Here’s an oleo of a themeless, to use some hoary crosswordese. There’s a Hindu deity, one of my favorite authors, some Aussie slang, some Vietnamese food, and a Monty Python reference, among divers and sundry other entries. I hope you find it tasty and satisfying, like 3 Down but decidedly unlike 37 Down.
Cycleboy 34:35 · 2024-06-09T14:51:10.154Z
Entertaining as always! I learned some new words also, and reinforced my fear for our country's future.
Greatly enjoyed most of this solve but some structural issues through the NW resulted in the presence of several naticks. Simplifying as much the cluing for the most common fill in that section would balance the difficulty greatly.
Fun, thank you! I salute your editorial voice even if some entries failed my personal breakfast test (I speak, of course, of 37D — though with sufficient peanut butter, even they are edible).
"___ loco con su tema" (Each crazy person has their obsession)
13A
Famous shootout participant (he was OK)
14A
Root that sounds like a deck of cards
15A
Hwy. from AK to BC
16A
Org. whose women drive more carefully than their male counterparts
17A
Hone
18A
One of the Hindu Tridevi
20A
Last name in palindromic musicians/artists
22A
Midori on ice
23A
Roughly five percent of India's population
25A
Arguing (doing so on line would be doubly so)
27A
To hear in Tijuana
28A
See 7 Down
30A
Subjunctive, e.g.
32A
Put on a _____ (flex, colloquially)
33A
Kristi ___, South Dakota governor who shot her own dog, has been banned from entering tribal grounds accounting for 20 percent of her state, and might be our next Vice President
35A
First name in palindromic African dictators
36A
DEA agent, colloquially
39A
American Impressionist
42A
Quiet ___ ("Cum on Feel the Noize")
44A
"What's the rush?"
48A
__ de coeur
49A
Silence
50A
Some convertibles
52A
Important figure on the beach
53A
Red Sox legend, familiarly
55A
Fateful river
56A
Common screen
58A
Reds, e.g.
60A
Gas minimizer
61A
Gospel singer Priscilla Winans, familiarly
62A
It looks down on Catania
63A
Bugs
64A
Compilation record giant
65A
It might be split on a fence
66A
Golfers get a rise out of it
Verticales
1D
Sheep farm trainee (great bit of Australian slang that sounds like a rabbit/marsupial combo)
2D
One em or en?
3D
Pho menu-mate
4D
Cede
5D
Toy sound
6D
Middle of a Cartesian statement
7D
With 28 Across, whom Monty Python says "nobody expects"
8D
FYI kin
9D
Author of "The Interpreter of Maladies" and "Roman Stories"
10D
"You're not D2!" "We ____!"
11D
Gordy label
12D
Loud and clear, as a call
15D
Author of "Tuesdays with Morrie"
19D
Final Han dynasty
21D
The ___ (it might make you cry with laughter)
24D
When almost all baseball games take place in the afternoon
26D
Battling
29D
Frequent question for new parents
31D
"Unleaded"
34D
"___ yes, but I like it too" (Classic advertising line for Irish Spring uttered by an Irish lass)
37D
Edible, grain-based styrofoam equivalent, as far as I'm concerned
38D
Ropes (off)
40D
Jumper
41D
Mapo ___
43D
"___ man - [he's] a remorseless eating machine!" (statement about Homer Simpson)
44D
Words often preceding "and tired"
45D
Kermit, e.g.
46D
Apt rhyme for erase
47D
Bugs to Fudd
51D
It's "Fosters" in Australian, but it's ___ in French
54D
It's not the last letter of the Greek alphabet, though some may think it is
57D
Third part of a computer user's "three-finger salute"