Theme: "Suppressed Urges" - YEN spans across each theme entry.
25A. No-fuss course: EASY ENTREE. Surprised to see ENTREE and ENTRY (104A). Thought they have the same root.
25A. No-fuss course: EASY ENTREE. Surprised to see ENTREE and ENTRY (104A). Thought they have the same root.
27A. "Spin" that really doesn't affect the ball: BODY ENGLISH. Is this a golf term?
44A. Invitation enclosure: REPLY ENVELOPE.
83A. "Curious though it may seem ... ": FUNNILY ENOUGH. Lovely debut answer.
44A. Invitation enclosure: REPLY ENVELOPE.
83A. "Curious though it may seem ... ": FUNNILY ENOUGH. Lovely debut answer.
99A. Fairy tale feature: HAPPY ENDING.
104A. Frank account, e.g.: DIARY ENTRY. Anne Frank.
35D. Focusing completely: FULLY ENGAGED.
40D. Military construction expert: ARMY ENGINEER.
Reveal:
Reveal:
107. Urge hidden in this puzzle's eight longest answers: YEN.
YEN is trapped in the middle, hence "suppressed".
Simple but never-done theme from Gail. That's her hallmark. Looks easy, but it's not. The grid design is also very Gail, with six in Across and two in Down slot.
Across:
1. Read digitally: SCAN.
5. Songs in Bollywood soundtracks: RAGAS. Don't think I know any Indian song.
10. Stopped stalling: ACTED.
15. Nincompoop: BOOB.
19. __ Bell: fast-food chain: TACO.
20. Donovan of "Clueless": ELISA.
21. 45 player: PHONO.
22. Alternative to de Gaulle: ORLY.
23. Back up on a job?: ABET. We also have 34. Help dishonestly: LIE FOR
24. On the take: DIRTY.
30. Motive: REASON.
31. Berkshire jackets: ETONS.
32. Cardiology concern: AORTA.
38. Floods: SPATES.
41. Katz of "Hocus Pocus": OMRI.
42. Rural expanse: PASTURE.
43. Rarity for a duffer: PAR. Not hard to get a par on a short par 3 though.
49. Inc. relative: LLC.
50. Governing gp.: ADMIN. Ah, no comments have been forwarded to my email since Thursday night. Widespread Blogger glitch.
52. Property attachment: LIEN.
53. Signs often numbered: EXITS.
54. Entreaty: PLEA.
55. "You wouldn't dare!" response: TRY ME.
56. Wood-shaping tool: ADZ.
57. Apothecary's measures: DRAMS.
58. Like some early hieroglyphics: MAYAN.
59. Trickle: SEEP.
60. They may rest on sills: Abbr.: ACS. What temp do your set your thermostat in summer? Ours is 76.
61. Wine label first name: CARLO.
62. Gift: TALENT.
63. "Affliction" actor: NOLTE (Nick). Never saw the movie.
65. Key next to F: G FLAT.
66. Cheney's successor: BIDEN.
67. Document often framed: DEGREE. I've only seen them framed at the doctor's office.
69. Landlord's sign: TO LET.
69. Landlord's sign: TO LET.
70. Surfer's shade?: TAN. Here's the master. Kai Lenny.
71. Eligibility factors: AGES.
74. Skips past: OMITS.
75. Cope: GET BY.
Do you guys sleep on your side or on your back? I wonder if sleeping on
the back will relieve Boomer's shoulder pain. But that's not a
comfortable position. He's used to sleeping on his left side.
76. Part of LGBTQ: GAY.
77. Texas tourist spot: ALAMO.
78. Gimlet options: GINS.
79. Language group that includes Swahili: BANTU.
80. Lengthy lunch?: HERO. Sweet clue.
81. "Night Moves" singer: SEGER (Bob)
82. L, at times: Abbr.: LGE.
86. Sinus dr.: ENT.
87. By and by, to a bard: ERELONG. We also have 28. Perpetual, poetically: ETERNE.
89. Needing a nap: BEAT.
90. Feuding (with): AT ODDS.
92. He pardoned Richard: GERALD
93. Syrian leader: ASSAD.
95. "Li'l Abner" critter: SHMOO.
97. Miss the beginning: BELATE. I've only used "Belated". (Added later: BE LATE. Thanks, Lemonade and D-Otto.)
108. Sarcophagus holder: CRYPT.
109. Bonkers: LOCO.
110. Parcel measure: ACRE.
111. Bring together: UNITE.
112. One in training, perhaps: HIREE.
113. City near Vance Air Force Base: ENID. Unaware of this trivia.
114. Test release: BETA.
115. Mixed nuts tidbit: PECAN.
116. Dubai dignitaries: EMIRS.
117. Attitude: SASS.
Down:
1. Shot in the dark: STAB.
2. Baja resort: CABO.
3. Completed with a stroke: ACED.
4. "Have patience": NOT YET. Hopefully the Blogger team can solve the Comments forwarding glitch soon.
5. Common cold sign: RED NOSE.
5. Common cold sign: RED NOSE.
6. Square up: ALIGN.
7. Some Little Leaguers: GIRLS.
8. Wine city near Turin: ASTI.
9. Ends a prayer: SAYS AMEN.
10. Make fun of: APE.
11. Plan, as a course: CHART.
12. Where sailors go: TO SEA.
13. "A Day Without Rain" New Ager: ENYA.
14. Exercises in a pool: DOES LAPS. Nice fill.
15. Invasive spam spreader: BOTNET.
16. Hockey immortal: ORR.
17. Shout after un pase: OLE. So I googled "un pase", this showed up. Pass.
18. Playoff pass: BYE.
26. __ pollution: NOISE.
29. Road warning: HORN.
33. Semiaquatic rodent: RIVER RAT. Another great fill.
36. "The Orchid Thief" author Susan: ORLEAN. Hahtoola probably read this book.
37. Go back on one's word: RECANT. Followed by 38. Words with friends?: SPATS. Cute word play.
39. Base adviser: PADRE.
41. Courtroom cry: OYEZ.
42. Piles of chips: POTS. Oh, poker.
45. __ mat: PLACE.
46. Starbucks stack: LIDS.
47. Glorify: EXALT.
48. Long ride?: LIMO.
51. Corona and Tsingtao: IMPORTS. I worked at Lai Yang for a short period of time. Traveled to Tsingtao frequently. Amazing seafood there.
54. Light beer?: PALE ALE. Great clue/fill.
57. Mayor before Emanuel: DALEY.
58. Boiling: MAD.
60. Worked on a course?: ATE. Gimme for our regulars.
61. Spiral-shaped light sources, briefly: CFL BULBS. Consonants-rich.
62. Old star makeup: TIN. Tin star.
64. Guitarist Paul: LES.
65. '80s-'90s crime boss: GOTTI.
66. Louisiana wetland: BAYOU.
67. Fairway challenge: DOGLEG. What's your best round, Gary?
68. Asylum seeker: EMIGRE.
69. Home to Dollywood: Abbr.: TENN.
70. Islands staple: TARO.
72. Fix text: EMEND.
73. Puts in order: SORTS.
75. Our __: GANG.
76. Refined chap: GENT.
77. He plays Steve in "Jobs": ASHTON. Kutcher.
79. "It's cold out there": BUNDLE UP.
80. Big pain: HEADACHE.
83. Scott of "Scandal": FOLEY. I first learned his name while watching "Felicity". That's the annoying Ben on the left.
84. Fist-pump cry: YEAH.
85. Reproductive cells: GAMETES.
88. Attraction in L.A.'s Hancock Park: LA BREA.
91. Tons: OODLES.
93. Web site: ATTIC.
94. Perfect Sleeper, e.g.: SERTA. We bought this for summer. Alas, there's no gel. It's not cool.
95. "Heidi" author: SPYRI (Johanna). I forgot. We had her before.
96. Excited to the max: HYPER.
98. Celebrity chef Burrell: ANNE. Always bubbly.
100. Proper partner: PRIM.
101. Macbeth's burial isle: IONA.
102. CBS military drama: NCIS.
103. Jupiter and Mars: GODS.
104. Small application: DAB.
105. Word with pack or pick: ICE.
106. Creative works: ART.
C.C.
47 comments:
This was a very slow process for me with oodles of unknowns or forgotten fill. RAGAS, the movie Affliction , CFL BULBS, SPYRI, EISA Donovan, BOTNET - on and on. This did not feel like a Wednesday level puzzle.
BE LATE, I think is the two-word fill for 97A.
You must not deal with attorneys as most hang their diplomas and licenses as well.
I am up listening to the wind and rain from ALBERTO, be safe and dry.
YR: Just ran across this 3:17 Square dancing has a secret, super-racist past — and chances are, it’s your state dance, too.
ELISA was a GIRL, so made a DIARY ENTRY
When in home ec, she made an EASY ENTREE!
Today the diary is a cloud,
"Home Ec"s not allowed
It's too sexist for schools that train HIREES!
Angie had a TALENT to be an ARMY ENGINEER,
In the Corps that bragged they hadn't a peer!
One arm was prosthetic,
A bunch of tools fit it.
She was so useful, they kept arm-y Angie near!
ANNE went to Bollywood to prove she could ACT,
Tho her BOOBS were an asset, that was a fact!
But she was so small assed,
That directors all passed --
In sex scenes her G-string was only G-FLAT!
{B, B+, C+.}
Good morning!
Ah, it's nice to finish a puzzle after yesterday's debacle. My WET nose finally turned RED,and it was finished. I was amazed that my first thought, BOOB, turned out to be correct. Stumbled a tad with LTD/LLC, but this was generally a quick solve. Thanx, Gail and C.C.
CFL BULBS: I've swapped 'em all out for LEDs.
DOGLEG: I know it's a golf term, but it evokes images of fire hydrants for me.
C.C., I'm pretty sure BE LATE is two words, not the present tense of BELATED.
Time for that bike ride...
Good morning. Thank you Gail and thank you CC.
I had a strong desire to solve the puzzle today. You might say a yen. I had suppressed that urge for a few days now. :>)
Super busy lately. Grass has been growing incredibly fast. Needs mowed every three or four days. Gardens need to be weeded and edged. Scraped and stained my shed. Going to start on the house next, but it's going to be in the 90s with high dew points for a few more days. Not going to win the fictitious homeowners association home-and-garden-of-the-year award if I don't get things in order.
C.C., I too had upper arm / shoulder pain on Friday and Saturday, but mine was caused by getting a Td (tetanus) shot Friday after my physical. Boomer should do a google search on "images for shoulder pain exercises", pick 4 or 5 different ones, do 5 or 10 minutes of exercises a day for the next two weeks. See if that helps. Doc has me doing the same for "lower back pain exercises."
Body English ? Ask Boomer to tell you about bowlers who are twisting and turning even when their ball is halfway down the lane, or striking the pins. :>) Body English generally applies to any sport where a ball is rolled, struck, thrown or otherwise propelled. Probably mostly a guy thing, trying to make that inanimate object respond to our wants.
Mae West said she spoke two languages. Body and English.
What's a YEN? When I was a kid the answer was: " not worth a red cent", which it wasn't.
Good Morning. I didn't spot the YEN until I cross checked the DIARY ENTRY's perps. The theme clues were EASY ENTREEs (don't groan), but the Mid-Atlantic tripped me and I couldn't recover. My first thought for 37D was RENEGE but my 'Inc. relative' LTD wouldn't allow it so REDACT entered the space. LLC was never a V8 moment, ORLEAN was a total unknown, so I never got the MAYAN. Kept thinking Egyptian hieroglyphics. MAYIC didn't look like any word I'd ever seen, so I gave up an left it blank. No RED LETTERS in the newspaper.
CFL BULBS- never heard the term before. Just a fluorescent light bulb that screws into a light socket.
PAR- I'm a duffer and usually get 4-6 PARS a round. But it's always the double and triple bogeys that ruin the total score. Usually PAR 3s are the hardest holes to make PAR.
"Clueless"- I was clueless on her name- ELISA Donovan, along with ENYA, NOLTE, OMRI Katz, ASHTON, Scott FOLEY, ANNE Burrell, SPYRI, and ORLEAN. TV, movies, and authors are usually unknown but with the perps I manage to GET BY.
Thanks, C.C. and Gail. The middle left was last to fall, but I managed to figure it out.
C.C., we keep our thermostat set at 76 year-round during the day and at 75 at night.
Hope everyone in Alberto's path weathers the storm without damage.
Musings
-Like TTP, I think with C.C. being married to a bowler she must know about BODY ENGLISH
-PASTURES are lush and green around here
-This side sleeper has the thermostat set at 78˚F and once shot 79
-A proud son of Omaha
-George Cohan famously wrote/sang “Give my regards to old Broadway And say that I'll be there E’RE long”
-GERALD’s pardoning of Richard saved the country a lot of anguish but probably cost him the ’76 election
-What seasonal song is associated with the backup group, “The CRYPT Kicker Five”?
-CHART a course? “The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley”
-On the last day of school, we used to have to SORT our 130 report cards by homeroom teacher
-In On Golden Pond, Ethel Thayer found OODLES and OODLES of strawberries
Good Morning.
A workout to start the busy day ahead. Thanks, Gail and C. C.. We are preparing to move DH's mom's stuff to an assisted living facility. Not too much, a studio apartment. Moving it tomorrow and MIL is moving to her new digs on Friday. After much ado, she is ready and willing. Many long talks about why this needs to be. She'll be 95 next month.
Here's to all our vets who fought for the right to our freedoms, but didn't come back to enjoy them. Thank you one and all.
Have a sunny day. What?! Hurricane season already. Let's hope it's extremely boring after last year.
Hi Y'all! I came, I saw, I suppressed the urge to quit, I filled it. Gail once again "Grabbed me in the OWski". I got all the first line acrosses and relaxed, but struggled the entire rest of the way. My mind was apparently not FULLY ENGAGED. I didn't know most of the names and couldn't get the few I did know with the clues given. Richard that Gerald pardoned was not Richard the Lion Hearted -- too ancient history. And hieroglyphs weren't from Southwestern USA Indians I'd been reading about currently but MAYAN.
The theme was easy to see once the reveal perped out, but almost didn't see YEN. Gail is to be commended for coming up with so many good theme entries.
Last fill was the "D" in PADRE/ADMIN. Base adviser = PADRE? Military base, i guess. ENID was a gimmee since my son got his pilot wings at Vance AFB while living in that town.
Had no idea what those spiral light bulbs were called. I guess CFL stands for compact florescent? I have several of them in my light fixture, but when I went to buy bulbs recently the store now has only LEDs. I didn't know what to buy to get the light I need in various places.
Liked "Web site" = ATTIC. Got a chuckle when it finally perped in.
Good Morning:
I always enjoy Gail's puzzles, whether they're solo or with Bruce. I found the cluing particularly clever today and while I picked up on the ENs in each themer, I never noticed the Y, therefore the YEN reveal was a surprise. Easy Entree was not as solid as all of the others, IMO. Elisa, Omri, and Foley were unknown but the perps were all fair. I had a few w/os but no major hiccups.
Thanks, Gail, for a pleasantly smooth solve and thanks, CC, for an entertaining and informative review.
I'm feeling a little off kilter this morning; I hope I'm not coming down with something.
Stay safe and dry if you're affected by Alberto.
Great expo, C.C. Thank you very much.
If Boomer is a side sleeper, he might want to experiment with supporting his arm and shoulder with a pillow(s). I was re-injuring my shoulder every night sleeping on my side. At one time I propped my arm on a full-sized pillow hugged to my chest. Right now I use a very small pillow about a foot square and an inch thick stuffed under the arm & armpit. I start out on my back to relax the body then shift to my side with the pillows to sleep. If I try to sleep on my back I wake myself snoring. Does Boomer have a shoulder injury from bowling?
A/C setting depends on what I'm doing. If I'm up and active, I set it on 74. If I am sitting in my chair with two vent openings in the ceiling or in bed, I set it at 76. We broke the record for heat here on May 26 that was set in 1964. Thank the tech who fixed my A/C last week.
Madam: best wishes for your MIL in adjusting to her new surroundings. My mother really enjoyed being with her new friends in a nursing facility after having been alone at home. My friend's husband fought her about going in and then liked the attention so much he didn't want to go home when she had to take him. Depends on personality though.
"english" (small "e") is an American term in pool or billiards for using the cue to put side spin on a ball to make it curve. Your body can't really affect the ball once it's hit, but we try anyway. It seemed to have worked at least once, for Carlton Fisk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m6GHOPrGcs
I didn't do the puzzle today after cancelling the LA Times. I have been a loyal subscriber for over 30 years even with subscription prices far out pacing inflation. I wanted to support one of the few remaining with journalistic standards. After receiving two OC registers this week and no delivery at all today, I called customer support. It was impossible to find the number on the painfully slow website but of course Google knows everything. The "local" LA number went to the Philippines ! What happened to calling your paper boy? My ear still rings if my pop was awaken on a Sunday morning if I was even slow or heaven help me missed a delivery! I am far from xenophobic as my wife is VN, one of my sisters married an Afghan and my other sister (horrors of horrors) married a Canadian ! But I swear i Couldn't understand the Philippine accent, especially since she just read off a prepared script. Plus I refuse to support in any way a country that performs extra judicial assassination and murder of journalist. I cant always adhere to this standard but this one was easy.
Finally thank you Cornerites for not only same day solutions but generally cogent explanations of obscure clues and some lively discussions. The best compliment I can give is that "I have learned".
Crunchy! Crunchy! so many names. We were shot and stabbed from the beginning at 2D. The Y from YEN was a big help.
I find "funnily" cringeworthy, but spellcheck accepts it and I see it has been in use since the 1800's.
Diary entry and entrée as a main course are so different in meaning I would give them a pass.
Madame D. I hope your MIL does well in assisted living. Do they also provide continuing care when or if it becomes necessary?
RENEGE before RECANT
When I was young I read Spryri's Heidi many times, also, Little Women.
I still cannot PREVIEW when I add a link. It always throws me off the corner. I am so very careful and do it the way I always have. I can preview without a link and succeed every time. It is frustrating not to be able to link anything. Is there something wrong with the blog?
Warning, I am going to answer Owen's question about racism in square dancing in my next post. Those who do not want to hear about square dancing, please skip it.
Is square dancing racist? I was very surprised to read about Ford’s racism, however, I beleive it is true. This has absolutely nothing to do with square dancing today. Square dancing is based on dances done in England in the 17th century. It grew popular in America in the 19th century, long before Ford got involved and added his temporary taint. Appalachia and cowboy culture had a lot to do with American square dance’s development. Apparently, Ford in the 1920's was responsible for square dancing's growing popularity and had it named the state dance in many places. He was trying to supplant Jewish (in his mind) jazz and black music. He succeeded well in popularizing square dancing, but not in promoting white supremacy nor in supplanting jazz or black music. The fun remained, but the message failed. No one I have danced with in thirty years knows or cares about Ford’s small, short-lived racist blip in our centuries old history. They do know that he popularized square dancing. Square dancing succeeded simply because it is fun. It is egalitarian. We are getting more and more Jewish people, some blacks, and quite a few LGB dancers. Square dancing is called in English in 27 different countries, including Japan, where I have danced it.
YR, since others can Preview, but you can't, it indicates a problem with your browser settings rather than a problem with the blog. Have you tried to Preview using a different browser? Maybe Anon-T or TTP can advise.
billocohoes link us a fun MEMORY . I was never a Red Sox fan but Fisk was very personable.
YR: I do hope you realize, as a former square dancer myself, I wasn't trying to cast any aspersions on the activity! I just thought it an interesting bit of historical trivia that folks would find interesting! And I also did a google search to find a lot of other articles confirming the main points of that vid.
Is "google search" a redundant phrase?
This was 50 minutes well spent. I enjoyed this puzzle very much, as I usually do enjoy Gail's work. Some excellent cluing and fill, and I had to use the ole noodle extensively. Many of the proper names I didn't know, but all of them were gettable. Another terrific contribution from GG.
We don't have A/C here; don't need it. We keep our thermostat set at 68 during the day and 60 at night, and of course it turns on the furnace only when the temperature in the house falls below those levels, which only ever happens in the wintertime. Usually there's no more than 2 or 3 weeks out of the year that the temp gets hot enough that we break out the fans to cool ourselves.
Good wishes to you all.
Yellowrocks, would you email me the exact text, the exact characters, of the link you were trying to use? I'd like to look at it to see if maybe I can help. Thanks.
TTP : I had back pain for many years. For the last 5 years: nada. I walk up hills every day at least 2 miles. I also bought a pull-up bar that I use daily. I’m up to 80 pull-ups 3 times a week. And I do between 50 and 100 push-ups daily.
Fun puzzle; a lot of unknowns; but perps and Senor google helped me finish.
Mark S
Jace: Where do you live that you don’t need a/c? We keep it at 78 all year, even when it’s 115 outside.
Mark S
Owen, I sincerely thank you for alerting me to a meme I have not seen before. You did me a favor. We will discuss this at our organization. Today I have read further on it. Very few sites offer anything other than downing Ford. In all these centuries, does one person define what square dancing ethos is? Ford seems to deserve the opprobrium for his racism which was cruel, however, some of Ford's thoughts and ideas were more noble. Many of our founding fathers had slaves. They did not recognize slaves (or women) in the proposition that all men are created equal. The fathers could have done so, but that would have split apart the union of the states. What a dilemma! We do not throw out the Constitution because of this. Why throw out square dancing because of Ford. His prejudice did not prevail.
Although I am a strong feminist, I think some of my feminist sisters go overboard. Although I am for inclusion, I believe some out groups go overboard. Everything is an affront. A white square dancer in Japan cried racism when he felt put down because some of the Japanese guided him through the moves. That sometimes happens. In a homogenous group sometimes far less skilled dancers than I try to guide (misguide?) me. We have gone from insensitivity to hypersensitivity.
Again, I am really grateful to you, Owen.
Anyone know how to get nytimes Crossword w/o subscription?
Chuck: I have cell of my LAT delivery person. I leave a message and never have a problem.
Cheers,
Mark S
Sunday special. Thanks for the fun, Gail and C.C.
It took a few theme entries before I saw the YENs, but it helped with the other theme entries. It was a relief after yesterday's stumper.
Hand up for Ltd before LLC, and Renege before RECANT.
I noted "no fuss course" and "worked on a course?" clues. Clechos?
OODLES of booze for TIN with GIN, PALE ALE, wine city ASTI, IMPORTS, and CARLO. Too bad about the dreaded ICE,
CSO to all our ENGINEERSs (ARMY or not), and I'll take a CSO with 57 A.
YR - I read Heidi and Little Women in my youth also. Classics.
Chuck Lindgren -LOL re your Canadian BIL.
Enjoy the day. We are still enjoying the warm weather but haven't turned on the AC yet. Only when it gets very humid do we relent and set it at 25C (78F). House is shaded and we get lovely breezes.
FIW, not being capable of giving up ltd for LLC.
I'm a poor golfer and an absolute duffer, but I almost always get a least one par per 18-hole round. Not really rare. My fairway challenge was a bunker before it was a dogleg. I played the stage manager in Our Town, but unfortunately Gail wanted Our GANG. Just Spanky me.
DW and I were just discussing the era when NOISE pollution got a lot of ink. We think that the environmental activists are afraid of being politically incorrect if they criticize the plague of ultraloud, thumping bass autos, and are just plain-old afraid to criticize the biker community. I don't understand why bikers can cut off their mufflers. If we did that with our cars we would 1) fail inspection, and 2) get a ticket. A local attorney says it's tolerated so that old people know they're there. There's some truth in that, but I still don't like it. And GET OFF MY WEED PATCH!
Thanks to solo Gail for the fun Sunday puzzle that I should have FIRed. And thanks to CC for another fine tour.
23A, 24A, 34A, 49A, 82A, 83A, 104A, 117A, 4D, 39D, 46D, 61D, 62D: LAME PUZZLE.
I don't like to BE LATE but since I awoke later than usual today and actually felt like going to church, I'm, of course, late.
OMKeith, I thought of you while solving because I worked diagonally all the way down on both center columns. From BOOB to BETA it flowed without incident then from REPLYENVELOPE to GERALD. No hidden message, however.
Gail gave us some superb and easily gettable clues as Jayce mentioned. Once I reached the bottom and saw YEN I looked for more and saw them "suppressed." Gail is so CLEVER. I love Heidi and have read it several times even lately but it took a long while to recall SPYRI. Some books merit reading them many times over but authors' names, with a few exceptions, don't stay with me very long.
It's unusual to see all of LABREA in a puzzle. Will that bring on the usual discussion of its double meaning? LA BREA tar pits.
I also thought the cluing for PALE ALE was amusing. Though the clue for ENID was obscure since I have no idea about the location of Vance AFB but four letter cities are usually Ames, IA, ENID, OK or Mesa, AZ and I already had the I from NCIS so ENID fell quickly.
The NW was last to fill and BODYENGLISH the very last and now I see that it's a sports term. No wonder, then. OMRI beat me and I had to LIU; hard to believe it's a name.
C.C., thank you, for today's commentary; I sleep on my back very comfortably. However, I believe it's difficult to change one's sleeping position once it's established over many years. PK's advice about using a small pillow might help.
YR and Owen: interesting discussion about square dancing.
Have a wonderful Memorial Day, everyone! Kudos and praise to our troops, past and present! You are our heroes!
Linked from Edge
cute kitties
The kitties were linked from Chrome, not Edge. Edge doesn't let me access the Mensa puzzle either, but Chrome does. Thanks, DO.
Thanks for your sweet offer, Jayce. If I have a link I will have to choose to use Chrome.
I have a heat thermostat in every room. In the winter I keep rooms I am not using at 60 and rooms I am using at 68. The heat comes up in a few minutes, if need be. I like it cool. I set the temp at 55 at night and when I am away for a few hours. High wind and single digit temps call for more heat some how. In the summer when the inside temp rises above 75, I turn the AC on for just 2 or 3 hours. Unless the temps are in the 90s+ that's long enough to keep it down to 70 all night with an energy efficient home.
We keep our A/C at 68 and our furnace at 65.
Had to work this one in 3 sittings, as errands and other interruptions kept getting in the way of the important stuff. West / northwest was the last to fall. 36 minutes total, discounting TAFK*.
I found today’s themers easier to grok than the non. Weird. Loved seeing SHMOO; what I most remember about them is that they tasted like chicken and that they loved to be eaten. I believe they were first discovered in the Valley of the Shmoon.
Pardon me while I go set the thermostat to 60; it’s unbearably hot AND there’s an air quality alert through tomorrow night.
Later.
*Time Away From Keyboard
I forgot to say that my temperature stays at 76 or 78 from April to October. That's cool enough through the hot weather season. In winter it's anywhere between 68 and 72 since the temps occasionally dip into the 30s for a few days usually in January and February, sometimes.
Sunday Lurk say
{C+, A, B+}
I think I read The Orchid Thief but then again it could have been part of Laufer's (no, the supply-side curve guy - he's Laffer) Dangerous World of Butterflies" that I recall the Orchid story from.(?)
Anyone else reading Comey's "A Higher Loyalty"? While it is a bit self-sanctimonious, there are many fascinating case-nuggets in it. e.g. post-9/11 questions of law, Mueller being a true badasss (getting knee surgery w/o anesthesia!?), NSA bending the law, etc. I'm only on p105 but, so far, it's a good read. Even if Comey's writing himself in the best (non-CFL) light, it's grounds to noodle on.
Pop calls CFL bulbs DQ (Dairy Queen) bulbs 'cuz they look like a DQ ice-cream cone. He hates 'em and goes with LED where he can. #metoo
C.C. I sleep on my tummy. I keep trying to sleep on my left side because I read somewhere that sleeping on the right side pools blood around your heart and makes you more susceptible to health issues. Still, I always wake up on my face.
Body English has been thoroughly beaten to death (TTP nailed it) but IT IS REAL! (sometimes :-))
C, Eh! Since you’re Canadian… Is Scott related to Dave Foley? [blame Chuck L. for that bit of xenophobia :-)]
Those in Alberto's path keep safe...
Cheers, -T
Jayce, our climate is moderate too (Manhattan Beach, just south of LAX). When I moved here in 1965, I never thought about A/C, the weather was almost always pleasant (60s and 70s with a gentle sea breeze). In the last 20 years, there have been more and more days when I wished for A/C. We replaced our furnaces and added A/C about eight months ago. I love it!
I just saw a Nature special about Pangolins. Do you know of them? I was mostly ignorant about them and their situation. They are cute anteaters covered with scales. They have been poached and hunted until they are endangered.
I'm most comfortable at night sleeping on my right side. When I nap in the daytime, I sleep on my back. Dunno why...
AnonT:
Thank you for the review of Comey's book; one of my friends wants it for her birthday next month. I'll buy it for her then borrow it when she's finished. We exchange books regularly.
We got back from a wonderful (though hot!) time in San Antonio. We don't get to have all our kids in the same place very often these days and it was a fun celebration.
Puzzle was fun and slow but steady solve!
We keep our AC at 75-78 once we get it started. We have an attic fan - so if the evening is cool we can pull in the cool air in the evenings before increasing the AC when we get home in the evenings. Winter we have heat set at ~65-67 - and are big users of polar-tec and afghans to keep the energy usage/bills down!
Here is how I tell people to sleep with shoulder pain":
Place one pillow under your head. Make sure your head is in a neutral position
(i.e. - the same position to your neck and body that it would be standing up).
Lie on your side, with the injured shoulder facing the ceiling.
Use one pillow between your knees- use a small full size pillow that goes from between your knees down to between your ankles. That also keeps you in neutral postion - (similar to if you were standing up with your legs shoulder width apart) - this is also best for lower back issues.
Place a large pillow under the injured arm and sleep with your arm resting at chest height- bent at the elbow.
I love Gail G puzzles, so was very excited to see this one this morning--even though I knew I would have to cheat since it was going to be a Sunday toughie. But I did incredibly well, if not perfectly, and got the YEN theme early, which helped. Like PK, the ATTIC--WEB SITE made me laugh out loud, very funny, Gail. I too thought it should be BE LATE, and PK, thanks also for explaining the CFL Bulbs. Always, love your write-up, C.C.--great to hear from you on a Sunday.
Got my first glasses since my cataract surgery today, and can't believe how amazing my long distance vision was when I walked out of the Lens-crafter shop. Hope it stays that strong, because it really made me happy and made me feel that all the inconveniences after the surgeries was worth it. Thank you all for your kind support during these last tough weeks. And have a great Sunday, everybody!
Inanehiker, I have used that same pillow arrangement when I have shoulder or arm pain and it does help. Thanks for mentioning it.
Misty, whoo hoo! Glad the glasses help.
Gail, I liked the puzzle as far as I could manage... which wasn’t very far. Good job, just beyond me! I did know Anne Burrell. One of my favorites because she is so spacey. And fun.
I was tripped up in exactly the same way as Big Easy in the Mid Atlantic. I had LTD/REDACT/MAYIC. I figured MAYIC was a form of MAYAN do it all seemed right. Very frustrating to struggle through all of those obscure and unknown proper names. To get them all correct. And then to FIR. It kind of spoiled the fun. I did get the YEN theme and it helped with the theme. Thanks CC for explaining that YEN was in the middle to make it suppressed.
OwenKL: Thanks for the Square Dance/Racism video. How did this come up? I knew that Henry Ford was a racist and anti-Jewish and an economic fascist. We often hear how he paid his employees well to keep them from unionizing. But he also used good old fashioned hired thugs to do that. I have seen a video of Ford receiving the Iron Cross from the Nazis for his support of their war effort. (It was in the film America: From Hitler to M-X (1982) )
But I had not heard the story of Square Dancing. The punch line was hilarious: That Square Dancing was invented by black slaves. Thanks for the learning moment!
Here I was visiting my friends in San Antonio including the ALAMO.
After seeing LA BREA and TAR PITS I have been motivated to dig out some of my photos there!
CC: I think the HAPPY ENDING in the Las Vegas billboard was also meant to have another meaning!
From yesterday
TX Ms I am happy that my memories of the Galapagos along with those of OMK brought back happy memories for you! I have lots more photos and videos there to share!
I meant to write:
I figured MAYIC was a form of MAYAN so it all seemed right. Very frustrating to struggle through all of those obscure and unknown proper names. To get them all correct. And then to FIW.
Thank you, Swamp Cat!
Anon-T @ 5:31 - yes, that's the ticket - Dairy Queen bulbs - that's what they reminded me of in hindsight! Can any engineer explain, in simplest terms, please :), why the design? Fan of LED lights, especially the Phillips LED bulb with a dusk-to-dawn sensor ($10) - saved me over $100 in replacing the dead motion-activated porch light. Unlike my father and siblings, I inherited no handyman genes.
FLN no paper delivered. I borrowed one this morning and then thought, why bother . But P&P and I finally got it except.. ELENA
Gary, that would be de rigueur. But I LIU' ed it.
I went with GEORGE on the prez
Ari should know , he liased with Maria Callas much to the TUT, TUTing of his other guest WC*
I had RE RUN. ILANA made more sense
Was CS LEWIS the one Tolkien had in mind when he said he hated allegory?
I see we had LEN but not Deighton but I'm reading "Winter" and Carter's excavation of TUT'S TOMB came up. Interesting book btw.
I'm glad folks found this tough. GAGLAW was my last fill
Nice l'icks Owen.
* Winston Churchill not this WC
TTP, PK and Inanehiker,
Thanks for the various suggestions. I'll ask Boomer to try them.
PK, Boomer did dislocate his left shoulder playing baseball ages ago.
Anyone notice the misspelling of the puzzle title in the paper version?
SUPRESED
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