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Constructed by: Nate Curry & Kevin Curry

Edited by: Patti Varol

Today’s Reveal Answer: Knock It Off

Themed answers are common phrases with “IT” KNOCKED OFF the end:

• 61A “Cut that out!,” or an apt title for this puzzle : KNOCK IT OFF!

• 18A Warning on a note passed in a seminar? : NOT FOR PROF(IT)
• 25A Crystal ball consulted atop Mount Everest? : HIGH-EARTH ORB(IT)
• 37A The discovery of the Lucy fossils, for one? : SIGNIFICANT DIG(IT)
• 52A Beauty school treatment? : LEARNER’S PERM(IT)

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Bill’s time: 9m 28s

Bill’s errors: 0

Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies

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10A House shower? : C-SPAN

C-SPAN is a privately-funded, nonprofit cable channel that broadcasts continuous coverage of government proceedings. The acronym stands for “Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network”.

16A 2024 NBA All-Star Game MVP “__ Time” Lillard : DAME

Damian Lillard is an NBA player best known for his long career with the Portland Trail Blazers. He is the all-time leading scorer for the franchise, and earned the nickname “Dame Time” for his habit of sinking game-winning shots in the final seconds. Off the court, Lillard has a successful hip-hop career under the moniker Dame D.O.L.L.A., which stands for “Different On Levels the Lord Allows”.

18A Warning on a note passed in a seminar? : NOT FOR PROF(IT)

A seminar is a meeting called for the exchange of information, especially in a university. The term comes from the Latin “seminarium” meaning “breeding ground, plant nursery”, which is also the root of our word “seminary”.

22A Some Duracells : AAS

Duracell is a brand of batteries made today by Procter & Gamble. “Duracell” is a portmanteau of “durable” and “cell”.

23A Like many fiddle-leaf figs : POTTED

The fiddle-leaf fig is so named because of its violin-shaped leaves. It has become a popular houseplant in recent decades as it has been deemed very photogenic, with many images being shared on social media..

24A Land south of Eur. : AFR

The Carthaginian Republic was centered on the city of Carthage, the ruins of which are located on the coast of modern-day Tunisia. The Latin name for the people of Carthage was “Afri”. When the Romans took over Carthage, they created a province they called “Africa”. That name extended over time to include the whole continent.

34A Mother with a Nobel Peace Prize : TERESA

Mother Teresa was born in 1910 in the city that is now called Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia. At birth she was given the name Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (“Gonxha” means “little flower” in Albanian). She left home at the age of 18 and joined the Sisters of Loreto, and headed to Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham in Dublin, Ireland in order to learn English. Her goal was to teach in India, and English was the language used there for instruction by the nuns. After Mother Teresa passed away in 1997 she was beatified by Pope John Paul II. She was canonized by Pope Francis in 2016, and is now known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta.

37A The discovery of the Lucy fossils, for one? : SIGNIFICANT DIG(IT)

Hundreds of pieces of bone fossils, representing 40% of a female skeleton, were discovered in Ethiopia in 1974. The bones were dated to about 3.2 million years ago, and belonged to a hominid species known as Australopithecus afarensis. The team that worked to recover the skeleton made a habit of playing the Beatles song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” loudly throughout the camp each evening. As a result, the skeleton was nicknamed “Lucy”.

43A Soccer star Sergio who scored more than 100 goals for Real Madrid : RAMOS

Sergio Ramos is a Spanish soccer player, a defender who is almost as famous for his goal-scoring. He has an aggressive style of play, earning him the record for the most red cards in the history of the league.

Real Madrid is a professional soccer team based in Madrid, Spain. The team name translates as “Royal Madrid”. Real Madrid is often ranked as the world’s most valuable soccer team, and is one of the most widely supported sports teams on the planet. One of the team’s nicknames is “Los Blancos” (the Whites).

48A Long. crosser : LAT

Lines of latitude are imaginary horizontal lines surrounding the planet. The most “important” lines of latitude are, from north to south:

• Arctic Circle
• Tropic of Cancer
• Equator
• Tropic of Capricorn
• Antarctic Circle

49A “Rugrats” dad : STU

“Rugrats” is an animated TV series created for Nickelodeon. The series focuses on a group of toddlers; most prominently Tommy, Chuckie, Angelica, and twins Phil and Lil. “Rugrats” was the longest-running Nickelodeon animated series until that record was surpassed by “SpongeBob SquarePants” in 2012.

52A Beauty school treatment? : LEARNER’S PERM(IT)

“Perm” is the common name given to a permanent wave, a chemical or thermal treatment of hair to produce waves or curls.

56A Opposite of oui : NON

In French, “oui” (yes) or “non” (no) might be responses to “un questionnaire” (a questionnaire).

58A Singer Carly __ Jepsen : RAE

Carly Rae Jepsen is a singer/songwriter from Mission, British Columbia. She got her start on TV’s “Canadian Idol” when she placed third in the show’s fifth season. In addition to her music career, Jepsen has also dabbled in acting. She made her Broadway debut in 2014 playing the title in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “Cinderella.”

65A Like déjà vu : EERIE

“Déjà vu” is French for “already seen”.

67A Leaves for dinner : SALAD

Our word “salad” comes from the Latin “salare” meaning “to salt”. The Latin “herba salata” translates as “salted vegetables”, which I guess could be a salad …

69A Large number : SLEW

Our usage of “slew” to mean “large number” has nothing to do with the verb “to slew” meaning “to turn, skid”. The noun “slew” came into English in the early 1800s from the Irish word “sluagh” meaning “host, crowd, multitude”.

70A Monster with regenerative heads : HYDRA

The Hydra of Lerna was a mythical sea snake that had multiple heads. Heracles had to slay the Lernaean Hydra as the second of his Twelve Labors. We now use the term “hydra” figuratively to describe a complex problem that presents new obstacles once one facet is resolved.

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3D Well-read individuals : LITERATI

Literati are men and women of letters, learned people. The Latin “literatus” means “lettered”.

5D Sold-out letters : SRO

Standing room only (SRO)

8D Texter’s qualifier : IMO

In my opinion (IMO)

9D Pt. of HDTV : DEF

High-definition television (HDTV)

10D Novelist Meg : CABOT

Meg Cabot is a prolific author best known for writing “The Princess Diaries”, a young adult series about a teenager who discovers she is the heir to the throne of Genovia. The books were adapted into hit Disney films starring Anne Hathaway.

11D Broad strip : SWATH

Our word “swath” comes from the German “Schwad” meaning “a row of cut grass”.

12D Tacos al __ : PASTOR

A taco al pastor is a popular street food from Mexico that can also be found in parts of the US. The key ingredient in al pastor is sliced, spit-grilled pork. The cooking method, using a vertical spit, is one introduced into Mexico by Lebanese immigrants in the 1800s. The term “al pastor” translates from Spanish as “shepherd style”).

13D Aorta, for one : ARTERY

Arteries are vessels that carry blood away from the heart, and veins are vessels carrying blood to the heart.

19D Picnic spoiler : RAIN

Our term “picnic” comes from the French word “pique-nique”, which now has the same meaning. The original “pique-nique” was a fashionable potluck affair, and not necessarily held outdoors.

24D Pseudonym preceder : AKA

Also known as (aka)

25D Features of orchestras and rhinos : HORNS

There are five types of rhinoceros that survive today, with the smaller Javan Rhino being the most rare. The rhinoceros is probably the rarest large mammal on the planet, thanks to poaching. Hunters mainly prize the horn of the rhino as it is used in powdered form in traditional Chinese medicine.

33D Four-time French Open winner Swiatek : IGA

Iga Swiatek is a professional tennis player, and the first from Poland to win a major singles title (the French Open in 2020).

36D Org. for orthodontists : ADA

The American Dental Association (ADA) is the largest and oldest national dental association in the world. Today the ADA is based in Chicago, but the association was founded in Niagara Falls, New York in 1859. The ADA started out as a group of 26 dentists, and it now has more than 152,000 members.

Orthodontics is a branch of dentistry dealing with the straightening of teeth. The name comes from the Greek “orthos” meaning “straight” and “dontia” meaning “teeth”.

38D Key : ISLET

A key (also “cay”) is a low offshore island, as in the Florida “Keys”. Our term in English comes from the Spanish “cayo” meaning “shoal, reef”.

44D ID with two hyphens : SSN

Social Security Number (SSN)

49D Manatee, e.g. : SEA COW

Manatees, types of “sea cows”, are very large marine mammals that can grow to 12 feet in length. The manatee is believed to have evolved from four-legged land mammals and probably shares a common ancestor with the elephant.

53D Gymnast’s gripping aid : ROSIN

Rosin is a solid form of resin derived from plant sources. Rosin is formed into cakes that players of stringed instruments use to rub along the hairs of their bows to help improve sound quality. The rosin increases the degree of friction between the strings and the bow. That same friction-increasing property comes into play when baseball pitchers use rosin to get a better grip on the ball, or when dancers apply rosin to the soles of their shoes.

61D MMA stat : KOS

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full-contact combat sport in which competitors use a variety of techniques from a variety of traditional combat sports and martial arts.

62D Kraken’s realm, briefly : NHL

The Kraken are an NHL team based in Seattle. They played their first league game in Seattle in 2021, marking the first time that Seattle hosted a professional hockey team since the days of the Seattle Totems in 1975.

Kraken are huge sea monsters of legend that were reputed to live off the coasts of Iceland and Norway. It’s possible that the kraken legend was inspired by real-life giant squid.

64D HHS agency : FDA

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has its roots in the Division of Chemistry (later “Bureau of Chemistry”) that was part of the US Department of Agriculture. President Theodore Roosevelt gave responsibility for examination of food and drugs to the Bureau of Chemistry with the signing of the Pure Food and Drug Act. The Bureau’s name was changed to the Food, Drug and Insecticide Organization in 1927, and to the Food and Drug Administration in 1930.

The Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) was split in 1979, into the Department of Education (ED) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).