Words: 72 (missing J)
Blocks: 30
This was a great puzzle - I could have been done in 5 minutes if I had
gone with my original thoughts, but there were so many places where I
hesitated and did the 'in-and-out' routine that I ended up closer to
25mins. In fact, I was cruising so well at the end that I got the
"Ta-DA~!" and wasn't expecting it. No intimidating corners, and just
two 13-letter spanners with two 14-letter climbers. The longer fill:
25a. Assigning responsibility by committee, in modern lingo : BLAMESTORMING - I had the BLAME part, then the ST---, and this just seemed "logical"
40a. Where Langley is : FAIRFAX COUNTY - I tried "--- VIRGINIA" to start; Bzzzt.
9d. Zinc compound : CALAMINE LOTION - I had "---LOTION", but SUNSCREEN didn't fit
15d. Many wallets contain one : DRIVER'S LICENSE
Down Jar~! ( there's the "J" )
ACROSS:
1. Org. whose website has a Track & Manage option : USPS - because neither UPS nor FedEx would fit
5. Ending sound : Pfft - usually associated with a 'lame' ending
9. Checked out : CASED - Think Private Eye
14. Copper mine? : SQUAD ROOM - Har-har. Policemen cop-pers
16. Floral perfume : ATTAR - thought it, put it in, took it out
17. Predictable patterns : SYNDROMES - I always think of this word as medical related
18. Imprecise : LOOSE - like, say, an interpretation
19. Map lines: Abbr. : RDs
20. Clinches : ICES - The Rangers could not ice their run to the Stanley Cup
21. Some Buffalo wings : SABRES - DAH~! I totally should have known this - NHL hockey clue about the 'other' NY team
5. Ending sound : Pfft - usually associated with a 'lame' ending
9. Checked out : CASED - Think Private Eye
14. Copper mine? : SQUAD ROOM - Har-har. Policemen cop-pers
16. Floral perfume : ATTAR - thought it, put it in, took it out
17. Predictable patterns : SYNDROMES - I always think of this word as medical related
18. Imprecise : LOOSE - like, say, an interpretation
19. Map lines: Abbr. : RDs
20. Clinches : ICES - The Rangers could not ice their run to the Stanley Cup
21. Some Buffalo wings : SABRES - DAH~! I totally should have known this - NHL hockey clue about the 'other' NY team
Lindy Ruff, player and former coach
22. Subway device : OVEN - Subway, the sa'mich restaurant, that is
23. Like bodegas, to Span. speakers : FEMinine - I believe the term is 'declension'
24. Pitches : ADS
30. Facial cosmetics : LINERS - I like make-up on a girl, but it needs to be subtle
31. Like the Southeast, vis-à-vis other U.S. regions : RAINIEST - Odd; I would have thought the NW was the rainiest
34. Assume the role of : ACT AS
35. Put down : LAY
36. Camp sight : EMBER
37. Thing handed down : HEIRLOOM
39. Moby-Dick, e.g. : ALBINO - ah, not a drum solo reference; John Bonham was melodic and dynamic, which you don't hear in a lot of drum solos that followed - I tried to find a clip that was under 11+ minutes....
John Bonham - Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick
42. Jug part : EAR
44. Critter in a clowder : CAT
45. Small songbirds : TITS - Mr. Silk, did Mr. Norris change your original clue~?
46. Title heroine in a Humperdinck opera : GRETEL
48. Start to cure? : PEDI - had MANI, and that worked with "Avalon" at 41d. - but that's a Toyota model
49. Marker, e.g. : PEN - yup, first thought, but seemed too simple
52. Inexperienced : GREEN - not NAIVE
53. Two-time winner of the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar : MARIO PUZO
55. Runs slowly : OOZES
56. Allied : PARTNERED
57. Angström, e.g. : SWEDE
58. Aptly named Civil War general Henry : GRAY - yes, that is convenient; would have taken a drubbing being on the blue North side
59. Fake : DEKE - DAH~! My first thought, and I hesitated. Another hockey reference, as in feint
DOWN:
1. BOAC flier's destination in a 1968 song : USSR - The Beatles - The Wiki
2. Carpeting unit: Abbr. : SQ. YD. - Square Yard
3. "Alice in Wonderland" features : PUNS
4. Blue : SAD
5. Work through : PROCESS
6. Incite : FOMENT
7. They aren't behind you : FOES
8. Corp. symbols : TMs - like this one
44. Critter in a clowder : CAT
45. Small songbirds : TITS - Mr. Silk, did Mr. Norris change your original clue~?
46. Title heroine in a Humperdinck opera : GRETEL
48. Start to cure? : PEDI - had MANI, and that worked with "Avalon" at 41d. - but that's a Toyota model
49. Marker, e.g. : PEN - yup, first thought, but seemed too simple
52. Inexperienced : GREEN - not NAIVE
53. Two-time winner of the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar : MARIO PUZO
55. Runs slowly : OOZES
56. Allied : PARTNERED
57. Angström, e.g. : SWEDE
58. Aptly named Civil War general Henry : GRAY - yes, that is convenient; would have taken a drubbing being on the blue North side
59. Fake : DEKE - DAH~! My first thought, and I hesitated. Another hockey reference, as in feint
DOWN:
1. BOAC flier's destination in a 1968 song : USSR - The Beatles - The Wiki
2. Carpeting unit: Abbr. : SQ. YD. - Square Yard
3. "Alice in Wonderland" features : PUNS
4. Blue : SAD
5. Work through : PROCESS
6. Incite : FOMENT
7. They aren't behind you : FOES
8. Corp. symbols : TMs - like this one
10. Narrow range : A TO B
11. Flier's convenience : STORAGE BIN
12. Let up : EASED
13. Adorn : DRESS
21. Rig : SEMI - the truck. I was thinking "fix", as in temporarily
22. 1998 Masters champion : O'MEARA - total WAG
23. Wear : FRAY
25. Lackluster : BLAH - ah, not DULL
26. Tiny parasites : LICE
27. Engine protector : ANTI-FREEZE
28. Slangy event suffix : O-RAMA - like, say, a "Sale-O-Rama"
29. Halo : NIMBUS - not "AREOLA", and crossing 45a.....
32. On the way : SENT
33. Home to Paris : TROY - the epic story character Paris
35. Tall story? : LOFT - not "TALE" - a story, as in a building
38. Like some history : ORAL
39. Bite : ACIDITY
41. Nissan whose last model year is 2015 : XTERRA - as far as SUVs go, this was probably my favorite style
11. Flier's convenience : STORAGE BIN
12. Let up : EASED
13. Adorn : DRESS
21. Rig : SEMI - the truck. I was thinking "fix", as in temporarily
22. 1998 Masters champion : O'MEARA - total WAG
23. Wear : FRAY
25. Lackluster : BLAH - ah, not DULL
26. Tiny parasites : LICE
27. Engine protector : ANTI-FREEZE
28. Slangy event suffix : O-RAMA - like, say, a "Sale-O-Rama"
29. Halo : NIMBUS - not "AREOLA", and crossing 45a.....
32. On the way : SENT
33. Home to Paris : TROY - the epic story character Paris
35. Tall story? : LOFT - not "TALE" - a story, as in a building
38. Like some history : ORAL
39. Bite : ACIDITY
41. Nissan whose last model year is 2015 : XTERRA - as far as SUVs go, this was probably my favorite style
42. "Some things are too delicious to share" food : EGGOs - I noticed they've moved away from "Leggo my Eggo"
43. Hood defense : ARROW - Robin Hood, that is
47. Started a hole : TEED - golf
48. Allen's successor : PAAR - TV's 'The Tonight Show' hosts
49. Sheer : PURE - aw, you know what I was thinking when I saw "sheer"
43. Hood defense : ARROW - Robin Hood, that is
47. Started a hole : TEED - golf
48. Allen's successor : PAAR - TV's 'The Tonight Show' hosts
49. Sheer : PURE - aw, you know what I was thinking when I saw "sheer"
(God, she is stunning)
50. O.T. book : EZEKiel - well, I have to add my favorite reading of "25:17"
51. Networking connection point : NODE
53. Odometer stat. : MPG - meh. My odometer tells me I have 267,200 "MIs" on the car; I suppose some newer cars have a odometer that features a Miles Per Gallon calculator
54. Crossing party, briefly : PED(estrian) - I am thinking Mr. Silk was not happy with PEDI and PED and PEN together in one grid
53. Odometer stat. : MPG - meh. My odometer tells me I have 267,200 "MIs" on the car; I suppose some newer cars have a odometer that features a Miles Per Gallon calculator
54. Crossing party, briefly : PED(estrian) - I am thinking Mr. Silk was not happy with PEDI and PED and PEN together in one grid
Splynter
Notes from C.C.:
1) I got this from Renèe Harvey of Mensa: "I am sorry the games and puzzles are not working, we are having syndication issues. We are working to resolve this as quickly as possible."
I don't know when they'll solve this issue. It's been a week. I encourage those Mensa users to download free Across Lite from NY Time's website. Then you can have LA Times puzzle at Cruciverb, which has a one-month archive. Plus the puzzle is always available at 10:00pm the previous night.
2) Happy Birthday to Splynter's mom! Hope Splynter makes it special for you.
Notes from C.C.:
1) I got this from Renèe Harvey of Mensa: "I am sorry the games and puzzles are not working, we are having syndication issues. We are working to resolve this as quickly as possible."
I don't know when they'll solve this issue. It's been a week. I encourage those Mensa users to download free Across Lite from NY Time's website. Then you can have LA Times puzzle at Cruciverb, which has a one-month archive. Plus the puzzle is always available at 10:00pm the previous night.
2) Happy Birthday to Splynter's mom! Hope Splynter makes it special for you.
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| Baby Splynter and his parents |
Got about 2/3rds done before throwing in the towel and turning on the red letters. The last two cells to fill were both lucky guess WAGs: SABRES I'd never heard of, and A-TO-Z fooled me with its parsing. A TOR? ATOP (a narrow mountain peak)? PED was another I had no clue on (I was trying to think of a name for the ceremony of crossing the equator/date line for the first time), and although I've seen DEKE before in a crossword, it's obscure enough to my bailiwick that I had no memory of it.
ReplyDeleteA narrow range is A-TO-B,
A wider range is A-to-Z
But away from the range
Isn't it strange
It's H-to-O that fills the sea!
Morning, all!
ReplyDeletePretty smooth Saturday Silkie for me. Lots of attempts at trickiness, but I've been on the "other" Barry's wavelength for awhile now and usually manage to figure out his clues pretty easily now.
The hardest parts, for me, were actually the longer obscure stuff. No idea that Langley was in FAIRFAX COUNTY and needed a lot of perp help to guess. Also needed a lot of perp help to finally get CALAMINE LOTION, since I had no idea it was a zinc compound. On the other hand, I only needed minimal perp help to correctly guess stuff like SWEDE and GRAY. And I actually guessed PFFT right from the clue with no perp help whatsoever.
Cluing was fair overall, although I did take exception at ARROW being clued the way it was. I understood the reference to Robin Hood, but have trouble thinking of him using ARROWs as a defensive weapon. Ah well, it's a minor nit and I'm probably wrong anyway...
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteThis was mostly smooth as silk....mostly. I got hung up in New England. Put in ATTAR, took it out (Hi there, Splynter!). Put in VAGUE, took it out. Put ATTAR back in, guessed EASED...and everything came together. Still don't quite understand how a sports team can be wings, though.
Only nit was MPG -- our odometer only displays the M. Of course, our newest vehicle is 10 years old, so maybe now they display more information.
Nicely done, Mr. Silk. Splynter, loved your "Down Jar."
Owen, you're thinking of a Shellback ceremony. That's where the Shellbacks, sailor's who have previously crossed the equator, beat the crap out of the Pollywogs and make them crawl through garbage so that they may be elevated to the exalted rank of Shellback. Wonderful tradition!
Can you name the oldie that includes a reference to "an ocean of CALAMINE LOTION?"
Still don't quite understand how a sports team can be wings, though.
ReplyDeleteI'm not a hockey fan in the slightest, but I believe a "wing" is a position in the game ("Right Wing", "Left Wing"). If so, some "wings" in Buffalo play for the Sabres.
Well sad to say I have to take a DNF here. I did actually "finish" but only by running through the alphabet with "Red Letter" help, so that doesn't count. Never heard of "ATTAR" or "DEKE"; thought "PFFT" was a stretch. "Hood defense" = "ARROW" left me sitting here clueless. It took Splynter's explanation before the forehead slap. Saturday puzzles, unfortunately, seem to be over my head. Every once in a while I will be able to solve one without cheating, but for the most part, I start struggling already on Thursday's puzzle, and Saturday's? Oi. I still try, though. Just no joy today. Nice puzzle, though, and terrific write up. Now let me go sulk.
ReplyDeleteCouldn't even scratch the surface of this Silkie.
ReplyDeleteBeen out of touch with the Crossword Corner lately due to work obligations. Had to work 10 hour days T-F to make up for the 8 hours of production time lost due to the Monday holiday (I had never heard of such a practice until now). Anyway, feeling brain-numb. Looking forward to Sunday with the hope of a refreshed intellect.
"Puzzling thoughts":
ReplyDeleted-otto: here is your answer
Regarding the odometer reading for MPG, mine is an optional setting I can scroll to - it's sometimes fun to see it go from 6-7 as you excelerate to infinity when you coast
Owen, cute limerick
Great clue for 21a - some Buffalo Wings; excellent.
This Silk kicked my a$$ as I had to look up a few words to give me a chance at finishing - I at first wanted SQUAD CARS for SQUAD ROOMS as I knew the clue was police related; being a golfer I knew OMEARA for 22d but it really didn't help. BLAMESTORMING is a word I'd never seen or heard before; STORAGE BIN for Flier's convenience was sorta "meh"; some airlines are charging now to put things overhead
Enjoy the weekend all; gonna enjoy some of this SE USA sunshine before the rains fall this afternoon !
Damn spell corrector on my iPhone! Accelerate is what I meant to type!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely way to rinse out the memory of last Saturday’s torment! I never give up on Barry’s puzzles and they are always satisfying but not a gimee.
ReplyDeleteMusings
-LINER that equals two burnt holes in a blanket
-There are fewer and fewer to LAY these days
-Hyphenation info on Moby-DIck
-Dang! I had USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) for 1 across. I guess there aren’t any GUNS in Alice in Wonderland. ;-) I’ll take one bad cell
-It took me a long time to PROCESS my golf friend’s death in a tornado a year ago
-The news seems rife with people who FOMENT unrest and violence
-STORAGE BINS fill fast now with check-through luggage fees
-My “go-to” Zinc Compound
-Joann’s 92 year-old mother told us a lot of ORAL history on the way home from Lincoln last night, including her work as a telegrapher in WWII in Wyoming. She was thrilled someone was interested and we enjoyed the stories.
-Splynter has told us of a few for whom he needed an ocean of calamine lotion.
-Ah yes, a Splynter TM picture right on cue!
-HBD Splynter’s mom!
Unclefred@8:54:
ReplyDeleteTry "Oy" instead of "Oi".
I must have a mental bloc on not being able to do '1A' in crossword puzzles. The cross of USPS & PUNS slayed me. I kept wanting US Geological Survey and GUNS and it wouldn't go away. As for the rest, I flew through the rest of the left side with DRIVERS LICENSE & ANTIFREEZE making the crosses easy to fill.
ReplyDeleteI had never heard the term BLAMESTORMING but it seemed appropriate for passing the buck. I guess that PURE can be the same as 'sheer' or 'utter' when used as PURE nonsense.
A few unknowns were GRETEL, EGGOS, MARIO PUZO, GRAY.
As far as rainy, Seattle does have more rain, but it is very localizes because Washington and Oregon are very arid in the eastern halves.
PFFT- I originally wrote POOF, then wrote TOES instead of FOES. Wanted LOGOS for Trademarks but is LG a legitimate abbreviation? ANGSTROMS- I liked the term better than nanometers. Isn't the Metric system supposed to be multiples of 10? Ten to the negative ten vs. negative nine.
Is a group of HOODS hanging around an urban corner a 'clowder of CATS' looking at TITS? You know CATS are always looking at birds.
AS always, a tough Saturday puzzle and good write-up.
Hello Puzzlers -
ReplyDeleteSeemed straightforward for a Silkie, but that may be because I made some good guesses on the long fills. Never heard of Blamestorming before, but now it's funny!
Husker from yesterday - too bad you live half a continent away, I'd love to cat-sit for you! As it turns out, the LW and I have a similar requirement; having not had a vacation for years, we're finally taking a trip in the fall. We had a superb young woman lined up to cat-sit, but her plans changed and she moved to Alaska. Dammit.
Morning, Splynter, I admire your taste in legs!
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteHG @9:09 - Your opening paragraph sums up my sentiments spot on!
I really liked the puzzle but, unlike Splynter, I didn't zip right throught it. Buffalo wings didn't fool me one bit; also got Mario Puzo and Gretel right off the bat but never heard of blame storming. Finished w/o help but it took me longer than some recent Silkies. Nice CSO with Troy.
Thanks, Barry, for being consistently challenging but fair and thanks, Splynter, for the delightful and "delicate" summary. Happy Birthday to you Mom!
I watched Silver Linings Playbook last night but didn't care for it at all. Maybe I was just in the mood for something less intense and less frenetic.
Have a great day.
As with any Saturday Silkie, it took me a couple passes, but it all came together in the end. Not sure I liked "PFFT" though. And "SQUAD ROOOM" took me a long time to get. Not sure if I really like that clue either. Really liked the "Buffalo Wings" clue. As for the Sabres themselves… they'll be much better next year when they draft Jack Eichel from BU with the #2 pick. This kid is the real deal It might be a couple years before they make the play-offs again, but nothing could have been worse than this year for them. Lastly:
ReplyDeleteGO HAWKS!!!
Barry G- -- Thanx for the info on wings. My sports knowledge always shows up in the negative column.
ReplyDeleteChairman Moe -- Yup, that's the one I was thinking of -- on the ATCO label.
Like Splynter, didn't put in my first choices, and that slowed me way down. Took way too much time, but once I got USPS, the eastern half completed the puzzle. Thanks, Mr. Silk for another brain workout.
ReplyDeleteSplynter, loved your SO to UPS. Employee of the year?
Musings 2
ReplyDelete-The DRIVERS LICENSE fill evokes landmark activity in the Nebraska Unicameral Legislature this week. Two pieces of legislation were passed that were very unpopular with the people and then had to be passed over the governor’s veto.
-Nebraska became the last state to legalize the issuance of driver’s licenses for children of illegal immigrants
-Also, the death penalty was abolished despite 77% of the state being in favor of its retention
Good performance. But if we want to talk about melodic drum solos, listen to Max Roach on this track:
ReplyDeletehttp://youtu.be/KN0drSC-eSM
And who is faster and more dazzling than Rufus Jones at the end of this Count Basie track?
http://youtu.be/ucs8CMBSkYg
Hi everybody! I never like to criticize a puzzle, partly because I figure the constructor and the editor are much cleverer than I am and therefore the fault must be mine. However, I had trouble getting started in the upper-left and my problems continued all the way through. I thought MPG was clued unfairly. The clue for ARROW seemed off also. Anyway, I didn't have much fun, so..., that's enough whinging from me.
ReplyDeleteSplynter, yes, she's a great-looking stocking model. A little too thin though. I suppose that's almost a requirement in her line of work.
This morning, Barbara stumbled upon "Love Actually" and had it on when I stumbled in to have some Raisin Bran. Such a lovely movie; in my top 10 for sure. It could easily be in my top three with one little change...
Bill G - Let me guess: you wanted somebody other than Hugh Grant cast as the eligible bachelor Prime Minister?
ReplyDeleteIn the same film: it was a beautiful bit of acting by Emma Thompson in the scene where she opens a Christmas present from her husband, expecting to find a lovely piece of jewelry but seeing instead a music collection on CD. In that instant she realizes her husband bought the nicer gift for another woman. She shifts from anticipated joy to barely controlled heartbreak without missing a beat. Superb!
ReplyDeleteBill G.@11:37:
ReplyDeleteI liked "Love Actually" too. Then, sometime later, I read this scathing review (WARNING: contains "adult" language). Maybe I should watch it again?
Whoo! Another wonderfully hard one from Mr. Smooth-as-Silk. Hand up for doing the ole put it in take it out put it back in dance.
ReplyDeleteHaving filled the AL--I-E in 9D, I wanted GALVANIZED something. That went in, didn't work, was taken out, and stayed out. Putting SQFT into 2D messed me up, too. At least I got GRETEL right away, as well as EGGOS.
My odometer does not tell me MPG, just miles. Our car does have a way to display the MPG, which I suppose uses the miles-traveled (odometer) data, as well as data regarding how full the fuel tank is, to compute the MPG.
Best wishes to you all.
Another Silkie that proves he is tough but solvable. I couldn't believe the amount of white space after the first pass. But again, Mr. Silk rewards persistence.
ReplyDeleteDeaper-otto, I'm surprised that nobody took you up on your calamine lotion challenge.
ReplyDeleteHere you go: "You're gonna need an ocean of calamine lotion, Poison iv-y-y-y-y, poison iv-y-y-y-y / Late at night while you're sleepin' poison ivy comes / a'creepin' / Arou-ou-ou-ou-ou-ound" That's from my high school years. Good times.
I'm not experienced with Silkie puzzles yet, so this one was a real challenge. I admit I had to cheat, but I finished it. I could not for the life of me figure out how "atob" was a "narrow range". I even Googled it. I didn't get it until I read Splynter's "A to B" entry. Duh!
modgma@2:37:
ReplyDeleteChairman Moe replied to d-o's challenge at 9:06.
Chairman Moe- I've been googling for about twenty minutes and I can't find any car that has an odometer that also gives an MPG reading. I know that you can calculate MPG by knowing how many miles you've traveled and knowing the amount of fuel it took to get there. But you and today's clue are saying that this can be done automatically just by looking at the odometer... or so it seems that's what's being said. How does your odometer know how much fuel is being consumed?
ReplyDeleteJerome - my "information center" is an LED display located where my odometer resides. All I need to do is scroll through about 7 functions, one of which is MPG. The others are miles traveled, time, miles to empty, etc
DeleteJerome, any number of cars have on board "Information centers" or some such. It's not part of the odometer, but it can give you a number of different readings. My last Jeep had one, and it gave me a current mpg rating on the fly and a avg mpg since the last reset. Be that by the tank or over a period of years. It also gave outdoor air temp and was a compass. As my gear head friends explained it to me, it only measures total volume of air flow and the aggregate rate that the injectors have been providing fuel over the duration of the defined period. IOW, it's a calculation of what your consumption should have been. But it didn't have an actual fuel flow meter, so it was prone to inaccuracy. I consistently got about 1 more mpg than it reported when I'd figure it out the old fashioned way.. So close, but no cigar. I never relied on it, but I did like the temp sensor and the compass when I was in unfamiliar surroundings.
ReplyDeleteI was also told that there are aftermarket gizmos that do have a fuel flow meter, and they are quite accurate. But I'm not sure how many folks actually need that much information.
Avg Joe- Thanks for the info... but none of these devices that measure MPG are an odometer. That's what has some of us baffled concerning the clue. If the clue read "Stat that an odometer can be used for" I wouldn't be perplexed.
ReplyDeleteDudley,
ReplyDeleteI'd love to have you come up and take care of Lily! She probably would nix an airplane ride but would be good for about anything else.
We have a college administrator across the street and we'll see if he knows a nice girl who could come live here and babysit our "little girl". Lily doesn't eat or use the litter box when she's alone.
@Jerome
ReplyDeleteI accept both Splynter's and Avg. Joe's comments re: MPG. But if you need more clarity, maybe this will help. Imagine you have a car with no fuel in the tank. Say it is brand new or just had a new tank installed or simply ran out of gas. You then pour exactly one gallon of gas into the tank and reset the odometer. Now you drive the car until it runs out of gas. The resulting reading on the odometer would be the accurate MPG that car achieves, no measuring or additional figuring needed. Now maybe its a bit of a stretch but are not Saturday clues supposed to baffle and confuse us? Once again clue/answer from our constructor/editor passes the test.
Since this has turned into a defense of point of view issue, I want to clarify that I didn't like the clue/answer myself. That's why I made a point to say "it's not part of the odometer." All I was trying to do was point out that there is equipment that will provide these readings in response to Jerome's post. I didn't say it was a good defense of the clue. It's not.
ReplyDeleteAnd....a pedant walks into a bar....
Hi there ~!
ReplyDeleteJust back from dinner with mom and my brother.... We ate at the Cheesecake Factory, then the got plants from Home Depot.
As for the puzzle, my brother heard about the clue for "songbird ", and commented that the "other" type sings to him, too~!
Splynter
There's a reason why you're named Edsel.
ReplyDeleteAn odometer measures the distance a vehicle has travelled. It does not not measure fuel consumption,
ReplyDeleteso it is hard for me to see how an odometer, of itself, can offer up a stat of MPG. MPG is a computed value.
My vehicle gives MPG, too, but it is not in the odometer window.
Jerome is right.
ReplyDeleteI was prepared to comment on the MPG clue....until it got...er...antsy! I have a MPG reading on my (cheap) Corolla and I'm pleased with it. No idea if it is really accurate or not, but it gives me an indication of what I am using.
Now about the clue. No, I don't think ithe MPG is on the odometer. But I got the clue/answer for the CW so I'm happy. And I'm just happy to have a tough but solveable Silky instead of last Saturday's painful experience!!
Splynter, you were wonderful! And Owen, I loved the poem...just wish there had been more. But then I'm greedy!
Have a great weekend!
Just so we're clear about this- I was actually intrigued that there might be an odometer that could calculate MPG. That's why I went to Google, and made inquiries about it here, to find out about this device. It was curiosity that spurred this discussion, not a desire to uncover a clue that might be wrong.
ReplyDeleteLots of empty space the first time through and even the second. Then slowly but surely. Ta-da!
ReplyDeleteGreetings!
ReplyDeleteWow! Finally finished this super Silkie w/o cheats! (Forgot to try it earlier. It did take me over an hour. Sob!)
Put in and took out some of the answers mentioned above.
Say "happy birthday" to your mom, Splynter!
Was also bugged by MPG.
Cheers!
MPG?
ReplyDeleteMPG??
Wow. Worked on this one off-and-on all day. ('Course, not much got accomplished while we were at Indian Rocks Beach -- my goodness, what a beautiful day to spend at the beach. Sunny, light breeze, no waves and the water was 84℉.)
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I struggled mightily with this one and thought I was finally gonna solve it with no cheats but I had two blank squares at 59A and just couldn't come up with anything. So I went on line to make sure I had spelled Mario Puma's name correctly (no, that wasn't a typo) and realized what I had done. So, DNF today, but soooooooo close.
Also, it didn't help matters that for the longest time I had DRAB for 25D and ROUGES for 30A.
Huh. Turns out that WAS a typo -- I had Mario PUMO, not Puma.
ReplyDeleteI am a day late as I had too many things going on Saturday.
ReplyDeleteSpylinter, belated Happy Birthday to your Mom!
Do you really have a vehicle with 267,200 miles on it? What is it?
I always get Sabres mixed up with Sabras, persons born in Israel/Palestine.
Does anyone know why the Buffalo team is spelled the British way and not Sabers?
I usually use red letters for Saturdays. This took a long time but was not IMPOSSIBLE like the two last week.
The bottle of Calamine lists Zinc Oxide as a protectant. So how does it make the itch go away?
Thanks for everyone's comments and CCs note on the Mensa site.