Theme: "Accentuating the Negative" - UN is attached to front of each common phrase.
23A Like frayed laces on hockey skates?: UNFIT TO BE TIED. Fit to be tied.
39A. Dig up buried Burma-Shave relics?: UNEARTH SIGNS. Earth signs.
57A. Brief period of apathy?: UNMOVING DAY. Moving day.
82A. Committee leader who's a bit on edge?: UNEASY CHAIR. Easy chair.
97A. Orthodontist's concerns: UNSOUND BITES. Sounds bites.
119A. Pets that help with luggage after a trip?: UNPACK ANIMALS. Pack animals.
16D. Rattle football linemen?: UNNERVE CENTERS. Nerve center.
52D. Do a "Wheel of Fortune" job?: UNCOVER LETTERS. Cover letters.
There's no any extra layer to further tie the theme together, in case you wonder.
Lots of words can have an UN prefix, so this set may seem to be loose to some. But I think Gail was just trying a full new set of UN* gimmick.
Lots of words can have an UN prefix, so this set may seem to be loose to some. But I think Gail was just trying a full new set of UN* gimmick.
The grid is classical Gail. Both the design and the fill. There's an art behind her simplicity. Hard work too, of course.
Across:
1. "Proud Mary" pop gp.: CCR. Creedence Clearwater Revival.
4. "Glad that's over!": WHEW.
8. Vineyard measure: ACRE. JimmyB brought me this special bottle of wine from his vineyard years ago. I've been saving it.
12. Contaminate: POLLUTE.
19. Grammy winner Corinne Bailey __: RAE.
20. Lille lover's word: AIME.
21. Coward in drama: NOEL. Noel Coward.
22. More eco-conscious: GREENER.
26. Forward motion: ADVANCE.
27. Stretches on the job: STINTS. Nice clue.
28. Waferlike: SLENDER.
30. Brontë governess: EYRE.
31. Road trip expenses: TOLLS.
32. Area 51 creatures, it's said: ETS.
33. Tail end: REAR.
35. Málaga mlle.: SRTA. Alliteration.
38. Flight school hurdle: SOLO.
44. Roomba, briefly: VAC. Our vacuum is pretty heavy, but it gives me a regular workout.
45. Contrail makeup: VAPOR.
47. Defense org.?: ABA. Court defense.
48. Wet suit material: NEOPRENE. I think our mouse pad is made of this stuff also.
50. Elm Street surname: KRUEGER.
53. Advice to a sinner: ATONE.
55. Junkyard fillers: WRECKS.
56. Seemingly forever: EON.
61. Iowa Straw Poll city, once: AMES. Wiki says the polls is now called "Iowa State Fair Straw Poll".
62. Do as Vassar did in 1969: GO CO-ED.
64. NOYB part: NONE.
65. Text addition?: ILE. Textile.
66. Feminine side: YIN. Cucumber is Yin. Ginger is Yang.
67. "Say no more": STOP.
68. Deceptive operation: STING. Police sting.
70. It has all five black keys in its scale: D FLAT.
72. Grab with a toothpick: STAB.
75. Vital opening?: VEE. Vital.
77. Verizon subsidiary: AOL.
78. Song often sung in Italian: ARIA.
79. Flip, in a way: RESELL.
I told you about our old neighbor. He won $100,000 lottery prize.
Gambled them all away. Lost his home also. Some real estate guy fixed
his house and flipped for a quick profit.
81. German gent: HERR.
85. Biodegrade: ROT.
86. Frustrate: DERAIL.
88. Really go for: ADORE.
89. "The Ten Commandments" role: RAMESES.
91. Team culled from other teams: ALL-STARS. Rod Carew was a 18-time All-Star. Most for a Twin. Boomer bowled with Carew once.
94. URL ending: EDU.
95. Marner of fiction: SILAS.
96. Jeans go-with: TEE.
100. Contest on horseback: TILT.
104. Queen's offspring: ANTS.
106. Some square dancers: GALS. Hi there Kathy!
107. Title after vows, perhaps: MRS.
108. Passover feast: SEDER.
109. Ten Benjamins: THOU.
111. Erode: EAT AWAY.
115. Rinky-dink: CHEESY.
116. Morgan of "The Bucket List": FREEMAN. Tarnished reputation now.
121. Challenge for a flight attendant: AIR RAGE. Still remember the first time you took a plane?
122. Work (out): SUSS.
123. Sistine Chapel mural setting: EDEN.
124. Release, with "out": LET.
125. "Ain't gonna happen!": NO SIREE.
126. Straddling: ATOP.
127. Learning method: ROTE.
128. Part of GPS: Abbr.: SYS.
Down:
1. Some prefer them thin: CRUSTS.
The first pizza I had is Hawaiian Pizza at Pizza Hut in Guangzhou. So I
always associate pizza with thick crust and pineapples.
2. Braggart's comeback: CAN TOO.
3. Pharmacy order: REFILL. Tiny clue/answer dupe with the great 13. Limited offer come-on: ORDER NOW.
4. Guitar amp units: WATTS.
5. Singles, say: HITS.
6. Moody music genre: EMO.
7. "Blue-Backed Spelling Book" author: WEBSTER.
8. Join the game, in a way: ANTE.
9. Small decision-maker: COIN.
10. 2018 Masters champ Patrick: REED. Also 12. Vardon Trophy org.: PGA. And 37. Links rarities: ACES. Gail is a golfer.
11. Trees with berries: ELDERS.
14. Assess: LEVY.
15. King and a Norman: LEARS.
17. TV's Jim Rockford, for one: TEC. Detective.
18. Cockney adverb: ERE.
24. Under Cupid's spell: IN LOVE.
25. "Frozen" snow queen: ELSA.
29. Pull back, with "in": REIN.
32. Huge, to a poet: ENORM.
34. Eligibility factor: AGE. Right now, the retirement age in China is 60 for men. 55 for female civil servants and 50 for female workers.
36. Suffers a sudden decline: TANKS.
39. Overturns: UPENDS.
40. What stars may represent: RATING.
41. Doggie bag treat: T BONE.
42. Chill (with): HANG.
43. __ paint: SPRAY.
46. Flu symptom: AGUE.
49. Negligent: REMISS.
50. They're often tapped: KEGS.
51. Underlying cause: ROOT.
53. "Anne of Green Gables" setting: AVONLEA. Forgot. We had this before.
54. Imposing building: EDIFICE.
58. Often-minced veggie: ONION. Isn't this pretty?
59. Quran deity: ALLAH.
60. Word of support: YEA.
63. Met works: OPERAS.
69. Frat letter: TAU.
70. Pre-BBQ treatment: DRY RUB.
71. Difficult times: TRIALS. So grateful to your support all these years, esp last year.
73. Alternative medicine plant: ALOE.
74. Initial orders?: BLTS. Initially.
76. "Un Ballo in Maschera" aria: ERI TU.
78. Equally eccentric: AS ODD.
80. Funny Bombeck: ERMA.
81. Paris abductee: HELEN. Of Troy.
83. Arabian Peninsula port: ADEN.
84. Energetic risk-taking type, so it's said: ARIES. We have two on our blog: Abejo and Irish Miss.
86. Spreadsheet filler: DATA.
87. Sign __: LANGUAGE.
90. Regard: ESTEEM.
92. 2010 World Cup host: Abbr.: RSA. Republic of South Africa.
93. One and only: SOLE.
95. Sgt. played by John Wayne in "Sands of Iwo Jima": STRYKER. Learning moment for me.
98. Patriotic chant: USA USA.
99. Apple since 1998: IMAC.
101. Lofty standards: IDEALS.
102. Stahl of "60 Minutes": LESLEY.
103. Hush-hush meetings: TRYSTS.
105. "The Rapture of Canaan" novelist Reynolds: SHERI. Haltoolah might have read this book.
108. Excel: SHINE.
110. Sharif of "Che!": OMAR.
112. Flanged fastener: T NUT.
113. Lhasa __: APSO. Meaning "bearded" in Tibetan.
114. Bee-eater's prey: WASP.
115. Tech news site: CNET.
116. __ base: FAN.
117. Brazil map word: RIO.
118. Name change indicator: NEE.
120. Flap: ADO.
C.C.
Congratulations on your wife's first art show, Picard!
40 comments:
For a simple theme, Gail’s “Accentuating the Negative” is remarkably well done. All the theme answers were amusing, and the theme was consistently applied. I particularly enjoyed UNPACKANIMALS - “Pets which help with luggage after a trip.” My dog Jake is smart, but boy could I use a pet like this. Or how about a present- wrapping dog? My efforts always come out like a six year old did them. Just wrapped a baptism gift for my second granddaughter Ava. Had to start over three times before it looked halfway decent, and it's still sort of embarrassing. Thanks for all your help, Jake! And a sincere thanks to Gail. You gave me my out-loud laughter for the week.
FIWrong. 5 bad cells, 4 of them clustered together.
USN > FAN (U.S.Navy base)
SAO > RIO
USEEMAN > FREEMAN (unguessed/perps)
SARRAGE > AIR RAGE (unguessed/perps)
VEO > VEE (unguessed/perp)
ORI TU > ERI TU (WAG)
I wonder if we could send Jane EYRE
Out to clean up the Atlantic Gyre?
She could rid POLLUTION
For a GREENER ocean
If that was to be her desire!
Good morning!
No problems with this one. The theme was so obvious that even I got it. I noticed the CSO to YR. Thanx for the diversion, Gail (I always want to call you Sabrowski. There was a family by that name in our town when I was growing up.) And thanx for the tour, C.C.
Wikipedia says that a WASP is not a bee.
NW corner last to fall. Had Phew instead of Whew, watts corrected that.
Anon@7:38 The clue didn't state that a wasp is a bee. Bee-eaters are birds which eat many types of flying insects including bees and wasps. They're found on several continents...but not ours.
This week would be a good time to try that bottle of wine. If you have stored it properly, it should be fine.
I agree with Anon@7:38 that a WASP is not a bee. Now, I'm no John Lampkin, but I would guess that there are bee-eaters that would never eat a WASP. Just as there are likely bee-eaters that would eat. So, no foul but I get the nit.
In the same over reaching, nit-picking vein, how about the reference to CCR as a Pop Group? Now I know that several of their songs topped the charts such as Suzy Q, but I wouldn't consider them a Pop Group.
Now this is what I WOULD consider a pop group: 117. Brazil map word: RIO.
FIR, but erased UNFIT for____ for UNFIT TO BE TIED, polo for TILT, chinsy for CHEESY, yes for YEA, and leslie for LESLEY.
When I briefly worked at the Venezuelan telephone company, the building was called Edifico de CANTV. That made EDIFICE easy.
Most of the top players are close to their parents. Not Patrick REED. His family tried to TANK his marriage to his intended. The REEDs married anyway and are still together and seem to be a happy family. Good on him, bad on his parents. He has an "against the world" attitude which mostly serves him well, but can be offputting to his fellow players.
Add moi to the list of ARIES babies.
I thought that wasps were bee eaters. I was trying to remember what eats wasps.
My first plane ride was on a prop plane on my way to Newark. Next was a 707 to Ireland.
Thanks to solo Gail for the fun morning. And thanks to CC for all you do.
FLN: PK, I don't like the 15-minute drive advice. Here's what i would do. 1) Have a mechanic wire up one or all of your cigarette lighters to be energized at all times. Should cost less than $100. 2) Buy a trickle charger that plugs in to a cigarette lighter and use that to keep your battery topped up. 3) Buy some gas stabilizer (I like the blue stuff) and use every time you fill the tank. The ethanol in today's gas breaks down without it. 4) Have your oil and filter changed every year, even if your only trip is to the mechanic to have it done. Oil filters deteriorate, and it costs little extra to change the oil while they are in there. 5) Have your tires replaced every 7 years, even if they look brand new. 6) If you use the car for short trips, try to take a longer trip (half-hour minimum) that month. This allows the exhaust system to get hot enough to evaporate any water that has collected. If you don't drive that month, you don't need to let the car "stretch its legs". It doesn't HAVE legs. And don't let anyone tell you that it needs to be driven fast to "blow it out". That doesn't apply to fuel injected engines, which I'm sure you have.
I forgot to link this,
PROUD MARY
I know there are many good reasons not to like this video due to Ike being in this video. But I love this version and can enjoy it in spite of Ike's terrible transgressions. So watch if you will...
Good Morning:
My shocking learning moment from today's solve is that, as an Aries, I'm an energetic risk taker. News to me but maybe it fits my fellow Aries, Abejo and Jinx. (Welcome to the club, Jinx). My second learning moment is that it is Lesley (Stahl) and that unknown spelling gave me a big, fat FIW, because I never checked the crosses. The rest of the proper names were easily perped: Reed, Rae, Stryker, Sheri, and Webster. I went astray on Rate/Levy, NBA/ABA, Meals/Tolls, Tilt/Polo, and Amor/Aime. CSOs were to YR (Gals), Teachers/Professors (EDU), and the Three Little Rams, Abejo, Jinx, and Moi (Aries)!
Highlights: My favorite theme answer was Uneasy Chair. I also liked the Solo and Sole duo and Pollute over Greener. In addition, there was a noticeable musical mini-theme, to wit: Operas, Aria, Eri Tu, Solo, D Flat, CCR, Rae, and the ubiquitous Elsa. (My sister saw a stage performance of Frozen Friday night and said it was breathtakingly beautiful with amazing special effects.)
Thank you, Gail, for another fun and enjoyable Sunday solo and thanks, CC, for your personal and professional commentary. I enjoyed all of the visuals but the adorable Lhasa Apso brought a smile, no, more of an ear-to-ear grin to my face, much needed on this rainy and gloomy November morning.
Paul C, thanks for dropping by. I'm sure you know that the thought behind the gift is what matters. 🎁
FLN
CED, a belated Happy Anniversary. Hope you were able to do something special. 💘
Picard, congratulations to your wife on her first show and thank you for sharing her beautiful paintings. I admire and appreciate talent in any form.
Have a great day.
Meme seen recently:
"I left the door open and my roomba escaped. I can't find it. Should I be concerned for my neighborhood?"
Reply: Relax, it will be dead soon. Nature abhors a vacuum.
I also got a laugh from a roomba (made by iRobot) competitor's commercial I saw for the first time, with the tag line "If it's not a Shark®, it's just a robot."
Trying to get two Jumble poems out for Sunday (I'm pretty sure JH is the only source for BOTH Sunday Jumbles together), so I was in a rush on my l'icks here this morning. So add these:
There were several of GALS in old Eden,
SRTA. Lilith, MRS. Eve, MLLE. Demon.
Different styles they'd represent,
Tho Ms. Demon was a serpent.
They spent their time in gossip re: HERR Adam!
I should think cucumbers would be males
Considering what legendary use entails.
But I guess Yang and YIN
Have ways to fit in
When a standard Kama Sutra fails.
If at windmills you TILT,
Hold tight to your lance's hilt.
Should it engage
Its windy AIR RAGE,
You might be REMISS and get kilt!
{B+ || B-, B-, B.}
OMK, I think you may have missed seeing my post on Friday @ 7:22 re Inside the Actors Studio?
Kudos, Gail, for using common phrases in an UN-usual and clever way. Most of the puzzle was a walk in the park with a little hold up in the NW and a little longer holdup in the NE.
The Sting is on of my all time favorite movies.Lighthearted fun.
DO @8;25, my thoughts exactly,about the bee eater.You took the words right out if my mouth. Bee eater birds eat wasps and bees. Wasps also eat bees. "Wasps eat a wide range of invertebrates including spiders, caterpillars, ants, bees, and flies."
Catching up on old comments:
Woke appears in the news here almost every day.
My toddler grandson loved Thomas the Tank Engine. I bought him many trains, tracks, outbuildings and other accessories over the years. We would lie on the floor for hours as he made up and acted out stories. Happy times.
Thanks for the CSO. Would you believe that I needed two of the three letters to suss it because we don'use gal? We most often call them ladies. The clue probably applies to the Appalachian Square Dance style. Our modern square dance, called in all 50 states and in English in many foreign countries, is not country or hillbilly, although you do hear a country tune once in a great while. It is much more complicated and takes months of lessons to learn. Most of the dancers are not country people and a majority if our club members have college degrees.
About looking up HOW TO or WHERE TO LOCATE parts of a gadget.. I am more successful with Google. I found a YouTube tutorial for changing the ink in my new printer. Google was better than the manual in setting up Alan's new phone. I hesitate to buy a smart phone, because it has too many uses. I would forget and have to study up on them all the time.
Thank you for the fun puzzle and interesting review, Gail and CC.
Musings
-Some three-letter bad guesses slowed me but having all the starting letters of the themers helped
-UNNERVE CENTERS – Football has a rule that CENTERS cannot be contacted for a full second after he has snapped the ball
-ADVANCE! Men on D-Day and in Pickett’s Charge had to know what fate waited for some of them
-This company allows you to look through WRECKS
-NOYB and MYOB convey similar sentiments
-JEANS and a TEE are acceptable for teaching on Fridays
-This exercise about EDENIC art trumps ROTE learning
-An exchange that preceded my broken ankle Me – “I can jump off this roof like Superman!” Them – “No you can’t!” Me – “CAN TOO!”
-REED, PGA, ACES and (Lee) ELDER for golf
-I don’t think I have the AGUE but aching, coughing and sniffling are occupying my day
-IDEAL?
Owen, the second time I've learned to pronounce a word. I always pronounced Jane's neme as if it rhymed with Abejo's lake. Speaking of… Something in CC's write-up made me think of our intrepid crossing guard out there in all weather dodging the nutcases that drive cars nowadays..
My near FIW came from reading mlle as Mile giving me SWTA and WANE/TANK. I caught it. I should change to reading glasses for the xword.
IM, I, Mr Sports, inked NHL for Vardon trophy org. What was I thinking? Certainly not Lady Byng**. And… to quote what was beautifully put:"Picard, congratulations to your wife on her first show and thank you for sharing her beautiful paintings". And thx CC for reposting it.
YR, righto. I had squeaking and then I did something to turn on my rear windshield wiper. I pulled over, talked to Ms Google and voila. The squeaking was condensation in the brakes.
I first tried BLOCKERS<CENTERS. Of course I ran out of letters.
WC
PS. The Grabowski I'm reminded of is the 60s Green Bay running back.
Sunday Lurk say...
{B || B, B+, A}
Mr. LeBon - the excess of the '80s and MTV, no? :-)
FLN - CED, Happy 33rd! Let's see... DW's put up w/ me for 31 years so, math says, either you married at 16 or are older than I ;-)
Jinx - Pop was against my marriage too. He wrote me a letter (I still have it) where the first 5 lines are No!, No!, No!, ad nauseam . He was probably right (for him anyway - he was married at 18 and on wife #3 now :-)).
Congrats to your DW Picard! I like it (the art). Now that she's in the exhibition world, you may come across DW's cousin in LA or SFO.
PK - I was going to say 'take a spin' every week or two like I do w/ the '86 Alfa [I let the thing sit for 5 months once and had to pay $$ to my mechanic to drop the gas tank and put in a new fuel filter]. But, Jinx is right, newer cars don't need that; follow his advice.
One other thing, Bro's best-man (previous Alfa owner - Bro sold it to him with option to buy it back) put a battery-disconnect 'screw' above the positive-post so the clock-radio doesn't drain it. Downside, presets don't stay that way.
Story time:
First plane trip. I was 14, my bro 12, and Sinbad (our black lab), 5 [in Human years]. We were to close up the house in SPI and fly ORD->DFW->SHV (Shreveport, LA) where everyone had already moved. We disobey'd Pop and fed Sinbad the night before the flight. Image two kids in ORD's men's room cleaning puke out of a dog-crate (on a luggage-cart). Poor Sinbad, never saw him look so weak & terrified. That was Thanksgiving week of '86.
HG - I don't know if it was Superman or no, but little Bro [army] jumped off the roof trying to fly to. Broke his arm, he did.
Have a Happy Sunday! MIL's coming over for my chili so, a quick nap and then I gotta get crackin'
Cheers, -T
I enjoyed this puzzle very much. I, too, had a small problem with "WHEW" and needed CC's reassurance at the end that "HITS" was right for the clue "Singles, say". Is that a good clue? The theme was fun and relatively easy.
Picard, your wife's art is lovely. Thank you for sharing.
Jinx, I spent extra time reading and re-reading your car maintenance suggestions. Sounds like a lot of attention. Do you actually do all this?
Alice - As the Magliozzi Brothers of Car Talk fame would say...
'Jinx is a "Man of a Certain Age," he will log every mile down to the eighth-gallon because he has the time for that.'
Two more years,,,, yeah, that's my fate too :-)
Cheers, -T
I liked this puzzle and got a kick out of the humor resulting from adding the UN.
You should probably not wait any longer before drinking that wine, C.C. At almost 20 years of age I would guess it's probably maxxed out.
I think the first time I ever took an airplane flight was when I was in my teens (circa 1950-1955). It was in a DC-3, affectionately called "Old Shaky" by pilots back then. I forget where I was departing from and where I was going, but I remember it was a rather pleasant flight.
Good wishes to you all.
Alice, my situation is different from PKs. But the 7 year tire rule is a religion to me. I won't scrimp on tires, brakes or windshield wipers. Normally I don't have to worry about battery discharge or use a fuel additive, but my tanks of gas don't normally last more than a week or two. When I leave my RAV4 in the snow for a few months, I use the gas additive and disconnect the negative battery terminal. But I'm trying to offer PK options that are less intrusive than opening the hood. I change my cars' oil & filter yearly because I drive each less than 7,000 miles per year. I don't need to drive extra to evaporate condensate because most of my trips are 30 minutes or more each way.
So I don't think there is anything in my advice that ranks as a "do as I say, not what I do".
-T, neither my factory radio in my CRV nor the Kenwood aftermarket radio in my RAV loose their presets when the battery is disconnected.
-T: I DO log my mileage every time I fuel the motor home. I note odometer, generator hours and gallons. I've been trying to analyze how much fuel the generator uses. So I plugged the DATA into an EXCEL spreadsheet and calculated the standard deviation without factoring in generator usage. I expected to narrow the SD by factoring in a bogie for generator usage, but it actually increased the SD! How the heck can that happen? I'll redo all that in Florida this winter, but I don't think I made any formula errors. Maybe I'll analyze it by year to see if there is a particularly misbehaving time frame, but a year doesn't yield much data.
(The raw data shows about 7.5 mpg, and most owners say the genny uses about 0.5 gallon per hour.)
I haven't ever been one to log car mileage, mainly because fuel cost is not very significant compared to depreciation, insurance and taxes.
Super Sunday. Thanks for the fun, Gail and C.C.
This was a refreshingly straight solve after yesterday's workout. I FIRed, found all the UN phrases. Smiled at UNCOVER LETTERS; Vanna White has been doing that job since September 1982. Wiki says "White uses her income to invest in apartment buildings, and she likes flipping houses" - RESELL.
C.C. - I'm no oenophile, but shouldn't you be drinking that wine. (I see Jayce agrees) After 19 years, it must be well-AGEd. DRY RUB a good T-BONE and celebrate!
I missed the 3D, 13D order dupe, but there is another glaring one with 78A ARIA answer & 63D "Un Ballo in Maschera" aria clue. But I smiled to see OPERAS at 63D.
I think we can let 38A SOLO and 93D SOLE pass (although meaning is similar). No need to cause an ADO. (IM liked it!)
Hand up for polo before TILT. My "road trip expenses" were Meals before the government LEVY of TOLLS.
C.C., I'm not sure where that photo was taken, but it is not Green Gables in AVONLEA. That place looks like a beautiful inn, but the building in Cavendish, PEI is much simpler.
Here is a link to PEI Tourism so you can plan your trip.
GreenGables
Paul C - Poor gift-wrapping skills? Solution: gift bags and tissue paper! Works for me. Also GREENER, as can be reused multiple times.
Enjoy the day.
Good afternoon, folks. Thank you, Gail Grabowski, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, C.C., for a fine review.
Puzzle went fine. a little sticky in spots. That is OK.
Caught the theme. I think UNEARTH SIGNS was my first.
A bee-eater is a bird, of many varieties, that eats flying insects, including bees and wasps. I looked it up after I came here.
Yes, KEGS are tapped. I used to run a quarter barrel at home. Had the CO2 tank and everything. Worked well. The biggest pain was getting the CO2 bottle tested periodically so you could get it refilled. Anyhow, I gave that up.
AIR RAGE was tough for me. I tried GARBAGE first. That whole corner was messed up.
Liked COIN and its clue. Very good.
Picard. Like your wife's art. Very nice.
Have to run. See you tomorrow.
Abejo
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I forgot to comment on my first airplane ride. I was 20 and on a trip to South America. We flew from Toronto to Miami with no problems. Then we took a smaller prop plane to Cali, Columbia with a stop in Panama. We encountered a thunder storm and the resulting up and down motions of the plane played havoc with my stomach. (See story of AnonT's dog @1:11pm for analogy!) I was very glad to finally arrive on land.
But wait, we are not done. The return flight to Miami was fine (although I was very nervous!). Then, just when I thought I was starting to enjoy flying, we had a bomb scare on the flight from Miami to Toronto; the plane landed at Pittsburgh on a landing strip far from the airport lined with fire trucks. We were hustled into a hangar-like building and all our luggage had to be searched. After several hours, we were cleared to fly home to Toronto.
It is a wonder I ever flew again, but I have been to Europe, Africa with no similar issues (and no aerophobia!)
Jinx - you don't own an Italian car do you?; EE, my Major!, is not my countryman's strong suite :-)
I was kidding about logging mileage, etc. (and I hope you know that; you are one of the many reasons I visit C.C.'s CC daily) Your advice to PK is spot on.
For the record. The first fissure in our marriage was me asking DW to log her miles when we could finally afford our first actually New car (yes, she gets 1st choice).
I just wanted to see if the sticker and reality matched re: MPG. Oy! #BadIdea #SheAintGotTimeForThat #LetItRide... (a little BTO for your Sunday Afternoon)
Now, about that nap... Cheers, -T
Enjoyed Gail's theme with plenty of smiles at the theme answers.
The NW for me was slow because I had STANDS for "stretches at work" instead of STINTS and read the "waferlike" clue as "waterlike" in error. So it wasn't until I was really stuck that I had to back up, erase, and look anew.
My first ride on a plane was from Kansas City to LAX - my cousins came out to visit and I got to fly back with them- then I flew home by myself which was a pretty big deal at age 9. I remember back then you would get all dressed up like you were going to church to fly. I think it was a Boeing 727.
I first had pizza at Zepi's Pizza in the Waldo neighborhood of KC- pretty sure it was pepperoni (which I had never tasted before). I remember it was very dark inside - you could stand on a bench and look into the kitchen to watch them making the pizzas and then in the back they had 2 of those mini merry-go-rounds like they have outside grocery stores that my folks would have NEVER spent the money for us to ride on - but these were free and if you got old enough you would jump from one of them to the other.
Have a good Thanksgiving week - we are driving down to Texas so won't have a lot of time this week for the puzzle!
Very fUN time on this one, but it wasn't easy getting some of the trivia. Hardly any overwrites. Give me more of these.
AnonT@2:55pm - love how you enjoy Canadian groups like BTO and Rush!
DH is an engineer and of course we have a logbook for the vehicles. Gas, oil changes, tire & other repairs are all duly noted (and sometimes even referenced!). I dutifully do my part in logging because he nearly always fills the tank for me!
My first ride on a plane was a short tour on a friends's father's Piper Cub when I was 10 in 1950. My first commercial flight was on a 707 from Philadelphia to LA in 1959.
A nice puzzle to complete after watching the Saints escape from the Panthers as time ran out; 34-31. And that was after going to Baton Rouge to watch LSU annihilate Arkansas last night. Left when LSU was ahead 55-6 in the 4th qtr.
I didn't know of WEBSTER's book or Sgt. STRYKER but the perps took care of the fills. Wasn't sure of the spelling of LESLEY, KRUEGER or RAMESES but the perps took care of them. No other problems.
As for the UN's, they made the puzzle fly by.
ORDER NOW! "But wait, there's more"
C, Eh! There's little that comes out of the Great White North that I don't truly Love [Justin Bieber is the exception to the rule :-)].
RUSH (thorough an intro video) introduced me to the Trailer Park Boys [TV-MA-L] which is LOL. Let's not get me started on Lorne Michaels' penchant for finding talent on SNL.
Re: Logging millage for your anal-retentive engineering (aren't we engineers all?) DH...
You're One in a Million. [There's a thousand just like us in Asia :-)]
Big E - As I lurk'd reading C.C.'s review, I could only think of Airplane's Stryker [sp?]
CED, I know you have more to say about that movie's history... Feed me Seymour...
OK, chili's on, Youngest has the master stir-spoon (every 14 min [and my special wooden one for tomato-based sauces]), and I'm going down for that Nap b/f MIL gets here.
Cheers, -T
Today’s haiku: De Key of D
De musician’s car
Blew de tire on de tracks;
D FLAT, DERAILED him.
Let the chorus of boos begin
😂😂😂
CC thank you for sharing my wife's proud moment at her first art show. And thank you to Yellowrocks, CanadianEh, PK, Irish Miss, Wilbur Charles, AnonT, Alice and Abejo for the very kind and supportive words.
Here are the rest of my photos from the art show if anyone is interested. Many of the artists are friends.
And thank you AnonT for sharing the art of the cousin of your DW. Very cosmic and ethereal.
I enjoyed the theme today and got it right away. The only one I did not know was EARTH SIGNS. The others are familiar expressions for me. I was impressed to have both down and across theme answers. Hand up I loved the COIN clue.
Is Rattle football a thing? Mr Google shows nothing for this term.
OwenKL this physics guy loved the "Nature abhors a vacuum" joke!
From yesterday:
SandyAnon thank you for explaining CLUE and STUDY.
My 1st flight was from Sydney to New York
when I was 9 years old (alone) (1966)
SYdney to Hawaii was on a small(ish) twin engine turboprop,
and had to refuel in FiJi. (hottest place I have ever been...)
In Hawaii, they questioned my skateboard (I still have it)
and the pills I was carrying for my Asthma.
Apparently pills for Asthma do not exist in the U.S.
& they thought I was a 9 year old drug smuggler...
P.S., Since my arrival in the U.S.A. i have never had Asthma since.
Turns out I was severely allergic to a type of tree that grows in Australia.
Sad to think that I can't go back because I am allergic to the place...
(however, I still think it was the cigarettes that cured my Asthma...)
Had to switch planes in San Francisco, got on a DC-9
& remember wondering why the engines look like they were held on with rubber bands
because they were bouncing all over...
I followed another family whose kids I made friends with,
they said, we are going to New York too, so I followed them.
Wound up in Newark instead my scheduled jFK (Idlewild then...)
The airlines alerted my Dad who met me in New Jersey where upon
landing, I saw the 1st snow in my life!
And Anon-T, OK. but this is the last time!
Watching the Grey Cup - CFL championship game. (Probably the equivalent to the Super Bowl for you Americans.). Waiting for the half-time show with Keith Urban.
No offense C'eh. But the Grey Cup is more akin to the San Diego County Credit Union's Poinsettia Bowl. Ever heard of it? Neither had I. I liu.
LOL Earl. It depends which side of the border you are on.
It looks like congrats will be going to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
Hi Y'all! Really fun puzzle, Gail, thanks! Great expo, C.C., always enjoy your comments.
Hand up for being ARIES. I have retired from risk taking, however.
Got UN from the title which helped by allowing me to enter it wherever there was a long phrase to fill. Not entirely easy but delightful & doable.
Owen, laughed at your Roomba quotes. I swear my Roomba follows me like a dog and I have to beat it to the opening so it won't escape before I shut the door. Nature may abhor a vacuum, but I love my Roomba.
Jinx & Tony: Thanks for all your good advice. I do have a trickle charger & a hook-to-the-battery charger when the trickle fades. These were gifts to me from my mechanic son. Just what Ma needed for birthday & Mother's Day last year. When my registration needed to be renewed, I thought I probably should just sell/donate the car, but didn't. My tendency to nap at inopportune moments is the biggest problem overall.
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