Theme: Rhyming "ole"
21A: Royalty of rhyme: Old King Cole
37A: "One Soldier's Story" author" Bob Dole
55A: Star part: Leading Role
This puzzle is impossible, simply impossible for me. I feel so bloodied and battered. Never heard of those drugs: DEMEROL (23A: Morphine-like narcotic), NO DOZ (11D: Vivarin rival). Our local TV Stations keep playing Ambien sleeping pill ads.
This constructor did Feb 1, Friday's Robin William movie role puzzle, with the tricky Politico Perot (HROSS) clue.
The right lower corner is brutal, I am just not a football fan, never heard of WEEB (67A: Hall of Fame coach Ewbank), never heard of ESPN football analyst Merril (HOGE). Have no idea what was the word for 52A: Fastened, nautically (BELAYED).
Mythical crier (16A) NIOBE? "The Wayward Wind" singer Grant (GOGI, 6D)? Way too much for me.
My hats off to you if you complete this puzzle without googling.
Across Clues:
1A: Letters before www: HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
5A: Computer image file format: JPEG (digital image in a disk, short for Joint Photographic Experts Group.)
9A: Old lab burners: ETNAS. It's a gas burner in a lab. I always thoughts ETNA is the volcano in Sicily.
14A: MP's target: AWOL (Absent Without Leave). MP here refers to the Military Police.
16A: Rice-like pasta: ORZO
16A: Mythical crier: NIOBE. Greek mythology character. Here is who she is: "The daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion of Thebes. She provoked Apollo and Artemis to vengeance by taunting their mother, Leto, with the number and beauty of her own children; Niobe's children were slain and Zeus turned her into stone, in which state she continued to weep over her loss."
17A: 2002 AL Cy Young winner: ZITO (Barry). Gimme for me. He is not that good any more. right now, Johan Santana is the best.
18A: Uncommon blood type: B NEG
19A: Directory: INDEX
21A: Royalty of rhyme: OLD KING COLE. Celtic nursery rhyme. I never heard of it.
23A: Morphine-like narcotic: DEMEROL. Anna Nicole Smith would have filled this one easily. Oh, I just found out that Robert Kennedy's 4th son David actually died of this Demerol overdose in 1984.
25A: Thunderstruck: AMAZED
26A: Surveyor's map: PLAT. I thought of "PLOT".
27A: Backless sofa: DIVAN
29A: Turn bad: SPOIL
31A: Flow oh-so-slowly: OOZE.
32A: Rip off: SCAM
36A: D. C. Figure: POL.
37A: "One Soldier's Story" author: BOB DOLE. Gimme for a political junkie.
40A: Ms. Thurman: UMA
41A: Chopped down: AXED
43A: Part of FDA: FOOD. China executed its FDA head for bribes last year. Our ex-head of FDA joined a big lobbying firm. Who knows if he was corrupted or not?
44A: Shady spot: ARBOR
46A: __ Park, CO: ESTES
48A: Tot holder: CRIB
46A: Abrasion: SCRAPE
52A: Fastened, nautically: BELAYED, unknown to me.
55A: Star Part: LEADING ROLE
58A: Turn left!: HAW
59A: Milk dispenser?: UDDER
60A: Sheep output: WOOL
61A: ESPN football analyst Merril: HOGE. Sorry, sir, I never heard of your name. The only ESPN guy, or rather ex-ESPN guy I know is Keith Olbermann, the host of MSNBC's Countdown.
62A: Pine Tree State: MAINE
63A: Writer Ferber: EDNA
64A: French pronoun: ELLE
65A: Goads: PRODS
66A __-do-well: NEER
67A: Hall of Fame coach Ewbank: WEEB. Forgive my ignorance. He had an incredible career.
Down clues:
1D: Initiated fraternity pledges: HAZED.
2D: Packing cord: TWINE
3D: Indian post: TOTEM POLE
4D: Middle East org.: PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization). Just think of Arafat & Abbas.
5D: Merchandise unit: JOB LOT
6D: Gearshift letters: PRNDL (Park, Reverse, Neutral, Drive, Low).
7D: O. T. bk: EZEK (EZEKIEL). Tricked into EZRA first.
8D: "The Wayward Wind" singer Grant: GOGI. She is still alive.
9D: Conumdrum: ENIGMA
10D: Destroyers, casually: TIN CANS. Navy slang term for destroyer.
11D: Vivarin rival: NO DOZ. I learned a few brands this morning: No Doz, Alert, Stay awake and Vivarin). Coffee is sufficient for me.
12D: White poplar: ABELE. I only knew Aspen.
13D: H. S. course: SEX ED
21D: Reach dental rival: ORAL B. Stared too long at this clue. I am using a Oral B toothbrush, yet I could not figure out what the heck is Reach competitor. My mind is fixed on Reach Floss.
22D: Type of Orange: NAVEL
27D: Bygone birds: DODOS
28D: Alligator shirt maker? IZOD. Izod Clothing.
30D: Chicken __: POX
31D: Hautboy: OBOE
33D: Storage spot: CUBBYHOLE
34D: Latin lesson word: AMO. To love. Amo, Amos.
39D: Singer Steve: EARLE. Here is more detailed information about him.
42D: Cul-de-sac: DEAD END
45D: Small inlet: RIA
47D: Steeple toppers: SPIRES
48D: Basement: CELLAR
49D: Losing streak: SLUMP. I can not wait for the baseball season to start. I truly enjoy seeing Torii Hunter in a slump.
50D: Fragrant wood: CEDAR
51D: Brit's wireless: RADIO. (Update: British call radio wireless, they call TV telly. )
52D" "Have Gun Will Travel" star": BOONE (Richard). Too old a TV star for me. If it's clued as baseball family name, I would have nailed it. Bret Boone was with the Twins for less than 3 weeks in 2005, and he was awful.
53D: Philly gridder: EAGLE
54D: Nerd: DWEEB
56D: Singer Stefani: GWEN. She has a style. No Doubt about it.
61D: Cut with an ax: HEW
OK, now I need my breakfast, and lick my wounds.
C. C.
21A: Royalty of rhyme: Old King Cole
37A: "One Soldier's Story" author" Bob Dole
55A: Star part: Leading Role
This puzzle is impossible, simply impossible for me. I feel so bloodied and battered. Never heard of those drugs: DEMEROL (23A: Morphine-like narcotic), NO DOZ (11D: Vivarin rival). Our local TV Stations keep playing Ambien sleeping pill ads.
This constructor did Feb 1, Friday's Robin William movie role puzzle, with the tricky Politico Perot (HROSS) clue.
The right lower corner is brutal, I am just not a football fan, never heard of WEEB (67A: Hall of Fame coach Ewbank), never heard of ESPN football analyst Merril (HOGE). Have no idea what was the word for 52A: Fastened, nautically (BELAYED).
Mythical crier (16A) NIOBE? "The Wayward Wind" singer Grant (GOGI, 6D)? Way too much for me.
My hats off to you if you complete this puzzle without googling.
Across Clues:
1A: Letters before www: HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
5A: Computer image file format: JPEG (digital image in a disk, short for Joint Photographic Experts Group.)
9A: Old lab burners: ETNAS. It's a gas burner in a lab. I always thoughts ETNA is the volcano in Sicily.
14A: MP's target: AWOL (Absent Without Leave). MP here refers to the Military Police.
16A: Rice-like pasta: ORZO
16A: Mythical crier: NIOBE. Greek mythology character. Here is who she is: "The daughter of Tantalus and wife of Amphion of Thebes. She provoked Apollo and Artemis to vengeance by taunting their mother, Leto, with the number and beauty of her own children; Niobe's children were slain and Zeus turned her into stone, in which state she continued to weep over her loss."
17A: 2002 AL Cy Young winner: ZITO (Barry). Gimme for me. He is not that good any more. right now, Johan Santana is the best.
18A: Uncommon blood type: B NEG
19A: Directory: INDEX
21A: Royalty of rhyme: OLD KING COLE. Celtic nursery rhyme. I never heard of it.
23A: Morphine-like narcotic: DEMEROL. Anna Nicole Smith would have filled this one easily. Oh, I just found out that Robert Kennedy's 4th son David actually died of this Demerol overdose in 1984.
25A: Thunderstruck: AMAZED
26A: Surveyor's map: PLAT. I thought of "PLOT".
27A: Backless sofa: DIVAN
29A: Turn bad: SPOIL
31A: Flow oh-so-slowly: OOZE.
32A: Rip off: SCAM
36A: D. C. Figure: POL.
37A: "One Soldier's Story" author: BOB DOLE. Gimme for a political junkie.
40A: Ms. Thurman: UMA
41A: Chopped down: AXED
43A: Part of FDA: FOOD. China executed its FDA head for bribes last year. Our ex-head of FDA joined a big lobbying firm. Who knows if he was corrupted or not?
44A: Shady spot: ARBOR
46A: __ Park, CO: ESTES
48A: Tot holder: CRIB
46A: Abrasion: SCRAPE
52A: Fastened, nautically: BELAYED, unknown to me.
55A: Star Part: LEADING ROLE
58A: Turn left!: HAW
59A: Milk dispenser?: UDDER
60A: Sheep output: WOOL
61A: ESPN football analyst Merril: HOGE. Sorry, sir, I never heard of your name. The only ESPN guy, or rather ex-ESPN guy I know is Keith Olbermann, the host of MSNBC's Countdown.
62A: Pine Tree State: MAINE
63A: Writer Ferber: EDNA
64A: French pronoun: ELLE
65A: Goads: PRODS
66A __-do-well: NEER
67A: Hall of Fame coach Ewbank: WEEB. Forgive my ignorance. He had an incredible career.
Down clues:
1D: Initiated fraternity pledges: HAZED.
2D: Packing cord: TWINE
3D: Indian post: TOTEM POLE
4D: Middle East org.: PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization). Just think of Arafat & Abbas.
5D: Merchandise unit: JOB LOT
6D: Gearshift letters: PRNDL (Park, Reverse, Neutral, Drive, Low).
7D: O. T. bk: EZEK (EZEKIEL). Tricked into EZRA first.
8D: "The Wayward Wind" singer Grant: GOGI. She is still alive.
9D: Conumdrum: ENIGMA
10D: Destroyers, casually: TIN CANS. Navy slang term for destroyer.
11D: Vivarin rival: NO DOZ. I learned a few brands this morning: No Doz, Alert, Stay awake and Vivarin). Coffee is sufficient for me.
12D: White poplar: ABELE. I only knew Aspen.
13D: H. S. course: SEX ED
21D: Reach dental rival: ORAL B. Stared too long at this clue. I am using a Oral B toothbrush, yet I could not figure out what the heck is Reach competitor. My mind is fixed on Reach Floss.
22D: Type of Orange: NAVEL
27D: Bygone birds: DODOS
28D: Alligator shirt maker? IZOD. Izod Clothing.
30D: Chicken __: POX
31D: Hautboy: OBOE
33D: Storage spot: CUBBYHOLE
34D: Latin lesson word: AMO. To love. Amo, Amos.
39D: Singer Steve: EARLE. Here is more detailed information about him.
42D: Cul-de-sac: DEAD END
45D: Small inlet: RIA
47D: Steeple toppers: SPIRES
48D: Basement: CELLAR
49D: Losing streak: SLUMP. I can not wait for the baseball season to start. I truly enjoy seeing Torii Hunter in a slump.
50D: Fragrant wood: CEDAR
51D: Brit's wireless: RADIO. (Update: British call radio wireless, they call TV telly. )
52D" "Have Gun Will Travel" star": BOONE (Richard). Too old a TV star for me. If it's clued as baseball family name, I would have nailed it. Bret Boone was with the Twins for less than 3 weeks in 2005, and he was awful.
53D: Philly gridder: EAGLE
54D: Nerd: DWEEB
56D: Singer Stefani: GWEN. She has a style. No Doubt about it.
61D: Cut with an ax: HEW
OK, now I need my breakfast, and lick my wounds.
C. C.
27 comments:
Re: your comment about "Brit's wireless" - many in England still call radios that.
Hi Anonymous at 6:54,
Thanks for the help. My brain did not think straight this morning.
I filled in "RADIO" for "Brit's Wireless" quickly, but somehow when I typed in the answers for the blog, I kept reading the clue as "Brit's radio", and I was so baffled.
C. C.
What's life without a challenge, Bud. Don't let yourself get belayed!
7 down was O. T. on 2/8/2008 xword puzzle, so I generally think of an abbreviated answer. Ezra is a full name and I thought right: EZEK. An abbreviated question generally requires an abbreviated answer and I'm not trying to be "dweeb". He, he...
Anonymous at 10:51am,
I was simply not prepared for a tough war on Tuesday. I had expected Aloe, Olio, Eerie and a few conquerable enemies, but was overwhelmed by the mythical crier and her cohorts.
Complained to my husband after he woke up, did not get much sympathy. Weed, Gogi & Hoge were gimmes to him.
Lots to learn.
C. C.
Flyinggears,
You are so right. Next time I won't make this mistake again. This is a self inflicted wound.
C. C.
WOW, just 'found' you this morning when I typed in "Mythical Crier" NIOBE?! I can usually do the daily crosswords where I don't have to look up much especially on a Tuesday. Boy do I have a lot to learn! Thanks for being here!
~from Seattle, WA where the sun is finally shining and it feels warm this morning! Exciting!
Oh, One more thing...
58A. Turn left? HAW? Can anyone explain this to me? This is the second time I've seen this on a crossword puzzle in the last week!
Alohaspirit,
Lots of solvers came here for the stumper Niobe today.
Enjoy your sunny day.
C. C.
Those are interjections when you order a horse to turn left (HAW) or right (Gee).
C. C.
are you here everyday??? wow, this is easier than what I normally do when I get stumped!
Sailing ships had belaying pins to fasten the ropes to. Pull the pin out of the hole and the ropes and sails were freed.
Alohaspirit.
Terms from driving horse teams. HEE is turn right, HAW is turn left.
Thanks for the explanations on "belaying pin" and "haw/gee", anonymous at 1:27pm & 1:29pm.
Shadeofgrey, I have been blogging here since Jan 21, pls come here often. I feel so comforted that many readers offer help to me, and I am happy that I can be of help to others.
It's fun.
C. C.
When I was a boy on the farm, my Grandpa guided his horses with
Gee "go right"
Haw "go left"
Thanks for all your help today! This is fun! I agree that today's puzzle was exactly that....very puzzling!Especially so early in the week.
Thank you! Great help, I couldn't get upper right corner. Re: 21A
Old King Cole was a merry old soul and a merry old soul was he. He called for his pipe and he called for his bowl and he called for his fiddlers three.
Oy, dazed and confused on this one today. Nice work.
I like reading your comments, very educating. I appreciate that you guys take the time to comment here.
C.C.
Brit's wireless? I thought of Mobile Phone.
OLD KING COLE
Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he;
He called for his pipe in the middle of the night
And he called for his fiddlers three.
Every fiddler had a fine fiddle, and a very fine fiddle had he;
Oh there's none so rare as can compare
With King Cole and his fiddlers three.
http://www.rhymes.org.uk/old_king_cole.htm
Happy Birthday Abe! Great job, is there a prize for the 10,000th visitor? Your clue about H.S. subject being SEX ED is the kind the crawler on Google ads finds to give you the undesirables.
Old King Cole was a Merry old soul and a merry old soul was he.
He called for his pipe and he called for his bowl, and he called for his shapetails three:
Oh don't be late for the dance said the shapetails,
HUP TWO! said the sergeants
We want a ten day pass said the corporals,
Beer, Beer, Beer, said the privates, happy men are we. There's none so fair as can compare with the fighting infantry.
Fort Campbell, KY 1968
The theme was rhyming, "-ole". "Old King Cole", "Bob Dole, "Leading Role".
Anonymous at 11:35pm,
I really did not spot theme. I've amended my original post. Thank you.
The 21A should give me a hint I suppose.
CC
Antiwar Democrat,
My old boss is British. He never called his mobile phone wireless. But wireless is indeed a cell phone.
C. C.
Hi!
Found you from googling clues today also! I am also a huge fan of rex parker!
Just wanted to say, I am british and I have never once called my radio a wireless... very old fashioned term!
I found today's tough too!
Thanks for stopping by little lj.
When I grow up, I want to be just like Rex, or Orange... except I am already a big grown-up.
C.C.
interesting article. I would love to follow you on twitter.
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