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Today’s Reveal Answer: Two-Drink Minimum
Themed answers each have TWO DRINKS hidden within:
- 52A Requirement at some comedy clubs … or for 17-, 22-, 33- and 47-Across? : TWO-DRINK MINIMUM
- 17A Standard musical progression : PENTATONIC SCALE (tonic & ale)
- 22A High court judge? : CHAIR UMPIRE (chai & rum)
- 33A Basketball or baseball, but not boxing : TEAM SPORT (tea & port)
- 47A Matching pair on many jets : TWIN ENGINES (wine & gin)
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I’m feeling a bit under the weather this evening, and so am heading to bed early. I just found time to solve this puzzle, and write up this abbreviated post. I will get to the full post as soon as I can.
Apologies, and thank you for your understanding.
Bill
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Complete List of Clues/Answers
Across
1A What you eat : DIET
5A Campfire confection : S’MORE
10A Mama ___ of the Mamas & the Papas : CASS
14A Clearasil target : ACNE
15A Hawkeye : IOWAN
16A Sound of a horse’s hoof : CLOP
17A Standard musical progression : PENTATONIC SCALE (tonic & ale)
20A Dry and withered : SERE
21A “Dinner’s ready!” : SOUP’S ON!
22A High court judge? : CHAIR UMPIRE (chai & rum)
26A Joke (around) : KID
27A Whale groups : PODS
28A Michael of “The Man Who Would Be King” : CAINE
29A Joint thing in the Venn diagram of “instruments” and “fish” : BASS
30A “That’s so sweet!” reactions : AWS
31A Semaphore device : FLAG
32A Patty or Selma, to Bart Simpson : AUNT
33A Basketball or baseball, but not boxing : TEAM SPORT (tea & port)
36A Frozen dessert franchise : TCBY
38A New Zealander : KIWI
39A Denali, e.g.: Abbr. : MTN
42A Heads of Hogwarts? : LOOS
43A Spry : AGILE
45A Free-spirited aesthetic : BOHO
46A “Ick!” : EWW!
47A Matching pair on many jets : TWIN ENGINES (wine & gin)
49A Massachusetts locale of Manchester-by-the-Sea : CAPE ANN
51A “Yikes!” : EGAD!
52A Requirement at some comedy clubs … or for 17-, 22-, 33- and 47-Across? : TWO-DRINK MINIMUM
57A Like a gut course : EASY
58A African country that’s another African country minus its final two letters : NIGER
59A Generic canine name : FIDO
60A Breads for Reuben sandwiches : RYES
61A “Beau ___” : GESTE
62A Leak slowly : SEEP
Down
1D Fist bump : DAP
2D Skating exhibition : ICE SHOW
3D Groups of nine : ENNEADS
4D Classic falling-block game : TETRIS
5D Basic dog command : SIT
6D It’s heard in a herd : MOO
7D ___ goal (soccer blunder) : OWN
8D Gorp tidbit : RAISIN
9D Number added at the end? : ENCORE
10D Cyrillic version of “U.S.S.R.” : CCCP
11D From Nome or Juneau : ALASKAN
12D Lone star? : SOLOIST
13D Drops some cash : SPENDS
18D ___ Lingus : AER
19D Bird of the W.N.B.A. : SUE
22D Return sender, maybe, in brief : CPA
23D Sch. whose campus is just off Interstate 405 : UCLA
24D Sir’s counterpart : MA’AM
25D Football, informally : PIGSKIN
29D Slowly ___ surely : BUT
31D Tina who hosted the debut of “Saturday Night Live UK” : FEY
32D “Entourage” agent Gold : ARI
33D Atlanta-based network : TBS
34D Leaves together? : PILE
35D Actor Wilson : OWEN
36D ___ zone (no-parking area) : TOW-AWAY
37D Yoga stance on all fours : COW POSE
39D Term of friendship for a French woman : MON AMIE
40D Nickname for Jeffrey Lebowski in “The Big Lebowski” : THE DUDE
41D Those opposed : NOS
42D Villain in “The Silence of the Lambs” : LECTER
43D Cafe canopy : AWNING
44D Companion to Fannie and Freddie in the mortgage biz : GINNIE
45D Major unknowns : BIG IFS
47D Sailor, informally : TAR
48D ___ Z (Zoomers) : GEN
50D “Grand” ice cream brand : EDY’S
53D Units in a tonne: Abbr. : KGS
54D Was introduced to : MET
55D Wrath : IRE
56D Swiffer WetJet, e.g. : MOP
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