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Constructed by: Zachary David Levy

Edited by: Patti Varol

Today’s Reveal Answer: Just a Flesh Wound

Themed answers end with JUST A FLESH WOUND:

• 63A Iconic line from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” or what can be said about the ends of 17-, 24-, 38-, and 52-Across? : JUST A FLESH WOUND

• 17A Beach Boys hit that imagines Santa Claus in a hot-rod sleigh : LITTLE SAINT NICK
• 24A Extract information online : DATA SCRAPE
• 38A Like some baked goods : MADE FROM SCRATCH
• 52A Notch on an analog watch : MINUTE MARK

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Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies

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10A Model Delevingne : CARA

Cara Delevingne is a model and actress from England. One might say that Delevingne was born with a silver spoon in her mouth. She is descended from two Lord Mayors of London, her maternal grandmother was lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret, and her godmother is actress Joan Collins.

17A Beach Boys hit that imagines Santa Claus in a hot-rod sleigh : LITTLE SAINT NICK

“Little Saint Nick” is a classic Christmas song by The Beach Boys, first released as a single in December 1963. Brian Wilson and Mike Love wrote the Christmas tune as a holiday-themed adaptation of one of their other hits from the same year: “Little Deuce Coupe”. The two songs share a nearly identical chord progression and structure, just with different lyrics.

23A Some pajama tops : TEES

Our word “pajamas” (sometimes “PJs” or “jammies”) comes to us from the Indian subcontinent, where “pai jamahs” were loose fitting pants tied at the waist and worn at night by locals and ultimately by the Europeans living there. And “pajamas” is another of those words that I had to learn to spell differently when I came to America. On the other side of the Atlantic, the spelling is “pyjamas”.

26A New Mexico town north-northeast of Santa Fe : TAOS

The town of Taos, New Mexico is named for the Native American village nearby called Taos Pueblo. The town is famous for its art colony. Artists began settling in Taos in 1899, and the Taos Society of Artists was founded in 1915.

29A Can. neighbor : USA

The Canada-US border is the longest international border in the world. The total length is 5,525 miles. Canada’s border with the lower 48 states is 3,987 miles long, and the border with Alaska extends 1,538 miles.

32A Ballet garb : TUTU

The word “tutu”, used for a ballet dancer’s skirt, is actually a somewhat “naughty” term. It came into English from French in the early 20th century. The French “tutu” is an alteration of the word “cucu”, a childish word meaning “bottom, backside”.

43A Adapter letters : AC/DC

Anyone with a laptop with an external power supply has an AC/DC converter, that big “block” in the power cord. It converts the AC current from a wall socket into the DC current that is used by the laptop.

56A Hamlet, for one : DANE

Elsinore is the castle that William Shakespeare used as the setting for his play “Hamlet”. Elsinore is based on the actual Kronborg castle in the Danish city of Helsingør (anglicized as “Elsinore”).

61A Image Awards gp. : NAACP

The NAACP Image Awards are presented annually to recognise people of color in the worlds of film, television, music and literature. The first awards were presented in 1967, and the ceremony usually takes place in Los Angeles.

62A Jordan’s capital : AMMAN

Amman is the capital city of Jordan, and one of the oldest continuously-inhabited cities in the world. It has been occupied by a number of different civilizations over the centuries, including the Greeks. The Greeks called the city “Philadelphia”, a name retained by the Romans when they occupied the city just after 100 AD.

63A Iconic line from “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” or what can be said about the ends of 17-, 24-, 38-, and 52-Across? : JUST A FLESH WOUND

“Monty Python and the Holy Grail” was released as a movie in 1975, and was a great success. Some thirty years later the film’s storyline was used as inspiration for the hit musical “Spamalot”. I saw “Spamalot” on stage not that long ago and wasn’t that impressed. But, mine was very much a minority opinion …

68A Tree-shaping art : BONSAI

The term “bonsai” is used more correctly to describe the Japanese art of growing carefully shaped trees in containers, although it has come to be used as the name for all miniature trees in pots. “Bonsai” translates literally as “tray planting”.

70A Cryptography org. : NSA

The National Cryptologic Museum (NSM) is located just outside Fort Meade in Maryland, home to the National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters. The NSM is open to the public, and was established in 1993. The museum’s building was once the Colony Seven Motel.

Down

1D Bowler’s challenge : SPLIT

In ten-pin bowling, a split takes place when the number-one pin (headpin) is knocked down with the first ball and two or more non-adjacent pins are left standing. The most difficult split to deal with is the infamous 7-10 split, where just the rear pins at the extreme right and left remain standing.

2D Group of NFL blockers, in brief : O-LINE

Offensive line (O-line)

3D Foamy coffee drink : LATTE

The term “latte” is an abbreviation of the Italian “caffelatte” meaning “coffee (and) milk”. Note that in the correct spelling of “latte”, the Italian word for milk; there is no accent over the “e”. An accent is often added by mistake when we use the word in English, perhaps meaning to suggest that the word is French.

4D Measure of sharpness : IQ TEST

Although it is correct these days to say that the abbreviation IQ stands for “intelligence quotient”, the term was actually coined by German psychologist William Stern, and so is actually an abbreviation for the German “Intelligenz-Quotient”.

7D Real humdinger : BEAUT

A humdinger or pip is someone or something outstanding. “Humdinger” is American slang dating back to the early 1900s, and was originally used to describe a particularly attractive woman.

8D Japanese dogs : AKITAS

The Akita breed of dog is named for its point of origin, Akita Prefecture in Japan. When Helen Keller visited Japan in 1937, she asked for and was given an Akita breed of dog, with the name of Kamikaze-go. Sadly, the dog died within a year from distemper. The following year the Japanese government officially presented Keller with a replacement dog. Supposedly Keller’s dogs were the first members of the breed to be introduced into the US.

9D Richards of “The Bold and the Beautiful” : DENISE

Denise Richards is an actress from Downers Grove, Illinois. She was a Bond girl opposite Pierce Brosnan in “The World Is Not Enough”. Famously, Richards was married to actor Charlie Sheen, a fact that was very much on display in her reality TV show “Denise Richards: It’s Complicated”.

Even though it has been on the air since 1987, “The Bold and the Beautiful” is the youngest of the four remaining American daytime soaps. It is viewed in more than 100 countries and holds the Guinness World Record as the “most popular daytime TV soap” based on its worldwide audience.

19D Private eyes, in pulp slang : TECS

“Pulp fiction” was the name given to cheap, fiction magazines that were popular from the late 1890s up to the 1950s. The phrase comes from the inexpensive wood pulp paper that was used for the publications. The upmarket equivalent was printed on fine glossy paper.

25D “Cheers” star Perlman : RHEA

Rhea Perlman’s most famous role has to be Carla Tortelli, the irascible waitress in the long-running sitcom “Cheers”. Perlman is also a successful children’s author, and has published a series of six books called “Otto Undercover”. She married Hollywood actor Danny DeVito in 1982.

27D DOJ agency : ATF

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) today is part of the Department of Justice (DOJ). The ATF has its roots in the Department of Treasury dating back to 1886 when it was known as the Bureau of Prohibition. “Explosives” was added to the ATF’s name when the bureau was moved under the Department of Justice (DOJ) as part of the reorganization called for in the Homeland Security Act of 2002.

29D “Dexter: Resurrection” actress Thurman : UMA

2025’s “Dexter: Resurrection” is a sequel to the 2021 miniseries Dexter: New Blood, which in turn is a sequel to the original crime-drama TV show “Dexter” that aired from 2006 to 2013. In “Resurrection”, Dexter Morgan awakens from a coma, having survived the gunshot wound inflicted by his son, Harrison, at the end of “New Blood”. I haven’t seen any of these series, but I hear that they have been well-received by audiences …

37D Nickname for Ernesto Guevara : CHE

Ernesto “Che” Guevara was born in Argentina, and in 1948 he started to study medicine at the University of Buenos Aires. While at school he satisfied his need to “see the world” by taking two long journeys around South America, the stories of which are told in Guevara’s memoir later published as “The Motorcycle Diaries”. While traveling, Guevara was moved by the plight of the people he saw and their working conditions and what he viewed as capitalistic exploitation. In Mexico City he met brothers Raul and Fidel Castro and was persuaded to join their cause, the overthrow of the US-backed government in Cuba. He rose to second-in-command among the Cuban insurgents, and when Castro came to power Guevara was influential in repelling the Bay of Pigs Invasion and bringing Soviet nuclear missiles to the island. Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to continue his work as a revolutionary. He was captured by Bolivian forces in 1967, and was executed. Fidel Castro led the public mourning of Guevara’s death, and soon the revolutionary was an icon for many left-wing movements around the world.

42D SCOTUS initials from 1993 to 2020 : RBG

Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG) served on the US Supreme Court. Justice Ginsburg was the second woman to join the Court, and was nominated by President Bill Clinton. She was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1999 and underwent surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy. During that time she did not miss one day on the bench. In 2009 Justice Ginsburg had surgery for pancreatic cancer, and was back to work 12 days later. She had left-lung lobectomy to remove cancerous nodules in 2018, which forced Justice Ginsburg to miss oral argument in January 2019, for the first time since joining the court 25 years earlier. She finally succumbed to pancreatic cancer in 2020. Much of Ginsburg’s life is recounted in the excellent 2018 movie “On the Basis of Sex”.

49D Biggie __: 1990s rap moniker : SMALLS

Rap artist Christopher Wallace performed under the stage names “The Notorious B.I.G.” and “Biggie Smalls”. Biggie was just 24 years old when he was killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles in 1997. His murder remains unsolved, and occurred just six months after fellow rapper Tupac Shakur was killed in a similar incident.

51D Astronomer Halley with an eponymous comet : EDMOND

Edmond Halley was an English astronomer who lived at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1705 he declared that comet sightings recorded in 1456, 1531, 1607 and 1682 were in fact observations of the same comet returning to fly by Earth at regular intervals. He predicted that this comet would return in 1758. Hally was right, and so the comet was named after him. Sadly, Halley didn’t live long enough to see that his prediction came true.

55D Amtrak option : ACELA

The Acela is the fastest train in the Americas, and can reach a top speed of 160 miles per hour, However, it only does so for about 40 miles of its 457-mile route between D.C. and Boston. Due to the curvy nature of the Northeast Corridor tracks, the train’s average speed over the entire journey, including stops, is closer to 70 mph.

62D AFB no-show : AWOL

AWOL (absent without leave)

Air Force Base (AFB)

64D Tater __ : TOT

Ore-Ida’s founders came up with the idea for Tater Tots when they were deciding what to do with residual cuts of potato. They chopped up the leftovers, added flour and seasoning, and extruded the mix through a large hole making a sausage that they cut into small cylinders. We eat 70 million pounds of this extruded potato every year!