Theme: Homonyms.
Each theme answer contains a word or syllable, each with a different spelling, pronounced the same: "PEEK." The above image is of Pikachu - a species of Pokémon. His cheeks store electricity.
18. Breed also known as a Lion Dog: PEKINGESE. Tricky spelling. From akc.com: "A compact toy companion of regal bearing and a distinctive rolling gait, is one of several breeds created for the ruling classes of ancient China."
26. Angry display: FIT OF PIQUE.
49. When the volume is the highest: PEAK SEASON.
62. Survey surreptitiously: TAKE A PEEK.
Melissa here. There were some clever and sneaky clues in this one. Theme was easy to spot as soon as two theme answers were filled in.
Across:
1. About, in dates: CIRCA.
6. Words With Friends and such: APPS. I bet there are lots of cornerites who play that one. I prefer Draw Something. As much as I enjoy crosswords, Scrabble is too slow for me. It is quite popular in prison visiting rooms, as is dominoes.
10. They form a "cage": RIBS. Nice.
14. Bee-related: APIAN. Hee.
15. Cry while pointing a finger: LOOK. The "cry" tripped me up.
16. Rebecca's firstborn: ESAU.
17. General opening?: SOFT G. I still get tricked by this.
20. High regard: ESTEEM.
22. Nasty types: MEANIES.
23. Warm feeling: GLOW.
25. Gridiron official: REF. I wasn't aware that Gridiron Football was the term for American football.
31. Skill useful in delicate situations: TACT.
35. Big name in gaming: ATARI.
36. Like the Javanese calendar: LUNAR. Java is an island of Indonesia. Something tells me there may be a regular who has some pictures to share. See it at the bottom left? Things to see in Java.
38. Swear: VOW. I do.
39. Catholic univ. in San Antonio: MARYS.
40. Facebook titter: LOL.
41. Kagan on the bench: ELENA.
43. Symphonic rock gp.: ELO.
44. Port-au-Prince locale: HAITI.
46. "Otello" composer: VERDI.
47. Towns on some maps: DOTS.
51. Guffaw syllable: HAR.
53. Prominent fox features: EARS.
54. Alters to fit: TAILORS.
64. Sanction: ALLOW.
65. Graph line: AXIS.
66. Westin competitor: OMNI. Hotels.
67. Rope often coiled: LASSO. Not noose.
68. Beer order: PINT.
69. Pop: SODA.
70. Moves rhythmically: SWAYS.
Down:
1. Detective's job: CASE.
2. Nasdaq debuts: IPOS.
3. Breach: RIFT.
4. Hurricane strength term: CATEGORY.
5. Colorful reef denizen: ANGEL FISH. So many different kinds.
6. The Eiger, for one: ALP. Impressive. Famous for cheese-making.
7. Work often recited: POEM.
8. Sack holding a pig, in an old idiom: POKE.
9. Winter sports mecca: SKI AREA.
10. Pass along, with dubious etiquette: RE-GIFT.
11. "It's clear now!": I SEE.
12. Barbershop member: BASS.
13. "X" author Grafton: SUE.
19. Austin-to-Dallas dir.: NNE.
21. Do some floor work: MOP. My mind went to dancing.
24. Singer Nelson: WILLIE.
26. Well-known: FAMED.
27. Writer Calvino: ITALO.
28. Seer's deck: TAROT.
29. Prescribed goal: QUOTA.
30. "A tradition __ any other": trademarked catchphrase for The Masters: UNLIKE.
32. Declares: AVERS.
33. Housing choice: CONDO.
34. Huck Finn creator: TWAIN.
37. Setbacks: REVERSALS.
42. Pet control ordinance: LEASH LAW.
45. Fitting: APROPOS.
48. Least forward: SHIEST. Superlative of shy. Have never seen that spelling. Collins dictionary says it is British spelling.
50. Didn't play: SAT.
52. In the manner of: ALA.
54. Bus alternative: TAXI.
55. Similar (to): AKIN.
56. San __: Riviera resort: REMO. Wikipedia has it as one word.
57. Transmit: SEND.
59. Ingrid's "Casablanca" role: ILSA.
60. Optimistic: ROSY.
61. There are five in ten: TWOS.
62. Word with dance or root: TAP.
63. Sedona, for one: KIA. Car model, not city.
Notes from C.C.:
1) Happy 81st
birthday to Commander Al (Spitzboov), who has generously helped me with many problems over the years. Al served in the Navy
Reserve for over 20 years and continues to be involved in various navy activities. Because of Spitzboov, Boomer and I have the best flag in the neighborhood.
Argyle and Spitzboov
(August 23, 2014, Washington County Fair)
3) Happy 83rd Birthday to John28man! So happy that all your medical problems are under control and you continue to enjoy an active life, John!
45 comments:
A yappy PEKINGESE, in a FIT OF PIQUE
Barked at the curtains, the door, and next week!
It was the PEAK SEASON
For her loosing all reason!
A LUNAR cycle of insisting to TAKE A PEEK!
ESAU AVERS that he took a VOW
To marry MARY, if her Pop would ALLOW.
It would be hard to elope,
Since Pop's LASSO rope
Had already dragged him to the town hoosegow!
An angry old woman from HAITI
To our President was not a lady!
"If he thinks that my land
Is an ess-hole strand,
Then he's the ass-hole who is hate-y!"
{B+, B, X/P.}
Ear ear cornies. Good Wednesday. Humpa, humpa, humpa!
Thank you Mark McClain for this crunchy Wednesday CW. P & P paid big dividends as I FIR.
Thank you melissa bee for this review with "Sway" - see below.
On Mar 16, 2019, 23 D we met Squee-worthy: TOTES ADORBS.
In the wee of the night I enjoy a sitcom set in NYC. Today I heard and read [ (cc), not C.C.] TOTES ADORBS twice, and also TOTES by itself. I would not even have noticed it before Mar 16th.
Lemonade714 warned me of The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. Today's experience supports his observation.
Today at 70 A Moves rhythmically: SWAYS. I was introduced to the voice of Michael Buble. At 2:30 in the dance video we get a full view of Dasha's face, than she literally skips across the dance floor, awesome dancing.
I'm am enjoying Michael as I type with Michael Buble Greatest Hits - The Best Of Michael Buble.
Thank you C.C. for the PIC of you with your flag, and the one of Argyle and Spitzboov. Happy birthday.
Ðave
FIR, and my long-suffering eraser got a day off! I forgot to look for the theme, so maybe it was only a partial FIR.
Tourist areas have PEAK SEASON, off SEASON and shoulder SEASON(s). Florida camping is at the end of peak season.
Until I put in the final "K", TAKE A PEEK was something I do a lot more often as I age.
I love WILLIE Nelson music. I wonder if his tour bus driver wears a gas mask to keep from getting high from second-hand smoke?
HBDTY, Spitz. Coming from PA Dutch ancestry I always enjoy the German lessons. I wish I had the opportunity to meet our dear Santa.
Thanks for the fun, quick Wednesday puzzle, Mark. And thanks to mb for the informative tour. I too still get fooled by the SOFT G types of fill. But being a bad speler I wasn't surprised by SHIEST, I just waited for I/y from the perp.
Tomorrow is a travel day, but it is a short hop to Savannah and I may be able to play. If not, I'll be back Friday or Monday (from Norfolk!).
Good Morning, Melissa Bee and friends. I like this type of puzzle. The PEKINGESE came easily. I liked how the "peek" sound alternated between the beginning and the end of each theme answer.
My favorite clue was They Form "Cages" = RIBS.
Nice, too, to have the ALP near the SKI AREA.
Here is a memorable REGIFT scene from Seinfeld.
Happy Birthday, Spitzboov! Happy Birthday to you, too, John28Man.
QOD: A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ~ Alfréd Rényi (Mar. 20, 1921 ~ Feb. 1, 1970), Hungarian mathematician
Good morning
Needed Wite-Out to change CAR to KIA, but otherwise my grid is clean this morning. Nice theme with no icky fill. I liked it. Thanx, Mark and Melissa Bee.
WILLIE: I've got 14 of his albums on my music server, 17 if you count collaborations.
SWAY: That song always reminds me of the Bobby Rydell version from the '60s.
ALP (Eiger, for one): Made me think of The Eiger Sanction with Clint Eastwood.
REMO: The San REMO Golden Strings were a recording group from, you guessed it, Detroit.
Happy Birthday, Spitz. I always enjoy your etymological adventures. HBD, also, to John28man.
Taxing day. Gotta run.
I'm about 3 days behind reading the newspapers (and it's pretty pathetic), so I decided to take a PEEK at a puzzle today. After PIQUE & PEKINGESE were filled it was obvious PEAK & PEEK would follow.
MARYS.- Better clue would been "A queen and a little lamb owner"- never heard of that school.
RE-GIFT- never done it by I have never understood why people would give people gifts of things that they would expect the recipient to display in their house or wear. Decorate your own house and pick your own clothes, like C.C.'s short-shorts and sleeveless top standing in front of the flag. She picked her own.
Good morning. Thank you Mark McClain and thank you Melissa.
Happy Birthday Spitzboov. I always enjoy your observations and translations.
Happy Birthday john28man. You aren't visiting us quite as often. I hope you still enjoy solving. Don't be a stranger.
Had to look for the theme after the tada. Didn't want to slow down and lose focus during the solve.
Mark managed to have us feeling warm with GLOW, and snubbed with FIT OF PIQUE.
Hand up for waiting for the perp to tell me whether it would be shyest or shiest. Superlative forms of words that end in Y sometimes have both spellings.
Still haven't read all of yesterday's comments. Checkup at the dentist early. Then had to fix the front yard lamp pole that blew down in the wind the other day. After 20 plus years, the steel pole was mostly rusted off at the base. The 3" OD steel pole fits nicely inside a piece of 3" ID section of PVC pipe. Good as new.
Greetings!
Thanks to Mark and mb!
Happy birthday ro Splynter and John!
Easy puzzle! Still at awful rehab home. Not getting any better.
Have a great day!
Good Morning.
Happy Birthday, Spitz. I, too, enjoy your German lessons. Danke.
Thanks Mark and Melissa. I had a lot of trouble again today with parsing and thinking out side the box. Oops, I mean grid. Eventually I completed the puzzle correctly. I didn't see the theme, but it was a good one!
Happy Spring!
Happy Birthday John28Man.
Everyone, enjoy your day.
Good Morning:
As Melissa noted, the theme was evident after the first two entries, but that, in no way, spoiled the solve. My only nit is the lack of St. for Mary's entry, especially since the school is not well known. No w/os or stumbles with this easy Wednesday.
Thanks, Mark, for always entertaining us so well and thanks, Melissa, for always not only entertaining us, but enlightening us. I do play Words With Friends and have had the same two opponents for over six years; one is a male from St. Louis and the other is a female from Australia. Coincidentally, my male Friend's wife's maiden name is the same as mine and her first name is Margaret, same as my sister Peggy.
Happy Birthday, Spitz. I hope you and Betty paint the town red! 🎂🎁🎉🎈🍾
Happy Birthday, John28Man, hope your day is fun and festive.
CC, thanks for posting the photos.
Have a great day.
I think I went comma crazy in my first sentence but I'm sure you get the gist.
John28Man, I'm sorry I forgot to add your 🎂🎁🎉🎈🍾
Nice homonym puzzle - though depending on where you are from they might not all sound like homonyms! I can never remember that PEKINGESE has the G - but it makes sense if you remember the breed is from China-- I wonder if they will change it to "Beijingese" at some point :)
I'm with IM/Agnes - my sis went to school at Trinity University just down the road from St. MARYS U in San Antonio - and I have never heard it called just MARYS, but it was filled with perps.
Thanks Mark and Melissa!
Happy birthday Spitzboov and John- hope it's nicer weather there than here!
Continue prayers for those in Nebraska affected by the flooding. Encouraged by the relief response!
https://www.1011now.com/content/news/NSP-says-mission-complete-as-relief-convoy-wraps-Fremont-run-507293071.html
Good morning everyone.
Happy Birthday to John28man. All the best.
Neat theme but really only focussed on it after it was done. Interesting theme. Easy for a Wednesday. Only pause was I had SOFTG in the NW and scratched my chin. Then the light went on: General opening? - - Aha 'SOFT G'.
TWAIN - Probably included due to taking the author's first name. 😎
Thanks everyone for the good wishes and kind thoughts. You are a good group.
Great cloudless morning today.
Wishing you all a great day.
This cloudless day reminds me of time spent in southern California some years ago . Never a cloud in the sky , it seemed . After returning home to the mid northwest we received photos from a dear older lady friend of skies filled with puffy white clouds. Very pretty but to her a rare enough occurance that it warranted taking pictures of them. Made DW and me smile.
Happy birthday Spitzboov , I always look for and enjoy your posts. I remember the picture of you and Argyle from when it first appeared on the corner. It must have been nice to have known him as a personal friend.
OwenKl thanks for the chuckles
{A, A, A+}
Thanks Mark McCain for a fun challenge this morning.
Melissa bee Great job on the review.
Finished the puzzle in reasonably quick time , but with one wrong WAG at the Natik crossing of ITALO & ELO .
First fills were CIRCA & SOFTG
Went counter clockwise from there and ended at the top of the ALP.
PK when I reached 31 accross I smiled as I thought of the time when you said your TACT was intact because you hadn’t used it yet.
Cheers
To my understanding of the idiom the poke does not in fact contain a pig. That's the whole point of the saying, and when the cat is let out of the bag, the fraud is revealed.
Musings
-Hundreds of families in our town have suffered REVERSALS due to BREACHES in dikes that caused our record flood that precipitated (ironic word) a visit from this man yesterday
-My TACT was stretched to the limit in planning a funeral with two families who were both in a fit of PIQUE
-M_RYS (sans ST.) was a small natick crossing IT_LO but the “A” seemed reasonable
-My sister-in-law’s texts are always full or LOL’s, TEE’s and Emojis. What’s next, TOTES ADORBS? :-)
-To Victor Borge Giuseppe Verdi was Joe Green
-VOTE FOR PEDRO was a ubiquitous JH T-Shirt when Napoleon Dynamite was big
-The second Ali/Liston fight was in Maine because other states wouldn’t SANCTION the bout
-What “SWAYS with a wiggle when she walks” in the 1958 Playmates hit?
-What buying a used car is
-Golfers know what a huge breakthrough this is (look carefully)
-Don’t hit SEND until you are ABSOLUTELY SURE!!
-AMAZING to me - I see WILLIE and called up and played My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys in a heartbeat. Gotta love technology!
-HBD Commander and John28man! Lovely pic C.C.!
Its nice to know someone besides me gets fooled by "general opening", etc besides me. Ha
Wonderful Wednesday. Thanks for the fun, Mark and Melissa.
Fairly quick solve today with only a couple of whiteouts. And I got the theme.
Hand up for not putting the G in PEKINGESE. (I had a double E before REGIFT forced the G.) That is a silent G, not a SOFT G.
After having Ozzie last week, I started to enter Rickie for "Singer Nelson".
Square would not fit for "word with dance or root". TAP filled the spot.
I smiled at the clue for RIB, and was misdirected with Sedona.
"Swear" was only VOW not Avow, but then I LOLed at the cross with AVERS!
Also another typical CW dilemma with LASSO (not Noose, Riata or Reata).
Some words from other languages that have been incorporated into English: PIQUE and APROPOS from French, CIRCA from Latin.
St. MARY's was unknown to me but I was sure that AnonT would fill it in immediately.
D4 - Glad you are enjoying the music of Canadian Michael Buble. He returned to his singing career last summer after a two year hiatus while his son battled cancer.BubleReturns
fermatprime - Hang in there. We are thinking of you.
Continued thoughts and prayers for all those affected by the Nebraska flooding.
Happy Birthday to Spitzboov and John28man.
Wishing you all a great day.
PS. C.C. had a nice offering in USA Today!
Addendum
-Michael Buble’ was the very first concert in Lincoln’s beautiful, new Pinnacle Arena and will play there again this Saturday where it has been a sold out event for months.
D4 and other BUBLÉ fans.....he has a special on NBC tonight at 10PM.
This Wednesday puzzle went together quickly.
No markovers today.
Happy Hump Day.
Best birthday wishes to the birthday kids.
Got up early, so had time to do the puzzle before my busy teaching day gets underway. Lots of fun, Mark--many thanks. I loved the way it just filled in even with tricky moments like that TG (oh, SOFT G, I actually got it) at the end of a word, and TSH at the beginning (oh, T SHIRT, now I get it). For once I got pretty much every single name in the puzzle, ELENA, ITALO, TWAIN, WILLIE, VERDI--a huge treat, woohoo, many thanks, Mark. And on a drive with my son along the Riviera many years ago, we decided to stop for the night in a place called SAN REMO. We'd never heard of it, but it turned out to be a lovely town. Thank you, also, for your neat commentary, Melissa.
Happy birthday, Spitzboov and John28Man.
So sorry you're still not feeling better, Fermatprime--my heart goes out to you.
Have a great day, everybody.
Irish Miss
Thanks for inadvertently giving DW and me a learning moment. We've had a neighbor named Peggy and also a niece named Peggy but never knew the connection to Margaret. We heard Maggie for Margaret, but not Peggy. DW LIU and found Margaret came from an English derivative of a name meaning pearl and Peggy- little pearl. :)
Buenos dias, amigos y amigas!
Thank you, Mark McClain and Melissa Bee!
WEES. I, too, was puzzled by the lack of ST. in MARY'S.
The G in PEKINGESE surprised me and was tricky to spell; I can't recall ever having to write it. My grandmother had one and she constantly sat by her feet or faithfully followed her around.
I had no idea the Javanese observed a LUNAR calendar. The things I learn here are astounding.
AVERS/VOW was clever!
The only time I REGIFT is at our White Elephant party when gifts are expected to be unusual
A very happy birthday to you, Spitz!
And a very happy birthday to you, John38man!
I hope you both celebrate elaborately.
Fermat:
I'm sorry to hear you are not better. Prayers for you.
Have a grand day, everyone!
C.C., not only do you have the best flag in your neighborhood, I bet you have the best legs, too!!
I don't know if this is true, but I have heard that pekingese were also known as "sleeve dogs", because noble women used to carry them in the sleeves of their very grand kimonos. Anyone?
Becky
Happy Birthday SptizBoov!
As you get older, the Ship cakes have to get bigger,
to hold all the candles...
hAving trouble find a John28man cake, when I Googled, this came up?
Anyway, I thought you would prefer this over a Dear John Cake...
What is a Homonym? says here that they are used to make bad puns...
hmm, what to do...
There are so many...
Ack! Too many puns!
I will leave you with this sad story of an inbred cat...
Happy birthdays to Spitzboov and John28man, a couple of geezers who make this Ol'Man feel almost young again!
Ta ~ DA!
Dunno whether I hate or enjoy clues like 17A. I had to revisit SOFT G several times before the penny dropped.
Misty ~
How lucky for you to have stayed in SAN REMO! I once spent some dawdling time along the Italian Riviera, but not in SAN REMO. I know of the town because of the famous music festival there, a great source (via the festival's recordings) for music to be used as background scores for stage plays.
I am more familiar with offbeat areas on the French Riviera. My favorite was a little town called Ste. Maxime-Sur-Mer, outside of St. Tropez. We once spent a couple of weeks at the Hotel Brutus right on the water.
I loved the sheer luxury of swimming in the cold ocean and coming right back to a hot shower in my own room.
Aha-aaaa...
Happy Springtime, everyone!
~ OMK
____________
DR: One on each side today.
Neither side offers anything brilliant in the anagram department. The most appropriate for this beautiful* first day of spring can be found on the near side. I refer to the spirit of this day's energy, epitomized by...
"PEP FROLICS"!
*I mean of course in SoCal, our answer to the Riviera's climate.
Arrgh.
My computer updated and removed my google login, so I just lost my witty, pithy comment. Now you all are stuck with this one.
Which serves you right for your blatant attack of politeness. MARYS as clued is garbage. The university in all of its incarnations is always ST. Marys . I love Mark's puzzles, and Rich Norris and his staff, but this is intolerable! Did you know the school is in ANTONIO ? I stopped there once on way to ANGELES. I stopped in RICA RICO and MAARTEN on the way home. Come on!
Otherwise, Homonym puzzles are fun. My favorite REMO was REMO WILLIAMS in the books, not the movies. There have been more than 150 books published in the series.
Happy birthday and many more to Al and John.
As a side note, Melissa is the longest running blogger here (other than C.C.) starting a few months before me. If you read carefully, you know who my new Friday partner will be.
Thank you, Mark and our own Melissa B, who visits much more literate prisons than I.
Happy Birthday spitzboov!
Thank you to all the Birthday Greetings from the CC gang.
We are snow birds and are enjoying an 80 degree day at our Valley of the Sun home.
I liked this puzzle. I usually like Mark's work. Hand up for being fooled by that SOFT G and hand up for loving the clue for RIBS. If I had a third hand I'd raise it to indicate my agreement with the MARYS comments. When I got TSH I kept thinking of tchotchke and couldn't break out of that rut; even after totally filling TSHIRT I kept asking myself what the heck is a tschirt. That penny must have had some sticky stuff on it because it took a long time to drop.
Good wishes to you all and special birthday handshakes to Spitzboov and John28man.
Ferm @ 9:16 ~ Sorry you're still having difficulty. What do the therapists think?
OAS @ 1:18 ~ I've always wondered how Peg came from Margaret. Maggie, Margie, even Meggie seem so much more related. I'll have to tell Sis that she's a real "gem". Next mystery is how does John translate to Jack? Or James to Jim? My mother was Mary but was called Mamie by everyone. I wonder if Mamie Eisenhower was a true Mamie. Names and nicknames run the gamut, don't they?
CED @ 1:44 ~ The Inbred Cat takes first prize! 🎖
Lemon ~
You are so right about MARYS. That one [Grr-owl] gave me paws.
It wouldn't have taken any time to fix the cluing. There are other MARYS. But if the university was desired, it might have been, "A univ. saint (or a saint of higher ed.) in San Antonio."
~ OMK
From Jinx in Augustine:
Or Dick for Richard, Beto and Bob from Robert, Bill from William, Ted from Edward.
I worked with a guy in Abejo's company named Bill Heim. I nicknamed him Kaiser Bill Heim, or just "The Kaiser".
It seems to me that we have been making excuses for Rich and his staff alot more often of late. It has gone from maybe a yearly mistake to a monthly or even bi-monthly one. Some are more serious than others but mistakes nonetheless. I know most will consider this criticism too harsh but I was used to much higher quality 3, 4 or 5 years ago. Rich NEVER made mistakes. I wonder often if we will see, in our lifetime, the demise of the daily puzzle being in print and if this inevitable reality is contributing to the lax oversight. I know my local paper no longer employs a sports department and as a result the sports page has become a embarrassment. No dedicated reporter for any local professional team. A one column width report on the local high school scores which I suspect if a contributed by the students themselves. Everything else is borrowed from the USAtoday reporters or other national suppliers.
My long and winding diatribe can be summed up with: do you think Rich and his staff or being slowly phased out?
Oh shoot. I forgot to add another point to my post re LATimes quality. I'm not local but I read with amazement with the problems Misty has with the delivery of her paper. It just seems inexcusable that such a well known paper cannot distribute its product effectively. Its seems even a normal rainstorm caused problems. Maybe they are just not that concerned about that form of the product anymore and are slowly moving to electronic delivery only.
Next is the outsourcing of the games page. Then sports. Remember when each paper employed their own political cartoonists? I think they all work from home now and submit their work electronically across multiple papers.
Btw, I'm not saying any of this is necessarily bad but just trying to find an excuse for the quality of the LATimes crossword.
Got a chuckle out of that, thanks .
Named our baby girl Robin . Litte brother could only say bobbin so we called her Bobbi . In school two Robins in clas so she became Bobbi in school . I shortened it to Bob and it stuck with me . Her better half calls her Bird.
Nice to hear your Riviera story, Ol'Man Keith.
Anonymous, I believe we learned later that some of our LA Times delivery problems were caused by a nation-wide hacking problem rather than by local incompetence. But the Times could have let us know that at the time.
AnonymousPVX at 11:35 AM
Wrote "D4 and other BUBLÉ fans.....he has a special on NBC tonight at 10PM."
Before melissa bee introduced us to Michael Buble today I had only seen him on a commercial. I knew nothing about him.
On many days I would post early in the day, but not read comments. I read PVX before supper, in time to make plans for 10:00.
Ðave
Thanks again for all the good wishes on my birthday. Had a very good day and BH cooked me a favorite dinner.
Oas @ 1011. It was a privilege to have finally met up with Argyle in August of 2014. We grew up in neighboring counties and as a youth, we would attend the Washington Co. fair which was actually closer to our home than our own county fair in Saratoga County. We had scheduled a sort of family reunion at fair time so we were in the area and Argyle arranged his schedule so we could meet at the Fair. He struck me as a somewhat shy and humble man but I knew how bright and sharp he was from his Blog record. I wished I could have drawn him out more, to tell about his Marine experiences, but many veterans are quiet about things like that.
Thanks again for your comment.
happy birthday to spitzboov (curious what your favorite dinner is) and john28man.
lemonade, in this particular facility i was visiting last weekend, there are a variety of games in the visiting room, and also crossword puzzle books. i was disappointed they were all "easy crosswords." but scrabble and cards are always the most popular there.
the picture of santa with spitz is bittersweet.
anonymouspvx, thx for the note about buble's special tonight.
Easy listening Buble'! eh?
Hi All!
Thanks Mark, that was a fun puzzle to suss, especially for us poor (pour?) spellers.
Thanks mb for delightful expo - Vote for Pedro!
WOs: SHyEST; PEKeNGESE
ESP: ITALO
Fav: Seeing WILLIE in the puzzle.
Jinx - They didn't mention it in Popular Mechanics.
{B+, A, A+}
FLN - Lucina: No I'm too far from the fire; they did put it out this morning.
HBD Spitz & John28 - you both share your birthday with 97yro Carl Reiner. [Dick Van Dyke tweeted that this morning].
C, Eh! - You're right. We passed St. MARY's a few weeks ago coming back from Youngest's dance competition in San Antonio.
Can you Marie Kondo your Condo? No, Kondo is not a verb. :-(
Cheers, -T
Great puzzle & expo, thanks, Mark & Melissa.
Just stopped in on my way to Mensas to say Happy Birthday to Spitz & John28man.
OAS: of all things, I never expected to be remembered for my TACTful remark.
Gary, noticed the Big Man sent Pence to look at your flood. That's okay. Someone calculated how much it cost local law enforcement in taxpayer's money for security when Trump visited here. Nebraska has better ways to spend it's money right now. But I'd make sure he never receives any Omaha Steaks -- ever -- if the cattle industry is still afloat up there after this.
Anonymous @ 4:07 and 4:16 --
I am afraid you have stumbled onto another aspect of the demise of American news media. It costs money to have all these fripperies -- like real sports reporting, political cartoonists, news bureaus anywhere beyond city limits, investigative reporting -- so why should a 'loss center' like crosswords, sudoku, or games in general, be exempt?
Our local news paper would die if there were no fax machines to provide space filler, and yet wants big dollars for the [quite sporadic] home delivery six days a week. A certain unnamed potenate decries the 'fake media,' but actually they are better named the 'lame media.'
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