A new pairing of constructors brings us a different variation on the remove letters theme. I wonder if Kathy and Lewis got together after a crossword tournament encounter? We have a take out two letter theme to allow for an amusing result, clued appropriately. I believe AD has been used before as the basic Bigram of constructors, but no example comes to mind. Of course, my mind has a mind of its own.
While this appears to be a first-time collaboration, it seems to be a seamless effort. Humor and variety. It has some sparkle with
AERIALS, AMASSED, ANNE RICE, DEERSKIN, PINENUTS and, SOUL FOOD.
Time for the theme.
20A. What included a top hat, for Lincoln?: GETTYSBURG
26A. Unvarnished inventions?: BARE NAKED L
43. Citi Field catcalls?: FLUSHING ME
53A. Joe-induced speaking clarity?: CAFFEINE
The reveal:
47D. Ubiquitous YouTube button ... and a hint to four long Across answers: SKIP AD. Now it is time to skip to the puzzle.
Across:
1. "... harmony in the motion and magnitude of the __ ... ": Copernicus: ORBS. While Copernicus wrote extensively about orbs and the planets moving around the sun, I believe it was Kepler to whom the quote should be attributed.
5. Out, perhaps: A BED. He got home and he was out like a light.
9. Maintain: CLAIM. I maintain that I am unique in every way.
14. Stable newborn: FOAL. A baby horsie. Though they often aren't that stable in the stable. LINK.
15. Particle in a beam: MOTE. There is so much more to this than I knew - a game Destiny and reading from the Christian Bible as well as what I thought.
16. Lifetime parent: A AND E. One of the most confused and confusing networks. LINK.
17. Asian tourist city: AGRA. Home of the Taj Mahal.
18. Initial game payment: ANTE. Payment is a stretch but it is Friday.
19. Lengthy sentence: RUNON. I love RUNON sentences as has often been pointed out here at the blog both my detractors and my fans who are so kind.
23. Prohibition __: ERA.
24. Support gp. founded under FDR: USO. While the UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS primarily bring to mind Bob Hope, they are so much more.
25. Like Yosemite's El Capitan: SHEER.
31. P&L report column: YTD. Year To Date.
32. Symbol of ease: PIE.
33. Part of a baby's repertoire: COO. This verb is from 1660s, "to utter a low, plaintive, murmuring sound," echoic of doves. Compare, in the same sense, Danish kurre, German girren; also Hindi kuku "the cooing of a dove."
34. Stops lying?: RISES. Great misdirection.
37. One often stands alone in a split: PIN. A quick CSO to Boomer and TTP and a reminder of the unknown to me -PIN OAK.
38. Devote, as time: SPEND.
40. Gp. inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017: ELO.
41. They're often seen on trees: KIN. Hah hah - family trees, not Pin Oaks.
42. Disposed of: ATE.
48. "The Night They Invented Champagne" composer: LOEWE.
A classic movie and SONG.
49. Mentalist Geller: URI.
50. Sch. in Manhattan: KSU. Kansas State University is on the way to Denver.
57. Get around: AVOID.
58. Food stamp?: USDA.
59. 67, for Beethoven's Fifth: OPUS.
60. Invisible turnout?: NOONE.
61. Unlikely: TALL.
62. Olive Oyl's mother: NANA.
63. Wound up: ENDED.
64. Goes after: SUES. Meh.
65. Go around in circles?: EDDY. Whirlpool.
Down:
1. 18 or 21, typically: OF AGE.
2. Court rival of Rafael: ROGER. Nadal and Federer.
3. Bill for shots: BARTAB. Not inoculation.
4. Picket fence piece: SLAT.
5. Assembled: AMASSED.
6. Small chocolate-covered candy: BONBON. This is what I see
7. Classic accusation: ET TU. Brute.
8. Moccasin leather: DEERSKIN.
9. Asked for ID: CARDED.
10. Victory wreath: LAUREL. I hope it is a Hardy one.
11. Lestat de Lioncourt creator: ANNE RICE. It started here...
12. Promises at the altar: I DOS.
13. YMCA part: MENS.
21. Mongolian tents: YURTS.
22. Butter used to deep-fry samosas: GHEE. Ghee is a form of highly-clarified butter that is traditionally used in Asian cooking. Like butter, ghee is typically made from cow's milk.
27. Agreement word: AYE. We all missed yesterday's talk like a Pirate Day.
28. Mimicry: APING.
29. Geological time span: EON.30. Scandinavian roofing material: SOD.
34. Whistle-blower: REF. Cute.
35. Down with the flu: ILL.
36. Deep South cuisine: SOUL FOOD.
37. Pesto ingredients: PINE NUTS. Today is the anniversary of my mother's birth so here is a story. When I bought first house in Gainesville, we had many pine trees and I had learned about the sweet nut inside the pinecones. My mother tasted some and had an immediate anaphylactic reaction. Sorry, Mother Dnaveear.
38. Poker-faced: STOIC.
39. Nave seat: PEW. You find them in the main part of the interior of a church.
41. New Zealand bird: KIWI.
42. Reception aids: AERIALS. I gave up cable and now use an HD antenna.
44. 1959 Fiestas hit: SO FINE. I hope you like it.
45. Followed: HEEDED.
46. Confused mess: MUDDLE. This is late Middle English (in the sense ‘wallow in mud’)
51. Squeak or creak: SOUND. Rhyme time.
52. Take back: UNSAY.
53. Prop for Chaplin: CANE.
54. The Bard's river: AVON. Finally, our Shakespeare!
55. Biblical hunter: ESAU. Jacob was a farmer, Esau a hunter.
56. Atmosphere: TONE.
I am worn out with all the music links I have followed. Hope you had a good time and welcome autumn. Also, I am dedicating this write up to my mother, may she rest in peace. Thank you, Kathy and Lewis, see you again.
My ORBS are shuttered when I am ABED.
ReplyDeleteDreams replace the thought in my head.
An UNLIKELY story,
A TALL tale of glory,
A subconscious OPUS my waking has ENDED.
When watching YouTube do you "SKIP AD"?
Those ads AMASSED profits like mad!
Some for the web site,
Most for the elite,
To help them afford an Aspen SKI PAD!
{A-, A.}
Another busy day with real estate closings so I did not go back and see that you all did recognize Talk Like a Pirate Day, ah well.
ReplyDeleteOn the UMAMI tasting front, I suggest you use either a shitake mushroom or some parmesan cheese as a point of reference.
OKL I really enjoyed the reparsing of SKIP AD to SKI PAD.
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteWe're still under generator power this morning. There's a flooding creek to our west and a flooding river to our east. I suspect the Entergy vehicles are unable to get to the outages here. No mail yesterday. No newspaper deliveries this morning. We may be isolated for a couple of days. Good thing I made a beer run on Wednesday.
I liked this one, probably due to the rare experience of getting the theme. Saw the PIN CSO to Boomer. Inked in So Fine immediately. But I went wrong in a couple of places: ASSN before MENS (Bet I'm not the only one) and ANTENNI before AERIALS. Thanx, Kathy and Lewis and Lemonade. (Is that a photo of your mother and sister?)
BARE NAKED LadIES: BNL may be better known for this little ditty. They never did fix that thirteen "Million" boo-boo.
DNF, stalling out approaching Vero Beach and looking up Olive Oyl's lineage. Erased MiTE, rare for TALL, GlEE (and we JUST HAD that here), APery, and noise for SOUND.
ReplyDeleteELO is so often used that the clue could just be "A band".
DNK that MUDDLE could be a noun, nor that pesto contained PINE NUTS. Euell Gibbons had that TV commercial where he asked "ever eat a pine tree."
I liked this puzzle on whole, but on what type of system does YouTube have a ubiquitous SKIP AD button? I also didn't like UNSAY. One can recant, but UNSAY is like UNSEE. When I was 14 I saw my friend's grandma coming out of the shower. Can't ever unsee that.
Nice review today, Lemony. Thanks for the sweet family picture as well.
Good morning everyone.
ReplyDeletePatience basically paid off, but I did get help with NANA to jumpstart the SE. Got the schtick early with GETTYSBURG DRESS, but puzzled over SKIP AD longer than I should have. Some real clever fill: FLUSHING ME(AD)OWS, and the clue for KSU was absolutely fiendish. If I could have spelt CAFFEINE right the first time, I would have saved myself some trouble. Also had apery and noise before APING and SOUND. The hurrierder I go the behinder I get.
Kathy and Lewis did a great job with cluing and clever fill. BZ.
Musings
ReplyDelete-The TONE of this puzzle was fun and unique and Lemon “taught” me Bigram
-1 bad cell - My baby didn’t COO but went GOO (GOO GOO) and unknown ANNERIGE seemed, uh, ok. Doh!
-I’ve been to KSU in Manhattan, KS but couldn’t get NYU out of my mind/puzzle for a while
-SUES – When I have had jury duty, none of the cases went to trial. They were settled out of court
-These guys AMASSED a HUGE BAR TAB!
-GHEE talked me out of STEEP
-SOD houses were a staple here on the prairie 150 years ago
-I used a CB AERIAL (antenna) called a Firestik but still had to drive to the top of a hill to get anyone
-Those Fiestas are true showmen!
-I MUDDLED into MIASMA first (glad I didn’t have to use ink today!)
-I have UNSENT emails just in time but can’t UNSEND a text
-Lemon, somehow I have four email addresses for you. Could you send me the one you now use at gschalpfer@gmail.com
Enjoyable puzzle, but was stalled by the baby repertoire clue. With _oo already in place, I went with poo.
ReplyDeleteThe clue for 1-Across is a quote from Copernicus, yet in the review, the quote is attributed to Kepler. I guess there's less harmony than originally thought.
A definite, but worthwhile slog.
ReplyDeletePartly because I stupidly put M and Ms even though
The chocolate is inside them.
(M&m did help me with A and E though...)
Still, I had Goo because finding Coo
Was like looking for a needle in a Rice Paddy.
PSA re: Skip Ad
Gary, do you purposely misspell your name in your email address?
ReplyDeleteTo answer Lemondade's question, Kathy moved to my town (Asheville, NC) last year -- she had visited here a number of times before she moved here, and we met during that time, as we are both constructors, and she knew I was from Asheville from my comments on WordPlay (which lists my home city). (Talk about 19A!) We decided to do a puzzle together to celebrate her moving here, and this is it!
ReplyDeleteGood morning. Good challenge today. Very nice puzzle Kathy and Lewis.
ReplyDeleteHad to correct apery to APISH and ten to PIN. When I throw a split, there's usually a ten pin involved. Thanks for the CSO Lemonade. Enjoyed your review.
Desper-otto, Dash T, and Tx Ms, I've been watching the weather reports and feel for what you are having to go through again. Not fun by any definition.
D-O, BTW, did you have a whole house generator with an ATS installed ? If so and if you don't mind, what brand ? And kW size ? We've been thinking about it.
Entergy was reporting an estimate of 34K customers w/o power, and 3600 in the New Caney area, estimating noon Saturday.
Jinx, ads generally precede Youtube videos. Youtubers (content creators) can choose to have ads and can get paid when you watch the full ad. In the past, a viewer could generally press the SKIP AD button after watching just 5 seconds of the ad. Youtube has recently changed their policy, so the SKIP AD button is not quite as ubiquitous as it once was, and the Youtubers are happy about it.
They can make a few dollars to thousands, and yes, even millions of dollars depending on how many followers and views they get, but it's all pretty much tied to whether or not people watch the full ad.
Now before you get too excited and start creating content, you might want to consider that you'll have to meet minimum requirements in terms of views to make any real money. And if you don't meet certain minimums, the AdSense people can "demonetize" your account. It would help if your videos go viral. Thus, people will copy trending videos and post them under their accounts to get more views, and hopefully more people watching the full ads.
I was right on Kathy and Lewis's wavelength. Fast solve for a Friday. The puzzle helped me while away my oil change wait. I got the theme almost immediately which helped speed things along. Cute!
ReplyDeleteSch. in Manhattan gave me pause until the K in skip reminded me that there is a Manhattan in Kansas.
UNSAY is quite common in novels. There are many references. "But now, let me unsay what I said in anger." Charlotte Brontë.
I found a reference to UNSAY in the Washington Times. "Yet he can’t unsay what was said on the audio tape." Washington Times, Jun 13, 2018. Politicians try to unsay many of their comments which are said and preserved on audio tape.
You can only try to mitigate the damage. You can never completely unsay what you have said, just as Jinx cannot unsee Grandma.
When things are confusing or mixed up, I say they are in a muddle. The Social Security office makes a muddle of many things. I suppose I will have to bite the bullet and go today to straighten out the current muddle. This is not SSA's first mistake with us. The last time they told me, "We couldn't have done that because it is against our policy." When I replied, "Someone obviously didn't follow the policy," the rep said "Oh!" and remedied it.
It's no longer Talk Like a Pirate Day, but I still say,"ARRGH!"
The Barenaked Ladies do the theme song for "The Big Bang Theory"
ReplyDeleteTTP, the generator just shut down. Entergy apparently found a way to get their trucks into town. Outage ended after 28 hours. I pedaled my bike down to the Peach Creek bridge. It's under several feet of water. It'll be tomorrow at the earliest before we can get out that way.
ReplyDeleteI took a fan to my new neighbors across the street. They just moved in two weeks ago, and they got about 4 inches of water in the house yesterday. The culprit is an undersized culvert down the road from them. I've tried twice to get it either fixed or removed. So far, no luck.
Since you asked, my generator is a 20KW Generac with an ATS. I put it in back in 2010. Most of the standby generators in our town, and there are a lot of them, are Generacs. I probably wouldn't have needed such a large one, but there's loss due to the long electrical run to the ATS. The generator is located next to the gas meter, and the ATS is next to the electric panel on the opposite side of the house. The designers of my house obviously didn't have a standby generator in mind with they drew it up. I probably could have gotten by with 14KW if the gas meter and power panel had been located close together. Installation is a big part of the cost of setting up a standby generator, probably 50% at least.
Hola!
ReplyDeleteWhat fun from Kathy and Lewis! It just astonishes me how constructors come up with these clever themes and execute them so cleverly.
It took me a while to meet their wave length but once I saw GETTYSBURGDRESS, it hit me like a whole case of V8 cans!
BONBON was not quick to fill because BENTOS got in the way but my trusty eraser did it's job and that's when BURG surfaced.
It's also a bit disconcerting when two A's appear but then AANDE made sense.
I'm not a fan of ANNERICE but do recognize her name and had no idea about Lestat de Lioncourt. What?
I remember when URI Geller was in his heyday.
I made a MUDDLE of EDDY because I did not recall Manhattan, KS, had nouns instead of SOUND and so no going around in circles.
I'll take a CSO at NANA and one for my new great-grandbaby at COO. He's a keeper!
Thank you, Lemonade, for today's lesson. Bigram! That's a good one. Lovely photo of your mother.
Have yourselves a FINE day, everyone!
Desper-otto, thank you.
ReplyDeleteWe have the same issue with gas meter on one side, and the electrical panel on the back side. They're just about as far apart as they could be. I can't go through the finished basement without ripping down the drywall ceilings, and if I trench I'll have to avoid two sewer lines out to the septic tank, and the underground power line I pulled for my shed. I'll probably run gas line from the meter to where the generator would be installed.
There are 63 homes on our power line. After storms, it's not uncommon for our line to be not powered while the rest of the subdivision remains powered. ComEd was in my neighbors yard last week to pull an insulator from the top of the pole and install a fuse. It will allow them to restore power a bit quicker in some scenarios, and also allow them to keep about half of those 63 powered on in other scenarios.
In other power news, Exelon is shutting down the nuclear power plants at Three Mile Island today. That was pretty big scare back in 1979.
Glad Entergy got your power back. Sad that your new neighbors took water. I'm sure they appreciate you loaning them the fan.
Hi Y'all! Great puzzle, Kathy & Lewis! Great expo, Lemonade! Lovely mother pic.
ReplyDeleteThis filled easier than some Fridays despite there being misdirection on many clues that took me several passes & perps to fill. For example: "OUT" = ABED not Away & "stops lying" = RISES.
I got the missing AD theme early but it didn't help other theme fills or the reveal. Duh! DNK: YouTube had a SKIP AD button.
DNK: CitiField is in FLUSHING MEadOWS. Rapheal - ROGER combo clue.
Did not parse AANDE right (ESP) until Lemony 'splained.
KSU was a gimmee. Several family members graduated there. Have a grandson starting there this year.
Relieved to hear D-O is okay & thank Tony for his late evening report. Hope the other Texans are high & dry.
Skootch over HG and CED. The Group-GOO bench has another member. FIW.
ReplyDeleteI didn't even look at the bottom of 11d after I finally suss'd the NE 'cuz I still had work to do in the SE.
Hi All!
Thanks Kathy and Lewis for the AD-free puzzle. I enjoyed the theme and the fact that the middle themers had AD removed in the middle while the other two had AD removed up-front.
Thanks Lewis for stopping by The Corner. I love Asheville - I've been a few times and always catch some of that SOUL FOOD at Tupelo Honey.
Thanks Lem for the expo and the side-links.
WOs: Whistleblower was a Rat b/f REF, YeRTS spelt wrong, noise b/f SOUND (Hi Jinx! (Lucina - I thought nouns too)), and, I started then stopped LAU[rel] before scratching out the redundant A (in A AND E) before writing it back in.
ESPs: ANNE RIgE [sic], KSU, LOEWE
Favs: Clues for PIE and KIN
{A, A}
HG - A link in your link has more on that BAR TAB. it wasn't just four guys AND the club kept sending over expensive bottles that weren't asked for (and the players thought was comp'd). I happen to know one of the players' Mom. She told us (in our Monday meeting when another colleague said he saw the story), that this sometimes happens with players when they go out because they (the players) think they're famous and are getting comps but the club sees $$$$.
D-O: I thought about you yesterday morning when NPR/HPM noted Roman Forest was getting hit. I also thought, "Well, this is mostly East of us (on the westside) now, I might as well RISE and go to work." Glad to hear you came through unscathed (I remember the panic during Harvey - none of us could get hold of you).
PK - I hope TxMs pipes in. I know she lives inside the loop and was high-and-dry during Harvey. There's another Cornerite (I can see her avatar but forget her handle!) who lives East of Houston; I fear she's been hit hard.
TTP - the new thing, as you likely know, is 'influencers.' Folks Instagram crap to a point of enough follows and then turn their channel/or presence/or whatever* into a giant infomercial.
Cheers, -T
*Last night, Youngest scolded me when I said "subscribed" when I "followed" a Twitterer [a Twitt?]
Friday toughie for me, but very clever--many thanks, Kathy and Lewis. I got the west without too much problem, but the middle and east had some tough spots for me. I had to laugh at "Bill for shots" turning out to be BAR TAB. But I still don't understand what SHEER has to do with Yosemite's El Capitan? Lovely picture, Lemonade
ReplyDeleteHave a good day, everybody.
Misty - El Capitan [2:03 - IM, don't watch!] has a SHEER face. Cheers, -T
ReplyDelete"Country Music" is going to take me forever to finish but I don't mind the time. It's well-spent.
ReplyDelete~ Three chords and the truth.
Thank you, AnonT for the video. I appreciate the help.
ReplyDeleteThought I'd never finish this muthuh!
ReplyDeleteBut Ta~ DA!
Thanks to the Wienberg/Rothlein duo for the challenge!
News for Lemon:
Most folk are still shorter than 6'4".
~ OMK
____________
DR: A 3-some in the mirror, including a main line anagram that honors the latest iteration of our contemporary enemy, our...
"MODERN FOE III"!
Well, this started out to be pretty easy for a Friday.
ReplyDeleteRight up until I hit the SE.
Then I crashed and burned.
Nothing special—just… nothing.
My head hurts.
I guess it will take another puzzle or two to get me used to their cluing.
Loved the theme, especially MEOW. I’m not kitten around, either. (Sorry. Sort of.)
Must be nap time. Have a good day, all.
WikWak ~
ReplyDelete"...kitten around."
cucklchucklchuckle
This was a challenge and I despaired that I might not finish. My first challenge was SW. My first wo was SOURMASH. Then EVADE finally became AVOID, Charlie and Mr Potato Head do use that same prop and SOUL FOOD cleared the corner up. I'd grok'ed the theme and managed to ink in CAFFEINE and guessed where AD was SKIPPED.
ReplyDeleteNow to SE where, despite seeing it before, AANDE just wouldn't grok. But a mental alphabet run quickly got me COO (oops that was NE). The K popped up like the SKIPAD and I realized that I was in Kansas (which depantsed BC last week).
Kudos to Kathy and Lewis. And it was indeed Lemonade of the many email addresses who entertained us today. Drop me a line if you're real estate savvy. I'm going through a complicated deal . And I just left the neurologist office.
They MRI' ed my brain and found nothing.
WC
Has Irish Miss checked in. She must have loved this cleverly clued xw. I did know SO FINE with the SOF---
While it's true that most people are much shorter than 6'4", our presidents tend to be quite tall.
ReplyDeleteLyndon Johnson 6'3"
Thomas Jefferson 6'2.5"
George Washington 6'2"
Franklin D. Roosevelt 6'2"
George H.W. Bush 6'2"
Bill Clinton 6'2"
Andrew Johnson 6'1"
Chester Arthur 6'1"
Ronald Reagan 6'1"
Barack Obama 6'1"
Donald Trump 6'1" (this may not be completely accurate)
Basketball players are, of course, taller than average.
Two hours at SSA, a half hour in one electronic queue to determine my problem and another hour to wait for a specialist.The resolution was fair to all. IMO, Alan's new agency dropped the ball.They waited four weeks to apply to be payee and their understanding of SSA rules seems to be faulty. I hope this issue has finally been put to rest after three and a half months. I almost finished the last half of my current novel while waiting. I love having a Kindle in my purse.
ReplyDeleteThe interface in the changeover was seamless, except for finances. I dread the January guardianship financial accounting for 2019
We have had a moderate and delightful spring and late summer this year, although we had extreme lows and highs in winter and summer. I love these cool clear days, no need for AC or heat. I do not care for the darkening evenings. I am for year round DST.
Two hours at SSA, a half hour in one electronic queue to determine my problem and another hour to wait for a specialist.The resolution was fair to all. IMO, Alan's new agency dropped the ball.They waited four weeks to apply to be payee and their understanding of SSA rules seems to be faulty. I hope this issue has finally been put to rest after three and a half months. I almost finished the last half of my current novel while waiting. I love having a Kindle in my purse.
ReplyDeleteThe interface in the changeover was seamless, except for finances. I dread the January guardianship financial accounting for 2019
We have had a moderate and delightful spring and late summer this year, although we had extreme lows and highs in winter and summer. I love these cool clear days, no need for AC or heat. I do not care for the darkening evenings. I am for year round DST.
Yellowrocks, I'm so glad that SSA got everything straight. They still think that my DW's last name is that of her previous spouse. They said straighten it out with the IRS and it will automatically be fixed at the SSA. Not so.
ReplyDeleteI would keep a wary eye on Alan's new agency. Such an agency not knowing SSA procedures is a little like a restaurant not knowing how to apply sales tax.
Lincoln was 6' 4". Spud Webb is 5' 7", but won the 1986 NBA slam dunk contest. I used to see his (Webb's) mansion when I played the Cedar Creek golf course south of Dallas.
I’m ok, but I was freaked out by Imelda - downpours of unrelenting rain (3" per hour until it let up a bit), horrific lightning and thunder for quite some time. With deluges like this, my neighborhood’s original sewer system gives up, i.e., no flushing allowed. Harvey (48 hrs/26") was merciful with intermittent rain bands followed by a coupla hours of no rain to allow for drainage. Water kept creeping closer to the front door. Twelve inches including 1.5” today. I feel very lucky considering what other Southeast Texans had to endure.
ReplyDeleteD-O, glad that the power was finally restored. Those generators are great in these times. Anon-T – glad you made it home ok albeit very late. In my neighborhood, Oak Forest, it’s either drought (2” in July and 2” in August), or flood.
Good afternoon, folks. Thank you, Kathy Weinberg & Lewis Rothlein, for fine puzzle. Thank you, Lemonade, for a fine review.
ReplyDeleteStarted the puzzle early, but got busy with some stuff I had to do. So, I finished it late. Puzzle was pretty tough, but I did get the theme right away with GETTYSBURG DRESS. Nevertheless, the other three were slow in coming.
Lots of easy answers, but the cluing made them tough. However, it is a Friday.
SE corner was my last to get. I held off on UNSAY because it sounded crunchy. I was not thinking of Kansas for KSU. I had it via perps, but still thought it was wrong. Had NOISE for 51D Finally got through it with some deep thinking and trial and error.
Once I got through it all I was very impressed with the construction. Outstanding.
Tried LOON before KIWI fit better.
41A KIN was tough. I was thinking of real trees. Duh!
Have to run. See you tomorrow.
Abejo
( )
Whew, it took a lot of noodling but I finally figured it all out. I enjoyed solving this muthuh, to use Keith's word. Hand up for being misled (that's not myzelled, Jayce) into the same pitfalls many of you did.
ReplyDeleteMany people have scaled the SHEER face of El Capitan, and many have fallen to their deaths also.
Good thoughts to you all.
Yellowrocks, you and I cancel each other out. I detest daylight saving time and would rather have good ol’ real sun time. *sigh* I miss the olden days. :)
ReplyDeleteI don’t care if it’s DST or real time . Just pick one and stay with it!!
ReplyDeletePuzzle was fun. Expo more so .Thanks all.
Lemon, you always amaze me with your wit and knowledge. Mazeltov!
Owen, both A + !! I LOLed!
WikWak, I also had an MRI, and had nothing. I was relieved I had no tumor or cancer.
ReplyDeleteBut I made the mistake of telling my daughter “they found nothing “.
The text messages lit up with my kids saying “well of course! We’ve always known more mom has no brain “ .... and so on!
I’ll be more careful what medical information I report!
Fabulous Friday. Thanks for the fun, Kathy & Lewis (congrats on your debut duet OPUS), and Lemonade.
ReplyDeleteI started this CW this morning and ran out of time since it was slow to fill, but when I came back later, with a couple of helps (URI & RICE), I finished, but not without major inkblots. (Is that a good RUN ON sentence?)
I saw the missing AD with GETTYSBURG DRESS and later with CAFFEINE DICTION, but the middle two eluded me. My LIES were Barefaced and I could not fit a missing AD in anywhere. I do know the BARE NAKED LadIES.
This Canadian forgot FLUSHING MEADOWS, and thought there was an extra O giving the British MEWS. Didn't fit the theme.
I will claim Canadian disadvantage for several other difficulties also. I had no idea that there was a Manhattan in Kansas! USO and USDA took perps to finish. I LIUed to see how A AND E could be a lifetime parent. I know nothing about American pay TV!
But the funniest is 25A. I thought of Yosemite Sam and figured El Capitan must be a character in the cartoon. Thanks AnonT for shining the light on SHEER (hello Misty!). I watched that video (It wouldn't let me Skip the AD) and I think I'll join IM on the acrophobia bench.)
Maybe my brain was just not in gear today, but I needed Lemonade's bowling explanation for PIN. When it filled with perps, I thought of a lonely safety PIN trying to hold together a split in someone's (as opposed to NO ONE's) pants. LOL.
AnonT - is that Group-Goo Bench big enough for me? Is there an Apery bench too? (That is a real word but archaic per Oxford dictionary. We all must do too many CWs!)
When TALL filled for unlikely, I thought of a TALL tale (an unlikely story).
ABED does not necessarily mean Out (if you get my meaning, wink, wink! -see26A). And we had RISES . . .
Glad to hear that our Texans are safe.
YR, glad to hear that things were resolved to your satisfaction.
Good evening to you all.
The Manhattan in Kansas calls itself "The Little Apple" as opposed to Manhattan, New York, which is "The Big Apple" and better known. I think we've had something about this fairly recently.
ReplyDeleteYR: Hope your hassle with gov. entities is over.
Jinx: I thought that other gov. entities including SSA were not allowed to view IRS tax forms without written permission from the person or a court order. I have to sign a document every year to allow USDA to check my tax forms to make sure I'm not receiving too much in gov. crop subsidies. Big joke. I'd be better off keeping my crops and eating them than try to pay for food from my subsidies. You'd think they'd have records of how much they sent me anyway.
TXMS: glad you are okay. Sounds scary! Thanks for reporting in.
DST is a good idea gone bad, but year-round DST would be even worse. We'd need to rest every sundial in the country! I really think ST/DT would have been accepted if it had been tied to the equinoxes, when summer turns to fall and winter to spring. But no, congress had to show that they were smarter than Mother Nature. And changing at 2/3 am on a weekend was good, but Sunday got church-goers angry. Saturday would have been better, that would only upset Jews and Adventists.
ReplyDeleteSwampCat, you are too easily amused! I hope you're still lurking on the JumbleHints blog. I've also had a couple poems on my FaceBook page this week that I wrote at the request of friends, so are neither here nor on the JH blog.
Loved seeing your Facebook page!!
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