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Constructed by: Patti Varol

Edited by: Patti Varol

Today’s Theme (according to Bill): Content Taking the Lead

Themed answers each lead off with a synonym of “content”:

• 20A Carnival ride with seats shaped like animals : MERRY-GO-ROUND
• 33A Hard candies with blue raspberry and green apple flavors : JOLLY RANCHERS
• 43A Brand of heavy-duty trash bags : GLAD FORCEFLEX
• 59A Golfer played by Adam Sandler : HAPPY GILMORE

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Bill’s time: 6m 03s

Bill’s errors: 0

Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies

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16A “And there you have it!” : VOILA!

The French word “voilà” means “there it is”, and “voici” means “here it is”. The terms come from “vois là” meaning “see there” and “vois ici” meaning “see here”.

18A D-backs, on scoreboards : ARI

The Arizona Diamondbacks (also “D-backs”) joined Major League Baseball’s National League in 1998. By winning the World Series in 2001, they became the fastest expansion team to do so in Major League history.

20A Carnival ride with seats shaped like animals : MERRY-GO-ROUND

The merry-go-round amusement park ride can be a little confusing as one travels the world. In North America, we tend to use the term “carousel” for the ride, whereas it’s a “roundabout” in Britain and Ireland, and a “hurdy-gurdy” in Australia. Yet another difference is the direction of rotation. Carousels typically rotate counterclockwise in North America, and roundabouts rotate clockwise in Britain and Ireland.

33A Hard candies with blue raspberry and green apple flavors : JOLLY RANCHERS

Jolly Ranchers are a brand of hard candies that has been produced since 1949. Founded in 1949 in Golden, Colorado, the Jolly Rancher name was chosen to present a friendly, western image.

38A Tibet’s continent : ASIA

Tibet is a plateau region that is part of China, and is located north of the Himalayas. Tibet declared its independence from China in 1913, but fell back under Chinese control after the Invasion of Tibet in 1951. The Tibetan leader, the 14th Dalai Lama, fled the country during the 1959 Tibetan Rebellion. Since then, he has led the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala, India.

39A 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.

The astrological sign Virgo is the sixth sign in the Zodiac, and is associated with the constellation of the same name. The Virgo constellation is related to maidens (virgins), purity and fertility.

40A Dinghy pair : OARS

Our term “dinghy” comes from the Hindi “dingi”, a word meaning “small boat”.

43A Brand of heavy-duty trash bags : GLAD FORCEFLEX

Glad is a company making plastic products, especially food containers and trash bags. Glad was launched in 1963 to make Glad Wrap, a polyvinyl chloride (now polyethylene) wrap used to preserve food.

48A One who may have a platonic partner, for short : ARO

Someone described as aromantic (“aro”, for short) experiences little or no romantic attraction. The opposite of aromanticism is alloromanticism.

51A Delivery room docs : OBS

In Latin, the word for midwife is “obstetrix”. “Obstetrix” translates more literally as “one who stands opposite” i.e. the one opposite the woman giving birth. The Latin term gives rise to our modern word “obstetrics” used for the branch of medical science concerned with childbirth.

54A Backless shoe : MULE

A mule is a shoe without a back and usually with a closed toe. The original mule was a shoe worn by the highest magistrates in ancient Rome.

59A Golfer played by Adam Sandler : HAPPY GILMORE

1996’s “Happy Gilmore” is a sports comedy film co-written by and starring Adam Sandler. He plays a rough-and-ready ex-hockey player who has a talent for golf, and a rough-and-ready golf swing. The Gilmore character was inspired by a real-life childhood friend of Sandler’s who possessed a similarly powerful, but unorthodox, swing.

62A “Rashomon” director Kurosawa : AKIRA

“Rashomon” is a period drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa that was released in 1950. “Rashomon” was the movie that first introduced Kurosawa to western audiences. The film’s title refers to the huge gate to the city of Kyoto.

63A Actress Goth of Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ : MIA

English actress Mia Goth has appeared in several slasher and horror films, which seems to be apt given her family name. “Goth” isn’t a stage name, though. She was born Mia Gypsy Mello da Silva Goth, to a Brazilian mother and Canadian father.

69A K-pop band who began their Arirang World Tour in 2026 : BTS

BTS is a boy band from South Korea with seven members. The initialism “BTS” stands for the phrase “Bangtan Sonyeondan”, which translates literally as “Bulletproof Boy Scouts”. It is the best-selling musical act in the history of South Korea.

72A Dead __ Scrolls : SEA

The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered over a period of years, between 1947 and 1956, in eleven caves (the Qumran Caves) on the shores of the Dead Sea. The scrolls are believed to have been written by an ancient Jewish sect called the Essenes, although this has been called into question recently. Many of the texts are copies of writings from the Hebrew Bible.

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4D Metropolis east of the Everglades : MIAMI

The city of Miami in Florida takes its name from the nearby Miami River, which is itself named for the Mayaimi Native American people who lived around nearby Lake Okeechobee.

The Everglades are tropical wetlands that cover much of southern Florida. The area was named “River Glades” by a British surveyor in 1773, and it is suggested that poor transcription of the word “river” led to the use of “ever”. The southern 20% of the Everglades is a protected region that we know as Everglades National Park. The park is the third-largest National Park in the lower 48 states, after Death Valley NP (the largest) and Yellowstone NP.

7D Actress Streep : MERYL

Meryl Streep has had more Academy Award nominations and more Golden Globe nominations than any other actor, which is both a tribute to her talent and the respect she has earned in the industry. I am not a huge fan of her earlier works but some of her recent movies are now on my list of all-time favorites. I recommend “Mamma Mia!” (you’ll either love it or hate it!), “Julie & Julia”, “It’s Complicated” and ”Hope Springs”.

8D Irish county next to Mayo : SLIGO

Sligo is a coastal county in the West of Ireland. The county takes its name from the principal town of Sligo. The town’s name in Irish is “Sligeach”, which means “shelly place”, perhaps indicating that lots of shellfish were found in the town’s river.

County Mayo is in the west of Ireland, and is one of my favorite parts of the country. “Mayo” is an anglicized spelling of the county’s name in Irish, “Maigh Eo”, which is pronounced as “Mayo” and means “plain of the yew trees”. One of the most famous spots in Mayo is Croagh Patrick, a 2,500 foot peak that many devout Catholic pilgrims ascend in their bare feet.

12D Supreme Court justice Kagan : ELENA

Elena Kagan has broken a few significant glass ceilings in her career. In 2003, she was named the first female dean of Harvard Law School, and in 2009 she became the nation’s first female Solicitor General. Kagan joined the US Supreme Court in 2010, filling the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens.

23D __ vu: familiar feeling : DEJA

“Déjà vu” is French for “already seen”. “Jamais vu” is French for “never seen”.

24D God with a bow and arrow : EROS

In Greek mythology, Eros is the god of love, desire, and sexual attraction. He is often depicted as a winged youth carrying a bow and arrows, with which he shoots either golden arrows to inspire love or leaden ones to inspire aversion. His Roman counterpart is Cupid.

25D Former baseball commissioner Bud : SELIG

Bud Selig was the Commissioner of Baseball for Major League Baseball from 1998 to 2015. Selig became acting commissioner in 1992 after the resignation of Fay Vincent. The team owners searched for a new commissioner for six years, and finally gave the permanent job to Selig in 1998.

30D Grapefruit serving, often : HALF

The somewhat bitter fruit that we know as “grapefruit” originated in the island nation of Barbados in the Caribbean. It developed as a hybrid (possibly accidentally) of the Jamaican sweet orange and the Indonesian pomelo. Back in the mid-1700s, the new hybrid was referred to as “the forbidden fruit”, and later as the shaddock. Some believe that a “Captain Shaddock” brought Indonesian pomelo seeds to Barbados and was responsible for developing the hybrid. The contemporary name is perhaps an allusion to the fact that grapefruit grows in clusters like grapes.

35D Opposite of paleo- : NEO-

The prefix “paleo-” means “prehistoric, primitive”. It comes from the Greek word “palaios” which means “old, ancient”. The prefix “neo-” would be the opposite, meaning “new, recent”.

36D Wine stopper : CORK

The cork tree is a genus of tree with a corky bark that is native to east and northeast Asia. The cork tree’s bark isn’t sufficiently thick for use in commercial cork production. Most cork comes from the cork oak, a tree that is native to southwest Europe and northwest Africa.

42D Annual festival in Austin, TX : SXSW

South by Southwest, also known as “SXSW”, is an annual festival that has been taking place in Austin, Texas since 1987. SXSW is a melded event, combining a music festival, a film festival and an interactive festival.

44D Insect that forages in large raids : ARMY ANT

Army ants are a collection of over two hundred different species of ants. Each species is known for aggressively raiding a certain area en masse, foraging for food. Army ants also stay on the move, never building permanent nests.

45D Heisman winner Flutie : DOUG

Doug Flutie is a former NFL football player, but is most famous as a Boston College quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner. Outside of sports, Doug plays drums in the Flutie Brothers Band, along with his brother Darren (a Canadian Football League Hall of Fame receiver) on guitar.

51D Catherine of “The Studio” : O’HARA

Catherine O’Hara was an actress and comedian from Toronto. One of O’Hara’s more famous film roles is Kevin’s mother in the Christmas classic “Home Alone”. She also played a lead character (Moira) in the excellent sitcom “Schitt’s Creek” alongside Eugene Levy.

“The Studio” is a cringe comedy series starring Seth Rogen as a neurotic movie executive and Catherine O’Hara as his mother. Rogen’s character takes over a struggling film studio, and struggles to balance a love for cinema with corporate demands for profit. I haven’t seen this one, but I hear that there are some amazing celebrity cameos, with stars like Martin Scorsese playing twisted and heightened versions of themselves …

60D Actor’s accessory : PROP

We use the word “props” for objects that are used by actors on stage during a play. The term is a shortening of the older term “properties”, which was used with the same meaning up through the 19th century.

61D “Tortilla dough : MASA

“Masa” is the Spanish word for “dough”, with the term often used as an abbreviated form of “masa de maíz”. Masa is used to make tortillas and tamales, for example.

66D Fellow Stooge of Larry and Curly : MOE

“Moe Howard” was the stage name of Moses Harry Horwitz. Howard was one of the Three Stooges. In 1925, he married Helen Schonberger, who was a cousin of Harry Houdini.

67D Hosp. triage areas : ERS

Triage is the process of prioritizing patients for treatment, especially on the battlefield. The term “triage” is French and means “sorting”.