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Constructed by: Enrique Henestroza Anguiano

Edited by: Patti Varol

Today’s Reveal Answer: Time and Again

Themed answers each include TWO synonyms of “TIME” hidden within:

• 51A Repeatedly, or what’s found in the answers to the starred clues : TIME AND AGAIN

• 20A *Overseer of a theatrical production : STAGE MANAGER (“AGE”, and again)
• 26A *Law that governs interstate electricity transmission : FEDERAL POWER ACT (“ERA”, and again)
• 45A *Little Free Library instruction : TAKE ONE, LEAVE ONE (“EON”, and again)

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14A Inkling : IDEA

An inkling is a slight indication or vague notion. The term “inkling” apparently comes from the Middle English word “inclen” meaning “to hint”.

16A Accessory used by Woody in “Toy Story” : LASSO

1995’s “Toy Story” was the world’s first feature-length computer-animated movie. “Toy Story” was also Pixar’s first production. The main roles in the film are Buzz Lightyear and Woody, who are voiced by Tim Allen and Tom Hanks respectively. Hanks was the first choice to voice Woody, but Allen was asked to voice Buzz after Billy Crystal turned down the role.

26A *Law that governs interstate electricity transmission : FEDERAL POWER ACT

The Federal Power Act (FPA) gives the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) authority to regulate the interstate transmission and wholesale sale of electricity, as well as the licensing of hydroelectric projects. The law was passed in 1920, originally to coordinate hydropower development, and was expanded in 1935 to ensure “just and reasonable” rates for interstate electricity.

35A Croc kin : GATOR

Crocodiles and alligators do indeed bear a resemblance to each other, although they belong to distinct biological families. One of the main ways used to distinguish them is by their teeth and jaws. Both the upper and lower sets of teeth of a crocodile are visible when its mouth is closed, whereas only the upper teeth of an alligator are visible with the mouth shut.

41A Techno keyboard : SYNTH

One of the first commercial music synthesizers was invented by Robert MoogMoog, and it was brought to mainstream popularity by Wendy Carlos’s 1968 album “Switched-On Bach”. The album reinterpreted the works of Johann Sebastian Bach using the synthesizer, and became an unlikely hit. It won three Grammy Awards, and is credited by many with launching the electronic music genre.

45A *Little Free Library instruction : TAKE ONE, LEAVE ONE

A Little Free Library is a community-run, book-sharing box where anyone can take a book or leave one to share. It is a global movement started by Todd Bol in 2009 as a tribute to his teacher and book-loving mother. Bol’s initial goal was to create 2,510 Little Free Libraries, which is one more than the number of public libraries funded by philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

50A “Eternals” actress McHugh : LIA

Lia McHugh is a relatively young actress who started her career mainly with appearances in TV and film projects in the horror genre. In 2021, she had a major role in the Marvel film “Eternals”, portraying the child-like superhero Sprite.

“Eternals” is a 2021 superhero film in Marvel Cinematic Universe. The title characters are an offshoot of humanity created to defend Earth with their superpowers. In the film, they are sent to Earth to exterminate the Deviants, who have invaded the planet.

57A Gem that may be natural or cultured : PEARL

Nacre, also known as mother-of-pearl, is the strong iridescent material laid down by some mollusks on the inside of their shells, and it’s also what makes up pearls. The creature lays down nacre as a defensive mechanism, protecting the soft tissue of its body from the rough surface of the outer shell. Similarly, it uses nacre to encapsulate harmful debris or a parasite that penetrates the shell, and that’s how a pearl is formed. Cultured pearls are made by inserting a tissue graft from a donor oyster, around which the nacre is laid down.

60A First Nations people : CREE

The Cree are one of the largest groups of Native Americans on the continent. In the US, Montana is home to most of the Cree nation. They live on a reservation shared with the Ojibwe people. In Canada, most of the Cree live in Manitoba.

“First Nations” is a term used in Canada describing the ethnicity of Native Americans who are neither Inuit nor Métis people.

61A Pakistani language : URDU

Urdu is one of the two official languages of Pakistan (the other being English), and is one of the 22 scheduled languages in India. Urdu partly developed from Persian and is written from right to left.

65A Blender setting for baby food : PUREE

A purée is a food that has been made smooth by straining or blending. “Purée” is a French term, which I believe is now used to mean “pea soup” (more completely written as “purée de pois”). The French verb “purer” means “to strain, clean”, from the Latin “purare” meaning “to purify, clean”.

67A Big name in potato chips : LAY’S

Lay’s potato chips were introduced in 1938 by Herman W. Lay. Lay started selling his chips out the trunk of his car, traveling all over the US. In those days the chips were pretty much handmade, but Lay put an end to that in 1942. He invented the first continuous potato processor in 1948, and chips started to take over the world!

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3D Sonic the Hedgehog game company : SEGA

Sonic the Hedgehog is a title character in a videogame and the mascot of Sega, the computer game developer. Sonic was set up as a rival to Nintendo’s mascot Mario.

4D Surf with one’s toes off the board : HANG TEN

“To hang ten” is a verb used in surfing. A surfer hangs ten when he or she is able to walk forward and hang ten toes over the nose of the board because the back of the board is covered by the waves being ridden.

5D One sharing a limo ride to a formal dance : PROM DATE

The word “limousine” derives from the name of the French city of Limoges. The area around Limoges is called the Limousin, and it gave its name to a cloak hood worn by local shepherds. In early motor cars, a driver would sit outside in the weather while the passengers would sit in the covered compartment. The driver would often wear a limousin-style protective hood, giving rise to that type of transportation being called a “limousine”. Well, that’s how the story goes …

6D Slender tomato : ROMA

The Roma tomato isn’t considered an heirloom variety but it is very popular with home gardeners, especially those gardeners that don’t have a lot of space. It is a bush type (as opposed to vine type) and needs very little room to provide a lot of tomatoes.

9D Catwoman, for Selina Kyle : ALTER EGO

Catwoman, the alter ego of Selina Kyle, is a supervillain who is usually depicted as an adversary of Batman in comics. In the sixties television show “Batman”, Catwoman was first portrayed by actress Julie Newmar, but then the more memorable Eartha Kitt took over, with the marvelously “feline voice”. On the big screen, Catwoman has been played by Lee Meriwether in “Batman” (1966), Michelle Pfeiffer in “Batman Returns” (1992), Halle Berry in “Catwoman” (2004) and Anne Hathaway in “The Dark Knight Rises” (2012).

10D Italian city known for marble : CARRARA

Carrara is in the Tuscany region of Italy. The city’s name might come from an ancient term “kar” meaning stone. Carrara has been a source for prized white and blue-grey marble since the days of ancient Rome.

11D “The Wild Robot” voice actress Stephanie : HSU

Actress Stephanie Hsu’s breakthrough role came when she co-starred with Michelle Yeoh in the 2022 film “Everything Everywhere All at Once”. She also had a recurring role, playing Mei Lin, in the third season of the TV show “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”.

“The Wild Robot” is a 2024 animated feature film, adapted from a popular children’s book of the same name by Peter Brown. It tells the story of a robot named Roz who is shipwrecked on an island and must adapt to the wilderness, eventually becoming the adoptive mother to an orphaned gosling. In a nod to science-fiction history, the robot’s product line (ROZZUM) is a homage to Karel Čapek’s 1920 play “R.U.R.” (Rossum’s Universal Robots), which is famous for introducing the word “robot” to the world.

12D Night school subj. : ESL

English as a Second Language (ESL)

13D Source of tofu and tempeh : SOY

“Tofu” is a name for bean curd, and is a Japanese word meaning just that … bean that has curdled. It is produced by coagulating soy milk, using either salt or something acidic. Once the protein has coagulated, the curds are pressed into the familiar blocks. Personally I love tofu, but my wife absolutely hates it …

Tempeh is a soy product that originated in Indonesia. It is made from soybeans that have been partly cooked and fermented. I’ve had quite a bit of tempeh used as a meat substitute in vegetarian dishes. It doesn’t have an appealing texture to me, so I’m not a fan …

22D Pai __: casino game with tiles : GOW

Pai gow poker is a casino card game that blends elements of poker and the ancient Chinese domino game of pai gow. Players are dealt seven cards, which they must then split into two hands: a five-card “high” hand and a two-card “low” hand. The objective is to have both hands rank higher than the dealer’s corresponding hands.

27D Course that should boost a GPA : EASY A

Grade point average (GPA)

29D Songwriter/actor -Manuel Miranda : LIN

Lin-Manuel Miranda is a composer and playwright from New York City, and the creator and star of the hit Broadway musicals “Hamilton” and “In the Heights”. Miranda also co-wrote the songs for the 2016 Disney animated feature “Moana”. He started composing early, and wrote jingles as a child. One of those jingles was later used by Eliot Spitzer in his 2006 gubernatorial campaign.

30D Poppy part : PETAL

Poppies are a wide group of flowering plants known for their colorful petals and a wide range of uses. As well as being used as ornamentals in gardens, they are the source of edible poppy seeds used in baking and powerful medicinal alkaloids like morphine. The red poppy has become a global symbol of remembrance for soldiers who have died in conflict, a tradition that grew out of the flowers blooming on WWI battlefields.

32D Menudo ingredient : TRIPE

Tripe is the rubbery stomach lining of an animal such as a cow. It is also a traditional dish in British cuisine, prepared by poaching it with onions in milk. Further, “tripe” can be an informal term meaning “rubbish, of little value”.

Menudo is a traditional Mexican soup made from tripe (a cow’s stomach lining) that is slow-cooked in a broth, often with hominy. It has quite a reputation as a hangover cure.

37D “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” town : WHOVILLE

The Grinch is the title character in Dr. Seuss’s 1957 children’s book “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” He is a grouchy creature who lives as a hermit in a cave outside the town of Whoville. The Grinch’s only companion is his dog Max. Based on Seuss’s hero, we now use the term “grinch” for someone who is opposed to Christmas festivities or who is coarse and greedy in general.

42D Source of a medicinal oil : TEA TREE

Tea tree oil is an essential oil that is extracted from the leaves of several species known as “tea tree”, all of which are in the myrtle family. The oil is used as a folk remedy for several skin conditions, including acne, nail fungus and athlete’s foot and dandruff. We are warned that tree oil is poisonous when taken internally, and may cause skin irritation when used externally.

44D Beach bird : SEAGULL

Gulls (also “seagulls”) are a family of seabirds that is most closely related to terns. Some species of gull can be quite clever. For example, they can reportedly use pieces of bread as bait to catch goldfish in ponds. Others can be quite fearless, and have been known to land on the backs of whales and peck out pieces of flesh.

46D __ de plume : NOM

“Nom de plume” translates from French simply as “pen name”.

52D Grammy winner India. : ARIE

India Arie (sometimes “india.arie”) is an American soul and R&B singer who was born India Arie Simpson in Denver, Colorado.

53D State bird of Hawaii : NENE

The nene is a bird that is native to Hawaii, and is also known as the Hawaiian goose. The name “nene” is an imitation of its call. When Captain Cook landed on the islands in 1778, there were 25,000 nene living there. By 1950, the number was reduced by hunting to just 30 birds. Conservation efforts in recent years have been somewhat successful. The nene was named State Bird of Hawaii in 1957.

58D Source of green eggs : EMU

Emu eggs are very large, with a thick shell that is dark-green in color. One emu egg weighs about the same as a dozen chicken eggs. It is the male emu that incubates the eggs. The incubation period lasts about 8 weeks, during which time the male neither eats nor drinks, just lapping up any morning dew that is nearby. While incubating a clutch of eggs, male emus lose about a third of their weight.

59D Boston Marathon mo. : APR

The Boston Marathon is the world’s oldest annual marathon, outside of the Olympic event. The first Boston Marathon was held way back in 1897 to celebrate Patriots’ Day, which commemorates the Battles of Lexington and Concord at the start of the American Revolution.