Theme: POSTCARD (59. Vacation
memento ... or where you might find the ends of the answers to starred
clues?) - Card can follow the last word of each theme entry.
17. *NYSE nickname, with "The": BIG BOARD. Cardboard.
24. *"I Want You to Want Me" band: CHEAP TRICK. Card trick.
35. *Stingray predator named for a tool: HAMMERHEAD SHARK. Card shark.
51. *Clairvoyant: MIND READER. Card reader.
Boomer
here. Greetings and a warm Monday to you all. I mentioned last week
that I had entered another Pro Am bowling event, this time with the
Women pros. Results were not good. I was not able to hit my average in
any of the three games, even though 9 pins on the first ball counted as a
strike! I watched the finals on TV Saturday and noticed that even the
professionals had a difficult time keeping the ball right of the head
pin. The pattern was short oil, 37 feet, and many of my friends with
higher averages struggled like I did. I had the right ball, a Roto Grip
Dare Devil Trick. Tournament winner, Rocio Restrepo was using the same
model.
So,
today we have CARDS. Ace Hardware, Roger Miller's "King of the Road",
Las Vegas Hotel the Four Queens, and new Hall of Fame pitcher Jack
Morris. The rest is my golf scorecard - All the other numbers might be
on it (except two and three.)
Across:
1. Capital in Canada and Colombia?: CEE. Rocio Restrepo is from Columbia, South America.
4. Struggle with "s" sounds: LISP.
8. Puts on, as a show: STAGES. As Miss Kitty once said to Chester, "You should be on a stage. The next one out of town".
14. Suffix with form: ULA. I don't like half a word. Might this be an acronym for the University of Louisiana?
15. "Otello" solo: ARIA. Also a luxury hotel/casino in Las Vegas. They give great acclaim to Chinese New Year. We were there.
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| C.C., Aria, Feb 9, 2014 |
16. Red, white and blue: COLORS.
19. Reversed, as a deed: UNDONE. I like untied, like a shoe lace.
20. British __: ISLES.
We have a Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis, but it's just a big lake,
C.C. and I have walked around it a few times. I've yet to see an Isle.
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| Lake of the Isles |
21. Depended (on): RELIED. Can you think of anyone who lied once and then lied again?
23. __ butter: cosmetic moisturizer: SHEA. Also the old Mets Ballpark.
28. Walter of "The Odd Couple" (1968): MATTHAU. Jack Klugman was a pretty good slob too.
30. Versatile vehicle, for short: UTE. I thought UTE was a Native American, but I suppose it can also be an SUV.
31. MADD concern: DUI.
The stories that appear in the paper about repeat offenders really
drives me up a wall. Not that even one offense is tolerable.
32. Sudden power increase: SURGE.
34. Clairvoyant: SEER.
41. Pilate's "Behold!": ECCE. Latin is a dead language, as dead as dead can be. First it killed the Romans, and now it's killing me.
42. Tea biscuit: SCONE.
43. China's Chou En-__: LAI. Sometimes spelled Zhou Enlai. Ask C.C. if you don't believe me.
44. "It's cold in here!": BRR. In Minnesota, we never say BRR. We just swear.
47. First Hudson River automobile tunnel: HOLLAND.
54. "In __ of gifts ... ": LIEU.
55. Rug on one's pate: TOUPEE. Reminds me of George Can't Stanzya on Seinfeld.
56. It's a wrap: SARAN. Does anybody like this stuff. I cannot get a piece to use without having it stick to itself in 12 different places.
57. "Now!" in Westerns: PRONTO. State Fairs are everywhere with Pronto Pups to die for. (Corn Dogs).
62. __-Price: toy company: FISHER. Also a sunflower seed packager. I used to eat them by the hundreds when I had real teeth.
63. Small jazz combo: TRIO.
Not sure about Jazz. I enjoyed Chad, Mike, and Joe aka the Chad
Mitchell Trio. "Hang on the Bell, Nellie, Hang on the bell …."
64. Cavs, on scoreboards: CLE. What will life be without LeBron.
65. Talk show partner: CO-HOST. Always liked Ed McMahon.
66. Rope material: HEMP.
67. Reading organ: EYE.
Down:
1. Picasso's movement: CUBISM.
2. Otis of elevators: ELISHA. Kind of an up and down business.
3. Aerie youngster: EAGLET.
4. Vietnam neighbor: LAOS. We don't hear much about Laos; Northwest of Thailand. Thailand has some great female golfers and stupid soccer coaches.
5. Nest egg initials: IRA. Individual Retirement Account. Don't leave home without it.
6. Knight's title: SIR. The Queen has anointed a few pro golfers.
7. Felipe's father: PADRE. A San Diego Baseball player.
8. Work on a statue: SCULPT. I have never seen it in person, but I admire the Statue of Liberty.
9. This evening, in ads: TONITE. "Today, the minutes seem like hours, the hours go so slowly, and still the sky is bright."
10. Guitar-making hardwood: ALDER. Rumor has it, it is the best wood for guitars. I wonder why they don't use it for baseball bats.
11. "Nice thinking!": GOOD IDEA.
12. Coastal bird: ERN.
13. Opposite of NNW: SSE. These are the clues I always fill in first.
18. "I dunno": BEATS ME. What happens when you have 18 and the dealer has an Ace and a King?
22. Agua, across the Pyrenees: EAU. A city in Wisconsin EAU CLAIRE. I have a cousin there, nice bowling city.
24. "The Alienist" novelist Caleb: CARR.
25. Jackman of "X-Men": HUGH. How about "Wyatt Earp" Mr O'Brian. We lost him only a couple of years ago.
26. One prompting: CUER.
27. Enterprise captain: KIRK. Then there is actor Mr. Douglas who appeared in many films before my time. My gosh! He will turn 102 in December.
29. Tint: HUE.
33. Wide shoe sizes: EES. Nope - E is wide, EE is Extra wide, EEE is a small boat.
34. Brush-on wood finish: SHELLAC. Also, what other major league teams are doing to the Twins this year.
35. Big wheel at sea: HELM.
36. Healthful berry: ACAI.
37. Canada's national apple: MCINTOSH. Named after John McIntosh of Ontario.
38. Throbbing pain: ACHE. You name it, I've got it.
39. Knocker's place: DOOR.
40. "Weekend Update" show, in tweets: SNL.I don't watch it anymore. I used to love it when the lady did Sara Palin acts.
44. Ogres: BRUTES. I wonder why the NFL never adopted this name. Maybe Washington should change ??
45. School assignment: REPORT.
46. Actress Charlotte: RAE. Or Martha.
48. Acclaimed war pilot: AIR ACE. The Red Baron.
49. Almost: NEARLY.
50. Scottish port: DUNDEE. Angus, MacFergus, McTavish Dundee. Burl Ives.
52. "Tiny Bubbles" singer: DON HO.
53. Ocean measure: DEPTH.
56. Four-way __: certain intersection: STOP. Some drivers don't think they have to stop.
57. Rank below cpl.: PFC.
It used to be a single stripe but then it was changed to a stripe with a
rocker. Not too many corporals. My promotion was to Specialist 4.
They never told me what my specialty was.
58. 2016 Olympics city: RIO. A lot of strange things went on down there.
60. Mined metal: ORE. Also St. south of Washington.
61. __ City: computer game: SIM.
This was a very fast Monday with ALDER my only slow down. ODD COUPLE and M*A*S*H are probably the two best TV shows made from movies, with many liking the actors in the TV version better. I really enjoyed reading Carr’s THE ALIENIST though I have not watched the TNT TV SERIES.
ReplyDeleteHow about- Accountant: BEAN COUNTERas another themer? Or 1969 Music Festival WOODSTOCK .
You do manage to mention Chad Mitchell almost every week Boomer, and thanks for the fun review and Thailand mention. Recently gone CHARLOTTE RAE gets another visit, and I guess that is it from sunny So. Fla.
Every actor wants to tread the BOARDS.
ReplyDeleteSing an ARIA and have fans in hordes!
But oft it's the CUER
Gives the actors succor,
By standing off-STAGE with the words!
There was a sassy lass of DUNDEE's,
Who tantalized the lads with her undies!
She would hang by her knees
So her skirt fell, to tease
Any SEER, and disrupt all his studies!
A bully BRUTE, daily he BEATS ME.
But I'll have my revenge, wait and see!
I got past the guards
And hacked REPORT CARDS --
He'll be held back with grades of straight D!
{C, B, C+.}
Easy Monday, after terrible Sunday for me. Had it under 8 minutes.
ReplyDeleteYesterday I resorted to red letters as there were too many TV shows never shown in Europe, female golfing and other unknown.
Well, next Sunday maybe.
The oldest American TV Show being shown here, that I remember, is Daktari or Star Trek. Well not behind the Iron curtain of course. Illegally from Austrian TV.
Imagine a country in the 80's without Star wars or Indiana Jones...
Wood you like to know more about WOOD ? Interestingly, ASH was the wood for electric guitars and for baseball bats for a long time. While Fender and others went to Alder wood, baseball went to Maple and Oak.
ReplyDeleteKrijo, the world is a funny place and changing so rapidly. Even China and Cuba do not find it easy to hide information from their people these days. I just watched the 1992 movie SNEAKERS which had a wonderful cast and a look at international hacking.
ReplyDeleteHello Puzzlers -
ReplyDeleteAs easy as it gets, just read and write.
Morning Boomer, I smiled right out loud at your comment about a good bowling city. Never looked at it that way!
Krijo, your perspectives are quite interesting. Thanks for joining the Corner.
Anonymous G from yesterday: your explanation of the pronunciation of each trailing “s” case was fascinating. Thanks for that.
Husker from yesterday: when I got my latest Weber grill, I was pleased to see they’d switched to a battery-powered electric igniter. The old piezo plunger igniters were less reliable, in my experience. Haven’t had to change the battery yet. As for combination door locks, we have three of them, all mechanical, no batteries.
Good morning Cornerites and Cornerettes.
ReplyDeleteThank you Mr. Craig Stowe for this easy Monday CW which I FIR in 38:47.
Thank you Boomer for your excellent review.
41 A - Pilate's "Behold!": ECCE. - - I misread "pirate's". Duh!
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Oh, hand up for preferring the TV Odd Couple over the movie. Simply better.
ReplyDeleteGood Morning, Boomer and friends. Fun and quick Monday puzzle.
ReplyDeleteFunny you should think that ULA could refer to the University of Louisiana (which is a system of institutions of higher education), not to be confused, however, with LSU, which is the flagship university.
My favorite clue was It's a Wrap = SARAN.
As Lemonade noted, Charlotte RAE (Apr. 22, 1926 ~ Aug. 5, 2018), just last week at age 92.
Today is also the birthday of DON HO (Aug. 13, 1930 ~ Apr. 14, 2007).
QOD: Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that’s often why they don’t match when we’ve shared the same experiences with someone. ~ John Slattery (b. Aug. 13, 1962)
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteIs this Monday, or did I miss a couple of days? Fess up. Who remembered that Otis' first name was ELISHA? Got stuck looking at THE AP TRICK until I realized that maybe it wasn't "The..." Well done, Craig. Boomer, what does it mean that the "pattern was short oil, 37 feet?" I think you meant "Card can precede..." rather than "Card can follow..."
IRA: After a "certain age" you've gotta start taking money out every year. Fail to do so, and the penalties are really steep. I think the QCD (qualified charitable distribution) is going to become more important going forward. Folks who donate to charity directly from their IRA get a tax deduction without itemizing.
DON HO: What Miss Hawaii called a fellow contestant in Miss Congeniality.
SHEA: A woman I know from M-o-W is SHEA. Never heard it as a name before, only butter.
HUGH: Boomer alluded to Wyatt Earp. Remember the Ken Darby theme song? "Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp, brave, courageous and bold. Long live his name, and long live his glory, and long may his story be told."
Gave up on the Weber plunger igniter on my grille, matches are easier.
ReplyDeleteNew York last week announced it's giving up on trying to contain the emerald ash borer, it's time to harvest all the healthy ash wood while there's still some left.
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteThis was an easy, breezy Monday with only one unknown, Cheap Trick band. I was all set to enter Ahoy for a Pirate's "Behold" but caught the correct Pilate's clue in time. (Hi, Dave.) The theme was well-disguised (for me, anyway) until the reveal.
Thanks, Craig, for a pleasant start to the week and thanks, Boomer, for the comical commentary.
Lemony, I loved Caleb Carr's "The Alienist." I did watch the TV adaptation and enjoyed it but, in typical Hollywood fashion, the narrative and the main characters were greatly stretched and embellished.
Dudley, I agree 100 % with you that Randall and Klugman were a much better OddCouple than Lemmon/Matthau. This may be because you could really identify with Tony Randall being a Felix-type off-screen and Jack Klugman as a lovable, disheveled slob.
DO, my experience with Shea is just the opposite of yours. I never heard of Shea butter until it popped up in crosswords, but I had a good friend named Shea. Shea is a common Irish surname, also spelled Shay.
We're in for a wet week. So far, this summer has had two extremes: hot and humid or hot, humid, and wet.
Have a great day.
I, too, read Caleb CARR's The Alienist, when it first came out over 20 years ago. I watched 1 episode of the TV show, but didn't care for it. CARR wrote a sequel The Angel of Darkness, which is also very good.
ReplyDeleteGood morning, folks. Thank you, Craig Stowe, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Boomer, for a fine review.
ReplyDeleteWorked this last night via cruciverb. Got through it easily.
Theme eluded me until I came here.
ELISHA appeared after a couple perps. We have had him before.
My biggest problem with MATTHAU was remembering how to spell it. HUE and HUGH helped.
They say we can grow ash trees again in about 30 years. The bug will be gone by then. In NE Illinois, they are pretty much gone. I lost 5 trees in my yard.
Looks like the Elk County, PA, EAST Junior Little League team plays tomorrow evening at 7:00 CDT. I am sure all of Johnsonburg will be following it.
And now, for another cup of Earl Grey. See you tomorrow.
Abejo
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IM, the Shea I mentioned is her first name.
ReplyDeleteHi Y'all! Thank you, Craig, for a chewy Monday. Thank you, Boomer, for starting my day with laughter.
ReplyDeleteTo start off, I was trying to think of a city or money instead of CEE. Don't like that to begin with. Didn't know CUBISM or ELISHA so I LIU right away. No patience at midnight.
Never heard of a band called CHEAP TRICK or Author CARR. Didn't know ECCE was behold in Latin. I know Crocodile DUNDEE, not as a port in Scotland.
Loved McINTOSH apples when I baked pies. Forgot DON HO's name but could see his face.
I got SIM City only because I made a typo. I really wanted SIn City. Sounds like a "funner" game.
Good morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteEasy Monday.Did not know CARR but perps were kind. No searches or erasures. FIR.
FISHER - Was a gimme. We used to live in WNY so knew about Fisher-Price. They had a factory nearby in HOLLAND, NY.
HELMs on the bridge are no longer big wheels on modern vessels - most are smaller than your car's steering wheel. Many have a type of joy stick control.
SURGE - Does anyone remember the Surge milking machines from days of yore
DUNDEE - Figures in the old whaling song:
"Old Polina"
There's a noble fleet of whalers, they're sailing from DUNDEE
Manned by British sailors that take them o'er the sea.
On a western ocean passage, we started on the trip
We flew along just like a song on a gallant whaling ship.
Was the second Sunday morning, just after leaving port,
We met a heavy sou'west gale and washed away our boat
It washed away our quarterdeck, our stanchions just as well,
And so we set the whole shabang a floatin' in the gale.
For the wind was on our quarter, the engines working free
There's not another whaler that sails the Arctic Sea
Can beat the old Polina, you need not try my sons,
We challenged all both great and small from DUNDEE to St John's.
DO @ 8:36 ~ That's funny because I also knew (not well) a first-named Shea (Shay?) but it was a shortened version of her given name, which I can't remember, if I even knew it at all.
ReplyDeleteMaybe her given name was one-hoss.
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteThere were a few stumbling blocks in Craig's offering today. A cross between a Monday and Wednesday level puzzle. Boomer gave us a nice tour through the grid and showed the theme to me, which I had not seen.
Like others the spelling of Walter MATTHAU eluded me until the end. I have a friend who was a child movie actor in the original Bad News Bears movies (He played Rudy.) He said that Matthau was a great person to work with and is totally different than his curmudgeonly persona in the movies.
Abejo @ 8:11 am: Actually most of Central PA will be following the Elk County, PA, EAST Junior Little League team. Here is the Altoona Channel 10 report on the team's upcoming trip to the Junior League World Series in Taylor, Michigan.
My nephew's best friend is named Shay.
Also, today is National Left-Hander's Day. So, all of you out there in your "Right Mind" should celebrate your uniqueness.
More rain today and more predicted for tomorrow. It's too bad that the west coast can't get the rain they need to put out the fires while we have floods.
Have a great day everyone even if it is raining.
Very nice, Mr. Craig Stowe. Thank you. I even caught the theme.
ReplyDeleteFrom CEE to EYE it was a quick sashay. Hand up for reading "pirate" until Pilate came into focus. ECCE homo! Behold the man! Those words are often repeated during Lent.
I vaguely recall hearing the name, CHEAPTRICK.
I was surprised at the simplicity of COLORS; I was expecting something different.
CARR was filled by perps. I have Dark Angel in my queue but haven't watched it.
My company will be arriving soon so I'll sign off.
Have yourselves a delightful day! We had buckets of rain last night.
Good late morning. Slept in for a change. Thank you Craig Stowe and thank you Boomer.
ReplyDeleteWDS. Read and write. Easy Monday. What wasn't known or would have required thought was filled by perps. I'm looking at you CARR and ECCE.
CHEAP TRICK was easy. Rock and Roll HOF'ers. They're from Rockford, IL. They first hit it big in Japan before finding great success here. They're still touring. Lead guitarist Rick Nielsen had a collection of over 400 guitars. His parents were opera singers. I guess the nut can fall far from the tree.
I knew a girl Charlotte who went by Shar to most, but was Shay, or I guess Shea, to her sister. Never understood it. Just accepted it.
Abejo, good luck to the team !
OOPS, neighbor needs a ride. Gotta go.
Hand up this seemed more like a Wednesday in places. Was not sure about CARR/HUGH/MATTHAU. I knew MATTHAU but not sure of the spelling. Got the theme and enjoyed it!
ReplyDeleteBoomer: I did not understand the comment about King of the Road?
Sorry you have not experience the SCULPTure of the Statue of Liberty in person. Here are some of my photos there.
I have a whole sequence of photos driving into New York on that trip. I thought it was the HOLLAND Tunnel, but when I looked again it was actually the Lincoln Tunnel.
PK: Surprised you didn't know PICASSO and CUBISM. Good learning moment!
Here I enjoyed High TEA and SCONEs at the Empress Hotel in Victoria, BC in Canada
Have others here had this experience?
Good to see my fellow Star Trek Captain KIRK.
LISP was the first language for Artificial Intelligence programming. It stood for LISt Processing. It was the first high level language to allow "recursion". Meaning when you defined a function you could use the function you were defining in the definition! Way cool! I used that trick a few times!
Back when the band AXE was touring before one of the original members was killed in a car accident they toured with CHEAP TRICK. The band were very nice people. I would guess many have heard their song MIGHTY WINGS from TOP GUN .
ReplyDeleteRick loves his guitars.
From yesterday:
ReplyDeleteMike Sherline: Glad you got to experience the absurdity of London Bridge in the Arizona desert, too!
WikWak: Thanks for confirming that the Chinese butcher indeed was smoking a cigarette!
CrossEyedDave: Thanks for the learning moment about the Andy Griffith song!
Classical guitars are made of Brazilian rosewood for the sides and back, (or cedar), spruce for the top and ebony for the fretboard. There are several really good American luthiers though the instruments favored by most of the well-known guitarists are made by the Spanish luthier Ramirez.
ReplyDeletePerfect Monday puzzle, many thanks, Craig. I got CEE at the top instantly--I've learned by now to look for letters rather than cities. And that got a smooth ride going. Got MATTHAU right away, but like many others, I loved the TV series of the "Odd Couple" much more than the movie. Like others, I also thought of the sad loss of Charlotte RAE right away when her name came up. Fun write-up, Boomer, many thanks. Your little joke about RE-LIED made me laugh.
ReplyDeleteWere Miss Kitty and Chester on "Gunsmoke"--or some other show?
Happy birthday, DON HO.
Liked your first poem, Owen.
The tune popped right into my head when you started printing out the Wyatt Earp lyrics, Desper-otto.
Glad you had a good puzzle day today, Krijo.
Have a great week, everybody!
Thanks, Dudley. It's amazing that we apply this rule when we speak without ever being taught it. Anonymous G
ReplyDeleteMusings
ReplyDelete-I finished Craig’s fun puzzle in between golf with grandson and heading out to this wonderful museum
-Read ya later after sushi in Lincoln tonight for Hudson’s 16th birthday.
Hmm,
ReplyDeleteBlog notes:
14a form/ula - thank goodness for Monday clueing.
i don't know anything about universities.
(See Hatoolah @ 6:30)
21a depended/relied
HeHe, we all know a dependable liar,
but politics/blog rules forbid me from naming names...
Lemon! You beat me to guitar wood!
I had almost the exact same link lined up!
41a Ecce - Latin for behold.
This is amazing! after all these years I have just discovered
that the title for one of my favorite old Outer Limits episodes was a pun!
Behold Eck!!
A case study of how scary music can overcome bad acting,
Teach values, show the evil of intolerance,
and, the importance of having a good optometrist...
2d Elisha Graves Otis
an unknown, yet familiar name seen every day in the big city.
When combined with 25a Hugh Jackman, you get a delightful
(if not flawed) movie called Kate and Leopold! IMDB 6.8 out of 10)
I always look up the IMDB trivia for any movie I have enjoyed to
find out if I missed anything. Well it turns out that IMDB is only half the story!
See Kate and Leopold wiki
for tidbits like:
Stuart wound up in the hospital because he fell into an empty elevator shaft
walking the dog because there were no elevators because Leopold had not invented them yet!
(wait! what happened to the dog?)
Oh, and Desper-otto, @9am
your one horse reference made me think of the old Indian chief
who named his wife five horses....
Nag, Nag, Nag, Nag, Nag....
No, I didn't forget the theme...
ReplyDeleteI just thought my posts have been getting too long lately...
So here are a few short crossword postcards:
#1
#2
#3
(oh, and by the way, you owe the missing postage...)
Boomer: Great write-up.
ReplyDeleteCraig: Thank you for a FUN Monday puzzle.
No booze clue/answer ... so no fave today.
Oh well, it has rained twice today ... with more to come ...
but I like the rain ... it cools the "Air-Temp" by at least 10 degrees.
Hope everyone has a great week.
Cheers!
Ed McMahon is a former(typical?) BC man
ReplyDeleteWhen I got in charge, I immediately promoted all the Coporals to Sgt. Too many levels of supervision is the bane of bureaucracy
I spent Saturday at the SEER Expo in the corner with Sam's stumper
D-O, priceless.
Btw, Betsy bought expensive HEMP Oil at the expo(shudder)
But no reading tarot or otherwise.
I had BEASTS<BRUTES. - Would it be the Washington Ogres? If Anaheim can call themselves Ducks...
WC
Ok .even Owen can have an average day . A lot of the xwords I never saw until the write-up (which I always love). Great PGA yesterday,eh.
Btw, I posted the bball trivia answer this am.
This was a fairly straightforward solve for me today, no issues at all.
ReplyDeleteLots of really good Walter Matthau movies....Charlie Varrick and Hopscotch are a couple that I will watch anytime.
No sense in Yammering on or I might get Hammered. Haha.
Boomer, I so enjoy your commentary. What a delightful sense of humor you have! Thank you.
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ReplyDeleteMisty: Miss Kitty and Chester were both on "Gunsmoke."
Nice, easy start to the week from Mr. Stowe ...
ReplyDeleteAnd a very informative write-up from Boomer!
(My favorite CO-HOST? Rip Torn on the Larry Saunders Show. By playing Arthur so well, he provided us with the sweet satirical send-up we've always wanted.)
Anonymous G ~
Let me join in the praise you deserve for that pretty thorough run-down of the "rules" for "S" pronunciation. It reminds me of the time I volunteered to do recordings for UN-sponsored ESL lessons.
My favorite contrasting sentences (devoted to the "S/Z" phonemes) were these (Sound them out yourself):
1. "After the ballgame, you can see my dirty knees."
- and -
2. "After the ballgame, you can see my dirty niece."
~ OMK
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Diagonal Report: None today. Check back tomorrow ...
Right out of the chute comes a "Sheesh" answer, but it turns out not to have detracted from the puzzle today. I actually smiled seeing HUE and HUGH and expected to maybe see HEW later on but it was not to be. I always get fooled by clues/answers such as formULA, because I don't usually think of ULA as a suffix. Wanted cedar or maple instead of ALDER. Hammerhead sharks are so weird!
ReplyDeleteBest wishes to you all.
Good Monday puzzle from Mr. Stowe. The names I didn't know (CARR, CHEAP TRICK) were revealed by perps (I had at least seen or heard the name Cheap Trick, though certainly didn't know any of their "songs"). Enjoyed your writeup, Boomer.
ReplyDelete63A - Standard trio - piano, bass and drums. I played in one that was saxophone, bass and drums, and one that was piano, bass and saxophone. In both cases the absent instrument was sorely missed. I think the ideal smallest group is a quartet with piano, bass, drums with a sax, trumpet or trombone (or, why not, tuba), but the more the merrier - an 18 piece big band is the greatest.
56D- 4 way STOP - Right, Boomer, some don't think they have to stop. And some don't know when to go. The joke about Minnesota is that everyone is so nice nobody will ever take their turn. After you; no, after you. They do a variation of that here in Hawaii. They call it driving with aloha, but usually it just causes confusion and worse snarls.
D-O @ 0700 - I watched Wyatt Earp and remembered the tune when I read your lyrics. Didn't know the composer.(Hi, Misty).
I got he theme, but had to line them all up and stare at them a while after I filled them all to get it. These add-a-word ones seem to be common Mondays, but I have a harder time with them than most other themes.
ReplyDeleteA couple years ago I submitted a picture of the Enterprise to a nonogram site out of Russia. They'd accepted some of my others, but that one got unanimously rejected by the judges, with remarks about how no spaceship could ever look like that!
Suffixes is not the same as -- I don't know, extension maybe? -- of a word. A suffix takes the base word and adds something to alter it. To take a word and add some letters to make a different unrelated word should not properly be considered as adding a suffix!
IMHO.
I've heard of George Beverly Shea
Back to the party after finishing the CWs late and just lurking all weekend. Thanks for the fun today, Craig and Boomer. Just a few inkblots and I did get the theme.
ReplyDeleteI'll take 2 CSOs today with 1A and 37D, although I found no Canadian advantage with either of them. But it did say Capital IN Canada and Columbia which should have steered me away from cities or money; besides Ottawa, Bogota, Loonie, Peso were all too long! Macintosh apples are one of my favourites (crisp, juicy and flavourful) but I did not realize they were our national apple. Go figure!
Yesterday we went NNW to Ottawa (I'll take a belated CSO) and today we go back SSE to Albany (hello IM).
Hand up for waiting for perps to confirm the spelling of MATTHAU.
Yes, Picard, I have been to tea at the Empress in Victoria BC. Also at the Prince of Wales in NOTL. Both impressive for the quantity of food, beauty of the room, and the price! But it is an experience not to be missed.
OMK- I wrinkled my nose at CUER. Is the person that cues the actor called a CUER in real life?
Didn't we have SpatULA the other day?
I don't know my ranks and had PVT before perps changed to PFC.
Enjoy the evening.
Irish Miss @ 7:47 -- Well, for a summer change of pace, you could try California: hot, dry, and smokey ... or, hotter, dryer, and ashy.
ReplyDeletePicard @ 11:28. I thought that when you coded something and it failed, you could curse it. And when it failed again, because you left out the right bracket ("]"), you would then RECURSE it.
MikeSherline, re: the 4way stop. The Rules of the Road in nautical matters takes good care of that. If you are the “burdened” vessel at a crossing you must stop. (That makes sense.).
ReplyDeleteBut if you are the privileged vessel with the right of way you MUST proceed. No shilly- shallowing about being nice!!
I always liked that.
But I also like aloha rules!!!
Picard: I never liked Picasso's work well enough to study him. I thought he was into surrealism which didn't fit. > During a pouring rain, I stood under the overhang of a building across the street from the Empress Hotel in Victoria, British Columbia while tea time was happening. Alas, I didn't get a scone. A group of us had planned to go but were short of funds when we were told the price. Had I known earlier, I would have not bought so much Indian artwork and saved some cash for tea. The few ladies who went weren't impressed.
ReplyDeleteMisty: Miss Kitty was the bar owner love interest of Matt Dillon and Chester was the deputy with a gimpy leg on Gunsmoke.
Hi, CanadianEh. Were you just passing through Albany or visiting?
ReplyDeleteMichael, despite my complaining about our weather, I do appreciate living in an area that is spared the destruction and devastation of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, forest fires, mud slides, drought or floods. 😉
CanadianEh: Glad to know a real Canadian has also taken part in the Empress TEA and SCONEs ceremony! Yes, expensive. But not life-changing expensive. And it is a famed experience I was glad to have. Utterly different from my usual activities!
ReplyDeleteMichael: Amusing "recursion" "explanation"!
If you type "recursion" into Google, Google will give what it thinks is an amusing example of recursion. But here is a simple example: Imagine you are in a full theater waiting for the program to start. You want to know how many rows there are in the theater.
Ask the guy in front of you how many rows are there in front of him. That guy will ask the same question to the guy sitting in front of him and tell you (return) whatever the guy told him + 1 to you. This will go on until the guy at the last row returns 0 to the previous guy (base case).
PK: Picasso had a brief surrealism bit. But he was famous for his pioneering work in CUBISM. He was also a very shrewd businessman. He was no starving artist.
Here you can see a few of Picasso's early work.
You might think his famous later work was something any kid could do. But his earlier work gave him credibility as a "real" artist.
Too bad you missed the Empress TEA and SCONEs experience. But no need for regrets. Your Indian artwork purchases may indeed have been a better use of your time and money.
CanadianEh! ~
ReplyDeleteI have never heard of a CUER. The person who does this job is a Prompter.
BTW, I have occasionally seen a prompter at work in a rehearsal, when actors are struggling to get off book. But I have never seen one working during an actual performance. Actors are trusted to either know their lines or to ad lib their way out of jams.
~ OMK
CEE all references I found were about eastern European currency. I saw the answer but am still in the dark.
ReplyDeleteIf Chester was the deputy,
ReplyDeleteWho was Fester?
Irish Miss- I have only ever passed through Albany. I shall have to remedy that - and remember to pronounce it ALL-bany!
ReplyDeletePicard - yes, a true English tea. Did you remember to crook your little finger LOL!
OMK- prompter was the word I was trying to remember. Thank you. I think CUER was one of those gluey fills.
Unknown- CEE is the capital letter that starts the words Canada and Columbia. This Canadian was stymied at first by that clue too!
Unknown at 9:22: CEE is a reference to the the letter beginning the words Canadian & Columbian -- the phonetic spelling, I guess it would be called. In crosswords we also see Bee, Gee, Eff. I miss it about half the time.
ReplyDeleteCED: Chester left the show and Festus was hired as the deputy.
Thank you, Oc4beach and PK for confirming that Miss Kitty ad Chester were on "Gunsmoke." Wouldn't it be fun to see an old episode from that program>
ReplyDeleteBoomer your write ups always make me smile. Thanks! Have you tried Glad Press'n Seal? Its a great alternative to Saran wrap.
ReplyDeleteBTW Craig, I loved that clue. Thanks for a delightful Monday. There are always 2 or 3 new things learned(but not always remembered)no matter what day of the week.
Ol' Man Keith. You are welcome. I'm a speech-language pathologist, so it's part of the job. Especially useful in helping ESL individuals. Anonymous G
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