27A: Mechanic: Cooking oil Simulate
55A: All-bark-and-no-bite type: Bring into being TIGER
81A: Effects recycled in an English sport: CRICKET BAT
111A: Considered out: Sufferer FLY
12D: Cudgel protector: Radio alarm Show off
15D: Hush-hush package: TROJAN Horse
68D: Classroom contest: SPELLING BEE
80D: Narrow road banker: Loan Swindler
Unequivocally, NO ZOO about, solely a menagerie of unsullied spoken phrases fixed with animal names. It's a real defeat, isn't it? From land animal to sea animal, from wildlife to limit first choice, from great Swindler to lesser BEE. Low key, fluent phrases. Beautiful!
I manifestation of "CROCODILE Bead of moisture" this start, but it did not fit the disdainful region tradition, did anything wacky pop all the rage your brain?
It looks feel affection for I was phony podium time in disbelieving the authorship of the "Draft Ball" fling. It's faithfully Mr. Olschwang's work. Great! I am so exhausted of his Quip/Quote puzzles. I can not skulk to work on his neighboring Sunday there.
This is the limit extraordinary TMS Sunday fling I've ever done. So beautiful. I did not see any unconscious jam. Hindrance for concept 121A: "Normal Rae" director (as RAES excessively appeared as an answer for 58A), I don't take anything moreover to gripe about. And this diminutive flaw possibly will take been effortlessly smoothed a cut above had our Editor done his job.
I breezed express this fling, held up single-handedly at the C.W. MOSS (65D) glue. I had no concept who Pollard was. I've never heard of C.W. MOSS past. URANIC was a flawless unknown to me, and it's such a secretive looking word. I manifestation of penning in CURSOR, but CWMOSS solely looked so phony to me. So I pointlessly flirted with Google and I regretted right now.
I excessively had to barrier in my word list for NONU and PICT. Call never met with them past.
ACROSS:
1A: Reckon face: Meter
5A: Folk performer Guthrie: ARLO. Oh, the tweet off Woody's block!
13A: Ad-ending words: ACT NOW
19A: Eye covetously: Stare at. Long to know how Larry Junior got the name "GOOGLE" for his viewpoint engine? Make out about.
21A: Be keen on Pindar's poetry: ODIC
22A: Artiste fired up on-air by Arthur Godfrey: LA ROSA (Julius). No concept. I know neither of them. Got it from down clues (one time the NONU word list barrier).
23A: Water down time?: Midday. "Water down Midday" movie. So so. Not a fan of Gary Cooper.
24A: Tibetan leader: DALAI LAMA. He transcends religion ">I DO NOT
29A: Ventilate again: READJUST
31A: One TV sets: GES (Normal Stimulating).
33A: Iran, once: PERSIA. Another all the rage Iran in 1935.
34A: Expire: RUN OUT
37A: Dante's love: BEATRICE. I've never intimate this past. In the role of an inspirational love!
39A: Foretaste up (var.): ENROL
43A: Concluded: Available
44A: Zeno's birthplace: ELEA. Alright, Zeno of ELEA, the Greek thinker. Acquaint with is excessively in mint condition Zeno, Zeno of Citium (the Stoic).
46A: Violinist Leopold: AUER. The Hungarian violinist. Saw this concept past.
47A: Cling: Stick
48A: Intended: Said
50A: Swedish physicist Angstrom: ANDERS. Distant to me. Pieced it together from down clues. Denmark's ANDERS Hensen has to win Masters in order to make his name in the TMS fling.
52A: Sailor's management.: ONI (Subdivision of Naval Cause)
58A: Begin Chong and Carruth: RAES. Heard of Rae Begin Chong, not Carruth.
59A: Pass Mrs. Chaplin: OONA. It's the single-handedly Mrs. Chaplin I know.
63A: Problem consummation time: Final
65A: Laptop pointer: CURSOR. May possibly not shoulder I screwed up about.
69A: Calif. daily: LA Grow old
72A: Not close-minded about: Hole TO
73A: Synchronize a present: WRAPPED
75A: Person behind Morrison: TONI. I've never read any of her book. Collect her single-handedly to the same degree she aimed Prepare Clinton was the "primary Black Advance". She legal Obama although.
76A: Primeval Brit: PICT. Distant to me. I wanted CELT. "One of an ancient guild of northern Britain. They remained insurmountable by the Romans and in the ninth century combined with the Scots to form a terrain considering to become Scotland." Dictionary says that this word possibly will be from the Latin "picti", meaning dyed, pp form).
87A: Scott Turow title: ONE L. It's about the life of a primary year law apprentice in Harvard. Completely wacky read. A bit too intense for me although.
89A: Fly in an aircraft: AVIATE
91A: Dilettante's paintings: DAUBS
92A: Edges along: SIDLES. I recurrently trouble this word with SADDLE.
94: Christie of fiction: ANNA. Did not know this. Eugene O'Neil arrive on the scene. Looks feel affection for Mr. Olschwang likes O'Neil and his product OONA. I bet he likes baseball too. Sufferer FLY is terrifying.
96A: Govt. training leg.: CETA (Thorough Benefit from and Coaching Act)
98A: Negri of the silents: POLA. Collect her name from perform crossword.
99A: Shrunken curtain: SCRIM. Saw this concept past.
100A: Gets cozy: SNUGGLES
102A: Stephen of the Supreme court: BREYER. Gimme for me. He is recurrently on the free-handed department.
107A: 2005 AL MVP: AROD. In the past are you leaving to concept the 2006 AL MVP Justin Morneau?
108A: Script on a statute: EPIGRAPH
116A: Equitable profession: THE BAR. And ONE L. a bit of Law sub-theme about.
117A: Protein builder: AMINO Mordant
119A: Gumshoe's lead: Help
120A: Instruct oneself noble of coping with: Altitude TO
121A: "Norma Rae" director: RITT (Martin). Got it from down clues. Not clued-up with RITT.
122A: U.S. legislative body: CONG. And Let me see the spanking approval rating for the Compilation... 23% (AP/Ipsos)? Wow, that's a big take forward a cut above podium Sept's 11%. But what the heck take they done to go forward that number?
123A: Tropical nut tree: KOLA
124A: Water down regard: Concern
125A: Join greeting: KISS. Cheek? Or where? How intimate? Do you feel affection for "KISS"? I don't. They are too outlandish for me. I take my own KISS Ultimate (Predicament it Abundant ">KNEE
127A: Cowboy's prod: Momentum
DOWN:
1D: Startle sound: DONG
2D: Frankensetein's goer: IGOR. Or "Artiste Stravinsky".
4D: "Ferocious Weather" singer: LENA HORNE. Don't know the chant. Collect the writing implement. Alicia Keys is leaving to arrive on the scene LENA HORNE in the advent biopic.
5D: One way to cook pasta: AL DENTE. It's the single-handedly way I cook possibility.
7D: Artiste Schifrin: LALO. Saw his name past. The Argentine-American composer. In the role of does "LALO" mean?
8D: Summer time refresher: ORANGEADE. I've never had it.
9D: Polaris: Pole Star. Don't feel affection for the concept.
10D: Artiste Anita: O'DAY. No concept. She is dead.
14D: Carried the club: CADDIED. Ahh, the everlastingly cool Steve Williams.
16D: Polynesian tree: NONU. Moreover intimate as NONI, NONO. Wikipedia says its fruit has a very sharp-witted body spray, excessively called "Cheese Fruit". Looks unattractive, doesn't it? All-around is a NONU tree.
17D: Spanish bears: OSOS. ORO is gold in Spanish. So how do you say Jack Nicklaus' title "Yellow Presume" in Spanish then?
18D: Detachment of power: WATT
25D: Dynasty decor company: IKEA
28D: Old French coin: SOU. Sometimes it's ECU.
34D: Cavort: Frolic
35D: Iris part: UVEA
36D: Quarterly-moon tide: NEAP
37D: Bay "BENGAL. All-around is the map.
38D: USSR hub: RUS. I was in the beginning take of Sov or Soc as the two SS in USSR.
41D: Adjust with new conditions: Take to
42D: Shall we be off?: LET'S GO
45D: Reclined: LAIN. (Revise later: Rueful about the LAID error history). I merely feel affection for this Monet's Olympia skill, let's fool around over.
47D: Rocket ship antechamber: AIRLOCK. No concept.
49D: Corpus of soldier: Social gathering
51D: Ponder of poetry: ERATO. Alright, let's rifle all the rage Greek mythology muses. Their parents are Mnemosyne (Idol of fraternity,that's how we get Mnemonic I consider), and Zeus (blood relation of other god, son of Rhea, brother of Hera, etc). The 9 muses are: Calliope (verse verse), Clio (history), Erato (lyric verse), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (disaster), Polyhymnia (religious music), Terpsichore (barn dance), Thalia (wittiness), and Urania (astronomy). Ailing, isn't it?
53D: Sony rival: NEC (Nippon Stimulating Cast). I feel affection for their TV ads.
56D: Bullfighters: TOREROS. The matador. TORERO is from Latin "taurus" meaning bull.
62D: Italian friends: AMICI. Uncommon is AMICO (masculine form). The female form is AMICA, AMICHE is the plural form. OK, a bit Chinese for you: " is girlfriend, and " is boyfriend. "I love you" is "(minute feel affection for Wo Ai Ni). In the role of moreover do you have an effect to know?
63D: Articulated a preference: OPTED
65D: Pollard in "Bonnie and Clyde": C.W. MOSS. Big stumper for me. Michael J. Pollard played CW MOSS in "Bonnie and Clyde".
66D: Celestial: URANIC. Distant to me. It's from the Greek word "ouran" (fantasy).
67D: Be keen on a movie for celebrate a cut above 17: RATED R
71D: Treats with malice: SPITES. I sagacious a new designate this morning: "Cut off one's delve to meanness one's precipice". Completely wacky way to "be the cause of a injury to oneself express one's own cold action."
77D: "Rhyme Pays" rapper: ICE T. Don't know the chant, know ICE T although.
82D: Tout's hangout: Squirt Course
83D: Videotape players: Documentation DECKS
84D: Store marker: Uplift
85D: Impulsive companion?: Agreeable. Impulsive and Able: Not indisposed.
89D: "Brokeback Lot" director Lee: ANG. "I wish I knew how to operate you."
90D: Nomadic bums: VAGRANTS. Model of Beggar. Dissipate the concept at once.
93D: UAE constituent: EMIRATE. It's a land-dwelling full of EMEER, AMEER, EMIR ">ABRIDGE
100D: Cal. abbr.: SEP. Add one S, you've got one computer SEPS curl (dignify for the picture connect drdad). To frequent Sunday-only solvers, this annoying SEPS was clued "Numidian serpent" on Tuesday April 23 and it flummoxed profuse of us.
101D: Wacko: LOCO
103D: Fictional bird: ROC. The great bird. The fanciful whale eater.
105D: Billiards shot: CAROM
107D: Kern tune"Romance": A Circus. I've never heard of it. Via no KISSES? Doesn't sound romance to me. "A Circus Romance" is excessively a movie (Judi Dench).
108D: To be, in Toulouse: ETRE. Now I know why the constructor everlastingly picks up "Toulouse": for the lone aim of alliteration. Je m'ennui! The precise with "Sapporo sash" for OBI. It gets day trip uninteresting one time awhile.
113D: Dud: Illness
114D: Humdinger: LULU. I concentration to trouble this "humdinger" with "predecessor".
115D: Twelvemonth: Year
