Theme: TRAIL MIX
(63. Hiker's snack that's literally found in 17-, 29-, 39- and
47-Across). Anagram of TRAIL is hidden inside each familiar phrase.
17A. Five-time NBA championship-winning coach : PAT RILEY
29A. Same old story : FAMILIAR TUNE
39A. Finger painting? : NAIL ART
47A. Captain's choice at the Super Bowl : HEADS OR TAILS
Hello
everyone, Boomer here. Visiting you live from Minneapolis,
Minnesota, and I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a
happy and safe Groundhog Day. Hopefully, Punxatawny Phil will not see
his shadow and we might have less than six weeks of winter left.
But in any case, 48 hours after Groundhog Day, Minneapolis will be visited by the Superb Owl at U.S. Bank Stadium. The NFL is hoping that Mr. Owl will not fly into the glass panels at "The Bank" and be injured. Whether you are a fan of the Eagles or the "Brady Bunch" I hope you enjoy the game. The Vikings were eliminated drastically last week but I still plan to tune in the game because I usually enjoy the commercials.
But in any case, 48 hours after Groundhog Day, Minneapolis will be visited by the Superb Owl at U.S. Bank Stadium. The NFL is hoping that Mr. Owl will not fly into the glass panels at "The Bank" and be injured. Whether you are a fan of the Eagles or the "Brady Bunch" I hope you enjoy the game. The Vikings were eliminated drastically last week but I still plan to tune in the game because I usually enjoy the commercials.
Across:
1. Heist : ROB - Mr. Petrie on the Dick Van Dyke show
4. Pasta nutrient : CARB - Not sure if this is actually a nutrient but they will make your blood glucose go higher.
8. Archie Bunker types : BIGOTS
14. Statement softener, in emails : IMO - In My Opinion
15. Command to Silver : HI YO - I am sure Clayton Moore hollered "Hi Ho" Silver.
16. Shangri-la : UTOPIA
19. Find hilarious : ROAR AT
20. No votes : ANTIs - All in favor of this answer say AYE, all opposed NAY
21. Half an oz.? : ZEE.
23. Olympian Lipinski : TARA - I think she was the first to perform a triple jump
24. German wheels : OPELs - I actually drove one of these once. It was like a roller skate.
27. Seize the opportunity, sunshinewise : MAKE HAY - Think about it. Can you actually make hay, or should you let the sun do it and then bale?
32. Metal corrosion : RUST
33. Part of a biathlete's gear : SKI
34. 2017 award for Emma Stone : OSCAR - Yup, the Academy Awards are know as Oscars, but I do not know why.
38. Yale email address ender : EDU
42. "Deadwood" channel : HBO - I do not subscribe to HBO but I have been to Deadwood, SD. really crummy casinos there
43. A little lit : TIPSY - And thank you for not driving.
45. Hellenic "H" : ETA
46. All hands on deck : CREW - Military haircut
51. Italian rice dish : RISOTTO
54. Transparent soap brand : PEARS - some kind of glycerin concoction that I never heard of and probably would not spend the money to buy.
55. "I'm __ you!" : ONTO
56. "Hunh!?" : WHA - I really object to non words in puzzles.
58. Harvard's is "Veritas" : MOTTO
61. Excited reply to "Who wants dessert?" : I DO, I DO - I think you need to say this when you get married. The second one comes when your future wife kicks you.
66. Evening meal : DINNER
66. Evening meal : DINNER
67. John known for overlapping diagrams : VENN - I googled this guy and if he were alive today he would be 184 years old. How are we supposed to know him?
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68. Loved, with "up" : ATE
69. Agrees : SAYS OK
70. Air Quality Index factor : SMOG - This is a combo of smoke and fog. We don't have much of that here in the frozen tundra.
71. Owen, to Stephen King : SON
Down:
1. Morning co-host with Seacrest : RIPA - Live with Kelly and Ryan.
2. Muscat's country : OMAN
3. "Cheers!" : BOTTOMS UP! - Where everybody knows your name! Don't get tipsy though.
4. Sculptor's tool : CHISEL
5. Be under the weather : AIL - Did you get your AIL shot this year??
6. Grass in a J.D. Salinger title : RYE - required reading in ninth grade. I thought it was "Catch her in the Rye."
7. R&B's __ II Men : BOYZ
8. Part of a bedroom set : BUREAU - I always called it a dresser. I call the FBI a bureau.
9. "What am __ do?" : I TO - I suppose you could clue the Simpson trial judge but we have all seen that before.
10. Buffalo Bill and Charles Dickens wore them : GOATEES - Colonel was sad to be overlooked.
11. "60 Minutes" part-time correspondent : OPRAH
12. Prom queen's crown : TIARA
13. Thai snack : SATAY - Chicken on a stick.
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18. Hit the ball hard : RIP IT - Bowling coach's last words, "Grip it and rip it"
22. Defib expert : EMT - We talked about this last time. I am a Graybar Electric Vet and EMT is Electrical Metallic Tubing - thin wall conduit!
25. Bart's brainy sibling : LISA
26. Munro pen name : SAKI. H. H. Munro.
28. Pretzel shape : KNOT - Sorry but I think a pretzel shape is not a knot.
29. Ridge on a neck : FRET
30. German wheels : AUDI - High quality with my apologies to those who own Opels.
31. Makes mad : RILES
35. Present time? : CHRISTMAS 46. 35-Down song : CAROL
36. Eve's second : ABEL
37. Theater seating arrangements : ROWS
39. Putin's no : NYET - "NYET collusion, NYET Collusion!"
40. Perched on : ATOP
41. Like a double eagle in golf : RARE
- A double eagle is sometimes used to define an Albatross. A hole in
one on a par four, or a two on a par five. It really makes no sense
though, since an eagle is a score of 2 under par on a hole, (or a
Philadelphia player) so a double eagle would be four under par on a hole
- (or a requirement for a Brady sack.)
44. Sure victors : SHOO-INS - I would go with Shoe In, however I learned that this is also a horse racing term.
48. On the clock : AT WORK
48. On the clock : AT WORK
49. "How stupid am I?!" : DOH
50. Title job for Shakespeare's Petruchio : TAMING
- The only Shakespeare I ever read was Julius Caesar, and it was pretty
boring. "How many eggs did you have for breakfast this morning, Caesar
?" Et tu Brute
51. PEDs, in slang : ROIDs - I wonder if Barry Bonds, Roger Clemons, and Sammy Sosa called them that.
52. "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" locale : INDIA - I have never been to India, but I drove through Indiana once. Does that count?
53. Poker-faced : STONY
57. Off-rd. transports : ATVs
59. Bandleader Puente : TITO
60. Team on a field : OXEN - Good old English language. Most every plural ends in "S", except several oxes.
62. __ volente : DEO
64. Sleep phase : REM
65. Mexican year : ANO
Boomer
Note from C.C.:
Happy
birthday to dear Bill G, who's been with this blog for over 9 years.
Bill is always gentle and warm, even to mean anons. I feel like I've
"had" some Cuban food because of Bill.
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| Bill and his wife Barbara |
Greetings!
ReplyDeleteRabbit! Rabbit
Thanks to Ed and Boomer!
Happy Birthday to you Bill!
VENN was a gimme here.
Didn't know PAT RILEY or PEARS, but they filled in easily!
Success with Word Solitaire today!
Eighty degrees here!
Hope to see you all tomorrow!
Good morning. Thank you Ed Sessa and thank you Boomer. Watching the moon. 8 minutes into the eclipse right now.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Bill G !
Found each TRAIL, although I first thought it was going to be some kind of scrambled ART until I got to ART and then to the reveal at 67A.
Me too Boomer. I thought he said HI HO, so that's what I wrote. Those dwarfs that worked undergrouns said HEIGH HO. I've never heard of PEARS either.I think Barry, Roger, Sammy et al knew them as HGH by various code names.
5-time NBA Championship-winning coach ? That begins with a P ? POPOVICH of course. WHA ?, the perps aren't working. Oh, PAT RILEY.
Basketball is getting to be a FAMILIAR TUNE around here. Plus, we have OSCAR. It seems that Rich's puzzle scheduling often have little runs like this.
PK, FLN - Excellent point about Westbrook having that season after Durant departed. They did seem to have an uneasy chemistry. We were talking about Triple Doubles. and then Harden goes off as Anonymous T linked.
Good morning! (And, hey folks, it's still January! What's with the groundhogs and rabbits?)
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed the puzzle, even if I did miss the theme. Again. Thanx, Ed and Boomer.
PEARS: Here's another hand up -- WHA?
MAKING HAY: Spent my high school summers in the hay fields. We'd travel from farm to farm cutting, raking, baling and storing in the barn. Manhandling those 70-lb bales is hard work.
HEIST: Did not realize it was also a verb.
VENN: Anybody who's had to learn sets in math class is familiar with a VENN Diagram.
The moon is just about to dip into the trees west of us. Viewing of the big, bad, blood, blue, eclipse is over.
Happy birthday, Bill G.
I got lucky at the crosses of two absolutely meaningless clues-"Hunh!? & the 'overlapping diagram guy" and the either UTE or ATV. I never knew OPRAH was on 60 Minutes or anything about the shows "Deadwood" or "Marigold Hotel" so INDIA and HBO were perps.
ReplyDeleteRARE double eagle- I was on the tee when my son-in-law hit one from 307 yards, luckily with four other witnesses.
IMO Clayton Moore did say HI HO Silver, not HIYO but Hi YO is was today.
Anybody watch SOTU last night. Both speeches sang a FAMILIAR TUNE.
“A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud of
ReplyDeleteDust, and a hearty ‘Hi-Yo
Ed Sessa is a skilled constructor and Boomer never disappoints.
ReplyDeleteSince the Winter Olympics are coming soon to a television near you, the Tara Lipinski was the first to landed her triple in 1997. Petra Burka landed a triple salchow, the first triple jump by a woman, at the 1962 Canadian championships, The complete jumping RECORDS are interesting, especially as nothing new since 2001.
Very Happy Birthday Bill G. How many stayed up for the show in the sky?
The Hi ho versus hi yo DEBATE
ReplyDeleteIf you google this is serious to some.
Thanks Ed and Boomer. As is often the case this one looked totally impossible at first. Also took HEIST to be a noun , so hesitated at 1 A . When BOTTOMSUP showed I felt better about ROB. Should have had RIPA right off but I don't watch morning TV , so PAT took care of it. Started to fill at EMT and MAKEHAY , and worked my way around clockwise . TRAILMIX and HEADSORTAILS broke it wide open for me . Fun puzzle that looks to give the cornerite poets and composers plenty of material to work with. Always an enjoyable read. -- If at first u don't succeed , ski diving is not for you.
ReplyDeleteBig Easy Did mot have tome to watch the SOTU address , but judging by the non coverage of the late news and the skimpy write up in my morning paper, makes me think it might have been a good address or so boring with alot of SAMEOLD SAMEOLD that expanding on it was considered to be a waste of time :))
Delete"Puzzling Thoughts":
ReplyDeleteBriefly ...
Great puzzle, Ed; classy recap, Boomer
The Beard's TRIPLE DOUBLE last night was pretty awesome
I was still asleep @ 6:30 this morning so I didn't see the lunar event. No one mooned me
TRAIL MIX ---> not a big fan; not on MY wind farm
VENN/TAMING cross was a WAG
Couple w-o's: POESY > TIPSY (SO to Tinbeni); STOIC > STONY
Moe-ku:
Confucius did say:
"Man with an itchy rear-end,
Often shows 'ROID rage."
Moe. Thanks for my first laugh of the day :-()
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed Ed's "scrambled theme," not anagrams, because the scrambled letters do not make real words as in SECURE/RESCUE.
ReplyDeletePAT RILEY needed ESP.
Thought of NAIL POLISH right off, too long, oh, ART. Cute.
I find it interesting that the origin of UTOPIA means "not a place" never never land. There is not total utopia.
"HAYING:the activity of mowing and drying grass to make hay."
As a kid, I heard our neighbor farmers talk of making hay. I believe the dried grass is not hay until it is cut.
I don't care for clues like 21A, half an oz. = Z.
I DO, I DO was a Broadway musical.
Back in the day I though it was HI HO. Listening to the song now I hear HI YO.
HI YO
The SOTU speech was covered extensively last night and this morning in this area.The real test is the action that follows in the coming months. Actions speak louder than words.
Happy birthday, Bill. Have a great day. I really enjoy your posts and am glad you continue to chime in.
ReplyDeleteRegarding 67A: If you study math (beyond arithmetic) you will be introduced to Set Theory and Venn diagrams.
ReplyDeleteAs one who enjoys getting out on the TRAIL as much as possible, this was a fun puzzle and theme!
ReplyDeleteBut RIPA/PAT RILEY was a Natick for me. Never heard of SEACREST. Vaguely heard of RIPA paired with someone else. Crossed with unknown RIP IT. Did WAG it correctly to FIR.
Here was our TRAIL MIX on my Sierra Club hike to the Gaviota Caves on Sunday.
Quite a MIX with people from Greece, Spain, China, Argentina and even some from the US!
Here I am with my friend Melanie who does NAIL ART for a living.
I have another NAIL ART friend with very long nails, but I would have to dig for those photos.
In France when they MAKE HAY they bale it like this.
I could not find my photos of this, so this is one I just found on line.
OPRAH lives in my small city, but I have never once seen her.
Regarding UTOPIA:
The great sage Yogi Berra once said:
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
We may never get to UTOPIA, but I think it is very important to keep our eyes on where we want to go. Or else we will end up someplace else.
From yesterday:
desper-otto: Amusing quip about JOAN BAEZ and PHIL OCHS. These FOLK SINGERS don't look much alike, but their names do have the same number of letters!
Magilla Go-Rilla, old man, I don't know why but blogger has been sticking you in the spam folder. Have you been misbehaving?
ReplyDeleteI’ve been good😁
DeleteSometimes the mail interprets certain words incorrectly and throws it into spam. I don’t see anything in my last post that might have triggered such a thing. And I use this mailbox exclusively for this crossword puzzle site.
Who knows what fate has in store for us?😕
Good morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday to Bill G. Bike ride to the coffee place today?
'MADE HAY' with this solve. Some head-scratch areas but eventually got it all without searches. Had 'supper' before DINNER. Growing up, DINNER was always at noon.
Which brings me to:
MAKE HAY - We lived it for several weeks every Summer. A fun time of year, but also stressful hoping that the weather would cooperate for hay drying. Some seasons, great weather; others, rain or showers every other day. When the windrows would get wet, or wouldn't dry, we'd use a tedder to loosen up the windrows, or, in later years, the outer end of our side-delivery rake, to turn the windrow over.
Germans seem to have a song about everything. Here is one about HAY (Heu):
Es hat ein Bauer ein schönes Weib
Es hatt' ein Bauer ein schönes Weib,
Das blieb so gerne zu Haus'.
Sie bat oft ihren lieben Mann,
Er sollte doch fahren hinaus,
Er sollte doch fahren ins Heu,
Er sollte doch fahren ins Heu-eu-eu-u-hei,
Er sollte doch fahren ins Heu.
A farmer has a beautiful wife
She liked to stay at home.
She often asked her lovely husband
He should drive out
He should drive out into the hay
He should drive out into the ha-ha-ha-hay,
He should drive out into the hay.
(Sorry for the Bavarian accent)
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteI hit a few stumbling blocks here and there but nothing that prevented the Tada. I had Sati before Saki (which is always the case) and Vonn before Venn. I have come across Venn but, being math illiterate, it didn't stick in my mind. The theme was well-hidden (to me, anyway) so the reveal was a nice aha moment. Pat Riley is a native of this area and is as well-known for his sartorial splendor as he is for his coaching success. The only soap in this house is Dove.
Thanks, Mr. Ed, for a mid-week romp and thanks, Boomer, for your witty wrap up. Stop by more often!
Very, very Happy Birthday, Bill G.🎂🎈🎉🍾🎁 I hope you have a special day and if there is a luncheon celebration, I'd love to hear the menu!
Lucina, FLN, you may know this already but the clip of the bundt cake scene from "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" reminded me of the recent story of Lainie Kazan being arrested for shoplifting. Apparently, this has been an ongoing problem as she is practically destitute. It's so sad to see this happen to anyone and, in her case, even harder to understand. I've liked her as an actress from the days of TV's "The Paper Chase."
Have a great day.
I'm batting zero this week for themes. I didn't 'get' it until reading the blog.
ReplyDeleteSo, I enjoyed your expo, Booner, more than solving the puzzle.
I learned Venn diagrams but never taught them in 25 years of teaching math.
It's been beautiful weather in my area of Montana, but cold and snow are back today.
Montana
Happy Birthday, Bill G!
ReplyDeleteWe taught Venn diagrams in elementary school.For those who are not into math, Venn diagrams can be used for logic, too. In the following article there is a lot of math, but you can ignore it if you wish and just look under EXAMPLE with the overlapping orange and blue circles and the explanation of them.
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With the younger children we used them less for math than for comparing and contrasting.
Venn
Good Morning.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday, Bill! Have a great celebration in addition to your Blue Moon and an eclipse--well, it was there even if a little late for the West Coast.
Thanks, Ed. Good fun this morning. Ah, OPELS now and AUDI later. Yes, I tired the AUDIs first--I usually do. Buick used to sell the OPEL in the U.S.
Thanks, Boomer. Stay cozy for the Super Bowl. Here, the Defib Expert is know as DH's Electro-cardiologist. Hub has an onboard defib unit along with his pacemaker. Between my hips and his electronics, we are a great pair at the airport!
I really liked the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and just about anything with such a fine cast of British/Australian/Former Commonwealth actors. IMO, they are so much better than Americans because of their formal stage training where they seem to have learned so much subtlety and timing. So many (but not all, of course) American actors were discovered as models/???. Quite nice to look at but lacking in depth when they play their roles.
VENN was easy for me as I used to use them in many non-mathematical areas--especially history in Middle School in the old days.
Today is the last small gathering for my Birthday. It's been birth-month around here rather than birthday. Maybe they're all surprised I'm still here. Tee Hee!
Have a cozy day.
Musings
ReplyDelete-Ever see a coin flip where the coin didn’t flip? It RILED Aaron Rodgers.
-The red planet, Mars, is so called because it is covered in iron oxide or RUST
-An artifact on display in Deadwood, marking its only famous event
-Being a very popular, successful movie is not a plus to OSCAR voters
-Was anyone ever in I ETA PI?
-The haunting song “My Cup Runneth Over” comes from the play I DO! I DO!
-Michelangelo – “I just took my CHISEL and got rid of everything that didn’t look like David” :-)
-Our school had this DE FIB kit on the wall and trained us, but in an emergency…
-Ed McMahon had a famous HI YO as well
-Many want this symbol on their plaque if those guys make it into the Hall Of Fame
-Sleep phase? PLEASE, any cure for my snoring??
-Happy Birthday, Bill!
Carbs are definitely nutrients as are protein, fat, vitamins, minerals, and water
ReplyDeleteAck! Left the dead tree version upstairs...
ReplyDelete(So now I don't know if my WAGs panned out...)
Speaking of my confusion, Fermat rabbit, Rabbit? (is not today the 31st?)
Boomer? Groundhog day, Ack! don't tell me it is today AND the 2nd of February!
(sheesh! that movie keeps coming back like a bad burrito...)
Bill G, A Venn diagram cake for you!
This was also an option, but I thought the knife might betray my true feelings...
Trail Mix? I always bring some music with me...
Also,
ReplyDeleteThis Hi-Yo/Hi-Ho controversy has been done to death!
Didn't know his name was John, but I knew VENN. Created my share of them when line, bar and pie charts wouldn't suffice.
ReplyDeleteI can hear Ted Allen, "OK chefs, onto the DINNER round ! RISOTTO, RYE, OXEN SATAY, PEARS and TRAIL MIX are your basket ingredients. The clock starts now !"
Sounds like a FAMILIAR TUNE for an episode of Food Network's "Chopped", don't you think ?
Hi Y'all! Fun & fast, thanks, Ed Sessa! Very chuckle-worthy expo, Boomer!
ReplyDeletePAT RILEY was a gimme, altho I was thinking Popovich first. (Both are lean & mean.) RILEY left the NY Knicks to coach the Miami Heat then became the franchise president where he still "rules" He has been with Miami 22 seasons. He is also in the BB Hall of Fame. He earlier played pro ball, but I don't know where.
Didn't know VENN. Don't like WHA. Don't understand PEDS or ROIDS.
I'm with Boomer on BUREAU. Tried dresser.
In high school we could always tell which boys had been out to MAKE HAY. They were the only ones with muscles in an era when no one lifted weights in a gym, which was an energy-wasting activity. Town boys liked to hire on because of the muscle building as well as good pay for those days. Fresh air and fun always go along with the hard work of harvesting anything. Providing food for animals & humans is worthwhile.
Present time is CHRISTMAS? Past that season, Ed. Oh, gift-type present. Duh! (I'm not named Simpson.)
I think PEARS soap is a complexion soap seen only in romance novels in the U.S. No wonder our men didn't know it. I've never seen it in a store.
OAS: good one about SKY diving. Or did you mean SKI diving?
Moe: your post was a continuous chuckle.
Happy Birthday, BillG! You are an asset to the blog. I hope Barbara's health is okay. We haven't had an update for some time.
Darn Darn Darn. I thought I finally got a puzzle and an Ed Sessa at that, but once again, 'twas not to be. Had WHO instead of WHA because I figured it would be Off-Track Vehicle for that off-road transport. Well, I guess I just don't know my vehicles. But I thought the puzzle was nice, otherwise, and Boomer, your write-ups are just getting wittier and more entertaining every time. I mean, ROB Petrie! I too thought it should he HI HO Silver, and not HI YO. Oh Well, and to think it's only Wednesday and things will continue to get worse. But cheer up, the sun is shining, Boomer was funny, and there will surely be better puzzle days ahead next week.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday wishes to Bill G., and to Madame Defarge.
Still have guys working in the attic this morning to finish the rat-proofing, but am praying that this will be the end of it. I want my quiet mornings back.
Have a good day, everybody (groundhog? or whatever)
Hi everybody. Seventy-seven at last! I really appreciate all of the kind wishes. I feel as if I have accumulated a nice group of friends here.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday Madame Defarge!
* Venn diagrams are a very simple and useful tool for certain mathematical and logical concepts. Who doesn't learn something easier when you have a visual representation of the concept. I used to tell my students it was named after the famous German mathematician, Dr. Diagram.
* The other important bone of contention is the Lone Ranger's parting cry. I'm not relying on childhood memories but the old Lone Ranger TV programs I have found and watched recently on cable. They are simple-minded old-fashioned fun. As he and Tonto ride off down the dusty trail after vanquishing the bad guys, he shouts something like "Hi-Oh, Silver." It might be Hi Yo but it certainly isn't Hi Ho Silver.
Hey PK, thanks for asking. Barbara had her regular CT scan yesterday and it came back clean! We are very happy. She celebrated by buying a large, fancy fruit tart on the way home from the doctor's office. Woohoo!
Wow! I know I overslept, but through the 31st and into the 2nd???? It was a wonderful sleep no doubt induced by the Margaritas at DINNER.
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't too hard to find the TRAILMIX in the theme answers. What was surprising was to see ROB and heist as synonyms. I think HIYO is correct
FRET? Oh, on a guitar. In workshops for New Math (the 60s) we were introduced to VENN diagrams to use when teaching sets in arithmetic.
TOUPEES was changed to GOATEES though I can't recall seeing any picture of Dickens that way.
I love The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and the Second one, too. Funny. Mme DeFarge, that's a sweeping generalization about American actors, though I realize you said, some, not all. Many of them attend not only acting school but earn degrees at universities and I see great depth in their acting. I agree that some were recruited from modeling careers but I believe they might be in the minority.
Picard:
I have seen those round bales in the U.S. and I'm sure Montana can verify that in her state they are in wide use.
I loved the clue for CHRISTMAS, present time.
A very happy birthday to you, Bill. I can't wait to hear about your lunch and DINNER menus.
Have a wonderful end to January, everyone!
Boomer:
ReplyDeleteThank you for the amusing commentary.
Happy Birthday Bill G, and good day to all!
ReplyDeleteOnce again I definitely needed the reveal to catch the theme, and needed ESP for PEARS as clued. Loved "Present time? for CHRISTMAS. Thanks for the witty review, Boomer.
Enjoy the day!
Bill and Barbara, that is really good news about Barbara's CT scan. I've been thinking of you both for some time and hoping for the best.
ReplyDeleteMy family called them bureaus and my ex's family called them dressers. I adapted.
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - I enjoyed both the novel and the movie. I didn't know there was a second movie. Was there a second novel?
I got ROID from perps, my last fill. Later I LIU.
PED, performance enhancing drugs
ROID, steroid
CE Dave,the math cake gave me a good laugh.
Yes, present time, Christmas, was another good one.
Madame DeFarge, I don't remember whether I wished you a happy birthday or not. I'm losing it. If I goofed, here's hoping you had a great day.
PK Typo I did mean sky diving . Did some downhill ski diving till I gave that up. Yrs ago when I first tried water skiing I didn't let go of the rope when I wiped out and got sucked down till my chest hit bottom . I loved swimming enough to try again with better results. -- I was glad to hear you're doing better and happy bday.
ReplyDeleteThis went smoothly with the only wo Clayton Moore's shout. C-Moe was a good one and Boomer was droll and pithy, as George Smiley said of Goethe.
ReplyDeletePat Riley played on the Kentucky all white team that lost to Texas Western. That team actually had a white player but mostly used five blacks(as did Loyola two years earlier in beating Cincinatti.
Riley won his rings with LA and Miami. FLN, I was a Tris Speaker fan since CF was my Babe Ruth league position. Speaking of.. I was so disappointed when I read "Catcher in the Rye" and found out there was no baseball.
I better go, I've been hogging a breakfast table since noon.
WC
Oh yeah. Riley played his pro ball with an ABL team called the Kentucky Colonels.
BillG: Great news about Barbara. So happy for both of you! Today is also my oldest grandson's birthday in Oklahoma.
ReplyDeleteBig round hay bales are seen in our state too. My farmer bought a big baler when he and his brothers got old enough to not like hoisting the heavy little rectangular bales and teenage boys were finding other things like college scholarships and loans to rely on as well as gym-produced muscles.
YR: The 2nd "Marigold" film was good, you'd like it. Don't know if there was a book, but don't think so. Wish there was a PED just for old ladies. I promise I wouldn't get ROID rage. LOL!
OAS: my son did a ski dive too, but talked about going back. Why? Yikes to your water skiing event. Glad you surfaced again.
I thought Tonya Harding was the first to land a triple jump. The axell.
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Thanks to Ed Sessa for a puzzle mixed with a trail of scratched out letter and Boomer for a biting review.
ReplyDeleteI am not going to start a controversy here but as I did this puzzle I had a day ja vou effect (not from yesterday) that this MIXED TRAIL was done before. Perhaps in a different newspaper.
Christmas present and Carol combo was inventive. Didn't know about IMO or Pat Riley, or that damn marigold place. I wonder how many people saw that film? Knew all about Venn diagrams; I think they're great, (no sarcasm). The clue for Taming was a stretch. The clue for I TO can't beat, "Who am ___ Judge?". Don't know Tito.
Never heard of SATAY, probably seen them in Asia restaurants.
I thought this puzzle was going to be crazy hard. Turned out medium - easy, when I saw the reveal.
Thanks,
A nice puzzle, but it seems Ed Sessa let a little bit slip 'n' slide today; I'm looking at you, WHA. And you too, DOH. Nice theme, though, and fill such as MAKE HAY, BUREAU, and BOTTOMS UP please me. Excellent clue for CHRISTMAS.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday greetings to you, Bill G, and felicitations to Barbara. I now know you are about 7 months older than I am. May you continue to enjoy bike rides for many more years.
We watched the State of the Union address last evening, but missed seeing the lunar eclipse this morning. And I hope I never have to look at Nancy Pelosi's face ever again. The way her tongue seemed to be exploring every corner of the inside of her mouth, I wondered if she had a loose tooth or something. How can anybody sit stony-faced, like a spoiled child about to throw a tantrum, rejecting the very notion of "let's all work together to serve the people"? It was no stretch of my imagination to envision her stamping the feet like the aforementioned spoiled child, hands balled into fists, screaming, "No! No! No! I won't! I won't! I won't!"
Sorry for that outburst, but I feel so strongly about it. I'm now calm again.
One summer when I was a 10-year old kid, I tried to help out baling hay and heaving the bales onto the truck. No luck; I simply didn't have the physical strength in my arms to do it. Totally unable to "lift that bale." I ended up being the water boy.
Best wishes to you all.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BILL G.! ... My "first" SUNSET Toast is to YOU!
ReplyDeleteBoomer: Wonderful, informative write-up. Good Job !!!
Fave today, of course, was 43-a, A little lit, TIPSY ...
At Villa Incognito it is a social requirement, LOL
Needed ESP (Every-Single-Perp) to get RIPA and SATAY. Don't watch the show, or know the Thai dish.
Learning moments I will forget by Subset.
Cheers!
A thoughtful comment yesterday about O'ROURKE was censored? But partisan political rants today get to stay up?
ReplyDeleteI am fine with thoughtful, relevant political comments.
YR:
ReplyDeleteI concur with PK about the 2nd Marigold Hotel movie. It was enjoyable. The cast alone has enough power to provide top notch entertainment.
Bill G:
Let me add my good wishes and congratulations about Barbara's good outcome! That is wonderful news!
Anon @ 1:46. I agree that the comment you are referring to is way too partisan, not to say, snarky. It was submitted less than a half hour ago. It may be taken down by the blog administrator soon.
ReplyDeleteBill G., such good news about Barbara's continued good health. 🌸💐🌺
ReplyDeleteDave 2 - at 0757 yesterday you wrote:
ReplyDelete"Thanks Mike for providing for us. I'm packing light just my Speedos."
Well, in that case maybe I'll have to rethink my plans - I'll probably have to go somewhere after all. Sorry.
WHA?!? - All my WAGs were right but my 'sure' was wrong?
ReplyDelete"Hey, Muscles, we're goinna' do a bank Heist"
"A WHA? Boss?"
"A Bank JOB"
"Oh, I getcha Boss... Heiheie"
Play later, -T
HBD Bill G! May this be one of your best!
ReplyDeleteAnd a splendidly happy Birth Month to Madame deFarge, the belle of Evanston!
Ta- DA! Ah, this was easy, in a good way, with just enough pauses and twice-thinking to give it chewiness. I thank Mr. Sessa for the workout - and for what I took to be some neat indirect cluing. I loved RYE (6D) as the "Grass" in a Salinger title.
Boomer (whom I thank for his thorough explanations) asked how we should know John VENN, but I understood that clue (67A) as a way of making plain that these familiar "overlapping diagrams" were actually devised by someone. TTP apparently had the same insight.
TAMING was a gimme, although I think the clue was a bit off. Shouldn't it have been "Title activity" rather than "Title job"? The job would be TAMER, but that isn't in the title.
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Diagram Report: A solid 3-way, running NW to SE. No hidden message. A number of 3-fills are completely included: IMO, SKI, ETA, & ATE.
Agree 102% with Jayce: "A nice puzzle, but it seems Ed Sessa let a little bit slip 'n' slide today; I'm looking at you, WHA. And you too, DOH."
ReplyDeleteWe all know that liberties often have to be taken in order for any puzzle to coinhere, but I groan when I see a clue like "Hunh!?" Unless the perps work out, we are in the purgatory of trying to figure out which dialect of Crosswordian the author was using, and how the author spelled the answer differently from anyone else, et cetera.
May I make a motion, that such clues and answers be strenuously avoided in the future?
TTP - Thanks for your suggestion (yesterday) of alternate patterns that might fill in for me when a grid won't yield a decent diagram.
ReplyDeleteSo far, I find my search for diags, whether straight-on or mirror, occupies what time I have to give. Even when I fail to find gold (or silver - the mirror side), I will ordinarily reach sufficient closure. I'm not saying I won't have more time to spend or aesthetic needs to fill in the future (this retirement thing still being new for me), so I'll keep an open mind to your proposition.
Hunh? Wah? Not elegant, but a gimme, a piece of cake. Those who read dialog in novels have no problem parsing this.
ReplyDeleteJust a brief SO for the clues that Michael is challenging.
ReplyDeleteI won't bother arguing the merits of DOH, as it is a familiar expression in the wake of The Simpsons.
And I admit I generally don't like grunts like "Hunh!?" - at first. But the more I examine them, I often find the constructor is wilier than I suspected.
In this case, The "n" added by Mr. Sessa to the usual "Huh?" is what kept me from falling (as others did!) for WHO in my fill.
It was that "n" that told me I shouldn't settle for a usual English pronoun, causing me to scrape the ol' walnut for the less common exclamation, WHA.
Any other votes?
Michael @ 3:36
ReplyDeleteI agree with your assessment of 'Hunh!?'. And the equally worthless WHA. But talking to the choir is useless; tell Rich.
YR- what is Wah? another meaningless grunt?
OMK- the only place I've ever seen DOH is a crossword puzzle, never having watched The Simpsons ( other than my own family)
OMK, I'm again' it. FIR before golf. Hand up for having jOB for ROB, and I had elia before SAKI (don't ask).
ReplyDeletePAT RILEY was a snap. I remember him from his college days at UK and coaching the Lakers when they had Kareem and Magic. A car dealership in LA had billboards that showed RILEY next to a luxury car with the caption "two stylish coaches".
When I was growing up our "three squares" were breakfast, dinner and supper.
Learned about VINN diagrams 50 years ago in high school. I still use them to teach prospective project managers how to analyze the stakeholder communities in their projects.
My favorites today were MAKE HAY and "a little lit" for TIPSY.
HBD Bill. You are truly an asset to The Corner. Thanks to Ed for another fine puzzle and to Boomer for a really fun review.
Hi Puzzle Pals!
ReplyDeleteYep, I put in JOB and 1d meant nothing to me. At least I guessed it was PAT and not Cat (could'a been a female), FAT (no, not blues), nor N|Mat@17a. FIW.
Thanks Ed for another delightful puzzled that MIX'd me up in a number of areas but I SAYS it's OK (all's fair in puzzledom!).
Wonderful expo Boomer - copious chuckles here. Thanks.
WOs: Ghotees(?), SHO b/f HBO
ESPs: PEARS (as clue'd), SAKI, PAT RILEY [WAGs galore, that one]
Fav: WHA? xing D'OH! That was my reaction at Present time==CHRISTMAS (a very close second fav).
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Happy Birthday BillG - thought of you and Fermat @VENN. Lunch report? [good news on Barbara too!]
CED - Loved the TRAIL MIXer; and FRET's a CSO to you.
TTP - Good one! with IRON-Chopped-Chef.
BigE - I listened to SOTU last night and posted my thoughtful analysis :-)
=====skip if you don't care about WKRP ====
I looked but could not find the clip of Dr. Johnny Fever, after falling into money started wasting it on stuff. Johnny reached into a brown-bag and said to Venus,
"Look, See through soap!"
Venus told Johnny to take care of his new money... Johnny said:
"I put it all on a filly"
"You bet it all?!?"
"Naw man, I setup college for my daughter."
//was that like your were there ? :-). I loved that episode; heck, I loved all WKRP
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VENN - A staple in computer science and set-theory. Careful study lead me to the conclusion...
I'm in my own little circle.
Cheers, -T
Hunh? What? What did you say?
ReplyDeleteI pronounce the N, not just huh.
Wha? What? What did you say? What did you mean?
Wha' What with a dropped T. Not wah, a cry of distress.
Good Puzzle... but I never got the theme.Oh well.
ReplyDeleteBoomer, OSCAR was named either for Academy President and actress Bette Davis' first husband, or when the Academy's Exec. Secretary said the statuette looked like her Uncle Oscar.
ReplyDeleteWhen you read Shakespeare if feels important to understand every archaic word, but if you watch a live performance you can just let the words flow over you and you can still know what's going on. Saratoga Shakespeare Company does free performances outdoors in the park every summer.
I vote for Hi, Yo
I passed on the SOTU in favor of Colbert's summary on The Late Show, then read the Associate Press list of exaggerations, mistakes and outright falsehoods.
OMK I also had no prob with wha . Saw the clue was a bit unusual so looked for the answer to be unusual as well.
ReplyDeleteNot easy to finally get the solve today, some tough clueing.
ReplyDeleteI don't let the late night blowhards yo sway my outlook. And lately the news outlets provide a skewed version also. To the tune of 80 percent.
ReplyDeleteI'll take my household's extra 6000.00 this year and hope the substantial increase to my 401k and child's college fund and form my own opinion.
I understand a certain congresswoman's opinion says it's just crumbs but to this non-millionaire it is the 1st good financial news we have had in years.
Anon I prefer positive news to negative as well. Too much feeding off negativity is like a cancer destroying from within IMHO
ReplyDeleteOn "WHA?" - Check my post(s) -- as recent as 1/19 when I used it whilst shocked! that Picard did "all that" without drinking coffee. I'm not saying I "invented" WHA... (nor did I work w/ Ed & Rich for this MIX). #NoCollusion
ReplyDeleteCatching up on some things...
JJM - When everyone (looking at you too D-O) says didn't get the theme - does that mean didn't suss it before the reveal? Like, you didn't catch it on the way down OR, even after it was spelled out, still didn't 'get' it? I seldom catch it before the reveal.
SanFranMan? where'd you go? All fine in your neck of the wood?
I finally made it through [most of] D4's posted paper re: SEISMic circles.
TL;DR - Lots of cool pix and some interesting ideas... The maths come about 1/2 through and then it gets >The History Channel interesting. YMMV [Oh, and you'll need time, lots of time]. Jayce - I'm interested in your take if you have the bandwidth.
//RUSTed-Chef Rant
I'm going to have to work on Youngest...
See, I had this Great Idea(TM) to save time building dinner by "saladizing" (patent-pending) last nights' meals. e.g. Sunday was salmon and Monday was cold salmon shredded over a bed of salad [with 20yro Italian Balsamic DW picked up on her trip to Italy last year] and tonight was last night's left over NY strips (cubed) sautéed w/ onions over same salad but now wilted from the heat of steak/onions.
Both nights, Youngest was all, like, "put my fish/steak on the side."
It's too plain on the side!!! #WhatTaDoWhatTaDo
Cheers, -T
Hello Puzzlers -
ReplyDeleteQuite late to the party, busy day and all. Wanted to get in a HBTY Bill G, and congratulations on the news!
Hear, hear! Dudley.
ReplyDeleteforgot to say....
Happy Birthday Bill
Hi everybody. Thank you all for the birthday wishes and really kind comments. They mean a lot.
ReplyDeleteI LOVED WKRP!
Well, then, here's one full(ish) episode I found (WKRP Changes) for you BillG. Happy Birthday! -T
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