23A. Bar mitzvah celebratory drink?: MAZEL TOV COCKTAIL. Molotov cocktail.
36A. Incompetent drivers?: SCHLEMIELS ON WHEELS. Meals on Wheels.
50A. Where decent people buy decent clothes at honest prices?: MENSCH STORE. Men's store.
66A. Cream cheese promotion?: SCHMEAR CAMPAIGN. Smear campaign.
84A. Trash-talking broadcaster?: SCHLOCK JOCK. Shock jock.
93A. Trudged through a nudist camp?: SCHLEPPED IN THE BUFF. Slept in the buff.
115A. Disaster for a figure skater?: KLUTZ PERFORMANCE. Clutch performance.
What a fun puzzle! So many unusual consonant combos in Yiddish, esp SCHLM/SCHL. Scrabbly too.
Mr. Ed gave us 7 entries. All of them are quite long. We have total 105 theme squares with some inconvenient letter pattern. But nothing fazes our Ed, who is one of the few constructors who make both themeless and themeless grids. Ed had a rare "Mr. Ed. Sessa" byline when his "HELLO I'M MISTER ED" puzzle was published by the New York Times a few years ago.
Across:
1. Tricks that treat: MAGIC.
6. Dalí contemporary: ARP (Jean).
9. Shame: ABASH.
14. Corp. bigwigs: CFOS. Still remember this guy?
18. Raspy-voiced Cooper: ALICE.
19. Protein provider: MEAT. Tofu for me. Mostly.
21. Evergreen bean: CACAO. The tree is evergreen.
22. Road division: LANE. So I marveled at a big maple tree in our neighborhood last week and asked Boomer "If you could be a tree, what tree would you like to be?" He said "I don't want to be a tree. I want to be a bowling ball".
26. "Roots" author Haley: ALEX.
27. Current gauge: AMMETER. Not ADAPTER.
28. Body wrap venue: SPA.
29. Jed Clampett, for one: HILLBILLY. Derogatory.
31. Sault Ste. Marie's __ Locks: SOO.
32. "That __ fact!": IS A.
33. Ring ruling: TKO.
35. Two in a canoe: OARS.
44. Seaweed product: AGAR. These are incredible mooncakes. The yellow centers are eggs, then red adzuki beans, then flour with green matcha. Reminds me of the mung bean cakes I had when I was a kid.
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47. Howard of old comedy films: MOE.
48. Hereditary ruler: DYNAST.
49. Thumbs-up letters: A OK.
55. Lay idle: SAT.
56. Light sparkling wine: ASTI. Have any of you tried champagne vinegar?
57. Lodging with a "keeper": INN.
58. Bank job: HEIST.
59. Collectible print, briefly: LITHO.
61. Dark marks: BLOTS.
62. Stranger things: EXOTICA.
64. Officer Kalakaua's group, familiarly: FIVE-O. Never watched "Hawaii Five-0". Here is Officer Kalakaua.
65. Rainforest vine: LIANA.
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70. Sapling support: STAKE.
72. Coordinate (with): TIE IN.
73. Traffic warning signal: FLASHER.
77. Means of access: DOORS.
78. Trouble from all sides: BESET.
79. Gumbo thickeners: OKRAS. Plurable?
81. Label for some Elton John albums: MCA.
82. Son of Seth: ENOS.
83. Web address letters: URL. Glad you noticed our blog URL C.C. logo, D-Otto! It's been there since Nov 2011 though :-)
87. Pickable point: NIT.
88. Confounded: DARNED.
91. Joey's mom: DOE.
92. "Gotcha": I SEE.
99. Sport with mallets: POLO.
100. Metric introduction?: GEO. Geometric.
101. Blood classification letters: ABO.
102. Tubular pasta, for short: MAC.
105. U.K. utility cost limitations: PRICE CAPS. Also a term we use here.
110. Blow away: AWE.
112. Sufi Muslim ascetic: DERVISH. Whirling dervishes.
114. Bull's partner, in a story?: COCK. Cock-and-bull story.
118. Musical diner fixture, for short: JUKE.
119. Like Poe pieces: EERIE.
120. It ends at the gutter: ROOF.
121. Choir voices: ALTOS.
122. Nap: REST.
123. __ Haute: TERRE.
124. Letters on a Sun Bum container: SPF. Never tried this brand.
125. Scientific methods: TESTS.
Down:
1. Some baby rockers: MAMAS. Rock-ers.
2. Legendary mission: ALAMO.
3. Rube Goldberg device, e.g.: GIZMO.
4. Brand written in frosty letters: ICEE.
5. Irish musical ensemble __ Woman: CELTIC.
6. Unprincipled: AMORAL.
7. Short spin?: REV. Short for Revolution. Nice clue.
8. D.C. fundraisers: PACS.
9. "That's awful!": ACK.
10. Whole or half home unit: BATH.
11. Smoothie berry: ACAI.
12. Wind catcher: SAIL.
13. Valleys: HOLLOWS.
14. Danes of "Homeland": CLAIRE. Her husband Hugh Dancy is going to be on the last season of "Homeland".
15. When many TV shows debut: FALL SEASON.
16. Like Nash's lama: ONE-L.
17. Steamy: SEXY.
20. Of the highest quality: TOP TIER.
24. "A Deeper Faith" musician: TESH (John)
25. It's iced and sliced: CAKE. We call that western cake. Chinese cakes can be sweet or salty, like these turnip cakes Cantonese eat during spring festival. You can find them at dim sum place also. Taro cakes are similar.
30. Thai currency: BAHT. Also 53. "The King and I" kingdom: SIAM. So Lemonade, does Oo make Nam-Pla Wan at home or just buy a jar from the Asian store? This sauce is very Thai. It's a mix of hot red pepper, dried shrimp, fish sauce, shallot and palm sugar. Then people dipping sweet apple or mango slices into the sauce.
34. Overused, jokewise: OLD.
36. Yearbook gp.: SRS.
37. Ambulance pros: EMTS.
38. Of no consequence: MOOT. Point.
39. Bettor's strategy: SYSTEM.
40. After one bounce, in baseball lingo: ON A HOP.
41. Warsaw Pact counterpart: NATO.
42. Host of, in slang: LOTTA.
43. Slope gear: SKIS.
44. François's friend: AMIE.
45. Millennials' folks: GEN X.
46. A year in Caesar's time: ANNO.
51. Peepers: CHICKS.
52. Anne of 1998's "Psycho": HECHE.
54. Brings out: ELICITS.
56. Arkin and Menken: ALANS.
60. "Terrible" despot: IVAN. 63. 60-Down et al.: TSARS.
61. No small favor: BIG ASK. That's a big ask. Ask is a noun.
64. Given away: FREE.
65. Fragrant shrub: LILAC.
67. Endless, in verse: ETERNE.
68. Organized like big stores: AISLED.
69. Jimi Hendrix do: AFRO.
70. Drive-in with skating carhops: SONIC.
71. Sticks with the Swedish meatballs: TOOTHPICKS. Boomer and I went to our local Ikea ages ago. We got hopelessly lost.
74. Med. group options: HMOS.
75. Behold, to Pilate: ECCE.
76. Dirt smoother: RAKE.
77. Red fox holes: DENS.
78. Possible result of swallowing air: BURP.
79. "Didn't expect that": OH OH.
80. Swiss painter Paul: KLEE.
85. Jewel case storage unit: CD TOWER.
86. Peter Pan rival: JIF. My favorite. Chunky.
88. Editor's mark: DELE.
89. "... __ full of rye": A POCKET. Long partial.
90. Archaeological site: DIG.
94. Tiny portrait holder: LOCKET.
95. Type of tide: NEAP.
96. In money trouble, say: BAD OFF.
97. It dropped "Cab" from its name in 2011: UBER. Lyft just went public.
98. Document details: FORMAT.
102. Diner freebies: MINTS.
103. Tied accessory: ASCOT.
104. Game with a mate: CHESS.
105. '80s IBM flop nicknamed "Peanut": PC JR.
106. Don Juan: ROUE.
107. Mariner's direction: ALEE.
108. Sound from a lynx's larynx: PURR.
109. To-do: STIR.
111. God with a bow: EROS.
113. Poetic lowland: VALE.
116. Slice of pizza?: ZEE. Pizza.
117. Dandy: FOP.
Here is a picture of Will Shortz and Mike Alpern at the Cru dinner. You can find more pictures here. Hopefully Rich will make it next year. Below is a picture of Jeffrey Wechsler and Mike.
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C.C.
34 comments:
FIRight. Probably the same slow points as anyone else. Don Juan I had RAKE until I needed that at Dirt smoother.
23a is MOLOTOV COCKTAIL, not mai tai.
What is CLUTCH PERFORMANCE? Not a phrase I know, so that was the only one I couldn't figure out, tho some took an awful lot of effort!
ALEX had an OLD timepiece he kept in his POCKET.
ALICE had a photograph, she kept in a LOCKET.
Their memories would STIR,
And they each would PURR,
At how the treasures came to them when poppets.
{B+.}
This puzzle and c.C.'s write-up seem to have had me in mind. The theme of Yiddish Phrases arrives at a time when I am teaching a class at our synagogue on Yiddish. The reference to the ENRON CFO certainly will make some Anons happy. The CACAO a plant grown in Ecuador, that eventually yields great chocolate is one of the businesses I have worked with for years. MCA-CURB signed AXE to a contract in my office in Gainesville 4 in the morning 40 years ago. As a child, my grandmother who was not fond of me would comment that I could not sit still and I was acting like a WHIRLING DERVISH. Then on to Thai currency, the BAHT and the question about Oo and sauce. No, C.C., she always makes her own version. The only things she buys in the Asian aisle in the grocery store are PALM SUGAR and WATER CHESNUTS . She does also buy MUNG BEANS but those are to make her own bean sprouts. There are more, but time to move on.
I found the puzzle difficult in places, not sure why. LIANA was unknown as was SUN BUM I like A POCKET and LOCKET near each other, and love CELTIC WOMAN
Thank you, Dr. Ed and Zhouqin.
Thank you Ed Sessa for this bar and bat mitsvah CW,
Thank you C.C. for your excellent review.
23 A - Actually, the Mazel Tov cocktail is real. And it’s delicious.
25 A - I've "Paddled" a canoe, but I've never OARed one, no oar locks.
I just got 36 A - And a CSO goes out to _____, whom I have forgotten. Oy ve, I got 23 A. My Yiddish just got 66 A. I didn't know I "געוואוסט" (knew} so many Yiddish words. Now it's 84 A, then the grand finale, 115 A.
It's time to celebrate. Everyone join in for the Havah Nagilah, "Let us rejoice"), an Israeli folk song traditionally sung at Jewish celebrations. - Wiki.
Ðave
I forgot to note the CSO to Chairman Moe
Dave 2; the Washington Post article you linked demands that I turn off my ad-blocker, so I prefer this RECIPE fOR MAZEL TOV COCKTAIL
Good morning!
Enjoyed the theme, but some of the 3-letter fill gave me fits: EMI/MCA, ROO/DOE, ISO/GEO. Also had to Wite-Out PILE for "Nap" and swap my APRON for an ASCOT. (Ick!) I agree that OARS is a foul, and OKRAS and AISLED are kinda ugly. Thanx for the outing, Ed, and for the expo, C.C. (Hey, I like to take my time noticing things.)
SCHLEMIELS ON WHEELS: I had to give up my route for tax season, but I'm going to pick it back up in two weeks.
OKRAS: C.C., I think it's both singular and plural without the S, like deer. Not plurable, IMO, but I've been wrong before. Some folks in these parts pronounce it o-kree.
I think the reference is Lutz performance, i.e. a type of jump.
Good Morning:
What a clever theme and fun solve this was! I don't think there were any unknowns and I had only two w/os, Roo/Doe and Road/Roof which has to be a record low for a Sunday grid. My only nit would be Aisled (maybe Okras, also) but those are minor quibbles with an otherwise pleasing puzzle. CSO to Oo at Siam and Baht and to Alan(s). I, too, liked the proximity of Locket and Pocket and ACK gave me a chuckle remembering cartoon Cathy's favorite pronouncement.
Thanks, Dr. Ed, for a truly enjoyable solve and thanks, CC, for the terrific expo. Those food photos are mouth-watering and the ACPT people were nice to see, especially Jeffrey W. and Will Shortz. I laughed out loud at Boomer's bowling ball reincarnation wish.
FLN
YR, I hope your DIL has a speedy recovery, and I'm happy, for your sake, that Alan is handling the pending transition so well. Sorry to hear that you need surgery, especially now, considering everything else on your plate.
Have a great day.
Musings
-Oy vey, what a good time from Dr. Sessa! Loved SCHLEPPED IN THE BUFF
-We baseball fans remember the POLO Grounds below Coogans Bluff in upper Manhattan
-In Tennessee The Legend of Sleepy HOLLOW might have substituted HOLLER
-New cars and TV shows debuting in the FALL used to be a big deal
-SRS – “Senioritis” is setting in these days
-Debating the height of failed dikes is a MOOT point for right now in Nebraska
-Playing 500 in my yute – Batter hits the ball, if someone catches it in the air – 100 pts, on ONE HOP – 50 pts, on more than ONE HOP 25. First person to 500 gets to bat.
-Killer Jery Lee sings Whole LOTTA Shakin’ for Steve Allen
-I granted my sister her BIG ASK when she and her husband were BAD OFF and it killed our relationship
-Would a gigolo chef concoct a ROUE ROUX?
-I’d love to try some of your delicacies, C.C.
This was faster for me than most Sunday puzzles. It was in my wheelhouse. All the Yiddish words are in the language around here. The only new fill for me were PC JR and Claire. I wondered about JIF until the penny dropped. Peanut butter!
A peanut sat on a railroad track.
His heart was all aflutter.
The 5:15 came around the track.
Toot! Toot! Peanut butter!
The noun okra can be countable or uncountable.
In more general, commonly used, contexts, the plural form will also be okra, as it should have been in this case. Okras refers to varieties of okra. The same principle applies to wheats and ryes when speaking of various varieties.
No such nit with aisled. Examples:
‘The hotel contains an oak timber frame thought to have formed the end of an aisled hall, a popular form of building among well-off peasants in the 13th century.’
"A small one aisled chapel'
Wikipedia says, Clutch performance in sports is the phenomenon of athletes under pressure, usually in the last minutes of a game, to summon strength, concentration and whatever else necessary to succeed, to perform well, and perhaps change the outcome of the game."
IM, thanks for caring. My same day surgery is not difficult or serious, just danged inconvenient. I can drive the next day, but must keep my hand completely dry and limit weight bearing.
Square dance visit to another club today, an hour's drive away. Regular club night tomorrow. Square dance murder mystery Wed. Lotsa fun. Regional square dance Sat.with our club providing refreshments. As co president I cannot duck any of them. It's just inertia talking. Once I get myself on the road, I have a good time.
Hola!
Thank you, Ed Sessa and C.C.!
My heart sank when I saw the theme thinking I wouldn't know any Yiddish but then surprised myself! I finished it and what with all the SCH- it wasn't bad. I liked MENSCHSTORE with SCHEARCAMPAIGN a close second.
It was a slow but enjoyable slog.
In Turkey we were treated to a DERVISH show but they danced in slow motion instead of whirling I'm not sure why.
I noticed artists ARP and KLEE and mused at BATH and BAHT.
SONIC here does not have skaters.
Surprisingly I had ONAHOP correctly but not NATO. Drat! I had DYNiST.
Interestingly for a long Sunday puzzle there were very few names.
C.C., those cakes look yummy!
Have a delightful day, everyone!
1A-MAGIC, other than business news, the only show I watch is "Penn and Teller's Fool Us" (recorded because I never know when it will be on. Amazing 'magicians' that try to fool them. But this descendant of HILLBILlY(s) wasn't fooled today. And no, hillbillies don't take it as an insult. There are too many thin-skinned people out there who can't take a joke. Way too many.
The Yiddish sayings MAZELTOV, MENSCH, SCHLEPPED, & KLUTZ were familiar but I'd never heard SCHLEMIEL or SCHMEAR. My Jewish boss, who was from Brooklyn, was always calling people SCHMUCKS. That might be considered derogatory to some people.
MISTER ED? A horse is a horse of course of course...... nice SCHTICK he and C.C. have going with their crossword constructing.
FASTOW- SKILLING just got out of prison last week. But KEN LAY dropped dead before his trial and his wife got to keep ALL the money. Good old Enron.
Had to change LOTSA to LOTTA, CEO to CFO,ABASH to ABASE, & VEE to ZEE.
Great puzzle. Loved it! Lemonade 714, what Enron reference? Must have gone over my head...
Fun Sunday puzzle, even if it was a toughie for me, but still enjoyed it, many thanks, Mister Ed. I loved the "Beverly Hillbillies" in their day, and sorry to hear the term has become derogatory. By the way, thanks for reminding us of the fun cartoon "Cathy," Irish Miss--again, a delight in its day. Wonderful commentary, C.C., with lots of new and interesting information, especially about food and cooking. Loved the pictures of the mooncakes. And Boomer's tree answer cracked me up.
Have a great Sunday, everybody.
IBM's PC Jr. is one I definitely remember. Way back about in the early 80s we were trying out all the early brands to decide which one to use for pharmacies. IBM, Sperry, Compaq, HP, Gateway, plus a few off brands I can't recall, and finally went with DELL. They were all using MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System, which we called 'the monitor') but IBM couldn't resist tinkering and decided that their operating system would be PC-DOS. I guess they didn't want to be beholden to Microsoft. They finally gave up and sold their PC business to Lenovo because PCs were becoming a commodity with a very thin profit margin.
One morning, the receiving clerk called me and told me to go to the receiving warehouse. There was a tractor-trailer completely filled with DELL PCs, CRTs (now called monitore), keyboards, and printers. I didn't know anything about it and got in touch with the owner. He forgot to inform me that he ordered 200 of them for my office to set up and sell.
ANNO is the instrumental case of “annus,” Latin for “year.” So the clue “A year in Caesar’s time” is incorrect. ANNO means “in the year." E.g., “anno Domini,” “in the year of our Lord.”
POLO has mallets, not clubs, that’s correct; but canoes have paddles, not OARS.
“That’s awful”: Is it ACK, emh, ich, ooh, or ugh? Or ACH?
“Document details”: FORMAT? I don’t get it.
ZEE? I don’t get it. ZEES, maybe. . . .
Anonymous at 1243: I think FORMAT could refer to how you put a document together. Margins, spacing, etc.
Good afternoon, folks. Thank you, Ed Sessa, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, C.C., for a fine review.
Started at 7:45 AM and finished at 9:15 AM. Not bad for me.
Liked the puzzle and the theme. I am not a Yiddish expert at all, but most of the answers sounded familiar.
DERVISH, PCJR, CELTIC, CLAIRE, and HECHE were unknowns. Perps helped.
No idea that UBER used to use the word CAB in it's name.
Liked the Jerry Lee Lewis link, old and knew. That guy really had talent. I think he grew up with his cousins, Mickey Gilley and Jimmy Swaggart.
I had no time to even look at yesterday's puzzle. Too busy.
Last night we had a light snow and this morning it was 25 degrees when I got up. Wow!
See you tomorrow.
Abejo
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Good theme. some of the clues were a stretch. overall a nice sunday puzzle
Hi Y'all! Great puzzle, Dr. Ed! Great expo, C.C.!
Have heard enough Yiddish on TV or read it in books to make this puzzle doable and sorta fun. Had some chuckles as the theme entries filled. Otherwise, I thought it was tough going. Is it a pangram?
Last to fill was the "L" in LIANA/LILAC cross for some reason. Had to red letter much of the NE central block. After several tries, ACK had to perp in.
HG: laughed aloud at your ROUE ROUX.
YR: Hope you have a successful surgery. So glad Alan had a good time at the sleep-over. Afraid your condo will seem very empty without him tho you know it is for the best. Hugs, dancing queen!
I loved this puzzle and laughed out loud at each of the theme answers. I think MAZEL TOV COCKTAIL is my favorite. Like PK, the last letter I filled was the L crossing LIANA and LILAC, but I don't know why it was last because I already had -ILAC and already knew that letter was L. Actually, I didn't get the Tada and had to turn red letters on to see that I had SET and ONE HOP instead of SAT and ON A HOP. Oh well. I knew a Joey is a baby kangaroo but learned that the female is called a DOE. I agree a canoe does not have OARS, unless there is some sort of obscure definition somewhere that asserts paddles are a subset of OARS or vice-versa. Perhaps the clue should have been "Two in a dinghy". Anyway...
As I said, I loved this puzzle.
Such wonderful pictures of food! I love turnip cakes and some kinds of moon cakes. I'd love to try those seaweed and mung bean moon cakes. I also love onion cakes, as I mentioned the other day.
Our DIL will be having her 12th weekly chemotherapy treatment this coming Wednesday. After that there will be 12 more weeks of treatment with a different drug. She is feeling really "punk" and extremely nauseous. This Wednesday she is going to have a chat with her doctor, who said there are other, perhaps more effective, anti-nausea medicines she can try. Of course all her hair has fallen out; she wears hats and wigs. Her mother is staying with her and taking care of her this week while our son is away in Korea on business. Thank goodness for family. Husker Gary, I'm sad that your relationship with your sister was killed.
I would think Boomer would get awfully dizzy if he were a bowling ball, not to speak of pretty banged up from being thrown around like that. Ah, a retired bowling ball! :)
Good wishes to you all this fine final day of March.
Super Sunday. Thanks for the fun, Ed and C.C.
My Yiddish is elementary but I got all the themers eventually. First to fall was KLUTZ performance.
Hand up for noting POCKET and LOCKET, and changing CEOS to CFOS.
I also noted HOLLOWS and VALES. No Glen's today.
I thought of YR's ALAN.
I'm a little confounded at 88A DARNED. Is it like the expression, "well I'll be darned!"? I assumed that expression was using DARNED instead of damned. What am I missing?
Like Anon@12:34, I too do not really understand how ZEE is a slice of pizza. If slice is understood as a part of the word ie. a letter, why pick ZEE and not P, I or A. WOULD MY Canadian ZED be a slice also LOL?
Thankfully, JIF filled in with perps because I use neither Peter Pan or JIF, but Kraft PB.
We call Sault Ste Marie, The SOO. Is that true on the American side also?
PK, I counted 10 Ks which is more than the usual, but we are just a Q short of a pangram.
Yes, Abejo, we awoke to a 3 inch blanket of snow with more stuck to all the trees. It would be seen as beautiful at Christmas, but Is not so appreciated on the last day of March.
If the ROUE who SCHLEPPED IN THE BUFF went out in public that way he would be a FLASHER.
I'll show myself out now.
Sunday Lurk Say...
{B++}
BigE - I love Penn & Teller and their approach to MAGIC. "We're going to fool you and show you how we did it - and you will still get that Magic feeling." A perfect con.
Watch for yourself [SNL - 6:55]
Wishing all of you a great week. Cheers, -T
Jayce: Prayers for your DIL that the chemo will restore her health and they will find something to lessen her nausea.
CanadianEh: thanks. How'd I miss Q. I looked for X, Z, J and found them. Should have done the whole alphabet as usual. Should have known C.C. would catch a pangram.
Jayce:
Best wishes and prayers for your DIL. That is such a rough, rough journey for her. I saw what it did to my late niece during her treatments. I sincerely hope she will be healed.
Depends on how you slice the pizza. The slices do no have to be equal. P/I/ZZ/A
A big fat slice of ZZ.
I agree that canoes are not propelled by oars.
Jayce, best wishes and prayers for your DIL. We are pulling for a happy result. Two years ago my BFF since age 5 had to endure that same horrible experience.
Nice dance today. Arthur accompanied me so the drive was more pleasant than I anticipated.
I don't get how LOTTA is slang for Host of. Google shows nothing like this. Can someone explain?
Anon: think of Led Zeppelin and Whole Lotta Love.
Yes, PK, I thought we might have a pangram too until I did the alphabet run.
YR - Maybe the pizza had mozzarella cheese on it. LOL.
What you don't find when you LIU. You can convert a canoe for rowing and use OARS instead of paddles. But OARS are certainly not the usual "two in a canoe" and I agree that "two in a dinghy" would be a better clue.
RowACanoe
But you know that this Canadian was trying to fit Lovers into those 4 squares.
The old postcard in this link is what I envisioned. Read on if you dare! The courting canoe photo is interesting also.
Canoedling
Anon @7:16pm "Host of" in the sense of "a lot of" reduced to slang version LOTTA (or sometimes Lotsa). This might fall into the definition of "gluey or nose-wrinkling fill".
Oops, I see that Robert beat me.
Jayce - continued thoughts and prayers for your DIL and all the family. Yes, truly a "rough journey".
Maybe the definition of host is the sticking point. Host can mean a large multitude, a great number. The Donner party encountered a host of problems and setbacks, a lotta (a lot of) problems and setbacks.
Congratulations to Auburn for reaching the Final Four.
"The loss marks the first time a John Calipari team has lost an NCAA tournament game it led at halftime, ending a 37-game streak that will leave him tied with UCLA legend John Wooden."
Thank you CanadianEh! at 7:42 PM. Now we can "Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream with Wide Blade spoon oars life is but a dream."
Ðave
C-EH @ 7:42 -- The article you referenced on 'canoedling' makes mention of something I had never heard of before.
It says, ".... They drank illicit Canadian beers."
Is this another part of the Canadian canoe experience, that one walks around drinking "illicit beer"? (And how does one illicitify beer, any how?)
The term 'clutch hitter' is often used in baseball to describe a batter who is able to deliver a hit in a tight situation, e.g. to tie or win a game in after inning play. The opposite is the player who 'chokes' (doesn't deliver) in these same situations. Fun puzzle.
Michael@1am - It is not just Canadian beer that is illicit but any alcohol that is open in public places. Currently, drinking in public is prohibited in Ontario. In most cases, bylaw officers will likely confiscate your liquor but they can issue fines. With our new pot laws, this is being revisited.
Thank you Yellowrocks and CanadianEh for explaining the weird clue for LOTTA. Yes, the weirdness was with "Host of". Google could not figure that out either. Usually think of host of an event. Thanks.
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