Theme: Happy Anniversary!
29A: Apt 60th anniversary destination: DIAMOND HEAD
36A: Apt 3rd anniversary gift: LEATHER BELT
54A: Apt 12th anniversary gift: SILK STOCKINGS
72A: Apt 20th anniversary film (with "The"): CHINA SYNDROME
89A: Apt 35th anniversary destination: CORAL GABLES
94A: Apt 11th anniversary gift: STEEL GUITAR
3D: Apt 15th anniversary gift: CRYSTAL BALL
14D: Apt 5th anniversary gift: WOOD CARVING
62D: Apt 10th anniversary film: TIN PAN ALLEY
64D: Apt 55th anniversary destination: EMERALD ISLE
"Girl with a PEARL Earring" would be a perfect run-through 21-letter answer for a possible "Apt 30th anniversary film". "PEARL Harbor" is great too.
Such an ambitious theme, and so nicely executed. Some of "?" clues are quite good:
8D: Early morning riser?: SUN
29D: Semi-colon?: DOT
4D: Tempest's milieu?: TEA POT
28D: Get some air?: INHALE. I don't think "?" is needed here.
112A: Pierre's noodle: TETE. The "?" is needed here.
The clue for GABBLED (48A: Chattered) should be reworded because we have CHAT (56D: Make small talk) as an answer. The same with the IOWA clue (11D: Heart of the Corn Belt). I would like to see the constructor connects "Field of Dreams" with IOWA. So many nice lines from the movie:
"If you build it, he will come."
"Is this heaven?" "It's IOWA."
"Go the distance."
Did you notice letters E, S, T at the bottom row? Very often we have D, E, R & S. Stan Newman, the crossword editor for Newsday, name this high-occurency consonant quartet as REDS.
Across:
5A: Tends to a furnace: DAMPS. New definition to me. I've never tended our furnace.
14A: Coach who won three Super Bowls: WALSH (Bill). All with San Francisco 49ers. Which coach has the most Super Bowl wins in NFL?
20A: Yale of Yale: ELIHU. Harvard is named after John Harvard. Cornell founder is Ezra Cornell.
27A: Motivator: INSPIRER. Okey-dokey, if you say so.
32A: Awaiting: IN FOR
44A: Grain bristle: ARISTA. Latin for "beard of grain". I forgot again. AWN is clued as "Arista" last time.
46A: French wine city: RHONE
52A: "The Terrible" tsar: IVAN IV. I struggled with IV.
57A: Spanish island: ISLA. Have you been to Ibiza? Everything sounds so wild there.
58A: Brief investigation: LOOK- SEE
60A: Cheech's partner: CHONG (Tommy). "Dave is not here", so funny.
63A: French Open winner of 1989: CHANG (Michael). He was very popular in Asia in 1990s.
71A: Hebrew harvest festival: OMER. It was clued as "Hebrew harvest month" in our last puzzle.
75A: Downcast: DROOPY. He is DROOPY.
78A: Very short jackets: BOLEROS. All fur BOLEROS. BOLERO is also a slow Spanish dance, though Ravel's "BOLERO" gets unbearably sexier and quicker as the tension builds up.
80A: "Semper Fidelis" composer: SOUSA. That's an odd picture. I like this clip, very touching!
83A: Indiana pros: PACERS
98A:Gregor Mendel's field: GENETICS. Mendel is called the father of GENETICS. I did not know this.
104A: New Zealand Polynesian: MAORI. And their bird MOA (104D: Extinct bird).
106A: Tiny bit of time: abbr.: MSEC (Millisecond). I was thinking of nanosecond.
108A: Folk singer Burl: IVES. Here is his "Lavender Blue".
Down:
1D: South American monkey: TITI. I forgot. Here is the picture again.
5D: Backside: DERRIERE
6D: African lily: ALOE. I did not know that ALOE belongs to the lily family.
7D: Botanical bisectors: MIDRIBS. The central vein of the leaf.
13D: Phantom: EIDOLON. Rooted in "idol", which is further derived from Greek "Eidos", meaning "form". New to me also.
15D: Asian nursemaids: AMAHS. They are more often called AYAHS in India and AMAS in mainland China (before 1949).
33D: Meshy: NETLIKE. This answer looks more like a clue.
36D: Travels on foot: LEGS IT. I thought of "Hoof it".
41D: Black cuckoos: ANIS. This ANI is indeed totally black.
42D: O. T. book: LEV (Leviticus). I suppose that's the book defines "kosher" since it "contains laws relating to the priests and Levites and to the forms of Jewish ceremonial observance."
45D: __ en scene: MISE. No idea. I obtained the answer from across clues.
52D: Holy pictures: var. IKONS
58D: Wallace's 1968 running mate: LEMAY (Curtis). I googled his name.
65D: DNA code: GENOME. Gene + (chromos)ome. New to me also.
74D: Private sector assns.: NGOS (Non-Governmental Organizations. Yet another unknown.
76D: Mil. honor: DSC. It's an Army decoration, to be exact.
78D: __ Paese cheese: BEL. I've never had this cheese before.
81D: Acclaim: PLAUDIT
82D: Take over for: RELIEVE. Tampa Bay's reliever Grant Balfour used to be with the Twins. Time for Matt Garza to shine tonight.
84D: Ships' loads: CARGOES
90D: Image file format: BITMAP. No idea. I am technologically challenged.
95D: Barreled along: TORE. New meaning of "Barrel" to me.
97D: Transit-loss allowance: TRET. I never know what TRET and TARE mean exactly.
100D: Luck of the Irish: CESS. I forgot. See "Bad CESS" origin.
101D: Glaswegian: SCOT. I cannot recall any famous SCOT who is from Glasgow. Quite a few from Edinburgh, Sean Connery & Robert Louis Stevenson for example.
C.C.
29A: Apt 60th anniversary destination: DIAMOND HEAD
36A: Apt 3rd anniversary gift: LEATHER BELT
54A: Apt 12th anniversary gift: SILK STOCKINGS
72A: Apt 20th anniversary film (with "The"): CHINA SYNDROME
89A: Apt 35th anniversary destination: CORAL GABLES
94A: Apt 11th anniversary gift: STEEL GUITAR
3D: Apt 15th anniversary gift: CRYSTAL BALL
14D: Apt 5th anniversary gift: WOOD CARVING
62D: Apt 10th anniversary film: TIN PAN ALLEY
64D: Apt 55th anniversary destination: EMERALD ISLE
"Girl with a PEARL Earring" would be a perfect run-through 21-letter answer for a possible "Apt 30th anniversary film". "PEARL Harbor" is great too.
Such an ambitious theme, and so nicely executed. Some of "?" clues are quite good:
8D: Early morning riser?: SUN
29D: Semi-colon?: DOT
4D: Tempest's milieu?: TEA POT
28D: Get some air?: INHALE. I don't think "?" is needed here.
112A: Pierre's noodle: TETE. The "?" is needed here.
The clue for GABBLED (48A: Chattered) should be reworded because we have CHAT (56D: Make small talk) as an answer. The same with the IOWA clue (11D: Heart of the Corn Belt). I would like to see the constructor connects "Field of Dreams" with IOWA. So many nice lines from the movie:
"If you build it, he will come."
"Is this heaven?" "It's IOWA."
"Go the distance."
Did you notice letters E, S, T at the bottom row? Very often we have D, E, R & S. Stan Newman, the crossword editor for Newsday, name this high-occurency consonant quartet as REDS.
Across:
5A: Tends to a furnace: DAMPS. New definition to me. I've never tended our furnace.
14A: Coach who won three Super Bowls: WALSH (Bill). All with San Francisco 49ers. Which coach has the most Super Bowl wins in NFL?
20A: Yale of Yale: ELIHU. Harvard is named after John Harvard. Cornell founder is Ezra Cornell.
27A: Motivator: INSPIRER. Okey-dokey, if you say so.
32A: Awaiting: IN FOR
44A: Grain bristle: ARISTA. Latin for "beard of grain". I forgot again. AWN is clued as "Arista" last time.
46A: French wine city: RHONE
52A: "The Terrible" tsar: IVAN IV. I struggled with IV.
57A: Spanish island: ISLA. Have you been to Ibiza? Everything sounds so wild there.
58A: Brief investigation: LOOK- SEE
60A: Cheech's partner: CHONG (Tommy). "Dave is not here", so funny.
63A: French Open winner of 1989: CHANG (Michael). He was very popular in Asia in 1990s.
71A: Hebrew harvest festival: OMER. It was clued as "Hebrew harvest month" in our last puzzle.
75A: Downcast: DROOPY. He is DROOPY.
78A: Very short jackets: BOLEROS. All fur BOLEROS. BOLERO is also a slow Spanish dance, though Ravel's "BOLERO" gets unbearably sexier and quicker as the tension builds up.
80A: "Semper Fidelis" composer: SOUSA. That's an odd picture. I like this clip, very touching!
83A: Indiana pros: PACERS
98A:Gregor Mendel's field: GENETICS. Mendel is called the father of GENETICS. I did not know this.
104A: New Zealand Polynesian: MAORI. And their bird MOA (104D: Extinct bird).
106A: Tiny bit of time: abbr.: MSEC (Millisecond). I was thinking of nanosecond.
108A: Folk singer Burl: IVES. Here is his "Lavender Blue".
Down:
1D: South American monkey: TITI. I forgot. Here is the picture again.
5D: Backside: DERRIERE
6D: African lily: ALOE. I did not know that ALOE belongs to the lily family.
7D: Botanical bisectors: MIDRIBS. The central vein of the leaf.
13D: Phantom: EIDOLON. Rooted in "idol", which is further derived from Greek "Eidos", meaning "form". New to me also.
15D: Asian nursemaids: AMAHS. They are more often called AYAHS in India and AMAS in mainland China (before 1949).
33D: Meshy: NETLIKE. This answer looks more like a clue.
36D: Travels on foot: LEGS IT. I thought of "Hoof it".
41D: Black cuckoos: ANIS. This ANI is indeed totally black.
42D: O. T. book: LEV (Leviticus). I suppose that's the book defines "kosher" since it "contains laws relating to the priests and Levites and to the forms of Jewish ceremonial observance."
45D: __ en scene: MISE. No idea. I obtained the answer from across clues.
52D: Holy pictures: var. IKONS
58D: Wallace's 1968 running mate: LEMAY (Curtis). I googled his name.
65D: DNA code: GENOME. Gene + (chromos)ome. New to me also.
74D: Private sector assns.: NGOS (Non-Governmental Organizations. Yet another unknown.
76D: Mil. honor: DSC. It's an Army decoration, to be exact.
78D: __ Paese cheese: BEL. I've never had this cheese before.
81D: Acclaim: PLAUDIT
82D: Take over for: RELIEVE. Tampa Bay's reliever Grant Balfour used to be with the Twins. Time for Matt Garza to shine tonight.
84D: Ships' loads: CARGOES
90D: Image file format: BITMAP. No idea. I am technologically challenged.
95D: Barreled along: TORE. New meaning of "Barrel" to me.
97D: Transit-loss allowance: TRET. I never know what TRET and TARE mean exactly.
100D: Luck of the Irish: CESS. I forgot. See "Bad CESS" origin.
101D: Glaswegian: SCOT. I cannot recall any famous SCOT who is from Glasgow. Quite a few from Edinburgh, Sean Connery & Robert Louis Stevenson for example.
C.C.
I'm still working on it. I don't know how you finished it so quickly.
ReplyDelete"Creighton U city" OMAHA?
"Like Cheerios" OATEN? (I had ROUND earlier.)
But then why HAND for "Dealer's delivery"? I had DRUG.
I didn't know there were 4 IVANs.
"Earth tone" is apparently OCHRE.
For "Liken" I was trying to come up with a 7 letter world for werewolf. (I realize now it's COMPARE.)
I don't understand AARP or SRS. Ditto for EMT and CPR.
What do "Parsonage" and MANSE mean? Oh, wait, I remember: the parson lives in a manse.
ACID rock, ACID rain. Okay.
ALSACE-Lorraine was a territorial entity created by the German Empire in 1871. Okay.
I think we had CESS in a puzzle before but I didn't remember it.
Okay. Done.
You may have heard of the GENOME project: they sequenced human DNA. I wanted INQUEST or INGUIRY for 58A (LOOK SEE). I thought "Spanish Islnad" was asking for the _name_ of an island. I misread "Private sector assns" as "Private sector assasins". I wanted APPLAUD for 81D (PLAUDIT). Oh and CARGOS is spelt CARGOES: you need the e to spell OMENS.
Whew. MISE en scene, I do believe, is a term that is used in French plays: at the beginning of an act, the term "mise en scene" is followed by a description of the players in the play and whatever props are needed. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure that's the context I saw it in.
I can't believe "Backside" was DERRIERE: I penned that in as a joke. I also wrote FUNERAL HOME for "Apt 60th anniversary destination". I know, I'm bad.
What does apt mean anyway?
Martin
I get it now. AARP = American Association of Retired Persons. SRS means seniors. CPR = CardioPulmonary Resuscitation so EMT must refer to an emergency medical technition.
ReplyDeleteMartin
You mean Technician?
ReplyDeleteA card dealer deals hands.
Good morning CC etal:
ReplyDeleteOh boy, a bunch of googles today - anniversary theme totally defeated me as I'm not big on that stuff & so kept a site open to check what was what for each clue (who knew that leather was a 3rd anniversary gift - perhaps after 3 years things need to be 'spiced' up a little? - you go, girls).
Anyway, @ doesitinink - RTFM from yesterday made me LOL, thanks, I'm sure I'll be using that one.
Bucks won, Tigers won - if Saints win today it will be a rare (very, believe me) trifecta for those of us who are Ohio natives relocated down here in Southeast LA and Monday will be a day where there are smiles all around!
Carpe Diem!
Good morning.
ReplyDeleteMartin, I'm from Nebraska just outside Omaha. The Creighton University campus is in Omaha (home of the Bluejays - at times a pretty good basketball team).
Chuck Noll has the most Super Bowl victories (all with the Steelers).
Titi and Derriere? 'Nuff said.
Apt. stands for appropriate.
C.C. - 84D is "Cargoes."
The Red Sox are still alive!
All in all, this wasn't a bad puzzle. Only a couple G spots.
The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international scientific research project with a primary goal to determine the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up DNA and to identify the approximately 20,000-25,000 genes of the human genome from both a physical and functional standpoint.
The project began in 1990 initially headed by James D. Watson (who, with Francis Crick discovered and proved the helical structure of DNA) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. A working draft of the genome was released in 2000 and a complete one in 2003, with further analysis still being published. A parallel project was conducted by the private company Celera Genomics. Most of the sequencing was performed in universities and research centers from the United States, Canada and Britain. The mapping of human genes is an important step in the development of medicines and other aspects of health care.
Off to church. Everyone have a great Sunday. Tomorrow I'm off to New Jersey for the week. Don't know if I will get to the blog but I will try and stop in. Puzzle will have to be done online.
Today is Evaluate Your Life Day and World Osteoporosis Day.
Puzzle was snap today because if you have been maried for some years, you know the anniversary gifts very well. The puzzle went well except for "eidolon" which was a new word , but it worked out. Thank you Mr. Fontaime.
ReplyDeleteTime to get to church: Roll Tide for number seven. It was ugly in the third quater, but it is a win!!!
abogato in Alabama
Good morning, C.C. and all, on this beautiful Sunday morning!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this puzzle. I wasn't able to complete it unaided, but I almost got there.
For 46A I quickly wrote in 'Loire" and realized right away that it had to be RHONE.
I've never heard of EIDOLON, but it came with the fills.
I cannot remember my crossword puzzle birds! ANIS gave me grief, and made it difficult to get LEV and IVAN IV. They were the last to fall into place.
I needed help with TRET, and CESS.
So many little words...TRET, TETE, TITI, CESS, ANIS and LEV. slowed me down. Maybe next time I'll remember the definition of CESS, now that I've had to look it up twice.
I enjoyed the theme. I don't know all the anniversary gifts off the top of my head, but the fills gave me enough to guess the answers. CRYSTAL BALL was the first theme answer, and I wondered just what the puzzle maker was going to be saying about marriage! *G*
I have a complaint. For the past few weeks the Chicago Tribune has seen fit not to print the last one or two clues of the down list. I assume that they have just so much room alloted for the puzzle, and when that runs out, it's tough! I assume that 105d must have been 'morn. hours' or something like that.
I hope you all have a great day!
Morning all,
ReplyDeleteHaven't had a chance to do the puzzle because I was too busy becoming a first-time grandmother. Wow what a wonderful experience. Want to see if one of my grandson's pictures will display.
Congratulations Jeanne. Being a grandparent is one of the best times of life.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the comments as I'm a daily puzzle solver. Easy one today after finding an anniversary gift list to help with a few of those years.
Wallace running mate - correct spelling is LeMay.
Someone please tell me what 37D and 53A answers are. Those two seem to be the only ones not covered in todays answers. Thanks, love your site.
ReplyDeleteGood Morning All, This puzzle looked like fun. I'm always sorry we don't have an online source for Sunday's crossword.
ReplyDeleteJeanne, Congratulations. What a thrill for you...oh yes, Mom and Dad too LOL. Details...weight? length? Did you see him being born? I saw our first grandchild's birth, but missed out on the speedy (that made my daughter happy) second and third.
Yesterday's yard sale was very successful. It was a long day however and both G.A.H. and I were pretty tired by the time leftovers were boxed up for the thrift store and trash was taken to the dump. We did have a fine time visiting with our co-sellers...pizza and wine were consumed!
I looked up "Famous Glaswegians". There are quite a few actors, Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies), Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty), Billy Connolly (Mrs. Brown), James McAvoy (Atonement) and the gorgeous Gerard Butler (300).
I know I mentioned that autumn is my favorite season. I'm kind of stuck on October poems.
Baled Hay
"Wheels of baled hay bask in October sun:
Gold circles strewn across the sloping field,
They seem arranged as if each one
Has found its place; together they appeal
To some glimpsed order in my mind
Preceding my chance pausing here --
A randomness that also seems designed.
Gold circles strewn across the sloping field
Evoke a silence deep as my deep fear
Of emptiness; I feel the scene requires
A listener who can respond with words, yet who
Prolongs the silence that I still desire,
Relieved as clacking crows come flashing through,
Whose blackness shows chance radiance of fire.
Yet stillness in the field remains for everyone:
Wheels of baled hay bask in October sun."
- Robert Pack
37D - elapse
ReplyDelete53A - spare
Odd to find both ores (59D) and ore (71D) as answers.
I had trouble with eidolon and ivan1v too. Rest of the puzzle went smooth as 54A.
Ken W.
Martin,
ReplyDeleteAPT is "likely" to me.
Anonymous @ 7:26am,
"Dealer" is defined as "the player distributing the cards" in dictionary.com. Therefore, I think the 18D clue is solid.
Chris,
Is that a DF comment on LEATHER BELT?
Dr. Dad,
ReplyDeletePlease try your best to check in while you are on the road. You are my vitamin D now.
Kittyb,
Thanks for the three clarinetists' links yesterday. I don't think I can fully appreciate their musical skill, but I am sure they are all very good in double tonguing. The clue for 105D is "Morning hrs.".
Jeanne,
Congratulations!
Verna,
ReplyDeleteI've corrected my mistake. Thank you.
Clear Ayes,
Thanks for the "Famous Glaswegians" list and the poem. I am glad your yard sales was successful.
Ken W,
Wow, I failed to notice ORE & ORES.
Doesitinink,
I live in Brooklyn Park, MN.
Barb B,
ReplyDeleteI said “Lord is not going to show me any mercy.” because I did not know KYRIE.
Melissa,
I am curious too, was "A Bronx Tale" good?
Gatormom,
Forgot to say I like the "Big" words you offered on Friday.
J.D,
I hope you check in today. I would like to know the "Big" list you and Bob came up with. Who is Emperor Nelson?
Dairygal,
ReplyDeleteYour Friday comment: "Not too bad of a puzzle this morning. I got the bangs through the perps-so no google!". What does "Got the bangs" mean?
Argyle,
Why there was no brand name in "Repo Man"?
Martin, You were right about mise en scène, but I think it refers more to the props and scenery than the cast.
ReplyDeleteJeanne, Congratulations! I'm still hoping my son's wife will get pregnant so I can be a grndparent!
Clearayes, I admire your energy--I've been talking about having a garage sale for years, but keep putting it off. Good poem too!
I suddenly found today that the puzzle here is the same one I get in an insert on Thursdays, which I worked on this week because hubby was gone o'night that night. So it just means I have it a few extra days to work on!
This puzzle was so much easier than yesterday’s! Though I know only gold for 50th anniversary and silver for 25th, I could easily determine the theme answers from the crosses. My first was SILK STOCKINGS.
ReplyDeleteI was unfamiliar with EIDOLON. Based on Wiki I see it is equivalent to the German Doppelganger. Or does Doppelganger have a sinister connotation? Have you ever read the book DOUBLE by the Spanish author Jose Saramago (who also wrote the book on which the upcoming movie Blindness is based). The Double looks at the issues of identity from the perspective of a man who finds his identical double. Oh…and I just noticed that Blindness is directed by Frenando Meirelles who also directed City of God, a favorite of mine.
Kittyb: I too am aggravated with the Tribune for leaving out the final clues of the Sunday puzzle. I think they need to be alerted to our dissatisfaction! The editor of the Chicago Magazine is Elizabeth Taylor. Her e-mail address is ETaylor@tribune.com.
@ CC:
ReplyDeleteRe: Leather Belt - I guess that's up to them!
Good day C.C. and gang.
ReplyDeleteCongrats to Jeanne on that new grandbaby. I'm definitely a better grandfather than father, mostly, probably, because they go home at night. *S*
C.C. A "tare" in weights is the weight of the vessel, (bowl or box) that is holding what you are weighing. Set the bowl on the scale and you get...oh say, 10 ounces. Then you use the scale dial to zero the needle. When you put whatever you are weighing in the bowl, the needle will weigh the true amount. Grocery stores and restaurants that weigh ingredients need to zero their scales with the container subtracted so that staff can get a true weight easily.
And tret is what again..? Just kidding.
I'm with Clear Ayes, I wish the Sunday X-word was online.
It's a glorious day in Portland, hope it is a good one for all.
Good morning C.C. and all, even those of us who are not lucky enough to get Sunday's puzzle,
ReplyDeleteC.C.,Emperor Gene Nelson was a morning radio personality for KYA,a Bay area station in the 60's.He was originally from Buffalo, NY, and his listeners were the "Royal Commandos." A funny guy who interacted with the lyrics and had conversations with the songs.He signed off by saying "Tosca La Ha" or "Bubbles, put on the coffee. I'm coming home."
Clear Ayes..hope you sold lots of STUFF (great clip). Your poem today reminded me of a Van Gogh painting
Jeanne, CONGRATULATIONS! I hope that baby is close by.Being a grandma has brought new found joy into my life. Truman( 13 mo) can now step off the curb without falling and he can slide down the stairs on his belly very quickly . His new word yesterday was bubble. He's here today. Can't wait til he wakes up fromhis nap.
No more big thoughts. :-)
Kittyb,
ReplyDeleteWhat exactly is "jam" in musical term? I see this word not only in jazz jargon, but in classical music speak also.
Kazie,
What's the name of your newspaper again? Is the answer printed in the same page or in next week's Thursday edition?
Ken,
Thanks for the TARE. No daily word today?
Doesitinink,
Doppelganger is new to me. I've never read "DOUBLE".
JD,
This one?
Good morning CC & DF's: No puzzle for me today, but wanted to check CC's analysis and links, which I always enjoy. Thank you CC for all of your outstanding work. I loved the Cheech and Chong clip...funny stuff! Also the Marine clip is wonderful. What brave men! Special breed! Laughed at Titi and derriere showing up as 'down' fills no less. Saw a new orthopedic mattress for men made up of the DF form of titi and derrieres. It was very funny. Oops! We were supposed to wait 3 yrs for 'leather'? Well, just spank me!
ReplyDeleteHave a safe trip, drdad. Will you be anywhere near Dennis?
Congratulations, Jeanne, on the new grandson. Keep the pictures coming.
Enjoy your day.
c.c., The paper I get daily is the Wisconsin State Journal. But a few months ago they amalgamated with their partner, the Cap Times, which more or less folded and became a special section in the WSJ Thursday edition, which is where they publish this CW, and they actually call it the Sunday Crossword, but I never thought to check before. The solutions are in the same paper too.
ReplyDeleteHi c.c. and all,
ReplyDeleteMy first anniversary fill was "Diamondhead", probably not a surprise to Drdad! I did not know Eidolon, but got it from the fills, same with LeMay. No googling today, yea!
Jeanne: Congrats on the new grandson! Wonderful news.
c.c.: I know you asked Kittyb, but my experience as I was growing up is jam is used as in "jam session" a group of musicians that get together and improvised music together. Kittyb can expound on this I'm sure. How about "golddust", "woodstock",
"steel magnolias", "paperplanes"
"goldfish","silk flowers", "tin soldiers". Those are ones I was thinking of as I was doing the puzzle.
Have a great day everyone!
Sorry, C.C. this was a zany morning.
ReplyDeleteWord of the day:
conglobate kahn GLOH bayt: to form into a round compact mass.
The pizza cook took the raised dough to the work table and conglobated it before rolling it flat.
Greetings C.C. and all –
ReplyDeleteI don’t usually do the Sunday puzzle, but I still like to read the comments. The puzzle answers are listed underneath the puzzle and it is just too easy to look up an unknown, besides that, I like a “day off.” To catch up on other things like SuDoKu - I try to do two every day (from different sources) but sometimes I get behind. I also try to do 2 xwords per day.
Jeanne:
Congratulations on your new grandson! They are the greatest! Enjoy them as often as you can – they grow up way too fast!
I never thought it would happen to me, but I now have four great-grandchildren.
KittyB:
Re: Clues not printed on the down list. That happened one time in my newspaper. I called them to let them know about it and they credited my account for that day’s paper. Surprise, surprise!! I wasn’t really expecting that but I did not turn it down. :-)
Anonymous:
37D Lapse ….53A Spare Oops! I see that has already been answered.
Have a great day and keep on puzzling!
TTFN
Night Owl
Go Rays!
Ken, I thought I was misreading "combobulate" when I saw your new word "conglobate". (I did some Googling and found out that "discombolulate" is a word, but not "combobulate". How odd.) Keep giving us those interesting words we can only hope we'll have a chance to use someday.
ReplyDeleteG8rmomx2, Good anniversary clues. It's fun to see what other posters come up with.
C.C. Great Van Gogh painting. I wonder if JD was thinking of that one or this Van Gogh wheat field
JD, Yes, we sold a lot of stuff and now, according to George Carlin, we have lots of room for new stuff.
Kazie, I don't have all that much energy. I took several weeks going through closets and cupboards to find things to sell and then "staged" everything in boxes in our shed. We didn't have furniture to sell, so there wasn't any heavy lifting involved.
Doesitinink, Thumbs up from me on "City of God". What a realistic and tragic movie that was. Subtitles, as long as they are big and bright, aren't a problem for me, although I know many people find them too distracting. I know you also liked "In Bruges". We should be getting that one from Netflix tomorrow.
BTW, several people emailed me and commented on my serendipitously finding my high school friends from 50 years ago. Here's the photo of 15 year old me that I was so surprised by on the reunion site. All the dark make up is because we were in the school show doing a song and dance of "Oklahoma". I'm front row center.
Clear Ayes: I so hope you will like In Bruges. When I recommend a film, I always worry that others may not like it as much as I...or like it at all! Let me know what you think! In Bruges is a violent film, darkly funny. Both at the theatre and on DVD I had difficulty hearing all the dialogue, so I recommend you turn on the English sub-titles when viewing it. When I went to see the film at the cinema with my 19 year-old daughter, there was one scene when she was laughing riotously. Later I asked her what had been said in that scene. I think she was relieved that my not laughing was just because I could not understand what was being said!
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ReplyDeleteFood and beverages throughout the movie appear in generic white containers with blue-lettered labels reading among others, "Beer", "Drink", "Dry Gin", "Food (Meat Flavored)", and "Tasteeos". This style of labelling was actually used by Ralphs Grocery Company in southern California for their generic products. Ralph's donated some of the props for the movie.
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This is more than I knew about it. Thanks for making me look it up!
c.c., I think Bill would be better able to explain jamming. I suspect that he does it regularly, and I have only jammed vocally.
ReplyDeleteFirst, you need to know that music is based on a series of chord progressions. Bach summarized the chord progressions and key signatures of his day in 'The Well-tempered Clavier." There have been many departures from those rules, but simple songs (as opposed to symphonies, etc.) still use those same guidelines.
So, a musician can expect the chords that support a melody to change in a logical way. He can take the notes that make up each chord and create a counter melody, or a variation on the original melody.
Many musicians have the chord structure for the songs they play memorized, others are able to play 'by ear," or by what sounds right at any given point.
I suspect there must be some tradition which determines how each performer gets a little solo time, but I'm not sure how that works.
Bill, jump in here and save me!
c.c. I hope that was enough explanation for you. If not, I'll be holding Theory 101 over here in the corner. *G*
OK,OK, I know I need to learn how to link.It would be so much fun to share like all of you. When I return from my trip I will try.
ReplyDeleteC.C. and Clear Ayes, both of those pictures were lovely; he has so many pictures of haystacks and they were painted at different hours of the day to learn how to change the lighting.Many weren't great paintings. Unfortunately, I prefer the paintings he created after he mentally unstable...with the exception of "The Potato Eaters"
jeanne, congrats on your new grandson! We've had four babies born into our family over the past year, starting with our youngest granddaughter. They arrived in September, on Christmas Day, in April, and the last arrived at the end of August. We have babies of every size to cuddle. Isn't it wonderful!?
ReplyDeletec.c., thanks for the missing clue. As for the double tonguing....leave it to the brass players. I shared the clarinet links with you because someone mentioned Artie Shaw.. I thought it was interesting that Shaw said he was always more interested in creating dance music for his listeners, but he felt that Benny Goodman was always more interested in jamming. You can see what he means by the difference of the complexity of their music in those two links.
clear ayes, I'm glad to hear that the sale went well. You must be happy to have culled things out so you have more room for your stuff! lol Thanks for "Baled Hay." Gorgeous picture, btw.
doesitinink, thanks for the address for Elizabeth Taylor. I believe I'll be writing to her tomorrow. I don't need the credit so much, but I'd REALLY like to get the puzzle on line on Sunday!
g8rmomx2, did you jam with the adults when you were a kid, or just listen? Did you realize at the time how exceptional the experience was, or not until you were an adult? I've heard Billy Crystal talk about that same thing in his youth, where all these famous people stopped by his home to jam (with his father, I think), and how it influenced him as a comedian.
night owl, I should be so lucky! *G*
It's time to hit the hay so I'll be able to do tomorrow's puzzle. Night, all.
Greetings C.C. and all -
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I’m sure you know by now that the Rays won the ALCS. I just wanted to say that Matt Garza did a fantastic job of pitching! And he got the MVP award. The whole team did a great job. I enjoyed the series. I hope you had a chance to see some of it.
Now I’m looking forward to the World Series! :-)
TTFN
Night Owl
Good morning Cc, DFs and DFettes....this was a fun puzzle to do. It was difficult but not impossible to complete. I did need a few Mr G stops because I did not know all of the anniversary gifts.
ReplyDeleteI did not get to the puzzle until late last night as me and my bride were gone for the weekend. I thought it would be a good week end for the foliage but the best was last week end. Looks like winter is making its stark push into this area now and that is not a good thing.
Anonymous @4:19 pm,
ReplyDeleteThank you. Hope to see you again soon.