Theme: "PT Exercise" - P is converted into T, changing spelling as needed.
23A. Most highly regarded seasoning? : TARRAGON OF VIRTUE. Paragon of virtue.
46A. Brusque orchestral violinists? : TERSE STRINGS. Purse strings.
67A. Actress Helen with her personal programmer? : HUNT AND TECH. Hunt and peck.
91A. Kids responsible for breakfast bread? : TOASTER GIRLS. Poster girls.
114A. Well-ventilated chef's hat? : TOQUE FULL OF HOLES. Poke full of holes.
36D. Chocolate-loving gang? : COCOA TOUGHS. Cocoa puffs.
42D. Measurement for meat rotating on a spit? : ROAST TORQUE. Roast pork.
Four first-word changes. Three last-word changes. All went through considerable spelling changes while the sound remain the same. So consistent. Very creative approach.
I never head of "Poke full of holes", I figured it's "Pocketful of holes", which actually has plenty of Google support. Then I asked D-Otto about the extra sound drop.
Across:
1. Peaks : ACMES
6. Two-letter pop group : ABBA
10. Prepares potatoes, in a way : WHIPS. Here is how D-Otto prepares his potatoes. Authentic! Boomer said the dumplings we had in one of the buffets were made of potato flakes.
15. Card in a wallet : VISA
19. Zagreb native : CROAT
20. Vanishing sound : POOF
21. Seating option : AISLE. Boomer's spot. He needs to stretch often. So I'm always in the middle.
22. It gives you the big picture : IMAX
26. Side : EDGE
27. Call for icing, maybe : SWELL UP
28. Author Binchy : MAEVE
29. Limo amenity : MINI BAR
31. Literally, "shady side" : YIN. So in winter, I eat adzuki bean soup (Yang). In summer, I have mung bean soup (Yin). I don't really see the differences, but I was told to do so from an early age.
32. Like two Beethoven piano sonatas : IN E
33. Groom on a 1952 Life cover : ABNER. Stumper.
34. B, in a sandwich : BACON
37. Bridget Riley's "Movement in Squares," e.g. : OP-ART
40. 23rd of 24 : PSI. Greek alphabet.
41. Gets more friendly, with "up" : WARMS
45. __ collar : ETON
49. Alley in comics : OOP
50. Soft shoe : MOC
51. Portends : BODES
52. Bush boss : REAGAN. Bush Sr. So sad his reputation is tainted now.
53. Singer DiFranco : ANI
54. Card game shout : UNO
55. "Trinity" novelist : URIS
56. "__ Not There": Zombies hit : SHE'S
58. Child with a sponsor, maybe : GODSON
60. Homer's "Northeaster," for one : SEASCAPE
62. Wall covers : PANELS
65. Quick quality : WIT
66. Italian noble family : ESTE
70. One of a program dozen : STEP. Now AA has branches in China. We also have 78. Lit : SOUSED
73. Big-eyed bird : OWL
75. "Tristram Shandy" author : STERNE
76. Bag by the barbecue : CHARCOAL. Also in my face wash.
81. Honey beverage : MEAD
82. "Hamilton" award : TONY
83. 97-Across output : RTE. And 97. See 83-Across : GPS
84. Holiday drink : NOG
85. Knockoff hr. : FIVE PM. Mine is often 4:00pm.
88. Glittery rock : GEODE
89. Logician's letters : QED
90. Granite St. campus : UNH. University of New Hampshire.
94. Town : BURG
95. Low choristers : BASSI
98. Golf bag set : IRONS
99. "Not a chance!" : MY EYE
100. Pie nut : PECAN. Do you have Sweetgreen in your area? We don't. They have so many nice & hearty salad bowl choices.
102. Kiss at the mall, briefly : PDA
103. Security briefing org. : CIA
104. Lunch with fish : TUNA SUB
107. Large crosses : ROODS
109. Head honcho, e.g. : MAGNATE
113. Finished : OVER
117. It's often stained : DECK. Oh hey, I fixed our deck hole last year at the guidance of D-Otto and TTP.
118. Language that gives us "kayak" : INUIT
119. "The Clan of the Cave Bear" author : AUEL
120. Old Eurasian rulers : TSARS
121. Wine adjective : OAKY
122. Ideal areas : EDENS
123. Letters before Q? : LGBT. LGBTQ.
124. Limited-choice, as a question : YES-NO. Big Easy, at The Orleans, the extremely slow internet connection is part of the "Resort fee". You can also pay an extra $10/day, then you can have faster connection, download speed up to 25 Mbps. I think TTP has the fastest download speed in our corner.
23A. Most highly regarded seasoning? : TARRAGON OF VIRTUE. Paragon of virtue.
46A. Brusque orchestral violinists? : TERSE STRINGS. Purse strings.
67A. Actress Helen with her personal programmer? : HUNT AND TECH. Hunt and peck.
91A. Kids responsible for breakfast bread? : TOASTER GIRLS. Poster girls.
114A. Well-ventilated chef's hat? : TOQUE FULL OF HOLES. Poke full of holes.
36D. Chocolate-loving gang? : COCOA TOUGHS. Cocoa puffs.
42D. Measurement for meat rotating on a spit? : ROAST TORQUE. Roast pork.
Four first-word changes. Three last-word changes. All went through considerable spelling changes while the sound remain the same. So consistent. Very creative approach.
I never head of "Poke full of holes", I figured it's "Pocketful of holes", which actually has plenty of Google support. Then I asked D-Otto about the extra sound drop.
Across:
1. Peaks : ACMES
6. Two-letter pop group : ABBA
10. Prepares potatoes, in a way : WHIPS. Here is how D-Otto prepares his potatoes. Authentic! Boomer said the dumplings we had in one of the buffets were made of potato flakes.
15. Card in a wallet : VISA
19. Zagreb native : CROAT
20. Vanishing sound : POOF
21. Seating option : AISLE. Boomer's spot. He needs to stretch often. So I'm always in the middle.
22. It gives you the big picture : IMAX
26. Side : EDGE
27. Call for icing, maybe : SWELL UP
28. Author Binchy : MAEVE
29. Limo amenity : MINI BAR
31. Literally, "shady side" : YIN. So in winter, I eat adzuki bean soup (Yang). In summer, I have mung bean soup (Yin). I don't really see the differences, but I was told to do so from an early age.
33. Groom on a 1952 Life cover : ABNER. Stumper.
34. B, in a sandwich : BACON
37. Bridget Riley's "Movement in Squares," e.g. : OP-ART
40. 23rd of 24 : PSI. Greek alphabet.
41. Gets more friendly, with "up" : WARMS
45. __ collar : ETON
49. Alley in comics : OOP
50. Soft shoe : MOC
51. Portends : BODES
52. Bush boss : REAGAN. Bush Sr. So sad his reputation is tainted now.
53. Singer DiFranco : ANI
54. Card game shout : UNO
55. "Trinity" novelist : URIS
56. "__ Not There": Zombies hit : SHE'S
58. Child with a sponsor, maybe : GODSON
60. Homer's "Northeaster," for one : SEASCAPE
62. Wall covers : PANELS
65. Quick quality : WIT
66. Italian noble family : ESTE
70. One of a program dozen : STEP. Now AA has branches in China. We also have 78. Lit : SOUSED
73. Big-eyed bird : OWL
75. "Tristram Shandy" author : STERNE
76. Bag by the barbecue : CHARCOAL. Also in my face wash.
81. Honey beverage : MEAD
82. "Hamilton" award : TONY
83. 97-Across output : RTE. And 97. See 83-Across : GPS
84. Holiday drink : NOG
85. Knockoff hr. : FIVE PM. Mine is often 4:00pm.
88. Glittery rock : GEODE
89. Logician's letters : QED
90. Granite St. campus : UNH. University of New Hampshire.
94. Town : BURG
95. Low choristers : BASSI
98. Golf bag set : IRONS
99. "Not a chance!" : MY EYE
100. Pie nut : PECAN. Do you have Sweetgreen in your area? We don't. They have so many nice & hearty salad bowl choices.
102. Kiss at the mall, briefly : PDA
103. Security briefing org. : CIA
104. Lunch with fish : TUNA SUB
107. Large crosses : ROODS
109. Head honcho, e.g. : MAGNATE
113. Finished : OVER
117. It's often stained : DECK. Oh hey, I fixed our deck hole last year at the guidance of D-Otto and TTP.
118. Language that gives us "kayak" : INUIT
119. "The Clan of the Cave Bear" author : AUEL
120. Old Eurasian rulers : TSARS
121. Wine adjective : OAKY
122. Ideal areas : EDENS
123. Letters before Q? : LGBT. LGBTQ.
124. Limited-choice, as a question : YES-NO. Big Easy, at The Orleans, the extremely slow internet connection is part of the "Resort fee". You can also pay an extra $10/day, then you can have faster connection, download speed up to 25 Mbps. I think TTP has the fastest download speed in our corner.
Down:
1. John follower : ACTS
2. Sticking point? : CRAW
3. Extra : MORE
4. Near the start : EARLY ON
5. Yalta Conference notable : STALIN
6. Informal pricing words : A POP
7. __ vivant : BON
8. High time : BOOM
9. __ de coeur: amorous relationship : AFFAIRE. Funny how we write "heart" so differently.
10. Forgo : WAIVE
11. Put on : HIRE
12. Musician's suffix : IST. Oh, like pianist.
13. Pipes and such : PLUMBING
14. Welcome : SEE IN
15. Former "Today" co-host : VIEIRA
16. Source of film trivia : IMDB
17. Complex story : SAGA
18. Lumberyard supplier : AXER. Gluey fill.
24. Staple __ : GUN
25. Doesn't hold back : VENTS
30. Ski resort refreshment? : NEW SNOW. Still plenty of snow on our ground. No more please!
33. It borders three oceans : ASIA
34. Mystify : BEMUSE
35. Does penance (for) : ATONES
37. Rex in the classics : OEDIPUS
39. Saddlebag carrier : ASS
40. Radio tuning shortcut : PRESET. Our Chrysler van clock loses a few minutes every year, so weird.
43. Like many Bing Crosby records : MONO
44. Slant : SPIN
46. Sacred scroll : TORAH
47. Got hot online : TRENDED. I figure those bitcoin mining machines get hot all the time, since mining is a 24/7 job.
48. Joke : GAG
51. Florida NFLer : BUC
56. Words often about details : SPARE ME. Guilty of oversharing at times. Forgive me.
57. Yogi Bear co-creator : HANNA
59. CD part : DISC
61. Bastes, say : SEWS
63. Talking point? : LECTERN. Great clue.
64. Educates : SCHOOLS
68. Lures : TEMPTS
69. Straights and flushes : HANDS
71. Place to grab a bite : EATERY. Really miss those neighborhood dim sum places in Guangzhou. So affordable. So fresh.
72. Promise : PLEDGE
74. Randy Johnson and Aroldis Chapman : LEFTIES. Kids these days probably don't know Sandy Koufax. We also have 88. Nats pitcher González : GIO
77. Deli choice : RYE
78. Oscar __ : SNUB
79. O'Neill's daughter : OONA
80. Giuseppe's god : DIO. Italian for "god".
86. Wanderer : VAGABOND
87. 80%-Disney-owned channel : ESPN
92. Done with : RID OF
93. Slow and steady : GRADUAL. My speed.
94. Just barely, at the track : BY A NOSE
96. Animated : SPARKY
99. Powerful : MIGHTY
101. Adorable one : CUTIE. Do you have these sweet Cuties in your local grocery store?
102. "Dead __ Society": 1989 film : POETS
103. Half-__: coffee order : CAF
104. Stink : TO DO
105. Middle eye layer : UVEA
106. Part of the woods? : NECK. Neck of the woods.
107. Really mess up : RUIN
108. Hit hard : SLUG
109. Shed : MOLT
110. Start of a sad tale : ALAS
111. Bird related to the noddy : TERN. Unfamiliar with "noddy". Jet black.
112. Brand that's a homophone of its company's initials : ESSO. Standard Oil.
115. N.Y. neighbor : QUE
116. Where some pounds are spent: Abbr. : LEB. I thought Lebanese use lira.
I'm
so glad that PK's grandson Aaron has bounced back and Agnes' brother
Jack (a retired firefighter) is responding better to the new antibiotic.
Also relieved that Santa's surgery went smoothly and he's stable.
Thanks for the love and care you've shown to our blog regulars. This
means a lot to me.
I've removed last Sunday's puzzle
from the cloud. Just email me (crosswordc@gmail.com) if you still need
the PDF file. Please don't blame Rich Norris. It's the paper's fault.
Rich won't make mistakes like this.
C.C.
42 comments:
Greetings!
Thanks to Matt and C. C.!
Managed to finish this sans cheats! The NY Times one too! A banner day!
Things that I did not know: YIN, OP-ART, LEFTIES, PDA (I finally get it!), LEB, TERN. Not much trouble to suss. (NYT was a different story!)
Have a great day!
FIRbTD -- finished it wrong first, but no ta-da, so I kept looking for the error and finally found it without any red letters or other assistance: PApErS instead of PANELS! the perps, TREpDED and rECTERN, looked silly, but I couldn't see what else they should be.
Took way later to finish than usual, so haven't had time to dream up any verses yet. Maybe later in the day, if inspiration hits.
It's allergy season, the juniper trees
Are throwing out pollen to fill every breeze!
My eyes are so sore
I can't type any more --
The keys are still gooey from that last thunderous sneeze!
Got skunked by the todo in the lower left corner (thanks CC), but otherwise did okay. Got PDA on crosses, but still don't get it. Have a blessed day everyone!
Good morning!
Got through this one pretty fast, and had to smile at the punny theme answers. Guess that's what you're supposed to do. Thanx, Matt and CC.
Waseeley, in this case PDA is not a personal data assistant; it's a public display of affection.
The Houston schools, UofH and TSU, both made it to the tournament. Now they're headed back home.
Public Display of Affection
123A, LGBTQ. Never seen the Q added. I though the word was a slur.
Otherwise pretty smooth sail.
vielen Dank!
Good Morning:
Usually, I solve the puzzle the night before so that I can come directly to the blog in the morning. Last night, I got home late from my sister's and was too tired to do much of anything, let alone tackle a Sunday puzzle. Even with a good night's sleep and the light of day, I struggled mightily and almost gave up. I caught what was going on with Cocoa Toughs but I had so much white space around the other themers that knowing the gimmick was barely helpful. I thought some of the cluing was devious but that's for me to figure out but, alas, it took a long time to do so. I finished w/o help but it took close to an hour. My favorite C/A was Talking point=Lectern. One stumbling block was reading Rex of classics as Rex of comics and wondering how Rex Morgan, MD. was going to fit in. Too many w/os and unknowns to mention.
Thanks, Matt, for a very challenging and clever offering and thanks, CC, for the enlightening expo. Your food visuals make me hungry.
It's sunny but cold with more snow predicted for Tuesday but I'm not sure of how much. I think I heard the weatherman say that we've had 70+ inches, so far this winter, 30 + in March alone. Oh well, can Spring be far behind? 🌺🌸
Have a great day.
C.C.: FYI: "Poke full of holes" - To provide reasons why a theory or idea is wrong, or won't work. (Not like a "pig in a poke"!).
Thank you Mr. Matt McKinley for this extremely difficult CW. I had holes in several cells that laughed at my attempts to fill them in. Using P & P, and much time, I eventually prevailed with a FIR.
Thank you C.C. for an excellent review. Please give us reviews for Argyle as he recovers, and express our concern for him, and our love to him.
Anonymous T FLN 11:45 P
"I'm again All Alone, All By My Self" We mustn't leave you alone, by your self any more because you may link "Fingertips" by They Might Be Giants. Out of my utmost respect for you, I might watch all 5:35 min. of pure misery. I don't think I would be able to endure it again.
Today's Parasarcasium: "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years." Abraham Lincoln
Dave
Hello Puzzlers -
Lots of trial and error in this one. Had I done it the old way, with paper and ink, it would have been an indecipherable mess. Got there in the end. Smooth and consistent theme execution!
Morning, C.C.! I’m not sure whether I’m on track here, but I’ll point out that poke can be either verb or noun. As a verb, it can mean jab or puncture, in addition to dawdle. As a noun, I only know of the regional colloquialism “pig in a poke”. Years ago I read that poke is used in Pennsylvania to mean a paper bag.
Hand up for being surprised at the Q addition to LGBT. I don’t understand what it adds.
Yikes!
FIW until I checked red letters and then after correcting a few I was on the long road home. Thanks, Matt, for quite a challenge.
Thanks, C.C., I needed every bit of your help! Thanks also for keeping us posted on Argyle's progress.
Have a sunny day!
This was a challenge right to the end, but fair and satisfying! Last to fall was SLUG/AUEL/LEB/LGBT. I actually thought of LEB right away with Pounds, but struggled to make it work. Never heard of BEMUSE used that way. Thought it mean to amuse. Learning moment! Did not know VIEIRA had been a Today host.
Irish Miss: Hand up I could only think of REX MORGAN because I mis-read classics as comics.
CC: Yes, we have those CUTIES in the refrigerator right now. Great for a snack any time!
I do not own a phone, but I do own a Palm PDA which I use every day. It does everything I need and there are no monthly fees! We had CRAW two days in a row!
It was a bit late in the season at Tahoe for NEW SNOW, but there was still snow!
Big Easy: I just noticed one of the slopes in my photo is called Big Easy.
Here is a photo of me in QUE (QUEBEC)
From yesterday:
Lucina and AnonT: Thanks for validating that someone has heard of those clues I never heard of! MOM and JACK.
Here are some of my photos from one of the best LGBTQ parades in the world. San Francisco!
The Q has more than one meaning. It is often taken to mean "Questioning" these days.
Well, it took lots of cheating for me to get this clever puzzle, although surprisingly I got TERRAGON VIRTUE pretty early on, and that helped me see the PT theme, which helped a lot in other places. Many thanks, Matt, for this interesting exercise, and C.C., I too felt your wonderful food photos make me hungry. And thanks for the good news on our ailing cohort friends and relatives--so glad they are all doing a little better.
Desper-otto, many thanks for explaining that Kiss PDA. But I still don't understand LGBT-Q or IMDB for film trivia. (Sorry to be so slow on a sunny Sunday morning).
Have a great day, everybody!
IMDb = Internet Movie Data base, source of who was in what movie or tv show
C.C., like much of English since the Norman Conquest, the French couer gave us “core” while German “Herz” gave us “heart”. My history clas had examples like bouef/Kuh (beef/cow), porc/schwein (pork/swine) and mouton/Old English sceap (mutton/sheep)
Tougher than yesterday's puzzle. This one took a long time. Finally getting one of the theme answers moved it along. FIR w/o help. Difficult but fair.
I agree with Anon @ 10:40. "Poke full of holes" - To provide reasons why a theory or idea is wrong, or won't work. (Not like a "pig in a poke"!).
I have heard it often. LIU nits up can poke them full of holes.
LGBTQ, lesbian, gay, transgender, queer/questioning is not pejorative. The initialism has become mainstream as a self-designation. I have a family member who uses this about herself and her group.
I love Maeve Binchey's novels.
I also love Winslow Homer's seascapes.
Picard FLN. I, too, had no trouble with "mom" and jack. Jack as money seems common to me. For today, I have frequently heard and used bemused as puzzled, never as amazed.
Misty, IMBd Internet Movie Database is the largest, most comprehensive movie database on the Web.
I spent so much time solving this one , I have to get going. Time to take Alan to the gym.
Hi Y'all! I don't know if it rates COCOA but this was TOUGH, TOUGH, TOUGH! Many of the clues left me BEMUSEd. Longest I have spent on a puzzle in years -- even with red-letter impatience. I read the theme but didn't get the theme until TOQUE FULL OF HOLES perped in backwards and I WAGd TOQUE. Then I went back and struggled with the others and had better luck. The one redeeming feature of this puzzle for me was the amusing theme entries.
Had trouble getting started. First pass through I had only STALIN and one other word on the entire top tier. NW was last to fill. Finally WAGd TARRAGON & began filling. Final fill: ACTS/ACMES. "John followers": I was stuck in the bathroom & didn't think of New Testament John until after it perped in. Then I sat and looked at it until the light dawned like for Paul on the road to Tarsus.
But hey, I got OEDIPUS and even spelled it right on first pass. Got TOASTER & tried "child" before GIRL.
Never heard of Bridget Riley. Tried OPusi, OPera, oh OPART. 1952 groom was thinking of Rita Hayworth's "sheik" before ABNER. Oh, Winslow HOMER, not the Greek. Never heard of "Tristan Shandy" or its author STERNE.
Hand up for having trouble with LGBTQ & PDA. Personally, I dislike the use of so many initials & little pictures. I took the effort to learn to read WORDS. Why at age 77 am I expected to learn all these new usages? I am having trouble figuring out how to operate my heater/air conditioner/vent/defroster & windshield wipers in the car I have had since Oct. 2016 because I can't understand the little pictures. Well, it was built in Korea and maybe pictures are better than Korean writing, but still...
C.C.: thank you for once again making sense of a difficult puzzle. I don't think you "share" too much or need forgiveness for anything. I was almost sobbing over Argyle too and I never met him or depend on him as much as you do. Glad he is stable but am wondering what kind of surgery he had. He'll tell us I'm sure if he wants us to know. Glad D-O was able to help you today. He's a "keeper" too.
Hello everyone.
Billocohoes @ 1223 - Re: Herz. Low German, the other direct descendent of Anglo-Saxon has 'Hart' for heart. Many body parts such as arm, finger, and foot are very similar in the Germanic languages.
Typical Sunday solve. Not so much fun as it had to be done on-line which is clumsier for me. No issues; good intro from C.C.
ASIA - North America also borders three oceans.
P.S. The Los Angeles Times printed the correct version of last week's messed up Sunday puzzle in the paper today. I'm so glad I was able to get a correct version last Sunday with C.C.'s help. Otherwise it would have been a depressing day.
Well, this was a slow slog but not nearly as difficult as some have described. I started somewhere in the upper center, MAEVE, I believe, until finding a toehold then linking as much as I could there.
Then I poked around filling all I knew for certain, went back and sussed as much as I could and before I knew it, was almost done. The NE corner eluded me, I left for Church, and upon returning, looked up and found VIEIRA who, I had forgotten, long ago co-hosted Today. My TV doesn't turn on until about 4 P.M. so those names are all a distant memory.
VIEIRA broke open all the rest of that corner, VISA, AXER, IMDB, etc. MINIBAR also eluded me for a while. OPART's Bridget Riley is a complete unknown to me and I misspelled OEDIPUS as AEDIPUS, so one bad cell.
The theme, once I saw it, made me chuckle. Good work, Matt McKinley!
TORAH seeped in slowly as it was a toss up with KORAN and since both share the middle letter, it waited for perps.
Thank you for expanding PDA. I've heard of public display of affection but like PK, abbreviations like that don't mean much to me.
C.C., thank you for the latest news about Argyle. Very interesting about your alternate soups though I don't recognize the names of the beans. Did your question refer to Bush or Reagan? No president has a pristine reputation, IMHO. In one way or another they are flawed humans, some more than others.
Have a lovely day, everyone! I'm off to a birthday party for one of my grand-nieces who is 3.
Bush supported horrific human rights abuses at CIA and as VP and president. Any personal behavior "tainting" is minor compared with the effects of those policies.
What does “q” stand for in LGBTQ?
Amy Gelinas at 8:13 AM
Thanks for the PDA.
Crownvic89 3:39 PM
Your "Q"uestion was answered best by Yellowrocks
at 12:42 PM.
Dave
I enjoyed the puzzle as expected. It got harder for me when the letter change was combined with a spelling change and I wasn't expecting it.
Thanks Matt, CC and Rich.
I've always liked Meredith Vieira.
Continued good wishes for Argyle and everybody else who needs some medical support.
Not withstanding YR's explanation: "LGBTQ, lesbian, gay, transgender, queer/questioning is not pejorative. The initialism has become mainstream as a self-designation." I pretty much knew that already but count me in with those who became uncomfortable when the Q was added to the alphabet soup.
~ Bill G
Fun fun fun, but TOUGH, TOUGH, TOUGH, I slogged through but it was well worth the effort. Loved the theme. TOQUE FULL OF HOLES.?? Delicious. Thanks Matt and C.C.
Glad to get an update on Argyle. We all care!!
LGBTQ is well embedded in the language. No problem there. PDA is also. But add me to the list of those who dislike alphabet soup! Are we in such a hurry to get through life that we can't take the time to use words?
It is interesting how words change their connotations over time. Queer today has a different connotation than it did 25 years ago.
USA Today, "For decades (queer) was used as a pejorative against LGBT people," Sainz said. It was demeaning and often accompanied by violence.
But in recent years the LGBT community, particularly younger people, have reclaimed the word, Sainz said.
"It's a badge of honor. It's taking back a word that was once used as a weapon against us," he said. "You find the term completely commonplace in junior and senior high school and in college where individuals identify as queer.
USA Today article
Queer cross-dresser let out a big sigh;
Census Form asked THIS question, but why?
After thinking a sec,
These three boxes were checked:
"Lesbian", "Gay", "Transgender"; not "Bi"
Good Evening, C.C. and friends. Fun and challenging Sunday puzzle. It's been a while and I must be out of practice.
I wanted my potatoes to be Peeled, not WHIPped.
I did my graduate work at UNH, so was nice to see it mentioned in the puzzle.
I read a MAEVE Binchey book because it was selected reading for one of my book groups. We all decided it was like reading a Hallmark movie ~ rather sappy.
I prefer an AISLE seat when traveling along on long flights so that I won't have to crawl over strangers on the bathroom trips. I just returned from a long 11 hour flight, and was glad to be in the Aisle. Swampcat: you had inquired about Purim in Israel. Email
me and I will tell you about the experience. It's wild!
QOD: Most people don’t have so much talent that they can become a success all their own. We all need people to help us and lift us up. ~ Queen Latifah (née Dana Elaine Owens, b. Mar. 18, 1970)
I caught the P-T switch EARLY ON at the TARRAGON about 6 am but could only fill about 1/3 of the puzzle before having to leave today. TOASTER GIRLS was the last to fall after correcting my spelling from DIE to DIO. MAEVE, YIN, ROODS, SEASCAPE, and STERNE were the only unknowns today; usually have about 10 on a Sunday. I knew Meredith VIEIRA but wasn't sure of the correct spelling. SLAM before SLUG and BOON had to change to BOOM. I kept wanting a British pound but couldn't make ENG, SCO, UK fir and realized that LEBanon also had a pound as their currency.
CUTIEs- don't need them with 2 orange trees in my yard. But I can't eat 500+ oranges from Dec-Mid Feb. Give most away.
C.C.- "Poke full of holes" usually refers to finding all types of false claims in someone's story. Basically to let somebody know that you know they are full of hot air.
"Resort Fee"= price increase to bypass travel agents so if Expedia, Travelocity,...etc offers a rock-bottom price the hotel doesn't give them any portion of the 'fee'.
Bob Niles- the "Q" was added by "them", not others.
Picard- The Southern Decadence Festival held in New Orleans will make those San Fran photos look like a Baptist Church service.
Anon@3:21- wake up; the world is not a nice place.
"wake up; the world is not a nice place." Big Easy wrote
True. In part because of people like Bush supporting terrorists and torturing and murdering those who were trying to make things better. Don't forget it was Bush and Reagan who funded fanatical Muslim terrorists all through the 80s.
The arms merchants love it when the world is made to be more dangerous. And they fund the candidates who make it so.
Fun puzzle today and yesterday. Tired; will sleep now.
Bless you OwenKL!
I LOL'd as I wiped the keyboard after a hearty sneeze
just as I was reading your post!
Sorry I missed the fun today,
3 weeks in the making,
Warbirds was recreating AdlerTag
The 1st German bombing raid on England.
100+ AI bombers with live 109 escorts.
My squad was supposed to take off from Northholt and stop them.
Let's make a long story short and just say
I died valiantly defending England...
P.S. - This was people worldwide joining in on both sides
and the time change was very confusing.
Was supposed to be 1400GMT
Except We here on EST changed our clocks,
while The Brits have not changed theirs yet!
(Poor Buggers in Australia didn't get to play as it was mid Monday morning there...)
Well this CW required P and P (not PT). Thanks for the fun Matt and C. C.
I did get the theme but this Canadian pronounces TOQUE as Two-k not Toe-k and Pook full of holes seemed strange. I looked up alternate pronunciations and it seems we Canadians are the only ones to say it that way. (Maybe from the French pronunciation but I did not look that up). Sigh.
Hand up for not understanding PDA or IMDB. Another hand up for trying every short form for Britain, England etc. for using pounds.
Like Hahtoolah, my potatoes were Peeled, but also Baked, Boiled and Mashed, before being WHIPPED.
I am getting better at American knowledge but couldn't remember which state was the Granite one. Thank you perps.
Lots of Q's today. I tried an alphabet run for "letters before Q" and confidently filled in M N O P.
Am I the only one who did that?
I really wanted ONT for NY neighbour but QUE is true also. Great photo of you in front of the Chateau Frontenac, Picard. Old Quebec City is unique.
I'd better sign off or it will be time to do Monday's CW.
I thought I had the FIR but I rechecked the SW and lo and behold I had the trifecta of NEST, DESK and OATY . C-Moe, are there wines that taste OATY?
I actually sat a timer when I started and had to stop at 36 minutes . Then when I started again the rest filled in nicely.
I noticed from a conversation in the shuttle that"Queer" is an acceptable designation. And I had a Vet today talking about Public displays of affection as in verboten in the armed service. Yet, I didn't Grok PDA .
I'm glad Argyle is doing well. We had a CSO to our old friend Splynter in re. The Twelve STEPS. And the other guy in here who's getting his 40 year Chip in May .
WC
PS. The constructor gave us a good Sunday test . Nice l'icks too.
Sunday Lurk Say...
Thanks again C.C. for letting me Sunday vicariously solve and lurk.
Busy day - Eldest and I got all the goodies for planting the garden today (tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, etc) and then built a wonderful BEEF-based dinner (garlic & butter infused steak w/ roasted veggies (I stole that from someone at the corner) + mushroom sauce and a little side of butter-cream bow-tie pasta.) That kid knows how to work a kitchen w/ me!
{A (yech!)} {LOL!}
CED - glad the campaign is moving along swimmingly; Churchill would be proud :-)
I semi-recall the 1st time I heard the Q added to LBGT and thought WTF? Eldest identifies and all's fine by me. YR - it's gay (in the early sense) how words, esp., slang, over time morph.
Big E. - LOL! Re: NOLA LGBTQ parade v. the Baptists in SFO :-). I was in NOLA after the Red Dress Parade (Alfa broke down - what a great place to die!) and saw things that um...
OK, Really, No one? Zombies' She's Not There.
Cheers, -T
No OATY wines!! 🍷
Oh, and D4 - sorry. TMBG may be an acquired taste... But it is funny when you think about it (What's that blue thing? Doing here?)... Cheers, -T
You made me think of another Moe-ku:
The cravat salesman
Turned pasta maker, liked his
Noodles shaped, "bow-tie"
AnonT:
Thank you for SHE'S NOT THERE. If I'd ever heard it, I don't recall but maybe I was in sheltered life.
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