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This is my solution to the crossword published in the New York Times today. If you are doing the New York Times crossword in any other publication, you are working on the syndicated puzzle.
Here is a link to my answers to today’s SYNDICATED New York Times crossword.
I have deliberately kept this site very simple, but have had requests to add some “lookups” to the daily post. I will try this for a few posts to see what the reaction is.
Here are today’s “googlies” …
The Quote: “The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas”
Being a chemist myself by training, I have nothing but admiration for Linus Pauling, perhaps America’s greatest chemist of all time. He is the only person to have individually been awarded two Nobel Prizes (for Chemistry in 1954, and the Peace Prize in 1962). During WWI he worked on military research & development, but after the war he adopted the pacifist views of his wife and led a campaign to ban above-ground nuclear testing, for which he was awarded his Peace Prize.
- Read more about LINUS PAULING at Wikipedia
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8: PAPAW
Papaw is a variant of pawpaw. The papaw tree is native to North America, and has a fruit that looks similar to a papaya. Papaw probably gets its name from the word papaya, but pawpaw and papaya are two distinct species.
- Read more about PAWPAW at Wikipedia
22: INDIRA (NEHRU GANDHI)
Mrs. Gandhi was India’s only female prime minister to date, and was assassinated while in office in 1984. Born Indira Nehru, she married Feroze Gandhi, a man whose family was unrelated to that of the celebrated Mahatma Gandhi. Indira Gandhi was, however, the daughter of Jawaharial Nehru, India’s longest-serving prime minister. My wife recommends Katherine Frank’s biography of Mrs. Gandhi … not something I have read myself.
- Read more about INDIRA GANDHI at Wikipedia
- Buy Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi
at Amazon.com
27: LEW AYRES
Lew Ayres did indeed play Dr. Kildare in a series of movies starting in the 1930s, although he came to fame as a star in All Quiet On the Western Front. Famously, he was a pacifist during WWII and became a member of the Medical Corps (albeit with great difficulty). His private life wasn’t too dull either. He was married three times, with Lola Lane and Ginger Rogers as wives one and two. Actress Jane Wyman apparently left her husband, Ronald Reagan, to be with Lew Ayres, although that relationship did not flourish.
- Read more about LEW AYRES at Wikipedia
38: LEN (Cariou)
Len Cariou is a Canadian actor, indeed famous for his Broadway portrayal of Sweeney Tood ... I most recognize him from supporting roles in Flags of Our Fathers and Thirteen Days, two great movies.
- Read more about LEN CARIOU at Wikipedia
50: Giovanni RIBISI
Ribisi is the guy who played Frank Jr., Phoebe’s brother, on Friends. He also had a supporting role in the wonder Saving Private Ryan, and a starring spot in Lost in Translation, as mentioned in today’s clue. If you’ve ever suffered from jetlag, espeically in a place like Japan, then Lost in Translation starring Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson, is a must-see movie. I cannot recommend it enough.
- Read more about GIOVANNI RIBISI at Wikipedia
- Buy Lost in Translation
at Amazon.com
59: GOO GOO DOLLS
The Goo Goo Dolls is an American rock band that formed in the late 1980s in Buffalo, NY. Iris, mentioned in today’s clue, is off their hit 1998 album Dizzy Up the Girl. They’re not my cup of tea …
76: LAPIS LAZULI
Lapis lazuli is a blue, semi-precious stone mined mainly in Afghanistan. Lapis Lizuli is Latin for “stone of Lazhward”, referring to the Persian word for the place the stone was mined. Our word “azure”, a shade of blue, has the same root.
- Read more about LAPIS LAZULI at Wikipedia
- Visit THE WILD WILD WEST fan site
- Buy The Wild Wild West: The Complete Series
at Amazon.com
- Read more about the BOLO TIE at Wikipedia
- Read more about THE POTATO FAMINE at Wikipedia
- Buy Julie & Julia
the DVD at Amazon.com
- Buy Mastering the Art of French Cooking (2 Volume Set)
by Julia Child at Amazon.com
- Buy Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat, and Obsession
by Julie Powell at Amazon.com
- Read more about ATTICA, GREECE in Wikipedia
- Read more about HOBART at Wikipedia
- Read more about PEDRO ALMODOVAR at Wikipedia
- Visit the ACLU website
- Read more about LINDA HUNT at Wikipedia
- Buy The Year of Living Dangerously
at Amazon.com
- Visit the National Park Service’s Haleakala website
- Read more about ROBERT OLEN BUTLER at Wikipedia
- Read more about the CALLA LILY at CallaLilyGuide.com
- Read more about RAGA in Wikipedia
- Visit the official RAVI SHANKAR website and hear his music
- Read about LYLE WAGGONER on Wikipedia
- Read more about DIANE LANE at Wikipedia
- Buy Under the Tuscan Sun (Full Screen Edition)
at Amazon.com
- Read more about KEVIN KLINE at Wikipedia
- Buy In & Out
DVD at Amazon.com
- Read more about FLO on Wikipedia