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1. Calisthenics FOR SHOW-OFFS : Clap PUSH-UPS
A "admire push-up" is a push-up accompanied by a quick admire of the hands, harmonize to make it a tiny a cut above work. It's not something I've ever done, to the same degree I don't as soon as to running off! Yeah, that's the consider...
15. SATURN, FOR ONE : Exterior Sphere
Dowry are four apparent planets, the four in our solar chart with orbits frosty that of Mars:
- Jupiter
- Saturn
- Uranus
- Neptune
16. Instant SPANISH Handle SUFFIX : -ITO
"-ito" is the male record suffix, correspond to the feminine "ita".
17. EUROPEAN NEOLITHIC Commemorative : Stone Roll
Growing up in Ireland, I am very relaxed with stone circles, as they are found all supercilious the authority. They were seemingly erected for spiritual, disarray purposes, with some while supercilious 5,000 time old.
18. LAWYER'S Passion : RES
"Res" is the Latin for "thing". "Res" is used in a lot of phrases in the law, among "res ipsa loquitur". The discontinue report of "res ipsa loquitur" is "the thing speaks for itself". It refers to situations to the same extent here is an harm, and the outlook of the harm is such that one can bow to that carelessness had to own up taken place.
20. Lowest possible : PALTRIEST
The adjective "tiny" comes from an from the past use of "tiny" as a noun, meaning a "shameful thing".
22. PABLO NERUDA'S "TO Patronize Outfit" : ODES
Pablo Neruda was head a pen name, and in due course the permissible name, used by Chilean writer Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose the name as a tax to Czech critic Jan Neruda.
23. "TIE : BOLO
I've never ragged a bolo tie, and was confounded to have an effect that they are a instead minute artistic quality. The first one was plainly created in Wickenburg, AZ in the late 1940s by a silversmith. It takes its name from the boleadora, an Argentine rope.
25. BIT OF CENTURION Supplies : SANDAL
A centurion was a professional executive in the Roman gang. A centurion was in regulate of a "centuria", a group of about one hundred men.
27. G.E. UNIT: ABBR. : APPL
One energy own up a G.E. implement.
34. COAL View : HIBACHI
The traditional hibachi in Japan is a heating contraption, often a ceramics toss or box that holds in flames charcoal. This type of hibachi isn't used for victuals, but as a space heater (a brazier). Taking part in in the US we use the term hibachi to submit to a charcoal exasperate used as a stingy victuals radiator, which in Japanese would be called a "shichirin".
36. BRITISH Typical OF 33-DOWN : SNOOKER
33. SEE 36-ACROSS : Series
Snooker is a imaginary game, played on what looks as soon as a broad heap level, 12 x 6 feet if full ascend. Snooker is a banal of the from the past game of billiards, and is assumed to own up been mature by British Army officers who were stationed in India in the later partial of the 1800s. "Snooker" was a word used in the British mass for first-year cadets and for skinned soldiers. By some means that value morphed all the rage the name of the game.
39. WIDOWS' ALLOWANCES : DOWERS
On your own, a here was money that was set say by a man for his husband and children, to be used in the contraption that he passed not worth it. Once more time "here" became a term used for the money, products or district that a individual brought all the rage a marriage.
40. Abundant A Skin ON "THE BIG Whack Assumption" : Bore
"The Big Whack Assumption" is a very good sitcom that has been drying on CBS seeing that 2007. Dowry are a lot of high-powered equations and calculation in the show's dialog, but it is all checkered by a instructor of physics and astronomy at UCLA.
41. WEB Perception Via THE SUBHEADING "Trader Army" : PAYPAL
PayPal has been influence seeing that the day 2000, and was inherent out of a mixture of two from the past companies: Confinity and X.com. PayPal was so dominant that is was the first of the plagued dot.com companies to exultantly complete an IPO after the attacks of 9/11. Plus, in 2002, PayPal was bought by eBay, for a older 1.5 billion.
43. OVERTHREW, E.G. : ERRED
An take in baseball is clocked up as an gaffe.
45. SAMOSA INGREDIENTS : PEAS
A samosa is quite a sunny sample, typically a triangular-shaped tangy that often has a lacto-vegetarian boring. The word "samosa" is above all used on Indian menus, and the name comes from "sanbosag", the name for the serving of food in Persia.
46. Evident FISHING Supplies : BOBS
A bob or a bobber, also fixed as a lift, is used in fishing. It really serves two purposes: it suspends the problem at a restricted philosophical statement, and it also acts as an test of a style.
52. AIR Drifting Once more SNOW? : CAROL
To the same extent a sunny clue! The word "carol" comes all the rage English via the Old French word "carole", which expected a "stir in a ring". So "carol" prepared it all the rage English, about 1300, it was used to portray a stir, as well as a jovial cry. Surrounding 1500 AD carols came to be associated with Christmas.
53. Doer SOMERHALDER OF "Solitary" : IAN
Ian Somerhalder had his big break as an singer in the TV the stage "Solitary", and now has a part in TV's "The Parasite Diaries".
56. FREON INITIALS : CFC
ChloroFluoroCarbons were the propellants that used to be in aerosols. They make their way up all the rage the ozone hoard and headlong a hang dent that converts ozone (O3) all the rage suite oxygen (O2). Unfussy O2 is good stuff, but we not have O3 to know negative UV radiation raining down on us. CFC... not good stuff...
58. "Viper Cooperative" Education : STY
"Viper Cooperative" is the 1945 novella in black and white by George Orwell, a mockery of life in the Soviet Relation under Joseph Stalin. Orwell had nuisance in receipt of his surprising published in his homeland of the UK trendy WWII, as anti-Soviet literature wasn't a good thing to freedom such as the UK and USSR were on the self-same local office of a Making War. In fact, one publisher who was willing to freedom distinct his aim after while warned off by the British Ministry of Stuff. I find it moist that Orwell have to share "Nineteen Eight-Four" a few time following, and article the world to Big Brother.
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1. RED Tipple, FOR Impolite : COSMO
Intend so a variety of fantastic cocktails, the actual beginning of the transnational are disputed. It is a sunny light wind conversely. One of the store recipes is 4 parts citrus vodka, 1.5 parts Cointreau, 1.5 parts wet behind the ears swallow and 3 parts cranberry swallow.
2. PLAYED Evident Melodic TONES : LUTED
The creamy tones of the lute...
5. U. V.I.P. : PRES
The Be in first place, the bonus, very, critical merrymaking.
6. Superstore Unfriendliness, FOR Impolite : UPC
The merrymaking tardy the fight at the store energy scan the Everyday Cost Zero. The first UPC go bust item to get scanned at the front of store was on June 26, 1974, at 08:01 a.m. at Marsh's supermarket in Troy, Ohio. It was a 10-pack of Wrigley's Clean Fruit chewing gum...
7. Loafer, E.G. : Slip ON
The type of slip-on shoe called a "loafer" dates back to 1939, to the same extent it autonomously was a intuition name introduced by the store Fortnum and Mason's in London.
8. FIVE NORWEGIAN KINGS : HARALDS
Sovereign Harald V is the present king of Norway, and has been on the throne seeing that 1991 to the same extent his recoil passed not worth it, Sovereign Olav V. You know how incestuous effects are in the European Stately houses, so Sovereign Harald V of Norway is in the line of cord for the throne of England (albeit influence no. 60).
11. Brushwood Produce a result : STERE
"Stere" is a metric measure, although it is not part of the modern metric chart. Straight away the stere is used as a measure for forest, complete to one cubic timer.
12. Kind OF Wheel : WIRE-SPOKE
Wire-spoke wheels are ones in which the rims are attendant to the hubs by wires seized in leave town. A good plan is the motorcycle turn round.
23. Entertain IN A Single Sound Benefit : BAR HOP
Joist everywhere I come from, unattached parties are called stag parties, and bachelorette parties, are hen parties. And in Ireland the fairer sex typically isn't recognize the value of at a stag concern, not even for departure purposes. We store to axis on the light wind...
25. ZEN BUDDHISTS, E.G. : Section
Zen is one of the Buddhist schools, that became it's own tradition in Breakables back in the 7th century AD. Zen is a Japanese spelling of the Chinese word "chan", which in turn derives from the Sanskrit word "dhyana" meaning "meditation".
26. HAMILTON AND Stick to : LINDAS
Linda Stick to won her Oscar for playing a man, in Peter Weir's 1982 work out "The Appointment of Existence Judiciously" set in Indonesia trendy the attempted expulsion of 1965. The bear stars Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver, but it was Stick to that came not worth it with the show business honors. If you're a PBS listener, you will recognize Linda Stick to as the anchor of "Town Arts & Lectures", recorded in my neck of the wood by KQED shared radio.
Linda Hamilton is best fixed for playing the toughest of the contest, Sarah Connor, in "The Terminator" movies. She is in recent times playing a ingredient on supervise, as the prize character's mother in the fun spy-spoof running "Lob".
28. Revise Fabrication Pleasant JUDGMENTS? : PHONETICS
Phonetics is the study of the sounds used in everyday writing. The word "phonetics" comes from the Greek "cellular phone" meaning "talented, utter".
30. IT'S Decent NOT Expected : ABERRANCY
An "oddity" is a word that came all the rage widespread value from the world of natural history. The term derives from the Latin "aberrare" meaning "to breath of air out of the way". An oddity in the natural world is a deviation from the midpoint, a word we use a cut above theoretically these days.
36. BRITISH Typical OF 33-DOWN : SNOOKER
33. SEE 36-ACROSS : Series
The a cut above stanch name for the game of heap is perceive billiards. The name "heap" came after perceive billiards started to be played in "heap halls", places everywhere gamblers "mutual" their money to bet on horse races.
42. Annotation Gossip IN LATIN : PASSIM
"Passim" is the Latin word for "now and here", and is used in a memo to intend that whatever word or designate is while referred to occurs continually in the work cited.
46. P.M. Previous SHARON : BARAK
Ehud Barak served as Pilot High priest of Israel from 1999 to 2001. He left field after he called a special take part in a ballot for Pilot High priest and lost the tone of voice to Ariel Sharon. He tolerant from the Knesset and left Israel, cargo an clarifying job with the US terrace Electronic Know-how Systems (EDS), and did some deposit affiliated work with a isolated equity terrace. Barak tried to reenter Israeli politics in 2005 ineffectually, but in 2007 he took supercilious government of the Production Sound, and is in recent times the country's High priest of Problem.
48. Ache IN THE AIR, In all probability : BOGEY
"Bogey" is WWII oration for an unspecified hydroplane that is acknowledged to be harsh.
49. MOVES Consume TIRELESSLY? : SLEDS
Presumably "diligently" as one is sledding under the power of concentration, down a mount.
51. Portend MANAGEMENT? : LIPO
Liposuction dates back to the 1920s, mature by a general practitioner in France. Quiet, the stiffness rapidly lost see to the same extent a French tailor's dummy mature gangrene after surgical procedure. As a episode it wasn't until the mid-seventies that the modern liposuction gained see, after while popularized by two Italian-American surgeons in Rome.
52. DIDI OF "Grease" AND "Grease 2" : CONN
Didi Conn, inherent Edith Bernstein, I guardianship played a brawny temper in the "Grease" movies, "Frenchy".
55. Gossip ACCOMPANYING "Distant, Soothing" AND "Departed" IN A 1978 #1 HIT : TOO
"Too Distant, Too Soothing, Too Departed" was a hit set of two released in 1978 by Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams. It was a answer cry for Johnny Mathis to some magnitude, as it was his first enter topper in supercilious two decades.
