23. Process that may transform a neutron into a proton: BETA DECAY.
28. Line on a package: STREET ADDRESS.
45. Navy bigwig: FLEET ADMIRAL.
53. Online pop-up, say: INTERNET AD.
69. Common animal welfare goal: PET ADOPTION.
90. Tip for a loser?: DIET ADVICE.
97. Barbershop standard: SWEET ADELINE.
114. Anonymous fan: SECRET ADMIRER.
Reveal:
122. Makes retroactive ... or what the eight other longest Across answers have: BACKDATES.
Very simple theme. Very Gail G, right? I just adore her.
I
did make a big goof in my original grid. See 63-Across? METADATA, which
has DATE goes backward as well. Totally escaped me. Thankfully Rich
noticed it and redid that part himself. Thanks, Rich!
Across:
1. Island near Java: BALI.
5. At the drop of __: A HAT. As you can see from the grid, I have A RAT crossing ROC, the skincare brand. Rich probably does not think the brand is common enough.
9. Players with parts: CAST.
13. Like highways: LANED.
18. Apple variety: IMAC. Not the edible GALA.
19. Jay of "Jerry Maguire": MOHR.
20. Top story: ATTIC.
22. Post with a column: EMILY. Lovely clue. Rich's creation. I had "Blunt on screen".
25. Tree with edible nuts: BEECH.
26. "I swear!": NO LIE.
27. Man of La Mancha: SENOR.
31. Hefty closer: TWIST TIE.
34. Out before the term ends: PAROLED.
35. Sturdy trees: ELMS.
38. Cote call: COO.
39. Hectic hosp. areas: ERS. That fateful day in Sept.
41. "Iron Man" Ripken: CAL.
42. Ostrich relative: EMU.
48. School notebook decorations: DOODLES.
51. Sound mixing control: FADER.
52. Georgia, once: Abbr.: SSR.
56. Asia's __ Darya river: AMU. Learned from doing crosswords. Looks like it originates in the shrinking Aral Sea.
57. Expert: ACE.
60. Magazine since 1850: HARPER'S.
62. Princess in "The Princess and the Frog": TIANA. Wikis says she's "The ninth Disney Princess, Tiana is the first to be of African-American heritage."
63. Don Juan: CASANOVA.
66. One of Donald Duck's nephews: HUEY.
67. Google : Android :: Apple : __: IOS.
68. Isaac's eldest: ESAU.
73. Actor __ James of "Divergent" films: THEO.
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77. It ends in Nov.: DST.
79. Like die-hard fans: AVID.
80. Hearty bowlful often topped with tortilla chips: TACO SOUP.
82. Skate park move: OLLIE.
85. Spice rack staple: OREGANO. I don't like the taste of oregano.
88. Like the Beatles?: FAB. Rich's clue.
89. __ Fridays: TGI.
92. Raised rumblers: ELS.
94. Every hour on the hour, say: OFTEN.
96. An official election ballot can't have one: ERASURE. Rich's clue as well. What if you make a mistake? Can you use Wite-Out? I have not screwed up yet, but I only focus on the races I care about and leave lots of stuff blank.
101. Bummed: SAD.
102. Clearance rack abbr.: IRR.
104. Danson of TV's "Fargo": TED.
105. Bus sched. item: ARR.
106. Tailless primates: APES.
107. Withdrawal charges: ATM FEES.
111. Longtime comic with a "Great Jewish Joke Book": ALAN KING. Also Rich's clue.
117. Singer Jones: NORAH.
120. Brown with a frying pan: ALTON. Here he is.
121. Permanent marks: SCARS.
126. Sun block?: CLOUD.
127. Mississippi's __ River: YAZOO.
128. Sandbox boo-boo: OWIE.
129. Sushi roll wrap: NORI. Some rolls have the nori wrapped inside.
130. Mini racers: KARTS.
131. The Ivy League's Quakers: PENN.
132. Caboose: REAR.
133. Agt. after tax evaders: T MAN.
Down:
1. Marathon runner's wear: BIB. These four are stealing others' bib numbers.
2. Iowa college town: AMES.
3. Past the deadline: LATE.
4. Complaint from the nosebleed section: I CAN'T SEE.
5. "West Side Story" number: AMERICA.
6. Ad __ committee: HOC.
7. "Gotcha!": AHA.
8. Clandestine arrangement: TRYST.
9. 11-time MLB All-Star Miguel: CABRERA. One of Boomer's favorite players.
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10. Perfectly, with "to": A TEE. Partial.
11. Exorbitant: STEEP.
12. Altoids rival: TIC TAC.
13. Tennis great Ivan: LENDL.
14. Valentino's love: AMORE.
15. Rosetta Stone discovery area: NILE DELTA. Have any of you seen the Rosetta Stone in person?
16. Yale alumni: ELIS.
17. Turns red, perhaps: DYES.
21. Classic parlor game: CHARADES.
24. Investor's barometer, with "the": DOW.
29. __ del Fuego: TIERRA.
30. Melancholy: DOLOR.
32. Ground cover: SOD.
Our townhouse association hired these guys to clean the snow and
icicles on the roof last Wednesday. This year is extra tough because of
the rain we got in January. It turned into ice and made
walking dangerous. The heavy snow that followed after eased up the
walking considerably, but the snow just won't stop.
33. Alley prowlers: TOMS. Oh hi, Texas "alley prowler" and Chicago "alley prowler"!
35. Rub out: EFFACE.
36. Incan herd members: LLAMAS.
37. Gorgon slain by Perseus: MEDUSA.
40. Mistake: SLIP UP.
43. Like the Grinch: MEAN.
44. Org. that may request food recalls: USDA.
46. Air__: Southwest subsidiary: TRAN. Dave 2's nephew is a Southwest pilot.
47. "More or less" cousin: ISH.
49. "I'm __ you!": ONTO.
50. Franklin and Jefferson, religiously: DEISTS.
54. Nair rival, once: NEET.
55. "Taste this": TRY IT. Hmm, I'd like some chicken peanut butter stew on my rice.
58. Egyptian Christian: COPT.
59. Prior night: EVE.
61. Mary's best friend: RHODA. Mary Tyler Moore.
64. Accounting jobs: AUDITS.
65. Missile Command producer: ATARI.
67. Pizarro victim: INCA.
70. Con counterpart, across the Pyrenees: AVEC. My sister-in-law Connie avec moi. I asked D-Otto what the color of my scarf is. He said tan, pink or gray. He settled on pink.
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| C.C. & Connie, Feb 11, 2019, The Orleans |
71. Compendium: DIGEST.
72. Clumsy one: OAF.
74. Inside investment info: HOT TIP.
75. Oregon college town: EUGENE.
76. Offers a view: OPINES.
78. Hall of Fame linebacker Junior: SEAU.
81. English horn relative: OBOE.
82. Tributes in verse: ODES. I loved TTP's Neruda ODE observations. He was indeed getting hungry.
83. Constantinople coin: LIRA.
84. Star: LEAD ACTOR. I love this performance so much. Just amazing.
85. Eggs order: OVER EASY.
86. Tattoo parlor sticker: NEEDLE.
87. Flamenco cheer: OLE.
91. Snowstorm consequence: DRIFT. We really don't have place for more snow.
93. Suffix meaning "country": STAN.
95. Egregious: FLAGRANT.
98. Becomes tiresome to: WEARS ON.
99. Vessel for couples: ARK.
100. Pub patron: DRINKER.
103. One with a lot of baggage: REDCAP.
108. Salmon cousin: TROUT.
109. Gives a darn?: MENDS.
110. Pollution portmanteau: SMAZE. Smoke and Haze.
112. Shady area: ARBOR.
113. Wordless agreement: NOD.
114. Quarterback's setback: SACK.
115. Jazz great Fitzgerald: ELLA.
116. Tofu nutrient: IRON. I pan-fry mine often.
118. Splittable bit: ATOM.
119. Eldest daughter of Cronus: HERA.
123. Wonder: AWE. Hi, JJM, it's TTP who posted last week's IRISH EYES pic. Not me. He is just amazing.
124. Its HQ is named for George H.W. Bush: CIA.
125. Sloth, e.g.: SIN.
Great to see both Dave 2 and Lorraine posting on the blog now. It's been tough for both of them. Thanks for the continued support and encouragement for them!
C.C.
33 comments:
Hi Y'all! WOW! Another tricky Sunday from C.C.! Thanks for the challenge. I forgot to even look for the theme after making sure to read the title before I started. By the time I got everything filled, I was too worn out to remember there was a theme. I probably should have just stayed in bed, but I went to sleep at 2 p.m. so I thought I was ready to meet the puzzle. Nope.
NE was last to fill. The eastern 2/3 was a great sea of icy white for a very long time. Finally got down toward the bottom and got most of that and could work my way up with a few red-letter runs.
Names were unknown except for NORAH and ALAN KING. CABRERA not CARRERA.
Snowing again here the past two hours. No wonder I'm in a SMAZE. This winter makes a person fuzzy-brained.
A lone and melancholy EMU, Darla
In DOLOR was at the AMU DARYA.
A pigeon had proposed a TRYST,
But she was wary just to TRY IT.
Then the pigeon said,"COO, I dare ya!"
{C+.}
Good morning!
I've gotta learn to look at the puzzle title. Not a clue on the theme. My INTERNET AD was ANNOYING at first. Still is, but fixed. I liked seeing STAN and OLLIE in the puz. Tried "I'm OVER you" before ONTO appeared. I'll accept the CSO at TOMS, though I didn't see it during the solve. In the end, I failed yet again. Thought that nutty tree was a LEECH (must've been thinking of the lychee nut), and had no idea about the baseball player. Bzzzzzt! Chalk up another DNF for d-o.
FIR, but erased pavED for LANED, eARly__ for PAROLED,soya for IRON, tuba for the obligatory OBOE, and OREGeNO for OREGANO. BAD SPELLERS OF THE WORLD UNTIE!!!
Don't ever buy or sell stocks based on inside info. And inside info can come to you in ways other than HOT TIPs. For instance, if you were out hot air ballooning and saw an Amazon warehouse ablaze and quickly sold your 100,000 shares via your iPHONE app before the news trucks could get to the scene, you could be a mandatory guest at one of the US Government's Greybar Hotels for a few years.
I used to love to fly SWA. Since they acquired Air TRAN it seems that I always get a flight on one of the old MD80s that came with it. Every time I have been delayed for mechanical problems. I'm glad I don't fly much anymore.
Lots of unknowns and lots of fun, too. I especially liked the crisp cluing for ELS, SENOR and ARK. Thanks to CC and, well, CC.
Good Morning, C.C. and friends. Fun puzzle, but I failed to look for the ETAD. Lots of fun clues!
I especially liked: Top Story = ATTIC and Vessel for Couples = ARK and Gives a Darn = MENDS.
I tried I'm With You before realizing we were going for I'm ONTO You.
I am not familiar with SMAZE, but we have have a lot of that around the chemical plants on the river.
I visited Egypt several years ago and saw the Rosetta Stone while in Cairo.
In addition to DST, Hurricane Season also ends in November.
Junior SEAU tragically died by suicide. He shot himself in the chest so that his brain could be studied. An autopsy showed that he had Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a condition not uncommon in football players.
QOD: When I was seven and we lived in New York, I ran away. I took my dog and started out across the Brooklyn Bridge … I didn’t get very far … It’s rather difficult to run away in your mother’s high heels. ~ Lee Radziwiłł (née Caroline Lee Bouvier; Mar. 3, 1933 ~ Feb. 15, 2019)
Musings
-Do an INTERNET search for anything and that AD will pop up on other sites
-According Emily Post
-Man of La Mancha and Valentino’s Love were red herring clues for common nouns
-Many cars have FADERS
-I give EMUS at the State Fair a very wide berth
-Bummed and Brown were not verbs
-TRYSTS are harder to keep clandestine these electronic days
-SIL always is eating Altoids and had yet to offer me one
-The “My Pillow” guy now advertises sheets made of Giza Cotton from the NILE DELTA
-“Please, just give me the Reader’s DIGEST version!”
-Joann could never remember which word comes first in OVER EASY and so she orders them scrambled
-Me too, Jinx: “Lots of unknowns and lots of fun, too. I especially liked the crisp cluing for ELS, SENOR and ARK. Thanks to CC and, well, CC.”
Today's NY Times xword has DON JUAN as an answer clued as "Lothario." Of the three only Giacomo Girolamo CASANOVA (1725-1798) was a real person.
Come on, Anon, if you're going to whine, tell us what the missing word is. Phrase looks fine to me.
Junior SEAU was a punishing linebacker, so it was apt that his name was pronounce Say OW. Unfortunate that his own brain was taking as much of a beating as he gave out.
Was able to zip through this pretty quickly. Saw AD in all the long answers, took a while to figure out the ETAD. Fun puzzle.
More golf on TV today for this sports nut. Not much else in the slow period after the Super Bowl and before the hockey and basketball playoffs and the start of the MLB season.
Thank you, C.C., for your double duty today! The grid was fairly easy even with all the sports names. Amazingly I recalled Junior SEAU probably because of his well publicized suicide. CAL Ripkin was always a headliner and CABRERA was a pure guess.
Con counterpart was clever and easy for this Spanish speaker and I've learned AVEC from CWDS.
So much clever cluing abounded in this puzzle that I can't name them all but ARK, CLOUD, SENOR and DIETADVICE stand out as well as many more.
Thank you, again, C.C. Now I must go as I have guests coming today and much to do.
Have a sensational Sunday, everyone!
This was one of the easiest Sunday puzzles I have ever done, not to say I rolled through without pause, but relatively few.
I never look at the title and never pick up theme. Enjoyed this puzzle.
Good Morning:
This was a well-hidden theme, especially for a Sunday, but I had lots of unknowns, as usual on Sundays: Mohr, Theo, Beta Decay, Amu, Tiana, Yazoo, Medusa, and Hera, but the perps were very fair, so no complaints. I should have known Theo James as he starred in a TV show a few years ago called "Golden Boy" and while I didn't see "Jerry Maguire", Jay Mohr's face is familiar but I didn't know his name. My only w/os were Atria/Arbor and With/On to. (Hi, Hatoolah.) Thought of DO and TTP at Toms. My favorite C/A was Post with a column=Emily. (Hi, Rich.) My preferred eggs are Over Easy.
Thanks, CC, for doing double duty and 'splainin' it all. That Lady Gaga/Bradley Cooper performance stirred quite a buzz in the rampant rumor grist mill. Time will tell if there is any basis for it. He's in a relationship but the Lady just ended one. Your comment about the Meta Data faux pas underscores just how eagle-eyed an editor has to be. Bravo, Rich.
FLN
Bill G, a while back there was a conversation about various potato chip brands and oc4beach mentioned how good Gibble's chips are. So, being a potato chip junkie, I found out that they could be ordered on line and placed an order, the first of about 15, so far. They're not in my local stores and I don't know if they're sold anywhere else, outside of Pennsylvania. They are better than any chip I've ever had and, besides being very tasty, the 1.75 oz. portion is perfect. Anon T also ordered some and was happy with them, I believe.
oc4beach, thanks for your input, I'll look forward to trying Middleswarth's. (With a name like that, they have to be good!)
Gato, I guess at my age, the die is cast. I still think Squad Car was hilarious.
Expecting snow tonight but only 2-4", if the weatherman is correct.
Have a great day.
Fun steady puzzle - enjoyed the varied fill the resulted in DATE backwards.
Only slight hold up was when I didn't look closely enough at the clue on 118D and thought it was "Spittable bit" instead of "Splittable bit" and thought it might be CHAW or A WAD - LOL.
Thanks CC!!
I loved this delightful and doable Sunday puzzle, many thanks, C.C. And then the extra treat of having you do the write-up too! Woohoo! Sundays mornings don't get any better than this!
The east filled in quickly for me, and then so did lots of areas before I had to start cheating a little. But I loved the way the smaller answers helped fill in the longer ones. And I even got the theme solution at the bottom, and that in turn helped me again with some of the longer answers. Lots of fun. So, let's see, what were my favorites? ARK as "Vessel for couples" was one, for sure. Of course, I loved having PET ADOPTION fall into place. Oh yes, ATTIC for "top story" was fun, too. The one that kept driving me crazy was "Mary's best friend." Which Mary, for heaven's sake? I couldn't believe it when RHODA finally fell into place--the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" was one of my absolute all-time favorites. Never heard of ALTON, and, of course, I kept thinking of haircuts and not Barbershop quartets, so SWEET ADELINE was a total surprise. Anyone, lots of fun--a real pleasure, thanks again, C.C.
So nice to have you back, Dave 2 and Lorraine.
Have a great Sunday, everybody!
Thanks for doing double duty today, C.C. I love getting the inside scoop as to difficulties that pop up and how they are handled.
Hand up for "spittable." That area was last to fall.
Here's hoping the last snowfall is indeed the last snowfall of the season. Enough is enough!
I started back to working CWs online on Fri. 3-1. I needed to reveal letters to complete Fri., and Sat.. Today I am pleased to report I FIR. I noticed C.C. right away, and enjoyed her review with reference to the "Rich" influence.
I'm pleased to have worked the CW, and commented today.
Ðave
Welcome back, D4.
I liked this puzzle. I learned that the egg order was not BENEDICT, that the sturdy trees were not OAKS, and that the Incan herd members were not ALPACA. I noticed INCA at 67down also. I was WITH you before being INTO you before being ONTO you. I was at the University of Oregon in EUGENE for 4 years; our son was born in Eugene. Thanks for the fun puzzle and the informative write-up, C.C.
Whoa! Back up!
Sunday Lurk say...
{B}
An Altoids tin is next to me at all times... It's a handy Proxy for a smoke [still working on kickin' it 100%!]
@10:04 - If you're going to be that witty, go Blue.
BillG - IM is right, I did order Gibbles and liked them. Youngest liked them too - until she read they were fried in lard. I'm keen to order Middleswarth's at Oc4's recommendation. Perhaps Youngest doesn't know what tallow is :-)
Misty re: ALTON... I'm going to say this and hope you don't take it the wrong way. Read the blog closely and "catch-up" FLN. The Corner has discussed ALTON 6 or 7 times just last year when he was in the grid. I've likely even linked bits ('cuz I love his kitchen science). Alton's Turkey Brine I use every year.
D4 - I am pleased to see you back playing at The Corner.
FLN - We went to San Antonio yesterday at 0-dark-thirty to watch Youngest dance w/ her troupe and I had no time until late to work puzzle (the paper didn't drop before we took off along I-10). I got most of the puzzle (printed from Mensa @hotel) with my solve beginning at OREOS. Alas, I didn't finish and lost that grid. So, I tried again today when we got home and had my paper. I did better but still couldn't crack the NW. SEE: fromvt's solve and you get the idea re: mine.
{A, B+, A}
Winds of Change by Scorpions. I still hear it (and Europe's Final Countdown) on The Crazy People Show.
Cheers, -T
Good Afternoon, folks. Thank you, C.C., for the fine puzzle and for the fine review.
This puzzle was nice to work. Got through it in about two hours. Theme was fine. After I got 122A BACKDATES, I found all the ETADs.
Interesting about HARPERS magazine, 1850.
I wagged YAZOO and got it right. Amazing.
Welcome back D4. Hope you are feeling well.
I was with a Knight Templar friend of mine yesterday, who works for ATT. He is a lineman. He knew that I had worked in the industry all my life, just a different company. He told me his paychecks are from Illinois Bell. That amazed me. Illinois Bell was sucked up by Ameritech years ago, and then Ameritech was sucked up by SBC, then SBC was sucked up by ATT. Must be some legal reason they use the old company name.
Anyhow, off to my day. I am going to plant some seeds indoors today, to get ready for planting in the spring, if spring ever comes.
See you tomorrow.
Abejo
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I must have had watermelon on my mind as 118D was also “spittable” to me and seed fit.
Good afternoon all.
I too enjoyed this puzzle and I too forgot to look for the theme.
C.C., thanks for the kind words.
D4E4H, welcome back.
Loved the "performance" CC attached.
Tony: like Misty, I didn't know ALTON Brown. I Don't cook any more, so don't watch food shows nor do I retain much of what everybody here is saying & doing with food. I'm better able to keep my weight on an even keel if I don't focus on food at all.
Lucina, I had been looking forward to two Cactus League Dodgers spring training games at Camel Back Ranch in Arizona this weekend. Alas, neither one aired. I'm guessing our rainy weather migrated east and that the games were rained out. Yes?
C.C. is pumping out so many puzzles in so many venues, I am getting worn out. Another classic puzzle. As a South Florida resident, I love Miguel Cabrera who led the Florida Marlins to their second World Series title in 2003. he was rewarded by being shipped to Detroit (you are welcome HG). We fans were rewarded by a talent dump - again; then they moved the team and renamed them. Feh.
It is nice to see Lorraine and Dave 2 and our other irregular regulars.
Thanks all.
It's a shame I had to go back in time to find this...
CED - 9.19.19 is coming up. Just mark it on your calendar.
Lorraine and Dave4, how nice to see you both back! I hope you are each doing well.
I forgot to say this morning that eggs OVEREASY is how I always order.
My guest came and went and a good time was had by all! We had a five course dinner, outstanding conversation, two desserts, three kinds of pie, then ice cream with a splash of amaretto for those who chose. Life is good!
Bill G:
I'm sorry you missed the games but this weekend was warm and dry so have no idea why you couldn't get them unless they were blacked out. Last weekend all games were rained out.
ALTON was all perps for me, too. Then again, I've never watched a cooking show. CABRERA was a gimme
Wow, thought the whole North was a snap and the middle got a little difficult. All in all easy, I knocked it off while waiting for a Chinese take out (how apt).
I always love CC's Clueing and after Saturday I didn't need a stumper
Re ADMIRAL(FLEET). Hornblower encountered French ships heading to St Helena to bring back Napoleon and restart the wars. He gave his "Word of Honor" that Napoleon had died. Fortunately Bonaparte was dead else Hornblower would have lived in infamy.
SEAU played (well) for the Patriots
My main write-up was COPSE<ARBOR. I was thinking of TRYSTING in a COPSE (Pretty Shady if it's an affair)
Also, I had GAL Fridays
WC
AnonT, sorry I didn't remember ALTON--I don't watch cooking shows, maybe that's why he didn't stick in my memory. PK, I'm glad I wasn't the only one.
FYI
The Monday (3/4/19) edition of the Wall Street Journal features a crossword puzzle (Who Am I) constructed by C.C. Burnikel.
It may be accessed (free of charge) for print or solving online at WSJ.com
Enjoy !
I wasn't a fan of "sturdy trees = ELMS". Sturdy - yes, but the clue seems more leading to "OAK". Of course, that doesn't fit the crosswords, but... just sayin
Otherwise, i struggled with DOODLES =! DECALES which sent me in fit in the mideast
Got the theme only after a couple of across answers. Was leaning on "ETA" being part of the idea before "DATE" came to me.
Great puzzle -
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