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Quicklink to a complete list of today’s clues and answers. Quicklink to comments. Theme: Side Arm. Today’s themed answers are all in the down- direction. To read the complete answer, we have to use the letters ARM that are to one side of that answer in the grid: 6.
A. Like some baseball pitches . The Eagle, for one : LUN(AR M)ODULE1. D. Mc. Donald’s offering for tight budgets : DOLL(AR M)ENU3. D. Post office standard : REGUL(AR M)AIL3. D. Syrup source : SUG(AR M)APLEBill’s time: 8m 4.
Bill’s errors: 0. Today’s Wiki- est, Amazonian Googlies. Across. 1. 7. Shutterbug : SHOOTER. A shutterbug is an enthusiastic amateur photographer, someone who likes to hear the click of that shutter, someone like me . A Womans Life (2017) Online there. Fireplace fixture : ANDIRON. Andirons (also “firedogs”) are those horizontal bars on which you rest logs to burn in an open fireplace.
They usually come in pairs and can be quite decorative, and are often made out of wrought iron. Like a vertebral region : LUMBAR. The human spine comprises five regions of vertebrae, which are (starting at the neck): Cervical (C1 – C7)Thoracic (T1 – T1. Lumbar (L1 – L5)Sacral (S1 – S5)Coccyx (also known as the tailbone)2. Biblical songs : PSALMS.
The Greek word “psalmoi” originally meant “songs sung to a harp”, and gave us the word “psalms”. In the Jewish and Western Christian traditions, the Book of Psalms contains 1. Splotchy garment : SMOCK. A smock is an outer garment that is often worn as protection for one’s clothing. Today, the term often applies to the protective garment worn by a painter. Calendar abbr. The ancient Romans called it “mensis Aprilis”, which roughly translated as “opening month. The suggestion is that April is the month in which fruits, flowers and animals “open” their life cycles.
The RAF was formed during WWI on 1 April 1. Royal Flying Corps (part of the Army) and the Royal Naval Air Service. The RAF’s “finest hour” has to be the Battle of Britain when the vastly outnumbered British fighters fought off the might of the Luftwaffe causing Hitler to delay his plan to cross the English Channel.
This outcome prompted Winston Churchill to utter the memorable words. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Singer/songwriter Carly . Jepsen got her start on TV’s “Canadian Idol” when she placed third in the show’s fifth season. Hook’s right hand : SMEE. In J. Barrie’s play and novel about Peter Pan, Smee is one of Captain Hook’s pirates and is Hook’s right- hand man. Smee is described by Barrie as being “Irish” and “a man who stabbed without offence”.
Captain Hook and Smee sail on the pirate ship called the Jolly Roger. Captain Hook is the bad guy in “Peter Pan”, the famous play by J. Hook is Peter Pan’s sworn enemy, as Pan cut off Hook’s hand causing it to be replaced by a “hook”. It is implied in the play that Hook attended Eton College, just outside London. Hook’s last words are “Floreat Etona”, which is Eton College’s motto. Barrie openly acknowledged that the Hook character was based on Herman Melville’s Captain Ahab from the novel “Moby Dick”.
Seven- piece Chinese puzzle : TANGRAM. A tangram is a flat puzzle consisting of seven different shapes that must be arranged to form specific shapes. The game was invented in China, and the name for the puzzle in Chinese translates as “seven boards of skill”.
The seven shapes are called “tans” hence the “tangram” name used in English. Shakespearean merchant : ANTONIO.
In William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice”, Portia is the formidable heroine who takes on the guise of a male lawyer and calls herself “Balthasar”. Portia does this to save the life of Antonio, the play’s title character. Portia makes a famous speech that gives us the oft- quoted phrase, “the quality of mercy” . Unified whole : GESTALT. Gestalt is a German word meaning “shape”. The principles of gestaltism were developed in Germany in the early 1.
One of the main tenets is that “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts”. Upsilon preceder : TAU. Upsilon is the 2. Greek alphabet, and the character that gives rise to the letter Y that we use in English.
Tau is the 1. 9th letter of the Greek alphabet, the letter which gave rise to our Roman “T”. Both the letters tau (T) and chi (X) have long been symbolically associated with the cross. Down1. Dash or Doubtfire : MRS. Mrs. Dash is a brand name of seasoning mixes. Just before the product first went to market in 1. B& G Foods also considered the name “Mrs.
Pinch”. The 1. 99. Mrs. Doubtfire” is based on a 1. Madame Doubtfire” by Anne Fine.
The movie is set and was filmed in San Francisco. The title role is played by Robin Williams, who spent most of the movie dressed as the female Mrs.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the movie won the Oscar for Best Makeup. Number missing, in a way, from “4 = 1.
TWO. 4. 2 = 1. 64. Ryan’s daughter : TATUM. Tatum O’Neal is the youngest actress to win a “competitive” Oscar.
She won the Best Supporting Actress Award in 1. Addie in “Paper Moon”. The youngest person to win an honorary Academy Award was Shirley Temple, who was only 5 years old when she was presented with an Oscar in 1. Actor Ryan O’Neal got his big break in the sixties on television. He appeared in the prime- time soap opera “Peyton Place”, opposite fellow newcomer Mia Farrow.
Then in 1. 97. 0 he landed a starring role in the hit movie “Love Story”, which established him in Hollywood. O’Neal was an amateur boxer before he turned to acting, and established a respectable record Golden Gloves competitions.
These days, O’Neal has a recurring role on the TV show “Bones”, playing the title character’s father. Energy food component : CARB. Only relatively small amounts of carbohydrate can be stored by the human body, but those stores are important. The actual storage molecule is a starch- like polysaccharide called glycogen, which is found mainly in the liver and muscles. Glycogen is a quick source of energy when required by the body. Most of the body’s energy is stored in the form of fat, a more compact substance that is mobilized less rapidly. Endurance athletes often eat meals high in carbohydrate (carbo- loading) a few hours before an event, so that their body’s glycogen is at optimum levels.
The Eagle, for one : LUN(AR M)ODULE. In the Apollo program, the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) was the vehicle that actually landed on the moon and returned the astronauts to the command module that was orbiting overhead. The third LEM built was named “Spider”, and it participated in the Apollo 9 mission which tested the functionality of the LEM design in space. The fourth LEM was called “Snoopy” and it flew around the moon in the Apollo 1. Apollo 1. 1’s LEM was called “Eagle” and it brought Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to and from the moon’s surface.
Another famous LEM was Apollo 1. Aquarius. Although Aquarius never landed on the moon, it did serve as a “lifeboat” for the three astronauts after the explosive rupture of an oxygen canister in the Service Module. PC screen type : LCD. Liquid Crystal Displays (LCDs) are the screens that are found in most laptops today, and in flat panel computer screens and some televisions. LCD monitors basically replaced Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) screens, the old television technology.
Lizard that can shed its tail : SKINK. Skinks are lizards with relatively small legs and without a pronounced neck.
Most skink species have long tails that they can shed if it is grabbed by a predator. The tail can then be regenerated. Pro’s opposite : TYRO. A tyro (also “tiro”) is a beginner or a novice. Book after Joel : AMOS. Amos is one of the twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible.
Actor Auberjonois : RENE. Ren. Auberjonois’ most famous role on the big screen was Father Mulcahy in the movie “M*A*S*H”. Athens rival : SPARTA. Sparta was a city- state in ancient Greece that was famous for her military might.