Theme: Three Sheets to the Wind
17. It may require a permission slip: SCHOOL EVENT.
27. Nearly one-third of Africa: SAHARA DESERT.
43. Gathering with much networking: SCHMOOZEFEST.
57. Table with columns, and what literally can be found in 17-, 27- and 43-Across: SPREADSHEET.
The word SHEET is S-P-R-E-A-D across each theme answer. Added and impressive bonus that each answer begins with S and ends with T. Constructors must be always thinking of theme ideas. I am in awe of their creativity.
Melissa here. When I flew out to my daughter's last Thursday our power had just been restored following a freak snowstorm, and we had to shovel the driveway to get out. I returned last night and there's still snow everywhere but roads are clear and most everyone has power again. Some were without for a full week. It reminds me how spoiled I am, so accustomed to modern conveniences.
Across:
1. Nurse Barton: CLARA. She founded the Red Cross.
6. Work with a libretto: OPERA. Sneaky - noun, not verb.
11. Capture: BAG.
14. Spring for a drink?: OASIS.
15. Piece of info: DATUM.
16. "What __ the odds?": ARE.
19. "Narcos" org.: DEA.
20. First encounter in a romcom: MEET CUTE. I had not heard this term before. Wikipedia: "In film and television, a meet cute is a scene in which the two people who will form a future romantic couple meet for the first time. This type of scene is a staple of romantic comedies." At right is from You've Got Mail. I may be the last person to have seen the newest movie version of A Star is Born, which contains a meet cute that sets the tone for the relationship between Jackson and Ally. I love the stripped down look of Lady Gaga. The encore version with 12 extra minutes is in theaters for only one week, beginning March 1st. So good.
21. Open, as a gate latch: UNBAR. Interesting discussion here regarding castle gates. About halfway down are four pictures of real castle gates, and some points about barred gate doors.
23. Pigs out (on), briefly: ODS. Overdoses.
24. Believer's suffix: IST. Buddhist.
25. General sense: TENOR.
31. Roadside business: MOTEL. Motels differ from hotels in that they have fewer rooms, are typically one or two levels, and guests access their rooms from outside rather than a corridor.
34. Decorating job on "Cake Boss": ICER.
35. Coin-op gas station machine output: AIR. No free air any more.
36. Grand-scale production: EPIC.
37. Extra feature: ADD-ON.
39. "And your point is?": OK, SO?
40. Drumstick: LEG.
41. Guys-only party: STAG. Stag vs. Buck.
42. Let up: EASED.
47. Neutral shade: TAUPE.
48. __Clean: stain remover: OXI.
49. Tarzan raiser: APE. My daughter's baby shower last Saturday included a game to match Disney characters with their parents. I now know that Tarzan's (adoptive) mother was an ape named Kala. They have their own meet cute.
52. Razor sharpener: STROP.
54. Time-out: BREATHER.
56. Seek the affections of: WOO. I like this word.
60. Rock concert need: AMP. Short for amplifier.
61. Angel who directs Satan to Earth in "Paradise Lost": URIEL.
62. Speak formally: ORATE.
63. "__-haw!": YEE.
64. Diver's gem: PEARL.
65. Renoir subjects: NUDES.
Down:
1. Pink drink, for short: COSMO.
2. Tied, as sneakers: LACED.
3. Volcanic particles: ASHES.
4. Real hoot: RIOT.
5. Hardly gregarious: ASOCIAL.
6. One-named folk singer: ODETTA.
7. Make car-friendly: PAVE.
8. Saison that starts in juin: ETE. French for Summer. Wiktionary.
9. Diamond score: RUN. Baseball.
10. Radio component: AM TUNER.
11. Instances of rotten luck: BAD BREAKS.
12. Carpet calculation: AREA.
13. PRNDL selection: GEAR. Park, Reverse, Neutral, Drive, Low.
18. Like rainforests: LUSH.
22. Turndowns: NOS.
25. Tex-Mex snack: TACO. Tex Mex vs. Mexican food.
26. Genesis place: EDEN.
27. Jiffy: SEC.
28. Blue __ Mountains: RIDGE. I heard John Denver's Country Road lyrics in my head. If Only John Denver Had a Map.
29. Prepare to sing an anthem: RISE.
30. Stepped (on): TROD.
31. "Alice" diner: MELS. Interesting facts about the movie and spinoff tv series.
32. Oil org.: OPEC. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
33. Metaphor for a precarious course: TIGHTROPE.
37. Surmounting: ATOP.
38. Bewildered state: DAZE.
39. Granola bar morsel: OAT.
41. Makes more powerful: SOUPS UP. I always thought of this phrase as enhancing the appearance, but most definitions I found lead with increasing power.
42. Co-host of the sports radio show "Boomer and Gio": ESIASON. Was not aware of this show.
44. Chinese chairman: MAO.
45. Last words of the Pledge of Allegiance: FOR ALL. "[...] with liberty and justice for all." An honorable goal - I wish it were really true.
46. Deleted, with "out": EXED.
49. In the future: AHEAD.
50. Golfer Calvin: PEETE.
51. Some Deco collectibles: ERTES. Unmistakable style.
52. Persuade: SWAY.
53. Big volume: TOME.
54. Stein filler: BEER.
55. By way of, briefly: THRU. "Briefly" indicates a shortened spelling. Through vs. Thru.
58. Register opening?: PRE.
59. River inlet: RIA.
Note from C.C.:
As Melissa mentioned earlier, she visited her daughter last week. Here are two gorgeous pictures. They just look like from a fairy tale. Jaelyn's little sister, Harper Rose, is expected sometime around 5/2/19.
This is going to be a beautiful year for Melissa, who's been working hard for years championing Adopt an Inmate.
60 comments:
FIWrong. OXy instead of OXI. The cross ESyASON looked weird, but ESIASON looks even weirder!
SCHOOL EVENT S.H...E.E.T
SAHARA DESERT S.H....E.E.T
SCHMOOZE FEST S.H....E.E.T
Caught the S..T pattern in the themers, but needed the reveal to fill the rest of them out. Every other letter, with a gap between SH...EET. Holey SHEET!
In the SAHARA DESERT, an OASIS is hard to find.
But with his built-in water tank, a camel doesn't mind.
It's rare to find a MOTEL
Northward from the Sahel*,
So Timbuktu's the place for a BREATHER to unwind!
Trouble's on the way, so Katy bar the door!
There's a RIOT brewing that everyone's ALL FOR!
It started as a SCHOOL EVENT
But then took on a cooler bent,
And now the TENOR'S FESTIVE, so CLARA UNBAR the door!
The OPERA was an EPIC, with a TENOR solo.
The LUSH was unimpressed, "I guess it's OK, SO?"
An ASOCIAL fan of booze,
He hadn't come to SCHMOOZE
He'd just tagged along because they served a decent COSMO!
{A, B+, B-.}
* Sahel was a new word I picked up from a news report less than a week ago.
C.C. at USAToday
Good morning!
Came here to find out what I did wrong that yielded MEETCUTE. Apparently, nothing. That radio component wasn't an ANTENNA. Didn't recognize the "Boomer and Gio" show (sounds like a cartoon) or the guy's name. OK SO and PRE were unfortunate gluey entries. I found the spread SHEETs after the solve, and noticed that the placement - 1st, 3rd, 5th from end, 3rd from end, last - were as symmetrical as you could get with one 11 and two 12s. Well done, Roland. Cute little princess, MelissaBee.
63A yee-haw ??
Hi Y'all! Great puzzle, Roland! Thanks, Melissa, for another great expo.
Melissa, I liked the window treatments in your picture as well as the lovely descendants.
I noticed the S___T in the theme entries, but like Owen & D-O, needed the reveal to get the SPREAD SHEET. Surely there is a pun in that somewhere, but it evades me.
Never heard of MEET CUTE, URIEL, ODETTA, ESIASON, or PEETE. Those are to SPREAD the mind with learning.
Renoir subjects: I settled for NUDES when Ballet Dancers didn't fit.
TEX MEX: I knew a white man who had been raised on the King Ranch along the Rio Grande in south Texas and grew up speaking fluent Spanish. He claimed that white women couldn't make the best authentic-tasting Mexican food because they insisted on keeping their kitchens too clean. And he wasn't making racial slurs. Something about the cleaning chemicals creeping into the tortillas, etc.
FIR, but erased abate for EASED. Drumstick, leg or gam. Makes me miss Splynter. Niles, _ee is on my "wait and see" list so I got that one right the first time.
Does Tin drink COSMOs? I would never call him a rainforest (or a LUSH).
OXI Clean works miracles for me. I hear it is mainly powdered h2o2.
Didn't know ODETTA or URIEL.
Thanks to Roland for the fun Wednesday puzzle. My favorite was SOUPS UP. Takes me back to my ute and big carbs, high lift cams and headers. My least favorite was MEET CUTE. Leave it to the chuckleheads in Hollywood to coin something that inane. And thanks to MB for the fun write-up. Cute grand. When I worked at WMUL-TV (PBS at Marshall University in Huntington, WV) we ended each day with 1) a Lilias, Yoga and You video, 2) slide show set to "Summer Breeze" by Seals & Croft, 3) slide show set to "Country Roads" by John Denver, and 4) slide show set to our National Anthem. We called our sister university, WVU, the University of South Pittsburgh.
PK, I have always heard that one should never eat BBQ at an eatery that doesn't look like it should have already been condemned. Probably the same principle.
Clever theme - which of course I didn't recognize until the reveal answer.
I always thought that it was "SUPED UP" - but looked it up and it is the less common spelling, even though "SOUPED" is short for "supercharged" - gotta love the English language!
I enjoyed the link, Melissa, "If only John Denver had a map". It goes in line with my friend from Virginia who always said that Virginia was heaven on earth. He would quote "Country Roads" by saying "ALMOST heaven" WEST Virginia. Now I know that Virginia is also where the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah River really are!
Thanks Melissa - cute pics! and to Roland for a fun puzzle!
Good morning everyone.
Liked the puzzle. Didn't really care for the theme but liked the theme fill. SCHMOOZE FEST was very Germanic / Yiddish.
AIR - We have a nearby Citgo station that gives free air. Most, though, have a coin operated AIR pump.
SCHMOOZE - Akin to German schmusen, L. German smusen. It has a more physical meaning in German (cuddling, canoodling, smooching). As small kids, getting a hug from your mother was schmusen.
Off to play some bridge.
While at a Jets mini-camp in 1993, Esiason was notified that his two-year-old son, Gunnar, had to be taken to the hospital with breathing difficulties. Soon after, Gunnar was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, a disease of the respiratory and digestive systems. The Boomer Esiason Foundation (BEF) was formed soon afterward to fund research to find a cure for the disease. The Foundation also provides scholarships, transplant grants, hospital grants, education and awareness of cystic fibrosis as to provide higher quality of life for people with CF. The foundation has raised in excess of $100 million as of March 2, 2013, and has supported numerous hospitals, including Cincinnati Children's Hospital with the Gunnar H Esiason CF/Lung Center and Columbia Presbyterian in NYC with the Gunnar H Esiason Adult CF and Lung Program. The foundation has given over $2 million in scholarship grants to CF patients. The foundation is located in New York City and runs numerous events around the country. The Boomer Esiason Foundation annually receives four stars from Charity Navigator.
In 1996, Esiason formed a partnership with Cantor Fitzgerald and Howard Lutnick (CEO) as the foundation offices were moved to the North Tower of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan on the 101st floor. This was destroyed in 2001 in the September 11 attacks. All five full-time employees survived, as none were in the building at the time, but "Esiason figured he knew over 200 people personally" who were killed in the attack, including his best friend Tim O'Brien who was a partner at Cantor.
As of 2017 Gunnar Esiason is an extremely active 26-year-old graduate of Boston College who undergoes daily treatments and takes cystic fibrosis medications.[44] He was a quarterback for his high school football team at Friends Academy in Locust Valley, NY, and played forward on his ice hockey team for the Manhasset/Roslyn varsity hockey team. Gunnar also writes a popular blog and appears daily in a podcast discussing the issues confronting Cystic Fibrosis patients. Gunnar and his father are teammates on their local hockey team.
Well Melissa, You're not the only one who'd never heard of a MEET CUTE. I talked to a professional romcom watcher, aka DW who watches nothing but Hallmark and Lifetime, and it was a new term for her. And who is ODETTA? Looks like nobody here has heard of her either. WAG at that intersection.
As for the SPREAD SHEET, I never saw it.
STAG, until the stripper shows up.
Bob Niles-YEE, HEE, or GEE-haw. Today it was YEE.
CartBoy-are you at a MOTEL or hotel. That's the only place I've ever seen free "USA Today".
PK and the rest of the world- since when were Mexicans NOT considered to be white? Unless they were purebred native Indians, they are also European-American-mestizo. I grew up with many and never gave it a second thought.
Melissa- if John Denver 'knew how to FLY A PLANE-Sober', maybe he would still be around.
URIah before URIEL, shorT (as in end of your) ROPE before TIGHT.
Wiki only shows one (of 70) picture of a Renoir ballet dancer, but many nudes. Degas was the Impressionist famous for dancers.
Some convenience stores still have free air, but not many chain gas stations
Musings
-Stupid me kept looking for adjoining letters for the gimmick, SPREAD/OOZE?
-Work with a libretto was not the verb SCORE
-The TENOR of discussions here are mostly fun, friendly and/or academic
-My next golf shoes may not need to be LACED
-I seek out ASOCIAL kids and school and talk and listen to them
-My daughter used to say, “Hudson’s baseball team scored three points that inning”
-We math peeps know part of integral calculus is calculating the AREA under a curve
-Pledge Of Allegiance grammar issue
-Beautiful pix!
Good Morning:
I had no clue what the theme was until filling in the Aha reveal, and I missed the symmetry until coming to the blog. I needed perps for Uriel and Meet Cute. Once I entered Meet Cute, I recalled having had that phrase explained before; it must have been in the other paper's puzzle. Gear took a while as I was thinking of Neut., Park, etc. My favorite fill was Schmooze Fest and I thought of our Boomer when Esiason showed up.
Thanks, Roland, for a fun solve and thanks, Melissa B, for the entertaining expo, especially the baby Tarzan video. Sweet pictures.
I hope our New Orleans contingent survived Mardi Gras!
Have a great day.
Gary, I wish Holmes Braddock would spend his energy on something that might actually make a difference - for instance, impose the death penalty (career-wise of course) for teachers who infect students with the idea that the USA is a democracy. (A democracy is a lamb and two wolves deciding what's for dinner.)
Good morning.
I see I wasn't the only one that took work for a verb. Compounded by the first urge of CCC for diamond score. Cut, Clarity and Carat, but there are 4 Cs of course, with Color being the other. So cut went in for awhile and I moved on. Finished the rest pretty quickly but stayed stymied up top until I latched onto DATUM and EVENT. Last to fill was the second T in the unknown ODETTA.
Thank you Melissa and Roland Huget. I liked each of your links, Melissa.
Had anybody seem the 2006 film 'The Holiday'? In it, Eli Wallach, as an old retired screenwriter, explains 'meet cute' to Kate Winslet. And this romcom actually has two meets cute (meet cutes?).
Sorry. 'Seen', not 'seem'.
Thank you for the charming pictures, Melissa.
Roland, I was very impressed the way you split the spreading of the sheet, not only beginning S and ending T, but the H was the third letter of each fill. Great work.
Odetta Holmes, later known just as Odetta, was born on December 31, 1930, in Birmingham, Alabama. An elementary teacher noticed her singing voice and encouraged her mother to get Odetta formal training. In 1956 released her first solo album, Odetta Sings Ballads and Blues. Her music has been called the "soundtrack of the Civil Rights Movement." In 1999, President Bill Clinton awarded her the National Medal of Arts. She died on December 2, 2008.Biography.
She appeared here in two puzzles last year, February 18, 2018, a Sunday and on April 20, 2018, a puzzle I blogged.
Sandy, you mean this MOVIE ?
Sandyanon @ 10:42 ~ Thank you for reminding me of where I heard the Meet Cute explanation. BTW, I loved that movie, probably due to the great cast.
Good morning, folks. Thank you, Roland Huget, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Melissa Bee, for a fine review.
Got it all pretty easily except for the NW corner. I had CLARA and ODS easy enough, but the rest was tough. MEET CUTE was a new term for me, as well as the clue ROMCOM. Oh well, live and learn. With perps and some slogging along I got it done.
Had to print the puzzle from Mensa. Cruciverb was out to lunch again.
Tried OXY before ESIASON corrected that to OXI. Only inkblot.
8 degrees this morning at the Crossing. Supposed to warm up from now on. Hard to believe this weekend is daylight saving time and it is still below freezing.
My sister, who had a stroke in December, is supposed to be going home in about a week. I will be going through Erie on the 24th and will stop in to see her. She is still recovering, but it is going in the right direction. Thank the Lord.
See you tomorrow.
Abejo
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Today's pzl from Mr. Huget seemed appropriately tough for humpday, but it was still quite doable.
Sandy ~
I missed that film. I'll have to look it up.
Lemonade ~
I had the privilege of seeing/hearing ODETTA back in the '60s, when I was on the faculty at William College and she came to give a concert. Amazing!
~ OMK
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DR: One diagonal today--on the mirror side.
Its anagram honors some anonymous MP Sergeant, the Unknown ...
"NONCOM GUARD"!
I had to work hard on this puzzle, with a tougher time in the north than in the south. Surprisingly I got SCHMOOZEFEST pretty early, which tickled me and made me determined to keep going to get the rest. Tada! It worked, and finally the words under CLARA and OPERA began to fill in. Lots of unknowns--PRNDL and ESIASON and PEETE, among others. Don't remember any Renoir NUDES but I got the word anyhow. And in the end the theme answer filled in and it was fun to find the SHEETs in the three theme answers. Delightful Wednesday puzzle--many thanks, Roland (almost spelled it Rowland, my sweet late husband's name). And thanks for the many helpful explanations (especially the one for MOTEL) and the lovely pictures of daughter and granddaughter, Melissa.
Liked your third poem, Owen.
I hope your sister has a good recovery, Abejo.
Have a great day, everybody.
Big Easy: We had Mexican exchange students in our home that ranged from one pale with freckles whose father was a German immigrant to Mexico to several with deep tans who were pure Mayan. Enjoyed all of them very much.
Thank you, Roland and Melissa! Beautiful pictures, Mel, and like PK I also admired the window treatments.
Fun and fast puzzle today with the ASHES appearing appropriately. In fact, I'm going in about 20 minutes to get mine.
All went well for me except MEET CUTE/ODETTA both of which seemed logical but I resisted since MEET CUTE sounded strange. I saw The Holiday but it was a long time ago.
And yesterday I saw A Star is Born only to see Sam Shepard. It's an OK movie and the music isn't too offensive. What is offensive is all the f-bombs. I just don't see the need for them and it spoils the movie for me.
I like OPERA and TENOR in the same puzzle. URIEL was an angel in the Bible, too.
Time to go.
Have a good ASH Wednesday, everyone!
Mexicans are considered non-white if they have any Native traits. Like PK I've seen the entire range from stark white to almost black.
The first line in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore is when she walks out her screen back door to scream. "SOCORRO SUCKS!!"
My Aunt Gwen met her husband there at the School of Mines, and my Mema Ivie taught school there for any years. It's just a very small town with a plaza. It used to have an aquecia behind my Mema's house, but that's been buried now. It was fun to play in, though.
I loved seeing schmoozefest I cottoned onto that quickly.
I do lurk daily, y'all, just don't post much. My best to everyone, SoCal is getting a lot of rain, some lightening and thunder, too! Some fun!!
Becky
Hi everybody.
I enjoyed the puzzle and write up. Thanks.
I remember Odetta from the folk music era along with The Weavers, Pete Seeger, etc. She had a BIG voice.
I did a CC puzzle a couple of days ago, either from WSJ or USA Today. It was titled something like "Who Am I?" I finished the puzzle OK but never figured out the theme. Any help?
Bill G, in C.C's "Who am I ?" puzzle, each of the 4 clues that start with "I'm" are riddles.
Forgot about Ash Wednesday until Lucina wished it for us.
That takes me back to when I was the only Protestant in my Catholic school in San Francisco. The nuns were usually good about separating me from the class whenever some church activity was planned. But I slipped by them to the priest who was marking
foreheads, and I loved getting my ashes.
My parents were amused, and I wore the ashes proudly until they were no more. I had no idea of their significance, and I suspect none of us cared much about anything but being a member of the in-group.
Now that I am a non-theist, I look back on those innocent days and wonder that the grown-ups didn't have some misgivings about our motivations. I'm sure some of my old classmates grew up to embrace their faith, while others shed it along with other things of youth.
(1 Corinthians 13:11)
This puzzle presented a bit of a struggle to me, but I chugged along until it was suddenly done, all without having to look anything up or use red letters. I vaguely remember the term MEET CUTE which I didn't care for and still don't. I put in MEET GIRL, as in "boy meets girl..." Put in DATUM, took it out because I wanted ANTENNA, then put it back in again. Love the phrase SCHMOOZE FEST; I guess smooch is related to schmooze. Didn't remember URIEL. TIGHTROPE is a nifty fill.
Thanks for the informative write-up, Melissa. Glad the snow didn't cause you or your family any harm.
I have often wondered what the heck "Hispanic" actually means and on what basis anybody makes such a distinction. Am I "Germanic"? If so, what does it actually mean?
I would love to rant about "Palestinian" but I won't.
Good wishes to you all.
When you're a kid, one of the perks of getting ashes on your forehead is that you don't have to wash your face for days on end.
~ OMK
Since I spent about 40 years producing SPREADSHEETs for Tax Returns and Audits, this theme made my day.
Way back in the 1970's we did them on 13 column paper in pencil.
I remember "Auditing" Eckerd College, and it took ALL DAY to produce the "Working Trial Balance."
Now, with a computer, that could be done in about 2 hours.
At 14-a, Spring for a drink?, I initially put in "TREAT" before the perps revealed OASIS.
A "Toast-to-ALL" at Sunset.
Cheers!
PK: "Surely there is a pun in that somewhere, but it evades me." You might want to re-read my comment about the "holey SHEET" a wee bit more emphatically. >:-}
I knew MEET CUTE and URIEL, didn't know ODETTA or PEETE
Re: Pledge of Alligence -- I always think it ironic that "under God" was stuck in to the phrase "one nation indivisible", thereby dividing it. Definately symbolic, IMHO.
Jinx: Hoorah! Democracy is mobocracy, the US is a republic!
FLN. Right back atcha Michael. eg wiki leads to more wiki
"Both neoteny and progenesis result in paedomorphism, a type of heterochrony"
I can just see Jeff-wex clueing those babies
Owen, I (and I imagine TinB too) liked #3 best
Btw, re camels. The US Cavalry bought camels for fighting Indians. They gave up the idea and as I recall, set the camels loose.
Are there still wild camels in the deserts?
If I'm not mistaken, Doug Flutie's son had CF and teamed with Boomer.
Reading IM I just"got" PRNDL
MP Sergeant(sic)* story below(also c PEETE**)
"Liked your third poem, Owen"- Me too Misty and likewise the CSO to Rowland -RiP
Time to post
WC
* He was a Corporal who when he raced to a bunker was amazed to find me already there(we'd got AK47 fire on our perimeter) . I'd been behind him
PEETE(Calvin) had the virtue of straight,(driving) Tiger was very appreciative of PEETE's paving the way
The French auto Peugeot not only had door locks that were up for locked and down for unlocked, its automatic shifter was LDNRP.
Is it violating the politics/religion rule to discuss the Pledge of Allegiance? Because I've never had it explained what "under god" was supposed to mean (under god's protection? doing god's will? right by god no matter what we do?), regardless that when Lincoln used it in the Gettysburg address he said "...that this nation shall, under god, have a new birth of freedom" using it as we would "god willing" and thus grammatically nonsensical in the pledge.
In today’s WSJ puzzle “Spinning Yarns” what are the four-lettered words found in the starred answers?
Curious as to what other crossword puzzles some of you do. On my iPad I do WSJ, USA Today, and LA Times.
Well, "under God" was only added years later; maybe the Congress was copying Lincoln???
Lucina, how many besides Uriel can you name without going wiki?
Yes, 14a was a CUTE Clue.
I certainly remember ODETTA
Smooth solve
Sans wiki, "Under God" was inserted much later into the pledge. Perhaps the 50s, the days of the NH motto: "Live Free or Die'
WC
TTP, ah yes. I kinda had it figured out but your explanation pulled it all together. Thanks.
I remember when "under God" was first added. I was confused for months afterward.
Wilbur, definitely the 50's, under Eisenhower.
And apparently, per Wiki., "In God We Trust" was only added to paper currency in 1957, also under Eisenhower. Interesting
CartBoy @ 6:25 ...
Thanks for the pointer for CC's USA appearance.
This Wednesday puzzle went rather quickly.
“SOUPS UP”....also means “time to eat”....”ON” means “I’m cooking, be ready soon”.
And no markovers today.
Also....I’m currently “souping up” my 92 Miata with a supercharger. This will fix the only real fault of the Miata, the lack of power from a stop. I’m a bit weary of minivans out pulling me. Plus it’ll save me thousands, as the next step if I traded out this car would be the new Miata or a Boxster.
From yesterday.....the screen going blank...just try and reload the page, see if that works.
WC @ 1:51:
We could "Wiki-fy" for days, but neoteny got me wondering exactly how mutations (genetic changes) really take place, which then got me to wondering how such a massive genetic shift -- e.g., from primates to mankind [loss of tail, flattening of face, enlargement of brain, etc.] -- takes place and breeds true.
So here's a guess, and a doctoral dissertation for someone to prove or disprove...: when earth's magnetic field reverses, is there a correlation with evolutionary changes?
I learned the Pledge before I started school, in Vacation Bible School (i.e., at church). I learned the older form and still hesitate before inserting "under God." I think the original punctuation , would have been ... STANDS, ONE NATION, INDIVISIBLE, WITH ... (an adjective in apposition to the noun phrase). The insertion of UNDER GOD into the series of phrases following REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS would naturally reduplicate the pause between NATION and INDIVISIBLE.
Even I (a sports non-fan), have heard of Boomer ESIASON.
MEET CUTE: WEES.
Yuman,
In yesterday's Wall Street Journal puzzle, "Spinning Yarns" read each of the 4 starred answers from right to left. You should find the four letter words that relate to the reveal.
Does that help, or do you want the answers ?
The Crystals song, "Da Doo Ron Ron" has been my earworm all day, as it frequently is. When I first heard the song I thought it said "do run,run" Yeah, this was a do run, run day. Only now can I sit down and address the blog. This morning I did fill in the puzzle in the blood lab waiting room after waiting out a huge traffic jam caused by an overturned semi. Just one more commitment this evening. Yay!!
I didn't see the sheet overspreading the puzzle until the reveal. I like it.
mb, cute family pics.
Country Roads is the WV state anthem. As you know, we love WV. The mountains are spectacular. The Shenandoah River and the Blue Ridge Mountains run through WV, as well as other states. The poverty in so many WV villages breaks my heart.
The pledge quibble? Who cares?
Anon @8:41, great info. Please turn blue and post regularly. We love anons like you.
Shout out to our Boomer. BTW, where did you get that name? Seeing Boomer, with a few perps Esiason dawned on me.
Souped up regarding cars always makes me think of adding more power. I realize it can mean made more elaborate, as it does in other contexts.
Peete was partially remembered, but ODETTA needed ESP. I loved the Weavers and Pete Seeger. Why does Odetta escape me?
I am now struggling with the opaque reporting of one of my investment entities, especially as it applies to my tax return. My CPA son is aghast and is helping me. We will dump them ASAP. We will check that the early withdrawal period has passed and roll everything over into my other investment company, T Rowe Price, which has excellent reporting. This is not my forte. I feel so lost. Thank you, David.
It is snowing again! The forecast is that this unseasonal winter weather will be gone for good in in a few days. February and March were interchanged this year.
Hey, Jeopardy fans. Alex Trebek just announced he has stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
Muchas gracias TTP I knew something had to be backwards just couldn’t see it.
I just read this article in Slate magazine and was quite impressed. If nothing else, I think it is a well-written piece and gets at some of the complexities and contradictions in human nature.
Joyce, now I've read the article, and I don't know what I think -- except that all human institutions are imperfect, and all too often the consequences of the imperfections are tragic.
Spellcheck thinks your name is Joyce. Sorry, Jayce.
Oh no, Jeopardy--that's terrible news about Alex Trebek. I was so happy that the celebrity tournament was over and that we were going back to many seasons of just regular Jeopardy tonight. This is shocking and so sad.
Yuman, you are welcome. Bill G, you too.
I just read that on this day in history in 1912 that the National Biscuit Co introduced what would become the favorite cookie of crossword constructors everywhere !
Jayce ~
I am half Celtic, but Ancestry tried to tell me I am 50% "Irish." My great grandparents never set foot in Ireland. They were Cornish and Welsh. Go figure.
~ OMK
I, too, am shocked and saddened by the news about Alex Trebek's cancer. I so hope he can outlive it, but it's a long shot, I fear. I'm praying for the best!
Jayce:
I read half of the article and realize that the wheels of justice are not always just. I only hope that enough people are working to revise unjust laws that those kinds of situations do not happen again. Thank you for posting. I'll try to finish it.
Wilbur Charles:
Just from the top of my head, besides URIEL, I can think only of Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Lucifer (who was originally a good angel).
Take heart.
I lost a dear friend to pancreatic cancer. It was very sudden, from the diagnosis to her death. Since then I thought it was always a death sentence, but recently I read some reports on procedures that offer greatly improved survival rates.
The treatments are invasive and Alex may be too late at stage four, but then medicine is always advancing.
His personal announcement of his condition was remarkable for his humor and good spirits.
I am impressed by his strong character.
~ OMK
Yes, Ol'Man Keith--Alex Trebek's announcement was so carefully constructed, delivered in his normal thoughtful manner, and ending with the three year contract announcement designed to cheer us up. But my goodness, it is going to be so difficult to watch him every day with a great deal of worry--how will he, and we, manage?
Hi All!
Too late to add much... Saw this on Twitter today. Apropos, no?
Thanks Roland, mb, and all The Cornerites for posting today. Enjoy'd reading everyone interleaved with work (and a puzzle idea I became obsessed with trying to grid).
Puzzle did have a subliminal effect - we had TexMex for dinner :-)
{A, B+, B}
Abejo - let us know re: your sister.
Play tomorrow, -T
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