Theme: "Fowl Play" - Punning on various fowl-related words.
23. Action at a coop dance?: POULTRY IN MOTION. Poetry in motion.
39. Nestling tossed out of a bar?: BOUNCED CHICK. Bounced check. Vivid image.
47. Story subtitled "Murder Most Fowl"?: THE FRYER'S TALE. The Friar's Tale.
66. Rooster's wake-up call?: ALARM CLUCK. Alarm clock.
69. Tiny hatchling group?: MICRO BROOD. Microbrew.
88. What fussy hens do?: PECK AND CHOOSE. Pick and choose.
97. Fowl haulin' a semi?: CAPON TRUCKIN'. Keep on truckin'.
117. "Rooster Wars" sequel in which Hen Solo rescues Princess Layer?: THE BANTAM MENACE. The Phantom Menace (Star Wars)
I
don't recall such a fowl play theme before. Ed always comes up with
original & fun themes. Ed is also a very accomplished themeless
constructor, so his Sunday grids are often filled with sparkly
long-fill. The paralleled 2/3-Down & 83/84-Down are good
examples.
I never quite get a handle of punning them. It's D-Otto's domain. Mine often lacks "surface sense".
I never quite get a handle of punning them. It's D-Otto's domain. Mine often lacks "surface sense".
Across:
1. Alerts that may lead to roadblocks, briefly: APBS.
5. Bela Lugosi was buried in one: CAPE. IMDb says "He was buried in a Dracula costume, including a cape, but not the ones used in the 1931 film...".
9. Orkney components: ISLES.
14. Egg boiler's aid: TIMER.
19. Ball game: POLO. Can you clue GOLF as [Ball game] also?
20. "You said it!": AMEN.
21. Steel plow pioneer: DEERE.
22. Ask for "fish 'n' chips," say: ELIDE.
26. Catkin producer: ALDER. There's a Green Alder in our neighbor's yard that has lots of catkins.
27. Make a bundle farming?: SHEAVE. Nice clue. Spitzboov made lots of bundle farming.
28. Fella: GUY.
29. The Tempter: SATAN.
31. __ fide: BONA.
32. D.C. fundraisers: PACS.
33. Confederacy foe: UNION.
35. See 16-Down: ITO. 16. With 35-Across, Japanese Olympian: MIDORI.
36. Guitarist Clapton: ERIC.
37. Primo: A ONE.
38. Car in a '60s hit: GTO.
43. Eggy quaff: NOG. Boomer likes Tom and Jerry. It has eggnog. Now he can't have alcohol due to the oral chemo.
44. Mad fad: MANIA.
46. Silver, to Long John: TREASURE.
50. Cotton Club site: HARLEM. Unfamiliar with the club.
54. Imam's faith: ISLAM.
55. Towels off gently: PATS DRY.
58. Neutral tone: BEIGE.
59. Part of a house profile: ROOFLINE. OK, this edge.
63. Puffin relative: AUK. Are these puffins or auks? So cute.
65. Gp. with many sub-par members: PGA. Another great clue.
73. Promgoer's concern: ZIT.
74. Television station?: DEN. Where TV is stationed.
75. One of two on a three-speed: BIKE TIRE.
76. Inuit transport: UMIAK.
79. Income for Inc., say: AD SPACE.
82. Tailor: ALTER.
86. Unleash a tirade: LET RIP.
92. Intermittent drip cause: SLOW LEAK. So glad our garage ceiling leak is fixed.
95. Ristorante potful: SAUCE.
96. Home-school link: Abbr.: PTA.
101. Some boxing wins: KOS.
102. Disappearing ski resort feature: T BAR.
103. Saudi Arabia neighbor: OMAN.
104. 42-Down's leg count: TEN. 42. Seabed sidler: CRAB.
105. Breathers?: NOSES.
107. Smack, as a mosquito: SWAT.
108. Start to meter or liter: DECI. Tenth.
109. Anarchist in 1921 news: SACCO. Forgot. We had this guy before.
112. Voluminous ref. work: OED.
113. Canine complaints: WHINES.
115. Wes Craven film locale: Abbr.: ELM ST.
120. Herder's rope: RIATA.
121. Sun: Pref.: HELIO.
122. Sentiment-al piece?: OPED.
123. What beavers do: GNAW.
124. Have a feeling: SENSE.
125. Auto bust: EDSEL. Collectible for some.
126. What's going on: NEWS.
127. Deserve: EARN.
Down:
1. Phone programs: APPS.
2. Plays down: POOH-POOHS. 3. Navy aerobatic team member: BLUE ANGEL. Gorgeous pairs. See also 83. Head honcho: TOP BANANA. And 84. London station wagon: ESTATE CAR.
4. Pain relief: SOLACE.
5. Give a hoot: CARE.
6. "Clueless" director Heckerling: AMY.
7. Loose dressing gown: PEIGNOIR.
8. Same old same old feeling: ENNUI.
9. Promise sealed with a kiss: I DO.
10. Board-and-pieces units: SETS.
11. Sister of Luke: LEIA.
12. X-rated works: EROTICA.
13. Legislative councils: SENATES.
14. Leaves in a cup: TEA.
15. "You know where to find me": I'LL BE HERE. So grateful for my blog friends, who are always an email away for me.
17. Like paradise: EDENIC.
18. Start another eight-ball game: RE-RACK.
24. Controversial "babysitters": TVS.
25. Brief warning to a busybody: MYOB.
30. "Like, obviously!": NO DUH.
33. Eclectic magazine: UTNE. Don't think I want to read it with this cover.
34. Write, as music: NOTATE.
37. Naysayer: ANTI.
38. Part of LGBTQ: GAY.
40. Online addresses: URLS.
41. Scholarship consideration: NEED.
44. 1983 Keaton film: MR MOM. Michael Keaton.
45. Jelly garnish: ASPIC.
48. "M*A*S*H" actor Jamie: FARR.
49. Go south: TANK.
51. Fat-reducing procedure, briefly: LIPO.
52. Thick & Fluffy waffle brand: EGGO.
53. Beverage that goes back millennia: MEAD.
56. Speed competition: RACE.
57. Mongolian tent: YURT. Modern yurt.
60. Monk's condition, in the TV show: OCD.
61. No friend of Fido: FLEA.
62. Swedish university city: LUND. Never heard of it.
64. Colorful pond fish: KOI.
66. Color of el mar: AZUL. Color of the sea.
67. Mojito component: LIME.
68. Having a spat: AT IT.
69. "The __": classic Yankee nickname: MICK. Mantle.
70. Furniture stores that sell meatballs: IKEAS.
71. Astronomer Tycho __: BRAHE.
72. Move, in real estate lingo: RELO.
75. Start to parallel park: BACK IN.
77. Torchbearers?: ARSONISTS. Nice clue also.
78. Firing site: KILN.
80. Blueprint detail: SPEC.
81. Crowning point: PEAK.
85. End of the line: REAR.
87. Annie who voiced Bo Peep in "Toy Story": POTTS.
89. Man, in a Desmond Morris best-seller: NAKED APE.
90. Tango groups: DUOS.
91. Emails a dupe to: CCS. For past tense, do you use CC'd or CC'ed?
93. Encircle, as with a lei: WREATHE.
94. Had a midday meal: LUNCHED.
97. Video game makers: CODERS.
98. 2001 Audrey Tautou title role: AMELIE. Cute film.
99. Game with ghosts: PAC MAN.
100. High time?: NOON.
102. Minor pain: TWINGE.
106. __ Hall: SETON.
107. Mae West's "__ Done Him Wrong": SHE. Learning moment for me also.
110. Disney collectibles: CELS.
111. Tony relative: OBIE.
113. Iraq War concerns, briefly: WMDS.
114. In stitches: SEWN.
116. __ kwon do: TAE.
118. 2015 Verizon acquisition: AOL.
119. Feline call: MEW.
Happy
73rd birthday to dear Husker Gary's wife Joann and her twin sister
Joyce. Here they're with their mom Martha. Joann is truly special. She
takes great care of all her loved ones. I'll never forget her strength
and devotion last time when Gary was in trouble.
Good morning Cornerites.
ReplyDeleteMy cruciverbalist partner Carol McClure was taken to a hospital this morning with chest pains. Please pray for her, and me.
Ðave
ReplyDeleteWell nuts ! The winning streak is over. But I'm not crying fowl.
Had no idea on "Loose dressing gown" = PEIGNOIR. My first and only guess was that Bela Lugosi was buried in a CAvE. Veignoir seemed ok. D'OH !
Otherwise, alles klar.
Had a few mistakes that needed to be corrected along the way:
Pool to POLO
Craze to MANIA
Mac to Pal to Bud to GUY
Tux to fit to ZIT
Pasta to SAUCE (it's gravy)
Rests to NOSES
Really fooled by: "1983 Keaton film" - I had Diane on my mind.
Never saw the clue "Group with many sub-par members" until the review but that would be a favorite.
Completely unknown: UMIAK, AMY (Heckerling)
C.C.. I would think both are acceptable, so mox nix. I would lean to CC'ed.
Happy Birthday to Joann and Joyce !
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear that, D4. Best wishes for her.
Hen Solo and Princess Layer were priceless. Was thinking Mork instead of Monk, so OCD was slow to arrive. Nice SO with CCS. All of the puns were cute, but I had the most trouble with ALARM CLUCK -- probably because roosters don't cluck. Thanx, Ed and C.C.
ROOF LINE: C.C., I think this refers to the shape of the roof: hip, mansard, gambrel, etc.
Poultry In Motion: Maybe this was the inspiration for this puzzle?
Happy birthday to the Husker twins, Joann and Joyce.
ReplyDeleteD4E4H, best wishes to you and your friend.
Desper-otto, Pull A Tree In Motion ? Never heard that song before.
Dave 2, you and Carol have our prayers.
ReplyDeleteThis was more of a challenge than most Sundays even after sussing the punny theme. UMIAK LUND and BRAHE took all the perps.
Like C.C., I loved the clues for SHEAVE and PGA
I believe the picture is an not anAUK but of a PUFFIN but I am not an expert.
Growing up in New England, we learned all about the SACCO and VANZETTI controversy.
Finally, thank you, Dr. Ed, for a fun Sunday and a really obscure CSO to me with THE NAKED APE. I was an extra in a wildly unsuccessful movie based on the book.
Remember our veterans tomorrow.
HBD to the twins and many more. I had seen the word PEIGNOIR in many books and a few movie references.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely Puffins. We traveled to Scotland to see them on the Isle of May. Beautiful birds.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ed for a fun, pleasant Sunday puzzle. A tad tougher than the usual, but well constructed - there were very few of the standard fill-in answers like ETON, so each answer took a bit of thought too get.
ReplyDeleteFor you baseball fans, one of the Boston writers just wrote a column on Mookie Betts, our great right fielder, and said he was a tad overrated. Red Sox Nation is in turmoil whether to trade him now or keep him for one more year, when he becomes a free agent.
I’m going to be a tad bored today, the Patriots have a bye week.
Your lady, in negligee or PEIGNOIR
ReplyDeleteIs in a warmer place than penguin are
And if the Arctic PUFFIN
Tried to beat their stuffin'
That would be a puff- and peng- war!
{A.}
C.C., I think your interpretation of ROOFLINE is accurate. Google tends to agree with you. Hip, Mansard and Gambrel are different roof styles or types which utilize different rooflines to achieve their look.
ReplyDeleteAlso ROOFLINE can refer to the shape of a car's roof. But that isnt alluded to from today's clue.
Thanks C.C. for your Sunday write ups. So many answers for you to choose from which to elucidate.
Not to hen pick but Hen Solo And Princess Layer did not appear in “The Bantom Menace”. Perhaps “The Henpire Strikes Back”?
ReplyDeleteGood Morning:
ReplyDeleteIt's always a pleasure to see Dr. Ed's byline as it promises a fun and fanciful solving experience. Today's offering fulfilled that promise handily. I loved all of the punny fill and the cluing, as well. It was cute to see Princess Leia in the grid and Princess Layer in a clue. I also enjoyed the duos of Koi and KOs and OED and OCD. Peignor and Ennui side by side evoked visions of Gay Paree! For a Sunday puzzle, this was noticeably free of unknown proper names, with only three that I dealt with: Amy, Lund, and Brahe. I had a few stumbles over Azur/Azur, Pool/Polo, and Back Up/Back In. CSOs to Abejo (Tea), CC (CCs), and doubles for CED (Mr. Mom and Mew).
Thanks, Dr. Ed, for your witty and challenging contributions to our puzzling pastimes and thanks, CC, for adding to our enjoyment with your professional's point of view and plenty of interesting and informative observations. That photo of Annie Potts is stunning, nothing like the character who plays Young Sheldon's Meemaw. I also enjoyed seeing the She Done Him Wrong poster featuring the one and only Cary Grant. [Sigh] (Ditto from Lucina, I'm sure!)
Happy Birthday to Joann and Joyce, may it be a truly special day. 🎂🎂🎁🎁🎈🎈🎉🎉🍾🍾
Dave4, you and Carol will be in my thoughts and prayers. I hope all goes well for you both.
FLN
Picard, my Spectrum remote has a REW and REC button, along with several others whose functions remain unknown and unused.
Have a great day.
Correction, Azur before Azul. Autocorrect strikes again.
ReplyDeleteMy cinema class prof said that when Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre looked at Lugosi in his Dracula costume in his casket, Lorre said "You don't think he's kidding us, do you?"
ReplyDeleteGood morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteGot most of it OK but couldn't suss DEN. Punny theme which was fun to tinker with. Liked CAPON TRUCKING.
Orkney ISLES - The Vikings held sway there for several hundred years. Site of Scapa Flow where the German Fleet surrendered in WWI.
D4 Wishing your friend a speedy recovery.
TTP - You wax Germanic. Re: Mox nix, I used to hear "Dat maakt keen Unnerscheed" (that makes no difference) a lot.
Hola!
ReplyDeleteWhat fun puns from Ed Sessa! I finished in less than normal Sunday time and had only one bad cell, LUND/CLUCK.
Thank you, C.C. as well.
Not much time to comment. Later.
Happy birthday to the Husker twins!
Have a beautiful day, everyone!
Musings
ReplyDelete-Thanks C.C., et al for birthday wishes for my lovely bride.
-Posting late because the blogspot server would respond earlier today
-My MIL raised chickens and Costco is now using out city to process two million of them per week
-ALARM C _ _ C K frsit led me to a another chicken word
-LET RIP – Umpires and referees will allow just so much and if they say “the magic word”, boom, they’re gone
- An ideal HDL level is 60 milligrams/DECIliter. Only place I’ve ever seen that unit
-I’ve posted before about my OCD concerning bills in my billfold
-If not OCD, BRAHE was certainly meticulous in his astronomy data taking
-DEERE’s Plow : Dust Bowl :: Whitney’s Cotton Gin : Slavery - Unintended consequences
-I better remember Annie Potts in Designing Women and Ghostbusters
-Sudden cold weather, not slow leaks, caused tire pressure to drop and our car warned us.
-Off for a Lincoln lunch with our girls.
Happy Birthday to the Twins and Best Wishes to MIL.
ReplyDeleteDid not know where LUND was. I see it is near Malmö in SW Sweden. Haven't heard from Swenglish Mom in a while.
FWIW - - Re: CC past tense. The web gives: "The OED gives the past tense of the verb cc (which it says is also spelled CC) as cc’d or cced. There are two citations for cc’d (1990, 2005) and one of cced (2000).
It also gives the past tense of OK as OK’ed, OK-ed, or OKed, but says nothing more about it."
Ooh, an Ed Sessa Sunday puzzle--bound to be fun and interesting especially with a FOWL theme. And it was, thank you, Ed. I had my best start in the northeast and southeast, although other areas too began to fill in before long. Got the CHICK early on, but had to wait a bit for the BOUNCED. MICROBROOD filled in early. Never heard of BLUE ANGEL--what a lovely name for the Navy team. POOHPOOHS made me laugh. Like TTP I too started out with CAVE for the Lugosi burial site, and so never got PEIGNOIR--not in my wardrobe, as you can imagine. But a delightful puzzle, thanks again, Ed. And C.C., you always make our Sunday mornings special.
ReplyDeleteDave, I too have Carol in my prayers, and hope she has a good and quick recovery.
Have a wonderful birthday, Joann and Joyce. And thank you for posting that lovely picture, C.C.
Have a great Sunday, everybody.
Lemonade 714, you were an extra? No wonder you love crossword puzzles!
ReplyDeleteBecky
FIW x 3. ReATA, LoND, rET RIP. My golf buddies are good about not talking while someone putts, but have been known to LET one RIP in the backswing, causing a (FLN) YIP.
ReplyDeleteI like a lady in a PEIGNOIR. In fact, I like nothing better.
So many famous musicians have history with the COTTON CLUB. But I can't see Harlem without thinking of that sexy song Harlem Nocturne.
Go south? Sure, on December 27th. See ya there, WC.
Hand up for knowing Annie POTTS from Designing Women. Loved that show until Mark Twain's wife started sermonizing at the end of the episodes.
D4, my prayers are with you and your friend. HBD to the twins.
Thanks to Ed and CC for your good work for our fun.
A very enjoyable puzzle which I had fun solving. Gosh, I haven't come across the word PEIGNOIR for many years. Hand up for having to change POOL to POLO. I also had to change AQUA to AZUL, TWOS to DUOS, and KILO to DECI. I loved the clues for TREASURE, NOSES, NOON, and FLEA. We have the pleasure and honor of seeing the BLUE ANGELS fly in San Francisco each year during "Fleet Week."
ReplyDeleteI once bought a beautiful, diaphanous PEIGNOIR for my then sister-in-law when she gave birth to my nephew, Jason, who grew up and joined the FBI. I have no idea if she ever wore the PEIGNOIR. They lived in Napa at the time and I drove my mother there to meet her new grandson.
ReplyDeletePOULTRYINMOTION reminds me of my grandmother who used to kill chickens by twisting their necks and when she released them they danced around for a while very like the saying, "like a chicken with its head cut off."
I, too, recall reading about SACCO and Vanzetti in school
The inside of the YURT in C.C's photo looks very different from the one pictured in Sunday Morning some time ago. It was lined with woolen blankets and looked warm and cozy. Or it might have been on Sixty Minutes.
PACMAN has ghosts? I did not know that.
Again, thanks to Ed Sessa and C.C. for today's entertainment.
Carol update:
ReplyDeleteShe had an --"Aborted heart attack.--"
She is now on vacation "In the south of France" while she waits for a --Cardiac Catheterization-- which is scheduled for tomorrow.
Ðave
Hi Y'all! Sounds like most of us had a "ball" doing Ed's FOWL piece. Does that make this "hit" puzzle a FOWL ball? Thanks, Ed. Great expo, C.C.
ReplyDeleteQuit groaning!
This was very amusing but not easy for me. Satisfaction from finishing. Not on Ed's wave-length for some clues. NO DUH was apt, but unexpected.
Hand up, DNK: LUND, BRAHE, AMY, AMELIE.
Thought of "penwar" right away but it took me a while to come up with PEIGNOIR as spelling. My mother had a mauve moire satin PEIGNOIR given to her by girl friends as a bridal shower gift. Most glamorous garment she ever owned. Opaque, she wore it to make breakfasts with a frilly apron. When it got ratty looking, it went into my play-dress-up box and I loved it. Thought I was Hedy Lamar in it.
I agree, roosters don't CLUCK -- they Crows.
D4, praying for you & Carol.
Happy Birthday, Joann & Joyce!
I thought he might have been buried in a CAvE. DOH!
ReplyDeleteDave, keep us posted on Carol's treatment tomorrow. Hope it helps solve the problem quickly.
ReplyDeleteFirst, Dave I'm glad Carol was diagnosed in time. Hbd to the twins.
ReplyDeleteGot delayed by spelling Tycho's last name: BRAGH(as in Erin go…). Then I thought the hen was pecking a GOOSE. And. . American restaurants have SAUCE. And… even if it takes TWO to Tango they're a DUO today.
But I got it all cleared up including ITO's First name. FIR.
"..and a really obscure CSO to me with THE NAKED APE". I was going to ask if you had a picture, Lem.
My R in AZUr led to RETORT and a lot of fixing. And of course, KILO<DECI. Torchbearers-ARSONISTS was another cutie
Nice job Ed. Thx CC. PdeR Owen- you've had a great run of poesy since the hospital stay.
WC
PS. Jinx, it'll be sometime after 1/1/20
Ok, a little red Sox talk until -T can come and opine about those mysterious texts from nine months ago popping up.
ReplyDeleteSounds like Shaughnessy. Mookie "overrated"?? If he doesn't win the MVP he's lousy? The entire MLB season and postseason can be summed up in one word: pitching. Which the Redsox didn't have, 40 million (not)worth.
And.. That map of Commonwealth Ave was upside down (North-South). I meant to post the following…
Re. Commonwealth Ave. Here is a. better map . Rte 20 is Comm. Ave. The red line is the border of Boston and Brookline (where JFK was born). The other map was upside down. I lived just east of Mass Ave/Beacon St in 19
WC
And fln-2.. That ASS to me was indeed Balaam's. One thing about horse's asses, they tend to be sincere.
Hey Becky, long time no see. Yes, sitting around is such an important part of the business. I am sure you have some great time killing stories.
ReplyDeleteGood evening, folks. Thank you, Ed Sessa, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, C.C., for a fine review.
ReplyDeleteWorked on this off and on most of today. Got most of it. Had a few sticky points the I had to look up. Such as ROOFLINE and LUND. OCD too. And LIME as wells AZUL. UMIAK too. Those were my unknowns.
Liked the puzzle and the theme. Very clever.
Liked CAPE at 5A.
Remembered YURT. Learned that from crosswords.
CODERS and AMELIE were tough.
Anyhow, I ma hitting the hay. See you tomorrow.
Abejo
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I REALLY disliked this entry. The lame attempts to make it punny funny made it a drag for me. I don't appreciate cutesy constructors trying to show their cleverness cluing with cutsey defs that lead solvers astray. I'll pass on further Sessa entries, thank you!
ReplyDeleteI gotta share this cross word cartoon!
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