TITLE: DOUBLE TROUBLE
Husker Gary reporting on another fun C.C. Sunday puzzle. The creative and prolific den mother of our blog has taken eight common two-word phrases and replaced the D that begins one of the words with TR which generates a silly phrase as you can see below.
Four of the swaps took place in the first word and four in the second word.
Here are my attempts to make sense of the nonsense products of C.C.'s fun swap as the original phrases seem self-explanatory.
23. Gathering of zombies? : TRANCE (DANCE) PARTY - Michael DANCING in a TRANCE
50. Dumpster illumination : TRASH (DASH) LIGHT - Trash can be a 24/7 proposition
53. Case with a strict time limit? : SPEED TRIAL (DIAL) - A possible characteristic of this proceeding
85. Semi driver's superstition? : LUCKY TRUCK (DUCK) - A LUCKY DUCK in a TRUCK
88. Bugs' wealthy heir? : TRUST (DUST) BUNNY - Would he live like this?
113. Photo including six-pack abs? : TRUNK (DUNK) SHOT
115. Vocal technique used at seders? : KOSHER TRILL (DILL) - You might hear it here
Hmmm... I wonder what a TRAMP WASHCLOTH would look like
Let's see what ELSE C.C. has for us this morning:
1. Moving manga : ANIME - Japanese cartoon style - the word "manga" comes from the Japanese word 漫画 composed of the two kanji 漫 (man) meaning "whimsical or impromptu" and 画 (ga) meaning "pictures" This issue will run you about Fifty 27. Currency exchange table letters : U.S. Dollars6. Celebratory smoke : CIGAR
11. Cause of inflation? : PUMP
15. Winter Palace ruler : TSAR
19. "Hallelujah" songwriter Leonard : COHEN - I tend to think of Handel's magnificent chorus first
20. Mozart work : OPERA
21. Sport involving protective suits : EPEE - I would hope so
22. Sch. publishing the Daily Bruin : UCLA
28. Dietary figs. : RDAS - I don't exceed my Recommended Daily Allowance of salt any more
29. Goad : EGG ON
31. Faithfully following : TRUE TO
32. Awards originally for radio only : PEABODYS - NBC won a PEABODY for this series the year I graduated from high school
34. Is strongly held, as a belief : RUNS DEEP
36. Long while : EON
37. Burro bellow : BRAY
38. Chatty bird : MYNA
39. Line in an Ellington classic : A TRAIN - You could take a 78 RPM spin on this line41. Company with a spokesduck : AFLAC - as annoying as that GEICO gecko
43. South American squeezer : BOA
45. Bundle up : SWATHE
47. Eyelid malady : STYE
55. Screen door stuff : MESH - Ours are Kitty-proof
56. Ranch rope : LARIAT
58. Leader who resigned in his sixth yr. : Richard Milhous Nixon and 66. Water gate : DAM - Speaking of RMN and 95. Like some interviews : ON TAPE - Speaking of RMN
59. Wings it, in jazz : VAMPS - When the singer forgets the words, what the band must do
60. Matching pair : SET
61. Subdue, in a way : TASE
62. City WSW of Bogotá : CALI
64. Attorney general before Dick Thornburgh : ED MEESE
67. Pricey mushroom : MOREL - This is an Iowa area code
68. 2015 Verizon purchase : AOL
69. "Kojak" actor : SAVALAS
73. Tinseltown pooch : ASTA - Nick and Nora's Wire Fox Terrier
74. Blighted urban area : SLUM - This perfectly good farm ground had to be declared legally blighted to build a $300M Costco Chicken Plant one mile from me
76. Commonly injured knee ligament, briefly : MCL - Your knee has many ligaments
79. "__ Like You": Young Rascals hit : A GIRL
80. Baggage-opening org. : TSA
82. Exactly right : SPOT ON
84. Harbor sound : TOOT
90. Antoinette's head : TETE - La TETE de Marie Antoinette s'est retrouvé dans un panier (The head of Marie Antoinette wound up in a basket)
91. Remove forcefully : RIP OUT - In Dead Poet's Society, Robin Williams had his students RIP OUT the pages that dared to quantify poetry
93. Apnea-treating doc : ENT
94. Come in : ENTER
97. Note at the office : MEMO
99. "And step on it!" : ASAP
100. Sailor : TAR
102. Flipped before serving, perhaps : OVER EASY - A mandatory practice in one of Warren Buffet's companies or your next one's free!
104. Gmail lifesaver : UNDO SEND - "I just laid the babysitter" Dang, "I meant I just paid the babysitter!"
108. Safari runner? : IPHONE - Safari's the browser I use on my iPhone
110. Pub fun : DARTS
111. American assignment : SEAT - Ben appears to be assigned to SEAT 17E112. John in Wimbledon : LOO - Even John McEnroe had to use the LOO occasionally when he played at Wimbledon
118. Theater section : LOGE
119. Unlikely to bite : TAME - Ask before you pet!
120. Irritated : IRKED
121. Kindergarten refrain : E-I-E-I-O
122. Slaughter of the Cardinals : ENOS - He was a 125. Risk taker : DARER who is remembered for scoring from first base on a single in the 1946 World Series
123. River of Flanders : YSER
124. Drops of sorrow : TEARS
Down
1. Cause a ruckus : ACT UP
2. Like Thor : NORSE
3. "It's been fun" : I HAD A BLAST - A likely refrain heard after completing a C.C. puzzle
4. Kings and bishops : MEN - The Chess Pieces around here 5. Make gradual inroads : ENCROACH
6. Number at a doctor's office : CO-PAY
7. "Count me out" : I PASS - "Would you like some liver, Gary?
8. Lang. where all nouns are capitalized : GER
9. Major route : ARTERY
10. Futuristic arms : RAY GUNS - Take that Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!
11. Cancún cash : PESOS
12. "Time to start the day!" : UP AND AT 'EM
13. Brooks of comedy : MEL
14. Heckled : PESTERED
15. Sugar Plum Fairy's dress : TUTU
16. Hours often set by parents : SCREEN TIME - Hmmm...
17. O'Connor successor : ALITO
18. Knock at : RAP ON - Halloween Day will mark the 500th Anniversary of when Luther did RAP ON this door.
24. Whirlpool : EDDY
26. Plucked instrument, in Padua : ARPA
30. Chews (on) : GNAWS
33. Hardly humble : BRASH
35. Hydrocarbon gas : ETHENE - Gotta love all those E's
38. When doubled, fish often grilled : MAHI
40. Its anthem is "Hatikvah" : ISRAEL - The Hope
41. Devices with shielded keypads : ATMS and 109. Slot machine inserts : ONES - One machine giveth and one machine taketh away
42. On the house : FREE
43. Slant : BIAS
44. Mythical monster : OGRE
46. National Pecan Month : APRIL - Puh can/Pee can/Puh cawn/Pee cawn
48. Barks : YAPS
49. Besides : ELSE
52. Fiesta fare : TACOS
54. Marge Simpson or June Cleaver : TV MOM - Granddaughter knew the former but had never heard of the latter
57. Knave of Hearts' loot : TARTS - He brought them back when the King commanded him to do so
61. Score : TALLY
63. Moved like a kangaroo : LEAPT - On the East side of the Atlantic and LEAPED on this side
65. Unnerve : DAUNT
66. Dim : DARKEN
67. Auto-painting franchise whose name reverses three letters of a transmission franchise : MAACO - The transmission place of course is AA (beep beed) MCO
69. Margarita flavoring : SALT
70. Fever and shivering : AGUE
72. Mark on a bass : STRIPE
74. Leave thunderstruck : STUN
75. Going around in circles, say : LOST
76. Only state capital without a McDonald's : MONTPELIER - but you can get to one 10 min away in Berlin, VT.
77. Roadwork marker : CONE
78. Nearly six trillion mi. : LT YR - The light we currently receive on Earth from Proxima Centauri left there in May of 2013
81. Saint's home : SUPER DOME - Also the home for homeless after Hurricane Katrina
83. One may be crumbled on a sundae : OREO
84. Albacore and yellowfin : TUNAS
86. Sham : TRAVESTY
87. Harold's movie pal : KUMAR - I never miss their movies. I never see 'em and I never miss 'em.
89. Lit : BESOTTED
92. Radon detection aid : TEST KIT - $17.57 at War~Mart
96. Honky-__ : TONK
98. Indian city known for its silk production : MYSORE - I found this title amusing and disgusting if read a certain way
99. Purim month : ADAR - There it is in this Jewish year of 5777. My goodness, I think I am still writing 5776 on my checks!
101. Splash guard : APRON
103. Food processor? : EATER - ...and not gain a pound
104. Lead to a seat : USHER
105. Has to have : NEEDS
106. "Seriously!" : NO LIE
107. Sorrow : DOLOR - Roethke's poem DOLOR "explores the persona’s response to a life constrained in a grindingly repetitive institutional environment."
114. Exhibits, as doubts : HAS
116. Calypso offshoot : SKA
117. Coastal inlet : RIA
Comments are welcome, even from a TROLL HOUSE
Hi everyone!
ReplyDeleteThanks to C. C. and Gary!
Enjoyed very much.
Things WAGged or perped: PEABODYS, A TRAIN, ED MEESE, MCL, A GIRL, ARPA, APRIL and MYSOR.
Have a great day!
{B-, B+.}
ReplyDeleteOnce all of Russia was ruled by a TSAR.
If you think most were OGRES, you win the CIGAR!
Of Peter, and Ivan, and Katy, you know
But not of stage-struck little HUGO,
BESOTTED by his goal to be the first T.V. Tsar!
A sailor on a TOOT spent his time in a bar,
Playing DARTS and drinking too much by far!
The shore patrol came
And saw Saint Elmo's flame!
That's what will happen when you TASE a TAR!
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteForgot to read the puzzle title. Again. Got the theme anyway and finished in about 15 min. Thanx, CC, and thanx for the tour, HG. Interesting the way "Antoinette's head" and "Remove forcefully" were side-by-side.
I learned to hunt MORELs back in the '70s when I lived in Area Code 319.
WC, from last night, I'd pass on that $30 book. Subway says, "Eat Fresh!" D-O says, "Read cheap."
Thanks for all the "tiring" suggestions and videos yesterday. New tire and tube will arrive tomorrow. As an orange someone once said, "Time will tell."
Hi Y'all! Wow! another masterpiece from C.C.! followed by a super deluxe expo from Gary. Good way to start the week.
ReplyDeleteThe puzzle started with a stumper for me. Never heard of "manga" so I googled shamelessly right away. Okay, ANIME. I have heard of that. The rest of the puzzle went better.
Leonard COHEN was a gimmee since his "Hallelujah" as sung by K.D. Lange at the Olympics is one I listen to any time I see a clip. The one by Handel is also great.
Thanks for the knee picture. Never heard of MCL. Athletes seem to have a lot of ACL tears so I tried that. PCL too? Hmmm!
MYSORE: never heard of it but I might remember it sounds like an ouchie.
I grokked the theme pretty early which helped on a couple of those tricky clues.
D-O: hope you are successfully re-tired soon so you can keep that six pack intact.
EATER: Gotta go refuel. Can't believe I finished this one before breakfast. Usually brain dead then.
Tried Madras before MYSORE. The Sultan of Mysore was one of the stongest resisters of the British conquest of India
ReplyDeleteClever puzzle and expo. Thanks CC and Gary. I got careless and had two bad cells - the famous city of aONTPELIER and a knave with a TARTe. My excuse for aCL was that I had just read that Devin Fuller of the Falcons is out for next season with an ACL injury. He also missed all of last year, his first in pro ball, with a shoulder injury. No excuse for missing ePOT ON, though. To silly to even blame on decaf.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how long we will use the term "tape" as a recording medium when it is almost never used? Maybe the usage is permanent, like "dial the number" or "tarmac" for runway paving material.
I misunderstood the meaning of TRAVESTY. I always thought it meant "terrible" instead of "sham". I'll probably actually remember this one.
I liked celebratory smoke for CIGAR along with A GIRL in the grid. Could be cause and effect.
I wonder if Al Gore invented the ARPA, or just ARPANET.
Husker - I enjoyed seeing Ben's airline ticket. As American Airlines riders soon find out, the only two certainties in life are death and Texas. I wonder if Ben was schlepping his own luggage?
Payback day at the campground. It is beautiful today after two days of rainy and grey weather. Homeward bound tomorrow.
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteIt took me quite a while to get enough filled in to figure out the theme but, once I saw the light, the solve went quickly. CC continues to hone her devilish and devious cluing skills which adds lots of challenge and satisfaction to doing her puzzles. Learning moment was Vamps, as clued. I had Scats at first as that is the only term I associate with jazz improv. Vamps=Theda Bari, et al, to me. Also, knew only ACL, not MCL and it took forever to realize 1A was Manga not Magma.
Thanks, CC, for a Sunday stumper and thanks, HG, for your always entertaining and enlightening expo. Great visuals, as usual.
Off topic, but of possible interest: The Discovery Channel is presenting a 7 episode series, Manhunt: Unabomber, beginning Tuesday, August 1 at 9:00 PM, starring Paul Bettany, Jane Lynch, and Sam Worthington.
Have a great day.
CC, great puzzle. Funny puns. I liked the theme which I found quickly. Only unfamiliar fill was MCL. Gary, I loved your post and especially the pictures. BTW I don't care for six pack abs on a woman.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite historical novels is WINTER PALACE by Eva Stachniak about the early life of Catherine the Great. It was full of palace intrigue. Catherine seemed an innocent, but she was a schemer. 400+ pages, but it kept my interest.
My dad used to say UP AND AT 'EM in the morning.
We are having a DANCE PARTY tomorrow night to introduce newcomers to square dancing, no experience or partner needed. I hope we find enough guests who would like to join our September class. These parties are always fun.
Our club was losing money and so we moved to a new, less expensive venue, 18 months ago. It took a year to get guests used to the change. Lately we have had many guests and a good cash flow, so we are in the black for this past season. Maybe we can subsidize a class that does not fully pay for itself by tuition. It was satisfying to resolve a workable problem.
DO, I hope your new tires and tubes don't cost too much. It must be frustrating, to try so many times.
Our college level Japanese class had several very bright, highly motivated high schoolers who wanted to learn Japanese because they were into manga and anime. They were the best in the class. The weakest were the indifferent 19-21 year olds who took the class for an easy A. LOL.
Thanks, C.C., for a fun puzzle that flew by quickly. Loved the theme, and the cluing was also top notch!
ReplyDeleteGary, what a great expo you do, especially on C.C. Sundays! Congrats and thanks for the job well done!
Thanks C.C. for a fun puzzle and H.G. for an excellent commentary.
ReplyDeleteThe Sugar Plum Fairy's dress threw me off for a while. I wrote in "tulle" with 2 els occupying one space thinking that was what the double in the title referred to.
I was also puzzled by the clue for "besotted," so I looked it up. It is indeed an archaic form for "drunk" as well as a modern meaning of "infatuated."
I was impressed by the clever use of two full names: Victor Hugo and Ed Meese.
Have a lovely day, everyone.
All this and another GN word (GNAWS) too--my cup overfloweth! I must have been right on C.C.'s wavelength today, as I finished without having done very many down words. I always enjoy a C.C. puzzle, and with Gary's blog too it's just icing on the cake.
ReplyDeleteHad no idea that Montpelier had no McDonalds.
Some day I may get all the Hebrew months learned--but I doubt it. Adar is one I do know, and that one got filled in with all perps today.
Favorite entry from Gary today: Never miss it. Never watch it, never miss it.
Time to trim the hedges. I think we may have an anaconda living in there.
Thanks to C.C. for a fun, imaginative puzzle, and to Gary for an informative and entertaining write-up. A good way to pass the time this fine Sunday.
ReplyDeleteGood afternoon, folks. Thank you, C.C., for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Husker Gary, for a fine review.
ReplyDeleteI never finished Saturday's puzzle. Pretty tough and no time. I got today's in better time than usual, but not in 15 minutes like D-O did.
Wound up starting mainly in the SE. Spread up and never from there.
Only two inkblots. 3D. I had WHAT A BLAST instead of I HAD A BLAST.
DOLOR is a new word for me. Got it with perps. Then I looked it up.
Theme was very clever. Did not need it to solve, however.
Liked the MAACO AAMCO relation.
My favorite dog, ASTA. We seem to get that a lot.
I think Husker Gary made a comment about DIAL a telephone call, or something like that. FYI, the first telephones were push button phones. The Dial came later. If you had a three digit telephone number, i.e.: 456, you had a hundreds button, a tens button, and a units button. You would push the hundreds button 4 times, the tens button 5 times, and the units button 6 times. Those operations would step the Strowger Switch the number of times pushed and make the correct connection to the telephone number 456. The dial, which came later, simply interrupted the circuit by the number dialed, saving you pushing the buttons.
I don't want to bore anyone, so I will shut up and get going. Puzzle was great!
See you tomorrow.
Abejo
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Woohoo! Woohoo! Terrific C.C. Sunday puzzle--thank you, thank you, C.C. for giving me a fabulous Sunday morning after my toughie yesterday! I had to work through it slowly, getting a section here, a section there, but it always moved forward until in the end I had the whole thing without a single bit of cheating. Woohoo! And when I was done, I checked out the long answers, and I got the theme--even noting how perfectly the D items were arranged on both sides of the grid. It amazes me how you do that, C.C. Brilliant.
ReplyDeleteAnd I loved your pictures and images this morning, Husker Gary, and your always fun commentary. Altogether, a wonderful Sunday.
I was lucky that I got things like COHEN, ED MEESE, ASTA, and ENOS right away--that helped in various corners. Some items drove me crazy. I could picture the guy who played "Kojac" perfectly, sucking a lollipop, but couldn't remember his name until SAVALAS filled in. Then I got it--"TELLY" (wasn't that his first name?). My most stupid moment came with 8 down, which I figured would be some arcane language I'd never heard of. Had to get a V8 can when GER, filled in, GERMAN, my native language which of course capitalizes all nouns. Doh! But this sort of thing is what makes a puzzle a lot of fun.
Have a great Sunday, everybody, and thanks again, C.C. and Gary, for getting mine off to such a great start.
In the 1940's we had neither a dial nor a push button phone. We had a candlestick phone which stood on a ringer box which we cranked to call the operator. We asked her to be connected to a certain number. Our first phone number was 78. We moved to a more rural area when I was 14, the year of my avatar picture. There we still had a ringer box and, surprisingly, a four party phone line. Our phone rang four times when the call was for us. You could pick up the phone and hear the conversations from the three other parties. It seemed strange for a pastor's phone. Phones numbers in other areas had names for the area code, Rittenhouse, Regent, etc. You asked for the first two letters, RI or RE. Long distance calls were very expensive and were only used in serious circumstances, not to chit chat. My parents didn't have a dial phone until the 1960's.
ReplyDeleteCongrats Misty. I never corrected the I in SAVALIS to the A in LLAMA. I was thinking Corvallis.
ReplyDeleteI guess the MONTPELIANS have to go to ESSEX for there big Macs.
I had a slow start with Manga and said Wilbur, what's CC doing to us. Then I took a ride south on the Central Artery, caught the theme and cruised.
The Central Artery was the key to Tip O'Neil's big dig I think they're still PUMPing water.
I thought that bird would be WREN again.
I grabbed my TBTimes and Parade fell out with a picture of IDRIS ELBA. One day late.
D-O your right about that$30 price for a book. YR, you like historical novels. I was wondering about Mrs Sherlock Holmes.
It sure looks interesting.
I was just talking about Enos Slaughter the other day but Gary (yes, your usual great job), from Nebraska, didn't need a Redsox fan to tell him Cardinals history.
Also, re. Yellowrocks, my son taught himself Japenese because of video games, Anime etc. I'll ask him about MANGA if I've got a spare hour.
Owen, I've got to nudge that B+ up to a W
Chuckled at TASE a TAR. I chuckled at some of CC's clues too
WC
WC What about Mrs. Sherlock Holmes? I am lost.
ReplyDeleteI just got up. Mrs Sherlock Holmes is a new historical biography of a woman NY detective. I looked at the book jacket and it's a fascinating tale of a private detective who consulted with the NY Police Dept at the turn of the century.
DeleteI was wondering if you or one of the other readers had seen it yet.
WC
Greetings to all!
ReplyDeleteGreat theme, clever cluing, and a whole lot of fun. I finally understood the theme about half way through, which helped to finish up quickly. TRUST BUNNY was my favorite theme answer, but they were all great. Thank you C.C. for yet another wonderful Sunday puzzle, and thanks Husker Gary for today's tour. You outdid yourself, as usual.
Hope to see you tomorrow!
FLN: Wilbur Charles said...
ReplyDeleteIf any of you readers out there read this, I noticed there's a book "Mrs Sherlock Holmes" about a NY detective at the turn of the century.
The book jacket promises a fascinating tale.
$30.00. I'll buy it on YR or Splynter's recommendation. 😂. Or anybody.
WC a little late
July 30, 2017 at 6:43 AM
Sounds interesting. I always check the Amazon reviews. I will have to try it.
ReplyDeleteSo much fun today and I had to miss it. Our July family birthday party was this afternoon and though I finished most of this clever puzzle early this morning, just completed it a short while ago.
ReplyDeleteGreat fun ensued in the solve and Gary captured the essence. Thank you both, C.C. and Gary. I'll have to catch up later. It's time for Grantchester!
I hope all had a delightful Sunday!
First theme answer was TRASH LIGHT. I assumed this was taken from FLASH LIGHT. So, I struggled a long time to figure out other theme answers as taking FL to TR. Was I the only one?
ReplyDeleteNot even sure what DASH LIGHT is. I am guessing it refers to dashboard light. What used to be called an idiot light. Once I got the D to TR theme it was a fun ride!
Thanks Husker Gary for the very creative and interesting links and images!
Hand up for ACL before MCL which was a learning moment. Especially with the helpful diagram!
Never heard of that usage of VAMPS. A search indicates it is not really winging it. It is about repeating a musical phrase as a kind of pause.
Never used an Apple product and never plan to. I knew Safari ran on Apple, but could not figure out how to make that fit. So, IPHONE was my last fill.
Never heard of ENOS, so that SW corner was a challenge. Only know LOGE from the puzzles.
Learning moment that manga must mean cartoons and ANIME must mean the animated ones.
Is there really something called UNDO SEND? That does not seem technically possible.
Never heard of KUMAR. Only Harold and MAUDE. Anyone else?