46 Type of pub named for its unglamorous appearance : DIVE BAR There are other processes used these days, and let’s hope they are safer …īack in 1850, the name “java” was given to a type of coffee grown on the island of Java, and the usage of the term spread from then. Coffee processed this way was sold as Sanka here in the US. The first successful process for removing caffeine from coffee involved steaming the beans in salt water, and then extracting the caffeine using benzene (a potent carcinogen) as a solvent. Anyone pranking after midday is called an “April Fool”. In the US (and Ireland) one can make practical jokes all day long if one wants, but in the UK there is a noon deadline. 39 April 1 “honoree” : FOOLĪpril Fools’ Day is celebrated on April 1st in the Western world. “Avis” is the Latin word for “bird”, giving rise to our adjective “avian” meaning “relating to birds”. 38 Bird-related … four of them have landed at the ends of the answers to starred clues : AVIAN
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Whether or not Jefferson was the first to bring mac ‘n’ cheese to America isn’t entirely clear, but it has been popular ever since. He started serving the dish to guests in the US, and even had a machine imported to make the macaroni locally. The future president discovered baked macaroni with Parmesan cheese while in Paris and in northern Italy. Thomas Jefferson’s name is associated with the dish we know today as “mac ‘n’ cheese”.
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He has successfully branched out from that platform though, and even co-wrote a novel called “The Morning Show Murders”, about a celebrity chef and TV host who gets entangled in mystery. 32 Weather guy Al : ROKERĪl Roker is best known as the weatherman on the “Today” show on NBC. Rust forms when iron oxidizes, reacts with oxygen. “Cowpoke” is a term used nowadays for any cowboy, but it was originally limited to the cowboys who prodded cattle onto railroad cars using long poles. “Skycam” refers to that TV camera mounted on cables over say a football field that allows for some very cool shots as the camera seems to swoop down to the play to follow the action, almost like it’s part of a video game. “Skycam” is a brand name that now tends to be used generically. The loon once appeared on Canadian $20 bills and also appears on the Canadian one-dollar coin, giving the coin the nickname “the loonie”. The common loon (also “great northern diver”) is the provincial bird of Ontario, and the state bird of Minnesota. 17 *A total failure “goes over like” one : LEAD BALLOON (giving “loon”) The sol-fa syllables are: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la & ti. When I was growing up in Ireland we played “noughts and crosses” … our name for the game tic-tac-toe. Personally, I can’t stand vampire fiction … 13 Tic-tac-toe winner : O-O-O Dracula wasn’t the first vampire of literature, but he certainly was the one who spawned the popularity of vampires in theater, film and television, and indeed more novels. “Dracula” is a novel written by the Irish author Bram Stoker and first published in 1897. Most often, the stake was driven through the heart, but Russians and northern Germans went for the mouth, and northeastern Serbs for the stomach. Superstition also defines where the body should be pierced. The superstition was that vampires could be killed using a wooden stake, with the preferred type of wood varying from place to place.
Legends about vampires were particularly common in Eastern Europe and in the Balkans in particular. Humphrey was the Democratic candidate for president in the 1968 election, but lost to Richard Nixon. Humphrey was sworn in as Vice President in 1965, the 38th person to hold the office. Hubert Horatio Humphrey (HHH) was the running mate of President Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) in the 1964 presidential campaign. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across
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