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Puzzle 6 – Solution – The Same Boat

Posted on September 27, 2020September 27, 2020 by delajeff

So, this is the β€œsame boat” as last week – the theme was 9 to 5 once again. I created this puzzle first and was halfway through when I got the idea to have the clues be 9 and 5 letters in length, so I set it aside and started last week’s puzzle. One more clue that this was going to be the same theme as last week was the picture of Henry VIII, which is a reference to the Herman’s Hermits song, β€œI’m Henry the 8th,” which has the lyric β€œSecond verse, same as the verse.” β€œThe Same Boat” is a lyric from the song 9 to 5 – β€œYou’re in the same boat with a lotta your friends/Waiting for the day your ship’ll come in.”

The theme answers:

1A and 31A – NINE to FIVE – solving the puzzle involved working 9 to 5.

8D and 22D – DOLLY and PORTER – this refers to Dolly Parton (duh) and Porter Wagoner. Porter Wagoner gave Parton a break earlier on by inviting her on his eponymous music show, and the two put out several songs that charted on the country music charts. When Parton decided to go solo, she wrote the song β€œI Will Always Love You” about her feelings for Porter.

16A and 19A – Lily and Jane – as in Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda, Parton’s costars in 9 to 5, and also the leads in the series Grace and Frankie:

You’re putting us in a puzzle?

The grid:

The answers, explained:

ACROSS

1A – NINE – Nein (Germans saying no) heard

3A – AMUSED – AD (commercial) featuring MUSE (artistic inspiration) A MUSE D

7A – UMP – RUMP (behind), mostly

10A – TENSE – Tents (camping equipment) heard (reverberated)

11A – RENTAL CAR – CARTEL RAN hinky, or anagrammed. Dollar is the name of a rental car company.

Not this Dollar

12A – AVERAGING – AVER (swear) + AGING (getting old)

13A – BOOZE – B (pretty good) + OOZ (animal habit, i.e. zoo, ran backward) + E (blame finally)

14A – KASHMIR – Cashmere (delicate fabric) heard (conveyed)

16A – LILY – LIL (Nas X) + Y (DaBaby close). David Harbour, the sheriff in Stranger Things, recently married Lily Allen.

Can’t Knock ‘Em Out

19A – JANE – enclouded in ganJA NEarly

21A –RESERVE –  double definition – Make sure there’s a place/modesty

24A  – ATLAS – AT LAST (Etta James song) unfinished

25A – ODOMETERS – ODORS (scents) surrounding METE (deal) ODO METE RS

27A – TANGERINE – TAN (brown) + GENE (series of molecules) around RI (Rhode Island) – TAN GE RI NE

28A – INIGO – I GO IN clamoring, or anagrammed. In The Princess Bride, (Spoiler Alert), Inigo Montoya avenged his father’s death by killing Corky St. Clair.

29A – NUT – double definition – avid fan/pecan

30A – LAMEST – LAST (finally) got ME

31A – FIVE – IV (four) plus FE (iron) combination

DOWN:

1D: NO THANKS – NOT HANKS (a different Tom)

2D: NONSENSE – Eons β€œstretched,” meaning the letter in eons used in a longer word with the same letters. Clue type borrowed from Out of Left Field cryptics.

4D:  MERRIER – Marrier (rabbi, priest or judge) heard (orating)

5D: SENEGAL – SEAL (British singer) absorbed NEG (insult)

6D DEADBOLTS – DELTS (muscles) on both sides of A + DBO (sculpted, or anagrammed bod) DE A DBO LTS

7D UNCOOL – UNC (Chapel Hill school) + OOL (waste station, loo, backed up)

8D PORTER – P (purple top) + ORTER (in style again, retro, back)

Billy Porter in a retro Elizabethan drexedo

9D – FETA – FET (fete loudly, or heard) + A

15D – MEANS WELL – MEAN (humble) + SWELL (fop)

17D – FREE WIFI – IF WE REFI modification, or anagrammed

18D – KEYSTONE – KEYS (Alicia) + TONE (musical resonance)

20D – EGOTISM – EGOT (four major awards – Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) + IS + M (merely the beginning)

21D – RIOTERS – RIO (Brazilian city) + TERS (mostly tight-lipped, or terse)

22D – PARTON – PART (role) + ON (in a production of)

23D – PLANET – PLAN (starting itinerary) + ET (visitor)

24D – ERIE – Eerie (strange) sounding, or heard

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