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Nov 30, 2014

Sunday November 30, 2014 Michele Kane

Theme: "Résumés" - Each theme answer is in the pattern of C* V* (Curriculum Vitae).
 
23A. Apple product : CIDER VINEGAR. Bragg's raw cider vinegar is very good.

42A. Modern security threat : COMPUTER VIRUS. Dave, did you get the Vosteran out?

62A. What most coupons lack : CASH VALUE. This intersects 62D. I'm always happy when this happens.

76A. Election night drama : CLOSE VOTE. This intersect 17D.

94A. Lustrous fabric :CRUSHED VELVET. Oh, I did not know there's a term for this kind of fabric.


119A. "Glee" song, e.g. : COVER VERSION

17D. Technique employed on many police shows : CINEMA VERITE. Click here for more info. Realism, sort of.

62D. Stand in a bedroom : CLOTHES VALET

Reveal entry:

119D. Résumés, briefly, and a hint to this puzzle's eight longest answers : CVs

I think this is another LAT debut. Congratulations, Michele!

Simple theme. I grokked the gimmick immediately. I was once quite good at conducting background check. Tricky job to do in those pre-Internet days.
I like the triple stacks of 8's in the upper right and lower left. They're tough to fill cleanly, esp when crossing another long theme entry.

Across:
     
1. Fuss : ACT UP

6. 1622 newlyweds : ALDENS. This is a difficult clue for me.

12. Police show staple : SQUAD CAR

20. One of two capitals on I-84 : BOISE. The other is?

21. Southernmost U.S. state : HAWAII. My first fill.

22. With strong desire : HUNGRILY

25. Kept : RETAINED

26. Block : STYMIE

27. Slippery fish : EEL

28. Outer space feature : NO AIR

29. Genesis woman : EVE

30. Convinces : SELLS

32. Lullaby-like Chopin work : BERCEUSE. Never heard of this word before. You?

35. USA part: Abbr. : AMER

36. __ Dhabi : ABU

38. Traffic cop's gp.? : DEA. Drug traffic.

40. Boisterous : ROWDY

41. Lunes, por ejemplo : DIA

47. Anatomy feature in a '50s musical nickname : PELVIS. What musical?

50. Deejay Casey : KASEM

51. Perceptive : KEEN

52. Pittsburgh's __ Park : PNC. Pirates' home. How's going, PA Don?

54. Like a sick student, probably : ABSENT

55. Queequeg feature, briefly : TAT (Tattoo)

57. Salt in a lab : NaCL

59. Eye-fooling pictures : OP ART

61. "Of Human Bondage" (1934) studio : RKO

64. Canine complaint : WOOF

65. Nada, in Nice : RIEN
 
66. Firmly fixed : WELL-SET

68. Slo-mo studier : REF

70. "I don't think so" : NICE TRY! Nice 7-letter entry.

72. Calendario units : ANOS

73. Consider : DEEM

79. Tippler : SOT

80. Loren's husband Carlo : PONTI. Gimme for me.

81. Jalopy : HEAP

82. Bambi relative : ENA

83. Sore : ACHING

85. Annual reason for losing sleep: Abbr. : DST

87. French 101 word : ETRE

89. New Look creations : DIORs

93. Future doctor's work, maybe : THESIS

97. D.C. bigwig : SEN

98. Pauley Pavilion player : BRUIN. UCLA Bruins.

100. Ike's command : ETO

101. Joseph of ice cream fame : EDY

102. Draining aid : EAVE

104. Cheapest way in : FREE PASS. Had I known FOLIO (104D. First __: Shakespeare collection), I would have nailed this long entry.

107. Goldsmith's "The __ of Wakefield" : VICAR

110. As per : A LA

111. Haunted house noises : MOANS

112. "Got it!" : AHA

114. Balmoral attraction : CASTLE. For the Royal family.

117. Risked perjury charges : TOLD A LIE

122. Precise : UNERRING

123. Fast tempo : VIVACE. Got via crosses.

124. Showed entirely : BARED

125. MLB All-Century Team outfielder : PETE ROSE. He was out lunch when Boomer and I passed by that sports store between Mandalay bay & Luxor where he was signing autographs. Holy cow, TTP, no one cared about him there. No waiting line despite the big promotional posters.

126. Sneaky devil : SLY FOX

127. Diving ducks : SMEWS

Down:

1. Basics : ABCs

2. San Francisco's __ Tower : COIT

3. Enviable assets : TIDY SUMS. Great entry as well.

4. "I'm available" : USE ME

5. Jeopardy : PERIL

6. Sushi bar selection : AHI

7. "Penny __" : LANE

8. Social misfit : DWEEB

9. Three on a 47-Down : EAGLE. And 47. Long hole : PAR FIVE. I don't think I've ever parred a Par Five hole.

10. Actress Vardalos : NIA

11. Title for golf's Nick Faldo : SIR. He uses Sir Nick Faldo for his Twitter handle.

12. Hide from view : SHROUD

13. Like a landlubber on the open sea, say : QUEASY

14. Loosen, in a way : UNTIE

15. Culture medium : AGAR

16. Soft & __: deodorant : DRI

18. Regular "Jeopardy!" sponsor : ALEVE

19. "Girl, Interrupted" star : RYDER (Winona). JOLIE too.

24. African grassland : VELDT

28. Ski resort refresher? : NEW SNOW

31. Look for : SEEK

33. Basic educ. trio : RRR

34. Something to pull off : COUP. I should have nailed it with ?OUP in place.

35. Doesn't feel great : AILS

36. "Oh no!" : ACK

37. Eye-catching wrap : BOA. Why "Eye-catching"?

39. Place to play : ARENA

41. Not a good thing to go into : DEBT. And 56D. Not a good thing to go to : THE DOGS. Does it sound like a long partial to you, Marti?

43. "He loves me" pieces : PETALS

44. Sch. with a Lowell campus : U MASS

45. Italian restaurant choice : VEAL

46. Bring upon oneself : INCUR

48. Comic book artist : INKER

49. Like some beaches : STONY. I wanted SANDY.

53. Naval noncom: Abbr. : CPO

58. Parasite : LEECH

60. Exceptional : A-ONE

63. Dodge Viper engine : V-TEN

65. Stores, markets, etc. : RETAIL

66. Attended : WAS AT

67. Tennyson's "__ Arden" : ENOCH

69. Runs : FLEES

71. __ Nast : CONDE. They own Vogue, The New Yorker Vanity Fair and a bunch of great magazines.

74. LAX listing : ETD

75. Makes a poor stroke : MISCUES

77. Pledge : OATH

78. Shopper's indulgence : SPREE

80. Nabokov title professor : PNIN. Haven't seen him for a long time.


84. "Uh-huh" : I SEE

86. Business __ : TRIP

88. 1999 Ron Howard film : EDtv

90. Exhaust : OVERTIRE. Not a word I use.

91. Sunburn color : RED

92. Farm structure : STY

95. One, to Juanita : UNA

96. Singers' reality show, with "The" : VOICE. No double it helped Adam Levine win the 2013 Sexist Man Alive crown. (Correction: Sexiest. Thanks, D-Otto.)

98. Intelligence : BRAINS. And 105. Intelligence : SAVVY

99. Weasel out : RENEGE

102. Devour : EAT UP. Alas, I can't devour much nowadays. In fact, I had nothing on Thanksgiving. Persistent cough, tired all the time. Various tests ruled out strep throat and virus (my white blood cell count is normal), so the doctor said it might be flu. He said it lasts 7-14 days. Today is #11 day for me. My first ever flu. Coughing night and day is so draining.

103. "In bad company," to Bierce : ALONE. Interesting definition.

106. Paper bundle : SHEAF

108. Dieter's count : CARBS

109. Indian state : ASSAM. Tea/silk.

111. Former golf announcer Dave : MARR. Just found out that he was the father of Golf Channel's Dave Marr.

113. Violist's direction : ARCO. With a bow.

115. MGM co-founder : LOEW

116. Extremes : ENDS

118. Doctor of music? : DRE. Dr Dre.

120. Texas resource : OIL

121. Bug : VEX

C.C. 

45 comments:

Barry G. said...

Morning, all!

Sorry to hear you're not feeling well, C.C. I hope it's over soon!

I couldn't read the theme for today's puzzle online due, apparently, to the accent marks which couldn't be rendered ("Résum&eacute"). So I had no idea what I was looking for. IN the end, though, I suppose I didn't actually need to know the theme to get the theme answers, so no harm, no foul.

Lot's of unknowns today that required perp help and some WAGging. BERCEUSE, PONTI, VICAR (as clued), BRUINS (as clued), ALEVE (as clued), PNC and CPO. The fact that the latter two crossed was particularly thorny for me, and I nearly went with PNG/GPO. CPO just looked more miliatary to me, however, so I went with that and got the *TADA*.

Yellowrocks said...

Sorry you are ill, CC. Feel better soon.
CVs must be curriculum vitae s.
More later.

desper-otto said...

Good morning!

I printed my puzzle from the LA Times website, and the title showed up as "Rsums" Thank you again, Barnacle, for dropping the Sunday LAT.

Well, I got it. Either my brain isn't up to par this morning, or this one was tougher than normal. My DWEEB started out as a LONER. I guessed V-TEN, because a V-ONE would be really hard to manufacture. Neither BERCEUSE nor PNC was familiar, so the last fill was COUP. With only the _OU_ in place, I had to do an alphabet run to come up with the answer.

C.C., hope you feel better soon. I did chuckle at your 'Sexist [sic] Man Alive" comment. So far as that body part is concerned: When Elvis first appeared on TV back in the '50's his wild gyrations earned him the nickname "Elvis Pelvis."

Al Cyone said...

The Week in Review:

M 6:10 T 9:35 W 10:47 T 13:04 F 13:06 S 22:03 S 27:31

The first part of the week seemed a tad crunchier than normal and Saturday's puzzle was the usual daunting challenge. In other words, WEES. Today I was stuck in the SE and my self-imposed time limit was looming. Then I got the theme which gave me CVS and COVERVERSION and the rest as they say, was history. A very enjoyable week.

Speaking of history, this week's weather in the beautiful mid-Hudson valley gave Poughkeepsie a record high of 71°F on Monday and a record low of 13°F on Saturday. Click here for other instances when record highs and lows occurred within one week (once in two consecutive days!).

See y'all next weekend.

JCJ said...

CVs make for a relatively quick Sunday puzzle as the number of answers is considerably narrowed. Nevertheless, a fun time.

Big Easy said...

This puzzled did me in because I could not get the SW due to an amateur mistake on 98A. I wrote UCLAN for Bruin, which gave me Business PLAN instead of TRIP and MISPLAY instead of MISCUES. UNO, UNE, or UNA dept me from getting a FREE PASS. I knew Dave MARR was correct, and guesses MOANS would be the answer but it wouldn't fit; Shakespeare's First FOLIO was unknown. The Draining aid clue was a poor one because the gutter is the draining aid; the eave just hangs over the edge. There were two words I have never run across that I did get through the crosses: BERCEUSE and cinema VERITE. Other unknowns solved by perps were COVER VERSION, SMEWS, ARCO, PNIN, RYDER, DIORS, PNC, ENOCH.

Other misdirections were SLY DOG for SLY FOX because I had NAG for VEX.

I spent too much time on the puzzle and even thought the CV was easy to get, I still have no idea what it has to do with a resume.

Lemonade714 said...

Big Easy, as Yellowrocks said CV stands for Curriculum Vitae, the academic way to refer to a resume.

I enjoyed this though it was not easy for a Sunday. WEES plus USE ME AS the answer to I am available seems wrong.

Lots of golf and basic Spanish which helped.

C.C., recalling g that John Alden and Priscilla married in 1622 was difficult for me as well.

Lots of Vees

Dudley said...

Hello Puzzlers -

Slow but steady today. Last to fall was that middle west, because I couldn't see Well Set for the longest time. Berceuse was familiar because my mom was a lifelong piano teacher. Winona Ryder was a gimme; lately we've been on a Winona spree with Netflix. Most recently it was American Quilt, next up is Little Women.

Morning, C.C., I am sorry you're not feeling well. I think the other capital city must be Hartford CT. Route I-84 goes along the north edge of the city, just a few blocks away from the restaurant where we locals met up with the adventurous Montana.

Blue Iris from yesterday - loved your Thanksgiving story! Your daughter must have worked her tail off to get that much cooking done.

Relatedly, power was just restored yesterday at my sister's rural home. They're used to such inconvenience. It didn't mar Thanksgiving for us.

Steve said...

Pete Rose was not an outfielder.
Pelvis refers to Elvis Pressley - Elvis the Pelvis.

Yellowrocks said...

I remember the famous quote, "Speak for yourself, John," supposedly made by Priscilla when John Alden proposed to her in the name of Miles Standish. In the end it was John who married Priscilla.
EAVE is okay by me because it aids draining by directing the water to the downspout.
We used the word OVERTIRE(d) a lot. When our babies were overtired they were cranky. Time to play BERCEUSE.
I knew BERCEUSE because I married a music teacher and attended recitals. Also my ex had a huge library of recorded classical music.
Although many of the answers were suggested by a few perps the only really unknowns were PNIN (now it faintly rings a bell)and CV's, all perps until I cogitated long and hard to come up with Curriculum Vitae.

Lime Rickey said...

Per Wikipedia: "In 1999, Rose was selected as an outfielder on the Major League Baseball All-Century Team."

Avg Joe said...

Had to take a DNF due to carelessness today. I wasn't able to figure out the C and P in Coup on the first pass, and forgot to go back.

An eave can definitely be a drainage aid since it gets runoff away from a foundation, if only by a small margin. In fact, FHA requires that a house must have a 1' eave if one story and a 2' eave if two story, or it must have gutters and downs if those specs are not met.

And while I've never prepared a CV, it's my understanding that it is an amplified version of a resume, not simply another name for one. It's generally accepted that a resume should be one page. A CV is typically several pages and goes into much greater detail.

Sorry to hear of your flu, C.C. But you are at least nearer the end than the onset.

Avg Joe said...

Any excuse to link tuneagement. First time I ever heard the term CV was in a Sting song 21 years ago on the album Ten Summoner's Tales: Nothing 'Bout Me

fermatprime said...

Greetings!

Tough puzzle, but managed to muddle through after quite some time. Thanks Michele, CC!

Have only minimal knowledge of golf!

Get better, CC! I know how you feel. I was on antibiotics for a skin infection and fell prey to my first chest cold in many, many years, after sitting in a car with an extreme cougher for Thanksgiving rides to and fro.

Lots of misspellings and grammatical blunders today.

NetWord puzzle was more fun!

Cheers!

thehondohurricane said...

Morning everyone,

Pete Rose moved to the outfield when Cincy traded with Houston for 2nd baseman Joe Morgan. During his time in Philly, he also played the outfield.

Today's puzzle reminded me that I never have liked the "congestion" associated with Sunday puzzles.
I managed to get most of it, but a couple of screw ups led to a DNF.

Left the crossing I for 17D & 65A out. Would have wagged one of the vowels, but no idea which one. For 123A & 113D, had a T instead of the crossing C. Finally, the crossing A for 36A & 36D was an I on my fill.

That's my tale of woe for today.

CC, hope you are better real soon.

maripro said...

Get well soon, C.C.
Congrats to Michele Kane for a well-done puzzle.

Irish Miss said...

Good Morning:

Getting the theme quickly made this an easy and fun solve. Cute fill with ABCs and RRR.

Congrats, Michele, and thanks, CC, for hanging in there to do the expo. Hope you feel better soon.

Have a great Sunday.

Husker Gary said...

Wait a minute, that Loren is Sophia, not some literary character, and I remember PONTI. Uh, I won’t be stopping at Natickville today despite PNIN! It took some effort but I got there.

Musings
-Theme was easy to get AND a chance to learn today
-How many of these coupons would equal a CASH VALUE of 1 penny?
-Pat Boone made a nice career by making COVER VERSIONS of songs by Fats Domino, Little Richard, Ivory Joe Hunter and others
-My dad was RETAINED in fourth grade
-Flying where there is NO AIR
-BER_EUSE/_OU_/_NC strained my BRAIN
-What happened to ELVIS THE PELVIS’ brother Enos?
-KASEM’S sad ending
-ABSENT but not sick
-PETE played twice as many games as an infielder as an outfielder
-NICE TRY is a mantra in Little League games
-My first draining aid was a hose
-Frankie Valli sang YOU TOLD A LIE, Big Girls Do Cry
-Our 500 yd PAR FIVES are Par Fours on the tour
-Read y’all later
-Get Well C.C.!

Abejo said...

Good morning, folks. Thank you, Michele Kane, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, C.C., for a fine review.

Get well soon, C.C. I am ill myself with the shingles.

Never checked in yesterday. I could not get to first base on Saturday's puzzle. It is still sitting on the kitchen table. I look at it now and then and pick up another word.

Today's puzzle went much easier. Only took me about 3 1/2 hours. Them appeared and it did help with the puzzle, some.

Never recalled COIT Tower in SF. I used to work there, too. Perped it.

HAWAII was also my first word. Had to think a minute.

BERCEUSE was a perper. I am sure it is the name of an opera or song.

Tried BASE before NACL.

RIEN was perps.

Forgot about ARCO until I read the blog today. With a bow. Had the word, but did not know why.

Off to my suffering. See you tomorrow.

Abejo

(4240)

Gerolamo said...

I wonder if this theme morphed from an alternate seed entry. I think CV JOINTS (awesome animations, btw) would be a more interesting reveal than the ordinary and lackluster CVS. Then the title for the puzzle could be Homokinetic and a learning moment for many solvers. Oh well, "If your so smart than do it yourself", which I cannot. Nice job, Michele Kane.

Yellowrocks said...

BERCEUSE, the c is pronounced as s, is a generic name for a composition in 6/8 time resembling a lullaby. I prefer this violin berceuse by FAURÉ to Chopin's piano one.
Link FAURÉ

Abejo, I sympathize, shingles is a nasty, painful malady.

Blue Iris, what a wonderful daughter to be so helpful.

Anon T, how proud you must be of your daughter.

Gerolamo, I prefer Michele,s version.

Bo Pellini said...

Interesting observation there Gerolamo. Maybe I should give this crossword construction gig a try. Just how much do they pay you for creating one of these wordplay thingies?

desper-otto said...

Enos. Very funny, HG.

Avg Joe said...

Hey Bo. I'm sorry to hear about your......career counseling session. But I was thinking about you this morning while I read Dilbert

TTP said...


Good morning all ! Thank you Michelle and thank you CC.

CC, I hope you start feeling much better real soon. You too Abejo !

Overall, I think really good fill and clues in this puzzle. Normal "gimmes" had to be proved. So it took much longer than it should have taken.

Ditto on first fill HAWAII. Also, hand up for never having heard of BERCEUSE.

I had never heard of CINEMA VERITE, but after reading the link that CC provided, I get it.

Such a shame about Pete Rose. He could have had it all.

Pittsburgh's PNC Park is beautiful, even from the outside. We got on the Just Ducky tour at Station Square and let in to the Allegheny west of the Water Steps just above the confluence. (I didn't get QUEASY.) Before letting in, we crossed on the bridge to the right of the ballpark which is the Roberto Clemente bridge. So we drove around 3 sides, including on Mazeroski Way to the left of the ballpark. We saw the 4th side from the river.

Trivia questions. 1) There are 4 statues of HOFer Pirates at PNC. I have mentioned the names of two. Who are the other two ?
If you got the first answer, this one should be easy. 2) The statue of which ballplayer was first at Forbes, moved to Three Rivers, and now stands at PNC ? (This would be a gimme for card collectors CC and Hondo.

Have you heard of the recent discovery First Folio ?

It's a shame about Ohio State QB JT Barrett in yesterday's game. Now a tough row to hoe for the Buckeyes.

The Steelers will be on TV in just a few minutes so I have to run.

HeartRx said...

Running late today, but I wanted to congratulate Michele on her LAT debut. I did read the title, but immediately forgot all about it as soon as I started filling in the answers.

I have used both CVs and resumes in my career, and hope I never have to submit another one. Retirement is around the corner!

C.C., yes. I notice that Rich allows longer partials in a Sunday grid. THE DOGS would certainly qualify, but since it's the only partial in the grid, I suppose he let it pass.

I hope you're feeling better soon, C.C.!

Argyle said...

'Berceuse' literally means "cradle song".

JD said...

Good afternoon all,

Sundays always take awhile, but I seemed to flow thru much of it easily; unfortunately there were made points of stickiness too. The NE and SW corners were filled with natnicks, and I did a lot of wagging. Perps aided me with DEA, DIA, PNC, REF,PNIN, and Marr. Aldens makes no sense to me. Berceuse is new too.

I neglected to see the CV pattern after filling all but cinema verite, not in my vocab, AND CVs rudely crossed vivace. To me, CVS is my local drug store.

I did enjoy the workout, and some very nice cluing.

C.C., hope you are on your way to feeling better. And Abejo, you take care of yourself too.

Anyone want to write an ode to puddles? We have had some glorious rain these last 2 mornings, which means there is new snow... REAL snow, in the Sierras! YAY!

Avg Joe said...

JD, I've Ben noticing the radar for your area today and yesterday, and couldn't be happier for you. The strangest part is that this is currently the only system in the country that has any substance. NOAA Radar. If any place needs it, it's the Bay Area.

Bill G. said...

Good afternoon! I liked the puzzle and got stuck in several of Michele's traps. WEES. Thanks Michele and CC.

There is supposed to be some rain on the way. I hope so.

I subscribed to the NYT puzzles a couple of months back. On some of the harder puzzles, I find myself getting a bit frustrated and sometimes feel the tricky clues are a bit unfair. I almost never feel that way with Rich's puzzles. I think I remember Jayce expressing somewhat the same opinion a while ago.

Here's a little puzzle I enjoyed. If you solve it, you can post your answer because the reason for your answer won't be apparent. (So don't give your reasoning.)
Ordering puzzle
Can you rank the following words in a logical order? The hoped-for order is trickier and more enjoyable than alphabetical or something mundane like that; and, I’ve already given you a hint.
Cook, governor, league, practice, mustard, pepper, admission, punishment

Yellowrocks said...

JD, See my earlier post @9:02. John Alden married Priscilla Mullens soon after the Pilgrims came to Plymouth Rock. There is a Longfellow poem called The Courtship of Miles Standish which tells how Standish sent John Alden to convey his wish to marry Priscilla, but Priscilla preferred John, whom she subsequently married. These three were real people who came over on the Mayflower and John and Priscilla did marry, but some of Longfellow's details are most likely apocryphal.

Lime Rickey said...

Well, Bill G.'s puzzle stumped me so I did what any red-blooded American boy would do. I Googled it. You can find the answer here. You won't see the solution right away; you have the option of displaying a hint.

Yellowrocks said...

Can any of you techies help me? I can easily attach documents from WORD to my emails, but I can't figure out how to attach a folder. If it involves zipping, the only thing I can zip is my coat, although I have unzipped files sent to me. I would appreciate your thoughts.

Lime Rickey said...

How files are attached depends on your e-mail client. I'm not sure you can attach a folder (what we used to call a directory). You may have to attach the files individually (though can attach more than one file to an e-mail message). Your ISP may have limits on the size of attached files (either individually or in total).

Lime Rickey said...

Think of the folder as a shelf in the library. You can't borrow the shelf but you can borrow all the books on the shelf.

Hahtoolah said...

Good Afternoon, C.C. and friends. I rather enjoyed this puzzle. Getting the unifier helped with some of those theme clues. At least I knew where to start with the initial "C".

This explains the difference between a Resume and a Curricula Vitae. I have used both in my career.

I really wanted a Car Chase in lieu of a SQUAD CAR for a police show staple.

Hand up for Jolie before RYDER, too.

I hope you are feeling better soon, C.C. Has your doctor checked for allergies? I coughed and coughed and coughed and found muscles I didn't know I had before I was finally diagnosed with allergies.

QOD: A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying … that he is wiser today than yesterday. ~ Jonathan Swift (Nov. 30, 1667 ~ Oct. 19, 1745)

Yellowrocks said...

Lime Rickey, thank you. I just now attached the docs one by one. Someone else will be writing the square dance caller contracts this coming year. I sent him all of last year's contracts so that he can use SAVE AS and only has to retype the new dates and other changing info.
A great big yellow rock to you.

Argyle said...

If you care, the final season of The Mentalist starts tonight. Personally, I thought it was over already.

GarlicGal said...

Hi all. A DNF for me. Couldn't get the"asy" in queasy...due to nadir instead of noair. Missed the Chopin lullaby, too. Oh well.

On the other hand, as JD said, we are loving this rain!

Argyle, I'm with you. We quit The Mentalist a few seasons ago. But "The Newsroom" is back with a vengeance. LOVE Aaron Sorkin. Jeff Daniels, Sam Waterston and Jane Fonda. Great show.

Hope you feel better, C.C. Take it easy.

Over and out.

Bill G. said...

If you haven't seen this story of a modern-day Charlie Brown Christmas tree, here you go. Ugly Christmas tree

JD said...

Thanks Yellowrocks! I should have remembered him; haven't read that poem for awhile.. maybe college.

Avg. Joe, we may get showers all week So refreshing accompanied by lovely rainbows.

Ergo said...

It's been a miserable week of puzzle solving. I easily got the CV gimmick for today, but there were far too many little obscurities scattered throughout the grid.

Just last spring, Nebraska's Athletic Director extended Bo Pelini's contract by another year to 2018. Curious.

Get better soon C.C.

Anonymous T said...

HI all!

Oh, I only had about 30 min to play today before reading what everyone thought about the puzzle. I'm glad I'm not the only one in the "too-much" fill camp.

I got 119d on the 1st pass - I guess having UK friends and DW in academia forced CVs to mind.

To all the cornerites who commented on eldest's achievement - darn tootin' I'm a proud papa!

Congrats Michele on the puzzle. Thanks C.C. for the writeup/answers and get better soon.

Cheers, -T

Zhouqin (C.C.) Burnikel said...

Hahtoolah.
No. I don't have teary eyes or runny nose. Only persistent cough & fever & sore muscles. But I'll let him know your allergy experience next week. Thanks for the suggestion.

JD et al,
Thanks for the concern. This is driving me insane. Just no sign of letting up.

Unknown said...

berceuse is a french name for a lullaby