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1A Iodine source : KELP

Iodine was first isolated in 1811 by French chemist Bernard Courtois when he noticed violet vapors rising from seaweed ash. That vapor crystalized when exposed to a cold surface. Courtois passed on samples of the dark crystals to fellow chemists, and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac declared the material an element. He suggested the name “iode” (“iodine” in English) from the Greek “iodes” meaning “violet”, due to the color of the gas.

5A Kenny Chesney hit about living in the moment : HERE AND NOW

Kenny Chesney is a country music singer and songwriter from Knoxville, Tennessee. For just a few months in 2005, Chesney was married to actress Renee Zellweger.

16A Birthstone for many Pisces : AQUAMARINE

The mineral beryl is a source of a number of different semi-precious stones, depending on the nature of the impurities present. Pure beryl is colorless; blue beryl is called aquamarine, and green beryl is emerald. Traces of iron cause the blue color, and traces of chromium give the green hue.

22A Bowler’s edge : BRIM

The bowler hat is so called because it was originally designed, in 1849, by the London hat-makers Thomas and William Bowler. The Bowlers created it as an alternative for the top hats then worn by gamekeepers. The gamekeepers needed a tight-fitting hat with a low and rounded crown so that it would stay on their heads as they rode by horseback through woodland with low-hanging branches.

23A Take third, say : STEAL

That could be baseball.

25A Bulb choice : LED

A light-emitting diode (LED) is a specialized form of semiconductor that when switched on releases photons (light). LEDs have many applications, from status indicators in consumer electronics to high-efficiency display backlighting. They are also used as replacements for the much less-efficient tungsten light bulbs. I replaced all of my tungsten Xmas lights many years ago and saved a lot on my electricity bill.

27A MDW alternative : ORD

The IATA airport code for O’Hare International in Chicago is ORD, which comes from Orchard Place Airport/Douglas Field (OR-D).

Midway Airport (MDW) started off with just one cinder runway in 1923, and was called Chicago Air Park. By 1927 the airport had expanded and earned the name Chicago Municipal Airport. In 1932 Midway was the world’s busiest airport, a title it held for thirty years. In 1949, in honor of the WWII Battle of Midway, the airport was renamed again to Chicago Midway Airport. Then in 1955, along came Chicago International Airport and all the major airlines started moving their operations over to the newer facility. Today, Midway is a major hub for Southwest.

33A __ pudding : PEASE

Pease pudding, or pease porridge, is a very English dish that is similar to split pea soup. We used to sing a nursery rhyme as kids:

Pease pudding hot, pease pudding cold, pease pudding in the pot, nine days old.

37A Actor Arkin : ALAN

Actor Adam Arkin’s breakthrough role was probably playing Aaron Shutt in the TV drama “Chicago Hope”. Born in 1956, Adam is the son of fellow-actor Alan Arkin.

42A “Roots” actress Sinclair : MADGE

Jamaican actress Madge Sinclair is perhaps best known to TV audiences for playing the dedicated Nurse Shoop on the long-running “M*A*S*H” spinoff show “Trapper John, M.D.” in the 1980s. Moviegoers might remember her for portraying the Queen of Zamunda, the mother of Eddie Murphy’s character in the 1988 romcom film “Coming to America”. Sinclair’s last film role was also a queen, voicing Sarabi, Simba’s mother in 1994’s animated musical hit “The Lion King”.

52A Fa follower : … SOL

Solfège (also “sol-fa”) is a teaching method used in the world of music. The technique involves the use of the sol-fa syllables for each note, and associating each syllable with a specific pitch.

54A French 101 verb : ETRE

The French for “to be” is “être”.

66A Three, in Kindergarten : DREI

“Kindergarten” is a German word, one translated as “children’s garden”. The term was coined by the German education authority Friedrich Fröbel in 1840, when he used it as the name for his play and activity institute that he created for young children to use before they headed off to school. His thought was that children should be nourished educationally, like plants in a garden.

67A Photography collection subtitled “Mathematicians and Their Chalkboards” : DO NOT ERASE

“Do Not Erase: Mathematicians and Their Chalkboards” sounds like a very intriguing photo-essay book by professor of photography Jessica Wynne, and published in 2021. Each photograph shows a blackboard on which a mathematician has worked.

68A Throw, 28-Across : YEET
[28A Comment after using a new expression : AS THE KIDS SAY]

In contemporary slang, to yeet is to throw away, discard. “To yeet” usually implies the use of force and a general disregard for what is being discarded. As in, “I really want to yeet the word ‘yeet’ …”

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1D Coffee option : K-CUP

A K-Cup is a single-portion cup of coffee, tea or hot chocolate in which the beverage is prepared in situ. K-Cup packs are used with brewing machines made by Keurig, a manufacturer of coffee brewers based in Reading, Massachusetts. Personally, I use a Nespresso machine …

4D Oscar-winning film based on an Alasdair Gray novel : POOR THINGS

“Poor Things” is a 2023 big-screen adaptation of a 1992 novel of the same name by Alasdair Gray. It is set in Victorian London, with Emma Stone playing the lead, Bella Baxter. Baxter has the body of an adult woman, but the mind of a fetus whose brain was transplanted into the adult woman. This one sounds very, very trippy …

12D Coffee option : NITRO

Nitro cold brew is a coffee drink infused with pressurized nitrogen gas. This results in a beverage with a velvety mouth feel. Drinkers of Guinness will recognize the drink’s texture, as well as the “cascading” effect seen during and after the pour.

14D Site with health advice : WEBMD

WebMD is a website containing health information. Online since 1996, WebMD is read by over 80 million readers each month. One example of the useful features on the site is the Pill Identification Tool.

26D Big name in caulk : DAP

DAP is an American manufacturer of caulks, sealants and adhesives. The acronym “DAP” stands for “Dicks-Armstrong-Pontius”.

28D Driver in Hollywood : ADAM

Adam Driver is an actor perhaps best known to TV audiences for playing Adam Sackler on the show “Girls” that airs on HBO. Driver’s movie career got a huge boost in 2015 when he played villain Kylo Ren in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”.

29D “Homesick: A Memoir” writer Ward : SELA

Sela Ward is an American actress who won Emmys for her role on the TV show “Sisters” in 1994 and for her role on “Once and Again” in 2000. She is a published author and released her autobiography “Homesick: A Memoir” in 2012.

34D Application with persistent pop-ups : ANNOYWARE

Annoyware is a type of shareware that is perhaps better described by its nickname “nagware”. It is a category of software that emerged in the early 1990s, applications that could be used for free but tended to exhaust a user’s patience with persistent registration reminders or pop-up ads.

40D London home of many works by Louise Bourgeois : TATE

Louise Bourgeois was a French-American artist who is best known for her large-scale works. Her most recognizable piece is perhaps the 30-foot-tall bronze spider titled “Maman”, casts of which can be seen in the collections of several institutions around the world, including the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Bourgeois described “Maman”, French for “Mom”, as “an ode to my mother.” Her mother was a weaver, as is a spider, who owned a gallery that dealt with antique tapestries.

43D Some RPI grads : EES

Many graduates of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) are electrical engineers (EEs).

47D Secant reciprocal : COSINE

In trigonometry, the reciprocal of the cosine function is the secant. The term “secant” comes from the Latin verb “secare” meaning “to cut”, and was coined by Danish mathematician Thomas Fincke in the 1580s.

48D “Where Is Love?” musical : OLIVER!

“Where Is Love?” is a ballad from Lionel Bart’s 1960 stage musical “Oliver!”, and from the 1968 film of the same name. The song has been covered several times, including a version by Leonard Nimoy, on the 1967 album “Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock’s Music from Outer Space”. Wow!

49D Judean king known for ambitious building projects : HEROD

Herod the Great was a vassal king in the first century BCE who ruled Judea under Roman supremacy. According to the Christian Bible, It was Herod the Great who ordered the Massacre of the Innocents, the execution of all young, male children in Bethlehem at the time of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. When Herod the Great died circa 4 BCE, Rome divided his kingdom between his three sons and one daughter. The son named Herod Antipas became ruler of Galilee and Perea. It is Herod Antipas who is cited as “King Herod” in the Bible, and who played a key role in the executions of John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth.

62D Holiday celebrated with banh chung : TET

Bánh chu’ng is a steamed cake mainly made from glutinous rice, mung bean and pork. The eating of bánh chu’ng is an important part of the Tet holiday in Vietnam.

63D “I’ll see thee damned __ I call thee coward”: “Henry IV, Part 1” : ERE

“I’ll see thee damned ere I call thee coward, but I would give a thousand pound I could run as fast as thou canst” is a line spoken by Sir John Falstaff in William Shakespeare’s play “Henry IV, Part 1”. There is some irony here, as the boastful and portly knight refuses to admit cowardice, while offering a fortune for the ability to flee the scene at speed.