Theme: GAME CHANGER
(60A. Ump's controversial call, perhaps ... and a hint to this puzzle's
circles) - Each theme answer contains an anagram of a game.
17A. Literally, "Ireland forever" : ERIN GO BRAGH. Bingo.
24A. Accident investigation site : CRASH SCENE. Chess.
37A. Gently towels off : PATS DRY. Darts.
51A. Eavesdrop : LISTEN IN ON. Tennis.
Boomer
here. It's true an ump may change an outcome of a game. But here in
warm and windy Minnesota it's time for me to park the GLOWIN' Balls in
the garage and get the clubs out to the great outdoors. I just finished
a successful spring league with most games over 200, and now I'll FLOG
the links with most scores over 100. If the averages ever meet it will
be time to quit both games I fear.
Across:
1. Hubby's "better half" : THE MRS I think you need to be William Frawley's age to use this term.
7. Metaphorical china shop culprit : BULL - Yeah, I've heard of the china shop but I use this half a word to define lies.
11. Rest area? : SPA
14. Bring to light : REVEAL
15. "That makes sense" : I SEE
16. __ paper : WAX - NEWS and TERM were too many letters
19. Swelling reducer : ICE - covers all of our 10,000 lakes every winter
20. Pie __ mode : A LA
21. Figured out : GOT - there seems to be an abundance of three letter words in this puz.
22. Ward off : REPEL - Cutter's works good on mosquitoes
28. Vacuums, say : CLEANS
30. Meteorological light shows : AURORAS - They come along once in a while. I always seem to miss the display.
33. Ill-mannered : CRASS - Crass, Cross - Same ol'
34. You might get a bad one in the rough : LIE - see my FLOG comment above.
35. Cosmetic surg. option : LIPO This is half a word.
36. Leia's love : HAN - Was "Star Wars" an AURORA ??
41. Safari beast : GNU - You need a GUN to kill a GNU
42. Equal : EVEN - Pass line bet at the craps table
44. Protective housing : POD- Moving companies will drop them in your driveway. You load, they haul.
45. Survey choice : OTHER - I hate surveys. They should pay for your time.
47. Need for a return, usually : RECEIPT
49. Crazy Horse, for one : LAKOTA - Well known Native American organization in Chamberlain, SD.
53. Speed skater Ohno : APOLO - Surprise! I remember his performance in the Olympics. Always thought there were two "L"s in his name. Often wonder if competitors jived him with his surname.
55. Put a stop to : END
56. Sound from a toy : YAP - I have no yapping toys. Maybe from a Toy Poodle ?
59. Possesses : HAS
65. Imitate : APE
66. Commentary piece : OP-ED -short for opinion/editorial. We have way too many in this country.
67. Eight-time Best Actor Oscar nominee who never won : O'TOOLE - Probably most famous as Lawrence of Arabia.
68. Unfavorable : BAD
69. Sundae crunch providers : NUTS - I am STUNNED by this clue.
70. Squeezed (in) : WEDGED - Or one of those goofy FLOG shots - Jordan Spieth made from the bunker in the playoff.
Down:
1. Uno e due : TRE - I don't comment on foreign words.
2. Wife of Zeus : HERA - Would this not be Zeus' better half?
3. "See no __ ... " : EVIL - You may see it LIVE and in person.
4. Endangers : MENACES - Mr. Wilson's bane
5. Word after dust or do : RAG- Clean oil from your bowling ball.
6. "America Runs on Dunkin'," e.g. : SLOGAN
7. Beginning : BIRTH
8. "Born in the __" : USA - Last Sunday in the Travelers FLOG tournament, the crowd was yelling "BOO S A" for PGA player Weekley.
9. Stocking stuffer? : LEG - SANTA had too many letters
10. MacNeil's longtime co-host : LEHRER (Jim). Robert MacNeil.
11. Unlock a cellphone screen, perhaps : SWIPE RIGHT - Since my cell is an old style flip phone, I have no idea what this means.
12. Show anxiety, in a way : PACE - In Massachusetts, you must pick up the PACE if you are running around the CAPE.
13. Skater's maneuver : AXEL - This is a goofy skating leap named after a Norwegian named Axel. Someday I may have a 7-10 split named after me?
18. Head honcho : BOSS
23. Carbon compound : ENOL - Would this be the LONE element in Carbon?
25. Sign of a sore throat : RASP - Your FLOG opponent may lose his voice after your string of PARS.
26. Expressed : SAID
27. Stage coach? : CUER - If the CUER is sick, you may need a doctor to CURE him before the
show.
28. Hunger for : CRAVE
29. Sign of an impending merger? : LANE CLOSED - We have a lot of this going on here in Minneapolis. I am sure other cities as well. Our four seasons are Fall, Winter, Spring and under construction.
31. Sleep problem from the Greek for "absence of breathing" : APNEA
32. Like lemons, e.g. : SOUR
33. Chaz Bono's mom : CHER - Sonny's better half in the sixties.
34. "Dropped" '60s drug : LSD - Speaking of the sixties "LBJ took the IRT through the USA, and
what did he see? The youth of America on LSD"
38. Date with the doc : APPT
39. Roomy bag : TOTE
40. Musician Ono : YOKO - John Lennon's better half, of course
43. Diamond of song : NEIL - One of my favorites was "Song, Sung, Blue". Johnny Cash sung "I walk the LINE".
46. Broadway performer's recognition : TONY NOD
48. Equiangular geometric figure : ISOGON - This looks like a Made up word or acronym.
49. "The Mod Squad" member : LINC
50. "You said it!" : AND HOW - And how are you doing on this puzzle ?
52. Food and shelter, for two : NEEDS
53. Pequod captain : AHAB-or the ARAB, the sheik of the burning sand!
54. Rollin' stone, in a Motown classic : PAPA
57. Enthralled : AGOG
58. Brazilian soccer hero : PELE - One of the original soccer player millionaire icons. I am sure he could PEEL hundreds from his bankroll.
61. "The Simpsons" storekeeper : APU
62. Fulfilled, as a deadline : MET - Also the Big Apple Citi field player.
63. Wolfed down : ATE - Ate lunch and then relaxed with TEA.
64. Embarrassed : RED - Cincinnati Great American Ballpark player.
Boomer
Greetings!
ReplyDeleteThanks to Irish Miss, C. C. and Boomer!
A bit more difficult that most Wednesdays, I thought, though got it w/o any cheating. Things were not immediate were: THE MRS, POD, LAKOTA, YAP (I had yip at first), MENACES, LANE CLOSED and ISOGON (didn't use it in 43.5 yrs. at Univ.).
Hope to see you all tomorrow!
The prescience of the Blog: On Monday, my l'ick concerned pan-PIPES, which showed up in Tuesday's puzzle. Yesterday BunnyM discussed a TOTE bag, which is in today's grid.
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He beat me at BINGO, he beat me at DARTS.
He beat me at CHESS when my ploy fell apart.
At TENNIS, he smashed me,
His golf LIES surpassed me --
But I still GOT the NOD with my superior farts!
There's a LANE CLOSED ahead, the commute's getting mean.
The road's blocked by an flying saucer CRASH SCENE.
The escape POD was blown
"EVIL" E.T.s have flown,
Greater MENACES are "Ancient Aliens" on our video screen!
Wow Boomer you are really on your MEGA GAME this morning....... This was a bit crunchy for me this morning.
ReplyDeleteYes an umps call can be a changer..... If anyone has watched the College World series in the past week you would know that this puzzle fits well today..... Bad calls on several different teams. 4 to be exact..
Yes yap from a toy got me too. It does mean a toy poodle or other smaller doggie.
Oh and hands up for CROSS. A few unknowns in here for me also. I do get paid for my surveys though. Nielson Ratings is my favorite..
Thanks C.C. and Ms. Agnes for a fine puzzle, but I have to drive about 45 minutes to Sugar Town La. to pull a load of SWEET Watermelons..
Bon Matin from Cajun Country.............~!~!
Hi Y'all! Super puzzle, ladies! Very chuckle-worthy, Boomer!
ReplyDeleteHey, Boo! The guys were worrying about you recently. Apparently both you and Louisiana watermelons survived the storms.
No circles and forgot to look for the theme before I hit a wrong button and lost my finished puzzle.
Had _AX and put in fAX paper. Eventually thought of WAX.
Tried about six different things for better half. Had hubby so why not wifey. ESP
See no EVIL? Well, you must not be watching TV or Internet or reading anything.
Used to watch LEHRER but never saw MacNeil. Knew the name.
Read celaphane screen instead of cellphone. What do you call a typo that your tri-focals make? I, too, have a flip phone. I have been allowed to SWIPE RIGHT (and left) to view my kids' vacation pictures on their more advanced phones.
When I PACE the anxiety is never knowing if the next foot/knee combo will hold up when I put it down.
Never heard of ISOGON. Must not be important if Fermat didn't use it.
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteThanks, ladies. Hey, I saw the games in the circles! Stumbled at the end...was there a DINC in The Mod Squad? Oh, LINC...LAKOTA, not DAKOTA. Small nit with "Endangers" = MENACES. The menacer threatens, but may be a paper tiger -- no real danger involved.
Boomer, you were downright anagrammatical this morning!
There's an entire branch of chemistry devoted to carbon compounds -- organic chemistry. So why is it always ENOL in a cw?
My phone is also a flipper. I just learned this past week that it's got a camera. I don't know how to get the picture out of the phone, though.
Good Morming, folks. Thank you, Agnes and C.C., for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Boomer, for a fine review.
ReplyDeleteGot through this a bit easier than most Wednesdays, IMHO.
The them eluded me, but I did not study it very hard. I had the circles, but was a bit lazy.
My last entry was TONY NOD. Just could not see it for a while. Had all but the Y. An alphabet run got it.
SWIPE RIGHT took me a while. With my phone I just push a button.
ISOGON is a word I do not recall. I probably had it fifty some years ago in high school.
Have to run. Some overgrown bushes to cut back. Also have to jump start my tractor with my brother-in-law. Always something to do here.
See you tomorrow from Illinois, or en route on the train.
Abejo
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FIR; only erasure was avid for AGOG. Antagonism for Tin (take that ICE out of my drink and put it on my ankle), and self-CSO to IM (ERIN GO BRAGH). Wouldn't it have been fun to have one for CC (IV measure), and even one for Boomer too (sub that goes ballistic)? Only real unknown was LAKOTA - ISOGON made sense but I don't recall ever using it.
ReplyDeleteI always find it interesting how subjective a CW's difficulty level is. Ferm, who is much more accomplished at solving these things than am I, found this one to be crunchy. For me, it was the easiest of the week so far.
ReplyDeleteI'm getting over one of the worse cases of flu I ever remember, but it's now on the improve. Damn thing came out of the blue when I was in Albany last Sunday doing business. The AC was really jacked up and I'm pretty sure that is what did me in. I should have brought a winter coat instead of a sweatshirt.
Thought I was ready to get back into crosswords today, but CC & Agnes did me in resulting in a DNF. The square #54 was left blank unintentionally, but it was blank. Couple of mis-spells too. Had PAtDRY for 37A and AUROlAS for 30A. Rest was OK, but another eraser bit the dust.
Back to the bed.....Casey has been keeping me company. Lucy has been having a" bit of trouble" when she decides to turn in at night. It was suggested she might try the guest room which resulted in a few unladylike comments!
Always thought OP/ED was for the page OPposite the EDitorial page.
ReplyDeleteHand up for fAX paper
I did pretty well today. Lots of perp help needed here and there, and I never did see the game names. Probably because it was time to make breakfast before I had time to cogitate over the theme. But yesterday I'd spent time going through our photos from our recent road trip out west, and had read inscriptions at the Native American monument at Little Big Horn, so remembering LAKOTA was easy.
ReplyDeleteBTW, we were very impressed there with the park ranger talk on the battle. He was a retired history teacher, and gave a blow by blow explanation of how the whole thing progressed, along with an explanation at the beginning explaining how the eras in which they were produced, influenced the attitudes expressed in the various films made about the incident. Maybe if I'd had teachers like that, I might have actually enjoyed history.
Thanks to C.C., Agnes and Boomer for a great start to my Wednesday!
Quick solve. Ran into only speed bump in SE corner. Didn't know Lakota so had INDEED (andhow) and INTO (agog) but once OTOOLE appeared a second pass finished off the puzzle.
ReplyDeleteI noticed the BINGO in Irish Miss's ERIN GO BRAH but the other games didn't jump out at me. I never heard the term ISOGON but it was easily guessed. No other unknowns.
ReplyDeleteChastity=CHAZ, Bradley=CHELSEA, Bruce= and ugly old man.
Boo- that homeplate umpire is the LSU-FL and LSU Oregon State games had the widest strike zone that I've ever ween.
Boomer, I'm a hacker and atrocious bowler. After shooting a miserable 100 (28 over par) one day about 15 years ago, some friends coaxed me to substitute in a bowling league the same night. After explaining that I had never bowled, they told me to come a anyway and drink beer, as they needed a body. I rolled an even 100 in one of the games. I guess the old joke about liars mixing up their bowling and golf scores wasn't true that day.
Agnes and CC, what a team, and so prolific! I enjoyed your game changer, easy to suss theme.
ReplyDeleteIn elementary classes we called an isogon a regular polygon. ISOGON makes perfect sense. ISO means equal and GON means angles. Both are familiar math syllables.
WAX PAPER is used in place of WAXED PAPER. ICE CREAM is used in place of ICED CREAM. I predict that ICE TEA will not be far behind. Some dictionaries accept it already.
No nit with menaces/endangers. Both can be defined as put at risk.
I used to watch The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour which, after MacNeil's departure in 1995, was renamed The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. LEHRER is German for teacher, an appropriate name for him.
Kazie, I would have loved your guide at Little Big Horn. I am fascinated by that story and have read quite a bit about it. We had a wonderful guide like that on a church trip to Israel. He was the best, most interesting guide I ever met.
HH, I hope you feel better soon.
Good morning all
ReplyDeleteLoved this puzzle from our dynamic duo- thanks C.C. and Irish Miss! The GAMECHANGER theme was very clever; lots of fun fill.
Thanks, Boomer for a delightful review. You are the anagram BOSS :)
This was easier for me than Mon and Tues; zipped through with only a couple of issues. THEMRS threw me off for a bit and like PK, was thinking Wifey. Then realized my mistake - Hubby is an abbreviation of husband, so the answer would be abbreviated also. Doh!
Hand up for Dakota before Lakota but then remembered there was a LINC character on Mod Squad.
ISOGON is new to me and OTOOLE was perped. Didn't realize he'd been nominated that many times without winning.
ANDHOW- This was often said by "Our Gang" which was yesterday's theme :)
HAN Solo is popular this week as we had him in yesterday's puzzle. Which leads me to WEDGE(D) - my brother's nickname as an ode to golf and the character from "Star Wars" Wedge Antilles
Still enjoying the beautiful weather here :) Great night for my nephew's ball game. Not sure if I'm going, as it's about a 25 minute drive and 10-15 mins is my limit before my leg and foot go completely numb. The epidural hasn't helped much with that (#2 is in two weeks- ugh). But if he's pitching, I want to be there. Hopefully they don't have the same ump from the last game I went to. His bad calls were a GAMECHANGER and cost them a win. However, I was impressed with the team's patience and conduct. They handled it better than most of the parents- impressive for teenagers. Great group of young men that are a high school aged select team for the collegiate Hamilton Joes. It's a wonderful opportunity for them to be noticed by college scouts and these kids are really talented!
Hope everyone has a wonderful day :)
Neat puzzle! A crossword and a Jumble all in one. Fun! Thanks for the entertainment, Boomer.
ReplyDeleteGood Morning.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great Wednesday challenge! Lots of fun. Nicely done. Thank you, C.C. and Irish Miss. The theme flew right over my head--AGAIN! But, hey, I have enough fun with the puzzle itself. My favorite today was Sign of Impending merger. I should have seen it immediately! When I took my grandson home yesterday after Monday's History Museum foray, all we saw were LANE CLOSED signs!
Clever tour, Boomer. Thanks so much.
Have a wonderful day.
Good morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteI normally shy away from anagrams and find them basically frustrating. So today, after getting all the theme fill without worrying about what was in the circles, I decided to give it a go. I got BINGO, TENNIS, and CHESS right away, but got a little irked with ATSDR. Finally I saw DARTS and all was right with the world. Cool beans!
Spelt ERIN GO BRAGH right the 1st time.
Rest of the solve went easily enough. I had to blink at SWIPE RIGHT, too, as I have a Boomer-type phone.
Favorite clue was for LIE.
Pleased to see C.C.'s signature long down. Congrats to her and IM for a fine challenge.
D-otto: mine has a camera too, but I never even wondered if you could get it out of the camera. Let me know if you figure it out. I bet you have to have a special cord to plug into the computer. I have a Verizon LG. The young men who sold it to me had very little knowledge of it and kept having to call someone to transfer data etc. Screwed up the billing too. They only knew smart phones. My relatives send me pictures all the time from their iphones but I don't know how they do it.
ReplyDeleteBunny, my grandson is playing on that kind of high school aged baseball team too. He pitches well, they tell me, and had one home run. Alas, I can't go see his games. Most are quite distant. He has to drive 45 minutes to a practice.
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteThank you for all of the kind words and I'm pleased that so many enjoyed our puzzle. Believe it or not, but I, too, had Dakota and needed perps in a few other spots, The Mrs being one. It's amazing how much you forget over several months but it adds a little challenge to the solve. I agree, Spitz, that Darts was the hardest to suss out. IIRC, I think Erin Go Bragh was a CC brainstorm but I'll claim as a CSO.
Thanks, Boomer, for a delightful and witty review and thanks to CC for being my "better half" in the wonderful world of crossword construction!
Hondo, hope you feel better soon; Casey's company should ease your discomfort a little.
Tin, sorry about the _ _ _ but its use in this case is acceptable, I think. 😈
Boo, nice to hear from you. Send some of those watermelons my way, please! That's my favorite summer treat! 🍉🍉 (After corn and tomatoes, that is!)
Have a great day.
Fun puzzle - congrats to the ladies! Fun write up by Boomer too! Easy run through although isogon was new to me. Have a great hump day everyone! JB2
ReplyDeleteSwipeRight was my last fill also,
ReplyDelete(16a was "taxing" my brain...)
Getting pics from your phone is something my girls do effortlessly
with "the cloud." But I can't get it to work.
The only way I have found was to Email them to myself at full resolution.
I could then save the pics on my PC.
But ( & a big but...)
I would then have to delete the photo off my phone to save memory.
And delete the email,
And delete the send file,
And delete the trash file
(what a pain...)
(Oh, then I also delete the Emails off my PC)
(Did I forget to delete anything?)
(Sheesh, just take a camera with you...)
The very mention of William Frawley had me YouTubing all morning...
Anywho, there are lots of silly pics to link for "Gamechanger."
but this one stopped me in my tracks...
Thanks to I.M. and C.C. for a fun Wednesday with lots of different types of games and great cluing!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Boomer, for the punny (or anagramatic)write-up. Let us know when you shoot 150!
You are welcome to join me down the YouTube rabbithole by following all the side links of this link....
ReplyDeleteHmm, three more days and I could have said "Rabbit Rabbit."
Great fun! This was a splendid puzzle from the prolific pair of IM & CC! Thank you both and thanks to Boomer for his amusing anagrammatical analysis.
ReplyDeleteI really liked protective housing, POD and stocking stuffer, LEG.
Several years ago on our sister trip (my sisters and I) visited Mt. Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Monument which was still in progress. Learning about the LAKOTA made a deep impression.
Kazie:
I, too, would have loved a guide like that.
I'll take a CSO at AURORAS, my middle name and my paternal grandmother's name.
d-otto & PK:
Re: flip phone cameras. I assume your camera has a sim card. Pull out the sim card and insert that in your computer to see the photos. Thanks to my daughter for showing me that.
Have a fabulous day, everyone!
DO said, "There's an entire branch of chemistry devoted to carbon compounds -- organic chemistry. So why is it always ENOL in a cw?"
ReplyDeleteBecause keto-enol isomerism or Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution don't clue as easily.
Good morning. Thank you Agnes and CC. You too Boomer.
ReplyDeleteToday makes the third puzzle for you two this month. Keep 'em coming ! Very enjoyable.
No circles at the Mensa site, so I opened the puzzle at the LA Times site when I got to the clue indicating there were circles. I also had to take a moment to see DARTS.
Of course I had to LISTEN IN ON the Temptations "Papa Was A Rolling Stone'. The beginning and horns will stick in my head all day.
And, LSD made me think of Lake Shore Drive. Perhaps the route Madame DeFarge took with her grandson to the Chicago History Museum.
Alitto Haynes Jeremiah had a memorable song in the early 70s about Lake Shore Drive . Even non-Chicagoans should be able to recognize some of the landmarks and personalities - real and fictional - featured in the video. Very cute.
For those not acquainted with ISOGON, how do you like NGON (also spelled N-GON)? A polygon with N sides.
ReplyDeleteAnd when the old sailor's parrot died? Polly gone. :P
I get so excited when I see that we're going to have an Irish Miss and C.C. puzzle on a Wednesday morning--and this one was just a total delight! I love circle--rings too, so that made it extra special. Wonderful fun clues--my favorite was "Sound of a toy" which took me forever to finally figure out. Lots of fond memories of CHER and YOKO. Great puzzle, and equally delightful Boomer write-up. What a wonderful morning you've given us!
ReplyDeleteHave you two ever considered writing up a description of how the puzzle construction process works? Do you begin with a theme idea, or what gets you started? How do you figure out how to create the variety of topics you'll need to give everybody a shot at solving? I have a million questions trying to imagine how you manage to do this--and do it so often and so well. Our other blog constructors could join in too. Anyway, just an idea that occurred to me this morning.
Have a great day, everybody!
Boomer, Great write-up. Good Job!
ReplyDeleteIrish Miss, when I sprain my ankles I use "_ _ _" to reduce the swelling.
So today's clue/answer was acceptable (I just won't write it here, LOL).
Thank you and C.C. so much for a puzzle today. I enjoyed the theme.
Fave today was 29-d, Sign of an impending merger? LANE CLOSED.
I was originally thinking about "Company Mergers" before the V-8 Can smack.
Cheers!
56a. Sound from a toy?
ReplyDeleteA "toy" poodle ...
ReplyDeleteLucina, thanks for that tip. I checked, and yes there's a SIM card in my flipper. But there's no SIM slot in my PC. I guess I could swap it with the SIM card in my Canon PowerShot, then use a USB cord to connect the PowerShot to the PC. But as CED said, "(Sheesh, just take a camera with you...)"
ReplyDelete12:57 post was incomplete.
ReplyDelete56a. Sound from a toy?
Thank you, Agnes and C.C., for a clever and fun puzzle. Thank you, Boomer, for an amusing and interesting write-up.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting your favorite Neil Diamond song was "Song Sung Blue", because, according to Mr. Diamond himself, it was inspired by the 2nd movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto number 21, the so-called "Theme from Elvira Madigan." I had to listen to each piece several times before I was able to discern the subtle similarities in the melodies. Very cool. By the way, I also like Diamond's "Forever in Blue Jeans", which for a long time I thought was "Reverend Blue Jeans."
ISOGON makes me think about trigonometry, which literally means the measurement (metron) of trigons (three sided planar figures, what we call triangles.) It also makes me think of isobars and of isopropyl alcohol, neither of which has anything whatsoever to do with multi-sided geometrical figures. Ah, how the brain works.
I grew up in Sturgis, SD, smack dab in LAKOTA country, and learned a lot about them. Looking back now, I am slightly amazed at how much and in how many places George Armstrong Custer is memorialized.
Best wishes to you all.
What fun. An Irish Miss and C.C. CW, and Boomer to round out the day!
ReplyDeleteYou got me with a DNF in the SE corner. (And I was working in the newspaper with circles!)
I had Awed instead of AGOG, Dakota instead of LAKOTA (which gave me Dino instead of LINC, which did not allow me to see CHANGER. I did unscramble Chess but not the rest. Oh well, it was good exercise.
I thought of POD as the protective housing for peas.
From yesterday - many thanks for all the good wishes (and cake CED!) on our anniversary. I missed the "36 tears" Irish Miss until PK pointed it out. (Drat autocorrect - I was having trouble with it myself last week!) LOL, we have had a few tears but on the whole have been very blessed. We spent the day celebrating at the Shaw in Niagara-on-the-Lake followed by steak supper washed down with an excellent Niagara red!
Easy solve today. It was harder to unscramble the game names, especially chess. "Night of the Generals" is my favorite OTOOLE role. So scary.
ReplyDeleteISOGON bothered me, too. Agree with Fermat's comment. Don't remember it ever being taught.
ReplyDeleteI guess it doesn't mean all sides are equal, as well. That would be a regular polygon, and something more of us are used to.
Any comment from the geometrists out there? Bill G.? Anyone?
AURORAE is also accepted as a plural for AURORA
Musings
ReplyDelete-Thanks Agnes, C.C. and Boomer!
-THE MRS. had me put our patio furniture on Craigslist last night. We had 3 offers in 90 minutes. It has never failed us.
-A colleague of mine who umped/refed games always gave the visiting team the benefit of the doubt
-Thursday is my day to vacuum (gotta earn my keep)
-The ideal growing conditions have made our course rough, uh, rough with thick, lush grass
-How the Crazy Horse Monument compares to Rushmore
-Either the people of Dachau saw no EVIL or were scared to death
-Lack of practice talking causes me to get a RASP during a day of real teaching as a sub
-NEAL/NEIL/RECIEPT/RECEIPT was a vowel mash up for me
-These mostly LAKOTA boys from Winnebago ruled the state two years ago. As you can see on their jerseys, they had no problem calling themselves Indians
-I SWIPE UP to get my very useful iPhone flashlight
-Daydream Believer written by NEAL was one of four hits he penned for The Monkees
Husker, You're thinking of I'm A Believer. Neil (vowel mash up) Diamond wrote that one. Daydream Believer was written by John Stewart, formerly of the Kingston Trio.
ReplyDeleteIIRC from fifth grade math, equal sides of a polygon means equal angles, too. Eight equal sides, eight equal angles. Four equal sides, four equal angles.
ReplyDeleteAs I said an isogon is another name for regular polygon. Never having heard the term isogon, iso- and -gon make it easy to infer. I taught a lot of hands on basic geometry.
Jayce,
ReplyDeleteThe guide said Custer was a real hero in the Civil War, so maybe that's why he's so celebrated.
Husker,
The Dachauer were probably both afraid and wanting to remain unaware for that reason. Most claimed no inkling of the events in the camp. But after the allies paraded them all out there to be sure they saw it for themselves, the mayor committed suicide.
YR - A rhombus has equal sides but not equal angles; etc.
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ReplyDeleteA rhombus is a 4-sided polygon in which all sides are of equal length. While this fulfills one of the requirements of being a regular polygon, it need not have all of is angles be equal as well. So it is neither a regular polygon nor a isogon.
Ack! Roy beat me to the Toy Sound link!
ReplyDelete& he didn't even use Peter Paul & Mary!
(Hmm, but there is something in that guitar picking pattern...)
(Oh well, bookmarked for learning tonight!)
(Is it Travis picking?)
Oh well, I won't bore you with another link of the same old thing...
(oh yes I will!)
(but you will have to work with me...)
Try loading up this YouTube video, with the sound muted,
& then play this previously (very cute) link with it...
I was driving to the Drug Store (alas, no LSD...)
when I heard a snatch of a song on the car radio,
and thought I could use it to cheer up one of my Daughters.
But somehow OwenKL, (& Chairman Moe) took over my
thought processes, and added to it..
"Some will win,
& some will lose.
& some are born to sing the blues...
Some may even get to choose,
but learn to dance,
through it all,
and you have a chance,
now, that's good news..."
Hmm, Meh, maybe I should try creating Crossword puzzles..
P.S. -
ReplyDeleteRun the Motorcycle link on full screen, with the sound muted.
(It will render into HD...)
play the LSD link music with it, starting at the 5 minute mark.
Now restart the music at the 8 minute mark,
(No wait a sec, that's a traffic light.)
(try 8:30)
and what have we got?
Oh No!
Another YouTube Rabbit Hole!
If you want to get technical one type of rhombus is a square which is a regular polygon and an isogon, but most are not because they have two sets of equal angles, but not all four angles are equal. A square is also a rectangle, but most rectangles are not squares. I am sure some eagle eye will pick this up.
ReplyDeleteOff to dance.
From Oxford Math Dict: A rectangle is an ISOGON, but not a regular polygon.
ReplyDeleteBoo! Glad to hear from you. Did you get wet in the recent unpleasantness?
ReplyDeleteThis was a fun trip from our dynamic duo. I never did get the theme. But that's not unusual. Thanks to all for a pleasant outing.
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteFIW - didn't think DAKOTA was wrong and I've never seen the Mod Squad [but I've heard of LINC probably due to xwords]. Thanks IM & CC for a delightful distraction during a boring class this morning. Re: Theme - I SEE'd BINGO 1st after getting the reveal; Boomer unscrambled TENNIS for me; very cute.
Thanks Boomer for the skew'd humour; I enjoyed your expo as much as the puzzle (esp. without Mr. Boredom speaking).
WOs: hand-up fAX b/f WAX, YiP, and in on b/f AGOG; and I put ALA in 19a's spot instead of 20a's.
ESPs: THE MRS [M was last to fall], APOLO, -AKOTA
Fav: Juxtaposition of Born in the USA and The BOSS.
I don't SWIPE but simply present my thumb-print to my iThing. SWIPE left (first thought @11d) is a 'Tinder no' [constructors - feel free to lift that c/a]
{LOL: A+, B}
Funny, WikWak, on Polly GONe.
Good to see you back BooL - For as second, I thought you were in my neck-of-the-wood in Sugar Land, TX.
Misty - read @7:04a from a year ago tomorrow when I wrote a little ode to C.C. and the construction process. I didn't say it was a good ode, just and ode :-) What I've learnt is it starts with a theme, then placement of the themers (Book C.C. turned me onto said a pin-wheel is the easiest to start with), the grid (computers help) and then cluing. Finally, Rich and Patti polish it. Unfortunately, since last year, I've not had time to play with constructing; Next bucket-list check is a solo byline.
TTP - I've not seen that video but I love that song! "Just slipin' on by on LSD, Friday night a'trouble bound." [those my not be the right words, but it's how I hear 'em - Like I thought it was 'Reverend Blue Jeans' until Jayce set me straight - between that and LAKODA, I've lernt 2 things today! Thanks Jayce.]
Ok, I'll claim the CSO... Bad actors look to me to spruce-up their resumes... I just bob my head and they get to brag on getting a TONY NOD :-)
Time for Young Frankenstein with the girls.
Cheers, -T
AnonT - huge groan re TONY NOD!
ReplyDeleteLOL
Hey all it's me again. I just got back home after a 13 hour day.
ReplyDeletePK thank you and the CREW for the concerns. I have been busy with 3 gardens and a field. Lots of corn and tomatoes............
Irish Miss you and CC got me today with this one. I guess I was still wiping the sleep from my eyes and not enough coffee. LOL
Big Easy YES that was a very wide load strike area. Slaughter DID in fact try to mess things up at 2nd base and that cost us a run, maybe more. LSU is not used to making so many errors in a game. 3 is way too many for a top notch team.....
Swamp Cat yes we got some rain for TS Cindy, but not like my buddies in Houma and Chauvin La. I also have a good friend in Waggaman La. that caught 10 + inches.
We caught 3 inches last night and more on the way.......
Ya'll take care and I will make sure I am on here more often........ Thanks Mes Amis >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Here is a lnk to a video I made today. This melon was very sweet BUT too much rain in the last week and a half causes them to be LATE bloomers. Enjoy
https://youtu.be/9MMeqaNrD90
Anon T (or should I say Tony?), it took me a little while to find the site on your link and figure everything out--but congratulations on co-constructing the puzzle with C.C., and then composing a delightful ode to celebrate the occasion! That's amazing and wonderful, and thank you for helping me check it out!
ReplyDeleteMisty wrote: "Have you ever considered writing up a description of how the puzzle construction process works? Do you begin with a theme idea, or what gets you started?"
ReplyDeleteGreat question. Where does one start? Theme? Grid? Where does the fill start to come from? How does the editing process proceed?
I think a regular polygon is more commonly used and is a more useful concept than an isogon.
CED: you are always very chuckle-worthy. You exactly described my sort of thinking when confronted with electronic anything. I do pretty good with on/off. Anything more complicated and I lose the train of thought on or about the third step.
ReplyDeleteI don't really have a camera now. When I was doing my years of photo-journalism, I had a Yashica that was like the extension of my arm and went everywhere. Then in my last years, I bought a NIKON the superior optics of which gave me the beautiful clear pictures I had always coveted. Used it a little over a year and quit newspapers for four years. Then went back for two brief stints and could still use the Nikon. Years later when I had grandchildren, I took one picture each of my two eldest GK's. Then for some reason could not remember how to work the Nikon. It was more complicated than the Yashica which I had given away by then. I've never taken a picture of my later 5 GK's. Does that make me a bad grandma? I was working a very complicated demanding accounting job by then. Brain overload. The Nikon rests in some dark inaccessible cave (a/k/a closet) of my house, outdated because of digital cameras.
Lucina: if my phone has a sim card, I can't find it.
Jayce: hand up for thinking it was Reverend Blue Jeans until I saw an interview with Neil Diamond where he spoke the words more clearly than he sings them.
Hondo: hope you get rid of that nasty flu soon. Hope you didn't get a mosquito bite virus or something.
C, Eh! that CSO quip was bad, Eh? :-)
ReplyDeleteBooL's link. Dang Boo, you's a real Coonass. Love'd the clip and can't wait to get back to Louisiana. 3 things now lernt - rain-rings in watermelon...
Aside, we have a Katrina transplant that works in the company cafeteria- man!, can that man cook! We talk about gardening and NOLA while he prepares the best food in the joint.
TTP - I didn't have time earlier (Girls had Young Frankenstein CUE'd up). I recalled, wrongly, his name as Jeremiah Prophet. I first heard LSD on K-SHE '95 out of St. Louis when I was 11 or so. I also (probably wrongly again) thought that he went on into the preisthood in the late '70s. I tried to find something online to jog the old NUT but only his Obit which mentioned he was married and nothing about service to a church.
Re; getting St. Louis' radio in SPI, IL... My uncle showed my how to steal cable and hook it up to the 300℥ input on the stereo. The cable company's dish could pick up KSHE-95's 50,000W signal 90miles away and the frequency wasn't filtered out (frequency shifted to 96.1 on the digital-dial though - maybe this got me interested in EE(?))
Cheers, -T
d-otto:
ReplyDeleteMy BIG error. The SIM card goes into the printer. That is, it did on my previous printer. My current printer has a USB opening so I guess a cord exists for it. I haven't used it yet.
IrishMiss:
There should be a flap you can lift. There is one for the battery and another on the opposite end for the SIM card. But, of course, not all phones are created equal.
I had a bad Saturday last. I was wondering about these mosquito viruses. Rest put it to rest. Hope you feel better, Hondo.
ReplyDeleteI never noticed our favorite constructors but after finishing forced my self to unscramble. BINGO was a gimme so I just had to put a reluctant Brain to work .
I actually finished this morning. Except for that pesky DINC/DAKOTA. A just right xword and write-up.
Did anyone read the wiki on that mystery writer. Josephine Tey* English(of course). She wrote about Richard III and did he murder his nephews?
A comment was made "Time(history) decides
today's mysteries". Nope. They're still arguing about Little Big Horn, The OK Corral etc etc.
Oh. There's more. 30-30 just dissected the BC basketball scandal. Allegedly it began and ended in the 1978-79 season. WRONG!!!
Jim Sweeney was still shaving points the next season. How does Wilbur know and all these big shots not know.
I WATCHED HIM DO IT
WC
* A recent xword answer
Fun puzzle! Can CC or "Agnes" please tell us what you had in mind with POD?
ReplyDeleteOnly got the theme answers after I finished the puzzle.