Theme: ALL SQUARE. In the words of those two great American philosophers, Huey Lewis and Sponge Bob, It's Hip To Be SQUARE.
You had to be pretty sharp to get hip to the theme that the eight long horizontal fills were all SQUARE in shape! C.C. is very interested in how many will suss out the theme with no reveal. Couple that with her usual clever cluing and you have a wonderful Sunday adventure! Now let's get SQUARED up and see where we finish.
23. Refrigerator message : STICKY NOTE - A 3M staple. These are 3" x 3"
25. Fight spot : BOXING RING - Somewhere between 16' x 16' and 25' x 25'.
80. Picnic purchases : PAPER NAPKINS - Usually 6" x 6"
Now for the not so SQUARE fills:
Across
1. Palms in your hands : PDAS - Smart phones have replaced them and lots of other devices!
9. Washington or Ford : ACTOR - Denzell and Harrison e.g.
14. __ shot : SLAP - The start of one
19. Bug : ANNOY
21. Milan-based fashion house : PRADA - What the devil wears
22. Duel measure : PACE - Hamilton and Burr were back to back, strode ten PACES, turned and shot. Hamilton got second place
27. Toe preceder? : TAC - I had to let TIP go. In War Games, the computer had to learn that some games have no winners, including Tic TAC Toe and Global Thermonuclear Warfare
28. Really hot : ON A TEAR - Let it ride!
30. Attach, in a way : PIN - Tail on the donkey e.g.
31. Fair attractions : RIDES - You game? Me either!
32. Ball standout : BELLE
34. Weasel relative : STOAT - A group of STOATS is a "caravan". You're welcome.
36. Barfly : SOT
37. Spinner? : PR MAN - No, no no! That wasn't a gaffe, what my candidate meant was...
45. Agree to another tour : RE-UP - A military tour
46. Campus bigwig : DEAN
47. Surfing mishap : WIPE OUT - Also the most famous rock 'n roll drum riff?
48. __ Center: L.A. skyscraper : AON
49. "X-Men" actor McKellen : IAN
50. Yellowstone sight : ELK
51. Hi-__ monitor : RES
52. SFO info : ARR - ARRIVAL. Some say the O in SFO stands for San FranciscO, some say San Francisco/Oakland and some say it stands for nothing
53. "The Long, Hot Summer" director : RITT - 1958 classic where Martin RITT directed Mr. and Mrs. Paul Newman in this movie the year they got married
58. Last courses : DESSERTS - Bad guy get their just deserts
60. Buy from : SHOP AT
61. 2000 MapQuest acquirer : AOL
62. Morph- ending : EME - Smallest grammatical unit in a language
63. Too cute, in Chelsea : TWEE - Just like our Brit Steve!
64. Not real : ERSATZ - Is oleo ERSATZ butter?
67. "Raging Bull" Oscar winner : DE NIRO - Some say De Niro and Scorsese's best work
69. Attention : CARE
71. __-wop : DOO
72. CBS hit set in Vegas : CSI - ...and Miami and NY...
74. License : PERMIT
78. Tour of taverns : PUB CRAWL - A sometimes dangerous 21st birthday exercise
83. Any one of a 1963 all-brothers Giant outfield : ALOU - Jesus, Matty and Felipe on Hondo's team!
84. Enjoy some courses : EAT
85. Bodega pronoun : ESA - In slang, ESA is a word for Spanish "homegirl"
86. Big name in lip balms : EOS - Cute container
88. N.Y school overlooking the Hudson : RPI - The fightin' Redhawks of Rennsellaer Polytechnic Institute
89. Expanse : STRETCH - We once drove the STRETCH from Cheyenne to Yellowstone. Not much to see.
91. Downward movements : SAGS - The less said the better
92. Award named for a Muse : CLIO - For excellence in advertising, design and communication
96. Invitee : GUEST - Even anon's are welcome GUESTS here and add to the mix even when snarky or rude
97. Pink label : RCA - We don't have any of her music. Do you?
98. Cockamamie : INANE
99. Lover of balance and harmony, so they say : LIBRA
100. Like TV's "Wayward Pines" : EERIE
103. Swabbie : GOB - American sailor. Origin unknown
105. Where most people get into hot water : BATHTUB
108. __-K : PRE
115. Puffed-up : VAIN - In your You're So Vain, Carly has claimed she is is talking about a composite of three men
116. Track bet : PLACE - If you bet $2.00 for American Pharoah to PLACE (come in second) in the Belmont Stakes, you won $2.80
117. Unit of purity : KARAT - 18K gold is 18/24 or 75% gold and 25% other metals to make it more durable
118. Move with a mouse : DRAG
119. "Anything __?" : ELSE - "Will that complete your order?" is now McDonald's version
120. Its mascot uses fowl language : AFLAC - Ubiquitous insurance duck
121. Seasoned salts : TARS - Some more GOBS
122. Blue-bottled vodka : SKYY
Down
1. "Over here!" : PSST
2. Records concern : DATA BREACH - In 2014, Target and these
3. 2013 Literature Nobelist : ALICE MUNRO - No clue
4. Instant : SEC
5. Two-time U.S. Open winner Stewart : PAYNE - A natty dresser and fine gentleman who died at 42 in a plane accident
6. Actress Paquin : ANNA - Once again, no clue but perps to the rescue
7. How some games are won, briefly : IN OT - Overtime
8. Spoils : DOTES ON - What? You think we're spoiling our kitty?
9. SFPD alert : APB - All Points Bulletin.
10. Midriff-revealing wear : CROP TOP - A public service to those of you who didn't know what one was...
11. Airport arrival : TAXI - How a pilot gets to the gate at SFO or a passenger can get to SFO on the road
12. Asgard head : ODIN - Asgard is one of the nine worlds of Norse mythology
13. Tried to win, with "for" : RAN - Lifelong Minnesotan Harold Stassen RAN for president 10 times between 1940 and 2000
14. Quick squirt : SPRITZ
15. Set, as a trap : LAID - The best LAID plans of men and mice...
16. Troubling spots : ACNE - Ah, one of the many vagaries of my ute
17. Spots for coats : PEGS
20. First Literature Nobelist from Ireland : YEATS - William Butler YEATS
24. German city, to Germans : KOLN - Not Cologne
26. Tiler's need : GROUT
29. City SSE of Santa Fe : ROSWELL - Home of the International UFO Museum
33. Tablet holder : LAP
35. "__ man should have money in his head, but not in his heart": Swift : A WISE
36. Eggs on : SPURS - I don't know if American Pharoah's jockey used spurs but he used his whip 32 times in the home stretch at the Kentucky Derby
37. Goody two shoes : PRISS
38. One taking a selfie : CELL - Now you can use a selfie stick
40. Software instruction file : READ ME - I don't
41. __ Tracey, one of the original Mouseketeers : DOREEN - She wasn't Annette but still...
42. Rumble in the Jungle setting : ZAIRE - They used the 25 Across SQUARE
43. Lenya of "From Russia With Love" : LOTTE - My LOTTE LENYA is a name in Mack The Knife
44. Tolkien tree giants : ENTS
46. Ownership consequences, often : DEBTS
51. Carnival city : RIO - Probably won't find a 37 D PRISS in their parade (finally found a picture modest enough to display)
53. Edit a lot : REWORK - Rich's job here. Either with a scalpel or a chainsaw ;-)
55. Brief glance : APERCU - In a sentence - "Gaston Boissier, L'Afrique (1895), is a picturesque but somewhat superficial APERCU of the principal Roman ruins." Again, you're welcome.
56. Less adorned : BARER - What many other Carnival pictures I found were!
57. Passion tea maker : TAZO
59. Throat condition : STREP
62. Singer Adams : EDIE - Mrs. Ernie Kovacs and cigar pitcher
65. Pop-up producer : ADWARE - nasty stuff
66. Pre-Aztec Mesoamerican : TOLTEC
69. Mea __ : CULPA - A husband's Latin motto!
70. Hot and bothered : ABOIL
72. Game show with a Red Light Challenge : CASH CAB
73. Place for peels : SPA
75. Milwaukee Brewers' home : MILLER PARK - Looks like a theme park from I-94
76. Disorderly : IN DISARRAY
77. Letter-shaped opening : T-SLOT
78. 3, 4 and 5 : PARS - The USGA says any hole longer than 691 yards is a PAR 6 and there are hardly any of them
79. MetLife competitor : AETNA
80. Praline piece : PECAN
81. Back : REAR
82. Nutmeg-flavored quaffs : NOGS
89. Order to attack : SIC 'EM
90. Area south of SoHo : TRIBECA - Triangle Below Canal Street
91. "What did I tell you!" : SEE THAT
92. Baby panda : CUB
94. Holy threesome : TRIUNE - Often used as another name for the Holy Trinity
95. Talent : KNACK
96. "Shadow Dancing" singer Andy : GIBB
99. Craves, with "for" : LUSTS - Even Jimmy Carter admitted to looking at women with LUST in his heart
100. Gutter locale : EAVE - I had Boomer's LANE first
101. Carrier with a King David Club : EL AL - Every passenger is interviewed before boarding
102. Jeter's 1,311, briefly : RBIS - Runs Batted In. Some now write RBI since Runs is already plural. 75 RBI sounds odd to us old, er, veteran baseball fans
103. Holey pursuit? : GOLF - A Par 6? Holey Moley!!
104. Track : OVAL - Here's a banked OVAL - no SQUARE here!
106. Vindictive goddess : HERA
107. Onetime Russian monarch : TSAR - 1917 was their swan song
109. Liable to snap : EDGY
111. Nos. expert : CPA - Only they speak fluent IRS
112. __ hall : REC
114. Pigs out (on), for short : ODS - Get those Fritos out of sight!
Like Teddy Roosevelt in the early 20th century, C.C. has given us a SQUARE DEAL on this enjoyable Sunday exercise. Was anyone else surprised she didn't include a certain SQUARE that is 90' x 90' with rectangles at three corners and a pentagon at the fourth? I'll bet she gave it some thought.
Oh, my. I'm not very good at expressing myself. I wasn't looking for your opinions on nonograms. Nomenclature was what I was interested in. I wanted to know if anyone else was as irked as I am that in Russia, CROSSwords don't cross, and in Japan crossWORDS don't involve words!
ReplyDeleteAh, well, here's a poem I started for our discussion a few days ago, and just got around to completing.
A bevy of crossword buffs one night
Were pursuing their hobby, when out went the light!
The lamp had died, it just flickered out.
Up to the ceiling went the anguished shout!
Someone went for a ladder, someone went for a bulb
The plan: to replace the deceased there above.
One steadied the ladder, one unscrewed the corpse.
Hand to hand the new bulb passed along its dark course.
A dozen exchanges, and the orb was installed.
Lighted again, their puzzles enthralled.
But the incident solved for this hoary joke trickster
Fourteen cruciverbalist can change a light fixture:
A pair on the ladder, a dozen on the floor to toss,
The answer's at two down, and twelve across!
Morning, all!
ReplyDeleteFun puzzle, for the most part, but I'll admit I didn't notice the theme at all while solving. TAZO and EOS were completely unknown and caused some doubt when they appeared in the grid, but the perps were solid. Thank heavens I knew APERCU and had at least heard the name ALICE MUNRO before, or else that section would have been a disaster.
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteI only stumbled a couple times in this C.C. Concoction: BAIT/LAID and TEEN/CELL. Otherwise it was a race to the bottom. Since the title was "All Square" I got the theme at STICKY NOTE, and that made things easier further down.
Thanks, Husker, for a witty writeup. But LDL is the bad stuff. HDL is the good stuff. My total cholesterol is quite high, but my HDL is very high, so my doctor doesn't worry too much about it.
I've only been to one major league baseball game, and that one was in Milwaukee County Stadium, not MILLER PARK. I don't remember who was playing, but I got to see announcer Earl Gillespie catch a foul ball with his fishing net.
We had an "animal caravan" through the back yard yesterday -- Mama and six baby coons.
When separating from the Navy we were required to get a ship-over lecture. Mine went something like this:
You don't wanna REUP, do you?
Nope.
All righty, then.
Thanks, DO, I made the change!
ReplyDeleteLDL - Bad
HDL - Good
A challenge for me. I completed it unassisted, but it took a while. I was hung up with SNAP before I changed it to SLAP. I didn't discover the cute theme. Thanks HG. Also, interesting blogging. CC, fun puzzle.
ReplyDeleteTWEE was my first entry. According to my reading of British novels, I believe TWEE is not a compliment. Sickeningly cute. Too, too precious. This theme is cute, but not TWEE.
I really enjoyed The Devil Wears Prada. Meryl Streep is one of my favorites. I have a friend who will not watch this movie or any movie about evil, but I look on this one as a morality tale.
My new bathroom will not be GROUTed anytime soon. It is not even started although I have had my permit since the beginning of May. My constructor lost his two employees, one to unauthorized OTC drugs. He cannot find replacements who can pass the drug test, so he soldiered on alone. With the heavy one-man lifting he hurt himself and needs an operation.
I'm off to swim at the Y. Square dance this afternoon.
Hello, Friends!
ReplyDeleteInsomnia strikes again! Luckily the newspaper had been delivered and C.C.'s opus with it.
The theme was already noted in the title so every theme entry made sense. That's a SQUARE deal! Though it was a slow CRAWL I finished in under an hour with very few pauses. In Victoria Island, BC, we walked into the ALICE MUNRO bookshop and we've seen it in a previous puzzle.
GUCCI preceded PRADA but BOXING RING/APB struck that out.
Nothing stands out particularly but I did enjoy seeing ERSATZ, MEA CULPA, and wasn't sure about APERCU but left it. TAZO tea is found in my pantry so that's familiar.
It's doubtful that the O in SFO means Oakland as they are very far apart and two separate terminals.
Thanks, C.C. and Gary. It's a great way to start Sunday morning. Owen, I'm not sure why Russian and Japanese puzzles should irk you. Do you solve them?
Have a wonderful day, everyone!
I haven't touched the Sunday yet, but I'm thrilled to share that I finished yesterdays Silkie in its entirety. A first!
ReplyDeleteOwen, I agree that naming puzzles "crosswords" when they have no words that cross is bizarre.
ReplyDeleteThe construction employee was not on OTC drugs but on Oxycontin not prescribed for him.
The Week in Review: M 5:43 T 6:47 W 7:23 T 12:45 F 14:48 S 19:59 S 21:35
ReplyDeleteFriday: Very clever! I was thoroughly baffled by GNI for the longest time. I don't remember where I caught on to the gimmick but it may have been PU (i.e. UP).
Saturday: Ah, a Saturday Silkie. I think I had the most trouble parsing "DO holder" even with most of the letters filled. Ironically, the only medical practice in our tiny town consists of two OSTEOPATHs. D'oh!
Sunday: I'm afraid I didn't notice the title and didn't get the theme. The NW was the last to fill. I was reluctant to give up TIP (and even after the "TaDa!" it took me a second to figure out what TAC referred to). So, without that "P", I got ALICE MUNRO, then PDAS (very clever clue!), then DATA BREACH, then the "TaDa!" (PR MAN was all perps) . A very enjoyable end to a good week.
See y'all next Sunday.
Hello Puzzlers -
ReplyDeleteI had a few more stumbles than usual today. Eos was one, never heard of it. Aperçu took a long time to emerge from the folds as well. Didn't know who or what Pink was - I've seen "love Pink" bumper stickers and tee shirts, but that's all. Ritt looked wrong but the perps were solid. Got to the end eventually, but frankly I forgot to even look for the theme. Sorry, C.C.! I was in a themeless mindset, apparently.
Howdy Husker, thanks for pinch hitting. And yes, I fully suspect you're spoiling your cat. (I would too)
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely Sunday treat: a CC challenge. I did get the theme after a few theme answers, as the title was pretty straightforward. CSO to Spitz and Splynter at RPI (and me in its backyard). BTW, HG, since 2009, all RPI teams are the Engineers. 😎
Thanks CC and Gary for making our Sunday morning fun and more enjoyable. HG, if you feel as chipper as your expo, I'd say you're pretty much back to your old self!
I finally watched The Theory of Everything last night and now understand why Eddie Redmayne won the Oscar. As to Stephen and Jane Hawking, I'm not eloquent enough to relate their remarkable passion, dedication, and physical, as well as mental, fortitude, not to mention courage and conviction.
Have a great day.
Good Morning.
ReplyDeleteThanks, C.C. for a puzzle with lots of fun fills. I am sorry, but I thought All Square WAS the theme. It gave me all my answers except the STICKY one. I had a good time this morning even with the ones that I couldn't suss, like PDAS. Duh! Yet APERCU came as soon as I saw the CU. Go figure. I did expect a baseball diamond also. ;^)
As I understand it, Post-It notes were a fine example of serendipity as 3M was looking for a new glue and discovered one that would replace their Scotch tape for notes all over our fridges and kitchen cabinets--not to mention our desk[top]s.
Thanks, Gary, for a delightful bonus after the puzzle. Nice choices. You are really back in business! Hooray!
Have a lovely Sunday!
The history of Post-it® Notes.
ReplyDeleteLovely puzzle for a lazy Sunday.
ReplyDelete76D Disorderly. IN DISARRAY reminds me of a South Park episode where
one of the boys was Professor Chaos and his sidekick was General Disarray.
Chaos_meets_Disarray
120A. Its mascot uses fowl language : AFLAC .Also at one time FOUL language: Gilbert Godfrey lost his 11 year gig as the duck in March 2011 because he tweeted something non-PC about the Japanese earthquake, Wiki_link
5D. Two-time U.S. Open winner Stewart : PAYNE - A natty dresser and fine gentleman who died at 42 in a plane accident.
The accident was strange in that plane depressurized suddenly and just continued on autopilot until it crashed, with an Air Force escort that could do nothing. They believe all aboard died of hypoxia before the crash. Maintenance of the private LearJet was questioned as there had already been issues with cabin pressurization.
Wiki_Link
Correction. The AFLAC duck was Gilbert Gottfried, not Godfrey.
ReplyDeleteGood morning all,
ReplyDeleteFeeling miserable and peeved this AM. Miserable because I can't stop sniffling and sneezing. Peeved because I was just finishing my comments to CC's fine puzzle and Gary's review and my PC rebooted. Nuts. Anyway, thanks for now.
Good morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteNice puzzle from C.C. today; very SQUARED away. Not much to add to what others have said. Glad to see Husker "bright-eyed and bushy tailed."
Thanks IM for the RPI comment. #3 Son is also an alumnus. Liked the clue about overlooking the Hudson. It's a prominent feature of the landscape when viewed from across the River at Watervliet or Cohoes.
Great puzzle C.C. and H.G., without your explanation of the 'pink label' I would still be scratching my head. There is a singer named 'Pink'. Call me 'Mellow Yellow' but I didn't know of her. But there are many unknowns and the fact that I solved this CROSSWORD PUZZLE correctly is a miracle. ANNA, EME, EOS, APERCU, LIBRA, TRIUNE, EERIE, GOB, CASH CAB, TAZO; these were the easier unknowns that could be filled by perps but the crossing of LOTTE, AON, RITT, and TWEE was the last to fall and required some luck guesses because I had never heard of any of them. And this was next to READ ME and DOREEN crossing DENIRO. I couldn't remember DOREEN and am always misspelling 'DiNIRO' instead of DeNIRO.
ReplyDeleteI caught the theme only because on Sundays, the paper prints it: THE SUNDAY CROSSWORD: ALL SQUARE BY C.C. BURNIKEL.
TV and movie references are the hardest for me and the only one I knew of in this puzzle was 'From Russia With Love', but didn't know Lenya LOTTE. My animal 'caravan' was a duck flew in my back yard ( enclosed by wooden fenced). We saw it then go into the shrubs. I heard my neighbor yelling that there were 10 ducklings going under the fence into my yard. I saw the bushes moving but I never saw the babies. I don't know where they were born because I have a cat and my neighbors on all sides have dogs.
Since my weakest area of knowledge is modern popular culture, I usually watch Entertainment Tonight or an equivalent and Ellen to acquaint myself with actors, movies, etc. that I wouldn't otherwise know. Bands? Forget it!
ReplyDeleteBTW only one "n", one "l" and two "s"s in "Rensselaer"
ReplyDeleteAPERCU? Never in a million years would I have thought that was correct....oh well, thanks for the parallels.
ReplyDeleteLOTTE Lenya is mentioned in "Mack the Knife", a Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht song made popular by Bobby Darin in 1959.
ReplyDeleteFun puzzle. It took a bunch of perps to grok sticky note, but once that filled, I got the theme. Slow going most of the way and heavy reliance on the crosses, but the only true Natick was the cross of Ritt and Lotte. T seemed like the only possible fit, so I took that leap and hoped for the best.
ReplyDeleteThanks C.C. And Gary.
As far as young female singers go, I have to admit I prefer Pink. She has an edge that she's earned. She wasn't a Disney Pop Tart like those nuts Britney, Miley and Jessica. I've fallen for the "she's real" schtick. Her on again, off again relationship with extreme motorcycle race Carey Hart is the muse for many of her hits, like this one. And this one. (Holy cow, 418 million views! That must be what all those girls are watching on their phones and instead of talking to the person across the table.) I'm sure you have all heard this mindless party song at every wedding since 2009.
ReplyDeleteHere is an insight to her personality as she gets "Punk'd" by Ashton Kutcher and her then boyfriend Carey.
Ok. Pink commercial over. Relax. Carey on...
CC - thought you might like to know
ReplyDeleteA ute can be an a Southwestern Indian or a sport utility vehicle.
But a youth is a yute.
From the script for "My Cousin Vinnie"
Vinny Gambini: It is possible that the two yutes...
Judge Chamberlain Haller: ...Ah, the two what? Uh... uh, what was that word?
Vinny Gambini: Uh... what word?
Judge Chamberlain Haller: Two what?
Vinny Gambini: What?
Judge Chamberlain Haller: Uh... did you say 'yutes'?
Vinny Gambini: Yeah, two yutes.
Judge Chamberlain Haller: What is a yute?
Vinny Gambini: [beat] Oh, excuse me, your honor...
[exaggerated]
Vinny Gambini: Two YOUTHS.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104952/quotes
Sorry - should have "addressed" to Husker not CC
ReplyDelete"Two yutes"; a classic scene from a great movie.
ReplyDeleteMan oh man, this puzzle just kept on giving and giving, pleasure, that is. Solve an answer, chuckle and smile; solve another answer, laugh out loud; solve another answer, shake my head in awe; and so it went and went. Magnificent. This LIBRA just loves the way C.C. thinks. MEA CULPA, I did not get the theme.
ReplyDeleteGary, wonderful (full of wonder) writeup. Thank you.
Food for thought...
ReplyDeleteApercu was a learning moment, here is a quick one for you...
That's all for now...
Aperçu needs that little hangy-down to make the c sound like an s. It's a guy thing. A pecadillo, maybe?
ReplyDeleteGreetings!
ReplyDeleteThanks, CC and Husker!
WBS.
Am too sleepy to type further.
Cheers!
Hi Puzzle Pals!
ReplyDeleteI stopped by for my Sunday lurk, and saw it was a C.C. I stopped right there and went to Mensa to print it. The solve (DNF) took me a while, but what fun! Thanks C.C. Thanks too to HG for your chipper write-up.
If you'll PERMIT me...
is 77d a CSO to my parking spot / SLOT?
Q to H7. Mate.
HG - Is it 'cuz the 90' x 90' is called a diamond? :-)
I had some problems, namely 78 to 82d and 122a clues didn't print (didn't need the latter, SK_Y - gotta be the vodka), so I literally had no clue! I had to cheat there by looking at the blog for the clues and then saw the picture of the EOS thing.
Most names were perp'd in (I did know Pink and got RCA w/ the C from SIC'EM), but xing of 43d w/ 48a & 53a was my downfall and DNF.
37d's clue made me think of Adam Ant. 1d - I won't lament re: my Palm Treo PDA again...
2d had me worried about work - a DATA BREACH will put me in the cheese-line wishin' I had some SALTINE CRACKERS.
I get made fun of by colleagues re: STICKY NOTEs. I have them on the back of my iPad, all over my desk, and my laptop - they are my daily-todos. They stay there until everything is ta-done.
Cheers, -T
D-O - The hangy down in aperçu is called a cedilla. Maybe we'll have a cedilla theme someday. (I like to think outside the box) :-)
ReplyDeleteIt's always something. I felt pretty pleased that I remembered aperçu. But it's another of those words I've only seen in puzzles, so I had no idea that it wasn't pronounced "ah per cue". But hey, at least it was consistent with "sag" since it needs a hangy down thing.
ReplyDeleteOoops, it was 1a, not 1d re: PDA...
ReplyDeleteOwen - maybe they take "CROSS WORDs" as things said in vain??
C.C. Fav was 120a. I was sippin' a Goose Island Ale (from Chi-town) when I read that clue. Mmmm, foul, I look up and the label has a goose that look like... AFLAC!
Runner up was ROSWELL - DW makes fun of me for listening to the crazy people at night.... UFO's, Shadow People, etc. All amusing COVERS the gov't uses?
3rd place - PUB CRAWL - I have a few friends w/ special bikes to do just that in the Heights. My bro has a Fat Tire (more beer)-branded bike he'll use to criuse to the neighborhood PUBs.
Thanks again!
Cheers, -T
Spitz - a cedilla? I think there's a shot for that :-)
ReplyDeleteAve Joe @4:05 - funny. For the record that was all perps & I didn't even try to pronouce it. C, -T
BTW, I got everything in the puzzle today, with missteps WEES, plus "where to find a mate" = SOCK DRAWER. Looking at it now, I could have gotten DATING SITE, ABOARD SHIP, QUEENSLAND, MITER JOINT, PIPE THREAD -- maybe a theme there? I've got at least 7 more with 8 or 9 letters.
ReplyDeleteJayce@2:14. Absolutely!!
ReplyDeleteSomehow my browser pop'd up last night's comments and I saw M. Goodrich's post...
ReplyDeleteM. Goodrich, I think you will find a lovely bunch of folks here at the corner - many who have been through what you recently experienced. I think I can speak for most in saying welcome and feel free to express yourself. Cheers, -T
ReplyDeleteI had guests in the house today so I proudly showed them the crossword puzzle and said: "That's C.C. I know her! I've exchanged emails with her!" They were impressed.
And I was impressed by the puzzle and by H.G.'s write up. Great stuff on both accounts. I nearly completed the puzzle in its entirety. Just a few obscurities remained by the time I hung up the pen.
Good Monday evening, folks. Thank you, C.C., for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Husker Gary, for a fine review.
ReplyDeleteTook me well into Monday to finish this puzzle. But, I did!
The theme escaped me. Read about it in the blog and it made sense. Good job, C.C.
This puzzle was very difficult. A word at a time was what it took.
Liked STICKY NOTE. One of the greatest inventions of the last century, IMHO. Comes close to the PC.
Never heard the word APERCU. Perped it and then looked it up. It is a word.
Never been on a PUB CRAWL, but it sounds like fun.
TAXI for airport arrival was clever. I avoid those when flying back to Chicago. I take the CTA EL, and then a bus, and then a Metra train. Total, about $5.00.
No idea who ALICE MUNRO is. Nobelist it appears. Not aware of what she wrote. Maybe I should check it out. Probably quite good.
AFLAC was clever.
OK, since it is Monday night, and no one will read this, I am signing off. See you Tuesday.
Abejo ( )