Theme: Thievery - Five synonyms, five plural nouns, five common phrases clued punningly.
19A. Steal items on parking lot windshields?: LIFT TICKETS. I got a ticket recently when I forgot that it was Saturday, not Sunday, when I went to get breakfast at the deli on Ventura Boulevard - the meters are free on Sundays. Then I forgot to pay the darn thing until it was a day too late and the charge doubled. That was one expensive plate of pastrami & eggs.
24A. Steal kitchen tools?: POCKET KNIVES. You'd make a mess of your pockets if you tried to make off with mine. They're sharp.
40A. Steal plastic?: SWIPE CREDIT CARDS. Will "swipe" cease to be a thing when all cards have chips and all readers have a slot in which to insert the card?
53A. Steal wishing well money?: PINCH PENNIES. Or redistribution of wealth, depending on how you look at it.
64A Steal watch components?: PALM SPRINGS. LCD's, batteries and solid-state movements don't work so well.
I sprinted through the top half, then waded through treacle for the bottom half of this one. The theme is solid and the grid is stretched to accommodate the 16-letter grid spanner across the center, so there's a slightly-unusual 16x15 layout today.
Across:
1. Tax time VIPs: CPA'S
5. GE competitor: AMANA. Kitchen appliance showdown.
10. "Stranger Things" actress: RYDER. The first actress/actor of the day I've never heard of.
15. A studio may be in one: LOFT
16. Doughnut-shaped: TORIC
17. Line from the heart: AORTA
18. Folksy Guthrie: ARLO
21. Bottleneck problem: SNARL
23. Neatened a bit: TIDIED UP
28. Fashion icon London: STACY. "What Not To Wear" personality.
29. Adjective for fighter Joe Frazier: SMOKIN'
34. Drivel: ROT
37. Hold responsible: BLAME
39. Western casino city: RENO
45. Trattoria bar order: VINO. Rosso or bianco. Or rosato.
46. Island east of Java: TIMOR. The sovereign state of East Timor is on the eastern part of the island (!) and Indonesia occupies the west.
47. Reuben bread: RYE. I had rye bread with my aforementioned expensive breakfast.
48. Lassie, for one: PET DOG
51. Sushi bar array: TUNAS. Back to the fish plural debate. I say "tuna" for both one and many.
59. Have an average day on the links?: SHOOT PAR. In my dreams. My average day looks a LOT different from that.
63. Buddy: KIDDO
68. "Voilà!": TADA! Beloved of online crossword solvers everywhere.
69. __ planner: EVENT
70. French film award: CÉSAR
71. Crispy snack: CHIP. CHEX, my first thought, didn't work too well.
72. Synthesizer brand: CASIO
73. Intense exams: ORALS
74. Breaks up a plot: HOES. Nice clue.
Down:
1. Necklace part: CLASP
2. X-rated stuff: PORNO. Not the first time in the LAT, but this is one of those entries that I'm surprised that Rich lets go.
3. Company whose mascot uses fowl language: AFLAC
4. Wading birds: STORKS
5. Only city from which two NHL hockey teams relocated (both went to Canada): ATL. I didn't think twice about this and I'm not even a particularly keen hockey fan. The Atlanta Flames went to Calgary (now I think about it, the name makes sense, I thought it was something to do with oilfield fires.) The Thrashers went to Winnipeg and became the second incarnation of the Jets.
6. "You can't mean me!": MOI
7. 48-Across sound: ARF
8. Capone henchman: NITTI. I knee-jerked GOTTI first before I had to unpick part of it.
9. When the "Macbeth" witches add "eye of newt": ACT IV. With the V in place, nothing else could work.
10. Subject of the film "42": RACISM
11. Farm link: YOKE. Ox-to-ox link, making yoked oxen.
12. 1857 litigant Scott: DRED
13. Caesar's last gasp: ET TU. Nice connection with the neighboring 20D
14. Rough file: RASP
20. Caesar's last day: IDES
22. Don't bother: LET BE. LET GO at first. Didn't work.
25. Powder source: TALC
26. 1980s Chrysler offering: K-CAR. Look at those sleek, elegant lines and the subtle color palette:
27. Citi Field MLBer: NY MET
30. "... boy __ girl?": OR A
31. Actress Deborah: KERR
32. 500 nickname: INDY
33. Wine quality: NOSE
34. Short answer?: RSVP. "Answer" in the sense of the instruction. Yes, No or Maybe are the answers.
35. Boo-boo: OWIE
36. Shade: TINT
38. Gloria's mom in '70s TV: EDITH. Bunker. Of course I knew this. (I didn't).
41. Okra unit: POD
42. Morning mumble: I'M UP. Alright, already.
43. Shade: TONE. 36D clecho.
44. Model T feature: CRANK. My Dad's first car had a starting handle as backup for when the battery went flat, a not-unusual occurrence.
49. Decides one will: OPTS TO
50. Reagan role in a Notre Dame football movie: GIPP. "Rock ..."
52. Teller?: SNITCH
54. DEA cop: NARCO
55. Old news source: CRIER. Oyez! Oyez!
56. State bordering six others and the Canadian mainland: IDAHO. Didn't we see this self-same clue a few weeks ago?
57. Redmayne of "The Theory of Everything": EDDIE. Thank you, crosses.
58. Some daytime TV: SOAPS
59. Building guideline: SPEC
60. "__ Nagila": HAVA
61. World Cup cheers: OLES
62. Potent start?: OMNI
65. Govt. code crackers: N.S.A. I recently hired a new analyst who previously worked for the N.S.A - her office was in a bunker on Oahu. Nice place to live, but you're still working in a bunker.
66. Square dance dancer: GAL
67. H.S. yearbook section: SR'S Seniors. Adios!
I picked up a potential new client from one of the recent Vegas expos. They're based in Australia. I smell some long-haul air travel in my tea leaves.
With that, here's the grid and g'day mates!
Steve
19A. Steal items on parking lot windshields?: LIFT TICKETS. I got a ticket recently when I forgot that it was Saturday, not Sunday, when I went to get breakfast at the deli on Ventura Boulevard - the meters are free on Sundays. Then I forgot to pay the darn thing until it was a day too late and the charge doubled. That was one expensive plate of pastrami & eggs.
24A. Steal kitchen tools?: POCKET KNIVES. You'd make a mess of your pockets if you tried to make off with mine. They're sharp.
40A. Steal plastic?: SWIPE CREDIT CARDS. Will "swipe" cease to be a thing when all cards have chips and all readers have a slot in which to insert the card?
53A. Steal wishing well money?: PINCH PENNIES. Or redistribution of wealth, depending on how you look at it.
64A Steal watch components?: PALM SPRINGS. LCD's, batteries and solid-state movements don't work so well.
I sprinted through the top half, then waded through treacle for the bottom half of this one. The theme is solid and the grid is stretched to accommodate the 16-letter grid spanner across the center, so there's a slightly-unusual 16x15 layout today.
Across:
1. Tax time VIPs: CPA'S
5. GE competitor: AMANA. Kitchen appliance showdown.
10. "Stranger Things" actress: RYDER. The first actress/actor of the day I've never heard of.
15. A studio may be in one: LOFT
16. Doughnut-shaped: TORIC
17. Line from the heart: AORTA
18. Folksy Guthrie: ARLO
21. Bottleneck problem: SNARL
23. Neatened a bit: TIDIED UP
28. Fashion icon London: STACY. "What Not To Wear" personality.
29. Adjective for fighter Joe Frazier: SMOKIN'
34. Drivel: ROT
37. Hold responsible: BLAME
39. Western casino city: RENO
45. Trattoria bar order: VINO. Rosso or bianco. Or rosato.
46. Island east of Java: TIMOR. The sovereign state of East Timor is on the eastern part of the island (!) and Indonesia occupies the west.
47. Reuben bread: RYE. I had rye bread with my aforementioned expensive breakfast.
48. Lassie, for one: PET DOG
51. Sushi bar array: TUNAS. Back to the fish plural debate. I say "tuna" for both one and many.
59. Have an average day on the links?: SHOOT PAR. In my dreams. My average day looks a LOT different from that.
63. Buddy: KIDDO
68. "Voilà!": TADA! Beloved of online crossword solvers everywhere.
69. __ planner: EVENT
70. French film award: CÉSAR
71. Crispy snack: CHIP. CHEX, my first thought, didn't work too well.
72. Synthesizer brand: CASIO
73. Intense exams: ORALS
74. Breaks up a plot: HOES. Nice clue.
Down:
1. Necklace part: CLASP
2. X-rated stuff: PORNO. Not the first time in the LAT, but this is one of those entries that I'm surprised that Rich lets go.
3. Company whose mascot uses fowl language: AFLAC
4. Wading birds: STORKS
5. Only city from which two NHL hockey teams relocated (both went to Canada): ATL. I didn't think twice about this and I'm not even a particularly keen hockey fan. The Atlanta Flames went to Calgary (now I think about it, the name makes sense, I thought it was something to do with oilfield fires.) The Thrashers went to Winnipeg and became the second incarnation of the Jets.
6. "You can't mean me!": MOI
7. 48-Across sound: ARF
8. Capone henchman: NITTI. I knee-jerked GOTTI first before I had to unpick part of it.
9. When the "Macbeth" witches add "eye of newt": ACT IV. With the V in place, nothing else could work.
10. Subject of the film "42": RACISM
11. Farm link: YOKE. Ox-to-ox link, making yoked oxen.
12. 1857 litigant Scott: DRED
13. Caesar's last gasp: ET TU. Nice connection with the neighboring 20D
14. Rough file: RASP
20. Caesar's last day: IDES
22. Don't bother: LET BE. LET GO at first. Didn't work.
25. Powder source: TALC
26. 1980s Chrysler offering: K-CAR. Look at those sleek, elegant lines and the subtle color palette:
27. Citi Field MLBer: NY MET
30. "... boy __ girl?": OR A
31. Actress Deborah: KERR
32. 500 nickname: INDY
33. Wine quality: NOSE
34. Short answer?: RSVP. "Answer" in the sense of the instruction. Yes, No or Maybe are the answers.
35. Boo-boo: OWIE
36. Shade: TINT
38. Gloria's mom in '70s TV: EDITH. Bunker. Of course I knew this. (I didn't).
41. Okra unit: POD
42. Morning mumble: I'M UP. Alright, already.
43. Shade: TONE. 36D clecho.
44. Model T feature: CRANK. My Dad's first car had a starting handle as backup for when the battery went flat, a not-unusual occurrence.
49. Decides one will: OPTS TO
50. Reagan role in a Notre Dame football movie: GIPP. "Rock ..."
52. Teller?: SNITCH
54. DEA cop: NARCO
55. Old news source: CRIER. Oyez! Oyez!
56. State bordering six others and the Canadian mainland: IDAHO. Didn't we see this self-same clue a few weeks ago?
57. Redmayne of "The Theory of Everything": EDDIE. Thank you, crosses.
58. Some daytime TV: SOAPS
59. Building guideline: SPEC
60. "__ Nagila": HAVA
61. World Cup cheers: OLES
62. Potent start?: OMNI
65. Govt. code crackers: N.S.A. I recently hired a new analyst who previously worked for the N.S.A - her office was in a bunker on Oahu. Nice place to live, but you're still working in a bunker.
66. Square dance dancer: GAL
67. H.S. yearbook section: SR'S Seniors. Adios!
I picked up a potential new client from one of the recent Vegas expos. They're based in Australia. I smell some long-haul air travel in my tea leaves.
With that, here's the grid and g'day mates!
Steve
70 comments:
MATURE AUDIENCE ALERT.
A timid young man from the isle of TIMOR
From his girlfriend was hoping for more.
But his tongue was a SNARL,
He couldn't ask ORAL,
So he humped her right there on the floor!
Edward's boat was not very steady,
In fact, it really wasn't sea-ready.
Some TUNA (a POD or school)
Swam a TORIC shaped whirlpool* --
His boat sank, and the eddy et EDDIE!
*It might have been an AMANA.
{B+, B.}
Dear Cornerites,
- - Before I start today's CW, I want to reveal the effect that the report of MALALA's recovery from being shot had on me. First, I was not feeling right, see my post of 8:57 AM where I woke, and was disoriented. This feeling continued all day. I read each post, but did not view the links except to read briefly about Malala's incredible life. Her accomplishments made me feel so small that I did not want to comment on any of the many subjects from yesterday.
- - In the night I recognized a parallel between Malala and one of my life experiences. I had served on Jury Duty many times through the years. The last time, I sat on the jury for a case where a young mother was murdered, and the gunman had also attempted to murder her young daughter. Reading about Malala brought back the horrifying picture of the mother's lifeless body lying in a pool of blood with a gunshot hole in her head near her ear.
- - The daughter had also been shot in the head. The bullet upon exiting the head reentered her shoulder, and finally exited her hip. The shootings were drug related, and happened in the night. The landlord happened to stop by the next morning to find the dead mother. When he touched the child, she moved. She survived, and was living with her grandmother at the time of the trial.
- - I know that my favorite anon will not read this because it skips to the next post. Whether you read it, or don't won't really matter, it helped me to write it.
Ðave
- - Thank you Mr. Bruce Haight for this appropriate Thursday level CW. There was bigly white for a long time, but P, P, Prevailed, and there are no tapes. I FIR in 44:32. Last to fill was the "R" at CESAR, and SRS.
- - Thanks Steve for your educational review.
46A - Island east of Java: TIMOR. - looks an awfully lot like C.C.'s entry from yesterday.
10D - Divided island north of Australia : TIMOR.
Ðave
Greetings!
Thanks to Bruce and Steve!
Really cute theme!
Did not know: STACY, TIMOR, CÉSAR, CASIO, ATL and K-CAR. Fortunately, as Steve would say, they were got by crosses (or such). But it took awhile.
Thanks for sharing, Dave.
Have a great day!
Good morning Bruce and Steve and all the early risers. A well crafted and reported puzzle though I cannot imagine why someone would want to take someone else's ticket off the windshield. What do you do with them?
I am surprised you do not know Winona Ryder since you live in California. She has been active for more than 30 years with some wonderful performances, such s her work with Angelina Jolie and others in GIRL INTERRUPTED .
My unknowns were Stacy STACY LONDON who I never heard of, CÉSAR which meant nothing in that context and I sort of know Eddie Redmayne, it was hidden in my brain. TIMOR was easy only because of yesterday.
Steve, I agree about shooting Par for an entire round. Enjoy Australia.
64A I had Palms Orings for too long, huh? Gipo seemed like a shortened Gipper. Else very doable.
Good morning!
California almost did me in this morning. SWIPE just wouldn't come to me. OWIE finally broke the logjam. Thanx, Bruce and Steve. Cute theme.
Lemonade, I had a friend in college who'd amassed a large collection of parking tickets -- he used 'em as bookmarks. His father finally paid them, so my friend threw them away. Those tickets were designed to be folded into a pre-addressed envelope for easy payment. Somebody found one, and mailed it in with, "F..k you, fuzz. Come and get me!" They did.
CHIP: All of my credit cards have the chip, but updated card readers aren't that common. Swiping is still the order of the day. It's nice that "signing" has been abolished, though.
RYDER: IIRC, Winona RYDER had a clepto problem. She was rich, but was arrested lifting trinkets from department stores.
TIMOR: Are the residents timorous?
Good day everyone,
Fun puzzle Bruce, but there is one issue...........
Very few golfers, except for the pros, have an average day on the links by your definition. I never had one when I played. What say you HG?
Really liked the theme today. SWIPE CREDIT CARDS darn near got me until I wagged OWIE. That gave me the SWIPE.
My collie, Casey, is three and has established himself as king of our household. Also very popular at Day Care. He's number 7 collie for this dog lover.
Been a while since I have made a post, but I have been doing the puzzles and reading the comments daily. I hope to stay in touch.
I understood the clever theme soon, but the puzzle seemed to me to have Friday difficulty. I found the bottom much easier than the top. It took me forever to remember SMOKING Joe, even having perps, S_OKIN. V-8 can, please. The M enabled RACISM which suggested the Y for RYDER. TA DA. I am quite familiar with WINONA, but not "Stranger Things." STACY and EDDIE are not familiar. I needed four perps for CESAR.
I liked ET TU and IDES.
Hondo, good to have you back commenting.
Dave, I am interested in your Hawaii discussions. It is getting scary there.
I am glad to see no disaster stories here with the recent flooding in the SE and Midwest. MY WV sister had her carefully tended backyard destroyed with water and debris, but the house stayed dry. Her husband is home from the hospital, but struggling.
The word PORNO would not be anathema to Rich. Owen's first poem is like the old porno blogs.
Since when is a POCKET knife a KITCHEN tool?
Since when is PAR "average"?
What file is NOT rough? (We're not talkin' paper files or computer files when we're talkin' RASP.)
Good Morning.
Busy, busy. MIL is moving to assisted living tomorrow.
Thanks, Bruce and Steve.
Shout out to our Square Dance GAL!
Hope you can dry out a bit today, WikWak.
Later. Have a good day.
Good morning. Nice criminal theme today and I luckily finished it correctly with a few WAGS. I knew "HAVA Nagila" but not its correct spelling; CASIO makes synthesizers? Never knew that. "French film award" and "Square dance caller"- CESAR & GAL-TGFPerps & WAG. Never heard of either.
One change, COLLIE to PET DOG.
Yesterday I worked two puzzles by C.C. and like how she doesn't inundate her puzzles with movie and television proper names. Many constructors do. You'll notice this puzzle has many and unless you're glued to the boob tube, you will not have a clue as to who these people are or what the shows are about or who's in them. "Stranger Things"-RYDER (never heard of her either Steve), ARLO, "Fashion Icon"-STACY, CESAR, "42"-RACISM, "The theory of Everything"- EDDIE Redmayne. Deborah KERR, NITTI, Gloria's mom"- EDITH.
Thanks, Madame D. I will take the CSO for square dancer, but we seldom use GAL, just ladies and girls. GAL is more likely used in traditional or Old Time square dancing, as opposed to our Modern Western Square Dance, where there is not much that is country or "corn pone."
WikWak, I must have missed your reading about your problem. What happened?
According to the USGA, "Par" is the score that an expert player would be expected to make for a given hole. Par means expert play under ordinary weather conditions, allowing for two putts. IMO, since only a very small portion of golfers could be deemed "expert", the clue should have been better. So sue him.
Big CSO to Yellow Rocks. Anther to all of us PET DOG lovers. I used to live in Colleyville, TX, and now frequently walk Zoe on Colley Ave. Too bad the city bigwigs don't know how to spell "collie". Maybe they should untie with me, along with that tattoo artist FLN and the guy in the "wanna get away" commercials who limed the end zone with KC's "Chefs".
FIR, but erased Joltin' Joe Frazier, OPT in, snap for CHIP, and had to relocate TONE from 36d to 43d to make room for TINT.
Same unknowns already listed, but HAVA Nagila as well. The only HAVA I know is HAV-A-TAMPA, a cigar brand.
Great puzzle Bruce. Favorite was "breaks up a plot" for HOES. And thanks to Steve for another fine explanation.
Good morning everyone.
Got most of it without a hitch. Got LIFT…… but couldn't suss TICKETS at first. Was looking for something that meant 'slinger' or 'ad'. Ate breakfast and read the rest of the paper; and then realized I hadn't been focussing on '42' properly. Parsing ACT IV correctly also helped. Got TICKETS, then YOKES and voilà, it was done.
Nice intro, Steve, and nice bright challenging puzzle from BH. Thanks.
STORK - German Storche, L. German Stork. My aunt in Bergenhusen, Ger. had a nest the size of a wagonload of twigs on her house.
Hondo, so glad to hear from you and know you are out there still reading.
BE, Jinx, here os perhaps the simplest version of the HAVA NEGILA DANCE I have seen.
It is raining again.
Hondo, good to hear from you. Don't be a stranger.
Jinx, you must've heard:
Hava nagila
Hava nagila
Have two nagilas
They're very small..
Hello Puzzlers -
Hondo, good to hear from you! I had collie before pet dog, effectively log-jamming the west for a while. It seems I read something about the number of different collies used in filming Lassie, but I can’t recall the details. I do remember the credit for the trainer, named Rudd Weatherwax or similar.
Morning, Steve, I pledge not to abscond with your kitchen knives. Could be hazardous.
Once again, a narc is not a narco; quite the opposite.
Yellowrocks at 8:06 AM
- - Here is a video of the Kilauea activity published by CBS This Morning on May 30, 2018 . It is even out of date on the homes destroyed. One source shows 82.
- - Here is the text: Fast-moving lava from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano forced new emergency evacuations overnight. The most active fissure is shooting molten rock hundreds of feet into the air. Lava has now destroyed 112 structures including 71 homes. Carter Evans reports from Pahoa. - LINK -
- - Picard has a friend who has evacuated, and Mike Sherline has noticed sulphur dioxide and ash where he lives.
- - Here is the USGS Status Update of Kīlauea Volcano - May 30, 2018.
- - There are many videos piling up on each other like so much lava. I picked these as current, and short.
Anonymous at 8:08 AM
- - I'm so glad you're back. I really missed you. Wait, why am I writing this, you won't read it?
Ðave
Musings
-Steve, maybe that restaurant comps parking tickets
-An administrator told me I had to get rid of the 2” POCKET KNIFE on my key ring
-The eponymous Iowa birthplace of those refrigerators
-A colleague once tearfully told me that calling her KIDDO (as I did others) was offensive
-My masters required taking no ORALS or writing a worthless, footnoted paper
-My 95-yr-old MIL had already HOED her garden when I arrived to mow yesterday
-The number ALL players wear on Jackie Robinson Day that commemorates the first day he played in an MLB game – April 15, 1947
-I was not pedantic when my colleague always said LEAVE IT BE or LET IT ALONE
-My first MLB guy for N _ M _ _ was NOMAR. Baseball peeps will recognize that name. Wrong stadium.
-“Who did it?” never works with students as they don’t publicly SNITCH. Hand them a piece of paper to write down the guilty party and hand in - BINGO, ya got yer perp!
-Obscure Redmayne must be a Thursday EDDIE
-Ahm NIP o tent in daily use. Ahm NEE poh tent in the Hallelujah Chorus
-Hondo – Dern tootin’ about PAR! Good to hear from you
I think everyone is missing the question mark at the end of that SHOOT PAR clue. The cluer knows that to shoot par is not average, but the words average and par are synonyms.
Owen that poem is an excellent example of 2 down. Rather reminds me of highschool though. Now, not to dwell on this too much, but POR NO is a phrase in Spanish "For no" kind of like saying "But no, I have a headache and I would not enjoy humping today."
I can’t believe I aced a Thursday puzzle. Some sneaky but fun clues.
I think Lemon (and no doubt others) may have forgotten LIFT TICKETS are what skiers use to get to the tops of mountains. Why, I have no idea. If I wanted to get to the bottom of a mountain, I'd just stay there, indoors and warm!
The most useful photo of Kilauea I've seen!
Anon@ 8:00
Files for working on metal are fine and sharp. Rasps for working on wood or horses hooves are course and rough.
Hi Y'all! Fun & fast, thanks, Bruce. Great expo, Steve!
The theme was so blatant it stole my attention.
Didn't know STACY's name. I watched "What Not To Wear" twice and liked the subject's clothes choices better than Stacy's. Really dumb show.
Have you ever had to deal with someone who has to BLAME someone for every thing that goes wrong? So tiresome.
Meanwhile, back in TIMOR for the second time this week.
AFLAC: You can't unhear it.
PORNO: I may have a dirty mind, but won't watch that trash.
ATL: no idea. I thought NYMET was a funny surname for a player. DNK: EDDIE.
RACISM: Anybody here feel sorry for Roseanne?
YA: So glad your WV sis didn't get her house flooded. That would have been too tragic with having to deal with her sick husband also.
WikWAK: so sorry for your flood. How did it happen with no stream or other body of water? Are you in a low place?
Good Morning:
I love word play puzzles and this one is a delight, not surprising, either, considering the constructor! There were no unknowns at all but several w/os: Chain/Clasp, Collie/Pet dog, Imus/I'm up, and Maine/Idaho. A clever theme, fun fill, and an enjoyable solve, IMVHO. Nice CSO to our resident square dance, YR.
Thanks, Bruce, you never disappoint and thanks, Steve, for a jolly good write-up.
Hondo, so good to hear from you; don't be a stranger. I miss hearing about Casey's capers!
Madame Defarge, I hope all goes smoothly with your MIL's transition.
WikWak, I hope you have escaped any major problems.
My AC serviceman is due between 11:00-5:00 for the spring check-up and my Dewar's delivery man is due between 11:00-4:00. I bet both will arrive closer to the later time.
Have a great day.
Terrific Thursday. Thanks for the fun, Bruce and Steve.
I got the theme, and with a little P&P and just a few inkblots, I got the TADA.
Can Canadians still pinch pennies?
The "steal wishing well money?" made me think of the Trevi Fountain and the song, Three Coins in the Fountain.
I rarely swipe my credit card anymore and don't often insert it into the slot either. We can just tap it on the screen for most transactions. (Retailers decide the minimum amount, often $100, that requires inserting card and using PIN.) Do American cards have the tap feature??
I noted the repeat of TIMOR, and the CSO to YR with "square dance dancer".
MOI reminded me of Miss Piggy.
KCAR reminded me of the line in the classic song by the Bare Naked Ladies
"And if I had a million dollars (if I had a million dollars)
I'd buy you a k-car (a nice reliant automobile)"
I had never heard of HAVA Nagila and had to LIU. Here's the Wiki info for others who might not have been familiar with it.
"Hava Nagila" (Hebrew: הבה נגילה, Havah Nagilah, "Let us rejoice") is a Jewish folk song traditionally sung at Jewish celebrations. It is perhaps the first modern Israeli folk song in the Hebrew language that has become a staple of band performers at Jewish weddings and bar/bat mitzvah celebrations."
This Canadian had to wait for perps for ATL. (Even DH could not remember where the Flames and the Jets relocated from.) Winnipeg team was the only Canadian team to go deep into the post-season.
This Canadian also wondered why the clue for 56D had to mention the Canadian MAINLAND?? I don't think I would have been misdirected to any American state near Newfoundland or PEI or the islands of the far north!
Enjoy the day.
D4@3:46
Sorry for your reaction to Malala's story. Hopefully you are feeling better today.
Sounds like PTSD from the sights and sounds you encountered during your jury duty.
Many Canadian provinces have been forced to recognize this problem and are now providing support for jurors.
JurorPTSD
Clear skies and no rain—yay! Thanks for your concern, Mme D and PK; yes, our neighborhood is pretty low. After the disasters of 2007 and 2012, the village finally took some actions that improved things immensely. They deepened the large pond a few blocks south of here so it will hold much more water, and they installed a new pumping station with double the capacity of the old one. Last night the water came to within a foot of our house and we were having visions of 8’ of water in the basement, as we did the last two times. At least it wasn’t deep enough for kids to kayak in, as they did last time! Everything is soggy outside and there’s still some standing water here and there but mostly it’s gone.
I quite liked the puzzle today. Interesting to see TIMOR for the second time this week. My only nit is with TORIC—I'm sure it’s a real word but that doesn’t mean I have to like it (I don’t). And as for SWIPE-ing credit cards, mostly in this area that’s all gone. Chip readers everywhere. Thanks to Bruce for the puzzle and to Steve for the expo.
Have a great day, all!
Never heard of Wynona RYDER? I am surprised. Lately not so much, but in her younger years she acted in many movies: Edward Scissorhands, Little Women and others. Not knowing Deborah KERR would not surprise me. She was from long ago, the 40s and 50s. EDDIE Redmayne deservedly won an Oscar for playing Stephen Hawking.
YR, of course I thought of you at GAL in square dancing.
TORIC has long been a crossword staple though maybe not recently. One of my friends likes to call her close friends KIDDO.
Most places here also use chip readers and only a very few still SWIPE.
Why do crosswords if you don't enjoy the play on words? I like thinking of POCKET as a verb and adjective. It makes me smile. The same with SWIPE and PALM. I think about the double meaning implied.
FLN: I read the book, I am Malala and was greatly inspired by her youth and courage and outraged by the assault on her person. DAVE, I'm sorry it affected you so much.
Hondo, it's good to see you again! Owen, you continue to impress!
Have a lovely day, everyone!
Steve, thank you for the expo.
OwenKL at 10:26 AM
- - You are correct. The map was useful to show Naalehu in the SE section of the island, and it's distance from Pāhoa. It is 68 miles by car, or 40 miles as the Ne Ne flies. The map does not show the clouds of ash, Laze or Vog each of which have their own hazards, and can affect large areas of the island.
- - Naalehu is the word on Mike Sherline's avatar. The PIC shows the sign welcoming us to the southern most point in the United States of America.
- - The map shows what a small percentage of the island is being covered by lava, but I wouldn't show it to someone who has lost their world to Pele.
Ðave
CanadianEh!, by "mainland" I think the clue was steering us away from states that share only a water border with Canada. And I don't think our credit cards have that "tap" feature, though they're pretty efficient at tapping my bank account.
"Puzzling Thoughts":
Nice puzzle Bruce; clever recap, Steve.
My two WO's were: COLLIE > PET DOG & JACKIE > RACISM. I had to google 10a (RYDER). I think I remember a young Winona Ryder as Lydia in Beetlejuice. Perhaps that clue would've helped, or maybe "U-Haul Competitor".
HG, I too call some of the younger co-workers KIDDO. Didn't realize it was among the words thought of as being either un-PC or condescending
Lots of fun clues and solved today. Unlike the Jumble, which to me was a bit SNARLy.
Regarding 59a; well yes, I do now see the ? after the clue (which is to imply some sort of play-on-words), but I agree that it should've been clued differently. Maybe, "every duffer's dream, with "to". Personally, I have SHOT PAR - or better - a number of times, but not too many NOT to remember. I played in my HS golf team, but never broke par until age 29. Got close. It's a rare feat for most golfers. Now, at age 65, I'm just happy to get out and play. Getting a par on a single hole is enjoyable
Lots of pun possibilities; interesting that you have PORNO in one corner, and "I DA HO" in the other. Which led me to this Moe-ku:
The farm girl rebuked
At her boyfriend, for calling
Her, and her friends, "HOES"
And a pun on a clue from yesterday, solve from today:
The new stool pigeon
Got robbed, and stripped down.
He hasn't a SNITCH to wear
And my obligatory sophomoric one:
What Mom Credit Card
Says to her potty-trained kid:
"Don't forget to SWIPE"
Hope these bring a smile or two ...
CanadianEh! at 11:08 AM
- - Thank you for recognizing my Juror PTSD. My PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) would make me SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) if my OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) hadn't prevented a STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease).
- - I believe that The West Side Story-Officer Krupke addresses my problem much better than moi.
Ðave
Fun fairly smooth run and theme! Hand up with Big Easy I wanted COLLIE before PET DOG. Hand up STACY, CESAR, EDDIE unknown. So was NITTI. Surprised people in ATL would play hockey!
I don't know many TV or movie names, but I am surprised Steve and Big Easy had trouble with EDITH. All in the Family was one of the most widely watched shows in TV history.
Here are some of my photos from IDAHO. A state with many different regions. Two highlights: Craters of the Moon and Shoshone Falls.
Does anyone else remember Friendly Neighborhood NARCO Agent often played on the Dr Demento Show?
Glad to see TIMOR again. If you did not see my post yesterday you may want to check it out. The US supported Indonesia's brutal invasion and occupation of East TIMOR which killed hundreds of thousands. In part to curry favor with Indonesia for its oil. The darkest part of the story was the almost total corporate news blackout in the US.
DW and I were in PALM SPRINGS recently. Once again here is my video of the spectacular aerial tram ride!
From yesterday:
Thanks, AnonT, for the appreciation. It really does matter to have at least occasional words of appreciation. Some of these posts can take hours to dig up and arrange and it is good to know someone wants to look at them. Thanks!
D4E4H: Yes, my friend Tam indeed has been evacuated in Hawaii, but he has been lucky.
Here he was interviewed on CBS News. He comes on at 1:27 into the video clip.
Amazingly, his home is still standing so far, but he still can't stay there.
Excited to see a Bruce Haight puzzle, and worked hard at it with lots of challenges everywhere. In the end I thought I'd gotten it--but, alas, 'twas not to be. One single goof-up--I had NEMET instead of NYMET because I thought the answer would be a name, not a team. Sports does me in much of the time. But, hey, one little letter isn't that big a deal, so Yay! Great puzzle, many thanks, Bruce. And enjoy your trips to Australia, Steve.
Dave, what a sad jury experience.
Caesar's last gasp on his last day made for two cute clues.
CanadianEh, your reminding us about Miss Piggy made me laugh.
Yellowrocks, I too thought of you in relation to square dance, but your name is too long to be the answer.
Funny poems, Chairman Moe.
Madame Defarge, I hope your mother-in-law has a smooth transition to the new facility.
Have a great day, everybody.
Well, I LIUed and it seems Americans are not using Tap Cards very much as of yet.
TapAndGoCards
I also did a Blog search for IDAHO and found that AnonT and C.C. used the same clue (State bordering six others and the Canadian mainland) on Dec. 9/16. I didn't complain about "mainland" that day!
On Apr. 8/17, Mike Buckley clued IDAHO as "state with 45 mile Canadian border".
Oxford Dictionary defines mainland as "A large continuous extent of land that includes the greater part of a country or territory, as opposed to offshore islands and detached territories."
Moe-ku #4:
Grape called Barbera
Becomes wine I call "Streisand";
Has a pronounced NOSE
Moe-ku #5:
In Knute Rockne film,
They nicknamed the movie's main
Rigging man: Key GIPP
Rats.
My Sharp TV gave up the ghost last night. It works for a few minutes. Than the picture gets fuzzy and everything goes black. I quickly came to realize how much I miss it for my casual entertainment. I called a local store and can buy a new Sony version of a similar size and quality and have it delivered and installed in a few days.
In the old days, one would call a TV repairman. He would test the tubes, replace the bad parts and everything would be back to normal. I didn't even think about getting my old TV repaired.
I guess I will spend more time riding my bike, reading, visiting the local coffee shop, doing crosswords on my computer, napping, etc.
I'm embarrassed to realize how much I miss it the old TV. Then I think about my homeless friend and I realize how much worse things could be though it doesn't make the broken TV problem seem any better. Rats...
An interesting lop-sided grid today - 16 squares across by 15 down. This throws off the diagonal count, for which, see below*
This was one where knowing the theme helped to reveal a number of answers. Luckily, I caught on early with POCKET KNIVES. From then on, it was a walk in the park.
Ta- DAH!
Misty, I almost made the same mistake as you. Although I occasionally like to watch a game on TV, I am not an avid sports fan. In this case it was the perp STACY that saved me. (I guess I know more about fashion than sports teams.)
~ OMK
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*Diagonal Report: Mr. Haight throws us off with his very entertaining pzl by not following the usual daily symmetry of a 15X15 grid. His 16X15 plan means that we can count two 15 square diagonals (NW to SE) that do not connect the extreme squares. As a purist, I don't accept either as an anchor diagonal.
But perhaps someone else would?
I really feel sorry for Samantha Bee, Keith Olberman, Steven Colbert, Jemelle Hill, et al for the filthy things they have said about the Trump family. Oh wait, they got praised not fired as the hypocritical press never holds them accountable. KEEP POLITICS OUT OF HERE!!!
I liked this Bruce Haight puzzle and the kleptomaniacal answers. I noticed 3 of the thieving verbs started out as nouns (LIFT, POCKET, and PALM) and the other 2 were already verbs to start with (SWIPE and PINCH.) As Lemonade would say, nicely symmetrical. Lots of fun. Agree there were plenty of celebrities' names, some of which I knew and some of which I didn't. I remembered Frank NITTI from the days when Robert STACK played Elliot Ness on TV, a show that LW and I enjoyed regularly. She always called Mr. Stack "Stone Face" because of the very limited range of facial expressions he displayed. I don't know if Keith would concur with that assessment.
I would most likely say, "Gosh, look at all those different kinds of tuna" rather than "Look at all those tunas." Same thing with a boatload of tuna: I would not say "The fishermen caught a lot of tunas." Anyway, enough of such talk from "Grumpy Jayce."
Around here most of the credit card readers have a slab of cardboard in the slot that read something like Chip service not available.
Good wishes to you all.
Misty, or any Jumble fans ~
I'm new to the Jumble, so find today's answer a bit weird.
Is it within the rules for the creators to make up words, so long as they "sound" like a real word?
Thanks, in advance.
~ OMK
Picard, I enjoyed the Idaho photos. I've never been there. I have been up the Palm Springs tramway several times. It can be hot at the bottom and snowy cold at the top.
Dunno what Anon (2:32) is going on about.
In answer to PK's query, no, I don't feel sorry for Roseanne. She has always seemed to be one of those people without any class. I don't think saying that will be infringing on the 'no politics' caveat. We'll see...
I agree with Jayce about 'TUNAS.' I can forgive those kinds of answers when the constructor has come up with a quality puzzle but can't find a way out of a pickle without using a questionable word like TUNAS.
Anonymous @2:32,
Funny. I don't see any mention of the not-to-be-named POTUS or his family today - except in your posting.
The only political leader I notice is one Gaius Julius Caesar. But I believe we may be forgiven for reviving a classical figure, no?
Is MALALA too hot a topic?
~ OMK
DNF, (I wuz robbed!...)
A few stolen words...
This puzzle makes me want to get a new welcome mat...
Oh well, You win some, you lose some...
A rare occasion when I both got the theme answers and the theme. Loved the puns!
Bill G: Do you remember the tube testers in drug and hardware atores?
Yes, Lassie was a COLLIE; and ahe was usually played by males.
The noun TORUS before the adjective TORIC.
Only actor/actress I got without perps was Deborah KERR (pronounced car).
OKL, I have not forgotten "lift tickets" as my youngest lives in Denver and when healthy we visit often including during the winter. The base phrase was easy, the idea of someone stealing a ticket from a windshield, where it could be nothing other than for an infraction seems silly and there are lots of other tickets that would have worked.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three rights make a left.
CrossEyedDave at 4:37 PM
- - Thanks a Punch!
Roy at 4:55 PM
- - Wrote "Deborah KERR (pronounced car)". We were cued for this at 26D - KCAR.
Ðave
USGS Status Update of Kilauea Volcano - May 31, 2018
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Interesting puzzle. Thanks Bruce. Got most of it and enjoyed all of it.
The Bard says Caesar’s last gasp was Brute. ET TU was his second-to- last gasp. Who knows?
Owen, thanks for putting Kilauea in perspective with your map. It takes nothing away from the tragedy to be honest about it. Hysteria seldom serves a useful purpose.
Steve, always a pleasure.
IDAHO always reminds be of the old “dirty” joke.
Two potatoes were standing on a corner. How do you know which one is the prostitute?
The one wearing the tee shirt saying “I da ho”
Steve, that reminds me of the$60.00 cheeseburger. Two bucks plus a cascading pile of overdrafts. This actually happened to a friend of mine
I liked the FOWL and the CRIER. I think perhaps there was a Crips news service??? LIU?
Gary, I had the same problem and that little gadget was so handy.
Phil used to wear a Nomar t-shirt; he had the same interest in MLB as some in here.
Hondo: We had some OIL CAN Boyd talk yesterday.
My KCAR was a Reliant
Picard, Atlanta? We've got a hockey team in Tampa. Very popular.
Speaking of golf: who's putting worse these days, Rory or Jordan?
OMK, you'll be delighted to hear that I solved diagonally but not being a Diagonalist I never noticed it was a square off. I still had to sweat out"California". *
Owen, that was a late night l'ick. Keep the kus com'n C-Moe
WC
* I finally figured out what to do with a credit card and that we'd already used TONE. OOPS wasn't working.
Now to check out the Jumble. To late in the week for Sudoku
PS. CED you're Punology Link was hilarious
PPS Picard, on behalf of the blog I appreciate your posting those pics.
Jayce,
Yes, I'd agree with "Stone Face" for Mr. Stack. He was also pretty much a monotone, although he didn't cultivate it purposely, not in the way that Jack Webb did as Sgt. Joe Friday on Dragnet.
"Just the facts, ma'am."
Now that was a show that placed style ahead of content. Sure, we were interested in the plot points, but we were more drawn to the laconic, terse M.O. of the LAPD. Let the criminals and their victims play the histrionics; the cops didn't need that crap.
As for Robert Stack, he didn't need a wide range of expression for the roles he played. Not all actors can handle classics and Shakespeare, nor can all display much in the way of believable surface affect. Still, in order to make a go of it, they do need an ability to convey the thinking behind the lines. This can be very difficult for those who don't have much surface flexibility.
Mr. Stack was pretty good at making his inner self understood.
~ OMK
LIFTing TICKETS
Wikipedia says, "The "true" tunas are those that belong to the genus Thunnus."
Picard, thanks for all your interesting and varied pics. I can't believe all the places you've been. How fascinating!
I agree with Rick @59A. The clue was about an average DAY, not an average score.
BillG: Thank you for the kind words about my IDAHO photos. It is a very diverse and beautiful state. The north is wet and lush. The south is like the surface of the moon in places! And Shoshone Falls is not Niagara Falls, but it is almost as spectacular!
Yes, the PALM SPRINGS Aerial Tram took us from very hot below to pleasantly cool above. The last time I took it, it was hot below and indeed I was hiking in the snow above. I will have to dig for those photos another time.
Wilbur Charles: Thank you for the kind words about my photos. And for validating that hockey is played in hot places. I wonder how kids even get the idea to do an ice game in a place like that, let alone have a place to learn. As a child in New England I learned to ice skate on bumpy frozen ponds. No way I could afford to pay for an ice rink admission.
Yellowrocks: Thank you for the kind words. I am grateful to my parents for giving me the travel bug. We did not have much money, but we found ways to explore at every opportunity. In the 60s and 70s airline regulations allowed our family to travel almost free when my father did travel for his work. I am saddened that era is over.
D4E4H earlier mentioned my friend Tam who has been evacuated in Hawaii. Here are photos of our group in Tucson last month. Tam is the one in the bright green shirt with us among the Saguaro Cacti.
Earlier I posted the video where he was on CBS News this week. His name is Tam Hunt, but I noticed they called him Tam Hunter. Anyway, watch that video as it shows the powerful forces of nature and how lucky it is that his home is still standing so far.
Bolloxed it. JACKIE fit (Hi C. Moe!) w/ AORTA, LIFT TICKETS, pickED UP (23a) and then things got messy. I had to look at Steve's grid to see what exactly was wrong (poor-man's red-letters :-))
Hi All!
Thanks Steve for the help there - I knew it had to be KNIVES and IDES.. but, but...
LOL the K-CAR quip.
This was a fun puzzle Bruce because the first thing a dyslexic must suss, does steal = metal or theft. PALM SPRINGS made that quite clear. :-). I enjoyed all the CEaSARs too.
WO: tacO went in as I misread 45a 2x. OWIE healed it.
ESPs: Names and HAVA
FavPRONO next to "fowl language"
{ahem! :-), B+} {eh, cute, cute, I-DA-HO was funny but LOL on Babs.}
I'm w/ BigE on names though ARLO, GIPPer, and EDITH were gimmes (as was #42 Jackie)
Jinx - That Snicker's commercial , w/o the punch-line, would have had to be explained to me. Untie!
Nice to read you again hondo.
So, WikWak - no basement water either? #fingersCrossed
C, Eh! Yes we have 'tap' but that seems (oh, you LIU)...
Thanks for the bit on HAVA Nagila - I guess I did know that thanks to Mel Brooks! [:32] just not how it was spelt (and it's two words).
Picard - NARCO Agent to a Clerks mash-up... Priceless.
Cheers, -T
Thanks, Steve, for the expo. Good on ya with the Australian account. Loved Australia and Australians, but boy, can they put away the Fosters. Sat next to a gent, and he kept the flight attendant busy.
K-Cars, Dad bought a Dodge Aries and even though I was probably 14, I thought it was the ugliest ever! Dad, product of the Depression, looked at $s, not what a car looked like.
Moe and OMK, yeah, today's Jumble was a bit gnarly/snarly. Since the word "rip" was clued a couple of times, I knew it had to involve either "tear" or "tore." Took me a while thinking it might be a terrier something. OMK, when the answer is in quotes, it signals that it's a play on word sounds and not actually a real word.
OMK and Tx Ms ---> the new Jumble writers are definitely using a different lexicon to provide words to unscramble. Additionally, the reveals have been more pun-driven, and as TX Ms said, are usually a play-on-words.
Was this intentional? How should I know?
(Oops --> that was rhetorical !!)
Ol'Man Keith, TxMs, and Chairman Moe, I didn't get today's Jumble answer even though I thought I got all the words correctly. If it isn't too early, could one of you give me the answer? It drives me nuts when I don't get it.
Misty, The answer was in my last post:
Re-tore-ical (Rhetorical)
Thank you, Chairman Moe. I'll sleep better, having gotten the answer!
The meme wasn't supposed to go this far but... [YouTube does present a Rabbit Hole!]
Assuming you followed all the posts/ links, wrap your brain around:
PLASTIC Tap vs. SWIPE and Gregory Hines showing us HAVA (Brooks!)....
Hines w/ Samicus Davis. Jr. and some great tap-dancin'. Enjoy if you're, like me, are finally winding down. C, -T
Moe, OMK, and Misty - I'm happy that the Houston Barnacle (as D-O calls it) still runs the old Hoyt/Knurek Jumbles on Sunday. Still trying to adjust to "change is good" thinking. I'm not fond of the new writers yet - they're pretty wacky to my thinking.
Misty, TX Ms, Chairman Moe, et al,
Well, yeah, that's the final answer I had. but I can't say I am happy with that degree of liberty.
I get that the middle of the three units is a legit word and that it bears some relevance to the dog's activity. But I think if we're to allow made-up words that merely sound like a real word, the nonsense sections ought not to out-number the real word root.
Just sayin' ..
~ OMK
Thanks Steve - nice job!
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