Theme: None
Words: 70
Blocks: 30
Huh~! I thought I had the wrong puzzle, since I thought I just did a Barry Silk - then I practically ran through this one, and was really sure I had already done this - but no, our second Silkie in the last three Saturdays....a cool-looking grid with two crosses and a staircase, and missing only a "B" in the outcome. Triple stacks of tens and eights in a pinwheel fashion, and I must admit, the only red-letter I needed was the "Z" in LINZ - too "lay - Z" to look it up.
Onward~!
ACROSS:
1. Nightly news graphic : WEATHER MAP - switched to DOWN, did a "33A" on 'WASTES', came back to this with a WAG off the "W"
11. Dweeb : TWIT - my mother's favorite insult
15. Mechanic's supply : AXLE GREASE
16. Memorable word from Pilate : ECCE - Painting "Ecce Homo!" with Pilate offering Jesus
17. Memory aids : SMART DRUGS - new to me, came from the perps; a little research here
18. Beyond the horizon : AFAR
19. Vacation souvenir : TAN - if I go on vacation, I come home with a T-shirt - otherwise, my color is usually 'red'
20. Practice with dolls : VOODOO - oh, the religious practice - DF this early in the AM?
21. Austrian city on the Danube : LINZ - NOW I look at Google maps
22. It was founded by Henry VI : ETON - had the "E", guessed from there - what else can you 'found' when you're the King ???
24. Chance to shine : SOLO - ah, like with a guitar
25. Stamp closer? : EDE - Stampede - anyone remember this??? (cheats even back in those days)
26. Cuban title : SENOR
28. Name from the Latin for "I trust" : FIDO - I tried LIDO to start, then DIDO
30. Prepare for a coup : PLOT
31. One of two in Dickens's "Martin Chuzzlewit" : ZED
33. "Perfect!" : NAILED IT~! - a blog staple, for knowing an answer, and it's much more pleasing as the length of the word increases; 10-letter WEATHER MAP was pretty good for me
35. Seller of torpedoes and bullets : QUIZNO'S - sandwich shop, we have them here on Long Island - very similar to what I used to see in Ohio, called Grinders - toasted heroes
39. Gets one's act together : SNAPS TO
40. "The Beverly Hillbillies" sobriquet : UNCLE JED - Earworm - just had Flatt and Scruggs, too
42. Keystone figure : KOP
43. Downwind : ALEE
44. Warning : OMEN
46. 1965 protest site : SELMA
50. Basic, in coll. : REQ - uired, as in Manual Drafting before you can take AutoCAD
51. "No kidding?" : IT IS?
53. Outcry : ROAR
54. Playless? : TAUT - ah, as in a tarp
56. Bargains : STEALS
58. Old TV component : CRT - Cathode Ray Tube
59. Adman's start : IDEA - any one's start, really
60. Mollify : CONCILIATE
62. Look like a satyr : LEER - I had DEER, which sort of fit - Image
63. Particle physics subject : ANTI-MATTER
64. Actress Best : EDNA - Her Wiki
65. Minuscule : TEENY-WEENY - I had ACID jazz to start, and tried this, changed it, then went back
DOWN:
1. Squanders : WASTES
2. Subject of an awkward meeting, perhaps : EX-MATE
3. Program with steps : AL-ANON - AA, too, along with OA, GA, NA, and any other self-help group with these 12 steps
4. Rx instruction : TER - three times a day, I think
5. "Designed to Sell" network : HGTV - one of my favorite networks, I watch all the "Crashers" shows on Saturday mornings
6. Hungarian mathematician Paul : ERDOS - This guy
7. Deal with leaks in, perhaps : REROOF - this took too long for me - I had RE-SEAL for the longest time
8. Schmaltzy : MAUDLIN
9. On a par with : AS GOOD AS
10. Cozumel coin : PESO
11. Color akin to pine green : TEAL
12. "A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her" speaker : W.C. FIELDS
13. Volunteer's assurance : I CAN DO IT
14. Dvorák piece for two violins and viola : TERZETTO
23. Hose projection : NOZZLE
27. '70s-'80s Quebec premier Lévesque : RENE
29. Pen emanation : OINK - The pig pen, that is
30. Besiege (with), as questions : PEPPER
32. Zen meditation hall : DOJO
34. The Mekong flows along its border : LAOS
35. Statistical dividing point in a four-group data set : QUARTILE
36. On-road vehicle requirement since 1996 : UNLEADED
37. Haughty, unemotional woman : ICE QUEEN - Liz, the "ice queen" at SUNY once asked me to dinner - I was so shocked, I missed my chance....
38. Musical half step : SEMITONE - Right, JazzB?
41. Global warming? : DETENTE - Cute
45. Vitamin in liver : NIACIN
47. Spot : LOCATE - The verb here
48. Mink relative : MARTEN - This - uh, no, not minx, this (OK, to be fair, here's one for the ladies)
49. Major route : ARTERY - this one doesn't fool me anymore
52. Like guck : SLIMY
55. Skater Lipinski : TARA
56. Jazz style : SCAT - not ACID, like these guys
57. Side with a hero : SLAW
61. Suburban suffix : ITE - SuburbanITE - that's me, now - I plan to be a country recluse in retirement
Answer grid.
Splynter
Words: 70
Blocks: 30
Huh~! I thought I had the wrong puzzle, since I thought I just did a Barry Silk - then I practically ran through this one, and was really sure I had already done this - but no, our second Silkie in the last three Saturdays....a cool-looking grid with two crosses and a staircase, and missing only a "B" in the outcome. Triple stacks of tens and eights in a pinwheel fashion, and I must admit, the only red-letter I needed was the "Z" in LINZ - too "lay - Z" to look it up.
Onward~!
ACROSS:
1. Nightly news graphic : WEATHER MAP - switched to DOWN, did a "33A" on 'WASTES', came back to this with a WAG off the "W"
11. Dweeb : TWIT - my mother's favorite insult
15. Mechanic's supply : AXLE GREASE
16. Memorable word from Pilate : ECCE - Painting "Ecce Homo!" with Pilate offering Jesus
17. Memory aids : SMART DRUGS - new to me, came from the perps; a little research here
18. Beyond the horizon : AFAR
19. Vacation souvenir : TAN - if I go on vacation, I come home with a T-shirt - otherwise, my color is usually 'red'
20. Practice with dolls : VOODOO - oh, the religious practice - DF this early in the AM?
21. Austrian city on the Danube : LINZ - NOW I look at Google maps
22. It was founded by Henry VI : ETON - had the "E", guessed from there - what else can you 'found' when you're the King ???
24. Chance to shine : SOLO - ah, like with a guitar
25. Stamp closer? : EDE - Stampede - anyone remember this??? (cheats even back in those days)
26. Cuban title : SENOR
28. Name from the Latin for "I trust" : FIDO - I tried LIDO to start, then DIDO
30. Prepare for a coup : PLOT
31. One of two in Dickens's "Martin Chuzzlewit" : ZED
33. "Perfect!" : NAILED IT~! - a blog staple, for knowing an answer, and it's much more pleasing as the length of the word increases; 10-letter WEATHER MAP was pretty good for me
35. Seller of torpedoes and bullets : QUIZNO'S - sandwich shop, we have them here on Long Island - very similar to what I used to see in Ohio, called Grinders - toasted heroes
39. Gets one's act together : SNAPS TO
40. "The Beverly Hillbillies" sobriquet : UNCLE JED - Earworm - just had Flatt and Scruggs, too
42. Keystone figure : KOP
43. Downwind : ALEE
44. Warning : OMEN
46. 1965 protest site : SELMA
50. Basic, in coll. : REQ - uired, as in Manual Drafting before you can take AutoCAD
51. "No kidding?" : IT IS?
53. Outcry : ROAR
54. Playless? : TAUT - ah, as in a tarp
56. Bargains : STEALS
58. Old TV component : CRT - Cathode Ray Tube
59. Adman's start : IDEA - any one's start, really
60. Mollify : CONCILIATE
62. Look like a satyr : LEER - I had DEER, which sort of fit - Image
63. Particle physics subject : ANTI-MATTER
64. Actress Best : EDNA - Her Wiki
65. Minuscule : TEENY-WEENY - I had ACID jazz to start, and tried this, changed it, then went back
DOWN:
1. Squanders : WASTES
2. Subject of an awkward meeting, perhaps : EX-MATE
3. Program with steps : AL-ANON - AA, too, along with OA, GA, NA, and any other self-help group with these 12 steps
4. Rx instruction : TER - three times a day, I think
5. "Designed to Sell" network : HGTV - one of my favorite networks, I watch all the "Crashers" shows on Saturday mornings
6. Hungarian mathematician Paul : ERDOS - This guy
7. Deal with leaks in, perhaps : REROOF - this took too long for me - I had RE-SEAL for the longest time
8. Schmaltzy : MAUDLIN
9. On a par with : AS GOOD AS
10. Cozumel coin : PESO
11. Color akin to pine green : TEAL
12. "A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her" speaker : W.C. FIELDS
13. Volunteer's assurance : I CAN DO IT
14. Dvorák piece for two violins and viola : TERZETTO
23. Hose projection : NOZZLE
27. '70s-'80s Quebec premier Lévesque : RENE
29. Pen emanation : OINK - The pig pen, that is
30. Besiege (with), as questions : PEPPER
32. Zen meditation hall : DOJO
34. The Mekong flows along its border : LAOS
35. Statistical dividing point in a four-group data set : QUARTILE
36. On-road vehicle requirement since 1996 : UNLEADED
37. Haughty, unemotional woman : ICE QUEEN - Liz, the "ice queen" at SUNY once asked me to dinner - I was so shocked, I missed my chance....
38. Musical half step : SEMITONE - Right, JazzB?
41. Global warming? : DETENTE - Cute
45. Vitamin in liver : NIACIN
47. Spot : LOCATE - The verb here
48. Mink relative : MARTEN - This - uh, no, not minx, this (OK, to be fair, here's one for the ladies)
49. Major route : ARTERY - this one doesn't fool me anymore
52. Like guck : SLIMY
55. Skater Lipinski : TARA
56. Jazz style : SCAT - not ACID, like these guys
57. Side with a hero : SLAW
61. Suburban suffix : ITE - SuburbanITE - that's me, now - I plan to be a country recluse in retirement
Answer grid.
Splynter
62 comments:
This could get to be a habit--two Silks in less than a month. They always make me work extra hard but somehow seem the more enjoyable for that.
Liked seeing TEENYWEENY (does anyone else remember the old Sunday comic strip, "The Teeny Weenies"?) And it was fun seeing TWIT appear again. FIDO and OINK was an interesting cross, but I wasn't so sure about seeing SLIMY SLAW show up at the bottom... yuk.
Have a great weekend, all.
Another MARTIN for the ladies. Well, for discerning ladies.
Morning, all!
Wow, did I do the same puzzle as Splynter? I must have, since I also needed help with the LINZ/TERZETTO crossing. But I found the rest of the puzzle extremely challenging as well. There were some really nice tricky clues, but stuff like QUARTILE, ERDOS, RENE and QUIZNOS (sorry, never been and had no idea a "bullet" could be a food item).
No complaints (except, perhaps for the unfairness of the aforementioned LINZ/TERZETTO crossing), but definitely no walk in the park for me.
I thought IOI was a great answer for basic coll. course -- aren't all the intro courses numbered 101? Wrong answer, though. I zipped through the east and got mired down in the west. Started with DARK MATTER, but finally latched onto TEENY WEENY and I CAN DO IT and then things fell into place. Nice, tough start for a Saturday.
Fun puzzle. Thanks, Splynter, for your usual great blogging. NAILED IT. Faster than either Thursday or Friday.
We cruised the Danube last year. We stopped in Linz. I had TERZETTO all from perps. I hadn't heard of it, but decided it would do.
TEAL doesn't seem very near to PINE GREEN, but I kept that one, too.
I read ZEN HAIL instead of ZEN HALL. When I got --JO I reread the clue.
---ZNOS gave me QUIZNOS. I was thinking ammo. That lead to QUARTILE.
I, also, considered 101 before I found REQ
INRE last week: I had heard of BASSY music (with lots of bass). Last night a piece was introduced as SAXY music, with a lot of SAX. LOL
Good Morning Splynter, C.C. et al.
Wonderful links and interesting, fun write-up Splynter! You immediately got me DF with your “doll” link, LOL!!
The NW filled rather easily, but I ran into some problems in the NE. I do business in Austria, so my hold-up at 21A was wondering if it was Graz or LINZ.
I just used FIDO in a puzzle I am constructing. But it was KOP which helped immensely, as it let me get the OINK (erased “odor”), LAOS (erased “Asia”) and PEPPER (erased “assail”), and the whole NE practically filled itself in after that.
Then there was the SW, which was pretty much blank for a while. I had ZEE for 31A, but of course it would have to be the British letter ZED, since it was referring to a work by a British author. UNCLE JED and QUIZNOS finally opened up the floodgates, once I figured out we weren’t dealing with another Iran-Contra affair at 35A!
Totally smooth, no “mehs” or “huhs?” on this one, only smiley faces all the way through. Thanks for a fun Saturday challenge, Barry!
Desperotto and YR, just FYI, Rich Norris never allows the letters "IOI" as a substitute for the numbers 101. Roman numerals are OK, though!
I do not understand where puzzlers get their pharmacy abbreviations. I have yet to see one that we were taught in school. Where the heck did TER come from? Three times a day is TID which is the Latin abbreviation for Ter In Die always shortened to TID on the prescription pad. The MD would never write TER for the pharmacist...
This ain't pharmacy school, honey; this is a game. Fun. Play. Capiche?
Always love a Silkie Saturday! This one had just enough solid entrees to let me see most of the more obscure fill, but that 'Z' in LENZ was the last to fall.
I agree that the cluing on 4d is, at best, weak. 'Part of a doctor's instruction' would be better. The use of RX in the clue hints at an abbreviation for the entry, but TER stands alone as a word. My choice for the best way to clue TER? 'Thrice to Octavius'.
I like the long word or phrase fill that is typical for Saturday and Barry Silk does an excellent job of stacking something 'gettable' with a couple of obscure things to mess with my mind.
Thanks for the great analysis Splynter and thanks, Barry, for a great puzzle.
Now where did he hide that 'B'.. it's got to be there somewhere.
Splynter: Nice write-up & links.
The fact that "Dweeb" (my first entry) was a 'nerd' before W.C.FIELDS fixed that TWIT, pretty much explains my latest Silky Ink-Blot test.
AL-ANON in a grid with W.C. got a laugh.
For "Haughty, unemotional woman" I wanted
"The Bitch" before ICE-QUEEN.
Then thought: "How does Silk know my EX-MATE?"
(Grumpy 1: If he used my answer he'd have that "B").
TER showed up in three LAT puzzles (within a week) a few years ago.
I remembered the lively discussion.
Then filed it in a cob-web for future reference.
It is correct but a-bit obscure.
WikWak: Good one about the SLIMY SLAW.
Cheers to all at Sunset.
In looking up colors, I find there is teal BLUE, the color around the eye of a teal, and teal GREEN. I found teal green in the same color family chart as pine green. That shot down my nit. This is a great way to learn while playing. Often, there are many facets to consider when thinking about a subject. Most often, not always, the constructor's and editor's decisions survive our nits.
Good morning Splynter and all.
Just did not like the clue schmaltzy for MAUDLIN. Other than a vague nuance of sentimentality, they are not synonyms IMHO. But the puzzle was mostly fun to work on. Felt good when I finally sussed out QUARTILE. Never been to a QUIZNOS. Like the 10 letter stacks with words like ANTI-MATTER and AXLEGREASE. Guessed at LINZ. Never heard of ERDOS, and TERZETTO is a new word. A few easy ones like ALEE, TAN and ARTERY helped.
Yellowrocks:
Yup, we learn new stuff each day.
That's WHY when I saw the clue at 45-D: "Vitamin-in-liver" I didn't just think about "My liver" (which would have been 'Scotch') and put in NIACIN.
Plenty of problem areas, but for someone that loves food, Linz was easy because of Linzer Torte, an Austrian torte named after the city of Linz. Everything revolves around food for me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linzer_torte
Windover--why such a nasty answer? Rick is correct. You never see Ter written in Rxs. Go easy, honey.
Right on chapstick, plus, here's the kicker, he doesn't solve the puzzles!
Hello.
There is alot of Teal in San Jose.
(lost last night). It is also the color of my truck and canoe.
Teeny weeny and boner on back to back days. Too DF for me.
Take 2g of Niacin every day.
Will be an interesting race tomorrow. Dario and Will are buried in the middle of the starting grid.
Take care. eddy
Hi Everyone ~~
My eraser sure got a workout today! I really enjoyed the puzzle, and was surprised I was able to finish it with no look-ups. A lucky guess at the 'Z' in Linz was the closer. The long answers seemed easier than a usual Saturday, especially for Barry Silk! An excellent write-up, Splynter ... I always look forward to your comments!
~~ My favorite misdirections were for QUIZNOS and SLAW ... perps to the rescue.
~~ The scientific-type clues scared me but the answers turned out to be things I had actually heard of: QUARTILE and ANTIMATTER.
~~ I thought of 'Refoot' and 'Retool' before REROOF; I really liked the clues for DETENTE and TAUT.
~~ I thought of C.C. with NAILED IT ... she often says that in her write-ups!
~~ Interesting info. about FIDO ... didn't know that!
Enjoy the day ~~ sunny, breezy and chilly (59) here in CT ... perfect for October!
TER could have been clued as Ford's press secretary, Jerry ___ Horst. We had that a couple years ago.
For all you jolly Jack Tars and Anglophiles out there you might like this sail down Memory Lane at the Spithead Review in the Solent in 1953. Some great footage.
I wouldn't have noticed the crosses and diagonal without Splynter's write-up. Many thanks for that--it will make me more attentive to future structures.
Have relatives in Linz, so got the NE pretty quickly. But lots of trouble in other places. Kept thinking of a word equivalent to "mnemonic" for 'memory aids' and never did get 'smart drugs.' Got 'taut'on a perp but still don't understand how that means 'playless.'
But I never mind a challenge, so this was still fun!
The clue for 36D baffled me. Could tell through crosses that it was going to be UNLEADED. Wasn't the year 1976? That was when catalytic converters were first required on cars.
"Play" (in a steering wheel) is looseness that makes it necessary to turn the wheel a great deal in order to produce minimal (in comparison to properly tuned) wheel movement on anything steered by/with a steering wheel. It`s also dangerous and should be corrected ASAP. I`ve never heard it used as "looseness" as in a stretched tarp.
I think the meaning of 36-Down was when leaded gas was no longer available.
When a rope, for example, is not held tightly, it is said to have some play in it; thus taut equals playless,
Misty: one definition of 'play': free or unimpeded motion (as of a part of a machine); also : the length or measure of such motion . ie: a cam shaft could be 'loose' and have too much 'play'. Hope this helps.
Got it! Thanks, everybody!
PLAY can mean freedom of movement. When a circus helper holds the thick rope for the acrobat to ascend or descend, he must allow just the correct amount of PLAY in the rope. It cannot be too TAUT or too slack.
SCHMALTZY/ MAUDLIN
I agree that schmalzy does not have quite the same nuance as maudlin , but Merriam Webster lists it as a synonym.
QUOTE:
Appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way <a schmaltzy television commercial featuring a photogenic, perfect family
Synonyms chocolate-box, cloying, drippy, fruity, gooey, lovey-dovey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, novelettish, saccharine, sappy, schmaltzy, sentimental, sloppy, slushy, soppy, soupy, spoony (or spooney), sticky, sugarcoated, sugary, wet
Chapstick:
You're right.
Rick: I'm sorry.
Jalmar: Bite me. You're wrong.
Eddy B., do you take the "immediate release" form, or "slow-release"? 2 gm is a lot of Niacin, and if you are also on statin drugs, the "slow release" form could increase the risk of stroke. So, I hope you are doing this under the care of a physician?
I used to take the quick release form, starting out at 125 mg (about 1/16th of your dose) and gradually working up to 1 gm (half your dose)...but those damn flushes were worse than menopause!!
Hello everybody. Welp, it wasn't MINUETTO, which I wanted so much I couldn't let it go, even though TWIM, ECCI, AFAN, and LINU made no sense. I should have known LINZ, though, because of the Mozart symphony of the same name. So I erased MINU, put in the TERZ from the perps, and still had to look up TERZETTO to see what the heck it is.
Wanted VERA or VERO for the "I trust" name. When I was eventually forced to put in FIDO I felt a bit uncomfortable with it, as I think it refers more to "faithful" (fidelity) than to "I trust," unless one stretches being "faithful" into being "trustworthy." However, I bet if I look it up, I'll discover "Fido" literally does translate to "I trust."
Anyway, apart from a few nits, I enjoyed this puzzle. It gave me a couple of hours of solving pleasure and head scratching.
Yellowrocks is, of course, right. "Most often, not always, the constructor's and editor's decisions survive our nits."
Sure enough, "fido" means "I trust" in Latin. Fido, fidas, fidat?
My brother used to take niacin tablets. Sure made his face red! He claimed it "cleaned him out." I don't know if he still takes it. Heck, he used to take large doses of inositol, too. Yes, that's the same stuff they (used to) use in battleship paint. I wonder if it made him thick skinned. LOL
Hello, Saturday Silkie solvers!
Great job, Splynter, thanks, and especially for the MARTEN link.
NAILED IT! Or almost. I sashayed right through the bottom of this one and it really helps to know Spanish as well as a smattering of Latin.
TERZETTO is close enough to suss
out as three (instruments) and I vaguely recall seeing LINZ once before. ConFIO means "I confide" so it's a short leap to add the "d"
Love Barry's wordplay on pen emanation, OINK and look like a satyr, LEER.
Sadly, I had UNCLENED and did not know DOJO. That is my learning moment today.
A great and fun challenge.
Have a wonderful Saturday, everyone!
To the fake "black Jalmar":
Come up with your own stolen identity!
Btw, I am a black Jalmar but not really black. More of a light skinned black Jalmar. My mother is Irish. Go figure.
I struggled through the themeless Saturday puzzle as I usually do with lots of red-letter help. I had trouble at the intersection of TWIT and TEAL. I think a Brit's definition of a twit is a little more specialized. Teal seems more blue-green than pine green.
Did I try this one on you guys before? If so, chalk it up to my CRS. If not, give it a try.
The letters A, B, C and D represent different digits. If AB + CA = DA and AB – CA = A, what digit does D represent?
@HeartRx. The Rx calls for 500mg
qid. Also taking Lovastatin. Diabetics are walking time bombs
for strokes anyway. #1 cause for deaths. Have lasted 21 years with it tho.
Why I always say "take care".
eddy
Good afternoon, folks. Thanks, Barry, again, for a great puzzle. Much better than yesterday's. Thank you Splynter, for the review.
Really liked this puzzle, once I got through it. It was tough in spots, but easy in others.
Had ESTATE for 2D for a while. Thought that was obvious, but fixed it later to EX MATE. I do have one of those.
Did not know Paul ERDOS, but got him with perps. read the link that was provided today, and he was quite an individual. Wonder what his IQ was?
Did not know TER, but got it with perps. I am not a medical person in any way. I detect some controversy in the use of that word in the pharmaceutical realm.
Thought WC FIELDS was excellent.
I have eaten many QUIZNOS sandwiches. They are great. Of course I pretty much like any type of Sub.
Thought DETENTE was an excellent Clue/Answer. Good job.
See you tomorrow.
Abejo
fermatprime, did you study Paul Erdos?
To all: Since I like food, I will share what we had last night at our St. Bridget Council #23 meeting.
Pork Tenderloin, Roast Beef, Gravy, Dumplings, Mashed Potatoes, Sauerkraut, Green Beans, Salad/Dressing, Rye Bread, and Kolackey's for dessert.
Nothing better than a great Bohemian Dinner.
Abejo
Abejo: If I`m not mistaken, Mr. Silk has departed this mortal realm. If not, my apologies Mr. Silk.
@Bill G: D=9 ????
I agree that ter defined as it was today is deceptive. I wanted "sig," which is literally the Rx instructions. (As in, "Sig: 1 po TID.")
Newbie here, formerly an LACC follower.
Barry Silk will be most upset to learn he's not longer of this planet.
- John
Abejo: gained five pounds just reading your menu.
Puzzle: DNF, hardly started.
REROOF came easy for me. Lots of hail damage in our neighborhood from May storm. I have funny dark streaks going down three walls in my office and smell mold. Still waiting nervously for busy roofers to get here. Cough a lot in here. Requested tarp installation--hasn't arrived.
-PK
TEAL is my favorite color, but in my mind it's not similar to pine green.
TER is the root for words like tertiary, but three in Latin is TRES.
I needed a lot of googling and WAGS all over, but I did finish. REROOF fell in as one of my first attempts.
Abejo, sounds like a great dinner.
Speaking of eating, we just got back from lunch. The restaurant specializes in tapas (a word from a recent CW). Everything we had was wonderful including spinach sauted with garbanzo beans and pine nuts, something with egg plant and brie, caprese with buffalo mozzarella, and skewered chorizo. Bread pudding with pear and caramel for dessert. Really good!
BillG, you didn't answer gespenst.
Anon @ 2:02,
You might be confusing Barry Silk with Dan Naddor, who did pass away last year. Rather Gespenst might be a ghost, judging by the name.
Jayce,
Fido is an oddball. I know it's not first conjugation, but my dictionary doesn't give a normal infinitive of it, only fido and fisus sum. If I had to guess I'd say it would be fidere, so fido, fides, fidest. But I can't confirm it with what's available. It's the root for the Latin "adeste fideles" (Come all ye faithful"), and the Marine Corps motto: Semper Fi-(deles?), always faithful/loyal.
Very nice challenge. Had nerd before TWIT, Lodz before LINZ.
Great fill and some great cluing.
My fave WC Fields quote: "If you don't drink, don't smoke and don't chase women, you don't live any longer, it just feels like you do"
@Anonymous 2:02: I can assure you that I'm still around!
For those of you in the Washington DC area there is going to be a Arlington Puzzle Festival on November 5. The Festival will be held at the Arlington Public Library and feature a crossword competition in the afternoon using puzzles provided by Will Shortz, the NY Times crossword editor. Should be lots of fun for puzzle fans!
Also waiting to see BillG's answer.
- John
Eddy B. glad to know it's an "Rx". And, may you have 21 more!! Hugs...
Barry S., thanks for stopping by...glad to know you are still of this realm!! Wonderful puzzle today, as always. Why else would we call them "Saturday Silkies"???
@Splynter: Liked the write up today. Why does a hot model wear an engagement ring.(or worse...why did I notice?)
Great for Barry S. to stop by(even though we had to threaten his life...).
Lots of fun blogging today.
Hey, does anybody know WHERE'S DENNIS ?
yes we do
desper-otto:
Your avatar name makes me chuckle every time I read it. Cute.
Puzzle answer: Yes, D = 9.
In the ones column in the addition problem, B + A = A. The only way for that to happen is if B = 0. In the subtraction problem, that means 0 – A = A. With borrowing, that will work only if A = 5. In the tens column of the subtraction problem, 5 – C equals a leading zero. With the borrowing, C must equal 4. Therefore, in the addition problem, in the tens column, A + C must equal 5 + 4. Therefore, D equals 9. So the original problems must have been 50 + 45 = 95 and 50 – 45 = 5.
Does the name PAVLOV ring a bell?
Okay anonymous. Where is he?
Finished the puzzle just as we left forVala’s Pumpkin Patch to meet grandkids. Golf on a beautiful autumn day immediately after getting home precluded blogging but here I am. Thoroughly enjoyed the puzzle!
Musings
-ECCE, LINZ and TERZETTO left me 3 cells short of a finish.
-I needs me some of them SMART PILLS!
-Loved the FIDO and SLAW clue/answer!
-Quizno’s failed here in our town but I loved their samiches!
-I had Playless as Dull as in no play makes a dull boy and then Dark as in no play tonight before great answer of TAUT appeared
-Great W.C. quote!
Mr. Ed, I'm not Anonymous, but Dennis is tied up with a busy life these days and taking a break from the blog, although he did check in at the start of yesterday, thanks to some DF-ness in the puzzle that he couldn't resist!
I don't recall seeing you post much lately either...
Mr. Silk:
What a pleasure to see you here after a long absence, thank you. Do we have any from the corner in the Arlington area? I would love to go
Glad my math and logic skills are up to par :)
Yes, Gespenst = ghost ... it's a wordplay on my name. A German wordplay, that is. But I assure you I am as corporeal as I assume the rest of you (including the esteemed Barry Silk) are!
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