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Constructed by: Ken Buxton & Zhouqin Burnikel

Edited by: Patti Varol

Today’s Reveal Answer: Blah Blah Blah

Themed answers are all in the down-direction, each hiding the word “ROSE” written in the UP-direction:

• 64A Rebelled, or what can be found in 3-, 10-, 24-, and 29-Down : ROSE UP

• 3D Success for a pitcher? : SALES ORDER
• 10D Shifts to eco-friendly farming : GOES ORGANIC
• 24D “Save your apologies” : DON’T BE SORRY
• 29D Refreshing citrus dessert : LIME SORBET

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Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies

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1A Betting setting : CASINO

The term “casino” originated in the 1700s, then describing a public room for music or dancing. “Casino” is a diminutive of “casa” meaning “house”.

7A Bad air day factor : SMOG

The word “smog” is a portmanteau coined in 1905 by Dr. Henry Antoine Des Voeux to describe a mixture of smoke and fog, initially referring to the thick, polluted air in London. The infamous “Great Smog of London” in December 1952 caused thousands of deaths and led to significant environmental legislation.

15A City near Stanford University : PALO ALTO

The city of Palo Alto, California takes its name from a specific redwood tree called El Palo Alto (Spanish for “the tall stick”) that is located within the bounds of the city. The tree is 110 feet tall and over a thousand years old.

Leland Stanford became a very successful businessman in California after moving there from New York during the Gold Rush. Stanford then served as governor of the state for two years, and later US Senator for California. He founded the Leland Stanford Junior University in memory of his teenage son who died of typhoid fever while the family was traveling in Italy in 1884. The university opened its doors for business in 1891, and the first student admitted was none other than Herbert Hoover, the man destined to become the 31st President of the US.

19A Big primates : APES

The tailless primates known as apes (also “hominoids”) are divided into two main branches: gibbons (lesser apes) and hominids (great apes). The hominids are the great apes, and belong to the family of primates called Hominidae. Extant genera that make up the family Hominidae are:

• chimpanzees
• gorillas
• humans
• orangutans

20A “The Far Side” cartoonist Larson : GARY

“The Far Side” is a cartoon series drawn by Gary Larson. It ran from 1980 to 1995, and continues today in reruns in many papers. A lot of “The Far Side” cartoons feature animals, often in outrageous, human-like situations. Larson was so popular with people working with animals that in 1989 a newly discovered insect species was named Strigiphilus garylarsoni. How cool is that?

22A Nasal cavity : SINUS

In anatomical terms, a sinus is a cavity in tissue. Sinuses are found all over the body, in the kidney and heart for example, but we most commonly think of the paranasal sinuses that surround the nose.

23A “Viva __ Vegas” : LAS

“Viva Las Vegas” is an Elvis Presley movie released in 1964 that is considered one of his best films. The good reception for the movie was at least in part due to the performance of the female lead, the talented actress Ann-Margret.

24A Ellipsis trio : DOTS

An ellipsis (plural “ellipses”) is a series of dots (usually three) used to indicate an omission in some text. The term comes from the Greek word “élleipsis”, which means “omission”.

25A __ for apples : BOB

Bobbing for apples is a game played on Halloween. Participants must hold their hands behind their backs and grab apples floating in a large basin of water, using only their mouths.

26A Depleted atmospheric layer : OZONE

Ozone gets its name from the Greek word “ozein” meaning “to smell”. It was given this name as ozone’s formation during lightning storms was detected by the gas’s distinctive smell. Famously, there is a relatively high concentration of the gas in the “ozone layer” in the Earth’s stratosphere. This ozone layer provides a vital function for animal life on the planet as it absorbs most of the sun’s UV radiation. A molecule of ozone is made up of three oxygen atoms (O3), whereas a “normal” oxygen (O2) has just two atoms.

28A Largest and strongest of the 19-Across : GORILLA
[19A Big primates : APES]

The gorilla is the largest primate still in existence, and is one of the nearest living species to humans. Molecular biology studies have shown that our nearest relatives are in fact the species in the genus Pan (the chimpanzee and the bonobo), which split from the human branch of the family 4-6 million years ago. Gorillas and humans diverged at a point about 7 million years ago. The term “gorilla” derives from the Greek “gorillai” meaning “tribe of hairy women”. Wow …!

32A Kitchen cover : APRON

In Old French, a “naperon” was a “small table-cloth”. The term was absorbed into English as “napron”, describing a cloth used to cover the front of a person at work. Over time, “a napron” was heard as “an apron”, giving us our contemporary noun “apron”.

34A Cloth that protects hair waves : DURAG

Hip-hoppers might wear do-rags (also “durags”) today, but they have been around for centuries. The etymology of “do-rag” is pretty evident, i.e. a piece of cloth (rag) to hold a hairstyle (do) in place.

36A Bond creator Fleming : IAN

The character James Bond was the creation of writer Ian Fleming. Fleming “stole” the James Bond name from an American ornithologist. The number “007” was “stolen” from the real-life, 16th-century English spy named John Dee. Dee would sign his reports to Queen Elizabeth I with a stylized “007” to indicate that the reports were for “her eyes only”. There’s an entertaining miniseries that aired on BBC America called “Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond” that details Ian Fleming’s military career, and draws some nice parallels between Fleming’s experiences and aspirations and those of his hero James Bond. Recommended …

37A “Wonder Woman” actress Gal : GADOT

Before becoming a Hollywood star, Gal Gadot served two years of mandatory military service in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as a combat fitness instructor. She has shared that her military training helped prepare her for the physical demands of her action roles. Gadot also won the Miss Israel pageant in 2004 and represented her country in the Miss Universe competition that same year.

“Wonder Woman” is a 2017 film starring Gal Gadot as the superhero title character. It is listed by many as one of the best superhero movies of all time. Gadot had played Wonder Woman before, in the 2016 film “Batman v Superman”.

38A Cookbook writer Garten : INA

Ina Garten is an author as well as the host of a cooking show on the Food Network called “Barefoot Contessa”. She is a mentee of Martha Stewart, and indeed was touted as a potential “successor” to the TV celebrity when Stewart was incarcerated in 2004 after an insider trading scandal. Garten has no formal training as a chef, and indeed used to work as a nuclear policy analyst at the White House!

42A Noble rank below viscount : BARON

In the British peerage system, a viscount ranks below an earl and above a baron. The term “viscount” basically means “deputy of a count”, i.e. “vice-count”.

44A Dorothy, to Em : NIECE

In the children’s novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by L. Frank Baum, Dorothy Gale lives with her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry.

50A Computer repaired at a Genius Bar : IMAC

The technical support desk found in Apple Retail Stores is rather inventively called the Genius Bar. The certified support technicians are known as “Geniuses”. The trainees are called GYOs: Grow-Your-Own-Geniuses.

54A Competition with barrel racing : RODEO

Barrel racing is an event featured in rodeos. Competitors on horses race around barrels in a cloverleaf pattern, each trying to complete the course in the fastest time. The event tends to be confined to male and female youths, and to women riders.

57A Alum : GRAD

An alumnus (plural “alumni”) is a graduate or former student of a school or college. The female form is “alumna” (plural “alumnae”). The term comes into English from Latin, in which an alumnus is a foster-son or pupil. “Alum” is an informal term used for either an alumna or alumnus.

58A “Everybody Loves Raymond” actor Garrett : BRAD

“Brad Garrett” is the stage name of stand-up comedian and actor Bradley Gerstenfeld. His first brush with fame was appearing as the menacing palace guard drawing a scimitar on the back cover of ELO’s 1979 album “Discovery”, a modeling gig that he picked up when he was 19 years old. His second claim to fame happened five years later, in 1984, when he became the first comedian to win the $100,000 prize on the TV show “Star Search”. Garrett’s big break was an acting role, playing Robert Barone on the hit sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond”.

63A Canada’s second-most populous city : MONTREAL

The original name of Montreal was “Ville-Marie”, meaning “City of Mary”. “Ville-Marie” is now the name of a borough in the city, the borough which includes the downtown area and “Old Montreal”. The present-day city covers most of the Island of Montreal (in French, “Île de Montréal”) that is located where the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers meet. The name “Montreal” comes from the three-headed hill that dominates the island and is called “Mount Royal”.

66A Big name in locks : YALE

The Yale brand name of lock comes from Linus Yale Jr., the founder of the original company. Linus Yale was the inventor of the pin tumbler lock.

67A Six-line section of a sonnet : SESTET

A sestet is a group of six lines of poetry. It is similar to a quatrain, a group of four lines.

Down

1D Reef material : CORAL

Polyps are tiny sea creatures that are found attached to underwater structures or to other polyps. They have a mouth at one end of a cylindrical “body” that is surrounded by tentacles. Some polyps cluster into groups called stony corals, with stony corals being the building blocks of coral reefs. The structure of the reef comprises calcium carbonate exoskeletons secreted by the coral polyps.

2D Griddled corn cake : AREPA

An arepa is a cornmeal cake or bread that is popular in Colombian and Venezuelan cuisines in particular. Each arepa has a flat, round shape and is often split to make a sandwich.

5D Mo. that was ninth in a 10-month Roman calendar : NOV

November is the eleventh month in our calendar. The name comes from the Latin “novem” meaning “nine”, as November was the ninth month in the ancient Roman calendar.

Our contemporary calendar has its roots in the old Roman calendar, which originally had ten months and was attributed to Romulus:

1. March (Month of Mars)
2. April (Month of Apru/Aphrodite)
3. May (Month of Maia)
4. June (Month of Juno)
5. Quintilis (Fifth Month)
6. Sextilis (Sixth Month)
7. September (Seventh Month)
8. October (Eighth Month)
9. November (Ninth Month)
10. December (Tenth Month)

Julius Caesar order the calendar realigned, adding two months at the beginning of the year (our “January” and “February”). Subsequently, the former “fifth” month of Quintilis was renamed in honor of Julius Caesar giving our “July”, and then the former “sixth” month of Sextilis was renamed in honor of Augustus Caesar giving our “August”.

6D State with the deepest lake in the U.S. : OREGON

Crater Lake is my favorite locale in the whole country. It sits in a volcanic crater giving the lake a near perfect circular shape. The water appears to have a deep, deep blue color and is extremely pure. There are no rivers running into the lake, so humans haven’t really had the chance to contaminate it with pollutants. It currently holds the title of the deepest lake in the US, a depth first measured in 1886 using a specialized spool of piano wire.

7D San Antonio NBA team : SPURS

The Spurs are a professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. The team was founded as the Dallas Chaparrals of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967.

11D “Twisters” star Powell : GLEN

Actor Glen Powell really hit the big time when he picked up the role of fighter pilot Jake “Hangman” Seresin in the 2022 action movie “Top Gun: Maverick”. The movie’s star, Tom Cruise, surprised Powell with an iPad pre-loaded with a flight school app and a receipt for fully prepaid pilot training. Powell now holds a private pilot’s license.

2024’s “Twisters” is a standalone sequel to 1996’s disaster epic “Twister”, which famously became the first motion picture ever released on DVD in the US. The 2024 movie was actually filmed throughout Oklahoma during the height of storm season, as director Lee Isaac Chung wanted a realistic feel, rather than digital effects. As a result, the cast and crew were frequently forced into storm shelters when actual tornadoes touched down near the set.

12D Caesarean delivery? : ET TU?

It was Shakespeare who popularized the words “Et tu, Brute?” (meaning “And you, Brutus?”). They appear in his play “Julius Caesar”, although the phrase had been around long before he penned his drama. It’s not known what Julius Caesar actually said in real life (if anything at all) as he was assassinated on the steps of the Senate in Rome.

27D Menagerie : ZOO

The world’s first zoo opened in Britain in 1828. Now known as “London Zoo”, the facility was referred to back then as the “Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society of London”. The term “zoo” is a shortening of “zoological”.

A menagerie is a varied group, and particularly refers to a collection of wild or unusual animals. The term “menagerie“ comes from the French “ménagerie”, which described housing for domestic animals.

29D Refreshing citrus dessert : LIME SORBET

“Sorbet” can mean different things around the world. Here in the US, sorbet is a non-fat frozen dessert that is made without any dairy content.

31D Penny-__: trivial : ANTE

Penny ante poker is a game in which bets are limited to a penny, or some other small, friendly sum. The expression “penny-ante” has come to describe any business transaction that is on a small scale.

35D Family card game : UNO

A standard game of Mattel’s UNO can be used to play several variations of the game, such as Elimination UNO, Speed UNO and Pirate UNO. There is also a spin-off game called “DOS” that is published by Mattel.

40D Cube with pips : DIE

The numbers on dice are arranged so that the opposite faces add up to seven. Given this arrangement, the numbers 1, 2 and 3 all meet at a common vertex. There are two ways of arranging the 1, 2 and 3 around the common vertex, a so-called right-handed die (counterclockwise 1-2-3) or a left-handed die (clockwise 1-2-3). Traditionally, dice used in Western cultures are right-handed, whereas Chinese dice are left-handed. Quite interesting …

46D Fold on a kilt : PLEAT

The lovely Scottish garment called a kilt is pleated, but only at the rear.

48D Tracking devices : RADARS

Scientists have been using radio waves to detect the presence of objects since the late 1800s, but it was the demands of WWII that accelerated the practical application of the technology. The British called their system RDF standing for Radio Direction Finding. The system used by the US Navy was called “Radio Detection And Ranging”, which was shortened to the acronym “RADAR”.

58D Hunting/fishing retailer __ Pro Shops : BASS

The sporting goods chain Bass Pro Shops started out as just eight square feet of retail space in the back of a Brown Derby liquor store in Springfield, Missouri in 1972. A massive 500,000 square foot Bass Pro Shops store opened in Springfield in 1981. That store is now the number-one, single-site tourist attraction in the whole state, drawing over four million visitors annually.

62D Caviar : ROE

Caviar is the roe of a large fish that has been salted and seasoned, and especially the roe of a sturgeon. Beluga caviar comes from the beluga sturgeon, which is found primarily in the Caspian Sea. It is the most expensive type of caviar in the world. 8 ounces of US-farmed beluga caviar can be purchased through Amazon.com for just over $850, in case you’re feeling peckish …