Theme: BEHIND TIME
(59A. Later than expected ... and where the ends of the answers to
starred clues may be found) - Time can precede the last word of each
theme entry.
17A. *Soccer ref's formal warning: YELLOW CARD. Time card.
27A. *Letter box access: MAIL SLOT. Time slot.
45A. *Area where cellphones don't work: DEAD ZONE. Time zone.
11D. *Sneak into the shot: PHOTO BOMB. Time bomb.
35D. *iPad's giant ancestor: MAIN FRAME. Time frame.
Good morning everyone. Vikings did not play, Gophers did okay, I went back to a 16 pound bowling ball, That's all I have to say.
Across:
1. Pole on the Pequod: MAST.
5. Conclude from evidence: INFER.
10. Auto loan figs.: APRS. Between Mars and Mays.
14. Smoothie berry: ACAI.
15. Land, in France: TERRE. Add Haute and you may land in Indiana.
16. Talk over tea: CHAT.
19. Like wet mud pies: OOZY.
20. Bullring bravo: OLE. Lena's husband and Sven's buddy.
21. Like dried-out mud pies: CAKY. If this is a word, it is ICKY.
22. Cerebral __: brain layer: CORTEX.
I did not know the brain had layers. Did the scarecrow need a
cortex?? Does the Great and Powerful Wizard have a cortex in the Castle
of Oz?
24. Name of many pharaohs: RAMSES. Oh, I thought it was the names of NFL L.A. Football players.
26. Singer Mars: BRUNO.
When I was a kid, we had a German Shorthair named Bruno. Long story.
My dad took me pheasant hunting with Bruno. The crazy dog would scare up
birds 100 yards away in the cornfield out of range of our shotguns.
Dad was not too happy.
30. Emeril catchword: BAM. Add another BAM and you have Pebbles Flintstone's friend.
33. Like XLII, numeral-wise: ROMAN. Forty Two! How do you do?
36. Elevator innovator: OTIS.
We had one of these at the first Graybar warehouse that I worked at.
We would load it up with Chance hardware and it went right to the
basement. Sometimes stopped a little below floor level.
37. Classic theater name: ROXY. Moxy, Floxxy and Cottontail .
38. Eurasian border range: URAL. There are a lot of mountains. Mostly in Russia.
39. Fiber sources: BRANS. Raisin Bran, All Bran,-- I prefer Wheat Chex.
40. Four-leaf clover, to some: OMEN.
41. Astronaut Armstrong: NEIL. "We come in peace for all mankind".
42. Apartment payment: RENT. Musical on Broadway.
43. "In Xanadu did __ Khan ... ": Coleridge: KUBLA.
44. Weigh station unit: TON. No really it's only 16 pounds. Feels like a ton.
47. Weighty exam: FINAL.
49. Montblanc topper: PEN CAP. I only use retractibles
53. Prohibited: FORBAD. I suppose FORBADE did not fit in the grid.
55. Biblical "you": THEE.
57. Rose of rock music: AXL. Does he want to buy a vowel?
58. "Sorry to say ... ": ALAS. ALAS THEE CAME and went to RENT.
62. Opposite of went: CAME.
63. Bay window: ORIEL. My sis has a bay window in her San Francisco home. I never knew it was called an ORIEL.
64. Many an Omani: ARAB.
65. Like two, not one: EVEN. Your score if you make all pars.
66. Simultaneous equation variables: X AND Y. I never was much good at algebra.
67. No longer here: GONE. But not forgotten, Oh my darlin' Clementine.
Down:
1. Big city big shot: MAYOR. Running for president, I thought it was Pete's first name.
2. Amtrak express train: ACELA.
3. Witch trial town: SALEM.
"You can take SALEM out of the country but ??? you cannot take the
country out of Salem". Did you notice how all the cigarette ads have
been replaced by new Medicare plans? Ask your doctor if CAMELs are
right for you.
4. Shop __ you drop: TIL.
"There were bells, on a hill, but I never heard them ringing - 'Til
there was you" Professor Harold Hill's on hand and River City Gonna
have a boys band.
5. Formal words of confession: IT WAS I. No, it was you!
6. Hickey spot: NECK. "How in the heck can I wash my neck, if it ain't gonna rain no more."
7. Start to unravel: FRAY.
8. Slip up: ERR. I think MLB calls it an ERROR.
9. Disaster relief organization: RED CROSS. This time of year we all get requests for help. I think the Red Cross is a solid organization.
10. Seed that grows squirrels?: ACORN. I think it grows OAKS. Boy do they ever make a mess on sidewalks this time of year.
12. Level with a wrecking ball: RAZE.
Wrecking balls are seldom used in Minnesota. You would not believe the
townhomes, apartment buildings, and multi business warehouses going up
in the open spaces. No wrecking ball needed to clear space.
13. River of Hades: STYX.
18. Neptune's realm: OCEAN. OCEAN'S 11 - Clooney and Pitt a tricky pair.
23. Part of KO: OUT. Also the result for Twins vs. Yankees. And the Yankees didn't even have "Yankee Hankys"
25. Petite: SMALL. Been pretty close to XL all my life. I think C.C. is a small.
26. Cheesy pancake, perhaps: BLINTZ.
28. Cosmetics giant: L'OREAL.
Some of the plush stores in our malls have cosmetic counters and ladies
who ask you to try some cosmetic spray. Then you find out it's $135
per ounce.
29. Lamp support: STAND.
31. Ice skating feat: AXEL.
I think I mentioned when I was a kid and we had an "Axel and his Dog"
treehouse show every afternoon. He would show "Our Gang" and "Laurel
and Hardy" reruns. I miss that guy,
32. Mimicking bird: MYNA.
33. Littlest of the litter: RUNT.
34. Snack sometimes eaten from the inside out: OREO. Good old black and white cookie. A crossword favorite.
37. City where Joan of Arc died: ROUEN.
39. Loaf holder: BREADBOX. Remember some of those old quiz shows where a staple question was "Is it bigger than a breadbox?{
43. Weak- or knock- follower: KNEED.
45. Crime scene sample: DNA. Do Not Ask!
46. In full view: OPENLY.
48. "Peer Gynt" dramatist: IBSEN.
50. Egypt's capital: CAIRO.
51. Guy felling trees: AX MAN.
We have an interesting chain of stores here in the Twin Cities called
"The Ax Man." They buy large lots of overstock from other businesses,
display it like my garage floor, and sell it cheap. I stop in and look
now and then, but I don't buy much. I already have a lot of stuff in
my home. I wonder if the Ax Man might be interested.
52. Annapolis frosh: PLEBE. This is not derogatory. Some of them might grow up to be Admirals.
53. Clock front: FACE. Point it at the stereo so it can face the music.
54. Norse king: OLAV. I believe there were five of them.
55. Girl Scouts' __ Mints: THIN. I think these were the most popular. A year ago I asked for sugar free cookies and I was sold "Gluten Free".
56. Hurried, old-style: HIED.
60. Historical period: ERA. Could be an "Earned Run Average"
61. Kids' game with a safe area: TAG. You're it.
Boomer
Notes from C.C.:
1) Here is a nice article about Boomer at Benilde-St. Margaret's, where Boomer helps coaching the kids every year. Thank you, John Sabol, Max Johnson, the bowling team and Benilde-St. Margaret's Marketing & Communications team. You all made this season special for Boomer.
2) Happy Birthday to our talented and adventurous Picard!
1) Here is a nice article about Boomer at Benilde-St. Margaret's, where Boomer helps coaching the kids every year. Thank you, John Sabol, Max Johnson, the bowling team and Benilde-St. Margaret's Marketing & Communications team. You all made this season special for Boomer.
2) Happy Birthday to our talented and adventurous Picard!
50 comments:
OK, but a bit crunchy here. No writeovers, but seemed sloggy.
Wonderful that you continue your teaching the young while you continue to fight your won battles. Congrats on going back to the 16.
Fun puzzle with AXL and AXEL and AX MAN . We ave many X Y and Z spaces.
Thanks, Dr. Ed and Boomer. AS always on this Thanksgiving week, I give a special thank you to C.C. for his blog, and to everyone who has supported it as we near the 12th year. A shout to all those who used to comment and my best wishes for your health and happiness. Stop by and let us know you are ok. Also, a SO to those who have left this plane of existence.
There was a girl named Suzy
Who made mud pies that were OOZY.
She let the sun baky
UNTIL they were CAKY,
The bellyache they gave was a doozie!
An old grandfather of mine
Had a clock that twelve would chime.
It would STAND by the wall,
Hid a hole that was SMALL
Where a mouse was always BEHIND TIME.
The zoo of the great RAMSES
Had ostrich and chimpanzees,
And a CAIRO MYNA
That swore much finer
Than any sailor on the high seas!
The grand KUBLA KHAN
Was a Renaissance man!
He had a man cave
Like many crave,
That was lit by candles ROMAN!
He had a dog named Xanadu
(Simply XANDY to me and you)
When he went to the ROXY
The dog was his proxy
To add X AND Y to get two!
{B+, B+, A-, A, A.}
I blew the theme. I expected YELLOW LINE, DEADLINE, MAINLINE, MAIL LINE (queue at the post office? Message on a post card?), and PHOTO LINE (meme caption).
Spell check did not like baky, CAKY, doozy, nor doozie.
Can AXL do an AXEL? Is he an AX-MAN? Where is he on the X AND Y axis?
Good morning!
With RAMSES, FORBAD, and AXMAN, I thought the theme was war on the letter E. Proudly inked in OVERTL...and ran out of space. And thought that warning dohickey was a flag, not a CARD. Still, managed to get through this one quickly without even noticing the real theme. Surprise! Thanx, Dr. Ed and Boomer (Congrats on that article. When did bowling balls stop being black?)
TERRE: I'll bet lotsa folks here remember Terre Haute as home of the Columbia Record Club.
ROMAN: My license plate begins with a ROMAN number, LXI -- first license number that I can actually remember.
RUNT: We've got a 9-month old that we named RUNTY, because she was. She's finally filling out, but will always be a small cat. At the vet she's officially RUMBY -- dw chickened out on RUNTY.
DEAD ZONE: We live in one. Also have to drive several blocks before the GPS can figure out where it is.
Quick Monday sprint - funny to have RAMSES today when the other day it was RAMESES - I'm more familiar with the first spelling than the second. I always have to think a second as to whether it is AXEL or AXLE for the skating jump vs the car part!
I'm more familiar with "cakey" than CAKY - but I'm used to the word in the context of brownies - some recipes are more CAKY, some are more chewy. I prefer the chewy myself- how about other Cornerites! Also in the context of makeup- sometimes it is CAKY and the foundation clumps up in the creases- especially makeup used for a play.
Off to my last day of work for the week! Probably lots of people wanting to be "all better" before the holiday- when a virus is just going to take it's own sweet time!
Thanks Boomer and Ed! Fun pic of your team!
FIW, missing my wag at Natick RO_EN x K_BLA. On Monday??? Erased thou for THEE.
"Montblanc topper" had me thinking of what Pierre calls "snow", then what he calls 'ice" after CAP appeared. I used to get these as vendor gifts occasionally, and would pry off the vendor's logo and give them as gifts. The large bore grip didn't fit my hand.
FLN: PK, I suspect that your trickle charger doesn't work because your car's cigarette lighter doesn't work unless the key is on. Good on you if you are OK with working under the hood, even if just to hook up the battery charger. Overnight should be fine for the big one.
HBDTY Picard. Hope you make it a special one.
Thanks to Ed for the fun puzzle, even if it belonged on a Wed/Thur edition. My favorite was the fresh cluing for OREO. And thanks to Boomer for another funny review. I'm glad your team and the faculty appreciates you as much as Cornerites do.
It's only Monday! I didn't get 49. Montblanc topper: PEN CAP. Ipads giant ancestor mainframe. Just no. 26. Cheesy pancake, perhaps: BLINTZ. If you say so. Finally to cross pencap with rouen turned this puzzle into a DNF.
Double time solving on a Monday, doing the quick step. No obscure clues or fill and no unknown names. The I thought with RED and YELLOW that we had a color scheme here. MAIL SLOT nixed that.
Many of our small towns have part time mayors, not really big shots. Those in the city really are big shots and get a lot of press.
In many towns and cities in Japan I found they have open squares where traffic is forbidden. These are filled with round metal tables and chairs. People laden with packages come from the stores and plop down. Seeing that, I always thought,"Shop til you drop."
I wanted ICE CAP. When PEN CAP appeared, the light dawned.
FORBAD is given as an alternate spelled of FORBADE. Spellcheck flags it. It seems somewhat rare to me.
CAKY is an alternate, less used spelling of CAKEY. Those who bake brownies, as inanehiker said, know that brownies can be cakey or fudgy. Recipes and box mixes use this word.I prefer fudgy. I agree that makeup foundation can be cakey, too. There are lots of beauty articles about that. It makes one look older.
The less known alternate spellings of CAKY and FORBAD did not hold me up.
Boomer, lovely accolade. I admire you for positive attitude and for sharing your love and your love of bowling with youth while you are still being treated.
Happy birthday, Picard. Thanks for your lovely photos and all the time you spend finding them for us.
CC, thanks for sharing that great article on Boomer. It would be wonderful if we all would try to do pass on such wisdom to our youth.
Hola!
Happy birthday, Picard! I really enjoy the photos and posts telling of your exploits.
Thank you, Ed Sessa and Boomer! Ed made me work for a result on this Monday puzzle. Not surprisingly I've never heard of YELLOWCARD but it easily emerged and was pleasantly amused at the plethora of Xs and Ys. At first I thought we were headed for a pangram but no Q appeared.
ORIEL is an old crossword classic and once it emerged I realized that OPENED was wrong! On Mondays I solve in ink so it was frustrating to be forced to use my wite-out pen (hello, d-o).
ACAI. Yesterday I heard my niece recite the many benefits of this berry. She, like her mother, has severe health problems and prefers to use natural healing elements.
And speaking of yesterday, we left early in the morning for the long trek to Gilbert (a nearby town) to join the rest of the clan for the annual tamale making. By afternoon assorted nieces and their children arrived and the assembly line took its final shape. We ended up with only 47 dozen, way short of our goal so we'll have to meet later, probably in December, to make more. Although we love to have everyone participate, it stymies our goal by having too many hands in the pot yet we don't want to discourage anyone from desiring to be part of this tradition.
I hope you all had a fine day yesterday. I did the puzzle during some down time and as always, liked Gail Grabowski's opus.
Have a lovely day, everyone!
Good morning everyone.
Happy Birthday to Picard. Have a great day.
Belated 33rd appy Anniversary wishes to C.E.D. and his bride.
Easy Monday solve. No wite-out or searches were needed.
The theme went easily; lots of TIME phrases are in common use.
MYNA birds are in the starling family and are an invasive species from Asia. YMMV.
KNEE - Very Teutonic. Ger. Knie, Dutch knie, L. Ger. Knee. (The 'ee' has a long 'a' sound, and the k's are pronounced.)
Boomer, thanks for another fine intro.
Good Morning:
Kudos to Dr. Ed for a well-hidden theme and an Aha reveal. I wasn't fond of Caky (or Oozy), Forbad, Pen Cap, or Ax Man, but I accept them all as legitimate. I think Forbad bothered me the most as I have never, ever see that spelling. Anyway, my only glitch was Thou for Thee. I liked the homophonic duo of Axl and Axel.
Thanks, Dr. Ed, for a smooth start to the week and thanks, Boomer, for the many chuckles and your usual nostalgic anecdotes. (Your memory amazes me.) Congrats to you and your young keglers on a successful and rewarding season. Thanks, also, to our one and only CC, for creating and nurturing this special "home", filled with such caring and kind people. Thanks, also, to our dedicated and faithful daily bloggers who work so hard to entertain and educate us: Boomer, TTP, Melissa B, JzB, Steve, Lemonade, HG, and, of course, our Sunday Sherpa, CC.
Owen, you're in fine fettle this morning. Thanks for the humor.
Happy Birthday, Picard, hope it's a special one. 🎂🎉🎈🍾🎁
Has anyone heard from Dave4? I hope all is well with him and Carol, also.
Spitz, were you aware that the town of Argyle (RIP, Santa) had been "dry" up until recently? I never knew there were any dry towns left, especially one so close to Troy/Albany/Saratoga.
Lucina, just out of curiosity, how many pounds of meat did you have to cook for those 47 dozen tamales?
We have another gloomy day but at least it stopped raining and the temps are mild for late Novemer.
Have a great day.
Correction: " ever seen".
Mea Culpa for omitting DO from the blogger roster. Thank you, DO, for being in the bullpen when a reliever is needed. (BTW, that's a baseball analogy; I know sports is not your favorite subject! 😉 )
John E., I agree about Boomer and his service and attitude. Picard - HBDTY and many more.
IM @ 0958 - Now that you mention it I might have heard that years ago. There are a few in western NY and some that are 'partially dry'. So I LIU'ed. And:
"These are the eight completely dry towns in New York, where no alcohol sales of any kind are allowed. The dates indicate the last year residents voted on the issue, though most were dry before then.
Caneadea, Allegany County (1986)
Clymer, Chautauqua County (1974)
Lapeer, Cortland County (1948)
Orwell, Oswego County (1998)
Fremont, Steuben County (1948)
Jasper, Steuben County (1999)
Berkshire, Tioga County (1998)*
Argyle, Washington County (2000)". RIP Santa
Musings
-Getting it all plus the theme makes for a fun Dr. Sessa puzzle
-TIME ZONE – It is 10:30 AM here in eastern Nebraska. It is 10:30 PM in Dhaka, Bangladesh
-Otis invented the safety brake not the elevator
-Okay, solve these easy simultaneous equations: X + Y = 17 and X – Y = 1
-OAK trees keep on giving (leaves) all winter
-I preferred the original, low-tech 1960 OCEAN’s Eleven
-Steve Allen first used “Is it bigger than a BREAD BOX” on What’s My Line?
-Congrats Boomer and HBD Picard.
Lemonade, the service and attitude phrase was mine. "I admire you for positive attitude and for sharing your love and your love of bowling with youth while you are still being treated."
John's phrase was "passing on wisdom." Very well said.
Musings 2
-p.s. for Boomer. These are the bowling averages for my niece and her family. Dad – 240, Tammy – 190, Camden (their 16-yr-old son) – 218 and Kayleigh (their 14-yr-old daughter) – 150.
-I sent her the link to your article and she replied she is so impressed with what you were able to do despite your medical issues and says to tell you congratulations
This is the fourth great puzzle in a row! Thank you all recent constructors and reviewers.
In addition to the alternative spellings so far mentioned, I noticed that Dr. Sessa spelled the Khan's name as Coleridge did, rather than the "Kublai" that I think may be more common.
Happy belated 33rd wedding anniversary to CED. October 31 this year would have been our 49th had DW survived to see it. And I had such big plans for our 50th (sigh).
Happy birthday to all those I have not acknowledged lately while wrestling with computer problems. Please know that I am lurking everyday and wish everyone my best.
Spitz, I spent six years in Oswego, NY, which is in Oswego County, NY, and I gotta tell ya I am shocked to learn that there is a dry town in that county. Orwell, NY must be a pretty small town, since I never heard of it. Maybe nobody wants to live there.
Gotta go.
Cya!
Hello Everyone,
Late to this game today. I thought this was fun. I didn't mind the crunch, I did it when I returned from running around like a chicken with my head cut off. Ooops. Wrong fowl. Thanks, Ed.
I didn't struggle with PEN CAP for a second. Along with my yarn problem, I have a pen problem. I like fine writing instruments. I inherited a Mount Blanc set which my husband received as a gift. He's a BIC man, so I took them back to the store and exchanged them for pens and a pencil appropriate for my hand. Nice. . . I'm probably one of the few people who notices that Claire Foy in "The Crown" is really using a Parker 51 to sign papers from her red boxes. Indeed, QEII did.
Boomer, Thanks for the tour. And thanks to C.C. for posting your celebratory photo. Wonderful!
Happy Birthday, Picard!!
Have a fine day, everyone.
Oswego is also famous as the official city of the U.S. Air Force -- Oswego into the wild blue yonder...
CAME, went, and GONE. Neat-o.
I liked this puzzle.
Happy birthday, Picard.
"Do not forsak me, oh my darlin'"
Heading out of town for the holiday. See y'all next month.
Gary,
If you or anyone in the Midwest could supply us with nice, clean corn husks you would have a thriving cottage industry. For some reason the husks we buy are of such poor quality that it takes double the amount we need to supply us with good ones. They are often frayed or discolored or just small remnants that are unusable and most are packaged in Mexico. I don't understand why the U.S. can't supply them.
IM:
We use about 15 pounds of pork and beef. My receipt doesn't specify but I believe it's in that area.
OMGoodness,
There is so much to comment/link in the Monday Ed Sessa puzzle!
I don't know where to start...
Well, to start with the weirdest,
33A like XLII I was going to post HitchHikers Guide to The Galaxy
because 42 is the answer to, like everything...
But this came up on Google instead & I was captivated...
I should have known mud pies being living things,
being wet, or dry, they still end in "Y".
(Yellowrocks can explain how "Y" affects words, I can't...)
Hmm, going backwards in my notes,
I have SPitz @ 10:36,
Thank you for the Dry zones in Ny.
(I will avoid them at all costs...)
& Desper-Otto,
You have to drive several blocks to get GPS?
GPS is by satellite, the only place it doesn't reach
is if you live under a bridge...
(Hmm, you are not a Troll, are you?)
(Actually, it takes a good few minutes to connect with 3 different satellites)
Otis!
You have got to watch KAte & Leopold!
Man, out of time in this silly RomCom,
turns out to be The Inventor of the Elevator!
(or eleviater because it eleviates your walking up the stairs...)
As far as the theme, I am torn between 2 links...
Should I go with the optimistic...
or just the usual CED...
Picard, Happy Birthday
if only you could have your job, & eat it too...
CED, I'll bet DO means that the GPS doesn't show his place as being on a street. Yes, the GPS will give you lat/long nearly anywhere, but the mapping is proprietary and content quality varies widely depending on which source your GPS vendors use. Some vendors pester users to buy updates, but I have found major roads missing from the latest versions, even though the road has been open for years. And routing can be anywhere from great to dangerous.
No, Jinx, I've got the latest map update -- free lifetime maps. My house is on the map. But when I turn on the GPS it is waiting for a signal. I've left it on the front porch, turned on for 30 minutes, and it never figured out its location. Once I start driving, it connects when I've traveled about a half mile. Then it's fine until I turn it off again. Weird, I know.
HBD Picard!
An easy peasy Monday pzl.
But I tried starting in the only coupla tough spots, so I had the impression it wd be tougher than usual. Happy to see it was not.
~ OMK
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DR: A 3-way in the mirror.
A poor distribution of consonants and vowels makes anagrams difficult. Anyone else is welcome to try.
Hi everybody. I have been unable to post anything though nothing has changed for me and my old Mac and Firefox. At CC's suggestion, I'm trying Chrome. We'll see.
Wow! OK, I'm back. I didn't like Chrome in the past but it seems to have solved my problem. Thanks for the suggestion CC!
We're supposedly due for a big storm and lots of rain this week. I'll believe it when it happens...
~ Mind how you go...
Bill G.
CC, Jinx, Yellowrocks, Lucina, Spitzboov, Irish Miss, Lemonade, Husker Gary, Madame Defarge, Jayce, CrossEyedDave thank you for the birthday wishes and for the very kind comments about my posts!
DW overwhelmed me with artistic birthday greetings around our apartment and a cake!
CrossEyedDave thanks for the Camera Cake! A good friend sent me this similar image of the cake sliced open!
Fun theme that I got quickly. Learning moment about MONTBLANC PENs. Never heard of them. Just know the alp. Learning moment that FORBAD is an alternate spelling of FORBADe. Shouldn't it be IT WAS ME?
When I was a student I once bicycled all the way from my place in Cambridge to SALEM. Quite a long crazy ride. At one point I was biking on the Mass Turnpike! Not sure if I have any photos.
Jinx ~
Did you ever read the Freddy the Pig series of children's books--by Walter R. Brooks?
His best pal was a black cat named Jinx. (Their evil nemesis was Simon the Rat.)
I loved those books. A friend of mine joined me in writing--and illustrating--our own versions, an early attempt at fan fiction.
~ OMK
Picard, since I have been unable to post anything for a few days, you haven't heard from me. Happy Birthday!
Best wishes for everybody else especially those with health or family problems.
I'm glad to be back.
~ Bill G
Gary, how abut (9,8)?
I'm so happy to be back and able to post, I'll respond to anything!
I've always thought "Is it bigger than a loaf of bread" would make more sense to most of us.
Bill G:
Sometime ago I bought a bread box. It is ivory-colored enamel and resembles a 40s kind of style with a rounded top, though not a dome, and keeps bread soft and fresh. Here bread dries out quickly if it's left in the open.
Picard:
How very nice of your wife to decorate for your birthday! Enjoy your cake!
Hi All!
Thanks Dr. Ed for a fun puzzle to kick-off the short work week. I had to work a little hard (for a Monday) with the intersections of ROXY, ROUMEN, and PEN CAP; good thing I know Coleridge's poem.
Wonderful expo Boomer! I LOL'd at the vowel comment re: AXL. Thanks for kickin' off the after-party. I'll too add I'm impressed with all you do.
WOs: BREAD pan; KNEEs
ESPs: ROUEN, ROXY, ORIEL (? - new to me)
Fav: I kinda liked RAMSES and CAIRO holding opposite corners.
{B, A, B, A, A+}
Hum, CAKY - looks Phishy to me...
Inanehiker - I'm with you, if I want CAKEY, I'll eat a cake. Chewy is the way to go.
Happy Birthday Picard!
IM - I asked about D4 the other day; it's still crickets. I really hope everything's OK.
HG: Didn't even need to break out a pencil: X=9; Y=8.
From Saturday: Thanks for the heads up, CartBoy, re: C.C.'s puzzle.
Safe Travels Jayce!
OMK - the best I can come up with for the DR is OUR BEANS. I suppose it has something to do with two heads are better than one :-)
Cheers, -T
Hbd Picard. So Mont Blanc is a pen? My fav is dollar store 2fers.
I too was looking for KUBLAi and FORBADe.
WC
Back to work this week so attack the puzzle after dinner.
Didn't realize "caky" was an alternative spelling. I guess you make a cake when you're in a baky mood.
So Montblanc is a pen? Does it pass the old TV ad Bic test?..attached to an ice skate then plunged in fire.
If "brans" can be pleural so can wheats,rices and corns.
I loved the "Freddie The Pig" book series as a kid mentioned above.
Spelled Neil Armstrong's name wrong and put beyondtime instead of "behindtime"
Otherwise a typical Monday.
Dang, DO. I had an old GPS that took a while to find the satellites, but not 30 minutes. How old is your GPS? Maybe you should take it down to the closest drug store that has a tube tester and check 'em out. Seriously, have you tried another GPS or Google Drive?
OMK, I hadn't heard of Freddie the Frog. I like the idea of co-opting it to foster creativity. BTW, have you ever run across Peter Fulbright in your acting career? I recently found out he has become successful in technical theater - stage management, set construction and the like. We were in the drama club together in high school and were otherwise pretty good friends.
Awesome artwork Picard!
(don't eat your camera!)
Good to have you back Bill G!
Chrome works, but Firefox doesn't?
That has got to be the weirdest glitch ever...
(but it would not surprise me if the answer was 42...)
While we are waiting to figure that out...
Not sure how to work this post into the puzzle theme,
but I was thinking about a Simon & Garfunkel song that has
fallen into obscurity that was really quite good.
OwenKL has given me an appreciation of poetry
that has me looking at some of their works & realized
these guys were really good with words...
No matter if your born,
to play the king or pawn,
the line is thinly drawn between joy & sorrow...
the rest if you are interested.
(but it maybe behind the times...)
Carol and I FIR in 29:34 min.
Good evening Cornerites.
Thank you Ed Sessa for this easy peasy Monday CW.
Thank you Boomer for your excellent review.
Ðave
Hey D4E4H!
Thanks for chiming in,
(we were worried...)
D-O,
I always thought that the delay in GPS fix
had something to do with cloud cover, tree cover,
or dyscalculia.
But this guy points out another possibility,
what adds up to 42?
Good evening, folks. Thank you, Ed Sessa, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Boomer, for fine review.
Picard: Happy Birthday and many more. Is that you on the horse?
I own a few Mont Blanc pens. Gifts from my old company. However, I wrote in ICE CAP for the answer. Fixed that later to PEN CAP.
Got most answer fairly easily. Tried NEAL before NEIL worked much better. My brother's name is NEAL.
ACELA was easy. I have never ridden it, but I am an Amtrak maven. I ride them a lot.
ORIEL was easy. Learned that one from crosswords.
FORBAD looked suspicious but all then perps were solid. So be it.
PHOTO BOMB was a new term for me. Hope to remember that.
Went to a funeral service this morning. A member of my lodge and his wife went to a destination wedding in Hawaii and he had a stroke while there. He died a few days later. The service was undoubtedly the finest funeral service I ever remember being at. It turns out he wrote the whole service years ago in anticipation of eventually dying. Something to think about.
See you tomorrow.
Abejo
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Easy peasy for me today. Just on the wavelength I s’pose. Thanks Ed and Boomer.
Owen you were over the top! AAAAAA !
Marvelous Monday. Thanks for the fun, Ed and Boomer.
Yes, a straight-forward solve today. I FIRed and saw the theme words that went BEHIND TIME.
Only one inkblot where I merrily entered LAUDER (well we have Estee all the time!), but then perps changed it to L'OREAL.
At first,(like YR) I wondered if we had a colour theme with the cross of YELLOW CARD and RED CROSS.
I smiled to see AXL and AXEL (and AXMAN) (you too IM!- oh Lemonade saw it first- and Owen, LOL X AND Y axis)
Slight dupe with 27A Letter box access clue and 39D BREADBOX.
Hand up for thinking of Mont Blanc topper of ice/snow before PEN CAP filled the spot. Lightbulb moment!
Holy tamales Lucina! 47 dozen!
Anyone here going to Shop TIL you drop this Black Friday??
Happy Birthday Picard.
Glad to hear from you and Carol, D4.
Good evening all.
Bill G, I knew you'd get it!
Canadian Eh!
Yes! 47 dozen and my sister tells me that is not enough so we shall have to meet again to make more. You see, we need some for our Progressive Dinner which draws a large number of people, for everyone's Thanksgiving and/or Christmas dinners and parties. Tamales are the expected hostess gift!
No, I shall not be shopping on Friday. I have a strict personal rule to never shop on that day. Besides, I am going to drive to California for my niece's 60th birthday bash.
Lucina, what is there, other than tradition, about using corn husks for the container for tamales? In these modern times, aren't there other things that would work as well?
Bill G - I can't think of nothing better to do with corn husk than to fill them with masa.
HG - Lucina's got a point. I am not good enough to make a real tamale but a good midwestern husk may be a business plan :-)
C, Eh!(and Lucina) - I don't shop outside of a grocery store. I'll get 90% of wish-lists on Amazon and have it magically shipped to my family.
D4! Glad to hear you and Carol are back behind the paper with a (Montblanc (?)) PEN. Do tell the story. How is she? You?
CED - the real meaning behind XLII :-) R.I.P. Douglas Adams who's brilliance will live 10 million years on until the mice finally get the joke.
Cheers, -T
HG's X AND Y riddle yielded an 8 and a 9.
And my walking pool X AND Y? I'll recap:
13 laps = 1/4 mile
I walk a lap in 40 seconds
How long to complete the mile?
Here X is time and Y is distance
WC
Yes, you can "calculate" it
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