The intent is well summarized below the sign shown here and like many, I am better at dispensing this advice than taking it. We occasionally get a naysayer here at the blog (Oh really, Gary?) and perhaps they could follow this course of action. Even critical submissions can be couched in diplomatic terms free of negativity.
If you linked to my CARPOOL KARAOKE video two weeks ago where Paul McCartney told said that he came up with the song Let It Be when his mother told him to let his anger go and everything will work itself out. This is very similar.
C.C.'s puzzle today challenged me to the max but, as always, I had a very satisfying experience after IDNO, EDER and ONE-K gave up the ghost via perps (I got over it!!). Listing blind alleys I traversed early on wouldn't really help all that much.
This week someone linked us to a C.C. puzzle in USA Today and I solved her light and breezy puzzle. However I noticed as the constructor she was listed as Zhouqin Burnikel and not C.C. I wrote and asked her why that was so and she replied all the other sites require her legal name. She further told me "I use C.C. in real life. Zhouqin is just so tricky and hard to pronounce and write. Most people just add an U after the Q."
Let's see what C.C. (aka Zhouqin) has for us today.
Across:
1. Sign words suggesting a bad shortcut?: ROAD ENDS - There was no sign but the ROAD definitely did END for the two women in their eponymous movie.
9. Mental grasp: UP TAKE - When I started at this, I'm sure C.C. thought I was slow on the UPTAKE 😕
15. See to the door: USHER OUT - When done with great force, it might be called "The Bum Rush"
16. Cruise woe: NAUSEA - Cruises are having many woes these day besides NAUSEA
17. "Let's get started!": THAT'S A GO.
18. Take shelter, with "down": HUNKER - Did anyone else do a HUNKER DOWN exercise in school?
19. "¿Quién __?": SABE.
20. Green card fig.: ID NO - Latika's is 0018-5978
23. What unGlue helps parents and kids manage: SCREEN TIME - An app that allows parents to 26. Decide one will: OPT TO to let their kids use their phone but budget their time there and not use a 66. Big group: PASSEL of hours
29. Linda of Broadway: EDER - Her info
30. Film lioness: ELSA - Born Free is the story of orphaned ELSA and her new "Mom" Joy Adamson
33. Course standard: PAR
34. Deal with, in a way, as ads: ZAP - I've seen enough of that dang Gecko!
36. Nebraska's official soft drink: KOOL-AID - KOOL-AID was invented here in Hastings, NE
38. Lifts up: ELATES - Hmmm... if you put EV after the L...
40. Slightly touched: PATTED.
41. Small stingers: RED ANTS - Yikes!
43. Adoptee, maybe: PET - We had International Cat Rescue Day last Saturday
44. Second person?: EVE - Made from one of Adam's ribs so the story goes
45. Mideast port: ADEN - Aden, Yemen is not on our vacation list
46. "The Moor already changes with my poison" speaker: IAGO - The Moor’s mind has already become infected with my poisonous suggestions.
48. Texted the wrong person, say: ERRED - "OMG, I sent that to my mom, not my girlfriend"
50. Sign of confusion: BLANK STARE - is what you might get from Simon Cowell if you are 65. Unable to hit a pitch: TONE DEAF
53. Part of a case: STAIR - Does your yacht have a spiral (edit) STAIRCASE like this one does?
55. Figure (out): SUSS - We've got some pretty good SUSSERS here
56. Copper: CENT - After 1982 pennies were over 97% zinc
60. Home of Tumnus, in fiction: NARNIA - Here 'ya go!
62. Angry overstatement, usually: I HATE YOU - "Hey, be cool! Today is LET IT GO Day!"
64. Ideally: AT BEST.
67. Visited overnight: STAYED AT - We STAYED AT lovely hotels on our Pacific Coast Highway Tour from Seattle to San Francisco except the one in Gold Beach, OR. Yikes!
Down:
1. Sticking points?: RUTS - Not Shakespearean RUBS (Ah there's the RUB) it turns out
2. Org. with a QuickTakes online newsletter: OSHA - I'm sure it's a real electronic page turner
3. Model for Hook: AHAB - J.M. Barrie modeled Peter Pan's Captain HOOK after Herman Melville's Captain AHAB in Moby Dick
4. Not fancy at all: DETEST - In the U.K. you could get dumped by someone who doesn't FANCY you and will probably tell you 54. Word on the way out: TATA
5. Med. show locales: ERS
6. Outer space feature: NO AIR - Richard Branson's rocket will launch very soon and it can go over 3,000 mph because it will fly in space where there is NO AIR resistance
7. Found inner strength: DUG DEEP - I think I can, I think I can...
8. High: STONED - The synonym de jour for "under the influence"
9. The Wildcats of the America East Conf.: UNH - There it is in Durham, NH, just below our cwd friend, the Black Bears in Orono, ME
10. Physics Nobelist Wolfgang __: PAULI - At one time I halfway understood his Pauli Exclusion Principle
11. Hot lunch order: TUNA MELT.
12. "Not now": ASK ME LATER.
14. All __: EARS
21. RAM unit: ONE-K - ONE KB is 1,024 bytes
24. Cheat: COZEN - In your vocabulary?
25. Irony, say: TROPE - This trope occurred in High Noon when Gary Cooper's life is saved by his non-violent Quaker wife who shoots the man that was going to kill him
26. Play with music: OPERA - I'll take Jesus Christ Superstar
27. Showed fear, perhaps: PALED.
28. Spar: TRADE BARBS - Ever watched senate hearings where they take verbal 43. Bit of sparring: POTSHOTS at each other?
31. It won't hold water: SIEVE.
32. Topped with, say: ADDED.
35. Sean of "Rudy": ASTIN - Here he is with his mom Patty Duke. He was adopted by Patty's husband John Astin
37. Film on the range: OATER - These cowboy movies used to be Sunday Morning TV fare for me
39. Tropical vacation souvenirs: TAN LINES.
42. Barneys rival: SAKS - I first thought of Rowland MACY and BARNEY Pressman
47. Gear for some test pilots: G-SUITS - These pilots wear these tight suits to keep blood from piling up in their boots on steep climbs
49. Move away: RECEDE - The less said about my hairline...
51. Spring up: ARISE
52. Mountain Pose is a standing one: ASANA - A yoga pose
53. Piece of cake: SNAP - or "Easy as pie"
57. Observed: EYED.
58. Weather-tracking org.: NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
59. Thread cluster: TUFT
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| A TUFT of woolen thread |
61. Icel. surrounder: ATL - Yeah, I suppose the ATLantic Ocean does surround ICELand
63. "Miss Pym Disposes" author: TEY - Josephine TEY was a pseudonym for Elizabeth MacKintosh
Now take a deep breath and in the spirit of Let It Go Day feel free to make some constructive comments:
47 comments:
C.C.'s best puzzle ever! Just sayin'...⭐️
Good morning Cornerites, and Cornerettes.
I saw C.C., and knew I would have a good time. I did have to uncover several letters when I was stuck, including the R at square 1.
Thank you Husker Gary for such a detailed review, especially 61D Icel. surrounder: ATL. I didn't have a clue.
Ðave
Morning, all!
Had a little spare time this morning for a change and thought I'd give the puzzle a go. Sadly, a little time was not enough and I ended up needing to turn on the red letter help to get it done...
The entire NW corner was impossible, due simply to the fact that I confidently put in ESTA instead of SABE at 19A and just refused to let it go, which meant that nothing else in the corner would work. Oops.
Elsewhere, I simply couldn't parse the clue "Decide one will" at 26A. Was that a mistake that should have been "Decide ones will"? Whatever the case, even with OPT__ in place I couldn't figure out what it should be. And do RED ANTS actually "sting" or do they just bite? Just curious.
SEEN instead of EYED held me up for awhile in the SE, but I finally SUSSed out CENT to set me straight.
On the bright side, I knew both COZEN and PASSEL so I didn't feel like a complete moron today.
Have a good one, and don't forget to turn the clocks ahead tonight!
Well, first let me congratulate C.C. That being said, it took everything that I know (and didn't know) to finish this one correctly. The PASSEL of COZEN, SCREEN TIME (unglue), TROPE, EDER took over 15 minutes of my 25 to figure out. I'd seen the word COZEN but had no idea; the other three were total unknowns. I DUG DEEP to change:
STOKED to STONED, BYTE to ONE-K, and OPT IN to TOP TO in order complete the puzzle. And how do you ZAP ads? Oh, only if they've been recorded. In the NW, SABE was unknown and OSHA was a WAG. UNH, TEY, & ASANA were others filled by perps.
RED ANTS- they sting first; no chance to get them off before it's already too late.
Let me USHER OUT myself after these comments.
Good morning!
C.C. did not disappoint. Appropriately, Minnesota wound up covered in a blizzard of Wite-Out. STONED went in...came out...went back in. BYTE went in...came out...ONE K went in. At top left I had NITS...BUTS...GUTS...RUTS. ID NO began life as ITIN (that's what the IRS calls it). And so it went. When DUG DEEP finally occurred to me, it all came together. Whew! Saved from another dreaded DNF. Thanx, Zhouqin and Husker. (Are you sure that's called a serial staircase?)
RED ANTS: Down here we have fire ants. Don't know if they're red, but they're certainly red-hot. They don't have to bite; just walking across your foot will deposit venom on your skin. I'm allergic and will swell up like a balloon. Even our occasional floods can't kill 'em. They form into a ball, trapping air inside, and float with the flood. Tenacious little buggers.
NW corner is very difficult when you read the clue as bad haircut. DOH!
Hi Y'all! Thank you for the challenge, C.C. Thank you for the encouragement, Gary.
Started reading clues both ups and downs. When I got thru the top third, I had only ERS & KEEP. I'm sure I PALED & felt NAUSEA and had a BLANK STARE but I DUG DEEP, made myself HUNKER down and solve this baby. I STAYED AT it because filling all the squares ELATES me.
"Film on the range" wasn't oil or grease spatter on the stove.
ROAD ENDS: my husband took a shortcut once in southern Oklahoma and we came to a sign "Bridge Out" just before plunging into muddy red water of the Red River running bank-full in flood stage.
Fastest I ever saw my dad move was with his pants full of stinging RED ANTS.
LIU: apparently RED ANTS can both bite & sting. Double your trouble.
Good Morning:
CC's themeless are brutal (that's a compliment) but, with lots of P and P, doable and rewarding. My experience today was reminiscent of solving a Silkie: chip away here, chip away there and, Tada, fini! My stumbles were Dead/Road Ends and Maybe/Ask Me Later. However, I needed perps for Koolaid, Narnia, OSHA, UNH, all as clued; complete unknowns were Cozen, Pauli, Sabe, and Eder. My favorite C/A was Part of a case=Stair. (My completion time was 45 minutes which equaled my average solving time for a Silkie.)
Thanks, CC, for a real challenge and thanks, HG, for the cheery commentary and many learning moments, e.g., Nebraska's Koolaid origin. Is Koolaid still as popular as it once was?
Have a great day.
I don't usually play on Saturday. but when I saw it was a CC puzzle I decided to try. I'm very glad I did, even though I DNFed it by looking up unGlue and QuickTakes. Erased escort in for USHER OUT, RUbS, byte, easy for SNAP, seen for EYED and SAm'S for SAKS. Betty Rubble was fond of Barney's.
Gary, ship's stairs are usually called ladders, even circular ones. Probably not on cruise ships or at boat shows. (Also, anything called a "rope" is made of wire; otherwise they are "lines".) Also, are G-suits use for climbs? I thought they were for turns.
D-O, I DNK that fire ants have a little venom on their legs. For non-allergic people it is the sting that counts. The little bastards crawl onto their victim until there are hordes of them, then they all sting at once. There is a fascinating video out there somewhere showing an entomologist allowing them to crawl all over his arm, then brushing them off before they sting, all the while narrating the action.
Thanks to CC for the fun puzzle, even though I am clearly not worthy. My favorite was "part of a case" for STAIR. Took me a while, but I got it! And thanks to Gary for the great review.
Just a few days ago I evoked the name of Jan Michael Vincent, and now he is dead. If you don't want to end up the same way, send $1,000 in bitcoin to my wallet: ou812. (Yes, I am still dealing with the extortionists).
White flag !
Great puzzle CC and exposition Husker .
Got most of it , no excuses . Should have had the whole thing . Got caught in the very top left .
Unknowns that caused me to stumble were most notably COZEN & TROPE.
Cheers
Good morning. Thank you C.C. and thank you Husker Gary.
I brought my B game to the playing field today, and it surely wasn't enough.
Started out with deadENDS. Had no idea on SABE, EDER and SCREEN TIME. Spelled KOOL-AID with a C. D'oh !
No TADA today, but I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge. Thankful that the blog exists to reveal and explain the unknowns, as Husker Gary so artfully accomplished.
Didn’t get all the NW corner. Had the last parts of the across answers, but the front ends didn’t click in, so a DNF today.
My Vermont Catamounts are the #1 seed in the America East basketball tourney, quarterfinals today vs Maine. UNH was last in the conference and didn’t make the tournament. No tears shed, as they are our rival, but not as intense as the major conferences.
Today was a great challenge for me! UNH grad, so thanks for the shout out! (Hockey team lost to North Eastern, 4-0, in the Hockey East Quarterfinals, last night! :0 ) Just came across 24 D: Cheat/Cozen in a word play, this morning-hadn't heard the word before, now twice in one day! Thanks, C.C. (aka Zhouqin-beautiful name- btw!) for the puzzle and Gary for "splaining!
Loved the puzzle, but now I'm going to "let it go"!
Didn't get any of the upper left area so I gave up. Couldn't connect with the clues.
Fun puzzle. The bottom 2/3 went well. Used a few red letters for the top. Slow on the uptake, I guess. I had trouble with some that no one else did, so it seems. I got some easily that stumped others. I still enjoyed the puzzle.
Oh gosh, I would love to do so well on a C.C. Saturday puzzle, but they are all too tough for me, and this one was no exception. I did get the middle right part, though, and that was fun and a relief. Started with ELSA, and that gave me MAYBE LATER, which prevented me from getting the northeast (glad I wasn't the only one who came up with that, Irish Miss). But I did get KOOLAID and SIEVE and PET and PATTED and ERRED--so not a bad start, though the cheating started soon after that. Was so happy I got EVE as the second person--at least I know my Genesis. Never heard of COZEN--that drove me crazy. And the trickiest clue, in my opinion, was DETEST for "not fancy at all" since I kept wanting a word that suggested plain or simple. Anyway, very clever, complicated, interesting puzzle, C.C.--you're a genius. And very friendly helpful fun review with lots of interesting pictures, Husker Gary, thanks for that too.
Have a great weekend, everybody!
Good morning everyone.
Very tough for me today. Got the NE and SW without too much difficulty. Sturm und Drang for the rest of it. Some of the clues were just too vague for my mind this morning. Needed several red letter assists. How is a RUT a sticking point? Got cOOLAID early on but then realized it had to start with a 'K'. I liked the long downs. RECEDE is correct but I had to be 'nudged' into it with CENT and TONE DEAF.
SABE - the only SABE I knew was kemo SABE from watching the Lone Ranger.
green card. - Husker, your example was not green 😀
WSJ uses C.C's full name. NYT, too.
Musings
-IM – I saw Kool-Aid a lot growing up but now hardly ever see it. Kool-Aid popularity
-jfromvt - My favorite sports podcaster was awarded an honorary doctorate from this member of the conference. He talks about them all the time on air.
-I tried in my explanation to indicate that use of “fancy, not fancy” might be more common in the U.K. - 20. British informal to be physically attracted to (another person)
-I have faint memory of the lyric “She doesn’t FANCY me” in a song from the British invasion era but I can’t recall the song
I think that "C.C." might also stand for 'Crushing Crossworder.'
Today's puzzle was a classic of the genre ... one example, 26a, "Decide one will", left me stuck, because a court will probate someone's will, but probate wouldn't fit ... and things progressed smoothly into a big DNF.
I enjoyed seeing a C.C. puzzle and I knew HG would do it justice in 'splaining it. I filled in all of the blanks ultimately, of which there were many, but it took a few look-ups, so, an official DNF.
My look-ups were SABE, SCREENTIME, KOOLAID and NARNIA. Most of the other puzzling clues were filled in with perps and red letters (Which I turned on halfway through the puzzle.) I liked the long down clues because they gave me the anchors I needed for some of the other words I didn't know.
I saw that HG told us it was National Get Over It Day. If I want to make my DW explode all I have to do is tell her to "Get Over It" when I upset her about something. She ends up madder than she would be if I had not said anything. But, I can't resist. Luckily it doesn't happen very often.
It's also National Meatball Day, National Barbie Day and National Crab Meat Day. We can celebrate the Meatball and Crab Meat by having a hearty feast of the two items and since today is considered Barbie's 60th birthday, we can top it off with birthday cake. How's that for a plan?
Have a great day everyone.
Isn't "Decide One Will" is something that Yoda would say?
Somebody here had drunk the Kool-Ade, if you catch my drift.
Thank you, C.C. and Gary for the challenge and I do mean Challenge!
From the bottom up the grid blossomed smoothly as I knew a PASSEL of the fill, EVE, ERRED, IAGO, RED ANTS, etc., etc. I think of POE on seeing irony.
It's the north that beat me to a pulp. I don't know PAULI Wolfgang and had INTAKE instead of UPTAKE. MAYBE morphed into SEE ME then ASK ME, finally. INH looked as good as UNH. Sports! Okay, I'll get over it.
I got quien SABE but wouldn't give up ESCORT so had to LIU then it fell in place and I DUG DEEP. COZEN is new to me as is SCREEN TIME. I record many shows then ZAP the ads.
Thanks, again, Gary for the enlightenment. KOOL AID? Really? It must have been chosen a very long time ago.
I hope you are all having a sensational Saturday!
Couldn’t get the NW at all.
Got the rest fine, but 1/3/4/5/6/7/8/21 down and 1/17/18/20/29 across wouldn’t fill. So a total failure to fill today.
I did the same thing?? What is with that?
I was stuck in a rut in the NW corner until I red lettered a bit.
Whoever recommended the book, A Gentleman in Moscow, I want to thank you. I just finished it and really enjoyed reading it. It's so comprehensive I'm sure I'll read it again and I plan to read Mr. Towles' other book, Rules of Civility.
Yesterday I started yoga again after a long hiatus so I'll take a CSO at ASANA.
The clue for STAIR was also my favorite. It's crossed by ARISE which is amusing.
There is a DEEP gap between the meaning of ELATES and STONED.
Hi All:
Amazing!, C.C.'s range. On M-Th, I feel know her thoughts... Sat? Help me Gary! Help me! //1d was not PINS...
I got ERS first and slowly SUSS'd some solve but with many "Is that right Gary?, Gary?" (poor-man's red-letters) around TROPE, POTSHOT, (not) goggle(s) @47d, and others - yeah, I COZEN(?)/ cheat'd bigly and still FIW. One day I'll nail a Sat w/o help if I DiGDEEP - Little Engine that can - one day.
Thanks HG for the fantastic expo. Lewis Black on HUNKERing [2:17 MA-L].
And, No re: STAIR case; my Yacht is only one story - actually it's a long story... :-) I'll never get one since a) I ain't money-rich and b) NAUSEA (not SEA LEG - huge waste of ink in the NE).
RED ANTS (and a short-sighted Congress) shut down Texas' Super Collider, they did. Large Hadron got the God Particle (Higgs Boson) first. #AmericaNotFirst
PAULI's (thanks for the gimme C.C.!) exclusionary principle ensures two things are not at the same place in space nor time. Or, as is contributed to Archibald, "Time is nature's way to KEEP everything from happening at once."
Fav: SIEVE. Pop has a saying, "Leaked like a Sieve" for both facets and "rats" that talk too much :-)
D4 - I'm so happy to see you back and engaged. Keep on truckin'
Barry G. I know your schedule doesn't allow for post-time, but nice to read you too. Get bit by a RED/fire ANT and you don't care the difference re: sting/bite. //It's so funny (to me), my Girls only know RED ANTS and, when in IL, are afraid of the fat black ants that just tickle.
I'm going to carp on ONE-K. Since when? TERA nor PETA perp'd a BIT. Too harsh? BYTE me.*
PK - wow! Your mind went to stoves at Range?... Glad I wasn't that broad in my thinking (today) - I got Gene Autry in my mind's EAR immediately.
Jinx re: your BC wallet. Share the key b/f your name is evoked. //That's $190MM BC out of circulation forever.
OC4 - LOL Yoda speak.
Y'all have a great Saturday!
Cheer, -T
*I've got a funny story about how I almost got sac'd for broadcasting that to everyone's computer...
C.C. ~
How exactly does one pronounce Zhouqin? Is it a homophone for "Jokin'"?
That would be quite appropriate for today's pzl, by which you are really having us on, aren't you?
Seriously, I managed about a third of this before peeking, then peeking some more--and finally admitting to your incredible superiority at this game!
My admiration just grew leaps and heaps today.
Nice to see COZEN, one of the few I got. (Misty ~ You'll find it frequently pops up in Shaxper. The Elizabethans, esp. Londoners, were always on the alert for sharp cozeners!)
Missing Owen and his bright poetry. Trust he is well, and hope to see him back soon!
~ OMK
Lucina ~
Glad to see you enjoyed A Gentleman in Moscow, Towles is truly a brilliant writer & observer of human folly in the spasms of historical movements. I know you'll go for his Rules!
~ OMK
DNF Biggly! Less than half full when I gave in and turned on the red. Everything in the NE, and most of the NW and SE lit up. Went to sleep for the night, went back at the puzzle after conking out for 14 hours straight, and (with a small bit of red-letter help) filled everything except the NW, which completely flummoxed me. Haven't read the expo or comments yet, so may add more later.
Another Saturday slog.
I had an exceptionally difficult time solving this puppy. After 50 minutes I turned on red letters and the grid looked like it had measles! I was so wrong in so many places. Examples are ZERO G instead of NO AIR and SAVE instead of KEEP. Another example was my having TRADE BLOWS instead of TRADE BARBS, which is off by only 3 letters but enough to completely block me from getting STAIR (good clue!), NARNIA (didn't know it as clued), and AT BEST. Had CAT instead of PET. Didn't know Linda EDER. And had BYTE instead of ONEK. Once I deleted all the red letters, and left red letter help turned on, I was able to finish it. All in all a satisfying experience, though.
Zhouqin, dear, the "tricky" spelling of your name is an excellent example of why I think the inventor of Pinyin didn't know what he was doing. I have said before that, for example, using the letter "q" to represent the "ch" sound makes no sense whatever to users of the Roman alphabet everywhere else in the world. It is just one of half a dozen egregious misuses of the Roman alphabet in which Pinyin "uses" letters in totally strange and unfamiliar ways. "Just so tricky and hard to pronounce" indeed!
So Keith, you got it half right. Her name is more closely homophonic with "Joe Chin."
Well, you can tell I haven't kept up with my reading of Shakespeare, Ol'Man Keith. Otherwise I'd be able to COZEN in my crossword puzzles a lot more.
-T, that's one of the 6.023 x 10^23 reasons that I don't Bitcoin. Looks like prime time came to the system before the system was ready for prime time.
Jinx - invoking Avagadro's number is... um, well, not Nazi, nor Hitler, um... (Avogadro is one ugly Wop?. //From one Dago to another... :-)
I'm at a loss. You win!
Bitcoin is a bad investment unless you're in Venezuela. [NPR/APM's Marketplace - I called it first Kai! (see: my 2/25 post)]
//seriously - I said the same thing before I heard a real economist say it. Look out Fed, here comes -T like the KOOL-AID pitcher [SNL 2:01] through a wall.
Wait, No. That's just a bad idea - I ain't no Janet Yellen.
Cheers, -T
Wrong link for Avogadro say:
The Wiki. Really, do you know an more awkward looking Italian? We're all suave, no? :-)
-T
-T, I remember that post. Kind of like coming up with new prime numbers as the easy ones are documented. Good call on the Bolivars.
Super Saturday. Thanks for the fun, C.C. and Husker Gary.
I don't always get a chance to do the Saturday CW but I had a quiet morning and decided to try my luck. (And my newspaper doesn't even list the constructor!) Much P&P required (no red letters in my newspaper) and a couple of Google helps cleared up that NW area.
I thought Buts was a good answer for "sticking points" (ie. in an argument). Oh, RUTS.
PASSEL seemed more "slangy" than the clue "big group" implied.
COZEN was unknown as was EDER.
ELATES refers to lifting the spirit, mood, while Elevates refers to a literal lifting.
Hand up for Bytes before ONEK
I am confused by KOOLAID as a "soft drink". I think of soft drinks as carbonated. Is this my Canadian disadvantage??
Canadians call that card a Canadian Permanent Residence Card, but we don't call it a Green Card. I was only aware of the American version because DH required one for some American work trips.
AnonT is always USHERing himself OUT. LOL
I will leave you with a theme song from ELSA for Let It Go Day.
LetItGo
Just a tough week of solving for me; thank you, Gary and C.C.
After several successful weeks, DNF. My grid looks like I barely started. I thought of a few correct answers I didn't write because of bad perps.
Well, so I missed the ROAD ENDS sign. RR crossing! ? What's the big deal? Amtrac bearing down on me while I'm crossing? Big deal!! Train whistle. LOUD!!!!
My cursing while solving this CC beaut? Soft. And when I finally thought I'd got'er I find that I'd forgot about the K in HG'S fav drink.
Where's the Baseball I said to my constant guide , Mr S.*. Oh there it is, "Unable to hit a pitch". Nope, CC's not fooling us(Mr S is laying low, biding his time).
Among the many deadENDS was STRESS TIME. JF Dulles once needed an "Agonizing reappraisal". That was me , top center.
For lack of a square this solver is in purgatory. I coulda been a contenda.
Let's see what the corner says
I had to perp NARNIA even though I knew that was the answer
Re. 7A: We're having a Thomas the Tank Engine fest - Manatee** I think this weekend 20k expected. Phil's old fav- age 1-2.
I knew UNH of course from living in NAUSEA. Oops, Nashua.
Sorry for the so late post. I fell asleep again then Mass, Walmart, dozing again, water walking, ...
To conclude: one of the marvelous things about CC's gem was how she , like great pitchers, can change speeds, throw curveballs then a change of pace.
WC
* I of course knew that cOOLAID had a K. One lousy box. No red, no lookups, pen and ink(to add to the challenge). Btw, I think-T is saying ONE K is not much RAM
It's in Palmetto
Ok. Fastballs? Things like PAULI, SAKS, NARNIA. eg toughies
Curve balls? SNAP for Piece of cake not SLAB; RUTS as in "Stuck" in one; The whole NW
Then right down the middle with EVE,ERR, IAGO ...
I hesitated to touch ink to paper.
Owen, I'm glad you got that sleep
WC
CanadianEh, I think any drink that doesn't have alcohol/hard liquor in it is considered a "soft drink".
My mother used to keep a pitcher of KOOLAID in the refrigerator and give that drink and cookies to all her neighborhood children who visited. She had a stream of little kids coming to her door. I haven't had any KOOLAID since she died 20 years ago and five years prior.
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