Theme:: KICK STARTS. (58.
Reinvigorates, as an economy ... or a hint to the beginnings of the
answers to starred clues) - The first word in each theme entry can precede "kick". (Thank you, Anonymous!)
17. *Where hockey punishments are served: PENALTY BOX. Penalty kick.
22. *Local retailer: CORNER STORE. Corner kick.
36. *Insignificant amount: DROP IN THE BUCKET. Drop kick.
46. *Car rooftop attachment for a Schwinn: BICYCLE RACK. Bicycle kick.
Boomer here.
I
may have mentioned this in the past. On April 4, 1968, I was assigned
to the U.S, Army Hospital in Fort Campbell, KY. It's located on the
Kentucky - Tennessee border about 120 miles from Memphis, TN. We were
all called to emergency room duty that evening as many soldiers had been
battered bloody and of course, we learned that Rev. Martin Luther King
had been murdered. I believe that anyone has the right to peacefully
demonstrate terrible events that occur. However, I do not accept
violence, damaging property, or looting.
C.C.
and I live in a large northwest suburb of Minneapolis and I have
watched plenty of national news on TV this past week. I am embarrassed
to live in Minneapolis.
Across:
1. Antacid brand named for the organ it soothes: TUMS. Probably could have used some this week.
5. "Same as always, bartender," with "the": USUAL. Minneapolis opened some bars this week. They've been closed so long the bartenders probably forgot all the "USUALS"..
10. Slow-cooked dish: STEW. Very good meal made in a Crock Pot.
14. Cognac letters: VSOP.
15. Size above medium: LARGE. Extra Large for me.
16. Frosty coating: HOAR.
19. Jason's ship: ARGO. Famous Corn Starch.
20. Situation lacking clarity: GRAY AREA.
This GRAY AREA situation started in Minneapolis when a black man spent a
phony $20.00 bill. Then police got involved and it blew up!
21. Selling point: ASSET.
25. Sharp-wittedness: ACUMEN.
29. Spanish painter Francisco: GOYA.
30. Part of "Hey Jude" that lasts nearly four minutes: CODA. "La, la, la , la, la, la, la, La, la, la, la, Hey Jude.
31. Slavic prefix: SERBO.
33. Intel missions: OPS. Reminds me of Donald Sutherland's "Black Ops" in "JFK"
40. MSNBC rival: CNN. I watched them both all week. Even spent a few minutes on FOX.
41. Damp: MOIST. I wish they made all envelopes MOIST. Then I wouldn't have to lick them.
42. Info in a folder: FILE.
43. Highlands native: GAEL.
44. In the arms of Morpheus: ASLEEP. "Rock a by baby, in the tree top"
51. Febreze targets: ODORS. Rouhned's Family.
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52. Like a very close relationship: INTIMATE.
57. Scarlett's plantation: TARA. "Gone with the Wind".
60. Gab: CHAT.
61. WWII bomber __ Gay: ENOLA. Covered this last week.
62. Lock openers: KEYS. I'm a gold lock, I'm a gold key. I'm a monk lock ...
63. Putter's target: HOLE. Hope we start having better weather on Mondays and I'll be doing this.
64. Post-workout pains: ACHES. Heck, I do not need a workout, I just get out of bed in the morning.
65. Norwegian capital: OSLO. Quite a ways north. Probably as cold as MN in the winter.
Down:
1. Freq. sitcom rating: TV PG. Parental Guidance.
2. One logging on: USER.
3. "__ Lisa": MONA. "Are you warm, are you real ? Mona Lisa, Or just a cold and lonely lovely work of art.?" Nat King Cole.
4. Fix, vet-style: SPAY.
5. "Avengers: Age of __" (2015): ULTRON. I see a change of two letters and get "LUTRON". Great dimmer switches.
6. Ending with nay or sooth: SAYER. Bears' Gale Sayers was 77 years old last Saturday.
7. Citified: URBAN. "Urban Cowboy" John Travolta.
8. Gone by: AGO. A long, long, time ago, I can still remember how the music used to make me smile. Don McLean. American Pie.
9. Evil Luthor: LEX. LEX Luther was in D.C. comics years ago. I have not seen a comic book in years.
10. Soda named for a California mountain: SHASTA. I never new that. I remember that it did not taste very good. -- the soda, I did not drink the mountain.
11. Trunk of the body: TORSO. I watch a lot of "Law and Order" reruns. Sometimes they find a body in the trunk.
12. Raring to go: EAGER.
13. "Murder, She __": WROTE. Angela Lansbury is still hanging in there at 93.
18. Delicate fabric: LACE. Before my time. All I know is "Arsenic and Old Lace" is about two women who murder their boyfriends.
21. Words before wish or were: AS YOU. In the Army, "As you Were" means "Shut Up".
23. "Snowy" heron: EGRET.
24. Eddard Stark's heir on "Game of Thrones": ROBB.
25. "High Voltage" band: AC/DC. They were too 80's for me.
26. On-the-cob veggie: CORN.
A little tough for me to eat with my store bought teeth. Lots for sale
in Minnesota during harvest season. Iowa isn't the only state that
harvests sweet corn.
27. Japanese noodle: UDON.
28. Image in an atlas: MAP. I don't think many use an atlas anymore. Just Google where you want to go.
31. Subway entrance: STILE. TSA has these at airports also. I've heard they don't turn much these days.
32. "Say what?" sounds: EHS. I think this means "Say Again?"
33. Texan's neighbor: OKIE. From Muskogee. Twins Ron Gardenhire was one. Now he's from Detroit.
34. Legendary soccer star: PELE.
When I was a kid, high schools did not even have soccer. I guess
that's why I only have interest in baseball, football, bowling and golf.
35. Ladder rung: STEP. Put your left foot in, take your left foot out. Do the hokey pokey.
37. Apple desktops: iMACS.
38. Holiday carol: NOEL. "The first NOEL. The Angels did say- was to certain poor shepherds in fields where they lay "
39. Calgary Stampeders' org.: CFL. I have not heard if they are going to have a season eh.
43. Swing one's hips: GYRATE.
44. Plays the role of: ACTS AS.
45. Amusing sketch: SKIT. "It was just a single seater, without a top or heater, but I never saw a slicker seater beat her !"
46. Bungle: BOTCH. This is a word I use frequently while playing golf.
47. Boise's state: IDAHO. I have a cousin living in Twin Falls.
48. Reef material: CORAL.
49. Big name in copiers: RICOH.
50. Bracelet spot: ANKLE. Not me. I only wear SOCKS on my ankles.
53. Speedy shark: MAKO.
54. Greek god of war: ARES.
55. Texter's sign-off: TTYL. I do not text but I'll talk to you later.
56. Standard Oil brand: ESSO.
I believe this brand is sold in Canada. Our gasoline here in the land
of ten thousand looters is up to about $1.89, I still have not had to
fill up since March 15. And now the VA which is a considerable distance
from my home, called me last week and changed my quarterly appointment
to a doctor's phone call this Friday. I guess they do not want
semi-healthy patients in the same building with the virus. Thank you
VA!
58. Mauna __: KEA.
59. Business mag: INC.
Boomer
I think you mean, the word kick can follow the first word in each theme entry.
ReplyDeleteVery nice start to the solving week. I was a big GOT fan, but it took me a while to write ROBB.
ReplyDeleteA little stiffer than the average Monday.
ReplyDeleteFLN: Bobbi asked about how SAKE equals Benefit. Consider the sentence "I have to make an effort for John's sake". You can substitute benefit.
ReplyDeleteGood morning!
ReplyDeleteZip, zip, done. Changed RIME to HOAR on the way down. Thanx, Jess an Boomer.
CORN: We had some great sweet corn this past week. Not sure where it was grown. The mantra of my ute was "the corn is knee-high by the fourth of July."
IMACS: Nope.
Hungry Mother, took me a while to figure out what a GOT fan could be. I knew it couldn't be "Got milk?"
I've volunteered to sub on a M-o-W route this morning. Face mask required, hand sanitizer between deliveries, no signatures -- volunteer will sign.
Soccer kicks ! With the added bonus of having PELE in the grid. Very neat, Jesse. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteA CSO to Canadian Eh at EHS !
BTW, has OAS posted any comments lately ? How are you doing there, fella ?
And a CSO to Ol'Okie who also hasn't posted recently.
Swivel to swerve to GYRATE.
Yesterday, C.C. got oxtail soup and today Boomer gets STEW.
Boomer, as I filled in ENOLA, I recalled you had it last week. And a two-week-in-a-row reference to Rouhned, albeit his family with ODORS.
Only vaguely familiar with SHASTA soda. I don't recall seeing it in the stores around here, but then again the only soda I buy is ginger ale a few times a year.
When I lived in CA, if it wasn't Coke or Pepsi, it was Shasta. In the little town where I grew up the Wiessman family had a bottling plant for their Wieco sodas, sold state-wide. It was a memorable field trip to visit that bottling plant when I was in grade school. Plus, we all got a free soda!
ReplyDeleteIn the modern world, I am not sure if the Coca Cola factory is still giving tours in Atlanta but it used to be a fascinating time. The variations by country were also educational. I am still waiting to learn if this Jesse Goldberg is the same one who created puzzles in the early 2000s.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Boomer and Jesse
I got a KICK out of this puzzle.
ReplyDeleteROBB and ULTRON were all perps.
I read that Shasta soda is still sold. It is a bargain brand. We may have it at Shop Rite. I don't even look at the many brands in the soda aisle. I go directly to my USUALs.
There also is Shasta shampoo.
My vegetable beef barley soup made in the crock pot is a big hit at potluck dinners. It is so thick it borders on STEW. Since no one is allowed to visit, I have taken to making soups and freezing portions of them.
Even more macabre than a body in the trunk is a TORSO in the trunk.Some of those cop shops are bloody.
"Tums for the tummy."
ReplyDeleteFinally got around to reading the rest of yesterday's comments.
Spitzboov, I watched some videos of that Droll Yankee bird feeder in action. It would definitely do the job of keeping the squirrels from pigging out. Lots of very positive comments about it. Not inexpensive though. The squirrels, and now racoon, still haven't figured out how to defeat this one either.
Inanehiker, I watched that video again and then sent it to my buddy this morning. He loves watching the birds. He must have eight or ten bird feeders hanging from poles and posts and wires on his deck and trees. He's amused by the squirrels but complains about all the bird feed he has to buy.
His wife loves the squirrels. She buys unshelled peanuts in bulk and throws them out on the deck by the handfuls. When we visited a few months ago, a squirrel came up to the sliding door and started clacking and scratching at the glass. She said that some of them do that when there's no peanuts. This squirrel only moved about two feet away from the door as she slid it open to throw a couple more handfuls out. Brazen.
He set up motion activated lights and a couple of video cameras. Lots of critters visit at night. Skunk, opossum, racoon and deer.
Nice puzzle to "kick-off" the work week. Thanks Jesse, Ed and Boomer. One comment to Boomer, Hey Jude 4 minute part is Na na na, ....
ReplyDeleteTried to make "Kick the bucket" work!
ReplyDeleteGood Morning:
ReplyDeleteI love a puzzle that has me baffled about the theme until I fill in the reveal. Today’s offering fit the bill perfectly! To me, it’s even more impressive in early-week puzzles which are usually less complex. It was fun to see both Spay and Shasta again and to this Corn Queen, the Corn entry brought a smile. 🌽🌽🌽 We don’t see corn until mid-July, usually; can’t wait! (Lucky you, DO!) Three unknowns: Ultron, Robb, and AC DC. CSO to Lemony at Jason’s Argo and, quite apropos, CanadianEh scores a Hat Trick with Ehs, CFL, and ESSO.
Thanks, Jesse, for a nice segue into a new week and month and thanks, Boomer, for the “musical medley” sprinkled throughout your enjoyable expo. Hope you get back on the links soon.
Stay safe, all.
ReplyDeleteHat Trick. Nice one, Irish Miss !
Good morning, folks. Thank you, Jesse Goldberg, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Boomer, for a fine review.
ReplyDeletePuzzle went easily this morning. Theme poked through. Easy, after I got 58A.
SPAY again. Just had it. OK with me. Same for SHASTA.
CORNER STORES are tough to find nowadays.
Can never remember UDON. Did an alphabet run.
Never watched Game of Thrones. ROBB meant nothing. With four perps, how could I miss?
Our old friend ENOLA is back. Famous B-29. Ended the war.
Wanted Xerox for 49D. However, I soon figured out I needed another copier. RICOH worked. I happen to own a Ricoh that does not work. Oh well.
Looks like another nice day today. See you tomorrow.
Abejo
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First time in ages that I've come to the comments on a Monday. But I wanted to say a little about the riots, and empathize with C.C. and Boomer. Minneapolis has always seemed to be a nice city when we've been there, and from short superficial visits, I would not have guessed that racism would be deep seated enough to have caused a police officer to do what he did, or for his colleagues to stand by and ignore it rather than getting him to stop. Racism is something I'll never understand.
ReplyDeleteI've had two friends in Australia email me sympathizing about all the crazy stuff going on here, and I've had to tell them that here in our little town in the boonies of SW Wiscosin, we are isolated from most things that happen in cities. Then last night we watched the local news from Madison, and saw the lines of sheriff's officers and national guards in heavy protective gear and full length shields, applying pepper spray to try and enforce a curfew when protesters, who were not being destructive at all, simply refused to move.
My husband said it brings back memories of the Vietnam era in Madison, when he was a student at the UW there. I too remember stories of protests at that time in Sydney, when police on horseback tried to control crowds of Vietnam protesters who sometimes tossed marbles under the horses' feet to stop them stampeding the crowds.
I just want to sit at home and watch the birds. Stay safe, everyone!
Good morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteGood to see Boomer's newsy breezy intro again.
No solving issues. Only BOTCH was I had 'lamé' before LACE. CORNER STORE took care of that. Reveal easily pointed to the theme.
Have a good day. llegitimi non carborundum.
Thanks for the reminder on the Latin phrase.
DeleteLIU "Illegitimi non carborundum is a mock-Latin aphorism, often translated as 'Don't let the bastards grind you down'. The phrase itself has no meaning in Latin and can only be mock-translated as a Latin–English pun."
ReplyDeleteThat reminds we: We had an excellent first year teacher who was continually harassed by the principal. At Thanksgiving time in the hall outside the principal's office this teacher decorated a bulletin board with the saying, DON'T LET THE TURKEYS GET YOU DOWN.
All her colleagues were laughing, but the principal never caught on.
Come to think of it, even funnier, she wrote singular TURKEY. Don't let the turkey get you down.
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ReplyDeleteIt's hard to soar with the eagles when you are up all night with the turkeys.
Desper-otto, I forgot to ask you about your bird feeder. You said only one racoon figured it out so far. And no squirrels ? Send a pic or link if you can.
Kick start reminded me of the
ReplyDeleteDad showing his Son how to start the Vacuum...
Well,
off to start another day...
Under 20 min with no inkovers. Didn't have to STEW over this one or BOTCH an answer. Yeah, yeah I know, I know it's only Monday so no big whoop.
ReplyDeleteBut the theme? Bike kick? We call them kickstands (regional?). Assuming a corner and penalty "kicks" are soccer terms. Hence PELE
Held off on a few answers for perp checks. Icing held for HOAR, the usual loa for KEA. Just needed ENOLA to once again drop her payload on that one.
KEY seemed too obvious but wasn't going to argue with a MAKO shark.
Held off on the RACK part of BICYCLE expecting a bracelet on a wrist till I found one gracing an ANKLE
Or try....
High winds in Inverness....GAEL.
Sophisticated pig: "that pen is just not my" ..STILE
Top of my head...GRAY AREA
Miss Scarlet was forced to ______ drapery to make a gown. ...TARA
Musings
ReplyDelete-All gimmicks sound like PELE ASSETS
-It had to be BICYCLE but I had to look up what that soccer KICK looked like
-Can’t find that KEY? Google how to open a padlock with safety pins
-You can’t run any farther than Omaha Central grad Gale SAYERS did against the Huskers on this play (:40)
-In a few weeks Nebraska will have a lot of wonderful locally-grown sweet CORN. All we have now is mediocre stuff imported from Texas and Florida. We’ll wait
-A rural STILE
-Wanna try some sodas from around the world? My kids loved Coke’s Club Cool at EPCOT
ReplyDeleteVery nice Monday puzzle from Jesse and Boomer's tour was enjoyable as USUAL.
Took about the USUAL amount of Monday time, but I did have to make a few changes along the way. No major detours though. Had RIME before HOAR and SCOT before GAEL. Perps changed my mind on them. Otherwise it was a Monday speed run.
The USUAL drink filled in immediately, but The USUAL Suspects would be another way of cluing it.
I remember SHASTA soda from days gone by and also NEHI which was really made famous on M.A.S.H. Haven't seen either of them in years although they still exist.
We've had ENOLA so many times that it is an automatic fill-in. However, how many know that the B-29 that dropped the second bomb was Bockscar.
Stay safe everyone.
Hi Y'all! Fun & fast puzzle, thanks, Jesse! Glad you and C.C. are okay, Boomer, thanks for carrying on with us.
ReplyDeleteDidn't get the theme because I didn't know what CORNER KICK & BYCYCLE KICK meant. I was thinking KICK THE BUCKET had more meaning in this era.
In 1968 my brother & roommate lived in a shabby little trailer on the edge of a black neighborhood across the street from a large university he attended. During the race riots, these two small-town-raised white guys had some scary night-time incidents including huddling in beds in the dark, afraid to move because two big black guys were hiding from the police under their trailer. They abandoned the trailer after that night & moved elsewhere. We thought the only reason worse didn't happen was because the trailer looked so ratty which had been an embarrassment when bro bought it for cheap.
FIR today, but a tricky challenge was that the LA Times print version did not have clues for 55, 56, 58, and 59 Down. Perps to the rescue!
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone else do the puzzle in the LA Times?
Thank you Jesse and Boomer.
We lived in a Minneapolis suburb too, many years ago. I thought it was one of the cleanest, most beautiful and most cultured cities in our country. It’s hard to see the chaos there now.
Wendy. Get the LAT puzzle in our local paper M-F. It then prints a two week old NYT big puzzle on Sunday.
ReplyDeleteSorry M-Sat
ReplyDeleteI was just going to complain about the Los Angeles Times puzzle not giving us the clues for 55, 56, 58 and 59 down. So glad to see I'm not the only one having to deal with this blip this morning, Wendybird. I worried that it was going to goof up a Monday puzzle, but Yay! I still got it all--big relief!
ReplyDeleteSo, thank you for a fun puzzle, Jesse. And yes, your music is always a delight, Boomer. We need it on sad days like this, when there is so much worrisome and scary action going on in our country.
Lots of regular puzzle answers like ARGO, TARA, and ENOLA. But also a few unknowns like ULTRON, UDON, and VSOP (hey, I don't drink cognac).
We're having a sunny morning with flowers in bloom and birds chirping and squirrels scooting around. Have a good day, everybody.
Hola!
ReplyDeleteNo TUMS needed to solve this puzzle! It was a quick sashay all the way! Only one change, RIME to HOAR.
I got a KICK out of most of it but just received a call that an unknown charge had been made on Amazon. Not mine! So I have to call them.
Irish Miss:
Your ACUMEN is impressive!
Thank you, Boomer and Jesse Goldberg.
TTYL everyone!
In the LA Times paper edition crossword there are 2 missing numbers, 55 and 56 down. I assume that wasn’t intentional.
ReplyDeleteOccasionally our paper will omit certain clues to the LAT puzzle. I think due to the printing being out of register so a small fraction of the printed page is truncated.
ReplyDeleteI call up the paper and complain about a defective product and get a credit for the day.
ReplyDeleteThis Monday puzzle had a bit of crunch.
No write-overs today.
Ok....ENVELOPES....how old are your envelopes that they need licking? Mine are tear off strips, and have been that way for quite some time...just like stamps.
In ARSENIC AND OLD LACE, the two women are sisters who “take care” of their overnight boarders.
The BICYCLE KICK in soccer looks like the bicycle exercise when you are on your back and “pedaling” upside down.
Imagine how messed up you have to be to kneel on a guy's neck for 8 minutes plus while he begs for mercy and the crowd yells at you, but you keep it up...with your hands in your pockets. With your hands in your pockets! Wow.
So stay safe. See you tomorrow.
Ahhhh..Oho (and other CW expressions of surprise..not just a Kick but all refer to soccer kicks.
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Learning moment about the BICYCLE KICK. Educational theme and fairly smooth fill. TVPG/VSOP was a WAG to FIR.
ReplyDeleteHere I found a collection of ten BICYCLE KICKS in soccer.
To me, the AVENGERS will always be the show with Mrs Peel.
In these dystopian times, I feel so fortunate that we live in a peaceful place next to a state nature reserve that we can walk to each day.
Here are photos of a SNOWY EGRET and a Blue HERON on two walks this weekend. The video shows the stealth, patience and grace of the HERON.
From May 23:
AnonymousT I will bite: Can you please share your photo of your Z80/TRS80?
I liked this puzzle. Nifty theme.
ReplyDeleteAs I recall, the processor in the TRS-80 was the Zilog Z80.
Like Abejo, 4 perps got me ROBB.
Take care, all.
Misty & Wendybird ~ "We wuz robbed!" --by the LA Times editor who apparently ran out of his famous "soy-based ink" before printing ALL of today's clues for us.
ReplyDeleteYes, indeed it was perps to the rescue!
Spitzboov ~ I'm not sure it's worth a refund of the paper's full price. Especially in this parlous time for print media.
Did they perhaps pro-rate the price of a quarter of the puzzle page for you?
Hmm. I haven't come across SERBO in decades.
I probably never would have encountered it except that I needed to learn phrases in the SERBO-Croat language--when touring then-Yugoslavia in the 1970s.
OMG, does that ever take me back!
~ OMK
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DR: Four diagonals today! One on the near side, and a 3-way in opposition.
The central diag on the far side offers a strange anagram.
It speaks of a violent clash between diseased livers, an all-out...
"CIRRHOSES WAR"!
Go figure...
OMK - I insist on one full day's credit. They never argue.
ReplyDeleteLots of easy Monday cluing crossed with near naticks like CODA/UDON. The latter is a city in Thailand along with its sister city Ubon. I had a 3 day RnR at one of them.
ReplyDeleteIs the trivia "In what movie did the phrase 'The usual suspects' come from?" too easy? I just searched and found I can see that movie on Pluto free. Later today or tonight.
I was going for ACUity/ACUMEN. LACE was solid though. I had jump/KICK START.
I always thought that plane was Boxcar.
Picard, thx for posting those BICYCLE KICKS.
I saw enough GOT to remember ROBB Stark, the bastard brother exiled to the North
Watch. Talk about dealing with turkeys.
WC
Oh yeah, I was on the ultimate "Hike"* at OCS when the MLK emergency called for the Corpsmen to be rushed to Washington DC. They simply canceled and ordered the entire two Companies to bushwhack in.
ReplyDeleteThat was fun.
WC
*The 'hijes' were forced marches with pack, cartridge belts,canteens,rifle up and down hills at a pace forced by a 145 lb Major with a styrofoam pack. 16 miles.
ReplyDeleteGood Afternoon, All.
“These are the times that try men’s souls” in “The American Crisis,” Thomas Paine circa 1776, seems not much has changed, only the reasons.
Boomer, I was squirreled away at boot camp March 1968 and I never even knew MLK was assassinated, and really don't know when I finally became aware. Military had a very effective system of information control.
Today's "try" in xword terms had me with a FIR until the crossing of serbo/ehs, a,e,i,o,u...surbo/uhs Eh. Not so fast, FIW. Had some spelling issues which the perps corrected. OTOH, Jesse it was a great Monday challenge and thanks Boomer for the 'splainin'.
Hope all are staying safe.
SansBeach,
ReplyDeleteYour comments were moderated. We all know what's going on. I would think most of us have televisions and radios, as well as many having print media. We all can form our own opinions.
We try to avoid commentary, especially political commentary, that may be a flash point for others. You may not personally agree with how any elected official is performing, and have strong opinions about it. Others here may feel exactly the opposite, and have opposing opinions and feel the need to respond.
Please refrain.
ReplyDeleteWC @3:29: The clue I was thinking of was Which Suspects or _____ Suspects.
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the fun Monday puzzle Jesse. Did not know the scissor KICK as the BYCYCLE.*
Great Expo Boomer! You and C.C. are in my thoughts. //I didn't talk to Pop last night because there were riots in SPI(?). Can you believe it? SPI? I called this morning and he said the story keeps changing so I'll call tonight for the latest.
WOs: N/A
ESPs: ROBB, ULTRON, SERBO(?)
Fav: GYRATE is just a fun word...
Also like'd SHASTA's clue after yesterday's discussion of the Mt.
//Maternal grandfather drank diet SHASTA due to his diabetes. It was a real treat if he shared his grape ones.
OMK - Ok, you are definitely disturbed... CIRRHOSES WAR? Standby for help. :-)
//is ES the plural?
The GOYA I'm more familiar with.
Picard - here you go. You may have to zoom in to see the Z80 on the chip [yes, that's a tackle-box].
FLLN (Sat) - TTP is keenly aware of my take on The #1 Band *cough RUSH!* Ever. BTO & The Guess Who are pretty darn good too. Canada has given us much....
The squirrelly discussion yesterday fed right into this morning's team meeting. Buddy was talking about how much he's spending (time or money? methinks both) trying to keep squirrels from his new feeders...
Boss-man and I sent him Lem's Mark Rober link at nearly the same time (we're hackers, so, you know, Rober is light fun we follow). CED's links are next ;-)
If you have the time, watch the whole thing. If you don't, got to 20:11. IMHO, it's 'Na' in Sir Paul's CODA.
Cheers, -T
*My buddy from Algiers can tell you the story of when he did one once. He was much younger then :-)
Well, no that's not a tackle-box... The Z80s. -T
ReplyDeleteHas anyone had trouble with the puzzle not loading on the LA Times website. I use Safari v 11.1.2 and my FLASH Player is up to date. I do the puzzle online daily at the LA Times site. The past 2 days it has not loaded at all on Safari. This has never happened before.
ReplyDeleteHard Copy of the LAT did not have clues in print for DOWN 55-59.
ReplyDeleteTTP, thank you.
ReplyDeleteJJM, yes I've had trouble too. I tried Chrome and it works OK. I don't like it but it seems to be working.
ReplyDeleteLate to the Monday party, after a busy day of spring cleaning. Thanks for the fun, Jesse and Boomer. I FIRed in good time with nary an inkblot. I was trying to figure out a theme with the last word of the answers to starred clues. But I could not find a common denominator for BOX, STORE, BUCKET, RACK. 58A sent me back to the beginning!
ReplyDeleteMy only pauses today were to check perps to decide between rime or HOAR, wrist or ANKLE, loa or KEA. Perps also gave ULTRON, ROBB and SHASTA (I learned the mountain here but did not know the soda).
The weather was cooler today and we had STEW for supper. I smiled when I saw it in the CW.
I smiled even more broadly when EHS appeared. You all know that EH has many more meanings for Canadians than a "Say what?" sound. You can throw it on the end of any sentence if you want to!
Then CFL filled in. (The Toronto CFL team is nicknamed the ARGOs; there could have been a clecho there.) But as Irish Miss noted, I had a Hat Trick (to go with the PENALTY BOX not all the Soccer kicks!) with ESSO. So there will be no complaints from me today about too many American clues. (I will forgive GRAY and ODORS).
Picard - Thanks for the video of the BICYCLE KICKs. Both my sons played soccer and I recognized the kick as soon as I saw it, but I don't ever remember hearing its name.
Wishing you all a good evening. Stay safe.
Picard, beautiful egret and heron.
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ReplyDeleteYes, those are beautiful photos of the EGRET and heron. Thank you for posting.
I've had a really bad day following that phone call this morning but I won't elaborate right now. I'm too upset that I allowed myself to be victimized!