Saturday Themeless by Peter Wentz
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| Pete Wentz, wife Alyx with son Simon |
Today's constructor is Pete Wentz. Here is his response to my request for information on him and this puzzle.
This is a picture of me, my lovely wife Alyx and the toddler asleep on my back is our son Simon. I'm an architect living in Raleigh, NC. Outside of crosswords, I'm an avid fan of podcasts, ultimate frisbee (whenever it's safe again), and walks around town.
It should be no surprise to anyone that this grid was seeded at 3-Down and continued on from there. I'm glad it found a home in the LA Times. I don't have much else to add on the puzzle itself, other than to highlight Daniel INOUYE. He's not as well-known as many long-serving senators of his era, but consistently being on the right side of history is perhaps of less interest to popular media. I'm hoping this helps undo that trend in some small way.Congrats on a fun Labor Day! We spent most of the day in the state museum park ourselves. I go by both Peter & Pete, so it's whatever you prefer.
Thanks everyone, and hope you enjoyed the solve!
I really enjoyed the solve and laughed hard at Pete's "seed entry". Goat cheese was new learning and Pete's baseball mini theme was a very welcome feature.
Let's see what our architect has drawn up for us today:
1. Gibberish: BABBLE - or Jibber Jabber
7. Out of breath: PUFFING.
14. Hawaiian senator in six decades: INOUYE - From 1963 - 2012. He was also a decorated WWII veteran who lost an arm in combat
15. Honeybunch: CUTIE PIE.
16. Revolting person?: RIOTER.
17. A rainout might be rescheduled on one: OPEN DATE - MLB games can remain uplayed if the results would have no affect on the season
18. Neutral areas, briefly: DMZS - Thousands take this tour to the Korean DMZ each year
19. Mad man's comment: I'M UPSET - not to be confused with the last clue 60. More than enthusiastic: MAD
21. "Wayne's World" rejoinder: WAY
22. Jocund: MERRY - Have you ever dropped this word into conversation?
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27. Dramatist Edward with three Pulitzers and three Tonys: ALBEE.
29. Parts of lunch combos: SIDES - Hmmm... I'm at the 36. Diner seating option: COUNTER and have to choose between French fries and broccoli
31. One often paid to talk: RAT.
32. Herd or host: THRONG - I love blogging here for a host of reasons
34. Sheltered area: COVE.
35. 2011 film set in Brazil: RIO
40. Caucasian native: HUN.
41. Truculent god: ARES - A god of war would probably be "eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant." I've never used this word in conversation either.
43. Goat cheese: CHEVRE.
44. Key used to stop: ESC.
45. Engendered: LED TO.
47. Situation for a sac bunt, maybe: ONE ON
48. Try to get clean: REHAB.
50. Oil-free salad dressing property: NO FAT - LO FAT held up my solve
52. Pat: DAB.
53. Some near homers: FLY OUTS - Talk about getting robbed!
55. Mythical Spartan queen: LEDA - Here 'ya go
56. Family meal entrée: POT ROAST.
59. Former Sears Holdings holdings: K-MARTS - Only 95 total Sears and K-Mart stores still open
61. Greek courtier associated with a symbolic sword: DAMOCLES - Is COVID-19 a sword of DAMOCLES hanging over our heads?
56. Family meal entrée: POT ROAST.
59. Former Sears Holdings holdings: K-MARTS - Only 95 total Sears and K-Mart stores still open
61. Greek courtier associated with a symbolic sword: DAMOCLES - Is COVID-19 a sword of DAMOCLES hanging over our heads?
62. Bespectacled friend of Peppermint Patty: MARCIE.
63. Checked legs for arms?: FRISKED - Gotta love this clue, Pete! Joe Friday FRISKED many a suspect to see if he was carrying any arms (weapons).
64. Whirlpools: EDDIES.
Down:
1. Cardinal fan, say?: BIRD WATCHER - My family has a HOST of St. Louis Cardinal baseball fans. At our house we just love to see them visit our feeders. Male and female always appear together.
26. Lou Brock's 938: STOLEN BASES - A favorite among my family's St. Louis Cardinal fans.
2. Delta Tau Chi, in a 1978 film title: ANIMAL HOUSE - It cost $3M to make and returned $160M
3. Spirited midday meal?: BOOZY BRUNCH - Pete's seed entry? 😉
4. Reservations: BUTS.
5. Cleaning chemical: LYE.
6. Like "Halloween" music: EERIE - 30 seconds of the one I always think of
4. Reservations: BUTS.
5. Cleaning chemical: LYE.
6. Like "Halloween" music: EERIE - 30 seconds of the one I always think of
7. Litter member: PUPPY DOG.
8. Salt Lake City players: UTES - JAZZ had to be put back on the bench
9. Delicate chip, e.g.: FINESSE SHOT - The best I've ever seen!
10. Gave, as a script line: FED TO - "...or not to be"
11. Home brewer's creation: IPA and 42. Darker-than-amber brews: STOUTS.
12. Minor matter: NIT.
13. "Well, look at that!": GEE.
15. Longtime "Today" co-anchor: COURIC - Her first day
20. Title less common nowadays: MRS - My granddaughter is getting married in two weeks. I wonder if she will stay Emma Craig or become MRS. Colten White.
22. Creation hurdle: MENTAL BLOCK - O.K., she follows the yellow brick road to Oz and now what?
24. Overseas "Later!": ARRIVEDERCI - Literally means "until we meet again" The song ARRIVEDERCI Roma was inspired by the legend that tossing a coin into the Trevi Fountain means you will return to Rome. I did. I haven't.
22. Creation hurdle: MENTAL BLOCK - O.K., she follows the yellow brick road to Oz and now what?
24. Overseas "Later!": ARRIVEDERCI - Literally means "until we meet again" The song ARRIVEDERCI Roma was inspired by the legend that tossing a coin into the Trevi Fountain means you will return to Rome. I did. I haven't.
25. Track support: RAILROAD TIE - Buster Keaton solves a RAILROAD TIE problem
28. Long division?: EON - Oh, division of time
30. Fire chief's concern, briefly: EVACuation of a building
33. "Unfaithful" actor: GERE.
30. Fire chief's concern, briefly: EVACuation of a building
33. "Unfaithful" actor: GERE.
37. Facial description in a classic holiday song: RED NOSED - An old pun about a communist weather forecaster has the punchline, "Rudolph The Red knows rain dear"
39. Golfer Crenshaw: BEN.
46. Bard's "frequently": OFT - I had to memorize Mark Antony's speech in 1963 and I still remember pieces of it
49. Locks that are picked: AFROS.
51. Tour guide's badge words: ASK ME.
54. Maya Lin's alma mater: YALE.
55. Hog product: LARD - This is what set my MIL's apple pies off from any others I have ever eaten
56. Adobe doc suffix: PDF - Here ya go
57. Silently propel: OAR - Oar, Oar Oar your boat, gently down the stream
58. Sarcastic "Thanks for sharing": TMI - "Wow, those are great pictures from your colonoscopy!", said no one ever.
Comments welcome:
Note from C.C.:
Happy 61st birthday to dear Steve, our faithful guide for so many years. He's also an amazing foodie. Last time I mentioned my discovery of shio koji, which is already a fixture in Steve's cooking.
Steve and Jill, June 12, 2016
Tea at The Queen Mary
ReplyDeleteGood morning. Thank you, Peter and Husker Gary !
Happy Birthday, Steve !
Loved, loved, loved this puzzle. (Channeling Roger Ebert)
Right off the bat, I knew INOUYE but couldn't recall OU or UO. Then DMZ, ALBEE, ESC and REHAB were more than enough to prove ANIMAL HOUSE which was the second entry I keyed in.
I loved seeing FINESSE SHOT for "Delicate chip" and then "Golfer Crenshaw" shortly after that. Ben grew up and learned to play golf in windy Texas. I remember and often quote his short game advice: "Get it on the ground as soon as possible." (Husker, agreed about that Tiger Woods chip shot at the Masters!)
Just a couple of corrections along the way as I made steady progress, section by section. hUFFING before PUFFING (thank you, big bad wolf), SoDaS before SIDES (thinking that 2 or more were eating lunch combos), and the big one that caused the most delay: WAe before WAY.
My last entry to fill all the squares was the E in ARRIVEDERCI. Was pretty certain that it was an E, but if the category is Mythical Spartan Names, I won't be asking Alex for even the $200 answer.
So I threw in the E and did not get the Congratulations! message. What ? !!! Why not ? Looked at the clock. 20:13. Started scanning the grid looking for typos. Took almost 9 minutes to see that I had WAe instead of WAY ! BOOZY not BOOZe. D'OH !
Perfect funny clip for Gibberish, Husker Gary. Uh, no on Jocund. Ditto, Truculent.
Poor Peppermint Patty. MARCIE always called her Sir.
That's enough from me for now.
See all y'all later 'n at.
ReplyDeleteOOPS. Another error: Great review today, Husker Gary !
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteSo close. So close. But not to be. Bzzzzzzt! Tried WAE (Hi, TTP), but realized it had to be WAY. Tried DAN before BEN elbowed in. [Dan Crenshaw is a Texas congressman.] I'll call out the HUN/CUTIE PIE couplet before IM gets here. But my downfall came when I WAGged an S for that C in CHEVRE. [Hey, it would still have been pronounced the same...] Thanx, Peter (is Simon smiling in that photo?) and Husker (a belated "happy birthday" to you).
BIRD WATCHER: We have cardinals at our bird feeder every day. On the other arm of the shepherd's crook we've got a hummingbird feeder. Yesterday some non-humming bird with a yellowish breast sat there and sipped simple syrup for about 15 minutes. The resident hummies were not enthused, frequently dive-bombing the intruder.
Today is electronic recycling day. The old XP box, keyboard, screen, mouse, speakers, a couple of non-working flip-fones, and a pair of rechargeable tool batteries are already packed in the car ready for that final trip.
Happy birthday, Steve. (Hope you're still reading.)
Good, tough one today for me. Took 23:33. I knew Inouye, Damocles, and Arrivederci, but couldn't spell any of them. I had "liquid lunch" before "boozy brunch," and "not" before "way."
ReplyDeleteDNF. Got it all except a big swath in the NE. Gave in and hit red letters. Discovered the top two words were not PantING and sUgarPIE. Once those bad letters were eliminated, the rest fell into place. CHEVRE was an unknown to me, so needed ESP.
ReplyDeleteARRIVA DERCI, Oh my love,
I'm off to find a secret COVE.
If this map
Is true fact,
I should find a treasure trove!
At the ANIMAL HOUSE frat
A BOOZY BRUNCH is a nat!
THRONGS in thongs
Bawling songs,
And eating tofu that's NO FAT!
{B, B-.}
Good Morning.
ReplyDeleteGreat start to this dreary weekend. (Not complaining--we need the rain.) Thanks, Pete. And thanks for sharing with Gary. I thought this was going to be a DNF for me after my first pass. Plucking away at the low-hanging fruit saved the day.
Great Review, Gary. Thank you. Belated birthday wishes. I hope you are celebrating all week-end. I had the same changes our Corner neighbors and you have already mentioned.
Happy Birthday, Steve. Again, thank you for all your time making so much fun for the rest of us. I hope you'll sub now and again.
Abeyo: <3 <3
Have a sunny day, even if you have to provide your own sunshine, as we do here in the Chicago area.
PS I can't believe the hours you tech guys keep!!!! ;-)
Wow! What a puzzle! The NE was a struggle for me, too, but just before I gave up to read Husker Gary's excellent review, the answers started to come. (I'm looking at you PUFFING, OPEN DATE, COVE, GAS BILL.) Some spelling uncertainty with "foreign" words, but perps helped with those. Not being a fan of Wayne's World, I surprisingly didn't hesitate to put in WAY. FIR with a feeling of accomplishment. I'M not UPSET, I'm MERRY. Thanks, Peter!
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday, Steve! And good to see you today, OwenKL. Greetings to all from Atlanta.
Like TTP I love this puzzle! Peter is a master of the themeless, with 32 of his 37 NYT publications on Friday and Saturday. This is his 4th Saturday out of 8 LATs. Most amazingly, it was not a frustrating journey, with only CHEVRE needing brainpower. I learned that when my son was the beer, wine, and cheese manager at a WHOLE FOODS . My eraser was needed to take out SUGAR PIE because I love the song I CAN'T HELP MYSELF .
ReplyDeleteThank you, Peter and Gary.
I'm with ATLGranny- the NE was definitely my hardest corner- I definitely had misdirects starting with VIEIRA before COURIC leading to ALEE before COVE. Also had ALE before IPA.
ReplyDeleteI think MRS. is less common nowadays because even if young women change their names
when they get married they are more likely to go by MS.
WEES about WAE before WAY - those guys in "Wayne's World" talk so silly I wouldn't have been surprised if they spelled it WAE!
I like CHEVRE - but mostly as a spread with crackers. Just a short medical moment - some people who are lactose intolerant who can't eat cow cheese can eat CHEVRE - thought to be the difference in some of the proteins not just the lactose!
I have never used the word "Jocund" - just read it or heard it in Shakespeare plays - but it is in my collection of words that I just like by the way it sounds and looks!
Thanks HG for all the fun clips and music- and to Peter for the puzzle!
Musings
ReplyDelete-Thanks for all the lovely birthday wishes. It made me feel jocund and not even a little truculent
-At my birthday party in Lincoln last night, granddaughter told me she is going to keep her name and not become a Mrs._____. Makes perfect sense to me.
-We took a “shortcut” on the way home that turned out to be a maze and took 5 minutes longer
-Cool, wet weather continues but it is so much better than the heat we had a week ago and things have greened up again but golf courses, while loving the rain, have been shut down
Oh and the NE I also had JAZZ before UTES - thinking the mad man's answer was going to have something with CRAZY in it!
ReplyDeleteGood morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteFLN - - I'm glad -T and TTP relieved the watch properly; wouldn't want anyone to make off with the blog.
Got 'er done with only 6 cells needing white-out. Had 'ore' before NIT, 'panting' before PUFFING, and 'era' before EON. No help was needed.
RAILROAD TIE - I think the Brits and Canadians call them sleepers.
LARD - My Dad's idea of a mid morning coffee break snack (tweede Frühstück or "2nd breakfast") was to have LARD smeared on pumpernickel rye.
HUN - I don't see the specific connection with Caucasian or the Caucasus. Before invading Western Europe they seemed to have come from areas north of the Black Sea.
I liked your puzzle, Pete so keep them coming when you have the time.
Fine intro, HG, always a pleasure to get your take.
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteThis was a perfect Saturday puzzle, IMO. It was challenging, yet solver friendly. Most of the long fill fell into place fairly quickly, paving the way to an angst-free solve. I think my only w/o was Panting before Puffing and perps took care of any unknowns. I liked the No Fat ~ Lard and Led To ~ Fed To duos but DO’s Hun~ Cutie Pie didn’t make my radar. The Lou Brock entry was timely, albeit sad. I thought the overall cluing was top notch, with the clue for Frisked winning the Gold!
Thanks, Peter, for a first-rate solve and for stopping by and sharing some background and thanks, HG, for the usual razzle- dazzle commentary, links, and visuals.
Happy Birthday, Steve, I hope you celebrate in style! 🎂🎈🎁🎊🎉
Have a great day.
Oops, forgot to wish Steve a Happy Birthday! You've earned a special day. Thanks again for your long connection and contributions to this site.
ReplyDeleteSuper Saturday. Thanks for the fun, Peter and HuskerG.
ReplyDeleteI finished this CW in good time for a Saturday; the NW was the last to fill, probably because this Canadian did not know INOUYE (although I think he has appeared here before?).
But I arrived here to discover that I FIWed and for precisely that reason. My BRUNCH was Blozt, not BOOZY. ("Wayne's World" rejoinder was Wat not WAY and that senator was Inluye.)
I had a minor NIT with 3D clue; I think of Lunch as mid-day and BRUNCH as late morning. Perps soon set me straight.
Hand up for Panting before PUFFING, Sodas before SIDES, Lo FAT before NO FAT. I wanted Jazz but held off because of the double Z's (they were needed at 3D LOL).
Lee was too short for 34A; COVE fit the spot.
There were many baseball clues; I wondered if this was a CC CW (my newspaper does not credit the constructor!)
I was thinking initially of Santa, not Rudolph, at 37D. We had MERRY too.
Patriot came to mind before RIOTER, after our discussion of a few days ago. (I have United Empire Loyalist ancestors (as a result of Hessian conscription).
Happy Birthday Steve!
Wishing you all a great day.
"It was impossible to solve until it wasn't" Someone here, I forget who or I would definitely make the attribution, used that phrase to describe another Saturday puzzle and it applies to this one, too.
ReplyDeleteValerie and I started in the NW and go nowhere fast. We roamed around a bit and ultimately caught a break with Lou Brock's 938 and Chevre. I know baseball, she knows cheese. We were then able to work our way clockwise until we found ourselves heading from 8 o'clock to 2 o'clock. That left us where we had tried to start - with an empty NW quadrant. Valerie then "got" Birdwatchers, I "got" Way and Animal House and everything fell into place with Peter's seed entry being among the last to fall.
Chip: chocolate? broken dinnerware? card games? fried potatoes? Highway patrol? Intel Inside? Chip 'N Dale? Oh, golf. I know of several people here who likely went right to that. We didn't.
Enough babbling for now. Perhaps more later today
Peter almost stumped me today, with the NE the last to fall. I had a MENTAL BLOCK on the Today show host (PAULEY, VIERRA, GUMBEL, or COURIC), waffled between PANTING & PUFFING, UTES & JAZZ, ALEE & COVE, and SALAD, SOUP, or SIDES.
ReplyDeleteCHEVRE- that's a new one for me-perps. Lemonade- no brainpower for me, as I'd never heard of it.
ANIMAL HOUSE- talk about a BOOZY "BUNCH". That fill was an easy one and opened the west side. That was my first entry.
CHIP (FINESSE) SHOTS- separate the golfers from the duffers. I'd rather have a 100yd shot from the rough than a 20yd shot over a sand trap to a close pin placement.
INOUYE- I knew but had to wait for the perps to spell his name correctly.
RIO, YALE, GERE- didn't know but were easy guesses after a couple of perps.
FRISKED- every time I go through TSA that happens to me due to my knee replacement.
MRS. vs MS.- I don't think most women go by either; they just say their name. In the South most people just say "Miss", not "Mizz", if addressing and older woman.
Great write up Gary and ARRIVEDERCI Steve.
See this is where the eye test is way more accurate than sabermetrics: Most sabermetricians will tell you that Lou Brock is NOT a HOF'er. I was only 7 when the Cubs traded him, but remember my father saying we'd live to regret this one. Boy was he right! HE was a 4 Tool player. The only thing he couldn't do was Hit for Power. Anyone who saw him play knows he was a HOF'er. R.I.P. Lou!
ReplyDeleteI assume this puzzle was scheduled a long time ago, but it was nice to see Lou Brock's name in there.
ReplyDeleteThank you Peter/Pete for a definitely Saturday worthy puzzle. The upper right quadrant was, as they say, a sea of white at the onset, so the left/west filled from top to bottom first, but not without a lot of effort. Had to remember the good senator's correct spelling, ou or uo. I had detox before rehab and triples before flyouts. Once the left half was complete it was a slow march from bottom to top on the right half. I had two on before one on at 47A and had to be patient to finally get chevre with all perps. I knew Ben and stolen bases was easy being an admirer of Lou Brock who just passed away this week. R.I.P. friend. Finally to the most difficult NE. Couric helped getting cutie and the rest was one square at a time for an ultimate very satisfying FIR. Glad to see college football back. Go Irish. My grandson is starting his junior year and also on the fencing team. U.S. Open Tennis Women's and Men's final on today and tomorrow. I'm picking Azeranka and Thiem, but with my luck it will be Osaka and Medvedev.
ReplyDeleteJust under an hour. Superb Saturday for me ..... (** pats self on back **).....but was hung up in the NE corner a bit. Panting/PUFFING held on stubbornly then I caught my breath......the N in Finesseshot finally parsed with an alphabet run. What the heck are foul ups?...perps finally gave me FLYOUTS. Hope no one drives back to work after a BOOZYBRUNCH. (is this a thing?). Also soup/SIDE, alee/COVE, ale/IPA
ReplyDeleteARRIVEDERCI...from..vedere (to see)...riveredere (to see again)....ci (us: as a direct object). In 6 years at university I never heard nor used that phrase. Ciao (used all over Europe) and ci vediamo (literally "let's see us") our most common terms of departure.
But wait!
Gossip columnist for the Vatican's "Osservatore Romano"
Father Guido Sarducci
It's Saturday so "Mad men" must be misdirection, right?. What would Don Draper say? I'm handsome?, a mad (insane) person often doesn't admit it I'm normal? Nope I over-thought it, simply mad (angry) I'M UPSET.
All these long years I thought he was "Rudolph, the REDNOSE reindeer." After pulling out bunches of graying hair, finally a head slap. Just add the D, dummy!
im returning the ______, it's all gassed up. ...TRUCULENT.
Join the convent again ____ REHAB.
"Et tu?" Last words before J. Cæsar was ___ ...OFT.
Film about a subdued protester "Easy ____ " RIOTER.
Cold but sunny one today. HBD Steve..at 61, a Cornerite teenager
Apparently JOCUND has the same root as "joke". Learning moment. Challenging but fun and fair Saturday!
ReplyDeleteI learned INOUYE as a child in 1973 during the Watergate hearings. Haldeman and Ehrlichman were represented by the lawyer John J. Wilson. Wilson did not like how INOUYE had questioned his clients. He used a racial slur against the Hawaiian born World War II hero INOUYE. It made an impression on this child that I still remember.
Husker Gary thank you for the learning moment about MAYA LIN getting only a B from YALE for her Vietnam Memorial design! Also, Happy Birthday!
Here are my photos of the Moving Wall version of the MAYA LIN memorial when it came to Santa Barbara.
Has anyone else experienced the Moving Wall? I have photos of the real one, too.
Count me as one of the thousands who have visited the DMZ in North Korea.
Has anyone else here experienced that DMZ? It is really eerie. Koreans are not allowed to go there.
So sorry to hear about Abejo. Any more news?
Thanks for the photos.
DeleteWell, I was certain at first that Pete(r) had done me in; murder most foul.
ReplyDeleteThe entire east coast was a pristine sea of white when I finished the first trip through. There was some fill scattered around the west but not enough to engender optimism. Finally ANIMAL HOUSE fell and shortly afterward the west was completely filled. It still took another 15 minutes of skull sweat to finish the rest. I just knew I was going to have trouble for a few weeks; what else can you expect from a month where Friday the 13th falls on a Sunday?
CHEVRE is definitely not in my wheelhouse. Brand new to me; perps all the way.
How come it’s often PUPPY DOG but never kitten cat? (Yeah, yeah, I know. There’s always kitty cat but that doesn’t count. :P)
Wanted honey pie before CUTIE PIE. I admit I like honey.
Way too many sports references for this sport-challenged guy, but growing up near St Louis, I know Lou Brock. RIP.
Well, I have already been up for over an hour and this is all I have accomplished. Better go do something.
Mask up. Be safe.
ReplyDeleteI had the S and inked Slaws. A type of SIDE. Too much mayo in typical cole claw, the bane of Wilbur dining(c tuna sandwich)
For those folk who followed Lemonade's link they'd be aware of Lou's 938. I tipped off the J folk.
Tiger's "Better than most" chip at the Masters was artfully FINESSEd. I didn't see Gary's Tiger link ???
I'm guessing the "Today" clue was as easy for most as the baseball was for me? And VV(Hi MM+Val)
Re. Maya Lin and the B. So much for subjectiveness.
The LARD vs cholesterol issue has been shown to be unproven
Yes too, my details of my prostate biopsy (2) are a classic TMI
Owen, knowing that crowd I'd say they are "eschewing all NO FAT".
Right on, JJM; The stat I like is runs scored.
Shakers I'm going with Zverev and Osaka. Best match is still Andy Murray's.
RayO, lol+
I definitely had bumps along the way to the FIR. I finally settled on WAY after rechecking that the clue implied BOOZY.
I started with gasping/PUFFING.
WC
Picard, did you know of Pfc Breck? 5/28/68 was right in the thick of the post Tet action. I'd just gotten commissioned on 5/2 and I heard virtually an entire class of 2nd Lt's had died by then.
ReplyDeleteGlad to finally see recognition and appreciation of Vietnam veterans.
WC
Wilber Charles, I threw in Medvedev instead of Zverev to see how many people were paying attention. But to be fair there are not a lot of sports buffs at this site.
ReplyDeleteNot on my wave length today.I couldn't get a toehold, although I did get arrivederci. I see many of you did well. I think I was distracted.
ReplyDeleteMy morning was a list of snafus. When I left to visit Alan my tire warning light went on. I had to add more pressure because it was so cold out. Then I realized I forgot my phone and went home for it. As soon as I started out again my rental car flashed NEEDS MAINTENANCE and the check engine light was on. I stopped in at Enterprise and picked up a different car. Thankfully one was available. I was only 20 minutes late. Then I had an appointment right after lunch which I was able to keep.
Catching up from yesterday, Bill and Barbara, I was sorry to hear Barbara is in the hospital. I wish her a speedy recovery.
Anon T, thanks for the clip about dancing. Since covid cancelled all our dances will I age faster? LOL
The fires in the western states are horrific. I pray for all whose lives and property are in danger.
Shankers and Wilbur: I'll stake my non-existent money on Thiem and Osaka. But you never know!
ReplyDeleteNice puzzle. Thanks Peter and HG!
ReplyDeleteHBD Steve and HG!
I finished it, but I had to phone a friend. As others have said, the NE had me stumped, until I asked Mr Google for help with JOCUND. It’s a new word for me. Also, ALEE got in the way, until I inserted COVE. Also had JAZZ before UTES, but when the former didn’t work, I knew it was the latter. It just took me awhile to make it all fit.
Although there is a bunch of Wite-Out on my grid, (resulting from trial and error), the rest of the puzzle was quite doable for me. I too remembered INOUYE, but I just didn’t know the correct spelling.
From yesterday – Didn’t finish it until after midnight this morning. I actually had to WORK at work yesterday! The horror! The horror! I didn’t get a chance to work on the puzzle AT ALL!
I have just two comments:
1. I agree with –T’s swipe at DALLAS, especially their sports teams! Howsomever, I WAS a Stars fan (Boomer’s erstwhile North Stars), and I was rooting hard for them every step of the way when they won the Stanley Cup in 1999 with Mike Modano and Brett Hull.
2. LEOIII is DEFINITELY a LEO! I read through CMoe’s link trying to find any kind of error. Guess what! There ain’t any!
See you tomorrow --- whenever I get through the Sunday puzzle! Don’t hold your breath!
This one was a no go for me. I got a few answers but not enough to want to continue. Oh, well, another day tomorrow. Thanks for the puzzle, Peter W. Thanks for the write-up, HG.
ReplyDeleteI'll take a CSO at 52a PAT/DAB
I goofed! I recommended some books and the third and fourth are not sequels to Kane and Able, and Prodigal Daughter. The correct sequel, and last book of the trilogy, is Shall We Tell The President. Sorry!
I spent some time with PUPPY DOGS today. Always a pleasant experience.
Happy Saturday!
Late happy birthday to Steve.
ReplyDeleteI so wanted Arizona Cardinals for 1 down.
Sabermetrics, jocund, chèvre where new to me.
The sun is out but still smoky haze in AZ.
I liked this puzzle. I was challenged, entertained, and satisfied. Some great cluing, my favorites being the clues for FRISKED and GAS BILL. My least favorite clue was for HUN and my least favorite fills were SIDES and DMZS. It also seemed to me that BOOZY BRUNCH (as Ray - O - Sunshine said, "is this a thing?") was pure Green Paint. It took me a minute to see REHAB as a verb. ALE became TEA which became IPA. On the whole, a well-made puzzle.
ReplyDeleteI think the reason it is important for someone with atrial fibrillation to take an anti-coagulant is to minimize the risk that the EDDIES coagulate into clots.
If I recall, Irish Miss and others have said that Gibbles potato chips are so good because they're cooked in LARD.
Happy birthday wishes to Steve and Gary, get well wishes to Abejo, and the usual good wishes to you all.
To use a crosswordese term, the air here is definitely ASHY. We have been wearing cheap paper face masks yesterday and so far today; they help a lot to filter out the particles. By the way, the particles are abrasive, so if your car got covered in ash, hose it off, don't wipe it.
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ReplyDeletePeter Wentz and Husker Gary —> 👍🏻👍🏻
BABBLE and ANIMAL HOUSE quickly filled, and I thought, off to the races. Then ARRIVEDERCI and STOLEN BASES. Then the SW fell. And then? A sea of white, which quickly became a Rorschach design after several ink-overs. SHARES/K MARTS; WRITER BLOCK/MENTAL (I kinda questioned that as WRITER is usually WRITER’s. I was looking for another sports reference for 1 down, so my BIRD sat there for a long while ... guess I WAS a bird WATCHER!!
Back in my sales rep/sales manager days, it was common to have a THREE MARTINI 🍸🍸🍸 LUNCH. I guess BOOZY BRUNCH is the Millennial version??!!
I surprisingly spelled INOUYE correctly on the first pass
Liked all of the sports fills: FLY OUTS, ONE ON, STOLEN BASES; FINESSE SHOTS. My FINESSE SHOTS started to falter about the same time I got the YIPS
Love seeing college football!!
Speaking of Sports....
ReplyDeleteSorry Canadian-eh for your Raptors. Announcing teams drive be crazy because they are scripted and don't dare vary. They never mentioned the drama of Theis, the Celtics center, picking up fouls.
Then the irony, his replacement saving the C's and dooming Toronto.
The tennis has an Austrian and a German. First German since the great Boris Becker to go this far. Serena is gone with the baby; did well considering.
On the other side Tin's adopted Ray's and Lightning are SOARing. And I saw TB12 in that uremic orange Bucs uni, ugh. Or is it ICK in xword-dom.
WC
Added thought:
ReplyDeleteAs a Sommelier (okay, a wino!!) I knew Chèvré straight away. Was surprised the clue had no “Frawnch“ reference though. Chèvre is great with Loire Valley Sauvignon Blanc. Sancerre is a well-known region in the eastern most part of the Loire, and Sauv Blanc is the common white grape varietal.
Jayce - - Blood flow is mostly laminar which does not produce eddies, Regions near the aorta can be turbulent. Complicating this is that blood is thixotropic; not Newtonian, so turbulence occurrence is harder to define.
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ReplyDeleteDesper-Otto at 6:58 I have yellow birds that spill the water out of the hummingbird feeder, looked them up in Birds of the Southwest, said they are Western Meadowlarks. Do they have a black V on their chest?
Peter, I had to walk away from your puzzle and do the gardening before coming back to solve the notorious northeast. Once I changed "ale" to IPA, things began to flow. FIR. Thanks for a fine time, and thanks -- with birthday greetings -- to Husker Gary.
ReplyDeleteI think I have guessed Picard's connection to Star Trek. Is there any place he has not boldly gone? (That split infinitive made my dad crazy -- it's "to go boldly"!)
We were just in Omaha and when I was reading comments on my iPhone I noticed some were not able to see the videos I posted. They play fine here on my OSX MacBook but not on my iPhone either. I’ll see if TTP can tell me what to do.
ReplyDeleteI forgot to wish Steve a happy birthday earlier - hope it is a culinary adventure!
ReplyDeleteI have seen the Vietnam Memorial wall in DC and also the visiting one that came to our Capitol a few years ago. During the Vietnam War, I wore one of those POW/MIA bracelets that had a name on it - mine was an MIA- both times I found his name on the wall-a solemn moment - he was never recovered so presumed to have been killed in action when he came down with a plane.
Yuman, thanx for the info. I haven't seen that bird since yesterday, but I'll keep my eyes out. If I seem him, I'll let you know.
ReplyDeleteBusy day, so I didn’t get to it until late this afternoon. It was a worthy challenge and made for a crazy blur of ink, but I FIR with a ton of write-overs. Knowing CHEVRE helped me sort things out.
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ReplyDeleteYesterday I noticed that my RKO video and 1917 trailer were visible on my Windows 10 Lenovo laptop, but not on my iPhone. Also, I couldn’t create any tags on my iPhone ...
BTW, don’t know if you saw my late night post, but we watched Radioactive last night based on your reco’
It was great! Very powerful film
Hi everybody. The sky is hazy and ugly with ash clouds even though most of the fires are miles away. Yuck! At least there is no smoky odor. We're mostly staying inside with the AC running anyway.
ReplyDeleteWe have lots of birds on our back porch since Barbara hung up a bird feeder. (The acrobatic squirrels enjoy it too.) I enjoy the birds and their antics though they're not nearly as pretty as the robins, cardinals and orioles I remember from growing up in northern Virginia.
We visited the original Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington D.C.years ago soon after it was completed. We found it to be the simplest and yet the most emotionally moving of all of the beautiful monuments.
~ Mind how you go...
-T reporting for evening shift :-) #FLN
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Peter - You got me. My Mental BLOCK was Writer and I just couldn't break-up the NE [see: multiple shots in own's foot aka, my try]
Wonderful expo HG. Thanks for yet again another chat w/ the Constructor. WAY!
Well, how 'bout that. We talked about my little-league playin' self's hero Lou Brock earlier this week [RIP Lou] and his STOLEN BASES showed up today. I played by his credo - make it to first (I'd have to get walked 'cuz I sucked at hitting [and power was right out JJM]) w/ only one out & I'll get home by stealing.
//did you know you can't steal in softball? Got called out on for taking second in JSC's [NASA] games.
WO: chop b/f LARD. And, as you can see [above] I was going w/ Baseball @ 1d.
Red Sox, Cubs, and Cards have the most knowable fans.
Fav: I cursed Pete at FRISKED & FLY OUTS - they were clue'd that swell.
{A-, A}
D-O; Wiped the HD on that XP b/f sending it off? I hope.
MManatee - Yep, I was off in Silicon Valley @ 9d; never could ink it. [ibid]
C. Moe - I forgot to mention yesterday's END CAP. Pop was in retail so I knew but thought "how obscure. Only someone like C. Moe would know that." And, you got your cheese pairing today :-)
Big E - 2d was my 1st fill too. It wasn't over when the Germans bomb'd Pearl Harbor
Steve? Who's he?
Oh yeah, useta blog here IIRC.
//Too soon? ;-)
Happy Birthday Steve! You know we love & appreciate you.
Ray-O: I'll raise you a Father Guido Sarducci.
ARREVEDERCI, (and have a wonderful Sat eve all!) -T
-T, I feel for you VIS A VIS not knowing much Sports. BEN Crenshaw would've helped you a lot. UTES, too.
ReplyDeleteI believe you can steal in fast pitch softball but the runner cannot leave until ball leaves pitcher's hand. So, moot.
And… Although German planes did not attack Pearl Harbor the Germans had spied it out and assured Japan that they would declare war upon the attack. With the broken Enigma code the British might very well have known beforehand.
WC
Spitzboov, thanks for that information. It got me to researching and I learned a lot.
ReplyDeleteWC- yes, sadly our Raptors are out for this year. Too many turnovers😒
ReplyDeleteD-O - - Orioles have yellow breasts and frequent Texas. They love nectar.
ReplyDeleteBusy, busy day cleaning garage (YECH!), recycling,dig bath ... Exhausted, I sat down with today's entry. Wow! Finished 3/4 in about half an hour (a record for me!) But caved in on NE. I have NEVER golfed and couldn't remember I Katie COUROC, so the spine was missing. Oh, well ...ready for a hit bath and bed! Oh, I forgot: as a life-long baseball nut, thanks for three baseball referenced clues.
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ReplyDeleteReporting for duty. Dash T and WikWak, you are relieved.