Theme: Deep In The Weeds
16. Source of post-toilet training anxiety : BED WETTING
22. Surfer's destination : WORLD WIDE WEB
36. Great Depression recovery program : NEW DEAL
58. Desert plant suggested by this puzzle's circles : TUMBLE WEED
Melissa here. Appears to be a debut from Alex Eaton-Salners, and a pangram at that! For those without benefit of circles the theme might be a bit trickier - although all the theme answers are pretty gettable. The word TUMBLE hints that the circled letters are anagrams. I had a little trouble in the southwest.
Across
1. Wobbly dessert : JELLO. Cute clue.
6. Pal : BUB. Tried BUD first.
9. Vintner's tub : VAT
12. Birdlike : AVIAN
13. Drachma replacer : EURO
14. B&Bs : INNS
18. Use too much of, briefly : OD ON. (Overdose)
18. Use too much of, briefly : OD ON. (Overdose)
19. Many SAT takers : SR'S
20. Dashboard feature : DIAL
21. Reach through the air : FLY TO. This did not come easy.
25. Treat, as table salt : IODIZE
25. Treat, as table salt : IODIZE
28. Major blood vessel : AORTA
29. Male in the hive : DRONE
30. Sharp-tasting : TART
32. Trailer park parkers : RV'S
35. Actor Cariou of "Blue Bloods" : LEN
39. Question of method : HOW
40. Letters on a law office door : ESQ
41. Purges (of) : RIDS
42. "The Hot Zone" virus : EBOLA
47. Apt to malfunction, as wiring : FAULTY
48. Youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II : PRINCE EDWARD
52. Illumination units : LUXES. Did not remember this one.
53. Have __: know someone : AN IN
54. "The Night Of" channel : HBO
57. Slender woodwind : OBOE
61. Dingbat : DITZ
61. Dingbat : DITZ
62. Flat-package furniture chain : IKEA
63. River through western Germany : RHINE
64. Florida island : KEY
65. Video game initials : NES
66. Separates for the wash : SORTS
Down
1. Quick punches : JABS
Down
1. Quick punches : JABS
2. "Did you __?!" : EVER
3. The eyes have them : LIDS
4. Murphy's __ : LAW
5. Standard eggs purchase : ONE DOZEN
6. Play with Lincoln Logs, say : BUILD
7. Coffee hour vessel : URN
8. Peat source : BOG
9. Purple shade : VIOLET
10. Artist nicknamed the "Pope of Pop" : ANDY WARHOL
11. Govt. bill : T-NOTE
13. And others, in bibliographies : ET. AL.
15. Stuck-up sort : SNOB
17. Goodyear product : TIRE
21. Pres. who developed the 36-Across : FDR
22. Finish in front : WIN
23. Stuff to sell : WARES
24. Itty bit : IOTA
25. Not employed : IDLE
26. Rock groups? : ORES
27. Man of La Mancha : DON QUIXOTE
30. Packing rope : TWINE
31. Say further : ADD
33. Chevy's plug-in hybrid : VOLT
34. Rock to music : SWAY
37. Great Lake bordering four states : ERIE
38. Knowledge seekers : LEARNERS
43. Flower source : BUD
45. Companion of Bashful : SNEEZY
46. Bldg. coolers : AC'S
47. Get no credit for, in school : FAIL
48. Walk heavily : PLOD
49. Big name in puzzle cubes : RUBIK. Could not remember how to spell this, tried X and Q first for the last letter. D'oh.
50. British noblewomen : DAMES
51. Where to see the Sun, the Sky and the Stars: Abbr. : WNBA
54. Will beneficiary : HEIR
55. Like an arm in a sling : BENT
56. Lyrical lines : ODES
58. Altoids container : TIN
59. Island strings : UKE. Ukelele.
60. Question of identity : WHO
42 comments:
Finished, but only by using the lack of a ta-da to help with wags in the SW, where the TUMBLEWEEDS roll! Couldn't remember how to spell QUIjOTa, misspelt RUBIc, tried to remember a short form of LUmEnS, and those led to caY instead of KEY.
{B, B, A-, A.}
The path that is laid of yellow brick and morta'
Ain't the one that leads through the AORTA!
But both go to the heart
Of where wonders start,
And neither one costs an IOTA!
It's an AVIAN trait of the owl to ask WHO;
He's alway a-wonder at why and HOW-to!
But he has no cares
For the what or the WARES,
For the hardware they're selling is where he can FLY TO!
If DON QUIXOTE
Rode a coyote,
Would Cervantes
Still want these
Windmills to have goatees?
What if Orphan Annie, in threadbare shawl,
Had been adopted instead by ANDY WARHOL?
Would her TUMBLEWEED rambles
Include bowls of Campbell's?
Would each still have posed for a Raggedy doll?
Greetings!
Thanks, Alex and Melissa!
Nice puzzle. WNBA was perped. Otherwise, OK.
Have a great day!
Good morning!
Nice romp. Congrats on the debut, Alex. Melissa, you can add C to your Q and X.
LUMENS, yes, LUXES, no. Ah, here's the difference.
I guess LEN Cariou must play Grandpa Reagan. Never noticed.
Nice first LAT puzzle, Alex. Welcome to the fray.
Erased trOD for PLOD and wattS for LUXES. I was gritting my teeth when I wrote watts, so I'm glad I had to erase it. My last cube was LU_ES, and had to run the alphabet almost to the end to finish up. It was then a V8 moment for QUIXOTE.
Didn't know LEN Cariou or PRINCE EDWARD (except the Island). Didn't pay any attention to the circles until after the grid was completed, so I used them as a final check.
Favorites today were HOW and WHO. By adding what, when, why and where, maybe the news agencies can get back to what they are supposed to do - at least until the next election cycle starts. Didn't have a least favorite today - I enjoyed it all.
Thanks Melissa for your usual fun tour.
Good morning all
Thank you Alex and Melissa. No issues.
Did have TROD before PLOD. PLOD feels like trudge to me.
Oh, and SLEEPY before SNEEZY.
The theme made this one fly by.
Good day to all!
Fun puzzle today. Congrats, Alex, on your debut. Caught on to the theme right away at 16A. Hand up for BUd before BUB. LEN Cariou was all perps. Smiled at ORES for "Rock groups?". Thanks for acting as our tour guide today, Melissa.
Enjoy the day!
Melissa: Nice write-up. PRINCE EDWARD was also a theme answer.
Alex: Thank You for a FUN Tuesday puzzle. I enjoyed the TUMBLE WEED theme.
Hmmm, I found out that I'm an Altoids container with my CSO TIN.
Hand-up for LUMEN before DON QUIXOTE changed that to LUXES.
And needed ESP to get WNBA ... a league I never follow.
A "Toast-to-ALL" at Sunset.
Cheers!
"Will beneficiary" = HEIR is incorrect. An HEIR is someone who inherits from a decedent who did not leave a last will. One who takes by a last will is a devisee (of land), legatee (of personal property and/or land), or a beneficiary (in general).
Why is Prince Edward never in the news?
Thanks, Alex, for a terrific CW, lots of fun! Thanx, MB, for a great write-up, and, like u, BUD:BUB, and a bit of a slow-down in the SW. Thanx, Owen, for the wit, I continue to wish I was so clever: B, B-, C, B.
Well, a FIW thanks to my failure to look over the finished product. I ended up with LON for 35A, oros for 36D & DOG for 8D, BUD for6A. My excuse for 8D is I'm a dog guy! Speaking of dog, Casey managed to turn the TV on by himself this morning. Just the latest in a series of events.
Thanks for the write up Melissa, always good to hear from you.
Lady Huskies opened up last night with a close one at Fla St. All you UConn haters better enjoy this year because they will be loaded again next year. And with this coaching staff, I wouldn't count them out when March arrives.
Supposed to get some heavy rain today and we need it. I'm worried about our well, but the other half........no concerns at all. We've had a few "discussions" about it, all for naught.
Good morning everyone.
Easy peasy but I didn't get SNEEZY; at least not right away. Had to white out Snoopy.
ERIE - 4 states. Flip side: The province of Ontario borders 4 Great Lakes.
TWINE- We used scads of baler twine every Summer during hay and straw baling season. I was always fascinated by how the mechanical knotters worked.
Twine would also be cut into short lengths to make ties for Miller's knots for burlap bags during grain combining/threshing season. Glad when bulk combining came into vogue.
Thanks, CC, for the Merriam Webster suggestion as an alternative to the Mensa site.
Good Morning!
Thanks, Alex. Lots of fun here. I loved WNBA, LIDS, ORES, HOW and WHO--and WORLD WIDE WEB, where I wanted some destination in Hawaii! My MIL could never eat JELLO because it wobbled! She said it make her sick to think about it.
Thanks for the tour, Melissa. Nicely done.
Have a fine day everyone.
Ooops! C.C. and others, thanks for the technical help.
Easy solve. With the first circles I saw that WEED would be scrambled. When I wrote WEED in the reveal I intuited TUMBLE.
Knowing DON QUIXOTE, I ruled out LUMEN. Also a plural was indicated, so LUXES was a good wag. Thanks for the article DO. I remember how to spell QUIXOTE because it is related to QUIXOTIC, exceedingly idealistic, unrealistic and impractical. DON QUIXOTE gave us "tilting at windmills", as well as quixotic.
Swing and SWAY with Sammy Kaye, from the good old days.
Law Dictionary says an HEIR is "one who acquires property upon the death of another, based on the rules of descent and distribution, namely, being the child, descendant or other closest relative of the dear departed. It also has come to mean anyone who "takes" (receives something) by the terms of the will." Another dictionary says the giver can die testate or intestate. A son or daughter can be the heir without a will.
We have walked this ground before.
Owen KL, my favorite today is the first one, an A.
Good Morning:
This was a pleasant stroll with an easily sussed theme but a nice reveal, nonetheless. I, too, had Sleepy before Sneezy, also Bro before Bub. Bub and Bud stood out for me. (I have a brother Bud and a great-nephew nicknamed Bub.) It was unusual to see three complete proper names: Don Q., Andy W., and Prince Edward.
Congrats, Alex, on a fine debut and thanks, Melissa, for guiding our way.
Owen, your last entry deserves an A+, IMO.
Hondo, let us know when Casey masters the leaf blower! 🍂🍂🍂🍁🍁🍁
41 years ago today I became a Mrs. Where did those years go? For that matter, where did this year go?
Have a great day!
Welcome to the puzzling world of the LA Times CW, Alex. We enjoy varying levels of challenge and your puzzle fit nicely into the Tuesday level of difficulty. Around here TGIF does not necessarily mean a good day for solving a puzzle.
No circles on the Merriam-Webster site, so when I found out there were circles I quit trying to suss out a theme. I waited to read Melissa's enjoyable expo.
Only had a few stumbles along the way similar to what others experienced. I had BUD then BRO vs BUB, TACH vs DIAL, ACID vs TART and BED before BUD, so I ultimately got my BUD.
It was going to be RHiNE or RHoNE so I let perps fill it in. Perps also solved the missteps stated above.
I'd join the discussion about LUXES vs LUMEN, but enough has been said.
Today is National Raisin Bran Cereal day - "booooooring." That is definitely not as exciting as National Pickle day or National Donut day. Enjoy the day anyhow.
1st things 1st:
Sorry I missed your Birthday Big Easy!
I was actually disappointed this morning when
right off the bat I filled in Jello/Jabs,
thinking this puzzle was going to rob me of my "aha" moments.
Luckily the disappointment did not last long...
Bub? (is that a word?)
Usain? (hmm, crossword stretching to the max. But I will let it slide if it made a pangram...)
WNBA? (51d,)Sun,Sky,Stars??? I don't get it?
Anywho, trying to find a funny Rod Stewart pic yesterday put me in a slump,
& I decided to spare you all my suffering.
Today is also kind of barren...
Can't find Prince Edward in a can...
Tumbleweed pics are kind of lame...
However, slightly DF, & totally unrelated, I found this under tumbleweeds for some reason:
& now for something completely different...
Fun to see the TUMBLEWEEDS in this puzzle. Thank you, Alex and congratulations on your debut!
Here in the southwest many people decorate TUMBLEWEEDS as well as cactus at Christmas time. They look interesting when covered with lights.
My late DH loved JELL-O. He would make a gallon of it and eat it throughout the week. The powder is available in quart size bags or it used to be. I haven't bought any lately.
If memory serves me, it was PRINCEEDWARD's wife who was deceived into revealing many family secrets by the editor of one of the many news rags in GB by disguising himself as an eastern potentate. He published them of course and the prince and wife were shunned from the palace. It was a great scandal at the time. I don't know if they were eventually forgiven and admitted back into the fold. Does anyone know?
Thanks, Melissa for a lovely review.
Have a happy day, everyone!
Good morning, folks. Thank you, Alex Eaton-Sainers, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Melissa Bee, for a fine review.
Got through pretty well. A little tough in spots. Could not remember how to spell DON QUIXOTE. LUXES crossing did not help, but I figured it out and it looked good. That is how I usually identify correct words. If they look correct they usually are, to me.
KEY helped me spell RUBIK correctly.
Theme and cycles was fine. Had them all and then TUMBLEWEED made sense.
My lake again, ERIE. I love it. Spent a lot of time at Presque Isle State Park as a youth. Still a favorite vacation spot for many people.
USAIN I could not remember. Had no idea what that word meant, but the perps were solid. After coming here it hit me in the head. I watched that guy run in the last two Olympics. He is FAST!
Is ANDY WARHOL still around?
I am still working on Sunday's puzzle, off and on. I do plan on getting it. I hate looking stuff up.
See you tomorrow.
Abejo
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Congrats on the debut, Alex. Hope to see more, as this theme was fun.... who thought anything could be done with tumbleweeds!
Thanks, Miss B, for the tour!
Crosseyed Dave @ 9:26
WNBA is the Women's National Basketball Association - there are twelve teams:
Three of them are Connecticut Suns, San Antonio Stars and Chicago Sky.
Hope this helps - I didn't know it either - I googled WNBA!
Claudia
CC: Mensa up and running again! Thanks for your help with this.
Fun puzzle today with a little bite. Thanks Alex and melissa bee.
Interesting theme. Did anyone else try to fit Marijuana into 58A. LOL
Hand up for Bud before BUB and Lumes before LUXES. I did not understand ANIN until I came here. duh!
Like Jinxx in Norfolk, I noted HOW and WHO.
ERIE again. Thanks Spitzboov for noting the Ontario connection. Perhaps one day somebody will clue it as bordering on a Canadian province , or Port Colborne's lake (Sat. Level clue as nobody has heard of that town!).
PRINCE EDWARD seems to fly under the radar. Perhaps it has something to do with being the youngest and thus far from the throne. Lucina, I did not remember the incident apparently from 2001. Her Majesty has moved on from there presumedly.
Incident iwith an airplane coming into Toronto yesterday that may have been caused be a DRONE (not of the insect variety)
Another beautiful fall day here.
Speaking of stretch...
Coming up with stuff that is puzzle related (& yet entertaining)
every day can be a full time job. (honestly, I don't know how OwenKL does it...)
(Husker Gary never ceases to lighten my day...)
(Jzb, Yeah, it's your fault. I followed your lead...)
but what keeps me going is the friends I have made a long the way.
(long list that I wont repeat here, but just know you are on it...)
Oh yeah, the stretch part, sorry, I got sidetracked...
I have viewed many, many, how to solve Rubiks(49d) Cube videos,
which have left me perplexed.
But this one promised to show how to solve it in 30 seconds!
This kid, who strikes me as a snob(15d)
somehow winds up a very entertaining tumbleweed(58a) explaining
the how to in 30 seconds (that takes 10 minutes)
Ah,whatever
(P.S., I think the secret to solving the the Rubiks Cube in under 30 seconds
involves Cocaine laced with speed...)
How to solve a Rubiks Cube on Valium...
How I solve a Rubiks Cube:
Let's seeya put this back together!
CED, it's easier to just pull the colored stickers off and slap 'em back on where you want 'em.
Nice puzzle. Good job, Alex.
To CED --> this one is for you, sir, for the various links to videos:
Please forgive me, for I'm a big rube;
Didn't help me to watch on Youtube.
I'd either have to take speed,
Or smoke a whole lot of WEED
Before I could confront RUBIK's cube.
Delightful Tuesday puzzle, Alex--many thanks for a great debut! I got the WEED theme early, thanks to the circles, and so had relatively little trouble with this puzzle. Didn't know USAIN, but ANDY WARHOL, DON QUIXOTE, and PRINCE EDWARD were no problem at all. I got NES but still don't understand how these are Video game initials--guess, I'm a tech DITZ, or maybe still just a LEARNER.
Nice expo, Melissa. Happy anniversary, Irish Miss, though I'm guessing the memory is both happy and sad.
I really liked seeing "The Night Of" on HBO.
I'm terrified of TUMBLEWEEDS. I came to California driving from Michigan to see my folks in Pennsylvania for Christmas, then drove on to Tulsa to visit friends, and then across Texas to get to California. Driving in the afternoon in Texas I encountered a wind that blew gigantic tumbleweeds across the highway, where they crashed into moving car wheels and windshields. After mine hit a windshield I got off the highway and drove to a motel, where I had to stand in line because so many people had also stopped driving. Hope I never have to encounter them again.
Have a great day, everybody!
"Puzzling thoughts":
Not too much to add to today's blog, as I managed to sTUMBLE through the puzzle with only one hiccup. I also had BUD for 6a - then saw it again for 43d and knew one of them was wrong. I didn't immediately see BUB/BOG for the middle-top Natick, but a short alphabet run helped
I figured out that the word WEED was going to be in the reveal, but since I solved today's puzzle from top to bottom, left to right, the theme answer didn't appear until late
Nice pair of SO's to our members TIN, and also to abejo for ERIE. Tin, hope you got the $ in the mail . . .
CED, you were really out there today, my friend! ;^)
I see that Limerick Larry is back again . . . good stuff; solid A, A+. Owen was on his game, too. Can't imagine HOW he comes up with all of his poems each day, based on the crossword answers. I'm lucky if I can create one or two a week. Speaking of which, here is one using a word from yesterday's puzzle:
On the ark, Noah took them in twos,
And he hadn't much time, them to choose.
The pair of wildebeest
Had the cats thinking "feast"
As the lions exclaimed: "Herd the GNUS?"
Some belated birthday wishes to all those who celebrated recently. Both of my kids are having birthdays, too. Son turns 37 today and daughter 34 next week. Hard to believe! But I'm sure that there are others on this blog with kids even older than mine who have similar thoughts.
Thank you Alex and Melissa for a fun romp this morning. Liked many of the fresh clues. It took me longer than it should have to add tumble.Luxes was watts at first but Sneezy and Rubik changed my mind, and it was all perped...so was usain.
Bub sure is a funny word, especially if you say it out loud a few times...in a low voice.
C.C., my s-i-l from Wales, is becoming a citizen on Thursday. I thought of you and what a happy occasion it was for you 6 years ago. We are overjoyed and are looking forward to being there.
Musings
-A spectacular day on the prairie for golf and yard work and so I was late to the dance today for this lovely Tuesday exercise
-I think we are done taking tour buses for 2,000 miles as we just FLY TO where we want to go
-I don’t remember TART/Sour candy as a child but it’s big now
-Nobody does TUMBLING TUMBLE WEEDS better than the Sons Of The Pioneers (1:54) Can you hear it in the background?
-I’ve yet to break the code for SORTING the wash vis-à-vis my wife’s system
-RUBIK’S Cubes are ubiquitous in schools again including this modified version
-Well this DRONE has more chores to do!
-Thanks for the kind comment Dave! I have gotten some big laughs at your unique postings!!
For months I have been hearing about a world wide economic disaster in the late summer or early fall. I suspect it is all hype. Any thoughts? Please email me.
Yellowrocks
Lots of great licks today. A's all around.
Thx Melissa and Alex. I'm all mixed up. I did no xws over the weekend and did Sunday on Monday. As I posted I'd had a peek at Saturday and noticed a gimme for me, Niekro. And not much else.
Slogged along and I've got them all completed with my usual FIWs which I blame on my glasses, much like Cy the bridge cynic blames his bad luck on Minnie Bottoms and her spectacles.
WC
Hi All!
It was so late last night after talking to my Bro & Sis that I didn't comment on Craig's fun puzzle and C.C.'s NYT (Fun!). Thanks both of you & Argyle. And, I'm even more late wishing Big E a belated Birthday.
Today: Congrats Alex on a LAT! Very good effort (and solo too?) with full names, fun themage, and no clunkers. Nice. Thanks Melissa for the expo - I completely missed the CSO to TIN until your Altoids pic..
WO: I square - I started to go w/ T BOND or BILL b/f NOTE [Funny, I was perp-checking VAT vs. TUN :-)]
ESPs: LEN and WNBA. TIN is obviously another but that's 'cuz I didn't even read the clue.
NOTEables:
RHINE - finally an EU river I've heard of / been to!
RUBIK's cube - mine sits here waiting for me to figure out the top 4 corners. I've done it a few times before then slept and then forgot.
WHO? HOW?
BUB the way I hear it JD (0:42 @:20). Every time I see/hear BUB, I think of that scene.
Fav: IDLE just 'cuz I couldn't link one of Eric's sketches yesterday.
Enjoyed all the limericks today. OKL - last was my fav.
C. Moe, what's the new Avatar say?
CED - Way to SORT through the WEEDs of the WORLD WIDE WEB friend. You never FAIL to amuse. I always look forward to yours & HG's links. This full-time job: it provides healthcare (mental)* right?
Cheers, -T
*CED used all his posts so can't fight back... Na na naa na :-)
D'oh! I forgot our musical interlude. Did You EVER? [That Dog]. C, -T
-T: the new avatar is an image of Terry Pluto's book: "The Curse of Rocky Colavito". Google it for more info. Many Cleve Indians fans swear that the trade of Colavito to the Tigers in 1960 was the reason for the Indians downfall over the past several decades
Dang it Anon T,
you made me count all my posts...
Plus, no fair,
you distracted me with the communist quiz...
(I thought I was going to win a beautiful lounge suite...)
(Dang it,& I'm not even communist...)
?!?!
CED - Made you look! :-). [kidding, I miscounted]
A musical interlude in a calmer KEY... FLY me TO the Moon. Ah, Frankie....
Crowdsourcing here... I need a new dishwasher [Eldest & Youngest didn't take to it kindly when I said they was it]. I have a Kitchenaid "Pro" stainless-steel that no longer spits about water. I've checked CR, but they tend to like the $$$ one's. I recall a Cornerite got one 2 years ago. Which one & any repairs needed / pain-points? 'Common, give me AN IN. I'll read tomorrow before I buy.
Cheers, -T
YellowRockhead: Isn't that what I said re HEIR?
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