Words: 72 (missing J,Q,Z)
Blocks: 30
The "other" dynamic duo appears again, this time with the authors
trading places in the title; DP&BW gave us Saturday's puzzle just 3
weeks ago. Two meaty corners tied to two grid spanners, with a pair of
10-letter climbers to tie the top and bottom halves together:
17. It's hard to write with one : NON-DOMINANT HAND
- I am left-handed, and the hand-held devices UPS drivers use for
package deliveries are designed with right-handed people in mind. There are some other obviously "biased" items; guitars, scissors, etc., but did you
ever consider that ALL vending machines and ATMs assume you are
right-handed? Tape measures annoy me, too....so I am polling the
reading audience today to find out what your dominant hand is <--
53. Hunter's companion : GOLDEN RETRIEVER - I knew we were looking for a dog, but I had to wait for a few perps first
12. "Color me surprised!" : "I HAD NO IDEA~!" I liked how this crossed 21D. "Hah!" : "TOLD YA~!"
Sorry
for any goof-ups....I have spent the last 5 days in UPS driver
training; the classes were easy, but the commute would kill me if I had
to do it every week....about 90mins to get from Suffolk into NYC - and
I'm talking Queens, not Manhattan - and then a minimum 2 hours on the
way out. One-way in miles? 55. ARRGHH~!! and that's not pirate
talk~! Had this great view though
ONW
ARD~!
ARD~!
ACROSS:
1. Faux-antique décor : SHABBY CHIC - speaking of Faux, see 7D.
11. Nurses : SIPS - anyone really reaaaly want LPNS ? (can't be); this is the "takes too long with your beer" nurses
15. Words next to many 22-Down : YOU ARE HERE; 22D. Check alternatives : Xes - I found this image, too
11. Nurses : SIPS - anyone really reaaaly want LPNS ? (can't be); this is the "takes too long with your beer" nurses
15. Words next to many 22-Down : YOU ARE HERE; 22D. Check alternatives : Xes - I found this image, too
19. Cub games setting: Abbr. : CDT - Dah~! went with CHI(cago) - nope - Central Daylight Time
20. Hidden Valley competitor : KEN'S - Salad dressings and marinades
22. Small-screen princess : XENA - warrior princess
23. Sing ballads, say : CROON
24. Word in a Le Pew address : CHERI and a clecho of sorts; 49. Star of Looney Tunes' "for Scent-imental Reasons" : PEPE - he's Frawnch~!
26. Tab alternative : DIET COKE - Tab, the cola; movie clip
29. Foe of the fictional spy agency CONTROL : KAOS - "would you believe...?"
30. Pump parts : TOES - On those Jimmy Choo shoes
32. Authorizing : OKing
33. First-aid practitioner, briefly : EMT - Popular this week
34. In reality : DE FACTO
36. Cutting remark : DIG
37. Don't bother : LET BE
39. JardÃn occupant : FLOR - Garden and flower in Spanish
40. They're built on benches : PECS - the muscles, and bench presses
41. Pretends : PLAY-ACTS
43. Yupik craft : UMIAK - cool - or would that be frigid?
45. Thomas who co-created "Free to Be... You and Me" : MARLO - the Wiki
46. Spanish autonomy Castile and __ : LEON
47. Astronomy Muse : URANIA - the ruling planet of my astrological sign is Uranus - check out this link here - rather racy, I must say ( but I don't like my sex 'fast' )
49. Stick with a spring : POGO
50. Brief black-and-white flash? : APB - The 'flash' of a message received in a police car (black & white) is an All Points Bulletin
56. Singer of the children's album "Camp Lisa" : LOEB - I have had this clue/answer on a Saturday before, I believe
57. Prevented from getting unruly : KEPT IN LINE
58. Minute : ITSY - dah~! Went with TINY
59. Biological cooler : SWEAT GLAND
DOWN:
1. What collaborators should be in : SYNC
2. Garment feature that's sometimes detachable : HOOD
3. Family title : AUNT
4. Like some news : BAD
5. Stock character? : BROKER
6. Dweller on the Red Sea : YEMENITE
7. Hutch contents : CHINA - D-Otto's story on Sunday about "faux pas" finishes reminded me of a customer I had waaay back in the day at the home improvement store; a woman came in and asked for a "china closet". I took her to the RTA furniture department and showed her what we had. She got very snotty with me, stating that I "must not be very smart", because that's not what she meant. Turned out that she wanted a porcelain (china) water closet - in other words, a toilet.
8. European trio in a Christmas song : HENS ...Four Calling Birds, three Frawnch HENS...
9. Soc. Sec. supplement : IRA
10. Rogers __: Toronto stadium : CENTRE - and then there's Rogers Arena, where the Vancouver Canucks play; Roger's got some sweet man-caves, I'd say
11. Cheesy stuff : SCHLOCK
13. Shot glass : PONY - In light of yesterday's wonderful "AA" grid spanner, I have not lifted a PONY in 8years, 8months, 13days
14. Bar supply available at the touch of a button : SODA -yeah, heavy on the Jack, light on the diet coke....
18. Pretentious : TOO-TOO
23. "Welcome to the human network" tech giant : CISCO
24. Desert mount : CAMEL - "Mike, Mike Mike, you know what day it is~!"
25. "GET FIRED UP!" candy : HOT TAMALES
26. Passes out : DEALS - anyone else on the "too drunk to stand" = passes out wavelength~?
27. Phil Jackson, for most of the '70s : KNICK - Basketball; the game just interferes with the hockey season
28. Early birds? : EGGS - HAR-HAR~!
29. It may wash up onshore : KELP
31. Leaving for : OFF TO
34. Toots : DEARIE - I had a buddy who called his wife "toots" all the time
35. 2010 Western remake that garnered 10 Oscar nominations : TRUE GRIT -never saw either the original or this one
38. Presently : BY AND BY
40. Success on a mat : PIN - wrestling - don't we have some people here with young'uns who rassle?
42. Haunted house sounds : CLANKS - I went with CREAKS first
44. Farm sound : MOO-ING
46. Ton o' : LOTTA
47. Jamaican hybrid fruit : UGLI
48. Act like a pig, in a way : ROOT
50. Fitness brand : AVIA - athletic footwear
51. Ivy League member : PENN - Dah - went with YALE
52. Cultivated : BRED
54. FF's opposite : REW - Ya know, on those, um, thingies with the tapes that play in them? Fast Forward and REWind
55. Bent piece : ELL
Splynter
Note from C.C.:
I got an email from Elissa Grossman, who runs the annual Crosswords LA (this year slated for Saturday, October 26). Please click here for details.
Elissa said "This year's event will include crosswords and puzzle games constructed by Liz Gorski, Jeffrey Harris, Aimee Lucido, Todd McClary, Andrea Carla Michaels, Pete Muller, Trip Payne, John Doppler Schiff, Dave Shukan, Marc Spraragen, David Steinberg and Zoe Wheeler (with development managed by Tyler Hinman). It's likely that Merl Reagle will join us for the event finals. All money raised (over costs) is donated to a great non-profit (Reading to Kids)."
Those are all brilliant constructors. I hope you'll participate. You'll have fun! The great Doug Peterson made the puzzle for the event the past 2 years. Maybe he'll be there this year competing. I think Rich Norris (LA Times Crossword editor) was there last year also.
Note from C.C.:
I got an email from Elissa Grossman, who runs the annual Crosswords LA (this year slated for Saturday, October 26). Please click here for details.
Elissa said "This year's event will include crosswords and puzzle games constructed by Liz Gorski, Jeffrey Harris, Aimee Lucido, Todd McClary, Andrea Carla Michaels, Pete Muller, Trip Payne, John Doppler Schiff, Dave Shukan, Marc Spraragen, David Steinberg and Zoe Wheeler (with development managed by Tyler Hinman). It's likely that Merl Reagle will join us for the event finals. All money raised (over costs) is donated to a great non-profit (Reading to Kids)."
Those are all brilliant constructors. I hope you'll participate. You'll have fun! The great Doug Peterson made the puzzle for the event the past 2 years. Maybe he'll be there this year competing. I think Rich Norris (LA Times Crossword editor) was there last year also.
Splynter, thanks for the Saturday expos. They are the only reason I attempt to solve on Saturday. The puzzles yesterday and today were too difficult for me, but I learn a lot by trying.
ReplyDeleteMy 2-year old grandson sets up pillows to be an OPS (UPS) truck. He puts a backpack with delivery items behind himself. He then carries blocks or whatever to a person, then takes his Etch-a-sketch over for a signature. Kind of cute.
Phil Jackson was born in Montana.
I am left-handed (in a right-handed world.) I was always able to get suitable desks for my left-handed students. One year I taught penmanship to left-handed 4th, 5th, and 6th graders using chalkboards in a cafeteria. I don't twist my hand when I write.
Have an enjoyable weekend,
Montana
I am off to Boson this morning on Amtrak, to take a bus tour of New England. It's a surprise birthday gift from my son and family.
Thanks for a super expo, Splynter. BTW, most of the scissors I see these days are either handed. At school, we used to have two sets, right and left. I found this to be about the usual Saturday difficulty. I did spend extra time in the NW. I was sure of SYNC and held on to CHI for 19A. Finally,I erased it. YOU ARE HERE opened up the corner.
ReplyDeleteI had one wrong cell. I had CREAK until the N in GOLDEN squelched that. I forgot to go back to change the R to L.
I think golden retrievers are beautiful.
I used to watch Get Smart with KAOS as the enemy. Not so much fun to see the reruns now.
Although I liked the John Wayne movie, TRUE GRIT, I prefer the book.
Morning, all!
ReplyDeleteGot through most of this one with a little effort, but the NW corner defeated me in the end. Just couldn't get a toe-hold until I turned on the red letter help, and that was even after FINALLY getting XES at 22D.
I had SYNC at 1D, but went with CHI at 19A, OLD at 4D and MAGI at 8D. I finally corrected CHI to CST, but that obviously didn't help. Never heard of SHABBY CHIC, so that was useless, and NON DOMINANT HAND just didn't jump out to me (especially with all the wrong letters I had). YOU ARE HERE was cute, but once again I had too many wrong letters to see it.
Ah well...
[ivepnt]
Splynter,
ReplyDeleteURANIA! Very interesting!
Buckeye bob,
Thanks for the link.
Pas de chat,
I skipped the moon cakes this year. Made myself some sweet red bean soup.
Alright, yesterday everyone raved about the WIG clue (Breadth of fresh hair?). I still don't get it.
ReplyDeleteOh, I forgot earlier, Splynter, I'm right-handed. You're a cleverer pig than I am.
ReplyDeleteA very satisfying puzzle. The upper half was the last filled and, like Barry G., the NW corner was the very last (with SHABBYCHIC being the last long fill). XES was particularly vexing as I was thinking of a bank check, not a check mark.
ReplyDeleteI'm still not crazy about multiple short word answers (e.g. BYANDBY, LETBE, TOLDYA) or words that don't "look right" (e.g. OKING) but, of course, that's all part of the game.
[23:19]
Cute story about your grandson, Montana.
ReplyDeleteIn honor of Sukkot here are poetic verses taken from the Bible book, Ecclesiastes, which is read at Sukkot. These verses were also read at JFK's funeral.
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
They are the basis for the 60' song, Turn,Turn,Turn.
Link Remember this?
I'm a lefty and my pet peeve is print crosswords. The cluing is on the left which is covered when we lefties write in our letters, causing us to have to move our hands every time we want to read the next clue, thereby adding time to the solve!! Lefties unite against this atrocity!
ReplyDeleteGood morning Splynter, C.C. et al.
ReplyDeleteI roared when I read your “china closet” story, Splynter!! Too funny. Uranus is also my ruling planet, but after reading your link I think I have to post my ski outfit again.
I am right-handed, and when we went to lunch with Montana, she asked to sit on my left. I hope you have a great time on your bus tour, Montana! It’s too bad that the fall foliage isn’t at its peak yet, but I’m sure you will have a great time.
Oh, and yes I did nnnnnail Jimmy CHOO. (And the TOES on those shoes.)
Loved seeing SCHLOCK and HOT TAMALES, but my favorite was the clue for EGGS: “Early birds?” I had to look at perps to decide between DIET Cola or COKE, and LET go or LET BE. But other than those, it was a real speed run.
Have a great Saturday, everyone!
Good morning, gang - it's been a long time since I had a relatively smooth Saturday solve, but today it happened. No write-overs, but still needed some perp help. Especially with FLOR; not knowing the meaning of 'Jardin', I would've been stumped without help. Overall, I loved the cluing, which is not surprise given the constructors.
ReplyDeleteSplynter, GREAT write-up; it's always a great Saturday read.
C.C., breadth is the side-to-side measurement of something; in this case, a wig, which is comprised of 'new' hair.
Have a great weekend; spectacular weather here in S. Florida today (jeez, I love saying that).
From yesterday re: WIG clue. I thought it was absolutely brilliant:
ReplyDeleteBreadth = the span from side to side of a thing, or the measurement of its width. So a "breadth" of hair would be the span it covers on your head. And "fresh" indicates that it's not your old hair, but a new WIG.
arrrgh...Dennis beat me to it.
ReplyDeleteGood morning!
ReplyDeleteIt's a dark, gloomy Saturday, so I wound up sleeping late. We got 4" of badly needed rain yesterday, and more is expected today. We've been under a county-wide burn ban since July.
Liked this puzzle a lot, but found it difficult. I fell into the YALE/PENN, CREAKS/CLUNKS traps. I also managed to start off with DOLES/DEALS and GREW/BRED. But it all managed to work out. So, Splynter, are Aquarians and Antiquarians (from your link) supposed to be the same thing? It's the Antiquarians who like it fast.
I'm predominantly right-handed, but I bat a baseball and shoot an arrow left-handed. If I golfed, I'd be left-handed at that, too. Anon@8:04, in my newspaper the clues are above the grid, so it's non-preferential for people of either persuasion.
HOOD reminded me of an evening toboggan outing with another couple years ago in Wisconsin. The other lady was outfitted in a hooded snowsuit. When nature called, she had quite a disrobing feat to perform. And later, when she flipped the hood back over her head, she got quite a surprise. Eew!
Happy Saturday everybody!
ReplyDeleteDone in by a Saturday Stumper - so what else is new? I guess you could say I HAD NO IDEA....
COACH for KNICK, AIDS for SIPS, COCA COLA for DIET COKE, OLD for BAD, TRADER for BROKER, and like others, CHI for CDT....
Right-handed, right-footed, even right-eyed. I suppose that makes me a north paw.... Didn't elementary school teachers actively discourage left-handed writing decades ago...?
Off to help some friends move today - hopefully we won't break any of their CHINA....
Hi Y'all! First pass through the top half of the puzzle I had BAD which I thought was a forecast of how I would do. Then I plugged in SCHLOCK which isn't in my normal vocabulary. A very few more fills and lots of white space when I lost the whole puzzle. Brought it back up empty and started filling like I knew what I was doing. The long ones came easier than the short ones. Fun! Thanks, Brad & Doug!
ReplyDeleteHardest: Pump=TOES. Didn't get until Splynter kindly explained. Thanks! Last to fill: square 52 "B" in APB/BRED cross -- no flashing inspiration for me. My Duhs for the day.
I'm right handed as are all my kids who ALL married left-handed spouses.
I forgot Phil Jackson was with the KNICKS. Let's see: Lakers, Bulls... Nope, all red. Leave it for perps.
Woops, the UMIAK instructions forgot the first steps: 1. kill walrus or seal. 2. skin same, strip out sinew, save oil. 3. preserve hide & sinew. (No over-night project.)
Anyone with kids probably had SHABBY CHIC even before there was a "decor" name for it. Mostly I think the term is applied to decorating with second-hand shop & estate sale items mixed in with newer stuff for character and interest.
ReplyDeleteI am right-handed, but I grew up in a family where my mom and all my siblings were left-handed. I was the one who always had to figure out in my head how to turn things around to do it with my right hand. I was quite shocked when I went to school and found out I was in the majority!
ReplyDeleteSince I have my mom's left-handed gene hanging out recessively, I'm more ambidextrous than most righties.
ANON @ 8:04.
ReplyDeleteI am a righty. My printed puzzle has the ACROSS clues on the left above the puzzle and the DOWN clues on the right beside the puzzle, so the lefties have the best deal there. It doesn't bother me. I always raise my hand to look at the whole page for each clue.
My brother born in 1943, 70 years ago,is a lefty and was not asked to change to be a righty. That was a really old fashioned idea, even then. I started teaching in the 60's and we didn't push kids to change.
Brad and Doug never fail to delight !
ReplyDeleteMy news was sad and old before it was BAD. Ton o' was loads and then lotsa before lotta. Had clangs before CLANKS. Did manage to hold off on adjacent YALE and GREW, because 50A -YG didn't compute.
SCHLOCK, FLOR and UMIAK were unknowns.
Just as I was reading, "They're built on benches", the morning national news was covering the story of the pregnant California women (36 weeks) that's doing power weightlifting. PEC came easy.
As Abejo would say, LOEB was easy. 4 perps and I had it.
Thanks Splynter. Enjoyed your "right" up. Let's see, I'm either in the Southwest parking lot or I'm in Terminal F. Harkens back to yesterday's ? comments about proofreading...
Off to all of the errands. Should have left earlier...
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteI had a tough time in several areas, but patience and perps brought the TADA, without any help. Lots of misdirection in the cluing but great fill. Thanks, Doug and Brad, and thanks, Splynter, for your witty expo.
Out of 9 of us, only one brother is a lefty. (Strangely enough, he is also the one who continually hid my teddy bear in the refrigerator and lopped the tip of my finger off in a meat grinder! Does lefty=devilish?)
Have a great Saturday.
Hi again~!
ReplyDeleteTTP - yeah, me too~! We've learned teleportation...
Montana - great story - I love the Etch-A-sketch "DIAD"
D-otto - the typing on that page is sloppy at best, so I am not so sure about the spellings; antiquarian means pertaining to the study of antiquities - Indiana Jones could be described as antiquarian.
Oh, and I forgot to say that I bat and golf right-handed, but play goalie in hockey left -handed...and the equipment costs more....
Splynter
Went to Penn and picked Yale. Kind of sad. I remember talking about the ivy league with a friend. He said Penn wasn't' in, but Vassar, where he went, was in. Whatever it takes to feel good about yourself. :)
ReplyDeleteGreetings, Word Warriors! Super expo, Splynter. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteHOT TAMALES! I love the real ones and the candies.
Ooh! SHABBY CHIC and Jimmy CHOO in one puzzle makes my TOES tingle.
This one started slowly for me and I picked and pecked until finally had a TOEhold in the NE and SW corners. UGLI just popped out and ROOT was funny. I didn't recall LOEB but BY AND BY finished it.
FLOR of course was a given and for some reason UMIAK seemed to compliment Yupik though I HAD NO IDEA why. My haunted house had CLINK and URANII seemed OK but this was relatively easy for a Saturday so I'm pleased.
This was great fun to day. Thank you Brad Wilber and Doug Peterson.
It's a busy day to day as we're having September birthdays for seven family members, one of whom is a lefty. I'm a righty and of the seven of us, two are lefties. My SIL and one granddaughter is also left DOMINANT.
My turkey enchiladas were requested so I had better hot foot it and get going.
Society in general for centuries believed that being left dominant was somehow sinister and so it was discouraged. Remember The King's Speech?
Have a superb Saturday, everyone!
Oops, that should be "are left dominant."
ReplyDeleteWell, this morning had me thinking that our constructors might become my new Dreaded Duo. Wow, was this tough. It took me forever to get started, ages to fill anything in, then I cheated, and then I still had tons of stuff wrong. Not a great way to start the weekend.
ReplyDeleteBut I have to admit those grid spanners are impressive and there were lots of clever clues, some of which I got (EGGS) and some of which I didn't (TOES--kept thinking of water or gas pumps, not shoes). My biggest problem was the BIOLOGICAL COOLER. I kept thinking weather, of course, and so had stupid items like SWEATY SNOW. SWEAT GLAND never occurred to me. And I could have sworn JARDIN is French and that it should have been FLEUR rather than FLOR--even though I did finally reluctantly put in FLOR. The French HENS were cute, by the way. Oh well, you can't win them all, and that's my problem, not the Dreaded Duos.
Splynter, I loved the PEPE cartoon. The UPS job sounds exhausting and stressful. My poor husband had his dominant right hand completely paralyzed by his 2008 stroke. As a result he can barely print his signature and it looks like a 4 year old's. We recently published a book of short stories that he wrote, and gave away the first copy last night. Had to tell people that he regretfully can't sign it because it's too arduous for him to write his name.
Montana, very cute grandson story.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Rough rough rough one today!
ReplyDeleteThere was a time when it was illegal to be left-handed in Maryland! Teachers were required to force their student to write with their right hand. Cannot imagine how many kids were screwed up for life!
Howdy, folks. Yes, I'll be at Crosswords LA in October. I won't be competing this year. I'll be a volunteer/judge-of-all-trades. If you're in the Southern California area, I highly recommend it!
ReplyDeleteWell, I thought I'd finally try to go blue, but once again it didn't work. I posted a message, pressed Google account rather than putting in a name, put in my e-mail address and a password, but my password wasn't accepted. I tried different passwords but they were all not accepted. Are there conditions for acceptable passwords that I don't know about? If Bill G. or Desper-otto, or someone else could help me figure out how to go blue, I'll try again.
ReplyDeleteHah! Nailed it! Persistence pays off. Saturday puzzles often take me a couple of days of fresh looks and nights for my subconscious to work on them. I've referred to Al Roker's act on the Today Show (and now the Weather Channel...grr) as "Banal Schtick". Should it instead be "Banal Schlock"?
ReplyDeleteGood luck, all, with your weekends!
ReplyDeleteThis was a TIF ("thought I'd finished") for me. I managed, with just a little peeking, to finish it, or so I thought. But I had to be corrected from my KANS to KEN's. KANS seemed wrong to me, but I didn't recognize my misspelling of the perp YEMENITE. I didn't have PECS right either, but something called WECS in its place.
The worst was my substitution of GETS IN LINE for KEPT IN LINE. I knew the tense was wrong, but still... I started with the perp PEPE, but couldn't for the life of me make it work. So I changed that to some imaginary cartoon character named PETE. Another perp, CLANKS, I had as CLANGS--a better answer, that one!
And so it goes... er, went!
Oh! To answer Splynter's question, I am right handed.
ReplyDeleteAnybody else catch the first installment of the BBC "Hollow Crown" series last night? They started the Henry plays with RICHARD II, a truly grand film version. Ye gods, what a cast! And these guys aren't just celebrities but KNOW how to make the language work.
I have seen some misbegotten RICHARDs in our time, but this one is on the money. If you were ever curious about the aura we (humans, I mean) used to believe surrounded a king, this should answer it for you. Ben Whishaw won the BAFTA "Best Actor" award for playing King Richard, and he practically drips "divine right."
The whole cast makes the poetry come alive. This is true to Shakespeare AND for our time.
(Here's a sample of the audio:
http://lively.fm/song/17776/ )
Eclectic - deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources. How else to describe this amazing tour de force? If this doesn’t bring out our sour grapes anon’s, nothing will.
ReplyDeleteMusings
-DISTRESSED went in immediately at 1 across. Oops! Toehold was in the SE and then finished with completely unknown SHABBYCHIC.
-I am right-handed and left-brained, Splynter
-How much are on these CHOO Shoes in the window?
-Yeah, a DIET COKE will solve his problem
-A colleague always said “LET it there” rather than “LEAVE it there”
-5th graders have to be KEPT IN (a) LINE
-C’mon network TV then and now is mostly SCHLOCK
-HOT TAMALES burn my tongue, but I kept getting them from the school secretary’s stash
-Now, where were Dorothy, et al OFF TO?
-Calling wrestling rassling upsets my coaching friends
-My friend gave me a VHS tape and I had to remember how to FF/REW
Misty@12:39 -- You need to first set up a Google account. Then you'll be able to post using that "blue" account. You can use this Link to set up your account. You'll need to enter your real name (your posts will carry your username), and you'll have to set up a gmail email account (You don't have to use it, you just have to have it). You can add as much, or as little, as you want to your profile. Hope this works for you...
ReplyDeleteHello everybody. Wow, a very hard puzzle today. I managed to solve al of it except 19A, for which at first I had CHI (as many of you did). Then, because of the various surrounding answers, I erased the HI, got AUNT, and the only sometimes detachable garment feature I could think of was HOOK, so CKI it was! Since it was, I thought, a sports abbreviation (rather than a time zone thing), I left it in.
ReplyDeleteHand up for thinking water pump or gas pump for 30A, and for filling DIETCO and waiting for the perps to indicated whether it would be COLA or COKE.
I did a little double-take at seeing PEPE as and answer after seeing Le Pew in a clue. Small nit: I think Pepe Le Pew chased after ma cherie, not mon CHERI.
Altogether a wonderful puzzle, with terrific fill.
Another boat race today. We'll see what effect the drizzly wet weather has on them, if any.
Best wishes to you all.
Oh, I am right handed, as is everybody in my family except my oldest sister. She always got to sit to the left at the dinner table. It still amazes me how she turns her hand so much when she writes, so that she is effectively writing upside down.
ReplyDeleteI have sometimes wondered how right-handed people wrote right-to-left script (eg Arabic and Hebrew) without smearing it.
Misty, it's been so long since I signed up for a Google account that I've forgotten the details. (Ah, I see D-O has linked the page to get you started.) You have to pick a user name that doesn't already exist. As I remember, the password has to be eight characters with both letters and numbers. I also had some frustration getting signed up at first but it wasn't too hard. Once you get your Google account established and sign in, you are 'blue' always and you just stay signed in.
ReplyDeleteI am SO right-hand dominant. Writing left handed or throwing a baseball left handed or ??? is almost impossible for me. When my right hand was in a cast and I was teaching, trying to write left-handed on the overhead projector put me in a terrible mood. I finally learned how to prop an overhead-projector pen between my fingers so I could still use my right hand.
President Obama is left handed and it looks awkward to see him sign his name.
BTW, there doesn't seem to be much correlation to handedness and which eye is dominant (which one you use to look through a telescope). Also, if you put your hands together and interlace your fingers, which thumb is on top? No correlation there either so far as I can tell.
Jayce, yes, I'm looking forward to anotherrrace. Thanks for the reminded.
Keith:
ReplyDeleteI recorded Richard II and watched some of it but was too exhausted to stay up until 11:00. I look forward to finish seeing it.
I just came across these set of puzzles.
ReplyDeleteWhat do they say ? Try reading each line alone, quickly.
HOE LEAN ONE
ACE. LIE. TOUGH AND
EASE. CHEST TUCK. HID DEBT TART
ALE. HEIGHTS WHICH
I found, the third line, to be the most difficult. Enjoy
Take a sail on a Umiak.
ReplyDeleteDesper-Otto, I am confused by that sign up link. Does this mean I have a Gmail account now? & if I did how would I access it? (I use Optonline.net) It makes me wonder If I have years of emails somewhere I did not know existed...
I disagree that ALL ATM's are designed for Righties. The ones you drive up to would be pretty awkward to work with your right hand (assuming your in the driver's seat
ReplyDeleteLucina,
ReplyDeleteAH, that's the beauty of recording. I managed to stay with it past the built-in interval. But then I took a break at the top of Richard's "I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world..."
Mental excitement can lead to fatigue, and I needed to be alert to his final scene.
We have funny habits, don't we? The Elizabethans never stopped for an intermission. Imagine the groundlings, standing in the afternoon sun all through this-- or a four-hour HAMLET.
Interesting history behind RICHARD II-- not exactly a tame play. Shakespeare & co. were arrested after a performance of it paid for by the Earl of Essex just before his abortive rebellion. Essex thought the play might stir the people against Queen Elizabeth.
When asked why she had Shakespeare's company detained, Elizabeth famously answered, "I am Richard II; know ye not that?!"
G'Afternoon All:
ReplyDeleteWell, my personal goal was accomplished 40% of a Sat before Google. I got everything in the Carolinas and thought I could finish, but the grid-spanners and CHI @19a kept that from happening. I almost got SWEATGLAND, but gREw wouldn't budge at 52d.
Oblig Link KAOS. I gREw up on that & F-Troop every time we had a day off of school.
37a - I had LETmE, as in, "don't bother to get up, let me".
Montana - Hook up grandson w/ Splynter. That is too funny esp. the Etch-a-Sketch flair.
Splynter - handedness - Right dominate all the way. DW is a lefty. She opens every cereal & cracker box from the bottom and her emoticons all go the other way (ie. (-: - IM & Bill G. we discussed a few weeks back).
Ok, for all the substitute teachers out there - this is for you. Just some Saturday fun.
Cheers,
-T
//sorry for the 2 deleted posts - that was me
I had no time to work today's XW, but wanted to share that I am a leftie, my two sons too. But DH is, and my own parents were, all righties. I have some left leaning cousins too, but am not sure why both sons would have inherited what seems to be a dominant left handedness.
ReplyDeleteI'm right handed. But having had significant injuries that included a torn rotator cuff on the right shoulder, I've gained a lot of respect for lefties. I'd posit that every left handed person is far close to being ambidextrous than most righties just because they've had to deal with that world.
ReplyDeleteAs for left being evil, I'd suggest that there's a large segment of the population, as well as the house, that still harbors that opinion.
I'm with you, Montana; this puzzle, as well as the one yesterday, got the better of me. but the expo was great!
ReplyDeletePhil Jackson played high school basketball in ND!
I'm right-handed. So is my entire nuclear family.
This was a toughie for me. For 1D I wanted Jail so bad thinking that's where Brad & Doug should be for constructing this one.
ReplyDeleteHow the heck I ever knew Jimmy Choo and Umiak must have come from crosswords.
I am right handed but my son is left handed. Makes a work day interesting. I set up for myself and then he will change everything around to suit him.
And yes Irish Miss, I do believe lefty = devilish. He has pulled some pranks on me on the job that I would never have thought of, and I have done my share of good ones. The little &*%$@#!
Manac -
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad I didn't think of collaborators that way (Tom DeLay, et.al.), but as folks working on a project to a greater good. But, it gave me the misdirection of Chi (hi TTP!).
Gotta ask - what do you and son do that the workspace ends up backwards when the lefty exits? I can think of construction (my Uncle's a lefty carpenter and he takes everyones cussin' in stride).
Did anyone hear of "Texas Jesus" on "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" this morning? Apparently there's a condition that, with too much gut yeast, by consuming water and pasta you can spontaniously get drunk. Tin?
Cheers, -T
Well, let's see if my efforts to go blue worked.
ReplyDeleteDesper-otto and Bill G. I now have a Google Account with a profile picture. But am still not sure how to go blue. Do I have to sign in to my Google account each time I want to post?
ReplyDeleteSo how do I go back to being Misty while still being blue and having a profile page? Also, I didn't have the chance to put in my favorite movies and books and things.
ReplyDeleteMisty, if you are Margot Norris, it worked.
ReplyDeleteHere's something I want to ask all... Does anyone notice that no matter what you type in for the number side of the "prove you're not a bot", it doesn't matter. I think Google is "crowd sourcing" what their machine vision algorithms can not figure out.
Cheers, -T
Anon T @ 4:01 - That sub. teacher clip was hilarious. I can't even imagine what he would do to my name. (-:
ReplyDeleteSplynter: Wonderful write-up & links explaining my usual Saturday INK BLOT DNF.
ReplyDeleteWasn't on the 'top-of-my-game' since Gal-Pal and I took in the Tampa Bays Rays baseball game last night.
It ended in a briskly played game of 6 hours, 54 minutes, at 2:05 am, after only 18 innings, 593 pitches (from a MLB Record 21 different pitcher's) with a Rays 5 to 4 win over Baltimore.
[Didn't think that "taking-in-a-ballgame" would lead to getting home at 4:00 am].
Fave today (of course) was SIPS ... the proper way to consume Pinch, served neat!
Living in Florida, SWEAT-GLAND as a 'Biological cooler' was a gimmie.
Time to 'toast' the Sunset.
Cheers!!!
Tin,
ReplyDelete6hrs , 54 MIn! You the MAN. My limits are nine innings or three hours, whichever occur first. Usually by then the "brewmasters" have closed for night.
I hope the Rays get in and kick the REd SUX asses big time.
Chreers
Tin,
ReplyDelete6hrs , 54 MIn! You the MAN. My limits are nine innings or three hours, whichever occur first. Usually by then the "brewmasters" have closed for night.
I hope the Rays get in and kick the REd SUX asses big time.
Chreers
Anon T
ReplyDeleteYes, We do construction. We build whatever the clients wish.
Over the years we've learned to always face opposite each other when working. I did have to buy him a worm saw (basically a left handed circular saw ) Which I can't use for the life of me, to make life easier. Tape measures, miter saws and most tools are built for right handed people. He copes and has gotten quite used to my cussing, and I, his :-)
Margot, you should automatically be signed in as blue every time so long as you don't sign out. If you click on your blue name, you will be brought to an EDIT PROFILE page where you can add more stuff to your profile or change your photo whenever you want. I hope that helps. E-mail me if you want more info.
ReplyDeleteCan someone help Misty get signed in to the Blogger section and out of the google sign up.... ?
ReplyDeletethelma
I'm right-handed but friend who is a "leftie" says left-handed people are the only ones who are in their right minds!!
ReplyDeleteSaturday level challenge today but interesting. Loved EARLY BIRDS=EGGS and FFs opposite=REW.
Aced Rogers Centre (formerly SkyDome) and home of the Toronto Blue Jays. (note British/French spelling for Centre)
Thanks, Thelma--I think that's exactly my problem. Google didn't give me the options I needed, but maybe the Blogger section will, if I can only figure out how to get into it.
ReplyDeleteAs an educator I have found that whichever hand is dominant doesn`t matter nearly as much as whether that entire side is also dominant. When a child has cross-dominance, as in left handed but right eyed and/or left-footed, there are usually problems with learning abilities. If you want to check anyone`s "dominance", give them a cardboard tube and ask them to look through it, throw them a ball and tell them to use only one hand to catch it and ask them to kick a ball on the ground. We use these "tests" as part of a whole battery, designed to screen preschool-kindergarteners , to see which children will probably need extra instruction in reading, especially. The problems could manifest in other areas as well. Bottom line: handedness isn`t nearly as important as dominance. And I leave you with my favorite comeback when someone says, "You`re using the wrong hand." I say, "Left-handed people are in their right mind!"
ReplyDeleteMisty, Log into your gmail account and click on the "more" bar at top
ReplyDeleteright. Then you will see blogger in the drop down menu. click that and you can enter you info.
Not sure if it matters, but Misty is signed in to a Google + account.
ReplyDeleteMisty....
ReplyDeleteI would have been more than happy to help you.... :) but I had a real dickens of a time when I went blue... and I would have you more confused... :) I do hope you will be able to figure it all out... :)
Manac - thank you for your help... I think I learned something too..... I don't recall having to do anything with a google acct... and I think I went directly to blogger.com....... but after that I honestly don't remember... and I can't seem to get back there unless I go thru the orange B at the side of my post.... so you see what help I am.... :(
Irish Miss - thank you also... as you can tell, I have no idea if it makes a difference either... :)
Hope you all have had a great day......
thelma :)
Irish Miss & Misty,
ReplyDeleteIf memory serves correct, didn't Marti
have the same problems when she tried to used Google + ?
Where is HeartRx when you need her?
Probably in her leather boots and with whip in hand one would suppose ;~)
Oh dear, maybe I should have gotten a gmail account after all? I'd just like to be back to normal but with "Misty" in blue and with an Avatar and a Profile page. I won't be on line tomorrow but I'll keep my fingers crossed that maybe on Monday it will happen.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, have a good Sunday, everybody.
Good evening, folks. Thank you, Brad and Doug, for one tough puzzle. Thank you, Splynter, for the fine review.
ReplyDeleteWell, I am checking in late. Worked off and on all day on this and it beat me up. Got the South and Center, OK, but the North was my buggaboo.
Looking forward to tomorrow. See you then.
Abejo
(erdsner)
Busy Saturday, like Splynter I am left handed but play baseball and goo right handed.
ReplyDeleteGood to se Doug P. On to Sunday