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Constructed by: Lee Taylor

Edited by: Patti Varol

Today’s Theme (according to Bill): Doing the Splits

Themed answers use the last word of the corresponding clue, SPLITTING it between the start and finish of the answer:

• 18A Slasher flick actress on a split screen? : SCREAM QUEEN
• 25A Merchant Ivory works featuring split peas? : PERIOD DRAMAS
• 44A Auras around people with split ends? : ENERGY FIELDS
• 59A Lack of recognition for working a split shift? : SHORT SHRIFT

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Bill’s time: 7m 01s

Bill’s errors: 0

Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies

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4A Let gravity do most of the work, perhaps : COAST

Back in the day, mariners sailing parallel to the shore were said to be “coasting”, which is relatively smooth and less demanding compared to open-ocean voyages. By the 1830s, the nautical concept of effortless movement had transferred to dry land to describe anyone letting momentum and gravity do all the work, like “coasting” down a hill.

16A Salon abrasive : 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.

20A Summer quaff : ICED TEA

“Quaff” is both a verb and a noun. One “quaffs” (takes a hearty drink) of a “quaff” (a hearty drink).

23A Emmy and Grammy winner Burnett : CAROL

Comedian and actress Carol Burnett is perhaps best known for “The Carol Burnett Show” which ran on television for over ten years from 1967 to 1978. My favorite of Burnett’s performances is in the 1981 film “The Four Seasons”. The Golden Globe’s Carol Burnett Award for career achievement in television was inaugurated in 2019, with Burnett being the first recipient.

25A Merchant Ivory works featuring split peas? : PERIOD DRAMAS

Merchant Ivory Productions is a film company founded in 1961 by producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory. The company became synonymous with detailed period dramas, most notably their Oscar-winning adaptations of E.M. Forster novels like “A Room with a View” and “Howards End”. The duo’s productions so often dealt with strait-laced British aristocracy and repressed romance that the term “Merchant-Ivory” entered the lexicon to describe a whole genre of such films, regardless of which company was behind them.

32A Protective cover : TARP

Originally, tarpaulins were made from canvas covered in tar that rendered the material waterproof. The word “tarpaulin” comes from “tar” and “palling”, with “pall” meaning “heavy cloth covering”.

35A W.H. Auden’s “__ to the Medieval Poets” : ODE

“Ode to the Medieval Poets” is a 1971 poem by British-American poet W. H. Auden. Here are the opening lines:

Chaucer, Langland, Douglas, Dunbar, with all your
brother Anons, how on earth did you ever manage,
without anaesthetics or plumbing,
in daily peril from witches, warlocks,
lepers, The Holy Office, foreign mercenaries
burning as they came, to write so cheerfully,
with no grimaces of self-pathos?

39A Dish garnished with peanuts and lime : PAD THAI

The delicious dish called pad Thai is a meld of stir-fried rice noodles with tamarind juice, red chili pepper plus a mix of vegetables and possibly tofu, meat or fish. It is usually topped with crushed peanuts, coriander and lime. The name “pad Thai” translates as “fried Thai-style”.

41A Marisa with a cameo in “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” : TOMEI

Marisa Tomei’s first screen role was in the daytime soap “As the World Turns”, but her break came with a recurring role in “The Cosby Show” spin-off “A Different World”. Tomei won an Oscar for her delightful performance in “My Cousin Vinny” in 1992.

The 2026 film “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” is a bit of a reset for the storyline used in earlier films in the franchise. Peter Parker/Spider-Man is completely isolated, suffering the effects of him being erased from everyone’s memories at the end of the 2021 movie “Spider-Man: No Way Home”.

59A Lack of recognition for working a split shift? : SHORT SHRIFT

The Old English term “scrift” was used to describe confession to a priest followed by penance and absolution. The term “short shrift” developed from “scrift”, and was a brief period given to a condemned criminal to confess his sins before execution. We now use “short shrift” to mean “little or no consideration”.

61A Nest egg letters : IRA

A nest egg is an amount of money laid down as a reserve. This is the figurative use of “nest egg” that originally described an artificial egg left in a nest to encourage a hen to lay real eggs in that spot. So our financial nest egg is set aside in anticipation of continued growth, more eggs being laid.

62A Camp David Accords figure : SADAT

Anwar Sadat was the third President of Egypt right up to the time of his assassination in 1981. Sadat won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978, along with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, for the role played in crafting the Camp David Accords. It was this agreement that largely led to Sadat’s assassination three years later.

The Camp David Accords established a framework for peace in the Middle East and led directly to the 1979 Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty. They were the culmination of twelve days of secret negotiations at the US presidential retreat in Maryland, brokered by President Jimmy Carter. The diplomatic breakthrough resulted in Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sharing the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize.

64A Start of a pencil game : TIC

When I was growing up in Ireland we played “noughts and crosses” … our name for the game tic-tac-toe.

65A Oscar and Grammy winner Burnett : T BONE

Guitarist, singer and songwriter T Bone Burnett first gained national prominence in the mid-1970s as a guitarist on Bob Dylan’s “Rolling Thunder Revue” tour, after which he focused his career on music production. He orchestrated the celebrated “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” soundtrack, which sold over eight million copies and won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 2002. Burnett also won an Oscar for co-writing the song “The Weary Kind” for the 2009 film “Crazy Heart”.

66A Tabloid TV host Povich : MAURY

Maury Povich had his own daytime talk show called “Maury”. He has famous family connections. Maury’s father was Shirley Povich, a columnist and sports reporter for the Washington Post, and his wife is Connie Chung, the news anchor.

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2D “I Luh God” singer Campbell : ERICA

Erica Campbell’s song “I Luh God” is a gospel track released in 2015. Notably, the song uses elements of rap music, giving a genre sometimes referred to as “gospel trap”.

4D Neuschwanstein __ : CASTLE

The historic-looking Neuschwanstein Castle in southern Germany was commissioned in 1869 by King Ludwig II of Bavaria. He intended to use the “castle” as a private residence, but only got to sleep there for eleven nights before his death in 1886. Famously, it was the inspiration for the Sleeping Beauty Castle in Disneyland.

6D City in India’s Golden Triangle : AGRA

The Golden Triangle is a popular tourist circuit in Northern India. It encompasses the triangular region between New Delhi, Agra, and Jaipur.

1. New Delhi is the capital of India. Some of the must-see attractions in the broader Delhi area are the Red Fort, Jama Masjid, and the Akshardham Temple.
2. Agra is home to the Taj Mahal, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
3. Jaipur is known for its pink sandstone buildings, including the Hawa Mahal and the City Palace.

12D Sequoia, e.g. : TREE

The giant sequoia tree is also known as the giant redwood. There’s only one part of the world where you can see giant sequoias growing naturally, and that’s on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. However, there are plenty of examples of giant sequoias that have been planted as ornamentals all over the world.

19D Blue part of blue cheese : MOLD

It’s said that blue cheese was probably discovered accidentally, as molds tend to develop in the same conditions that are best for storing cheese. The blue mold in the cheese is introduced by adding Penicillium spores before the cheese is allowed to set.

21D __ radar : DOPPLER

Doppler radar is mainly used to track weather patterns. Standard radar bounces radio waves off precipitation to see where it is. Doppler radar sees where the rain or snow is, and also measures the pitch-like change in the returning radio waves due to movement. This allows forecasters to see the speed and direction of the wind inside a storm.

29D Mineralogist with a hardness scale : MOHS

The Mohs scale of mineral hardness was developed in 1812 by Friedrich Mohs. Basically Mohs took minerals and scratched them with other minerals. In this way he was able to determine which minerals were hardest (most scratch resistant) and which softest. On the scale, diamond is the hardest (and rated 10), while talc is the softest (and rated 1).

30D Scott of “Severance” : ADAM

Adam Scott is an actor from Santa Cruz, California who is perhaps best known for playing Ben Wyatt on the hit sitcom “Parks and Recreation”. More recently, Scott has been playing the lead in the sci-fi TV show “Severance”.

“Severance” is a fascinating TV show about employees at a company who undergo a surgical procedure that completely separates their memories between their work lives and their personal lives. The show stars Adam Scott, and is executive-produced and mainly directed by Hollywood actor Ben Stiller.

31D Cuatro y dos : SEIS

In Spanish, “cuatro y dos” (four plus two) is “seis” (six).

32D Spot for un chapeau : TETE

In French, on one’s “tête” (head), one might wear “un chapeau” (a hat) or “un béret” (a beret), perhaps.

33D Mary Kay rival : AVON

In 1886, a young man called David McConnell was selling books door-to-door. To enhance his sales numbers he was giving out free perfume to the ladies of the houses that he visited. Seeing as his perfume was more popular than his books, he founded the California Perfume Company in New York City and started manufacturing and selling across the country. The company name was changed to Avon in 1939, and the famous “Avon Calling” marketing campaign was launched in 1954.

Mary Kay Ash founded her skincare and cosmetics company, somewhat ominously, on Friday, 13th September 1963. In 1968, she bought herself a pink Cadillac, specially painted to match the color of one of her compacts. The car became so famous that she gave away five of them to her top saleswomen, a tradition that endures to this day.

34D City on the Tiber : ROME

The Tiber is the principal river in Italy in that it runs through the capital, Rome. It is the third longest river in the country. It is from the name of the river that “Tiberius” evolved, which was the name of the second Roman Emperor.

38D Brief scene : VIGNETTE

The word “vignette” (“little vine” in French) was used originally, and still is, to describe the small, decorative illustrations of vine leaves and tendrils that embellished the margins and title pages of early printed books. The term evolved to describe any small illustration or portrait that faded softly into the surrounding paper, and then to describe a brief scene or sketch that captures a fleeting moment without a strict narrative border.

39D Dessert for Little Jack Horner : PIE

Little Jack Horner
Sat in the corner,
Eating a Christmas pie;
He put in his thumb,
And pulled out a plum,
And said ‘What a good boy am I!’

40D ATV component : ALL

All-terrain vehicle (ATV)

46D Fully grasp : FATHOM

To fathom something is to comprehend it, to get to the bottom of something. The verb comes from the noun “fathom”, the unit used in measuring the distance between the surface and “the bottom” of a body of water.

50D Memorial bios : OBITS

Our word “obituary” comes from the Latin “obituarius”. The Latin term was used for “record of the death of a person”, although the literal meaning is “pertaining to death”.

52D London of “What Not To Wear” : STACY

Stacy London is a fashion consultant who is perhaps best known as co-host of the reality show “What Not to Wear”, along with Clinton Kelly.

54D Ishmael’s captain : AHAB

Ishmael is the narrator and protagonist in the Herman Melville novel “Moby-Dick”.

55D Brouhaha : TO-DO

“Brouhaha”, meaning “ado, stir”, was a French word that back in the 1550s meant “the cry of the devil disguised as clergy”. Wow!

56D Setting of the graphic novel “Persepolis” : IRAN

“Persepolis” is a series of French comic strips by Iranian-born French cartoonist Marjane Satrapi that were published as a graphic novel in the early 2000s. The title refers to the ancient capital of the Persian Empire. The strips are autobiographical in nature, and depict the author’s early life during and after the Islamic Revolution.

60D Color TV pioneer : RCA

RCA, or the Radio Corporation of America, played a significant role in the history of television as a pioneer in the industry. RCA developed and introduced the first electronic television system in 1939 at the New York World’s Fair. RCA also created the NTSC (National Television System Committee) broadcast standard, which was adopted in the United States in 1953 for analog television broadcasting. Additionally, RCA produced the first color television sets in 1954.