Constructed by: Rebecca Goldstein
Edited by: Patti Varol
Today’s Reveal Answer: Animal Style
Themed answers all relate to STYLE, and each starts with an ANIMAL:
51A Option on In-N-Out Burger’s not-so-secret menu, or the fashion sense that includes the answers to the starred clues? : ANIMAL STYLE
3D *Short stiletto : KITTEN HEEL
6D *Updo in a scrunchie, maybe : PONYTAIL
9D *Shirt with a snug collar : TURTLENECK
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Bill’s time: 7m 45s
Bill’s errors: 2
SALUD (salut!)
KEHINDE (Kehinte)
Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies
Across
1 Some cast-iron cookware : WOKS
“Wok” is a Cantonese word, and is the name for the frying pan now used in many Asian cuisines.
5 Letters on a foundation? : SPF
In theory, the sun protection factor (SPF) is a calibrated measure of the effectiveness of a sunscreen in protecting the skin from harmful UV rays. The idea is that if you wear a lotion with say SPF 20, then it takes 20 times as much UV radiation to cause the skin to burn than it would take without protection. I say just stay out of the sun …
8 Singer Redding : OTIS
Otis Redding is often referred to as the “King of Soul”, and what a voice he had. Like so many of the greats in the world of popular music it seems, Redding was killed in a plane crash, in 1967 when he was just 26 years old. Just three days earlier he had recorded what was to be his biggest hit, “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay”.
12 Reebok rival : AVIA
The Avia brand name for athletic shoes was chosen as “avia” is the Latin word for “to fly”, and suggests the concept of aviation. Avia was founded in Oregon in 1979.
16 Oval Office override : VETO
The verb “veto” comes directly from Latin and means “I forbid”. The term was used by tribunes of ancient Rome to indicate that they opposed measures passed by the Senate.
Although there have been several “oval” offices used by US presidents in the White House, the current Oval Office was designed and constructed at the bequest of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The room has four doors. One door opens onto the Rose Garden; a second door leads to a small study and dining room; a third opens onto the main corridor running through the West Wing; the fourth door opens to the office of the president’s secretary.
17 Trivial : MINOR
Trivia are things of little consequence. “Trivia” is the plural of the Latin word “trivium” which means “a place where three roads meet”. Now that’s what I call a trivial fact …
19 Doc with an otoscope : ENT
An ear, nose and throat specialist (ENT) uses an otoscope to look into the interior of one’s ears.
22 “More info soon” : TBD
To be determined (TBD)
26 Angels’ auras : HALOS
The Greek word “halos” is the name given to the ring of light around the sun or moon, which gives us our word “halo” that is used for a radiant light depicted above the head of a saintly person.
28 With crisp resolution : IN HD
High-definition (HD)
29 Currency with loonies and toonies, briefly : CAD
Canadian dollar (CAD)
The common loon (also “great northern diver”) is the provincial bird of Ontario, and the state bird of Minnesota. The loon once appeared on Canadian $20 bills and also appears on the Canadian one-dollar coin, giving the coin the nickname “the loonie”.
“Toonie” is the familiar name for a two-dollar coin in Canada. The toonie was introduced in 1996, and gets its familiar name from the one-dollar coin known as a “loonie”.
30 Kingston with a recurring role on “Doctor Who” : ALEX
I know actress Alex Kingston best from playing River Song, the future companion to the title character in the iconic BBC sci-fi series “Doctor Who”. For many years, her partner and eventual husband was fellow English actor Ralph Fiennes, whom she met while they both were studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London.
31 Textspeak qualifier : IMHO
In my humble opinion (IMHO)
34 “You only live __” : ONCE
You only live once (YOLO)
37 Prefix meaning “primitive” : PALEO-
The prefix “paleo-” means “prehistoric, primitive”. It comes from the Greek word “palaios” which means “old, ancient”. The prefix “neo-” would be the opposite, meaning “new, recent”.
39 Causing goose bumps, maybe : FREAKY
The terms “goose bumps” and “goose flesh” come from the fact that skin which is cold can look like the flesh of a plucked goose.
43 French couture monogram : YSL
Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) was an Algerian-born French fashion designer. Saint Laurent started off working as an assistant to Christian Dior at the age of 17. Dior died just four years later, and as a very young man Saint-Laurent was named head of the House of Dior. However, in 1950 Saint Laurent was conscripted into the French Army and ended up in a military hospital after suffering a mental breakdown from the hazing inflicted on him by his fellow soldiers. His treatment included electroshock therapy and administration of sedatives and psychoactive drugs.
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