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THEME: Males! Animals!... each of today's themed answers starts with the propose for a male animal:
17A. PRANKISH Gain : Waywardness
23A. Double-whammy fiscal exceed : STAGFLATION
35A. Without a shooting pain on : Dough Exposed
50A. Untrained, big discuss : BULL Meeting
58A. Low and unsturdy : RAMSHACKLECOMPLETION TIME: 8m 03s
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1. NOGGIN : At the outset
A give up propose for a "skull" dilution be "ground" or "noggin".
15. Half-done OF THE EYE : Learner
The student of the eye is the "hole" positioned in the center of the iris level which light enters the retina. The propose "student" came indoors English via French from the latin "pupilla", which is the sharp form of "pupa" meaning "girl, doll". The propose came about due to the unimportant doll-like image that one can see of oneself the same as looking indoors the center of another's eyes.
17. PRANKISH Gain : Waywardness
In Focus English, in the self of the 14th century, a mentally regretful man would be called a Thom Foole, send off for of a appellation. We footing the name today in our word "monkeyshines" meaning "slapstick on the subject of".
20. NO-TELL MOTEL GET-TOGETHERS : TRYSTS
In its greatest normal understanding, a date is a meeting at an locate time and place. Further normally we cost a date to be a synchronize meeting concerning lovers. The propose comes from the Old French "triste", a waiting place designated the same as hunting.
23. DOUBLE-WHAMMY Fruitful Condition : STAGFLATION
Stagflation is a portmanteau word, as one dilution syndicate, formed from the words stagnation and inflation. Stagflation is the exceed the same as a country's inflation storm is high, and at the vastly time leave is high (i.e. the economy is stagnating). So our contemporary fiscal woes wouldn't fall indoors the sketch of stagflation, because even conversely the leave storm has climbed (the economy is stagnating), inflation husk under field and significantly low.
30. THE "A" OF CHESTER A. ARTHUR : ALAN
Chester Arthur was the 21st Lead of the US, and came to power as soon as the assassination of James Garfield in 1881. Lead Arthur was particular to be socially dexterous, and was very conscious of his facility in union. He was unfailingly without a flaw attired, so they say even variable his pants slightly become old in a day. He was called "Chet" by descent and friends, and sometimes answered to his self name, Alan. Nonetheless, he insisted that Alan be finish with the stress on the show off syllable, Al-an.
35. Without A Tummy pain ON : Dough Exposed
Presumably the propose "buck-naked" is real a nice way of saying "butt-naked", and has nonexistence to do with a lowly at all.
42. Closed society Objectivity : ACRE
At one time, an acre was set as the compute of land a yoke of oxen could tend in a day. This was excellent in focus set as a treatise of land one furlong yearn (660 feet) and one swathe great (66 feet). The word "furlong" is actually resultant from the Old English words meaning "crinkle yearn", the reel of the crinkle plowed by the oxen.
46. HI-"GRAPHICS : RES
In the digital world, compactness of a put on, project, image etc. is set by the itemize of pixels that can be displayed in a middling wire (say a playing field inch). The import today is on producing huge wire displays/televisions, i.e increasing the itemize of pixels presently by increasing the extent of the advertise. In the former duo of decades the import was on accumulation excellent pixels within the vastly advertise extent to increase compactness. This would real be worthless goad these days as further increases in compactness cannot be superficial by the eye. Now that TVs are skillful of displaying such high resolutions, broadcasters are responding by producing a video thoroughgoing of vanguard compactness that they term high-definition project, HDTV.
48. MEN'S GROOMING Odor : BAY RUM
Bay rum is a perfume from rum and the plants of the Indian bay tree that is recycled as a body spray or scent. Bay rum has been recycled equally the 16th century, leading by sailors in the West Indies who found that it cloaked the natural "scent" they exuded as soon as months at sea. Initially it was real the dry plants that was recycled on the bomb, and then the plants were sopping in rum to main the essential oils.
50. Untrained, Concluded Address : BULL Meeting
"Bull rank" is an illegal propose recycled for an illegal huddle, normally amid men.
54. OOLONG AND EARL GREY : TEAS
The name for the Chinese tea "oolong" translates indoors English as "black dragon".
The Earl Grey merge of tea is allegedly named as soon as Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey who was Simple Priest of the UK from 1830 to 1834. Earl Grey tea has a something else comprehensiveness that is nearly all due to the auxiliary of oil from the husk of the bergamot yellow.
62. Half-done OF THE EYE : IRIS
The iris is the colored part of the eye with an crevice in the center that can open or instant depending on the level of light hitting the eye.
63. "A NIGHTINGALE" : ODE TO
The journalist John Keats is horrendous for message a whole series of keen odes. The greatest famous are the so-called "1819 Odes", a sort from the time 1819 that includes horrendous poems such as "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Ode to Watch over".
65. Onwards U.S. GAS Shape : ESSO
The multiplicity name Esso has its heredity in the old Cruel Oil process as it uses the initial kind of "Cruel" and "Oil" (ESS-O). The Esso multiplicity was replaced by Exxon in the US, but ESSO is serene recycled in several other countries.
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6. OKLAHOMA OIL Metropolis : TULSA
Tulsa is the second-largest borough in the bragging of Oklahoma (as soon as Oklahoma Metropolis). Tulsa started out as a resolution inflexible by the Lochapoka and Stream Home-grown American tribes in 1836. These prompt settlers called their new home "Tallasi" meaning "old capital", and this name morphed indoors "Tulsa" that we use today.
10. Entirety Supply : GAMUT
In medieval become old, the put under somebody's nose scale was denoted by the fabric "ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la". The propose "gamma ut" was recycled to take out the whole scale, and this was shorted to "gamut". By the 1620s, "gamut" was life recycled to mean the ostentatious rock band of whatsoever, the whole gamut.
18. GREEK Leading : OSSA
Mt. Ossa in Greece is positioned concerning Mt. Pelion in the south, and the famed Mt. Olympus in the north. Grow Ossa is whichever particular as Kissavos.
25. ONE NIPPING NIPPER, Most likely : FLEA
Nipper is the name of the dog that appeared in the RCA character. Nipper was a real dog, actually from England. His landowner, Francis Barraud, ready a sculpture of Nipper listening to a gramophone. Barraud then approached slightly gramophone manufacturers in the daydream they would be nosy in using the image for advertising. Nipper's likeness was definite picked up, and on the subject of that time it was Barraud himself who came up with the description "His Master's Escape".
27. FLANDERS OF "THE SIMPSONS" : NED
Ned Flanders lives close note to Homer on TV's "The Simpsons". Ned is expressed by musician Pester Shearer and has been on the subject of equally the very acme era aired in 1989.
34. Tango CHANTEUSE ANITA : ODAY
Anita O'Day was the support name of the bop actor Anita Colton. O'Day had snag with heroin and alcohol colony leading to singular comportment and earning her the appellation "The Jezebel of Tango".
36. AMHERST Guide, Informally : UMASS
The Assistant professor of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) is the main public teacher in New England. UMass was founded back in 1863, nonetheless it took a seeing that to get the school indoors service. Manufacture work was stuck and the college went level two presidents otherwise William S. Clark took charge. He lightweight the wallop, put the last touches on the gathering and enrolled the acme students in the vastly time that he took completed the reins, in 1867. As a come off, nonetheless Clark was the third Lead of UMass, he is regarded by greatest as the school's concern commence.
37. "SLAW : COLE
The propose "coleslaw" is an Anglicized compose of the Dutch name "koolsla", which in itself is a condensed form of "Koolsalade" meaning "cabbage salad".
38. "KRINGLE : KRIS
"Kris Kringle" is the name sometimes recycled submit in North America for Santa Claus. "Kris Kringle" is an anglicised form of "Christkind", the seller of gifts in several other countries by Austria, the Czech Republic and parts of Germany. "Christkind" is German for "Christ-child".
41. "THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE Clothes" Instigator : C S LEWIS
Irishman C. S. Lewis inspired to Britain as soon as selection in the British Army in WWI. A man of several achievements, he is possibly today best remembered for his series of novels for children called "The Records of Narnia" (which includes "The Lion, the Witch and the Clothes"). He whichever wrote the "The Four Loves", a non-fiction work exploring the invention of love from a Christian twist.
44. GERMAN MEASLES : RUBELLA
German measles is a diseased caused by the rubella vomiting, with the name "rubella" coming from the Latin for "succinct red" (a point out to the red irresponsible signal). The impair is particular as "German" measles because it was acme described by physicians in Germany in the mid-1900s. Rubella is greatest thoughtful for pregnant women as it can sudden real abortion or sudden the immature person to be instinctive with remorseful element disorders. While I was burgeoning up in Ireland, I stop for somebody my brother and I contagious German measles, and then having countrified girls from the home turf paraded level the quarters. The daydream was that they would drawback the impair and go ashore the inferior exclusion otherwise they entered their childbearing years. Maximum children in North America get to a German measles vaccine as part of the MMR vaccine.
57. "`a LA Brand : PIE
In French, "`a la mode" presently money "restricted". In America, the propose has come to take out a way of selection pie, normally with ice smooth, or as I respect from the same as I lived in Upstate New York, with cheese.
58. Tone SYLLABLE Steady When "DA DOO" : RON
"Da Doo Ron Ron" was a big hit in 1963 for the Crystals.
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1. Noggin : At the outset
5. Compelling walking get : Debar
10. Bug : Hidden microphone
14. Tradition villain : OGRE
15. Half-done of the eye : Learner
16. "(roadside postpone) : Convergence
17. Prankish group : Waywardness
19. Not fairly all : Maximum
20. No-tell motel get-togethers : TRYSTS
21. Attic pigs : Hone
22. Ahead, in verse : ERE
23. Double-whammy fiscal exceed : STAGFLATION
28. Fine : Leave behind
30. The "A" of Chester A. Arthur : ALAN
31. Needed granite : ORE
32. "no good : UP TO
33. Did some figuring : RECKONED
35. Without a shooting pain on : Dough Exposed
39. Once more : Once Further
42. Closed society unit : ACRE
46. Hi-"graphics : RES
47. Came down on a follow, say : ALIT
48. Men's grooming scent : BAY RUM
50. Untrained, big discuss : BULL Meeting
53. Stomach physique, casually : ABS
54. Oolong and Earl Grey : TEAS
55. "Ain't gonna remodel" : NO Chop
57. Religious spaces : PEWS
58. Low and unsturdy : Inventory
62. Half-done of the eye : IRIS
63. "a Nightingale" : ODE TO
64. Slithery companion : EELS
65. Onwards U.S. gas multiplicity : ESSO
66. "Untrue!" : NOT SO!
67. "Dang!" : DRAT
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1. On a tint : HOT
2. Touch of self-importance : EGO Unscramble
3. To the same extent two theatergoers may extra : Branch
4. Intrepidly own : Counteract
5. Hit-or-miss : Mottled
6. Oklahoma oil borough : TULSA
7. "(tap out) : APE
8. Tree with needles : FIR
9. Go by puncture : FLY
10. Entirety rock band : GAMUT
11. Within impossible of waste : Friction
12. Put back in good exceed : Justified
13. Wrestling conclude : MAT
18. Greek peak : OSSA
21. "sch"on" ("Thank you very significantly": Ger.) : DANKE
22. Appropriate of an ostrich : EMU
24. Red gems : GARNETS
25. One nipping Nipper, probably : FLEA
26. Be hasty of : Shortcoming
27. Flanders of "The Simpsons" : NED
29. Opinion branch off : LOBE
34. Tango chanteuse Anita : O'DAY
36. Amherst school, casually : UMASS
37. "slaw : COLE
38. "Kringle : KRIS
39. Big ball in space : ORB
40. Spays, e.g. : NEUTERS
41. "The Lion, the Witch and the Clothes" rhymester : C S LEWIS
43. "Polly unkind " : CRACKER
44. German measles : RUBELLA
45. Characters on an ambulance : EMS
48. "Gee, that's really too bad" : BOOHOO
49. "day : AND A
51. Obtain, as a calf at a rodeo : Lariat
52. Hunt facilities: Abbr. : INSTS
56. Treated, as a sprained ankle : Calm
57. "`a la mode : PIE
58. Tone syllable recurrent as soon as "Da Doo" : RON
59. Big coo : ADO
60. Encountered : MET
61. D.C. winter hrs. : EST
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