Theme: LIGHT-HEADED (60. Feeling woozy ... and a hint to the first words of the answers to starred clues)- Synonym theme.
17A. *Precarious position: SHAKY GROUND.
38A. *1979 boxing sequel: ROCKY II.
11D. *Hall of Fame pitcher with the 1930s Cardinals: DIZZY DEAN.
31D. *Very small chance: FAINT HOPE.
C.C. here, filling in a Wednesday blogging gap.
From
the byline, we can see that this puzzle's idea was Gail's. Constructor
who dreams up the theme normally has her/his name come up first
in byline order. So, this is a GAB puzzle (Gail and Bruce). If Bruce's
name comes up first, then we'll have BAG (Bruce and Gail) puzzle. That's
their code.
Some of you know I have low blood pressure. When the numbers get
too low, I feel DIZZY. I don't use ROCKY to describe
light-headedness though. I'm a happy person if I can make 92/65. Tough job! Very odd problem for someone who loves all kinds of pickled stuff.
Across:
Across:
1. Italian fashion label: PRADA. Two more five-letter candidates: FENDI & GUCCI.
6. Invasive Asian vine: KUDZU.
11. CSI lab sample: DNA.
14. "Cosmos" host: SAGAN (Carl).
15. Symphonic winds: OBOES.
16. + or - particle: ION.
19. Zoo opening in Britain: ZED. Just the opening letter: Zoo
20. Long-lasting needlework?: TATTOO. Cute clue.
21. Hero of Uris' "Exodus": ARI.
22. Business magnate: CZAR.
23. Lowest in fat: LEANEST. We also have 28. Most coquettish: COYEST Also .46. Not as clear: HAZIER.
25. "And __ off!": THEY'RE.
27. Take it easy: REST. So glad you're now "clean as a whistle", dear Spitzboov!
27. Take it easy: REST. So glad you're now "clean as a whistle", dear Spitzboov!
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| Spitzboov, Betty & Argyle |
28. Grade-schooler: CHILD.
29. Fido's poodle amie: FIFI.
32. Classification prefix meaning "arrangement": TAXO. Learning moment for me.
34. What candidates "press" a lot of: FLESH.
37. Time division: ERA. FYI, Dave 2, "Lucy Baines" is a song by Chad Mitchell Trio. D-Otto burned a special CD for Boomer, who's been blasting those songs.
40. Wanted poster letters: AKA.
40. Wanted poster letters: AKA.
41. Do an airport maintenance job: DE-ICE.
43. Eager about, with "on": KEEN.
44. Foul mood: SNIT.
44. Foul mood: SNIT.
45. __ Ark: NOAH'S.
47. "Get outta there!": SCAT.
49. Bronchial woe: ASTHMA.
51. Totally puzzled: AT A LOSS. For words.
54. Journalist Paula: ZAHN. Have not watched anything by her after her CNN days.
55. It has a dozen signs: Abbr.: ZOD. OK. Zodiac.
57. Low clouds: STRATI.
59. "Evil Woman" band, briefly: ELO.
62. Knock: RAP.
63. Former Houston hockey team: AEROS. Houston Aeros (1994–2013). Wiki said they were the "AHL affiliate of the NHL's Minnesota Wild. The team is now the Iowa Wild." I forgot. I don't follow the Wild.
64. Tequila plant: AGAVE.
65. Citrus suffix: ADE.
66. __-Roman wrestling: GRECO.
67. Doled (out): METED.
Down:
1. Subtle summons: PSST.
2. 1986 Indy 500 champ Bobby: RAHAL. Not UNSER.
3. Colorful quartz: AGATE.
4. '60s TV show whose title means "doctor" in Swahili: DAKTARI. Unknown to me.
5. "Do I have a volunteer?": ANYONE? Anyone?
6. "MASH" setting: Abbr.: KOR. Korea.
7. WWII sub: U BOAT. Sometimes it's E-BOAT.
8. Gloomy: DOUR.
9. Apex: ZENITH.
10. Amer. money: USD.
12. Lack of musical skill: NO EAR.
13. Agassi of tennis: ANDRE.
18. Heads for: GOES TO.
22. Honeycomb unit: CELL. I'm loving Aldi's raw honey lately.
24. Puts into piles: STACKS.
26. LP player: HI FI.
29. Gave grub to: FED.
Here is a typical kitchen in Guangzhou. My friend Carmen's home. One light soy sauce, one dark soy sauce, olive oil, peanut oil, white pepper, salt and sugar. Oh, Jayce, I just learned yesterday that 胡椒粉 and 花椒粉 are different. Carmen, you and Boomer use 胡椒粉. But my brother uses 花椒粉 (Sichuan peppercorns powder).
30. Anger: IRE.
33. Jaguar model: XKE.
35. Hit the slopes: SKI.
36. Fez, e.g.: HAT. Hi, Abejo!
38. Scold, with "out": REAM.
39. One way to pay: IN CASH.
42. "Walking in Memphis" singer Marc: COHN.
44. Attic function: STORAGE. Gotta 50's baseball cards there?
48. Chi. White Sox or Bos. Red Sox: AL TEAM.
49. Hyundai sedan: AZERA.
50. Tossed __: SALAD.
51. For a special purpose: AD HOC.
52. '70s-'80s Egyptian president: SADAT.
53. Actor Carell: STEVE. Or [L.A. Times Crossword Corner blogger Marron]. Such a cool picture!
56. Folklore brute: OGRE.
58. Carded at a club, briefly: ID'ED.
60. Fall behind: LAG.
61. Chinese menu surname: TSO.
C.C.
49 comments:
Good to see you this morning C.C., even if it was forced duty.
Really easy for Wednesday, TAXO, COHN, and AZERA the only slowdowns, and like many, this time the theme did not help or hurt the solve.
ZOD- meh. XKE - a timely reference after the Royal Wedding. They also gave me a mini CSO with ADE.
Happy Mittwoch
Good morning!
Five-letter Italian label crossing 5-letter racing driver -- no brainer, GUCCI and UNSER. Bzzzzzt! Wite-Out to the rescue. I liked the way ZAHN and COHN intersected. DAKTARI reminds me of HATARI, a terrible John Wayne movie. Thanx, GAB and CC.
Happy Hump-day Corner Camel Jockeys. Would you prefer one hump or two? There are two types of camels: dromedary camels, which have one hump, and Bactrian camels, which have two humps.
Thank you Ms. Gail Grabowski and Mr. Bruce Venzke for this enjoyable CW. Last to fall was the Natick of 42D, COHN and 54A, ZAHN. I FIR in 19:28, which is really fast for me.
Thank you Dear C.C. for filling in today, for the GAB, BAG explanation, for my CSO at 37A
42D - "Walking in Memphis" singer Marc: COHN. - Here he is for your listening pleasure.
Ðave
ID'D is misspelled.
Only knew TAXO from TAXOnomy, the biological classification of life into kingdom, phylum et al down to genus and (sub)species. Generalizes to any type of logical classification.
I'll bet it was hard to work 5 zees into an easy puzzle. I didn't know what Lemony didn't know, but I also didn't know AEROS. GO LOWERCASE CAPITALS! Game 7 tonight. (I like the city of Tampa much better than Washington, but son and DIL are avid CAPS fans and actually know about hockey. Let there be peace in the valley...)
If Tin is looking for a second career, maybe he could be a DE-ICEr.
I wasn't on SHAKY GROUND when I experienced my first earthquake. I was on the 17th floor of the Lawrence Welk building on the corner of Ocean Ave and Wilshire Blvd in Santa Monica. In addition to being as frightened as I've ever been, I thought I was going to be seasick. (If anyone cares, the building appears in the old sitcom Three's Company opening. When John Ritter turns to look at a bikini butt and runs off the bike path, the tall building in the background is it.)
Thanks to GAB for a dandy Wednesday puzzle. And thanks to CC not only for filing in, but also letting us in on the "inside baseball" of GAB v. BAG.
Just can’t give up on that one, huh? (Anonymous @ 7:09) Oh, well… everyone has nits to pick. Mine is ZOD as an abbreviation for ZODiac. This felt like a "can’t think of any other way to do this" sort of entry. (Says the person who could not create one of these puzzles if his life depended on it…)
There was some sparkle to this one, with words like DAKTARI (I remember that), TAXO (learning moment for me too, C.C.), and SNIT (does anyone else remember a game from TSR, back in the 70’s, called SNIT'S REVENGE?). Some of the best 12 minutes I have spent today.
I went to a 5 & 6 year old T-ball game last night (to watch a grandson play). It was the White Sox vs. the — White Sox. Turns out that EVERY team in that league is the White Sox! Last night it was the White Sox with orange shirts vs. the White Sox with maroon shirts.
Thanks to Gail & Bruce for the puzzle today and thanks to C.C.; I always learn something new when you do the blog.
Good morning everyone.
Thought of PRADA or Gucci for 1a. RAHAL and AGATE helped decide. Fair amount of Z's today. Also F's. Relatively easy for a Mittwoch (höcker Tag).
REST - C.C., thanks for posting the picture with Argyle. Brought a tear to my eye.
DEICE - Jinx gave me a chance to chuckle with his comment.
Have a great day.
I got around to reading yesterday's WSJ and saw that C.C. was their constructor for the puzzle. Congratulations for the puzzle and today's write up.
Today's puzzle by Gail and Bruce was a quick fill and I was never on SHAKY GROUND when it came to filling in the blanks but TGFP, because there was no way DAKTARI OR COHN would have ever been filled.
In my meteorology classes I never heard the term STRATI used for plural STRATUS clouds because a STRATUS is used to describe ONE low horizontal cloud, usually many miles across. But I guess STRATI would fit along with ALTO and CIRRUS.
TAXOnomy- Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species
Hello Puzzlers -
Hand up for Unser, but he was forced off the track pretty quickly. Everything else seemed to fall into place. Didn’t take much notice of the theme at the time. Morning, C.C., interesting about the BAG versus GAB puzzle code!
D. Otto 6:38 - I have been mixing up Hatari and Daktari ever since I was a kid. The movie Hatari sounds pretty crummy, but the Henry Mancini soundtrack has some beautiful pieces. By coincidence, I had to drive over to Natick yesterday, and I chose for my road music a handful of CDs I hadn’t heard recently. Among them was a Mancini collection with Hatari highlights. “Baby Elephant Walk” was among them.
Thanks for a fine puzzle, G&B, and thanks for a very interesting review, CC. This puzzle was a piece of cake, except that I took so long to remember PRADA which is very familiar. Duh. RAHAL and DAHARI needed ESP, so I really needed PRADA. I had to give up on UNSER. Finally, TA DA. I found the theme helpful. The Devil Wears Prada with Meryl Streep is one of my favorite movies.
This theme is a CSO to Alan. It describes him almost 40% of the time.
I got TAXO from taxonomy. Hi Billocohoes.
Anon @ 7:09, I was expecting your nit. You never disappoint. LIU.
Acronym Finder: "How is Zodiac abbreviated? ZOD stands for Zodiac. ZOD is defined as Zodiac very frequently." No nit for me.
I have NO EAR. Often I sing SOLO, so low you can't hear me.
I must sort out my home office today, a daunting chore.
The preview key never works when I include a link. It throws me off the Corner. It always works when I don't include a link. I tried it out again. I swear I am not hitting a wrong key. I have made many trials. So I may send you untested links from time to time.
Good Morning:
A Bruce and Gail or Gail and Bruce concoction is always welcome and always enjoyed. I fell into the Gucci/Prada ~ Unser/Rahal trap, but not for long. Also had Down for Dour and Cirrus>Strata>Strati. Plenty of unknowns, too, especially for a Wednesday: Taxo, Cohn, ELO, Daktari, and the aforementioned Rahal. When I filled in Daktari, I didn't remember it as a TV show but thought it was a movie. I must have been thinking of Hatari, though I never saw that, either. I noticed HiFi and Fifi, lookalikes, but not soundalikes. Big CSO to our Galloping Gourmet, Steve and a little CSO to our Sunshine State ambassador, Lemony.
Thanks, CC, for pinch hitting so nicely and thanks to Gail and Bruce for being such a winning combination!
Jinx, your comment about Tin becoming a de-icer was priceless!
Have an appointment with the opthamologist at 11:20 so I'll be in for a few hours of less than optimum vision after those pesky eye drops.
Have a great day.
I was thinking that Gary Oldman was ZOD in The Fifth Element -- nope, he was ZORG. I still like that stupid movie.
Good Morning, all.
Thanks, Gail and Bruce, for some thoughtful stops. I finally completed the fill with some smiles. No nits--just Aha! . . . I so so agree with WikWak at 7:34. I, too, stand amazed at puzzle creators, one and all. Including our tour guide today--thanks, C.C..
There is a lot to be learned through CW's and certainly Cornerites. Even though Bobby RAHAL spent most of his career in the Chicago area, I always thought his name was Bobby Ray Hall until I saw it in a CW. I'll bet you can guess I don't follow auto racing--Indy or otherwise. You know, let's sit down and watch the Indy 500. Um, non, merci.
Ah, the sun. A real mood lifter for me. Be well, everyone.
Hi Y'all! Another tricky but fun puzzle from GAB. Thanks. Thanks, C.C., for keeping things going. Thought the Chinese kitchen was interesting.
All the ZZZZZ's may have been the reason for the LIGHTHEADEDness -- being half asleep. The theme definitely describes my state of being most of the time lately.
NW was the last to fill. Hand up for Gucci/Unzer. After that, I was AT A LOSS so moved on. The rest of the puzzle went pretty fast. Did you realized there were two to four names in each corner section. To an old lady who has trouble remembering names, that seemed a bit excessive AKA mean. But I didn't stay in a SNIT long since I knew most of them. A jittery finger gave me ZZ in the NE corner so it had to be DIZZY DEAN. Didn't know RAHAL or COHN at all.
I hope one day to finally remember that Jaguar is XKE. And we had another car I didn't remember from Huyndai.
Didn't know TAXO under that clue. I'd forgotten TAXONOMY. All I could think of was TAXOdermy (taxidermy?) which didn't seem right. Both ZED & ZOD -- Zee Whiz!
I must have been in the right wheelhouse. I confidently entered PRADA and only realized how lucky that guess was when I came here. YR, I loved The Devil Wears PRADA , too. Thanks GAB for some LIGHT... HEARTED fun. I loved FIFI and HIFI, too. And ZAHN and COHN.
CC! You always educate us. Thanks! I also have low blood pressure and it's harder to raise it than lower it.
Enjoy the day!
Musings
-The GAB puzzle went faster than Bobby RAHAL but was fun
-DIZZY DEAN vis-a-vis yesterday’s theme – He was no COOKIE CUTTER broadcaster
- Maybe C.C. or someone else can explain this PRADA price to me
-How many people would use the correct word when writing THEY’RE off!
-I’ll bet you know the AKA for Benjamin Siegel that he hated
-Good idea – Bring a smoothie home for Joann and me. Put me into an IRE-filled SNIT – I spilled my red (raspberry) in my lap while driving
-Our family’s DNA for ASTHMA hit my brother but not me
-Wouldn’t this General ZOD be better fill than GAB’s ZOD?
-Cwd Corner travelers - are USD the most accepted currency around the world?
Now I remember! The anteater in the B.C. comic strip always made a "Zot!" sound. The mind works (or doesn't) in mysterious ways.
But that's not ZOD, is it?
No, but you’re 2/3 correct!
Solved this puzzle on a flight to San Antonio this morning - I get motion sick easily so the theme came a little close to home as I solved! Came down to see our son promoted to Captain in the USAF tomorrow!
Thanks CCfor filling in and to G and B for their always entertaining puzzle !
Gary, GAB's ZOD was a gimme for me. General ZOD would need ESP.
How did criminals like Bugsy Siegel and Bugs Moran get that nickname?
"The exact origin of the term is unclear, but it seems to have become popular during the early 20th century. Rather than just having a playful cadence, “bugsy” came from comparisons to someone who’d been driven insane by bugs. To call someone “bugs,” or refer to a person as “bugsy” was to call them crazy, or unstable. Not a bad rap for a criminal looking to create a reputation for violence." -from atlasobscura.com
One of our coffee shop regulars was just hospitalized with high blood pressure. I am sure light headedness is one of his symptoms. He and his wife kindly pay lots of attention to Alan. PK, is there anything you can do about your dizziness?
IM, especially on a sunny day,those dilating eye drops are a nuisance, aren't they? Nevertheless, I am delighted to see the sun. I was about to grow webbed feet.
Nice Wednesday puzzle from Gail and Bruce. C.C.'s tour was enjoyable as always. I finished it in reasonable time with no Red Letter help or look-ups today. Yippee.
Perps, however, were much in need today, especially for PRADA, ZAHN, ERA (originally had SEC), and CZAR (I had EXEC).
A U-Boat was a German WWI and WWII submarine, but an E-BOAT was a surface boat equipped with torpedoes and other armament. It was very similar to a PT Boat (Patrol Torpedo Boat) used by the US in WWII. U-Boats and E-Boats both did a lot of damage to the Allied shipping during WWII.
Today is National Taffy Day. I remember getting Bonomo Turkish Taffy for a nickel at the corner store when I was a kid. Does anybody else remember it?
I hope everybody has a great day.
oc4beach at 10:41 AM
- - Finally a holiday with a lot of pull that I can really sink my teeth into. Happy National Taffy Day to each of you.
Ðave
"Puzzling Thoughts":
Two WO's today in this clever xword from G&B (with a tidy recap from CC): I had HOR>ZOD (horoscope) and BY CASH > IN CASH. As some others said, I, too finished the NW corner last. I never felt I was on SHAKY GROUND, but the road was a bit ROCKY, at times. Still, an FIR is an FIR.
Loved the DEICEr comment for Tin! Of course, he's going to be a big BOLTS fan tonight when TB fades off vs WASH.
I was thinking about doing a HIFI/FIFI poem, but this Moe-Ku surfaced instead:
Would you say that moths
Are inherently DIZZY,
Since THEY'RE LIGHT-HEADED?
Either a {cute} or {LOL!} ...
Damn autocorrect !! Faces off; not fades off. I know Tin is hoping there's no fading for the Lightning tonight ....
Sheesh!
Well, I love Gail and Bruce puzzles, even when they're a bit tough, and this one was fun even though I didn't get it perfectly. Wasn't sure how to spell SAGAN, didn't get TAXO, and didn't know ZAHN. I was pretty sure that car was an ACURA--never heard of AZERA. But I got all the theme answers and found them delightful--many thanks, Gail and Bruce. C.C. what a treat to have you check in with us this morning, and I too liked your kitchen photo.
Yellowrocks, I hope Alan has a good week in spite of the possible puzzle theme prediction.
Irish Miss, have a good eye appointment.
Inanehiker, congratulations on your son's achievement.
Have a good day, everybody!
Musings
-Hi YR! If I made a list of all the fill for which I needed ESP, I would violate the line limit here. I found ZOD for zodiac a little “gluey” but would have easily recalled the enemy of my fav super hero. General ZOD is probably not really up there with TSO or LEE for 3-letter generals but diversity is the spice of crossword life :-)
-p.s. I always enjoy your input!
Inanehiker: thank your son for his service and congratulations on his promotion. My son was a USAF major before his retirement a few years ago so I know advancement is not always easy in the military.
YR: As for dizzy cures, sometimes I need to eat because of low blood sugar. Sometimes it is allergy-induced sinus/ear pressure. Sometimes it is unknowable. I relate to Alan's problems in a big way. By the time I feel well enough to haul my carcass to a doctor, they never can find anything. I think some day, I'll die and the doctor will say, "But there's nothing wrong with her. She's faking it."
Moe: loud belly laugh for your LIGHT-HEADED moth. Good one!
Despite my griping about the names, etc. I did this puzzle in 11 minutes which was really fast for me.
Zed ?
Yay, a Gail And Bruce puzzle! I liked it. My hand is up for going with GUCCI and UNSER and therefore getting all bolluxed up in that corner. I notice ZOD starts with a ZED. Irish Miss, I like what you said about FIFI and HIFI.
By golly, I have taxed my brain but I can't think of any word other than taxonomy that begins with TAXO.
Yup, it makes sense that 胡椒粉 and 花椒粉 are not the same. So many kinds of pepper!
I actually recall rather liking the movie Hatari, but maybe it was mostly because of the music, because of the action scenes of chasing animals in the jeep, and because I got a kick out of "Pockets," the character played by Red Buttons.
When our son comes to visit he always rents a different kind of car, as it is a good opportunity to try them out. One time he rented an AZERA, which was then Hyundai's big luxury sedan. After a few days we all agreed that it really wasn't a very good car at all. On the most recent occasion we also learned that the Cadillac XTS is no great SHAKES either. (I think I want a BMW i430 hardtop convertible when I grow up.)
Good wishes to you all.
Fun times with Gail, Bruce and C.C.!
Before filling any cell, I previewed them in my mind, GUCCI? UNSER? PRADA? Didn't know RAHAL but once SAGAN, AGATE, PSST were in I knew it was SHAKYGROUND and the sashay was on. I saw the proliferation of Z's and thought they might be the theme but LIGHTHEADED shook off that notion.
The Devil Wears PRADA is also one of my favorite movies.
GAB always provide lighthearted fun and unusual fill in their puzzles: ASTHMA, TAXO, DAKTARI (which I vaguely recall), AZERA and pressing the FLESH.
Thank you, C.C. for stepping up today and providing us with interesting information, i.e., the Chinese kitchen. I solved your puzzle from yesterday's WSJ and enjoyed the "roll".
Have a happy day, everyone!
Some crunch today. Thanks for the fun, Gail and Bruce, and C.C.
I was having more success in the bottom half and when LIGHT HEADED filled in, it helped with the other theme answers.
But I officially FIW because I had SAGEN crossing DEKTARI. I was toying with a vowel choice of A, E or O, and picked the wrong one.
Actually, I FIW twice because I had an Acura instead of the unknown to me AZERA, which also messed up ZAHN and ELO.
We also open Zoo with ZED in Canada, eh! I did notice the multitude of ZEDs and even missed one (see AZERA above).
REAM out is much stronger than Scold, in my use of the phrase.
I smiled at FIFI as clued. I also smiled at CELL and DNA.
Someone here reminded us recently that Mash setting was KOR not Nam.
It was ROCKY today not Dredd.
Enjoy the day. We have a beautiful one here.
Got the LIGHT HEADED theme after a few long solves. Fun! I remember DAKTARI very well. Enjoyed all the exotic Africa scenes and animals. And I totally had the hots for daughter Paula as a kid. She is Cheryl Miller and apparently is still acting in her 70s.
Unknowns included AZERA, AEROS, STRATI, RAHAL (hand up for UNSER)
CC and Swamp Cat: Low pressure may be an annoyance. But you will probably live longer and healthier as a result.
I got a lot of TAXOnomy practice working at the Smithsonian Division of Amphibians and Reptiles. Here I am with my mentor, Curator Dr George Zug.
Here once again are my photos on the North/South KORea border.
I have lots more KORea photos. Perhaps I can be encouraged to show more if there is interest.
Thanks again to AnonT for coaxing me to post these more extensive photos of the PADDY arrays at the Banaue Rice Terraces. Those treacherous paths were not for anyone who was DIZZY, SHAKY or LIGHT HEADED.
D4E4H: Glad you enjoyed those photos. My post was late in the day so I was not sure anyone else saw them. Glad you spotted the Moma Spitting sign.
So, DAKTARI = "doctor" in Swahili?
Who knew? Just sound out the English word and add an "i."
Is TV taking advantage of a noble African tongue? I suppose this means that besiboli = baseball and televisheni = television.
Oh, sure.
Anyway, Ta- DA!
At first I thought today's pzl from the Grabowski/Venzke team was overly chewsome for a Wednesday entry. But that was only the NW corner resisting my first mistaken fill. (Yep, UNSER instead of RAHAL)
I just let my eyes follow the opening diagonal down a few squares - 'til I reached 33D and found my first gimme - which was, naturally, XKE.
(I drove Jaguars for a good 30 years, so would have been embarrassed to miss that one.)
Everything flowed from there, at first down into the SE corner, then flooding out to all areas - with the NW corner the last to complete.
A lovely pzl opening up like a flower...
~ OMK
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Diagonal Report: Four diagonals today, three on the front end and one mirror diagonal. The two main lines cross at the "K" in ROCKY II.
Anonymous @ 12:08–in the US we pronounce the 26th letter of the alphabet "zee"; in much of the rest of the English-speaking world it’s pronounced "zed". ZOO opens (starts with) Z.
Picard!
Great photos, sir, of the Panmunjom DMZ! Your array offers the best "feeling" for the area that I have yet seen.
Thank you for posting them!
~ OMK
Picard at 1:35 PM
- - I found a video of Alicia Mae Webb at the Banaue Rice Terraces. if a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a thousand pictures, especially when it has dimples.
Ðave
Re: 胡椒粉 and 花椒粉. The second is pepper powder. The first is just pepper.
Avoiding what could be both personal attacks and politics, I'll encourage Gail (who was in Newsday on Sunday) and CC to keep submitting to the NYT and point out that Rex Parker's writeup of today's NYT has a wonderful assessment of a problematic clue.
Hand up for the Gucci/Unser error. Also had AlERA/lAHN. Sounded good to me.
Thanks, GAB, for the fun experience. thank you, C.C., for pinch-solving/blogging and the links. I enjoy the Chinese education you give us.
Misty, I hope your eyes continue to improve daily.
Inanehiker, congratulations on your son's promotion! I thank him for his service.
Lucina, I hope your boo-boo heals quickly and you lose the Fu Manchu mustache!
A happy Wednesday (what's left of it), to everyone!
I believe"Beisbal" is a word for our baseball. I'm not sure if it's french or Spanish.
I thought I posted earlier but I don't see it. I actually finished this about 8am EDT. But.. I had my first FIW in a week.
The ,"Z" in AZERA/ZAHN. Of course I recognized both when CC pointed them out.
Enjoyed all the wit and informative comments today and the l'icks and Moe's ku.
WC
Beisbal is the Spanish version of baseball.
Pat:
Thank you for the kind thoughts. Interestingly the purple on my left back leg and the one on my right hand are expanding but the my face mask is diminishing. I attribute that to twice daily treatments of aloe vera paste and a hot towel.
Through research a friend discovered that a paste can be made by cutting up the aloe vera pads, tossing them in the blender until they form said paste. After applying it on the affected areas that is followed by pressing a moist, hot towel against it.
I have often used aloe vera on small scratches but never before for a major treatment.
AkERA x kAHN
I'm sure Ms ZAHN would be upset so many didn't know her name.
I always think of the dentist when I think of Paula Zahn.
In German Zahn means tooth. Artz means doctor. Zahn Artz is dentist.
Hi All!
Roy: AlERA x lAHN (those are lower L's) for the FIW.
Thanks GAB for the puzzle; it caused wooziness in a few areas with all the names but I almost got it done.
Thanks for pinch-hitting C.C. Lovely picture of Spitz & Argyle [and cool man Steve]. I always learn something (like two soy sauces?) in your expos.
Whoot! I went from Armani (didn't fit) to PRADA and never thought of Gucci.
AEROS was a gimme. Never went to a game though.
WO: fuZIER
ESPs: RAHAL (Yes, MDE Defarge, he does look like a Bobby-Ray :-)); DAKTARI; spelling ASTHMA [I always think of Lord of the Flys @ that word... Piggy was it? With Asmar?]
Fav: DE-ICE just for Tin (lol Jinx!); CSO to STEVE was fun too.
{} {KEEN!}
Inanehiker - Extend my congrats to your newly minted Capt.
YR - thanks for that bit of research on Bugsy. Makes sense you'd call your "muscle" a little nutty in front of others.
Picard - so if I just say "stock-footage," that would provide the impetus? :-)
OMK - SAKE is in the Diag. The secret message is sushi for dinner.
I'm AT A LOSS for funny links [CED's not here to inspire :-( ], so...
Cheers!, -T
YR @ 2146 - re: Zahn Artz. And in our neighborhood, ads for dentists frequently include the phrase "……Dental Arts……".
Thank you, Pat--they are improving, and your good wishes help!
Greatly saddened at the death of Philip Roth, my favorite 20th C American author.
But it is a fine cue to re-read his best works - from Goodbye, Columbus to the Zuckerman series, incl The Human Stain, and so many more:
American Pastoral, The Plot Against America etc. etc.
~ OMK
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