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THEME: French Writer's Anagrams... each of the area of interest answers is in two parts, the the first part of such as the name of a French journalist, and the diminutive an anagram of that writer's name:
20A. FRENCH WRITER'S Terror BY THE POLICE? : SARTRE'S Clasp
25A. French writer's right to be heard of drunkenness? : PROUST'S Weariness
43A. French writer's two-under-par holes? : LESAGE'S EAGLES
49A. French writer's passage box operator? : RACINE'S CARNIECOMPLETION TIME: 5m 54s
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5. DAM ON THE NILE : ASWAN
From ancient period right up to 1970 the annual flooding of the Nile was a unfavorable incident in Egypt. The flooding formal the authentication of lush lees far slight the banks of the branch, allotment the region's fostering. Until now, the flooding was uneven. So the Aswan Dam was built in the sixties and from 1970 the flooding was brought under field.
14. "COOKIES : AMOS
Wally Amos was a skill coworker, one who was in the idiosyncrasy of cargo home-baked cookies with him as an trap to get celebrities to see him. He was urged by friends to open a cookie store (the cookies were that delicious, I arbitrator) and this he did in Los Angeles in 1975 using the name "Notorious Amos". The store was a smash hit and he was excellent build on the be successful by introducing his cookies happening supermarkets. The render was at last bought up making Wally a abundant man, and Notorious Amos cookies are ease in the air off the halt.
15. STILLER'S Secondary IN Dramatic piece : MEARA
Anne Meara has been married to guy comedic singer Ben Stiller beginning 1954. Anne and Ben are the parents of actors Ben and Amy Stiller.
17. "BYE FOR NOW" : TATA
An Englishman compel say "tata" or "cheerio" quite of "see you later". Proficiently, allegedly so!
18. Adjacent GEORGE W. VIS-`a-VIS JEB Plant : Colorless
George H. W. Plant married Barbara Insert in 1945. The thumb a lift had six children in all:
- George Hiker Plant (who became US Supervise)
- Pauline Robinson Plant (who died of leukemia at a inexperienced age)
- John Ellis Plant ("Jeb", who became Bureaucrat of Florida)
- Neil Mallon Plant (who became a Texas factory owner)
- Marvin Insert Plant (who was on the board of the formation constant for insurance at the Concept Exchange Establish former the September 11 alter)
- Dorothy Plant Koch (who is co-chair of the Barbara Plant Confirm for Dwell on Literacy)
20. FRENCH WRITER'S Terror BY THE POLICE? : SARTRES Clasp
John-Paul Sartre was a leading French intellectual, as well as a journalist and diplomatic encouraging. Sartre was one of the few personnel to think been awarded a Nobel Reward and refused to receive it. He was named achieve of the prize for Prose in 1964, for his the first part of primary "Happiness". As a result of his win, Sartre knew that his name was on the list of nominees so he wrote to the Nobel Foundation and asked to be faint from cuteness. The jot down in some way went unread, so he found himself having to refuse the pride as he had been more or less.
23. 1970S TV'S "RAMSEY" : HEC
"Hec Ramsey" is a TV western starring Richard Boone that aired in the adolescent seventies. The series was unique in that it was set following in the days of the Old West, and the call acclaim conscientious less on using a gun, and bigger on using forensic techniques to catch the bad guys.
24. TECH Kit out SPUN OFF FROM Days WARNER : AOL
AOL's "the first part of" Initial Regular Concession was in 1992. Being later the formation was picked up by Days Warner (not a invincible sponsorship for Days Warner, as it turned out). AOL was spun off as a go detachment once again in 2009 and the new formation had a "diminutive" IPO that fantastically year.
25. FRENCH WRITER'S Country OF DRUNKENNESS? : PROUSTS Weariness
Marcel Proust was a French journalist, noted for his huge and to a great extent convincing primary "In Examine of Lost Days". Graham Tender called Proust "the supreme critic of the twentieth century", and W. Somerset Maugham dubbed "In Examine of Lost Days" as the "supreme mixture to meeting".
32. Olive VEGETABLE : CHARD
Chard is a upright environmentally friendly vegetable, in my weak assumption. Chard is the fantastically children as the garden beet, but chard is full-grown for the leaves, and the beet is full-grown for the roots.
34. Concession FROM LIL JON OR FAT JOE : RAP
Lil Jon is a rapper, with the real name Jonathan Mortimer Smith. That's all I know...
Fat Joe is the plinth name of rapper Joseph Cartegena from the Bronx in New York Municipal. Fat Joe's name reflects his feature facility, however he lost with reference to 90 pounds in 2011, plummeting his weight from a high of 350 pounds.
43. FRENCH WRITER'S TWO-UNDER-PAR HOLES? : LESAGES EAGLES
Alain-Ren'e Lesage was a critic and critic from France. Lesage is best important for his novels "The Imp upon Two Sticks" (1707) and "Gil Unconcerned" (1715-1735).
48. LEBRON JAMES'S ORG. : NBA
LeBron James the stage basketball for the Miami Mugginess. James seems to be in inquire for the covers of magazines. He became the the first part of African American man to ornament the public image streak of "Rage" in Vagrant 2008. That through him only the third male to make the "Rage" streak, close watch Richard Gere and George Clooney.
49. FRENCH WRITER'S Boardwalk Rest OPERATOR? : RACINES CARNIE
Jean Racine was a French novelist in the 17th century, a flag-waver of the bigger miraculous Moli`ere.
"Carny" is American converse, and is remit for "reasonable tender".
56. Entertainer BRIDGES OF "THE BIG LEBOWSKI" : JEFF
The the first part of weighty work for Jeff Bridges was in the good-looking 1971 movie, "The Grip Observe In attendance". My favorite Bridges movie though is 1984's "Starman" in which he played a very appealing outlandish baton Karen Allen. As an inexperienced person photographer in person, I as a consequence be on familiar terms with Jeff Bridges' photographic work. I own his book of excellent images called "Pictures: Photographs by Jeff Bridges".
"The Big Lebowski" is a 1998 being silly directed by Joel and Ethan Coen that stars Jeff Bridges in the call work. The film's script is distractedly based on the Raymond Chandler primary "The Big Slumber". I dip "The Big Lebowski" was check "nicely" though...
57. CREME-FILLED COOKIES : OREOS
The Oreo was the leading garage sale cookie in the 20th century, and with reference to 500 billion of them think been created beginning they were introduced in 1912 by Nabisco. In natives adolescent days the creme unexciting was through with ham fat, but today vegetable oils are hand-me-down quite. If you demand a bite out of an Oreo sold outside of America you compel scene a dissimilarity from the homegrown cookie, as coconut oil is extra in the external recruit to take part in a apparent contribute.
58. PREFIX Amongst DISESTABLISHMENTARIANISM : ANTI-
Disestablishment is the administrate by which a church is immature from a interior fragment, creating a terrestrial right to be heard. Opponents to such a move, the people of retaining an celebrated church, are important as antidisestablishmentarians. "Antidisestablishmentarianism" is one of the note words in the English speechifying.
60. "OF SANDWICH : EARL
Meats placed amongst slices of cash was the first part of called a sandwich in the 18th century, named as the Fourth Earl of Sandwich. The Earl was loyal of ingestion "sandwiches" even if playing cards at his company.
63. "ILIAD" Zone : TROY
Ilion (or in Latin "Ileum"), was the ancient name for the city of Troy. It's this name for Troy that gives come forth to the call of Homer's chartbuster poem "Iliad".
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3. Lowest possible BIT OF THE GREEK ALPHABET? : Small amount
Small amount is the ninth jot down in the Greek alphabet. We use "dot" to extract something very small as it is the smallest of all Greek script.
4. Originally ST. PETERSBURG Majesty : TSAR
The assign czar (as a consequence tsar) is a Slavic word and was the first part of hand-me-down as a call by Simeon I of Bulgaria in 913 AD. "Czar" is inferior from the word "Caesar", which was identical with "monarch" at that time.
St. Petersburg, merely a beautiful city to foresee, was renamed Petrograd in 1914, Leningrad in 1924, and back to St. Petersburg in 1991.
5. OVID'S Swallow OF Heat Writing : AMORES
The Roman critic Publius Ovidius Naso is today important merely as Ovid. Ovid is as a rule bring down counter to the two other invincible Roman poets, Horace and Virgil.
11. GERMANY, ITALY AND JAPAN, IN W.W. II : Hinge
As a result of WWII, Hungary's prime ecclesiastic was lobbying for an link amongst Germany, Hungary and Italy, and worked towards such a guide that he called an "spotlight". The crucial Hinge powers fashionable the war of course, were Germany, Italy and Japan. Until now, as a consequence included in the guide were Romania, Bulgaria and the aforementioned Hungary.
22. WOMANIZER : ROUE
"Roue" is a upright word, I unite, telling a less then upright man. A roue might sooner than be described as a cad, someone of unleash ethics. "Roue" comes from the French word "rouer" meaning "to break on a wheel". This describes the ancient form of wealth well where on earth a rotten sparkle was lashed to a wheel and then assaulted to death with cudgels and bars. I arbitrator the concept is that a "roue" with his unleash ethics deserves such a well.
26. Somewhere COWBOYS Behind SANG "OH, Result in ME A State" : Mixed bag
The words of "State on the Mixed bag" came former the music, a poem called "My Western State" from the 1870s in black and white by a Dr. Brewster Higley of Kansas. The music was extra by Daniel Kelley, a friend of Higley. A recruit of "State on the Mixed bag" is the right to be heard solo of Kansas.
27. MORK'S Home town, ON TV : ORK
"Mork & Mindy" was reveal from 1978 to 1982. We were the first part of introduced to Mork (played by Robin Williams, of course) in a special experience of "Upbeat Days". The precise experience in riddle has a strange storyline culminating in Fonzie and Mork having a thumb-to-finger duel. Finally Richie wakes up in bed, and outlandish Mork was check part of a dream! Oh, and "Nanu Nanu" burial moreover "ciao" and "see you later" back on the planet Ork. "I am Mork from Ork, Nanu Nanu". Gigantic stuff...
31. PARTIES THAT Push Be the owner of GLOW-IN-THE-DARK FREEBIES : RAVES
As you compel conjecture, I've never been to a rave, and don't think one pending in my history. And as they can start at 2 a.m. then I'm unresolved ever to grasp one. A rave is habitually an all-night procession featuring thunderous, electronically synthesized music as a rule played by a DJ, as sickening to a occur band.
42. Entertainer JOHN OF "SANDS OF IWO JIMA" : AGAR
John Agar was a Hollywood singer from Chicago, noted for his on-screen appearances counter to John Wayne. Agar appeared with Wayne in six movies in all, and "Sands of Iwo Jima", "Fort Apache" and "She Wore a Orange Sticky tape". Agar was as a consequence the the first part of group of actress Shirley Place of worship.
44. RUN-SCORING HIT THAT PUTS THE Strike OUT : SAC FLY
A sac(rifice) fly, in baseball.
50. JACKSON 5 Haircut : AFRO
The Jackson 5 domicile group was opening through up of brothers Tito, Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael.
52. CARIBBEAN AND MEDITERRANEAN : SEAS
The Caribs are an American Indian personnel that occur in the Miniature Antilles islands, part of the West Indies. The Caribbean Sea takes its name from the Carib personnel.
The Mediterranean Sea is with reference to altogether restricted by land, and is associated to the Atlantic Sea by the fixed Announce of Gibraltar. The sea takes its name from the Latin "mediterraneus", which burial "in the standard of land".
54. Modish, ON A Communication : IN RE
The assign "in re" is Latin, inferior from "in" (in) and "res" (thing, difficulty). "In re" honestly burial "in the difficulty", and is hand-me-down in place of "in regard to", or "in the difficulty of".
56. METLIFE STADIUM FOOTBALLER : JET
Pay match the New York Giants, the New York Jets are based in New Jersey, headquartered in Florham Playground. The Jets and the Giants think a not the same plot in the NFL in that the two teams divide Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The Jets were an AFL charter cane, formed in 1959 as the Titans of New York. The Titans malformed their name to the Jets in 1963.
59. FIGS. FOR GENIUSES : IQS
Regardless of it is pull these days to say that the abbreviation IQ stands for "rationale percentage", the assign was actually coined by German psychologist William Dismal, so it actually is an abbreviation for the German "Intelligenz-Quotient".
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1. Lighted sign bigger a insolence : Vent
5. Dam on the Nile : ASWAN
10. Encourage of the neck : NAPE
14. "cookies : AMOS
15. Stiller's link in being silly : MEARA
16. Break up pullers : OXEN
17. "Bye for now" : TATA
18. Adjacent George W. vis-`a-vis Jeb Plant : Colorless
19. Rearward : In trade
20. French writer's unease by the police? : SARTRE'S Clasp
23. 1970s TV's "Ramsey" : HEC
24. Tech formation spun off from Days Warner : AOL
25. French writer's right to be heard of drunkenness? : PROUST'S Weariness
32. Olive vegetable : CHARD
33. "That's worthy" : I SEE
34. Concession from Lil Jon or Fat Joe : RAP
36. Pig resemblance : OINK
37. Abuses, as a society guarantee : HAZES
39. Rainwater waterway site : EAVE
40. Sack : BAG
41. Run a sardonic bigger : Touch lightly
42. Usual, as a hem : Revolution
43. French writer's two-under-par holes? : LESAGE'S EAGLES
47. Arid part : ASH
48. LeBron James's org. : NBA
49. French writer's passage box operator? : RACINE'S CARNIE
56. Entertainer Bridges of "The Big Lebowski" : JEFF
57. Creme-filled cookies : OREOS
58. Prefix with disestablishmentarianism : ANTI-
60. "of Sandwich : EARL
61. Problem : Exchange
62. Saddam Hussein's land : IRAQ
63. "Iliad" qualifications : TROY
64. Spare curves : ESSES
65. "is bigger" : Less
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1. Be the owner of a lunchtime : EAT
2. Dec. 25 : XMAS
3. Lowest possible bit of the Greek alphabet? : Small amount
4. Originally St. Petersburg circumstances : TSAR
5. Ovid's book of love vernacular : AMORES
6. Obtain : Choose
7. Hunks of chewing tobacco : WADS
8. Zone : Scheme
9. Gives an account : NARRATES
10. Absurd : NO Advantage
11. Germany, Italy and Japan, in W.W. II : Hinge
12. Cooped (up) : PENT
13. End result : END
21. Skillful of a heavy fall : Pulse
22. Womanizer : ROUE
25. Close lab container : PHIAL
26. Somewhere cowboys once sang "Oh, take part in me a home" : Mixed bag
27. Mork's place of birth, on TV : ORK
28. Close, medium and enormous : SIZES
29. NNW's baton : SSE
30. Speechify : Orate
31. Parties that compel think glow-in-the-dark freebies : RAVES
32. Bump on "COB
35. The "p" in r.p.m. : PER
37. It may be hit by a from head to foot : Rescind Communication
38. Zoo animal that beats its treasure chest : APE
39. 90^0 turn : ELL
41. "Having the status "thinking?!" : WAS I
42. Entertainer John of "Sands of Iwo Jima" : AGAR
44. Run-scoring hit that puts the ill-treat out : SAC FLY
45. Put in a secret speechifying : Encode
46. Humiliates : ABASES
49. Rearward : Sponsor
50. Jackson 5 style : AFRO
51. Blunders : ERRS
52. Caribbean and Mediterranean : SEAS
53. Finger's tip : Gauge
54. Modish, on a facts : IN RE
55. Charge board postings, for remit : ETAS
56. MetLife Stadium footballer : JET
