This is puzzle number 6 here at the LAT for retired PROFESSOR MENDELSOHN a well-published Psychology researcher from McGill University in Montreal. He first published twice in the NYT followed by 5 LATs last year with one being a Friday. MJM uses a theme which we have seen before, where words in the down fill are clued to represent B(under)A phrases. He makes it his own by locating 4 unique to the puzzle world phrases that work. He adds triple stacks of 6 letter words in the NW and SE corners, with doubled up 8 letter fill in the NE and SW which include the sparkly LOOKED IN, MERE HINT and USO SHOWS. He sprinkles some amusing word combos and some geography. There are included stuff from other puzzles for the week. See how many you recognize. we have:
4D. Carefully consider, literally: ADVISEMENT TAKE (14). Take UNDER Advisement.
8D. Add to the list of possible perps, literally: SUSPICION PUT (12). Put UNDER Suspicion.
16D. Ail, literally: THE WEATHER FEEL (14). Feel UNDER the Weather.
20D. Rein in, literally: CONTROL BRING (12). Bring UNDER Control.
1. Fix: ATTACH. Not an easy start for me.
7. Egyptian symbols of royalty: ASPS. All you need to know about these SNAKES.
11. Fitness stat.: BMI. Body Mass Index. Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson (6'5" 262 pounds) comes in as "obese" with a reading of 31.1. Yeah, right.
14. Greeted casually, with "to": SAID HI. I did not need the "to."
15. Grill: QUESTION.
17. Classic London theatre: OLD VIC. The Old Vic, originally named the Royal Coburg Theatre, was designed in 1818 by Rudolph Cabanel, where it stands now south-east of Waterloo Station. various.
18. They raise camp spirit: USO SHOWS. SO? Hmm.
19. Arrive on an air taxi: FLY IN. Air Taxi?
20. Cereal box rank: CAP'N. I guess this makes this puzzle crunchy.
21. North-of-the-border gas: ESSO. An example?
22. "Could be better": SO SO. Cute next to ESSO.
24. Second of a Caesarean three: I SAW. VIDI.
26. Undressed: BARE.
29. "Squawk Box" channel: CNBC.
31. Feinted: DEKED. We hockey fans know this term,
35. Cheese town: EDAM. Edam is a semi-hard cheese that originated in the Netherlands and is named after the town of Edam in the province of North Holland. Packed in red.
36. Abruzzi bell town: ATRI. Long ago there was a king in Italy who was known for his goodness and wisdom. King John of Atri believed in justice, and so one day he purchased a great bell to hang in a tower in the village square...
37. The Congo, formerly: ZAIRE.
38. Tune (out): ZONE. Not related to 33D. White out: ERASE.
39. Agonize (over): BROOD. This verb was originally used with an object, i.e., ‘to nurse (feelings) in the mind’ (late 16th century), a figurative use of the notion of a hen nursing chicks under her wings.
41. Catching strategy: TRAP. For C.C. What is Trapped? A baseball term that describes the state of a fly ball or line drive that touches the ground just prior to being concealed and secured by a player's glove.
42. Key wood: EBONY. It took a moment too long for me to see this LINK.
44. Hyatt competitor: OMNI. The one in Miami closed but THESE are still open.
45. Horde: HOST.
46. Slow movement: LENTO. In music. 58A. Major relative to F minor: A-FLAT. JzB, help me!
47. Canter: LOPE.
48. Pre-event periods: EVES.
49. Pyramid, to Tut: TOMB.
51. Kindle reader, say: USER. One who uses the Kindle not the device.
53. Quartet named for its members: ABBA. Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.
56. Q.E.D. word: ERAT. Quod Erat Demonstrandum.
62. Checked (on): LOOKED IN. With so many oldsters living here, we look in and bring homecooked treats to them.
64. Mock: PSEUDO.
65. Barely a trace: MERE HINT. Like good perfume.
66. Party to a search: SEEKER.
67. Is for some: ARE. Cute, think about it.
68. Declines: SAGS. nothing but un-pc comes to mind.
69. Least well: ILLEST. Not a favorite.
Down:
1. Dating from: AS OF.
2. Hard to believe: TALL. Tale. The HISTORY?
3. Not like a sty: TIDY.
5. Slacks material: CHINO. Versus KHAKI?
6. Kool-Aid alternative: HI-C.
7. Marine opening?: AQUA.
9. Lowly laborers: PEONS. Not since the serf days?
10. Cooking-burger sound: SSS.
11. Dust jacket blurbs: BIOS.
12. Manicures, in a way: MOWS. The lawn, or for Steve and NC and others, the garden.
13. __ many words: IN SO.
23. One who crosses the line: SCAB. From blemish … to strikebreaker, the history of the word scab … shows a displacement of meaning from the visceral or physical to the moral register … Just as a scab is a physical lesion, the strikebreaking scab disfigures the social body of labor—both the solidarity of workers and the dignity of work.
25. Wood dresser: ADZ.
26. Gem mounting: BEZEL. Bezel settings use a type of elevated collar which wraps the rim of the diamond in a complete metal edging
27. Pueblo building material: ADOBE.
28. Talked nonstop: RAN ON. Like many of my sentences.
30. Stomach relief, briefly: BROMO.
34. Firm parts: Abbr.: DEPTS.
40. Runs out of juice: DIES.
43. Hoo's first?: YOO. Chocolate drink.
50. Social __: MEDIA.
52. Brainstorming staple: EASEL. Whiteboard these days.
53. Operatic Gluck: ALMA.
54. Dutch colonist: BOER. More cute pairing with...
55. Put to sleep: BORE.
57. Unwanted workers: ANTS.
59. Uncle to Ben Solo: LUKE. Ben Solo, Princess Leia's son. A dark warrior strong with the Force, Kylo Ren commands First Order missions with a temper as fiery as his unconventional lightsaber.
60. Vitamin C sources: ADES. Yay! CSO for me!!!!!
61. Libel or slander: TORT. A civil wrong.
63. Doubtful interjections: EHS.
64. Tire shop meas.: PSI. Pounds per Square Inch.
We have almost put another month in the corner record books, with HG closing the deal tomorrow with one of his exhaustive explications. I hope to see you all back here next month. Thank you, Morton and cornerites, Lemonade out.
Note from C.C.:
Happy Birthday to dear Barry G, a regular on our blog for many years. How's work, Barry? Do you still have to drive a long way to work? How's Joshua?
July 2, 2016
65 comments:
Did you ever see any OSLHDOVWISC?
With glue on a sweeper, could you make a _____ _____?
Men LOOKED at the sun's climb
Since the ___ of ____
Last, a ditzy dame makes what kind of cheesy brick?
What did Eeyore do about a friend in kinky sex?
Baseballer Mr.Cobb kept what to neatly cash a check?
How could you be apprehended,
Your prank an Egypt god offended?
The 14th chapeau was Picard's on TV's Star Trek!
{n/a}
SHOWS in OLD VIC, broom stick, dawn of time, EDAM.
BROOD about ROO into BD, TY kept ID TIDY, a TRAP if you TP RA, CAP'#N.
Greetings!
Thanks to Morton and Lemonade!
Think that traps here are for catching animals, ants, lint, etc.
No problems. Got the theme rather quickly!
Have a good weekend!
The theme was easy to pick up on once I started thinking and talking like Yoda. Try it.
Fermat, you are probably right about the intention of TRAP but mine made sense when I wrote it.
Good morning!
The center section remained empty until I finally latched onto the "under" theme. Misread "Ail" as "Ali," and that didn't help. CSO to moi with the misspelled "White out." Thanx for the morning spice (well, salt at least), Morton. Enjoyed the expo, Lemonade.
BROMO: Don't remember seeing it in years. I do remember the Bromo Seltzer train from old radio days. (Just listen to the first 10 seconds or so...)
KIROV: Not a ballet fan, but I remember that the KIROV was one of the Soviet ships that was sortied in the Hunt for Red October.
Hi Y'all! Got the clever theme down under. Thanks, MJM. Good one, LemonADE!
Really liked how QUESTIONS crossed SUSPICION. Under THE WEATHER, FEEL ended on ILLEST. <(Shout outs to me today.)>SAG was hanging there to BRING (Under) CONTROL. (Some not pretty images came to mind with that.)
Lemonade, I have a small animal live-catch trap I could send you to study the strategy. LOL! Thought your take was cuter.
Fix = ATTACH took all perps, hand up for slow start on this.
The East Central bloc was last to fill. Couldn't come up with DEKED, KIROV, DEPTS, TRAP, HOST, EVES. A few red-letter runs were necessary to WAG that area. DEKED? Yuk.
Manicure = MOWS? Okay, accepted. Yesterday (Thursday) my lawn guy came in the late afternoon. He was expected on Wed. morning. I had given up on him and was asleep when he finally came. I cannot believe he mowed on his big noisy machine underneath my bedroom window and didn't wake me up. I was so shocked when I woke up and saw my clipped grass! 100 degree heat had my A/C roaring almost non-stop, but still... Now he will come back wanting his pay. I taped an envelope with his name to the inside of my screen door glass. I don't want to miss him again.
Hello Puzzlers -
Had an inkling of the theme, but needed the last one to go back and finish the others. Pretty much smooth sailing otherwise.
Morning JzB, thanks for elucidating.
About the adz: I’ve seen very few demonstrations of timber hewing, enough at least to get the idea that an adz in the hands of a skilled hewer or timber-wright can give astonishing results. A real world example can be seen in my local church steeple, where the massive hand-hewn vertical timbers are visible; their surfaces are amazingly smooth, straight, and square. The main elements are about 45 feet long, and were put there in 1823.
Picard from yesterday - I’m generally amazed at your collection of photos, but the MIT ones particularly caught my eye. I hadn’t been aware of all that tunnel art.
Finished in 20:22 but it seemed like a slog. And, of course I did not get the theme.
Yes, feliz cumpleaños to Barry G. I remember you. Best wishes.
Best to all.
Wow !! FIR.
Looked impossible at first , but kept at it till FEEL under THE WEATHER broke it wide open for me.
Wet here today after 3 inches of rain last night
Cheers
FIW, but for me that's not UNDER performing on a Friday. The key to my downfall was insisting on "BisMO" (as in pepto).
Only nit is the clue "firm parts". I have absolutely no firm parts left sir, if you must know.
Thanks to MJM for the doable-but-tough Friday offering, and to Lemonade for another fine review.
Off to the grand opening of Camping World in nearby Newport News. Toys-R-Us closes today, but Toys-4-Jinx opens.
Good Morning, Lemonade and friends. Interesting puzzle. I caught the theme after looking at CONTROL BRING for a few moments. Aha! BRING (Under) CONTROL. Clever theme.
I initially tried Neuter for Fix. Not a good way to start this puzzle!
I learned that Slacks Material is CHINO and not Khaki; and that the opposite of a Sty is TIDY and not Neat.
My favorite clues were: Key Wood = EBONY and Unwanted Workers = ANTS.
King Tut saw the Pyramids, but that is not his TOMB.
I liked seeing BOER next to BORE.
Happy Birthday, Barry G. Come back! We miss you.
QOD: The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (June 29, 1900 ~ July 31, 1944)
Me, too, DO. "The center section remained empty until I finally latched onto the "under" theme. Misread "Ail" as "Ali," and that didn't help."
After filling in the first two long downs with perps and wags, I got the point. Perping FEEL let me see AIL instead of ALI. Clever gimmick.
CSO to Canadian Eh! However, this sense of EH is more common here, and is more polite than I doubt it.
Great blog, Lemonade. I first thought of baseball at 41A, trap, as you did.
Today in the US, peon has a more comic ring to it and is usually used in fun. I used to lead many projects at church, so people would come up to me and ask what they could do next. If it wasn't my project I used to say, "I'm just one of the peons. Ask so-and-so."
18A, I was thinking summer camp before Army. That brings back memories of college summer vacations when I was a camp counselor for city children with problems. I had a boy who resented his single mother and so resented all women. I used to hug each child good night in the good old days before PC. One time after he had turned away every time I came to say goodnight, I had tears in my eyes. He grabbed me and hugged me, saying no one ever cried over him before. One week when I accompanied the bus back to the city and saw the families some of our campers returned to, I was very sad. At least the kids had had a summer break with outdoor fun, decent food and love. I hoped they had seen the possibility and hope that life could someday be different.
Yes! I got the theme! Those long phrases finally made sense to me with UNDERstanding.
I liked YOO hoo and so much of the fresh fill: BEZEL, PSEUDO, OLD VIC, and ZAIRE. And with fix having so many meanings, ATTACH was one of my last fill then finished the NW.
One of the highlights of my trip to Russia was watching the KIROV ballet; another was visiting EDAM, that storied place of crossword fame. A lasting memory of touring a cheese factory is the smell, not good, not bad, just strong.
Thank you, Prof. Morton J. Mendelson! This was fun. And thank you, Lemonade; I look forward to your Friday fare.
Happy birthday, Barry G!
Have a fun and frolicking Friday, everyone! And happy Independence Day next week!
As Hahtoolah pointed out, Tut was not buried in a pyramid.
Tut's tomb
Good morning everyone.
Happy Birthday to Barry G. We miss you. Come visit when you have time.
I thought the NW was far out in the cluing, but when I got rid of 'neat' for TIDY, things fell into place. Got the schtick with BRING (UNDER) CONTROL. The type of theme required use of long downs, which i enjoy in a cw. After the theme fill the rest was pretty easy.
@ 16d, my poor eyes had me read Ail as 'all', so, a slight delay to get FEEL (UNDER) THE WEATHER.
Got ABBA easily and KIROV popped readily into my mind. Went to the piano to figure out A FLAT, using the C Major A Minor analog.
Lemon: Nice write-up.
Morton: Thank you for a FUN Friday puzzle.
Though I missed the "UNDER" theme while solving.
Learning moment ... so that is why the were called ABBA
Already walked the beach ... Honeymoon Island is beautiful in the morning.
Cheers!
C.C., thank you for reminding of of Barry G's birthday. I bet Joshua is taller than his dad by now.
Fabulous Friday. Thanks for the fun, Morton and LemonADE.
Lots of P&P required today but I FIR eventually. But the theme totally flew UNDER my head until I got the explanation here. The "literally" should have given it away. D'uh!
Greetings to our Canadian constructor who threw in EHS and ESSO as CSOs to all his fellow-compatriots. (I agree with YR that Canadian EHS are not really doubtful.) We have Canada Day on Sunday.
I immediately thought of EBONY and Ivory. Thanks for the link, Lemonade.
I had the Latin Vini before I SAW; I waited for perps to decide between Neat or TIDY.
Didn't those Egyptians have Cats before ASPS?
Yes, the relative major to F minor is A flat.
I smiled at new cluing for EASEL; PSEUDO for Mock was tricky; I would have preferred Affix as the clue for ATTACH; ILLEST was our meh, gluey fill for the day.
I also noted the connection of "Least well"=ILLEST and "Ail"=UNDER THE WEATHER. (LOL, PK found even more connections.)
Also a connection with Kool-Aid, HI C, and ADES. We may need all of them for the next few days as the WEATHER is supposed to be very hot and humid.
Enjoy the day.
Happy Birthday, Barry G.
T.I.T.T...
had trouble finding the theme...
I think Art @ 5:44aam said it best...
HBD BArry!
(& I think I forgot a cake somewhere along the line...
Musings
-18 holes this morning and then a wonderful puzzle
-20 of us teachers took an air taxi/float plane to FLY IN to a Lac la’Ronge in the boreal forest of Saskatchewan to fish
-AS OF then it was still ZAIRE
-When asked in The Seekers whether he would give up the search, John Wayne’s character replied, “That’ll Be The Day”. Buddy Holly thought hmmm…
-Lawn needs manicuring
Can't access your link, HG?
Hi Everyone:
It took me forever to grasp the theme because I had so much white space surrounding the theme answers. I wasn't on MM's wave length at all and found a lot of the clue/answers off kilter, at least to me. Finally, I figured out what was going on and that helped immensely. My miscues were: Amat/I saw, Faked/Deked, and Trot/Lope. Illest has appeared before but I still don't like it. DO, I thought of you at White out and you, Lemony, at Ades. Words With Friends doesn't allow Ade. Makes sense as it really isn't a word by itself, right?
Thanks, Morton, for a real Friday challenge and thanks, Lemony, for explaining all the devilish details so delightfully.
Barry G, Happy Birthday! 🎂🎉🎁🎈🍾 Drop by and bring us up to date on your every day life and family.
Lucina, have a safe and fun journey.
We're in for several 90+ temps accompanied by high humidity. I'm not looking forward to the next week or so but I'm grateful for the blessing of AC.
Have a great day.
Well, of course this was a Friday toughie for me (bracing for an even harder Saturday), and I got only the mid- and south-west with odds and ends elsewhere at the start. But I have to admit the theme was clever, Morton, and your detailed explanations of many things were a delight, Lemonade--especially giving us ABBA.
Put DENIM before CHINO, and NEAT before TIDY. Like Spitzboov, I read AIL as ALL. Not sure I ever heard of BEZEL or DEKED, but I guess learning new words is part of the fun of crossword puzzles. (I wouldn't do them if I couldn't get the answers right away).
Fun comments, Husker Gary. And Yellowrocks, I loved your summer camp story.
Happy Birthday, Barry--what a sweet family picture!
Friday Sudokus are "Diabolical" so I always start them and never finish. But I got the Jumble easily this morning--Yay!
Have a great day, everybody!
Appreciated the creativity of this puzzle theme once I started to get a few toeholds.
The NW was my slowest since I put in NEAT before TIDY and that blocked seeing a lot of other answers for awhile. The west Central was also hung up with LENTO before LARGO and IVORY before EBONY even though it shouldn't have since IVORY isn't a wood- but as Splynter would say -both were 40% right leading me astray for a bit.
Happy birthday Barry!
Celebrating our 33rd wedding anniversary today - not sure what we'll be up to - we went to the theater and dinner a few weeks ago out of town - so more low key today. I want to see the new documentary out about Fred Rogers - so may head up to Columbia for that.
Thanks Lemonade and Morton!
Here is my article on our spectacular Santa Barbara Summer Solstice Parade that I unicycled in this past Saturday!
I call it an anti-parade because it dispenses with all of the usual parade nonsense. No motor vehicles. No animals. No words or logos. Our Mayor was in the parade, but she was just another participant! My favorite was Abraham Lincoln on a Triceratops!
From yesterday regarding PAULI:
PK: Sorry you had such a goofy chemistry lab partner. I love physics because it deals with the very fundamentals of reality. Chemistry always seemed so messy! The PAULI Exclusion Principle was a case where chemistry had a beautiful fundamental principle!
Anon at 3:49AM: Obviously universal gravitation would determine the paths of cosmic bodies even if Newton never lived. But we honor and remember Newton for discovering this amazing new insight. And it is a more enduring achievement than winning on American Idol in my humble opinion.
Wilbur Charles: Thanks for noting that the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Old Mill had similar PASSAGES. I cannot find this anywhere. Do you have a reference?
Thanks to our Canadian constructor and to our 'splainer of the day, Lemonade.
I found the SW corner to be the most difficult today. Finally, from somewhere in the dim recesses of my mind, ALMA Gluck surfaced and then the rest came. Really liked BOER and BORE next to each other. Did not like ILLEST at all, but I also have no idea what else might’ve worked there. I’m sure there are lots of times when a constructor has to settle for fill that’s meh; I know I would!
Hot, hotter, hottest—I am NOT looking forward to the next couple of days here!
Have a great day, all!
inanehiker:
Happy anniversary!
Misty:
I also finished the J without much ado.
Thank you, IrishMiss. My sister's family is always fun and of course we'll be traveling with five children so anything can happen!
Lemon, The link to the Ali/Foreman fight in Kinshasa, Zaire called the Rumble In The Jungle seems to be working. I don't what is happening with your browser.
On to today! Yes, I remember seeing such a theme before, which made it way easier to figure out this time! Some tricky clues for AQUA and CAPN were my favorites. Last to fall was HOST/KIROV to FIR.
Rainman, Tinbeni, CanadianEh and others: I am impressed that you solved the puzzle without getting the theme! I would think that is quite difficult!
I loved the puzzle! Interesting observation about King Tut and his TOMB! I have seen the traveling King Tut exhibit more than once. Apparently they did not allow photos.
I will point out that BMI is not necessarily about Fitness and that actually hung me up awhile. As a hike leader, I have observed that people with high BMI are often quite fit. And some with "ideal" BMI struggle. High BMI may cause a variety of health problems, but that is a separate issue.
Here I was outside the ABBA Broadway show Mamma Mia which was very enjoyable!
Here was a beautiful young woman who was almost BARE at Solstice.
One of the few highlights of Baltimore is the BROMO Seltzer tower!
I cannot find my photos of it, so this was one I snagged on-line.
OwenKL: Sorry for being dense, but what was the reference to my chapeau about?
Dudley: Thank you very much for the kind words about my photos. I am honored that you took the time to look at my MIT PASSAGES photos and that you enjoyed the art and scenes for their uniqueness! As a student I found them endlessly fascinating. It was fun revisiting them with my friend Charlie who is now a medical school professor at Boston University.
This was a typical Friday puzzle for me, tough but doable. I thought Thursday’s tougher, actually.
The BMI is the most useless and inaccurate measurement. A good measure applies to all or it is faulty. The fact that anyone who lifts weights and builds muscle mass is considered obese shows the total fallacy of BMI. Dwayne Johnson is just an example, a BMI of 31 with a body fat % of what, 6%?
BODY FAT % is the only measure that should matter. There are hand held consumer units that are quite accurate.
And on to Saturday.
I liked this puzzle. I saw the "literally" in the clues and knew that meant something special, and since they were all down entries I started looking for something to do with "down" in the answers. THE WEATHER FEEL broke it open for me, so it made it much easier to see the "under" relationships in the other answers. Pretty cool stuff! It reminded me of the old coded mailing address that we marveled over as kids:
WOOD
JOHN
MASS
= John Underwood Andover Massachusetts.
I liked the fresh cluing for EASEL.
I wanted NODDED at 14A and NEAT at 3D but it was obvious I couldn't have both. Turns out I got neither.
I also wanted the Latin VIDI but the English I SAW is what it had to be.
I learned DENIM is not a slacks material.
It would seem the BMI isn't a particularly valid or useful metric.
The 4-letter part of Q.E.D. usually seems to be ERAT in crosswords, but maybe some day we'll all be fooled when it turns out to be QUOD.
I echo Irish Miss that ADE "really isn't a word by itself, right?"
There are PEONS in the computer game "Warcraft" that do all the grunt work.
Good wishes to you all.
Tag questions:
Isn't that so?
Nicht wahr? German
N'est ce pas? French
¿Verdad? Spanish
Ain't it? Americanized PA Dutch. I heard this often as a teen.
This puzzle was fun, eh?
In addition to "I doubt it", EH can ask for confirmation, "Isn't it so?"
I have been looking for ADE as a stand alone word for some time. I can find it only as a suffix.
Inane hiker, happy anniversary to you and your spouse. I think I have never heard you discuss hiking. That would be interesting.
Barry, I miss you and think of you often. I know you are under a time crunch, but please check in occasionally. How are things?
A hard fought but successful Ta- DA!
I thought Prof. Mendelson's opus would get away from me, but I brought it gradually to heel. Perps reminded me of things I forgot I knew.
What a pleasant sensation that is - to see half remembered things come back into focus, from acronyms like BMI and PSI to a whole company in the KIROV!
And I love it when cutsie cluing hints like 43D and 67A lose their mystery.
I was slow picking up on the theme, but after finally grasping 4D the rest fell into place.
Lucina, Misty and other Jumblers, congrats on your easy wins today. Strangely, I found myself hung up on the first word for an inordinate amount of time. (Hard shaking the Ol' Walnut free of the Russian prez!)
The final answer was a breeze - common enough as a metaphor, although grossly inaccurate for Prof. Hawking and other Big Bangers.
~ OMK
___________
Diagonal Report: Just one today, NW to SE.
Bear with me, Bambini! The anagram requires a jaunty imagination:
The Italian adolescent thought it cool when finishing a Skype conversation with a pal to call out a farewell word while simultaneously pressing the dimmer on his screen – causing what he termed his signature valedictory gesture,
“CIAO!” (TEEN FADE OUT)
HG, the link is working now
Jayce, isn't QUOD a feesh, common in New England?
Hi All!
Crash and burn - I didn't even get the theme... I kept adding DOWN to the phrases and rollin' w/ it. I need more sleep (worked until 3:30a [and that's my story I'm stickin' to])
Thanks Prof MJM but I was not FEELin' it today. The Center-East was impossibly perp-less (and I had no red letters to run PK!). Was it ATTY or DEPTs @34d?!? I was fairly certain about ZAIRE but wouldn't commit...
Thanks for the expo, and a Grid from which to Crib Lem. I was not thinking of the chocolate-flavored drink but wooing yoohoo @43d.
Fav: OMNI a magazine for PSEUDO intellects :-)
Lem, I too noticed the ESSO SOSO and BOER BORE and other fun fill that make great runners-up.
{?, cute} {}
HBD Barry G. Stop in and let us know how it's goin'.
Lovely camp story YR.
For your amusement, I'll avail myself of today's biggest "-T be DEKED":
I read Ceasarean as cesarean (section) and wondered who was a triplet. ESAU seemed to fit just fine. Was he partnered with twins? I donno. Did they have cesarean sections in Eden? Maybe(?), I wasn't there. I need a NAP.
And now to finally [crap another email] sleep.
Play later. Cheers, -T
desper-otto, I theenk it resembles a feesh of New Eengland, but maybee that would bee scrotum? Wait, no...
Shucks, I had TONE out. Shoulda done a alpha run (mentally). Incidentally, TBTimes didn't have clue for 64D so I did the unthinkable. Yes, I went to xword site and found tire thangy which I grok'ed as PSI. I desperately needed it. SE was killing me
Then I was in a hurry to get here and overlooked BETEL. If MM had only asked for a Brazilian nut I coulda...
This'll ruin my weekend.
Okay, I'm in a bad mood. Re. 39,41A...
The BROOD are the chicks. And. .
What's with all this fake diving in the outfield. If I want"Fake" I'll watch WWE!
Ok. I'm better after lemony explained EBONY (Not to speak of CAPN).
PSEUDO. PS...ending in O but not TO. ?
MERE HINT as in un soupcon.
Btw. Yes, I had all sort of trouble with th
is fiendishly clued gem.
Yogi Berra made his retirement from pushing YOOHOO. I never tasted a drop.
Oh, FiRm parts. I read Film . Had to perp DEPTS. I tried REELS. What a mess. I needed paint-out not Wite-out.
I had to put all the letters I had to find the W in WEATHER and the English I SAW. Never having Latin I was stumped. Sometimes the trio is Amor,,Amat?
YR, that story brought tears to MY eyes.
Problem is there's virtually no vitamin C in any ADE. Unless they add it as in a pill. Ever hear of Juice Plus?
Misty I got the _J but not easily. The riddle was and I worked back from it. #1 was my hard one.
Btw. I posted FLN about the Sunday Jumble I finally solved from 6/17 remember HIATUS?
PICARD. Here is an interesting Picard and Xavier
WC ( more to come)
Maybe you were thinking of this NEW ENGLAND TREAT D-O
Jayce, aren't the Patriots a New Eengland football scrod? Lemon, I'm all verklempt. Perhaps I should just clam up. I'm going to my room now.
Happy Birthday, Barry G.! Happy 33rd Anniversary, Inanehiker! Enjoy each other.
Picard: chemistry was especially messy with my lab partner. Once I asked her to put the hose on the pneumatic trough and fill it with water. She hooked the hose up backwards, turned on the water full force and water shot clear up to the high ceiling. The poor girl was horrified and couldn't understand she needed to turn off the water. I had to dash across the room and turn it off. The novice teacher just stood there red faced. The rest of us started laughing and couldn't stop for the rest of the hour. We'd try to get our work done & burst out giggling again. Teacher never said one word until he told us to start clean-up.
I didn't take physics because I wanted to take accounting which was in the same time slot in our little high school which only offered physics one hour a day every other year, alternating with chem. Double Entry Accounting was a better choice for me since my first jobs out of HS were bookkeeping. Physics wouldn't have made me any money at the time.
BMI: I'd guess Arnold probably had dense heavy bones along with the heavy muscles. BMI doesn't take that into account. My husband had a similar build, altho not as exaggerated as Arnold's and very heavy bones. He never could get his weight within 20# of the Drs. chart's suggested weight for his height. Not much real fat on him after he took it all off.
Picard: If chapeaus (hats) are enumerated alphabetically, the 14th one would be CAP N, as in Crunch or Piccard or Picard. (Actually the balloonists were civilian, but they were the masters of their flights.)
So Prof. Mendelsohn taught at McGill? That explains the 'EHS', which ONLY a Canadian says, which caused a DNF for me today. Was thinking EM or ER; EH-never. That fill and the great 'Put to sleep' clue for BORE wouldn't allow MERE HINT to fall. I caught the 'under' at the clue for 'Ail' for FEEL under THE WEATHER. But I can say it wasn't an easy one for the rest of the clues.
BROMO-Seltzer. (NaBr) I can't believe some company still sells it. As a matter of fact, THEY DON'T, at least in the USA. Original product was taken off the market about 40 years ago. I sure somebody probably bought the name and reformulated it with other ingredients. Like Sudafed- it's NOT pseudoephedrine now, it's phenylephrine ( Neo-Synephrine). If you want the real Sudafed you have to ask for it by the generic name.
No need to BORE you good folks on any other fact.
BOER - Some folks here feel it is a homonym with BORE. Maybe so but not to a Dutch speaker. The 'oe' vowel has the quality of the 'ou' in 'you', or as in the 'oo' in boot or loot.
Glad you got the Jumble, Wilbur, and Ol'Man Keith. Sadly, I don't remember HIATUS.
This is BigE's fault... He roused my curiosity...
For the pharmacology inclined (Big E?, C, Eh!, Heart Rx(?), et.al), A Question:
So I know Sudafed is pseudoephedrine HCL. But what is non PSEUDO?
In college my buddies and I got 100 pills of ephedrineHCL off the Internet [the good ol' days ('91)] for cram sessions. After one use, we realized: no diuretics (e.g. Diet Coke or Mountain Dew) should be used [um, it would make your scrotum tighter than an eight-day clock's spring]. So we stocked up on GatorADE.
We could stay awake all night and take the AM exam --passing with flying colours.
Penultimate Finals week - I was up 3 days straight.
So, the Question: Someone said it was mini-thins, aka white-crosses, aka speed(?). Is that true?
And what the heck did I do to myself (other than getting a EE degree :-))
Cheers, -T
Happy Anniversary inane hiker!
AnonT: Not really sure where you were going with your question re pseudoephedrine and this may be TMI, but I'll try.
"Pseudoephedrine is a phenethylamine that is an isomer of EPHEDRINE. Pseudoephedrine has less central nervous system effects and usage is mainly for respiratory tract decongestion."
"Ephedrine is an alpha- and beta-adrenergic agonist that may also enhance release of norepinephrine. It has been used for asthma, heart failure, rhinitis, and urinary incontinence, and for its central nervous system stimulatory effects in the treatment of narcolepsy and depression. It has become less extensively used with the advent of more selective agonists." from Pub Chem
You discovered one of its effects of urinary retention (reported in JAMA back in 1932)!
As Big Easy has said, there is much confusion; although Canada still has Sudafed with Pseudoephedrine in it, we also have Sudafed PE which has phenylephrine.
Similar confusion between Benadryl and Benadryl Decongestant cost Canadian rower, Silken Laumann (and her fellow scullers) a gold medal at the 1994 Olympics. Pseudoephedrine is considered a stimulant and is a banned drug under Olympic rules.
Interesting that we had SUDAFED yesterday and PSEUDO today.
Ah, I found more that is pertinent to your later question, AnonT.
"Ephedrine used to be found in what was commonly know as white cross pills with ephedrine. They were white pills that had a cross on one side and were a little smaller than an aspirin. White cross pills with ephedrine are no longer made. The white cross pills were 25mg of pure ephedrine HCL."
They were used and misused as stimulants, diet pills, and as a base to produce methamphetamine.
Thanks to Spitzboov for explaining the proper pronunciation of BOER.
I had it wrong through all these years, rhyming BOER with War. I think most Americans (maybe most English speakers?) say "BOER War" with no distinction between the vowels.
Now I shall make an effort not to rhyme BOER with "bore," which was probably taken as mildly insulting.
It may be correct, but is it less insulting to rhyme it with "boor"?
Hmm. I wonder?
~ OMK
Misty, A1=4. That should be enough to finish the Sudoku.
Jace, OKL: Very clever.
YR, I think I read your wonderful summer camp story as an earlier Corner entry. Like the memes of service people coming home and surprising their kids in assembly, I'll never get enough. Thanks for sharing.
-T and C-Eh, I'm still trying to determine the difference between sham poo and the real stuff.
While you may be put to sleep by a BORE,
You'd more likely be kept awake by a boar!
If you're insulted by a boor,
Don't assume he's an African BOER!
He might be a scientist like Niels Bohr!
Lemonade - though Dudley wrote "Morning JzB, thanks for elucidating." at 0728, I don't see any post from JzB today. So here's my attempt to answer your request for help re: 58-A.
Each major key has a relative minor key; relative because it has the same number of sharps & flats (key signature). As Spitz alluded to @ 0852, the easiest example is C Major, as the key signature is no sharps, no flats. To find the relative minor key, count down 3 half tones from the major, in this case B, B flat, A. The relative minor key is A, which also has the key signature of no sharps, no flats.
To find the relative Major when given the minor key, do the reverse. From F minor, count up F sharp, G, G sharp. Oops! G is only 1 note above F, so what gives? Musical convention is that relative major/minor keys/scales don't occupy adjacent positions on the staff, so we use A flat, which is the same pitch as G sharp. The key signature of A flat Maj. is 4 flats - Bb, Eb, Ab, Db, as is that for F minor.
Sorry if this is clear as mud. Sometimes it's difficult to explain something that's been second nature for so many years. There are good detailed explanations on You Tube and Wikipedia - search on "circle of 5ths".
Here's another take on the topic du jour:
Go Fast
Or like fenway fans when ARod came to bat.
There's a book i bought about Winston Churchill's time in South Africa. Not BOERing at all .
WC
Picard, I don't see anything about those "passages" on the net but there's a lot out there about the old Maynard Mill.
It's n'est-ce pas. I don't know why the hyphen is in there. And.. It's QUODOM oops. LIU. It's QUOD. My bad. 1962, Freshman Logic. Jevvie. My lack of Latin has plagued me.
D-O, you're thinking of Squad. I put an R at the end of SPA and (not so)DW had a fit. And it's 33 for us come Thanksgiving
Misty, you were in Antwerp. Anybody get stuck on HIATUS a week ago Sunday. I thought it was particularly hard to grok.
WC
Happy Anniversary to Inane Hiker. Hope you had a great day.
-T. I was given a prescription for "asthma" in my teens but rarely took it because of the effects. But I took some before a final and got an A.
Ironically, at OCS I had an "attack" during a forced march ( known by the pet name 'Hike).
I just kept going and never had another incident.
WC
Thanks, Jinx, but not enough time to go back to it tonight. And tomorrow's Sudoku will hopefully be easier.
C, Eh! So effectively it was speed but not the "real" benzadrine that Mrs. Murphy mentioned (funny MM - thanks for the old 'toon). Thanks for explaining that both of you. //I knew the bit about meth after they pulled Sudafed off the OTC shelf.
WC - I'm familiar with the forced 'walks in the park' too. My 18th b-day started in the gas chamber followed by a 20 mile march (along the 'trail' we were also gas'd). Talk about clearing your sinuses.
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Jinx - LOL!
Inanehiker - I had it written down but forgot to type it... Happy 33rd!
Cheers, -T
BigEasy @ 5:19, about NaBr, sodium bromide, in BromoSeltzer.
Wiki says, "Bromism is the syndrome which results from the long-term consumption of bromine, usually through bromide-based sedatives such as potassium bromide and lithium bromide. Bromism was once a very common disorder, being responsible for 5 to 10% of psychiatric hospital admissions, but is now uncommon since bromide was withdrawn from clinical use in many countries and was severely restricted in others."
CED - OK, it's not Python doing RUSH but the other way around, EH?
This took some Google-Fu to find...
Geddy mentioning the Dead Parrot Sketch in Yes' Hall of Fame induction. [@ around the 4:20 mark]
-T
Does your paper give the theme? Mine doesn’t except on Sunday. I did pretty well on this one despite not knowing the theme. Once I saw it, I was able to finish quickly.
its shown only on Sunday - made up by commenters the other days (except themeless Saturday).
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