Theme: FRIED RICE (62. Chinese menu standard, or what's literally found in the circled letters?) - Letters of RICE are scrambled up.
17. Boss on a red truck: FIRE CHIEF.
25. Writer of arcade entertainment reviews: GAME CRITIC.
38. Frozen food biggie: MARIE CALLENDER'S.
50. National STEM Competition for middle school visionaries: FUTURE CITY. According to Wikipedia, Future City Competition is a national competition in the United
States that focuses on improving students' math, engineering, and
science skills. The program is open to students in the 6th, 7th, and 8th
grades who attend a public, private or home school.
Boomer here.
C.C. said this is Jordan Hildebrandt's LA Times debut. Congratulations, Jordan!
June
22 has good and bad memories for me. My first child, by a previous
marriage, Deborah was born on June 22, 1970. That's the good memory.
Sadly Debbie passed away from heart disease at the age of ten on June
25, 1980. I cannot imagine her at age 50. Rest in peace my sweet
little girl.
Across:
1. Transplant to a new container: REPOT. No pots for us. Our plants and flowers are in the garden.
6. Wd. modifying a noun: ADJ.
9. Triumphant shouts: TADAS. Might have been a few at the RBC Heritage last weekend, but I did not hear any.
14. Appliance maker: AMANA. Made in our neighbor to the south, Amana, Iowa. Home of the Wurst Festival.
15. CT scan relative: MRI. I suspect Abejo can tell you about his. I will never forget mine two years ago.
16. Room on the Clue board: STUDY.
19. Tuesday fare?: TACOS.
I have seen the ads for Taco John's. We have not purchased restaurant
food since the virus shutdown. Anyway, I mentioned before, C.C. and I
prefer buffets, The Mystic Lake Casino has excellent tacos in their
buffet, but it is not yet open. You need to gamble hungry.
20. Letters before "Fridays" in a restaurant name: TGI. I think the Minnesota ones have closed.
21. Campus party garb: TOGA. Good old "Animal House" - I miss John Belushi.
22. Arrange in order: SORT. I cannot even try to remember how many hours I spent sorting baseball cards. A labor of love.
23. Divisions of history: ERAS. Or "Pitcher's stats". On the backs of their baseball cards.
29. Detox facility: REHAB.
31. Long __ of the law: ARM. Saw a few of these in Tulsa on Saturday.
32. In the past: AGO. "A long, long time AGO, I can still remember how the music used to make me smile." Don McClean - "American Pie"
33. Riotous spree: RAMPAGE.
37. Per item: A POP. I am having A POP as I write this. It's diet Ginger Ale.
42. Desktop image: ICON.
43. Premier League powerhouse: ARSENAL. I thought this was a stash of weapons and ammo.
44. Progressive spokeswoman: FLO. Yup I have Progressive. I rate them third in stupid car insurance commercials. Behind #1 Liberty Mutual, and #2 GEICO.
45. Toward the stern: AFT.
In a big ship. The kind I saw docked at Harbor Town last weekend. In
the fishing boats that I commanded the motor was "AFT" (Pronounced
MOTOR, Not MO TORE)
46. French fathers: PERES.
55. Eye care brand: RENU. I wear glasses. C.C. likes contacts and I think she uses this.
56. Sword's sharp part: EDGE. Ford makes a mini SUV called an EDGE. No payments for three months. and I have no interest in this car.
57. 1857 litigant Scott: DRED.
We studied some of this in High School and it should be a topic for
today's "Black Lives Matter" movement. Dred was a black American in
Missouri. He sued for his freedom and it got to the Supreme Court but
they ruled against 7 - 2. By the way, in case you have not heard, the
Minnesota Twins removed the statue of previous owner Calvin Griffith.
He was a cheap bigot and there is no reason to honor his memory.
59. Road goo: TAR.
60. Super-excited: GIDDY.
64. Disney's Little Mermaid: ARIEL.
65. Sass: LIP. TU of them make a flower.
66. Hilda and Zelda, to TV's Sabrina: AUNTS. I remember playing the "Legend of Zelda" for hours on my Nintendo game.
67. Category in iTunes: GENRE.
68. Employ: USE.
69. Dough raiser: YEAST. Great Stuff!! I made pizza for a few years and we had to use yeast to tenderize the crust.
Down:
1. Roofing support: RAFTER.
2. Political refugee: EMIGRE. I guess dreamers are not in that group and are here to stay. Thank you 5 of the big robes!
3. Outcast: PARIAH.
4. Number of beers that fall off the wall in each round of the song: ONE.
It takes about thirty miles in the car to finish this song. I don't
think I ever finished. Did you like "Take one down and pass it around"
or "If one of those bottles should happen to fall." ??
5. Diplomat's skill: TACT.
6. Latina friend: AMIGA. My buddy Jorge from Chile calls me AMIGO.
7. "I Have a __": MLK: DREAM.
Again another timely reference. I know I mentioned a couple of weeks
ago regarding my experience at Fort Campbell on April 4, 1968.
8. Skippy rival: JIF.
When I was young, my Cub Scout troop toured the Skippy factory in St.
Louis Park, MN. At the end of the tour we received a small jar. The
factory is gone now, but I am still loyal to the brand.
9. Noisy weather event, briefly: T-STORM. We had a big one last week. Thunder shook our house.
10. Arcade pioneer: ATARI. Is this the same as Nintendo ??
11. All-purpose roll: DUCT TAPE. Many uses, We have used a lot!
12. Hubbub: ADO. Much ADO about nothing.
13. Part of CBS: Abbr.: SYS. Looks like CBS has landed the PGA tournaments with no fans on the course.
18. Harley, e.g.: HOG. They are a bit noisy, just like real HOGS.
22. It allows air but keeps out bugs: SCREEN. We have them, but once in awhile a Minnesota mosquito sneaks in and drives C.C. crazy.
24. Deadly nerve gas: SARIN.
26. Great Seal bird: EAGLE.
This would be two under par on one hole. something I did once about
30-40 years ago on a par five. On in two and one putt - about a 30
footer.
27. "Young Frankenstein" aide: IGOR. "Oh Boy IGOR Stravinsky, Oh Boy, Bo Belinsky." Allan Sherman.
28. Many "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" characters: COPS.
30. Sweetie, in slang: BAE.
34. Antivirus giant: MCAFEE. Maybe we could take some for the Covid-19. Just kidding, Do not try it.
35. Medicare Advantage, familiarly: PART C.
I have Medicare but don't use it. Why are there SO MANY commercials
for these add on plans. Joe Namath - Don't you have anything to do??
36. Pacino and Roker: ALS. Roker is a Joker.
37. Sherlock Holmes adversary Irene: ADLER.
38. Offend slightly: MIFF.
39. Civil rights org.: ACLU.
"Civil Rights Leaders are a pain in the neck, Can't hold a candle to
Chiang Kai Shek, How do I know, I read it in the Daily News." Tom
Paxton.
40. Based on, as opinions vis-à-vis faith: ROOTED IN.
41. Daytime snooze: NAP. No time, always have stuff to do.
45. Diamond pattern: ARGYLE. No one will ever forget our Santa.
47. Light-sensitive eye layer: RETINA.
48. Passes, as laws: ENACTS. Our Supreme Court has been busy lately. Not passing laws but deciding if they are okay.
49. Most certain: SUREST.
51. Part of a cow the milk comes from: UDDER. Which cow? This one or the UDDER one.??
52. Elba who played Mandela: IDRIS.
53. Total rubbish: TRIPE. I always thought TRIPE was the part of the fish you toss away while cleaning it.
54. "__-haw!": YEE. I used to watch "HEE-HAW" YEE HAW sounds Chinese, I'll check with C.C.
58. June 6, 1944: D DAY. I was not yet alive, But this day in history will long be remembered.
60. Gift at a white elephant exchange, say: GAG.
61. Wrath: IRE.
62. Annual shot target: FLU. Hopefully the annual shot target in the future will be Covid-19.
63. Parisian street: RUE. Or, one of the "Golden Girls".
Boomer
50 comments:
Played very tough here, but FIR. The theme was crucial help. So many answers that were out of my wheelhouse. At least I’m a fan of The Wire.
Good morning!
[Gasp] D-o scored a DNF on a Monday. Unheard of. Absurd. But true. With EDRIS and HEE, I was left with FUTURE CETH and couldn't suss what that might be. Bzzzzt! Please enjoy the ceramic Dalmation. Nice debut, Jordan (there was a Hildebrandt family in the little Wisconsin town of my ute), enjoyed your TU LIPS explanation, Boomer (we let 'em fall, and didn't pass 'em around).
FLO: We left Progressive in favor of AAA this year. Saved a bundle on our bundle. As a bonus, we dropped our emergency road service, since it's included as part of a AAA membership.
EDGE: Something auto-updated on my PC yesterday, and when it was finished, Microsoft EDGE was sitting proud on my taskbar. Briefly. Very briefly. I prefer Firefox with DuckDuckGo as my default search engine.
SCREEN: There are screens for all of our windows, but we store most of 'em in the attic. There aren't many days around here when you'd want to open a window, but we do keep a screen on the window in the office and on one of the windows in the bedroom. That begs the question, if you're sore after carrying window screens up and down that narrow stairway, are you suffering from "sorry attic arthritis?"
I liked the puzzle, although I’m not sure I would say the scrambled R-I-C-E letters are “literally” fried. Fried rice is certainly a jumble of stuff, but I’ve never seen FRIED used to mean jumbled as opposed to shorted out/broken.
I enjoyed this easy puzzle, but like DO I missed FUTURE CITY. I looked it up. Students design and build cities of the future. I had CITH, which makes no sense. My biggest crossword failing is not doing an ABC run when I get doubtful fill.
The reveal is a borderline stretch, but I can accept it. It is not about the food, fried rice, being scrambled, but about the word RICE being scrambled. I missed one cell today. My brain must be FRIED, muddled, scrambled.
Our teacher’s pension gives retirees free health insurance of the school system’s choice. I think the newer teachers must chip in some every payday. I have Medicare Advantage with Medicare and Aetna serviced together on one card.
My David abhors MRI’s. They don’t upset me. I had an MRI of my neck with my head stabilized and my face in a cage.
Tripe is the first or second stomach of a cow or other ruminant used as food. I have tasted it only in pepper pot soup. Tripe is quite chewy. I don’t care for it.
I could not decide whether the comment about the five big robes was pro or ante, so I figure it was neutrally safe.
Pat, thanks for caring. I think Alan is no danger from the virus. Because he was out of the house in an indoor environment at the ER he has been quarantined under an abundance of caution. Because Alan and the other four residents there are all repertory compromised, getting the virus would have severe consequences.
Musings
-RICE stood out like a brick in a punch bowl. Just needed the ADJ.
-Our deceased neighbor was a champion African Violet grower and gave one to Joann two years ago. She knows she has to REPOT it but doesn’t want to hurt it
-FORE!
Hand up for not knowing "FUTURE CITY" or what part of Medicare
YEE-haw is a cowboy-type cheer or expression of excitement, while hEE-haw is imitating the braying or laughing of a donkey/jackass.
The ARSENAL Gunners were mentioned on "Mythic Britain" last night (Smithsonian Channel.) Just like near Albany, the Watervliet High School teams call themselves the Cannoneers. The Watervliet Arsenal has been making cannons for the US Army since the War of 1812.
Good morning everyone.
Boomer, thanks for sharing your daughter's story. You have my sympathy for your loss these many years AGO.
Little bit cranky solve today. Almost did what D-O described. Knew the C and probably the T were right. Pretty sure about IDRIS, too. So went with YEE. 'CITY' seemed the best bet. Two words from my past: UDDER and STERN. MARIE CALLENDERS sounds like a phrase Jordan tucked away at some point, waiting for a chance to use it. Well done!
FLO - Who can't empathize with her; stuck on a dark and stormy rainswept night hoping for assistance. FLO's are my favorite of the least favorite ins. commercials (incl. Farmers). Once, a car crashed onto our property during a snowstorm doing some landscape damage. The driver's Progressive agent came out that same day and wrote me a check on the spot. I was impressed.
SORT - When first learning Fortran II in grad school, I had to write a short program to arrange an array by value. Knowledge learned stood me in good stead for the future.
Good Morning:
This was an easy, breezy Monday solve with only the one unknown of Future City. Arsenal was a gimme, thanks to Steve’s commentaries. I had Hee before Yee and AOC before Flo for the Progressive spokeswoman. I watch too much news! I liked the Flu ~ Flo duo. Nice CSO to our beloved and greatly missed Argyle. Oh, I just noticed in my notes that I had Part B before C. Who can keep track?
Thanks, Jordan, for an enjoyable start to the week and Congrats on your LAT debut and thanks, Boomer, for the many chuckles and your usual snippets taking many of us down Memory Lane. I’m so sorry for the loss of your beautiful little girl.
Thanks to everyone, again, for your caring and concern. From yesterday, thanks to Picard, Pat, and CanadianEh for the kind words.
YR, I hope Alan is doing better. This quarantine is hard on everyone, but particularly those separated from their families.
Have a great day.
No circles, so I didn't look for the theme. Good debut by Jordon.
I only have Medicare PART A because I have to, so I didn't know which of the other 25 letters it was. Also, I debated between YEE and HEE and settled for the latter. Wrong. Like YR I ended up with _ITH which made no sense, so stuck in the Y and then the C. Along with the LIMU EMU commercials, I automatically mute the Joe Namath Medicare Advantage commercials. They are really annoying and I don't need free rides to doctor appointments.
With a couple of perps, MARIE CALLENDARS filled in nicely. As far as frozen entrees go (aka TV Dinners) Marie's aren't bad and in some stores are reasonably priced. However, they are not quite enough to fill me up for lunch.
Well, it's the start of another week of Social Distancing. However, my nieces are coming in to bring their mother's income tax info for DW to do her sister's taxes. Her sister can't do them because she is in an Assisted Living facility and many days she doesn't even know who we are. We've been debating about wearing masks while they are here or just keeping 6 feet apart. I'm opting for the 6 feet.
Have a great day everyone.
Has anyone ever heard of FRIED being used to mean scrambled?
This was pretty swift in general - though I fell in to the HEE before YEE HAW trap. I thought the CITH was a variant on SITH the Star Wars Baddies!
Anon at 9:31 - I took the FRIED RICE - not to mean that FRIED meant scrambled- but when you prepare FRIED RICE - you toss it around with the other ingredients in the wok.
I used to like to go to MARIE CALLENDERS restaurants on the West Coast when I lived there - they were a lot like Baker's Square or Tippin's in the Midwest- great pies!
Thanks Boomer - sweet picture of your daughter! and Congrats to Jordan on his debut!
Apologies in advance for the incoming negativity, but...
"Fried rice" seems like quite the stretch for scrambling the letters of RICE. Maybe you could justify this reach if the theme answers were especially pleasing, but GAMECRITIC is barely in the language, FUTURECITY is clearly uncommon based on the above comments, and the other two answers aren't interesting IMO. Surely, there are better phrases available, especially given that R-I-C-E are four of the more common letters in the alphabet.
Maybe you can look past the questionable revealer and the weak theme entries if the fill is satisfying, but ADJ, TGI, YEE, SYS, APOP, RENU, MRI, RUE, FLO? Pretty rough for a new solver and pretty unsatisfying for regular solvers.
I'm not trying to be Rex Parker here and if my comments are too negative for this blog, I apologize. I hope everyone has a great start to their week!
I lost my post! How does that happen?
Oh well, this was an easy Monday for me. Thanks Jordan, and welcome. I loved All Purpose roll and fell for the misdirection trap. Dinner roll? Bagel? Biscuit? Ya got me!
I also fell for Antivirus Giant because everyone I know is worried about that Other virus going around.
FLO was easy because I had Progressive during Hurricane Katrina. They mailed a check to my evacuation hotel without even seeing the car. It was still under water back home. Impressive service.
T-storm. I’m in the middle of one right now. I woke up a reasonable time but there was no sun coming in through the window. I looked out. The sky was black as night. Still is!
Boomer, thanks for walking us through in spite of your bittersweet memories for today.
IM, I hope you are feeling a bit better.
IM, thanks for your kind words. Alan was putting up well for three months with in house quarantine. He has good friends there. Since the ER visit he is confined to his suite and cannot mingle or dine with his friends in the house. No more porch visits with me for two weeks.
Boomer, so sad about your little daughter, especially in June. Arthur lost his teenage son years ago and the birthday month is still very difficult for him.
We didn't have Marie Callender restaurants here. I think Perkins Restaurant, which closed last year, was allied to them. Now I see Marie's name only on salad dressing.
I missed the appliance repairman's voicemail on Fri and just found it on Sunday. Now the phone line is always busy. I'll will likely have to wait until at least next Monday when he works in our neighborhood.
I also had Future-Cith and thought it a very weird Star Wars reference.
Marie Callenders was a gimme for me -- my wife always buys their frozen pot pies.
Am I the only one who thought AOC for 'Progressive spokeswoman'?
Hola!
ONE of my favorite hunks, er, actors, is IDRIS Elba! It makes me GIDDY to think of him. Thank you, Jordan Hildebrandt. I did not know he had played Mandela.
This was definitely a walk in the park until I encountered the SW corner. Like others, I am unaware of FUTURE CITY and LIU since I couldn't accept CITh.
I can overlook the many three letter fill which are nicely balanced with those theme phrases spanning across or nearly across the grid. What is the objection to MRI, FLO, APOP, etc.? Many of those we see quite often in puzzles.
A few days AGO I finished my book of 300 puzzles and you should see what I encountered there! Constructors are a clever breed who can concoct original and unusual clues for even the most common words.
I used to love going to MARIE CALLENDERS but all the restaurants have closed. Their products are now found in the frozen food section.
R.I.P. ARGYLE. I miss him, too.
Thank you, Boomer. Your mental acuity is impressive! I'm sorry to learn about your little daughter passing at such a young age.
Enjoy a splendid day, everyone!
FIR when like YR realized FUTURE CITH made no sense and changed hee/YEE. (Watch... next time it will be a yee/HEE). Never heard of STEM till a recent puzzle and my daughter mentioned a STEM project my grandson had completed. Like I knew what she was talking about.
STORM seemed right but wouldn't fit. TSTORM is just excuse for fill. The cops on "Brooklyn 99" one of my favorite comedies are almost as funny as the "Car 54" gang.
The theme was obvious which helped as well. Few but easily recognized proper names.
**Lots of Monday nonsense...... likely a week's worth
12 months of Donny's sister's face......MARIECALLENDERS
Afro or Mohawk........ADO
His newborn makes him....APOP
All systems operational, the launch is ____ ...AGO
Sheep's assistent.....RAMPAGE
Wait there's more....
Condoleezza, exhausted.....FRIEDRICE
"No idea, I haven't _____"....ACLU
Building section with good venilation....ARIEL
Bull's warning to the Matador, " _____!" ...IGOR
Huck Finn on the Mississippi......RAFTER.
Stop gagging.
**Grandkids up at camp tomorrow for a week. Doubt I'll get to my favorite pastime and Cornerite crew.
Irish M...hope you're healing. (Who says fresh fruit is healthy?) Hang in there Abejo.
@Lucina - the way I see it, a certain amount of less-than-ideal fill is necessary to hold a grid together. I think FLO, MRI, and even APOP are fine in that role as crossword glue. If the worst entries you get in a grid are FLO, MRI, and APOP, I think you as the constructor/editor are doing well.
But, when you couple FLO, MRI, and APOP with the other words I listed above, that's where I take issue. Using "MRI" to hold together an otherwise respectable section? No problem. Using "MRI" and "ADJ" together in the same section? Not for me. I think the fill in a Monday puzzle should be held to a higher standard because the Monday puzzles are where the new solvers dip their toes into the water. If today's puzzle were the first I ever solved, I probably wouldn't want to do another one. I'd be confused by today's theme and unimpressed with the fill.
@Anon 10:52 - the tenor of this blog and the comments is usually pleasant, upbeat, etc., hence my apology for the negativity.
Definition of yeehaw From Merriam Webster:
—used (as by cowboys or in imitation of cowboys) to express exuberant delight or excitement
"White-collar workers squeeze into their duds and turn into studs, hanging out in honky-tonks, affecting drawls and riding mechanical bulls. Yee-haw!"
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Anon @ 0931 - - Yes; in reference to 'brains' or computing.
Like nearly everyone here I had never heard of future city. Monday is not supposed to be crunchy. What happened today? Is was a FIR anyway. I used to love going to Marie Callender's and have their yummy ham stack. Sadly, all the locations in Arizona closed some time ago, but, as Lucinda noted, the frozen food section in the grocery stores carry microwavable entries. It's nice to see that live sports finding their way back on t.v. Who enjoys watching 10-15 year old reruns of football, basketball, baseball and hockey games anyway? I'm a sportsaholic but not quite that desperate.
Boomer: Nice write-up.
Jordan: Thank you for a FUN Monday puzzle. Nice debut, too!
Cheers!
Puzzle seemed sort of difficult for a Monday. Some of us count on Monday and Tuesday as being puzzles that are doable even for us. This one wasn't.
Well this was a bit of a crunchy Monday.
Write-overs....HEE/YEE.
Had the Part C coming down, so had FUTURE CITH...Just saw the end as wrong, looked at 54D and had the “aha moment”.
And on to Tuesday. Stay safe.
Took a little extra work to get this Monday puzzle, but it helped to have circles and glad that mixed or 'fried' RICE filled them all in. So, fun puzzle, many thanks, Jordan. And always nice to have you do the Monday commentary, Boomer. What a sad experience with your little daughter.
Had the most trouble in the middle, but how neat to have MARIE CALLENDERS fill in at last. Have heard of it, but never tried it.
Seems like TOGA shows up in lots of puzzles these days. GIDDY made me laugh, but never heard of BAE and kept thinking it had to be a mistake until I came to the blog.
Nice to see MLK's "I have a DREAM" in the puzzle.
Your arthritis quip cracked me up, desper-otto.
Hope Alan stays safe, Yellowrocks.
Have a great week coming up, everyone.
I had Fortran and machine language as a junior in college, 1964. I found the latter easier. Later I wrote Cobol which, if structured, is great for files. We called unstructured "Spaghetti Code". Ugh.
Boomer, my heart sank seeing your lovely daughter. My deepest condolences.
re. "FRIED RICE. Inane had it right. Watch a wok wonder whirl and you'll see scrambling
This started Monday easy then , and then... Unscrambling RICE saved me. I had the letters MARIE and recognized CALLENDERS but need Boomer to set me straight. I did FIR
WC
Hand up for not knowing FUTURE CITY, but RICE helped solve it, and honestly, given a choice between FUTURE CITY and "future cith," which one would you expect "middle school visionaries" to be asked to design? FIR and enjoyed it, Jordan. Thanks, Boomer. Good week to all.
Other than falling for the hEE/YEE answer, this was good Monday fare. Thank you, Jordan,for kicking off the week! Great expo, Boomer, as always!
I've started meting some friends at a park on Monday morning for coffee and companionship after I walk the dog so this has been a nice day so far. Hope your day has been a good one.
Good Afternoon, All. Took last week off, fishing in the Gulf and other chores. Did the xwords and read the blogs, just don't do well typing on my smart phone. Sorry to hear of falls incurred and Abejo's medical issue. Praying for good outcomes. Thanks Jordan for your debut LA times and thanks Boomer for the 'splaining'. Boomer, since you mentioned it, whether the 5 robes got it right or not is beyond my paygrade. I do know that we have enough lawlessness in the country and the "5" don't need to add to it. (as explained by the other "4")
As one of the junior solvers (in solving experience, not age) I thought that the xword was fine. The circles gave away a lot as I noticed rice or the scrambled letters were present in all the different array of circles before fried rice filled. Yes, had Hee before Yee but I seem to remember having that same problem recently on a xword?? Didn't know future city, MarieCallenders or Idris (do remember seeing him recently but CRS was at work), but when Argyle, Mcafee and part? filled it only left c and I (from rice) and cith had to be city. Didn't find this all that upsetting. FIR with the one writeover on Hee/Yee.
Hoping everyone is recovering nicely and have a great week.
Well, dang, I've gotta learn to look at those pesky circles. I would've known that it had to be IDRIS not EDRIS. Maybe I would have had a shot at it. Maybe I could've been a contenda.
Lucina and Shankers et al: I don't know who owns them, but there appears to be about 29 Marie Callendars in California, Nevada and Utah.
Yes,
I did feel that "fried" was a stretch for scrambled rice...
but it is MOnday, get over it...
Which made me think,
that in the 100+ years of Xword puzzles,
how many had "scrambled eggs" as their theme?
Which made me think,
Yes, Fried rice does usually have some scrambled eggs in it...
Which made me think,
"I am hungry..."
Which made me think,
Why are all anonymous posts anonymous?
what are you hiding?
Which made me think...
I spent the day in telephone H--L for my washer repair. All the reps are working from home. Lots of being sent back and forth to phone numbers I spent hours getting to pick up in the first place. I need a major part. Instead, my service contract will give me a new washer, but with plenty of runaround and bureaucracy. I have to wait for the paperwork to wend its way through the maze. But the 10 year contract for $299 has more than paid for itself with a new pump, about five problems and now a new washer.
Aaarrggghhh !!! No wonder I didn't recognize _ARIE CALLENDERS. I had originally inked RIFT. Then it became RIFF when FUTIRE Perped.
All I had to do was look at the clue "Slightly" offend.
Three of these in a row. Carelessness
WC
Puzzling thoughts ...
Been a week or so since I’ve posted, so a bit of catching up to do ...
IM and Abejo, good thoughts to you both. Cancer survivor here, Abejo, so “hang in there”. Miss Agnes, I couldn’t believe your watermelon tale, but I know it must’ve been horrendous. I hope you’re on the mend ...
Been doing the puzzles but usually, late at night. By then I’m too tired to post anything...
Ray-O-Sunshine: great puns! My limerick du jour will hopefully bring a smile or groan ...
Regarding today’s puzzle debut, I too, thought the scrambled/fried rice theme could’ve been done differently. I certainly “got it”, but didn’t care for the clue @ 62A. Congrats Jordan for a fun puzzle. My only write-over was in 30A when I lightly penned “boo” before knowing it had to contain either an “I” or “E”.
Marie Callenders makes the best Lemon Merengue pies, hands down ...
My “pun” du jour is in limerick form ... Larry may have guided me ...
Archeologist, who’s also Brahmin,
Had some gas after dining on Ramen.
His associate said,
“Your farts smell like the dead!”
He and mummy might have, toot in common ...
Thanks Jordan for the crunchy’ish puzzle , and thanks, Boomer, for the tour. I know the pain of losing a child never goes away, and I empathize with you.
We love our Ford Edge. Jack is on his 4th one!
My favorite misdirection was DUCT TAPE.
Have a great week everyone.
A very enjoyable Monday pzl, thanks to Mr. Hildebrandt.
I only wondered about the "S" at the end of MARIE CALLENDER. Boomer was good enough to add an apostrophe to make it a possessive, but I read it first as a plural, which didn't seem to fit a singular clue. Strange.
~ OMK
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DR: A 3-way on the far side.
Curiously, the main diagonal did not have a single vowel. Nothing to work with!
And then the top diagonal had only ONE consonant, a "c."
Finally, feeling like the Three Bears--or maybe the Third Little Piggie--I turned to the lowest diagonal for this anagram:
The years I consigned my laundry-bagged, bespoke tuxedo to be locked away amid lesser garments since I retired from attending opening nights of my new shows,
- or -
the awkward period experienced by young people before enlisting their parents in a loving defense of an unexpected way of life.
In either case, we are speaking of…
“CLOSETED TIME”!
Dirty Rickin' Brackin' . Got PaRES wrong, I done did.
Thanks Jordan for the puzzle and congrats on the debut. As Wheels42 pointed out there was some unnecessary glue but all's well that ends... oh, wait, I FIW on a MONDAY!?!
Great expo Boomer. So C.C. let's you get away w/ politics? :-) Again, all good by me.
Your little Debbie (in her Strawberry shortcake outfit) would be 17 days old than me. Those pains don't heal do they? :-( Sending Love.
WOs: SURE of @49d and hEE haw b/f CITY made more sense.
ESPs: PaRES [sic] | ADLaR [sic]
Fav: Gotta go /w Santa @ ARGYLE.
I also liked AMIGA [wiki] crossing GAME.
Definitely 'take one down and pass it around...'
Spitz - FORTRAN II? I grew up on '77.
Getting back to work. Play later.
Cheers, -T
My sweet, little kitty cat RICE is the star of the show, so, what’s not to love?
Hi everybody.
Thank you Jordan and Boomer.
I had an MRI years ago for a spinal stenosis problem. I didn't exactly enjoy it but it wasn't a super-big deal either.
Years ago we had Farmers insurance. I liked the service we got from our agent. I got a cold call from a woman agent from AAA. I told her even if she could save us a few dollars, I wasn't going to switch. She sorta insisted on giving me a quote anyway. Five minutes later, I had switched to AAA saving a couple of hundred dollars even with the membership and towing thrown in. They have given us excellent service ever since.
JohnB at 11:35, I've always liked your sloop. :>)
~ Mind how you go...
___-haw: Fill in EE and wait for perps.
Had Jolly Green Giant (fits clue and spaces) before MARIE CALLENDAR'S.
-T, you know less French than I do Spanish. Up through the 60s French was the required language for college bound wannabees. I got a Fourth year, there were five of us.
As a frosh I was in a French Literature class as a math major.
Finally, I was subbing in Boston, I taught a French class in French and was hired the next day for the year. In January I took a Master's level class.
Then went into the Marines.
WC
I zoomed through this puzzle quite quickly.
So, why are TACOS Tuesday fare? (I'm guessing there's an eatery called Tuesday Tacos or something, but I'm too lazy to LIU.)
I sing it as "If one of those bottles should happen to fall."
A Lincoln Aviator is basically just an EDGE with LIPstick.
Good wishes to you all.
I have had trouble posting today just thinking about the horror of losing a 10-year-old child. I know it has been a while but I am sure certain things do not heal. I am still grieving my father (47 years) and my mother and brothers. Then there is Argyle, Clear Ayes, Eddy B, and who knows how many others and it could be a tough day. Sorry Boomer.
Luckily Moe came through with a pun that was sooooooooo painful, I am fine.
He and mummy might have, toot in common .
Oo's pineapple fried rice is the stuff that people fight over.
Be well all
Jayce,
there is this place in Naples Fla.
( in a strip mall )
& if you don't mind dining in a parking lot...
(which, I guess we will all be doing now,)
has FREE Tequila on Tuesdays!
(Bogo, you have to buy one, to get one free..)
They have the best Tacos, & free chips & Salsa!
(but, quite honestly, the Tequila is watered a down glass of ice cubes...)
Anon-T
11 seconds is not long enough!
You have to watch the next YouTube in line,
11 minutes of the best of Yosemite Sam!
(I copied the link, but lost it when Jayce said Tacos...)
CrossEyedDave, thanks for the info. Watered down ice cubes, eh? Hmm, I've had those!
Over the last few years, I'm not sure exactly when, "taco Tuesday" has become a theme for many restaurants. I guess that's because it's catchy. One eatery nearby offers them for two dollars on Taco Tuesday.
Alan is in the best group home ever. I am thrilled. Alan is not bothered now by the new restrictions. The staff keeps his door open and allows him out in the hall upstairs. The staff stops in all day with meals, meds, drinks, snacks and encouragement. Alan's closest friend at the home, Tom, will be allowed to sit at the bottom of the stairs with Alan at the top so they can talk every day. The staff will dial up his "girlfriend" every day.
At the ER they found a compression fracture in Alan's back, but it probably is old. Every day Alab has less back pain rom the fall, but the staff will take him to a doctor this week to be sure. What a competent, caring staff! When I am gone, Alan will still thrive.
Hi Y'all! Fun but chewy Monday, thanks, Jordan.
Great expo, Boomer! How sad to lose that beautiful little daughter. June 22 is a sad date for me too. I miscarried my first pregnancy in 1964. Later felt it was a possible blessing since I had been exposed to rubella. But I always remember the date.
I've had three MRIs. Not entirely pleasant, but guys, they are much easier to endure than childbirth. Just sayin'...
My son once brought home a girlfriend in cowboy boots who punctuated many sentences by saying, "YEE HAW" or "wahoo, buckaroo!" We didn't say anything to him, but we never saw her again. Hand up for trying "HEE" first.
Marvelous Monday. Thanks for the fun, Jordan (congrats on your debut) and Boomer (how sad to lose a child - virtual hugs today; and PK too!).
I saw the scrambled RICE in the circles (what does FRIED have to do with it? - hello Anon@6:53AM; thanks inanehiker for your explanation), but ended up with a FIW! I had Hee instead of YEE haw, and this Canadian had no idea about the name of the STEM competition; I was left scratching my head over FUTURE CITh. (Plus the C in PART C was also a total guess for this Canadian who has universal health coverage, not Medicare.) I will plead Canadian disadvantage today (to make me feel better for such a poor showing on a Monday). And now I see that many others had a similar problem; should I feel GIDDY?
MARIE CALLENDERS was not known to me either; I LIUed and we do have that brand available in Canada (but certainly not a "biggie" here). More Canadian disadvantage perhaps, but perps filled it in. (Yes, Curmudgeon@4:13pm, I thought of Jolly Green Giant - and it is a "biggie" too!)
The clue for ROOTED IN was quite convoluted for a Monday IMHO.
My Brooklyn 99 characters were Cons before COPS. A POP fixed that, not my knowledge of the show.
AMIGo changed to AMIGA with GAME; I then noted the LatinA in the clue and remembered Lucina's instructions about the feminine ending.
I smiled at FLO and FLU (hello IM). (Boomer, we will need a shot for the FLU and a shot for Covid-19, whenever a vaccine is released.)
I also smiled at RENU crossing RETINA.
We had PERES one day late for the celebration. (And A POP as noted by Ray'o, LOL)
And of course I thought of Santa with ARGYLE.
Good evening all.
Boomer I'm deeply saddened to hear of the loss of your daughter Debbie. No parent should ever have to endure that pain. I haven't, but my parents did. My older brother died in 1965 at 18 when I was 9. It was the only time I ever saw my father cry. I'll never forget that. But I also do understand the depth of your loss. My most sincere condolences.
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