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Mar 14, 2019

Thursday, March 14th 2019 Alan Olschwang

Theme: Scrambling - the four theme entries contain scrambles of the word "EIGHT", as the reveal succinctly explains:

63A. Simple card game, and what's hidden in the answers to starred clues: CRAZY EIGHTS

17A. *Like power lines: HIGH-TENSION. There's some debate around whether living close to power lines is bad for your health. They can look pretty in the right setting though:


24A. *End an engagement?: GET HITCHED. The best way to end an engagement.

38A. *Teddy kin: NIGHTIE. I'm not sure I knew the difference between the two, but arduous research over an extended period of time on various lingerie websites reveal that a teddy combines a top and panties. The things I go through for this blog.

51A. *Feature items in some annual sales: WHITE GOODS. Refrigerators and the like, although sometimes used to describe linens.

I thoroughly enjoyed this puzzle, it was quite a challenge. I didn't check my time, but I know it took longer than most Thursdays. I like having to slowly work through, unpicking as I go. The theme reveal definitely helped with a couple of the white spaces which were left. Some smart cluing, nothing in the fill I'd call a clunker, some nice longer entries - definitely an "A" today. One of my favorite puzzles of the year so far, Alan checked all the boxes. Let's see what else:

Across:

1. Grammy category word: ALBUM. Album of the Year at this year's Grammys - Golden Hour, Kacey Musgraves

6. "And here it is!": VOILA!

11. Pickup spot, perhaps: BAR

14. Take a break: PAUSE

15. "Return of the Jedi" forest moon: ENDOR. The moon Endor is forested, and the home of the Ewoks.

16. Fashion or sense preceder: IN A

19. Band booking: GIG

20. Conspiring (with): IN LEAGUE

21. Cake invitation Alice accepted: EAT ME. The grow-tall cupcakes.

23. Does, say: DEER. The noun, not the verb. I like these kinds of misdirections.

27. Alternative rock genre: EMO

29. "Come on in!": ENTER!

30. Any member of ABBA: SWEDE

33. What a birdie beats: PAR. Golf, one under par.

34. Aromatic herb: DILL

37. '90s game disc: POG

42. One of the fire signs: LEO

43. Pull a fast one on: FOOL

45. Served, as time: DID

46. Brilliance: ÉCLAT. From the French éclater - to burst out.

48. One-footer, e.g.: TAP-IN. I've seen them missed. I've missed one (at least!) myself.

50. Gray shade: ASH

55. World-weary words: AH ME!

59. Up: RISEN

60. Babe __, only woman in ESPN's Top 10 North American Athletes of the 20th Century: ZAHARIAS. Quite the athlete. She won gold at the 1932 Olympics in the 80-meter hurdles with a world-record time, and also won Javelin gold with an Olympic record throw. She won silver in the high jump with a world-record equaling effort. She then moved on to professional golf where she won 10 LPGA major championships, which ranks her 4th all-time.

62. Life-saving pro: E.M.T.

66. __-disant: self-styled: SOI. From the french. The French also use it in the "so-called" sense, e.g. a so-called improvement.

67. Ancient Aegean region: IONIA

68. "The Wreck of the Mary __": DEARE. I read the book by Hammond Innes when I was young and I was rapt - I went on to read quite a number of his novels. The movie is probably better-known. I love the tag line in the center of the poster, rather dates it!


69. Channel that airs many RKO films: TMC. Turner Classic Movies. The one above doubtless shows up from time to time.

70. __ closet: LINEN

71. John of "The Addams Family": ASTIN. He's also Sean Astin's father - Sean played Samwise Gamgee in "The Lord of the Rings" and Rudy in the eponymous movie of the Notre Dame football walk-on.

Down:

1. Agricultural pest: APHID

2. "Rawhide" singer: LAINE. Let's have us some Frankie.

3. Taps player: BUGLE

4. Brought (in): USHERED

5. Like a footnote that explains footnotes: META. The crosses filled this in for me. I'm sure some of you are familiar with "meta" crossword puzzles which feature a hidden (often very hidden) theme and unifier.

6. Locale: VENUE

7. Early stage: ONSET

8. Dictator played by Forest: IDI. Amin, as portayed by Whitaker.

9. Leicester toilet: LOO

10. Journalist Peter: ARNETT. The ex-CNN reporter was one of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists for his Vietnam war reporting for the Associated Press. He, David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan were all contrarian members of the press corps who repeatedly questioned the official line.

11. Time of one's life: BIG THRILL

12. Cartoon genre: ANIME. It has a very distinct style.


13. Continued unabated: RAGED

18. "The one who makes it, takes it" breakfast brand: EGGO

22. Breezed through: ACED

25. Recipe verb: HEAT

26. Crucifix letters: INRI. From the Latin "Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum" - "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews".

28. Fellows: MEN

30. Beach letters: SPF. Sun-tan lotion's protection factor.

31. Try to attract: WOO

32. Lacking humility: EGOTISTIC

33. Third deg.?: PH.D. I like the clue, I think it was used recently if I recall correctly.

35. Verdant patch: LEA

36. Auction unit: LOT

39. "Gotcha!": I DIG!

40. Singer Vannelli: GINO. Canadian singer from the 70's & 80's. He had some big hair!


41. Some RIT grads: E.E.S. I'm guessing Electrical Engineers from Rochester Institute of Technology?

44. After-hours: LATE

47. Supplies power to: CHARGES

49. #2, for one: PENCIL. I know them as "HB" pencils from the European grading system.

50. '60s-'70s tennis great Arthur: ASHE

51. Extract forcibly: WREST

52. Bleachers sign: HI MOM!

53. David and Ricky's dad: OZZIE. The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, as I'm sure you all know.

54. Israeli hero Moshe: DAYAN. "He would wake up with a hundred ideas. Of them ninety-five were dangerous; three more had to be rejected; the remaining two, however, were brilliant." Ariel Sharon

56. Drum kit part: HI-HAT

57. Motherly introduction?: MATRI-. Matriarch, for example.

58. German steel center: ESSEN. I learned this from school German classes. Our textbook Mr. Müller and his family lived in Essen. You never know when this stuff is going to come in handy.

61. Operatic princess: AIDA

64. Versailles monarch: ROI

65. Taylor of fashion: ANN

I didn't come across anything "terribble" this week, but then again, I didn't last week either, that was the problem!

Just let me double-check I've got the correct squares highlighted ...... yup, all's good .... and I'm done!

Steve



49 comments:

  1. FIWrong. MsTRI I knew was wrong, but couldn't think what it could be. I considered how a mother would introduce her child, how her child would introduce her, what could be a prefix to motherly, but didn't think of a prefix meaning motherly. Bebe/Babe Didrikson I knew, the married name ZAHARIsS had somehow phazed out of my memory.

    Ran across the reveal before I looked for it, but the red herrings would have fouled me up anyway. (eIGTH)RILL [eAR even fit across], (EGoTI)STIC, (HIGhT)ENSION [which was right, but not with that selection of letters].

    On the ALBUM he played the viola.
    Did it with ECLAT to earn his payola!
    But on the live stage
    He performed as a mage
    And transformed his viola to "a viol", voila!

    DILL is an herb oft used for pickles.
    If you're in a pickle, this flavor might tickle!
    In the Garden of Eden
    Eve made bread with this season.
    I wonder if it was her dill dough made Eve fickle?

    {B-, B+.}

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  2. I’m up early today, so first thing I did was the puzzle. It is a good one! And no circles in the grid! This normally would be a candidate for the dreaded circles.

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  3. Good morning yous guys.

    Thank you Mr. Alan Olschwang for this crunchy Thursday CW. I still had a lot of white after the first run, but P & P allowed me to FIR.

    Thank you Steve for you excellent review.

    Ðave

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  4. Easy for me for a Thursday. Left to right, top to bottom. It seemed that every clue or answer rung a bell. None the less, a very enjoyable solve. Thank you Alan and thank you Steve.

    Rawhide - I started watching old westerns on the Heroes and Icons channel about a year or so ago, and recognized many actors I'd only known from the later parts of their careers. The end of episode credits frequently surprised me when I couldn't quite come up with a name. Wikipedia and IMDb made looking up the episodes and actors effortless. Rawhide quickly became a favorite, and LAINE was a gimme.

    HIGH TENSION, as clued, and CHARGES were relevant after being without power Tuesday night and into Wednesday. The top of a neighbor's pine snapped in what must have been a micro-burst or a small wind shear, and took out the power line. The charged-up USB battery pack I bought many months ago for the cellphone came in handy as the cellphone battery power dwindled.

    Babe Didrickson Zaharias was a tremendous athlete. She was the first woman golfer to compete against the men. Then, very much later, Annika, Lorena and Michelle.

    GINO Vanelli was easy and brought memories back of the girl I almost got HITCHED to. No regrets, but I wonder what would have been. Perhaps you remember a couple of his songs: Living Inside Myself and I Just Wanna Stop

    Enough for now.

    See all y'all later n'at !

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  5. Good Morning, Steve and friends. I liked today's puzzle, and as noted above, none of the dreaded circles!

    I learned that a Recipe Verb is not Stir or Beat, but HEAT!

    Oh, and Doe(s) a DEER, not the present-tense verb.

    Babe ZAHARIAS was born in Port Arthur, Texas. There is a fabulous museum dedicated to her in near-by Beaumont, Texas.

    QOD: Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. ~ Albert Einstein (Mar. 14, 1879 ~ Apr. 18, 1955)

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  6. I found this to be a very quick solve for a Thursday, though as Steve said in his write-up, it included some very nice deceptive cluing, with DOE the Female Deer my favorite. I did slow down to give my brain a chance to recall ENDOR but that was it.

    The highlight was being reminded of so many all-time great golfers who missed short putts at terrible times. You can WATCH AND GROAN these or READ AND GROAN some of the stories.

    Thank you, Alan and Steve.

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  7. Had to change my gimme to a TAP IN but no other hitches. Amazing how many of the tap ins featured on the WATCH AND GROAN didn't catch any piece of the cup.

    Liked the ASH-ASHE connection.

    Worst reCAPTCHA I have ever seen. Certainly discourages leaving comments.

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  8. Good morning!

    I really liked this one, and like TTP solved it top-to-bottom leaving no square empty. Briefly tried VOLTAGE for TENSION, but otherwise my grid is clean. Thanx One-L Alan and Steve. ("The things I go through" in reference to tops and panties. Tsk.)

    ALBUM: I managed to pick up "Golden Hour" last year before it was grammy-nominated.

    RIT: Only knew it as a brand of clothing dye. Haven't seen it in years.

    ZAHARIAS: Hahtoolah, I was going to mention that museum. The "Golden Triangle" (Orange-Beaumont-Port Arthur) was home to more than its share of famous folks. Besides Babe there were Janis Joplin, George Jones, Billy Tubbs, Bum Phillips to name just a few.

    Xtulmkr, since you've gone "blue" you can ignore the reCAPTCHA -- don't check the box -- just hit "Publish Your Comment."

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  9. I'm with Steve - doable but not a breeze. Didn't get the theme until the reveal.
    One slow-up: 49D - #2, for one - I looked up at the answer for 2D - couldn't think what LAINE was an example of- Doh!!

    Thanks Steve and Alan!

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  10. Not to be picky, but a few errors in you commentary:

    69 Across - TMC stands for The Movie Channel, NOT Turner Classic Movies. That would be TCM. Which is what I filled in first before checking the down clues.

    26 Down - Proper translation for “Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum” is “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews”.

    A nice, breezy solve. I had forgotten about Pogs.

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  11. This was a cool puzzle,but not a walk in the park for me.I didn't look for the theme. The Great Lakes area slowed me down. 25D STIR quickly changed to BEAT and would not budge. Finally I dredged up ARNETT, so I thought of GET DITCHED, but what is DEAT? Then,I saw just the opposite, HITCHED. AHA!
    I thought Forest's portrayal of IDI was a tout de force.
    Hahtoolah, I liked your quote. "Ain't it the truth!"
    I do not dread circles or A-words. I like them.
    PHD, third degree. Love it. I almost had a third degree, but not a PHD. I took enough of the required courses for a second Masters, but didn't want to do another thesis. Having a Masters +30 more credits gave me a pay boost. The second Master would not have added any more pay.
    Unknown, INRI, I agree. But, Steve did have The MOVIE CHANNEL.
    I also loved does=deer.
    TEDDY is quite a distant cousin of NIGHTIE. I doesn't seem made for sleeping. Sexy, but uncomfortable.
    I see that white goods as linen is archaic, but that was my first thought. I guess I am becoming archaic. White goods as a term for appliances is widely used, even though white is no longer the in color for them.
    Steve, thanks for the interesting expo.

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  12. Good morning everyone.

    10 years ago, or so, Alan was a regular contributor. Haven't seen his work for a while. I enjoyed his puzzles then and I'm glad to see he hasn't lost his style.

    Tough but ultimately doable. Had to skip the NW initially, but the CRAZY EIGHTS reveal helped with all the long acrosses. No searches were needed. BZ
    RIT - Alma Mater of BH and middle son.
    #2 - I prefer 2 1/2 hardness.
    SWEDE - Anni-Frid was born a Norwegian.
    ESSEN - Leads to puns in German. ESSEN means "to eat". Also a noun meaning what you eat. "Das ESSEN schmeckt gut." (The food tastes good.). However, for animals to eat, 'fressen' is used. Many teaching moments while growing up.

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  13. Fun, quick puzzle but I didn't get the theme until I looked at the answer grid.

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  14. Weight
    Freight
    Sleight
    Height

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  15. Good Morning:

    It too far longer than it should have for the theme to appear, mainly because I interpreted the "Simple" in the clue as a game with a simple title, so I was thinking along the lines of a game like Go or Risk, etc. I noticed all the H's but I was too sidetracked to see the scrambled Eights until I filled in the reveal. No real stumbles but I needed perps for Endor, Soi, and Gino. I liked the entries of Soi/Roi, Deer/Deare, and Hi Hat and Hi Mom. Unlike xtulmkr, I missed the Ash/Ashe duo.

    Thanks, Alan, for a Thursday treat and thanks, Steve, for a grand tour and expo.

    Have a great day.

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  16. Terrific Thursday. Thanks for the fun, Alan and Steve.
    Some crunch and several inkblots today. I moved all over this CW with the bottom filling first; I got the theme which helped me find the EIGHTs above.
    A couple of Google helps were needed also.

    Unknowns included ZAHARIAS, DEARE, ASTIN.
    I needed Steve to parse HI MOM for me (d'uh). We had HI-HAT too.
    Like xtulmkr, I noted the cross of ASH and ASHE.
    Hand up for fighting the change from Beat to HEAT.
    "one-footer" referred to golf, not a hotdog in those bleachers.
    Does the BUGLE play the taps or does the Bugler? (My very small nit for the day, as player may be acceptable.)

    Yes, I think of LINEN for the WHITE sale too. WHITE GOODS was new to this Canadian. But then, I didn't know GINO was Canadian either.
    I also agree with YR about the Teddy-NIGHTIE very distant cousin kinship. (I'm not sure how Steve resisted a link LOL!)

    Since Spitzboov brought up the ABBA citizenship, I LIUed and found an interesting article (not sure about the slant of that National Vanguard site!) about the only non-Swedish-born member, Anni-Frid. She did become a SWEDE at age 16 so the clue is legit.
    ABBAsWarChild

    Hahtoolah - your QOD might give us all PAUSE today.

    Wishing you all a great day.

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  17. Musings
    -Just got back home. The Superintendent had school today despite record flooding and I had to drive 40 miles to get the 6 miles back to my house. I finished the puzzle just as they dismissed school. Nebraska is a mess from Wyoming to Iowa.

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  18. If you're from Essen are you easily fed up?

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  19. Musings
    -The puzzle was fun despite having to do it in the hubbub caused by evacuating kids from school.
    -The DILL we planted soon got out of control
    -Did this trick FOOL you when you, uh, SAW it?
    -The distance of TAP-INS conceded by your playing partners can vary a great deal
    -EMT’s are very busy today rescuing foolish people who did not leave their homes when told to
    -The checkered story of who is the father of Sean ASTIN
    -“BUGLERS” now seem to “play” taps on these digital “horns” (hmmm… 3 sets of quotes)
    -REX and ROI names for King today
    -Daughter’s dysfunctional first in-laws called Joann and me OZZIE and Harriet

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  20. Fun puzzle with the CRAZY EIGHTS reveal at the bottom--thanks, Alan. I did have a bit of trouble in the southwest, however--just couldn't get those WHITE GOODS. Never heard of POG. The Alice EAT ME answer was the first one I got. Liked getting a reference to OZZIE Nelson, one of the favorite shows of my youth. The mention of Ricky made me sad, though--he died in a plane crash just as his career was taking off, didn't he? Thank you for your commentary, Steve.

    Have a good day, everybody.

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  21. Was this FUN Thursday puzzle a "Monday" in disguise? The CRAZY EIGHTS theme seemed very easy.

    Fave today was 2-a, VOILA ! ... which is what I said solving every clue.

    Hmmm ... National PI Day (3.14) ... sounds like an excellent dessert tonight.

    Cheers!

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  22. @Unknown 8:19AM - not picky at all, I'm happy to have mistakes pointed out. I've corrected them.

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  23. Steve: YR@8:47 said "Unknown, INRI, I agree. But, Steve did have The MOVIE CHANNEL." You changed your comment for 69A needlessly, and now it is incorrect. LOL

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  24. I watch TCM frequently because I love old movies. I never watch TMC. Something didn’t seem right with that one. Other than that, it was a good puzzle and fun solve.

    Judy

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  25. Good morning. The NW gave me fits and I was 'Scrambling' to finish. I remember Rawhide, the song and Clint Eastwood but never knew who the singer. META- unknown. Kept thinking of 'Does' as a verb instead of female DEER. But it worked itself out with perps. CRAZY EIGHTS was not noticed.

    POG, SOI- never heard of either one.
    Babe- just correctly spelling ZAHARIAS was the problem.

    Peter ARNETT & EGOTISTIC- pretty much describes any news reporter and just another reason NOT to watch television news. Reporters just can't help but try to make themselves as important as the subject matter.

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  26. Thanks to Alan O. and Steve!

    I liked the CRAZY EIGHTS theme! It wasn't helpful for the solve, but fun when I discovered it.

    It's surprising that CDs still go by the name of ALBUM but like so many English terms, the word adapts to fit.

    Frankie LAINE immediately recalled a VENUE called RAWHIDE where my family would go for steaks, dancing and a good time. If anyone visited Scottsdale back in the 70s and 80s you might remember it. It featured an old western setting of shops, saloons with hitching posts, etc. and a large restaurant and Frankie LAINE singing Rawhide as we walked in. It's where I once ate rattlesnake meat. It has now been relocated to Chandler, south of here.

    No problems with this puzzle, just fun. WHITE LINEN was once the only color sold at WHITE sales way back, a long time ago but now, just like ALBUM, it's simply a holdover from the past.

    Steve, you heroic researcher! You have my, er, sympathy at being forced to look at all those NIGHTIES and other lingerie! What a guy!

    I hope you are all enjoying a beautiful day!

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  27. This was a crunchy Thursday go, IMO. Had zero traction in the NW so moved on....the NW was last to fill..

    I knew Babe “the golfer” but couldn’t put her last name together, crosses fixed that.

    Markovers....MAHARIAS/ZAHARIAS, DEERE/DEARE.

    I believe when Rick Nelson died he was restarting his career...he had some problems with that as the fans wanted his early teenybopper songs and Rick had moved on from them....listen to his song Garden Party.

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  28. FIR, but it took a while. Do some puzzle, play golf. Do some puzzle, take DW to lunch. Finish the puzzle. Like Hahtoolah I went through the series to get to HEAT. I knew GET bITCHED wouldn't get past Rich. Erased amc for TMC, che for IDI,snare for HI HAT and ZeHARIAS. Wanted "Millie" Vannelli at first.

    Thanks for the fun Thursday puzzle, Alan. My favorite was "does, say" for DEER. And thanks to Steve for doing the hard work in preparation for the write up. You should give yourself a hand.

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  29. Hi everybody.

    Barbara just reminded me today is Pi Day. What an irrational thing to celebrate!

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  30. I just finished yoga and feel refreshed!

    My experience also included various verbs before HEAT and like Jinx I knew GETbITCHED was not a good fill!

    Does, DEER, was also my favorite.

    LEO was not a pope but a sun sign.

    All in all this puzzle was a BIG THRILL.

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  31. "SOI-disant" is a neat word, a beaut! It's one of those easy-to-use foreign terms that makes you seem worldly even if you don't know much about the French you took.
    (Just don't try it before age 33.)

    A fun offering from Mr. Olschwang! (Another beaut!)
    As Steve said, this puzz was a bit of a challenge, but happily do-able. What stands out for me is that its single diagonal offers us a true "panagram"! (See below*)

    Misty ~
    Ah, yes--OZZIE and Harriet, The Adventures of!
    Wasn't that fun? And reassuring. They always greeted each other with what sounded like group echoes: "Hi, Mom; Hi, Dad; Hi, Rick; Hi, Dave--Hi, hi, hi!"
    What was that neighbor's name? Their plots were often based on a simple misunderstanding, one that took a half hour to solve, but always happily so.
    This, along with the Frankie LAINE fill, certainly dates the average age of our Corner peers, doesn't it?
    ~ OMK
    ____________
    *DR:
    We have just the single diagonal today, on the flip side. But it yields the very first "panagram" I have seen so far, an anagram that uses all of the diagonal's 15 letters.
    It is a little hard to explain, but bear with me as I do my best.

    In the south in the 1960s, so I understand, as segregation was on its way out, some of the high school sports coaches decided to lead the way by bringing black and white student athletes together in all-city track meets.
    In Richmond VA, the final district-wide contests in both dashes and longer races (pun intended) had both white and African-American runners competing. To select the contestants, the next-to-final match for each distance was known by today's panagram. Say farewell to Jim Crow, with the ...
    "INTEGRATION HEAT"!

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  32. Is RIT any relation of RPI?
    I had a brief conversation with a reporter outside the perimeter gate at marble mtn in 1969. He was on a motorbike leaving the Army side. He didn't care about a the VC with the AK47. I always wondered if it was Arnett.
    The Rams had a back, Jon Arnett in the'60s.

    I was slow getting started. LOO got me purchase and VOILA the boxes started filling.

    Actually, there's debate about Nazareth, Nazarene or Nazoraean but no religion. But... I favor the third

    Maybe it wasn't so hard in that timewise it went quick. I naturally inked DITCHED and I had to rethink Does=DEER.

    WC

    PS. Another holdover term is "3-Wood" in Golf. Even Wilbur no longer carries persimmon but the old term is used.

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  33. Bill G. PI, what an irrational thing. LOL. Clever.
    One of our favorite callers celebrates PI day. His initials are P I. Another caller, named Gotta, has the slogan Gotta Dance.
    I can run from the car to the house without a coat today. A long walk would require a light jacket. I will gladly give up the sun in the early mornings for the sunny afternoons and early evenings. I am for DST all year round. I believe the setting should be uniform throughout the US. My dad had 4 churches in his parish, two on one time and two on the other. What a confusion! I know some disagree on this issue but anything to stop switching twice a year. As Lincoln said, "You cannot please all of the people all of the time."
    In this age of I want what I want when I want it and to he-- with you, there will be no compromise on this, either. Study the Constitutional Convention to see compromise at work. How far we have strayed.
    I have hopes of being paperwork clutter free in two weeks. Next job is to purge both our closets. It will be necessary when Alan moves out. I am basking in the warm temps and late afternoon light. I love spring, absent in warmer climes.







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  34. Oh, yeah: It's Pi-Day today!
    3.14
    How thrilled am I!?

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  35. Good afternoon, folks. Thank you, Alan Olschwang, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Steve, for a fine review.

    I actually started this puzzle in the deep south. No apparent reason other than catching a couple of the clues down there first. Then I bounced around all over getting the easy ones.

    Liked HI MOM for 52D. Also thought DEER for 23A was excellent. A little misdirection. Others thought that as well, I believe I read.

    I played CRAZY EIGHTS as a youth, as I am sure most of you did.

    ASH and ASHE crossing must have been intentional. Good job.

    I own a BUGLE, but have a hard time playing it because my lip is used to a tuba mouthpiece. I did earn the Bugling Merit Badge as a Boy Scout way back when. I still remember some of the calls.

    Never heard of "The Wreck of the Mary Deare" but it sounds like a good story. Maybe I will see if I can get the book.

    ENDOR was unknown to me. I do not see many movies.

    Does anyone know why cruciverb is not working?

    62 degrees this afternoon. Supposed to snow tomorrow. Oh well.

    See you tomorrow.

    Abejo

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  36. I like "Do Something Irrational Today" Day.

    Is it truly Einstein's birthday and the day Hawking died?

    OMK: Don't know much Trigonometry

    Sam Cooke

    WC

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  37. I liked this puzzle. I've always liked the expression "high tension" wires. I also had GET DITCHED at first. For some reason I read the clue for ENTER as "Come on!" so I scratched my head a lot there until I realized my mistake.

    I wouldn't characterize a discussion of whether Nazareth, Nazarene, or Nazoraean is the better translation as a discussion of religion and therefore to be studiously avoided.

    I came this || close to getting a PhD degree but simply didn't have that "fire in the belly" to motivate me to complete it. One of the better decisions I have made in my life was to get the heck out of academia and do what I liked best and was good at: engineering.

    I also like Frankie Laine's singing. Too bad his fine talent was so badly wasted singing that horrible theme song to the 1957 movie Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. By the way, he also sang Ghost Riders in the Sky but I like Vaughn Monroe's rendition better.

    Speaking of TEDDIE, back in grade school the sister of my brother's best friend was called Teddy (her real name being Theodora) and, man oh man, could she do a killer "a little dab'll do ya" routine!

    My grandson still sometimes says, "Oh, that's so META."

    Good wishes to you all.

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  38. WC ~
    Don't know much about Jedi moons.
    But I do know about the biblical Witch of ENDOR--and can only wonder how she became a reference for Jedi followers.
    What's with that?

    The earlier Witch was quite a babe, properly cautious about exercising her art in the presence of King Saul, who had outlawed such dark deeds.
    I'm sure everybody remembers how that turned out...
    ~ OMK

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  39. For most Christians INRI is Jesus of NAZARETH King of the Jews, hands down, no quibble
    I doubt that having a Masters + 30 makes one a better teacher. Native talent, drive to help each student meet his/her full
    potential, openness to new ideas, understanding your pupils and their families, preparednees, love of learning are key.

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  40. My father always called the card game, "Dirty Eights". Anybody else familiar with that name?

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  41. YR, I remember when Kentucky adopted DST. The farmers in the area didn't cotton to it. If you asked one what time it was, he would look at his wrist or fob and ask "fast time or slow time?"

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  42. There's an old irreverent joke, told about a dim-witted Cockney lad named Henry who, after gazing at a traditional painting of the crucifixion, asked his Sunday School teacher why everybody called the Christ "Jesus"?

    "Why," asked the perplexed teacher, "What do you think his name was?"

    "'Inry, of course. Same as mine! It's right there on the bloody cross!"
    ~ OMK

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  43. Hi All!

    Thanks Alan for the CRAZY time I had (nearly) solving this Thursday beast. Thank you Steve for your extensive expo and research on lingerie; braver man than I (wouldn't want that in my browser-history :-))

    WOs: GINa, DeZIE (I was thinking of Lucy's husband - brain-fart), dIvA @AIDA, DEARy... The SE is a mess.
    ESPs: GINO, SOI.
    Quazi-cheat: Roy linked to LAINE FLN and I clicked; I will not know it tomorrow :-)

    DNF: D-YAN xing Z-HARIAS; I went with 'E'
    Fav: ASH/ASHE crossing tickled me something fierce.
    VOILA! Was fun too.

    {B, A}

    SandyAnon - never heard of Dirty Eights, just the Dozen.

    Fun DR OMK!

    For π Day, I got myself another Raspberry Pi; it was slightly more than $3.141526 (they're $5/ea).

    Cheers, -T

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  44. Tony: "it was slightly more than $3.141526 (they're $5/ea)."
    $3.1415926...

    I remember it by
    Tangent, secant, cosine, sine!
    3.14159 !

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  45. Arggg! Typo ruined a good joke :-(

    Thanks OKL and Happy Pi-Day!

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  46. So glad you too remembered the Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Ol'Man Keith. No, I can't remember the name of the neighbors either, or of that teenage jerk that hung out with the boys. Would love to see one of the old episodes again.

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  47. "For most Christians INRI is Jesus of NAZARETH King of the Jews, hands down, no quibble"
    One would think, eh. This is what I shied away from on the net :

    Sorry there is no quotation just a lot of exegetical discussion to wit: NAZORAEON was an appellation ,(roughly' preserver (savior) [from]
    God).
    There's a lengthy discussion at this Nazarene

    Also "Prefix for Physics or Data":. META

    WC

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  48. WC - META, man, META...

    FWIW: META data is data about the data; I may not know what you emailed but the META data (in the logs) tells to whom, the subject (maybe), time-stamp, which email client/service used, origin IP address, etc. Ditto with cell-calls, posts to The Corner, etc. #SigINT

    META physics, on the other hand - bunk that should give anyone PAUSE :-)

    Cheers, -T

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  49. I do not proofread well on the computer. For important things I must print them out to proofread.
    Forest's portrayal of Idi was a tour de force, not a tout de force
    Was it spell check or clumsy fingering?

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