Saturday Themeless Puzzle by Greg Johnson
Today we celebrate an item that goes by many different names depending on where you live. Around here we call this a sub sandwich but I know it is also called a hoagie, grinder, poor boy, hero or what have you. I really like them but when I get one for my lovely bride and I to split, I can only have black olives put on my end.
Today's constructor is our old Saturday friend Greg Johnson. I include his grid at the top of the write-up because two triple-stack grid spanners looks pretty cool to me! Those ninety cells filled in pretty quickly and gave me a fast finish time when coupled with what seemed to be a lot of familiar fill for this solver.
O.K. let's see what Greg, like Jimmy Johns, has delivered for us today:
1. Suggestion for stress relief: TAKE SOME TIME OFF - Coupled with the next clue16. Enjoying a solo walk in the woods: AT ONE WITH NATURE - I never felt this more than in the Oregon Redwoods, some of which have been growing for thousands of years
17. It makes a good point: PENCIL SHARPENER - One Redwood can make 50,000,000 pencils to be sharpened
18. Big boat: ARK - The bible said Noah used gopherwood not redwood
19. Needs to remit: OWES - Thus endeth the redwood references
20. Trick: CON.
21. Yellowy insides: YOLKS.
24. Farm structures: PENS - My wife lived on a farm where the pigs' quarters were call a PEN, never a sty
25. Enters unnoticed: SLIPS IN.
28. Paratha roti ingredient: GHEE (highly clarified butter) - What is the difference between a roti, naan, paratha and chapati?
31. Showed joy, ironically: WEPT - An emotional response either way
32. Tricky hoops move that's often an assist: NO LOOK PASS - More commonly seen in basketball (hoops) but Patrick Mahommes uses this in football. 58. Super Bowl IV MVP Dawson: LEN - Was not as exciting as Patrick but started for the 1969 Super Bowl Champs in K.C. and was the MVP of that game.
37. In the past: AGO.
38. Supporters: RETINUE - He always had a lovely one
39. Summary usually including a photo: BIO.
40. Treatment for dry skin: BODY BUTTER - There doesn't seem to be any in my medicine cabinet
42. It's just above street level: CURB - I just loved this clue
43. Road game: I SPY - with my little eye...
44. Ancient French region: ALSATIA (old name for Alsace) - For more than 300 years, from the Thirty Years' War to World War II, the political status of Alsace was heavily contested between France and various German states in wars and diplomatic conferences.46. Summer hire: TEMP - I hired over 300 "TEMPS" in the summer to work in the cornfields for 23 years
49. Check for fit: TRY ON.
50. Chemical suffix: IDE.
51. Vegas hotel with an operatic name: ARIA - I had A _ _ _ and AIDA neither worked for fill nor existed as a hotel54. Hosp. tubes: IVS.
56. Pasta for vegetarians: MEATLESS LASAGNA
62. "Pass": I'M NOT INTERESTED - At one time I had several "friends" try to get me into Amway
63. Scopes Trial site: DAYTON TENNESSEE - Like me, John Scopes was a substitute teacher and he wasn't sure he even taught evolution but agreed to be a test case for the ACLU. He was prosecuted by Nebraska's most famous politician William Jennings Bryan, was found guilty and fined $100 (which was later reversed on a technicality).
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| Restored Court Room In DAYTON, TENNESSEE Now A Tourist Attraction |
Down:
1. Dancing suitable for radio: TAP - Cool clue! I can at least hear the rhythm which I lack.
2. Put away: ATE.
3. Hawaiian coffee district: KONA - This part of the Big Island has many coffee growing areas that offer tours and tastings not far from our cwd friend Mauna Loa.
5. High-end watches: SEIKOS.
6. Barn __: OWL - A woman put on a show from a raptor recovery program and told my kids, "A raptor can never be your friend!"
7. Appropriate prefix for an embezzler?: MIS - MISappropriation is a fancy euphemism for what Bernie Madoff did.
8. Guiding beliefs: ETHOS.
9. Spring harbinger: THAW
10. Memo opener: IN RE - The "IN" is omitted but the sentiment is real below
12. Tanning time on the Riviera: ETE - Knowing the French word for summer is de rigueur in Crosswordland
13. Smidgen: OUNCE - A smidgen of prevention is worth a lot of cure
14. Trademarked refrigerant: FREON - The EPA has mandated that the manufacture of FREON must be halted by 2020
15. Decorative greenery: FERNS.
22. Pregame managerial decision: LINEUP - This 1961 LINEUP was powerful. Can you name the Yankees pictured here with the number of HR's they hit that year? (*Answer at bottom of write-up)
23. Complicated: KNOTTY - Along with being Dr. Seuss, Theodore Geisel was also a political cartoonist as seen in this 1942 example
24. Cheerleader's asset: PEP.
25. Makeup-applying aid: SWAB.
26. Toy brand with a Taj Mahal set: LEGO - $370 at Amazon
27. 2001 Apple debut: I POD - I still have mine but don't 28. Approach: GO NEAR it anymore
29. Like most labor rates: HOURLY.
30. Squeak (out): EKE.
33. Short stories?: LIT.
34. Border on: ABUT.
35. "Hey" assistant: SIRI - I could say this into my iPhone, "Hey, SIRI, what's the name for a four-letter Japanese noodle?" She would probably suggest UDON or SOBA
36. Polite-to-slurp Japanese noodle: SOBA - All you need to know
38. NFL ball carriers: RBS - Besides Running Backs, the NFL has QBs, FBs, HBs, DBs and CBs (Pluralizing acronyms)
41. Pup squeak: YIP.
42. Solicit support from, as voters: CANVASS - Part of my granddaughter's job
45. "Indeed": SO I SEE.
46. Hardly outgoing: TIMID.
47. Swelling: EDEMA - Is using ice to reduce EDEMA the wrong thing to do?
48. Not-so-nice sort: MEANY.
49. Sample: TASTE - Don Fanucci had a different way of saying he wanted a TASTE of illegal activity
51. Vocal range: ALTO.
52. Bit strap: REIN
53. "And __ it ironic": Alanis Morissette lyric: ISN'T - A fun listen!
55. Mil. ranks: SGTS - From the world of fiction: Friday, Bilko, Schultz, Snorkel, Stryker...
57. Day care attendee: TOT - Day care is a cash cow for many churches in our town
59. Valiant's boy: ARN.
60. Formerly named: NEE.
61. Drink suffix with Power: ADE.
Order a sub to be delivered and then comment on Greg's puzzle.
*Yankee LINEUP (l to r) was Roger Maris, Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, Elston Howard, Moose Skowren, and Johnny Blanchard.
51 comments:
Good morning Cornerites.
Thank you Greg Johnson for this amazing Saturday CW with 6 grid spanners, WOW !
Thank you Husker Gary for your excellent review.
Ðave
Good morning.
Fail, Fail, Fail. In other letters, DNF. I've heard of BS, but not RBS, and that short story was a LIE. So, BODY BUTTER never appeared. Bzzzzzt! Thanx for the come-uppance, Greg, and for the tour, HG.
CURB -- Unknown in our town. As are sidewalks. We have roadside drainage ditches, and one enterprising local company advertises the "calverts" [sic] they install.
SEIKOS -- I don't consider them to be "high end." I've mentioned before, I got one in '87 as a five-year award. It's still in the box, assuming I can still find it.
FREON -- By 2020 the EPA will likely decide that FREON is good, and we need more of it in the atmosphere.
FIW, missing both WAGs at the double-Natick ALnATIe x nO I SEE & SOBe. Erased eat for ATE and yap for YIP.
Never heard of BODY BUTTER, but I'm all for it. Can't spill it, unlike Chevy Chase's baby oil in Caddyshack.
Three-letter word for "cheerleader's asset"? I wanted it to be four letters and plural. ("Legs", of course. Why are you looking at me like that?)
"Smidgen" was fill yesterday and a clue today. Agree that it is a great word.
Like DO, I don't think of SEIKOS as high-end. Doesn't much matter, seems like watches are going the way of the 8-track and CD player.
Thanks to Greg for a Saturday puzzle that even I can finish, even if incorrectly. And thanks to Gary for the fun tour.
When traveling down I-75 to our place in Florida we used the Dayton/Cleveland exit. My wife asked, "are we still in Ohio?" I answered, "nope, Tennessee, home of the Scopes Monkey Trial."
I just checked the cast of "Inherit The Wind". Interesting, along with Spencer Tracy and Gene Kelly, there were some other actors who went to TV stardom. Harry Morgan(always will be Col.Potter to me), Dick York(Bewitched's Darrin Stephens), Claude Atkins(the sheriff on BJ and the Bear) and my personal favorite name Norman Fell(Mr. Roper).
Not sure if I should claim this as FIRight or DNF. I got it down to one natick, SOB? + ALSATI?, then started plugging in WAGS until the third try got my ta-da!
How about another acronym for "as clued" - "in that context" = ITC.
DNK -GHEE, SOBA, ALSATIA.
DNK-ITC - BODY-BUTTER, NO-LOOK-PASS, ARIA, LEN.
When stressed, TAKE SOME TIME OFF.
Be AT ONE WITH NATURE -- don't scoff.
Overmuch stress
Leads to eternal rest,
In the grave, one's one with nature a lot!
Do I want some MEATLESS LASAGNA?
I'M NOT INTERESTED sans any fauna!
We battled for our claim
Atop the food chain,
And to give that up, I don't wanna!
There was a Gaul girl in ALSATIA
Who once said to Caesar, "I'll race ya
You might say Veni,
Or even SO I SEE,
But I'll Vici you when I out-pace ya!"
{B+, A-, B+.}
Good morning everyone.
Easy enough for a Saturday. Did use a little white-out - - had eat before ATE and, dopey me, I had yoke before I realized it had to be YOLK. So I was able to FIR. The 6 grid-spanning stacked acrosses were easy to suss with just a few perps.
Re: Guangzhou - Believe it was called Canton during my formative years. Is their (major) dialect still called Cantonese, or is another descriptor preferred now?
What a fun and satisfying Saturday puzzle. At first glance I questioned if it was doable, then got that one fill that got it going. Pretty much filled it from top to bottom. What a great way to start my day.
Judie B
Good Morning:
When I saw the two stacks of three grid spanners, I thought "This oughta be fun", wryly, but I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly I parsed all six, which led to a 19:01 completion time. In addition to the grid spanners opening up numerous sections, the fill was mostly easy and familiar, as Gary noted. The only unknown, to me, was Body Butter and I had only two w/os: Eat/Ate and Trace/Ounce. I liked the duos of Ade and Ide and Ate and Ete and the crossing of Nee and See. My favorite C/A was Short stories=Lit.
Thanks, Greg, for a daunting-looking grid that turned out to be a walk in the park solve and thanks, HG, for another Saturday summary filled with fun and facts and eye-candy visuals. I share in your best wishes to Boomer and CC! I knew everyone in the Yankee lineup except Johnny Blanchard. I remember the name, of course, but not the face. The others were all easy to identify for this dyed-in-the-wool Yankees fan.
Have a great day.
I agree with others who do not consider a Seiko a high-end watch, but, Jinx, I don't think watches are on their way out. It's easier to look at one's wrist than find one's phone, and easiest always wins.
I failed to notice ATONEWITHNATURE is AT ONE WITH NATURE. I thought it was "atone with nature" which didn't make sense.
I'm also a Yankee fan, but Irish Miss, I knew Johnny Blanchard. That '61 team had three catchers with over 20 homers!
Wow! What a fun puzzle! I took one look at all that white space at top and bottom and thought I’ll PASS. But slowly it came together and wasn’t really hard. Thanks Greg.
I loved the clue/fill for CURB, and LIT. We have an Enigma ENCRYPTION machine in the WWII museum. It looks rather like an old fashioned typewriter.
Owen, all A’s. I agree with your assessment of MEATLESS LASAGNA. IM also NOT INTERESTED.
HG, always a pleasure to be on your tour!
AGM, the younger folks are wearing "smart watches" or nothing at all on their wrists. Traditional watch sales are definitely on the decline. I think of the switch from traditional to smart watches to be similar to the transition from pocket watches to wrist watches. Inevitable. But, as always, I could be wrong. As Jimmy Buffett would say, Only Time Will Tell.
Musings
-It’s about time – I have owned many cheap, uh, reasonably priced Seikos. Last night I saw a 6-yr-old girl at the FB game who was wearing an Apple Watch that was just a little bit wider than her entire wrist
-CODE breaking – MIL’s dishwasher was set on Lock and I couldn’t get it to run or get the Lock light to go off. The manual was worthless and so off I went to Google. I found a YouTube video that said I had to push the Sani/Dry button six times and hold it down for three more seconds to clear that Lock message out. It worked but the man on the video said that procedure is NOT anywhere in their manuals!
-Off to see our girls and grandkids at the apple orchards in Nebraska City. I hope your day goes as well as mine will!
I agree watches are so yesterday. I haven't worn one since my phones began to show the time. I actually took a few that I thought might fetch some pocket change. The jeweler laughed and sent me to the pawnbroker. The pawnbroker laughed and recommended to give them away as gifts. They're back in my clutter drawer waiting for my decision. I see smartwatches gaining popularity but I dont need my information that quickly. Reaching into my pocket to check the time, weather, contacts, messages, sport scores and latest news does me just fine.
This youngster still likes his watches but as most kids these days, he wears his more to show off then to keep time. It's always funny to see a techie to look ad his phone for the time while wearing a big showy bracelet(watch) on his wrist.
Giant 4 foot tall scoreboard clock isn't enough for this guy
The spans appeared intimidating, but turned out to be relatively easy, and fun,
D-O, you don't think fre on destroys the ozone layer???
Alice, yes I do, but we're talking about the Environmental Protection Agency. Their track record is less than stellar.
Good afternoon, folks. Thank you, Greg Johnson, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Husker Gary, for a fine review.
C. C. & Boomer. Get well soon!
Puzzle looked daunting when I first got to it. Six Grid spanners. Wow!
However, the grid spanners turned out to be quiet easy, once I had a few perps in each one. Puzzle only took me about an hour. That is quick for me on a Saturday.
I had ALONE WITH NATURE before ATE gave me ATONE. OK.
Did not know DAYTON. I got the TENNESSEE part. Perps gave me DAYTON.
SOBA was unknown. Perps.
Everything else worked with a little thinking. Nice puzzle.
Still in Pennsylvania. Going to work in the yard. Second half of my wife's 50th Reunion tonight. In Johnsonburg they have a high school reunion every year for any graduate. All the classes were so small that they tried that. It works great and they get hundreds every year.
See you tomorrow as we head back to Illinois.
Abejo
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I guess the system did not recognize me.
Abejo
So easy today.
Well, I too was so daunted by those six grid-spanners that I wasn't sure I even wanted to begin. But I did and little items began to fill in here and there REIN, ISN'T, IN RE, TASTE, but when I got to the bottom, it all filled in quickly. Then the top worked too, with great answers like PENCIL SHARPENERS. But it was the middle that turned out to be the biggest problem because I just couldn't let go of BODY LOTION (never heard of BODY BUTTER). Still, a lot of fun, with great items like I'M NOT INTERESTED for "Pass." So, many thanks, Greg, and terrific write-up with great pictures, Husker Gary.
Have a good weekend, everybody!
According to the UN, the ozone layer is healing. Maybe. I heard it on NBC News, so who knows.
I thought this Saturday would be the usual tough grind at first sight...but it went rather smoothly.
Markover....EAT/ATE.
SEIKOs are far from high end. Example, the $250k watch the Odell Beckham wore ON THE FIELD. Must be nice.
I hardly care what young techies (or young anyone) wears on their wrist, I’ll be buried before I have to go into my pocket and pull out my phone to see the time....it’s right there on my wrist. Where it belongs. And I have a bunch of watches of all face colors, I’ll still buy one if i like it.
Enjoy the weekend, see you Monday.
My watch true story:
I was asked to retire early and the offer included adding five years to both my seniority and age. Since I had 23 years with the company I said where is my watch and got it.
It stopped after about six months later and I sent in for warranty repair. I received it back with a letter which said.
We sold this watch to your company five years ago but we did repair at no cost to you.
I called the company and they said: "Five years ago we switched from Omega watches to Wittnauer and to give the last five Omegas to the managers that earned them and you were number five."
To construct this puzzle with all the grid spanners must've have been difficult. Kudos!
I will admit though that TUES puzzle took me longer than this one (17:20).
Enjoy your weekends!
Husker: Excellent, informative write-up.
Yup, I got all the NY Yankee's correct ... they are my favorite team, I probably could name there starting line-up from 1961 (and there pitching staff and reserves).
Today was Greek Salad for Kris, and pizza for me at lunch.
Cheers!
Hola!
What a sterling construction, Greg Johnson! Thank you.
I also finished this in record time and though I'm posting now it was at 5 A.M. after which I returned to bed.
With so many long grid spanners I decided to fill the downs first and soon enough I was able to connect them into actual phrases. Fun!
PENCIL SHARPENER is something I use often for the six PENCILS I keep on hand at all times until they are stubs then new ones replace them.
For me, nothing was really KNOTTY in this puzzle except NOLOOKPASS. It finally emerged and needed every perp.
BODYBUTTER is very familiar to me and to any pregnant woman who uses it to help diminish stretch marks. It works!
As for the Scopes trial, I knew it was in TENNESSEE but had to wait for DAYTON.
Me too, I'm NOTINTERESTED in MEATLESSLASGNA.
Gary, stellar work as usual. Thank you. Lots to do today. Tomorrow we are celebrating family September birthdays.
I hope all are enjoying a spectacular day!
Funny take on the climate debate.
I just finished* Fri and Saturday. FLN, clever theme. I have this strange do esire to lead a CONGA Line at a wedding.
And… I was thinking of Anon-T and others re. SciFi "Traveller". Hitchhiker's Guide. For which I could not grok'the author. Of course, HG explained the extra "T".
And… I thought IAMBS was HUMOR.
WC
** I was out of town and the Race Track had just stopped TBTimes delivery in Ocala
I was looking for an acid rain cartoon from the late 70s when I found the jewel above. The one I was looking for showed a CEO-type saying "Well, I'm not so sure that acid rain is all that bad", and a sycophant standing next to him saying "I LOVE acid rain". Ring a bell with anyone?
Bought a SEIKO years ago, lost it golfing somehow. Now I stick with Timex.
Fun Saturday puzzle. Was able to get the six long answers, so zipped through this fairly quickly.
Thanks Greg and Gary. Very enjoyable. That was a Saturday puzzle I could actually do most of. So, it must have been really easy for most of the rest of you all.
I love my watch. I'd feel lost without it. It keeps great time, plus or minus about two seconds a month.
I've also got a wind-up Ritz Cracker watch. I think it cost about $10 plus a box top about 50 years ago. Surprisingly, it keeps pretty good time too.
Haiku:
An awning salesman,
Turned politician; might she
CANVASS her district?
A masterful construction. Seeing those stacked grid spanners intimidated me but once I got some downs filled the answers became evident. I loved solving this puzzle. Hand up for EAT before ATE.
I don't think there is such a thing as paratha roti. As the page Gary linked explains, they are distinctly different. Perhaps the clue should have been "Paratha and roti ingredient."
I also agree Seiko is not "high end." They seem to be of good quality, though. I have been wearing a Seiko "analog" watch for decades and it has only ever needed new batteries and a couple of cleanings. A brief glance at it gives me the time almost instantly, without my having to fish my phone out of my pocket, orient it right side up, and then push a button. So much easier for my brain to process "almost 5 minutes till 8" than "7:53".
Still a darn good puzzle, though.
Super write-up, Gary. I didn't recognize any of those baseball players except Yogi Berra.
Good wishes to you all.
I've had a couple of fun watches. First was a (Texas Instrument?) LED model that required me to push a button to show the time. V-E-R-Y mod in the mid-70s. Second was a Casio, and had a 4-function calculator built in. Third was a Casio with a phone book built in. I could hold up the watch to the little speaker in the watch and it would play the DTMF (AKA "Touch Tone" in the Bell System) of the number selected so I didn't have to punch in the number. Best of all, I used it to "beep in" my long distance Sprint credit card numbers, great when I was on the road for business. A VP from Mars Candies gave me a watch with M&Ms on the face to get me to stop using a line from one of their promotional contests when I was teaching. (The wrapper said "sorry, you are not a winner". I used that as an example of the need to watch how you say things. Why tell a kid (who consume a lot of candy bars) that he or she isn't a winner, instead of telling them "Sorry, you didn't win this time. Please try again." Winners don't win ALL the time, although it sometimes seems that way.
The Dilbert cartoon on the Climate Crisis was not amusing to me at all. Scott Adams may be an astute observer of corporate engineering culture. But he is also an infamous climate change denier.
This sort of thing is why I have been posting less even though I do still follow the blog.
I would be happy to have an honest, open discussion of such a vital issue for the future of our planet and all of its inhabitants. But that is not allowed.
Picard, yes that is not allowed, thankfully. Thia is not the place for such a discussion. I visit other blogs to have in-depth discussions concerning my favorite baseball or football teams. I also recently found a forum for discussing my unusual faith concerns. It has been great trading ideas with like-minded people. We are allowed to challenge one another without worry of offense.
Just like here. This is an excellent place to trade wordplay and discuss the daily crossword. Thankfully it is limited to that and to that only.
Picard ~ Where was the Dilbert cartoon? I couldn't spot it-- or a link.
"Everything is politics." ~ Thomas Mann. There's no such thing as avoiding political speech. Avoidance itself is political, especially in the face of existential threats like climate change, gun safety, &c.
Misty ~ I had the same reaction to today's pzl. At first I was daunted by Mr. Johnson's impressive E/W bridges. But the small fills led to to longer ones. PENCIL SHARPENER was the first spanner to fall. I had LOTION before BUTTER, but BUTTER won me over.
My downfall (the only reason I can't claim a Ta~ DA!) was my usual error of misspelling YOLKS. (Damn! I always do this!) I filled with YOKES and never caught it in time.
Grrr.
~ OMK
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DR: A 3-way on the near side.
The main diagonal yields an appropriate anagram for an inner trait that must serve a member of the PEP squad well. I refer to an ingrained...
"ROOTING LOVE"!
Or, a 2nd glance may point to the attitude that does not endear you to that obnoxious guy who's stuck in traffic right behind you. I mean his...
"TOOTING LOVE"!
Grrr.
Never mind (Picard) ~ I found it.
Not a funny Dilbert. It seems to expect laughter based on a gross misrepresentation of science. A curiously political link for our non-political Corner, eh?
~ OMK
Picard, agree about the Dilbert cartoon. Not funny at all. And rather political.
Lol. Nothing fires up a climate changer more than to question their opinion. Hence, no way to have a civilized discussion.
I forgot Johnny Blanchard. I wasn't sure if Hank Bauer was still around in 1961 or had been traded (probably in the Maris trade that brought Roger over. One of the 50s baseball scandals was the Yankees using KC as a farm team.
I did Fri and Saturday pretty quickly. The main reason? I got some caffeinated Decaf at mtg at ten am. Wonderful for grok'ing xwords bad for Wilbur's heart. Poison for me. I'm switching to city gin*.
Owen, all W's today.
"Is their (major) dialect still called Cantonese,"? No but the chow mein is
"for this dyed-in-the-wool Yankees fan." Say it ain't so, Agnes
Picard, I think your post said it all. Anyone can do the research .
Re. The xword… I inked in KNARLY and had to work around that.
Enigma machine reminds me of my thesis about foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor , eg Since the Germans obviously knew and were certain their transmissions were safe they must have encoded 12/7 info. In the Turing movie the scene about the decoders having to remain mum while lives were lost may be analogous to the above.
Speaking of "above" is that political?*
WC
* Code for water
** You should see what's on the net re. 9/11 conspiracy
Hi Y'all! Wow! Greg Johnson, great puzzle. Finished in 10 minutes less than Thursday. Great expo, Gary!
BODY BUTTER! When BUTTER filled by perps, the image came to mind of a ram with big horns getting ready to BUTT into someone. Then I reread the clue. BUTTER & GHEE in the same area, spill that and someone SLIPS IN it. Never heard of paratha roti with the GHEE ingredient. Clarified BUTTER? I thought it was yak butter, but google says plain old cow BUTTER.
Got a good chuckle from "It makes a good point" = PENCIL SHARPENER.
MEATLESS LASAGNA: got a frozen gift of "summer LASAGNA". In the 6x3x4 pan was one lasagna noodle, layered with spinach leaves and cream cheese with a few chunks of Italian sausage and a few chunks of fresh tomatos. It tasted okay with some garlic in it, but boy howdy it wasn't the lasagna I expected.
Lucina: I read your BODY BUTTER post twice and came to the conclusion that you yourself aren't really pregnant now, are you?
Hot Diggity!
Hi All.... I did it! - my first 100% no-lookie Saturday solve this year! Whoot!
Well, that's how I started this draft anyway,,,,,
{insert John Belushi here*} But, Nooooo! SOBe is a #Fail.
//Stupid products with their stupid spellings (yeah, ILIU). Oh well. Skootch over Jinx & OMK.
Thank you Greg for the intimidating-looking Saturday grid (actually, they kinda all are :-)) that was quite doable if one started with ARK. [oh, just me? SO I SEE]. Seriously though, 2 tripple-15s - that's impressive to just SLIP INto a grid.
Thanks HG for calling out my one bad cell and putting me back in my place ;-) Fantastic expo as usual and I'd pay your Scopes fine any day of the week. #ThisIsScience
WO: N/A
ESPs: RETINUE(?), ALSATIe, (and a fantastic leap of faith here) GHEE
Fav: CURB's clue!!!!! (Too enthusiastic?)
{A+**, A+***, Cute: B+}
I'll go with the PEP squad over the horn-guy in today's DR
Jinx - Um, I was thinking 'legs(?)' too...
Y'all must not be close friends with many black folk... I learnt about BODY BUTTER (and "ashy elbows") in the Army.
My co-worker, while applying: "Black don't crack" [meaning (I think) you can't tell her age/it's the butter].
//Oh, check this,- she's the Mom of an NFL CornerBACK. No really!
AnthonyGM - have you seen kids today? They don’t need to 'find one's phone' for the time b/c the phone is already in front of their face. And, PVX, I can whip-out my iPhone like a gun-slinger pulling iron.
SEE, my obligatory-dad-cargo-shorts has an extra side pocket for the iPhone that keeps it at the ready. Go ahead.... Reach!
...
SIRI - What time is it?
I'm sorry, I didn't understand that.
:-)
D-O & et.al. INRE: SEIKO -- my first thought too (having the not-yet-ink'd ARK's "might-be-a 'K'" in my ideation) but I thought, "Seiko, that's just a regular digital watch - which is still a pretty neat idea." #42
Cheers, -T
*I'm not going to make you watch :30 seconds of ad for :03 of content
**it's on my mind after 5 days sans nicotine
***I've a tee that reads, "I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat salad" [Rudy's BBQ]
Thank you, Ol'Man Keith--I always enjoy your posts.
"Is their (major) dialect still called Cantonese?" Spitzboov, yes. The other major dialect being Mandarin.
FIR in about 20 minutes, although at first glance it seemed that this would be much tougher. Fun solve. Thanks, Gary and to HG also. HG, I learned something from you today!
This late in the day there’s not much to say that hasn’t already been said. I’ll just say WEES and leave it at that.
IN RE HG’s link to the very interesting article about using ice to cure EDEMA: I didn’t do this puzzle until late this afternoon, when I got back from the urgent care place, where aside from putting a brace on my knee (I fell off a mountain a week and a half ago*) the doctor told me to ice it frequently. Then I came home and read that article. Hmmm.
*Well, I actually fell on a mountain. We were at the summit of Mt Washington in New Hampshire (6,288 feet), on an extremely rocky path, and I fell forward, landing on the knee. Then in trying to get up, I fell back and got my right shoulder. Would you believe that I have been having balance issues? (And yes, I have ordered a pair of trekking poles to take to the mountains in Arizona next month!)
Now for the ice pack :P
Have a nice evening, all.
-T - I knew it wasn't "pompoms" without even counting the letters. Congrats for staying tobacco-free so far. When I quit some 40 years ago I played the Rocky theme over and over in my mind. Made me feel strong, even when I wasn't. Use any trick that works for you to make the most important change you are likely to ever make. You have a big support group here.
WikWak, I hear ya on balance issues. How brave of you to go mountaining!! At my kids home in Northern California near Mt Shasta I can hardly get up the driveway!!
-T, I just have to tell my Siri story again. I thought I had disabled Siri but I touched something I shouldn’t have, and Siri answered. I said a naughty word and Siri said, now that wasn’t very nice!
I almost broke the iPhone!!
Swamp - I had to scold DW (in the most gentle way I could) to turn OFF "Magic SIRI." Apple claims they've stopped the creepy practice. [Forbes article] but...
It's like folks that put Amazon's Alexa thing or a Ring bell out front. Why are they/we bugging [in the Spy v. Spy kinda way] themselves? People - you're the product! #SoylentGreen
Jinx - I love you man... Seriously. I've got a 1/2 smoked CIG from last Sunday that I've been fake-dragging since Yesterday. I was '' <- that close to sparkin' up* but your Rocky (how old are you?) reference...,
I'll SEE your Gonna Fly Now and raise you Chicago's Stronger (I feel I've already linked that this week(?) :-)).
Cheers, -T
*back story - DW & I had had a long-dark (tea time of the soul) talk with the girls today about our Will and what if ?¯\_(ツ)_/¯? should happen when we fly to Italy for our 30th Anniversary [a year late - but whatever. //31y on 9/25].
Jayce @ 1923, Thanks. I thought you would know.
WikWak: best wishes for healing from your misadventure. Hope you filled your lungs with enough good mountain air to last a while.
Tony: good idea to let your kids know about unpleasant possibilities. Probably scared your girls tho. I've tried to prepare my kids who are named as executors. My son thanked me for the information and for putting things in order. His sister refused to talk about it and informed me she didn't want to be an executor. She's 50+ & I thought she was grown up. Maybe she would prefer not to be an heir?
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