Buckle Up! Today we have both the dreaded circles and anagrams! So, buckle up, it's going to be a bumpy ride on this ROCKY ROAD as we travel around the world in a puzzle that contains lots of foreign language words.
I'll start with the unifier:
And the Unifier:
61-Across. Nutty ice cream parlor order ... and a hint to each set of circled letters: ROCKY ROAD.
17-Across. Not be serious: KID AROUND.
We've also have a little criminal activity going as well.
15-Across. Thieves' hideout: LAIR. // 65-Down. Thieves' hideout: DEN.
16-Across. Thief: CROOK.
I'll start with the unifier:
And the Unifier:
61-Across. Nutty ice cream parlor order ... and a hint to each set of circled letters: ROCKY ROAD.
24-Across. "Answer with the first thing that comes to mind" exercise: WORD ASSOCIATION.
36-Across. World's largest lizards: KOMODO DRAGONS. The Komoda Dragon is found in the Indonesian islands.
52-Across. '70s Chilean president: SALVADOR ALLENDE. Salvador Allende (June 26, 1908 ~ Sept. 11, 1973) was a physician and President of Chile from 1970 until 1973 when he was killed in a coup. After the coup, Augusto Pinochet (Nov. 25, 1915 ~ Sept. 10, 2006) became the dictator of Chile. The latter was my first thought, and both names have the same number of letters.
Salvador Allende.
We've also have a little criminal activity going as well.
15-Across. Thieves' hideout: LAIR. // 65-Down. Thieves' hideout: DEN.
16-Across. Thief: CROOK.
Across:
1. Indian music style: RAGA.
5. French "to be": ÊTRE. The first of several references to a foreign language in today's puzzle. The verb Être is an irregular verb. In the present tense, the verb is conjugates as: Je suis / Nous sommes (I am / We are); Tu es / Vous être (You are You are); Il est / Elle est (He is / She is) / Ils sont / Elles sont (They are).
9. Goldman __: investment banking giant: SACHS. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869 by Marcus Goldman (Dec. 9, 1821 ~ July 20, 1904). Thirteen years later, his son-in-law, Samuel Sachs (July 28, 1851 ~ Mar. 2, 1935), joined the firm, and the name became as we know it today.
14. Go with the __: FLOW.
19. Like the accent in passé: ACUTE. The French language uses 5 distinct accents:
the cédille Ç,
the accent aigu é,
the accent circonflexe â, ê, î, ô, û,
the accent grave à, è, ù
and the accent tréma ë, ï, ü.
20. French monarch: ROI. The French King.
21. Hockey score: GOAL.
23. Cold War mil. program: SDI. As in the Strategic Defense Initiative, also known as Star Wars. The program was initiated in 1983 during the Reagan Administration. The program was designed to develop a space-based missile defense program to protect the country from a nuclear attack. The program is sometimes considered the straw that broke down the Cold War between the United States and the USSR.
29. Golfer Michelle: WIE. Michelle Song Wie (b. Oct. 11, 1989) was the youngest player to qualify for a USGA amateur championship. She was 10 years old at the time.
30. "I've seen better": MEH!
31. Playground equipment: SWINGS.
32. Quaint lodging: INN.
33. Passé: OLD HAT. Note that the clue contains a acute accent, or in French, an Accent Aigu.
42. "Peer Gynt Suite" dancer: ANITRA. Definitely not a Tuesday clue, but I am sure you have heard the music that accompanies the dance.
43. "Mangia!": EAT! Today's Italian lesson. Mangia is the imperative verb form of the verb to eat.
45. Wine city north of Lisbon: OPORTO. Today's Portuguese lesson. This city, which is the second largest city in Portugal, appears as Porto in maps in English.
48. CEO's degree: MBA. The Chief Executive Officer would likely have a Master's in Business Administration.
51. Wallet single: ONE.
56. Ed.'s backlog: MSS. As in a backlog of Manuscripts.
57. Actress Russo: RENE. Rene Russo (née Rene Marie Russo; b. Feb. 17, 1954) makes frequent appearances in the puzzles. She began her career as a fashion model.
58. World Cup cheer: !OLE¡ Today's Spanish lesson.
59. Funny Cheri: OTERI. Cheri OTERI (née Cheryl Anne Oteri; b. Sept. 19, 1962) makes frequent guest appearances in the crossword puzzles. She was on Saturday Night Live 2 decades ago, where she played a number of roles, including the Spartan cheerleader.
Cheri is on the Right.
66. Seasonal mall temp: SANTA. Their temporary job is over until next season, which, I think now begins in about July. Also a fond memory to our own Santa.
67. "Omigosh!": YIPE!
68. Loitering, say: IDLE.
69. German steel city: ESSEN.
70. Some pipe joints: ELLS.
71. Utopia: EDEN.
Down:
1. D.C. United's former stadium: RFK.
2. "Green Book" Oscar winner Mahershala: ALI. Mashershala Ali (né Mahershalalhasbaz Gilmore; b. Feb. 16, 1974) also won an Oscar for his performance in Moonlight. He was also the star of the 3rd season of True Detective, and appeared for a couple of seasons in House of Cards.
3. Neptune or Pluto: GOD. They are brothers in Roman mythology.
4. Palme d'Or, e.g.: AWARD. It is the Oscar of the Cannes Film Festival.
5. Kid-lit girl who lives on the "tippy-top floor" of the Plaza Hotel: ELOISE. The Eloise Books were not actually a part of my childhood.
6. Cross-shaped Greek letter: TAU.
7. Second Beatle on the "Abbey Road" cover: RINGO. *
8. Ambulance patient's MD: ER DOC. As an Emergency Room Doctor.
9. Scoundrel: SCALAWAG. Fun word.
10. Fly ball's path: ARC. Think baseball.
11. "My __ Vinny": 1992 comedy: COUSIN. This movie is a favorite of many of the regulars on this blog.
12. Show-off: HOTDOG. A CSO to Misty's dogs.
13. Wound yarn units: SKEINS. A CSO to our resident knitters.
18. Travel aimlessly: ROAM. May your roam be on a smooth road and not a Rocky Road.
22. "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" host Tyler: AISHA. Aisha Tyler (née Aisha Naomi Tyler; b. Sept. 18, 1970) is a complete unknown to me. I watched the show when Drew Carey was the host. I didn't know it was still on.
24. 1914-'18 conflict, briefly: WWI. Also known as World War I, the War to End All Wars.
25. Farm grunt: OINK.
26. Nevada casino city: RENO. Not to be confused with 57-Across. Reno is also the home of the National Judicial College. I took some courses there about 20 years ago.
27. Photo session: SHOOT.
28. Latin jazz great Puente: TITO. Tito Puente (né Ernesto Antoino Puente; Apr. 20, 1923 ~ May 31, 2000) is sometimes called the King of Latin Music.
34. Pres. or P.M.: LDR. Presidents and Prime Ministers are Leaders of their respective countries.
35. Pulitzer category: DRAMA.
37. Sportscaster Albert: MARV. Marv Albert (né Marvin Philip Aufrichtig; b. June 12, 1941) was involved in a sex scandal in the late 1990s.
38. Toronto native: ONTARIAN. Hi, Canadian, Eh!
39. LED component: DIODE.
40. Hard-to-miss sign: NEON.
41. Beach pailful: SAND.
44. Summer shirt: TEE.
This shirt is appropriate now. No need to wait until summer.
45. Be absorbed gradually: OSMOSE.
46. Farfalle and fusilli: PASTAS.
The Farfalle, also known as Bow Tie, is on the left.
47. Acting twins Mary-Kate and Ashley: OLSENS.
49. Cambridge chaps: BLOKES.
50. Treaty partner: ALLY.
53. Sandwich shop specification: ON RYE. We just had some smoked whitefish on rye. Yummers!
54. Lubricate again: RE-OIL.
55. Like "Stranger Things": EERIE.
60. Numbered hwy.: RTE.
62. Lowest-ranking NCO: CPL.
63. Roulette bet: ODD. I initially tried Red. But, instead, we were looking for Even or Odd, not colors.
64. Brewpub pour: ALE.
Here's the Grid:
QOD: I believe that all children should be surrounded by books and animals. ~ Gerald Durrell (Jan. 7. 1925 ~ Jan. 30, 1995), British naturalist
* Golda Meir, David Ben-Gurion, Henrietta Szold and Theodor Herzl
QOD: I believe that all children should be surrounded by books and animals. ~ Gerald Durrell (Jan. 7. 1925 ~ Jan. 30, 1995), British naturalist
* Golda Meir, David Ben-Gurion, Henrietta Szold and Theodor Herzl
44 comments:
I did not remember ANITRA and SALVADOR ALLENDE took many perps, but in the ent it was a fair puzzle. LDR was a clanker for me and it is nice to remember ARGYLE .
Thank you, Susan and David.
FLN, Lucy I did see Pat's daughter on WHEEL and she is a lovely young woman and quite tall. She seemed quite at home in front of the camera. I agree Vanna is getting better at being the host.
FIR, with a rare day of no erasures. Plenty of unknowns, but they didn't cross.
I used to work in an office on Utopia Road in Phoenix. Just off the Black Canyon Freeway at the Union Hills exit.
I'm playing golf today for the first time since April. I expect the round to require many SWINGS. Thais marks the unofficial opening of golf spring training - pitchers and chippers report.
Thanks for the fun puzzle, David. And thanks to Hahtoolah for the excellent review. I really did a double-take at the Beatles picture.
Quick going except that I had BoOKES for way too long before fixing it. My editing skills are not the best, mainly because I tend to think that everything is already correct which makes it look that way. I used to tell my students to assume that something is wrong and go find it; I should heed that advice.
Good morning!
Definitely easier than yesterday. This was a zip-zip-done affair. Only misstep was MARk before MARV; that WAG seemed more likely. Cute caption, Hahtoolah: "Cheri is on the right." Nice puzzle, David and I enjoyed your tour, Hahtoolah. (Thanx for Anitra's Dance, one of my favorites.)
TRÉMA: Interesting that the word for an accent includes a different accent. I can't think of any French words that actually include the accent tréma. Francophiles?
Absolutely loved all the purple in the photo of "SANTA", Argyle. Gives me a thread of hope for the Vikings in San(ta) Francisco on Santarday.
DO, yes, zip zip done. Easy today. I saw the scrambled ROADs right away. Fun puzzle, David. Intersting, well illustrated blog, Susan.
Unfortunately the Star Ledger puzzle font does not include accent marks.
I knew Anitra from Anitra's dance.
I often wondered why we call farfalle pasta bow ties. The name comes from the Italian for butterflies. I have taken the butterfly as my totem or token.
Italian-farfalla, German-Schmetterling, French-papillon, Spanish-mariposa,Japanese-chou (pronounced to rhyme with Joe)
I am coming along fine with my smart phone. Mr. Google is my teacher. In Google I type the phone model and ask a specific question. How to lengthen the idle time before it sleeps, how to do voice mail and email, why does the phone not ring while sleeping? I realized it was set on do not disturb and googled how to cancel that. So many new issues. I am finally enjoying solving them.
Good Morning:
This was a fun and easy romp. I saw the ROAD theme after filling in the second themer, but the Rocky Road reveal still brought a surprising Aha. I never had that ice cream and have no idea what the flavoring is. Anitra needed every perp but the rest filled in effortlessly. I would add Scalawag to Hatoolah’s criminal element. CSOs to CEh (Ontarian); Madame Defarge (Skeins), Misty (Hotdog) (Weiner), and our dearly missed Santa. I know Aisha Tyler from The Talk. I haven’t seen that show in ages but Aisha and Sara Gilbert left it, as did the long-time host, Julie Chen, in the wake of the Les Moonves (her spouse) scandal. I have no idea who the panel is now.
Thanks, David, for a sweet Tuesday treat and thanks, Hatoolah, for the dazzling and enjoyable review.
Have a great day.
Good morning everyone.
Got it all without aid. Had Canadian before ONTARIAN. Hi Can. Eh! Saw the 'ROAD' letters early. Thought we may be dealing with A-Rod. Good theme. Couple unknowns like ANITRA came easily from the perps.
ESSEN - The German infinitive of 'to eat'
ÊTRE - Hahtoolah expanded on the fracturedness of être's conjugation. English 'to be', Dutch 'zijn' and German 'sein' are also highly fractured. I'm guessing that occurs in many other languages, also.
Thanks Hahtoolah for a fine write-up and a great in-more-depth explanation of many of the Words.
To me SCALAWAG is not criminal,
"1. a person who behaves badly but in an amusingly mischievous rather than harmful way; a rascal.
2.US a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit. The term was used derisively by white Southern Democrats who opposed Reconstruction legislation. but a jocular reference to mischievous, as well as a reference to the Civil War reconstruction era."
This is like my take on IMP."An imp is a trouble maker — not a thug or a criminal, but a mischievous sort who might make prank phone calls or harass a substitute teacher."
I use both jocularly for a slightly mischievous person, with IMP mostly for a child.
Musings
-Type in any word here and quickly think of your association with that word. Then hit Enter and this program rates your association
-SWINGS of my yute were 15’ high. Seen one lately?
-On a Tuesday, ANITRA has plenty of non-natick crosses
-A lot of D.C. Redskins fans come dressed as empty seats these days
-NASA helped Miami design a roof where the ARC of a hit baseball could not hit the dome. Aaron Judge did it twice anyway.
-My grandpa Thomas came home a changed man from WWI in pre-PTSD days
-Did they really throw thier wedding rings into the Truckee River when RENO was the divorce capital of America?
-Ding Dong, my “Made In Taiwan” $129 taillight, for which my dealer wanted $459, just arrived. YouTube, here I come.
"Meh." Finished in under 8 minutes. This didn't seem like a Tuesday puzzle due to the number of foreign words: Oporto; Salvador Allende; Essen; etre; roi; and Anitra.
I don't feel the pay-off for seeing a word jumbled in some answers is worth the fill (LDR; SDI; MSS; RTE; CPL; and, RFK). Is there another site/puzzle that regularly doesn't have themes?
Also, the explanation says there's five types of french accents, but doesn't include the acute one - would someone please explain what I've missed?
Anon@9:20, in French "acute" is "aigu."
Too many clues of French origin.
I found this puzzle difficult for a Tuesday. Yesterday's was easy but today? Too many Proper names. Not my forte.
Perhaps Tin Beni will check in with an account of the Greek festival culminating with the young boys diving for the cross.
Here is an account
I learned that the Greek Orthodox epiphany celebrates the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist. Roman Catholics refer to the Maji. They had 25000 for the event including the Greek Prime Minister(LDR).
BTW, it's "Elle est (Belle)". Google tried to correct est to eat for me too.
Very quick and easy solve. I love themes in puzzles. I'm terrible at grok'ing them
WC
Good morning.
I liked this puzzle and the reveal brought a smile to my face. My dad's favorite ice cream was ROCKY ROAD.
Thank you, David. Your puzzles are always fun. Thank you, Hahtoolah. Your write ups are always fun and educational.
Anon @ 9:20, try the puzzles at this link.
https://games.washingtonpost.com/games/easy-crossword/
Terrific Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, David and Hahtoolah.
David is a fellow-Canadian and ONTARIAN (from Toronto area I believe per the interview here from 2011) DavidPooleInterview2011
Perhaps he will drop in here today to update us.
David would know that no Canadian wallet would contain a ONE (or a two); we need a change purse for our Loonies and Toonies.
"Hockey score=GOAL" was another semi-Canadian CSO. A local hockey player scored the winning goal in the final minutes in the game to give our Canadian U18 team the gold medal over Russia on Sunday at the World Juniors.
I saw the twisted ROAD early with KID AROUND, and that helped fill the other circles.
But I had a few stumbles and actually came here to discover I FIWed. Komoto changed to KOMODO when DIODE perped. That also gave me the I in the unknown ANITRA.
I filled 67A with Yike instead of YIPE and wondered what sort of NCO a CKL might be.
I waited for perps to decide between Rove or ROAM. Perps were also needed for MARV and AISHA.
The verb OSMOSE is not as familiar as the noun Osmosis.
LDR was my MEH moment for the day.
Like YR, I think of a SCALAWAG as more of an imp than a scoundrel.
SALVATOR ALLENDE was familiar to me. Back in August 1971, I was in Quito Ecuador and we awoke one morning to find the street outside lined with military personnel. Allende was on a state visit and precautions were tight. A little scary.
Wishing you all a great day.
Thanks, Wilber Charles. Darn spell-checker!
Well, I too found this Tuesday puzzle more difficult than Monday's--but mainly because both the KOMODO dragon and the dancer ANITRA were unknown to me. But I enjoyed watching the circles fill in with rocky ROADs, and loved the theme solution. Had no trouble with the foreign words, thank goodness. But had a tough moment when, like Spitzboov, I filled in CANADIAN (tribute to CanadianEh, I thought) but that made Russo start with a D. I kept thinking that can't be right, it has to be RENE and put in the R. Yeah, ONTARIAN now popped up. So, a fun Tuesday, even with the tough moments--many thanks, David. And, like Irish Miss, I too always find your write-ups dazzling, Susan. How nice of you to remember that I have a dachshund, though I must tell you that Dusty was not happy with that HOT DOG picture.
Have a great day, everybody.
I like circles in crosswords, word scrambles like this one, and true anagrams which form new words like RATE, TEAR, TARE. In this puzzle there were many solid perps.
This Tuesday puzzle went quickly.
Not much to add.
Zip zoop and it was done. Good thing I knew KOMODO, ANITRA, OPORTO, and SALVADOR, because I didn't know MARV without them.
I have a nit to pick about DIODE being an "LED component". An LED is a diode, a Light Emitting one.
I think I have known 2 CROOKs in my life, one of them rather harmless and one of them quite harmful. If you consider my boss attempting to steal some of my ideas and pass them off as his ideas, then I have known 3 crooks.
Some examples of the accent tréma in French would include:
Noël (Christmas),
the names Anaïs, Zoë, and Chloë,
maïs (corn, maize) to distinguish it from mais which means "but" as in "mais oui!"
and Moët-Chandon champagne.
Good wishes to you all.
Hola!
Whew! What a day this has been! A roofer finally came to inspect and work on the roof and informed me that the real problem is from my next door neighbor. Her roof has an open seam that is letting the water flow to my area. I'm not sure if that problem is going to be solved.
The puzzle was easy considering that I did it with minimal concentration and maximum distraction. I finally saw the scrambled ROAD after reading Hahtoolah's fine commentary.
OPORTO is a lovely city as I recall with numerous vineyards in the countryside. On our tour of a winery we were told that some of the barrels were hundreds of years old.
I was surprised that all of SALVADOR ALLENDE's name fit in the grid. I love the books written by his niece, Isabel.
Speaking of books, I just finished Educated by Tara Westover. It's fascinating because it's a true story. Has anyone else read it?
I learned some interesting information about Goldman-Sachs. Thank you.
Thanks to David Poole. His puzzles are usually interesting and on the easy side.
I hope you are all enjoying a really good day!
While watching the Golden Globes I saw many bottles of Moen on the tables.
Moët?
This was a chewier than usual Tues pzl. It succumbed to my P+P, but gave me pause in several places.
ONTARIAN gave me trouble. Like others I wanted CANADIAN. Good thing I knew ANITRA, or I might have been stuck. I couldn't help thinking the cast of Peer Gynt is probably fairly obscure for non-theater folk. But then my Corner colleagues are a pretty savvy bunch.
~ OMK
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DR: One diagonal, NW to SE.
The anagram refers to the motto of the fan club of the former host of The Tonight Show, which is, of course...
"ADORABLE LENO"!
So everyone thought this was easy?
While it did not take a long time to figure it out,
I was totally stuck with zero theme answers until
I came across that rock in the road...
Canadian/Ontarian...
This was one puzzle where the circles were totally needed
(for me) to resolve the puzzle, & once I had the theme
it was clear sailing (or driving...)
Jinx, I see what you mean about Diode being a component of the phrase Light Emitting Diode.
Decent puzzle for a Tuesday. Since I didn't know ANITRA and had no idea what the hell clue 34. Pres. or P.M.: LDR. meant until I read it here caused a DNF and an annoying end to what was an enjoyable puzzle. Despite the way too many proper names and natick (par for L.A. times) I liked the theme
Anyone else think of The Goonies at the reveal?
Play later, -T
This solve was anything but ROCKY - finished before I went to work- but no time to comment! Definitely some unknowns like WEES about like ANITRA- but a perp friendly quiz!
Fun theme as ROCKY ROAD was my favorite ice cream from Baskin Robbins/31 flavors growing up!
Made me wonder what other people's favorite ice cream flavor is/was?
Thanks Susan and David!
I love Peer Gynt so ANITRA was easy and once in a while we have ASE's dance in the puzzle.
Vanilla has always been my favorite ice cream because growing up only three flavors were available, chocolate, vanilla and strawberry. Come to think of it, I like all three.
Didn't know ANITRA but only know Peer Gynt Suite from the "Hall of the Mountain King" movement played in the old TV movie of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, starring Van Johnson and Claude Raines (in his only singing/dancing role)
Here I am … late to the party and with little to add to what’s already been said. Cruciverb is still down today which means I can’t download the puzzle into my favorite iPad app and have to do it online. Which I really don’t like. At all.
The puzzle did seem a bit stretchy for a Tuesday, mainly due to all the names. I ended up with a DNF because of an area in the SW which I’m sure I could have worked through but by that time I was so frustrated with the online experience that I just quit. Because life is too short. I went upstairs and played radio instead. Made about 20 contacts from Canada’s (hi, C eh) Yukon Territory to Argentina and from Oregon to South Carolina. Lots more fun than fighting the website.
That’s it; I have people to do and things to see. I hope your evening is a good one.
I go one step further than Lucina: NEAPOLITAN (What day did we have that clues?)
If it was Post XW I can't help it.
WC
Long day at the salt mines. Raced through and made a ton of mistakes although ultimately finished
Can't believe I had Komonodragon for the longest time. Like a Geisha dragging her kimono. (Haven't seen "obi" in awhile?)
Spelled SKEIN with the "i". What happened to the "I before E except after C rule?"
Yikes! Batman but YIKE usually a plural.
Noted that SACHS was right above CROOK and starts SCALAWAG.
Lucina: I read Educated. It is amazing what that woman had to overcome! If you liked that book, I recommend The Yellow House, by Sarah M. Broom. It is a memoir about Sarah and her large, loving family who lived in a shotgun house in New Orleans, pre- and post-Katrina. She, too, has a beautiful way with words and her descriptions really make things come alive.
Wilbur, hi.
We most recently had NEAPOLITAN as an answer a couple of weeks ago, on Thursday, Dec. 26th.
Didn't see it as a clue though.
Mine would be chocolate. There was a place in Houston in the 80's called Neal's that made a chocolate ice cream called Tre Scalini. It was listed as the # 1 chocolate ice cream in the country, so I checked it out. Multiple times. Would have been more times but there were often lines out the door for their ice creams. It was the best chocolate I'd ever had.
Ray-O-Sunshine: There are more exceptions to "I before E" than words that follow the "rule".
Hi All!
Y'all thought this was easy? I thought it not only crunchy but I had to take major guesses (like SAL @52a (with all other squares perp'd)) to keep going. I even stumbled over some of the Italian because I've never seen Mangia! (is that related to anime? :-)) spelled-out.
Thanks David for the challenge. Thanks Hahtoolah for the expo. Please explain what's on the Abbey ROAD cover...
//third day in a row with c/a dup'd(?)
WOs: aLlEN twins - I did not like MSL and had to go back to ABC runs at bock 47 and MSS (boo)
ESP & WAGs: RAGA, RFK, ALI, AWARD took 4/5th perp. ETRA, AISHA, ANITRA, OPORTO, SALVADOR ALLENDE, LDR (boo-hiss!).
Fav: SCALAWAG is a great word
Funny DR, OMK.
WC - NEAPOLITAN (and TTP just beat me to it) Thursday 26 Dec.
Picard - I did not think of Weird Al today but I know that song.
My favorite ice-creams: vanilla bean or coffee.
So, this morning Youngest called from school crying. She hit a deer on the way. Big buck it musta been; from the outside, it looks like minor radiator damage (I'm not popping the hood 'cuz it may not close!) Scoot over Lucina, misery needs company ;-)
Speaking of cars, How'd the tail light install go HG?
Cheers, -T
Good evening, folks. Thank you, David Poole, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Hahtoolah, for a fine review.
Worked mine on paper today. Cruciverb was out to lunch.
Puzzle was a little crunchy for a Tuesday, but got 'er done.
Got ROCKY ROAD easily. The theme answers were a little more difficult.
No idea about AISHA. Perps.
ANITRA was a new word for me. Perped it.
My toughest spot was the NW corner. I tried ORB for 3D. Then nothing else worked. Finally Tried KID AROUND. Then GOD for 3D, and the rest all came easily. All worked out.
See you tomorrow. Supposed to be extra cold tomorrow morning. We will see.
Abejo
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AnonT:
Ooooh, sorry for your daughter if she hit a deer. That has to be distressing. Does insurance cover that kind of damage?
And that reminds me, the appraiser will be here tomorrow to assess how much the insurance will cover. More times than I can remember I've been grateful for insurance.
Lucina ~
Count me as another fan of Isabel ALLENDE.
And it's Moët, not Moen.
~ OMK
OMK:
Thank you. As you can tell, I'm not a fan of champagne.
YR:
Thank you, too. I love recommendations for books! I recently read one called The Dutch House which was also good.
Definitely: peppermint stick, followed closely by pumpkin.
Isn't the favored dog breed in Toronto, the "On-Terrier"?
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