We have another around the perimeter puzzle. Here the words which are theme fill precede "eye." Rather magically Debbie appears after her early week mention to present her third LA times puzzle. Like last week's constructor, she has collaborated with Jeff Chen. You can see the influence on her style in the cluing. This is again a variation on a rebus where the eye part of the fill is left out. We have had a couple of these designs before, but I cannot remember what the reaction was from the Corner. For me, this was a very easy Friday, as the theme jumped out. The placement of KATY PERRY in the fourth row and CHEESE DIP in the symmetrical place seems designed to deceive.
With all the 4 and 5 letter theme fill, we do get some sparklies like AREA MAP, DREYFUS, NO TURNS, RENEGES, SPHERES, CHEESE DIP and KATY PERRY. So how many of these to spy with your eye?
1A. Type of coordination: HAND (4). Hand/eye coordination is critical in many sports such as hitting a baseball.
5A. Wolverine rival: BUCK (4). Buckeye. The Ohio State University nickname and an early member of the Corner.
9A. Hidden 3-D image: MAGIC (5). Magic Eye. Not everyone can see these IMAGES.
71A. Intuition: THIRD (5). Third eye. Mystical. LINK.
72A. Batter's command of the strike zone, in baseball lingo: GOOD (4). Good eye. The best was supposed to be Ted Williams and his extraordinary vision, but does it matter? LINK.
73A. Pacific salmon: SOCK (4). Sockeye. This FISH.
1D. Iowa athlete: HAWK (4). Hawkeye Pierce is also pretty well known. LINK.
13D. Reflective semiprecious stone: CAT'S (4). Cat's eye is produced by a polishing TECHNIQUE.
26D. Unassisted peeper: NAKED (5). Naked eye.
33D. Physical feature of Peter Falk and Sammy Davis Jr.: GLASS (5). Glass eye. There are many more, Sandy Duncan, Rex Harrison, Dick Vitale etc.
56D. Z's: SHUT (4). Shuteye. Sleep.
64D. Conjunctivitis: PINK (4). Pinkeye.
The reveal:
40A. Scornful glance ... and a hint to completing 12 aptly placed answers: SIDE EYE (7). A sidelong glance expressing disapproval or contempt.
Across:
14. State as fact: AVER. Another popular law-word.
15. "A Hard Road to Glory" author: ASHE. Tennis great and another victim of bad blood transfusion. LINK.
16. Coffeehouse draw: AROMA. I still love the smell of the coffee brewing when I awaken.
17. Sagacious: WISE.
18. Lacking in some way: LEAN.
19. Checkout choice: DEBIT. Payment choice.
20. "Roar" singer : KATY PERRY.
22. Large pipes: MAINS. Seems random, but the main pipe is important in plumbing.
23. Malfoy, to Potter: FOE.
24. Attention getter: AHEM. I like this simple fill.
26. Sign on a highway: NO TURNS.
30. Binging: ON A JAG. Dictionary: a bout of unrestrained activity or emotion, especially drinking, crying, or laughing. "an incredible crying jag;" synonyms: binge, spree, bout, indulgence,
34. Order to a sea dog: AVAST.
35. Genesis victim: ABEL.
38. Quinnipiac University product: POLL. This western Connecticut school was a gimme for this native, but did you know HOW they became a prominent pollster?
39. "Kid-Tested, Mother-Approved" brand: KIX.
43. Soul seller: KIA. With its Japanese competition. 65A. Pilot that can't fly: HONDA.
44. Sooner State city: ENID. Oklahoma if you do not already know.
46. Jodie Foster title role: NELL. Co-starring a young Liam Neeson; a moving film.
47. Slogs: TREKS. Star Slog just did not capture the imagination.
49. Antarctica, for example : DESERT. Deceptive.
51. Domains: SPHERES.
53. Coop cries: COOS. COO_ leading to COO_?
55. Really big stretch: EON.
56. E alternative? : SNAIL. mail.
59. Chip topper: CHEESE DIP. I see this mostly with crackers.
66. Favorable thing to be on: ROLL. Especially a nice bit of pastrami.
67. Halliwell once known as Ginger Spice: GERI. No longer a girl. R-RATED.
68. Rte. that crosses Lake Michigan by ferry: US-TEN. A semi-cheat, as it is always 10.
69. Sighed line: AH ME.
70. Course that may cover a crash: Abbr. : ECONomy.
Down:
3. Incubator site: NEST. Cute. anyone try for NNCU?
4. Subject of Zola's "J'Accuse...!": DREYFUS. The Dreyfus AFFAIR 120 years ago last Saturday.
5. Whalebone: BALEEN. This is a WORD you needed to know to do late week puzzles in the 70s.
6. Certain surfer: USER. Internet.
7. Arctic trout: CHAR. So many other ways to clue this, but I suspect Rich put this in to toughen the solve. We last had in November clued as blacken or sear.
8. "Out of Africa"setting: KENYA. Redford/Streep MOVIE.
9. Drama set at an advertising agency: MADMEN. A very successful tv series about days most of us remember.
10. Hotel handout: AREA MAP. In those brochures by the front desk/concierge.
11. Silk Road desert: GOBI. Why you ask? Because China silk comprised a large proportion of the trade along this ancient road, in 1877, it was named the 'Silk Road' by Ferdinand von Richthofen, an eminent German geographer.
12. "Let's do it!" : I'M IN.
21. USB and others: PORTS.
25. Toledo opening? : HOLY.
27. Like Lamb Chop: OVINE. Shari Lewis lives on.
28. Prepares to take off: TAXIS. Dudley?
29. One-named Nigerian singer: SADE. Want to know more? LINK.
31. Batman nemesis, with "the": JOKER. So soon after Cesar Romero.
32. Similar: ALIKE.
36. "The Fresh Prince of __-Air": BEL. Will Smith's breakout show.
37. Charged fish? : EELS. Electric ones.
41. Van Morrison's "__ the Mystic": INTO.
42. Set of values: ETHOS.
45. Bush 43, so he said, with "the": DECIDER. Do not click the link as it may be political. LINK.
48. Goes back (on): RENEGES.
50. French epic hero: ROLAND. We read the SONG OF ROLAND when I was studying French.
52. Prepared to eat, as a banana: PEELED.
54. Skin-and-bones sort: SCRAG.
57. Nibble: NOSH.
58. Fighting: ANTI.
60. Relative of a Yodel: HOHO. Take your pick
61. Big Bird buddy: ELMO.
62. Chrysler Building style: DECO,
63. __-Z: classic Camaro: IROC.
Well, I am worn out with all the links, hope you choose and enjoy some. Thank you, Debbie and all of you out there. Lemonade out.
52 comments:
Greetings!
Thanks to Debbie and Lemonade!
Really cute theme! Took a while to catch on.
Hard ones were: BUCK, GOOD, KATY PERRY, POLL, DESERT (REALLY?), US TEN, CHAR and ROLAND. Took quite a while!
Hope to see you all tomorrow!
FIR, but so many w/os! e.g., Lamb Chop was a sock-puppet, so SOCKY>OVINE, and then SOCK/SOCKEYE showed up later! I caught the theme at GLASS, and immediately went around the edge easily filling in the rest, except HAWK, BUCK and GOOD, which had to wait for a couple perps each. Team nicknames were understandable, but as clued, GOOD EYE was obscure to me. And mini-themes! Cars KIA SOUL, HONDA PILOT, CAMARO IROC, even a JAG! Singers GERI, PINK, SADE, KATY, BUCK! Fish CHAR TROUT, SOCKEYE SALMON! DESERT GOBI -- well, two isn't exactly a mini-theme, tho they could have been clechoes.
I feel like a fantasy story today:
USTEN the WISE sought the AROMA of MAGIC,
The SOUL of the SPHERES, the cosmic fabric!
'Cross the DESERT of GLASS,
Over mountain and pass,
His quest left the wizard SCRAGGY and tragic!
AHME the JOKER did not wish to rove.
To hearth and to NEST the warlock clove.
No TREKS far afield
To keep his EYES PEELED,
He found all GOOD magic, with ENID and love!
{A.}
Good morning!
Got the theme almost immediately, and that was truly helpful. Had to change PAPER for DEBIT, but that was my only use of Wite-Out this morning. Lemon, thanx for 'splainin' SNAIL -- whooshed right over my head. Good one, Debbie; Little Debbie could've been that Yodel alternative.
NELL: We still refer to our cats as evva-dooahs, the way Nell pronounced evil-doers.
HAWKeye: Gimme. In Iowa I worked for KHAK -- Kay-Hawk. Knew the BUCKeyes as long-time rivals of the Badgers in the Big Ten.
GOBI: Fermat, "desolate and forbidding place" is one definition of a desert. Antarctica qualifies. Lemon, do you suppose Manfred von Richtofen (the Red Baron of Snoopy fame) was a descendent? He was a Fokker pilot. [Snicker]
Lemon, it's not always TEN -- and when it is, it's usually I-TEN across the southern tier of states far from Lake Michigan. We've also had US ONE, on the eastern seaboard.
Thanks Debbie and Lemonade. A little brain stretching for me today . Went around and elected to start with BEL and NELL at the center. Had GLASS at 38 D but the theme eluded me even then . Knew pacific salmon and with SOCK should have gotten the theme, just not sharp enough i guess. We go salmon fishing when we visit "baby girl" on the west coast. Sockeye to them and others is the elite of salmon. Really enjoyed the oyster bake as well. Checked up on camaros before IROC . Thought I TEN crossed the country in the South so had a little trouble with 68A . Good workout thanks again Debbie and Lemonade. Temps above freezing, payday , things are looking up.
I had my EYE out for the missing word after HAWK and BUCK but the SW was a nogo. The US-TEN, DECIDER, ROLAND and THIRD-EYE fills; never heard of any of them. Tried AT IT for 'Fighting' but couldn't get anything in the SW other than SHUT to work. Even thought SENSE for 'Intuition' but couldn't think of an EYE that ended with 'S'.
POLL and INTO were perped.
HAWK-EYE, DW is known as EAGLE EYE.
'Checkout choice'-tried PAPER before DEBIT card finally made it, which I would never advise anybody to ever get unless they have the worst credit record in the world.
D-O, this week I-10 was shut down from Lafayette to the Pearl River (LA-Mississippi state line) for two days because of ice.
Relative of a Yodel - King of Queens
Snail for E alternative? just seems off
Very nice puzzle. Enjoyed it.
-Great theme,, Debbie. After I sussed it the rest was fairly easy. Lemonade, fabulous links. Thanks.
-Tostito Scoops are my favorite chips for most dips, including cheese dips. They don't crumble like potato chips and they hold a lot. Sometimes my guests spoon the dip onto the chip which is shaped like a little cup.
-Baleen always reminds me of old fashioned corset and dress stays.
-Many old water mains beneath the streets broke during our long freezing spell and left cascades of ice everywhere.
-A few months ago we drove by the Quinnipiac exit on the highway. Before that, I knew it just as a poll.
-When we were kids we said "Good eye. Good eye," when a batter let a pitch go by for a ball.
-The L in Roland and snail was my last fill. OOH! Snail mail and email. Cute!
Good Friday puzzle. Too tough for me, but still interesting. I looked up "French epic hero" when "oxymoron" wouldn't fit, and got some red-letter help in the southwest.
I wanted "harbor" pilot; when that didn't fit I wanted a pilot whale. To qualify to be a harbor pilot in the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay, applicants have to be able to draw all navigation aids, shorelines and depth contours on a piece of vellum, given only a single buoy as a starting point. The vellum is overlain on a NOAA chart for grading. I have seen several that are nearly identical to the chart. Truly amazing. And the reward is getting a very dangerous job - one false step when transferring from a pilot boat to a cargo ship in foul weather can easily kill.
Our RV park's water is frozen this morning. Fortunately we have plenty in our fresh water tank. I want to go to Florida. Oh wait - I'm IN Florida.
Never heard the expression SIDE EYE, but figured it out with all the perimeter answers. Good, creative puzzle, theses are the ones that make crosswords fun!
JJ JAY: e-mail replaced snail mail (post office delivery, and much slower than email).
D-O, I have not driven in Michigan in years but I find no mention of US-TEN rather just US-10 . The Interstate from Jacksonville Florida west to Santa Monica California is I-10 on all signs that I have seen.
Perhaps my comment was not clear. The liberty of changing the number to the word without any indication of the change is what I question. It is a common crossword challenge.
Jinx- very funny but no freezing temps here on the Gold Coast. 51 when we got up this morning.The 9 to 14 mile per hour breeze does require a jacket.
Musings
-INTO, SIDE EYE and NELL were all right! I’m on a ROLL!
-A Sidelong glance is familiar but SIDEEYE is new to me which makes it seem odd to use as a foundation to this solver
-Teacherss develop these
-My friend’s NAKED EYE can see the golf ball farther than I
-Temp extremes this winter have burst many MAINS
-Seeing BINGING with a hard G ain’t helpful McGee
-2016 was a bad year for pollsters like Quinnipiac
-My dentist’s hobby was to carve on whalebone he called scrimshaw and he had a lovely display in his waiting area
-MADMEN making an emotional/sentimental pitch by changing one word for Kodak (3:25)
Good morning everyone.
Good job, Lemon, leading us into Today's fray.
Got most of it unaided but had to invoke red letters in the center and SW. Had treason before DREYFUS. OVINE helped confirm AVAST. THIRD escaped me completely. A good tough Friday.
CHAR - One of my favorite fishes to dine on when eating out. Right up there with turbot.
TREK - A borrowing into English from Afrikaans.
Good Morning.
Even after all this time, I need to be more alert when I'm wondering why HAWK isn't working for me without the EYE. Duh! Nicely done, Debbie. I especially like the clues for HAND, DEBIT, NEST, and OVINE. I suppose in the long run, figuring those out led the way for me today.
Thank you for the tour, Lemonade. When my kids were little, the only dry cereals they had were KIX and Cheerios. Later, they discovered Raisin Bran at Grammy's. Nice tour, once again.
I haven't been around much. Very busy week here--especially for a soon-to-be VERY old lady. I've done the puzzles, but had to skip visiting here. I always feel I'm missing something important when I am away. Basketball games tomorrow for both a grand daughter and grandson. Twenty-six miles away. I think we'll be treating for lunch. Nice. And Sunday. . . Hmmm. . . .
Stay cozy! That now seems to apply to everyone--except those Southwesterners who are already cozy. Have a nice day, everyone.
Merriam Webster added side-eye in Feb, 2017, very recently. Here are examples of its use. It is currently popular, but has been used for a long time. I think it is a perfect foundation for this puzzle.
side eye
Working from top to bottom, it was a speed run and just didn't seem like a Friday--and then I hit the bottom third. Hoo boy! I did finally FIR but boy was it a slog. Got the missing "eye" theme right away and that helped. Hand up for having to come here before the V-8 moment for SNAIL. And that's a phrase I use often. Doh!
My only nit was putting doves in a COOP; I thought that for doves it was a cote.
Thanks for a good puzzle!
Thank you, HG for the MADMEN link, and YR for the SIDE-EYE history. When I do a write up there are puzzles where nothing appeals as something to link, and there are those like this one where everything appeals.
Initially this was a tough slog, but when I saw GLASS without the EYE for Sammy and Peter, the light bulb came on and I looked for the reveal. Then I went around to finish the other EYEs. Nice one, Debbie Ellerin. Thank you!
I had a few doubts and since no red letters appear in the newspaper, CHAR stayed and was right! Yea!
I recall ROLAND from world lit class. DESERT does seem strange for Antartica but in fact, it is a frozen one.
IROC was totally perped and a GOOD thing, too. CSO to my HONDA.
I like puzzles that force me to think outside the box.
Thank you, lemonade, for all your toil; I'll have to check all those links later.
Have a special day, everyone! Beautiful day here today but tomorrow the temps will plunge.
Baleen scrimshaw FOR SALE .
G Day Maters and Paters,
Thank you Debbie and Lemonade each for your part in my CW experience today. I needed help in a couple of areas with the SW holding it's treasures from me. My "Eyes" saw the theme in the SE corner, but it did not help.
Each time I found a word that didn't make sense, along came eye and sat down beside it. "A hint to completing 12 aptly placed answers" didn't help. Now I see them. They are all around.
Lemony, My link finger is broken. CSO for Katy Perry and Sade.
68A US-TEN
The ship SS Badger shuttles between Ludington, Michigan, and Manitowoc, Wisconsin, connecting U.S. Highway 10 (US 10) between those two cities. --Link or Sink--
I'll see what others wrote now.
Dave 2
Hi Everyone:
Late to the dance for the usual reason, getting sidetracked but I guess that's better than getting side eyed! I filled in the reveal before I was aware of the theme. I did think some of the fill was truncated but I accepted it and just kept going. Glass probably turned the light bulb on and that aided greatly with Third and Good. Unknowns were Baleen and Roland and my caws (silly mistake) and desert instead of coos and desert gave me a big, fat FIW. I found some of the cluing off kilter but that may be just me.
Thanks, Debbie, for an "eye opening" challenge and thanks, Lemony, for an "eye popping" recap.
Have a great day.
Autocorrect strikes again. I had desere before desert.
AHEM, no AH ME. I was not on a ROLL or ON A JAG today. This Friday fiasco beat me. Thanks for the fun Debbie and Lemonade.
SW was my nemesis.
PINK in the SE gave me the Eye and my Coho changed to SOCK.
Toils changed to TREKS. Filled in AVER (but was willing to changed to Avow if needed.
Hand up for Sense before THIRD, and not understanding SNAIL until I got here. I was misdirected by the Pilot and could not find HONDA.
This Canadian did not know GW Bush was the DECIDER; we do not have KIX but we have Corn Pops. I'm not familiar with Yodels or HOHOS either (but I think we have had them here in the past). Route TEN does not pass through Canada (close though!) and I have never taken it (although I have been through the Upper Peninsula. And I have never been called for a POLL by that Q university.
My French education has missed ROLAND but DREYFUS was dredged up out of my memory.
Coops to COOS was questioned. I thought using DESERT as an answer at 49A and in the clue for GOBI at 11D was a NoNo?
KENYA brings back good memories. Out of Africa is a beautiful movie.
Enjoy the day.
Greetings Friends!
What a great Friday puzzle! I had a few missteps, including the confidently placed PAPER instead of DEBIT. SNAIL was last to fall and I still loved the clue, well done!! I got the theme with the Sammy Davis clue. Lemon - you have outdone yourself on the write-up and wonderful links!
I encourage all baseball fans to watch Fastball. It's a documentary about (you guessed it) the history of the fastball. It's very interesting and I learned so much about former players. I spent hours afterward googling and reading. It's on Netflix and well worth your time. (BTW - 25 days until pitchers and catchers!)
I finished watching The Crown but was not ready to leave England so now I'm watching Downton Abbey for the first time. I did not realize that what was aired in the US is an edited version of the full BBC show. All six (full length) seasons are on Amazon Prime Video if you want to revisit your friends. I'm in the second season - no spoilers please ;)
I was a kinda KATY PERRY fan until I saw her duet with Jodi then I loved her. She is very talented and has an amazing heart.
MAD MEN has been in my Netflix queue for awhile, I'll get there eventually. Looks interesting!
@Anon-T from the other day: I'm in Springfield, MO - home of the Double A Springfield Cardinals. We see a lot of the Major League guys come thru for rehab. We have a gorgeous stadium and there's not a bad seat in the place. My BFF and I go several times a year and it's well worth it! In 2016 we got to see Matt Carpenter and Tommy Pham. Here's a "we-fie" of us and Matt Carpenter he's the guy in white
Off to clean and run some errands!
Happy Friday :)
t.
I've heard of baleen, and I've heard of scrimshaw, but I've never heard of baleen scrimshaw. Doesn't seem that it'd be suitable for carving.
Tawnya, your wefie link is broken -- the dreaded 404.
Got the solve with no issue and no fun. I really don’t like these types of puzzles, once you figure out the gimmick - and that’s what it is - there’s not much left to do. Meh.
Lemons,
You missed the Weather Report given by Geri Halliwell. with her tribute to Jennifer Beals of "Flash Dance."
tawnya 1256P
Thank you for Jodi. Wow!
Dave 2 many links
Too bad. I thought I had this one, for an easy (for Friday) Ta- DA! But, alas, I goofed in the center top sector. The UGER is not a "Certain surfer," and Mr. AGEE is not Mr. ASHE.
Otherwise, I did well with Ms. Ellerin's opus. I caught onto the theme with the shared "Physical feature" of Mssrs. Falk & Davis. I surprised myself more than once with my semi-conscious awareness of pop-star names (GERI, KATE PERRY), and even found a gimme in the "French epic hero" of La Chanson de ROLAND.
TGIF-am, y'all!
__________
Diagonal report: We have two diagonals today, the forward and back slash, the main one and its mirror - converging in square 113.
No hidden messages.
Hi All!
Well, I'll chalk this up to a learning day. DNF @4d, 5d, and 7d leaving the NW spotty.
Thanks Debbie. I enjoyed the 1/2 answers. I kinda picked up on the theme @1a and 9a but waited for the reveal to 'see' all the SIDEs had EYEs. Thanks Lem for finishing my grid and splain' SNAIL. I got the squares but didn't stop to think about it because the North was being a TREK.
@5a, I should have thought of Red Dawn [:17] and not X-MEN; gUnK EYE seemed an odder FOE than The JOKER. DR EY?US was not a medical practitioner nor professor. Malfoy (who? Oh, thanks Lem) wasn't Potter's sOn(?).
WO: AVoW b/f AVER (Hi C, Eh!)
ESPs: SCRAG, HO HO, SNAIL.
Fav: Really big stretch == EON!
Spitz - CHAR nor turbot are fish I know. Ones spelt w/ a ph from KENYA's hemiSPHERE, Nigeria, I'm familiar with (right IM? :-)). I wonder if SADE started out as a prince...
Jinx - LOL @epic hero. I too was looking for a Tug Pilot. This Pilot got like, three feet of air that time :-)
Tawnya - that clip of Too Many Stars was great. Here's some THIRD EYE Blind in return.
Cheers, -T
Well, I liked this puzzle and think it is well-constructed. Even after perceiving the theme with GLASS there was still plenty for me to ponder and chew on. I know very little about pop music but knew KATY PERRY as the singer of "Roar" right away. I didn't know Rex Harrison had a glass eye; I wonder if Joe Mantegna does.
"Star Slog" -- funny :)
I understand the KIA Sorento and the HONDA Pilot are good quality. LW wants a Subaru Outback.
Best wishes to you all.
It's raining "Rain Man." This 1988 movie is based on the life of the "Megasavant" Kim Peek, November 11, 1951 to December 19, 2009 (aged 58). I had the privilege of meeting him as he traveled through the Louisville International Airport (LIA) with his father, Fran Peek. Kim let me hold an Oscar on which the gold leaf had worn off long ago.
Barry Morrow, screenwriter of "Rain Man" gave Peek his/Barry's Oscarstatuette to carry with him/Kim and show at appearances; it has since been referred to as the "Most Loved Oscar Statue" because it has been held by more people than any other, including me.
I started at the LIA On 1-3-2005 so the meeting happened sometime between then, and 12-19-09.
Fran advised against having Kim to recite the Gettysburg Address because he would give the street address at which Lincoln slept with the disclaimer "But he only stayed one night."
Dave 2
Bush II's command of the English language wasn't great. when he called himself "the decider" he was trying to tell people he was the commander in chief when many thought decisions were made above his head by the VP. Getting that fill lead me to complete the southwest but when "Snail" appeared I had no idea why. I am also puzzled a bit by "anti" being the solve for the clue fighting but I guess it fits. My TADA came down to the center with a Nigerian singer, an expression I had never heard, and a Van Morrison song other than "light my fire". Good SWAGS got me the 6th TADA of the week and 15/17 this year.
I should go play golf (70 and windless here in SoCal) but I already played 4 times this week...
I am glad everyone stays where they are as SoCAL is too crowded already but I could never understand why.
Whoa! A ton of work Mr. Lemonade and Ms. Ellerin constructed a ton of theme words. Katy Perry and Geri videos. Wow.
Easy fill except for the ASHE/CHAR cross. And I didn't know MADMEN in the NE corner. The rest is, uh... What Chuck Lindgren said. Except for the SoCal location. And Golf. I don't golf.
Rhode Island has plenty of golf courses but it's hard to putt on a green with winter white on it. Biking, jogging, pushups, situps, proper diet (fish - protein vegs - turkey and some chicke) and don't for get the glass of red wine each day!
Debbie: Thank you for a FUN Friday "Eye-opener" puzzle.
(And a V-8 Can smack (ouch!)with the SIDE-EYE theme reveal).
Lemon: Nice job on the write-up.
Fave today, of course, was 21-d, PORTS ... but I was thinkin' about the wine.
Cheers!
Just re-read Owen:
USTEN the WISE sought the AROMA of MAGIC,
The SOUL of the SPHERES, the cosmic fabric!
'Cross the DESERT of GLASS,
Over mountain and pass,
His quest left the wizard SCRAGGY and tragic!
Quite the poem. I didn't know Usten could be a person's name. Sounds medieval.
USTEN can make it a name if you want to.
Or how 'bout, "USTEN, we have a problem..."
Attn: Chuck Lindgren @2:48pm
Light My Fire/The Doors/ JIM Morrison
And Jose Feliciano, my favorite version.
Mr. Remiss says: {A} OKL
D-O: Be MORE positive - 'USTON the Eagle has landed." :-)
I'm a fan of the not-Italian portrayer of one, Falk... If you've never seen him roast Frankie, take the 10 min. -T
DNF. Nothing in the SW corner. CAT'S eye and GLASS eye gave me the repeated word, but I did not catch the "aptly placed answers" as the perimeter. SIDE EYE was unknown without perps. I should have caught BUCKeye, since I was an Ohioan for several years.
Malfoy, NELL, and Out of Africa setting were also all perps.
Never watched Mad Men; thought it was a comedy.
Big Easy: I also wanted SENSE for intuition. Did want ROLAND, but wanted more perps--it didn't fit with SENSE.
In this area, you hear Quinnipiac for local college sports as much as for their POLL.
AnonT, I enjoyed the Columbo clip very much. What a great character.
It's drizzling here. No bike ride today. Still espresso maybe...
Do you like old legal dramas? While surfing the movie channels on cable, I found "The Verdict" with Paul Newman. Excellent.
Loved the theme and all the quirky clues! Very unusual for me: I started with HAND at 1-A and got it and the theme immediately!
I was stuck in the SW. This musician was thinking F FLAT for E alternative. Then the light went on and I got SNAIL and laughed out loud!
This TREK fan is amused at the thought of it being Star SLOG! Thanks, Lemonade!
Why is the GERI video R-Rated?
This BALEEN Whale is on display at our local Museum of Natural History.
Unknowns: SCRAG, ROLAND, ON A JAG, MAD MEN, CHAR, INTO the Mystic
I dislike coffee in any form, especially the breath of someone who has had coffee. But I admit that I do enjoy the AROMA of some coffee while it is brewing.
AnonymousT: I think I am still missing some of your meaning. Sorry! And sorry I missed your post about Ada Lovelace before I posted my comment! She is reputed to be the first computer programmer, designing programs for the Babbage machine. She was also the first one to consider the idea of a computer as a possible conscious being. Way ahead of her time!
Picard - I wanted F Flat for E alternative as well. Musical minds think alike. Thus I was totally misdirected and could not understand SNAIL.
You are the best Corner people; thank you, Tawnya, for the Jodi video. I love being reminded that there are good people doing good things in the world.
When I was young I was addicted to staying up late and listening to WBZ in Boston and Dusty Dick Summer followed by Larry Glick. It was there that I was introduced to Jose Feliciano and his Light My Fire. At the time I had just been diagnosed with an eye condition that severely limited my vision. Learning he made such beautiful music and was blind was inspiring.
Picard - great minds and all that. No worries on missing my Lovelace post; a beautiful mind indeed. //wait, wha??? No coffee? Have you checked your engineering license recently? Coffee is an obligatory checkbox.
Tawnya, on the other hand, needs to answer re: Judaybats :-). //Thanks for the update on the relocated Springfield Cardinals. I knew they left Springfiled but not for the one in MO.
C,Eh (and Picard). I was trying to go musical too @E alternative but the DECIDER wouldn't let me.
Sadness - I just heard about Tom Petty's passing. I picked this song because it brings back warm summer days driving my 1st car w/ a sun-roof. Not an I-ROC mind you, just a sensible 626.
-T
Anon T @11:16 pm
"Sadness - I just heard about Tom Petty's passing."
You mentioned it in your post from October 3, 2017 @7:37 pm and you linked the same song (video).
What the hell did I just hear on NPR? Oh, the ubiquitous 'they' .just figured it out. Wait, wha? Again?!? Three months to figure out he was on drugs?....
Thanks Fact Checker for keeping me straight. // it is a good song - admit it ;-) -T
In defense of Anon-T, as we slowly ooze into -- whadda they call it? -- 'modern maturity', the student will note that the cascade of memory events, means that keeping exact track of the last time you told that joke, or recalling some happening (especially more recent or more repetitive ones) gets a bit dicey.
"Was that really 18 years ago?" is our motto here at the Edgar James Oldheimer Home....
Still have a lot of catching up to do on the blog comments for the last couple of weeks.
I am listening to the news this morning while reading the blog, and the Tom Petty song "You Don't Know How It Feels" starts playing. The newscaster then reports that the "new" news is that Petty died from an accidental overdose of a combination of medications. Must have got new meds prescribed that day when they told him his hip was broken. It is sad.
Anon-T, looks to me like you forgot to insert your link in your comment about Tom Petty. I will amend your sentence and add the link with THIS:
"Sadness - I just heard THIS about Tom Petty's passing."
Finished Thursday's puzzle. Only hangup was having 1A "It doesn't go off" answer as SUN instead of DUD, and 1D "Sidestep" as SIDLE instead of DODGE.
Surprised no one linked any of Dan Fogelberg's songs. Here's one of his early hits" Dan Fogelberg - Part of the Plan (Lyrics)
Lastly, inre the 7:50 AM King of Queens video I posted for the "Relative of a Yodel" clue. The video was in German.
Here's the scene in English:
Carrie comes home. Doug is on the couch eating something.
Doug: Sorry I had to bail tonight, but definitely the right move. Things got a lot worse on the subway. (Bailing from the theater, after he ate sixteen eggrolls earlier in the day in a competition.)
Carrie: What is that ?
Doug: This ? Yodel.
Carrie: Yodel ?
Doug: Yeah, Yodel. Not to be confused with the very similar but far less satisfying HOHO.
Also, FLN, software BUGS are not features. They're bugs.
Black hats exploit not only the vulnerability but also those entities that have lax Change Management, Risk Management, and Security Management practices and policies.
Look back at the Apache Struts vulnerability and how poorly Equifax failed across the board.
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