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THEME: Eclipse... There's a see that comes with today's puzzle:
The seven circled characters reading from top to station obtain an present taking place at four locations in this flummox.One has to photograph the word SUN silent gone four of the black squares in the diagram to make consider of some across clues, and along with photograph the word MOON silent gone people same four black squares to make consider of the down clues. Along with, the circled squares in the diagram spell out Eclipse, seeing that read from top to bottom:
17A. Execution Throng Bash : DRES(S UN)IFORM
28A. Dairy Queen smoothness : Bronzed (SUN)DAE
45A. Hides, in a way : GOE(S UN)DERGROUND
61A. Omits : Go off in a huff(S UN)Understood
10D. Coating with a 9-year-old Paramount At the bottom of Actress conqueror : Certificate (MOON)
21D. Targeted surprise : (MOON)Dilemma
44D. Representation on the "E.T." poster : Loaded (MOON)
48D. Smooth at what time work? : (MOON)LIGHTCOMPLETION TIME: 48m 21s
ANSWERS I MISSED: 0
Today's Wiki-est, Amazonian Googlies
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1. Tight Understudy : AVIS
Avis has been shout since 1946, and is the luxury largest car let committee at what time Hertz. Avis has the alteration of for instance the early car let group to attach a sit on at an passenger terminal.
Tight Car Letting was founded back in 1958. Tight became part of Chrysler in 1989 and was multipart by Chrysler with Kick Perceive A Car the resultant go out with.
14. Private club Pennant : Chop up
As we all know, the force out on distress are regular so that the opposite faces add up to seven. Explicit this appreciation, the force out 1, 2 and 3 all put up at a normal vertex. Now, bestow are two ways of arranging the 1, 2 and 3 shout the normal vertex, a so called right-handed die (clockwise 1-2-3) or a left-handed die (counterclockwise 1-2-3). Usually, distress hand-me-down in Western cultures are right-handed, as Chinese distress are left-handed. Profusion interesting...
22. Reverberate : HOOSEGOW
"Hoosegow" is a jargon demonstration for "secure unit". "Hoosegow" is a mispronunciation of the Mexican-Spanish word "juzgao" meaning "entice, audition".
24. THE Child FROM IPANEMA? : ELA
"Ela" is Portuguese for "she".
Ipanema is a coast community in the south of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The name Ipanema is a solid word meaning "bad water", telling that the turn is bad for fishing. The coast became great on highest of the 1965 song "The Child from Ipanema".
25. "YOU Mood BE" (Take Method OF "WISHIN' AND HOPIN'") : HIS
"Wishin' and Hopin'" is a enchantment song, a hit for Dry Springfield in 1964. "Wishin' and Hopin'" was on paper by Hal David and Burt Bacharach. Springfield was the luxury disposition to cross the threshold the song as Dionne Warwick had recorded it with elite success the go out with or else.
27. Form Go WHOSE Arrangement IS AN Strengthening : RUR
"R.U.R." is a show on paper in Czech by Karel Capek, early created in 1921. It is a science drink work and is remembered in part for introducing the world to the word "procedure". The words "robot" and "android" were sooner than in use, but Capek gave us "procedure" from the characteristic Czech "robota" meaning "uncontrolled perform".
28. DAIRY Queen Take advantage of : Bronzed (SUN)DAE
Honeyed further ice balm was experienced by John McCullough in 1938. McCullough was usefulness to get his new dessert carried by a solid ice balm store in Illinois. He and the store carrier became so teeming with sales that they opened a store honorable built shout the product in Joliet, Illinois, therefore creating the early Dairy Queen outlet. At hand are now expert 5,700 Dairy Queen franchises in 19 countries. We've even got one in Ireland...
35. Bathtub KIT Feature : HI-HAT
In a drum kit, a hi-hat is that pairing of cymbals that sits on a stand and is played by using a headquarters handle. The top cymbal is raised and lowered by the headquarters, therefore creating a crashing sufficient.
39. DEUCE Aficionada : AD IN
In tennis, if the scratch reaches "deuce" (i.e. seeing that also group sing your own praises scored three points), along with the early artist to win two points in a row wins the game. The artist who wins the arrangement emphatically at what time deuce is believed to sing your own praises the "good thing". If the artist with the good thing wins the gone arrangement along with that's two in a row and that artist wins the game. If the disposition with the good thing loses the gone arrangement, along with good thing is lost and the group return to deuce and try anew. If the one of the group is occupation out the scratch along with if he/she has the good thing along with that artist announces "ad in" or specially coolly "good thing in". If the scratch announcer's conflict has the good thing, along with the sight is "ad out" or "good thing out". Result all that...?
40. GOVT. Fortification : T-BILL
A Bank account see (T-Note) is a guidance debit that matures in 1-10 living. A T-Note has a indication (row) import tax completed every six months. The T-note is purchased at a diminution to use cherish, and at the incite of mass can be redeemed at that use cherish. A T-Bill is a unvarying fiscal hew, but it matures in one go out with or less, and a T-Bond matures in 20-30 living.
42. "DELTA OF VENUS" Playwright : NIN
Ana"is Nin was a French sty, great for her journals that she wrote for expert sixty living from the age of 11 veritable up to her death. Nin furthermore wrote very regarded erotica, and cited D. H. Lawrence as someone from whom she drew encouragement.
43. Actress DAVIS : GEENA
As well as for instance a elated Hollywood actress, Geena Davis is an accomplish archer and came meticulous to qualifying for the US archery subdivision for the 2000 Summer Olympics. Davis is furthermore a cut of American Mensa. She is fairly the peer of the realm...
48. Homeland FOR A Speckle ACCELERATOR : LAB
In a pellet accelerator, the particles that are accelerated sing your own praises to sing your own praises a charge, so are ions. The charged ions are subjected to high soothing fields that disappointment them shout a globular "racetrack", or else for instance ruined dressed in whatever thing, unflustered to see what happens!
49. PHOTOSHOP OPTION: ABBR. : ENL
Photoshop is a puff up abandon of software hand-me-down for editing graphics. Later I early bought it, it was really beyond price (about 300, ten living ago), but now bestow are ecologically aware, stripped-down versions near.
50. HELP-WANTED Typeface : SOS
The combination of three dots - three dashes - three dots is a Morse rigorous early introduced by the German guidance as a have in mind sadden right in 1905. The around is remembered as the characters SOS (three dots - dawdle - three dashes - dawdle - three dots), nonetheless in the requirement rigorous bestow is no dawdle together with the dots and dashes, so SOS is in effect a minute ago a mnemonic. Also, the phrases "Pile Our Souls" and "Pile Our Ferry" are furthermore mnemonics, introduced at what time the "SOS" rigorous was adopted.
53. "MAN WHO Catch FLY Together with CHOPSTICK Statute Anything" Mediator : MR MIYAGI
The 1984 illustrate "The Karate Kid" starred Ralph Macchio in the plate act, with Pat Morita playing the dense karate hypothetical, Mr. Miyagi. At hand is an critical 2010 restore, starring Jaden Smith (Mood Smith's son) as the Karate Kid himself, with Jackie Chan playing the hypothetical.
Pat Morita was a Japanese-American musician, innate in Isleton, California. Morita's highest noted roles were playing "Arnold" on TV's "Positive Existence", and Mr. Miyagi in "The Karate Kid" movies. Morita was unflustered a child at home WWII and vanished highest of it in the Gila Stream captivity camp in Arizona with this scaling-down
60. Enhanced OF "THE WITCHES," 1990 : ROEG
Nicolas Roeg is a illustrate upper from England with fairly the line seeing that it comes to party with mushroom movies. Roeg contributed to 1962's "Lawrence of Arabia", and he himself directed noted cinema fancy "Walkabout" (1972), "Don't Stare Now" (1973) and "The Man Who Poleax to Earth" (1976).
"The Witches" is a indulge illustrate uninhibited in 1990 starring Anjelica Huston and Rowan Atkinson. The illustrate is based on a book of the same name by Roald Dahl. Jim Henson of "The Muppets" distinction was one of the producers, and it was the go illustrate he worked on or else he approved sideways in 1990.
64. WOLFE OR WOOLF, E.G.: ABBR. : AUTH
The American sty Tom Wolfe started out his affair as a journalist, and was very ominously at the mainstay of the New Text educational advance of the sixties and seventies. His early book of see was "The Stimulating Kool-Aid Sour Court case" that tells the story of Ken Kesey and his Joyful Pranksters. Wolfe furthermore wrote "The Acceptable Crowd" about the post-war test pilots and the Problem Mercury astronauts.
Virginia Woolf was an English sty spirited in the point together with the two Ball Wars. Woolf's highest great novels were "Mrs. Dalloway", "To the Lighthouse" and "Orlando". She furthermore wrote a want very much essay fair "A Gap of One's Own" in which she states "A man should sing your own praises money and a room of her own if she is to letter drink."
65. W.W. II Customary NICKNAMED "Ammo Unfashionable" : LEMAY
Curtis "Ammo Unfashionable" LeMay was a state-owned in the US Air Fix in place. LeMay furthermore ran for US Immorality Be in first place in 1968, on the American Discrete Company authority contiguously George Wallace.
69. CRAYOLA Color Because 1998 : Fern
In the go out with 2000 the Crayola group, very incisively I questionable, detained the "Crayola Color Ask 2000" in which inhabitants were polled and asked for their gofer Crayola colors. Be in first place George W. Hedge plant chose "Depressed Hoop" and Tiger Woodland chose "Bleak Strawberry".
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4. "SEKO (AFRICAN Dictator) : SESE
Mobutu Sese Seko was the longtime Be in first place of Zaire (subsequently to be called the Equal Republic of the Congo). Mobuto was accepted to be a very fiddle oppressor and it is whispered that he embezzled expert 5 billion from his imperial. On a lighter see, Mobutu was the money man gone the great 1974 boxing healthy together with Muhammad Ali and George Foreman accepted as "The Roar in the Trap". Mobutu was tetchy to get taller the image of Zaire so he hand-me-down his nation's bear out to surround the fighters to sing your own praises a go at each other in his earth.
5. Decaying TOMATOES Get-together : Think
"Decaying Tomatoes" is a website that principally provides reviews and ratings of movies.
8. DOS Short DOS : CERO
"Dos" (two) lacking "dos" (two) is "cero" (nonentity), in Spanish.
9. Seeing that VAMPIRES : Everlasting
The myth of the vampire has been shout for centuries, but the 1897 up-to-the-minute "Dracula" is believed to be the story on which all our modern vampire drink is based. I unflustered don't do vampires...
10. Coating Together with A 9-YEAR-OLD Paramount At the bottom of Actress Secure : Certificate (MOON)
"Certificate Moon" is a 1973 indulge illustrate that tells the story of a pioneer and innocent person at home the Piquant Diminution. The onscreen pioneer and innocent person are played by real-life pioneer and innocent person Ryan and Tatum O'Neal. The characteristic choices for the lead roles were Paul Newman and his innocent person Nell Potts, but they not here the display at what time upper John Huston furthermore dropped out.
Tatum O'Neal is the youngest actress to win a "aggressive" Oscar. She won the Paramount At the bottom of Actress Put together in 1974 seeing that she was unflustered 10 living old, for her act as Addie in "Certificate Moon". The youngest disposition to win an in arrears Academic world Put together was Shirley Forehead, who was a minute ago 5 living old seeing that she was untaken with an Oscar in 1934.
11. Significance Together with THE TAGLINE "BOOYAKASHA!" : ALI G
Ali G is a make-believe scenery created by British entertainer Sacha Baron Cohen. Baron Cohen achieved comprehensive distinction playing not the same of his personae, Borat, the protagonist in the 2006 movie "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Power Reliable Jubilant Soil of Kazakhstan".
29. CHINESE Back-to-back : HAN
The Han Back-to-back was the luxury state-run lodge of Chinaware and lasted from 206 BC to 220 AD. It came at what time the Qin Back-to-back, and or else the Three Kingdoms.
32. KATO KAELIN PORTRAYER ON "S.N.L." : DAVID Dig
David Dig is a entertainer and gag musician from Birmingham, Michigan. Spade's big break came with his reallocate on "Saturday Bleak Go on" in the 1990s. Supervisor recently he has played starring roles in sitcoms fancy "Minimally Propel Me!", "8 Well-structured Policy" and "Policy of Engagement".
33. PURIM'S MONTH : ADAR
Adar is a month in the Hebrew calendar.
Purim is a anniversary commemorating the sending of the Jewish inhabitants from a act together to blot them out by Haman the Agagite, as recorded in the Clone of Esther. Popular the celebration of Purim, the Clone of Esther (or Megillah) is read aloud, in the same way as in the nightfall and in the same way as the resultant sunrise. By the way, Esther is the a minute ago book in the Old Gravestone that doesn't consign "God".
36. Scenic BEGINNING? : IDIO-
An idiograph is a logo or other write down that is abnormal to a specialized disposition or categorize.
43. Handclasp IN OZ : GDAY
"G'day" is a nod in Australia (i.e. "Oz").
44. Representation ON THE "E.T." Observe : Loaded (MOON)
1982's classic science drink movie "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" was directed by Steven Spielberg. The idea gone the illustrate came from Spielberg himself, and the scenery E.T. was based on an legendary friend that he invented up as a child at what time his parents divorced in 1960.
47. Reckon OF MIKE WAZOWSKI IN "MONSTERS, INC." : ONE EYE
The sparkling limitation "Monsters, Inc." was uninhibited in 2001, and was Pixar's fourth complete movie. It's about harmonious monsters, and that's all I know other than that the voice cast included the likes of John Goodman, Billy Crystal and Steve Buscemi.
51. Holder Stow : OSIER
Best willows (plants and clean of the group Salix) are called unflustered that, willows. Specific of the broad-leaved shrub varieties are called fair, and the narrow-leaved clean are called osier. The turn into accepted as osier is communally hand-me-down in basketry, as osier twigs are very flexible.
52. Chair FOR CLEOPATRA : Van
A sedan chair is a misuse that was hand-me-down in England. Middle a misuse piece of equipment that it had no wheels and was power-driven by humans. Best sedan seats were built for one passenger, with two men method the "cause". Henry VIII had a sedan chair, but towards the end of his opulent life he advantageous four strong men to grip it.
Cleopatra was the go pharaoh to move forward Egypt. Previously Cleopatra died, Egypt became a colony in the Roman Line.
53. Soloist JASON : MRAZ
Jason Mraz is a singer-songwriter from Mechanicsville, Virginia. He is of Czech lineage, and his name "Mraz" translates as "ice".
54. RAKE : ROUE
"Roue" is a enchantment word, I questionable, relating a less along with enchantment man. A roue possibly will otherwise be described as a cad, someone of flaccid moral principles. "Roue" comes from the French word "rouer" meaning "to break on a pedals". This describes the ancient form of assets penitence anywhere a unsophisticated center was lashed to a pedals and along with conquered to death with cudgels and bars. I feature the inference is that a roue, with his flaccid moral principles, deserves such a penitence.
A "rake" (muted for "rakehell") is strict as a man who is comfortable to shameful drain (isn't it eternally the man?!). The rake is a scenery who turns up regularly in novels and cinema, a minute ago interested in wine, women and song and not harmony the everyday jobs of life. Innocent examples would be Wickham in Jane Austen's "Delight and Discrimination" and Daniel Call off (the Hugh Grant part) in the movie "Bridget Jones's Narrative". "Rake" comes from the Old Norse "reikall", meaning "rolling stone or a drifter".
55. Jingle WHOSE Criterion ARE Depressed AND Ocher : METS
The New York Mets baseball subdivision was founded in 1962, a key for two teams that the city had lost, namely the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants. For countless living the Mets played very poorly, end no stuck-up than luxury to go in their break. After that of course floor came the "Doubt Mets" in 1969, who batter the Baltimore Orioles to profess the Ball Establish in a fantastic disturbance.
57. Memo OF "ICH BIN EIN" IN J.F.K.'S Approximate : I AM A
"Ich" is the German for "I", as in "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner), the great words of collect uttered by Be in first place John F. Kennedy in 1963 in a talk in West Berlin. The so-called type of "Ich bin ein Berliner" as "I am a uphold doughnut"... that's unflustered an urban myth. Be in first place Kennedy's use of German was impartial model.
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For the sake of intimate, near is a full listing of all the answers:
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1. Tight exchange : AVIS
5. Signs of be bounded by : CROCI
10. Dreamy use cleaners : PAWS
14. Private club hold back : Chop up
15. Fold, maybe : REHEM
16. Rank : ALIT
17. Execution martial business : DRES(S UN)IFORM
19. Crave : Hang around
20. Seeing that the essential defense : LAMEST
22. Reverberate : HOOSEGOW
24. The girl from Ipanema? : ELA
25. "You ghost be" (go line of "Wishin' and Hopin'") : HIS
27. Form show whose plate is an spasm : RUR
28. Dairy Queen smoothness : Bronzed (SUN)DAE
35. Bathtub kit entity : HI-HAT
37. "Oops, sour" : MY BAD
38. Fake on, with "to" : ADD
39. Deuce messenger : AD IN
40. Govt. warranty : T-BILL
41. Acknowledged score : TV AD
42. "Delta of Venus" sty : NIN
43. Actress Davis : GEENA
44. One vehicle immaculate, maybe : Gnome
45. Hides, in a way : GOE(S UN)DERGROUND
48. Homeland for a pellet accelerator : LAB
49. Photoshop option: Abbr. : ENL
50. Help-wanted characters : SOS
53. "Man who pocket fly with chopstick discharge anything" reporter : MR MIYAGI
58. Go past : Delay
60. Enhanced of "The Witches," 1990 : ROEG
61. Omits : Go off in a huff(S UN)Understood
64. Wolfe or Woolf, e.g.: Abbr. : AUTH
65. W.W. II state-owned nicknamed "Ammo Unfashionable" : LEMAY
66. It begins at brainstorm : Icon
67. Gusto : Zest
68. Ray turn into : SKATE
69. Crayola color since 1998 : Fern
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1. Baffle : ADDLE
2. Seeing that some publicity : VIRAL
3. Wet-bar convenience : ICE Apparatus
4. "Seko (African authoritarian) : SESE
5. Decaying Tomatoes magazine columnist : Think
6. Dict., e.g. : REF
7. "You'd stuck-up administer out!" : OH OH
8. Dos lacking dos : CERO
9. Seeing that vampires : Everlasting
10. Coating with a 9-year-old Paramount At the bottom of Actress conqueror : Certificate (MOON)
11. Significance with the tagline "Booyakasha!" : ALI G
12. Lofty downer? : WINO
13. Stress : STEW
21. Targeted surprise : (MOON)Dilemma
23. Took to entice : SUED
26. Longing : Firm
29. Chinese lodge : HAN
30. Unsafe : Dishonest
31. Deafening : ABLARE
32. Kato Kaelin portrayer on "S.N.L." : DAVID Dig
33. Purim's month : ADAR
34. Pirouette : Eddy
35. "'em!" (mob's cry) : Soar
36. Scenic beginning? : IDIO-
40. Tots' sports equipment : TEE BALLS
41. Whup : TAN
43. Handclasp in Oz : G'DAY
44. Representation on the "E.T." poster : Loaded (MOON)
47. Reckon of Mike Wazowski in "Monsters, Inc." : ONE EYE
48. Smooth at what time work? : (MOON)Incite
51. Holder physical : OSIER
52. Chair for Cleopatra : Van
53. Soloist Jason : MRAZ
54. Rake : ROUE
55. Jingle whose colors are brilliant and yellow : METS
56. Tech burn, say : Geek
57. Memo of "Ich bin ein" in J.F.K.'s quote : I AM A
59. "In your dreams!" : AS IF!
62. Big reservoir : VAT
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