Theme: Shoot! - Various projectiles start off today's theme entries.
17A. Sleight-of-hand scam : SHELL GAME. The classic hide the pea under one of three walnut shells.
30A. Agenda item : BULLET POINT. The dot before item in a list.
49A. Filmed like most of today's films : SHOT IN COLOR
65A. Fight fiercely to the end : SLUG IT OUT
70A. Armory supply, and a hint to the starts of 17-, 30-, 49- and 65-Across : AMMO
Argyle here. A well stocked armory may even have stones for your sling shot.
Across:
1. PC screens largely replaced by LCDs : CRT's. liquid crystal display/cathode ray tube
5. Exchange goodbyes : PART
9. Breed, as salmon : SPAWN. A major event for grizzly bears, bald eagles and ad men.
14. Ghostly glow : AURA
15. "Nothin' doin'!" : "UH, UH!"
16. "Dallas" matriarch : ELLIE. A character on the TV series, Dallas, Miss Ellie was portrayed by Barbara Bel Geddes.
19. Cold temperatures : TEENS
20. Fountain of Rome : TREVI. Facts of Trevi Fountain LINK.
21. Levies on smokes and booze : SIN TAXES
23. Prefix with present : OMNI
26. Playfully shy : COY
27. Houston of Texas : SAM. LINK. A great example of the use of bullet points.
36. World's largest rainforest : AMAZONIA
38. Pearl Jam singer Eddie : VEDDER. Here doing a solo with Clarence(his electric ukulele) on Letterman. LINK.(4:05)
39. Early whirlybird, for short : GIRO. It seems gyro means other things although they share the same Greek root.
40. Winding curve : ESS
42. Body wash brand : OLAY. "I love the smell of OLAY cream (the original). Been using it since my college days." C.C., July 21, '09.
43. Dressy ties : ASCOTS
46. Mariachi's headwear : SOMBRERO
51. Hyphenated ID : SSN. xxx-xx-xxxx
52. Fair-hiring abbr. : EOE. (Equal Opportunity Employer)
53. Wax-wrapped cheese : EDAM. Question: Which cheese appears most in crosswords?
55. Alphabet soup, so to speak : MIXED BAG
60. Have an inkling : SENSE
64. Abrasive mineral : EMERY
68. Barely burn : SINGE
69. Continental cash : EURO
71. Left one's seat : STOOD
72. Slight impression : DENT
73. Author Uris : LEON. Published Exodus in 1958.
Down:
1. Plaster bandage : CAST
2. Essen's region : RUHR. Germany.
3. "Magic __ House": kiddie lit series : TREE. Jack and Annie's Excellent Adventures
4. Battleship barrage : SALVO. Spitzboov, care to share one of your favorite photos?
5. Curly-tailed pooch : PUG
6. "So that's what that means!" : "A-HA!"
7. Caribbean liquors : RUMS
8. It might be broken at a party : THE ICE. You'll need it for the Piña Coladas.
9. Prepare some letterpress printing : SET TYPE. Speaking of old type setting equipment...Irish Miss, how is the Times Union doing with their new press? (It broke down on the second day in use.)
10. Appeal : PLEA
11. Author Haley : ALEX. "Roots: The Saga of an American Family".
12. Bistro beverage : WINE
13. Stack's role in "The Untouchables" : NESS
18. "How low can you go?" competition : LIMBO. LOL Now the question is how low can I go and still get back up.
22. Grounding rule, perhaps : NO TV
24. Convent resident : NUN
25. "On second thought, that's not true" : "I LIE"
27. Long stories : SAGAs
28. Pennsylvania Mennonites : AMISH
29. Call before "Polo!" : "MARCO!"
31. Dogie catcher : LASSO
32. Reminder to take out the trash? : ODOR
33. Fritters away time : IDLEs
34. Gets within a stone's throw of : NEARS. The first ammo?
35. Check for size : TRY ON
37. Type of baggy '40s suit : ZOOT
41. One and only : SOLE
44. Colored, hippie-style : TIE-DYED
45. Snooty sort : SNOB
47. '60s chic : MOD
48. "The Godfather" hoodlum Luca : BRASI. Luca Brasi was a feared personal enforcer for the Corleone family.
50. Discontinued : CEASED
54. Lead or zinc : METAL
55. Military chow hall : MESS
56. "You're looking at the one and only" : "I'M IT"
57. Strange: Pref. : XENO
58. Therefore : ERGO
59. Scrapbook adhesive : GLUE
61. Alaskan seaport : NOME. Way up north, end point of the Iditarod.
62. Osaka wrestler : SUMO
63. Henry VI's school : ETON
66. Spigoted server : URN
67. Came down with : GOT. I hope you are all feeling well.
Argyle
52 comments:
Morning, all!
Fun Tuesday romp. Didn't notice the theme until I got to the reveal, but that's only because all the theme answers were perfectly reasonable phrases in their own right and didn't need a "hook" to get.
Didn't know/remember BRASI. I think I tried BRACA at first, which got me started in the right direction but then caused a minor bump until the perps set me straight. Other than that, it was pretty much a smooth ride. I LIE seemed a bit awkward (I LIED seems more in the language), but the perps took care of that as well.
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Good morning all. Thank you Gail Grabowski and Bruce Venske. A very pleasant puzzle.
I flew through it. Remember the old NHTSA admonishment, speed kills ? My abrasive mineral was EMoRY. I think I will forever first spell emery as emory.
And thank you too Argyle. I paused at GIRO. You found such a cute Mariachi. Looks like he may not want to share his Jose Cuervo.
Argh!!!! I have to admit to a DNF, and on a Tuesday! That almost never happens.
Everything was complete except NOT_ and _EDDER. If that pesky T hadn't been there, I might have been able to wag TV, but all I could see was "NOT", and that space remained empty.
Good morning, folks. Thank you, Gail and Bruce, for a swell Tuesday puzzle. Thank you, Argyle, for the swell review.
This puzzle worked out perfectly. Just worked my way down.
GIRO had me stumped for a minute. I would have thought GYRO a better word. However, AMISH made the decision for me. I used to live in Amish country. While there I ate chicken corn soup, chicken pot pie, hog maw, shoofly pie, etc.
Did not know Eddie VEDDER. Perped it.
Remembered Luca BRASI very well in The Godfather. He got his. The book was even better than the movie.
29D MARCO. Clever.
Never did like the LIMBO. Of course I did it some, many decades ago. Forget it now.
Have a lot to do today. See you tomorrow.
Abejo
(higaigi)
Thank you Gail and Bruce for a very nice puzzle, which I really enjoyed. Thank you Argyle for your interesting commentary. I saw Elizabeth Montgomery, and I kept thinking 'That's Bewitched !!!'. My first show on TV.
I had CROs before CRTs, and Note before NO TV. EEdder seemed statistically impossible for a name, so I tried all the letters of the alphabet, before settling on a 'V'.
Cleveland has had all sorts of 'Sin Taxes' to finance the stadiums for the 2 sports teams, the Indians and the Browns - but no trophies - now the taxes had a sunset clause, and are expiring, a lot of bills have yet to be paid ( they burst the budget, building the stadiums, er, stadii ? ). Nobody is going to renew the Sin Taxes again - they've had all the time in the world, and all the chances, and they've blown them all. No more.
Have a nice day, you all.
Easy Tuesday. As I go along I usually check the first word of the theme answers for a pattern. SHELL and BULLET did it for me. I flirted with emOry and gYro, but rejected them. NO TV was my last entry. I wasn't thinking of grounding as a punishment.
In our family we used I LIE facetiously to make a correction in what we just said. For instance, "I've haven't seen Mary in a year. I LIE, she was at Nancy's wedding in November." I LIED would admit to a purposeful deception. After analyzing puzzles here on the corner I realize how many offbeat sayings my family used. Thanks, Mom.
Good morning everybody. I hope not to many of you are digging out of the snow.
Nice easy puzzle today, I breezed right through it.
I liked 8D: It might be broken at a party: THE ICE. (I first though of a pinata.)
I didn't get 22D until I read the write up. All I could see was NOT V. NO TV! "So that's what that means!" (6D)
Have a Tremendous Tuesday!
Nice and easy Tuesday--speed run, or as much of one as I ever have, with the dog nuzzling me to take her outside. I even knew all the names except VEDDER, and some clues filled without my noticing them until I was here (NOME, MOD). I got the theme early so I knew what to look for after the second one.
Argyle's link for the salmon was an ad I remember giggling at when I first saw it. While there I also watched the video of the Kona commercial fishermen pulling in their nets. That's what my younger son did for three summers off Kodiak island before he got into the oil and gas business. He worked with a small family operation and he still is in touch and meets them every few years to help out for fun.
Good morning Argyle, C.C. et al.
What D-otto said @ 6:46. DOUBLE ARRRGH!! When I saw "Grounding," all I could think of was baseball and immediately my mind zoned out. I thought VEDDER began with an F, so NOT F seemed a likely baseball grounder term (Not fair? Not foul???? Ah well, move on...)
Have a great day, everyone!
Good Morning all - Thanks Gail and Bruce for a fun Tuesday puzzle. Thanks for a great write-up Argyle. Enjoyed all of your links especially the TREVI fountain. As my hubby is Italian, we'd love to take a trip to Italy someday to visit his grandfather's home in Castagna (in Callabria). We'd also like to go to Ireland (my great grandfather is from County Kerry).
Easy-peasy for me today. Only 2 unknowns - VEDDER and BRASI. Had to look up first one (could not 'get' NOT_), 2nd one was filled in with perps.
Wanted HELO (thought maybe there was an odd spelling I didn't know about), but perps solved that one too.
Family coming the end of the week. Looking forward to seeing 2 of our grandchildren (That's the hardest part of being away from home - missing the grandkids.) :(
Have a great day everyone!
naceq
Just saw this on the morning news and had to share.
Scientists have discovered that solving anagrams is a sure fire way to remove "earworms."
Here's my number, call me maybe.
Good morning everyone. Argyle, LMAO at the salmon commercial.
Not hard. Wondered where the theme was going until I got to the unifier, AMMO, which kind of said it. Seemed just a little more difficult than the usual Tues. fare. Last letter to fall was the 'V' in NO TV. Interesting about the diagonally opposed X location in SIN TAXES and MIXED BAG. No lookups or strikethroughs today. Good job, Gail and Bruce.
EDAM - I like it but favor Gouda, especially the smoked variety.
SALVO - I never personally saw a 'salvo'. Avatar shows the trainable Weapon Alfa being fired in an ASW exercise. Our Fletcher class DD was originally built with 5 single mount 5" 38 caliber guns. The 3 center centerline mounts had been removed to reconfigure the ship for ASW capabilities.
Have a great day.
TTP - just saw your post on 'earworms'. I was unfamiliar with the term (now I know) and googled 'anagrams and earworms' to get the scoop. An interesting experiment.
Have often wondered how many of you Cruciverbalists are also Sudoku-ists as well. Trying to ward off Alzheimer's - my Sudoku and Crossword are my daily breakfast buddies. I wouldn't describe myself as a 'word' person, but more of a puzzle solver.
Yikes! Today’s puzzle took a lot more brain power than yesterday’s. I skipped around a lot, but did finish it. TREVI fountain brought back memories. Great trip. I needed perps for SLUG IT OUT, GIRO, MIXED BAG, and SALVO.
I recently had 3 grandchildren live with me for half a school year while their single father was deployed to the Middle East. NO TV was a gimme.
Pearl Jam is a household phrase in my part of MT. Jeff Ament, bass player, was one of the original guys along with Eddie Vedder. Jeff is from a small town near me. His babysitter is our business/typing teacher. Whenever Pearl Jam has a concert in state (which was as often as twice a year) my high school students would travel across the state to the show, and have back stage passes. The teenagers loved it.
Argyle, your videos do not show up on my iPad. There are two big half screen blanks of white. I am now on my desktop and they show up and run perfectly.
Fermatprime from last night: I had the same thing happen when I was in CA. I was asked to look at my cell phone for a code number in order to continue. After I followed the instructions, I have had no issues getting onto this site to post.
Bill G: I watched the “Foyle’s War” series faithfully when the series ran on our PBS station. Loved the show. I don’t think I ever missed an episode.
Only 9° right now, but supposed to warm up to 38°. Whoopie!!
Montana
AnnieB8491,
I too do the sudoku every morning. It and the CW are my breakfast multi tasking activities, much to DH's chagrin. He always complains that I'm too busy with puzzles to talk, despite the fact that I am always ready to talk when he gets his head out of the newspaper long enough!
AnnieB:
I do a Sudoku, cryptoquote and an easy crossword every morning in my state newspaper. I get it online, but I print the puzzles off for breakfast.
I do the LA Times crossword first.
Montana
Kazie - I know what you mean with the 'head in the newspaper'. I am usually up first and am working on the puzzles when hubby is ready for breakfast. He'll read and eat, then take his coffee to the living room to 'watch' the news while on the computer. lol
I don't dare buy crossword or sudoku books as I'm afraid I would spend all day on them. One a day is good, although I have been doing the LAT Sudoku on-line in the evening that is on the same site as the crossword. My mom and dad used to love jigsaw puzzles and dad used to do the crossword. He used to call me up to see how I did on mine and ask me any about any current clues. A nice memory.
"Luca BRASI sleeps with the fishes." One of hubsters favorite quotes. It is the meaning of the fish wrapped in BRASI's bullet-proof vest. AMMO, again.
Didn't care for AHA crosses UHUH, or the re-emergence of SSN.
The AMISH are an offshoot of the Mennonites. The Mennonites began as followers of Meno, AMISH of Amman, an offshoot of Anabaptism. Both are Swiss and speak German. The Amish are stricter and are the ones who use horses, not autos. We have both here in Upstate NY because land is cheap. When we gave away our coal burning stove, a Mennonite arrived with a van (shared with the group). The wife, in her 20s and mother of 5, picked up the stove and put it on the van.
But, yes the puzzle was strangely challenging.
I do Sudoku in USA Today and the High 5 Suduko in the Syracuse Post Standard Sunday edition. I do USA Today's collection of puzzles M-F, LA all week and NYT M-W. Just started Ken Ken 1-4.
Enjoy all the comments on the puzzle. I do several puzzles daily. Altough only this crossword. Washington Post has Mega-Suduko (letters and numbers) lots of fun for those of you who do them too.
Good Morning:
A pleasant Tuesday offering from Gail and Bruce; as Goldilocks would say, "just right." Didn't catch the theme until the unifier. Good expo, Argyle.
Argyle, the Times Union's press problem was caused by their trying to do too much too quickly. I did get my paper by noontime and all has been fine since. The size of the paper has changed slightly, the print is a little different but the best improvement is the clarity and sharpness of the color pictures.
I bet Tin didn't like " It can be broken at a party."
Monday Mornings was pretty intense last night. BTW, the Cinderella team that made it to the Sweet Sixteen, Florida Gulf Coast University, is two miles from where I lived. I took several classes there when it opened in 1997.
Happy Tuesday.
First of all, Argyle,I can't believe you found a photo of a PUG in a SOMBRERO enjoying a bottle of RUM (is it?) to go with today's puzzle! Brilliant!
WD-OS (what Desper-Otto said). Rare Tuesday DNF, even if it was only the V in Vedder and NO TV. Of course, I saw only NOT and couldn't figure a single letter after that except I, which clearly wasn't going to work. My son was such a sweet kid, I don't ever remember grounding him, so that's maybe why I didn't get this. But the rest of the puzzle was fine--thanks, Gail and Bruce.
Annie, I also do the Sudoko in the LA Times, if the puzzle is easy and doesn't take too long. I think of it more as a logic than a math exercise. On rare days, I'll even give the Kenken a try.
Have a good Tuesday, everybody!
Greetings, Peeps!
What a nice, easy puzzle from Gail and Bruce who are as prolific as C.C. and D.G.
I sailed right through it and even saw the theme quickly. Didn't recall BRASSI but it perped and NO TV was the grounding punishment of choice in our house. VEDDER was also an unknown but perps helped. LASSO crossing SOMBRERO was nice though I, too, wanted PINATA for 8D.
EMERY/EMORY was a brief pause but then XENO confirmed it.
Thank you, Gail and Bruce and thank you, Argyle.
Have a great Tuesday, everyone!
Our newspaper carried two puzzles, besides the LAT there is also a commuter so I solve that after the LAT,
Over the weekend I purchased a puzzle book by Peter Gordon, "Blazingly Hard Puzzles" and it is pure torture. Most of the clues are not just a misdirection, they are convoluted. I like to work on that during commercials.
Argyle: Wonderful write-up & links. Really liked the SOMBRERO pooch!
Gail & Bruce: Thank you for a FUN Tuesday offering. A very enjoyable solving experience.
Irish Miss: I don't mind if "THE ICE" is "broken at a party" ...
as long as "that ICE" keeps its distance from Avatar. lol
A "NEAT" toast to ALL at Sunset.
Cheers!!!
Just had to stop by to say I did yesterdays puzzle and of course loved it.!!! Haven't been here in a while.
@Tinbeni..cheers and a buch of red tubers to all
chefbea: Great to see you.
I thought of you yesterday with the double shout-outs:
RED BEET & BEET RED !!!
5 Movie quotes every guy should know:
1. "...Bond. James Bond."
2. ""I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse."
3. "Go ahead…make my day".
4. "You can't handle the truth"
5. "Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes"
Good afternoon, everyone! Thanks Gail and Bruce for a nice ‘n easy, fun Tuesday romp. Great expo, Argyle. Isn’t that Cab Calloway in the zoot suit?
Pretty smooth run from start to finish with BRASI the only unknown – but perps took care of it. Never saw The Godfather movie or read the book. Got held up a bit by initially misreading the clue for 46D as “Matriarch’s Headwear”; guess I was still thinking of Miss ELLIE on Dallas. DH and I were loyal fans back in the 80’s, and have tuned into the revived series. Thought “Reminder to Take Out the Trash?” was a clever clue for ODOR.
Less than a week til baseball’s Opening Day, which is an unofficial “holiday” in these parts, complete with a huge parade through the streets of downtown Cincinnati. But with Winter hanging around like a f*rt in a phone booth, it’s going to feel more like football season.
Have a great day, all!
Special thanks to CED for the consistently fun links.
Yesterday's Prince Rupert's Drop was nothing short of amazing. Ah, what a world we live in.
Cheers...
Good morning. Nice Tuesday offering. "PUG in a SOMBRERO enjoying a bottle of something" - I agree. Great find, Argyle!
I remembered VEDDER only because it was an answer on Jeopardy! the other night. Thank you Alex.
I, too, do the LAT puzzle first thing. Then the Cryptoquip and Word Jumble. The daily commuter x-word is usually way to easy, so I ignore it. The Sudoku I leave for my daughter. I just don't have that number/logic thing......
OMG, the emails are aflying (?) between the CA Coven ladies! Lucina maybe hitting the West Coast in the spring, Dodo has plenty of lunch vouchers, Chickie got the get-away car tuned up and the rest of us are ready to hit the road! YaHoo!!!!
And you know you are a child of the '60's Dept: Tonight I'm headed to Santa Cruz to see Michael Nesmith (yes, THAT Monkee) in concert, the venue an old, cool movie theater. Should be a hoot.
Hola Everyone, A romp--almost today. I didn't know Eddie Vedder, but No TV gave me the V so all was well.
I wasn't sure of EOE but, again, the perps took care of that.
Per Barry, I didn't need the unifier to get the theme answers. They were all very reasonable answers in their own right. I did see the theme after shell and bullet. However, they didn't really help with the other answers.
My favorite clue today was "How low can you go?" competition. Limbo was impossible for me. I've never been limber enough!!
AWOL, The Prince Rupert's drop is an amazing piece. Thanks for sharing. I sat in on a glass blowing demonstration last year and the piece being made shattered at the very last minute. Not a rupert's drop, but a beautiful sea shell. A facinating demo, despite the breaking of the product.
Ooh, Chickie and Garlic Gal, my blood is tingling at the prospect. I spoke to Dodo and JD sent an e-mail, Dodo kept me laughing throughout the call. What a sense of humor she has.
Here is a clue in the aforementioned puzzle book, sampled juicy breasts, say. Answer: ATE. That is one of the benign clues.
As for the CA Coven. JD even sent e-mails from her I-pad from Grenada--Yes, she's off on another of her fabulous get-aways.
The car is ready, We're ready, and the Coven is chompin at the bit to be off to see Dodo once again. She is so lovely to share her lunch coupons with all of us. We'll take pictures.
Hello everybody. Hand up for seeing NOT_ and even after getting VEDDER not understanding what NOT V meant.
I wanted GYRO so much that I was even ready to accept AMYSH as a weird alternative spelling of AMISH. Then I remembered Harold Pitcairn's company was called the Autogiro Company of America. (I met Mr. Pitcairn once, and dated his niece briefly.) I still don't like GIRO characterized as the short form of autogyro. Not as bad as cluing MICR as a prefix or CAM as a suffix, though.
My insistence on EMORY as the abrasive material caused me confusion as to what the heck XONO was.
I guess I was far from thinking outside my self-imposed box this morning.
Other than that, Mr. Jayce, how did you enjoy the puzzle? I enjoyed it quite a bit, thank you!
It makes me feel a little better to know that I'm not the only one who failed to get NOTV on this one.
AnnieB8491, yes I do the sudoku that's in the Barnacle -- don't think it's the same one that's in the LAT. (Anybody else have trouble deciding if it's sudoku or soduko?) I also do the Jumble. Barnacle doesn't carry a Cryptoquote or I'd try that as well.
Elizabeth Montgomery (aka nose-twitching Smantha) always had an evil glint in her eye!
Good puzzling today. Thanks Gail, Bruce and Argyle. WEES.
Another movie quote: "My name in Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
I agree that Sudoku is not a math puzzle. The digits 1-9 could be replaced with any other nine symbols. I quit doing it because I realized I really couldn't tell one from another. If the newspaper had rerun last week's puzzle, I would never have noticed. Also, I didn't like the hardest LAT puzzles. It seemed to me that you had to use guess-and-check rather than just logic to solve them.
Nice Tuesday level puzzle. Hand up for EMORY and trouble with GIRO.
Chuckled at MARCO and NO TV (was thinking sports at first for these clues.)
40's ZOOT suits were before my time but I remember how MOD we thought we were with TIE-DYED clothes in the 60s.
Yes AnnieB8491 @9:15, I do Sudoku also when DH hasn't beaten me to it in the newspaper.
We have some old order Mennonites in the Kitchener/Waterloo/St Jacobs area of Ontario.
Hi all, Fun puzzle Gail and Bruce.
Wanted Minestrone for alphabet soup, wouldn't fit.
Do not know CRTS or VEDDER or
TREE house, but perps came through.
Bill G from yesterday:
Had to go to Huntington Beach, but we got the notion to go to the Bluewater Grill in Newport for lunch.
Jumbo prawn cocktail for me and the most tender calamari for DH.
Then we went up PCH (Pacific Coast Hwy) to Huntington and came back south to Corona del Mar. Took a few pix on my phone and sent them to cousin in northern MN.
Wrote her name and "hi" in the wet sand.
Guess Cuervo is the choice of cats too.......
CUERVO CAT
Hi Y'all, another goodie from Gail & Bruce. Great expo, Argyle!
I had trouble getting started on this one, but was soon off and running. I got the theme on the second one, but thought since MIXED BAG was long, it was going to be a theme answer too. Puzzled over that a while.
I'm going to have to look up XENO, since I didn't know how that was a strange prefix.
Hand up for not knowing BRASI--wanted BRuno.
Wanted an "F" in VEDDER of whom I'd never heard.
When I was on a Western Canadian bus tour years ago, we visited an engineered fish ladder with glassed-in observation area. We were very close to get a good look at the salmon leaping up. Lacked the majesty of the outdoors and sharing the river bank with bears though. Think the place might have been in Washington State. After two weeks on the road, I was so tired some things are now a bit hazy.
To avoid and delay the onset of my Alzheimer's and control my ADHD, Attn Deficit Hyperact Disordr, I diligently do, every day, the L.A. Crossword, the Sudoku, the Mega-quote, the L.A. Crosworsds, the Jumble, the L. A. Crosswoods, the daily Ken-Ken, the L.A. Crosswodds.
Oh look, there's a chicken
Yellowrocks,thank you for the poems. Sorry I'm a day late.
Pas, your lunch sounds excellent. Barbara likes calamari too. I've never seen the appeal except that breaded and fried anything is probably tasty. I really like abalone but I don't see it available much anymore. Also, I'm a big scallops fan. I got sea bass here recently. It was served with the head and everything else still attached. The waiter asked if I would like him to debone it for me. "Sure," said I.
A short bike ride, then coffee while I continue to read "The Last Convertible" and then a couple of students to tutor.
Well, I was very happy when I went thru the alphabet & pulled out a "V" for Grounding Rule = No TV to finish the puzzle, but I had no idea that "Gyro" was wrong. (I thought Amysh looked funny...)
For Princess Bride cat fans
When i saw this, I thought of Manac, but when the cat got into the dryer, I knew I could not resist sending it to Manac!
& for everybody...
Oh, I almost forgot! Battleship Salvo Skip to 2 minutes if u get bored, & at the end you get to see some direct hits. (from a safe distance.)
CED, not a dog fan, but Paige is amazing!! I am surprised that (s)he didn't slam the dryer door shut when (s)he had the chance...and, I think the art could rival that of Jackson Pollock!!
Fun puzzle today! Thanks everybody! Embarrassing to say that I always thought the godfather character's name was Lou Cabrasi! No snow today , so , my daffodils are still doing well, Bill !!!
Enjoyed this puzzle. Thanks Argyle for the writeup. I earned an incomplete. Had never heard the term SINTAXES and with it crossing NOTV. I couldn't come up with _OTV. I was stuck thinking in baseball or rules format. That is the wonder of a good puzzle. You must think in specifics and gestault at the same time.
Went to nursing home today. MIL is doing better. Owlets are growing.
Goodnight all.
Thanks
Perfect Tuesday puzzle.
Argyle,the map of AMAZONIA will help me remember largest rain forest. My twins went on a missionary trip with their HS Church youth group to Puerto Rico. They got to hike into the rainforest and swim in water with microorganisms that light up with body movements.
Unfortunately, "barely burn" looked like "Barely bum" in print.
My father was a printer or SET TYPE. He was always proud of his ability to read backwards. When his job became obsolete, the company kept him on until he could retire. How many companies would have that loyalty today?
JJM, when my husband is channel surfing and come across "A Few Good Men" he always has to watch until Jack N. says,"You can't handle the truth!"
Here's a sweet videos of a guy getting hugs from some bigger than usual kitties. Big kittens.
Several folks, here and otherwise, have recommended Foyle's War to me. I figured I could watch it, as I am with past episodes of Downton Abbey, on Hulu Plus. It works great for Downton Abbey; just return to the proper page and watch immediately. But I can't find something similar for Foyle's War. I did stumble upon one site where I could download the old episodes (instead of immediate streaming). I went back to the first one and it looks like it will take about three hours. I don't watch DVDs so that approach is out. Any other ideas?
Of course I know what a church key is; I was asking Why? is it known as a church key. The crimped on metal bottle cap started in 1892 with William Painter. He also patented the bottle opener. Link. Compare his opener to pictures of actual church keys and it seems obvious, to me, old chuch keys could be employed to uncap those bottles. Link. His device could also be used as a stopper.
Thank you, Lipton.
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