21A. Steepin' oats in water?: SOAKIN' GRAIN. Soaking rain.
27A. Marathoner's lookin'-happy flush?: RUNNIN' GLOW. Running low.
53A. Result of tossin' an old mitt on the fire?: BURNIN' GLOVE. Burning Love.
82A. Layin' off football legend Red?: FIRIN' GRANGE. Firing range. Red Grange.
111A. Takin' first place at the Olympics?: GETTIN' GOLD. Getting old.
119A. Muttered complaint about a toe woe that's really hurtin'?: BLEEPIN' GOUT. Bleeping out.
3D. Lettin' the family elder onto the plane?: BOARDIN' GRAMPS. Boarding ramps.
58D. Preparin' husbands-to-be?: TRAININ' GROOMS. Training rooms.
Rich helped me tweak the clues. I original forced all the elided "Ing" word in the starts of the clues.
After Rich OK'ed my theme entries (you don't need to send-in clued grids for Sunday puzzles), I fiddled with a few grids. Was super-excited when I discovered that I could intersect four of the Across theme entries with two other Down entries. This does not happen often.
Across:
1. Fatah party chairman: ABBAS. Mahmoud.
6. Battle souvenirs: SCARS.
11. Vanilla extract meas.: TSP. Time for overnight oats again. You need a little big vanilla extract..
14. Super Bowl stats: TDS.
17. Fairy tale villain: CRONE.
18. Saintly glows: AURAS.
19. "Desperate Housewives" character: BREE.
20. __ & Chandon Champagne: MOET.
23. Take, as advice: HEED.
24. A few: SOME.
25. Provider of a big lift: CRANE. Oh, I like the image. Rich's clue.
26. Bush and Nixon: Abbr.: VPS. Bush Sr.
29. Whale group: POD.
30. Lack of trouble: EASE.
32. "See ya later": I GOTTA GO.
34. Processed food?: ATE.
35. Hopkins' role in "Thor": ODIN.
37. Johnson Space Center humanoid project: ROBONAUT. Gary probably knew this.
39. Put faith in: TRUSTED.
41. Dunham and Horne: LENAS. Bad fill. Plural name is always undesirable.
43. Disallow: BAN.
44. "Cool it!": STOP.
46. Great Lakes natives: ERIES.
47. Beaufort scale word: GALE.
49. Pol. neighbor: LITH. Lithuania.
51. __ wait: lurk: LIE IN.
56. Chinese ethnic group that's the world's largest: HAN. I'm a Han. We have 56 ethnic groups in China. 92% are Han people.
57. Org. seeking far-out life: SETI.
60. Physicians' org.: AMA.
61. 50% of MIV: DII.
62. Fledgling: NASCENT.
64. Goat sound?: HARD G. Just the letter in Goat.
66. 2007 National Soccer Hall of Fame inductee: HAMM. Mia. Thanks for correcting my clue errors, Rich!
68. 1995 Stallone title role: DREDD.
70. Stand for a canvas: EASEL.
72. Base information?: DATA. Lovely. Rich's clue. Not DATA plan yet, Big Easy, the front door was prioritized. Always took me forever to open it and remove the keys, but things got impossible the past few weeks.
73. Energize: AMP UP.
75. Split into thirds: TRISECT.
77. Gym exercise unit: REP.
79. "__ the Senate!": Darth Sidious: I AM. Not familiar to me.
80. Snippy retort: IS SO.
81. Occurrence: HAP. Not a word I use. Wish I could have removed it. Gluey.
85. Unrefined: CRASS.
87. Custardy pastry: FLAN.
88. Voice-activated iPad app: SIRI.
89. Blink, say: REACT.
91. Sign word beckoning a Canadian driver: ESSO.
94. Waze lines: Abbr.: STS.
96. Surprise in a bottle: GENIE.
99. In an edgy way: TESTILY.
101. Pigs with four tusks: WARTHOGS. Wiki says "The tusks are used for digging, for combat with other hogs, and in defense against predators – the lower set can inflict severe wounds."
104. Petri dish gelatin: AGAR.
105. Blur in a tabloid pic: UFO.
106. "Cheers" actress Bebe: NEUWIRTH.
108. Escalator handle?: OTIS.
110. Cape Town locale: Abbr.: RSA. Republic of South Africa.
113. Phase out: END.
115. First king of Crete: MINOS.
117. Mushroomed: GREW.
118. Brownie, maybe: GIRL.
122. Yale's Ingalls Rink designer Saarinen: EERO.
123. Males who meow: TOMS. D-Otto and his wife take care of quite a few meowers. The other Tom is a dog person.
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| TTP's buddy Charlie |
124. "Nothing for me": I'M SET.
125. Cause for a pause: COMMA.
126. "L.A. Law" actress: DEY (Susan).
127. CDC overseer: HHS. Health & Human Services.
128. Sounds shocked: GASPS.
129. Big Bertha's birthplace: ESSEN.
Down:
1. Apt. coolers: ACS.
2. Etiquette on frat row: BRO CODE.
4. "My Way" lyricist: ANKA.
5. It flows below the Pont Neuf: SEINE. Pont Neuf = New Bridge.
6. Droop: SAG.
7. Slider option: CURVE BALL. Bert Blyleven! Also 98. Nolan Ryan's 1.69 in 1981: Abbr.: ERA. And 42. Dove into home, say: SLID.
8. "I don't give __!": A RAP.
9. Granola morsel: RAISIN. I love throwing in raisins in my coleslaw.
10. Job application no.: SSN.
11. Former Senator Lott: TRENT.
12. Witnessed visiting: SEEN AT.
13. Purebred family tree: PEDIGREE.
14. "You missed it": TOO LATE! Left my aloe vera plant on our deck two days ago. It rained unexpectedly. I hope my plant survives.
15. Reduces in rank: DEMOTES.
16. __ prunes: STEWED.
19. Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir: BHUTTO.
20. Chinese sauce additive: MSG. Here is the hugely popular sauce in China. With MSG of course. What Jayce said before, MSG never gave me headache or other discomfort.
22. In the area: NEAR.
27. Beat soundly: ROUT.
28. Keep healthy: NOURISH.
29. D.C. dealmaker: POL.
31. One may be choked back: SOB. Still tear up easily thinking of Argyle. Always thought he would be back.
33. Deep cuts: GASHES.
36. Chapati alternative: NAAN. Chapati is also called Roti.
38. Chip topper: ONION DIP.
40. "Nothing Compares 2 U" singer O'Connor: SINEAD.
45. Prepares (for): PLANS.
48. Geraint's beloved: ENID.
50. Show stoppers: TV ADS.
52. Trainee: INTERN.
53. Island band The __ Men: BAHA. No other way to clue BAHA.
54. Fish sauce taste: UMAMI. Fish sauce is an important ingredient in Kimchi making.
55. Saddle bands: GIRTHS.
56. Summer itch cause: HEAT RASH. I developed sun rash on my arms a few summers ago. Very odd. All gone now.
59. Luggage tie-on: ID TAG.
63. Director DeMille: CECIL.
65. Up for it: GAME.
67. Mideast capital: MUSCAT.
69. Wipe clean: ERASE.
71. Centipede's many: LEGS.
74. Popular soup mushroom: PORCINI. Porcini Risotto for Blue Hen, our gourmet chef.
76. Diligence: EFFORT.
78. Fuddy-duddy: PRIG.
83. Unable to back out: IN TOO DEEP.
84. 58.4 square miles, for Minneapolis: AREA. The first time I heard of Minneapolis was when I was watching "In the Line of Fire". The lady was killed simply because she was from Minneapolis.
86. Verbosely: AT LENGTH.
89. Foul caller: REFEREE.
90. Arcane stuff: ESOTERY. Spell check does not like this word.
92. Gulps down: SWILLS.
93. Reddish-brown chalcedony: SARD.
95. SFPD rank: SGT.
97. Postulate starter: I ASSUME.
99. Pulled: TUGGED.
100. Manga series about gaming: YU-GI-OH. Yu-Gi = Game. Oh = King.
102. Louise's pal: THELMA.
103. __ Valley: SIMI.
107. They often get hooked: WORMS.
109. From that time: SINCE.
My grandma and me in our little kitchen. She was kneading that big
dough when I came into the kitchen. She was about 80 or 81
then. All her clothes were hand-made.
112. Quantity in a brace: TWO.
114. Capone adversary: NESS.
116. Oxfam and PETA, for two: NGOS. Non-Governmental Organizations.
119. Trending: BIG.
120. Hoops stat: Abbr.: PTS.
121. What a Hawaii vacationer may come home with: TAN.
C.C.
36 comments:
Sunny Sunday to Several of you.
As I write, I am listening to Healing Chinese ZEN music.
- - Whew! I finally FIR. Thank you Ms. C.C. Burnikel for the CW and reviewing it for us. At 21A I noticed that the "G" was shared by SOAKING and GRAIN. I did not think that it moved to reveal "rain" until the reveal. That helped me at 58D where I got 13 letters. I struggled thinking that I would have to BAIL in several cells, but somehow I found letters til I ended it all at the Natick of 115A MINOS and 116D NGOS.
- - Thanks for PICS of food, and your grandma.
"Nothing Compares 2 u" sinead o'connor
SwampCat FLN at 8:48 PM
- - Sheldor does not want to confuse you, so he will not visit the Corner again.
We are advised not to feed the anons. I won't 'cause it won't read this any way.
Lucina FLN at 9:38 PM
- - As I read your post, the PT in me asked, what could help this good woman? The answer is Reiki. I googled reiki S..., AZ with 39 results. If you have questions, please e-mail me.
Ðave
FIR Saturday, but way short of it today! CURry ≇ CURVE, BAjA ≇ BAHA, BLEEdING ≇ BLEEPING, TExTILY ≇ TESTILY, and their associated perpendiculars.
Got the theme early, and that helped with the later answers. Didn't even notice the title.
Guess I haven't been feeling well. Slept from 4pm Friday to 11pm Saturday! Woke up for an hour Sat morning long enough to work the puzzle, but went right back to sleep after! May have gotten a touch of sunstroke Fri, though I just felt tired, not feverish. Not feeling up to poetry yesterday nor today yet.
Prescience of the Blog: WikWak yesterday eating WORMS.
Good morning!
I struggled mightily in the southwest before I managed to slide across home plate. Took longer than usual, too. I thought that "slider option" had to do with small hamburgers; should've known it'd be baseball. YUGIOH was just cruel -- no other word for it. C.C., was it planned or just serendipitous that 56a relates to the 56 Chinese ethnic groups?
TOMS: CSO to TTP and moi. We currently have just a single interloper kitten at our house. It was "dumped" at the Family Dollar in town. It should be old enough to put up for adoption next weekend. I call it "Porter 6" -- we were subbing on the Porter 6 M-o-W route when we found it.
CRANE: I'll accept a CSO for that one, too. In an earlier life I was a territory rep for a crane manufacturer. That was career #2.
Good morning. Thank you C.C. I'm in awe. That was amazing.
Got all the theme answers and smiled at each one. Favorite was BURNIN' GLOVE. Elvis had a song about that.
Struggled a bit. Mostly self-inflicted by not thinking of alternative answers and dumb mistakes. A tired mind doesn't process well. I keyed in YETI rather than SETI, and with MI--S in place, blindly entered MIDAS. Doh !
Had "I don't give a RAT" and never noticed. Must have been thinking of rat's behind. That led to VtS instead of VPS for Bush and Nixon. Careless mistake. Should have looked at the cross.
Had IS to instead of IS SO, so MUSCAT was a long time coming. Never heard of YU-GI-OH! and HHS was eluding me. As many times as we've HARD G, it wasn't apparent. HAP is new to me.
Loved TV ADS for show stoppers. Had arias for a moment. Also loved "Slider option" for CURVE BALL.
My nephew bought Charlie that orange frisbee-type disc at a shop when we were in Carmel. It was one of Charlie's two favorite toys.
C.C. your grandma looks so happy, as do you in that picture. The love is apparent.
FLN Anonymous T, thanks for the article on Hakeem.
Hi Y'all! I am truly amazed, C.C., at how you come up with all this stuff. You concocted some amusing word plays today. Thanks. Loved the picture of you and your Grandma. How old were you in this picture?
I went to sleep at 6 p.m. but got up and was toiling away at this for 53 minutes at midnight. It wore me out. Went right back to sleep for another eight hours. Owen, I think there must be a sleep virus flitting around. Body aches, no fever, extreme fatigue. I don't want to eat either.
Yay! For the first time ever, I got HARD G on the first try. Helped that the G was in place tho.
#81. My husband used to say "What's the HAPs here?" when he wanted to know what occurred. I never heard anyone else say that.
FLAN is a pastry? I'd call it a pudding.
DNK: NEUWIRTH, DREDD, MINOS, NASCENT, UMAMI, PORCINI, ESOTERY, SARD, YU-GI-OH.
What a treat to have the constructer write the review! You give us so many glimpses into the difficulties of finding the right words and then cluing them.
I found this puzzle challenging, especially the bottom half.
Thanks, C.C., for getting Sunday morning off to a great start.
Way to go C.C. Theme was an easy spot as soon as the SOAKIN-G-RAIN filled. Not many CURVE BALLs this morning.
Manga or YU-GI-OH- never heard of either. All perps for that one which crossed the unknown Bebe NEUWIRTH that crossed the unknown PORCINI (portabella wouldn't fit) mushroom.
Big Bertha's Birthplace?- You pull it out of your golf bag on a tee box on a par-5. Oh, the real one? ESSEN- thank you perps.
BREE, TWO, DREDD, I AM, ESOTERY- more unknowns.
BRO CODE- easy guess but never heard of it. Ditto for 'Chapati'; NAAN feel into place.
Trainee? INTERN? I would call it an unpaid job for the well-to-do children who attend private colleges. Good Old Boys network in action.
Not to sound CRASS but I've seen A RAP in puzzles before but spoken it's usually "Don't give , A DAMN, RAT'S A**, A SH**. I see TTP had the same thought.
There are THREE people on my two-block street named HA. HA Ngyuen, HA Kenyon, and one of my wife's old tennis partners with the name-----are you ready?---
BA HA, first name BA, last name HA.
Musings
-Clever and fun! I wonder how many other girls from China know about Red Grange? :-)
-What a fabulous picture of you and grandma!!
-Here is a well-spent minute looking at Nebraska’s late winter CRANES
-Didn’t know it, C.C. :-(
-How did that BANNING of alcohol work out for Capone in the 20’s?
-I would have recommended using this famous HAP as fill
-Boarding an OTIS escalator evokes anxiety for my lovely bride
-COMMA – Let’s eat, dad! Vs Let’s eat dad!
-A 1950’s TV ad with a cultural flashback and begs the question – “Why do you have a 2-car garage?
-If spellcheck doesn’t like ESOTERY, maybe the reviewer should check with the constructor! Wait a minute…
-I remember when the YU-GI-OH fad train went through our school
Hi Everyone:
I'm posting late because I slept late because I stayed up until 3:30 am watching a movie. I'm in a completely different sleep pattern than Owen and PK. I've always been a night owl but I seem to be getting more and more owlish! On to the puzzle! Another CC delight, as usual. I think my only w/o was Gouges/Gashes but, boy oh boy, was I in the dark on so many unknowns: Robonaut, Dredd, YU GI OH, Esotery, Sard, Chapati, Bro Code and I still don't know what WAZE lines=Sts means. Fortunately, the perps were all fair, so I did finish w/o help in normal Sunday time. Spelling Neuwirth correctly took about four tries.
Thank you, CC, for a challenging but enjoyable and, ultimately, smooth solve. I enjoy your visuals and references to your culture. You and your grandma look very happy and right at home in that photo.
Misty, I hope you're bouncing back quickly and will soon be seeing all that you've been missing! I sometimes wonder about my own eyesight but I think it's more a matter of not concentrating on what I'm looking at. The most recent faux pas was in today's puzzle where I saw Hoops state and immediately entered Ind. (Indiana) Perps eventually forced me to realize that it was Hoops stat=Pts. As Jayce would say, Sheesh!
Lucina, hope you're less sore and less "colorful"! Feel better soon.
FLN, Anon T, your mention of Sister Mary Helen AKA Sister Harry Melon reminded me of our own not so nice nicknames for some of the nuns in high school. Sister Dorothea, e.g., had protruding teeth and was irreverently referred to as Bucky Beaver.
Have a great day.
Pont Neuf means bridge nine not new bridge. Otherwise a fun puzzle.
A triple treat this morning: a wonderful C.C. puzzle, on a Sunday, with C.C. doing the write-up! It doesn't get any better than that! Actually it does, when you also get a sweet picture of C.C. and her smiling grandma.
No, I didn't get the whole puzzle, but part of my problem this morning was the eyes (sorry to hear that yours are doing it too, Irish Miss), although I got the whole top half without any big glitches. And I too got the theme with SOAKING RAIN, and loved the way it helped getting the other theme answers. That HARD G for GOAT SOUND eluded me, like those pronunciation answers always do. I also had PREPS before PLANS and LEI before TAN. But I fondly remembered Bebe from "Cheers" yet misspelled her name NEUWORTH instead of NEUWIRTH. Can't believe I sort of guessed ROBONAUT--a term I've never heard before. Anyway, lots of fun--thank you so much, C.C. One final question: I don't get Big Bertha and ESSEN--is it some war and weapon thing?
We're having an unusual rainy Sunday, but rain is so rare here I can't complain. Have a great day, everybody!
Wow! I am in awe of your creative construction, CC! You had to find words that were still new words with a G pre-pended to them. And then you had to find phrases that were common phrases with both of the SHIFT-IN-G versions! Way cool!
Final bit was having to WAG the Natick of NEUWIRTH and YUGIOH. BAHA/HAMM another Natick, but we have seen BAHA before. FIR! A fun way to start another busy day!
From yesterday:
AnonT: I am so happy you have heard of one of my MIT MENTORS Jerry Lettvin. He and his wife Maggie were RAS at "Animal House" Bexley Hall into their 70s! As for how you knew of him, I am guessing it was his paper "What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain".
It was published in an obscure IEEE engineering journal. I thought it was due to his twisted sense of humor. I only learned many years later it was because it was rejected everywhere else! It is a classic taught to this day in universities.
Here I just uploaded my comments at his memorial if anyone is interested in some amusing stories.
It was an honor to speak there alongside such luminaries as Marvin Minsky.
I have photos of the SEINE and PONT NEUF. Another time!
Your picture reminded me of my favorite Chris Berman nickname: Bert "be home" Blyleven
Hey there, peeps, what's the haps?
An amazingly clever construction. I loved the process of solving it and discovering all those shifted-G phrases. You sure have a creative mind, C.C.
I so much wanted ROCKY or RAMBO for the Stallone title role that it impeded my progress in that area; I had forgotten DREDD, as I dare say many who saw the movie also forgot it. Also got stuck wanting CRUDE instead of CRASS, but finally getting DREDD and ERASE got me out of that rut. HARD G fooled me again. I have heard of Manga but not YU-GI-OH (hey, this has a hard G also!)
Yes, Misty, Big Bertha and ESSEN refer to some war and weapon thing.
Good wishes to you all.
Sunday fun day. Thanks for doing double duty, C.C. (and for the Canadian CSO).
I got the Shifting G early which helped the fill. Favourite was BURNING LOVE. Yes, TTP, I thought of the Elvis song too.
The icing on the cake (not FLAN) was the HARD G in the mid-east.
Hand up for not knowing YUGIOH, NEUWIRTH, and wanting Rocky before DREDD. I learned UMAMI here several years ago.
Thanks for explaining HHS to this Canadian.
Irish Miss, Waze is an App for traffic with roads, STS, Rtes etc. showing current traffic conditions.
Feel better soon Owen and PK.
Continued recovery wishes to Misty and Lucina.
Enjoy the day. It is a holiday weekend in Canada with Victoria Day tomorrow.
Jayce, "I dare say many who saw the movie also forgot it." There are some things you just can't un-see. DREDD was one of 'em. I highly recommend his Demolition Man, though. I still want to know how those three seashells work.
FLN: Picard, I do remember Maggie.
Misty, I'm in the middle of Farewell To Arms. "Sun", was too much drunken amorality but I just glimpsed another "Pamplona" Ad. H's description of the running of the bulls was vivid.
Now to Sunday. CC absolutely makes the best xwords. Perfect for a Sunday following Jeff Chen's slogger. Plus lots of sports.
On SLID I think of 'Slud'.
Mia HAMM married Nomar Garciaparra of Redsox fame.
I get it (DATA) Base information. Neato.
MSG? I Loved the MSG laced "lobster" sauce served in the Boston Chinese restaurants. Abomination? Peas in fried rice.
Owen, glad you caught up on sleep. It's been four weeks since I ended my shuttle gig . Big difference . Btw, D4-Dave my wife is a Master Reiki person .
More later perhaps.
WC
CanadianEh @ 2:07 ~ Thank you for the WAZE information. I don't have a GPS so I was not familiar with that name.
Hello everyone.
Did it on line. The elided ING repetition made some of the fill a little easier. Clever concept. Always something new here. Help on only a few letters was needed.
Big Bertha - ESSEN - - Big Bertha was a very large artillery piece ~ 16" bore mounted on rails used in both world wars. Made by Krupp in ESSEN.
Neuf translates as 'new' or 'nine. To translate Pont Neuf into ninth bridge we would have to see pont neuvième. Ergo, Pont Neuf is the new bridge although it dates from the 1580's.
Cute picture of C.C. and her Nana. What is Chinese for Grandma? German is Oma. I think some languages have different names for "father's mother" than "mother's mother".
Big Easy at 10:09 AM
- -Wrote "are you ready?---" - No, I'm not ready. Can you give me a minute. OK, I'm ready now.
"BA HA, first name BA, last name HA" - Hey, I know the dude. He's a stand up comedian with a very dry wit. In fact Mexico named a desert after him. You may have heard of the Baja Desert.
- - He is the only one of your three neighbors to Anglicize his name with the surname "Ha" last. The name "Ngyuen" is Vietnamese so it's HA, HA, HA.
- - A name that we should each understand is Kim Jong-un. In Korea ones surname comes first, so the summit will be Trump - Kim. Someone needs a reminder.
Note: this was a review of names, not politics.
QOD: "God, help me be the person my dog thinks I am."
Ðave
- - Perhaps it is time for today's lesson in Spanish as a second language, or Español como segundo idioma. The "J" in Baja is pronounced like an "H", BA HA. On the other hand Michael wore a glove. Our dear poster, Abejo's name looks like it should be Español and be pronounced "Abeho". In fact it is pronounced as it looks, and is the Persian word for beer. Thank you Mr. BEER for the translation of your avatar, hick.
Ðave
Sorry, Peg, but Pont Neuf means New Bridge. Ironically, today it is the oldest bridge in Paris, but when it was constructed, beginning in the 1570s, it was so named to distinguish it from the older bridges in the area.
Enjoyed the puzzle this AM, but never saw =YuGiOh
(must have perped it...)
I will be in Europe next week, so Incommunicado, no silly links...
(Howw does Steve do it?)
Desper-Otto @ 2:13
The 3 seashells have puzzled SciFi fans for years!
Because I doubt many Blog readers will know what you were talking about,
I include the clip here:
Note that the instant fining for using profanity is a viable substitute...
& if you scroll down this link,
the explanation is:
think of the whole process as a car wash for your bum...
Now I have SCARS from wrestling with this beauty of a puzzle! Actually, the top wasn't hard and I really enjoyed the re-purposed Gs, C.C. You are so clever!
I made it all the way down and then just could not suss YUGIOH, or GOUT/NGOS though I knew ESSEN was Big Bertha's birthplace and am quite familiar with Bebe NEUWIRTH.
WAZE was hazy for me, too and for some reason I recall the bad reviews of DREDD. Like d-o, I thought 7D referred to an edible slider and so CURRYBALL looked good to me. RPS could be Republicans!
Mia HAMM is one of few sports stars I know so BAHA came into view.
C.C., I hope your ALOE vera plant survives; they are quite hardy and adaptable. I've been using the juice from mine on my face and in fact, the color seems to be fading. I peel the top layer then just rub it on the affected areas.
AnonT: have you had a chance to use it?
Thank you, C.C., for this creative EFFORT and your own analysis! I love the photo of you and your Grandma.
Enjoy this sunny spring day, everyone!
Misty, how is it possible that you are getting rain this time of year and we (50 or so miles to the north) are not? Rats!
Because I will not be here next week,
I am afraid I am compelled to overpost...
Unfortunately, rather than getting silly with CC's puzzle,
I have become obsessed with Future "stuff."
(Desper-otto, this is your fault...)
Demolition Man, Sex...
Demolition Man, Burgers...
(You must understand that in the future, Taco Bell is considered fine dining...)
- - Don't you love it when everyone wins. Yes, as an adjective "neuf" means new, but as a noun it means nine. To muddy the waters further "nine new baseballs" in French becomes "neuf nouvelles balles de baseball". allez comprendre.
Ðave
Thank you for explaining Big Bertha, Jayce.
Let me know how you like the Hemingway, Wilbur.
Big G., we only had a bit of rain during the night--all gone now.
Thank you for the kind wishes, Canadian Eh.
WAZE is a social media GPS. Some like it because it warns about "Smoky".
I had a lot of trouble in the West. I tried to fit in BALI and IMPEL. Fortunately MUSCAT popped up as I was driving from the restaurant (Spinach omelette) to Wendy's for birthday chile for Phil.
I still had to change TERSELY to TENSELY to TESTILY. Finally, PORCINI rang a bell. Unlike ESOTERY and YUGIOH. I don't know Manga either.
WC
Misty, so far I have come to appreciate "Farewell To Arms" . WAR!!! What is it good for? Absolutely...WWI was a particularly bad war.
And... Lucina, the Aloe Vera was a great idea . especially right off the bud
WC
Like another poster, had trouble with the SW corner. Fun theme!
Whee—a doubleheader from C.C.! None of that trouble in the SW for me, though… my troubles pretty much confined themselves to the NW. Loved the theme, which I actually caught: my favorite was BOARDINGRAMPS. Not many unknowns, and I chuckled quietly to myself when the author of "My way" came up. Just within the past few weeks I won a bet* over this very question. ANKA won for me, Sinatra lost for him.
Rainy, windy day here with the temps just flirting with 50F. Naturally this was the day I had agreed to help my radio club provide communications for a four hour long parade. Brrr!
Have a great evening, all!
*I won a nickel. He hasn’t paid up yet.
Big Bertha (German Dicke Bertha) was a nickname for a short, wide howitzer, from Bertha Krupp, owner of the Krupp steel and armaments company. The French also used the name for other giant German cannons. Photos however show she herself was neither especially short or stocky.
Fun puzzle, CC. Loved the pic with you and your grandmother.
CED, thanks much for the seashell link, hilarious! I was really puzzled by D-O's comment. And enjoy your European trip (hope it's vacation time) - we'll miss your humor. As for your other links, well, I think I'll pass on Demolition Man.
@Irish Miss possibly STs is the abbreviation for 'streets'? But I'm not familiar with the Waze app so I could be wrong.
D-Otto,
Wow, what an observation. Pure accident though.
PK,
I was about 20 or 21 at the time
Spitzboov,
Some call Nai Nai, some call Po Po. I called mine "Po".
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