Words: 70 (missing Q,X,Z)
Blocks: 28
PHEW~!
This one was a workout, and my brain is 23D. Alas, the
crossing of two proper names got me, so I must admit to a DNF. In fact,
a lot of names, and quite a bit of baseball for our C.C. One grid
climber today:
8. Breakfast choice : WHOLE WHEAT BAGEL - I prefer an everything with cream cheese
And some of the 10-letter answers; 4 in the across, and 4 in the downs:
23. Record holder for most games played at shortstop for one team : DEREK JETER - This guy, from the NY Yankees; I always thought his name was great for crosswords; all "E"s
32. Double : TWO-BASE HIT
13. Singer covering "Purple Haze," probably : ACID ROCKER - Despite being a left-handed guitar player, I could never get in to Jimi Hendrix; I do however, like ACID jazz, like this; not for the faint-hearted
27. Aces : HOLES IN ONE - Cards? Tennis? Ah - golf; Mike has tickets to see the LPGA US Open, played here on L.I. next week
onwARD~!
ACROSS:
1. Miller Park team nickname : BREW CREW - The Milwaukee Brewers of MLB
9. Manifesto fodder : DOGMAS
15. Prickly growth : ROSE BUSH
16. Flying star : AIR ACE - I got the chance to do this when I worked for the architect near MacArthur Airport
17. Certify : ATTEST TO
18. Van Morrison song whose title is spelled out in the chorus : GLORIA - I have linked some music; someone else can grab this one
19. Computer __ : GEEK
- I had such a scare this week; Monday my laptop went haywire, and I
was really bummed out for half the week; I managed to get in and ditched
the corrupted software, ran an error check, and then did a system
restore....blessings
20. Sets : GELS
22. Dusters, perhaps : MAIDS - ah - not the Dodge - actually, theirs was the Demon
25. More pallid : ASHIER
29. Capital of Österreich : WIEN - Vienna, Austria, if I am not mistaken; map
30. Modern address ending : COM - take your pick - GOV, EDU, NET....
34. She married during her father's presidency : LUCI - Lyndon Baines Johnson's daughter, who married in 1966
35. Like soft carpets : PILED - ah, not PLUSH
36. "Friends" actress, familiarly : JEN - Jennifer Aniston; I will refrain this week....
37. They may be warnings : BARKS
38. "Without __": Grateful Dead album : A NET - My friend Fred is a Dead Head; I prefer Van Halen's "Live Without A NET"
39. Lenten fare, say : MEAGER DIET
41. QB protectors : RGs - Right Guards in football
42. Alliance : PACT
43. Parfait features : LAYERS
44. Former Crayola color that's still one when its name is reversed : VIOLET BLUE - I am guessing the current crayon is "Blue Violet"....
47. Squeaky sound? : LONG E - eeeee....
48. Mideast's House of __ : SAUD
49. Feudal estate : FIEF - WAGed it
53. Clashing : AT ODDS - Nailed it
55. Vivaldi opera based on "The Decameron" : GRISELDA - one that did me in, crossing 46D
57. Rome's Via __ : VENETO
58. Time's Person of the Century, 1999 : EINSTEIN - Well, with the revelation of E=mc², and the theory of relativity, seemed like a good choice
59. Childish retort : ARE NOT
60. Barbershop chair features : LEG RESTS - I was thinking FOOT rests, and it wouldn't fit
DOWN:
1. Name-drop, say : BRAG - I was going to go with Wild Side from Mötley Crüe, but instead I will offer this one
2. Mechanical method : ROTE
3. Cádiz-to-Málaga dirección : ESTE
4. Quarter segment : WEEK - 13 weeks to a quarter in a fiscal year
5. "The Big Bang Theory" airer : CBS - TBS worked, too
6. "Jersey Roots, Global Reach" university : RUTGERS
7. Methyl bisulfate, e.g. : ESTER
9. The U.N.'s Hammarskjöld : DAG - Crossword experience got me this one
10. Crude guys? : OILMEN - HA~! I did have OILERS to start
11. Old fourpence coin : GROAT - The Wiki
12. First female professor at the University of Paris : MARIE CURIE
14. Vast expanses : SEAS
21. Squaw Valley sport : SKIING
23. Needing a charge : DEAD
24. Fly, in a way : JET
25. How some bonds are bought : AT PAR
26. Candidate's concern : SWING VOTER
28. Sarcastic retort : I BET
31. Visibility impediments : MISTS - HAZES, VEILS, SMOGS all worked
33. Throws out : EJECTS
34. Fictional cocker spaniel : LADY - I'm hoping MY lady is at Home Depot today
37. Scottish countryside sight : BRAE
39. Sally __ : MAE
40. Getting around : ELUDING
42. Admitted guilt for : PLED TO
45. Utah city : OGDEN
46. Pulitzer author Alison : LURIE - total unknown; here's her website bio
47. Soap containing ground pumice : LAVA
49. Bash : FETE
50. Dots on cartes : ILES - Islands on French maps
51. Work on a proof : EDIT
52. Ballpark figures : FANS - not EST(imate)S
54. Inebriate : SOT
56. Uzbekistan, once: Abbr. : SSR
Splynter
P.S. - Does anyone have a "Sleep Number" bed~??
Hello Puzzlers -
ReplyDeleteI worked this one out during the wee hours, and while I did finish unassisted, I could not work out how Longe fit the clue. The only Longe definition I know has to do with horse training. Well, thanks for 'splaining, Splynter!
Morning, all!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely a challenge today, but still silky smooth overall. A few minor dips in the road, though:
I had L_NGE and could figure out what the missing letter was. Once SWING VOTER appeared and made it LONGE, I was sure I had a mistake, but the perps were rock solid. Then the v8 can smacked me in the forehead...
Couldn't decide if 48A was SAUD or SAID at first, but LURIE looked more likely than LIRIE.
Never heard of the BREW CREW, but once I got most of it via the perps it suddenly seemed obvious.
Guessed LUCY at 34A and left it there because it seemed to fit so well. Didn't even notice how wrong MYST looked until I didn't get the *TADA* at the end and had to go check for errors.
[rtshon]
[romoslig]
Today makes me wish I had stock in V-8.
ReplyDeleteBlots, blots, everywhere blots! But, in true Silkie fashion, it finally fell together, and right on time.
ReplyDeleteGood morning, Saturday soldiers. I couldn't decide if I wanted TOAST, BREAD or BAGEL as my breakfast choice. It didn't help that I thought it was an AGED ROCKER and that I spelled FIEF wrong, or that I thought VENETO was VOLETO. ARE TOO! ARE NOT!
I'll bet Husker had no trouble with LAVA, and Marti entered WIEN immediately.
Nice puzzle, Mr. Silk! Nice write-up, Splynter. I wish you luck at HD.
I'm with Argyle! Nice write up. Good luck at HD.
ReplyDeleteNot a walk in the park, but just the right amount of challenge to keep this puzzle interesting. I made better time than with the usual Saturday Silkie because most of the time I was on Barry's wave length. There were enough sure bets to provide perps and partials on which to hang the others. LURIE was the only entry new to me.
ReplyDeleteI tried toast, bread, bagel, too.
Although I have never heard or seen Griselda, I have heard OF it.
It seems among the affluent Lenten fare is not always a meager diet these days. There are many delicious and pricey delicacies, especially seafood, which are allowed. When I was a waitress I noticed that this was especially true of Good Friday fare, lobster dinners, etc.
Splynter, great write up. Barry,, fun puzzle.
Good morning Splynter, C.C. et al.
ReplyDeleteNeat factoids and links today, Splynter! BTW, I really enjoyed the Billy Joel link. The Mahavishnu Orchestra one was…interesting.
I’m with you on wanting OILers at first, instead of OIL MEN. And at 44 across, I wondered if Crayola really had a crayon color called EULBTELOIV.
Hand up for LUCy before LUCI. Lucy was the original spelling of her name, but she changed it to Luci in her teens. And yes, Barry - MyST looked funny, but I was thinking of the computer game, so left it in until the bitter end.
GROAT was a new one for me. But I nailed SKIING and the capital of Vienna, WIEN (yes, D-otto!) I even filled in DEREK JETER after only a few perps. BREW CREW was slower in coming – I wanted BREW City.
All in all, a relatively easy Saturday puzzle, with the usual Silky smoothness. Have a great day, everybody!
Had to turn on red letters. Had 80 % or so but got mired in the muck.
ReplyDeleteUtah City was not Provo. I should have thought of the other UTAH city with 5 letters. I think there are more men with 5 wives in Utah than there are cities with 5 letters...
My WHOLE WHEAT was BREAD not BAGEL.
I parsed cartes as cards, not maps, so my dots on them were pips, not ILES. You didn't make that mistake, because you are so much smarter.
First time I ever saw FIEF without DOM. What can I say, I've lived a sheltered life.
Except for the S, 41A required the other two as perps. There are too many possibilities to know that answer correctly without getting (most likely) both letters as perps.
Splynter, ditto your 55A, 46D. 57A was no gimme. As Abejo would say, it only took 6 perps. As for your 34D, maybe LADY liked a tramp, but take it from ZZ Top, "every girl's crazy..."
Here's the GROAT that aged Pirates fans remember.
Thanks Barry Silk and Splynter.
Good morning, folks. Thank you, Barry Silk, for an excellent puzzle. Thank you, Splynter, for the great write-up.
ReplyDeleteThe NW gave me a good start. BREW CREW was easy. They are just north of us.
Got WHOLE WHEAT after a few letters. Put in TOAST for the last part. Held on to that until SAUD became obvious. Entered BAGEL. That gave me EINSTEIN. Fixed TOE RESTS to LEG RESTS. One word at a time.
Had Via VENITO for 57A for the longest time. Could not think of a Utah city that ended in DIN. Finally got VIOLET BLUE. Then it hit me OGDEN, Utah. Fixed the E. I used to work in Ogden, Utah. Duh!
GRISELDA came with a few key letters. I do remember the name. I also remember the name The Decameron. Cannot remember the context. I will look it up later.
SWING VOTER and MARIE CURIE were both fairly easy with a few perps.
I thought this puzzle was much easier than the typical Saturday fare. I got through it quite easily for a change.
Off to my day. Heading to New Orleans tonight, via Amtrak. Church Mission Trip. Flying back next Thursday evening.
See you tomorrow somewhere south. Hope my IPad works.
Abejo
(realada)
Good morning everyone,
ReplyDeleteAfter all my recent DNF's, i nailed a Silkie. The baseball clues gave me a solid foothold in the North & Central. The perps (downs) were pretty easy for a Saturday. WEIN, GROAT,\ & JEN I took on faith.
I too vacillated between Bread, Toast & Bagel.
The South was almost my downfall. LONGE, FIEF, & GRISELDA were stored away in my deep recesses. Vivaldi is the only composer I am very familiar with and LONGE was strictly perps. I read a lot of historical books which helped get me to FIEF. The eraser got a good workout, but eventually I felt comfortable with my fills.
Wife is in Cal today at the national "Duckfest" A gathering of yellow duck collectors held every other year. Trip is her birthday present. Son is coming for lunch with his current lady friend and her daughter. I am under orders to be well behaved! I said I would do my best.
TTP:
ReplyDeleteMy phone appears to be working now. Took it to Sprint and they reloaded the software. No charge. I like that. Of course I lost my calendar, but saved my phone list of 336 numbers. That was critical. Now i think I will back it up.
Abejo
(deditew)
As a child I learned GROAT was a small coin from this nursery rhyme:
ReplyDeleteRiddle me, riddle me, ree;
A little man in a tree;
A stick in his hand,
A stone in his throat,
If you tell me this riddle
I'll give you a groat.
Do you know the answer without looking it up? I can't promise you a groat, though.
Abejo,
ReplyDeleteGlad your phone is working again. I'd read an article on CNET or in Consumer Reports or somewhere about apps causing mysterious hangs. One of these days I will get cell phone service.
Obligatory City of New Orleans and corresponding WIKI
Just read about the aforementioned Pirates and their game against the Angels last night. Last year's No 1 overall pick Gerrit Cole pitched well again in defeating the Trout led halos, and is 3-0 in his rookie year in the bigs. Pirates passed the second place team in the NL Central and have the second best record in MLB. Milwaukee may have the brew crew, but Detroit has the K crew, and they will be tough to beat in a playoff series.
Y-R, a troll ? An elf ?
RUTGERS was a timely shout out to James Gandolfini. I hear the flags will be flying at half-mast all across Jersey next week.
ReplyDeleteThe SE had me reaching for the computer and then BAGEL (not toast) and LEG (not armrests) unlocked that corner and I wrote in the remaining answers as fast as I could move the pencil. Fun, fun fun.
ReplyDeleteMusings
-JETER could make me almost like the Yankees
-Never had a HOLE IN ONE. Close only counts in horseshoes
-Rabbits loved our knockout ROSES. Hello fence.
-How ‘bout a little disco GLORIA?
-Two teachers across the street have MAID services
-The LT is the blindside protector of QB’s and highest paid OL
-ROTE – get Omaha World Herald, make coffee and PB & J on WHOLE WHEAT TOAST, sit in recliner with LEG TESTS in sunroom, open paper to LA Times Cwd. Begin.
-Favorite Big Bang Theory (:46) scene
-Famous Parisian female academic? Who ya gonna call?
-DEAD batteries never seem to happen in a convenient time or at a convenient place
-Martha Stewart PLED TO lesser charges (not insider trading), did her five months in prison and got on with her life
-Grandson and I will not be FANS at College World Series games this week because ticket prices are sky high unless you sit in outfield grandstands
-Yep, Otto, LAVA is part of my beauty regimen ;-)
-If a burger on Good Friday sends me to the nether regions, it was a pretty close call!
Hi Y'all! I can't believe I did a Saturday Silkie in 22 mins. almost as if I had the test answers. I did rapid perps and filled in DEREK JETER as fast as I could type. Surprise! Surprise! It was right. MARIE CURIE was even faster but no surprise. Thanks Mr. Silk. What fun!
ReplyDeleteThe ACE/ACID cross took awhile. Didn't understand LONGE or RGS or GROAT until our hero Splynter explained. Thanks! Now I'll go back and try the music.
32A Double took every perp as did CREW & ILES.
Liked FANS as Ballpark figures since RBIS didn't work.
Never heard of or read LURIE. Don't plan to read her.
I have the cleanest bathroom floors in captivity. Last night I poured liquid clorox in my washer receptacle that I'd never used before in the 9 yrs I've had it. Then I followed up with many cups of plain water to dilute & rinse. When I moved my feet, I heard an ominous squeek (LONGE). The whole floor was flooded. I was afraid clorox would ruin the vinyl but it didn't. Thank heavens! But I wasn't thrilled to be mopping at 1 a.m. (In hot weather I try to do laundry at non-peak water & electrical use hours.)
Hi Everyone ~~
ReplyDeleteAs always, I enjoyed this Saturday Silkie. I did get hung up in a few spots but it all came together (almost) as it usually does. The NE corner was my last to fill due to unintentionally filling in an S at the end of 10D. When I finally found it, I got OIL MEN - I, too, wanted' Oilers' at first.
~ I had a Natick at the crossing of SAUD and LURIE - should have known a U would make sense with 'Mideast' in the clue. Duh. But I left it blank.
~ 47A - LONGE took way too long to see - got me!
~ Loved the misdirection of 52D - Ballpark figures - FANS. Thought of ESTS, RBIS and ERAS first.
~ Husker, as a Red Sox fan, I don't think anything could get me to like the Yankees. But I DO like DEREK JETER and Mariano Rivera!
~ Wonderful write-up, Splynter - you showed great restraint with no JEN / legs pic. ;-) Also, I've had a Sleep Number bed for 10 years and love it. Once again ~ Happy Shopping!
~ Dodo ~ so good to "see you" here last night! My mother's name was Doris. If I remember correctly, two of her aunts (and nobody else), called her Dodo.
~ Third fun day of my Sox playing my husband's Tigers. We're 1-1. So far we haven't had to watch in separate rooms. :-)
PK, sorry you had such a mess. The bleach receptacle in my washer has a do not fill beyond this line warning. I suspect overfilling it would cause water to overflow. To dilute and rinse I would run the rinse cycle twice. To freshen my machine I buy a powdered washer cleaner made by TIDE. It is poured into the detergent compartment which must be dry. Then I run a full wash cycle with very hot water.
ReplyDeleteIf you have a front loader, I Hope this helps for the next time.
google solved for me no satisfaction at all.
ReplyDeleteohio
Previous comment deleted for want of a small typo correction.
ReplyDeletePuzzle-wise, everything went smoothly until I was all done, when I saw LONGE and couldn't for the life of me figure out why that was a "squeaky sound", even with the help of Google. Thought it might be something a French violinist would do, maybe, and gave up until coming here.
Splynter, we had a Sleep Number bed for a 90-day trial, and sent it back. Maybe Florida is too much for it, but it accumulated a moldy look that turned us off. Turns out spouse and I used the same number anyway.
Yahoo!! Typically, I struggle with the Saturday puzzle, especially a Silkie. Today I managed to finish it!! I always do the puzzle in bed, then turn to your fabulous blog for commentary and to see the theme, which I often don't see until I read your blog. Thank you all for the daily write-ups!
ReplyDeleteGood Morning:
ReplyDeleteI always enjoy a Saturday Silkie and this one was the usual challenge but, with patience and perserverance,very doable. My only head-scratcher was LONGE, but Splynter, bless his heart, cleared that up.
Kudos, Mr. Silk, for keeping us on our toes and thanks, Splynter, for your fun expos. Good luck at HD.
Summer is definitely here. We are facing a stretch of hazy, hot, and humid weather for the next several days. Monday is supposed to be 90. I'm glad I have A/C.
Happy Saturday.
I played with bread/toast before thinking of bagel. Dots on Cartes sure looked like pips for a while. Crude guys was just plain fun! Great Saturday challenge.
ReplyDeleteI have had a Sleepnumber bed for about 6 years. I love it. The only problem has been the foam side pieces tend to sag. They are good about replacements. Sleep number says you should never sit on the edge of a bed. I have tried levitating but was not successful.
Good morning everyone
ReplyDeleteInitial daunting approach but got a few anchors near the bottom with SAUD and EDIT. EINSTIEN and GRISELDA were good WAGS. With a KJ showing in mid 23a, DEREK JETER helped bridge the north. LADY and LAYERS were the last to fall. Thought LONG E was quite clever. No lookups were needed. Only white gunked over 2 squares because I had 'evading' before ELUDING.
Special treat getting a Silkie done. Thanks Barry.
Here is rush hour in Vietnam.
I was thinking GRISELDA was a character in Cats!. Nope. Turns out that was Grizabella, the glamour cat. My bad.
ReplyDeleteThe Mitchell Trio (after John Denver replaced Chad) did a not-very-kind, satiric song about Luci Baines Johnson back in the 60's. I doubt they were invited to perform it at the White House -- "Old Lady Bird is sweet, and Linda-Bird's a tweet, but Luci Baines, you're the biggest bird of 'em all!".
Chin, LOL about your levitating. Honey, you just gotta believe, if Disney movies are to be trusted.
ReplyDeleteSpitz, I'm glad I don't have to sit on the back of a scooter in Vietnam.
Splynter, did you get to fly in that plane or just stand by it. Hurry up and ask that HD lady out. You're not going to get any handsomer.
YR, thanks for the comeback. I have a top loader. I bet you are right about not filling above a line although mine doesn't show one. I bet pouring all that water in caused the problem. I wanted to rinse the thing so chlorine wouldn't accidently get on my next load of dark colored clothes. I just finished another load with no mishaps. I didn't think about that receptacle having limited capacity.
ReplyDelete1.
ReplyDeleteI thought, "Who is Sally Mae?"
So I googled it.
It's SALLIE MAE.
Did anyone else notice it?
2. IMHO a whole wheat bagel,as well as blueberry, jalapeno, cinnamon raisin, is just WRONG!
Plain, egg or onion, period. ;-)
Lox and cream cheese. Oh man, am I getting hungry!!!
Happy Saturday, everyone! I can always (well, usually) tell a Barry Silk puzzle by the grid – our newspaper doesn’t print the constructor’s name. This one lived up to my expectations of a challenging and entertaining romp. Thanks for the swell expo, Splynter. I loved the Billy Joel link and was impressed by the blistering drum work on the Mahavishnu piece. Super cool picture of you and Glamorous Gal!
ReplyDeleteHand up for running the list of WHOLE WHEAT baked goods before settling for a BAGEL. Quarter Segment had me vexed for a bit, until the “K” in GEEK came to my aid. VIOLET BLUE brought back happy memories of opening a brand new box of Crayolas with all those amazing colors. A spelling error at the VEN(i)ETO / OGD(i)EN crossing and a Natick at LURIE / SAUD handed me my second DNF in a row.
Have a good weekend!
Good morning, all!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Splynter for explaining LONG E for us. I got it through perps, but couldn't understand it. I can usually figure out those phonetic answers, but that was ELUDING me until I accessed the Corner.
My first long answer was MARIE CURIE, which was practically a gimme.
This one was tough and would have been DNF if I hadn't looked up the nickname for the Brewers. I don't follow baseball, so had never heard of BREW CREW. Sure, I knew of the Brewers, and had the "C" thanks to 5D, but admit I needed help to continue.
I also cheated on 8D. Like many others I had TOAST at first, then got as far as BA---. Somehow WHOLE WHEAT BACON didn't seem right, so I entered WHOLE WHEAT BA in my Google search. I did not press Enter, so could I help it if Google just threw the answer at me?
Even with my two finesses, I had more cross-outs and re-writes on this one than usual. Still, not bad for the week overall; got 'em all, except for today's little improprieties....
Splynters write-up pretty much summarizes what I have to say- am I the only one to actually SEE the LONG E?
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, I really had to work to get everything else. Only look-up today was Grateful Deads "Without A NET". Guess Im not a Deadhead.
Writeovers: seCT for PACT, saiD sO for PLED TO, and arm RESTS for LEG RESTS.
As always with a Silkie, I started out with maybe three words, and worked it out from there. WHEW!
(Roculate)
Oh, and, yes, Pas de Chat is right about the correct spelling for "Sallie" MAE. It's a fine point, but crossword clues must be that fine.
ReplyDeleteAs for another female name, Alison at 46D was important to my progress today. Just above I had placed TEAL where BLUE should be. But when I saw Alison I knew it had to be my old favorite, LURIE.
Alison Lurie was the author of "Love and Friendship" (1962), a book that was passed from hand to hand when I was teaching then at Williams College. It was a frank expose of genteel corruption and adulterous games at a small elite New England college, curiously like our own. What caught my eye was that one of the book's young couples owned an Old English Sheepdog with the same name as my Old English Sheepdog. Er, uh, no, just a coincidence, I'm sure....
Hello everybody. Whew, this one did me in today. Had to look up five answers. However, as with Keith Fowler, MARIE CURIE was practically a gimme. And although I know extremely little about baseball, I had no trouble getting DEREK JETER. Entering WHOLE WHEAT TOAST totally messed up what was already a difficult south section of the puzzle. It only took three perps to get RGS. And I left in LUCY and MYST.
ReplyDeleteA hard puzzle, but now that I finished it and have looked back on it, my only thought is, "Well sheesh, of course! I knew that all along! Makes sense!" Except for LONGE :)
LW and I are heading out tomorrow to sunny (we hope) Santa Barbara for a week of vacation. I'll probably work the USA Today puzzles while there.
Keith, we've had two Old English Sheepdogs, Muffin and Sammy. They weren't related but had almost identical personalities.
ReplyDeleteThis is the only Gloria I know and love. The Manhattan Transfer.
Fun puzzle, and revealing write up!
ReplyDeleteI too was scratching my head at 47A, LONGE. All the letters fit, but what could it mean?
I did need a couple of trips to wiki-p, but my crossings fit and that gives me hope.
Understand why CC uses google blog, but the thing has a cryptic and unpredictable user interface!
Bill G.,
ReplyDeleteYour Old English's names were of the home-spun variety, unpretentious, in the same class as our current Golden, Maggie (altho her registered name is pretty snooty-- Magnificat).
I loved my Old English. He was deaf and practically blind. Still he managed to trudge along by my side when we'd go for long walks in the snowy woods of the Berkshires and later by the Mahoning River in Ohio.
The walks were a kind of therapy for me, as we would get off alone and I would mutter aloud working through my day's agenda of plans and problems. He would grunt every now and then; I used to call him my big "shaggy Yes-man."
His name was appropriately fancy and "Olde"-- Beowulf.
We just called him Beo (Bay-oh).
Hi again~!
ReplyDeleteWell, I took the plunge - for the Sleep Number bed, that is (Home Depot is later...) The mattress I have now would make plywood look appealing - S.N. now makes a dual temp pad that can be hot or cool, and I really, really wanted that, too, but at $1700 for JUST that, I had to pass....coming via UPS (imagine that~!) in less than two weeks.
Mikey - I will keep my eyes open on that...
chin, great comment~!
PK - God I would loved to have just taken a ride in that plane, but alas, we were not that "in" with the owner/pilot - but BOY you knew when that beast took off - 12cylinder water-cooled engine with a 12' prop - AWESOME
Splynter
Splynter, Sorry you didn't get to fly in that plane. I can
ReplyDeletehear that motor rev up in my mind. I miss flying. Well, with a lovely new mattress, hope you can find someone to provide heat and take you soaring.
Splynter- I think you will like your Sleep Number bed. I have had one for over 10 years.
ReplyDeleteDownside: the fitted sheets on the mattress do not like to fit around the airhoses that inflate the bed
Upside: you can scare the cats hiding under the bed by running the pump motor.
Jayce, Santa Barbara should be lovely this time of year. We used to visit Barbara's mother in her apartment there with an unobstructed view of the Pacific over a little park called Burton Mound (if I remember correctly). Have you visited the magnificent Fig Tree?
ReplyDeletePK @3:24 ~ You sure have a way with words. :-)
ReplyDelete42D "Admitted guilt for": PLED TO
ReplyDeleteThe past tense of "plead" is "pleaded," not "pled." A huge number of judges and lawyers seem not to know this, and a surprising number of lexicographers seem not to know or care.
A "var." or a "colloq." would have cured this clue.
Merriam-Webster says PLED is OK. If L714 weighs in I'll go with him.
ReplyDeleteAll the bear news from Canada.
I'll go with Bumppo. It seems like he has a better understanding of our laws than lemony does.
ReplyDeleteBecause of several recommendation here, I have started watching TBBT and am enjoying some of the older episodes. I'm thinking I wouldn't like it if it weren't for Penny.
ReplyDeleteI also tried Burn Notice. The stories seemed interesting enough but I didn't enjoy the primary characters; not like NCIS or Vegas or The Good Wife.
Every source I've checked prefers pleaded to pled. I didn't know that.
Great bear video! Thanks.
Being a former member of the True Blue Brew Crew 1A was a total gimme. Other than having to change my toast into a BAGEL, I flew through this one, which is a rarity with a Saturday Barry Silk puzzle. Loved it.
ReplyDeleteHi again~!
ReplyDeleteYeah, PK, well stated - I agree, but she was not in tonight - have to try again.
Family from Enland is arriving tomorrow, staying for about two weeks. Gotta get my firepit ready for a bonfire~!
Splynter
What are the odds that Bumppo will EVER say anything positive?
ReplyDeleteWe celebrated my older son's birthday here today with grilled rib eye steaks, grilled veggies, homemade German potato salad and a scrumptious trifle, instead of birthday cake. Pound cake soaked in sherry, with home made custard, a plethora of fresh raspberries and whipped cream beats the instant pudding and canned fruit cocktail version by a million miles. He did the grilling and helped me with several chores I couldn't handle alone and also gave me suggestions for my new computer.
ReplyDeleteNo one won the groat.
Riddle me, riddle me, ree;
A little man in a tree;
A stick in his hand,
A stone in his throat,
If you tell me this riddle
I'll give you a groat.
Answer is a cherry. The stick in his hand is the stem of the cherry and the stone is the pit.
Pled v Pleaded Judgment: a hung jury.
Although there are dictionaries of style, and rules laid down by prestigious publications, these are not the sole arbiters of correctness. In addition there is the common, spoken English and formal written English. Even then, not all agree on what constitutes correct formal English. Who is any of us to set up our own opinoion as THE sole oracle of correctness.
Spitzboov, great bear link. The mama looked too depleted from birthing to be aggressive. She was probably thinking, "Oh no, it's those idiots with the big annoying necklace again. Why can't they just leave me alone?"
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If you click the link and read comment 8 by Chip Dawson you will know why pled is my choice.
ReplyDeletethere is a photo of marie curie and albert einstein in bill bryson's book 'a short/ brief history of nearly everything , illustrated. and likely it is at many other sites. to post the photo here is difficult for me
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