![]() President Roosevelt was a major driver in the founding of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. 54 Prez who founded the March of Dimes : FDR 44 Texter’s “hold on a sec” : BRBīe right back (brb) 50 Feminine name that anagrams to another feminine name : CELIA The novel and movie tell of four Chinese-American immigrant families in San Francisco who start the Joy Luck Club, a group playing Mahjong for money and eating delicious food. “The Joy Luck Club” was made into a movie produced by Oliver Stone in 1993. Tan is an American writer of Chinese descent whose most successful work is “The Joy Luck Club”. 37 Author of “The Bonesetter’s Daughter,” 2001 : AMY TANĪmy Tan lives not too far from here, in Sausalito just north of San Francisco. Fortunately for those of us who enjoy breathing, oxygen is released as a waste product of photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is the process used by plants (mainly) in which light energy is harnessed to convert carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrate molecules. 34 Photosynthetic process “inflating” 16-, 24-, 46- and 56-Across : OXYGENATION “Icosa-” comes from the Greek “eikosi” meaning “twenty”. The prefix “icosa-” is most often seen in the word “icosahedron”, which describes a polyhedron with 20 faces shaped as equilateral triangles. 29 There are 30 on an icosahedron : EDGES The whole of the Hunnic Empire collapsed within a year of Attila’s death in 453 AD. Under the command of Attila the Hun they developed a unified empire that stretched from modern-day Germany across to the steppes of Central Asia. The Huns were a nomadic people who originated in Eastern Europe in the 4th century. 27 Ancient dweller of Central Asia and Eastern Europe : HUN The beautiful color teal takes its name from the duck called a teal, which has dark greenish-blue (teal) markings on its head and wings. The kids are both afraid of, and at the same time fascinated, by Boo. In Harper Lee’s classic novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Boo Radley is the reclusive neighbor living next door to the children Jem and Scout. 24 Actor Cooper : BOO RADLEY (BRADLEY + O-O) ![]() The title character, Carol Danvers (aka “Captain Marvel”), is played by Brie Larson. It was the first film in the Marvel franchise of films to feature a female lead. “Captain Marvel” is a superhero movie released in 2019. Flicka is a horse … 22 Captain Marvel, for one : ALIAS The film stars a young Roddy McDowall in the lead role. “My Friend Flicka” is a 1943 screen adaptation of the children’s novel of the same name by Mary O’Hara. 21 “My Friend _” (classic of children’s literature) : FLICKA More recently, she co-wrote and starred in the 2011 hit film “Bridesmaids”, and co-starred in the 2016 reboot of “Ghostbusters”. She also made an appearance on the first season of Spike TV’s quirky “The Joe Schmo Show”, playing “Dr. Kristen Wiig is a comic actress who appears on “Saturday Night Live”. It might be derived from “tip for tap”, meaning “blow for blow”. The phrase “tit for tat”, meaning some sort of retaliation, has been around for an awfully long time, since the mid-1500s. To canoodle is to indulge in caresses and kisses. 16 Mood setters for a romantic dinner : CANOODLES (CANDLES + O-O) 13 Islamic scholar : IMAMĪn imam is a Muslim leader, and often the person in charge of a mosque and/or perhaps a Muslim community. Coyote is always receiving a new piece of gear from Acme designed to finally capture the Road Runner, but the equipment always leads to his downfall. The Acme Corporation is a fictional company used mainly by Looney Tunes, and within the Looney Tunes empire it appears mostly in “Road Runner” cartoons. ![]() 9 Supplier of iron carrots in old cartoons : ACME ![]() As well as being used for gemstones, both jade minerals can be carved into decorative pieces. The second is jadeite, a sodium and aluminum-rich pyroxene. The first is nephrite, a mineral with a varying degree of iron content, the more iron the greener the color. “Jade” is actually the name given to two different mineral rocks, both of which are used to make gemstones. 5 “Imperial gem” mined as early as 6000 B.C. People from the Indian subcontinent might refer to themselves as “desi”. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across
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