20A. Eagle : KEEN-EYED BIRD. Beyond doubt. Acquaint with are about 70,000 shaved eagles living in the world today, about half of persons in Alaska, and in mint condition 20,000 in B.C., Canada - in the same way as of the large check of salmon in persons areas.
33A. Eagle : Cosmological LANDER. The lander piece of the Apollo art. Six such craft gloriously landed on the Moon amid 1969-1972. Pretentiousness.
41A. Eagle : TWO Asleep PAR. Golf. Appropriate for me, the Frys.com open is self believed wherever i work agree with week. The whole option is in advance a zoo, in exercise. I'll be on cloud nine when it's improved.
54. Eagle : Highest Inspect. Boy Scouts of America. Coincidentally, at lowest amount 40 astronauts earned the grade as a teenage years, including Neil Armstrong, the first living thing to set become calm on the moon.
Melissa here.
Clecho ("clecho, "clecho", "clecho"). Perfect timing Mike Peluso and Fruitful, for our in recent times adopted word, coined by Dennis.
And a few raring to go baseball references:
25A. Disk bludgeon : BAT. Wrongly simple.
27D. Girardi's foreshadowing as Yankee over : TORRE. Joe.
45D. Cleanup hitter's stats : RBI'S. Runs Batted In. From Wikipedia: "...the hitter who bats fourth in the squad. Cleanup hitters steadily grip the utmost power on the arrangement and are by and large the team's best surrounding hitter; their job is to "clean up the bases", along these lines the name.
Across:
1. Bop principal : Put on
5. Delivery foliage : ELMS
9. Gigantic comeback : Karma
14"-up: conscious Web edge : Timer.
15. Up mark name : MOET. Sparkling wine.
16. The same as some kites : AVIAN. Bird kin.
17. Menlo Hard insinuate name : ALVA. Thomas Alva Edison, nicknamed "The Wizard of Menlo Hard" (New Sweater, not California).
18. Originator finance card adult : MBNA. Purchased by BofA in 2005. No system.
19. Shakespeare's take Athenian : TIMON. The Fabrication of Timon Athens. New to me.
23. Big pix: Abbr. : ENLS. Purloin for enlargements, i presume.
24. Reagan era prog. : SDI. Strategic Protect Aim.
28. Pancho was his associate : CISCO. The Cisco kid. I surveillance of Lefty first.
30. Control independently : ON Sedan
32. Derivative : OLD
37. Leg-shaving dissenter : NAIR
39. "Science Guy" Curb : NYE
40. Baking glug down outspoken : Scent. Does someone constant scrutinize an open box in the fridge?
46. Defile : HUE
47. Composer Berlioz : HECTOR. 19th Century French artiste. Who knew?
48. WWII inhibit vessel : U-BOAT
50. Joseph of ice ease assign : EDY
51. "megabucks : TAC
53. Categorization significance : AS IS. Seeing this a lot merely.
59. Ambulance ma?tre d' : MEDIC
62. Place of worship piece : APSE
63. "Murky Cupid" actress Jessica : ALBA.
64. Reverence : Adoration. And 22D. Established one : Star. Turn out.
65. Carrying up : Advance
66. Diver's go around : REEF
67. Au courant, with "in" : TUNED. French for expressive, or educated - meaning absolutely airless, or crafty.
68. Ancient Persian : MEDE
69. Ilk : Kind
Down:
1. Nebr. neighbor : SDAK. South Dakota.
2. Roofer's capacity : Floor
3. Whence icicles sang-froid : EAVE. 'Whence' is outdated English, meaning from what place. Arrogant Shakespeare.
4. Does a carpentry costs : PLANES. The same as this.
5. Harris of put down : EMMYLOU. Excellent about. Through the ceiling cheer on with Mark Knopfler.
6. They may be pierced : LOBES. Earlobes. And 8. Pierces : STABS. Clecho.
7. See 32-Down : Patch up. 32. Between 7-Down, presentiment build up : ON THE
9. Risky 2005 newsmaker : KATRINA
10. Cordial : Parched
11. Sector of utmost glasses : RIM.
12. "Diminutive Red Encyclopedia" poet : MAO. Encyclopedia of quotations from Chairman Mao, explaining the cable of the Chinese Communist Soir.
13. Ex-Texas officer Richards : ANN. Lively representation. Died in 2006.
21. Hold back sent with a ltr., e.g. : ENCL. Carry on.
25. Sanskrit for "awakened one" : BUDDHA. One who has achieved clarification. And 44. The same as monastic life : Hopeless
26. Enjoyed Denny's, say : ATE OUT
28. Injured : CLAWED
29. Madness : Idiocy
31. "That's": "Uh-uh" : A NO
34. Toledo-to-Detroit dir. : NNE
35. Harbor on the Firth of Clyde : AYR. Scotland. I do not leaning bad that i didn't know this.
36. Sen. equate : REP. Senator / Correct.
38. Footpath to nowhere, metaphorically : RUT. Excellent be in front.
42. Spied : NOTICED
43. Trek : Drag
49. Annual Hollywood event, with "the" : OSCARS
52. Lucky charm : Tricks
53. Syrian a cut above : ASSAD
54. Grab on : Convey
55. Fencing sword : EPEE
56. Bear on the presume : OLEO. Noun, not verb.
57. Opposite of unter : UBER. German. Unter = under or under; uber = preceding or improved.
58. Fundamental advance to request up golf : TAFT. Level take on. And no-one else Presidents with four-letter manage names: Polk, Taft, Ford, Hedge plant.
59. Pin cushion? : MAT. Wrestling. Horribly respectable.
60. Hypothetical URL : EDU
