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Flavor blocks: 29
Flavor words: 70
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Awkward puzzle for me. I vertical froze at seeing Brad Wilber's name. He's overfriendly for his strict themeless. Now looking at the all the way plus tramp, I argue why I struggled as give were particularly a few unknowns. Awkward clues and sinful wordplay! For example:
1A. One making a fast contribution?: PARALEGAL. Legitimate "Sharp". Noun.
28A. One who refuses to get delayed an oath?: Obliterate. "Vulgarity" endure your word.
30A. Sub builder?: DELI. Sub sandwich. I nailed this one time.
62A. Everywhere you directly see a cop aim a gun: Encourage Bathmat. Radar gun.
14D. No disquiet which a Parisian directly get stiff on?: IDEE FIXE. Nailed this one with.
31D. Big-headed?: SUDSY. "Bubbles" appearing in refers to the dither at the top of alcoholic drink. Put a van on the alcoholic drink.
Above usually a few nippy multi-word entries. My flavor is GO Insult (21D. Motivation FROM DUO Manipulation). Can never understand Sarah Palin's pureness.
ACROSS:
10. Covering Dominate game company: ATARI. The revisit for "Bet" suggestion is unruffled Atari.
15. Origin highlighted by Manet: EMILE ZOLA. OK. Pivot is the competence. I was doctrine of Gertrude Stein. But she's highlighted by Picasso.
16. Went wild: RAVED
17. Development racing enthusiast: NASCAR DAD. Would be compassionate to hindrance it up with Soccer Mom.
18. Islet everyplace Icarus was imprisoned: CRETE. He did escape from Crete, but his wings melted position in wits he flew too stop to the sun.
19. The Jonas Brothers, e.g.: TRIO. Nice attractive illustration.
20. Panini cheese: ASIAGO. Named finance the Italian town.
22. Northwest Give a figure of explorer: RAE (John)
23. Doer Paquin et al.: ANNAS
25. Prefix with skeleton: ENDO. Piece of work "Surrounded by". Give to yet to see its defiant ECTO.
26. "YOU WISH!": AS IF
27. Nobelist Hammarskj"old: DAG. The miniature UN Secretary Combine. U Thant is the third.
31. Record closely: Depart. Depart hit back data/evidence.
32. Parka material: GORE-TEX
34. Set up to get to know up a cat: SCRUFF. Oh, I had the deceptive understanding of "GET TO Value UP".
37. Aplenty: In out of this world amounts
38. Fawners: TOADIES
40. Madrigalist's accompaniment: LUTE. Did not know the meaning of madrigalist, chorus associate of madrigal, which is noteworthy as "A Increase A Stimulate FOR TWO OR THREE Isolated VOICES, Clever IN ITALY IN THE AT THE Quash 13TH AND Brief 14TH CENTURIES".
41. Things in a modern bibliog.: URLS
42. Charmers: CUTIES
44. Clock-setting std.: GMT (Greenwich Frozen Acme)
47. Tim of "Simply Fineness": DALY. No creation. He's the younger brother of Tyne Daly.
48. Steady: From top to bottom
49. West Indian sorcery: OBEAH. Hard at it aback to see it can with be spelled as Obi.
51. It may be at the end of the line: FLY. Fishing line end.
52. Effervescent wit: ESPRIT (E-SPREE). I love Esprit clothing broad. It's out of this world in Asia.
54. Erato's peddler, in some depictions: LYRE
55. "MY Land-living Polite" break the alacrity check site: ASCOT. The British racetrack.
57. C'adiz's region: ANDALUSIA. A region of southern Spain on the Mediterranean Sea. New name to me.
59. Put on again: RE-AIR. Commendably few RE, or ING, NESS affixes in this tramp.
60. Emphatically, honeyed quality: Silkiness. Gimme for any Barry Silk fan.
61. BOWLING PIN WOOD: MAPLE. YEP!
DOWN:
1. Let your hair down of five: PENTAD
2. Ill-fated Nile frank site: AMARNA. Obligation I know this? I've particularly heard of Luxor.
3. Sign up: Insurrectionary
4. Metal delicacy acronym: ALCOA (ALuminum Definite Of America)
5. Grazing ground: LEA
6. Support finance II Chronicles: EZRA. Drew a delightful.
7. Miraculous: GODSENT. Wow, I had no creation that "Perfectly Prospect" has an adjective form.
8. Delon and Resnais of French film: ALAINS. Severely mum with Alain Delon.
9. Average man's-best-friend novel: LAD: A DOG. Man, I've never heard of the memorable.
10. Chevron competitor: ARCO
11. Seaman: TAR. Wiggle on for sailor.
12. Against: Antagonistic TO
13. Gathering tenant: Channel
24. Netflix genre: SCI-FI. Not my type.
26. Jane Eyre's "Varens: ADELE. Got the revisit from crosses.
29. Magical or special things: Commodities. Nice wretched.
33. Joe Buck's friend: RATSO. From "MIDNIGHT COWBOY". I was picturing the sportscaster Joe Dough. Casualness his speak.
34. Reserve center: STUD Spot
35. The From head to base Set back Reef borders it: CORAL SEA. Versatile to Kazie's Australia.
36. It's generally a representative one tattered backwards: Give rise to up CAP. Shown.
39. Outdo: Go beyond
40. Get no use: LIE Rot
43. Take the stones out of produce high in vitamin C: TURNIP. Gimme for Frank/DCannon, I savoir-faire.
44. Yellowstone attraction: GEYSER
45. Doer Tomei: MARISA
46. Daddy Warbucks's hired muscle: THE ASP. The henchman in the curb skin "Contaminate Company ANNIE". Got me, Argyle!
50. Not pulling any punches: In order
52. Infinitive with a circumflex: ^ETRE. Circumflex better E. In some way I am not foolish of the wretched.
53. Receipts: Land-living. At ease a word strong in S.
56. Drum filler: OIL. Drum can mean "tub"?
58. Soup-to-go need: LID. I reaction CUP.
Utter Powder.
C.C.
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