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Aug 28, 2016

Sunday, August 28th, 2016, Don Gagliardo and C.C. Burnikel

TITLE: WARM RECEPTION

The lovely pairing of Don and C.C. never wears out its WELCOME and today they present us with a  very entertaining Sunday puzzle where the word WELCOME can be an ADDITION to each of the last words of eight phrases to make another phrase. Their gimmick is revealed in:


119. Breath of fresh air ... or, literally, what the last word of eight long Across answers can be : WELCOME ADDITION - This is what Lily has been to us two empty-nesters!




23. Town gathering place : COMMUNITY CENTER - WELCOME CENTER. You're in the Army now...




29. Bathroom safety feature : SHOWER MAT - WELCOME MAT for Henry Hill at end of Goodfellas 



45. Gardener's purchase : SEED PACKET - The WELCOME PACKET - What each new prisoner gets from the Federal Bureau of Prisons




55. Fixture on many a cattle drive : CHUCK WAGON - 1956 edition of the WELCOME WAGON in Richmond, Indiana 



70. Purpose of some government credits : TAX RELIEF - WELCOME RELIEF provided by a squirrel chiropractor 




84. Astrological sector : ZODIAC SIGN - A very famous WELCOME SIGN




93. Hidden : OUT OF SIGHT - A WELCOME SIGHT in many "oaters"



109. Source of many breaking stories : YAHOO NEWS - WELCOME NEWS - It's gonna end in 71 days!



Across


1. "Thunderstruck" band : AC/DC

5. Alberta resort town : BANFF


10. Heavenly spheres : ORBS


14. Caps' partners : GOWNS


19. Manhattan or Queens, briefly : BORO - Borough


20. City NW of Orlando : OCALA


21. Bryan's "Breaking Bad" role : WALT - Suiting up to cook some meth for altruistic reasons




22. Formed for a specific purpose : AD HOC


26. Dough : MOOLA


27. Bombards with bogus offers : SPAMS


28. One of a toon septet : DOPEY


31. Highway deterrent : RADAR - They got me for doing 39 mph in a 30 mph zone last week but I kept my hands on the wheel, was very respectful, took full responsibility and got off with a warning


33. Arabian Peninsula port : ADEN


35. Acidity levels: Abbr. : PH'S


36. Pennant trio? : ENS - PENNANT


37. Sherpa's domain: Abbr. : MTN - A human pack mule




38. Ivory or Coast : SOAP


40. Lions' homes : DENS


43. "Eureka!" : AHA


48. Witch's familiar, maybe : CAT - I got CAT incidentally and then went to the web to find out what the heck this is - familiar or familiar spirit is a supernatural being that helps and supports a witch or magician. In western culture this is usually a black CAT. 


49. Shtick figures : COMICS


53. Coastal flier : ERN


54. Eurasian capital : ANKARA - The capital in this capital is the Turkish Lira


57. Jet with suits? : CESSNA - This $23.6M Cessna Citation can hold 12 "suits"




59. Eastern way : TAO


61. Remains in the cooler : DOES TIME


62. "You're on!" : ITS A DEAL


66. Cardinal, e.g. : BIRD


67. Some NASA missions : EVA'S -Extra Vehicular Activities are just that - ACTIVITIES that occur outside the space craft during a NASA mission. Nit, nit, nit...




68. Fleeces : ROBS


72. Artist's choices : HUES


73. Bamboozle : DUPE


74. Teased : RODE


75. Retail focus : CONSUMER


77. "Priest" in a Nash poem : ONE-L LAMA




79. Runway retiree of '03 : SST


80. Cantaloupe cousin : CASABA - I can never discern much taste to them


86. Disc golf starting point : TEE PAD


90. Friend of Harry : RON - No clue on Harry Potter characters but it filled itself in


91. Guarantee : ENSURE


92. Place to see a facial mask : SPA


95. Bummed : SAD


96. K follower : MART


98. Acting opportunity : ROLE - Guess who was the first choice for the ROLE of Forrest Gump



99. __ Spiegel: German magazine : DER - The Mirror


100. Attention that can help healing, briefly : TLC


103. Kettle cover : LID - An idiot who looks like me once made popcorn in a kettle sans LID. 


105. Titicaca, por ejemplo : LAGO - El LAGO Titicaca se encuentra entre Perú y Bolivia (Lake Titicaca is located between Peru and Bolivia)


107. Bacon with six degrees? : KEVIN


113. Italian-born three-time Oscar winner : CAPRA - It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town and You Can't Take It With You


115. Night fliers : MOTHS


118. It helps when picking up : PRONG


122. Rice/Lloyd Webber musical : EVITA


123. Sheikh, e.g. : ARAB


124. "__ Fire": Denzel Washington movie : MAN ON - 39% on Rotten Tomatoes. "Shamelessly manipulative and sadistically violent", said one critic




125. Visiting the Getty Mus., say : IN LA


126. Business bigwig : BARON


127. Workout stat : REPS


128. Santa __ racetrack : ANITA


129. Training locale : CAMP



Down


1. Basics : ABC'S


2. Joint venture : CO-OP


3. Boots brand with Bouncing Soles : DR MARTENS - DOC MARTENS didn't fit


4. Charge : COMMAND - The most infamous Charge COMMAND in American history?




5. "___ voyage!" : BON


6. Heavy metal relative : ACID ROCK - There's just something wrong about hearing The London Philharmonic playing Light My Fire.


7. Brussels-based defense gp. : NATO


8. Pest control device : FLY PAPER


9. Confronted : FACED


10. Beat year after year after year ... : OWN


11. "Phooey!" : RATS


12. "This is disgusting!" : BLEH


13. Sharpening tool : STROP - Can you spot the one in this picture?



14. Many unscripted programs : GAME SHOWS


15. Gas additive, perhaps : ODOR


16. Incredulous response : WHO ME? 


17. Pitching legend Ryan : NOLAN - A punching expert too!




18. Improvises with nonsense syllables : SCATS


24. Amer. currency : USD


25. Set one's sights on : EYED


30. Hit hard : WHACKED


32. Yoga poses : ASANAS


34. Maker of Candy Buttons : NECCO - The Candy Shoppe at the New England Confectionary COrporation in Revere, MA




37. Little more than : MERE


39. Preceder of an alt. name : AKA


41. "I'm gonna pass" : NAH


42. Schoolwork : STUDIES


44. Dabblers : AMATEURS - Ed McMahon always told Johnny that drinking on New Year's Eve was for AMATEURS


45. Short time : SEC


46. Short breaths : PANTS


47. Turkic Russian : TATAR


50. "Enough already!" : I GIVE - Tap Out today


51. Deep sleeps : COMAS


52. Mario Paint console, initially : SNES - Can you read Super Nintendo Entertainment System?


56. Greek vacation isle : CORFU


58. Composer with a Helsinki academy named for him : SIBELIUS - Born in  Hämeenlinnain 1865 and died in Järvenpää   in 1957


60. Smart guys? : ALECS


63. Basic matter : ATOMS and 82. Nobelist who developed a model for 63-Down : BOHR - I taught the BOHR ATOM for years


64. Arp's school : DADAISM


65. Palindromic file extension : EXE


66. Storage unit : BIN


68. Talk nonstop : RUN ON




69. Pro-and-con newspaper pair, perhaps : OPEDS


71. Powerball, e.g. : LOTTO


72. Flip side? : HEADS


73. Catch a few z's : DOZE


74. Entered quickly : RACED IN - What are heroic first responders did when others ran from the Trade Center Buildings


76. VirusScan developer : MCAFEE


78. "60 Minutes" correspondent : LARA LOGAN


79. Traffic tangle : SNARL


81. Pope Francis' birthplace : ARGENTINA - A young Jorge Mario Bergoglio and his family in Buenos Aires




83. Sugar bowl visitor : ANT


85. H.S. benchmark : GPA


87. Pole, for one : EUROPEAN


88. WWII venue : ETO


89. Circle in a fabric pattern : POLKA DOT


94. Harebrained : IDIOTIC


97. It's filled and folded : TACO


100. Not exactly high-strung : TYPE-B


101. Tadpole, say : LARVA


102. Group in robes : CHOIR


104. Big name in Scotch : DEWAR


106. __ ray : GAMMA


108. ROTC school near D.C. : VMI - It became co-ed in 1997




110. Not tricked by : ONTO


111. Are no more : WERE


112. "__ That Bass": Gershwin song : SLAP


114. Hindu princess : RANI


116. __ oak: Mediterranean tree : HOLM


117. Start of a gridiron play : SNAP - QB should be on the same page as the center




120. "48 Hours" airer : CBS


121. It might be recombinant : DNA


Any and all are WELCOME to offer any comments:


THE GRID




27 comments:

  1. Greetings!

    You did it again, CC and Don! Great puzzle. Nice expo, Gary!

    Scratched head at SNES!

    Otherwise OK. Some were perped.

    Broke down and bought a new Macbook Pro. It's a dream. Other one, six years old, was driving me nuts!

    Have a great Sunday!

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  2. FIRight! No reds, but lack of a ta-da did warn me I still had an error. AMATEURe+CAeABA. I'd figured AMATEURE was plural in a collective sense, and the melon was one I'd never heard of, like the HOLM oak.

    The theme eluded me until I got the reveal, which was near the last I filled. I was expecting something more literal. By the time I got it, all other themers had been filled, so it gave me no help.

    One of the more venerable Sci-Fi conventions is Corflu, named for the mimeograph CORection FLUid used librally by early fanzine producers.

    {A, B+, B-, B-.}

    A crusty curmudgeon from BANFF
    Would complain of his joints when twas damff.
    "Growing old is bad biz
    When you've got rheumatiz,
    But it's worse when you can't swear, goddamff!"

    A Transylvanian retired to OCALA
    To spend all his MOOLA, every dollah!
    The Chevy he bought
    Had red POLKA DOTS --
    He named the car "Vlad", the Impala!

    An ARAB who resided in ADEN
    Desired the love of a maiden.
    Tight PANTS did him wrong
    By revealing his PRONG,
    So a robe was a WELCOME ADDITION!

    KEVIN wooed a woman named EVITA
    While going steady already with ANITA!
    When his DUPE was unveiled
    The two-timer high-tailed,
    And didn't stop till he reached ARGENTINA!

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  3. Hi there~!

    A mostly fun solve, but got stumped in the SW with the crossing of three names - two people and one poem. The deceptive "PRONG" slowed me down, too. Well done, HuskerG, your cat picture was well-framed, I love the door mat, and spot on with your choice of witch~!

    RE: yesterday - uh, yeah, I am a young'un; neither a Baby Boomer nor a Millennial - I was born in 1971, so I grew up with Star Wars, Van Halen and MTV. What generation is that? I think we were called the MTV generation....

    Splynter

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  4. Morning, all!

    Slow and stead got the job done today. Lots of head scratchers and missteps, but nothing fatal. With _EED_ACKE_ in place at 45A, I confidently went with WEED WACKER. Understandable, but wrong, and it took awhile to clear that up. Down south, I went with COVEN before CHOIR at 102D. Less understandable, just as wrong. Again, it took awhile to get that cleared up.

    Finally remembered how to spell BANFF, so that was nice.

    Oh, and Splynter -- you're in the same generation cohort as I am. Generation X, a.k.a. Baby Busters. And I think every generation gets called the "ME Generation" by their parents at one point or another...

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  5. Good morning!

    Zipped right through this one in typical Wednesday time. Sensed, but didn't really get, the theme. No matter. Thanx, DG and CC.

    Husker, you are obviously not a Harry Potter fan, or the CAT familiar and RON Weasley would've been gimmes. But I'll bet your atom classes weren't BOHRing?

    It's a Wonderful Life was nominated for five Oscars and won **zero**. Go figure.

    Let's see hands if you said "calvary" instead of "cavalry" in your ute. Both hands if you still do.

    I'd be a gasper if I tried to visit Lake (LAGO) Titicaca. It's surface is at 12,507 ft, where the air is really thin.

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  6. Good Sunday Morn,

    Thanks Don and C.C. for a fine Sunday puzzle. I agree with Barry: slow and steady here also. My favorite: ONELLAMA. I had the two L's and immediately chuckled. Nicely constructed and fun to solve.

    Great expo, Gary. Informative and interesting links as is your WONT (from yesterday). Thanks so much.

    Have a sunny day.

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  7. Good morning, folks. Thank you, C.C. and Don G., for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Husker Gary, for a fine review.

    Went fairly easily. A few tough spots. Caught the theme with COMMUNITY CENTER.

    Took me a while to get YAHOO NEWS. Made sense. I guess I have never been exposed to Yahoo News. Or else did not recognize the name.

    No idea who KEVIN Bacon is.

    LARA LOGAN was with perps.

    ASANAS was an unknown. Perped it.

    SEED PACKET I liked. I buy many each year.

    See you tomorrow.

    Abejo

    ( )

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  8. Good Morning:

    Another sparkling gem from our Dynamic Duo. I had no idea of the theme until the reveal. This "subterfuge" seems to be a CC trademark to which I'm sure Don aids and abets mightily. Anyway, it makes the solve more satisfying, particularly with Sunday puzzles which usually telegraph the theme through the title and theme answers. I liked Ivory and Coast = Soap, and Nash's Llama always brings a smile, as did Polka Dot, for reasons unknown. Only write-over was Crete/Corfu. BTW, CSO to moi with Dewar!

    Kudos to CC and Don for a "welcoming" Sunday offering and thanks to HG for the humorous and informative expo. Learning moments were Ron and Cat familiar as I've not read any of the Harry Potter books.

    I hope all is well with YR and Bill G.

    Have a great day.

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  9. A very enjoyable puzzle. Very smooth til the SW, where I scratched my head at "Yahoo News". I'm a newsprint fan, so that went right over my head. I also have a kajillion seed packets, so I got that one right away!

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  10. WELCOME to the wacky world of commenters of crossword puzzles. I wasn't on Don and C.C. wavelength today and had to grind it out-almost. The unknowns solved by perps and crosses were abundant today. I managed to get everything except the NAH-CAT-STUDIES-CONSUMER area. I had BIT for BIN and had CUSTOMER for CONSUMER and that gave me a DIET for the 'Schoolwork'. I knew LOTTO had to be correct but I just couldn't come up with CAT and had S_UDIET.

    DR MARTENS, ACDC, WALT, SNES, SIBELIUS (never heard of), KEVIN (Roger first), MAN ON Fire, SLAP Bass, YAHOO NEWS, ONE L-LAMA-These were all perped. These unknowns really slowed down my usual 30 minute Sunday fill. I liked the cross of MOOLA & GAME SHOWS & COMICS- other than Jeopardy most of the shows are for comedy with a little moola to the winners.

    K-MART & SEARS- they better do something fast before they join Montgomery-Ward in the dust bin of history.
    YAHOO NEWS- I refuse to even look at it because ATT sends me there automatically after logging out of my email. Trying to send me to a particular web-site bothers me. I just close the browser.

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  11. Hello Puzzlers -

    Mostly smooth sailing with today's DGCC, but I did get into a roadblock situation in the SW corner. Didn't know Yahoo News, Prong didn't come to mind, didn't realize who wrote Evita, and so on. Got there eventually.

    Morning, Husker, nice to see Lily again. I'm guessing that interior photo was a Cessna Longitude, the newest jet in their lineup, due to start deliveries in 2017. Not sure how 12 passengers fit in, but then I haven't seen one in the wild yet.

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  12. Hi Y'all! Very fun puzzle despite a bunch of unknowns. Good work, Don & C.C.! Good expo, Gary!

    Would someone explain how "Beat year after year after year" = OWN? I don't get it.

    I've had several CATs who were familiars. They could understand spoken language and read my mind. Spooky! My kids thought I was a witch because of this. Sometimes I couldn't understand the CAT. My bad.

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  13. Thanks to C.C., D.G. and H.G. You're all brilliant!
    Fly paper was common in my childhood. Does anyone use it any more?
    I didn't get the theme until the reveal at 119a. I still had a lot to fill in, so it was a big help.
    Have a lovely day, everyone.

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  14. About Strops: I'm just old enough to recall accompanying my dad to the barber shop, where the chair was outfitted with a leather strop. I recall the barber using it often to touch up the razor - that thing must have been sharp! I am not old enough to have sat in the chair for a shave myself. I wonder what it was like, having a professional shave, rather than the standard at-home Gillette treatment.

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  15. "YAHOO NEWS- I refuse to even look at it because ATT sends me there automatically after logging out of my email. Trying to send me to a particular web-site bothers me. I just close the browser."

    Does it also bother you to use a service and pay nothing for it? Landing you on a page is a exorbitant price to pay for the service you're getting?

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  16. Good morning everyone.

    Perp helps were ample today so it got solved in less than the usual time today which was WELCOMED. No searches were needed.
    We spent a week in BANFF back in '92 at a conference. Beautiful venue, good food. We did have a visitor (mouse - mus - maus - muis) in our room one night. I think it had good taste on where to live.
    CESSNA - We used to fly in a CESSNA 172 to do ice surveillance flights over Lake Erie. Our photographer who was on the short side would open his door to take pictures. At the same time the pilot would bias (or crab?) the plane roll to get better photos.

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  17. Nice, smooth, puzzle, by two experts! Thanks, Don & C.C. for a nice workout. Loved the clue "Remains in the cooler".

    Thanks, HG, for the great review. Loved the squirrel chiropractor! Where do you guys find these great clips for us? Thank you!

    PK - Beat year after year after year.... When one team continually beats another time and again, it's call they "own" that matchup. Slang... Hope that helps!

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  18. Greetings to all.

    Enjoyable puzzle today. Thank you Don G. and C.C. I had a white hole in the far NW at first, but eventually was able to fill it in. Learning moment was "witch's familiar."

    Great write-up, Husker. Had to smile at the squirrel chiropractor. Oh, and nice to see your sweet Lily. I miss having a cat.

    Enjoy the day!

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  19. This wonderful puzzle was a pleasure to solve. It was not easy but it was fair. Don and C.C. are always fair.

    I had OWL as the witch's familiar at first but the perps steered me to CAT. Even after I got HOLM I stared at it for a while but MOTHS was solid so there it was, staring back at me. MANON is also an oft-performed opera by the French composer Jules Massenet, the same guy who wrote the "Meditation" from Thaïs, another one of his operas. ENS went right over my head and I didn't get it until reading Gary's explanation; I was thinking too much along the lines of a pennant being called an ensign in the Navy. I smiled at the inclusion of EVITA and ARGENTINA. My favorite clue is "Remains in the cooler". I immediately thought of Irish Miss when I filled DEWAR. We have some friends named MCAFEE but they assure us they are no relation to that McAfee.

    Best wishes to you all.

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  20. A nice challenge in a Sunday puzzle. I agree that "It was not easy but it was fair."

    Is a One-L Lama a Buddhist priest attending law school?

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  21. Sailor, yeah, his first year of law school :)

    I'm glad you like your new Macbook Pro, fermatprime.

    I remember lots of references to the "Me" generation during the 80's. They have grown up now and I think that "me first" attitude is now biting us in the butt.

    Owen, I like your BANFF poem. Very clever.

    I confess: Yahoo News is my go-to source.

    Hand up for calling the military horsemen the "Calvary" when I was very young. During my childhood in the Black Hills I quickly learned to pronounce it correctly. That's because I used to ride in am equestrian group that our community in Sturgis formed called The New 7th Riders, named after the old 7th United States Cavalry, once commanded by General Custer.

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  22. Jayce - I don't know whether I should be flattered or worried about that Dewar association! 😈. Your mention of Sturgis is timely as my niece's husband and his father recently returned from the motorcycle rally there. I can't imagine riding a motorcycle from here to Sturgis and back! Then again, I can't imagine even getting on a motorcycle to begin with.

    HG, I forgot to mention what a pretty kitty Lily is! 🐈

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  23. Clue from previous puzzle: sleepy rock song girl or something like that
    Everly brothers song from late 50's early 60's Wake up little Susie!

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  24. A motorcycle is one of the things a man gives up when he gets married.

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  25. What a great game that just finished in Williamsport, PA. The young men from upstate NY, Binghamton I believe, hung in there to win the nail biter final game. Kudos and much respect to the young men from Seoul, South Korea for the way they handled defeat so far from home. They show class and maturity in bowing to the crowd with tears in their eyes. A very uplifting and hope inspiring scene from small town USA. I don't think I saw a single campaign commercial during the 2 and 1/2 hour respite from grownup problems this fine Sunday afternoon. Hey, it's 5 o'clock somewhere and I'll think a cold one is in order while my mind still enjoying the moment. Congrats boys!!

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  26. I just loved this Don and C.C. puzzle! Only one tiny cheat to finish it, but I got everything else with very little trouble. Had CRETE before CORFU because Rowland and I enjoyed three lovely vacations there, over the years. Had no trouble getting LARA LOGAN, SIBELIUS, and ARGENTINA, all of which helped. Thanks for giving us the cute L/LAMA poem, Gary. And, Owen, I liked your Impala limerick.

    So, many thanks, Don, C.C., and Gary, for making my Sunday sparkly and fun.

    Have a great week coming up, everybody!

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  27. The Ogden Nash poem about the one-L and two-L lamas contains a little joke. The part about "I will bet a silk pajama there isn't any three-L lama refers to a type of conflagaration called a "three alarmer." I didn't say it was a good joke.
    Buzz

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