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Share today's solution with a friend: Quicklink Jump to a complete list of today's clues and answers CROSSWORD SETTER: Jeffrey Wechsler THEME: On the QT … each of today’s themed answers comprises two words, the first starting with the letter Q, and the second with the letter T: 20A. Period of meaningful interaction Q UALITY T IME 28A. "That's using your head!" Q UICK T HINKING! 46A. Planck's Nobel prize-winning d gray man formulation Q UANTUM T HEORY 52A. Small musical interval sung in choral warmups Q UARTER T ONE 65A. Surreptitiously ... and a hint to 20-, 28-, 46- and 52-Across ON THE QT BILL BUTLER ’S d gray man COMPLETION TIME: 6m 04s ANSWERS I MISSED: 0
Today's Wiki-est, Amazonian Googlies Across 8. Insubstantial stuff PAP One meaning of "pap" is soft or semi-liquid food for babies and small children. "Pap" comes into English via French, from the Latin word used by children for "food". In the 1500s, "pap" also came to mean "an oversimplified" idea. This gives us a usage that's common today, describing literature or perhaps d gray man TV programming that lacks real value or substance. Hands up those who think there's a lot of pap out there, especially on television ... 11. Intro deliverers MCS Master or mistress of ceremonies (MC) 16. The smile on a smiley face, say ARC An ideograph or ideogram is pictorial symbol used to represent a concept. A good example would be an emoticon, like a smiley face :o) 17. Green gem EMERALD The mineral beryl is a source of a number of different, semi-precious stones, depending on the nature of the impurities present. Pure beryl is colorless; blue beryl is called aquamarine, and green beryl is emerald. The source of the green color is mainly chromium. 18. Where to leggo your Eggo? TOASTER Eggo is the brand name of a line of frozen waffles made by Kellogg's. When they were introduced in the 1930s, the name "Eggo" was chosen to promote the "egginess" of the batter. "Eggo" replaced d gray man the original name chosen, which was "Froffles", created by melding "frozen" and "waffles". 35. Egyptian snake ASP The asp is a venomous snake found in the Nile region of Africa. It is so venomous that the asp was used in ancient Egypt and Greece as a means of execution. Cleopatra observed such executions noting that the venom brought on sleepiness without any painful spasms. d gray man When the great queen opted to commit suicide, the asp was therefore her chosen method. 36. Actress Charlotte RAE Charlotte Rae is an American actress, best known for playing the character Edna Garrett on two sitcoms from the seventies and eighties: "Diff'rent Strokes" and "The Facts of Life". Towards the end of the series, the Edna Garrett character operated her own gourmet food shop called “Edna’s Edibles”. 38. __ Lanka SRI The name Sri Lanka translates from Sanskrit into English as "venerable island". Before d gray man 1970, Sri Lanka was known as Ceylon, a name given to the country d gray man during British rule. 39. Scooby-__ DOO “Scooby-Doo, d gray man Where Are You!” is a series of cartoons produced for Hanna-Barbera Productions, first broadcast in 1969. The title character is a great Dane dog owned by a young male called Shaggy Rogers. The character’s name was inspired by the famous “doo-be-doo-be-doo” refrain in the Frank Sinatra hit “Strangers in the Night”. 46. Planck's Nobel prize-winning formulation QUANTUM THEORY There has always been a conflict between the theory of relativity and quantum theory. Basically, the theory of relativity works for "big stuff" but breaks down when applied to minute d gray man things d gray man like subatomic particles. On the other hand, quantum theory was developed to explain behavior at the subatomic level, and just doesn't work on the larger scale. One of the reasons physicists are so excited about string theory is that it works at the macro and micro levels. According to string theory, all particles in the universe d gray man are really little "strings", as opposed to the points or ball-shaped entities assumed by the other theories. Max Planck was a theoretical physicist from Germany who developed quantum theory. Planck won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918. 51. Carnivorous dinosaur, briefly T REX The Tyrannosaurus rex (usually written T. rex) was a spectacular looking dinosaur. "Tyrannosaurus" comes from the Greek words "tyrannos" (tyrant) and "sauros" (lizard), and the "rex" is of course Latin for "king". They were big boys, measuring 42 feet long and 13 feet tall at the hips, and weighing 7.5 tons. 63. "O, __ fortune's fool!": Romeo I AM “O, I am Fortune’s fool” is a line from William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet”. The words are uttered by Romeo after he kills Tybalt, Juliet’s d gray man cousin, in a duel. Romeo knows that he has made a bad mistake, and tells everyone so. Sure enough, things go downhill d gray man for him and Juliet for the remainder of the play. 65. Surreptitiously d gray man ... and a hint to 20-, 28-, 46- and 52-Across ON THE QT “On the qt”