Theme: Three's Company -
17. Red bonus square on the Scrabble board: TRIPLE WORD SCORE.
26. Serious injury for a firefighter: THIRD-DEGREE BURN.
47. 1975 made-for-TV horror anthology starring Karen Black:
TRILOGY OF TERROR.
61. Appetizer-entrée-dessert serving: THREE- COURSE MEAL.
Boomer here. Congratulations on David Distenfeld's LA Times debut.
As you read this, I am probably playing in my golf league. It is a nine hole par THREE course and I occasional score a par THREE on one of the holes. Two weeks ago I had a THIRD par by the fourth hole. Bur last week I suffered two TRIPLE bogeys. There were a few TRIPLE bogeys at Winged Foot over the weekend at the 2020 U.S. Open.
Across:
1. New York deli namesake Willy: KATZ.
5. Nobel __: PRIZE. I believe the PRIZE fund for the above
mentioned U.S. Open was 53 Million Dollars with Three Million to the
winner.
10. Pack of cards: DECK. I played many games of bridge with my
co-workers years ago. We changed to a fresh deck several times per
month.
14. Wind instrument: OBOE. I have heard of them but they don't
seem to fit in with piano or guitars.
15. "Superbad" co-screenwriter Seth: ROGEN.
16. Pulitzer author Jennifer: EGAN. Reminds me of the city of
Eagan, MN just south of St, Paul near the Minnesota River.
20. Soak in the tub: BATHE. I fear that our friends in the Gulf
Coast are not needing a tub.
21. Casino wheel: ROULETTE. I have never liked ROULETTE.
Craps is my favorite table game.
22. Michelle of "Crazy Rich Asians": YEOH.
25. Sleep acronym: REM. Sorry, I generally have to get up and use
the toilet before the Rapid Eye Movement takes over.
34. Go bad: ROT.
35. Brazilian mountain chain: SERRA. Huge mountains. I do
not think they are populated however. No Covid risk there.
36. Pop star whose name used to be spelled with a dollar sign:
KESHA. Singer who had a contract with Kemosabe records. Do
people buy records anymore ??
37. Army outfit: UNIT. We generally referred to our Army UNITS as
Companies.
39. Particulars, informally: DEETS.
41. DEA bust: RAID. Target has roach killer by the same name.
42. "What a shame": SO SAD. Prayers for Abejo from me and all of
us.
44. Descendant: SCION.
46. Ending with hero or alp: INE. Half of a word ?
50. Online guffaw: LOL. A lot of on line acronyms are pretty
tired.
51. "Seize the day" acronym: YOLO. "You Only Live Once'"
52. Dual-purpose: TWO-IN-ONE. In golf, you cannot get a TWO in
ONE shot.
57. Royally named singer with the #1 album "Melodrama": LORDE.
64. Wine bottle date: YEAR. I do not drink wine. There does
not seem to be a date on my Pepsi can.
65. Divided Asian peninsula: KOREA. We have been looking at a
Hyundai Santa Fe. I've bought American for over 50 years, but we rented
a Santa Fe in Vegas a few years ago and I liked it. Comments??
66. Happy hour places: BARS. Sorry but I think the Covid dangers
are still too high.
67. Camera part: LENS.
68. Wintry and white: SNOWY. Yup, I live in Minnesota and in a
few months, we will put up with SNOWY. However it certainly is not as
dangerous as the West Coast and the Gulf Coast over the past few weeks.
69. Geometry class calculation: AREA. Length times Width.
Down:
1. "Today" co-anchor Hoda: KOTB.
2. Incantation opener: ABRA. Kadabra
3. "Nothing __!": "Easy!": TO IT. Making a par by Rory Mcllroy
4. Gentle breeze: ZEPHYR.
5. Start to fix?: PRE. Prefix.
6. Use oars: ROW. You would not believe the ROWS of baseball
cards that I have sorted.
7. Hunchbacked lab assistant: IGOR.
8. Love, in tennis: ZERO. Also a private in "Beetle Bailey"
9. Last a long time: ENDURE.
10. Month in which Kwanzaa starts: DECEMBER. Christmas is coming,
the geese are getting fat. Please put a penny in the old man's hat.
11. Four-award acronym: EGOT. An on deck batter to a strikeout
victim. "What's EGOT"?
12. Golfer's transport: CART. Yup, every round I play because of
the meds I take. Interesting, this year, every golfer gets his/her own
cart because of Covid. Unless family players.
13. Leg joint: KNEE. Rah, Rah, Ree, kick 'em in the KNEE.
Rah Rah Rass, Kick 'em in the other knee.
18. __ United: English soccer team: LEEDS.
19. Smooth and glossy: SLEEK. Chevrolet Corvette. I cannot
afford one.
23. Had too much, briefly: OD'ED.
24. Joan of Arc's crime: HERESY.
26. Put faith in: TRUST. I usually hear it in names of financial
institutions.
27. "It's an __ just to be nominated": HONOR. Lots of HONOR on
ballots in every state. Some old, some new, some red and some blue.
28. Formal "Who's there?" reply: IT IS I. "IT IS ME" did not fit.
29. Spanish artist El __: GRECO.
30. Okay, as a treaty: RATIFY.
31. Delta rival renamed in 1997: US AIR. We have not visited an
airport since the virus was hatched. I hope the airlines survive though,
we might need them again.
32. Safari beast: RHINO. RHINO Page is an excellent left handed
PBA Bowler.
33. Consumerist Ralph: NADER. Harvard-educated. Appeared in
the movie "Fun with Dick and Jane".
38. Scorekeepers, at times: TALLIERS. In bowling the scores are
all kept by computers.
40. Explorer Hernando de ___: SOTO. I am so old I remember De
SOTOs. A Chrysler product, but I never owned one.
43. Lorna of literature: DOONE. "I'd fly to the moon, for a Lorna
DOONE" !!
45. Portia de Rossi's "Ally McBeal" role: NELLE.
48. Austrian pistols: GLOCKS.
49. Self-moving vacuum: ROOMBA. C.C. uses the push style
vacuum. When you live in a four-level townhome, a ROOMBA is not a good
idea, unless it can climb stairs.
52. Texter's "Chat soon": TTYL. "Talk to you Later, Alligator"!!
53. Roller coaster cry: WHEE. We have a Roller Coaster at our
Valley Fair Amusement park. It's very old and not worth a WHEE.
54. Algerian seaport: ORAN.
55. Midday: NOON.
56. French franc successor: EURO. Once I bought a bunch on
eBay, I thought they might be worth something someday. But I think
I resold them at face value.
58. Fanny: REAR.
59. Have the nerve: DARE. My favorite DARE devil was Evel Knievel
60. Lioness of film: ELSA.
62. VCR go-back button: REW.
63. Come out with: SAY. PLEEZE !!
Boomer
FIWrong. I was sure the word was spelt ZEPHeR, and had no idea of the actresses name that checked it.
ReplyDeleteLet's have a triune of cheers for this puzzle's theme!
Altho it got corrected by perps, I first had TRInitY OF hoRROR > TRILOGY OF TERROR.
BTW, "checked" is a crossword term from British/cryptic crosswords, where the open grids leave about half the cells "unched" or unchecked by any perps.
THREE keys there are to HONOR's way.
First a TRUST you must never betray.
Next, humility is a PRIZE,
Do not tarnish it with pride.
THIRD, words in wrath you mustn't SAY.
TWO IN ONE equals one-half,
There's ZERO caffeine in decaf.
Green Party's nadir
Was running NADER;
As a THREE-way contest, it was a laugh!
{A, B.}
Ditto, had zephir.
DeleteYEOH was all perps. This was like a TV guide xword where it's assumed pop clues will be easy. KOTB same-same.
ReplyDeleteI had to remove the Y in TALLIERS. Odd spelling.
Owen, love the poems but even Sanka admitted they were only 99.7% caffeine free.
Best fun is reading about perped answers.
FLN, re. Bobbi. Sunday was indeed difficult vis a vis usual Sunday. From what you usually say, Saturday was definitely out of your league. I guage difficulty by how quickly comments pile up and how many.
WC
Ps, Boomer, did you here this comment yesterday re. Bryson: "His putter is on steroids!"
Boomer, thanks for a great writeup on an interesting puzzle! Just wondering -- when you were playing bridge with your co-workers, why did you change decks so often? Was someone concerned that the decks were going to be marked or something? I only have one deck of cards, and I've never really thought about switching them out.
ReplyDeleteOwenKL, I like that you got "triune" in there!
Okay, First an answer to Staili. We changed decks because normally they were stored in a drawer in the lunchroom for all to use. They got a bit grungy. None of us were smart enough to know how to mark them. Second, I was wrong again. Bryson got $2,250,000 yesterday and Matt Wolff received $1,350,000. I spent $12.50 playing golf last week but I had more fun than those guys.
ReplyDeleteFIR, but close call with the write-over ZEPHYR 4 ZEPHeR. I guess I don’t see it in print often. It was forced by eEOH possible being a name. The theme helped me through some crunchy spots.
ReplyDeleteGood morning!
ReplyDeleteCaught the three-part harmony in this one, and finished without Wite-Out. Didn't particularly care for TALLIERS, but that's my only nit. Thanx for the tour, Boomer, and for an auspicious debut, David.
CART: The last time I played golf was on the U of Iowa course. I shared a cart with another lefty. We were well-matched talent-wise, and ran the battery down to zero by the sixth hole with our many forward-and-back and side-to-side meanders. By that point we both had a score of 60, since we weren't allowed to count more than ten strokes on any hole.
US AIR: The lady next door is an aircraft mechanic for United. She still doesn't know if she'll have a job in ten days.
DE SOTO: We rewatched Vertigo Saturday night. Scotty, played by Jimmy Stewart, drove a DE SOTO.
Managed to pick up a nail in my left rear tire last week, so it's off to the shop this morning for repairs. I have an M-o-W route tomorrow, assuming it's not cancelled due to Beta, and prefer not to over-test the run-flat characteristics of the tires.
Good Morning,
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your first LAT, David. Nicely done. It was fun, especially since I guessed on TRIPLE WORD SCORE that some sort of triad may show up. How about that, D-O?! A biggie for me.
Great tour, Boomer. Sounds like you had a fine day on the course. Thank you.
Nicely done, Owen. Three cheers for you!!
We need to get the USAF Reserve air re-fuelers out of O'Hare (if they're still there?), down to the Gulf to load up on all that water, and out West to put out those fires!
Stay safe everyone. Find some sunshine in all this smokey haze.
<3 to Abeyo.
Had fun today and FIR for a change, but not without a close call. Had a writeover at ZEPHeR (OwenKL, KS, and Hungry Mother, you too!) but noticed in time eEOH didn't look like an Asian name. Oh yeah, it's YEOH. Who said "Bad spellers of the world untie!"? I also spent some ink on IT IS I, not registering Formal in the clue, but perps fixed that quickly. All in all a satisfying Monday puzzle. Good job on your debut, David. Hope to see you again soon. Thanks. And thanks to you, Boomer, for your entertaining review. Hope you have a good golf game today.
ReplyDeleteNow I'm full of energy, ready to take on the day. Hope you all have a nice one!
One problem left handed golfers have is equipment. I bought the cheap Sam Snead Wilson's and adapted. I latched upon a used set of Pings (with Haig woods) and that helped but I left them outside the 19th hole and never saw them again.
ReplyDeleteC'mon, somebody...Did Sands say the word "steroids" or not. No controversy*, I just want to know if I was dreaming.
WC
* The Redsox traded Brady Anderson to Baltimore and the guy hit 50 home runs. Signed a big contract and never hit more than 25 again. One (steroid) hit wonder
Well done Monday puzzle, with four 15 letter theme answers.
ReplyDeleteLot of golf talk today. Not sure if Bryson is going to change the game, but he came through big time, and silenced the doubters.
WC, being a big Red Sox fan, I remember Anderson. Think we got Mike Boddicker for him.
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteI don’t recall a Monday puzzle with such a preponderance of proper names needing perps: Katz, Yeoh, Trilogy of Terror, Nelle, Lorde, Kesha, etc. I had no trouble because of the easy, surrounding fill, but I imagine a newbie wouldn’t fare as well. I liked the theme but I thought the Two in one entry stood out like a sore thumb. I also liked Row/Rew, Rear/Year, Doone/Noon, and the side by side LOL/YOLO.
Thanks, David, for a pleasant start to the week and congrats on your debut and thanks, Boomer, for the levity and cheerful commentary. That “Goose is getting fat” rhyme was in my Mother’s extensive repertoire of poems, jingles, etc.
Continued prayers for Abejo.
FLN
Jayce, so sorry to hear about about your DIL’s setback. Positive thoughts and prayers to you all.
CED,
I not only saw Inglorious Basterds, I was alive and well while watching it. đŸ˜‡ It’s probably the only Quentin Tarantino film that I’ve ever seen, but I managed to endure his trademark gore and violence because of the performances by the stellar cast, particularly that of Christopher Waltz.
Have a great day.
I liked this puzzle, but it seemed more Wednesday-like. So many proper names.
ReplyDeleteI have often heard of KATZ Deli in NY.
I, too, had trouble spelling ZEPHYR. I couldn't remember YEOH. I tried every vowel but Y. Red letters gave it to me. Seeing that Y, I then remembered both words. Too late!
I love the word zephyr and the breeze it names, especially when camping. So many of us spelling it wrong shows how little we see it. I almost never hear it spoken. It makes me sad that so many lovely words cannot be used in speaking without appearing pretentious. The average person does not appreciate the richness of our language.
The themers all used words meaning three. They all were composed of three words. Was there a third layer to this theme?. Two in one didn't bother me because it was a shorter answer.
We played bridge in the student lounge at college every day. My fiance begged me to be his partner when I should have been practicing piano. Is that why I can't play today?
Jayce, thoughts and prayers for for your DIL .
Abejo, we all are thinking of you.
This was an easy breezy Monday - I couldn't have come up with all those ways to have 3 in phrases but they came easily when solving.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the movie "Crazy Rich Asians"- Michelle Yeoh was in a very different role as the uptight controlling mother in it after her earlier films like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and James Bond.
Thanks Boomer and congrats to David!
Continued prayers for Abejo!
Musings
ReplyDelete-Four grid spanners on a Monday! Great!
-Muzjiks is the highest scoring 7-letter Scrabble word and if its on TRIPLE LETTER…
-Getting out of that tub is now a real process
-DEETS – That’s where you’ll find the devil
-Half of all Hyundais are made in America
-Tootsie Roll commercials had the line “Lasts a long time”
-Our vacuum cleaner here is “Gary-powered”
-SAY! Don’t make me guess what you are thinking!
-ZEPHYR is exhibit A that phonics aren’t everything in this polyglot language
-FORE, while wearing jeans and a jacket.
Good morning everyone,
ReplyDeleteGood tour, Boomer. Thanks.
A bit crunchier than the usual Monday puzzle. Across-wise I had to skip the NW until I saw KOTB and the possibility of ZEPHYR. The theme helped make it easier with well-known phrases involving a form of 3. Couple unknowns like KESHA and LORDE came from perps.
Jupiter is extremely bright now; visible due South just after dark. Saturn is just a few DEGREES to the left, yellowish and less bright. We've had cool clear nights here the last few days, so it is a spectacular sight IMO.
Manic Monday. Thanks for the fun, David (congrats on your debut) and Boomer.
ReplyDeleteI FIRed in a little longer than the usual Monday time with one inkblot. And I saw the TRIPLE theme.
I could echo Irish Miss about the plethora of names, especially for a Monday. I counted eight (and those were only the ones I didn't know immediately!). But perps were friendly; I had more success doing the Down clues before Across.
My inkblot was caused by changing Queen to LORDE. (I was higher up the royalty chain! before I realized that it was a single singer and not a band.
I spelled ZEPHYR properly - love that word (yes, YR, it is a pity we don't use it in normal speech). It would be a good Scrabble entry for TRIPLE WORD SCORE with value of 69 (but not quite as good as HG's Muzjiks).
EGOT was easy after its appearance in last week's CW. Schitt's Creek won all seven comedy categories at last night's virtual Emmy Awards. (The Schitt's Creek group, who had Covid tests and quarantined so that they could celebrate together, were in a tent at Casa Loma in Toronto; son and DIL had their wedding reception inside there. Iconic building)
EmmySweep
You can bet that those Canadian winners did not say "It's an HONOR just to be nominated". (Come on, all you regular bloggers here; give me a U!"
SeeEugeneLevySpeech
Continued thoughts and prayers for Abejo . . . and for Jayce's DIL.
Enjoy the day. YOLO
Great puzzle, and I caught the theme right away.
ReplyDeleteTotal guess of the G for eGan cross with eGot.
Also a guess on LEEDS United. I've only heard of Manchester United.
And finally I had Zephyr as Zepher. Now I know!
ReplyDeleteWelcome aboard David. Hope to see you a lot more. Boomer did his usual YEO(H)man job of guiding us through the grid.
Got it done in usual time today. Only problems were some of the proper names, EGAN, KESHA and LORDE. I knew Hoda KOTB, KATZ, ROGEN and YEOH. Perps to the rescue.
I also knew DeSOTO. The first car that I bought in 1964 was a 1958 DeSoto, which was a real tank. It took my entire savings of $400 to buy it. It lasted about 2 years before I had saved enough money for a down payment from my first real job to replace it with a brand new 1966 Chevy Impala Sport Coupe.
EGOT again. How many times is that in the past few weeks? Rich is at it again.
It's definitely looking like Fall is upon us in the east. Frost on the pumpkin again this morning with a high predicted in the low 60's. But, I'm not complaining because it is nice and sunny.
I hope all stay safe, especially all who are in the path of danger.
Have a good day and please wear your masks.
For those who might be interested, here is more info on the Emmy celebration at Casa Loma in Toronto. Click the "take a virtual tour" link to go to the Casa Loma website. We had the gardens for outdoor photos, the conservatory for indoor photos, reception in the library, and the rest of the first floor to enjoy. It was like a fairy tale.
ReplyDeleteCasaLoma
I drive a 2006 Lincoln Zephyr.
ReplyDeleteBoomer, thanks for answering my question. Yes, cards + food = replace!
ReplyDeleteFour spanners. Very unusual for a Monday. As many gave noted, lots of proper names, several unknown, but easily sussed. Not much else to add, except 21 year old Matthew Wolff seemed upset that he was runner up yesterday. Oh really? He won $1.3M!! When I was 21, I made less than $5K/yr. Momma, don't let your kids grow up to be teachers, just pro jocks.
ReplyDeleteI must have been on the right wavelength for I flew through this satisfying IPO. Thanks , David, and please give us more. Clever, layered theme, but Monday easy.
ReplyDeleteHoda KOTB was on our local news program for years before she hit the Big Time. We were sorry to see her go.
We had a roller coaster thrill ride at a long ago amusement park called ZEPHYR so that was easy. The huge neon sign dominated everything. It was YEARs later before I learned that ZEPHYR didn’t mean terrifying, just a gentle breeze. Much better idea!
Owen, you’ve been on a roll lately and today was no exception. Great poem! Thanks ��
Boomer, thanks for the always entertaining walk-through.
Thank you, David, for the puzzle, and Boomer, for the review! I liked the grid spanning entries. Most pop culture names require perps for me. Today I was surprised to FIR because KOTB looked wrong, but is apparently right! Good start to the week.
ReplyDeleteBoomer,
ReplyDeleteWe gave up on American cars long ago. Had worked my way up to a Cadillac, it was a dog. Switched to Japanese cars. Not great, but good warranty service. Now driving German car. Good luck!!
Delightful Monday puzzle, thank you, David--and welcome to the blog. And always enjoy your commentary, Boomer.
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed slowly getting the TRIPLE, THIRD, TRILOGY, and THREE COURSE theme answers.
Also noticed the large number of names, but happily knew NADER, EL GRECO, IGOR, ELSA. I could picture Hoda and knew her last name had two weird consonants together and finally took a chance on KOTB, even though I didn't know KATZ. YAY! But I needed perps for YEOH, KESHA, LORDE, and EGAN.
Enjoyed your poems, Owen.
Hope Abejo is recovering.
Have a good week coming up, everybody.
Fun way to startoff the week. Fairly easy, obvious long horizontal theme answers providing lots of perpetuity.
ReplyDeleteInkovers: rogan/ROGEN,(noted nearby EGAN), slick/SLEEK. Ttfn/TTYL.
HAUT BOIS is back (Fr:"high wood") OBOE.... ELSA not seen for awhile, may have chased Ilsa away..
Kwanzaa celebrated in December. What about Festivas(for the restivas)?. Will UNIT an afghan for your Irani neighbor.? When foodsgo bad .
Have read a couple bios of Joan of Arc. Thought she became highly flammable due to witchcraft not heresy (My autocorrect changed that to New Jersey i guess another reasont to burned at the state.) Anyway her accomplishments at 18 or 19 are amazing and without a cellphone. Maybe I should include some the DEETS of her life but I won't because who actually says that?. One issue was whether Providence recognizes countries and or takes sides in wars when both are the same religion. The 100 yr war was based on complicated claims from England and France over disputed sovereignty.
Fool me once with EGOT but not twice ...or thrice considering the theme. Anybody remember Marjorie LORD(e)?
What else I shouldn't say...
Furloughed employees are _____ to get back to work... IGOR
Granddaughter's inheritance: ______ HERNANDO
"What are you ______ with Lorna's bag of short bread cookies?"...DOONE..
QE 2 reigns over the UK but cannot _____ ..... ROULETTE.
My nosey neighbor constantly_____ PRIZE.
Happy Mundane to all.
Big Fat FIW - Like OKL et.al., I had ZEPHeR; Compound that with TRILOGY OF hoRROR...
ReplyDeleteThe latter never changed really bollixing-up the middle bits. It's Monday, right? [I was told there'd be no math].
Hi All!
Nice, if not names heavy (hey, who you callin' a newbie IM? :-)), puzzle David. 4 grid-spanners is impressive. Congrats on the LAT debut.
Boomer - you're playing golf already? Glad you're feeling better.
//I buy 12 decks at a time to practice manipulation magic -- I really suck at it.
WOs: NA but there should have been a few :-)
ESPs: KOTB, LORDE,... //we can keep naming names
Fav: KATZ - I loves me a good sandwich (with macaroni side salad & a pickle. Maybe a couple of chips) Kenny & Ziggy's is my go-to.
Anyone read FLN re: XENON? I really didn't know TRIPLE WORD SCORE was going to be today. #Kismet
{B+, A}
C, Eh! Heard about Schitt's Creak running away with it. I've only seen a few episodes. Maybe it's time for a little more.
Back at it.
Cheers, -T
Schitts creek, seen em all. Very funny show.
DeleteHusker, Merriam-Webster doesn't like your Muzjiks -- just Muzhiks.
ReplyDeleteJust realized that when reading "Michelle YEOH," I was picturing Sandra Oh. Oops. InaneHiker's Crouching Tiger comment caused me to look her up.
Thanks for the puzzle, David and for the great write-up Boomer. I find myself very much agreeing with Irish Miss on this one. While I enjoyed the CW, a Monday puzzle with more than twenty proper nouns is an anomaly and one with which many less-than-experienced solvers are going to struggle. This criticism, however, is more an issue for the editor than the constructor. The three fifteen-letter theme answers are a great achievement any day of the week. Kudos for that.
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ReplyDeleteI thought this Monday grid rather crunchy.
HYUNDAIs...these South Korean cars have a ten year powertrain warranty. Hard to go wrong with that kind of warranty. My ex and one of my sons both drive a Santa Fe, they like them.
Desper-Otto....good idea not driving too much on RFs...only supposed to go 50 miles...plus, they CAN be patched IF the puncture is entirely on the tread, if it’s anywhere near the sidewall you’re looking at a new tire. If they are worn then you will probably want 2.
A little crunchy for Monday but FIR, so no complaints. I am a relative newbie(IM’s comment) but the perps helped with the plethora of names.
ReplyDeleteBryson put on 40 pounds, and it’s obviously all muscle! Putting didn’t require strength, but it sure was impressive.
FLN to CED re Inglorious Basterds. We heard how good it was from friends but didn’t see the title written out. So, we rented Inglorious Bastards and couldn’t figure out why, 1/2 hour into the film we hadn’t seen Christopher Walz or Brad Pitt. We finally figured out we were watching the wrong movie! We then got Inglorious BastErds and enjoyed it thoroughly, despite having to close my eyes a time or two.
Thanks for a great debut, David, and thank you for the usual entertaining tour, Boomer.
Well I found a golfer who heard the word, steroid, and Bryson DeChambeau in the same sentence. Hopefully just a slip. Bryson* has already been accused of illegal enhancement. I didn't stick around for awards but Mr Wolff being upset that he lost shows honesty. Most hide it. Money for US Open is the last thing he's a thinking about. Winning is a lifetime achievement. Fortunately he has a lifetime to achieve it.
ReplyDelete"-SAY! Don’t make me guess what you are thinking!". Social media disease: vagueness. We had an IT motto: information denseness and redundancy encouraged. My pp: failure to use AM/PM for time. Also, not knowing directions eg East/West.
I pray Abejo pulls through. Very nice man.
WC
**Yes, Wendy, Bryson's putter was on steroids.
Hand up a bit too many proper names for my taste. It seems that Mondays get more of this than other days? Hand up wanted Y in TALLYER. NELLE/LORDE probably the main Natick crossing for me. But I FIR and enjoyed the TRIPLE theme.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, here I was honored to be able to spend some time with Ralph NADER
NADER is one of my greatest heroes. In part because of his tireless work on behalf of the public interest. But even more so: He teaches the wisdom of everyone being a good citizen and sharing in the work rather than just admiring heroes!
Wendy
ReplyDeleteTalk about the wrong movie. When I was a kid my Mom dropped me and my cousin off at a large downtown movie theater (all extinct) to see a matinee filled with MGM cartoons. Instead the feature was a poorly dubbed Japanese movie about a fire breathing giant black and white dinosaur firestorming Tokyo. We thought it was so hilarious, laughing and making a commotion we both got physically thrown out of the theater.
From Yesterday:
ReplyDeleteYellowrocks thank you for the kind words about my GEISHA FAN photos. I am honored that you took the time to make it a learning moment about Korean GEISHAs.
Wilbur Charles thank you for the comments about my DC/RFK STADIUM photos of the Washington Senators. Apparently there were two different Washington Senators teams. This was the second set. As you note, they left to go to Dallas. Learning moment.
AnonT thank you for the kind words about my Edgerton XENON wizard photo. Good for you for winning Scrabble with that word. People should know the names of the naturally occurring elements. Especially one that is so important commercially.
Thanks to you and Husker Gary I spent more time searching our storage unit and managed to find my childhood photos taken with my home-made XENON strobe units!
Here are some of my Stop Action XENON Strobe photos from my teen years!
The first one of me smashing a jar with a hammer is probably the clearest. The next photos are with my high school lady friend Susan. I was helping her get extra credit in physics class. I was afraid I did not have them because they were Polaroids. Somehow I had copies!
But the one I am most proud of is at the end: A Wood Frog jumping in a multiple image caught with my home made XENON flash unit! Back then in high school I was working at the Smithsonian during vacations in the Division of Reptiles and Amphibians. I planned to make this my career. Life had other plans!
From Yesterday:
ReplyDeleteBobbi are you still wanting to know how to make your name show up in the Crossword Corner when you post?
When you are logged in, you can edit your profile here
Be sure to enter your "Display Name" as Bobbi.
Be sure to check the box "Share my profile"
You can also enter other information that allows people to know more about you and how to contact you.
Does that work for you?
Irish Miss/WendyBird,
ReplyDeleteI stand corrected...
(I am not going to argue with anyone
who watched that movie, & actually enjoyed it!)
Boomer, you have a Pepsi can with no date?
It might be worth something, Pepsi cans
have had dates since they were actually in tin cans!
I wonder if this was David Distenfelds seed entry...
ALso, with all the 3's, why are there four theme answers?
I liked this puzzle and am impressed by and distressed by the same things many of you were.
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Enjoyed your write-up today, Boomer, as usual. Yes the Hyundai Santa Fe is a fine vehicle. It is classified as "midsize" rather than "compact" so theoretically it has more room in it. Unfortunately, the 4-cylinder engine is a tad weak but the 6-cylinder engine is a gas hog. I have found a 4-cylinder engine actually works just fine in all around-town city driving and freeway driving situations. One thing I don't like about all Asian cars is the leg and foot ergonomics for the driver, which contribute to ankle fatigue for tall guys like you and me. Sit in a chair with your lower legs out at about a 45 degree angle and heels on the floor; now raise and hold your right foot up in an almost vertical orientation, which is what you have to do to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal down too much. See how difficult it is, and how soon your shin muscles will tire. To me it is an unnatural posture. In German cars the pedals are further away so you don't have to bend at the knee so much and can stretch your legs more; far more comfortable and less tiring. Would you consider trying out an Audi Q5, BMW X5, or Porsche Cayenne? Actually, the Subaru Outback would be worth having a look at, too.
I love talking about cars, but I think I've said enough on that topic for today.
I saw Michelle YEOH in Crouching Tiger and in Crazy Rich Asians and she was excellent in both. I could tell stories about the trials and tribulations, and laughs, she and the other actors in Crouching Tiger had in trying to speak understandable Mandarin Chinese.
Good wishes to Abejo and to you all.
CED, I, too, have been looking for the third layer in the theme. Would three theme answers instead of four have been the third layer, or would that have detracted from the puzzle?
ReplyDeleteI bought a 2017 Toyota Corolla to replace my wrecked Sentra. So far I really like it. I would have preferred red, blue or white as opposed to gray. I have fully recovered. I am waiting to see what my share of the medical co-payment is.
Zoom meeting tonight.
Boomer and C.C. I made a mistake about the Santa Fe having the option of a 6-cylider engine. It doesn't.
ReplyDeleteActually, the most important factor, I need not tell you, is that you drove it and liked it.
Jayce - you know my play-toy is an '86 Alfa Spider; We could talk cars all day long. #Zoom-zoom!
ReplyDeleteFor those who can't drive a stick - a primer [Laverne & Shirley].
And there you are. -T
//loved the pix Picard!
At the outset, Prayers and good wishes for the recovery of Abejo and Jayce's DIL.
ReplyDeleteGreat Poems OwenKL, really, really liked them, Thank you.
Thank you Mr. David Distenfield on your great debut, with a triple themed puzzle. Thank you Boomer for your informative, and tongue-in-cheek review.
That done, I had a tough time with this Monday puzzle, probably with the proper names. I did not know KOTB, ( dont watch the news, too depressing ...) and others, like LORDE, KATZ and NELLE .... even Michelle's last name was a fog. I did know of ZEPHYR because my uncle owned a british FORD ZEPHYR, in 1964. But I never bothered to find out what the word meant. But I managed to finish OK.
Jayce, and of course Anon T, I admire your love of , and discussion of, cars. What fun! I confess my car, whichever one it is, only serves to get me from here to there. I have had Toyotas for years but only out of apathy. I go get another one at the same place I got the last one.
ReplyDeleteSomeone speak to me of names. Yes, they drive me crazy if I don’t know them, but why would newbies have more trouble with names than the rest for us. If a newbie is into pop culture and the puzzle is about pop culture they would have a much easier time than I would!
ReplyDeleteI had heard such good things about Inglorious Basterds and started to watch it on cable years ago. After a while I just turned it off. It was way too ugly for me.
ReplyDeleteAt some point a while back, Budweiser started advertising a "Born On" date on their beer cans. I went out to a Jewish deli/restaurant with Barbara's brother and his family. I order a beer with my lunch. That seemed to be an unusual request since the waitress brought a cold can to the table. I started drinking it but it didn't taste very good. I accidentally looked at the date on the can and it was more than a year old.
The best Budweiser I every had was at their brewery in the San Fernando valley north of here. They had a fancy fairground surrounding the brewery and several kiosks where you could get a couple of free sample cups of Bud or Michelob. It was wonderfully cold and fresh, right from the brewery.
I have been delighted with the three Toyotas we have owned; two Camrys and a Yaris. Unexciting but comfortable and reliable.
ReplyDeleteMy first car was my most exciting Christmas present ever, a used 1950 Ford V-8. My parents had tied a ribbon running from my stocking and going out though the basement to the garage. I thought I had died and gone to heaven.
~ Keep calm and carry on...
Good evening, all. Thought I was going to breeze through a LAT's Monday offering but the new guy, David had other ideas. Thanks for the challenge, David and welcome. DNF WEES the names and I just couldn't get past YO_O, Ne__E and _orde. I kept thinking YOYO, your on your own and couldn't flush the thought. Had blank atz and blank otb for the longest time. I was looking at a headline on the computer and who would show up? Hoda Kotb. You can't make it up. Thanks Boomer for the 'splainin'. Finally, the sun back and mid 80's. Been a lot of rain on the peninsula. Have a great evening.
ReplyDeleteHoping the best for Abejo and DIL
Since we're doing "Car Talk", the everyday driver is a compact SUV. The play toy is a 2006 Honda S2000.
ReplyDeleteWow, a Honda S2000! Whoo!
ReplyDeleteAs for a compact SUV, I had the pleasure of driving our DIL's 2017 Honda CRV and was surprised at how roomy it felt to me. I could get in and out of it easily and didn't feel hemmed in or cramped at all. Even with its 2.4 liter engine (they have a 2.1 liter turbocharged engine now) it had plenty of pep. If my wife insists on an SUV for our next car, I would be totally amenable to it. Or a Subaru Outback. The thing about the Outback is that it is classified as a station wagon, which I think means less expensive insurance than an SUV.
If I had my druthers, though, I would want a Camry XLE Hybrid. I think, speaking from experience, the Toyota hybrid technology is superb. The big fat downside is the driver's seat-to-pedal ergonomics, which seem to be designed for people less than 5'8" tall: the pedals are so close, even with seat fully rearward, that you have to bend your leg so much that it is hard to point your foot high enough to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal down. Tough on long trips. Fortunately (or unfortunately?) 95% of our driving is city driving around town in excursions that last no longer than an hour.
Tony, I loves me an Alfa Spyder but LW would never go for it. That Giulia is pretty nice, too! Doesn't your wife drive one?
Take care, all.
I forgot to say our son drives a BMW 230i hard-top convertible 2-seater which he loves and which suits him to a T. He allowed me to drive it once, which was fun, but it is very low and a tight fit. Getting into it was a struggle but once I was ensconced it was pretty nice. Getting out was easier. If I were 30 years younger I would likely make it my toy. The convertible hard-top is a conversation piece in itself.
ReplyDeleteJayce, I have the opposite problem. I have to move the seat far forward to reach the pedals and to see what is right in front of my car. Then the post between the doors obscures more of my blind spot. I am learning to cope with it. Since I was injured by the airbag, I notice that this position brings me so very close to the airbag.
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