Theme: None
Words: 70 (missing F,J,Q,V,X)
Blocks: 28
Mr. Fludzinski returns with another Saturday LA Times grid, a little
over a month since his last construction. I re-read that blog, and had a repeat solving experience - switching between across and
down. In fact, I was so eager to switch back to across from the down
that I never actually read the last two 'Down' clues; when it came to
the write up, I didn't recognize the entries at all....Relatively smooth
solve, under my personal time, with the proper names were helped along
by the perps. Triple and almost-triple 10-letter corners, plus four
8-letter answers on the inside;
1. Parent of 66-Across : BABY BOOMER - ugh, a circumreferential clue to start; it was the second half that got me the answer here
1. Parent of 66-Across : BABY BOOMER - ugh, a circumreferential clue to start; it was the second half that got me the answer here
66. Child of 1-Across : MILLENNIAL
26. Ramshackle : DECREPIT - the image this word conjures up
48. Iconic Ansel Adams photograph shot in Hernandez, New Mexico : MOONRISE
26. Ramshackle : DECREPIT - the image this word conjures up
moONWARD~>!
ACROSS:
11. Jobs creation : IMAC - I tried iPod; not fooled by the reference to Steve Jobs
15. As it happens : IN REAL TIME
16. It can tide you over : NOSH
17. Exercise regimen : DAILY DOZEN
18. Ending to avoid? : ANCE - avoidance
19. Commemorative pillar : STELA - pondered TOTEM, but that was in last week's puzzle - and then it appeared here anyway @ 29d. I did however, fill in STELE at first
20. Accords : ENTENTES - oops, I had DEtentes at first
22. Piccadilly Circus statue : EROS - dredged this one up from the depths of my crossword solving brain
25. Anesthetizes : DEADENS
30. Refuse : DROSS
31. Link letters : URL - ah. I tried PGA for golf links
32. Thin feathered flier : ARROW - at first I thought we were looking for some sort of bird; got it after some thought
34. Pop music sleepyhead : SUSIE - I still have no clue what this refers to; I found a Susie Sleepyhead teddy bear....the second "S" was the only non-crossing unfilled
36. Youngest player to join the 600-HR club : A-ROD
38. Snowmen? : YETIs
40. Trade staple : TOOL - I am looking into refrigeration classes this coming winter/spring, as it's the only industry area I am unfamiliar with at the restaurants. There are some specific tools for this trade, too, and I don't own them - yet
41. Sore __ : LOSER - had it, put it in, took it out because of 26d.
43. Teeth in Torino : DENTI
45. ICU VIPs : RNs
46. Transplant, in a way : REPOT
15. As it happens : IN REAL TIME
16. It can tide you over : NOSH
17. Exercise regimen : DAILY DOZEN
18. Ending to avoid? : ANCE - avoidance
19. Commemorative pillar : STELA - pondered TOTEM, but that was in last week's puzzle - and then it appeared here anyway @ 29d. I did however, fill in STELE at first
20. Accords : ENTENTES - oops, I had DEtentes at first
22. Piccadilly Circus statue : EROS - dredged this one up from the depths of my crossword solving brain
25. Anesthetizes : DEADENS
31. Link letters : URL - ah. I tried PGA for golf links
32. Thin feathered flier : ARROW - at first I thought we were looking for some sort of bird; got it after some thought
36. Youngest player to join the 600-HR club : A-ROD
38. Snowmen? : YETIs
40. Trade staple : TOOL - I am looking into refrigeration classes this coming winter/spring, as it's the only industry area I am unfamiliar with at the restaurants. There are some specific tools for this trade, too, and I don't own them - yet
41. Sore __ : LOSER - had it, put it in, took it out because of 26d.
43. Teeth in Torino : DENTI
45. ICU VIPs : RNs
46. Transplant, in a way : REPOT
50. Preserves flavor : APRICOT - Dah~! preserves the noun, not the verb
52. Part of a Simon & Garfunkel quartet? : SAGE - clever; the others being parsley, rosemary and thyme
53. Railroad worker : TRACKMAN
55. Pass a second time : RELAP
59. Custom : WONT - I tried NORM
60. Olympics event since 2000 : TRAMPOLINE
63. Seraph, to Sylvie : ANGE
64. "The Decay of Lying" author : OSCAR WILDE
65. Swamp thing : REED - not this Swamp Thing
DOWN:
1. Contractors' proposals : BIDS - part of my business also, and the hardest for me - getting the right number for both myself and the client/customer
2. Body lang. : ANATomy - I pondered ASL, American Sign Language, but it didn't jibe - or fit
3. French wheel : BRIE - ah. Roue is Frawnche for wheel; cheesy reference....
4. See 6-Down : YELLER - paired with; 6. With 4-Down, Fred Gipson book that won a 1957 Newbery Honor : OLD
5. Region including Napa : BAY AREA
7. Tribe that met with Lewis and Clark in 1804 : OTO
8. 1987 Masters champ Larry : MIZE
9. Polish, in a way : EMEND
10. Let : RENTED
11. "It was a very brief visit" : IN AND OUT
12. Education innovator : MONTESSORI - big help in the NE - my friend from Ohio was once a participant of this system
13. Climbs : ASCENSIONS - makes me think of a Blue Öyster Cult song
14. Mating game : CHESS - D'oh~! couldn't think of any "dating game"....
21. Canal zones : EARS - clever
23. Country music venue : OPRY
24. Brought into being : SIRED
26. Part of DINK : DUAL - I was told it was "Double Income, No Kids", which meant the answer was "KIDS"; so that messed me up for a long time
27. Likely to be off : ERROR PRONE
28. A short distance : CLOSE RANGE
29. Venerated symbol : TOTEM - here it is again~!
33. Skid row figures : WINOS - I never made it to "Skid Row"....but damn close
35. Ultimatum end : ELSE - "or else~!!!"
37. Portrayed : DEPICTED
39. Old portico : STOA - another one I dredged up
42. __ bottom : ROCK
44. Like some hairs : INGROWN
47. Drum kit component : TOM-TOM - Pawel likes his drums - he had a snare drum reference in the last Sat puzzle
49. Catch at the shore : REEL IN - wasn't sure about this answer; you would still reel in from a boat, right~?
50. Openly hostile : AT WAR
51. Low bones : TARSI
54. Substance in the sea's H2O : NaCL
56. Taylor of "Say Anything..." : LILI - I thought it was LORI, but the last "I" helped - 100% 50% correct
57. Time-half link : AND A - time-and-a-half, which I get after 5hrs at UPS - each day, and I pretty much go over every day during the summer - and now I am on vacation until after Labor Day - yay~!
58. Outer cover : PEEL
61. __ du pays: homesickness : MAL - never even saw this clue....
62. Historic leader? : PRE - nor this one; Pre-historic
52. Part of a Simon & Garfunkel quartet? : SAGE - clever; the others being parsley, rosemary and thyme
53. Railroad worker : TRACKMAN
55. Pass a second time : RELAP
59. Custom : WONT - I tried NORM
60. Olympics event since 2000 : TRAMPOLINE
63. Seraph, to Sylvie : ANGE
64. "The Decay of Lying" author : OSCAR WILDE
65. Swamp thing : REED - not this Swamp Thing
DOWN:
1. Contractors' proposals : BIDS - part of my business also, and the hardest for me - getting the right number for both myself and the client/customer
2. Body lang. : ANATomy - I pondered ASL, American Sign Language, but it didn't jibe - or fit
3. French wheel : BRIE - ah. Roue is Frawnche for wheel; cheesy reference....
5. Region including Napa : BAY AREA
7. Tribe that met with Lewis and Clark in 1804 : OTO
8. 1987 Masters champ Larry : MIZE
9. Polish, in a way : EMEND
10. Let : RENTED
11. "It was a very brief visit" : IN AND OUT
12. Education innovator : MONTESSORI - big help in the NE - my friend from Ohio was once a participant of this system
13. Climbs : ASCENSIONS - makes me think of a Blue Öyster Cult song
lyric @ 0:24
oh, this kind of mate
23. Country music venue : OPRY
24. Brought into being : SIRED
26. Part of DINK : DUAL - I was told it was "Double Income, No Kids", which meant the answer was "KIDS"; so that messed me up for a long time
27. Likely to be off : ERROR PRONE
28. A short distance : CLOSE RANGE
29. Venerated symbol : TOTEM - here it is again~!
33. Skid row figures : WINOS - I never made it to "Skid Row"....but damn close
35. Ultimatum end : ELSE - "or else~!!!"
37. Portrayed : DEPICTED
39. Old portico : STOA - another one I dredged up
42. __ bottom : ROCK
44. Like some hairs : INGROWN
47. Drum kit component : TOM-TOM - Pawel likes his drums - he had a snare drum reference in the last Sat puzzle
50. Openly hostile : AT WAR
51. Low bones : TARSI
54. Substance in the sea's H2O : NaCL
56. Taylor of "Say Anything..." : LILI - I thought it was LORI, but the last "I" helped - 100% 50% correct
57. Time-half link : AND A - time-and-a-half, which I get after 5hrs at UPS - each day, and I pretty much go over every day during the summer - and now I am on vacation until after Labor Day - yay~!
58. Outer cover : PEEL
61. __ du pays: homesickness : MAL - never even saw this clue....
62. Historic leader? : PRE - nor this one; Pre-historic
Splynter
Note from C.C.:
Happy Birthday to Lemonade (Jason), who's been guiding
us with the Friday puzzles since March 2010. So much has changed the past 6 years:: Charlotte was born. He had a health scare. He was remarried. Harper was born. But Lemonade's dedication to this blog and his passion for blogging remains unchanged. Thanks for always being here for us, Lemonade!
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| Lemonade and his lovely wife Oo, Dec 21, 2014 |
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| Charlotte, Dad, Harper & Grandpa Lemonade |
And I got a rep ?
ReplyDeleteThe Everly Brothers- Wake Up Little Susie - YouTube
FIR! One of the harder +Ws I've wrestled with! I did see a CSO to one of my grand-daughters today, Angie Reed!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure plenty of others will provide Wake Up, Little Susie. It's already earworming me! And while I don't play it, I was thinking of contract bridge games for BIDS.
{C-, C-, C.} Lame day today.
Soon automobiles will really be auto
Driving themselves anywhere but Oahu!
The operating system
To achieve this transition
Would be O.S.CAR, going wherever it ought to!
(Dang it, that was all built up as a rhyme for OTO, but it got squeezed out! Bah!)
He lived in a house, ramshackle and DECREPIT,
But it was his home, he'd come to accept it.
Then along came SUSIE,
A do-it-yourself doozie,
And that lived-in look was forced to exit!
Just what the heck is a DAILY DOZEN?
Twelve LAPS round the TRACK, leg muscles to toughen?
Twelve matches of CHESS?
Twelve reps of bench press?
I think it's twelve donuts, fresh from the oven!
Morning, all (and Happy Birthday to Lemonade)!
ReplyDeleteBack from family vacation (we went back to D.C., which we last visited in 2012, and had a wonderful time).
Well, I hate starting off a puzzle with a cross-reference (one of several), but at least there were no phantom circles this time around, so that was a plus. Overall a very challenging, but ultimately doable, solve. Hand up for STELE before STELA. Also tried PERMIT and LEASED before RENTED finally appeared. Not at all familiar with DAILY DOZEN or this MIZE guy. Had DETENTE before ENTENTE, so both MIZE and EMEND were hard to see.
From what I've read, by older brother, who was born in 1963, is one of the last of the BABY BOOMER generation. Whereas I, who was born in 1966, am one of the first of the so-called "Baby Buster" generation. Technically, MILLENNIALS are those who came of age near the start of the new millennium (i.e. those born around 1980 or so, but are not necessarily the children of the BABY BOOMERS. The children of BABY BOOMERS are usually considered to be "Generation X" (born in the late 1970s and early 1980s), although there's obviously a lot of overlap. Apparently, the generation "cohorts" (as they're called) go BABY BOOMER, Baby Buster, Generation X, Generation Y (a.k.a MILLENNIALS), and then Generation Z (born in the mid 1990s to mid 2000s). I'm not sure what cohort my 11-year-old is in, but I call it the iPhone Generation...
Correction, Baby buster is apparently a synonym for Generation X. So I guess there's only BABY BOOMERS, Generation X (a.k.a Baby Busters), Generation Y (a.k.a. MILLENNIALS) and Generation Z. I wonder what they'll go with next now that they've reached the end of the alphabet...
ReplyDeleteGood morning!
ReplyDeleteBack home from my adventure. Felt good to be working this on newsprint with Wite-Out at the ready, rather than on a tablet with a ham-fisted stylus. Needed that Wite-Out at least four times, but prevailed in the end, and in good time as well. Thanks, Pawel; I enjoyed it.
Splynter, hand up for STELe and DoubLe. Glad you didn't post my photo under DECREPIT.
Thought the tribe was probably UTE and that drumset member was a TOPHAT -- actually, I was thinking of a HI HAT -- that makes me DUALly wrong. Also misread 'shore' as 'store.' (I just finished a novel by an Englishwoman, and that's how they do quote marks.)
Nobody answered my question from the other day. When speaking of the company, is it proper to say "Bose are" as Steve did, or "Bose is?" What say you?
Happy birthday, Lemon!
'Wake up little SPLYNTER, wake up'--- SUSIE. Don't be a Sore LOSER on 34A.
ReplyDeleteBeing a BABY BOOMER and being IN AND OUT of Pawel's wavelength today, some parts filled fast and others were slow to come around. Simple fills wouldn't happen because of attempts that I misspelled MONTESORRI instead of MONTESSORI and stupidly placing an extra N istead of S on ASCENSION made TOOL and MOONRISE (perp) hard to fill.
A few things that I don't get. ANATomy as 'body language'; DAILY DOZEN as exercise regimen; and am with you Splynter as I always heard of DINK as DOUBLE Income No Kids and I way looking for an abbreviation of 'double', not the complete word DUAL.
LILI Taylor and MAL du pays were unknowns filled by perps.
The thin flying ARROW-bird had me scratching my head until BAY AREA fell.
REED- in S. Louisiana swamps have trees; marshes have reeds.
I attended a circus last night in the Superdome so I could watch my 11 year-old grandson play in a 6 minute exhibition. The noise, loud music, obnoxious patrons, overpriced food and drinks ( draft beer $11.50), and occasional performances by the professionals. The SAINTS lost to the STEELERS but my grandson did score a touchdown from the 20 yard line.
Oh, it was NFL football.
You guys aren't old enough for 34a "Wake up little Susie" by the Everly Brothers, 1957
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteWEES - Red Letter day and not in a good way. Officially a DNF.
War Babies (Me) and early Boomers should have known Wake Up Little Susie" from the Everly Brothers from the late 50's. However I did spell it with a Z at first.
Big Easy: I think the Saints standout last night was Mike Mauti. He was all over the field with some serious hits. You can't get too upset though, it's still just preseason. HS football started last night in PA.
Have a great one everyone.
D Otto 7:11 - are you asking which we prefer? Brits treat collective nouns, whether common or proper, as plurals. Example: "The family are going to the cinema." Corporate names are assumed to belong to a whole group of people, so "Bose are no longer making affordable speakers."
ReplyDeletePerhaps because of growing up in America, I find it more natural to treat a singular-sounding noun such as "family" as singular for grammar purposes. "The family is gathering at Thanksgiving."
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteWas I ever on PF's wavelength today! I don't time myself nor do I keep track of previous times but I know today's solve was one of the fastest ever for a Saturday. I agree on the double vs dual issue but perps made short shrift of Kids, anyway. Wasn't keen on Relap or Daily Dozen, but, overall, a pleasant puzzle. I thought Millennials were the mid to late twenties crowd but I've never seen or read any specific delineation on the various age groups. I only know that I'm no Spring Chicken! (FYI, Bob Niles @ 8:16 😈)
Thank you, Pawel, for a very doable but still challenging offering and thanks, Splynter, for your expert guidance. Enjoy your vacation!
Happy Birthday, Lemony, hope it is a special one. 🎂 🎁 🎊 🎈 🍾. (Any recent pictures of Charlotte and Harper would be welcome.)
Welcome back Barry and DO.
Upon checking my Discover statement yesterday, I noticed a charge of $56 + from Wayfair, a home goods company. After 10 minutes of wracking my brain trying to remember what I had purchased from this company, I gave up and called them. It turned out that I had purchased a double-basket deep fryer which I sent to someone in The Bronx with the same last name. The only people I know of in The Bronx are the Yankees, so my account is closed immediately and I'll be receiving a new card soon. This is the third time this has happened although the first two closures were precautionary due to massive breaches at retailers. No financial harm done but I now have to notify several vendors with whom I have automatic payments set up. AAARGH!
Have a great day.
For automatic payments, it's best to use ur checking account
DeleteGood Morning.
ReplyDeleteI had some fun with this one. Thanks, Pawel. My faves were DROSS and NOSH, which were the last to fall. I enjoyed finally getting there. I am a BABY BOOMER, and my third child is apparently a MILLENNIAL--by definition. Fortunately, he doesn't fit the stereotype.
Thanks once again, Splynter, for a worthy trek on our behalf.
Have a fine weekend. Happy Birthday, Lemonade! Thanks for all your contributions here. Enjoy your day!!
Bose "is" ...
ReplyDeletea single entity.
oc4beach- the circus I was referring to was not the football game. It was all the other crap going on. Music blaring between plays, drum corps marching down the halls, the 100 foot wide tv screens in both endzones with ads running continuously, and the stadium announcer was a Johnny Olson wannabe.
ReplyDeleteFootball was OK. Mauti is a 2nd generation Saint. His father, Rich, also played for the Saints.
Hand up for DINK = Double Income No Kids.
ReplyDeleteFun puzzle! I was able to finish, but as I do the puzzle on newsprint and insist on using a pen, my final result was rather messy. I had to laugh as I pictured all of us entering "kids" rather than "dual". I wonder if anyone got that right the first time?
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday, Lemonade! Thank you for your many years of contributions to this blog.
ReplyDeleteHand up for only knowing "double income no kids." And with the D--L solidly in place, I was wondering how in the world one would abbreviate "double" with four letters. Finally googled to get AROD and DUAL showed up.
Thanks for another fine expo, Splynter. Have a great vacation. Any travel plans?
Enjoy the day!
Musings
ReplyDelete-First thoughts were both good (e.g. BIDS, MIZE, STELA) and bad (e.g. TRASH/DROSS, BRAKEMAN/TRAINMAN, KIDS/DUAL, HOBOS/WINOS, SALT/NACL) today on a challenging but doable puzzle
-We’re two BABY BOOMERS that brought two MILLENIALS into being
-If I want to watch a Friday, 1 pm event in the 2018 Seoul Olympics in REAL TIME, I’d have to tune in on Thursday at 11 pm
-Approach/AvoidANCE
-I was certain Piccadilly would house a Naval hero
-Anesthesia a year ago – I got up, got dressed, participated in a post-procedure conference, got in the car and got out at Village Inn before I “woke up”. This year with propofol - awake and aware minutes after procedure.
-I wonder if Pawel is aware of this singular 3-letter Linkletter
-Splynter didn’t know the Everly Brother’s SUSIE? I must be ancient
-New TRAMPOLINES have many more safety features than when I grew up
-40 minutes from here, Lewis and Clark told the OTOS they had a “new great father”
-My new CHESS prodigy grandson will have to play someone else. I’d be an embarrassed not SORE LOSER
-My typing is ERROR PRONE because I think much faster than I can type
-My jobs have always been salaried and so I saw no TIME-AND-A-HALF
-HBD, Jason. I hope all your lemons convert to lemonade today.
Gary, I agree. But some businesses refuse to debit your checking account and insist on a credit card. The Houston Barnacle comes to mind. And that's why I refuse to set up auto-pay with them. Of course, I had a similar hassle when I became disenchanted (to put it mildly) with Chase and then had to switch all my auto-pays to Ally.
ReplyDeleteDid anybody else think of C.C. when BABY BOOMER showed up?
Now for something completely different. I read this in a novel last night, but I suspect it's true. When the Dalai Lama was asked what he thought of Western civilization, he responded that he thought it would be a good idea.
I seemed to be on Pawel's wavelength today, many answers seemed obvious,
ReplyDeleteincluding old portico=stoa.
At least this time I knew Pawel Fludzinski was not an anagram...
(my apologies.)
Check this out, "Anagram animations."
(click "animations" & type in lemon=melon)
(No reference to you Lemonade714...)
Which reminds me, Happy Birthday Lemon!
Splynter, being a guitarist, I am surprised you don't know Wake Up Little Susie!
Here is a simplified version tutorial, that has some very nice fills...
Except that the intro strumming is all wrong...
Oh, & Lemon, May your party today be free of any sour notes...
Also, (Re:Yesterday)
ReplyDeleteIf anyone is interested,
The Great Escape is playing tonight
on cable channel TCM @8:00pm
(That's Turner Classic Movies [TCM] as opposed to Turner Movie Classics [TMC]
(I wonder if he introduced a third channel, what would he call it?)
CED, I thought TMC was The Movie Channel. Part of the SHOtime package, maybe? Or is that one of the channels that disappeared over the years? I don't get any premium channels.
ReplyDeleteGood afternoon everyone.
ReplyDeleteEventually got most of Pawel's masterpiece. Excellent cluing. Looked up Fred Gipson. Did not know he wrote OLD YELLER, although I saw the movie as a youngster; and did not associate Napa with the BAY AREA, APRICOT was just tricky as Splynter pointed out. Also agree with hime on DUAL. Since I knew it as Double, I went with KIDS. Sigh. Also had Trash before DROSS and Train man before TRACK MAN.
JzB uses DROSS a lot.
I did suss MILLENNIAL and BABY BOOMER, so I was personally satisfied with the success I did have.
I'm going to cry foul on relap. Diabolically crossed with a proper noun at the "l" as well. Yes, I get it, but relap isn't a dictionary word, at least per onelook.com. Have to chalk it up as a bit crosswordese I guess.
ReplyDeleteAll in all though, fairly clued, and a satisfying solve.
Curmudgeonly anon
@desper-otto: You are correct that TMC is short for The Movie Channel. Always has been and still is. I can't find any reference to a "Turner Movie Classics" channel. I think CED was just having a "senior moment" there (I find myself having more and more of those myself these days, and I'm only 50).
ReplyDelete30 minutes, nice saturday puzzle...crossed myself up with suZie...should always be cautious entering a Z whenever it's in question...was also hung up for a few minutes thinking "let" was DO-OVER...tennis on the brain for some reason...hope everybody has a good weekend!
ReplyDeleteI had to look up Fred Gipson. Also had TRASH before DROSS, DETENTES before ENTENTES, KIDS before DUAL, and STELE before STELA. Had no idea the statue in Picadilly Circus was of EROS. At least I wasn't fooled by the Jobs clue and I got SAGE right away. I have always loved the guitar work in Wake Up Little Susie and admired all of the Everly Brothers' work. Sheesh, I used to think Buddy Holly and the Crickets were awesome, too.
ReplyDeleteThat Dalai Lama guy is pretty smart.
Best wishes to you all, whatever generation you may be.
The reason I use my credit card for automatic payments is I receive cash back on all charges. This adds up over the course of a year, especially with the amount of my cable bill! 💰💰Another reason is that I don't have to worry about forgetting to deduct it from my check register. (I do have two automatic pays deducted from my checking account, through necessity and I still have to write the occasional check to a few businesses that don't offer auto payments.)
ReplyDeleteAccording to a few sites I Googled, Millennials are those born between 1982-2002.
Desper- Yeah, I can hear C.C. singing "You must have been a beautiful baby, boomer, 'cause baby look at you now"
ReplyDeleteGood puzzle today for my level of skill. Looked up Gipson, then reluctantly looked up Taylor. Fixing "Lily" was enough to give me MILLENNIAL, which gave me BABY BOOMER, which was enough to finish without errors. Never heard of DAILY DOZEN, ENTENTES and ANGE. Had to fix Suzie and trash (for refuse), but the perps made these errors easy to correct.
ReplyDeleteLittle SUSIE was kind of a gimme, IMHO.
ReplyDeleteI always thought it was DUAL income no kids, as double would imply both made the same, but I guess I'm kind of a literal math guy.
This was a nice Saturday puzzle - funny how you like it more when you solve it - but I'm happy anytime I finish on Saturday.
I could have sworn I read somewhere the Turner owned The Movie Channel,
ReplyDeletebut I guess I was mistaken.
He owns just about everything else though...
Re daily dozen for Big Easy
ReplyDeleteI remember having a military handbook of 12 daily exercises called the "daily dozen". This was circa 1942.
Don
Try Turner Classic Movies.
ReplyDeleteRELAP is a word at the NY Times puzzle. No excuse for it here.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Lemon !!!
ReplyDeleteThe "First-Sunset-Toast" is to you and your wife and grand-kids and sons.
Cheers!
PS I rarely solve the Saturday & Sunday puzzles ... but I do check in to
see if anyone is "Celebrating Something."
desper-otto: I've heard that quote many time attributed to Gandhi. Here's more than you want to know about it. (Also the first time I've used something called hyper-link that I've had for months.)
ReplyDeleteI'm so proud of myself for completing a Sat X, especially after last week's disaster. BTW, was THATSAWRAP right? Ok, I'll find that blog.
ReplyDeleteSW was killing me. Am I the only one unfamiliar with DINKs(should be plural)?
Then again, SUSIE stood all challenges.
Splynter, did you take the fifties off?
What song referenced "Phil and Don". Ricky Nelson? Party?
I stubbornly went with SOSA again. CC, give me a SOSA some day. eg. Cubs 'roidal slugger.
Don Anon is right about DD. Marine Corps has it.
Larry Size chipped in on a playoff hole to beat Greg Norman. Greg had an easy par and Mize's chip would have run off the green.
I wanted BRAKEman as in The Honest Brakeman- He never stole a freight train.
I got the French ANGE but wasn't thinking of a cheese wheel.
Anatomy students create flash cards for the 'lang.' of the body.
Speaking of French am I giving someone mal de tête, hopefully not mal d'estomac
You anagram people aren't jumping in on Hari Selden. Thought you be fascinated :-)
Big Fat Sat DNF.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't build off what I had and, after car shopping for eldest, I just TITT.
BIDS & BAY AREA gave me BABY BOOMER which gave me Generation (X) in 66a [bzzt]. What a mess of ink. Hand up for SUzIE too. Herb b/f SAGE is another bit of ink.
No, the huge DNF is Diet (Y)ogurt(?) @17a. None of the downs would help. I see now that I was overthinking BREE. I was all, "I donno French!" Frogs.
{B+, B, A-}. Thanks as always.
HG - Hand up for thinking of Art Linkletter at that clue.
Betsey C. I've only heard DUAL Income No Kids. Since I already had A-ROD, no brainer there.
HBD Lem!
IM - I hate that! I only use CCs for magic payments. I had the same re-issuance issue last year and forgot to update Life Ins. A month went by b/f I got the nasty-gram that my policy had lapsed - good thing I didn't die then.
Barry - 1st welcome back.... I was thinking about what you wrote. What happened to the "Me" generation - '50's kids that came of age (20s) in the '70s? Quasi-Boomers as I recall [mom & dad in my case]. I was the "we" generation before being rebranded as X - born '70 and came of age w/ Reagan followed by Grunge. My kids are considered MILLENNIALs - they both went to MONTESSORI BTW.
Here's something for every generation. Piccadilly made me think of it.
Cheers, -T
D'Oh! Where's my manners for the host. Thanks Splynter for both fixing my puzzle and the fantastic pictures. Your DECREPIT pic is awesome [no, I didn't clue in on that ans either]. Sat pzls are over my pay-grade but I try just so I can read your expo.
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34 Across "Wake Up Little Susie" You must be VERY young!
ReplyDeleteI really hope that someone who has studied language extensively can give an answer to this. Is relap not really a word simply because there seems to be no dictionary that contains it?
ReplyDeleteIf I dig a hole and it turns out that it's not big enough, and I say, "I need to redig it", am I using a word, redig, that doesn't exist because it's not in any dictionaries? To me, redig in that context seems perfectly sensible and understandable.
Are you out there, Noam Chomsky?
Anonymous T @4:36 - I'm very happy you are still among the living, insurance lapse or not! I have already made a list of all the vendors I have to contact with the new card number. I forgot to mention in my original post that I was surprised (but pleased) that there was only one fraudulent charge and not several. I have no idea how my card was compromised and I'll probably never know.
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ReplyDeleteYour knowledge of Noam C as a linguist and not an activist on Pacifica Radio... Tip o' the hat. In grad school I was studying automata and DW was hangin' in the English Dept. TAin' and PhD'n Imagine our mutual surprise each having a different text by the same dude.
Oh, right, re: RELAP. I know lapping someone is to get one full track-lap on them. So I guess getting a second passing lap would be a relap(?) I got it, was meh, and now thinking a about REPOT'ng my cactus (it has two buds! - it's a barrel cactus that blooms 1x / year if you're lucky. Snow White blooms as big as you hand at 3am - elusive bugger.)
Cheers, -T
Today's cheats: ENTENTES and OLD YELLER
ReplyDeleteAmendments: IN REAL LIFE to IN REAL TIME, LOAN to NOSH
Gimmes: STELA, EROS, AROD, ANGE, & the MOON of MOONRISE
Best Leap (WAG): ERROR PRONE with only the first "E" in place
Errors: RECAP for RELAP (& CILI for LILI)
Happy B'Day to Lemonade/Jason!
Anon T- "it has two buds!" Are you sure it's a cactus?
ReplyDeleteThe statue in Piccadilly Circus is not of Eros. It is the image of Anteros, the brother of Eros. It is thought to be Eros by most people, including many Londoners, but they are wrong. I believe we have had this discussion before. I would link my references but don't know how on my fruitfone. It's true. Google it.
ReplyDeleteYep. Checks out. Google says anon@736p does not know how to provide links while posting via his iPhone.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Lemonade. Many happy returns, and may there be many more.
ReplyDeleteJerome - LOL! Yes I knows it a cactus - it has pokies on it it. Grandpa gave it to me when I was 14 and I've taken care of it since. This thing has to be 50+ yr/o. Pop has the original that my cutting came from. Uncle C has another cutting - if anyone smokes the buds it's him :-)
ReplyDeleteTo seriously answer you question best I know: DW (PhD in English!) says if it conveys meaning and falls in the symbolic construct 'Tis a word. You can Redig your hole.
IM - I'm thinking about the kids and I'm rich dead [wait, I just got that...]
Anon@ 7:43 - Hah! @7:36 - rings a bell but I'm too lazy to find it [Today's TED talks said be a procrastinator - I win!]
OK, did anyone watch the Piccadilly URL all the way though? Tell me who you see at the end. Hint - 2nd greatest (my book!) band ever.
Cheers, -T
The statue on the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain, on the S.E. corner at Piccadilly Circus is that of Anteros, the brother of Eros.
ReplyDeleteHow do they know ? Because the sculptor Alfred Gilbert, designed it so. ( and he ought to know.)
Irish Miss - Must be a lot of that going around. BH just had her CC compromised. Luckily only one not so large fraudulent charge. We've got only 3 vendors to contact when the new card comes. Bank seems to have a good algorithm to flag these evildoers. 3rd time in about 5 years.
ReplyDeleteSorry I forgot earlier; Happy Birthday to Lemonade. Mazel tov.
Anon T- We have a beautiful and funky cool backyard. It's loaded with plants that attract birds, bees, and butterflies. However, one small area contains about a dozen small cactus plants in pots that my wife's grandmother, Xochitl, had for most of her life. They don't flower often, but when they do they're incredibly pretty. You don't usually relate cactus to northern California, but they do quite well. We estimate that the plants are at least 50 to 70 years old.
ReplyDeleteCool and wonderful story that your plants came from grandpa.
Hi Y'all! Late today because the internet was off again for the fifth time in two months after a rain storm. Tiresome. Just finished the puzzle, expo, & blog. All of them great. The puzzle was hard, but doable for me. Thanks Pawel & Splynter & everybody.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday, Lemonade! Never saw a happier-looking groom in a picture.
Never heard the DINK thing. ESP
I was born the same year the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Don't know what they called my generation. "Wake Up Little Susie" came out in my dating prime and was very much enjoyed. Wasn't quite my theme song, but I enjoyed some late nights at the drive-inn movie. Only once went to sleep.
Jerome - The Girls got new "Bullwinkle" (we don't know what they're really called but they look like antlers on a Moose. ) cacti cuttings from Pop's 15' monster while we were in IL. The beat moves on.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine your backyard. As your head spins to pana/ana-grams at the drop of a pin I'm not suprised you're surrounded by quiet beauty.
PK - You're MIL's generation. She calls me an "old soul" 'cuz I like the same stuff as my elders. I simply think much of today's crap is just well... um, so, um... well, yeah.
I know I'm a nut for music even though I can't carry a tune nor hold a note [my name would DEPICT otherwise "Great"ness for those of a certain Enrico generation...] And I know you know that I love Rush, Beatles, The Who, Doors, Stones, Floyd et.al.
But, there's one awesomest [see what I did J?] piece of music that brings smiles universally (even to Vulgons) - and that's Ode to Joy. I know it's been posted a billion times - just enjoy. Mozart can WONT :-)
//yes, I'm listing to Mozart now - Eldest just came out and caught me listening to it - Freaky - she said she'd been humming the same song while reading Pride & Prejudice.
YR - Eldest wants to know is P&P Romantic, Realistic, Regency, or Victorian Era? I'm out of my depth & DW is asleep..
That's 5 so I'm out. Y'all have a great night. -T
The "Western civilization " quote is more often attributed to Gandhi, who was fighting the British for Independence, you know just like Americans had a couple centuries earlier. Thus the context is a battle for freedom from a Western power which assumed it was bringing civilization to the brown people.
ReplyDeleteAs the French say, Plus ça change, plus le même chose.
HBD Vidwan and thank you for coming to post. Thank you all for the birthday wishes, and Oo and I are still that happy or more.
ReplyDeleteT - in 1961 or -2 a girl cello player in our h.s. orchestra taught a select few of us some funny (dirty) words to those opening bars of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - something about a soldier going to war, 2 pistols by his side, for curiosity, my country 'tis of thee. Amazed I still remember such tripe after all these years but no formulas, theorems, or great writers.
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