Insider Trading. Each theme answer consists of two 4-letter words where the first and last letters are the same, but the two internal, or "inside", letters (in the pattern of A__ or __A) have "traded" places. How very clever!
17-Across. Frantic activity at a clothing sale?: GARB GRAB. The infamous Wedding Dress Garb Grab at Filene's Basement in Boston. If you haven't experienced the original Filene's Basement, you don't know what you're missing.
26-Across. Wooden bird sculpture?: SAWN SWAN. This was my Rosetta Stone.
52. Cereal maker's storage building?: BRAN BARN. I couldn't find a Bran Barn, but here's the famous Bran Castle near Brașov, Romania, allegedly the home of Dracula. Well worth the visit!
66. Dispassionate bivalve?: CALM CLAM.
This was a tough Friday puzzle. It's never good when I can't get 1-Across/1-Down on the first pass. Getting the gimmick early helped me today.
Across:
17-Across. Frantic activity at a clothing sale?: GARB GRAB. The infamous Wedding Dress Garb Grab at Filene's Basement in Boston. If you haven't experienced the original Filene's Basement, you don't know what you're missing.
26-Across. Wooden bird sculpture?: SAWN SWAN. This was my Rosetta Stone.
52. Cereal maker's storage building?: BRAN BARN. I couldn't find a Bran Barn, but here's the famous Bran Castle near Brașov, Romania, allegedly the home of Dracula. Well worth the visit!
66. Dispassionate bivalve?: CALM CLAM.
40-Across. With 42-Across, white-collar crime ... and a hint to four Across answers: INSIDER.
42-Across. See 40-Across: TRADING. Together these clues give us INSIDER TRADING, which is a big No-No with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
This was a tough Friday puzzle. It's never good when I can't get 1-Across/1-Down on the first pass. Getting the gimmick early helped me today.
Across:
1. Result of littering, maybe: PUP. Oh, not like the street after the parade has floated by,
but as in a dog with its babies.
but as in a dog with its babies.
4. Recipe direction: SIFT. I remember my mother sifting flour before doing any baking. I only occasionally used a sifter when baking. Probably why my cooking is the way it is.
8. Round paths: ORBITS. The orbits of the planets are elliptical . The elliptical orbits are a subset of the round orbits.
14. Airport info: ETA. As in Estimated Time of Arrival. A crossword staple.
15. Minorca, por ejemplo: ISLA. Today's Spanish lesson. Minorca is one of the Balearic islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The Islands belong to Spain. Minorca is the tiny island on the far right on the map.
16. Promote: TALK UP.
19. How some insults are veiled: THINLY. If someone ever says to you, "Oh, you lost 10 pounds? That's a good start", then you have just been the subject of a thinly disguised insult.
20. Luster: SHEEN. Not to be confused with Martin Sheen.
21. Electric guitar effect: WA WA.
23. Meh: SO-SO. // And 41-Down. Meh: DRAB.
24. Comedy bit: GAG.
28. Recreational walk: STROLL. My memory is a little rusty, but I think you can take a STROLL down ...
31. European relative of aloha: CIAO. Today's Italian lesson
32. Financial claim: LIEN.
33. Heroic poetry: EPOS. A long, narrative poem, such as Beowulf. I was so disappointed when I learned that Beowulf was not actually about a wolf.
35. Scheming wife of Augustus: LIVIA. Livia (58 BCE ~ 29 CE) was a Roman Empress.
44. Mongol invader: TATAR. Probably the most famous Tatar was Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol Empire.
45. "__ Tired": Beatles "White Album" song: I'M SO. I don't remember this song. // And 71-Across: SLEEPY.
47. Long-gone time: YORE.
48. Plant with therapeutic sap: ALOE. A crossword staple.
50. Ball VIPs: BELLES.
56. Longtime NBC hit: SNL. As in Saturday Night Live.
57. Drive-in need: AUTO.
58. Ivan IV, from 1547 to 1584: TSAR. Also known as Ivan the Terrible. He is considered the first TSAR of Russia. Previous rulers were known as Grand Princes. The title of Tsar gave him gravatis in the eyes of the European monarchs. Once he appointed himself Tsar, he and Queen Elizabeth I carried on a long correspondence, which opened up trading between England and Russia. It is said that Ivan proposed to Elizabeth, but she declined. Probably just as well for her.
60. Passageway: AISLE.
64. Theater company: TROUPE.
68. Fairy tale sibling: HANSEL. Brother of Gretel. The story of Hansel and Gretel is an old German fairy tale, recorded by the Brothers Grimm. They were children of a poor woodcutter. Their mother had died and their step-mother took them deep into the woods and left them to fend for themselves. They came upon a beautiful gingerbread home, unaware that its owner was a cannibalistic witch.
69. Logician's adverb: ERGO.
70. "Really? Me?": AMI. Hmm ... Ami the transliteration for a Hebrew word meaning "my people".
72. Precious: DEAR.
73. Favorite: PET. My late pet.
Down:
1. Coat holders: PEGS. My first thought was a coat tree, but that didn't work well with the perps.
2. Wasatch Front state: UTAH. This was totally unknown to me. Apparently, the Wasatch Front is a metropolitan region in Utah, which includes such cities as Provo, Salt Lake City and Odgen. Do any of our crossword friends live in this area?
3. Opposite of embiggen: PARE. Embiggen is a perfectly cromulent word. It's first known use was on a 1996 episode of The Simpsons.
4. Traffic stopper, perhaps: SIGNAL.
5. Leb. neighbor: ISR. Israel is a neighbor of Lebanon.
6. Diamond concern: FLAW. Can you spot the flaws in these diamonds?
7. Spicy sauce: TABASCO. Made in Avery Island, Louisiana. Did you know that Avery Island isn't really an island? It's really a salt dome. There are five such "Islands" in southern Louisiana.
8. Capital NNW of Albany: OTTAWA.
9. Cheer syllable: RAH. // And 25-Down. Cheer: GLEE.
10. Euphoria: BLISS.
11. "You don't need to tell me": I KNOW.
12. Home of the Drillers of Class AA baseball: TULSA. The Tulsa Drillers are the double-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
13. Watch surreptitiously: SPY ON.
18. Colorful tropical flower: BEGONIA.
22. Middle management issues?: WAISTS. Another good clue.
27. Satchmo's birthplace, briefly: NOLA. Louis Daniel Armstrong (Aug. 4, 1901 ~ July 6, 1971), also known as Satchmo, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
28. Narrow opening: SLIT.
29. Turner with numbers: TINA. As in Tina Turner (née Anna Mae Bullock; b. Nov. 26, 1939). Tina on her last birthday at age 79. I hope I can look as good as she does when I turn 79.
30. Enjoy an easy chair: REST.
34. Monastic leaders: PRIORS.
36. Charmingly pastoral: IDYLLIC.
37. Member of a Baroque consort: VIOL. A musical instrument used in Renaissance and Baroque music. It is similar to a cello, is six-stringed, held vertically and played with a bow.
38. Memo heading: IN RE.
39. Survey range components: AGES. On a survey form, there are often boxes to check one's age range.
43. Takes badly?: ROBS. Nice misdirection.
46. Threatened: MENACED.
49. These days: LATELY.
51. Charm: ENAMOR.
52. Spa features: BATHS. Here I am (way in the back) swimming in the pool at the Gellert Spa in Budapest.
53. Like much of Oregon: RURAL.
54. Make amends: ATONE. This is becoming a crossword staple.
55. "I give up!": NO USE.
59. Uncommon: RARE. Tanzanite is one of the world's rarest gem stones. It is found only in Tanzania, hence its name.
61. Open-handed blow: SLAP.
62. Unconvincing, as an excuse: LAME.
63. Put out: EMIT.
65. Energy: PEP.
67. NY airport named for a mayor: LGA. As in LaGuardia Airport, which is named after Fiorello Henry LaGuardia (Dec. 11, 1882 ~ Sept. 20, 1947). He was only 5'2'', and interestingly, his first name means "little flower" in Italian. He was the 99th Mayor of New York City. He served as Mayor from January 1934 through December 1945.
Now here's the GIRD GRID:
41 comments:
FIRight with no particular probs. WOODS > RURAL (I grew up in Portland, which is not rural!), SHINE > SHEEN, UNCLE > NO USE, BLAH > DRAB, and a couple simple spelling errors, all corrected by perps.
Got most of the theme with the first one, SAWN SWAN, two words that were anagrams with each other. That it was specifically the two inner letters switched I got from the reveal.
The band had a VIOL, an ax, and a saw
But lack of a horn they thought a FLAW.
Their standards got lax,
Found a kinda BLAH sax,
He could only play a sorta SO-SO WA-WA.
HANSEL thought a PUP would make a nice PET.
STROLLING to walk it would give him more PEP.
A puppy's kiss
Can give some BLISS,
But his mother just bought him a pup-pet!
A Wall-streeter retired, felt he was fading
To keep busy he bought an orchard that was failing.
With his business acumen
He saved it from ruin,
But then got arrested for IN CIDER TRADING!
{B+, B+, A-.}
Thank you David Alfred Bywaters for this impossible CW that I FIR.
Thank you Hahtoolah for your excellent review.
We start with the Natick of 1 A - PUP which should be PUPs, and PARE, which is obviously the opposite of embiggen: "to make bigger or more expansive."
The NE cell was impossible, but I solved it.
The next Natick was at 35 A - LIVIA and 37 D - VIOL which is similar to a violin.
Ðave
OKL, you outdid yourself coming up with IN CIDER TRADING.
Susan, thank you again for the Friday words and also thanks to one of our regular Friday creative minds - DAB.
I did not find the puzzle as hard as many others but am most grateful for being reminded of Livia Drusilla (Classical Latin: Livia. Drvsilla, Livia. Avgvsta; 30 January 58 BC – 28 September AD 29), also known as Julia Augusta after her formal adoption into the Julian family in AD 14, was the wife of the Roman emperor Augustus throughout his reign, as well as his adviser. The depiction of this real person by the incomparable SIAN PHILLIPS in the PBS mini-series I, CLAUDIUS was remarkable and memorable.
Happy last Friday of March
Good morning!
1a and 1d popped into my warped mind immediately. I agree with Lemonade that this one was easier than the usual Friday fare. Fun, though. Got the theme at GARB GRAB, and I was off and running. Thanx, DAB and Hahtoolah.
STROLL: We take a morning 3-mile "march" through the 'hood, in part for WAIST control. It isn't working.
EMBIGGEN: Once again, proof that The Simpsons isn't totally frivolous.
AUTO: Normally, my truck gets washed whenever it rains. But this Tuesday I actually got out the hose and scrub brush. The pine pollen is so stubborn the rains can't budge it.
Tanzanite: Learning moment. The Tanzanite of Kilimanjaro doesn't have quite the same ring as the Snows.
Who names their kid Livia? (Lidia, uffda)
Great day in the morning!!
FIR much to my surprise !
Looked difficult at first so fooled around and got started in the southwest with HANSEL, SLEEPY, and LATELY. Saw BRANBARN and CALMCLAM and worked my way back up and around. No look ups but EPOS was a stranger . Thought of Odes or Opus but the perps won out.
On our first tropical vacation DW took many pictures of BEGONIAS. Found them in different colors of red white and pink.
Fun puzzle thanks D A B and Hahtoolah for the tour.
Cheers
Good Morning:
This was a pretty easy Friday with a cute and obvious theme, which helped the solve. I needed perps for Livia and NOLA, as clued. My only w/o was No Mas/No Use. Nice CSO to CEh at Ottawa. My favorite C/As were: Middle management issues?=Waists and Result of littering, maybe=Pup.
Thanks, DAB, for a Friday frolic and thanks, Hatoolah, for the very educational and visually pleasing review, particularly the photo of the Lab pups!
Keith, I hope you're feeling better. I, too, was unable to conquer crutches and had to resort to a walker which killed my hands.
Owen, loved the In Cider Trading!
Have a great day.
At the GARB GRAB at Filene's I know what you will be missing- a lot of MONEY, and after paying the $750 for alterations you will not be a CALM CLAM either. After GARB GRAB, the theme was a gimme.
My first thought for 1A was PET but after UTAH I filled PUP but the PET show up in the opposite corner of the puzzle. PARE was an easy fill because everybody knows the meaning of embiggen, right? My only other unknown filled by perps was LIVIA. I never saw the clue for AMI (filed by perps) but still don't understand how it fit. I would have filled MOI.
Satchmo always claimed his birthday was the Fourth of July.
Avery Island's rise (all 163 ft.) above the flat terrain makes it look like a mountain, since it is only a few miles from the Gulf. Those 'islands' Hatoolah mentioned are the only hills in LA south of I-10 between the Pearl & Sabine rivers.
A little below average difficulty for a Friday. Fun. I solved from bottom to top. Getting the theme early with CALM CLAM helped. I love the theme, David. WAIST was last to fill. Cute!
Embiggen and cormulent are new to me. Their usage is very recent, but they are in some dictionaries. I wouldn't use them in serious writing or speaking.
I know the Wasatch Mountains from wagon train stories.
Donner party
When my DIL was buying a wedding gown, we visited Filene's Basement just briefly. What a madhouse! And the gowns looked manhandled. Woman handled?
I loved Tabasco sauce. I can use only a few drops in cooking because Alan doesn't care for it. I add some to my plate, instead.
Keith, with my bad knee I found PT useful. Very occasionally a cane, which PT taught me to use properly, took some of the stress off the knee. Many people us the cane improperly and it doesn't help enough.
Bill and Barbara, you are in my my thoughts. I wish you all the best.
I thought of you, Canadian Eh, at Ottawa.
AMI, the name, morphs into MIA ... then can turn into AIM, then becomes I AM, and once again becomes something else, AM I? OH, we can't omit MAI BRITT.
I'M A bit amazed a three letter word can become so many different things.
On Friday our President, Jerry grills blueberry pancakes in the dinning room for our breakfast pleasure. He plays music, and today featured The Sons of the Pioneers. They reminded me of a group who's name I could not recall.
What I did recall was posting about them. The key word to find them is cacti. I found my post on Sat. Mar 10, 2018, at 4:51 AM.
35 A - They usually have spines: CACTI -- reminds me of Riders in the Sky where Too Slim introduces us to his "Cac-Tie."
Ðave
Good morning everyone.
Nice prologue from Hahtoolah today. Chatty and informative. Thank you.
Neat theme from DAB. Got it immediately as well as the reveal. Thought the theme was very clever but on the easy side for a Friday. LIVIA came from perps. No searches needed.
OTTAWA - Visited it regularly during my working years. About a 4 hour drive from here. Easy to get in and out of; many fine restaurants.
Passageway - What a hallway is called on a ship.
QOD - "No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination." Edward Hopper (1882-1967)
Hi gang -
Nice write up, Hatoolah.
I like the theme gimmick, and no nits.
Tough go. Southwest was the last to fall. EPOS was unknown. Still looks wrong.
Tigers pulled out an opening day win in the 10th inning in Toronto. Jays have now lost 8 straight home openers. Red Wings won their third straight last night, also in OT. They're going to play themselves out of a high draft pick.
Cold and wet here for the week end. But - hey - it's a week end!
Cool regards!
JzB
Musings
-Like streets in the spring, this had potholes aplenty but I soon paved over them (tortured metaphor?)
-I really enjoyed reading about the genesis of Embiggen and Cromulent in Susan’s fun write-up
-Lucille Ball, Ball canning jars, NBA Ball? Nope!
-A TROUPE is currently staging this musical in Omaha which is unfamiliar to me but looks good
-Does your city have flashing yellow left turn SIGNALS? They seem to say “Hey, you’re on your own”
-Flip Wilson revived an old Amos ‘n Andy GAG when he said “Do da name Ruby BEGONIA ring a familiar note?”
-My AGE check box has navigated to the bottom of the list
-Pronouncing RURAL as RULE around here will put you in the minority
Good morning. Thank you D.A.B. and thank you Hahtoolah.
I had fun with this puzzle but struggled a bit until I saw what was going on, and even then couldn't quite get there. One letter from the TADA. No idea at the intersection of LIVIA and VIOL. I was thinking of consort as a person, not in the musical sense.
Hahtoolah, funny that you should reference Genghis Khan in your write up. The 1965 movie of the same name, starting Omar Sharif and Stephen Boyd was on TV this morning.
Interesting video on embiggen and cromulent. I had PA-E in place, and thought through the word embiggen, which led to a sense of enlarge, so the opposite would be decrease, or PARE.
The pennant chase is heating up in MLB in tightly contested races across the divisions in both the senior and junior circuits. The Astros currently hold a 16 % probability of winning the World Series, followed by the Yankees and Dodgers at 13 %.
At the other end of the spectrum, the Orioles are flying low and the Marlins aren't yet skimming the surface. Both teams have gotten cold and look to be playing themselves out of contention.
The Royals reigned supreme in yesterday's action, while the Tigers caught their prey in an extra-inning game. Both teams, even with hot starts early in the season, will need to find momentum to keep their playoff chances alive.
In recent games, the Mariners sank the Red Sox in their wake with a 12-4 victory, The Phillies galloped past the Braves 10-4, and the Dodgers evaded snake bites while crushing the Diamondbacks underfoot in a 12-5 game. Meanwhile, the Brewers had one too many at Miller Park as they bested the Cardinals, who are hoping to soar when they get back to Busch.
Stay tuned to MLB coverage as the season unfolds. It's going to be an exciting year.
Fabulous Friday. Thanks for the fun, David and Hahtoolah.
Hand up for getting a foothold in the south and then progressing upward. BRAN BARN gave me the anagram theme and hastened the solve.
But I arrived here to discover that I FIW. EPOS was unknown to me, and my "monastic leaders" were misspelled and lower order Friors not PRIORS. (I originally wanted the even higher level Abbots for that spot but there were no perps.)
My recipe direction went from Stir to Beat to SIFT. Few recipes call for sifting anymore. I think I only use my sifter to get the lumps out of icing sugar.
I thought of Syria before ISR but was relatively sure of ISLA. A large inkblot in that area before the light dawned.
Having a final H and no idea about Wasatch Front, I pencilled in Ohio and UTAH and waited for perps.
Will you believe that this Canadian always forgets that Albany (pronounced Al-bany LOL IM) is west of Ottawa not east? I was trying to fit Toronto (capital of Ontario) into the spot. OTTAWA is beautiful in the spring with all the tulips.
Yes JzB, our Blue Jays always start off slowly, but we have some impressive young tennis players. Shapovalov meets Federer in a semi-final Friday night.
FelixDenisBianca
Enjoy the day.
Yes, HuskerG, Come From Away is held over again at Mirvish Theatre in Toronto. I am trying to get tickets. Here's a good story about the recent performance in Newfoundland.
ComeFromAway
HAven't read the comments yet,
(or actually done the puzzle...)
Busy, busy, busy, Friday.
So I thought I would just do 1a and 1d and come back later.
(what a mistake!)
I got 1d peg, but 1a is driving me nuts!
Anywho, gotta take the Dog to the DogPark,
maybe I can finish the puzzle there if she lets me...
And Lemon!
73. Favorite: PET. My late pet.
You can't tease me like that!
WHo was that cutie!...
Woohoo! I got this delightful Friday puzzle with only one single cheat: had to look up the second word of the theme--TRADING. That cleared up problems I had with that section and gave me the funny WAISTS answer to that middle management problem. Like others I started at the bottom, and as soon as CALM CLAM turned up, I got the theme. BRAN BARN came soon after, and then working my way uphill it all nearly filled in. I too had trouble with the top left corner, but cracked up when the PUP turned out to be the result of littering. Never heard of EMBIGGEN but PARE made sense once I filled that in. Anyway, a lot of fun, many thanks, David. And I really enjoyed your commentary, Hahtoolah.
Loved all three of your poems, Owen.
Have a great day, everybody!
Hi Y'all! Fun but challenging, thanks, D.A.B. Got some chuckles. Very good expo, Hahtoolah! Loved the quote of the day! Too true.
Liked the anagram theme which I got on the first one. Some really fun clues. My favorites were the PUP & WAIST clues. I resisted PUP for awhile because I couldn't come up with PARE altho I had been in the Wasatch range so knew UTAH. Embiggen? What'll they come up with next? PARE, not "enlittle". MEH!
Oregon was not "rainy" but RURAL. Oh yeah! All I remember is the urban & multiple bridges and being stuck in traffic on an onramp for an hour. (Not kidding.) Well, the ride along the Columbia River was beautiful. Guess that was RURAL, altho I'd more likely call it "scenic".
DNK: LIVIA. OTTAWA & TATAR took several perps.
Hahtoolah: Wonderful write-up & links. Good Job !!!
Head slap as I solved 1-a, PUP ... LOL
Needed ESP (Every-Single-Perp) to get LIVIA, a learning moment I forgot by noon.
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend.
I will "Toast y'all" at Sunset.
Cheers!
CED:
Susan (Hahtoolah) has blogged the two most recent puzzles- I will not return to my Friday seat until April 5.
Speaking of Susan, a Louisiana resident did you all notice Spicy sauce: TABASCO. Made in Avery Island, Louisiana. 27. Satchmo's birthplace, briefly: NOLA.
Hola!
This was fun! Thank you, DAB and Hahtoolah! Very nice expo.
GARBGRAB and SAWNSWAN gave away the trick. I liked them all. CALMCLAM. Teehee.
OTTAWA, of course, made me think of Canadian Eh!
I loved WAISTS as clued!
In my patio I have three ALOE plants. They are handy to have for cuts and bruises.
At 70A, Really? Me? I thought it was AM I?
My mother used to read us the story of HANSEL and Gretel.
I was at the dentist early this morning; I've had a really bad toothache all week so I went for some badly needed relief. I discovered my teeth are in bad shape from aging! Imagine that!
Have a delightful day, everyone!
Well....I got the solve for this Friday puzzle.
PARE was last to fill....and I watch the show.
Markovers....PUG/PUP, STIR/SIFT, PLAY/FLAW, BUCOLIC/IDYLLIC.
I’m not sure if anyone knows the “correct” way to use one crutch or a cane....you use it on the opposite side of the injury. So, if your left knee is injured, the crutch or cane is used on the right side, so as to let you lean on the device while still putting some weight on the injured limb. If you cannot put any weight on it, then you need two crutches and have to swing the injured limb with no weight on it.
Ack!
I was trying not to read the write up
because I had not done the puzzle!
(I should have known Lemon never had a cat!)
Anywho, I could not fathom the "V" in Livia/Viol, so big fat DNF...
(even tho I tried to cheat by reading 1a in the write up...)
Thank you Hahtoolah! I find reading the write ups, and trying to
guess who wrote them is the second puzzle of my day, because the Author
is not announced until the very end...
Any chance we can title the Blog with the theme, Constructor, and Blog Author 1st?
(P.S. I still want to know more about your Cat...)
ANywho, sitting at the Dog Park, whining about the puzzle, makes me think
I am becoming more like this Husky, which seems to whine constantly...
Anywhowho,,,
rather than get silly today,
I thought I would go with 28d: slit.
which is crazier than anything I can come up with...
The double slit experiment, in which light (or electrons, or photons, or even
antimatter...)
behaves like a particle, but exhibits properties of a wave.
And!
The most bizarre thing is if you look at it, you get a different result!
(yeah, nuts! but look it up, it is the weirdest thing in the universe...)
But! Veritasium has a possible explanation,
(not of the result/looking phenomenon, but the the wave particle thingie...)
check it out...
GON'T?
Was that a random misspelling? Or someone's idea for abbreviating "Don't Go" ("Go Not")?
A fun pzl. I caught on with CALM CLAM, and it was a GAG that helped me complete the rest of the theme fills. Lotsa clever clues in this one.
Husker G ~
That musical, Come From Away, by Sankoff & Hein, is set in the town of Gander, Canada, and deals with the kindness shown by the whole community to those air passengers diverted away from the U.S. in the aftermath of 9/11. (A salute here to CanadianEh!)
It was kind of a sleeper of a show, focusing as it does on the sweet chivalry of Canadians toward outsiders.
It rec'd several Tony nominations, including one for my former student, Jen Coella. (And it won for best musical direction, and Jen got the Helen Hayes award.)
~ OMK
For those interested, here are some promo clips from Come From Away.
~ OMK
Hi All!
Maybe I'd have found this as easy as y'all did if I didn't shoot myself in the foot so many times...
Thanks DAB for the fun puzzle that, without the theme, I would not have been able to finish. Still wasn't, I left out the V in block 37 because I didn't check my work / shot myself again.
Theme appeared with only INSIDER TRADING and CALM CLAM filled. I then finished SAWN SWAN and mirrored my way through, letter-by-letter as they appeared, with GARB GRAB and BRAN BARN.
Thanks Hahtoolah for the wonderful expo chock full of good info AND the tribute to Eric Idle's Birthday [I saw Cleese's tweet wishing Idle a HBD]
70a - AM I?
Bullets in my foot: Stir, TURkey, echo b/f WAWA, EPIC. Took forever to find the TABASCO.
So it's LIVIA that tormented Augustus. I can imagine the catchphrase in the SitCom now, "O' LIVIA"
{B, B+, A+}
C, Eh! I use my sifter for Pizzelles. Youngest uses it oft for her cakes.
Cheers, -T
Thanks, Irish Miss + Yellowrocks for the sympathy and knee advice!
I am learning about using crutches a little each day. I think I will manage with just one. I spend most of my time in a wheelchair, but there are places where I must walk (like using the stairs to my bedroom) and a cane alone hasn't been sufficient.
My true learning moment was when I discovered that the proper way to use a crutch is on the side of the good leg, rather than the impaired one.
Counter intuitive but oh-so-true!
~ OMK
Anon pvx, you, obviously, are not as klutzy as I am or some of my friends are. With help, I did fine with two crutches in my sixties. In my late seventies I used a cane much better for a week or two after advice. Both times I was able to walk on my own without devices very quickly. For me the ticket was to walk, walk, walk.
Gon't seems like a fine addition to the language, but not on the horizon.
I known several Olivias nicknamed Livie. The given name of my grandma who was called Hettie was actually Esther.
Alan is having a sleep over tonight at the group home.
My DIL is pain free, but has limited mobility. She will go to rehab today or tomorrow.
CED I had a lilac Siamese named Desiree
She was my first tie to Thai culture
I will look for a picture
Good Afternoon, folks. Thank you, David Alfred Bywaters, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Hahtoolah, for a fine review.
Did this on the train from Chicago to my Village, Bartlett, this morning. Had to link to WiFi at Union Station to be able to download cruciverb.com to my iPad. It worked.
Could not get started in the North, so I headed South.
Got a good foothold there and headed North.
Got CALM CLAM and BRAN BARN way before I got INSIDER TRADING. Then I knew the theme. The rest came easily.
I saw the note and link to COME FROM AWAY. I checked it out and discovered that our book club had read the book "The Day the World Came to Town". It was the same story of Gander, Newfoundland. The book was outstanding. I would recommend it to all who like a good book, and non-fiction.
I like a little TABASCO, not to much.
LIVIA was unknown. A few perps later, no problem.
Once I got up North and got a few words, the rest came pretty easily. This Friday turned out to be easier than I thought it would be. That's OK.
See you tomorrow, maybe. I have a full day. Busy from 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM.
Abejo
( )
Abejo - um, you's got Oprah powers...
I only read non-fiction and, with all the chatter, went to Amazon to cart the book... OMG! $212?.
Cheers, -T
CC is again in today's USA Today's Crossword.
Yes, lemony*, I'm an old filenes basement devotee. As was my mother
Owen, #3 was pure genius
I too tried ABBOTS. Trying to remember 1st century Roman personalities showed my rust. I Claudius I missed
C-EH, no, one travels NNW to get to Ottawa from Albany .
A rare Friday speed run. I sussed PUP then the anagram theme and bingo.
WC
PS, I have this troublesome "stitch" in my left buttocks/hip. I can't take Advil and I'm wary of Tylenol. I'm not yet Canada material
WC
* oops That was Hahtoolah in Filenes Loved the write up
WC said "I Claudius I".
Did I convert another soul to TMBG? Twanya would be so proud...
Beowulf does sound like a real sweetie, Ol'Man Keith--loved your story.
I’ve been doing the crossword and enjoying the comments for years. Decided to sign up to contribute in the future.
Ms UK:
Welcome! I hope you will go blue and tell us a little about yourself.
Just returned from the hospital (pneumonia), couldn't sleep and grabbed this puzzle to relax me . Baaaaad idea!! Using coined words from a cartoon show - are you serious???? Perhaps you should start a new puzzle genre: Crosstrivia. Another egregious faux paux in this entry: my dog breeding friend would explode if EVER someone called having a litter "littering"?!! Shame on you! Have you no sense of decency??? It's a shame to waste clever theme on a error filled fill like this! Well, my venting is spent ... now I can return to bed.
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