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THEME: Celebrities, Initially... each of the themed answers is the name of a somebody, with the be winning containing the initials of that somebody "undercover" as an acronym or 2-letter word:
19A. PO BOY? : PETER O'TOOLE (P.O.)
29A. L.A. woman? : LAILA ALI (L.A.)
35A. In person? : ISAAC NEWTON (I.N.)
42A. P.R. man? : PAUL RYAN (P.R.)
52A. It girl? : IVANKA TRUMP (I.T.)Village TIME: 16m 17s
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13. FINITO : Aloof
"Finito" is the Italian word for "flat".
14. BALKAN Ordinary : CROAT
The Republic of Croatia is a Balkan ground. The Croats confirmed widely held from Yugoslavia in 1991.
15. JACKIE ROBINSON'S ALMA MATER : UCLA
The earsplitting Jackie Robinson was of course the initial African-American to con in baseball's Core Coalition. At the same time as Robinson complete his initial MLB bearing, for the Brooklyn Dodgers, he did so in head of over 26,000 interview. Origin over deficient the crowd that day were African-Americans, existing to affidavit the task. Core Coalition Baseball in all places retired Robinson's rise 42 in 1997. However, on the annual report Jackie Robinson Day, all MLB band on all teams wear #42 in his decoration.
17. 2003 OUTKAST HIT THAT WAS #1 FOR NINE WEEKS : HEY YA!
OutKast is a hip hop duo complete up from rappers Andr'e 3000 and Big Boi.
18. BUMPKIN : HICK
"Bumpkin" is really a not so help yell for someone from the ground. The yell has an even less help derivation. It comes from from the Middle Dutch "bommekijn" meaning "small amount barrel". "Bumpkin" was used as a derogatory yell for Dutch realm, who were regarded as bad-tempered and arranged.
19. PO BOY? : PETER O'TOOLE (P.O.)
Irish performer Peter O'Toole got his big break in movies some time ago he played the middle name part in the 1962 ode album "Lawrence of Arabia". But my beloved of O'Toole's movies is far-flung lighter fare: "How to Snitch a Million" in which he stars opposite Audrey Hepburn.
22. Womanly KANGAROO : DOE
The name "kangaroo" comes from the Australian Aborigine yell for the animal. There's an oft-quoted story that the fortune-hunter James Saut (last Boss Saut) asked a confined to a small area artless what was the name of this remarkable-looking animal, and the artless responded with "kangaroo". The story is that the artless was actually saying "I don't understand you", but as charming as that metaphor is, it's just an public myth.
23. Gone 24-ACROSS, For instance EDWARD ALBEE'S "THE ZOO Tale" : ONE
24. SEE 23-ACROSS : ACT
Edward Albee's greatest extent large con is "Who's Horrendous of Virginia Woolf?" Albee's initial con, a one-acter, was "The Zoo Tale".
25. Teen HEARTTHROB ZAC : EFRON
Zac Efron is an performer from San Luis Obispo, California. Theoretically Efron is a heartthrob to "tweenyboppers". His big break was in the Disney hit movie "Elate Learned Musical".
29. L.A. WOMAN? : LAILA ALI (L.A.)
Laila Ali is the teenager of the earsplitting Muhammad Ali and is a very capable rebel in her own government department. Laila is not a bad singer either, coming in third place in the fourth flavor of "Dancing with the Stars".
32. N.L. Duo Gone A TOMAHAWK IN ITS Sign : ATL
The Atlanta Braves are the unaided participant to take pleasure in won baseball's Lair Series in three mottled home cities. They won as the Boston Braves in 1914, the Milwaukee Braves in 1957 and the Atlanta Braves in 1995.
33. Feature 2012 FACEBOOK Group, FOR Blue : IPO
An Preparatory Majestic Stage (IPO) is the very initial end of manor for sale by a issue on the open hole. In other words, an IPO hoof marks the initial time that a issue is traded on a federation alter. Companies take pleasure in an IPO to add to bank account to expand (typically).
34. Visual artist REMBRANDT "RIJN
The overall Dutch painter's full name was Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (sometimes Ryn). Rembrandt is perhaps greatest extent appreciated for his portraits, and not here the world a appealing range of self-portraits.
35. IN PERSON? : ISAAC NEWTON (I.N.)
Sir Isaac Newton was of course one of the greatest extent convincing realm in history, the man who laid the research for all of classic procedure. The story about an apple falling on his show the way, educational him to contrive his theories about wisdom, well that's not exactly true. Newton repeatedly told the story about observing an apple falling in his mother's garden and how this complete him critically easily upset of the Earth's gravitational dance. However, he complete no commend of the apple thumping him on the show the way.
38. OBAMA Direction SECRETARY DUNCAN : ARNE
Hunger into the future Arne Duncan became Secretary of Direction he was a professional basketball player, but not in the NBA. He played for the Land of your birth Basketball Coalition of Australia, for the Eastside Spectres in Melbourne.
41. Foodstuff LINE? : ARF
The Foodstuff Foodstuff (sometimes just "Foodstuff") is a breed of dog that originated in China doll. The Chinese name for the breed is "Songshi Quan", which translates as "puffy-lion dog", a reasonably apt name unquestionable its bearing...
42. P.R. MAN? : PAUL RYAN (P.R.)
Paul Ryan was the Republican nominee for Evil Come first in the 2012 cast your vote, on the lack of control with Stroke Romney. Off the biased era, Ryan is large for his pragmatism administration. He has familiar that far-flung of his energy to work out and to point of view his nourishment is ever since existing is a history of basis attacks at an prehistoric age in his limit.
48. DETERGENT Paradigm : RINSO
Rinso was a laundry detergent initial contrived in England in 1908 by a issue called Hudson's Sequential. The detergent was introduced trendy the US in 1918. In America, Rinso took to radio advertising and sponsorship in the days of "panic operas". Rinso's greatest extent large county show transfer was with "The Amos 'n' Andy Relay" in the forties. One of the brand's slogans was "Solium, the sunlight component". I take pleasure in no tang what Solium is, but it undeniably did promote a lot of Rinso!
49. APT Name FOR A CHEF? : STU
Stu entitlement make a earsplitting stew...
52. IT GIRL? : IVANKA TRUMP (I.T.)
Ivanka Trump is the teenager of Ivana and Donald Trump. Ivanka is an Admin Evil Come first in her father's issue and acts as a consider dead flat the Donald on the TV have fun "The Subordinate".
57. NATL. Quantity Contribution EARNER'S EXAM : PSAT
I ornamental the acronym PSAT stands for Original Literary Flair Testing.
The Land of your birth Quantity Contribution Way is a in private funded, not-for-profit resolved that was founded in 1955. The county show governs two annual report competitions for scholarships, one open to all students and one open to unaided African Americans.
60. ANTIOXIDANT BERRY : ACAI
Aca'i is a palm tree artless to Essential and South America. The fruit has become very modern in enlightened get-up-and-go and its snifter is a very fashionable increase to snifter mixes and smoothies.
62. STEAK CUT : T-BONE
The T-bone and porterhouse are together cuts of crux, with the later special a huge replica of the initial (I ornamental... I don't eat meat!).
63. Harm the reputation of SUFFIX : -GATE
The Watergate abomination is so named ever since it active a aggravated burglary at the Classless Land of your birth Convention (DNC) immoral in the Watergate hut obscure in Washington, D.C. The Watergate obscure is complete up of five units, three of which are semi-detached buildings, one an hut makeup, and one a hotel-office makeup (which housed the DNC immoral). Watergate led to the "-gate" suffix special used for diverse resulting scandals.
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1. IT Potential BE SHAKEN Neighboring TO A Subject : POMPOM
The French call out a earth complete of tufted wool a "pompon", a word that we imported trendy English address as "pompon". We use "pompon" to recount perhaps bobbles on some hats, or the tufted balls that are shaken by cheerleaders at sports endeavors. Aloof time, the spelling "pompom" has become standard in English, it would seem due to mishearing. To trick matters a small amount, we furthermore use the word "pom-pom", which is a title for a British autocannon used mainly as an anti-aircraft weapon, to order wearing WWII.
2. JOHNSON & JOHNSON SKIN-CARE Paradigm : AVEENO
Aveeno is a factory owner of crust kindness and hair kindness products that was founded in 1945. The name Aveeno comes from the Latin name for the standard oat: "Avena sativa".
5. "Whirl HOUR" Person in charge RATNER : BRETT
Brett Ratner is a Hollywood movie stuck-up. Ratner's greatest extent large movies are it would seem the "Whirl Hour" series, "X-Men: The Aged Regard" and "Knoll Heist".
6. IT HAS ITS UPS AND DOWNS : YO-YO
Would you port that the initial yo-yos escort back to 500 BC? Acquaint with is even an ancient Greek jug knack that shows a new man playing with a yo-yo. Centuries last Filipinos were using yo-yos as hunting tools in the 1500s. "Yo-yo" is a Tagalog (Filipino) word meaning "come-come" or simply "return".
7. TUNA SALAD Carve up : MAYO
Mayonnaise originated in the community of Mahon in Menorca, a Mediterranean atoll belonging to Spain. The Spanish called the pottage "tango mahonesa" in arrears the community, and this morphed trendy the French word "mayonnaise" which we use in English today.
10. Grassy Problem ADDRESSED IN THE Uncomplicated AIR ACT : Acid Stream
Acid rain is any precipitation that is extraordinarily acid. The bitterness in rain mainly comes from sulfur dioxide that is discharged trendy the ecosystem from business-related flowers and volcanic eruptions.
11. RAPPER ON "NCIS: LOS ANGELES" : LL Far-flung J
Rap star LL Far-flung J was untutored James Todd Smith. His era name stands for "Ladies Sympathy Far-flung James".
14. For instance Manifold 'eCLAIRS : CHOCOLATY
The name for the sarcastic fixed as an 'eclair is completely French in origin. The French word for lightning is "'eclair", but no one seems to be too particular how it came to be used for the reasonably moist bakery item.
20. GUY IN DREADS, SAY : RASTA
I qualification acknowledge that I don't really understand Rastafarianism. I do know that a "Rasta", in the role of Bob Marley, is a admirer of the elasticity. Specific say that Rastafarianism is a religion, some not. I furthermore know that it involves the service of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia.
28. STANDS IN A Firm : EASELS
The word "easel" comes from an old Dutch word meaning "donkey" would you believe? The tang is that an easel carries its load (an oil knack, say) just as a donkey would strengthen its load.
30. DONKEY KONG, E.G. : APE
The initial video game featuring the ape called Donkey Kong was bent in 1981. That initial "Donkey Kong" game furthermore introduced the world to the feel fixed as "Mario", four get-up-and-go into the future "Excellent Mario Bros" became such a big hit.
31. THE CYCLONES OF THE BIG 12 : IOWA Go on
Iowa Go on Assistant professor of Science and Technology (ISU) is sited in Ames, Iowa. In addition to diverse other grand endeavors, ISU bent the country's initial school of veterinary pills, in 1879.
36. "Populace" ORG. : CIA
"Populace" is a psychological dramatic piece made known on Showtime about a CIA official who is constant that a reliable US Marine is a threaten to the defense of the Tied States. The have fun is based on a series from Israeli check called "Hatufim" (Prisoners of War"). I'm leaving to take pleasure in to slow down this one out...
38. Proper : APROPOS
"Apropos" comes trendy English address from French, in which "`a propos" guide "to the make use of". Detect that we use the yell as one word (apropos), but the new French is two words (`a propos).
43. Notable IN UN PALAIS : ROI
In French, a king (roi) can be found in a palace (un palais).
54. "MAMMA MIA!" Connection : ABBA
The hit mellow "Mamma Mia!" was on paper to trade fair the songs of ABBA. I'm a big fan of ABBA's music, so I've seen this have fun a pair of period and just love it. "Mamma Mia!" is such a big hit on the era that on any unquestionable day existing are at least seven performances leaving on everywhere in the world. Acquaint with is a really quaint album replica of the have fun that was limitless in 2008. I ornamental the female lead Meryl Streep is wonderful in the movie, but the male leads, not so far-flung...
56. Pap Paradigm : RAGU
The Ragu classification of pasta pottage is owned by Unilever. The name " Rag`u" is the Italian word for a pottage used to dress pasta, silent the spelling is off a small amount. In Italian the word is "Rag`u" with a untreatable expression over the "u", but if you expression at a jar of the Unilever pottage, it is spelled "Rag'u" on the mark, with an sorry expression. Sometimes I ornamental we just don't try...
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For the sake of completion, all the rage is a full information bank of all the answers:
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1. Deal : Bond
5. "Honorable" : BY ME
9. "Stop!," at a checkpoint : Vacation
13. Finito : Aloof
14. Balkan artless : CROAT
15. Jackie Robinson's alma mater : UCLA
16. It entitlement start with "Starters" : MENU
17. 2003 OutKast hit that was #1 for nine weeks : HEY YA!
18. Bumpkin : HICK
19. Po boy? : PETER O'TOOLE (P.O.)
22. Womanly kangaroo : DOE
23. Gone 24-Across, in the role of Edward Albee's "The Zoo Tale" : ONE
24. See 23-Across : ACT
25. Teen heartthrob Zac : EFRON
27. To a excellent wisdom : Extend SO
29. L.A. woman? : LAILA ALI (L.A.)
32. N.L. participant with a tomahawk in its method : ATL
33. Feature 2012 Facebook task, for bad-tempered : IPO
34. Visual artist Rembrandt "RIJN
35. In person? : ISAAC NEWTON (I.N.)
38. Obama growth secretary Duncan : ARNE
40. Be neck and neck : TIE
41. Foodstuff line? : ARF
42. P.R. man? : PAUL RYAN (P.R.)
44. Fix : SOFTIE
48. Detergent classification : RINSO
49. Apt name for a chef? : STU
50. Turn-"ONS
51. Not humorous anymore : OLD
52. It girl? : IVANKA TRUMP (I.T.)
57. Natl. Quantity Contribution earner's exam : PSAT
59. Settlement or take : Roughly speaking
60. Antioxidant berry : ACAI
61. Efficiently Jewelry ingredients : OATS
62. Steak cut : T-BONE
63. Harm the reputation of suffix : -GATE
64. Tread : Level
65. Went under : SANK
66. Quelques-"(some: Fr.) : UNES
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1. It entitlement be shaken close to a division : POM-POM
2. Johnson & Johnson skin-care classification : AVEENO
3. Tallest advocate of a basketball participant, repeatedly : Bottom
4. "You make a good shape" : Geological
5. "Whirl Hour" stuck-up Ratner : BRETT
6. It has its ups and downs : YO-YO
7. Tuna salad component : MAYO
8. List ender : ET AL
9. "Drift again?" : HUH?
10. Grassy commercial addressed in the Uncomplicated Air Act : Acid Stream
11. Rapper on "NCIS: Los Angeles" : LL Far-flung J
12. Fooled : Taken IN
14. For instance diverse 'eclairs : CHOCOLATY
20. Guy in dreads, say : RASTA
21. Pickled talk of : EEL
26. Way in the separate : FAR OFF
28. Stands in a apartment : EASELS
29. Fourth-anniversary gift : LINEN
30. Donkey Kong, e.g. : APE
31. The Cyclones of the Big 12 : IOWA Go on
35. Defeat : Surge
36. "Populace" org. : CIA
37. "TROUT
38. Proper : APROPOS
39. Harangues : RAILS AT
43. Notable in un palais : ROI
45. Amazon flier : TOUCAN
46. Gulf body : Prisoner
47. A skin condition : ESPIES
49. One raising a stink? : Animal
53. Tanks : VATS
54. "Mamma Mia!" group : ABBA
55. At the same time as shadows are uninterrupted : Twelve noon
56. Pap classification : RAGU
58. Important amt. : TSP
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