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Constructed by: Erik Agard

Edited by: Patti Varol

Today’s Reveal Answer: Logo Three

Our THREE themed answers are all two-word phrases, the first starting with LO and the second with GO:

• 53A Distance shot in basketball, or what 16-, 26-, and 39-Across are altogether? : LOGO THREE

• 16A “I like it!” : LOOKS GOOD!
• 26A Bucket list item, perhaps : LONGTIME GOAL
• 39A Not rigid : LOOSEY-GOOSEY

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Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies

Across

5A With 47-Down, tropical shade providers : PALM …
47D See 5-Across : … TREES

Palms are perennial flowering plants that take many forms, some as shrubs and some as vines, for example. Some take on a tree-like shape, with a woody stem topped by a crown of leaves. Such palms are usually referred to as “palm trees”. The coco de mer palm tree has the largest seeds of any plant on the planet. We are more familiar with the coconut palm tree, which has the second-largest plant seeds known.

9A Content warning letters : NSFW

The abbreviation “NSFW” stands for “not safe/suitable for work”. It’s Internet slang used to describe online content that is best not viewed at work.

13A Two-tone apex predator : ORCA

Despite the nickname “killer whale”, the orca is the largest member of the dolphin family. Orcas are apex predators, and are the only known natural threat to great white sharks.

15A Underwater detector : SONAR

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 …

20A Vintner’s harvest : GRAPES

A vintner is a person selling or making wine. The term “vintner” comes from “vinum”, which is Latin for “wine”.

21A Top stripe of a pride flag : RED

The best-known rainbow flag is the one representing gay pride. Such usage of the rainbow flag was popularized in 1978 by artist Gilbert Baker. The varying colors of the flag represent the diversity of the gay community.

25A Channel with music videos and “Reba” reruns : CMT

CMT (Country Music Television) is a pay TV network that launched in 1983 as CMTV. The channel was the world’s first to broadcast country music videos twenty-four hours a day, directly mirroring the format MTV had introduced just two years prior.

26A Bucket list item, perhaps : LONGTIME GOAL

A bucket list is a list of things one wants to achieve before dying, before “kicking the bucket”. The expression hasn’t been used in this context for very long, and was popularized by the 2007 film “The Bucket List” starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.

29A Statistical average : MEAN

In a set of numbers, the mean is the average value of those numbers. The median is the numeric value at which half the numbers have a lower value, and half the numbers a higher value. The mode is the value that appears most often in the whole set of numbers.

33A “A Change Is __ Come” : GONNA

Sam Cooke’s 1964 song “A Change Is Gonna Come” is about the struggle that African Americans were facing in the US in the sixties. Cooke was inspired to write the song after he and his associates were refused rooms at a “whites only” Holiday Inn motel in Shreveport, Louisiana.

34A Victor Wembanyama’s org. : NBA

Victor Wembanyama is a pro basketball player from France who was the first overall pick in the 2023 NBA draft, being picked up by San Antonio Spurs. He is a big lad, 7 foot 4 inches in height with a wingspan (arm span) of exactly 8 feet.

35A Features of 4c hair : KINKS

Andre Walker is a hairstylist from Chicago who was Oprah Winfrey’s personal stylist from 1985 to 2015. He introduced his Hair Typing System in the 1990s, categorizing human hair into four distinct textures ranging from straight (Type 1) to tightly coiled (Type 4). I guess I am a Type 0 …

48A Chicken __ bleu : CORDON

A “cordon bleu” dish is a meat dish, one prepared by wrapping the meat around cheese, covering it with breading and then pan-frying. Specifically, veal cordon bleu is made using veal that is pounded thin and wrapped around slices of ham and cheese. The term “cordon bleu” translates from French as “blue ribbon”.

53A Distance shot in basketball, or what 16-, 26-, and 39-Across are altogether : LOGO THREE

In basketball, a “logo three” is a basketball shot taken from the painted mid-court emblem (logo), which scores three points.

56A Sport with scrums : RUGBY

If you’ve ever seen a rugby match, you’ll recognize the scrum, in which the players designated as forwards bind together and push against the forwards on the opposing team. It’s a way of restarting the game after various types of stoppages. “Scrum” is short for “scrummage”, which in itself is a variation of “scrimmage”. And “scrimmage” has its roots in the word “skirmish”. If you get the chance, take a look at the Matt Damon-Morgan Freeman movie called “Invictus”, directed by Clint Eastwood. It’s all about rugby in South Africa after Nelson Mandela came to power. A powerful film …

57A Component of steel : IRON

Steel is an alloy that is composed mainly of iron, with a small percentage of carbon.

61A “Their __ Were Watching God” : EYES

1937’s “Their Eyes Were Watching God” is the best-known work penned by American author Zora Neale Hurston. The novel gained popularity in the late 1900s after a mediocre reception when first published. It is now associated with the Harlem Renaissance, and in 2005 was named as one of the 100 best English-language novels since 1923.

Down

1D Big name in seltzer water : POLAR

The term “seltzer” comes from the village of Selters in Germany. Selters has natural springs of carbonated mineral water that is bottled and sold as Selters water. In English-speaking countries, the name has morphed into “Seltzer” water.

5D Animal enclosure with a namesake cipher : PIGPEN

The pigpen cipher is a relatively simple substitution code that replaces standard letters with fragments of a drawn grid. The grid (part of which resembles a tic-tac-toe grid) led to the “pigpen” nickname because the resulting boxy borders physically resemble holding pens for farm animals. The pigpen code was heavily used by 18th-century Freemasons to protect their secret rites and membership records, and so it is also known as the Freemason’s cipher and the masonic cipher. Users of the code simply memorize the layout of the letters A though R in two tic-tac-toe boards, S though Z in two X-shaped crosses. Here’s a quick visual representation of the cipher at work.

7D Sign before Virgo : LEO

Leo is the fifth astrological sign of the Zodiac. People born from July 23 to August 22 are Leos. According to Greek mythology, the constellation Leo represented the Nemean Lion, a beast with impenetrable fur that served as the first of the Twelve Labors of Heracles.

9D Mardi Gras city, familiarly : NOLA

The city of New Orleans, Louisiana has the nickname “The Big Easy”. This name might come from the early 1900s when musicians found it relatively “easy” to find work there. The city is also known by the acronym NOLA, standing for New Orleans (NO), Louisiana (LA).

“Mardi Gras” translates from French as “Fat Tuesday”, and the holiday gets its name from the practice of eating rich foods on the eve of the fasting season known as Lent. Lent starts on the next day, called Ash Wednesday.

10D Signals called by a quarterback before each play : SNAP COUNT

The quarterback (QB) starts each play in football with a snap (also called a “hike”). He announces to his teammates the exact moment of the snap by calling out signals, usually including the word “hut” one or more times in a prearranged sequence.

17D Arizona city near the Seven Sacred Pools : SEDONA

The city of Sedona is noted for its location amid an array of red sandstone rock formations, which are particularly beautiful at sunrise and sunset. Sedona was named after the wife of the city’s first postmaster, one Sedona Arabella Miller Schnebly.

The Seven Sacred Pools of Sedona are a series of cascading (when it rains) pools carved directly into the sandstone in the Coconino National Forest in northern Arizona. They were formed by thousands of years of seasonal desert washes eroding the fragile red rock. The pools retain water long after sporadic seasonal rains, acting as a year-round resource for local desert wildlife.

27D Like a dirty word : TABOO

The word “taboo” was introduced into English by Captain Cook in his book “A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean”. Cook described “tabu” (likely imitative of a Tongan word that he had heard) as something that was both consecrated and forbidden.

37D “Sinners” director Coogler : RYAN

Film director Ryan Coogler was at the helm for a string of successful movies early in his career, namely “Fruitvale Station” (2013), “Creed” (2015) and “Black Panther” (2018). Coogler works a lot with actor Michael B. Jordan, who appeared in all of the aforementioned films.

“Sinners” is a 2025 horror film that earned a record-breaking 16 Oscar nominations, out of 17 possible categories. The movie stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as 1930s gangster twins who return to Jim Crow-era Mississippi to open a juke joint, only to face an invasion of vampires. Vampires! Not for me …

40D Dark wood : EBONY

Ebony is a dark black wood that is very dense, one of the few types of wood that sinks in water. Ebony has been in high demand so the species of trees yielding the wood are now considered threatened. It is in such short supply that unscrupulous vendors have been known to darken lighter woods with shoe polish to look like ebony, so be warned …

46D V-formation flyers : GEESE

A collection of geese is referred to as a “gaggle” when on the ground. When geese are in V-formation in flight, they are referred to collectively as a “skein”.

49D “I call it!” : DIBS!

The phrase “to have dibs on” expresses a claim on something. Apparently, the term “dibs” is a contraction of “dibstone”, which was a knucklebone or jack used in a children’s game.

53D Guff : LIP

The word “guff” has been around since the late 1800s and means “empty talk”, or sometimes “verbal abuse”. The term comes from the sense of “puff of air”.