Theme: SOLD (62. Auctioneer's cry after the starts of 20-, 36- and 49-Across)
20. Seeking an Olympic victory: GOING FOR THE GOLD.
36. Hardly ever: ONCE IN A BLUE MOON.
49. Zwieback, e.g.: TWICE-BAKED BREAD.
Boomer here again.
Just
watching the magic number go down. Sunday was excruciating 4 and a
half hours with too many walks. Vikings did well though. Fun to be a
sports fan in Minnesota this year. I have little interest in NBA or
NHL.
Across:
1. Octopus octet: ARMS. Also many MLB bullpens octets this time of year.
5. Read electronically: SCAN.
9. Stand in for: ACT AS. Unless you are a pitcher or a quarterback.
14. Painful joint inflammation: GOUT.
15. "What'll ya __?": HAVE. Pabst Blue Ribbon.
16. Legendary crooner Mel: TORME. I think we just saw this. Reminded me of the Seinfeld when Kramer made a fool of himself with Mel.
17. Prefix meaning "all": OMNI. Speaking of basketball and hockey, I am reminded of the OMNI Arena in Atlanta.
18. From the start: ANEW. If your golf driver fails you, get A NEW one!
19. Utter nonsense: TRIPE. This is disgusting innards from animals. Yuk!
23. Beach toy for a windy day: KITE. Go fly one. Keep away from trees and especially power lines.
24. Information technology giant: UNISYS. My golf buddy Jorge retired from them years ago.
25. "Norwegian Dances" composer: GRIEG. Edvard.
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28. Road curves: BENDS. I suppose the ones at Daytona don't count.
30. More than a few: MANY.
Many's the times I've been mistaken, and many times confused.
(American Tune - Paul Simon) It's all right, all right, I'm just weary
to my bones.
31. Come into view: EMERGE.
33. Hosp. diagnostic procedure: MRI.
This is exactly the treatment that convinced the professionals that I
had Cancer and not an arthritis problem. The MRI got me back on the
right track.
39. Jamaican music: SKA.
40. "Big Little Lies" actress Meryl: STREEP.
41. Frenzied way to run: AMOK.
I guess it was somewhat organized and God bless the kids who were
protesting the lack of attention to climate change, which seems to be
running AMOK.
42. Smelting waste: DROSS.
43. Like good pie crusts: FLAKY. Actually, I prefer the graham cracker kind of crust.
44. Field & __ Magazine: STREAM. My dad was an outdoorsman and we had a subscription coming to our home when I was a kid.
47. Beach toy: PAIL. Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch one full of water.
55. Celebrate boisterously: REVEL.
56. Urge on: GOAD. Sixty thousand purple clad fans packed U.S, Bank Stadium to GOAD on the Vikings last Sunday.
57. 220-by-198-foot plot of land, e.g.: ACRE. Some may call it a bad tooth.
58. Farsi speaker: IRANI.
59. To be, in Tours: ETRE.
60. Not that: THIS.
61. Animal skins: PELTS. Sorry but I think the collection of these is disgusting.
63. Enjoy some tub time: SOAK. I take showers. No time to soak, I have to go bowling.
Down:
1. Visibly awed: AGOG.
2. CBS Sports NFL analyst Tony: ROMO. Former Cowboy quarterback is now trying out the PGA golf venue.
3. Tax-free govt. bond: MUNI. Put your money in a MUNI.
4. Disapproving look: STINK EYE.
5. Elevator passage: SHAFT.
Years ago when I started at Graybar, our warehouse was four stories
with a rail access on the lower level. I do not have room on this blog
to tell you the horror stories created by this elevator.
6. Kayak-like boat: CANOE. Also a men's cologne.
7. State unequivocally: AVER.
8. Former House leader Gingrich: NEWT.
Strange name for a strange looking guy. But I would never pick on a
House of Representatives Speaker. I believe they have a tough job.
9. Conference-goer: ATTENDEE.
10. Welsh herding dogs: CORGIS.
11. Small music ensembles: TRIOS. Kingston and Chad Mitchell are my favorites, but I suppose you already know that.
12. In a plentiful way: AMPLY.
13. Plants-to-be: SEEDS. May have to try something different next year. Our garden was the Detroit Tigers of gardens this year.
21. Booking on a band's tour: GIG.
22. Stuck (on): HUNG UP. Also the way I keep my phone in the basement.
25. Scientifically engineered crops, e.g., briefly: GMOS. Maybe I could get some of these for our garden.
26. __ and file: RANK. I made it to Specialist E-5.
27. Ancient Cuzco dweller: INCA.
28. Spanish newborns: BEBES.
29. Author __ Stanley Gardner: ERLE.
He spelled his first name funny, however Perry Mason was one of my
favorite TV characters. I even read a couple of Erle's books years ago.
31. Bury: ENTOMB.
32. "Veronica __": teen drama starring Kristen Bell: MARS.
Snickers and Milky Way! No more for me. Not a good snack for
diabetics. I don't think the U.S will ever get a space probe to MARS
either. At least not in my lifetime.
33. NYC cultural center: MOMA.
34. Chess piece involved in castling: ROOK. I used to play a little chess. I used to laugh at people who called the piece a castle.
35. Like many a stained shirt pocket: INKY.
Was this not a Pac-Man character? I once drew a crowd playing Pac-Man
at Six Flags Great America Amusement Park in Gurnee, Illinois.
37. Tel Aviv residents: ISRAELIS.
38. Ones habitually hanging out in retail complexes: MALL RATS. There are no rats at our Mall of America in Minnesota, but not as much fun as the aforementioned Great America Park.
42. A step above "meh": DECENT.
43. White lie: FIB.
44. Remove paint from: STRIP.
45. Shakespearean contraction: 'TWERE. "'Twere the nights before Christmas" sounds stupid.
46. Primary competitor: RIVAL. Graybar used to sell RIVAL housewares to Target but then they went direct.
47. Oyster gem: PEARL. PEARL Bailey was a legend.
48. Tacked on: ADDED.
50. Brings to maturity: AGES. Some things get better with age. Not my bowling or golf scores though.
51. Zither-like Japanese instrument: KOTO.
52. Canyon feedback: ECHO. Toyota used to make a small car called an ECHO. I think they stopped around 2005 because nobody wants a small car anymore.
53. Opera song for one: ARIA.
54. Newsroom station: DESK.
Boomer
41 comments:
Good morning!
Didn't get the theme until the reveal (which I actually read, for a change). Interesting to see that old chest nut, Tormé again. Qwinky-dink. I did not know that Zwieback was TWICE BAKED BREAD and not an old broken-down horse. Enjoyed the exercise, Robert. Thanx for pulling a double-shift once again, Boomer.
REVEL: My piano teacher gave me a model of battleship USS Missouri as a prize for something or other. It was a two-l Revell.
SEEDS: Tried to grow milkweed for the monarch butterflies. My black thumb prevailed. Not a SEED resulted in a viable plant. You'd think a "weed" would be hardier.
The MOON is always happy and gay!
He's ever up, both night and day!
He's shining thru
Each month ANEW!
BLUE? He's seldom ever that way!
You've all heard of the goose of old
Whose precious eggs for wealth were sold.
But not of the gander
whose turds were grander.
He's kept in a loo, GOING FOR THE GOLD!
I wonder if old Edvard GRIEG
Ever played a pet store GIG?
Each CORGI dog
Would be AGOG
At NORWEGIAN DANCES and a jig!
{A-, A-, A.}
Hola!
A dog barking awakened me so here I am along with d-otto.
This was a most enjoyable puzzle by Robert Fisher and I saw the theme, too. I loved, loved seeing Meryl STREEP. What a fantastic actress. And Edvard GRIEG is one of my favorite composers; I especially like his Peer Gynt Suite.
I wonder if NEWT was named for Isaac Newton?
The KITE Runner is a wonderful book where I learned that KITE flying is a favorite activity in Afghanistan. And in China we saw some extraordinary KITEs.
Not being aware of UNISYS, I had AMPLE and didn't notice the error.
I probably would never have seen the artworks of some famous modern artists had I not gone to the MOMA.
d-otto:
My luck with seeds is the same as yours. I do better with potted plants though I doubt milkweed is available in pots.
Have a delightful day, everyone!
Oh, I see that Owen has joined us with some fine rhymes.
FIR, but erased esses for BENDS.
The record for use of the word MANY has to be Led Zep's Over The Hills And Far Away.
STREEP is so oft used that it should just be clued "actress Meryl".
Wanted "slag" before DROSS, but even I couldn't mispelll it badly enough to fit.
I like Romo better as an announcer than as a QB. The Cowboys were never going to win a Super Bowl with him running the offense (C-Eh and Steve, that's just my way of saying "offence"). I wish I could play golf like he does.
I liked the TRIO of Crosby, Stills and Nash. I liked Earth, Wind and Fire a lot too, but they were bigger than a TRIO.
With MALLs failing, I wonder if MALL RATS will become obsolete.
We have a business called The STRIP Joint here. Furniture restoration concern. Don't have any take-the-clothes-off STRIP joints here, which balances out my time in Dallas where there seemed to be a topless place on every third corner.
FLN - WC, in addition to the Italian and Mexican restaurants I mentioned the other day, Cody's and Mojo Grille and my two favorite local-chain restaurants in Ocala. Don't miss the Cuban sandwich at Mojo's. Can't wait to get back there in December.
Thanks for the fun puzzle Robert. I thought it was difficult for a Tuesday, especially the Natick KOTO x ETRE. And thanks to Boomer for your second funny review in a row.
Tripe soup is delicious
I definitely needed the theme answer to get the bigger picture of GOING ONCE, TWICE, SOLD! But otherwise glided through the puzzle!
Our mall has hours for the pre-teen and teen set so they can't hang out all day and night, of course the mall doesn't have a lot of foot traffic these days- so not as much of an issue.
Thanks Boomer for another fun blog and Robert for the puzzle!
Good morning wishes to all on the corner.
Thanks Robert Fisher for a fun and doable puzzle.
A few unknowns but FIR in short enough time that Mcd’s coffee still warm. :-)
Thanks Boomer for the review.
ZWIEBACK in my moms kitchen were called TWEIBUCK and mom pinched two smallish dough buns one on top of the other and baked them like that. Twei meaning two.
GOING FOR THE GOLDen finish on these buns could be tricky in a wood fired bake oven. Buns on the side near the fire box usually got a little darker,
I developed a liking for slightly burned bread or buns and to this day prefer my toast well toasted.
Cheers
A+
Good Morning.
After a very busy day yesterday, I never got to the puzzle so I did them both this morning. Thanks to Seth and Robert for long center fills. It made for a real breeze on both puzzles. My father-in-law and husband were and my son is in once aspect or another of the insurance industry. So DOUBLE INDEMNITY was easy peasy. Today, I filled ONCE IN A BLUE MOON without any hesitation. My mom said that all the time--not just once in a blue moon.
Thanks, Boomer, for doing double duty. Another set of fine links and information. Merci!
Enjoy a sunny day. It looks like all that Carribean moisture is headed to the Midwest.
Good Morning:
After filling in Going for the Gold and Once in a Blue Moon, I thought we were going for a color-related theme. The revealer and Twice Baked Bread took care of that notion. Wasn't Zweiback used when babies were teething, as a sort of relief for their discomfort? I needed perps for Koto, UNISYS, and Rival. I never heard of Primary so I thought that and Rival were brands of dog food. I never even thought of Rival appliances. My only w/o was Esses before Bends, and I had some company with that error. Kind of a CSO to our Tony with Tony Romo, what with our Tony heading off to Roma!
Thanks, Robert, for an enjoyable solve and thanks, Boomer, for pinch-hitting again. Your curve balls are right over the plate! Happy bowling and golfing.
Owen, well done! You're in top form lately.
Tony, have a wonderful trip to Italy. Enjoy lots of vino, but stay safe. (DW will see to that, I'm sure!) Ciao!
Belated Happy Birthday wishes to Mr. CanadianEh! 🎂🎉🎈🍾🎁
I thought this week's edition of CBS Sunday morning was top notch.
Have a great day.
I found this puzzle to be a walk in the park, even easier than Monday's. I needed the reveal to see the theme.
OKL, A, for the first one.
I see I have much in common with the posters today.
Lucina, Meryl is my favorite actress. Her range is so broad, from Sophie's Choice to The Devil Wears Prada to Mamma Mia. (Here are more movies I like. I suppose I like movies, after all.) Greig is one of my favorite composers. I found The Kite Runner wonderful, too. I read the book twice and saw the movie. (Another movie I liked)
Jinx, I like CSN, too and the whole folk era of the 60' and 70's.
Anon @7:50. Campbell's Soup used to sell pepper pot soup made with tripe. It was very good.
We like several types of pies best made with graham cracker crust, but my whole family and I love apple pie with a flaky butter crust.
My mom gave us babies zweiback. "Zwieback toast is a twice-baked sweetened toast fed to teething children. It is also known as teething toast, and can be found in the baby aisle of most grocery stores."
Speaking of twice baked, a family favorite is twice baked potatoes.You bake potatoes, split them in half and scoop out the insides, reserving the shells. You smash the potatoes with butter, sour cream, cheddar cheese, milk and seasonings. Spoon the mixture into the shells and bake them again. I think that and scalloped potatoes are my favorite potato dishes.
IM, I see we have the same recollection about zweiback's use as teething toast.
Good morning, everyone! Thanks to Robert Fisher for a just-right Tuesday puzzle that filled in smoothly with help from a perp or two (or four in the case of KOTO). The grid-spanning themers came easily, but I needed the reveal to bring it all together. Always enjoy your commentary, Boomer. Thanks for pulling a double shift once again.
All our cat owners here at the Corner know these creatures are pros at giving the STINK EYE. I swear my Kiki could cut steel with her glare. I thought of Minnie PEARL at 47D, since we’ve been enjoying Ken Burns’ excellent Country Music series this week. Learned she was a pretty sophisticated lady in real life in contrast to her stage persona. On a recent trip to our local mall, I saw very few MALL RATS but noticed a whole lot of empty storefronts – guess it’s true what they say about rats deserting a sinking ship.
Madame DeFarge, could you send a little of that Caribbean moisture along to Cincinnati – yesterday’s measly 10th of an inch was the first rain we’ve had in weeks.
Have a great day, all!
My favorite GRIEG piece: Anitra's Dance from his Peer Gynt Suite.
How about Mel TORME singing Blue Moon?
(typing to over the hills & far away...)
Appear b/4 emerge
esses b/4 bends
& an FIW with Ample (Unises?)
Oh well, at least Xwords are increasing my vocabulary
“John Michael Montgomery ~ Sold (Grundy County Auction)”
Good morning, folks. Thank you, Robert Fisher, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Boomer, for a fine review.
Puzzle was quite easy. It is a Tuesday. Theme became apparent after I got SOLD at 62A. I already had the three long answers.
I spelled UNISYS wrong on the first pass. Had an E instead of the Y.
Spelled ETRE wrong as well. Had ESRE. Easily fixed.
IRANI was easy for Farsi speaking. Afghanistan also speaks the same language. I think the two of them were the original Persia.
I don't think NEWT Gingrich was named after Isaac Newton, but was named after a mature EFT.
I have had INKY shirts in the past. Then I started wearing pocket protectors. Then I was the company Nerd, but so what. I was happy.
Tons to do today. See you tomorrow.
Abejo
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Delightful Tuesday puzzle, Robert--many thanks. I got a quick start with NEWT and ANEW, and it was wonderful to have so much music in this puzzle, with MEL TORME, GRIEG, TRIOS, and ARIA. Didn't know KOTO but perps helped. Liked seeing the two beach toys, KITE and PAIL. But, like Lucina, I put in AMPLE and left it in place since I didn't know UNISYS. No big deal, this was still a pleasure. And Boomer, it's a treat to get you commentary two days in a row.
Desper-otto, don't give up on attracting Monarch butterflies. I have milk-weed both in the ground and also in big pots and love seeing those colorful butterflies flitting around them every day. But I seem to remember it took quite a while before the first ones turned up to discover the milkweed, and it was only then that more and more slowly arrived. So I wish you good luck with the project.
Have a good day, everybody.
Wikipedia: Gingrich was born as Newton Leroy McPherson at the Harrisburg Hospital in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on June 17, 1943. His mother, Kathleen "Kit" (née Daugherty; 1925–2003), and father, Newton Searles McPherson (1923–1970) married in September 1942, when she was 16 and McPherson was 19. The marriage fell apart within days.
In 1946, his mother married Robert Gingrich (1925–1996), who adopted him.
DO, Jinx and TTP, thanks for the musical clips. Very enjoyable.
Boomer: Excellent write-up. Good job!
FUN Tuesday puzzle with an easy theme.
Fave today was 1-d, AGOG. That is how I feel after "Toast-the-Sunset."
Cheers!
I enjoyed this puzzle. Like Irish Miss, I thought we were going for a color-related theme. As soon as EMERGE emerged I thought of Lucina. STINK EYE is a nifty phrase. Our son is an ATTENDEE and participant at a conference here in San Jose today. He flew up yesterday specifically so we could get together while he's in town; we had a wonderful visit and enjoyed a new experience of yakiniku dining, aka "Japanese BBQ".
Owen, terrific poems today. Thank you.
Wasn't the mysterious guy who gave Clara that nutcracker for Christmas named Uncle DROSSelmeyer?
I like Anitra's Dance too.
Good wishes to you all.
Hello everyone.
Back from my semiannual skin exam in Syracuse.
Easy but I needed the perp with KOTO. FIR; no help was needed.
ACRE - I'm glad Robert put some meat on the bone by giving an example of its size.
ZWIEBACK - Literally meaning "twice-baked" in Old High German. We called it Twieback in Low German. I'm with IM and YR on its teething use. The IE in both is pronounced with the long 'e' sound as in SEED, the A has the same sound as the A in Bach the composer.
Have a great rest of the day.
Hi everybody. I enjoyed the puzzle and write up. Thanks. Clever theme. I didn't see it coming.
I tried eating a mango this morning. It defeated me. The part I was able to spoon out was very tasty.
Irish Miss, I agree with you about this week's Sunday Morning.
Yellowrocks, I agree with your favorable opinion about Meryl. However, if you paid me five hundred dollars, I wouldn't watch "Sophie's Choice" again.
Barbara planted some milkweed in a pot on our back patio. We've had an influx of Monarch butterflies since. Very cool!
YR:
Thank you for the information about NEWT. It appears to be a family name.
Menudo is a delicious soup made with TRIPE and is the traditional fare for New Year's Day. It has a reputation for curing hangovers.
I shall try to plant some milkweed now that it's cooler. In fact yesterday we had a monster of a storm with thunder, lightning and lots of rain which we desperately need. Now the temperature is in the 80s. Lovely.
Boomer, you always amuse and though I'm not a sports fan I appreciate your enthusiasm.
Was working as a computer programmer at the time UNISYS was formed from a merger of Univac and Burroughs.
DOUBLE INDEMNITY was a classic film noir starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray and Edward G Robinson
Never mind, don't know why I thought Double Indemnity was today and not FLN
A neat Tuesday pzl from Mr. Robert Fisher. (Despite the chess reference [ROOK], he is saved by a "c" from relating to the great & controversial grand master Bobby Fischer.)
The well-laid theme caught me by surprise.
When one of our dogs doesn't like something we do, we often characterize his or her reaction--the opposite of a wagging tail--as giving us "the STINK EYE."
For some reason we think this is very funny.
Bill G & Misty ~ I must try putting out some milkweed. Who doesn't like butterflies?
~ OMK
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DR: Another mirror-side 3-way.
Let's see what the anagram says...
We have all encountered self-important waiters, pompous stewards who can barely be bothered to come to your table until they are good and ready to take your order or bring your bill. Now it turns out they have their own organization, known by their French appellation as Les…
“Garçons VIP”!
TTP@10:47,
I really enjoyed that Country Music Link,
while Country music is not my thing, I find
it a heck of a lot of fun to play on my guitar...
But you also sent me down the YouTube Rabbithole...
I will spare you the links, even tho I saved them all to watch again,
but after "Sold," I watched,
I think my Dogs a Democrat, Bryan Lewis
Tim Hawkins, 70's in 6 minutes
Smothers Bros, poor wandering one/dueling banjos (in front of a full orchestra...)
Which led to
Pinball Wizard performed by The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
Now, this kind of pissed me off, because, while they sang Pinball Wizard,
not a single one of them played Ukulele to it...
So I had to investigate further, & hit Gold!
Musings
-Played the best golf of my life this morning
-We are adjusting to having MIL live with us for a while after his fall last Friday
-A fun gimmick fed by grid spanners
Zweiback and Koto unknowns filled by perps. I thought zwieback might be a German Two Deutschmark bill from the past.
UNISYS is not a tech giant. Formed from the remnants of Sperry and Burroughs, two old mainframe companies.
NEWT, Newton was his first name but like Bill Clinton, his last name was not what he was not the same. It was McPherson
Yellowrocks and CED, I thought that would be the perfect song for today's puzzle.
Hi All!
Thanks Robert for the puzzle to noodle on during boring meetings. Thanks Boomer for the second-half of your double-header.
WOs: hand up for UNISeS - fortunately, I'm aware of the company. I had a beach balL b/f PAILs of PEARLs [I'm FIB'n'], CORGIe, and something awry at the end of ENTOMB.
ESPs: KOTO/ETRE took a lucky WAG [Hi Jinx!], DROSS [yes, Jayce*], GRIEG, BEBES, TWERE(?)
Fav: STINK EYE [Kramer]
ACRE - didn't even notice it. I do like the clue, though. [Hi Spitz!]
{B+, A, A}
DR: Um, Dictionary!....
//oh, Fraunch for a waiter...
I saw the word Zwieback and it took me a minute to take me way-back; yep, we had boxes of 'em at the ready for teething.
CED - AC/DC on Ukes? Um, that's a weird idea of GOLD. Was the long-haired maniac on stage-right Angus' uncle? :-)
IM - I'm not gone yet! Though I'll probably save the puzzle for the flight [yeah, who am I kidding, I'll do it before I pack ;-)]. The car is scheduled to pick us up at noon-30.
//A towncar to/from the airport is cheaper than two weeks' parking and a classy way to dote on DW.
Thank you for the good wishes and, yes, we intend to wine&dine our way through each day
MIL's here to get the rundown for while we're gone / have dinner with us before we fly. So,,,, Play later.
Cheers, -T
*both girls did ballet for 10+ years; I've seen Nutcracker countless times. Nice catch and a new way to look at the eccentric "slag" of an Uncle.
The acre clue was accurate, but it was random, and odd. The traditional definition of an acre is a tract of land 10 X 16 rods: a rod being 16.5'. You could pick any number to divide 43560 and be correct.
Fun puzzle and great double duty write- up!! Thanks all!
Owen, all A++ !
Tony, Safe travels and much wining !!
What’s going on with Google!!!? I’ve tried 3 times to post and it keeps asking me for password.... and finally for login name. I have no idea if anything is posting!
When you try 3 times you get quite pithy!
imt3ja @ 10:08
"Motu Patlu Intro Song Lyrics In Hindi
मोटू और पतलू की जोड़ी
ना ढ़ेला ना दमड़ी ना कोड़ी ...."
Yes, I'll be humming it soon.
I forgot to say that I had no idea what ZWIEBACK was and it surprised me when BREAD emerged (hi, Jayce).
We saw Downton Abbey today. What an absolute delight! That Julian Fellowes is brilliant! And the actors are superb.
Tony:
Have a wonderful time! Italy is enchanting so I know you'll enjoy everything.
I assumed that I FIR'ed. Then I read Lucina's post and realized they wanted AMPLY- And of course UnisYs. Which of course I'm familiar with and a quick look back at the clue and AMPLY certainly applies.
Haste.. My undoing along with kibbitzing with Mr S. I was in Ocala again. DW goes into Best Western and says "They want too much!". I go onto booking Buddy and show them a price. The manager spots me and says "Give him what he paid last time".
I didn't tell them about the birds. Betsy cleaned up good and I duked the cleaning lady a sawski.
Those lovebugs are brutal. I pulled into one station and all the window wash thingies are dry- dry I tellya, like the Gobi*-. But they had a TBTimes.
.
So I'm back to glorious INK
WC
** I linked that Seinfeld and fell asleep on a Costanza marathon
PS, As I'm racing through the xword I noticed the perps had spelled out "NEWT". I looked back to see how they'd clued it, fe. "Mature eft"?
Nope, Gingrich, the answer to "What was the name of that ex-Speaker? Is he still around?". Btw...
You might see a clue someday for WOKE
Hint. It's now applied to people who are sufficiently PC aware - on the internet increasingly disparagingly
WC
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