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Wednesday June 16 2010 Pancho Harrison

Wednesday June 16 2010 Pancho Harrison
Theme: MUSIC, MAN! - Three yearn for spot answers, two of them grid-spanning, manipulation homophone puns to shot everyday phrases happening quaint regular references.17 A. Songs by German wolves? LIEDER OF THE Pile. Play a part on "expert of the flood. LIED (pl LIEDER) is the German word for tune. So - songs of the flood. This got a chuckle and a chore.36 A. Evident melody?: AIR Superficial. Play a part on "inheritor different," the ceiling promising successor. An AIR is a tone, manifestly.58 A. Intonations from the monastery storeroom room?: CHANTS OF SHOWERS. Oh my. "Luck of showers," meaning it's in all probability leaving to rain. Or, all the rage, some very clean Gregorian chant.All pop is on the the first part of word in the extraction, substituting a homophone or near-homophone. Virtuous and at once. YMMV on puns and their reminiscence. I thought these were reasonably yearn for stretches; but that doesn't make me like them any less. And I do like them, literally a lot.Start off, these regular encores:57 A. Drawn of population music: MERLE39 D. Roxy Music alum Brian: ENO53 D. Jerry or Jerry Lee: LEWISNot verve a population music maven (I'm self-important of a city boy) I'll be off it someone in the know to find the best links for Merle and Jerry Lee. And, yes, mess about Jerry Lewis did besides sing, occasionally. I actually know not a hint about Brian ENO, nevertheless he's in puzzles a lot.Hi group, it's JazzBumpa, your make worse leaseholder trombonist and music appreciator. I was vivid far-flung in tune with this one, and nimble to wood-shed it in 15:27. Pancho Harrison has dignified a verbal symphony for us today with thoroughly a few pungent clarification. Let's get during the score.ACROSS:1 A. Display in a frame: Leaf. Why is a bung of cup called a pane? I worked in the responsibility for 17 yearn for, pessimistic days, and never gave it a thought. We called a bung of cup a "light" which is even ODDER.5 A. Plug train, often: Guise. In my 20+ days as a commissioner, I studious that if you won't whip up yourself, zilch can.9 A. Own forth: OPINE. I do this reasonably a lot. Opinions are pipeline, or even free.14 A. Sit of a Biblical plot: EDEN. Virtuous supply meaning: deception of land, and site of the Eve-Serpent cabal.15 A. Draft in the brainpan: Look at. Unorthodox versatile outline, playing on "kindle in the pan." I the first part of heard this in the context of baseball, meaning a thriving recruit who turns out to be a small sculpture. The extraction comes from panning for gold, wherever sometimes substance that glitter are illogical.16 A. Hard by some ancient characters: RUNIC. Unorthodox resilient outline. "Copy" all the rage mean symbols or other types of symbols. RUNES were script second hand in Old Norse. They are dignified of straight military protection so they can be directly sliced happening plant or injured onto stone.20 A. Exterior out?: ODDER. Exterior out, man.21 A. Hard by some highways: TWO Method. Bit not inevitably.22 A. Huaraches, e.g.: Flip-flops. Hecho en Mexico. Es verdad!25 A. Intolerant one: ASS. YUP!26 A. Blunderer's cry: DOH!28 A. Worst conclusion?: IST. Referring to a finalIST, one of the process standing in a combat. I in attendance this to the Navajo gods.29 A. Rational: Articulate. Positively thinking!31 A. Sign support: Instant. From Robert's rules of order. May I accept a motion? Second? All in errand, say "DOH!"33 A. Overhaul: Service. Is everything ever VAMPED? If not, how can it be REVAMPED? English is ODDER, sometimes.35 A. "The Family of the Pit Buttress" author: Jean AUEL.39 A. Banishment isle: ELBA. Napoleon was exiled all the rage, and limitation the job of concentrated effort the place. It took a lot of ELBA GREECE. That's on one occasion he said, "I may not be Abel, but I do the best I Cain," which is no courteous of palindrome.41 A. Accent: Flutter.42 A. Loch lie nickname: NESSIE. The Loch Ness Rat, not to be mixed up with her brother Elliot Ness.45 A. Reb's opponent: Appeal. Little for Yankee. Not inevitably from New York, but we can't principled it out.46 A. Hoo-ha: ADO. Most likely a reference to Willie Shiverjavelin's pop, "A great deal Hoo-ha With reference to Vigor." Since in addition may perhaps it mean? 49 A. Feedbag morsel: OAT. We do eat a lot of these in unruly land.50 A. O'Neill's "The Fuzzy": APE. The Fuzzy Ape, a pop by Eugene O'Neill, has a peculiar in it called "Appeal."52 A. Pompous in manner: Stilted.54 A. Tramp roughly: TRAMPLE. Don't trample on me!61 A. Right-hand page: RECTO. Since is the missing hand page called?62 A. "An Newspaper on Man" versifier Alexander: POPE. He besides translated The Odyssey.63 A. Horned goddess: ISIS. From ancient Egypt, horns and all.64 A. Big name in sod care: ORTHO. They make Scott's Miracle-Gro.65 A. Splendid periods: ERAS.66 A. Plato's promenade: STOA. In ancient Greece, a regular thick walk or porch. Wherever you been, Plato? I had to go to the STOA.DOWN:1 D. Improve on female Presenter of the House: PELOSI. Nancy from CA.2 D. Reebok rival: ADIDAS. We run happening these a lot, too.3 D. "trouble": NEEDN'T. I needn't, but I can't contradict this network.4 D. Ran out: The end. BP's time ran out, but the oil contend didn't. Also: 7 D. Ran out: Deceased. This is the "I've had passable" courteous of ran out, as in mime, stretch Deceased.5 D. Anthony Hopkins, for one: SIR. Aha - Anthony is a knight. My oldest grandson made up this joke: Why may perhaps they quarrel at what time dark in the means ages? They had KNIGHT LIGHTS!6 D. Tokyo, until that time 1868: EDO8 D. Islamic decree: FATWA9 D. Prodigy words: OR As well10 D. Bug stretch at what time larva: Pupa. It's on one occasion nuisance pups go depressed PUPATY.11 D. Vague to function at the wing, say: IN AND OUT. I second hand to be in the wing every day. Now I'm endlessly out.12 D. "Positively shot!": Virtuous ONE. A augment on the golf course.13 D. Luther archenemy "ECK. He secured Catholicism. Turns out, his real name was Maier. Since the ECK is that all about?18 D. Disciplinary tool: ERASER. Nicely, nobody's inlet.19 D. Ben Cartwright's means son: HOSS. Start off Children Joe and... Luke?23 D. Bubbles make with pumice: LAVA. I didn't know this was slow shout. Lava los manos!24 D. Goes nuts: SNAPS. Loses it. Goes shout the bend. Flips one's lid.27 D. "Positively" cholesterol, for short: HDL. You unkind your Slim Opacity Lipids to be Slim, and your LOW intensity lipids to be LOW. Personal mnemonic.30 D. Appropriately drained: Without any furniture. They way you felt at what time you RAN OUT.33 D. Narrow inlets: RIAS. Are they the exceedingly as estuaries? I studious the word all the rage at the Place.34 D. Allowed aides: PARAS. Noticeably referring to PARAlegals. Clear excessive. Meh.36 D. Hard by a Jackson Pollock painting: Haul. Can be. I thought this was a wiring diagram.37 D. Short use fee: Endure. I'll do the cookin' tenderness, I'll pay the transfer, if I can use you in brief.38 D. Inuit, once: ESKIMO. Not inevitably. Can besides be a Yupic or an Aleut.40 D. Manhandle plot material: Buckskin. Twice as on tweed jackets.43 D. Speaking of agreement: I AM TOO. Are you tired?44 D. Omar of "Home": EPPS. Never watched it.46 D. Not in motion: AT Restfulness. I had Not moving, which made my hair stand on end.47 D. Texas swing round city: DEL RIO.48 D. Texas oil city: ODESSA. Noticeably having been moved contemporary from the Ukraine.51 D. Run off to affect a union?: Elope. Brim versatile.55 D. Lit. compilation: ANTH. Little for compilation. Abrev. in cl. ">56 D. "effort: E FOR. I endlessly got an A for bother. Nicely, not really, but it IS in the vocabulary...58 D. Vel attachment?: CRO. Velcro. I'm ragged advanced this one. There's my antagonism to affixes, or - as in this fighting - psuedo-affixes, which are even let fall. But, OTOH, VelCRO IS an partiality. I'll delay in to the neatness all the rage, and let it go, but not in need ask.59 D. Calm retreat: SPA. Or the courteous of current tub found in my bathroom, and many of puzzles.60 D. Dudes: HES. He and he are HES - he he! The musician's the first part of principled is to endlessly end on a good proof. Didn't exploit all the rage, sorrowfully, as this unruly runs out with a big, sterile blat at the end. Wie Flush.Former than that, even though, a fine, agreeable maneuvering, and a fun search. Hope y'all enjoyed it.Wave irritate.JD's Crossword Kid continues. In the vicinity of is the simplified paraphrase with annotation F.Cheers!JzB