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This is my solution to the crossword published in the New York Times today ...
Completion Time: N/A (watching the "State of the Union
")Theme: PINK THINGS ... as in PINK CARNATION, PINK FLAMINGO
Answers I missed: 0
Across
6 LAIT: Chocolat au lait is French for "milk chocolate".
14 ORRIN: Senator Orrin Hatch
is a Republican from Utah.15 ETNA: The Arabic name for Mt. Etna
translates as "Mountain of Fire".19 ESSO: Esso is the Italian word for "it", in the masculine form.
21 POINTE: En pointe is a French term used to describe the ballet technique of dancing on the toes.
28 TATER: Apparently, a baseball has long been referred to as a potato, or a "tater". In the seventies, a long ball started to be called a "long tater", and form this a home run became a "tater".
35 ASIA: Asia isn't occidental. Just the opposite ... it's oriental.
52 EDU: Harvard
and Yale
, like most education establishments, use an Internet address ending in .edu.57 INGE: William Inge
's 1957 play "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
" won a Tony for Best Play and was made into a film in 1960
.Down
1: SOFIA: Queen Sofia was Princess Sofia of Greece and Denmark marrying King Juan Carlos
of Spain. She was quite the sportswoman in her day, and even represented Greece in the sailing competitions in the 1960 Olympics.2 ORLON: Dupont invented acrylic fibers in 1941, marketing the product under the name "Orlon".
3 FRANCIS II: Francis II dissolved the Holy Roman Empire
after a defeat by Napoleon
at the Battle of Austerlitz
.10 QUE SERA SERA: As Doris Day
told us, que sera sera
is Spanish for "whatever will be, will be".18 NONE: "The cupboard was bare, and so the poor dog had none" ... from the old English nursery rhyme "Old Mother Hubbard
".24 INCARNATION: Horus
was one of the oldest gods in Ancient Egyptian religion. The pharaohs were supposed incarnations of Horus.31 TWADDLING: Twaddling is talking twaddle, talking silly.
34 SYS: The modus operandi (M.O.) is the method of operating, the system (SYS).
36 THREEPIO: C-3PO
, Threepio for short, is a "protocol droid" appearing in all six "Star Wars
" movies.43 THAIS: "Thais
" is a 3-act opera composed by Jules Massenet
. It is most famous for its "Meditation
", the entr'acte performed between scenes in Act II.45 HARD G: There's a hard G at the start of the word "government".
46 MCKEE: Lonette McKee also played Maggie Davis on the NBC drama "Third Watch
".
47 EDGAR: Edgar Mitchell
was the sixth man to walk on the moon. He has been interested in paranormal phenomena for many years, and even conducted ESP experiments with people back on earth during the Apollo 14 flight. He founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences
, to study areas shunned by mainstream science. By the way, "noetics" is central to Dan Brown's (author of "The Da Vinci Code
") latest novel "The Lost Symbol
", which I am reading right now and finding very enjoyable.55 -INE: Mescaline
is a psychedelic compound, found naturally in some types of cactus.
2 comments:
I think you posted the wrong image for this day's puzzle. It seems you accidentally put 2/28! :)
Thank you, Beeeeeeeen.
I suppose it had to happen some time!
All fixed now.
Thanks again.
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