Theme Side of Beef - the six theme entries sit on the sides of the plate - as the reveal entries suggest:
41A. With 45-Across, meat cut that suggests six aptly placed puzzle answers: FLANK and 45A. See 41-Across: STEAK
So we go look for the flanks of the puzzle, and sure enough we find:
1D. "Squarely unconventional" Nissan: CUBE. Cube steak isn't steak, cubed - it's the shape of the holes that the tenderizer makes which brings us to ....
13D. __ chocolate: SWISS. Cube steak and Swiss steak are really the same thing - cube steak is put through a tenderizer known as a "swisser", and guess what, so is Swiss steak. The result though, as chicken-fried steak, is rather lovely. My gravy is a basic white sauce, garlic powder, a ton of dried sage and cracked black pepper. I believe KFC stole my recipe :) This is not KFC:
26D. Tavern order: ROUND. The nicest words to hear - "My round!".
38D. Slacks alternative: SKIRT. Ever had steak fajitas? You've had skirt steak. The old "butcher cuts" are the cheapest, and best, you just have to know how to cook them. The Interwebs are your friend.
56D. Vegas __: STRIP. Usually a New York Strip, but here decamped to Las Vegas!
67D. Keister: RUMP.
Another 16x15 grid this week to accommodate the theme, which I liked - Food! But a couple of minor nits for me, the repeat of the SWISS/CUBE themers and, when we get to 17A, the other niggle. All minor though. I like Bruce's puzzles, usually a solid theme, some misdirection, and some entries to discuss (or argue!) about. Let's go and see what's in store:
Across:
1. Barbecue remnants: COBS. This one puzzled me. I know the answer from crosswords past, but I wanted to look up the etymology of the word and I drew a blank. I assumed it had got something to do with coal cobs, but I couldn't find a reference to burned-out barbecue coals - then Lemonade came to the rescue, he pointed out that the clue is referring to corn cobs! Silly me.
5. Personal identification?: ITS ME!
10. Rolaids rival: TUMS. I prefer this clue to last Thursday's.
14. Iris layer: UVEA
15. Part of a "Star Wars" name: DETOO. R2-D2.
16. "__ it first!": I SAW
17. Tower of London guards: BEEFEATERS. It's a nice word, but there's steak in the theme, so I would either have tried to avoid this fill or tried to find a "matching" entry at 69A to complement it.
19. Local bond, briefly: MUNI
20. PC key: ENTER
21. Classic car: REO. Ransom E. Olds' car company, based in Lansing, Michigan.
22. Frozen floaters: BERGS
23. Celebratory smokes: CIGARS
25. 2019 awards for Giannis Antetokounmpo: ESPYS. He won both "Male Athlete of the Year" and "NBA Player of the Year" hence the plural.
26. Elaborate style: ROCOCO. A little over-elaborate for my taste, but you can't deny the artistic brilliance:
29. Checks out: EYES
31. Artist Yoko: ONO. I think YOKO/ONO or ONO/YOKO has rescued more crosswords than can be counted in grains of sand.
32. "Nashville" actress Judith: HOAG. Who she? See 18D.
35. Currently: AS IT IS
39. Vases with feet: URNS
43. Understand, in slang: GROK. Well known in these parts, as we often find people "grok the theme".
44. Kremlin refusal: NYET in denial as is ...
46. "Me? Never!": NOT I! denial again!
47. Original "Star Trek" studio: DESILU
49. Princess from Alderaan: LEIA. One of the few "Star Wars" characters I don't have to think too hard about.
51. Links standard: PAR. Not my standard, that's for sure. Why is it called "golf"? Because all the other four-letter words were already used.
52. Manilow song site: COPA. I'll spare you the earworm.
54. Giants' div.: NL WEST. Baseball's San Francisco Giants
56. Mopes: SULKS
59. __ bag: DOGGIE. Not Doggy?
62. Sporty car features: T-TOPS
63. To's partner: FRO
64. Fitting tool: SIZER. Rings, I think.
68. Lower-APR deal: RE-FI
69. Restaurant list not for everyone: SECRET MENU. Fun, but generally not so secret - pretty much anyone who eats at the In 'N Out burger chain knows about "animal style"; there's a similar secret item at Disneyland's Tomorrowland, the Galactic Burger "alien style".
71. Shiraz's land: IRAN. Nailed it! Not IRAQ! I'm off to do a lap of honor around the FLANKS.
72. Giants and Titans: TEAMS. I'm going to guess the New York Giants in this case, to match the NFL's Tennessee Titans. We've had both GIANTS today.
* So, name the other five pairs of team names across Hockey, Football, Baseball and Basketball. 30 seconds, go!
73. Physics matter: ATOM
74. Nectarine centers: PITS
75. Donkeys: ASSES
76. Filing tool: RASP
Down:
2. Baker: OVEN
3. Vegetable that may stain a cutting board: BEET
4. Seattle-based insurance giant: SAFECO. I had no idea this lot were an insurance company, I've even been to Safeco Field in Seattle and it never crossed my mind to wonder about the company with the naming rights.
5. Mont. neighbor: IDA.
6. Colorful fish: TETRA
7. Range rover: STEER. Home, where the deer and the antelope (and apparently the steer) play. No discouraging words though, to make you feel ...
8. Gloomy: MOROSE
9. Daybreak deity: EOS
10. One involved in multiple problems?: TIMES SIGN. Did you learn your Times Tables by rote? I can still chant "One 12 is 12, two 12's are 24, .... "
11. Take by force: USURP
12. Shabby: MANGY
18. "The Art of Loving" author Fromm: ERICH. With Judith HOAG at 32A, this was a near-Natick for me, I'm not sure I've heard of either. "H" seemed the best guess, and so it was.
22. Honey bunch: BEES
24. Blunders: GOOFS UP
27. Deli specification: ON RYE. Yes please, I love a deli sandwich on rye, preferably pastrami from Katz's in Manhattan's Lower East Side. What a great Food! puzzle today!
28. Traffic markers: CONES
30. Talking on and on: YAKKING
33. __-rock: ALT
34. Highlander: GAEL
36. Overused theme: TROPE. Nope, a cliche is an overused theme. A trope is the use of figurative language, an image or a figure of speech, which may be commonly recurring.
37. Bits: IOTAS
40. Map markers: STICK PINS. I thought these were called push pins - stick pins are much more decorative and used as costume jewelry or lapel decorations. Would you put these in a map?
42. Scottish rejection: NAE
48. Result of a poor investment: LOSS
50. Crème de la crème: A-LIST
53. Commercial charges: AD FEES
55. German city where the Bauhaus movement began: WEIMAR. And the Weimar Republic.
57. Where embryos grow: UTERI
58. Like much diet food: LO-FAT
60. Black-and-white whales: ORCAS
61. Grammy winner Eydie: GORMÉ. Thank you, crosses.
65. Letter that rhymes with three others: ZETA. Not Catherine Zeta-Jones?
66. Nephew of Cain: ENOS
69. Transit map abbr.: STA.
70. Snaky shape: ESS
Today I learned that Safeco is an insurance company, and I learned the name of a Grammy winner. File away for for future use!
* From 72A earlier, the teams are:
Cardinals - Arizona (NFL) and St. Louis (MLB)
Kings - Sacramento (NBA) and Los Angeles (NHL)
Panthers - Carolina (NFL) and Florida (NHL)
Rangers - Texas (NBA NFL) and New York (NHL)
Jets - New York (NFL) and Winnipeg (NHL)
I hope I got that right, I was testing my own memory!
And hopefully, accurately, the grid:
Steve
41A. With 45-Across, meat cut that suggests six aptly placed puzzle answers: FLANK and 45A. See 41-Across: STEAK
So we go look for the flanks of the puzzle, and sure enough we find:
1D. "Squarely unconventional" Nissan: CUBE. Cube steak isn't steak, cubed - it's the shape of the holes that the tenderizer makes which brings us to ....
13D. __ chocolate: SWISS. Cube steak and Swiss steak are really the same thing - cube steak is put through a tenderizer known as a "swisser", and guess what, so is Swiss steak. The result though, as chicken-fried steak, is rather lovely. My gravy is a basic white sauce, garlic powder, a ton of dried sage and cracked black pepper. I believe KFC stole my recipe :) This is not KFC:
26D. Tavern order: ROUND. The nicest words to hear - "My round!".
38D. Slacks alternative: SKIRT. Ever had steak fajitas? You've had skirt steak. The old "butcher cuts" are the cheapest, and best, you just have to know how to cook them. The Interwebs are your friend.
56D. Vegas __: STRIP. Usually a New York Strip, but here decamped to Las Vegas!
67D. Keister: RUMP.
Another 16x15 grid this week to accommodate the theme, which I liked - Food! But a couple of minor nits for me, the repeat of the SWISS/CUBE themers and, when we get to 17A, the other niggle. All minor though. I like Bruce's puzzles, usually a solid theme, some misdirection, and some entries to discuss (or argue!) about. Let's go and see what's in store:
Across:
1. Barbecue remnants: COBS. This one puzzled me. I know the answer from crosswords past, but I wanted to look up the etymology of the word and I drew a blank. I assumed it had got something to do with coal cobs, but I couldn't find a reference to burned-out barbecue coals - then Lemonade came to the rescue, he pointed out that the clue is referring to corn cobs! Silly me.
5. Personal identification?: ITS ME!
10. Rolaids rival: TUMS. I prefer this clue to last Thursday's.
14. Iris layer: UVEA
15. Part of a "Star Wars" name: DETOO. R2-D2.
16. "__ it first!": I SAW
17. Tower of London guards: BEEFEATERS. It's a nice word, but there's steak in the theme, so I would either have tried to avoid this fill or tried to find a "matching" entry at 69A to complement it.
19. Local bond, briefly: MUNI
20. PC key: ENTER
21. Classic car: REO. Ransom E. Olds' car company, based in Lansing, Michigan.
22. Frozen floaters: BERGS
23. Celebratory smokes: CIGARS
25. 2019 awards for Giannis Antetokounmpo: ESPYS. He won both "Male Athlete of the Year" and "NBA Player of the Year" hence the plural.
26. Elaborate style: ROCOCO. A little over-elaborate for my taste, but you can't deny the artistic brilliance:
29. Checks out: EYES
31. Artist Yoko: ONO. I think YOKO/ONO or ONO/YOKO has rescued more crosswords than can be counted in grains of sand.
32. "Nashville" actress Judith: HOAG. Who she? See 18D.
35. Currently: AS IT IS
39. Vases with feet: URNS
43. Understand, in slang: GROK. Well known in these parts, as we often find people "grok the theme".
44. Kremlin refusal: NYET in denial as is ...
46. "Me? Never!": NOT I! denial again!
47. Original "Star Trek" studio: DESILU
49. Princess from Alderaan: LEIA. One of the few "Star Wars" characters I don't have to think too hard about.
51. Links standard: PAR. Not my standard, that's for sure. Why is it called "golf"? Because all the other four-letter words were already used.
52. Manilow song site: COPA. I'll spare you the earworm.
54. Giants' div.: NL WEST. Baseball's San Francisco Giants
56. Mopes: SULKS
59. __ bag: DOGGIE. Not Doggy?
62. Sporty car features: T-TOPS
63. To's partner: FRO
64. Fitting tool: SIZER. Rings, I think.
68. Lower-APR deal: RE-FI
69. Restaurant list not for everyone: SECRET MENU. Fun, but generally not so secret - pretty much anyone who eats at the In 'N Out burger chain knows about "animal style"; there's a similar secret item at Disneyland's Tomorrowland, the Galactic Burger "alien style".
71. Shiraz's land: IRAN. Nailed it! Not IRAQ! I'm off to do a lap of honor around the FLANKS.
72. Giants and Titans: TEAMS. I'm going to guess the New York Giants in this case, to match the NFL's Tennessee Titans. We've had both GIANTS today.
* So, name the other five pairs of team names across Hockey, Football, Baseball and Basketball. 30 seconds, go!
73. Physics matter: ATOM
74. Nectarine centers: PITS
75. Donkeys: ASSES
76. Filing tool: RASP
Down:
2. Baker: OVEN
3. Vegetable that may stain a cutting board: BEET
4. Seattle-based insurance giant: SAFECO. I had no idea this lot were an insurance company, I've even been to Safeco Field in Seattle and it never crossed my mind to wonder about the company with the naming rights.
5. Mont. neighbor: IDA.
6. Colorful fish: TETRA
7. Range rover: STEER. Home, where the deer and the antelope (and apparently the steer) play. No discouraging words though, to make you feel ...
8. Gloomy: MOROSE
9. Daybreak deity: EOS
10. One involved in multiple problems?: TIMES SIGN. Did you learn your Times Tables by rote? I can still chant "One 12 is 12, two 12's are 24, .... "
11. Take by force: USURP
12. Shabby: MANGY
18. "The Art of Loving" author Fromm: ERICH. With Judith HOAG at 32A, this was a near-Natick for me, I'm not sure I've heard of either. "H" seemed the best guess, and so it was.
22. Honey bunch: BEES
24. Blunders: GOOFS UP
27. Deli specification: ON RYE. Yes please, I love a deli sandwich on rye, preferably pastrami from Katz's in Manhattan's Lower East Side. What a great Food! puzzle today!
28. Traffic markers: CONES
30. Talking on and on: YAKKING
33. __-rock: ALT
34. Highlander: GAEL
36. Overused theme: TROPE. Nope, a cliche is an overused theme. A trope is the use of figurative language, an image or a figure of speech, which may be commonly recurring.
37. Bits: IOTAS
40. Map markers: STICK PINS. I thought these were called push pins - stick pins are much more decorative and used as costume jewelry or lapel decorations. Would you put these in a map?
42. Scottish rejection: NAE
48. Result of a poor investment: LOSS
50. Crème de la crème: A-LIST
53. Commercial charges: AD FEES
55. German city where the Bauhaus movement began: WEIMAR. And the Weimar Republic.
57. Where embryos grow: UTERI
58. Like much diet food: LO-FAT
60. Black-and-white whales: ORCAS
61. Grammy winner Eydie: GORMÉ. Thank you, crosses.
65. Letter that rhymes with three others: ZETA. Not Catherine Zeta-Jones?
66. Nephew of Cain: ENOS
69. Transit map abbr.: STA.
70. Snaky shape: ESS
Today I learned that Safeco is an insurance company, and I learned the name of a Grammy winner. File away for for future use!
* From 72A earlier, the teams are:
Cardinals - Arizona (NFL) and St. Louis (MLB)
Kings - Sacramento (NBA) and Los Angeles (NHL)
Panthers - Carolina (NFL) and Florida (NHL)
Rangers - Texas (
Jets - New York (NFL) and Winnipeg (NHL)
I hope I got that right, I was testing my own memory!
And hopefully, accurately, the grid:
Steve
46 comments:
Hi Y'all! Great puzzle! Bruce. Great expo, Steve!
Since there is BEEF STEAK & pork STEAK, I consider BEEF as a theme entry. I don't understand why you didn't. STEER is also a tie-in because BEEF STEAK & the other cuts come from STEERs (i.e. castrated baby bulls who have been grown & fattened for choice or prime meat). I'm drooling as I type. Haven't had a good steak in a long time.
PK, the reason Steve did not include BEEFEATERS as part of the theme is the reveal pair of FLANK STEAK which tell the solver that the theme is placed on the outside of the grid. Perhaps Bruce will stop by and explain the pairing of BEEFEATERS and SECRET MENU .
As a psychology major, I am familiar with ERICH FROMM but even though she has worked steadily for more than 30 years, I did not know JUDITH HOAG.
Thank Bruce and Steve.
SECRET MENU items are burgers to the max,
Beef patties piled on patties, in stacks!
BEEF EATERS will know,
With proteins they will glow,
When they GROK the secrets in the FAQs!
My weight oft makes me feel MOROSE
Because I am addicted to sucrose.
My sweet-tooth don't care bones
I ought to abjure ice-cream CONES!
How I wish a slimmer me could greet dawn Eos!
{A-, B.}
Good morning!
Swish. That was the sound of the theme flying over d-o's head this morning. I figured BEEF was on the MENU. Never noticed the cuts down the side. Probably should've read the complete 41a clue. D'oh. Tried NL EAST first. "Antetokounmpo" -- the sort of word where somebody is bound to respond, "You do and you'll clean it yourself." Thanx, Bruce and Steve. (This one was obviously cooked up just for you.)
Lemonade: Still don't GROK your reasoning. Looks to me like those two phrases are telling the theme contained between them tho. Oh well!
I think the theme answers are a kind of BEEF MENU. BEEF and MENU are symmetrically placed within the grid, so I think BEEF MENU is intentional. So two different theme reveals (BEEF MENU and FLANK STEAK), one explicitly referred to as such and one not. I've never seen that before.
The clue for STEER refers to cattle, so I guess it's supposed to be a bonus, although it seems a bit randomly thrown in there to me.
Very nice, very doable challenge today. Some lovely wordplay that had me smiling.
Good morning everyone.
Got it all OK without help. Got HOAG using 4 perps. Even tho the solve was successful, it is always a bonus to come here and see what nuances I might have missed. The 16 x 15 grid par ejemplo. Thanks Steve.
TROPE - - Meriam gives this as one definition: : a common or overused theme or device : CLICHÉ. (aber das macht mir nichts)
Hunkering down for our return to Winter.
Tschüß
Nice clues. Didn't see the theme but it was clever. Some tired fill like it's me,not I,and I never heard anyone respond to currently saying as it is. Sizer? That's a stretch.
Good morning everybody. Got the puzzle finished with no writeovers but noticed the FLANK STEAKS. RUMP steak? That's a new one for me. Bruce put the reveal in the dead center, protected on each FLANK.
ESPYS was an easy fill after a few perps but the athlete is an unknown. I don't follow the NBA. HOAG & GROK- complete unknowns filled by perps. No other problems.
23A-CIGARS- I loved it when Joe Burrow lit up a CIGAR while being interviewed after LSU won. Reminds me of Red Auerbach doing it while the Celtics were still playing.
WEIMAR- if our feds don't quit deficit spending, the U$D will start to look like German Marks during the WEIMAR Republic. We only get away with it because other countries are worse.
Musings
-1˚F on the prairie today here in the BEEF STATE
-I guess I don’t need an ID TAG if I just say IT’S ME
-Last Saturday we had OGLES, LEERS and PERSUSES. Today we get EYES
-Also today - NYET, NAE and NOT I (Famous answer from The Little Red Hen)
-I wonder if our British blogger Steve says VAYSE or VAHSE
-McCormick and Schmick’s Restaurants do not allow DOGGIE Bags during their “way-cheap happy hour”
-Roseanne defied the TV TROPE of “neatly solving family issues in a half-hour”
Great morning all.
Enjoyed the puzzle.
A little messy with all the write overs.
Teacher might rap my knuckles with a wooden ruler for this one.
Started off wrongly filling RIBS for COBS.
With the B and S in place it took awhile to push my mind out of that rut.
Same with ALIST. With LI in place I confidently filled on ELITE .
When SIZER appeared I remembered being
caught in a similar trap not too long ago and changed it to ALIST.
Sizer made sense for ring shopping and shoe store fittings .
Sunny but cold today .
Woke up to 30 below zero.
Another brass monkey morning.
Good thing there’s no wind and temps will start to climb with the sunshine.
Cheers
I really GOOFedUP this one. Was convinced 18d was Erica, am used to ERICH spelled with a final "c" or "k"..(but then what kind of strange name would AOAG be?)
So ONO! I FIW.
Made a complete ASS of myself. Well not completely since I finished the rest correctlu so guess I'm "half-ASSed" (I mean "not as quickly" for the censors and crossword police)
When the nuns told us that in the Bethlehem stable there was an ASS and ox we "release time" public school urchins would giggle till the pointer was unsheathed.
Never heard of a SECRETMENU..is it based on a secret recipe with secret sauce prepared by a southern colonel for just a GORMÉ? (Sorry Steve Lawrence you eat off the regular menu)
Anyway had yapping instead of YACKING for a while
I don't GROK COBS nor do I GROK GROK
Ultimately a high cholesterol puzzle dripping with red meat.
Finished the puzzle in 15 minutes with only one look-up. Didn't know ERIC_ or _OAG so had to Google to come up with the H. A little bit of a natick.
Got the Beef but didn't really get the theme until Steve explained it.
Steve: I think the Texas Rangers are MLB, not NBA. I agree with you on Stick Pins. My grandfather always wore a diamond stickpin when he went to church on Sunday. It disappeared from his tie at his funeral and a few of us think a certain cousin absconded with it.
You'd be surprised how many different restaurants have secret menus. I've tried to get stuff off of the unpublished menus at some fast food joints and met with varying degrees of success. If you come across a recently hired employee, they usually look at you like you have two heads, but experienced staff usually will know what you're talking about and try to accommodate you. My favorite is the BBQ Roast Beef sub at Jersey Mikes. It's a #19 but it isn't usually on the menu board. I think many restaurants including fast food ones will try to accommodate special requests if they aren't too busy. It doesn't hurt to ask.
Getting ready for the predicted 5 - 8 inches of snow coming our way. It's really windy today so, I think my newspaper is in the next county by now.
Have a great day everyone.
I watched Nashville quite a bit in its first few seasons. Judith Hoag played Connie Britton’s sister. She’s an excellent actor and was in many episodes, but she was never a series regular or really had her own plot line, so HOAG is kind of obscure even for many who watched the show. There is a popular novelist named Tami Hoag. A double barreled clue using both Tami and Judith might have seemed less obscure.
Testing Thursday. Thanks for the fun, Bruce and Steve.
Officially a DNF and FIW for me today . . . but I did GROK the theme with those six STEAKs FLANKing the CW. And I agree that BEEF and MENU add to the theme; STEER is an Easter Egg (bonus). Clever.
(I didn't know about SECRET MENUS; I don't frequent fast food outlets very often.)
Let me count the inkblots. My official Natick was the H in HOAG and ERICH. I entered Erica and knew that Aoag was not correct. (Hello Ray & oc4)
My Giants were from New York which gave me NL East. When I Googled and found WEIMAR, I corrected to the other coast, but neglected to corrected Hasp to RASP. (I should know my closures from my files!)
I had Torme (no that's Mel!) instead of GORME, and had no idea what kind of FEES were needed; DOGGIE bag never appeared. (After yesterday's theme, I should have seen it.)
My other error was choosing Beta instead of ZETA from the Greek alphabet rhyming quartet. But perhaps I can advocate for an alternate answer here; when I Googled the unknown to me SIBER, I found "Stable Isotope Bayesian Ellipses in R - Fits bi-variate ellipses to stable isotope data using Bayesian inference with the aim being to describe and compare their isotopic niche".
That is as Greek to me as Beta and ZETA, but it does have something to do with fitting LOL!
Hand up with Oas for entering Ribs before COBS. I also entered Scot before GAEL.
HG, this Canadian says Vahse.
Favourite today was 10A - TIMES SIGN.
Wishing you all a great day.
Rich and I felt that BEEFEATERS and SECRET MENU were not theme entries, but hinted at the theme in a way that was not quite interfering with the theme, but I'll admit it's a close call. Bruce Haight
I am just noting, for the record, my continuing objection to the spelling of D2 as "Detoo."
PS...I would argue that a vase however pronounced is a ceramic product. An URN implies a metal container.
Also agree with the STICK PiN argument. A stick pin is a decorative item not really apt for the clue
My wife and I have a map with push pins of visited places on our bucket list before the final push pin designating the cemetery..
Or our URN
Well, this was a Thursday toughie for me, but an interesting one--thank you, Bruce, and thanks for checking in. I had many of the false starts as others, like RIBS and BETA and ERICA. But I knew ONO and that got me guessing ON RYE and that gave me URNS and I soon had DESILU--but did not get ROCOCO. My Dusty thinks I should have gotten DOGGIE BAG, but I sadly put TORME instead of GORME. So lots of GOOF-UPS, but still fun. And always enjoy your commentary, Steve.
CIGARS reminded me that I had a chance to watch an old "Columbo" on TV last night--one of my favorites in the old days. I couldn't believe how much smoking there was on that show. Must have been the days before tobacco was recognized as a health problem.
Have a good day, everybody.
Hola!
Ooh! What a lot of NIT picking today. I'm just pleased to finish the puzzle though I failed to fill a blank, the G in GROK/SIGN.
I had to laugh at DOGGIE bag with all those meat items. When I go to the Longhorn Steakhouse there are never any leftovers.
Steve, yes, I agree that this puzzle was likely cooked up just for you and I can see that you relished the analysis.
I liked it, too, as I love any kind of STEAK or otherwise prepared meat.
I guess those hat PINS could be called pushpins, but pushpins immediately suggest maps to me.
ERICH Fromm is familiar to me and I believe I may even have a copy of that book.
Have a beautiful day, everyone! I'm still trying to get compensation from ATT and my insurance company so to the telephone I go.
Always enjoy a theme that gets me in the mood for dinner.
Fave was my CSO at 13-d, SWISS invoking my paternal heritage.
Hope everyone has "nice weather" ... I'm stuck with sunny skies and 78 degrees.
A "Toast-to-ALL" at Sunset.
Cheers!
I liked the way the steaks flanked the outside edges of the puzzle. I love steak. I have had all of those mentioned, except for cube steak.
Vases can be made from a number of materials, such as ceramics , glass, non-rusting metals, such as aluminium, brass, bronze, or stainless steel, even plastic. I had to discard many of my vases, made of many of these different materials, because they were over filling my storage space.
There are funerary urns and garden urns. Garden urns can be made of ceramic, metal, fiberglass resin, etc. I looked up buying urns. Some are used as planters and some as merely decoration.Urns are common here.
I agree that "stick pin" brings to mind an ornamental pin, especially for a tie. I call the map pins, push pins, but I got the answer from just STI.
oc4beach, those secret menu items all seem to be "belly busters." Not for me.
HG,yes, to my mind the most common sizer is used for rings.You can buy these ring sizers on Amazon.
The odd spelling of Edyie gave away her surname.
I needed four perps to remember ERICH Fromm. That H completed the unknown HOAG.
Google says. "Hat pins have much longer stems and normally have glass beads or Rondelle rhinestone tops. Stick pins have a shorter pin and the top is normally more thematic in styling, i.e. monogram, figurals, flowers, etc. Also, stick pins often have closing caps for the bottom and hat pins normally do not.
I just love a meaty puzzle
that I can sink my teeth into...
(well, somebody had to say it...)
Unfortunately, Beta rhymes better than Zeta,
& "H" did not sound right in my Natick.
(Nor did the other 25 letters...)
Had a slow start in the NW so I went to the bottom and worked my way up.
No write-overs today, a result I didn’t really expect at the start.
We are setting high temp records here in SC, both kinds; the regular high temp of the day and also the “high” low temp.
This is something I’ve noticed, not only are we setting high temp records but even the overnight low temps are rising. So no real time for cooling off, not a promising trend.
On to Friday.
I liked parts of this puzzle, specifically the theme. Wrinkled my nose at DETOO, ASITIS, and SIZER. (I'm not claiming they are wrong, just that I wrinkled my nose at them, so please don't quote the dictionary.)
Never heard of a RUMP steak. RUMP roast, sure. Never heard it called the Vegas STRIP. Las Vegas STRIP, sure (or just The Strip.) Let's take our extra uneaten steak home in a DOGGIE bag.
Same experience at the H crossing ERICH and HOAG: Originally had ERICK but KOAG didn't seem right, so changed it to H. Then I remembered I had heard of ERICH Fromm. Once again, the risk of crashing on the shoals of Natick is very high when two (relatively) unknown names cross.
ITS ME, I SAW, NOT I. Mini me theme?
This puzzle reminds me of perfectly heated mozzarella: stretchy.
Happy Thursday, all.
Hi everybody.
I enjoyed the steaks but they were mostly cheaper cuts. Where was ribeye? :>)
I agree every time. In R2-D2, surely it should be DETWO.
Shouldn't an atom be chemistry matter rather than physics matter?
Don't worry about these nits. I still thought it was a very enjoyable puzzle.
~ Mind how you go...
@oc4beach - thanks for the Texas Rangers correction, I´ve updated the blog, and thanks, Bruce, for stopping by and clarifying the BEEFEATERS/SECRET MENU.
On the secret menu topic, McDonald's had something called a Mc10:35 which you could only get when they were switching over from the breakfast to the regular menu as the griddles are at different temperatures for each menu. It was basically a sausage (or bacon) & egg McMuffin on a double cheeseburger. 10:35 was the time when they still had a breakfast griddle going, and the burger griddle was up to temp
Jayce:
You impress me with your active imagination!
Rump roast versus rump steak?
Hmm,
When it comes to silly links,
it seems Rump Steak is a valid search item...
Exhibit A
Exhibit B
Exhibit C
I'm with you, Steve, on TROPE. Yes, a TROPE is definitely not "overused," as is a cliche.
But the pedant in me would also like to point out that the clue for 5A really ought to be "Personal mis-identification?" A correct identification would be IT IS I.
IT'S ME is an all-too-common error.
I was lucky with the "near Natick," as I can recall ERICH Fromm from an undergrad psych class. As for HOAG, I wasn't aware of the actress, but it is a very well-known name here in SoCAL. It is the moniker on a major hospital, one with countless supporting offices and clinics: HOAG Presbyterian.
~ OMK
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DR: No diagonals--because the grid is 16x15.
OAS, 30 below? Where do you live? A lot of you mention your local weather, but unless you state your location in your bio some of us newer members have no idea where you live.
Bill G said: "Shouldn't an atom be chemistry matter rather than physics matter?"
I somewhat shared his concern as I filled in ATOM. However, there is a field of physics called "Atomic Physics." Upon reflection, I feel there is significant overlap in the fields of chemistry and physics involving atoms and so feel it is a valid clue.
I'm still receiving the run-around from ATT. Finally I e-mailed the contact I was given by the original installer who caused the problem and he answered! No relief though.
I inked DARTH , perps gave me DETOO. Birnholz had a Star Wars Sunday xword featuring the droids. R2D2 with the numbers was a fill
Oops. My Greek letter was BETA. I didn't know HOAG Nor SIZER, because , although I knew Mr Fromm I spelled his name ERICk.
Ray-O, not to speak of Balaam's ASS. Hence, when a horse's ASS talks, listen.
I'm a little surprised xword regulars would be unfamiliar with GROK. I stopped using the word thinking it was too overused. Perhaps it's more of a NYT usage.
Back in the days when we used maps some probably stuck a pin in one.
I finished at Breakfast Station in Dunellon about 930 but I could get no WiFi even McDonald's. I laid down later reading this blog and fell asleep for three hours.
WC
Lucina, I bleed for your bureaucracy misery. Bless you for retaining paperwork. A contractor declared bankruptcy, named me as a creditor and the $$. The insurance for such fraud from the State of Florida denied reimbursement because of one missing paperwork.
A cancelled check apparently meant nada. I probably was denied because I didn't hire a lawyer.
Also, if you buy a warranty from home Depot make sure you register it.
WC
WC:
If there is anything I have learned in life, it is to save paperwork. A trail of heartache led me to that lesson. Tonight a supervisor of some kind called me with a promise of more action. We shall see.
I need to replace my stove (long story but in summary, my Granddaughter overheated an element and apparently destroyed the sensor). Does anyone have a recommendation? All my appliances have been either GE or Whirlpool and have proven their reliability but I'm willing to listen.
Hi All!
Arggggg!!! Move over and make room on the 'Not-H in Block 32-Bench RayO, oc4, and C, Eh!. Yep, close but no CIGAR.
Thanks Bruce for the puzzle and for stopping in at The Corner to 'splain BEEFEATER and SECRETMENU. What about the STEER wandering in?
Great expo Steve. I read it this morning and had your Chicken Fried STEAK on my mind all day.
WO: Started Scorts at SKIRT
FIW: ERICA; 32a was a last name so it can be AOAG, right?
ESPs: GORME, ERICa|aOAG
Fav: Clue for TIMES SIGN was nice [Hi C, Eh!]
Runner-up: Eta too short, Theta too long, fill -ETA and wait.
All pins are STICK PINS when you poke your finger.
{A, B+}
:-( No DR.
FLN - What happened Lucina? I responded to a post of yours; later it looks like I responded to myself and "Ghost"-Lucina posted a snippet of what you posted.
Bill G - nearly. We had EYE @29a and everyone wanted RIB for 1a :-)
At the Atomic level Chemistry and Physics are basically the same, no?
Jayce - Vegas STRIP.
Misty - I love Columbo! When DW's out of town, I drown my sorrows "With Just One More Thing" episode.
WC - I was reading more in the paper re: the ign Stealing Scandal, ruminated on your "MLB's center field camera," and suddenly remembered an Ad that I cannot seem to find. Basically, the spot went from cut-away to cut-away (scene to scene):
Catcher drops the signal
Kid sees it on TV and yells it (the pitch) out the window ("Slider!" or whatever)
Passerby starts running...
Pitcher begins his windup - checks the runner on first
Passerby relays the signal to a guy in the street; he relays it to someone outside the stadium...
[basically, they are all communicating the pitch to get it to someone in the stadium and relay it to the batter right as the pitcher releases the pitch]
*Smack!*
[cut away to voice-over: "We're all in this together"]
I think it was a playoff ad for Cubs, RedSox, or Astros; maybe just a generic "team"
Anyone remember the ad? Is this where the Astros got the idea? :-)
Break's over. Back to work; CYBER-incidents* suck. I've only 3.5 hours/night sleep all week :-(
Cheers, -T
*I think it's a minor incident but have to prove the negative and all that...
So glad you like "Columbo" too, AnonT.
Lucina -
I was able to replace my stove element. I googled my stove model and the web site provided replacement part information.
Susie
Susie:
Thank you. Does your stove have a glass top? I'm not sure how the element would be replaced on one.
AnonT:
I just went back to look at your post about hot dogs. I can't recall the last time I went to a baseball game. My entertainments of choice are movies, concerts, or live shows, either plays or entertainers. No hot dogs are served in those venues. Oh, wait, our local Harkins movie theater does sell hot dogs but I've never bought one. At the movies I love popcorn.
Anon-T @ 10:10--
The difference between chemistry and physics, is that chemistry is basically concerned with the outer, shell, electrons of atoms (how do you get the electrons of one element to mesh with the electrons of another; how to make molecules), while if there are physics concerns with atoms, they are mostly about the nucleus (e.g, how does radioactivity come about; what are isotopes).
But there is also something called 'Quantum Chemistry' which uses quantum physics' tools to analyze -- and maybe improve -- chemical reactions. "Quantum chemistry studies the ground state of individual atoms and molecules, and the excited states, and transition states that occur during chemical reactions." (sic Wikipedia)
Lucina - You have an induction cook-top. I just looked up a how-to on it. It's basically like an old electric top but way more work to fix :-)
Your handyman should be able to do this given proper parts.
Michael - Point taken. In the end, I think it's all the same - just a difference of how we look at an interaction and the models/tools we use to predict how things work out.
IMHO, all the "hard" sciences are looking at the same problem using different models/tools. One could, I suppose, calculate Hydrogens bonding with Oxygen using Schrodinger's equations but that'd be silly when Bohr's model is just sitting there.
Same when describing the orbits of planets as Chemical interactions when, on that scale, Newtonian models are pretty darn close (and Schrodinger can enjoy his cat just a bit longer :-)).
I think I might start a Columbo; I need to come down from this long-ASS day.
Cheers, -T
Steve - NY STRIP is a different part of the (get along) little DOGGIE than a Vegas STRIP.
C, Eh! Look what I found [Neil Peart Tribute] on my way to a Colombo. .
Lucina - with the cook-top out of order, put a Ballpark All Beef frank in the oven on Broil. Turn after a minute or two. Slap the dog into a bun, top w/ yellow mustard and diced onion.
You won't know how you lived all this time without a hotdog :-)
Cheers (and really done for the night), -T
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