Christian New Testament. It is believed that the author of the Gospel of Luke was the same person who wrote “Acts”.
2. Sticking point? : CRAW
“Craw” is another name for the “crop”, a portion of the alimentary tract of some animals, including birds. The crop is used for the storage of food prior to digestion. It allows the animal to eat large amounts and then digest that food with efficiency over an extended period. The expression “to stick in one’s craw” is used one when one cannot accept something, cannot “swallow” it.
5. Yalta Conference notable : STALIN
The Yalta Conference was a wartime meeting between WWII leaders Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. Held in February of 1945, the conference is most remembered for decisions made on the post-war organization of Europe. To a large extent, the three leaders made decisions carving up political influence around the world, decisions that have profound implications to this day.
7. __ vivant : BON
A bon vivant (plural “bons vivants”) is a person who enjoys the best of food and drink, a person with very refined tastes. The term is French, coming from “good living” in that language.
9. __ de coeur: amorous relationship : AFFAIRE
“Affaire de coeur” is French for “love affair”, literally “love of the heart”.
13. Pipes and such : PLUMBING
Plumbum is the Latin for “lead”, explaining why the symbol of the element in the Periodic Table is “Pb”. It also explains why the original lead weight on the end of a line used to check vertical was called a “plumb line”. And, as pipes were originally made of lead, it also explains why we would call in a “plumber” if one of those popes was leaking.
15. Former “Today” co-host : VIEIRA
Meredith Vieira is journalist and television personality. Vieira had a regular gig on “The View” and NBC’s “Today” show. She also took over from Regis Philbin as host of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”.
16. Source of film trivia : IMDB
The website called the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) was launched in 1990, and is now owned by Amazon.com. It’s a great site for answering question one has about movies and actors.
33. It borders three oceans : ASIA
Asia is bordered by three oceans:
- The Pacific Ocean to the east
- The Indian Ocean to the south
- The Arctic Ocean to the north
36. Chocolate-loving gang? : COCOA TOUGHS (from “Cocoa Puffs”)
Cocoa Puffs is a General Mills breakfast cereal that is essentially the same as Kix cereal, but with chocolate flavoring added. Since 1962, the Cocoa Puffs mascot has been Sonny the Cuckoo Bird, who is “cuckoo for cocoa puffs!”.
37. Rex in the classics : OEDIPUS
“Oedipus Rex” (also “Oedipus the King”) is a tragedy penned by the Ancient Greek playwright Sophocles. The play tells the story of Oedipus, a man who becomes king of Thebes. Famously, Oedipus was destined from birth to murder his father and marry his mother.
42. Measurement for meat rotating on a spit? : ROAST TORQUE (from “roast pork”)
Torque can be thought of as a turning force, say the force needed to tighten a bolt or a nut. In physics, torque is represented by the Greek letter tau.
43. Like many Bing Crosby records : MONO
Bing Crosby has been described as the first multimedia star, having achieved achieved incredible success in terms of record sales, radio ratings and ticket sales for his movies. There are also many interesting things about Crosby’s life out of the limelight. For example, his daughter Mary Crosby played Kristin Shepard on the TV’s “Dallas”, and so was the person “who shot J. R. After his first wife Dixie Lee died, Bing Crosby dated and eventually proposed to actress and model Pat Sheehan. The proposal went nowhere, but Sheehan ended up marrying Bing Crosby’s son Dennis a few years later.
46. Sacred scroll : TORAH
The word “Torah” best translates as “teaching”, I am told.
47. Got hot online : TRENDED
In the world of Twitter, for example, a phrase that is getting “tagged” by users more than other phrases is said to be “trending”.
51. Florida NFLer : BUC
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers joined the NFL in 1976 along with the Seattle Seahawks as expansion teams. The Bucs had a tough start in the NFL, losing their first 26 games. Things went better in the early eighties, but then the team went through 14 consecutive losing seasons. Their luck changed again though, and they won the Super Bowl at the end of the 2002 season.
57. Yogi Bear co-creator : HANNA
William Hanna was an animator who is best known for his collaborations with Joseph Barbera. After creating “Tom and Jerry” for MGM, the partners founded the Hanna Barbera studio that produced such classics as “The Flintstones”, “The Huckleberry Hound Show”, “The Jetsons”, “Scooby-Doo”, “The Smurfs” and “Yogi Bear”.
Yogi Bear made his debut for Hanna-Barbera in 1958, on “The Huckleberry Hound Show” before he was given his own series. Do you remember that collar that Yogi wore around his neck? That was a little trick from the animators. By using the collar, for many frames all they had to do was redraw everything from the collar up, saving them lots and lots of time. Yogi and Boo Boo lived in Jellystone Park, and made Ranger Smith’s life a misery.
61. Bastes, say : SEWS
To baste is to sew loosely, just holding a join in a fabric together temporarily using large running stitches.
69. Straights and flushes : HANDS
Those would be poker hands.
74. Randy Johnson and Aroldis Chapman : LEFTIES
Randy Johnson is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher. One of Johnson’s many claims to fame is that he became the oldest pitcher to ever throw a perfect game, doing so at 40 years of age in 2004. He was also one of the tallest mean to ever play in the majors, clocking in a height of 6 feet 10 inches.
Aroldis Chapman is a baseball pitcher who defected from Cuba in 2009 while playing for his national team in a tournament in the Netherlands. After establishing residency in Andorra, Chapman moved the US to play with the Cincinnati Reds, and became an American citizen in 2016. Chapman holds the record for the fastest pitch in MLB, at 105.1 mph.
79. 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 quite young when she married Chaplin, much to the dismay of her famous father, playwright Eugene O’Neill. Eugene went as far as disowning 18-year-old Oona because of the marriage to 54-year-old Chaplin.
86. Wanderer : VAGABOND
A vagabond is a person without a home who moves from place to place. The term derives from the Latin “vagabundus” meaning “wandering, strolling about”.
87. 80%-Disney-owned channel : ESPN
The initialism “ESPN” stands for Entertainment Sports Programming Network. ESPN is a cable network that broadcasts sports programming 24 hours a day, and was launched back in 1979. ESPN has a lot of ardent fans. Several parents have named children Espn (usually pronounced “Espen”) on honor of the network.
88. Nats pitcher González : GIO
Gio González is an MLB pitcher who was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in 2004.
102. “Dead __ Society”: 1989 film : POETS
1989’s “Dead Poets Society” was directed by Peter Weir and stars Robin Williams as an English teacher who uses poetry to inspire his students. Tom Schulman wrote the somewhat autobiographical script based on his own experiences at a day school in Nashville, Tennessee. This is one of my favorite Robin Williams movies …
105. Middle eye layer : UVEA
The uvea is the middle of the three layers that make up the eyeball. The outer layer is called the fibrous tunic, and the inner layer is the retina.
106. Part of the woods? : NECK
Not in this “neck of the woods”.
111. Bird related to the noddy : TERN
Terns are seabirds that are found all over the world. The Arctic Tern makes a very long-distance migration. One Arctic Tern that was tagged as a chick in Great Britain in the summer of 1982, was spotted in Melbourne, Australia just three months later. The bird had traveled over 14,000 miles in over those three months, an average of about 150 miles a day. Remarkable …
Noddies are seabirds that are found all around the world. Noddy species belong to the genus Anous. “Anous” is an ancient Greek word meaning “stupid, foolish”. The name was applied as noddies were easily hunted by predators and humans alike.
112. Brand that’s a homophone of its company’s initials : 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.
115. N.Y. neighbor : QUE
Québec is the largest province in Canada, and the only one with French as its sole official language. The name “Québec” comes from an Algonquin word “kebec” meaning “where the river narrows”. This refers to the area around Quebec City where the St. Lawrence River narrows as it flows through a gap lined by steep cliffs. The province has voted twice in referenda asking whether or not Quebec should become an independent country, once in 1980, and again in 1995. The 1995 result was 49% in favor of sovereignty, up from 40% in 1980.
116. Where some pounds are spent: Abbr. : LEB
The currency of Lebanon is the lira, which is referred to as the Lebanese pound in English, and the “livre libanaise” in French.
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Complete List of Clues/Answers
Across
1. Peaks : ACMES
6. Two-letter pop group : ABBA
10. Prepares potatoes, in a way : WHIPS
15. Card in a wallet : VISA
19. Zagreb native : CROAT
20. Vanishing sound : POOF!
21. Seating option : AISLE
22. It gives you the big picture : IMAX
23. Most highly regarded seasoning? : TARRAGON OF VIRTUE (from “paragon of virtue”)
26. Side : EDGE
27. Call for icing, maybe : SWELL UP
28. Author Binchy : MAEVE
29. Limo amenity : MINIBAR
31. Literally, “shady side” : YIN
32. Like two Beethoven piano sonatas : IN E
33. Groom on a 1952 Life cover : ABNER
34. B, in a sandwich : BACON
37. Bridget Riley’s “Movement in Squares,” e.g. : OP ART
40. 23rd of 24 : PSI
41. Gets more friendly, with “up” : WARMS
45. __ collar : ETON
46. Brusque orchestral violinists? : TERSE STRINGS (from “purse strings”)
49. Alley in comics : OOP
50. Soft shoe : MOC
51. Portends : BODES
52. Bush boss : REAGAN
53. Singer DiFranco : ANI
54. Card game shout : UNO!
55. “Trinity” novelist : URIS
56. “__ Not There”: Zombies hit : SHE’S
58. Child with a sponsor, maybe : GODSON
60. Homer’s “Northeaster,” for one : SEASCAPE
62. Wall covers : PANELS
65. Quick quality : WIT
66. Italian noble family : ESTE
67. Actress Helen with her personal programmer? : HUNT AND TECH (from “hunt and peck”)
70. One of a program dozen : STEP
73. Big-eyed bird : OWL
75. “Tristram Shandy” author : STERNE
76. Bag by the barbecue : CHARCOAL
78. Lit : SOUSED
81. Honey beverage : MEAD
82. “Hamilton” award : TONY
83. 97-Across output : RTE
84. Holiday drink : NOG
85. Knockoff hr. : FIVE PM
88. Glittery rock : GEODE
89. Logician’s letters : QED
90. Granite St. campus : UNH
91. Kids responsible for breakfast bread? : TOASTER GIRLS (from “poster girls”)
94. Town : BURG
95. Low choristers : BASSI
97. See 83-Across : GPS
98. Golf bag set : IRONS
99. “Not a chance!” : MY EYE!
100. Pie nut : PECAN
102. Kiss at the mall, briefly : PDA
103. Security briefing org. : CIA
104. Lunch with fish : TUNA SUB
107. Large crosses : ROODS
109. Head honcho, e.g. : MAGNATE
113. Finished : OVER
114. Well-ventilated chef’s hat? : TOQUE FULL OF HOLES (from “poke full of holes”)
117. It’s often stained : DECK
118. Language that gives us “kayak” : INUIT
119. “The Clan of the Cave Bear” author : AUEL
120. Old Eurasian rulers : TSARS
121. Wine adjective : OAKY
122. Ideal areas : EDENS
123. Letters before Q? : LGBT …
124. Limited-choice, as a question : YES/NO
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1. John follower : ACTS
2. Sticking point? : CRAW
3. Extra : MORE
4. Near the start : EARLY ON
5. Yalta Conference notable : STALIN
6. Informal pricing words : A POP
7. __ vivant : BON
8. High time : BOOM
9. __ de coeur: amorous relationship : AFFAIRE
10. Forgo : WAIVE
11. Put on : HIRE
12. Musician’s suffix : -IST
13. Pipes and such : PLUMBING
14. Welcome : SEE IN
15. Former “Today” co-host : VIEIRA
16. Source of film trivia : IMDB
17. Complex story : SAGA
18. Lumberyard supplier : AXER
24. Staple __ : GUN
25. Doesn’t hold back : VENTS
30. Ski resort refreshment? : NEW SNOW
33. It borders three oceans : ASIA
34. Mystify : BEMUSE
35. Does penance (for) : ATONES
36. Chocolate-loving gang? : COCOA TOUGHS (from “Cocoa Puffs”)
37. Rex in the classics : OEDIPUS
38. It may be given with a bow : PRESENT
39. Saddlebag carrier : ASS
40. Radio tuning shortcut : PRESET
42. Measurement for meat rotating on a spit? : ROAST TORQUE (from “roast pork”)
43. Like many Bing Crosby records : MONO
44. Slant : SPIN
46. Sacred scroll : TORAH
47. Got hot online : TRENDED
48. Joke : GAG
51. Florida NFLer : BUC
56. Words often about details : SPARE ME
57. Yogi Bear co-creator : HANNA
59. CD part : DISC
61. Bastes, say : SEWS
63. Talking point? : LECTERN
64. Educates : SCHOOLS
68. Lures : TEMPTS
69. Straights and flushes : HANDS
71. Place to grab a bite : EATERY
72. Promise : PLEDGE
74. Randy Johnson and Aroldis Chapman : LEFTIES
77. Deli choice : RYE
78. Oscar __ : SNUB
79. O’Neill’s daughter : OONA
80. Giuseppe’s god : DIO
86. Wanderer : VAGABOND
87. 80%-Disney-owned channel : ESPN
88. Nats pitcher González : GIO
92. Done with : RID OF
93. Slow and steady : GRADUAL
94. Just barely, at the track : BY A NOSE
96. Animated : SPARKY
99. Powerful : MIGHTY
101. Adorable one : CUTIE
102. “Dead __ Society”: 1989 film : POETS
103. Half-__: coffee order : CAF
104. Stink : TO-DO
105. Middle eye layer : UVEA
106. Part of the woods? : NECK
107. Really mess up : RUIN
108. Hit hard : SLUG
109. Shed : MOLT
110. Start of a sad tale : ALAS
111. Bird related to the noddy : TERN
112. Brand that’s a homophone of its company’s initials : ESSO
115. N.Y. neighbor : QUE
116. Where some pounds are spent: Abbr. : LEB
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