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Today’s Reveal Answer: In the Money

The starting and ending groups of letters in each themed answer spell out an informal word meaning “MONEY”:

• 62A Wealthy, and what 17-, 24-, 39-, and 50-Across literally are : IN THE MONEY

• 17A Documents submitted after a fender bender : CLAIM FORMS (in the CLAMS)
• 24A “I thought you just left!” : BACK SO SOON! (in the BACON)
• 39A Is a trailblazer : BREAKS NEW GROUND (in the BREAD)
• 50A Six-time “Dancing With the Stars” champion : DEREK HOUGH (in the DOUGH)

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1A “Power Up” rock band : AC/DC

AC/DC’s 2020 album “Power Up” is considered a tribute to the band’s late co-founder Malcolm Young, who passed away in 2017. Every song on the album gives him a posthumous songwriting credit because they were all co-written by him and his brother Angus before Malcolm’s death. Angus Young used a vault of unreleased songs and riffs he had written with Malcolm to create the album.

5A Farfalle or fusilli : PASTA

Farfalle is commonly referred to as bow-tie pasta because of its shape. The name comes from the Italian “farfalla” meaning “butterfly”.

Fusilli is a corkscrew-shaped pasta. The term “fusilli” comes from the Italian word “fuso” meaning “spindle”.

16A Jakarta’s island : JAVA

Java is a large island in Indonesia that is home to the country’s capital, Jakarta. With a population of over 130 million, Java is the most populous island in the world, with even more people than Honshu, the main island of Japan.

17A Documents submitted after a fender bender : CLAIM FORMS (in the CLAMS)

“Clam” is a slang term for “dollar”. It has been suggested that “clam” is a throwback to the supposed use of clams as units of currency in ancient cultures.

20A Alabama march city : SELMA

The Alabama city of Selma was settled in 1815. It was named in 1820 by Alabama politician William R. King, who would later serve briefly as US Vice President under President Franklin Pierce. Meaning “high seat, throne”, King chose the city’s name from the Ossianic poem “The Songs of Selma”. Today, the city is perhaps best known for the Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches, which ultimately led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

21A Detectives, briefly : PIS

Private investigator (PI)

24A “I thought you just left!” : BACK SO SOON! (in the BACON)

Back in the day, a wealthy person would “bring home the bacon”, and sit around with guests “chewing the fat”.

29A Includes furtively on an email : BCCS

Blind carbon copy (bcc)

33A The “I” of IV : INTRA-

Intravenous (IV) drip

39A Is a trailblazer : BREAKS NEW GROUND (in the BREAD)

Lettuce, cabbage, kale, dough, bread, scratch, cheddar, simoleons, clams and moola(h) are all slang terms for money.

43A Centipede maker : ATARI

Centipede is an arcade game from Atari (it is my favorite!). The game was designed by Ed Logg and Dona Bailey, with Bailey being one of the few female game designers back then (it was released in 1980). Perhaps due to her influence, Centipede was the first arcade game to garner a significant female following.

49A Animation frames : CELS

Animation cels are transparent sheets made of celluloid acetate that were used in traditional hand-drawn animation to create animated films. They were first introduced in the 1930s and were widely used in animation production until the late 1990s, when digital animation techniques began to dominate the industry.

50A Six-time “Dancing With the Stars” champion : DEREK HOUGH (in the DOUGH)

Professional ballroom dancer Derek Hough is perhaps most famous for his appearances on the reality show “Dancing with the Stars”, a competition that he won with celebrity partners a record six times. Beyond his well-known television work, he also choreographed a short dance program for world champion ice dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White. The duo performed the routine at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, where they won the gold medal, marking the first Olympic title in ice dancing for the US.

55A __ Lanka : SRI

The island nation of Sri Lanka lies off the southeast coast of India. The name “Sri Lanka” translates from Sanskrit into English as “venerable island”. Before 1970, Sri Lanka was known as Ceylon, a name given to the country during British rule.

67A Alternative to Midol : ADVIL

Advil is Wyeth’s brand of ibuprofen, an anti-inflammatory drug.

Midol is a brand of pain reliever that was introduced in 1911. The target condition for the drug has evolved over the decades. It was originally marketed as a remedy for headaches and toothaches, and then as a cure for hiccups. Today, it is sold as a remedy for bloating and menstrual cramps.

68A Image reshared for laughs : MEME

A meme (from “mineme”) is a cultural practice or idea that is passed on verbally or by repetition from one person to another. The term lends itself very well to the online world where links, emails, files etc. are so easily propagated.

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2D Sprouse of “Riverdale” : COLE

Actor Cole Sprouse, and his fellow-actor twin brother Dylan Sprouse, was born in Italy to American parents. Cole was named for celebrated singer Nat King Cole. He and his brother have appeared together in several projects, including the teen sitcom “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody” and the comedy film “Big Daddy”. Cole played Jughead Jones on “Riverdale”.

“Riverdale” is a teen drama TV show based on the “Archie” comic book series. While the “Archie” comics are light in tone, “Riverdale” is a darker production that explores the complex world of the “Archie” characters.

3D Rotary phone part : DIAL

The first patent for a rotary dial mechanism for a phone was granted in 1898, and the familiar rotary dial phones (with holes for the finger) were introduced by the Bell System in 1919. This form of dialing was called “pulse dialing”. When you dialed the number 5, say, the dial would rotate back to the start position, opening and closing electrical contacts five times and sending five pulses over the telephone line. I used to love rotary dial phones when I was a kid. My grandfather was a telephone engineer and he showed me how to “tap out” the pulses on the “hook” at the top of a pay phone. I was able to make free calls that way. He definitely contributed to the delinquency of a minor …

5D File format for some invoices : PDF

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format introduced by Adobe Systems in 1993. PDF documents can be shared between users and read using many different applications and platforms, making them more universally accessible than documents saved by one particular program.

An invoice is an itemized bill. The term “invoice” comes from the Middle French “envois” meaning “dispatch (of goods)”. The root verb is “envoyer”, which translates as “to send”.

6D __/ace: LGBT+ orientation : ARO

“Aro” is a common shorthand for “aromantic”. An aromantic person is someone who experiences little or no romantic attraction. It is distinct from asexual (“ace”), which refers to little or no sexual attraction, though some individuals identify as both aromantic and asexual.

7D Title for the Black Knight : SIR

2001’s “Black Knight” is a fantasy adventure film starring Martin Lawrence in the title role. He plays a theme park employee from the present day who time-travels to medieval England where he becomes the Black Knight. I must watch this one …

8D Pace set by a metronome : TEMPO

A metronome is any device that produces a regular beat. The metronome was invented in 1815 by Johann Maelzel, who intended it to be an instrument for the use of musicians.

9D Home of St. Francis : ASSISI

The Italian town of Assisi is in Umbria. Assisi is famous as the birthplace of St. Francis and as the home to the Franciscan religious order. It was also the home to Saint Clare and her order of the Poor Sisters (later known as the Poor Clares).

Francis of Assisi was a Catholic friar and preacher who founded the Franciscan order. Because he is honored for his love of animals and nature, many churches hold ceremonies to bless animals on the feast day of Saint Francis, October 4th, every year.

10D Some brunch drinks, for short : OJS

Our word “brunch” is a portmanteau of “breakfast” and “lunch”. The term was coined as student slang in Oxford, England in the late 1890s. However, “brunch” described a combined meal closer to the breakfast hour, and the term “blunch” was used for a meal closer to lunchtime.

11D Mall of Louisiana city : BATON ROUGE

The Mall of Louisiana in Baton Rouge is the largest mall in the state.

Baton Rouge is the capital city of the state of Louisiana. The name “Baton Rouge” is French for “red stick” or “red staff”. The exact reason why such a name was given to the city isn’t really clear.

22D Acoustic location devices : SONARS

The British developed the first underwater detection system that used sound waves. Research was driven by defense demands during WWI, leading to production of working units in 1922. This new sound detection system was described as using “supersonics”, but for the purpose of secrecy the term was dropped in favor of an acronym. The work was done under the auspices of the Royal Navy’s Anti-Submarine Division, so ASD was combined with the “IC” from “superson-ic-s” to create the name ASDIC. The navy even went as far as renaming the quartz material at the heart of the technology “ASDivite”. By the time WWII came along, the Americans were producing their own systems and coined the term SONAR (Sound Navigation and Ranging), playing off the related application, RADAR. And so, the name ASDIC was deep-sixed …

25D Execs behind R&D breakthroughs : CTOS

Chief technology officer (CTO)

26D Zen master’s paradox : KOAN

The concept of koan appears in the Zen Buddhist tradition. A koan is a story, question or perhaps a statement that is used as an aid to meditation. It often takes the form of a problem or riddle that has no logical solution and is intended to help the meditator break free of reason and develop intuition.

28D Uno less than nove : OTTO

In Italian, “Nove minus uno” (nine minus one) is “otto” (eight).

38D Ben & Jerry’s rival : EDY’S

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield did a correspondence course on making ice-cream in 1977 that was given by Pennsylvania State University’s creamery. The following year they opened an ice cream parlor in an old gas station in Burlington, Vermont. Today Ben & Jerry’s has locations in over 20 countries around the world, and theirs was the first brand of ice-cream to go into space.

40D “Brown Skin” singer India. : ARIE

“Brown Skin” is a 2001 song co-written and recorded by American singer India-Arie. It was her highest charting single in the UK, even though it didn’t make the charts back here in the US.

42D “Loki” actress Mbatha-Raw : GUGU

English actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw is perhaps best known to American audiences for portraying Ravonna Renslayer, alongside Tom Hiddleston’s Loki in the TV series “Loki”. She also plays talent booker Hannah Shoenfeld on the excellent drama series “The Morning Show”. She is the daughter of a South African doctor, and her name “Gugu” is a contraction of the isiZulu phrase “igugu lethu,” which means “our treasure”.

49D Safari alternative : CHROME

Google’s Chrome is the most popular web browser by far, with Mozilla Firefox in second place and Apple’s Safari in third. I find Chrome to be much, much more user-friendly than Safari, and more featured than Firefox. Chrome also works very seamlessly with other Google products and with Android phones.

Safari is Apple’s flagship Internet browser, one that is used on its Mac line of computers. A mobile version of Safari is included with all iPhones.

52D Diamond or ruby : GEM

Diamonds can be cut in various shapes. The most common cuts are:

• Princess
• Cushion
• Heart
• Pear
• Marquise
• Radiant
• Asscher
• Emerald
• Oval

Ruby is a precious stone made from the mineral corundum, also called aluminum oxide. The corundum includes some of the element chromium, which results in the red or pink color.

65D Golf great Ernie : ELS

Ernie Els is a South African golfer. He is a big guy but he has an easy fluid golf swing that has earned him the nickname “The Big Easy”. Els is a former World No. 1 and has won four majors: the US Open (1994 & 1997) and the British Open (2002 & 2012).