Theme: Circles - A jumble of the word, DASH, inside the circles.
16. "Baywatch" star: DAVID HASSELHOFF
22. Pull-out money holder: CASH DRAWER
37. Frantic rush, and what's literally found in each set of puzzle circles: MAD DASH
49. Poker table experts: CARD SHARKS
59. Like football linemen: BROAD SHOULDERED
Argyle here. CC hasn't given us a pinwheel today but two grid spanners instead.
Across:
1. Arizona site of Sun Devil Stadium: TEMPE
6. "I beg your pardon?": "WHAT?"
10. College sr.'s test: GRE. (Graduate Record Examinations)
13. Prettify: ADORN
14. Post-bath wrap: ROBE
15. Window box dirt: SOIL
19. "I couldn't agree more!": "AMEN!"
20. Dined: ATE
21. Coastal raptor: ERNE
26. Entry in a ledger's plus column: ASSET
29. Horse opera setting: OLD WEST
32. On the run: LOOSE
33. "La La Land" Best Actress Stone: EMMA
35. Flat-bottomed boat: SCOW
36. College URL ender: .EDU
40. Lowest sudoku number: ONE
41. Swindles: CONS
43. Funny folks: WITS
44. How pastrami is often ordered: ON RYE
46. Secondary wager: SIDE BET
48. Silently greet: NOD AT
53. Bit of fish tank growth: ALGA
54. Mined metal: ORE
55. Emerged from slumber: WOKE
63. Motown genre: SOUL
64. Website with filmographies: IMDb. (Internet Movie Database)
65. Made more tolerable: EASED
66. Total up: ADD
67. Civil rights activist Parks: ROSA
68. Unemotional: STONY
Down:
1. "I did it!": "TA-DA!"
2. Wax-coated Dutch cheese: EDAM
3. Relocate: MOVE
4. Charles, William and Harry: PRINCES
5. Wrap up: END
6. Extreme anger: WRATH
7. Swindled, slangily: HOSED
8. Core muscles: ABs. The abdominal muscles.
9. Casual shirt: TEE
10. Publicly state one's views: GO ON RECORD. Funnier as GOON RECORD.
11. Replete (with): RIFE
12. Pixie: ELF
15. Mole-like mammals: SHREWS
17. Suffers from: HAS
18. More than risqué: LEWD
23. "Up and __!": "Rise and shine!": AT 'EM
24. Oblong tomatoes: ROMAs
25. "Sorry to say ... ": "ALAS ... "
26. Smart __: wiseguys: ALECs
27. "Same here!": "SO DO I"
28. Big name in music streaming: SOUNDCLOUD. New to me. Wiki entry.
30. "Mortal Kombat" agent __ Blade: SONYA
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| A publicity photo of Bridgette Wilson as Sonya in the film Mortal Kombat |
31. Short cyber post: TWEET
33. Touches up, as text: EDITS
34. Summer hrs. in Billings: MDT. (Mountain Daylight Time)
38. Wonderstruck: AWED
39. Hit the horn: HONK
42. Steven of "The Patriot" (1998): SEAGAL
45. "That's easy!": "NO SWEAT!"
47. Actor Pitt: BRAD
50. Parka parts: HOODS
51. Vacation spot near Curaçao: ARUBA
52. Seminary subj.: REL. (religion)
53. Former Yankee who was the youngest MLB player to hit 600 home runs: A-ROD. Alex Rodriguez.
56. Guesstimate words: OR SO
57. "Peachy-__!": KEEN
58. Whirling current: EDDY
59. Youth org. with merit badges: BSA. (Boy Scouts of America)
60. Title of respect: SIR
61. Med. care provider: HMO. (health maintenance organization)
62. __ Moines: DES
Argyle
39 comments:
Greetings!
Thanks to C. C. and Santa!
No unknowns except SONJA, which filled itself in.
Neighbors complained about shrubbery near back pool house fence. So have had huge dumpster and people working there for a week. Sure cost a pile. Hope that is enough.
Hope to see you all tomorrow!
My new car gives me problems, I can't read the dials!
The odometer reads meters going, coming back in miles!
The gas gauge is marked half, empty then full!
Knobs sometimes I twist, then later must pull!
But it makes the car faster, with a MAD DASH all the whiles!
{C.} (and a bunch of D's I've erased. You're welcome.)
Good morning!
TEMPE was a gimme -- my folks moved there in the '80s. I saw SHAD in the circles, and figured something fishy was going on. I was sure of HASSELBLAD and STOIC; Wite-Out, please. Never heard of SOUNDCLOUD -- I wanted SPOTIFY for the music-streaming site, but it was too short. Still, with all of my stumbles, I finished in better-than-normal Tuesday time. Thanks, C.C. and Argyle.
So do you say Card SHARK or Card SHARP? More fishiness in the puzzle.
I hear CARD SHARpS about as often as ON RECORD; both are OK but usually SHARKS and ON the RECORD.
Near-clecho for HOSED and CONS. Perps for SONYA and SOUNDCLOUD
FIR, but like fermatprime I didn't know SONYA Slade, and thought SHREW was a person tamed by the Bard. Like D/O I hadn't heard of SOUND CLOUD, and I left the last letter of that gambling person blank too until HONK nosed its way in to complete CARD SHARK.
SCOWs can be big, ugly and carry garbage, or they can be sleek, sporty racing sailboats. They are very popular across the Great Lakes, especially in Wisconsin. The only place I've lived where they are popular is Dallas, home of the annual Black Tie Regatta. They are one of the few classes of boats I've never sailed.
Thanks CC for yet another fine puzzle, and to Santa for anther fine review.
Another rainy day here. My mold has mildew growing on it, which has mushrooms growing on IT. Hope your weather is better than ours.
Good morning everyone.
A big TADA to start things off. Fairly easy solve. While I 'got' the theme, I'm having trouble with MAD as a descriptor when the DASH letters are actually jumbled or scrambled. I guess if we consider the synonym 'deranged', it's OK. Not a big deal. I go to IMDB a lot because I am terrible with actors' and directors' names. Thanks, C.C. for starting my day.
Three miles later...
CC managed a twofer today, and her NYT puzzle also contained MAD DASH, though not part of the theme. Congrats, CC.
Good day to all!
When I got to the second theme answer I said to myself, "I'll bet there are circles today." Sure enough, the next theme answer was the unifier which confirmed it. Steven SEAGAL, SOUND CLOUD, and SONYA Blade were unknowns, but filled easily via perps. Thanks, C.C., for a nice Tuesday morning excursion, and thanks, Argyle, for the tour.
Enjoy the day!
Good Morning:
Another fun offering from our own CC. Cute theme and reveal. Had no problems but, as others noted, Sonya and Sound Cloud were unknowns. (CC rocks with her knowledge of pop culture.)
Thanks to the dynamic duo, CC and Argyle, for keeping us all so happy, so often! Also, congrats on the NY Times publication.
From yesterday, congratulations, Jayce, on your granddaughter's engagement. Happy times, eh?
Also from yesterday, Anonymous T, that was a very interesting article on handwriting. However, I am too old school to accept the loss of cursive without feeling sad. Personal opinion, naturally. 😔
Have a great day.
Fun puzzle C.C. and made even more enjoyable by completing on the Cruciverb site......which was working today ( a rare occurrence the past several months)
Thank you C.C.!!
Anon 9:23, thanks for mentioning that. I didn't know Cruciverb came back today.
Jinx in Norfolk (FLN), you wrote "...in Texas there are two football seasons - "sprang" and "reglar". Some of those high school stadiums rivaled many found in small colleges." Our local school district spent $20M on this new stadium. Makes me grateful that as an oldster my homestead property taxes are capped, regardless of the vagaries of the local politicos. I learned this year, to my chagrin, that my woodlot lacks that old-timer protection. It also lacks the protection against yearly valuation increases exceeding 10%. The assessed valuation on my wooded half-acre went up more than 400% this year. Yeah, I filed a protest.
Thank you, C.C., for today's fun and enjoyment! It amused me to DASH through it all. And I'll take a CSO at TEMPE which is the town next to Scottsdale and shares a border.
EMMA Stone is another AZ connection.
Spitz:
Are you not familiar with the phrase "to make a MAD DASH toward something"?
I also frequently consult IMBd for information. Thank you, Argyle, for explaining those initials.
AnonT:
If you read my post last night you know I echo Irish Miss's sentiments about handwriting.
Have a wonderful day, everyone!
Breezed through this one. Thanks CC.
Got David H and Cash Drawer, right away, so knew the theme must be shad or dash.
Off to the Y for some exercise now.
Have a great day Bloggers.
Hi All!
Thank you C.C. for not giving us a MAD DASH to the finish Tuesday. The NE/Central provided just enough "crunch" to keep it interesting and there's the fun fill.
Thanks Argyle for being our BROAD SHOULDERED Tuesday Tour guide.
WOs: ALGe; iRATe b/f WRATH; OLD WELT / LANYA looked odd... I finally recalled it's an O not A in SCOW.
ESP: SONYA
Fav: SIDE BET above CARD SHARKS. Wanna bet he pulls a 10 on a King & 2 hand?
ARUBA 2 days in a row?!?
Hand up waiting on perp for CARD SHAR-S.
{A}
Lucina & IM - glad you enjoyed the article / podcast on the cursive controversy.
D-O: 1st thanks for the heads up on C.C.'s NYT; I'll pick that up at the airport (Eldest moves into OU.EDU tomorrow!) this afternoon.
Re: the football tax... Youngest's HS has not yet built a colosseum to the GRID iron but they are building a natatorium. I donno why when there's 4 annex classroom buildings [mind you this was built 5 years ago!]. Here's the 6th, 7&8th, and LCISD George Ranch HS complex.
Argyle, you see GOON RECORD and I see ALAs and NO 'DAT :-)
Cheers, -T
I agree with Jinx, Scows can be pretty. see for yourself...
Now, if you had said "Garbage Scow..."
Anyway, scuze me, I have to prepare for later...
Lucina - Yes, I use it myself, but I didn't see how it fit well in this instance, except as I noted. Probably overthinking it.
CED - 'Trek is so WOKE [maybe Bunny & Tawnya will get that; it's what the kids say these days as in "you woke to that." OK, sure, and I'm hip]. I was expecting your SCOW link to be a dump-boat off of NYC's harbor with Gulls, er, ERNEs swooping down. So thanks; BTW, I know and love that scene.
Lucina - I forgot to refresh (again). "WHAT?", I hear you say...
I did read FLN, though, and saw your comment re: Freakonomics.
Argyle - another MIS-see/ A-word? @38d - A WED (clue: bride to was?)
I'll see myself out.... C, -T
Just helping Owen out:
SONYA and EMMA wanted to cruise in a Dhow
But they could only afford an ol' garbage SKOW
They espied Rosa - "Hey, be a pal
Said she, "I'm no SEA GAL
Go get EDDY, He's got the WITS and Know-HOW
D-
STAID, STOIC, STONY
AHEM - WHAT
IRATE. - WRATH
And I knew it was David Hassel something.
This was something of a MADDASH. I actually timed it: 14 minutes. Is that fast? It was all the time I had. At least I got a TADA, unlike ignominious Monday.
Owen. My l'ick will teach you that your Ds aren't that bad.
I miss the Chairman. I have another idea Owen.... Leave the last line of a l'ick blank and invite the corner to complete it using one xword WORD
WC
Hey it's a slow Tuesday. And thanks CC and Argyle. I love GOON RECORD. So apt so often. And I spotted the CC moniker and knew it'd by a fun exercise
WC
Now to find Anon-T's handwriting post
Woohoo! A C.C. puzzle to get my Tuesday morning off to a great start! Thank you so much, C.C., for a delightful one and a chance to DASH right through it! And thank you, too, Argyle, as always. There were tons of things I didn't know, but they were mixed in with things I got readily, and so I never really stalled or had an anxious moment. And I appreciated the one little shout-out to me and others with EDU, part of my e-mail address. So this was just a total pleasure--especially welcome on a rainy and gloomy morning.
Hope the problem with your neighbor is resolved, Fermatprime.
Have a great day, everybody~
Thank you, C.C.!
1-Down gave me my TA-DA! moment for the day!
This was a fine pzl, an excellent example of C.C.'s thematic playfulness, not only showing us the ways MAD DASH can be displayed but enabling us to make a speedy run over a short distance.
The news from C'ville is being followed by counter demonstrations throughout the country. I have friends urging me to join protests and other friends who would like to get involved but are (like me) too old and creaky to get into the action. I am advising all to let their feelings be known but to avoid the violence. My new "motto" is
Keep Calm
&
Be Counted
Got news from my dermatologist this morning that I need to go back for another Mohs surgery, this time on my ear. Misty, it looks like its time to pay the piper again for my many years of sun-worship.
They are already talking about maybe follow-up plastic surgery. Seems that the ear cartilage is so thin I may end up with a great hole in the outer flap. Hm. I used to wear a stud in the other ear. Maybe it's time to stick a plug in this one.
I liked this puzzle and after filling DAVID HASSELHOFF (what a cool name!) figured the theme had something to do with DASH or SHAD. I also didn't know SONYA Blade or SOUND CLOUD. Looking back at the finished puzzle now, I am laughing at NODAT because it looks like a possible answer to WHODAT. Every time I see or hear the word WRATH it makes me think of the opening sentence of The Iliad: "Sing of the wrath of Achilles!"
We've always said "card shark."
Our son and his wife are moving from TEMPE where they've lived for almost 20 years, because he got a new job in San Diego. So they are soon to become fellow Californians. Their son (our grandson) is still finishing up at ASU but he won't have his mom and dad's house to crash in any more.
Fermatprime, you're so generous!
Too bad those mushrooms aren't edible, Jinx.
Best wishes to you all.
Musings
-!8 holes on a cool morning with a hint of fall in the air
-What a fun Tuesday puzzle!
- A M*A*S*H attempt to beautify Korea by ADORNING it with this
-My doctor seemed pretty STONY after I told him how his med had made every muscle in my body hurt last week.
-GO ON RECORD has more credence than being ANON
-What exactly is LEWD these days?
Good job on the write-up Argyle.
C.C. Thank you for a FUN Tuesday puzzle. Enjoyed the theme.
EMMA and SONYA were "wags" ... "Wild Ass Guesses" but were correct.
Cheers!
Ol' Man Keith, good luck with your ear surgery. Maybe there exists some sort of jewelry that would cover (adorn?) the hole if there ends up being one. Then again, you could consider it a badge of uniqueness. I like your new motto. I've been mulling about how to contribute, as I am also too creaky to participate in any action.
Hi Y'all! Great puzzle, C.C. Great expo, Argyle.
Nothing here to incur our WRATH. However, couldn't come up with TEMPE or SOIL without a few nudges of the perps. Other unknowns are WEES. I thought the fill was novel and fun. HASSELHOFF was one unforgettable name, but I did for a while. C.C. is good about giving us some fair perps.
OMK: The ear thing doesn't sound fun at all. Good luck! KIds are wearing earrings all up the side, maybe you can start a hip new trend. Oh, the agonies of old age.
Fermatprime: good luck with appeasing your neighbors. I'm about to decide I was a better person on the farm where my only neighbors for half a mile were coyotes and deer.
Keith & Jayce: If you want to be political without the action, there are always letters to powers-that-be, emails, and tweets. Look how much attention some tweets get.
Actually, I mourn the loss of cursive writing. I had trouble printing letters to my 13 & 15 year old grandsons recently. Cursive was a certain rite of passage in growing up and I felt I was babying them.
Jayce, for me it is Virgil's Aeneid Book I which begins "Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris..." I sing of arms and a man...
Another amazing daily double. I wonder if the LAT was inspired by the clue/fill 42D?
Thanks Argyle and C.C.
So sorry to hear about your upcoming Moh surgery on your ear, Ol'Man Keith. I hope they won't have to go deep enough to make a hole. They stitched mine up, so I'll keep my fingers crossed that maybe they can do that for you too. My goodness, I was never much of a sunbather, yet here we are, having to deal with this. But I have to remember that compared to so many other health issues seniors have to deal with, this is still pretty small potatoes.
PK, I email to my Congressional representative about once or twice a year and always get a reply. Sometimes the replies are boilerplate and sometimes are specific to my comments. I don't think it really makes any difference but psychologically I do feel as if I have a "voice." She is also very good at publishing monthly newsletters in which she describes how she voted on each bill and why, and any legislation she is originating or sponsoring. I like that. 12 years ago, back when I was hale, hearty, and mobile, I had the pleasure of meeting her, shaking her hand, putting my arm around her for a photograph, and, most importantly, conversing with her for a good 10 minutes. I still attend her town hall meetings via webcast. She truly seems to care.
I see cursive writing becoming an "ancient" form of writing, like classical Greek or Sanskrit, or, yes, Cuneiform, studied by historians and linguists. It does strike me as weird that some day we will need to have our old documents, which are written in our own language, translated into, um, our own language in order to read them. Sorta like Chaucerian English, I suppose. Or like Homeric Greek (don't be a petty spoil-sport, Achilles old chap) to today's Greeks.
Speaking of ancient Greek, our granddaughter, the one who just got engaged, is an understudy for all of the female roles in Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides to be presented at the Getty Villa Outdoor Theater in Malibu next month. As she explains it, that means she needs to be ready to step in for any female actor who might happen to get sick or otherwise be unable to perform. She, and we, are pretty excited.
Having nothing to do with Greek, ancient or otherwise, the musical Newsies will be playing at the Phoenix Theater in Phoenix, Arizona, in December, and she will be performing the lead female role in it. We are SO proud of her!
D/O - That's a very Ritzy stadium, but then again it is in very Ritzy area. I remember looking at company-owned houses in The Woodlands when I thought I would get transferred.
Anon-T - I'll bet that a natatorium costs a lot more than an indoor pool.
Jayce - If I remember correctly, a large part of the Phoenix population heads for San Diego on summer weekends, so the grandson may have more trendy weekend digs at his disposal.
OMK - Hope your ear surgery saves your life. Everything else is gravy.
jayce: I'm sure that your congresswoman appreciates your attention to the issues, too. When I was a newspaper writer, I got close to most of my delegates. They like to hear from sensible well-grounded constituents and your opinions often sway them if they haven't already made up their minds. This situation right now is so scary they need all the common-sense messages they can get! Congrats also to you on your granddaughter's accomplishments. She must have an outstanding memory to even consider stepping into more than one role. Wow!
Gary: I had to laugh at your question about what is lewd today. Could be answered two ways: either nothing is considered too lewd to be acceptable or almost everything is lewd these days. I remember when a girl would be horribly embarrassed if her bra strap showed. Today high school girls send boys pictures by cell phone of what is under their bra. I think my grandson got one of the latter.
Jayce:
Your granddaughter must be a very good actress and as PK noted, have an excellent memory. Newsies is such an amusing play; I saw it in New York and perhaps I'll see it again in Phoenix. It would be worthwhile to see your granddaughter in it.
OMK:
I'm sorry to hear about your ear! That sounds dreadful and I hope it can be salvaged some how.
fermatprime:
You are certainly a good neighbor! I hope they appreciate it.
C.C. Thank you for the fun....and Argyle, thank you for guiding us through the rough spots.
We had flooding rains again today. Not as bad as last Saturday when cars were submerged, but enough to be worrisome . After the deluge last Saturday we learned that the pumps we assumed kept us safe are compromised . Many were simply not working. Some were down for repairs (in hurricane season??) and some did not have enough power to operate.
Heads should roll!! But they won't. Everyone is making excuses. I won't go into the city till the mayor resigns or the pumps are fixed!! ( is this politics? Or just survival??)
The puzzle was fun.....Owen I thought your offering was wonderful.
Good evening, folks. Thank you, C.C., for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Argyle, for a fine review.
Got through the puzzle easily. A couple unknowns, but perps abounded.
Theme and circles were fine. Good job.
SONYA was unknown. As was EMMA. So was GRE. Also SOUND CLOUD. Perps helped with all.
I have heard and used CARD SHARKS and SHARPS.
Good to hear that Cruciverb is running again. I tried it a month ago several times and no cigar.
Good luck with your ear OMK. I never used to never think about health, but now I do quite often. I guess we are all in the same boat as we age.
Now I have to report in for yesterday. Sunday I never quite finished, but I may try later on tonight.
Tomorrow is my first day as Crossing Guard this fall. Hope it goes well. I also go to work at Amazon later in the day. No rest for the weary, but that is my choice.
See you tomorrow.
Abejo
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Yay for Cruciverb being back (at least for today and tomorrow). SO much nicer when it's around.
Thanks, C. C. and Argyle; this was fun today.
43A made me think of "As usual, he considered himself a WIT. And also as usual, he was half right."
Fun puzzle, CC!
I have heard both Card SHARK and SHARP. When I was a kid I thought it was Up and Adam and wondered who was Adam. Probably related to Richard Stanz who is in the Pledge of Allegiance.
HOSED sounds LEWD to me because of what it means among people I know.
Had trouble parsing A-ROD which had me confused there for a bit. I was thinking Hank AARON but it had too many letters and ARON was an unlikely alternative spelling. And the cross made no sense.
Hand up for not knowing SONYA. We saw LA LA Land and thought it was OK, but not as much as the hype. Hazy memory it was EMMA Stone.
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