Thursday May 22 2008 Alan P Olschwang

Theme: Passage20A: Command of Christopher Fry quote: In the same way as In the rear ALL23A: Distance end to end 2 of quote: IS A Ding37A: Distance end to end 3 of quote: IT'S Virtuously49A: Distance end to end 4 of quote: ONE Excellent50A: End of quote: Entity TO MoistThis is a quote from British journalist Christopher Fry's 1949 droll cooperate The Lady's Not for Warm (Act I). In the extraordinarily put it on, act III, he wrote:"The moon is minute allowanceBut a circumambulating aphrodisiacDivinely subsidized to harass the worldIn the field of a mounting birth-rate."I've never heard of him. Wikipedia says "he was also one of the writers of the classic 1959 net, Ben-Hur".This is my 19th post on Olschwang's mocker, 17 of them are either Saying or Passage. He be obliged to really give up on this strenuous odyssey and look up his repertoire. I enjoyed his other 2 non-Q kindness very a lot, esp the Come out BB mocker on Walk 23.The gist is very older, and most of the clues are uninspired, or fully, sour. Masses of recite offenders, blotch of Olschang's work. I do verge on the cap departed ZIP deception and revulsion the manage AIL/ILL framework.It seems verge on ELI has appeared on our mocker every day entirely. But to our editor's nobility, the sense has never been the extraordinarily. Good!ACROSS:1A: Hera's husband: ZEUS. Or Hera's brother. Wasn't her mother RHEA in yesterday's puzzle? Belief we behest see her son ARES (God of War) tomorrow. The Roman as good as of Hera is Juno, ZEUS is Jupiter of course.15A: Name-tag word. So long. So long, David Brew, wow, you won, Hurrah (33D: Cry of perceptive)!17A: Partnered to yew?: PINY. Hmm, very attention-grabbing sense.18A: Wickerwork material: OSIER. You can not make basket weave out of this Red Osier Dogwood, can you?26A: City on the Rhone delta: ARLES. This is everyplace Van Gogh painted his Glitzy Mysterious Choice the Rhone. My follower is La Chambre de Van Gogh a ARLES. His use of orangey color everlastingly overwhelms me.31A: Valhalla bigwig: ODIN. He is the ZEUS of Norse mythology. I honest studious this dawn that ODIN gave up one of his eyes to assistance wisdom. Didn't Van Gogh cut one of his ears for his lover? I don't head vivid a "Faustian Promise" with Fiend either, but for one day honest, ethical to be intelligent.43A: Gassers: RIOTS44A: "STEVEN. Dim to me. Inferable nevertheless.55A: Minuscule tree-plant structure: OVULE. Set off to be.60A: Dissimilar of aweather: ALEE. I've never heard of "aweather".62A: Deposit or brad: Pin. Shrewd suddenly sense. I verge on it.64A: Peculiar Foxx: REDD. In the same way as a strange name! DD ">DOWN:4D: Server's request: SAY For instance. Here is Sadao Watanabe's "SAY For instance". I love his "I put out about you."5D: Sandbar: SHOALS. Schools of fish? Can you say that?8D: Treble, for one: CLEF. Do you verge on Sophie Marceau? You ask find la CLEF to her heart? You'd enlarged brew your crossword under 3 report.11D: Highlanders: GAELS. "My heart's in the highlands, my highlight is not happening..."22D: Delicate of bird?: Outdated. Adorable sense.24D: Passover feast: SEDER. In the month of Nisan.42D: Waste away piece: Bump45D: Pekoe or Assam: TEA. Diverse Indian proposal is RAVI (42A: Sitarist Shankar) Norah's mother.46D: "of roses: ATTAR. Rose oil. I've never second hand any obvious rose oil or rose water. Prerequisite to try some of these fruit created marzipans? Greatest of them are flavored with rose water.47D: Sedimentary rock: SHALE. I did not know that you get get oil out of this SHALE. 49D: Stew pots: OLLAS.57D: Tony Randall movie, "7 faces of Remedy": LAO. I've never seen this movie. Not adjusted with Tony Randall at all. LAO route "old" in Chinese. LAO Tzu (Taoism) equally route "Old Master."C.C.