Roland Huget appears in his 4th LAT, and his first Friday. This minimalist puzzle seems to have just three theme fill all references out of the 60's with a common thread of "shhh"and no reveal. It is very unusual for a Friday to have only three theme answers. If there is more to this effort I missed it. Of course there is the inclusion of the entire English alphabet (A PANGRAM!). Is this a themeless gone bad? In any event, there is quite a bit of fresh intermediate fill, with THE MET, HIPPIE, ROASTS, TRACES, ED MEESE, ST. SIMON, DEFANGS, BEANERY, FISH TAIL, NETIZENS, RANGE WAR (odd with all the peace and quiet) and TAX HAVEN. Well let us see what Roland has done to befuddle us. If you do not know references the theme does not help.
17A. '60s executive order creation : PEACE CORPS (10). HISTORY.
35A. Societal change begun in Quebec during the '60s : QUIET REVOLUTION (15). HISTORY.
52A. '60s aviation nickname : WHISPERJET (10). HISTORY.
Across:
1. Man of many words : ROGET. Thesaurus guy.
6. Course designer : CHEF. Not a golf course, one part of a meal.
10. Hiker's map, briefly : TOPOgraphic. A legitimate word, but unsatisfactory fill for me. LINK.
14. Words spoken on a star? : I WISH. I may, I wish I might.
15. Virna of "How to Murder Your Wife" : LISI. A movie I remember.
19. Combine : MELD. Pinochle, anyone?
20. Locks in a zoo : MANE. Those kind of locks.
21. Human Be-In attendee : HIPPIE. Were any of you a human bein' in the 60's?
27. Apostle known as "the Zealot" : ST SIMON.
28. Facetious tributes : ROASTS. Do you all watch Comedy Central? I now listen on the radio.
30. Comfort and others : INNS.
31. Avid surfers : NETIZENS. A portmanteau of Internet and Denizens.
39. Money-saving refuge : TAX HAVEN. Anyone do business in the CHANNEL ISLANDS?
40. Subway purchase : HERO. Really.
41. Blue dye : ANIL. Indigofera suffruticosa.
42. Hints : TRACES.
44. Renders harmless : DEFANGS. Sorry Count D.
48. Greasy spoon : BEANERY. A word from 1877.
49. It's not widely understood : IN JOKE. I guess this is intended as an abbreviation of Inside Joke.
50. Small flaw : WART.
51. Cozy spot : NOOK.
58. Quattro competitor : ATRA. An off semi-clecho with 59. Quattro, e.g. : AUDI. No mention of SUZI who is missing a "T"
60. 2013 One Direction hit : DIANA.
61. Victor's "Samson and Delilah" co-star : HEDY. Lamar
62. Line holder for a cast : REEL. Fishing, not acting.
63. Lustrous synthetic : RAYON. Lustrous...a regenerated, semisynthetic textile filament made from cellulose, cotton linters, or wood chips by treating these with caustic soda and carbon disulfide and passing the resultant solution, viscose, through spinnerets.
Down:
1. Swindle, with "off" : RIP.
2. Run a tab, say : OWE.
3. 1998 Angelina Jolie biopic : GIA. Lots of nudity.
5. It's across from Alice Tully Hall : THE MET. Don't get LOST.
6. One of many in "Orphan Black" : CLONE. This actually looks interesting.
8. Sixth of five? : ESP. Did you make sense of this clue?
9. Skid : FISH TAIL. Out of control.
10. Largo and presto : TEMPI. More than one Tempo.
11. Matinee hr. : ONE P.M.
12. March of Dimes' original crusade : POLIO.Now we march for all babies.
13. Ancient : OLDEN.
18. Mama in music : CASS.
22. Trooper's outfit? : ISUZU. A very tricky clue as this automobile has been out of production since 2002 and the Company out of the US since 2009. Poor Joe.
23. La Salle of "ER" : ERIQ. A fellow Connecticut native who continues to work.
24. Fried treat : DONUT.
26. Thomas Cromwell's earldom : ESSEX. He was important to HENRY VIII but then he was not. His descendant (through his sister Katherine) Oliver Cromwell also had his day in the British sun.
27. Determined about : SET ON. Which do you like better, this or ________Hall?
29. Oblique cut : BEVEL.
31. Half a Caribbean federation : NEVIS.
32. Tom's "Mission: Impossible" role : ETHAN. Time to work on our Italian? LINK.
33. Reunion attendee : NIECE. Pick any family member ...
34. More put out : SORER.
36. "__ heaven" : THANK. I always think of this LINK. Of course now that I am older, it seems creepy.
37. American West conflict : RANGE WAR.
38. Overly curious : NOSY.
42. Former Blue Devil rival, briefly : TERP. Maryland in the ACC before they moved to the Big Ten.
43. Not suitable for kids : RATED R. No links from me.
44. Shore show of the '70s : DINAH. A classic CLIP.
45. Modern message : ENOTE.
46. Alaskan cruise sight : FJORD. Fjocus? 54. 46-Down kin : RIA. A fjord is created by inundation of a valley formed by a glacier. They typically have very steep walls and very deep floors allowing ocean-going vessels to navigate them. A ria is a former river valley that has subsided below sea-level and flooded. It is usually shallower than a fjord and often become estuaries with little fresh-water flow into them.
47. Jim-dandy : A OKAY.
48. Pizza sauce herb : BASIL. I like both Italian and Thai basil.
50. Off-target : WIDE. "Wide right!" Mean anything to any college or pro football fans out there?
53. Color distinction : HUE.
55. Magpie relative : JAY. Oh not again.
56. "Microsoft sound" composer : ENO.
57. Brown shade : TAN. A perfect way to end this Friday frolic. Did you all appreciate the pangram? Welcome to my world Roland and have a great holiday weekend all. With the beer and brats do remember all who have passed while serving our country and all of us. Lemonade out heading to the beach.
I leave you with some pics from the restaurant where Oo is working
Bon Appetit! On the left spicy oxtail soup
On the right, shrimp, bacon and lychee.
On the right, shrimp, bacon and lychee.
I had never heard of the quiet revolution ... until this morning. No, not from the puzzle, but from a Facebook-linked article about swearing in Quebec. Immediately after reading that, I started the puzzle. Very weird coincidence!
ReplyDeleteMight as well have been a themeless, as I didn't notice the theme.
FIW. :-(
ReplyDeleteNatick at E-P + LI-I (I wagged V for Extra VP),
and the entire SW corner I knew was wrong, but I was sure enough of 46d=FLOES that I didn't question it, and it turned INlOKE, ATeA, and HEsY into gibberish/jibberish.
{D+, C, B-.}
WHISPER when you speak of QUIET and PEACE
In the Washington of loudmouth A.G. MEESE.
And for nearby Beantown
The acoustic lowdown
Is that BEANERIES cause their own toots! Sweet!
There once was a doctor, ROGET,
Who didn't know just what to say.
So his pen he up, took,
And wrote him a book --
Publication, text, tome, lexicon, primer, compendium, bible, omnibus, quarto, volume, edition, scroll, codex, tablet of clay!
Simple Simon met ST. SIMON,
Going here and there.
Said Simple Simon to ST. SIMON,
"Have you coin to spare?"
Then said the saint
"By HEAVEN I ain't,
But Simon says
Now bow your head
And I'll lead you in prayer!"
(My own prayer today to the Muse of limericks: forgive me, for today, boy!, have I sinned!)
Morning, all!
ReplyDeleteI somehow managed to make it through this one thanks to the perps, since I didn't know LISI, couldn't figure out ATRA from the clue, never heard of a WHISPER JET and was completely in the dark about the so-called QUIET REVOLUTION.
They have FJORDS in Alaska? I thought those were just in Norway. Live and learn...
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteWow, did I struggle with this one. Got it, though. Only two inked-in blunders: NEST/NOOK, TWO PM/ONE PM. No, I didn't get the theme, but that's normal. I've heard of Saint Kitt's, but didn't know there was a NEVIS that was part of it. Roland, this was definitely Friday-worthy.
Lemon, 8d clue made no sense at all -- until it filled in, and then it made perfect sense.
Stormy here overnight, but nothing like the folks further north have experienced. The phone rang five times for automated weather alerts from the county. Got 4" of rain, so that was good. The holiday weekend should be rain-free.
We did see several automobile references today: ISUZU, AUDI, DINAH ("See the USA in your Chevrolet..."), and of course, FJORD.
ReplyDeleteGood Morning!
ReplyDeleteD-Otto, I laughed out loud at your list of autos. Nice start to my day! Thanks.
I was not on any wavelength here today, yet WHISPERJET came to me as if Eastern were still flying. Nice puzzle, Roland. I'm glad I stuck it out.
Thanks, Lemonade for the tour and the many links.
Have a smooth sailing day.
Didn't realize we are all in lemony's world. Makes me feel kinda dirty.
ReplyDeleteI had some trouble this am before completing the puzzle. Mainly I misspelled ERIQ as ERIC before finally filling QUIET REVOLUTION, which obviously was very quiet because growing up in the 60s- I never heard of it. I guessed some type of GENERATION but it didn't work out. But I did manage to grind out the rest and finish in about 25 minutes.
ReplyDeleteA few other initial mistakes held me up for a while; LISA became LISI (unknown), PROF changed to CHEF, and IZUZU morphed to ISUZU to fit the unknown ST. SIMON. GIA and CLONE were all perps.
And then there's ATRA- what is it? 'An off semi-clecho'- what is that? IN JOKE- the only place I've seen that is in a crossword puzzle.
gespenst- It was obviously 'very quiet'.
Barry-I'm flying to Fairbanks Monday and eventually getting to Vancouver in two weeks and will be seeing fjords. Glacial valleys that were filled in by the ocean after the Ice Ages ended. We cruised through Fjordland in New Zealand a few years ago.
IN JOKE or inside joke. You say TO MAY TO, I say TO MAH TO. Six of one and a half dozen of the other.
ReplyDeleteIf Oliver Cromwell was Thomas Cromwell's "descendant (through his sister Katherine)," are we not suggesting incest?
ReplyDelete"Those kind"?
Congrats to the Penguins ...
ReplyDeleteThe Lightning "Ear-Worm" Do You Know the Way to San Jose will be gone soon. (I Hope!)
I think the Sharks will beat the Penguins for the Stanley Cup
(C'mon, in nature they eat them all the time).
Lemon: Nice write-up and informative links.
Other than needing ESP (Every-Single-Perp) for LISI ... this felt like a Wednesday.
Cheers!
I got 1a and 6a right away and thought I was going to fly through this puzzle. WRONG!
ReplyDeleteI got through it but only with red letters and a few alphabet runs. Tricky, even devious cluing i.e. "Trooper's outfit", new words i.e. NETIZENS, and missteps i.e. "DisarmS b4 DEFANGS nearly did me in. Never got the theme until I got to the corner, but that is par for the course. Thank you Roland for the mental exercise and Lemonade for the erudite expo. Re: the creep factor for your link for 36d, that's a big 10-4. Re: your link for 58a, IMHO Suzi Quatro is no more playing that guitar than I am.
Cya!
How's your spelling? Try this ten-word quiz from the Scripps National Spelling Bee. I'll confess that I didn't do very well -- 4 right, 4 definitely wrong and 2 close calls.
ReplyDeleteTake me to the quiz.
Good morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteWBS. Finally made it through with lots of perp help. Vaguely remembered WHISPER JET, but never really thought of it as a nickname. Not a hiker but used TOPO sheets a lot in my work. Wanted bay before RIA. I can accept that FJORD and RIA could be clued as kin; they are both inlets, but I agree with Lemon's point. (Cats and dogs are kin, too, in that they're both carnivores.)
Somehow remembered SIMON the Zealot; just stuck an ST in front of it.
Finally got the SE but the solve was a tough slog at first.
RAYON - I think of it as the thread form of cellophane. Lemon has a good précis on it. I also thought nylon is a lustrous synthetic, but a lot tougher. That's why it's commonly used in flags. Guess it's in the eye of the bee holder.
Katherine's husband chose to take the Cromwell family name, so her descendants remained as Cromwells despite her marriage. No incest.
ReplyDeleteSuzi was/is an accomplished bass player
Terrible struggle from top to bottom, left to right; in other words, entire CW. Managed to complete the fill using red-letter help. I liked the whisper-jets. They had the engines way back on the tail, very quiet in the cabin. Thanx for the huge challenge, Roland, and thanx for the incredible write-up, Lemonade!
ReplyDeleteOwen, I think you missed your morning coffee today. B, C, C-. Still far better than I could do, and still made me smile, so thanx for the efforts!
Musings
ReplyDelete-As soon as a Skid became a FISHTAIL, I was done in this great Friday puzzle
-Oh, this was a ”Bed-in” not a “Be-in” so his surname is wrong
-Comedy Central exhibits ZEALOTRY toward one political point of view
-My self-employed friends say finding someone to HIRE is tough these days
-Cromwell is on the far left of this cast of The Tudors. If you think politics are nasty now, poor old Tom really lost his head.
-It hurts too much to watch video of a Byron Bennett field goal be WIDE and cost the Huskers the 1993 National Championship
-In what movie did Jimmy Stewart “think” he killed Lee Marvin in a nasty RANGE WAR?
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteMy grumpiness must still be lurking in the background so 'I'm going to let my good friend Thumper speak his words of wisdom on my behalf.
Maybe I should have my eyes checked as, for the longest time, I was seeing How To Get Away With Murder instead of How To Murder Your Wife. I guess I just focused on Murder instead of the entire clue. I knew of Verna Lisi but couldn't picture her in HTGAWM. (I think she was in the original Peyton Place movie.)
You certainly gave me a run for my money, Roland, and, Lemony, you did a great job with the overview. Thanks to both.
Our weather is supposed to get very hot (90's tomorrow) and also humid, with sporadic rain showers. I hope everyone's cookouts aren't washed out.
Have a great day
Whew! This forced my brain to work overtime but enjoyably so. The NW lulled me into thinking it would be a swift sail with ROGET, I WISH and PEACECORPS quickly in place then THEMET. With no joy in the next pass I slid down south and since Quattro is my razor of choice that initiated the SW corner with ATRA and like others I had associated FJORD only with Norway. Good lesson there, thank you, Lemonade.
ReplyDeleteAfter that it was hit and miss until enough letters showed me connections and QUIETREVOLUTION made it across the grid. First, NETICONS seemed to fit the surfers but ISUZU proved otherwise and made me laugh when the lightbulb turned on.
Finally WHISPERJET would not come to mind and since time is of the essence today I had to research it and finish the job but not before also looking up DIANA. Modern music is my bane since I know very little about it.
Thank you, Roland Huget, for the fine challenge and Lemonade, for your always excellent expose when I learn so much from your detailed esplanations.
Have a great weekend, everyone! Today there is a funeral to attend then tomorrow a grad party and much of my family is visiting from CA so the reunion will occupy the entire weekend for me. Until Monday.
Virna LISI inched out of my memory bank to finally finish the top central and yes, ESP gave me pause. What a great clue!
Good morning, folks. Thank you, Roland Huget, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Lemonade, for a fine review.
ReplyDeleteStarted slowly, of course. Finally got a foothold in the deep South with HUE, AUDI, BASIL, WIDE, and REEL. Spread from there.
ROGET was easy once had one perp.
A few perps allover the grid helped immensely. Got QUIET REVOLUTION after I had most of QUIET. I had never heard that term, but the letter count fit and it made sense, so I wrote it in. I actually had no inkblots today. Unbelievable.
WHISPER JET was slow in coming. Once I got the J with JAY, I had it.
NETIZENS took me forever. A bunch of perps worked.
RANGE WAR worked but I was trying to think of some indian war for quite a while.
Took me about two hours. Pretty good for me for a Friday.
See you tomorrow.
Abejo
-This close to Memorial Day, I thought you would enjoy an amazing crossword story I happened onto today
ReplyDeleteTough solve today. DNF due to INJOKE and RANGEWAR. Didn't even see the theme until after a break and going back to the puzzle. Thanks, Roland, for a solid workout.
ReplyDeleteLemonade, good job on the links and overviews.
Have a safe and Happy Memorial Day to All!
DINAH- BEANERY in Boston
ReplyDeleteThe BEANERY I go to doesn't serve ANY BEER
Presidential order to an about to be disgraced Attorney General- "SEE ME, ED!"
There's RAW ANGER in a RANGE WAR
AOKAY- Golfer Isao
Hi Gang -
ReplyDeleteThought this would be a huge DNF, but it only would up being a small DNF.
NETIZENS, NEVIS, ISUZU threw me.
Other than that, this was really difficult.
Well, the week end is here.
Enjoy your holiday.
Cool regards!
JzB
Yes, I remembered several of these from being there.
ReplyDeleteThe BEANERY is what we called our Junior High on-campus quick serve counter. It was a window from the back of the cafeteria kitchen straight out to our playground. If we didn't want a sit-down lunch, we lined up at the BEANERY to buy a tamale and a soda.
I recall Be-Ins in Golden Gate Park, and I remember one major Be-In when The Living Theater hosted one during their show at the Brooklyn Academy. A large pile of human beings interrupted their own show as it grew down center stage--until Judith Molina broke it up by yelling, from the center of the pack, "Quit groping me, you *#@! [expletive deleted]!"
Somehow, that seemed counter to the spirit of the thing...
Anyone else notice ROGET hanging around Roland Huget?
ReplyDeleteTough and Tricky this pzl.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't finish until I broke through in the SW sector. For me the secret was changing IN WORD to IN JOKE, which let me change DISARMS to DEFANGS. This not only helped me complete the pzl, but happily changed SWORD to FJORD, a major improvement. (For just a few moments I was re-envisioning the Normandy D-Day landings as taking place in Alaska!)
HG @1013 - Very interesting side story on Normandy.
ReplyDeleteOKL @ 1234 - Good catch.
Roland Huget is an anagram of Troldhaugen; seems Norse. I'm guessing he's related to Jerome.
Whew, what a toughie. WEES. Had to turn on red letters to discover DENIZENS was wrong, and even so I took far too long to answer the question in my mind: "What the heck was Simon the Zealot's first name or initials?" Absolutely favorite clue was for ESP. It's one of those clues that make no sense until after filling the answer. I knew ERIQ and HEDY right away. Erroneously put in PAULY for Shore but it very quickly became evident that the Shore we were looking for was DINAH. I was WIDE of the mark on that one.
ReplyDeleteI don't do business in the Channel Islands.
OwenKL, good eye! I sure didn't notice that.
Desper-otto, cool cars!
Hi Y'all! Whew! It would be easier to list the few things I knew than where I struggled. Thanks, Roland! I blamed it on a water-soaked brain and lack of sleep due to thunder fests until I came here and saw everyone else had trouble. I did fill it with the help of my old friend Red Letters.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lemonade, for sweetening the experience with your expo.
I did get the theme, but spent some time trying to find a reveal or another theme entry. Warn't there.
NETIZENS completely mystified me. Last fill. Didn't really fit in with all the "old age" clues.
I knew NEVIS only because my son's family vacationed there several years ago. I had to run for the atlas then. The other island affiliated with NEVIS is St. Kitts.
I did know HEDY. I remember that movie from my pre-teen years as being the first really steamy movie I ever saw. Mother slipped up somehow and took us. Also had paper dolls of the movie, I was still that young.
Another planned trip to the grocery store has been thwarted by dark clouds & thunder. I can rustle up about two more days of meagre meals before the situation becomes dire. We had 3.55 inches of rain just yesterday alone. One to three hour naps between storms has left me really groggy. Fairly large limb downed on my roof, but no electricity lost like elsewhere in the city.
I was ready to start a RANGE WAR yesterday. My near neighbors threw their 6-month-old rat terrier pup out into the fenced back yard. The little yapper became frantically unhappy for some reason when the next hail storm hit. I was dressing and wondering how to rescue him when he got QUIET. I didn't know if he'd been brained by big ice or they let him back in. His yapping woke me again today, so he's healthy.
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteWhat BlueHen said... False hopes today. I finished the NW & most of the West w/ out a grey-cell firing. I knew PEACE CORPS and ED MEESE and thought This is easy!" Psych! I WISH. FISHTAIL to a DNF.
I needed a nudge in the NE so crib'd from Lem (it's not PAGAN*). I needed help in the SW and just flat-out-cheated. See,
44d - DINAH
45d - EMAIL
46d - WHALE
All solid, but ONE had to be wrong 'cuz 51a=Naan doesn't make sense. But I was so SET ON 'em. Doh!, two were WARTs. Oh well it was fun, thanks Lem & Roland. I OWE ya.
Many WOs & ESPs - Most notable R-RATED... Frog!
Fav: I'm w/ Lucina & Jayce, c/a for 8d (ESP) was especially delightful. And it took ESP+ 1 WAG b/f V8. [how's that for a corner IN JOKE :-)] Chef was cute too.
Jayce - I thought Pauly @1st too and shook it off - that was the 90s. DW interviewed him for her college news.
Lem - DW enjoys Orphan Black FWIW.
OKL - FLN : Neither -T C. and gladly so. {B, C+, F [remove line 5 or 7, IMHO]}. I enjoy daily; thanks.
D-O: dry up there? We didn't get much but a light show.
*OK, Pop talks about the little boxes they gave him & other kids at ST. PETER & Pauls (ELHI) to collect coins for the pagan children in AFRICA. That's why pagan pop'd to mind. It fit and I was doing so well up to then, why not? ['cuz it's 30 years off and wrong charity ]
Cheers, -T
Husker @9:23
ReplyDeleteThat movie was The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
It was the John Wayne character who actually shot the Lee Marvin character.
But "when the legend becomes the truth ... print the legend" ...
Also, thanks for the D-Day Crossword puzzle link.
Very Interesting!
Cheers!
Lemonade...by now you've probably figured out ESP is the 6th sense, of which most people only have 5, tho no one answered your question.
ReplyDeleteBig Easy... ATRA like QUATTRO is a brand of razor. But QUATTRO is also a car model by Audi. Hence the semi-clue echo...the clues were similar but not identical.
Felt like a good challenge today, but managed to solve it in a reasonable time.
A question regarding 45D:Modern message = ENOTE
ReplyDeleteAs a confirmed NETIZEN :)this one bugged me. There are only two ENotes I can think of: one is a Microsoft app, and the other is a digital version of Cliff's Notes. Neither of those strikes me as a "modern message."
Any second opinions on that definition out there?
Argent: Yeah, that's why I was stuck on Email. OneNote doesn't seem to qualify as a 'message' except to one's self. See Post-IT. C, -T
ReplyDeleteRemember the days when reviews were about the puzzle and not the reviewer?
ReplyDeleteIf wiki or another authority was used, is was credited. The summary was more third party and much more appreciative or even admirable
Thirty Five comments?! Ha!
Remember my number? Or even my favorite album, AJA? Conslesor, I am disappointed.
Freond, my comment on 8 down was intended as a play on words about 'sense.' Have a great holiday all, especially anon at 10:39 PM.
ReplyDeleteOooooo
ReplyDeleteWhat I was suggesting, Lemonade, is that you misused the word "descendant." Oliver Cromwell did not descend from Thomas Cromwell; he descended from Thomas Cromwell's sister (and from Thomas Cromwell's parents, if you will).
ReplyDeleteJust as you mixed a plural with a singular in "those kind."