23. "When it rains, it pours" brand : MORTON SALT. Arbor Day founder Nebraskan J. Sterling Morton's son Joy founded this company.
29. 1954 Kurosawa classic : SEVEN SAMURAI. An American derivative
43. Only player to appear in both the Super Bowl and World Series : DEION SANDERS
52. Game with many imitators : SIMON SAYS
65. Cecilia, to musicians : PATRON SAINT
84. Baseball closer's nightmare : BLOWN SAVE. Too many of these and it's bye, bye New York, hello Scranton.
91. Investment firm founded in 1869 : GOLDMAN SACHS
103. Classic sci-fi gesture : VULCAN SALUTE
113. Leafy course : GREEN SALAD. Grow one in a single planter
Theme reveal:
123. Intel collector hidden in nine puzzle answers : NSA. Go ahead, read my email
ACROSS
1. "Holy Smokes!" : WOW.
4. Like bodyguards : ARMED
9, Stinger : WASP. In what play is Muriel Tate's drink of choice a vodka stinger?
13. Dip : SWIM
17. Japanese band : OBI
18. Dashboard array : GAUGES. Dash in first car I ever owned
20. Stars at the Forum? : ASTRA. Ptolemy's stars?
22. "Oh Dear" : AH ME
25. More distant : ICIER. Our yard was icier after a mid-spring frost last week
26. Raised in a way : TEED. I've TEED up and then been TEED off!
27. Cold Draft : BEER
28. Eye protector : LID.
32. Apples on a desk : IMACS.
34. Blows off steam : VENTS. Once you VENT, it's hard to take it back!
35. Battleground : ARENA
36. "Enough already" : OH STOP.
39. Wide awake : ALERT. Sadly, we were NOT on 12/7/41 and 9/11/01
41. Changes course : TURNS.
46. Old 45 player : HI-FI. Talk about your artifact!
47. Org. for heavyweights : WBA. Can you name the heavyweight champ. Nah, I can't either.
50. Muscat Daily reader : OMANI. An English-speaking daily in Oman with a circulation of 33,000
51. Bird feeder cakes : SUETS. The Starlings go nuts for this goop and so I pitched it
54. Golden Fleece source : RAM
55. Égoïste maker : CHANEL. Not Mennen?
57. Silver hair? : MANE. Hi Yo! Fun!
58. Issues for fashionable readers : ELLES
59. Vice squad operation : RAID. Be careful the mayor isn't in there.
60. With no break : ON END
62. Camp David Accords signer : SADAT. Jimmy's proudest moment
63. Emmy-winning sportscaster Buck : JOE. Jack Buck's son shows that there might be something to this DNA stuff
70. Lisbon's land, to the IOC : POR
71. Aquatic birds : TERNS.
73. Pink flowers in a Van Gogh still life : ROSES.
74. Base figures : UMPS. Now UMPS have instant replay. That's all baseball needs - something to slow down the game.
76. Totally lost : AT SEA
77. "Forget it" : NOPE. Ain't happenin'!
78. Sexy one : HOTTIE. Aw, go link yourself! ;-)
81. Athenian cross : TAU
86. __ gun : RADAR. Ever talked your way out of a ticket?
87. French twist need : TRESS
89. Envy, e.g. : SIN. If that's my worst SIN...
90. "I'm Not There" actor : GERE
93. Like toads : WARTY. These are too
95. Post grad hurdles : ORALS
96. Choice word : EITHER.
97. "SNL" alumna Cheri : OTERI
99. "Hasta la vista" : ADIOS
101. Washington, for one : STATE
106. Way to stand : PAT
107. Lox stocker : DELI. I like this clue
111. On Vine St., say : IN LA. Hey, Wilbert Harrison sang that in KC you could "be standin' on the corner, 12th Street and VINE"
112. Improves : HONES.
116. Grant factor : NEED ...or a friend in DC
117. Cabbage? : LUCRE
118. Pet on a wheel : GERBIL
119. 39, for Derek Jeter : AGE. The captain has lost a step but is still the standard for "classy athlete"
120. Celtic tongue : ERSE
121. "I took the one __ traveled by": Frost : LESS
122. Like cigar bars : SMOKY.
DOWN
1. Baby carrier? : WOMB
2. High wind : OBOE. This High Wind provides a haunting introduction in Judy Collins' Send In The Clowns
3. Current carrier : WIRE
4. Back in the day : AGO
5. Went around in circles? : RAN LAPS. Jazz, Did you ever see a trombone player run laps for messing up at practice like a football player? ;-)
6. __ video : MUSIC. MTV used to play these.
7. "Great Scott!" : EGADS
8. U.S. State with three counties : DEL. See:
9. Release relatives : WAIVERS
10. Way up : ASCENT
11. Tour of duty : STINT
12. When printing starts : PRESS TIME
13. Ring site : SATURN. Same goes for Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and my bachelor bathtub
14. 1987 kid's best-seller : WHERE'S WALDO.
15. "That is ..." : I MEAN. Old punch line, "No, young lady, what I MEAN to say is 'I want two tickets to Pittsburgh'"
16. Mass __ : MEDIA
19. Some GPS lines : STS
21. 1966 Sporting News College Coach of the Year Parseghian : ARA. All I remember is he went for the tie in 1966 against MSU
24. Largest moon of Neptune : TRITON
30. Tinker to __ to Chance: classic double-play combo : EVERS
31. "The Few. The Proud" group : MARINES. We all honor Dennis' STINT here. Semper Fi!
33. "Friends" friend : MONICA. Another MONICA has re-emerged
36. Scent : ODOR
37. Blood: Pref. : HEMA
38. "The King and I" kingdom : SIAM
39. Chick chaser? : ADEE. Chickadee. Ah yes, W.C. and Mae
40. Free : LET LOOSE
42. Tabloid subj. : UFO
44. Carne __: Mexican beef dish : ASADA
45. One with a habit : NUN
46. Language that gives us "shampoo" : HINDI
48. One way to play : BY EAR. It's hard enough using a pick in my fingers
49. Mgr.'s helper : ASST
52. Yemen's capital : SANA
53. Waves-against-rocks sounds : SLAPS
56. Not square : HIP
57. Private eatery : MESS HALL. Yes, I'll have the S.O.S. almondine please
59. Get more Money : RENEW. Money magazine.
61. Atlanta-to-Charleston dir. : NNE
63. "Once Upon a Time in China" star : JET LI. All right Jet, you can have the last pizza roll!
64. 1938 "The War of the Worlds" narrator : ORSON WELLES
66. Treasure cache : TROVE
67. Ring barrier : ROPE as in Ali's rope-a-dope
68. ___Sweet: sugar substitute : NUTRA
69. "No details, pls!" : TMI. Hey, I believe you have a rash down there.
71. Bar pickups : TABS
72. Spanish wine punch : SANGRIA
75. Feed a friend's feline, say : PET SIT
77. Nobody : NARY A SOUL
79. Sports figures : ODDS. The ODDS on Florida State repeating as National Champs are 5:1. The Huskers? 75:1
80. Dundee topper : TAM
81. Virginia __ : TECH
82. "Off the Court" author : ASHE
83. Cold War initials : USSR
85. Good to go : SET
86. Event with mocking : ROAST. The good-natured fun of Dean Martin's ROASTS have been supplanted by the filth on Comedy Central's version
88. Top-notch : RATED-A
91. Puts up a fuss : GROUSES
92. One who's quick to pick up? : NEATNIK. I live with one but that gene must skip a generation
94. Where many quarters are used : ARCADE
95. Rexall Place team : OILERS
97. Like merinos : OVINE
98. Upright worker : TUNER
100. Gym event : DANCE
101. __ whale : SPERM
102. Martial arts-based regimen : TAEBO
104. 95-Down's org. : NHL
105. Person, slangily : EGG
108. Dashing style : ELAN
109. Gets behind : LAGS
110. What's on your mind : IDEA
114. Hi-__ monitor : RES
115. Underhand : SLY
What a Herculean effort by our lovely blogmaster. The time and effort it took to ferret out these nine fills and then all the clever cluing is amazing!
Husker Gary
Stealth, if big parts of being a spy
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Is when tossed in a situation
Don't make a sensation
But keep yourself especially unobtrusive and sly!
(How many undercover agents can you uncover in the above limerick?)
The spooks over at the N S A
Are keeping tabs on my phone calls all day.
I'm not at all peeved,
In fact, rather pleased
That at least someone takes note what I say!
So close! But no ta-da, and so I had to turn on the red letters. Only 3 squares lit up, all of them desperate WAGs in naticks. I finally had to hit solve for all three: WbA ✜ bYEAR, OtERI ✜ tUNER, & NhL ✜ hONES. Two out of the 6 were piano puns I should have seen, and I thought the OILERS were a football team. I did at least catch the gimmick early, which was helpful today.
ReplyDeleteHidden spies, though, should have had a catchier clue than "intel collector". (The 6 secret agents in my limerick were CIA, NSA, OSS, KGB, MI6, & FBI. Seven if you count the spy out in the open.)
A Sunday speed-run which ended with an eight-minute typo hunt (it's amazing how elusive those buggers can be). Changing HEMO to HEMA yielded the desired "TaDa!" (and, of course, made sense out of "ROM"). Very clever cluing and, as usual, I missed the hidden theme.
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Morning, all!
ReplyDeleteDelightful Sunday puzzle chock full of the wacky clues we've come to love from our deal leader. I had trouble figuring out the theme at first. For awhile I thought all the theme answers shared ONSA and couldn't figure out what that mean (especially since I was literally looking for the word INTEL to be hidden inside). Once I got to BLOWN SAVE, however, the light finally dawned. After I changed it from BLOON SAVE, that is...
Wonderful Sunday puzzle from our fearless leader! I got the theme early (although I was looking for CHIP and being Canadian, NSA was not a familiar term to me).
ReplyDeleteLots of misdirection. Oh that was a Japanese sash not a musical group!
DH helped me identify the Rexall Place team. I discussed the OILERS 5-peat a few days ago.
Son loved WHERE'S WALDO and spent hours searching the books. I must get them out for granddaughter.
Does SANAA not have 2 As?
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteNicely done, Husker. Nicely done, C.C. You can put me down for a DNF. I got HINDU for the shampoo language, and that made Cecelia a PATRON'S AUNT. Looked a little weird, but the NSA was still there, so I went with it.
Never heard of DEION SANDERS, but he perped out OK. As did EVERS. Whenever a sportscast comes on TV either DW changes the channel, or my brain completely shuts down -- more than normal.
The VULCAN SALUTE is much more polite than the one-finger salute often seen in Texas. It's similar to rolling one's tongue. Some people can do it easily, and others can't do it, no matter how hard they try. Ain't genetics wonderful?
@Canadian Eh: I think you meant three As. I thought the same thing. I usually see it as SANA'A, but in cw's that final A appears to be optional.
I read this blog from time to time, usually after doing my favorite Friday and Saturday toughies, but comment rarely. Today I just have to lodge a nit-picky gripe regarding an old Saturday Silkie that I had saved up for later solving, which came yesterday. For crying out loud, the abbreviation for the state of New York is NY, NOT NYS. This must not bother any of you, or perhaps you have just gotten used to it, since I didn't see any comments about it when I looked at that day's blog this morning, but I just think it's wrong, wrong, wrong. Rant over.
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you so much for your fine and informative blog.
@ Pamela 8:38 a.m. --
ReplyDeleteOf course you are right, the official Post Office abbreviation fro New York is NY.
I don't remember how it was clued in that puzzle, but they differentiate New York State as NYS and New York City as NYC to clarify or avoid confusion about which is being referred to.
Thanks, C.C. for a wonderful Sunday puzzle. I was able to finish it more quickly than most Sundays, without write-overs, but perps and guesses were needed in a few spots.
ReplyDeleteI picked up on the theme early because I was looking for something "inside" and found the NSA ~ very clever!
~ I had no idea about St. Cecilia ~ interesting.
~ I paused at 115D - Underhand / SLY - I wanted underhanded.
~ Gave me trouble: LUCRE and TRESS.
~ Favorites: Private eatery / MESS HALL and Upright worker / TUNER.
~ BLOWN SAVE describes just part of the whole miserable season for the Red Sox so far. :-\
It was a real treat to have you doing today's write-up, Husker Gary ~ great job!
@buckeye bob, It was the 4/5 puzzle, and the clue was "At 5,343 ft., Mr. Marcy is its highest point." I knew I was looking for a state, and felt certain it could not possibly be New York because it was a three-letter abbreviation. Oh well, now I have learned. :-/
ReplyDeleteGood morning everyone,
ReplyDeleteA three way treat today. A CC puzzle, bloggd by HG, and a correct finish for Hondo.
HG, great blog, nice to have a fresh approach. BTW, did not recognize the dashboard of your vehicle...what was the yr & make? Last heavyweight champ I remember was Buster Douglas and or Mike Tyson. Last one I really followed was Ali.
Got thru most of this with a minimum of issues except the NE corner, WOMB gave me the impetus. MORTON SALt -my aha moment-simply wouldn't register. Japanese band/OBI was clever.
Knowing CC's penchant for Baseball helped a lot today. Loved 74A Base figures/UMPS & 84A ....nightmare/BLOWN SAVE , one of which cost the Yankees a game this past Friday.
One of these days I have to figure out the difference to a player if he is put on WAIVERs or DFA'D (Designated for Assignment).
Nice to see a shout out to The Magnificent Seven. one of my all time favorite Oaters with a memorable theme song.
Good morning everyone!
ReplyDeleteAnother fun and challenging Sunday puzzle from C.C.! And an excellent pinch-hit review by Husker Gary!
I finished the puzzle without help or searches in less than normal Sunday time, but it didn’t look that way for a while. Last to fall was the south-central. I didn’t know the Rexall Place team is the OILERS, so I didn’t know NHL, I had ROAD before LESS, and MONEY before LUCRE. Persistence, WAGS, and perps paid off.
I forgot to read the theme title, but it would not have helped me anyway. Then again, the theme answers were pretty straight-forward.
Of course, I liked all the baseball terms, such as “Neon” DEION SANDERS, UMPS, BLOWN SAVE, and EVERS.
Judy Collins has a great voice, and Send In The Clowns is a wonderful song. Thanks, Gary!
Neat puzzle, CC, with so many theme answers and great mis-directions.
ReplyDeleteAs I was reading the blog I tried to guess its author. The style had HG written all over it. Wonderful job, HG!
I solved this from the top down until I hit snags at DEION SANDERS and PATRON SAINT. Then I filled it in from the bottom up. The reveal helped a lot.
I wondered about the spelling of SANA. I see on Wiki that it has various spelling, having been transliterated from the Arabic characters. "Sana'a (also spelled Sanaa or Sana.)"
Buckeye Bob a@ 8:15. I agree about NYS. It appears on many abbreviation lists and on many NYS govt. websites.
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteWhat a pleasant way to begin the day: a CC puzzle and a Husker expo. Great job by both!
Found the puzzle pretty straight forward and caught the theme after filling in the unifier. Fav clues were Silver hair=mane and Upright worker=tuner.
We have a beautiful day, lots of sunshine, not too hot. Hope it stays that way for a family cook-out later today.
Have a good one.
I forgot to say I do have one small nit with 99A "Hasta la vista": ADIOS.
ReplyDeleteTechnically, they do not mean the same thing. “Hasta la vista” means “Goodbye for now - see you again - later - See you! - so long”, whereas “adios” means “goodbye”.
On the other hand, I suppose they could be interchangeable in the same sense that “goodbye” and “later” have become now in English.
Lucina?
Hi Y'all! Great one, C.C. & Gary!
ReplyDeleteThis took less time with more words in it than yesterday. Such a lot of theme words! Wow! With Intel, I was looking for a microchip inside. Good misdirection. Well, looky there, NSA, sho' 'nuf! Lots of good meaty fill too.
I don't think NSA is bothering with my phone calls. About the only phone calls I made this month were votes for Dancing With The Stars. Yay, Maks & Meryl!
I, too, thought OILERS were a football team. Silly me!
In basketball, if you are TEED, this means the ref gave you a technical foul for mouthing off because you were TEED off about something. Sometimes if they VENT enough, they get ousted. Lots of short tempers and physical contact in the playoffs. I hate that, but the media shows it over and over. Lots of time outs so the refs can look over an incident and see for sure what happened. Sure drags out a game.
A water bird, third letter was "R": not "egret", not "heron". Keep perping. Aha! TERNS.
Hello, Super Solvers! And hello, Husker Gary and C.C.!
ReplyDeleteWEES! What a delightful treat today to have a wonderful grid by our Blog leader with commentary by our resident Nebraskan. Thank you both.
I have a big nit to pick with my newspaper which had 78A as "attractive one" so HOTTIE didn't even make my list of possibilities and then CAT SIT didn't help. Those sports abbreviations will get me every time even one as ubiquitous as UMPS.
However, as soon as DEION emerged so did SANDERS. It must have lain dormant for a long while in my brain cells.
Otherwise, this was a smooth sashay from start to finish and NSA was visible after it was done.
Having taught in Catholic schools for many years, I saw a picture of SAINT Cecilia in every MUSIC room.
I loved the clueing for OBI and seeing WOMB again.
A big SALUTE to the MARINEs especially that certain someone who used to appear at the beginning of the blog. Hi, Dennis.
Buckeye Bob:
You are right on all counts. Hasta la vista literally means, "until the next view" or till we see each other again and is used to mean goodbye which sounds so final. With five letters to fill it has to be ADIOS.
Happy Sunday to all! Hasta la vista!
Good afternoon, folks. Thank you, C.C., for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Husker Gary, for a fine write-up.
ReplyDeleteThis puzzle was tough, but easy. Lots of tough fill and misdirection, but doable if think a little and have a perps or two.
Theme was great. Of course, NSA is in the news lately.
PATRON SAINT was easy for me. There is a Masonic Lodge in Chicago names Saint Cecilia Lodge. It was formed many years ago by musicians from Chicago. I know many members of that Lodge, personally.
DEION SANDERS was easy. The tough part was spelling DEION.
SADAT was easy once I stopped trying to think of the five letter president that signed it. Finally SADAT became obvious. Good clue/word.
Private eatery, MESS HALL, was my last to fill. I had MASS HALL with perps. I was perusing the whole puzzle looking for an obvious error and spotted MASS HALL. Changed it to MESS HALL and it worked. I had been thinking of a place where a person could eat by himself. A little misdirection. Good mental workout.
I still have to finish Saturday. I did get Friday done this morning and entered my comments for that date.
Hopefully see you later today.
Abejo
(235)
Good Sunday morning! I hope yours is pleasant.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read the writeup or comments yet. I finished this late last night and wanted to comment before it gets much later. I always start a puzzle in the upper-left corner, at 1A. WOW! was a good way to start. Then OBI (Japanese band). Then WOMB (Baby carrier) and on and on; one clever, fresh and tricky clue after another. I really had a good time with this one. It's at or near the top of my favorite puzzles of all time. Excellent, CC. Thanks.
And another thank you to Gary.
An excellent writeup for an excellent puzzle.
(So far, I like the replays in baseball. Usually, they have been short and quickly corrected something that was wrong. Once in a while, it might make a big difference.)
C.C.: Your name is misspelled at the top of this blog, where the constructor is named. Just thought I would let you know. Maybe you can fix it.
ReplyDeleteAbejo
I took care of it. Good catch.
ReplyDeleteThe football Oilers started off in Houston and now are the Tennessee Titans.
ReplyDeleteHappy Sunday everybody!
ReplyDeleteKnew it was going to be a fun, baseball-infused puzzle today with C.C.s byline....
BTW, Buckeye Bob hit the nail on the head by describing Husker Gary's role as a "pinch hitter"....
Hands up for CAT SIT. Other write-overs were OH OH for AH ME, MVPS for ODDS, REEL for TECH and GRAND SLAM for BLOWN SAVE....
Richard GERE and GERBIL in the same grid...? Coincidence...? Talk about your Tabloid subject....
Not sure that I've ever heard that finger-splaying thing Spock does called a SALUTE....
The OILERS were a football team back in the day, now they are the Titans....
Speaking of football, Neon Deion: Most. Overrated. Ever. A legend in his own mind....
Finally, was that a CSO at 93A...?
Doc out....
Devon Sanders was not only get defensive back but most people forget that he ALSO PLAYED FOR THE. ATLANTA BRAVES' at the same time.
DeleteWhen I saw it was one of C.C.'s I knew it'd be right up my wheelhouse because there would be a number of sports clues. I wasn't wrong. So I finished in record time, but I do admit that I had to look up TMI after I had finished in the Urban Dictionary. I was embarrassed that I didn't get the meaning considering I have a 14 year-old and a 16 year-old speaking like that all the time. I must hear "idk Dad" 10 times a day along with other "just initials" phrases.
ReplyDeleteGood afternoon, Sunday Solvers!
ReplyDeleteI saw C.C.'s name and knew I was going to be digging deep to come up with baseball answers. But at least she threw me one bone - DEION SANDERS.
Great write-up, HG. And one of my favorite songs by Judy Collins. Thanks for the comment on "Silver hair?" for MANE. I got it with perps, bet didn't "get" it. Huge V-8 moment when I realized we were talking about Silver, the horse, on "The Lone Ranger"!!!!
It was nice to see the picture of "The Magnificent Seven" Husker, but I think these are the guys who were in Akira's "SEVEN SAMURAI."
Funny, I just had Akira when I did the write-up on Friday, and even mentioned that I knew him from "Seven Samurai." So that entry was definitely a gimme!!
It was nice to see the shout out to the MARINES on this Memorial Day weekend. Have a relaxing holiday, everyone!
Good afternoon everyone.
ReplyDeleteWBS, WEES. Good puzzle; good intro. Much clever mis-direction. We are frequently told that Rich adjusts many clues. But I'd like to think I'm looking mainly at C.C.'s work. Like how a baseball term, BLOWN SAVE was woven into the theme array.
@ 86a - RADAR - HG asked about tickets. Years ago, BH had a work colleague, who, when stopped by police for a traffic infraction would become quite agitated and emotional when the officer approached her. This progressed even further when she would start crying and retching and threaten to toss her cookies. Needless to say the officer quickly let her go and departed the scene ASAP. I guess you have to be able to EMOTE to use this technique.
This was a great puzzle. Thank you C.C., and thank you HG for your write up.
ReplyDeleteI did have a couple of write-overs: I started to write AUDIO at 6D, but when I got to the D, I realized that couldn't be right and changed it to MUSIC. I also had CATSIT before perps changed it to PETSIT.
Here's a great human interest story from CBS News and Sunday Morning.
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Hello everybody. WOW, I loved this puzzle! So delightful on so many levels! It's on my top 10 best puzzles list. Adieu and au revoir, all.
ReplyDeleteBaseball closer's nightmare:
ReplyDeleteBLOWN SAVE
Baseball closer's WORST nightmare, and my original answer....
GRAND SLAM
HG:
ReplyDeleteGreat job taking on the awesome challenge of blogging a Sunday, though you were handed a wonderful C.C. special. She really knows how to grid the 21 x 21.
When a baseball player is paced on waivers he may be purchased by any other team, with priority in reverse order of the standings. The team may or may not retain the player to send to the minors. Designated for reassignment means they have the right to
send him out.
Love UPRIGHT WORKER : PIANO TUNER.
Was that a dodge you had HG? Looks like a Chrysler dash board from the 60's.
'57 Chevy
ReplyDeleteQuibbles:
ReplyDelete23A "When it rains, it pours" brand: MORTON SALT. The correct answer is MORTON, not MORTON SALT. The correct clue would have been, "When it rains, it pours" product.
89A "Envy, e.g.": SIN. Where's the abbreviation in SIN? The correct clue would have been, "Envy, for example."
Kudos: 75D "Feed a friend's feline, say": PETSIT (CATSIT and KITSIT didn't work).
Nope. Not a 57. Probably a 56 Chevy.
ReplyDeleteThank you cc for giving us an easier puzzle today than yesterday's beast! On my maps the Atlanta to Charleston direction is ESE. Am I looking at the wrong cities?
ReplyDeleteBut if "Charleston" is Charleston, West Virginia...
ReplyDeleteRe: 2-d. Judy Collins' voice is beautiful, as is the for anglais (not oboe) playing the intro and obligati throughout.
ReplyDeleteAs a newby here, can I ask - what are perps? I did figure out WAGs.
Thanks all for the good puzzles and comments.
I knew I typed cor anglais, not "for". Keep forgetting to check blasted spell check, as I have to look at the keyboard to type.
ReplyDelete"Perps, short for Perpendiculars, refer to the crossing answers that help you fill in letters of the word you don't know or you are not sure of."
ReplyDeleteCheck out the Olio / Comments Section Abbrs link on the right-hand side of the Home page of this blog. It is not a complete list, but a good start.
DNF for me (again...) How do you people start working on these puzzles so early? I started at 11am, (& with a break to go to Home Depot) was on & off until I finally gave up at 5pm.
ReplyDeleteAs I look at my puzzle in retrospect, if you made a diagonal line from the SW to the NE, everything to the left is filled in, & everything to the right is very spotty. It's like this puzzle was created by two different people!
Where did I go wrong?
Well my 78A was attractive, not sexy, so I thought "Cuttie?" (or should it be cutie, with one T?
87A French Twist need = tress, Hey, I thought it was a drink, so I put "Glass."
98D Upright worker,,, now I had T-n-r, but I could not ink in "tuner" because I have a baby grand...
52A game with many imitators, why could I not get Simon Says? This one dang thingy busted my chops. I had presstime, marines, asst, & was ready to WAG Slap, why oh why did the rest of the perps fail me?
Lets see, 52D Yemens Capitol = Sana? (*&^%$%*(&^)(*
46D language that gives us shampoo = hindi??? (Aw Nuts!)
42D Tabloid Subj = UFO? I dunno, my Supermarket checkout is filled with scandals, not UFO's
I never did find Waldo...
48D one way to play = by ear,,, Ack! I should have got this...
Kudos CC, (till we meet again,)
Musings
ReplyDelete-Hi guys! I’m back from a 300 mile trip where we visited 5 cemeteries on our annual Memorial Day hajj! Once my MIL passes on, we will not do this any more but she enjoys it immensely and doesn’t ask for much
-I appreciate the kind words about my blogging but it is like complimenting the frame around the Mona Lisa. CC is amazing and gently corrects me when I err.
-That dash is what the one on our ’55 Chevy looked like. The Chevy bow tie is in the middle of the speedometer
-Muriel Tate (Barbara Harris) drank vodka stingers in Plaza Suite while Jesse Kipplinger (Walter Matthau) was trying to talk her out of her pants.
-I’ll stick with OBOE on Send In The Clowns as per my research and ear and let you pick until your nit bleeds, Mike ;-)
HG:
ReplyDeleteLucky you! After your MIL is gone you are released from cemetery duty. Our Mother specified that we must continue the tradition on Memorial Day. We need a map as the relatives graves are scattered throughout the area. And remember it's going to be 100degs tomorrow.
Husker G... maybe a 56 or 57 chevy ??
ReplyDeleteGuess I should have read ALL the comments before I jumped right in there... :)
ReplyDeleteHonor Our Veterns
thelma :)
HG, the speedometer says 140, but how fast did YOU get it to go?
ReplyDelete-Dave, when we bought that ’55 Chevy, it was a 13-year-old, $125 car and 60 mph was a pipe dream. We pulled a U-Haul up to school to finish my degree; it almost failed to make it up the biggest hill.
ReplyDelete-Lucina, my mother stipulated “no artificial flowers” on her grave but we have chosen to violate that request in the interest of having the grave remain decorated for a longer period. Sorry mom.
Husker Gary -
ReplyDeleteI didn't mean to nitpick your excellent blog. Obviously the "high wind" is oboe, but the instrument accompanying Judy is it's larger, lower brother. We call it English Horn (though it's neither), and it's often played by oboists, but it's a 5th lower, pitched in F, and has a much darker, mellower timbre, and I think a more plaintive, less strident sound. It plays the "Going Home" theme solo at the beginning of the 2nd (Largo) movement of The New World Symphony. The pitch difference is the same as that between the violin & viola - the viola is a 5th lower; similar, but not the same. Enjoy the music.
Mike
Thanks, buckeye bob; I size windows to text and never noticed the right side before - I've actually only seen it a few times.
ReplyDeleteThe reason I asked, was in 83' I bought 650 Nighthawk, & the speedometer also said 140MPH.
ReplyDeleteSo I took it out on Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field old airport runways to see how fast I could go...
Half way down the runway I easily got it up to 80, but what scared the shit out of me was, I was a bullet. No control at all...
Sure, I could have gone faster, but what for? (If I had wings I would have took off...)
Thanks, Mike. I appreciated the music lesson concerning the shading of difference between the two instruments. Learning is one of the real bonuses of this site.
ReplyDeleteHere are some popular songs using both instruments
BTW, my granddaughter played viola not violin.
I've just been watching 60 Minutes. (Sunday Morning is more relaxed and user-friendly but I feel like 60 Minutes keeps me informed about some important stuff.) So while watching, I was wondering if anybody knows what is happening with Lara Logan? I know she screwed up researching a story but she apologized. I'm sure she regrets her behavior but what else does she have to do? Or have the powers that be decided not to forgive her and she's done? I feel that some other TV news station would be pleased to have her.
ReplyDeleteBillG:
ReplyDeleteI just searched for Lara Logan and read that she was assaulted in Egypt the night Mubarak fell, Feb. 11. She was beaten and raped according to the report.
Had you heard any of that?
Lucina, yes I had heard about that. I think there was even a 60 Minutes segment about it. I could be misremembering but I think that happened a couple of years ago. More recently, she got into a pickle about a story regarding Benghazi that she hadn't researched thoroughly and turned out to be mostly false. She apologized and took responsibility for her serious mistake. But I guess that might not have been enough. I just found this.
ReplyDelete"After defending the report for more than a week, Logan was forced to apologize and later take an indefinite leave of absence while CBS conducted an internal inquiry. Her colleagues, including veteran CBS correspondents Steve Kroft and Bob Simon, were apoplectic about the damage to 60 Minutes’ reputation. Morley Safer, the only founding member of the cast left on the 45-year-old program, went into the office of CBS News chairman and 60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager’s office last fall and demanded that he fire Logan.
But Fager (who declined to comment for this story) refused. Instead, he said that Logan will return sometime this year. His decision sent a ripple of discontent through CBS News, prompting questions about Fager’s judgment. And as the months have rolled on, Logan’s return appears less and less certain."
I guess some of the CBS brass believe that certain mistakes can't be apologized away. I guess I'm not like that. I think if a person admits his mistake and genuinely apologizes, I'm inclined to forgive almost anything.
For those of you who enjoy baseball (or just a beautiful example of athletic skill), here's a baseball slide into second that was a work of art. A beautiful slide
ReplyDeleteFive and out...
BillG:
ReplyDeleteThanks. I was unaware of any of those details. 60 minutes is something I watch only sporadically and then, some of it might have happened when I was traveling somewhere.
HG:
That's a good reason to use artificial flowers on graves. We do as well.
Bumppo:
I don't understand your problem with MORTON SALT. That is exactly what it says on the canister: MORTONS IODIZED SALT. Perhaps you wanted the 's after Morton.
Good morning all.
ReplyDeleteOne day late of course. I enjoyed the puzzle and the writeup, and most of the comments as well.
I had the exact reaction as HeartRx to Silver hair, and the only reason I got Seven Samurai was due to her comments the other day on Akira Kurosawa.