Words: 72
Blocks: 32
Every
now and then you get a puzzle that appears to be daunting, but little
by slowly the pieces fall into place, and you can solve it. In the
past, I have been thwarted by Mr. Collins' grids, and this one was
looking bleak, too, but then I got my toe in the corner of the doorway,
and managed to push my way through to the end, under my personal time,
and without red-letter or Google help. Monster 10-letter triples in
each pinwheel, with two 12-letter "SQU" words climbing inside the grid;
5D.+ Beyond reproach : SQUEAKY CLEAN +
21D. Followed a caller : SQUARE-DANCED
And clechos, too~! - the ones with the "+" next to them
OnWaRd ~!!!
ACROSS:
1. Seller of beignets and éclairs : PATISSERIE
- had it not been for working on a drafting project for a pastry store
in Brooklyn, I would never have gotten this one. Forget about it being
French; but then I tried PTAS for organizers, 1D, and that was just
enough to trigger my memory
11. Women's medal-awarding Olympic sport since 1992 : JUDO
15. Men in dress clothes? : DRAG QUEENS + 33D.
16. "The Night Circus" author Morgenstern : ERIN - never heard of the story or author; each letter came via perps....my car is nick-named Erin, though
17. Reviewers of plays : ANNOUNCERS - sporting plays, that is
18. One on a catboat : MAST - one mast, not one person
19. "__ they all, all honourable men": "Julius Caesar" : SO ARE - Shakespeare
20. Bill listings : FEES
22. Degree in math? : NTH
23. Bankrupt European automaker : SAAB
26. Escort : SQUIRE - hey, it's Saturday, what'd you expect
28. Wednesday relative : ITT - Addam's Family Characters, TV and Movie
31. Alaska is the only state without one : KMART - I had KM---, and thought, "well, that can't be right..."
34. Expected : USUAL
35. One of a G.I.'s three squares : MRE - Meals, Ready to Eat - "Three Hots and a Cot" - or is that prison?
36. River near Vicksburg : YAZOO - map no, your eyes are not getting worse....
37. Auto repair franchise : AAMCO - remember the ads? Double A, [beep-beep], M-C-O
38. Pecan, e.g. : PIE - not NUT
39. Turntable feature : CHANGER - very vague, but what can you do?
41. Prefix with laryngology : OTOlaryngology - normally seen here at the blog as "ENT", the Ear, Nose and Throat doctor
42. Trumpet : EXTOL - the verb
44. Dig deeply : ADORE - the 'hip' version of 'dig'
45. Zoning class. : RES.idential
- anyone a fan of Sim City? I love the game; it has three types of
zoning; residential, commercial, and industrial...guess which one
generates the most pollution?
46. "Mystery, Alaska" star : CROWE - Russell, in the hockey movie
47. Golf unit : ROUND - a shout-out to our own Husker G....must be getting cold on those early AM rounds
48. City east of Utrecht : EDE - map; just like it says - east of Utrecht
49. Brief time out? : CATNAP
51. Color on San Jose Shark uniforms : TEAL - Hockey team; won't be needing uniforms or gear any time soon...
53. Dave DeBusschere was its last commissioner: Abbr. : ABA - not attorneys, but basketball
54. Expos, now : NATS - the Nationals - I defer to our beloved baseball Boomer girl, C.C. for more (C.C.: The Expos became the Nats in 2005. Today's constructor Peter Collins is a Tigers fan.)
57. Like some sour cream : NO FAT - tried LO-FAT to start
61. OPEC units : BBLS
- the often discussed, but never really cleared up, abbreviation for barrels;
we have gone over this before; same with carburetors, too.
63. Do a steno's job : TRANSCRIBE
66. Place : LIEU
67. Rapscallion : HOLY TERROR - nice
68. Infinitive with a circumflex : ÊTRE - the diacritical mark over the "E"
69. One with a passing interest? : SPEED DEMON - Aaargh~!!! Please, people, do not cruise in the fast lane - is this just a NY thing?
DOWN:
1. Some organizers : PDAs - Personal Data Assistants, not Parent/Teacher Associations
2. River in Tuscany : ARNO
3. Ethiopia's largest lake : TANA - map
4. Former Russian foreign minister Ivanov et al. : IGORs - well, I had the "I", sooo....
6. Item on Argentina's flag : SUN - Anyone remember Match II ~?
7. Continental trade gp. : EEC - more here for those interested in the European Economic Community
8. Pilot's hazard : REEF - if you've already ditched the plane in the drink, I would think that a reef is the least of your concerns....oh, a boat pilot - never mind
9. About : IN RE - not AS TO
10. Word comprising 60% of itself : ESSES - great clue; 3/5ths of the letters, or 60% are "S"
11. Scout's brother, in a Harper Lee novel : JEM - "To Kill a Mockingbird"
12. Pitchblende, e.g. : URANIUM ORE
13. Wandering : DISTRACTED
14. Free : ON THE LOOSE - oh, so close - I had ON THE HOUSE; in the past, I was not so much of a 30D. - my drinks were rarely "on the house"
24. Hunan nurse : AMAH
25. Market : BAZAAR - not BODEGA
27. "Psych" network : USA
28.+ Beyond reproach : IMPECCABLE + see 5D at the top
29. Pink-nosed cereal pitcher : TRIX RABBIT - we just had this two weeks ago Saturday
30. One who won't take a shot? : TEETOTALER - a shot of liquor, that is
32. Lively movement : RONDO
33.+ Dress up : TOG OUT
40.+ Shore bird : ERNE; and + 60D. Shore bird : TERN
43. Personal : OWN
50. What hikers wear? : PATHS - another cute clue
52. He played Ugarte in "Casablanca" : LORRE
55. Rays' home field, familiarly, with "The" : TROPicana Stadium - I got this one, C.C.~!
56. Pitcher's goal : SALE
58. Solid : FIRM
59. Bug follower? : ABOO - Bug-a-boo
62. Boy who fought his father in a 1969 hit : SUE - Johnny Cash - link away~!
64. Emmy-winning scientist : NYE - Bill Nye, the science guy
65. Kind of time: Abbr. : STD - Standard, which arrives this November; at this point, I think we need to do away with "Daylight Saving Time" altogether
Splynter
Hello Puzzlers -
ReplyDeleteThis one looked like a DNF for the longest time. I stubbornly clung to Whistle clean, even though that interfered with SAAB, and thus roadblocked the northwest. Once that got resolved, the rest was an ordinary mowing job.
Never can remember Amah.
Happy Saturday all!
Morning, all!
ReplyDeleteSimilar experience for me. I really thought this was going to be a DNF for me. Too many unknown names, too many tricky clues, too much empty space.
The NE and SE corners were the worst for me. Up in the NE, it took forever to finally get DISTRACTED, which allowed me to get ERIN and EDE.
Down south, it was SQUARED DANCED that finally broke the log jam and gave me the toehold (just to mix metaphors) I needed to get TRANSCRIBE, HOLLY TERROR and SPEED DEMON.
And then, when I finally finished, I didn't get the *TADA* so I had to go look for a mistake. Turns out it's not actually spelled PATESSERIE or EGOR after all...
Fail, fail, fail. Everything except the 12 letters in the North East corner. Clueless to the author and brother in novel. For 12D I have ---NIUMORE. For 13D I have ---TRACTED and all I can think of is CON and PRO, and I know neither is correct. For 14D I have ---HELOOSE and no idea, so I'm posting my notes and going to read the write up.
ReplyDeletefirst pass across = 6 words, 5 down
42 A EXTOL, not exalt. 8D I was soaring, not sailing, so it took awhile. 17A Reviewers of Plays. Umpires, Referees ? No. Announcers ? Yes. Excellent misdirection.
Thought 50D Clue was great. 44A Dig Deeply had me exploring. SW fell first.
Due south . After seeing 53 A Sharks color = Teal, and 55D Rays home = TROP, was still in sports frame of mind and confidently entered SAVE for 56 D Pitchers goal. Eventually resolved 69A Passing Interest = Speed Demon,(NASCAR ?) but it first seemed it was football related.
33 D Dress up = TOG OUT ? Clecho with 15A, but TOG Out ? I'm thinking putting on the ritz and it's TOG ?
Good morning Saturday soldiers!
ReplyDeleteThis one required some heavy lifting, and in my case it ran into overtime. After my first pass of the downs I had only the TRIX RABBIT, URANIUM ORE, RONDO, LORRE and SUE. From there I tried to spread out to the rest of the grid.
My CHANGER was first a TONEARM and my CATNAP was a SIESTA. It took a lot of doing and undoing before it came together. My newspaper is a real mess this morning.
But it was fun. Thanks, Peter. And thanks, Splynter for the blurry YAHOO learning moment.
Argh ! DIS TRACTED. ON THE LOOSE. URA NIUMORE. D'oh!
ReplyDeleteI still don't know what a CATBOAT is. I know what a boat is. A boat is a void in the water into which one pours money. But I will have to look up Catboat.
Thank you Peter and thank you Splynter. Your write up was 5D. Peter, Splynter says you are a Tigers fan. How about Miggy ? That triple crown accomplishment puts him in with an elite group of players. In the pre-internet, pre-ESPN days when Yaz did it, I read the box scores daily in the local rag. Some still say he couldn't have done it except for the fact half his games were in Fenway, but I don't think I agree with that. Anyway, what Cabrerra did this year was awesome. Good luck to you and JzB in the playoffs.
Desper-Otto, our furnace is running. Went to low 30s in the western burbs of Chicago. Just saw that your area will be dropping to the upper 60s tomorrow, so this first arctic blast is going to cool down a fair chunk of the country. Won't be long before I'm reaching for the thermals.
Husker Gary, big game today for this old Buckeye fan. Will you be watching ? Good luck.
Splynter’s experience and result with this puzzle were mine also! The long fills were the biggest help. What fun with clever (maddening) cluing, tough recalls and learning (catboat, patisserie, togout?)
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-No golf today, Splynter. It was 27° last night. Wait a minute, the SUN’s coming out…
-My women were on a LUGE before doing JUDO
-Joann laughs hard at men in drag. Me, not so much, but I loved Tootsie (okay, he wasn’t a real DRAG QUEEN but…)
-I had a bill once where the part was 79¢ and the labor FEE was $80 for 10 minutes of work
-No KMART in Nome? What’s a guy to do?
-MRE’s make a great exothermic demo in a chemistry lab. Man, they get hot! BTW, I’ll bet even the very literate. non scientific denizens of this blog can figure out what exothermic means.
-I stacked a lot of 45’s on my changer in my salad days.
-Zoning changes can be made by pols that are not SQUEAKY CLEAN
-Some people can’t CATNAP, I sure can. 10 minutes and I’m good to go. I took one yesterday during the horrible Adam Sandler animated movie Hotel Transylvania.
-The NATS are the first D.C. baseball team playing in the post season since 1933
-Did anyone else have SITU for place? In situ meaning “in place”.
-It’s not law that the left lane on the interstate is only a passing lane but try driving the speed limit there. You’ll have a convoy in a hurry.
-Hadda be IGOR or IVAN
-URANIUM ORE was long fill that made me know I could do this
-Leonard on TBBT wasn’t named SUE but lamented that his name didn’t help with the bullies
-TTP, yeah I might squeeze in some time for the Husker game today ;-). I’m convinced that we’ll win without penalties and turnovers but I ain’t bettin’ the mortgage.
Good morning Splynter, C.C. et al.
ReplyDeleteThanks for snaking us through this maze of awesome Saturday entries, Splynter. Starting out, I entered PATISSERIE immediately, and thought it would be a walk in the park. But the NE nearly did me in.
I had polO instead of JUDO at 11A, JiM instead of JEM at 11D and buS. rather than RES. at 45A. I did have ON THE LOOSE at 14D, but that was no help with those other mistakes. I finally took out polo, filled in NTH, SQUIRE, USUAL and AAMCO, and saw the light at the end of the tunnel.
Once more on BBLs: The abbreviation stands for "Blue Barrel(s)". The standard barrel size used to be 40 gallons in other industries, but oil was transported in 42 gallon barrels. Standard Oil starting manufacturing 42 gallon barrels that were blue, to distinguish them from other barrels, and to assure the buyers that they were actually getting 42 gallons of oil.
That's all I've got!
Kinda hard until I got "SQUEAKY CLEAN", then everything fell into place. Have a good day all. ND v. Miami. Won't be like "Catholics v. Convicts" games of the 90's, but still looking forward to it.
ReplyDeleteMornin' All!'
ReplyDeleteTalk about daunting... big surprise to me, after filling in AMAH, BAZAAR & SAAB, things began to fall in place. I sail, so I know what a catboat is, but put in SAIL at first, thinking it could be MAST, but not likely....... Once I got over that hurdle, I quickly got NTH, SQUIRE, USUAL, AAMCO. From there it went a lot better.
Husker: I did put SITU at first...
Peter: I felt the same way as I pencilled REEF in. And thx for a fine write-up.
10D. I had EERIE at first.
Favorite clue-Deeply dig
Gotta run!
'
The reckless positivity of this support group is more stimulating than a few shots of espresso.
ReplyDeleteKeep your sponsors on speed-dial folks, cuz here comes reality:
“Turntable feature: CHANGER”
Borderline crap.
“Rapscallion: HOLY TERROR”
This is not “nice,” dear-ee. Rather, it is crap.
“Dress up: TOGOUT.” Is the creator of this puzzle 200 years old?
OK. I'm feeling edgy again. Time to pray.
"God,
grant me the serentiy to keep it real,
the courage to create a post that will lead to mass telephone calls to sponsors,
and the wisdom to know this post will vanish faster than one can say...
pull-eeze"
Good morning everyone. Splynter, great write-up.
ReplyDeleteMixed feelings about this one. TOG OUT? Many of the daunting longer fills turned out to be words we're all familiar with. Got flummoxed in the NE with the JEM/ERIN cross. Didn't know anything about catboats, either. Nice shoutout to Yellowrocks on SQUAREDANCED. Lake TANA is the source of the Blue Nile. ÊTRE and BBLS were gimmes. Knew the YAZOO from geomorphology - SW Mississippi.
Here is Beethoven's Turkish RONDO.
PILOT - Here is a clip showing the work of a PILOT in Hamburg Harbor. At time 0240, a Pilot boards a Japanese container vessel to make the final entrance into the inner harbor and coordinate the tugboat assist to moor to the wharf at the container yard. Pilots are "Lotsen" in German. I apologize that there is no English in this (except where the pilot's chorus is practicing a sea shanty.) But the visuals are good.
Welcome aboard to Retatty.
Sorry Anon @ 1008 is off his/her meds again.
Enjoy the day.
Wow, what a great puzzle.
ReplyDeleteI got BAZAAR and TRIXRABBIT early and thought this was another show-off scrabble letters puzzle. And then I got SPEEDDEMON and HOLYTERROR and thought, wow! That's two neat phrases to stack.
I looked at "Men in dress clothes?" a long time trying to make something work with surgical dressing (especially since I had DR), and when DRAGQUEENS fell I had my first good laugh. SQUEAKYCLEAN came shortly after and that's not just a Q showoff word, it's a beauty. ONTHELOOSE was another great one.
Even if I was going to be super-critical of this one, the only iffy thing I thought was having ERNE and TERN in the same puzzle (are they the same bird?).
Very smooth solve today, but took several passes to get there. I've come to love the Saturday puzzle.
Anon:
ReplyDeleteLet us know how that "serentiy" thing works out for you. We all may want to give it a go.
Husker:
It is in fact illegal (though rarely if ever enforced) to drive in the left lane on the interstate in Kentucky. We have signs every few miles that say "Keep Right Except to Pass". The law was passed (and promptly ignored) as a response to Buckeyes who get in the left lane at Toledo and stay there till they get to West Palm Beach. Maddening.
Thelma, from last night (and before). I mostly raced at Clay City Int'l and Bluegrass Raceway, but occasionally at every strip within a couple hundred miles. My own cars were a '56 Chevy (C Gas) and a '66 GTO (C Stock), but I drove several cars for others, including a SS Class Dodge with the 413 Cu In. Cross Ram, the quickest and fastest I've been, low 11's and about 140. A far cry from AA Fuel, but fun, (and way expensive). The fastest I've ever been, though, was on a two lane road in a SHO Taurus owned by my cousin, 145 mph, in 1989. WTH was I thinking? These days, I get the bike up to 110 or so once in a while, and cars are transportation. The days when an amateur can play at racing were fun, and although gone, definitely not forgotten.
If you enjoy reminiscing, my email is on my profile.
(the real) Larry
The last year I taught I had a disturbed boy who never did or said anything in a socially inappropriate situation unless it was certain to elicit negative responses from those around him. One day I took my very wealthy white kids to a skating rink in the ‘hood run by a former student who is a minister who works in this inner city Omaha neighborhood. The aforementioned boy started picking up soccer balls and throwing them at the black kids and causing a huge disturbance and generating a real potential problem. He knew exactly what he was doing and loved it. I had to call his dad to come get him after I got him off the floor and isolated.
ReplyDeleteAnon, did/does your father’s phone ring a lot? At least my boy displayed his pathetic shortcomings publicly.
C.C., I guess you show greater courage to allow these posts to stay even though these poor people are looking for the abuse and could avoid it so easily. Those of us who understand the intent of this site can even find some amusement value in the posts from these people with such huge holes in their lives even though it is not as much as their enjoyment. I won’t address them again.
Good morning:
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with Splynter's assessment of this puzzle but, unlike him, I didn't get the TA-DA because I put Jeb instead of Jem for Scout's brother. And like Barry, had an "e" instead of an "i" in 1A. And, like SJSJ, I also liked the stacking of Holy Terror and Speed Demon.
Kudos, Peter, for a tough but enjoyable challenge. Great write-up, Splynter.
JJM @ 9:16 - I just recently heard the "Catholics vs Convicts" expression; we just referred to Miami as a bunch of thugs. Go Irish, right, Steve? And go Yankees!
Have a great Saturday.
Is that the same "anonymous" who criticized my negativity for mentioning that a particular puzzle was mostly gold with a little bit of dross? Or are there two nameless guttersnipes -- one that shows up whenever I am negative to criticize my negativity and another who shows up whenever I am positive to criticize my positivity?
ReplyDeleteI'm so confused...
Splynter: I enjoyed your write-up & links more than my (LOL) solve.
ReplyDelete(Shouldn't have given my "perps" the day off after their workout yesterday).
So a DNF ... whoopie!!!
Learning moments: Lake TANA, EDE and the City it is East of, Utrecht.
TEETOTALER, ugh, I dislike puzzles with this kind of language in the grid.
The Discovery Channel is replaying "How BOOZE Built America" right NOW !!!
I noticed there isn't a show called "How TEETOTALER's Built America."
OK, a nit, it is TROPicana FIELD (not Stadium).
Hope I see some TERNs or ERNEs when I take my Sunset walk on Honeymoon Island.
Cheers !!!
Well, I tried to take Marti's advice last Saturday on giving Silkies a chance, and it helped this morning. By being patient I at least got a toehold with DRAGQUEENS in the NW. After that I had to cheat a little but pretty soon most of it fell into place. So thanks, Peter, and you too, Splynter, for getting this Saturday off to a better start than I expected.
ReplyDeleteHave a great weekend, everybody!
Well after a couple of bad days this week, I feel I did pretty well on this one. I had to cheat a bit though--came here for an assist on SQUAREDANCED, JUDO, ERIN and MAST, but the rest found its way together with only my help (i.e. WAGs and perps).
ReplyDeleteI sometimes need to just look at the top of the blog to see one of the themes, or in this case a long one that stumped me, and then a bit later to look just at one or two others that refuse to solve themselves.
Enjoy your weekend everyone!
AA @ 10:01am: (Peter: I felt the same way as I pencilled REEF in. And thx for a fine write-up.).
ReplyDeleteOOPS! Splynter, sorry. Still learning the what's what's and how-to's on this blog. Thank YOU for a fine write-up, and thanks to Peter for a fun puzzle. :-)
ANON @10:08
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you get out of your 15 Across outfit, put on your big boy pants, and put up or shut up ?
Point us to one of the puzzles you've had published.
Didn't think so.
Pathetic.
Well today was real learning experience! Lots of misdirection, & plenty to research, This puzzle may keep me busy into Sunday...
ReplyDeleteMy only nit: 50D what hikers wear,,, i had PA--S (must be pants!) Well,,, i am always hiking up my pants! ( i would wear suspenders but then i can't leave my shirt out to hide my beer gut...) (hmm, more research needed!)
44A dig deeply = adore, love that clue, it had me in a hole!
Anon @ 10:08, is that you?
Can somebody pls find a joke about a ship pilot?
Rapscallion, what a marvelous word...
Barry G. it's pronounced "I"gor
Wind, I have a state patrolman who lives next door and he told me that the left lane is not SUPPOSED to be a strict passing lane but most people expect it to be. He also said if you stay within 5 mph of the limit, you won’t be stopped so when we went west (talk about alliteration) last month, we kept it at 80 mph with no problem. If you set your cruise at 75 mph and stay in the left lane, your rear view mirror will look like an incredibly long, fast conga line!
ReplyDeleteI’ve been over 100 mph on a highway twice in my life – once as a passenger in a ’64 Impala SS (145 mph) and once as a driver in my brother’s Corvette (110 mph). Never again! 110 mph on a bike is as close to insanity as I can think my friend! We’d miss your occasional displays of irascibility here at our linguistic Popsicle stand if you hit a Dixie cup at that speed ;-).
HG, i remember when i got my new Honda 650cc Nighthawk back in 83', I took it out on the old airport runways at Floyd Bennett Field to see how fast i could go. I only got it up to 88 mph, but i realized that i was just a missile at that speed! I could not turn, or lean, or do anything but go straight on (how boring). The best thing about a bike is the turns!
ReplyDeleteI once went to a poker run, & at the end they had games. One was whoever rode their bike the slowest for 10 yards was the winner... funniest thing i ever saw!
note: last one across the finish line wins, if you put your foot down, you lose!
Hello everybody. When I finally finished solving this puzzle, I sat there for a minute saying "Wow!" over and over again. That pretty well sums it up. I was impressed, pleased, entertained, and enriched.
ReplyDeleteNeedless to say, but I'll say it anyway, when I got SQUAREDANCED I immediately thought of our own Katerina Yellowrocks.
Wanted PANTS for What hikers wear and could not get the image of people hiking up their pants out of my mind. After changing it to PATHS, I looked at it thinking "Huh?" and then I was like, "Waaaow!"
I loved Dig deeply too.
For a long time I refused to put in DRAG QUEENS, thinking "Naahh..." but by golly my first instinct on that one was right. Jayce Jayce Jayce, stop doubting yourself!
Waaaow!
CED, I got my first motorcycle license on Guam back in the '60's. Part of the driving test was a slow test. There were two marks on the pavement about 10 feet apart, and you had to take at least 10 seconds to cross it, and no putting your foot down. The cop giving the test offered to let us try the slow test on his Harley Hawg -- no takers. I'm still licensed to drive a motorcycle, though I haven't been on one in at least 30 years. It's been "grandfathered" in every state I've lived in.
ReplyDeleteCrossedEyedDave, gmta about hiking up one's pants.
ReplyDeleteErnes/erns are eagles. Pretty big characters. Terns are related to gulls.
ReplyDeleteWe've seen both words a jillion times. However, the puzzle was made BETTER by their inclusion. They helped set up some great entries- HOLY TERROR, SPEED DEMON, and SQUARE DANCED. It's been said before, but it's worth repeating- Those three and four letter words that we see over and over again often allow the constructor to fill much of the grid with some really neat, fun stuff.
Not so fun- Pete Seagulls song, "Tern, Tern, Tern"
Misty @ 11:53, “Way to go!!” Keep tackling these Saturday stumpers, and before you know it, you will be saying, “Easiest puzzle this week…”
ReplyDeleteCED @ 1:36, I think that motorcycle “race” you linked is more my speed…Although, I did once drive a Lamborghini so fast past a standing cop car, that he didn’t even bother to try to chase me! But that was when I was much younger, and much more foolish!
Jerome @ 3:25, gotta agree whole”Heart”edly with you about some less than stellar short fill. When it leads to those other beauts, I just have to admire the skill of the constructor!!
STARED at the clues. Got OTO and PATISSERIE, spelled it TEA totalers and quit. Knew this one was WAYYYY over my head. (sigh)
ReplyDeleteHusker Gary
ReplyDeleteI drove thru your state many years ago and every truck driver on the road hit the cb and warned everyone not to go over 55.. :) how things have changed..
I enjoyed your trip thru s dakota.. :) I did that too a few years later on my way back to the coast... end of august.. hot as sin.. drove for miles just to get to wall drugs.. :) and sturgis... no a/c... it was great.. :) wall drug had free ice water.. :) :)
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Well, I got TEETOTALER & SQUAREDANCED and a few other little fills like ARNO & SAAB! However, I thought free was "unfettered", LORRE was "Wells". Never heard of PATISSERIE or AAMCO or YAZOO or TANA.
ReplyDeleteOnce Splynter gave me the two top leaders, I was off and running. Thanks, once again.
The first week I got my first Buick Century (I know, the ultimate granny car), I took an ailing friend to a hospital an hour away from home. On the way back, he said, "Are you in a hurry to get home?" I looked down and was cruising along a relatively traffic-free four-lane at over 110 mph. More power than I had before. He called me SPEED DEMON thereafter.
Aren't DRAG QUEENS women who hang around race tracks? LOL
PK..... :) still chuckling.... some of them are... :) :)
ReplyDeleteErne
ReplyDeleteTern
I don't know, but i bet it would make a great crossword word...
For Spitzboov
I always thought it was "teatotaler"
Don't drink & Blog
My DW made sure i don't leave the house drunk!
Oh My! maybe i should not have said that!
make your own MRE's (not the clip i was looking for, but one of those side links shows you how to make the MRE heater at home!)
Splynter! Uranium! in red!!! how do you do it!!!!!
Jerome & CrossEyedDave -
ReplyDeleteThanks for the ornithological lesson!
CED:
ReplyDeleteOf all the bikes I've ever owned, including my current BMW, my favorite was my '83 Night Hawk. I rode it to three coasts and Canada, and it became an extension of my body and mind; riding it was reflexive.
Gary:
I hear you, but speed is its own reward.
Question:
Does anyone (other than Dennis) know about the CBSTSSMTD organized by Brock Yates of Car & Driver magazine?
Not many commentors today, either the weather is nice, or the puzzle was too tough...
ReplyDeleteTo Kill A Mockingbird collage.
I have been doing a lot of YouTube surfing lately to find Blog material. Today YouTube sends me an email of things i might like, & sure enough, There was Barbara Edens belly button that i was looking for last week! Plus Barbara doing a silly egyptian dance, & singing spinning wheel. I miss those old TV variety shows! Anyway, i am not going to link them, you will have to surf them for yourself. But this one Barbara Eden clip i must include!
Jazz, your Tigers look very impressive. Maybe my Reds will play your guys in The World Series. They would probably call it the "I-75 Series".
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine all those Reds fans driving up and down 75 in the wrong lane!?! Or do only Buckeye fans do that?
Windhover, I have it all except the MTD. Must ruminate on it some more.
ReplyDeleteWow! A SQUARE DANCING PUZZLE! Thanks for the shout out Spitz and Jayce and a big yellowrock to both of you.
ReplyDeletePeter’s choreography was so smooth and I was rocking to his fast rhythms all the way. I promenaded right through this one. I got DRAG QUEEN from DR which led right to SQUEAKY CLEAN. I got PATISSERIE from PA. It is a delight to follow a caller who has challenging but doable choreography. There were so many clever moves (HOLY TERROR, SPEED DEMON, hikers wear a PATH) to SQUARE DANCE to. Peter even had a ROUND dance between the sets.
Squaring up for the last set, I met ERIN, a new friend and JEM, an old friend. It took a while to recall his name. In the same square we had a new dancer who was ON THE LOOSE, sashaying all over the place in LIEU of following the caller.
Peter, thanks for a fun dance, and Splynter, thanks for the great entertainment afterward.
BTW, Jayce, Although my dad liked to sing me the German Katarina song, my actual name is Kathryn. I’m more commonly called Kathy
Windhover, (CBSTSSMTD), I don't know much about it but it seems like fun. Can I drive my Camry or MGTF? I guess I better buy a CB radio first.
ReplyDeleteHey Splynter, I think we should keep daylight savings time all year. I prefer having my daylight hours in the evening over having them in the morning before I wake up.
ReplyDeleteSome of the clues were far too vague.
ReplyDeleteI always wondered where i got my sense of humor, & now, watching those old Fractured Flickers interviews that i grew up with, i had an epiphany.
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Well, thats 5. i'm outta here!
CC: thanks for that 5 rule, i'm exhausted!
Jayce, I'd prefer DST all year round too. I guess it would be tough on the farmers and the school kids in Minnesota waiting at the bus stop in the morning though.
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother's tiny town in rural Virginia never went on DST when I was young. We'd go there in the summer and everything seemed OK except the snowy TV shows starting times were off by an hour.
Anon. 8:43, yep, I never care for the clues I can't figure out until the answer is revealed. then I usually appreciate that the constructor or editor was just a bit cleverer than I was.
Cannonball Baker Sea to ShinIng Sea Memorial Trophy Dash.
ReplyDeleteAs I recall it, two man (person) teams left the Red Ball Garage in Manhattan and raced nonstop to a Holiday Inn on the beach in San Diego. No prescribed route and no blocked off roads. One year, I think, the team of Brock Yates and Dan Gurney made it in a little over 24 hours in a Porsche. The story of passing a state trooper in Iowa at 160 mph was priceless. Same experience at Marti in the Lamborghini; he didn't move.
Going to Google to confirm old memories. YMMV
HeartRX, Giant was James Dean's last movie.
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