Theme: STRING TRIO (61. Ensemble playing in this puzzle's circles) - String of letters in each theme entry form a string instrument.
17. Sacred, as a promise: INVIOLABLE.
36. University leader: CHANCELLOR.
42. High-ranking foreign diplomat: AMBASSADOR.
Boomer here. Congrats to Joseph A. Gangi's LAT debut.
VIOLA
was a Twins pitcher in the 1987 World Series. My ticket stubs from that
event are now CELLO wrapped. And BASS is a popular Minnesota fish.
Stay stay safe for the holidays ahead.
Across:
5. Farm trough contents: FEED. Pigs will gather around.
13. "Right now!" letters: ASAP. If you say so, I thought it meant as soon as possible,
14. Home for monks: ABBEY. I loved the Beatles "Abbey Road" album cover where they walked in single file in a crosswalk.
16. Lake with Canada's southernmost point: ERIE. The Great Lakes are a wonder of the world. It is amazing how they wind their way from Minnesota to New York.
19. Labyrinthine: MAZY.
20. How a sharp incline rises: STEEPLY. Start at the top and it becomes a ski slope.
21. Steak orders: T BONES.
23. Confer knighthood on: DUB. Don't make fun of my golf game. Thanks.
24. Homer's story of 67-Across: ILIAD. 67. Helen's city: TROY.
26. __ XING: crosswalk sign: PED. Railroad crossing look out for the cars. Can you spell that without any Rs?
29. Full of attitude: SASSY. There is a gluten- free restaurant in Minneapolis called SASSY Spoon. I've never been there though. I like gluten.
31. Appear: SEEM.
34. Woodshed tools: AXES. Paul Bunyan Land in Brainerd, MN has one of his AXES.
39. Join (in): PARTAKE. Minnesota has limited the number of folks to PARTAKE with family for Thanksgiving. Please stay safe.
41. Be worthy of: DESERVE. I am sure that none of us DESERVE the coronavirus.
44. Bump off: DO IN.
45. Part of GPS: Abbr.: SYST.
46. Goes on a tirade: RANTS. Billy Martin never liked umpires much.
48. "__-haw!": YEE. I think it's supposed to be HEE. I've seen a few shows.
49. 28-Down entrant: HORSE. His name was not Mister Ed.
51. "Ready, __, fire!": AIM. Ready, AIM, Bowl. Vaccines are coming.
53. "Our thoughts are with you": WE CARE.
56. Museum contents: FINE ART. C.C. and I visited a museum in Minneapolis years ago. Not my favorite thing to do, sorry.
60. Swear to be true: AVOW.
64. Storm relief org.: FEMA. I am sure they had plenty to do at our Gulf Coast this year.
65. Woven fabric: TWILL.
66. TV award: EMMY. I vote for Seinfeld.
68. Carry out instructions: OBEY.
69. Dark or marble breads: RYES. Great for Reuben sandwiches.
Down:
2. "__ that special?": ISN'T. Thank you for that, Church Lady.
3. Contributed to the cause: GAVE. I donated some decent food to the Hyundai dealer and did not ask for a lower price. Isn't that special ??
4. Did undercover work: SPIED.
5. Alternative plans: FALL-BACKS. FALL has arrived in Minnesota and snow is BACK.
6. Online auction site: EBAY. I used it a lot with baseball
cards and other collectibles 15 years ago. Now it has become a bit more
complicated and postage is really high.
7. Retreat, as the tide: EBB.
8. Md. neighbor: DEL. " What did DELaware, she wore her brand New Jersey.
9. Updated, as a kitchen: REMODELED.
10. Tehran's land: IRAN. If I RAN the zoo sad young Gerald McGrew, I'd make a few changes and here's what I'd do. Dr. Suess.
11. 7 or 11, say, in shoes: SIZE. Wouldn't fit me, I have big feet.
12. Piano's 88: KEYS. I do not think that even Liberace used all 88 of them.
15. Aptly named brand of coolers: YETI.
18. 27, for Beethoven's "Moonlight": OPUS.
22. Bags on a diamond: BASES. Who's on First, What's on Second, I don't know's on Third. Abbott and Costello.
24. "This __ test": IS A. "If it had been an actual emergency we would have advised you to lie in the mud and crawl."
25. President before Richard: LYNDON. "Guess who all was there
on my date with Lucy Baines. 12 of Linda's Roomates, 11 LIFE reporters.
10 Texas Rangers, 9 Supreme Court Judges, 8 Sting Ray salesman, 7 Secret
service, 6 Guided Missiles --- LYNDON B Himself. 4 Beatles 3
congressmen 2 baptizing clergy. Lucy Baines and me. Chad Mitchell
Trio.
26. Nickname for Hemingway: PAPA. LYNDON was Lucy'S PAPA.
27. Finals, say: EXAMS.
28. Annual Kentucky race: DERBY. I have never been there in
person, however we have Canterbury Downs Southwest of the city and they
simulcast the DERBY so you can lose your money without driving so far.
We do not have OTB.
30. Wool clippers: SHEARS.
32. Youngest Jetson: ELROY. ELROY Face pitched for the Pirates before my time.
33. Motion picture: MOVIE. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz paused
the MOVIE theaters for at least a month last Friday. Bowling centers,
bars and restaurants went down also. However restaurants may still be
open for takeout and delivery.
35. Set aside for later use: STASH AWAY.
37. "Of course!": CERTAINLY. "A horse is a horse, of course, of course." Mr. Ed.
38. "The Son of Man" painter Magritte: RENE.
40. Noted fur tycoon: ASTOR. Yeah but he also smuggled opium into China.
43. "Lost" actor Daniel __ Kim: DAE.
47. Perform in a choir: SING. Yes I did. I think MTA was my best. Kingston Trio.
50. Take a breather: REST. Okay, I will.
52. Taxi calculator: METER. We found out it was an expensive way to travel in Las Vegas a few years ago.
53. Float, as an aroma: WAFT.
54. Happily-after link: EVER.
55. Crooner Perry: COMO. My older sister's favorite. Remember "Hot Diggity" ??
56. Put in a folder: FILE.
57. Force to be reckoned with: ARMY. Yes I was in there too. But you never had to reckon with me I reckon.
58. Frosty coating: RIME.
59. Mattel specialty: TOYS. Christmas is coming, How about LEGO ?
62. Tango need, so they say: TWO.
63. Spare bone?: RIB. Spare RIBS sound good, but Turkey even better. HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE. Stay safe and wear a mask.
Boomer
67 comments:
There were no circles in my paper even though the clue said there were. However, it was easy enough to find the instruments in the long answers.
No circles here, didn't matter, easy solve. But I can't quite accept "mazy". Or "labyrinthine" for that matter!
Good morning!
Needed Wite-Out on a Monday right up top -- rare. Had to change SLOP/SEED/FEED and ODDS/RISK. Put in MAZY, but took it out, because it looked too corny. Then put it back in. Enjoyed the outing, Joseph and Boomer.
YETI: Very pricey coolers. Around these parts most folks buy locally-made Igloo coolers.
PARTAKE: Haven't yet settled on my menu, except that it won't be turkey. DW is away, so I'll be "celebrating" solo.
"But I can't quite accept "mazy"."
Ditto
Piano KEYS helped fix both ODDS to RISK and MAZE to MAZY. Maybe if the clue was labyrinthy...
No Elroy to link to in all of Minnesota?
Usually have 25-30 for Thanksgiving, but only two this year. I'll bring turkey dinner to my 90 year old mom.
Anon-T et al,
PK might have some issues with her Mac again and her kids can't visit her to fix it. I emailed her a few months ago and she never replied. Not sure if she ever fixed her email glitch.
Same with Fermat Prime. No replies.
LaLa Linda was also fine last time I emailed her (immediately after COVID). Windhover has been doing great. Dennis too. Splynter too. Actually Splynter sounded happier than he had been.
With VIOLA, I sussed the theme. None of the instruments were scrambled.
Isn't the violin, viola and cello combo more common?
I will PARTAKE of a diner turkey dinner to go on Thursday. Most of my kitchen is packed. I was going to David's, but Kenny will have just arrived home from college and I don't trust the situation.
I am glad I no longer hear "Isn't that special?" It was always snarky and off-putting.
The last time there were many objections to MAZY it appeared in a book I was reading that very week. In addition, I've seen it used to describe a running pattern.
"The nervous wait for an opening goal ended seven minutes into the second half when Rogic finally put together a set of trademark mazy runs and was brought down on the edge of the penalty box." Reuters Nov 15, 2017
"About 20 minutes away from the old city, rubbish and rubble lie in piles in a neighbourhood that Cubans call a solar, made up of favela-style, mazy alleys and poor housing."
I find it irksome that so many ads tell us we DESERVE whatever it is they are selling. We have become an entitled people IMO.
Although ASAP stands for as soon as possible it often is intended to mean do it right away, STAT.
Very few promises are inviolable these days.
FIR finally. I too thought slop before FEED, but looked at perps before writing it in. However I did write in odds/RISK, requiring WOs in that corner. I assumed MAZe too. The rest of the puzzle wasn't so puzzling and the theme was easy to see. Thanks Joseph. Nice Monday debut. And thank you Boomer for your enjoyable review. Deciding what to fill in for Homer's story, I realized the epic poems were not so clear in my mind any more. ILIAD was the only one to fit, but afterwards I was inspired to LIU to refresh my memory.
Thanks for the updates C.C. Their comments are missed!
Have a good day, you all.
Simple Monday, few proper names. No obscure sports references. All in English. Went fast, nice and neat. An obvious theme that even I parsed so it had to be simple. Like YR noted the theme words were not even jumbled.
Waited for perps for slop/FEED, odds/RISK, dias/Dais. Saturday we had Dear ANN today her sister ABBEY.
MAZY? (WEES)...the one goofy outlier (outliar?) Ann Southern movie series
The last few CWs have been quite SASSY. If you can last another 42 years you can meet ELROYJetson living in 2062.
Another YETI sighting so soon!! mine keeps stuff so hot it would melt a Sasquatch doing crunches (an Abdominal Snowman) ☃️
Church roof, often....STEEPLY
Fudd's river transport.....WAFT
____ and shine...RYES
Lottery ticket vendor....CHANCELLOR
This fabric is perfect. ______ do just fine... TWILL
Its been an ugly two days, 30s sleet, snow but no RIME or HORSE..🥶🌨❄
Good morning everyone.
Well, no circles in my puzzle either, but the solve went fine. Just no 'STRINGS'. FIR.
TROY - CSO to IM.
ERIE - An Ontario-Hydro colleague loved to point out that Pt Pelee extended farther south than the Oregon California border. (I've seen it from the air but never been there.)
Ready AIM Fire - - When qualifying on the M1 rifle, the loudspeaker would intone: “Ready on the right, ready on the left, ready on the firing line, Maggie’s drawers are waving; commence firing.”
Good Morning:
I had the exact w/os as DO and the same reaction as others to Mazy, but I had no other glitches and enjoyed the solve. Seeing Erie always brings thoughts of Abejo to mind. I liked the trifecta of Horse>Feed>Derby and I’ll claim a CSO at Troy.
Thanks, Joseph, for a pleasant start to the week and congrats on your LA Times debut and thanks, Boomer, for bringing some cheerfulness into this dismally dreary day and Happy Thanksgiving to you and dear CC. 🍗
DO, I’m celebrating alone, also, but I am cooking a half turkey breast and all the trimmings. Well, not quite all, as I’m not really fond of cranberries or squash or, God forbid, turnips.
ATLGranny, I assumed you broke your wrist but, in some cases, a sprain is worse than a break. Hope you heal quickly. Good luck in the kitchen, especially on Turkey Day! 🦃
I was sorry to say goodbye to Maggie Cole last night. I knew right from the beginning that Karen (so aptly named, vis a vis today’s connotation) was a smarmy, conniving troublemaker and was happy to see her get her comeuppance. I think my favorite character was Peter, Maggie’s clueless but rock-solid, devoted husband.
Have a great Day.
Straightforward Monday. Thanks for the recap, Boomer, especially the Elroy Face reference. His early career was "before my time" also but during the latter part of it I would listen to Vin Scully broadcast his (and Roberto Clemente's) exploits from Forbes Filed.
MM ... that is Scotch in the glass.
Well this was an easy Monday puzzle.
Got the B-B-Ribs marinating for Thanksgiving ... with lots of Brandy.
Hope everyone has a SAFE week.
Cheers!
Usual Monday speed run. Like many others I, too, had slop and odds, but quickly changed to feed and risk. Never heard of a Yeti cooler either. Well, off to get a new car battery. Doesn't get much more exciting than that.
Hola!
Good Monday, everyone! This was a fantastically fast solve. Thank you, Joseph A. Gangi and congratulations on your debut. No circles in my newspaper either.
I also appreciate the lack of obscure names and objected to MAZY but it made sense in context. But what a nice reference to PAPA Hemingway. Also, a new clue for ERIE which invokes Abejo to me, too. And besides literature we had FINE ART as well. SING crossing STRING TRIO was nice.
SHEARS will meet my hair today as I have an appointment for a haircut.
I, too, was sorry to say good bye to Maggie Cole but really enjoyed all the irony in that last episode. After the car wreck with Marcus's car, the arrest of the culprits, etc.
Have a wonderful day, everyone!
Thank you, C.C., for the news about those former posters.
Thank you, Boomer!
Marvelous Monday. Thanks for the fun, Joseph (congrats on your debut) and Boomer.
I FIRed in good time and smiled when 61A gave me the musical theme. (I hadn't noticed that the clue mentioned circles - they were not needed IMO.)
Too bad OPUS #27 is a piano sonata (for KEYs) and has been arranged for STRING quartet not TRIO. It could have been an Easter Egg.
Only one inkblot where Odds changed to RISK.
I smiled at ISN'T and IS A, but nose-wrinkled at MAZY (I see that I am not alone).
I knew that the American taxi had a METER; an English cab would have a Metre.
We have discussed here before the area on Lake ERIE that is Canada's southernmost point. But Pelee would not be a Monday level fill for you Americans. Point Pelee is the southernmost point connected to the mainland of Canada (and known as a monarch butterfly and bird migration point in the fall). You can take a ferry to Pelee Island (location of Canada’s southernmost inhabited land area) with Fish Point Nature Reserve at its southern tip. Worth a visit when the border reopens.
PeleeIsland
But the actual southernmost point in Canada is Middle Island which can only be reached by boat and is uninhabited. It lies about 41.7 degrees N of the equator (further south than 13 US states). Yes, Spitzboov, we love to brag about that for some reason.
YR - sad but true that "Very few promises are inviolable these days."
ATLGranny- glad to hear the clarification that your wrist is sprained not broken. Hope your recovery is quick.
C.C. - Thanks for the update on some of our missing bloggers.
Wishing you all a great day.
Tinbeni, for much of my life I would check my mental acuity by recalling the names of the seven dwarfs. For the past couple of decades, though, that test has been replaced by a recitation of the names of the eight Islay disilleries. When Ardnahoe starts releasing their output I will need to "re-think" things.
Awww ... Happy Thanksgiving D-O!
It is kinda' korny.
Ditto on the combo YR. A composer would be more likely to drop the viola than the violin.
Musings
-A STRING TRIO to me would have a flute or violin
-Solving a Murder In Mesopotamia take Poirot and Hastings to a DIG
-John Lennon’s note telling why he was returning his knighthood
-PARTAKE – Thanksgiving for us will be our kitty Lily (she loves turkey), Joann and me.
-Yesterday I posted this person who was instrumental in developing the GPS
-Our 1979 new middle school was an example of Ready, Fire, Aim. It took years to retrofit it.
-EMMY nominees - -Believe it or not!
-The streets of IRAN were full of miniskirts and rock and roll music in the 1970’s
-How do the Brits get DARBY out of DERBY?
-A painter named RENE on Monday and not the philosopher or actress?
-Taxis? No, we Uber. Newspaper? Not anymore. Land line? Why do we still have one?
-A cold, windy dreary day on the prairie. I think I’ll clean up some FILES on my electronic desktop
Musings 2
-Does anyone else remember the Dr. Seuss story about MAYZIE the irresponsible bird who flew off and left Horton The Elephant to sit on her egg (Horton Hatches The Egg)? Horton sat on that egg through all sorts of bad circumstances while chanting, “I meant what I said, I said what I meant, An elephant’s faithful one-hundred percent.”
Good morning everyone! Thanks to Jos. Gangi for a nice ‘n easy Monday puzzle, and to Boomer for his usual lively recap. I got a kick out of your rendition of “Lucy Baines”. Also, thanks for the update on our MIA Cornerites, C.C.
Hand up for SLOP before FEED and a nose wrinkle at MAZY. Our youngest played the CELLO throughout high school and college. DH and I always drove up for her college concerts, especially the Lessons and Carols at the start of Advent, Even after she graduated, we’ve continued to make the trip every year. Of course, we’ll have to forgo that special start to the Christmas season this year. Getting back to the puzzle, I liked the DERBY / HORSE pairing, as SIL is a huge racing fan. We’re in the design stage of having our home REMODELED to include a first-floor master bedroom and bath; part of our “age in place” strategy for the future.
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Thanks Joseph for your debut treat, though I agree with YR about the instrumentaion of string trios. Your namesake Joseph Haydn invented the form, and they were generally scored for violin, viola, and cello. To sub a bass for a violin would require re-scoring the piece to a lower register. OTH, any generic group of strings could be considered a "string trio", although "string consort" would probably be a more accurate term.
Thanks for the write up Boomer. Any theories on why Paul is the only barefoot Beatle on the cover of Abbey Road?
15D YETI coolers are expensive mainly due to transportation costs. You can buy them locally on the slopes of the Himalayas for a steep discount.
40D Jacob ASTOR finally atoned for his sins by refusing to pull rank on the Titanic. He deferred to women and children first and went down with the ship.
48A Maybe GEE would have been a better word. It's HORSE for "turn right", HAW being "turn left".
52D All forms of transportation in Vegas are expensive. Except on foot, which keeps track of miles with a PedoMETER.
Delightful Monday puzzle, Joseph--many thanks, and welcome! C.C., thank you for your helpful write-up. And thank you too for working to stay in touch with blog regulars, especially when we haven't heard from them for a while--how very kind of you.
I loved breezing through this puzzle, and had no trouble at all finding VIOLA, CELLO, and BASS even without the circles. Nice to see the ILIAD and TROY. And oh yes, good old PAPA Hemingway. Like others, I kept wondering if YETI could possibly be a cooler (?), so it was nice to get your picture as confirmation, C.C.
Have a good week, everybody, with a happy Thanksgiving coming up.
Irish M. Totally alone for Thanksgiving? ☹Sorry to hear that. Got me thinking about the feasibility of doing a Cornerite Zoom. So many here with computer skills I lack. Just a thought.
Nice debut, Joseph. Great review, Boomer.
ELROY Face was pitching for the Pirates when my mother drug me along to Pirates games at Forbes Field in the early to mid '60s when my dad got comp'ed tickets. She listened to about every game she could listen to. They were on KDKA with Bob "The Gunner" Prince" at the mic.
Mom was a big baseball fan. When I got into Little League, she was always the game's official scorekeeper and sat behind the fence behind home plate. She taught me how to score a game and all of the notation, which could be tricky. She could have been the manager of our team, but that just wasn't done back then. We'd have probably won more games.
One of my first major purchases was a JC Penney 9V transistor radio for her so she could listen to their games when outside. I think I was 10 or 11 or at the time and it cost me almost all of the money in the world that I had at that time. I was so uncertain because it wasn't picking up stations in the store, but the sales guy said it would work fine outside. I was scared but I ended up buying it anyway. It's funny how you can remember some things so clearly.
My mother was so happy. She used it all the time and often kept it in her purse along with the plugin earphone.
Just before my dad died some 15 years ago, he gave us a bunch of stuff that mother had saved. She asked him some 20 years earlier before she died to make sure we got those things that were dear to her.
In my "collection" was the pocket radio.
I just took it out of the drawer of my bachelor's chest, took it out of its original leather case, put in a 9V battery and turned it on. It still works just fine.
I LOVE that story, TTP.
Boomer Said:
2. "__ that special?": ISN'T. Thank you for that, Church Lady.
I didn't know Boomer was an SNL fan!...
Also,
The real origin of the String Trio...
Well, there were a lot of “conspiracy” theories on why Paul was barefoot.
It turned out the real reason was...he wasn’t wearing shoes when they took the photo.
No circles here either, makes me wonder if anyone had them.
ODDS b4 RISK, AVER b4 AVOW.
THANKSGIVING...the neighbors have had me over the last 6 years, not this year. We were going to do an exchange, but the lady of the house had some surgery, isn’t cooking, hubby and family are going to the brother's house, so I’m on my own. Not sure what I’m having, maybe it there are turkey parts for sale I’ll get a leg. It’s just me so even a breast is too much.
At least one of the FB games is worthy, the Ravens-Steelers late game.
I've been doing the crossword fairly regularly for almost a year now as a way of relaxing during grad school and was delighted to find this blog. I enjoyed today's crossword, although as a violinist I did feel a little left out! Every Monday I challenge myself to get it in under five minutes and this week I did manage it (in 4:51, actually)--without even using any of the check functions, which I sometimes do. Glad to see so many other people also enjoying it!
Monday quicky highlighted by Boomer's singing. Lucy was a "Bird" too, n'est ce pas?.
You don't remember ELROY Face and his 19 consecutive victories(as a reliever)?
WES re. MAZY. I thought, no they wouldn't. I inked SLOP too.
Now Lady ASTOR was a another thing. She of the acerbic wit. Had a seat in Parliament.
TTP, FLN, I haven't given up on the dark secret. Just haven't looked. Hint?
WC
This got previewed but not posted at 9:00 am
WC, Lucy was a Baines, Linda was a Bird.
I guess he was like all the kids in my old neighborhood. We'd take off our shoes when school let out in the Spring and wouldn't put 'em back on until we had to go back in the Fall.
Just think, if you start with the typical ensemble, the string quartet, you'd have to jettison 2 violinists and recruit a bass player. Doesn't make any sense!
Ray O @ 11:35 ~ You’re very thoughtful 😉 but I decided several years ago that I preferred the peace and quiet of my own home for the holidays much more than being with 35-40 people at my sister’s. Of course, this year’s gatherings will be a lot more subdued, but I’m even more motivated to limit my exposure as much as I can. I’m quite content and, truth be told, not in a very celebratory mood, anyway. It’s been a difficult year.
TTP @ 11:41 ~ Thanks for sharing such wonderful memories.
Anon PVX @ 12:01 ~ If your local markets carry Shady Brook Farms’ products, they offer fresh half breasts which are very good. The one I bought weighs 4 lbs, more than I would have liked, but I love turkey sandwiches, so, hopefully, there won’t be any waste.
Jamie @ 12:06 ~ Welcome! Join us whenever time allows.
Like Desper-Otto I put in SLOP it came out right away since I solve in block form, Top Left side , Top Middle , Top right side ETC.
Same for Mazy, I put in MAZE then ASTON for ASTOR. All 3 corrected right away.....
Everyone stay safe
Plus Tard from Cajun Country .......
I used to put a transistor radio under my pillow while pretending to be asleep. My mother, who was from Brooklyn and had preceded the Dodgers in moving to Los Angeles, told me years later that she had not been fooled...and in fact approved of my repeated acts of subterfuge.
No circles in the Naples Dailey News version that I print, so I had to draw my own circles when I was done. I learned about RENE Magritte from “Gödel, Escher, Bach” by Doug Hofstadter. FIR, no write-overs.
Me too.
Me three - if you are referring to Hofstadter's book.
I am beginning to find things here less and less surprising,
TTP - loved your story about your Mom and pocket radio.
The part about how she might have been the manager of the baseball team reminded me of a book I just read, When the Men were Gone, a historical novel based on the story of Tylene Wilson, who coached the high school football team when no men were available because of the war. We’ve come a long way baby!
Welcome Jamie. Glad you found the blog. Keep joining us.
Great transistor radio story.
When I was around 12 ('62) all my friends had transistor radios. There was an Ad every Sunday from long defunct Daws Drug store for one at 3 dollars and change. I had the money but figured my folks who just about made ends meet would consider it a frivolous expense.
Finally got up enough nerve to ask Dad. He said something that inexpensive probably wasn't good. He took me to a store and bought me a $15 one with a leather case. I was ecstatic.
I used to put a book with a flashlight under my pillow and snuggle down under the covers whenever an adult came upstairs. Sometimes I read by the full moon. My sister never commented on this. Did she know?
I am thrilled and intrigued whenever I find a word from a known root used in a way that is new to me. On looking it up, I usually find there are many common words I either don't know or have overlooked. Many of these words are frequently found in legitimate print. I am delighted with MAZY. It makes a lot of sense. New friend, or stupid imposter? If I suss the root I am often successful in guessing the new form.
Many versions of words that have become nits show up in books I am currently reading, a learning experience.
I had the circles and saw the theme quickly. Hand up for starting out with SLOP and ODDS.
As for yesterday's puzzle, the only thing about it I liked was the theme of adding "CH".
Yesterday I learned about a holiday in China called "Singles' Day" which is celebrated on 11/11.
Take care, all.
Zoom Corner on Thanksgiving might be nice!
Puzzling thoughts:
WMEES —> no circles in the puzzle in today’s paper. Took the full reveal to see the TRIO of STRINGS.
Nice debut puzzle and great recap Boomer.
MAZE/MAZY, but that made me think of this Moe-Ku (not quite in the correct syllabic format):
Because of COVID
The route that the floats travel this year was altered.
2020’s version is the
MAZY Thanksgiving Parade
Hi All!
Thanks Joseph for a fine grid. Caught the theme at BASS (fish? No! VIOLA!)
Fun expo as always Boomer. And thank you C.C. for the updates on Cornerites that have not posted in a while.
WOs: slop->FEED, odds ->Risk
ESPs: N/A
Fav: Coitnenly :-)
LOL ku C. Moe!
ERIE will always make me think of Abejo.
Welcome to The Corner Jamie!
HG - Horton also heard a Who.
Shankers - What D-O said... You don't want a YETI cooler unless you're into status among your fellow outdoorsmen. RTIC is just as good and Igloo works just fine for a back-yard party.
TTP - I love that 9v transistor radio story!
My only ask of Pop is his baseball glove he had since he was a kid. The thing was so beat up from use and a few nights in the rain. I fielded with it when I was a kid. However, when I mentioned that to him ('yeah, Army Bro can have the house..."), he got it re-sewn / re-new'd. #Tragedy - but I won't tell him.
I listen to a little 2AAA battery radio every night to drift off - The Crazy People channel on AM. When I wake, I flip the radio to FM to start my day with NPR.
sasses - that might be an idea! Who'd Zoom in for 5 or 10 minutes on Turkey Day? I can setup a new account and get it going.
Cheers, -T
HM - one of my all time favorite books, by an absolute genius. I have an autographed 1st edition. Saw Hofstadter lecture at Goucher College in Maryland. He began his talk by removing his coat, then his shirt, to reveal an Orioles tee shirt underneath. He was a big hit.
Half the population of China must turn out for that one.
Thanks for the welcome! I also love Goedel, Escher, Bach. I imagine the overlap between Hofstadter fans and crossword solvers is statistically significant!
Thanks Joseph and Boomer!
Welcome, Jamie!
FIR with no problems today.
Yes, the Houston Chronicle guy forgot to draw in the circles. I figured I would need them, and since we “loyal” readers (well, I don't READ it, just do the crossword and read a few of the comics --- more about that later) now have to look elsewhere for the Sunday LAT puzzle, I went to my Sunday source (Chicago Tribune), and there they were. Turns out I really didn’t need them after all, though.
Shankers --- Yes, it can get more exciting! Especially when the battery chooses to die on you at zero-dark-thirty in the morning, and you have to be somewhere important. Luckily, the guy next door was getting ready to leave too, so he jumped started me, and Wally made his first battery sale of the day, so everything turned out OK.
Actually, Chubby Checker had “GEE and “HAW” backwards in the song (PONY TIME). GEE=RIGHT and HAW=LEFT.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think Slim Pickens was shouting YEE HAW as he rode the bomb down at the end of DR. STRANGELOVE. To me, HEE HAW was always the Roy Clark/Buck Owens TV show. I remember the cowboys shouting YEE HAW in the old black and white Saturday morning cowboy shows.
T - I was too poor for a transistor radio (just kidding!). Actually transistors (that is semiconductors) hadn't been invented yet but I used to make "crystal" radios with a pair of old earphones attached to a tuner made from a piece of pencil lead, a short piece of wire and and a razor blade. Heard the Beatles for the first time on a crystal: "I want to hold your hand!". They sounded so exotic!
Bill
Hofstadter is a character. While he was autographing my book I mentioned a parallel I'd found between GEB and Hermann Hesse's "Glass Beadgame". He immediately became indignant and said he didn't like Hesse because he was "anti scientific". When I asked what he had read by Hesse, he said that he hadn't reading anything yet - he couldn't until he learned German first! Like all geniuses Dr Hofstadter is a bit of an eccentric.
Jamie: That Venn diagram may not overlap as much as you think. I got Escher & Bach... :-)
Hofstadter - On Conciseness guy?
Leo3 - Slim Pickens Learned to Love the Bomb. Peter Sellers saw the Big Board?
Oh wait, here's Peter
//One of the greatest MOVIES ever b/f Mel Brooks came along.
One more thing on Pop's glove...
So he could make sure no one in the neighborhood could steal it, he bent a coat-hanger into his (our) initials, built a little fire, and branded the outer thumb of the glove with TC.
At least that's still intact.
Cheers, -T
Yeah, I enjoyed making a crystal radio too. Also a “one tube” radio. The quality of the sound was really good.
Waseeley, thanks for your interesting and informative comments.
Dash T, sasses, et al.: A Cornerite Zoom meeting to say “howdy” on Turkey Day sounds great! I’ll stay tuned for details.
Husker – “Horton Hears a Who” was my most cherished book as a child (hi again, -T!) The lesson that “a person’s a person no matter how small” is one every child should learn and carry into adulthood.
BTW, I realized after publishing my earlier post that I mistakenly said my daughter played the cello in school – in fact, she played the VIOLA for eight years. Can’t even blame my goof on a lack of coffee - SHEESH!!
It seems that the avatars for some people are blank now?
For example:
Wilbur Charles
desper-otto
KS
BobB
JohnE
Any idea why?
-T --- Oops! I stand corrected! He wasn't shouting YEE HAW.
BTW, that was James Earl Jones' (as the bombardier) first movie role. That voice...!
And yes, it is still one of the greatest (and one of my favorite) movies ever!
Sorry, Boomer, I thanked C.C. for her great commentary, but that was yesterday's. Today's delightful write-up was a cool Monday Boomer. Many thanks, if belated--I really enjoyed it.
Avatar Hunter - insofar as I know, those folks never had an avatar.
LEO3 - I never put two & two together. You're right!, that's James Earl's voice!
JavaMama - I've put on tomorrow's list for to get the Zoom Account setup. Anyone want to suggest a time? I'm thinking 6 or 7p CST -- but I'm open.
Jayce - I never built a radio from scratch. But I did de/re-construct Pop's console stereo (it was all he got from 1st divorce :-)) and rewire things when I was 12.
I was able to get my Walkman to amplify through the console's speakers - It was Prince's Let's Go Crazy.
I went Crazy when it actually worked! //and nothing lost it's smoke :-)
Cheers, -T
Thank you Jayce!
Bucs lose. Two Brady interceptions. YMMV but IMHO there's a serious disconnect between Brady and Bruce Arians. Two stubborn people.
WC
Rule 1 in system debugging: What changed? Didn't we have an upgrade to the blog content management software lately?
Here's a couple of pics of that Transistor Radio Immediately after posting about my parents, I had to get active and start thinking about something else. Thank you all for your kind comments.
Dash T, there's a bonus pic of one of the old (ca 1976) canned magic smoke products. Not sure where these are sold any longer, but maybe a Radio Shack or other electronics supply store still carries it or other brands.
With temps pushing towards the 50s, it was a nice day to get ready for the change of seasons. I went out to the shed to run the gas out of the carbs in a couple of the lawnmowers and siphon the tanks. Then rearrange the equipment for winter. Checked the oil and gas in the snowblower and started it. It is now staged to roll out the door if (when) it's needed. Probably in January. Pretty much all set except for shutting off one of the outdoor spigots, draining and rolling up the hose for storage, and winterizing the last lawn mower. It was a great day to putter around outside.
Wilbur, re Birnholz's Sunday CW. Take the 1st letter of each of those hidden answers and you'll get it.
True, in order to be missing an Avatar, you would have first had to have one. You can "go blue" and decide not to add an image. If desired, it's easy to add an image via Edit Profile while signed into Blogger.
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