Kevin Christian interview with C.C.
Brad Wilber interview with C.C.
The SW corner was a real struggle for me with TRIGRAM, MAZIER and RAGAS in one area but I just had to
1. "Dust yourself off and hang tough!": COWBOY UP and get through it. Good advice to all puzzle solvers!
Let's see what else these two masters have concocted:
Across:
9. Ford muscle cars, familiarly: STANGS - Hmmm... Do I really need the 700+ HP in this street-legal 2019 MUSTANG?
15. Reluctant acquiescence: OKAY SURE - "Look, we can get by with a Ford Probe"
16. Walk-off hit situation, perhaps: TWO OUT - A walk-off occurs when the home team ends the game by taking the lead in the bottom of the last inning irrespective of the number of OUTS at the time
17. Note-taking aid: LEGAL PAD.
18. Country by the River Shribble: NARNIA - It's on the northern border of this literary country
19. "Hands off!" in an ad slogan: L'EGGO - A natural tie-in
20. "Hamburger Hill" setting, briefly: NAM.
22. Clue room: STUDY - "Professor Plum in the STUDY with a revolver?"
23. For __: not gratis: A FEE - I swear my lawyer would want a FEE to tell me the time of day
24. Had to miss school, perhaps: AILED - After many kids were missing school thursday, my school canceled for Friday
26. All over: ANEW - We Husker fans have been waiting for 20 years to start ANEW
27. Rare color: RED - I'm a medium kind of guy and would gladly send it back if the meat is brown all the way through
28. Bismarck's realm: PRUSSIA
30. Sworn statement: I DO.
31. Fit: TRIM.
32. Having memorized the script, in theater lingo: OFF BOOK - Brando could not go OFF BOOK as he did not memorize his lines. Here you see Robert Duvall holding the lines for Marlon in The Godfather
34. "Funky Monkeys" musical: THE WIZ - The Funky Monkeys in the original Broadway production of THE WIZ.
37. Pipe edge: FLANGE - Six FLANGES bolted together
38. Was unmanageable: RAN AMOK - Black Friday norm
40. Schnitzel meat: VEAL.
41. "__ seen better": I'VE.
42. Ready: ON ALERT.
44. __ pocket: HIP - Al Capone had many police officials and politicians in his HIP pocket
47. Start of something: GERM and 24. Brand that sells Arnold Palmers: ARIZONA - "Hey, somebody put lemonade in my iced tea! Wait a minute..."
50. Traje de __: Seville swimsuit: BANO - Spanish to English translation - bathing suit, swimming suit, bathing shorts, swim suit, swimming costume... including a 61. Small suit maker: SPEEDO
51. Indian improvisations: RAGAS - Here ya go
53. __-country: music genre: ALT - Somewhere between Hank Williams and Brittney Spears
54. Boston and Chicago, but not San Francisco: BANDS.
55. Negative feeling: ANIMUS - Speaking of politics...
57. Triumphant GIF phrase: KILLIN' IT - She seems to think she's all that and a bag 'o chips
59. More intricate: MAZIER - One of my COWBOY UP moments
60. "Hate to run, but ... ": I GOTTA GO.
62. Suit seller: MEN'S SHOP.
Down:
1. Priesthood symbol: COLLAR.
2. Michael of "Caddyshack": O'KEEFE - Michael getting advice from Chevy Chase
3. Went back and forth: WAGGED - Dikembe Mutombo wagged his finger back and forth when he blocked a shot implying, "Don't try that against me!"
4. How a sommelier might sort wine: BY AGE.
5. Peace Prize city: OSLO.
6. "You betcha!": YUP.
7. Heaviest naturally occurring element: URANIUM.
8. They often get depressed: PEDALS - Ford's Model A had a lot of them
9. Stop on a line: Abbr.: STN - On 81 days/baseball season, the Addison St. STN on the Red Line in Chicago gets a lot of activity
10. "__ wondrous pitiful": "Othello": TWAS - The full quote
11. Vital supply line: AORTA.
12. Unorganized, in a way: NON-UNION - When Hormel's went NON-UNION in our town, wages dropped precipitously
13. Unticketed plane passenger: GUIDE DOG - This one got to visit the cockpit
14. Be sensitive to social injustice, in slang: STAY WOKE.
21. Middle: Pref.: MESO.
25. Holds another view: DIFFERS.
28. Top-drawer: PRIMO.
29. Key of Chopin's first Opus 25 étude: A-FLAT - Winter Wind!!
31. Flier for 71 years: TWA - More if you're interested
33. Acct. amount: BAL(ance)
34. Most phone button groupings: TRIGRAMS - Groups of three consecutive letters, numbers or symbols. I had to COWBOY UP HERE too but it makes sense
35. Drop off midday, say: HAVE A NAP
36. Fill with life: ENERGIZE.
39. Hindu god of desire: KAMA - KAMA Sutra, hmmm...
40. Trace: VESTIGE - You know that tail bone that you have...
43. Notorious B.I.G. discovered her in 1994: L'IL KIM - I googled her lyrics and, yes, she can be as profane and violent as the male rappers.
44. Storm on ESPN: HANNAH.
45. Purplish blue: INDIGO - Listening to Duke Ellington's Mood INDIGO will be a welcome addition to your day
46. After surg.: POST OP.
48. Bess, __, Jackie ...: MAMIE - One of these women had an unquestionably faithful husband
50. Pushes the buttons of: BAITS - Nobody did it better!
52. Started an action: SUED.
54. Layered lunches: BLTS - You had me at Bacon
56. Sign of being packed?: SRO - Standing Room Only tickets for the Washington Nationals World Series Games last month cost hundreds of dollars
58. Actor Chaney: LON - The man of a thousand faces
Now COWBOY UP and share your thoughts with us:
I swear, this is the picture I intended for MAZIER (1)! How it got switched I don't know!
ReplyDeleteGood morning!
ReplyDeleteUfda. Hooray for Wite-Out. It took out my SALE, VOW, GERMANY, DEADHEAD, TRIPLETS and VIOLET. (And why are violets blue and not violet?) Didn't care much for MAZIER, but otherwise there was lotsa nice stuff in this one. Got 'er done in decent time, so life is good. Thanx, Kevin, Brad and Husker.
Well this is the morning for new words and sayings that have to be dredged out of nowhere using perps and WAGS. COWBOY UP, TRIGRAM, MAZIER, KILLIN IT, OFF BOOK, GUIDE DOG (as clued), Traje de BANO: Seville swimsuit, LIL KIM. Never heard of any of them but I got 'em. There wasn't a : after Seville in the newspaper but it wouldn't have mattered.
ReplyDeleteLooking back at the very difficult puzzle I see that URANIUM, STANGS, OSLO, & LON Chaney were the only gimmes today. Toeholds were scarce today. Didn't really know RAGAS, O'KEEFE, NARNIA, THE WIZ, or ARIZONA but after a few letters they were logical guesses.
I'm glad I complete this one correctly.
Gary- call a lawyer and they'll charge your 1/4 just for scheduling an appt. time. NON-UNION is okay unless they start to hire illegal aliens. That's where you draw the line.
Well I need to go. Is it time for the KAMA Sutra, BANO, or the LSU-Arkansas game? Game starts at 6:00 pm. I hope the rain moves on.
Go Tigers.
BE, I can't believe you misspelled "Geaux."
ReplyDeleteFIW. It's not spelled VESTaGE? UNTIE!!! I knew the term well because as a TV engineer I was familiar with the vestigial sideband technique used in the analog days of my prime. I assume that the GIF HG posted is famous?
ReplyDeleteErased _____ Pen for LEGAL PAD, air then hot for HIP, hedged for WAGGED, stowaway for GUIDE DOG, lama then rama for KAMA, and medi for MESO.
I was looking through the DVR guide for the Capitals hockey game and the Penn State / OSU football game and ran across the Kiefer Southerland movie COWBOY UP. Comes on at noon on our The CW affiliate station.
Thanks to Kevin and Brad for the fun. I missed one square, which is much better than my average Saturday attempt, and much better than I deserve. And thanks to HG for the fun tour.
Challenging but finally FIR with a lot of erasing - I had ANIMUS and ENGERGIZE and even RAGAS but took them out when I thought 34 D was TRIPLETS then came to multiple dead ends so I put took it out and put the other 3 back in before the TRIGRAMS game to light once I could accept that MAZIER was actually a word! I also had KALI before I took it out for KAMA causing a slowdown in Oklahoma region!
ReplyDeleteI'll have to let my son know that STAY WOKE was in the puzzle - he filled me in a couple of years ago as to the slang meaning of WOKE!
Thanks HG and Kevin & Christian!
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteAs noted, there was a lot of unusual words and phrases in today's offering. Unknowns to me but easy to parse included Cowboy Up, Trigrams, Narnia, Off Book, Bano, and Lil Kim. I stumbled over Prime/Primo and Vestage/Vestige and the less said about Mazier, the better. I liked the TWA ~ 'Twas duo and the crossings of CowboY UP and Yup and Indigo and Gotta Go. Big CSO to our Arizona denizen, lovely Lucina. My favorite C/As were: Rare color=Red and Start of something=Germ.
Thanks, Kevin and Brad, for a smooth solve (except the SW corner) and thanks, HG, for brightening our Saturday once again with your wit and wisdom.
Have a great day.
Good morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteA bit beyond my skill level, today, mainly in the SW and bottom center. But there were bright spots so it was worth the effort. Liked the SPEEDO clue.
URANIUM - I wanted Osmium which would be right if you weighed equal volumes on a scale. The clue said 'Heaviest'. If you're going by the heaviest atom, then the puzzle would be right. Heavy to an engineer usually means density. To a physicist, maybe not.
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteSkootch over Spitz. I too could not crack the South nor SW. South and West of VEAL I had only I'VE, SRO, and BANDS [love me both Chicago & Boston].
I tried to Google Funky Monkeys but only found a Band for kids. I then looked at HG's grid (D'Oh! THE WIZ; been forever since I saw Diana Ross in that) and also saw RAGAS. That helped for some extended play but...
It'd already been two hours so, HG, tell me what else I missed :-)
Fun puzzle Kevin and Brad - I liked STAY WOKE and COWBOY UP.
Y'all have a great Saturday. I'll be at Cougar's Stadium (UofH) this afternoon to watch Youngest dance. Her HS's football team actually made the playoffs (once in a row).
Cheers, -T
The conundrum: am I getter smarter or alas was this just an easier Saturday puzzle
ReplyDeleteSome early errors. Put "Tbirds" for 6 across then crossed it out when I figured "stowaway" for 13 down compounding errors (Also usually a stop on a line is a "sta")
Eventually all corrected but resulting in an inky NE corner
Some clues where str8forward like suit seller "mensshop" but held off, figuring the answer was too obvious. Then there was "Mazier"..really?
Haven't squeezed into a speedo traje de baño in decades
Heard the neo use of being "woke" but thought it meant being keenly aware of something not specifically of social justice so waited for the perps to make it clear.
A sunny but frigid Saturday in central NY. Still haven't planted all my spring bulbs
Anyone have an ice pick?
CC at WSJ
ReplyDeletehttps://blogs.wsj.com/puzzle/2019/11/22/squeeze-play-saturday-crossword-november-23/
Now that is a puzzle!
Ray-O: I'll say you're getting smarter :-)
ReplyDeleteReally, you thought MENSSHOP right off? I was in left-field with haberdasher or some such with nary a perp to support it. //I also thought of Bicycle, maker of playing cards w/ suits :-)
My NIT was the TWO OUT clue. I've seen ding'rs in the bottom of the 9th w/ no OUTS, I've seen a HIT w/ a runner on second, I've seen... [I was thinking TWO ON for some time]
Anyway, //end rant.
-T
The SW including Trigrams crossing mazier. Nope. Congrats to those of you who got it.
ReplyDeleteJB2
So many great clues today. Favorites were SPEEDO and GUIDE DOG. Least favorite was MAZIER.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the fun and the challenge.
Crunchy but fun Saturday puzzle--thanks, Kevin and Brad. My first word was VEAL (hey, I'm from Austria, so I know my Schnitzels). That gave me VESTIGES, and got me off to a good start in the southeast. I also got AILED and that gave me DIFFERS and that gave me PRUSSIA. And so it went, although in the end I did have to cheat a bit. Like others, never heard of MAZIER and still can't believe that's a real word. And nice seeing INDIGO in a puzzle. So, again, many thanks, and you too, HG.
ReplyDeleteHave a great weekend, everybody. I'll be going to Pennsylvania on Monday to spend Thanksgiving with my Dad and brother, so may not be back until the following week. I wish you all a wonderful holiday.
Great puzzle, but I had to come back to it for the third time. FIR. I think that Saturday puzzles are not getting harder. It is just that my inner processor is slowing down.
ReplyDeleteGetting ON ALERT and LIL KIM allowed me to finish the SE after providing the K for killin' it.
KAMA was all perps and then I remembered the KAMA Sutra. Duh!
The SW was not a problem for me.
My major difficulty was in the NE with many false starts and write overs. I, too questioned TWO OUT. I thought you could get a walk off hit with ONE OUT in the bottom of the ninth, if you batted in the winning run. And with no outs, if you had a runner in position to score.
4A BY AGE is okay, but a little MEH.
The best Wiener Schnitzel I ever ate was in Denmark in a little pub. Yummy!
In late October Alan scrambled his phone screen. With our extended warranty we got a replacement that never worked properly. It worked off and on, but 90% of the time it was not working. Every weekend I called customer service. Today I ordered a replacement for the replacement after 4 weeks of frustration. I have to see the phone to know how to help him, because I am not sure if Alan is messing up or the phone is. Alan was fine, it was the phone.
Hi Y'all! Thanks, Kevin, Brad & especially Gary.
ReplyDeleteALong about midnight, I was moaning over this puzzle because it had more than I wanted of slang & unknown words/terms/names that were unfamiliar. Blessed red-letters finally helped me fill it. I had only seen "WOKE" once -- in a recent Obama speech and it struck me as being odd but I remembered it.
I wish something would ENERGIZE me so I could be ON ALERT. My life mainly consists of HAVE A NAP & I GOTTA GO (BANO, but not a speedo).
One success this week: After owning my car three years, I accidently found out how to turn off the radio in my car by "pushing" a volume button which I had "turned" many times, trying to end broadcast. Maybe now I can keep the battery charged long enough to actually go somewhere and park without fear it will be dead when I come back. My problem is I don't do well with sign language. I need real words: on & off. Is that too much to ask?
Okay, I GOTTA confess. I got mad and used my fist to bang on the radio and managed to hit the right button! I don't resort to violence very often when things don't work the way I need them to. Of course, calling the radio a nasty name may have helped.
ReplyDeleteNot so bad and not too long to solve. Some very interesting answers kept it fun.
ReplyDeletePK @ 12:43 --
ReplyDeleteOh, yes, I understand about "real words". It's not just cars: My kids have been after me for years to get a cell phone, so I finally yielded ... but the thing is unusable until the (really, truly) oddball iconography is mastered.
PK, the radio shouldn't drain the battery unless you leave the key in the "on" or "acc" position. But I agree with the concept. My Honda's radio can't be turned off, but can be muted by pressing the volume button. Since I have to leave the car's ignition in "acc" for towing behind the motor home (so that the steering wheel won't be locked), I installed a mechanical on-off switch so I can remove all power to the radio without having to pull the fuse.
ReplyDeleteMichael, X2!!!
ReplyDeletePK, in the "awl patch," if it's broken or stuck the solution is always the same. Get a bigger hammer. When all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
ReplyDeletePK, I am quite concerned that you have to worry about your battery not starting in a three year old car . I may be wrong, but these past months I have been suspecting that your car "sits" too long between trips. Just a short trip of 15 minutes every other week should be a big help.
ReplyDeleteEdmunds says, "An unattended battery will eventually lose its charge. Get someone to start the car every two weeks and drive it for about 15 minutes if possible. Driving the car periodically has several benefits. It will maintain the battery's charge, help the car "stretch its legs," and keep the engine and other components adequately lubricated. It is also a good idea to run the air conditioner to keep the parts in working order and the air quality fresh."
If you have not been letting the car sit unused for long periods, you may have a serious problem that needs a mechanic to solve.
To all who have trouble reading the hieroglyphics on gadgets, this LIU person finds looking at manuals and illustrations that came with your device or car and reading the directions helps a great deal. I find that any action that I haven't made in the last few months needs to be reinforced by LIU.
There are WORD functions I use twice a year which I always have to look up. My blood glucose meter has error messages that occur very occasionally that I need to look up.
If you Google at all, you can ask questions like How can I mute (or unmute my phone)? How can I set up speed dial? How can I add a new contact? Including your make and model gives best results.
Google has become my How To Do Anything resource. A key fell off my keyboard and I found a YouTube video that showed me step by step what to do.
This was really tough for me, even for a Saturday. Unknowns as clued included: COWBOY UP, MAZIER, OKEEFE, KAMA, HANNAH, NARNIA, STUDY, TRIGRAMS, OFF BOOK, KILLIN IT. The latter did me in. I had KILLED IT which I changed to KILLID IT to fit with BAITS. FIW. Proud to get everything else.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone else get stuck with KILLED IT?
We are in a good mood today because my wife is exhibiting her art at her first public show. Last night was the artist reception and she sold two of her four displayed pieces before the show officially even opened!
Here we posed with her floral designs.
Can someone please explain why STUDY is "Clue room"?
PK I feel your frustration! I am so grateful that my 1996 Corolla is still running like new. I recently rented a new car in Sedona, Arizona which had the kind of electronic interface that you describe. You have to dig through endless menus for even the most basic functions. It took the rental agent several minutes to find the trip odometer for me. Just give me real (labeled!) buttons and switches for the important functions I need all the time!
From yesterday:
AnonT thanks for the continuation of the SIENA story. Amusing and happy ending! Yes, our food tastes are often culturally influenced. We often like a certain food because it makes us feel part of our tribe.
Picard, Clue is a board game, a murder mystery where you have to figure out which of 6 people killed Mr. Body, with which of 6 weapons, and in which of 9 rooms, the Study being one.
ReplyDeleteI see that my original post this morning got deleted because it accidentally linked to a politically charged photo. I don't have a record of my comments on the puzzle, but I did record my l'icks.
ReplyDeleteWhen you're down in the dust, COWBOY UP!
When things are getting tough, Cowboy Up!
Don't just say, "OKAY, SURE,"
Giving up is horse manure!
If you expect to be John Wayne, Cowboy Up!
If you take a trip down the RIVER SHRIBBLE,
You may find C.S.Lewis' fine scribble.
It's the land of NARNIA,
But I've got to warn ya
You'll likely be addicted if ya nibble!
If you like fantasy lands, that's your biz.
You probably like Oz, and THE WIZ.
Evil witches RUN AMOK
Roads are MAZIER than muck,
And you're likely to emerge in a tizz!
HAVE A NAP if you need to shut your eyes.
But when you're rested, get up and ENERGIZE!
Do your tasks in a blitz
Until you're KILLIN' IT,
Then STAY WOKE and you're SURE to get the prize!
{A, A-, B+, C-.} That 4th is for hypocrisy. Poetically it rates a B.
I also expressed an opinion that MAZIER was a made-up word, and illustrated it with this picture in addition to the one that got left in my second post of the day.
ReplyDeleteSome pretty obscure stuff here. Cowboy up? What does that even mean? This was just filled with marginal words.Mazier, trigrams,killin it,leggo to name a few.Needlessly hard and unpleasant.
ReplyDeleteFIW. A really good puzzle, with some terrifically devious clues, but I couldn't solve it. I love the clue for GUIDE DOG, for which I filled STOWAWAY. Also love the clue for SPEEDO. I stayed with STENO PAD for too long. Had to look up who or what those Funky Monkeys were; had no idea. Etc etc.
ReplyDelete. . .
Just got off a 2-hour phone call with our son in San Diego. So I'll wish you all a good day and sign off.
Another tough go, too trying for my P+P.
ReplyDeleteUsually I bat .500 over Friday/Saturday pzls, but not this week. Both were impossible w/o cheats. Of the two, this was the tougher, with several nexi (nexuses) beyond my intuitive capabilities.
See you next week.
~ OMK
Owen, I LOLed so all A’s!
ReplyDeleteJUst finished reading two days worth of Blog & Posts
ReplyDeletetrying to catch up. I was hoping to see a post from Bill G,
who says he has been unable to post.
I cannot imagine what the Glitch might be Bill,
Regardless of Email Address, you should still be able to post as Anonymous...
My tardiness is due to yesterday being DW & I's
(hmm, DW & I's? Yellowrocks, how do I fix that?)
33rd wedding anniversary.
Today was assigned to "get the leaves out of the backyard
before the last leaf pick up is made." (or it snows...)
PK, Ah, the things I have fixed with just a hammer...
(but it usually takes 3, blood, sweat, & tears...)
I know there was a third person I wanted to respond to,
but the memory being what is left of it...
Oh well, you will come to me...
Oh, Unicorn meteor shower being a bust!
ReplyDeleteI remember some 30 odd years ago,
camping out on a mountain top in Harriman State Park,
and seeing the most incredible meteor shower!
Just laying back in the grass, all night, & watching the show!
It was The Perseid Meteor shower, and it was August 12th!
The driest time of year! I have waited through the next 30+ years
to watch that show again, & would you believe,
for the last 30+ years, it has rained on August 12th in the TriState area...
Weird, I hit something by accident (I don't know what) and my comments from this morning popped up! I'll strip the links and poems, and here's the rest:
ReplyDeleteDNF. YeP > YUP, SALE > A FEE, KILLed IT > KILLIN' IT, ENERvItE > ENERGIZE. Didn't fill until after red letters: COLLAR, O'KEEFE, WAGGED, OKAY SURE, BAITS, HANNAH. Never heard of RAGAS (how was I supposed to know it? Is there some phrase used in English that incorporates it? That's the usual rule.), and MAZIER (1) I doubt existed as a word before this puzzle was constructed. Yeah, Yellowrocks is going to find MAZIER (2) somewhere now that it's been challenged.
It is probably a generational thing, Owen. RAGAS was one of my earlier fills. Memories of Ravi Shankar's hot riffs with his pals, the Beatles. George Harrison joining him on the sitar...
ReplyDeleteYes, I hear them even now in my mind's ear.
~ OMK
The first known use of MAZY was in 1579. I guess it never got too popular like Erie and Eel.
ReplyDeleteNot necessarily Mazy or even MAZIER. Nor is it ALT-Country.
ReplyDeleteIt is, however, Mazzy Star, an ALTnerative-Rock band from Santa Monica
If you you would like to hear more, Try this one. If not your cup o tea, then don't click. It is as easy as that...
Picard, congrats to your talented wife.
ReplyDeleteOKL, hours ago I found just one reference, repeated at several sites, concerning a "mazier path." A very uncommon usage, I must agree, so I didn't post it. There were quite a few references to the surname Mazier.
You musty admit, though not the case this time, that many words that are challenged here are not really that obscure. They can be found in many, many references, mostly in writing. I have come across a lot of them in my reading and readily find them in current publications when I look them up.
CED, congratulations on your 33rd!
ReplyDeleteThere are rules for constructing alternate forms of words that may not already exist. MAZIER comes from one of those rules. So I'm not going to say that it isn't a word, or can't be a word. But in this case and others, I can say it wasn't a word (despite an isolated prior citation). And in any context except puzzles, politics*, and poetry, I'd certainly look askance at them. Heck, even in puzzles -- if MAZIER turned up as a Jumble clue, I'd certainly cry foul!
ReplyDelete*e.g. bloviate, misunderestimated, covfefe.
RAGAS, I might have recognized it with a less misleading definition (which is legal, I'm not complaining about it). "Indian improvisations" East Indian or American Indian? Jazz is improvisational, I didn't know Raga was. And finally, I thought Raga was a collective noun, so a plural form would be mazier to look for!
Saturday Stumper. Thanks for the fun, Brad and Kevin, and Husker G.
ReplyDeleteThis CW was above my paygrade and even though I WAGGED, I was forced to visit Mr. Google several times just to get a toehold. I'm certainly not KILLIN IT! TWAS wondrous pitiful.
Hand up for mangling the SW corner. My phone button groupings were Triplets, "fill with life" was Enervate, "more intricate" was Lacier; then I got ANIMUS which made a huge inkblot of the whole corner. I would never have thought of TRIGRAMS! I never did understand how my "beginning of something" could be a Perm, but GERM is not much better IMHO. YUP, I guess it goes with AILED (right IM!). Don't ask me about MAZIER.
I arrived here to discover that Prime should have been corrected to PRIMO when ON ALERT filled. Alas I had en alert and did not notice.
Also, I could not fathom how RED could be considered a rare colour. Then I remembered reading that red hair was the rarest (only 2% of the world's population). Oh, it's meat. Actually, both interpretations may be correct.
I did smile at SPEEDO (also at "small suit maker" and "suit seller" beside each other - two very different suits!). Other favs were the clues for BLT and SRO.
"All over" was Done before ANEW. "sworn statement" was Vow before I DO.
My "unticketed plane passenger" was a stowaway before a GUIDE DOG.(Hi Jinx, Ray-o-Sunshine, Jayce.)
"They often get depressed" had the right number of spaces for Tongue and I LOLed, thinking it was a great clue. (Constructors, you might remember that one.) PEDALS was actually somewhat anticlimactic!
I waited for perps to decide between a VEAL or pork schnitzel. (Do they have to be veal, Misty?)
I thought of OMK with OFF BOOK, Lucina with BANO, and WC with TWO OUT. I was sure they would fill those in quickly.
This Canadian got MAMIE (KILLIN IT!) but I did not know about that Arnold Palmers drink. I thought of golf gear and a shirt brand.
I GOTTA GO. STAY WOKE you all.
Picard - congrats to your DW. Those paintings are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteCED - Happy 33rd Anniversary to you and your DW. You always find such great cakes for everyone here to celebrate their special days; I had to look for a delicious one.
HappyAnniversary
PK, my sympathies. Don't you have a 7 yr old in your life to expliquez. Joke but actually reality. Modern gadgets are made for children much like toddlers can pick up language
ReplyDeleteI had the same problems with the SW after laboring through a medium to hard Saturday. MAZIER and TRIGRAM??? made it tough but grok'ing GERM saved the bacon.
A few weeks back I made a point of forecasting that WOKE would surely appear soon*. Phil puts these guys like Mr Obvious on Bluetooth and that's a common word. In that genre it's pejorative .
I originally had RAMBO UP. " COWBOY UP" was the theme of the 2004(or was it 007-so many of those Redsox WS) champs. Kevin Millar originated it along with "The Idiots".
I echo the thoughts on TWO OUT. Hometeam scores from last of ninth on it's a "Walkoff".
Arnie is the King Midas of our time. He orders ice tea and lemonade and presto another couple million in the bank. In fact wasn't Midas an account of his? And, until I ditched GROSS for AMISS did I finally get ARIZONA.
My problem is inking in that which part of my brain knows but can't ink. I did know KAMA Sutra; I just read it for the cartoons.
Where I really had problems was the J. I'm going there now.
WC
*Perhaps I posted it after nine pm
Enjoyed all your comments on my radio frustration. Read the manual was the first thing I did when my battery kept draining & I wanted to stop the radio. Couldn't find what I needed. You are right, I need to drive more but can't this year. My son is a mechanic and keeps saying the battery is charging properly, but just have too many electronics on constantly. Jinx, wish you could come install a switch for me. I've been suppressing a desire to stick my head under the dash and start pulling wires.
ReplyDeletePicard, liked your wife's colorful art work. They go with your shirts -- you and she have a passion for color maybe what attracted her to you.
Anon at 4COWBOY UP is a term used in rodeos just before they throw the rider on top of the bull or buckin' bronc and open the chute door. Used outside the rodeo it means to toughen up or man up to withstand the rigors of life.
Had another frustration this week. Cable provider sent a message saying we had to get a new free cable box or loose service because they are updating. I dutifully called, requested, and received the box. Was working up my nerve to open the box & try to hook it up. Thursday morning I had no internet. Thursday evening internet back on, no TV. Opened my new cable box, removed the old cable box and started reading manual next day. First thing was told not to use the old cables on new box. none of the new cables were compatible with my TV. Called cable company. Long conversation ensued. Day 3 (today) tech comes. Kneels before the TV. Takes out the tray holding new cables and sets it aside. Takes new box & hooks up to the TV with two old cables & new power cord. Takes new remote and makes sure everything is working on TV. Checks connections outside. Total time spent: 20 min. Told me I wasn't the first such call today. Takes old cable box & new cable cords with him. Methinks the baloney about not using the old cords in the manual was written by a tech to insure full-time employment opportunities.
PK@8:58 - Hilarious! And yes, if I can't get something to work (latest was my weedeater), hammer was my best friend...until I realized I needed to buy another. I dread buying a newer SUV - too many damn gadgets. I test-drove a pre-owned Edge and even the young salesman couldn't figure out how to find a certain station. Menus?? Bring back simple functions!!
ReplyDeleteLiked this puzzle - COWBOY UP (gotten only "By age," Oslo, "Y(u/e)p" and "Pedals" in place. Alongside STANGS! I'm of that age remembering Ravi Shankar - RAGAS, and surely the Indian god had to do something with "kama sutra" - erotic book of the 70's. My LIU, with _A_R___ in place was "country by the River Shribble". Never read the Chronicles of Narnia so I was trying to think of an actual world country (wish it had included literary in the clue). Too many unknowns for me - "Funky Monkeys", who's "B.I.G."?, Spanish word for swimsuit, but I WAG'd. As everyone says on the Corner, a difficult puzzle stretches our minds.
TX Ms @ 10:00 --
ReplyDeleteOn the newer cars, it's not just the gadgets and electronics. My latest car has an owner's manual that runs somewhere over 450 pages (and the index was done by a non-native English speaker). It now stays in the glovebox to counter balance moi.
Hi, this is Kevin, one of the constructors, checking in a day late.
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone for solving and for taking the time to post.
This puzzle started with COWBOY UP, OKAY SURE, STAY WOKE, OFF BOOK, KILLIN’ IT, and I GOTTA GO. I filled the NW, NE, SE, and middle. I wasn’t getting anything I liked in the SW so I emailed Brad and asked if he would do the SW and help me clue it and he graciously agreed.
See ya!
Mazier is not a word.
ReplyDeleteI didn't have a chance to solve yesterday, so I checked in to go all "Rex Parker" on mazier.
Swag, if you're thinking of going POSTAL* FYI, Brad Wilb(e)r is no relation. Although I admire his cruciverbalist talent.
DeleteWC AKA WilbUr
* POSTAL was a few Saturdays ago
And... Yes, Rex would have had fun with MAZIER
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