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GUIDE TO THE ARTS
from ICON Magazine
Theater
DeSales University/Act 1 Performing Arts
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Charles Dickens’, A Christmas Carol, adapted by James Walker; directed and originally scored by Dennis Razze. A live, pre-recorded 2020 production. December 5 & 6. DeSales.edu/act1, 610-282-3192
Theatre Exile
D-Pad, by Jeremy Gable. Virtual performance. November 27-December 13; opening night December 2. All performances will be produced online. Explore the world of independent gaming through the lens of wunderkind developer Alex. Theatreexile.org 215218-4022
Williams Center for the Arts.
Manual Cinema, A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens’ classic reimagined for 2020. Lafayette College, Easton, PA. Live streaming December 5-19. Tickets: AtTheWilliams.org
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Allentown Art Museum
Evolution of the Spiritual: Europe to America, thru January 3, 2021; Prints and Protest 1960-1970, through Jan. 24, 2021; New Century, New Woman, through Jan. 24, 2021; Intuition & Reflection, The Ceramics of Toshiko Takaezu, through Jan. 2, 2021. 31 North Fifth St., Allentown, PA. 610-432-4333, Allentownartmuseum.org
Bethlehem House Gallery
2020 Holiday Show through January 9,
2021. 459 Main St., Bethlehem, PA. Wed.-
2020 Holiday Show. Thurs. 11-7, Fri.-Sat. 12-9, Sun. 12-5. 610-4196262 Bethlehemhousegallery.com
Mercer Museum
WE’RE OPEN!
200 Years of Bucks County Art
Through December 31, 2020
Paintings by Charles Willson Peale, Edward Hicks, Martin Johnson Heade, Thomas Hicks, Thomas Otter, William Lathrop and Daniel Garber, as well as Jonathan and William Trego, Edward Trego, Samuel DuBois, Robert Street, Samuel Moon.. Cocktails by the Castle, Oct. 10, 5-8. 84 South Pine St., Doylestown, PA Mercermuseum.org, 215-345-0210
New Hope Arts Center
Works in Wood 2020, November 21-January 10, 2021. In-gallery & Virtual Juried Exhibition, including sculpture, assemblage, furniture, and vessels. 2 Stockton Ave., New Hope, PA. 215-862-9606, Newhopearts.org
Silverman Gallery of Bucks County
Impressionist Art.
New Work by Desmond McRory. November 7-December 6. Buckingham Green, Route 202, just north of PA 413, 4920 York Rd., Holicong, PA. 215-794-4300 Silvermangallery.com
Net Mender by Desmond McCrory. Silverman Gallery.
The Snow Goose Gallery
What do Artists do in Quarantine. Nov. 8Dec. 20. In lieu of an opening, nine of the twelve artists will be appearing either in person or online on Sundays 1-4 pm. 610-974-9099 Thesnowgoosegallery.com
Music
Bach Choir
Virtual Bach at Noon Concerts: October 13 & November 10.
Enjoy pre-taped concerts by featured soloists and members of The Bach Festival Orchestra, from Central Moravian Church in Bethlehem. Introductions provided by conductor and artistic director, Greg Funfgeld. Presented on You Tube channel and facebook.com/BethlehemBach Bach.org, 610-866-4382
Solution to this month’s puzzle, SCREEN NAMES
<12 LARAAJI
of Putney Swope [1969]. It was then that I began having the strong sensation that I should investigate my inner nature, all matters of the soul and spirit. I got a sense of how to incorporate as much as possible, in a conscious way, while involving myself in mass media. Around 1971, I began a very dedicated search concerning such spiritual matters, attending lectures, studying with teachers, reading all the right books on the subject to get a real sense of what meditation was all about. Then I meditated. I remember, at the time, Shirley Maclaine was an advocate of meditation. She inspired me as she was also investigating inner spirituality. That impressed me.
Were you looking for a deity of some sort, or were you looking for answers and powers?
Well, I was curious about finding a relationship with meditation. Was it something that could provide me with a source of inspiration or guidance that would translate into making more conscious and fulfilling decisions about my life and career? I was looking for something that would give me an authority, an inner authority, that would serve as a guide, that could answer questions, that could point the way. Is that what you’re asking?
Have you found what you were looking for?
Hmm. Good question. I can tell you that I don’t use the word ‘deity’ so much—a relationship with a higher intelligence or power. I resist giving it a name other than ‘source’. However, I did grow up in a community where Jesus Christ, God, and Lord were the terms used. I was not intimate with those terms.
You mentioned Putney Swope, so I’ll ask: That’s a little known part of your biography— that you were an actor with that psychedelic comedy as your debut, and you were a comedian. They don’t seem to jive with the picture of an ambient musician geared toward the meditational. Why did you get into acting and comedy in the first place?
I got into acting through comedy. That was why I went to New York City in the first place, to pursue a career in comedy. I thought earning a living that way would allow me to buy a large enough space to purchase a grand piano and seriously compose music. Comedy led to acting. Ernestine McClinton, a black casting agent in New York in the 1960s and early 70s, saw me and just knew that I could do more than comedy. She got me commercials, some work OffBroadway, and Putney Swope. That was fun, and I enjoyed it, but I wasn’t making enough money.
Not enough to buy a grand piano anyway. So, why did you get out of comedy and acting? Putney Swope taught me something; it made me stop and think about mass media, about the difference between just being part of it or making a statement. Did I want to make a statement? Putney Swope raised the issues of image and importance of the Black community. I wondered if that should be my concern or should I just go for the money. That’s when I began to do some serious soul searching. That’s how and when my meditation search began, which led to yoga and other related things.
And that opened you up more to the music of those spheres?
It opened up my musical improvisations big time. I found myself improvising from different spaces of awareness and making more meaningful music. The meditation practice also opened me up to having an inner hearing experience, to the point where cosmic orchestras visited me. That sound-vision I experienced couldn’t have lasted more than ten minutes, but it really turned my head around. I had been given a model of how powerful music could be in representing a cosmic field. I researched the experience that I had in my dream, how different cultures and religions look at this, how they honor it through different names. Even the Bible refers to it as ‘The Word,’ the Beginning. I found that this cosmic sound current was a valid experience, that people used it to further their spiritual path. I couldn’t repeat the experience, but it was a model to bring music forth into this linear dimension,
You were inspired to pursue the musical expression of that path.
And share the energy of that experience with people, yes. There was a oneness with all, a sense of eternalness in the here and now. Whoa. After all the soul-searching that I had been doing, this was a message that I would want to represent, that best represented me, or the me I wanted to be. Especially in the mass media. I realized I wanted to represent myself and my aims through music, not acting or comedy.
Can you still tell a joke?
Yes, I can. And yes, I am still funny. Some of the jokes are pretty blue. Funny thing is, when I do laughter workshops, I don’t tell jokes. I get people into the laugh zone with a more playful spirit. We’re laughing without joking. We’re laughing in an exchange of hilarious excercises as they unfold. It, too, has its own spirit.
Brian Eno happened by you while you were busking with your autoharp on the streets of Manhattan, dropped his phone number at your feet, and invited you to work in his studio, which led to Day of Radiance. That was 1980. Forty years later, what of Eno has lasted into the present?
Brian brought a sense of openness to being classified within the term ‘ambient.’ It was through him that I began to appreciate the immediate power of high-quality microphones, of being in a professional studio, and of doubletracking my instruments—to experiment more—so to sound like a chorus, to fatten it up. He showed me that I could have a more developed, sophisticated sound. Eno also gave me confidence, validation. I could walk tall while going through what was happening then, the whole ‘new age’ genre and ambient artist realm. Once I was identified with Brian Eno, people would hold conversations with me in a different tone of voice. Some would even use me to approach him, get closer to him. Also, my association with his Opal Ltd. and Opal Evening opened the world of touring to me big time. He brought me out.
So much of your music is used for meditation sessions and yoga classes around the world. Are you comfortable with the responsibility that so much of your music is used for healing purposes?
Yes. I’m very comfortable. Since the 1980s, the audiences I have had and the workshops that I have been a part of have allowed me to share music and get feedback in regard to those purposes. That has allowed me to finetune what I’m doing and develop the message and energy of what I’m doing to have a valid place in authentic meditative lifestyles and healing agendas.
Do you use your music, past, and present, for your own healing purposes?
I feel good. Happy. Connected to spirit. I feel expansive. When I perform or channel music, I am transferring my sense of identity from a dense, corporeal human body to a weightless sound and light body. I am in an intimate commune with the creator. I feel joy. Super joy. I feel as if I am in the right place to fulfill my purpose in life. I’m feeling whole and healed and bal-
anced, so to answer your question: yes. My music provides an experience for me. Whether just listening to it, recording it, or performing it live, it is a temple of spiritual renovation, alignment, and expansion.
Layering, double tracking, the density of sound associated with your work: within the confines of Sun Piano and Moon Piano, two new albums more raw and minimalist, you’ve scrapped your usual brand of sound for the most part. Why now?
They channeled the way I felt. I did make decisions to include sounds and directions that I had been working on but hadn’t recorded. The raw, rugged, and more gritty experience revealed themselves with the more ambient passages of a two-day recording session with Sun Piano. Matthew Jones was there to edit my improvisations, express his feelings of what should go where. If I sit at my piano at home, within two hours, I will go through so many emotions, moods, and improvisations—so many sounds, too, such as rock and roll, jazz, funk, soothing pastoral moments. When I get into a studio, I keep all gates and channels open. Then I go back in and edit for a specific direction for a specific album. On Sun Piano, there is some driving Motown within its walls; I was feeling good. Dancing. I was honoring my dancing spirit.
Moon Piano and the Unitarian Church in Brooklyn offers another mood altogether.
I had never been to the church, but I trusted the choice. I showed up the day of the recording, and… did it. The church was large. [Producer] Jeff Ziegler set up microphones throughout the church for ambient purposes. The piano was lovely and grand, and, as it was a December day when we recorded, it was chilly. The radiators were going, and you could hear the knocking, a sound you can hear on the Moon Piano album.
A Unitarian church is different from a Catholic church or a Jewish synagogue. I know you don’t choose to call them‘deities, but did you feel the spiritual connections at work in a house of worship?
Yes, a certain license was pulling the music, opening the channel gates into a sacred ritual. For me, performance is always a sacred temple —a healing place—so a church, any church, is a most appropriate setting. There I play at my highest frequency. I have great respect for churches, synagogues, teepees, and mosques. That supported me through the mood and ritual of romance, meditation being the highest form of romance.
How has your relationship with the piano changed since your childhood?
Well, it has shifted. I’ve gone to institutes of higher learning and majored in it exclusively. I studied theory and composition as well, so it gave me the strength of mastery and comfortability. I am not a trespasser. Also, though, hearing and experiencing this otherworldly music has initiated me…. I have been touched by Gandharvas that goes into all of my piano. When I was a boy in Perth Amboy, I was doodling and experimenting. Now I am more sophisticated, using my education to compose in the flow and allow melodic events to happen. I have a sense of structure. I am more confident. As I have spent years exploring the electric zither, he autoharp, it has added to my enjoyment of strings resonating. What I was reaching for with the zither, I reach for and achieve with more passion on the piano.
Photo: Daniel Oduntan
Sun Piano and Moon Piano are part of a trilogy that closes out with an album that’s coming out days after we speak. Explain how Through Luminous Eyes completes the circle, and what you would say is its throughline, the thing that connects it all.
Through Luminous Eyes contains electric zither and piano and holds references to the power of light. Luminous Eyes suggests being in a state of altered consciousness, where life can be observed through a third eye, or expanded awareness states. The celestial sound of the zither married to the sound of the classical grand piano heightens it. As for the connection, they represent the expanded feel, that I am not limited to earthly planes, be they churches or studios. This universal feel generates joy, hope, meditative serenity, inner calm, and unity with those who will get to hear it and for those who won’t get to hear it. For me, there is a transparent invisible link that goes throughout all of my recordings, and not just these three most recent albums. n < 5 FIELD WORK
and parts sat door open, ready for the next repair. There was even a sawmill. Nothing pretentious or Lord of the Manor here. The temperature was in the high 60s with enough of a breeze to make you aware of the air around you. It smelled like the earth. I was at home.
I heard a tractor behind one of the windbreaks and walked over to get a look. A man was out on an old Farmall F in what looked like a 40-acre section, raking cut hay prior to baling. It was the perfect weather for that. You cut it, then let it lie in the sun for a few days, using a tedding attachment to fluff it every now and then. When it’s dry, you use another machine to rake it into narrow rows that can be picked up by the baler. It’s a lot of time spent in the fields, and a lot of attaching and detaching equipment—unless you have a bunch of tractors.
I walked out into the field to intercept the farmer as a courtesy. He’s got work to do and time isn’t on his side. Still, he shut off the engine, rested forward on the steering wheel while I leaned on the chest-high back tire and introduced myself.
His name is Jim. He’s In his 80s. The buildings go back to the early 1700s. We got along great, but the sun keeps moving and we both had work to do. It’s a farm, and there is only so much time for talk. He went to the house for a quick lunch and I set up for painting.
When Jim returned, I watched him hitch the baler to another tractor, and the wagon to the baler, and head out into the afternoon to collect the hay he had raked that morning. He drove that train for half of a row, until two bales had been pushed up the ramp and dropped on the wagon, then he stopped. Jim walked back to the wagon, climbed up on the deck and stacked the two bales in the back. Then he jumped down and returned to the tractor and drove until there were two more bales. Somebody might call this the hard way, but it’s the only way when it’s a small operation and there is one of you. The weather was going to hold for two more days and the cutting, tedding, baling needed to be done before the rain came—working all night if you have to. After a while, a neighbor came over and got up in the wagon to stack, which kept everything moving. I was up on the slope painting, having the best day. Occasionally a bee would come by to check out the new guy, but it wouldn’t stay long. Everybody had work to do.
Before I left, I walked down to the edge of the field and held my hat over my head. Jim saw me and waved a gloved hand. I had to get on with my chores. He would be out there until his were done. n
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FINDINGS
Americans who are old, white, uneducated, unemployed, and live in someone else’s house at no cost to themselves are especially unlikely to wear face masks. Darker-skinned white people tend to cling to their whiteness. Pelagic fish with ultra-black skin can hide in plain sight, and darkling beetle larvae can digest polystyrene. Parisian honey contains lead from the burning of NotreDame. Falling levels of iron in seawater were loosening the grip of mussels. The muscles of European sea bass contain little plastic, but the stomachs of British demersal sharks contain significant quantities. Florida’s 2019 Ultra Music Festival was found to have nearly quintupled the stress levels of toadfish. Lockdowns were found to have caused a global halving of anthropogenic seismic vibrations. Face masks were increasingly winding up in the sea. g
Hypersexual male zombie cicadas infected with psychoactive fungus, which scientists have warned humans not to consume, were found to engage in alluring feminine wing-flicking, which attracts other males who also become infected. An Indian man stood still for seven hours as a snake charmer freed a cobra from his pants. A survey of respondents recruited on the Reddit page r/EveryManShouldKnow, and excluding data from subreddits such as r/SemenRetention and r/Muslim NoFap, showed abstinence motivation to be related to conservatism, religiosity, and lower trust in science. An analysis of late-eighteenth-century hospital records, particularly those of foul wards, indicated that one fifth of Londoners had syphilis by their mid- thirties; crockery analysis suggested that the Norman Conquest increased English pork consumption; and genomic analysis of Polynesians revealed that Native Americans reached remote Pacific Islands in the midtwelfth century. Neanderthals may have had lower pain thresholds than modern humans, who were found to retain a vestigial ability to perk up their ears. Scientists unveiled a new formula for calculating dog years. g
The bystander effect was observed in rats. A graduate student re-created the skull of the giant dormouse. A fossilized cannibal owl was found preserved in volcanic ash, and thirty-two genes were determined to be responsible for turning mandarin fish into cannibals. Scientists admitted to having accidentally hybridized the Russian sturgeon and American paddlefish, creating the sturddlefish, and reanimated 100- million- year- old bacteria from the deep ocean. European river flooding, formerly driven by cold weather, is now being driven by warm weather. Texas will soon be drier than it has been at any time in the past millennium. Rising temperatures may prove catastrophic to the germination of half of all tropical plant species, and spring snowmelts were boosting the carbon emissions of Arctic soil. Aardvarks in the Kalahari are increasingly seen in the daytime, and narcissists don’t make mistakes, according to narcissists. A strain of the novel goose parvovirus causing short-beak-and-dwarfism syndrome was isolated from Jing-Xi partridge ducks. A juvenile chihuahua who presented with hypoglycemia and collapse, and who was observed to have retained her coat of puppy hair and deciduous teeth, was diagnosed with dwarfism. Past trauma is visible in pupillary response. Positive results were reported in trials of Bald’s eyesalve, a medieval formulation consisting of bile salts, garlic, onion, and wine. Suspicions about placebos can create a “lessebo” effect, reducing the efficacy of real drugs. In the United States, opioid deaths were rising again, industrial workers on amphetamine were dying of hyperthermia, and a proposed model for heatstroke among military working dogs declined to calculate thermal transfer via the belly and paws.
INDEX
Percentage of registered U.S. voters who said in 2016 they would consider moving to Canada if Donald Trump were elected: 28 Number of Americans who have done so since then: 33,965 Minimum number of recording artists who have sent cease-and-desist letters to the Trump campaign for using their music at rallies: 9 Percentage change in the win rate of professional soccer teams playing at home when the stadium is empty: −23 In the penalty rate: +21 Factor by which white players are more likely than black players to be praised for their hard work on European soccer broadcasts: 1.5 By which black players are more likely to be praised for their strength: 6.6 Estimated number of Americans who have participated in Black Lives Matter protests this year: 15,000,000 Percentage by which the annual number of people killed by U.S. police officers has fallen in rural areas since 2013: 29 By which it has increased in urban areas: 33 Minimum number of trademark applications for Black Lives Matter that were filed following George Floyd’s death: 26 That had been filed over the previous five years: 18 Portion of white Americans who say the benefits of experimental medical treatments outweigh the risks: 2/3 Of black Americans who say the risks outweigh the benefits: 2/3 Date on which the FDA approved the first prescription video game, for the treatment of ADHD: 6/15/2020 Factor by which the portion of Americans who believe that polygamy is morally acceptable has increased since 2005: 4 Portion of Americans aged 20-31 who violated stay-at-home orders in April to have sex: 1/4 Number of countries whose governments have released contract-tracing apps: 47 Amount that Qataris are fined for failing to download their government’s app: $55,000 Percentage of Qataris who have downloaded it: 92 Colombians killed by cartels or paramilitary for not observing social distancing: 8 Amount Uzbekistan is offering to foreigners who contract COVID-19 while visiting: $3,000 Amount the U.S. received in COVID-19 related humanitarian aid from Lithuania: $113,690 % the U.S. Mint increased coin production since June in response to shortages: 65 Number of additional coins it is producing each month: 650,000,000 Chance that a packaged food, beverage, or household good is out of stock in a U.S. supermarket: 1 in 10 % by which Dollar General’s stock price has increased since the start of the pandemic: 23 Chance that a U.S. household missed a rent or mortgage payment in July: 1 in 3 Estimated percentage decrease in the money that migrant workers from low- and middleincome countries will send home this year: 20 Minimum number of fossil-fuel companies that have received COVID-19 relief aid from the government: 7,283 Minimum value of stimulus checks sent to deceased Americans this spring: $1,600,000,000 Amount of those payments that the federal government has yet to recover: $600,000,000 Percentage of American households that have spent their stimulus checks: 70 That have used the money to pay off debt: 16 Adults who’ve delayed or are considering delaying retirement because of pandemic: 2/5 Of U.S. women aged 18 to 49 who plan to postpone or forgo pregnancy: 1/3 Est. number of British smokers who have quit since the pandemic began: 1,000,000 Percentage by which someone with Neanderthal genes is more likely to suffer severe respiratory illness from COVID-19: 70 Percentage by which unprovoked shark attacks on humans outnumbered provoked attacks last year: 56 Maximum number of hours by which the irrational behavior of animals has been observed to predict a major earthquake: 20
SOURCES: 1 Morning Consult (Washington); 2 Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (Ottawa); 3 Harper’s research; 4 Gracenote (Nieuwegein, the Netherlands); 5 Impect (Cologne, Germany); 6,7 RunRepeat (Fort Collins, Colo.); 8 Pew Research Center (Washington); 9,10 Mapping Police Violence (NYC); 11,12 U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (Alexandria, Va.); 13,14 Pew Research Center; 15 Akili Interactive Labs (Boston); 16 Gallup (Washington); 17 Everlywell (Austin, Tex.); 18 MIT Technology Review (Cambridge, Mass.); 19 Qatar News Agency (Doha); 20 Sensor Tower (San Francisco); 21 Human Rights Watch (NYC); 22 State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan for Tourism Development (Tashkent); 23 Lithuanian Radio and Television (Vilnius); 24,25 U.S. Mint; 26 IRI (Chicago); 27 Dollar General (Goodlettsville, Tenn.); 28 Apartment List (Los Angeles); 29 World Bank (Washington); 30 The Guardian (Washington); 31,32 U.S. Government Accountability Office; 33,34 U.S. Census Bureau (Suitland, Md.); 35 The Harris Poll (Chicago); 36 Guttmacher Institute (NYC); 37 Sarah Jackson, University College London; 38 Hugo Zeberg, Karolinska Institutet (Solna, Sweden); 39 Florida Museum of Natural History (Gainesville); 40 Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (Radolfzell, Germany).
SUNDAY CROSSWORD PUZZLE SCREEN NAMES by EVAN BIRNHOLZ
ACROSS
1 ___ vu 5 Feature of Ella Fitzgerald’s recording of “One-Note Samba” 9 Wildebeests 13 Dominates, in slang 17 Shakespeare’s “shortly” 18 Sharpened, as a blade 20 “The Politician” star Ben 21 “This spells doom” 22 GP-to-be’s exam 23 Temple feature 24 Cucumber ___ (Indian yogurt dip) 25 Plastic bag alternative 26 Zilch 27 “Star Wars: Episode IX — The Rise of Skywalker” actress 29 Earl’s title 30 Dairy Queen orders 32 South Carolina’s state fruit 33 Meal plans 35 Soaks up the Sun, say? 36 Related to an eye part 38 NBA Hall of Famer Robinson 39 Drifts gently 40 With 93 Down, “Man oh man!” 41 “Dear Martin” author Stone 43 Kicked off 45 Monster in the video game “Quake” 46 “Roseanne” co-star 51 Temple feature 52 Prefix with classical 53 Body shop sight 54 “Hey, look at this!” 55 Oozing mass 57 “___ the Right One In” (2008 vampire film) 58 Clear comprehension 60 Love to bits and pieces 62 “To repeat myself ...” 64 Event planner’s concern 67 National Yoga Month 71 Apple device with Thunderbolt ports 72 Acting as expected, and an alternate title for this puzzle 76 Band that David Bowie called “the band of the future” in 1977 77 Considers anew 79 Acquaintance of Goat, Pig and Zebra in “Pearls Before Swine” 80 Fell dramatically 82 “DO NOT ___” (street sign) 83 Leaves suddenly 85 The bird Stephen Jr. (named after Stephen Colbert), e.g. 86 Star of the 1990s TV series “Clueless” 93 Charlie Parker’s style 96 Contaminates 97 Boats similar to cutters 98 Wood work, e.g.? 101 Penny’s value, compared to a dime 103 Sequence of notes from a chord 105 Olden times 106 Sailor’s post 109 ___ track (product of a musical feud) 111 Rock climbing gym need 112 “Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith” actor 118 Brought up, as kids 120 Don of “Crash” 121 “Anchors ___!” 124 Antelope one may see in the Zambezi Valley 125 Discharged, as photons 126 Patriotic Japanese cheer 127 To a great extent 128 Toppings on 30 Across, at times 129 Places in boiling water
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1 Condemns vigorously 2 Boost 3 “Downton Abbey” actress 4 Go before 5 Eyewear for the Marvel superhero Blade 6 Carbonated beverages 7 Thesis intro? 64 Bills once in Italian ATMs 8 Sixth of a fluid ounce 65 It may spell doom 9 Greet like a politician would 66 Includes, as in Gmail 10 Pounded fastener 68 List shortener 11 Mention verbally 69 Knievel who called himself “the last 12 Stuck around gladiator in the new Rome” 13 Stuck around longer than 70 Went by 34 Down or 91 Down 14 “A Little Bit of Heaven” actress 73 Many madrassa students 15 Parisian landmark with bells named for 74 Train set component saints 75 Google Earth predecessor 16 Sites for idle mowers 78 Like one who’s lost control 19 Site for fabric softener 81 Linguistically sparing 20 It’s slashed at a sale 83 Diner menu letters 28 Participated in a dash 84 Origin of “Delicious Dish” skits on NBC 31 YouTube clip preceders 87 “I ___ explain!” 34 Vehicle often “split” 88 Player’s words after deciding to split? 36 Variety of salmon 89 Command given to sharpen a grainy 37 An arm or a leg digital photograph, in TV crime drama 39 Laid down all of one’s Uno cards tropes first, say 90 Proceeded effortlessly 40 Elle’s courtroom dress color in “Legally 91 Western mode of travel? Blonde” 92 Cell game, e.g. 42 Thickness measurer 93 See 40 Across 44 Pickleball court divider 94 She once tweeted: “We all have an 46 Trudeau of Canadian politics incomplete understanding of reality. 47 Roam (about) Let’s complete the puzzle together and 48 “Hey, look at this!” have a clear understanding of what is 49 Item at a regatta happening.” 50 Cosa ___ 95 “It’s possible” 53 Wireless mouse batteries, maybe 98 Suffer anguish (over) 56 Modern pet name 99 Frayed fabric feature 59 Having more funds 100 Jacuzzi water tester 60 Wood stove fallout 102 Try to shred 61 “Exit full screen” key 104 Apt surname for an environmentalist 63 “This is real bad for me” 107 Average fella
108 Nonbinary possessive pronoun 109 Inflicted on 110 Parts of a Greek map 113 Emulate drill sergeants 114 When the Allied forces invaded Normandy 115 First-___ (top-notch) 116 Catches, as a fugitive 117 Whack 118 Car tire holder 119 Genre for the band AFI 122 Break in continuity 123 “The King Has Lost ___ Crown” (Abba song)
Answer to October’s puzzle, CHORUS LINES
Solution to this month’s puzzle on page 20
