Theme: DREAM SEQUENCE (53. Storytelling technique ... or what is altered in this puzzle's circles) - DREAM is scrambled.
19. 1936 anti-drug movie originally titled "Tell Your Children": REEFER MADNESS.
27. Anthropomorphic holiday cookies: GINGERBREAD MEN.
42. It restricts peacetime quartering of soldiers in private homes: THIRD AMENDMENT.
Boomer here again, filling in another Thursday slot.
"Dream, Dream, Dream, Dream. All I have to do, is Dream." Everly Brothers. I hope everyone is healthy and safe. Graybar treated us to a great display of tasty food, since the annual Christmas luncheon has been cancelled. C.C. and I are having Thanksgiving dinner, probably today, tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday Happy Thanksgiving to all of you out there.
Across:
8. "Love Story" author: SEGAL.
13. 17-Across opposite: SHUT. 17. 13-Across opposite: OPEN. Perry Mason used to solve these OPEN and SHUT cases.
14. W competitor: OMNI. Traveling to Atlanta for a Braves game?? You may want to stay at the OMNI. Bring your credit card
15. Out of it: LOOPY.
16. Targets: AIMS.
18. Come after: ENSUE. Willie - "My name is SUE, How do you do? "
22. Ski jump's approach ramp: IN RUN. I have never RUN IN to one of these.
23. Not turn: KEEP. As food.
24. Actress Graynor: ARI.
31. "The Last Jedi" heroine: REY. My son was a Star Wars fanatic. I thought a Lightsaber was a roll of candy.
32. Pronoun-shaped girder: I BEAM.
33. Scan used to diagnose migraines: HEAD MRI. My head was fine, but I needed the MRI to find why my back wasn't healthy. MRIs are not too much fun but it is what it is.
38. Cold War military force: RED ARMY.
40. Big name in metal: ALCOA. Mainly aluminum.
41. Bid the most: WON. It seems odd to say you WON a bid, because the next step is you have to pay.
49. Vicious on stage: SID. Punk rocker Sid Vicious. Our Minneapolis Star Tribune is still bemoaning the loss of sportswriter SID Hartman. Age 100.
50. Give off: EMIT.
51. "'And hast thou __ the Jabberwock?'": Carroll: SLAIN.
57. Assemblage: ARRAY. I hope all of you have a tasty ARRAY of food on your table.
59. Get rid of: OUST.
60. Soda selection: COKE. Sorry, I drink Diet Pepsi straight up.
61. Spirits: BOOZE. I said straight up!
62. Emphatic Acapulco assent: SI, SI.
63. Didn't conceal: TOLD.
64. Deals with things: COPES.
65. Perched upon: ATOP.
66. __ blue: SKY. "Blue SKY, smilin' at me, nothin' but blue sky, do I see." Willie Nelson.
Down:
2. Upper arm bones: HUMERI. Funny bones I guess.
3. Carnival ride cry: IT'S FUN. "We had joy, we had FUN, we had seasons in the sun." Terry Jacks.
4. Like a grade of D: POOR. Better than an "F".
5. Alarm clock toggle: AM PM. I have not used an alarm clock in years back when we used to get up around 3 AM to get a good spot at the flea market.
6. Quietly evade: SNEAK BY.
7. App with much swiping: TINDER. I think it might burn also.
8. Melatonin, for one: SLEEP AID. Never tried that. Sometimes I might use a Motrin PM. They work pretty well.
9. Long periods: EONS.
10. Delicate fabric: GOSSAMER. A light weight backpack, until you fill it up.
11. "The Simpsons" character with an 18-letter last name: APU.
12. Caustic chemical: LYE.
13. Delhi dress: SARI.
20. Lang. of Belize: ENG.
21. Used to be called: NEE. Some ladies keep it as a middle name.
25. Paper package: REAM. 500 sheets
26. "__ Life": Beatles: IN MY. "There are places I'll remember, all my life though some have changed."
28. Throw wildly, say: ERR.
29. Portuguese king: REI.
30. Letters before a trade name: DBA. Doing Business As
33. Kepi and kufi: HATS. Kepi is military. Kufi is like this.
34. K-12, in brief: EL HI.
35. Candy made with sour sugar: ACID DROP.
36. Palme __: film award: D'OR.
37. Flirted with, with "at": MADE EYES. "I only have eyes for you" The Flamingos.
38. Biographer Chernow: RON.
39. Get done with: END. We are not there yet.
41. Diver's attire: WET SUIT.
43. Reddit interview, briefly: AMA.
44. Midmorning drink: MIMOSA.
45. The NCAA's Spartans: MSU. In the Big Ten. Tough competition
in basketball for our Gophers. Seems that a Gopher versus a Spartan is
a bit of a mismatch.
46. Votes in: ELECTS. We just did that.
47. Title Inuit in a 1922 film: NANOOK. NANOOK of the north is a silent film mystery. I think she was Paul Bunyan's girlfriend.
48. Sensitive, as a subject: TICKLY.
52. One in Maslow's hierarchy: NEED. "As long as he NEEDS me". Judy Garland.
54. Level: RAZE. Interesting. RAZE is the opposite of RAISE.
55. Standard Oil brand: ESSO. We do not have ESSO in Minn. I think it's mainly farther north in Oh Canada.
56. Personal hygiene aid: Q TIP.
57. Robin Roberts' network: ABC.
58. Joey in the Hundred Acre Wood: ROO.
Here's my Turkey of the Year for the MN Bowling site.
Once again, enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday and stay safe. Vaccines are coming! Our turkey is now in the oven. Will be our meal for the next four days.
Boomer
ENJOY
ReplyDeleteThank you, Joe and Boomer
Good morning Cornerites.
ReplyDeleteThank you Joe Deeney for your enjoyable Thursday CW.
I FIR in 27:18 min.
Thank you Boomer for your excellent review. Thanks for filling in, and a Happy Thanksgiving right back at you.
Ðave
The Saga of the suppository:
ReplyDeleteOn Sat 11-21 Carol asked if I would loan her a suppository. I did but quickly lost interest. She launched the Argo with immediate severe cramps. She wished she had Argo not. Sun. A.M. she was so Argonized that Am Bulance took her to a dry Doc. They tested, and she did not have COVID-19. What they did not do for a long time was address the cramping.
While X-Raying her gut they included the lower portion of her lungs. A full chest X-Ray caused them to treat her for P-Newmonia with I-V anti things. Eventually they decided that other indicators did not support P-nU.
Carol likes to tell stories. She inhales through her ears so she can speak continuously. Not so in the Hosp. She would say a phrase and have to cringe with a cramp. This cycle happened every minute. On Wed. 11-25 she finally was given a med to ease the cramping. I could tell it was working when she had spoken for 10 min and FIR.
Her Odessey: a long wandering or voyage usually marked by many changes of fortune, started in the ER, then to room 1, room 2 with a heart monitor, and room 3.
She was functional BC - before cramps, but the powerful powers want to send her to Rehab. She has been out of here for only 4 days which seem like 6 months, and wants to come home. Please pray that she is discharged to home.
The ER Doc claimed that her gut problem was caused by the Supposition so I LIU. It seems that -Dulcolax- had this warning.
Older adults should not use rectal Dulcolax without a doctor's advice.
May my discovery prevent you from emulating her.
Ðave
Dave,
ReplyDeletehope Carol gets out soon and is well. Also hoped she returned the suppository that you loaned her....
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteHad the circles, and saw the mixed up DREAM. Nice one, Joe -- definitely not a turkey. So did Khufu wear a kepi or a kufi? Thanx for filling in, Boomer.
Well, I've narrowed the menu for this evening. It'll either be beef fajitas or a rib-eye steak. I bought makings for both. I also picked up a small pumpkin pie to top it off. Gotta stop, I'm making myself hungry.
D4, best wishes for Carol's speedy return.
HEAD MRI: After that weird stroke in my eye, I was subjected to every medical test known to man. That included three different MRIs. All tests were negative, and the HEAD MRI showed nothing, as you might expect.
Very humble that last one D-O.
DeleteFIW with LOOnY. I should have remembered APU. Not a Simpsons fan. But APU just showed up recently.
ReplyDeleteSo, OMNI is competitor of W. What's the mysterious W? Not to speak of AMA vis a vis Reddit??
I'm surprised Boomer that you didn't talk about this Robin Roberts
In modern terms this stat is incredible:"he once pitched 28 complete games in a row, with one game being 17 innings". I just remembered him winning 20+ games every year in my 'ute. And he hated Little League
This xword didn't flow off the pen as easily as many Thursdays. Ok, a typical Thursday I guess. Having done the week, none of the Thurs-Sat are easy. Esp Sat.
WC
*We have the disaster known as the Detroit Lions on today. Poor Matt Stafford, one of the functionally best QBs - the Robin Roberts of the NFL.
As in "The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing".
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Good Morning, Boomer and friends.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving to all and stay safe. We will be Zooming later today with my 90-year old dad on the east coast and my 2-year old grandniece on the west coast.
QOD: Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse. ~ Henry van Dyke, Jr. (né Henry Jackson van Dyke, Jr.; Nov. 10, 1852 ~ Apr. 10, 1933), American author and diplomat
Good Morning and Happy Thanksgiving all. Since I have experience in restaurant ownership years ago, I sort of self appoint myself to prepare the turkey. I guess I am the chef and C.C. is the brains. I wrestled with our 16 pounder graciously given to us by Graybar and loaded the stuffing and hoisted it into our roasting pan. Then I slid it into the oven. Luckily C.C. noticed that I had forgotten to turn the oven on !!!! Nobody's perfect.
ReplyDeleteIs it done yet? Dw tells me it will be done when the little thermometer pops up. The aroma is driving me crazy. She says "it's not a drive, it's a short putt!"
DeleteGood morning. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
ReplyDeleteThe vowel at the intersection of "The Last Jedi heroine" and "Portuguese king" did me in. A Frenchman interjected and gave me RoI, and since I had no clue to work with on Last Jedi, I moved on without considering the E.
IN-RUN ? - New to me but makes sense. Olympic style ski jumping is not, nor was it ever, on my bucket list. Needed the first N for the unknown CHIENG.
REEFER MADNESS - A ridiculously bad movie. I believe we watched it in drug education class, and we ridiculed it from beginning to end. It was simply wrong on so many levels.
Boomer, "A Boy Named Sue" - Johnny, not Willie. Perhaps you jotted down your preliminary note at the wrong entry ? Willie Nelson's version of "Blue Skies" may have been my mother's favorite song. Surely in the top ten. He was certainly her favorite artist. They were from the same part of Texas.
For those interested, The Smithsonian Channel is running an all day "Aerial America" marathon.
Was looking forward to the Steelers - Ravens game later today, but it has been rescheduled to a Sunday early game due to the NFL's Covid protocol. It will be airing nationally on NBC.
Boomer, glad she noticed. That might have resulted in the original meaning of "Cold Turkey" !
Happy memories watching Reefer Madness many times as the feature midnight movie at the U of Illinois in the 1970s. Of course this was after spending the evening at the bars.
DeleteThis Baltimoron is definitely not looking forward to the Raven's match with the Steelers. Not that that I'm much of a football fan (like Poe though), but it'll depress all the people around me.
DeleteGood morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteHa. Antepenultimate would make great fill and could be clued as "like CHI". Just a thought.
Seemed very daunting at first, but then THIRD AMENDMENT got me going. When I saw the scrambled DREAMS going on it helped narrow the choices in the circled cells. Only wite-out was I had 'touchy' before TICKLY. Surprised myself and FIR without help.
HATS - Our officer's HAT is commonly called a 'combination cap' in catalogues and uniform prescriptions. We also wore 'fore-and-aft' caps at sea (more secure against the wind). These were refered to as garrison caps or pisscutters.
Boomer - Is that what is meant by "cold turkey"? :-). What TTP said.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
Starting a puzzle with a Greek letter crossing a not well known Malaysian name isn't the best approach in my view, which resulted in having to run some of the English alphabet. Took a little less than 9 minutes. Was unfamiliar with Segal, gossamer, and tickly (in that context).
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving all.
I'd be DREAMing if I thought I FIR. I was DOA at 1A & !D. I know alpha, beta, & Omega but not the order of the rest of the Greek letter order. Only know the ones used in math & physics. Antepenultimate- could be any letter before what comes before what came before omega. Then there was the unknown CHIENG. I really didn't help myself by starting with FEMURS instead of HUMERI and really shot myself in the foot with AM-FM (radio?) instead of AM-PM. Duh!
ReplyDeleteThen there was the SE. I couldn't get TOUCHY out of my head but knew TOLD was the correct perp. Maslow's Hierarchy- had no idea what that was. TICKLY wouldn't come to mind so I just quit. OPEN & SHUT it wasn't today.
But the DREAM SEQUANCE was an easy spot with the circles. ACID DROP, AMA, GOSSAMER, ARI- unknowns filled y perps. What does "AMA" mean or stand for?
ReplyDeleteI forgot to answer earlier. W is an upscale hotel chain. There's one in downtown Chicago. Too steep for my budget.
Reddit's AMA is an abbreviation for the open forum interview sessions. It comes from the first letters of Ask Me Anything.
Is it wrong to have a slice of pumpkin pie with the first cup of coffee on Thanksgiving morning ?
After cutting into that first pie, I looked in the overloaded utensil drawer for one of those pie server spatulas. I noticed that there were at least three of them in there. Made a mental note that to purge some of the extra utensils in that drawer. Got my piece of pie, put the pie server in the sink and sat down with my coffee.
What a great combination ! Coffee and pumpkin pie. It was so good I decided to have another piece, but I'd already put the spatula in the sink. It was at that point that I realized why there are multiple pie servers in that drawer. D'OH !
Hola!
ReplyDeleteHAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY TO ALL!
So, Boomer, you almost had cold turkey. Thank you for taking charge today. You are a trooper!
My solve started in the basement and flowed upwards from there. Glad to see MELATONIN in there. I sometimes take it when sleep avoids me and it's quite effective.
NANOOK of the North is a blast from the past.
I love the word GOSSAMER and the fabric, too.
Like others I have never watched The Simpsons but know the characters from Xwords so APU fell in nicely. However, I didn't know CHIENG and had PHI so a bad cell there.
I recall studying Maslow's list of NEEDs but couldn't recite them now.
SI! SI! This was quick and fun. Thank you, Joe Deeney and Boomer.
Our newspaper has a gigantic puzzle which I don't care to do so if anyone wishes to have it I'll gladly mail it to you. Send me an e-mail.
I wish everyone a most enjoyable Thanksgiving Day!!!
My CHI was a pHI, especially bad since I was a Theta CHI brother at FSU during the “Animal House” year of 1960-61. I also had SNEAKin and HUMERa for a while. So FIW today, but thankful for the puzzles, puzzle makers, bloggers, and commentariat that brighten my every day.
ReplyDeleteTTP:
ReplyDeleteYou are so funny!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
ReplyDeleteEnjoyable puzzle today, got the DREAM sequence early.
My paper has a mega 700+ clue crossword today, which they’ve done the last few years. Interesting, but too much for me. Would take me until Christmas to finish. And yesterday, they had two pages of various crosswords, sudokus (using letters instead of numbers) and other word puzzles. Those were fun.
Musings
ReplyDelete-Joe gave me a fun mental workout. I’m sure he’s thankful for his new baby girl born in April.
-Would PHI be preantepenultimate?
-Didn’t you put GORE for W competitor?
-Stan and Ollie contract to move a piano. Hilarity ENSUES.
-ARRAY – Joann prepared her usual ARRAY of food for today even though it will be just she, I and Lily
-My 30-yr-old AM/FM clock radio is only used as a clock. I don’t listen to it and don’t need the alarm
-“Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.”
-In what song did Sinatra sing of “A flight to the Moon on GOSSAMER wings”?
-DBA to me means “Doing Blogging As” Husker Gary. Hungry, does that make me a member of the commentariat?
-Timothy Leary advocated a different ACID DROP in a sugar cube
-Until Georgia ELECTS its two senators, political parties will not END fund raising
-That Judy Garland song today would blow up the Twitterverse!
-Me too, TTP, on that vowel roulette at R_Y/R_I
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving to all. (Canada Eh, once again appreciate the leftovers)
Fair Thursday. A couple proper names. One obvious Spanish clue.
Thought I nailed but no I just hit my thumb with the hammer. "owie!". Had GOSSi crossed with iRI ...and WiN crossed with Ri("bid" another word unchanged in present and past tense? ...bidded seems clunky). What a 🦃! Thought Ronny spelled his name "Cheng".
ELHI.... don't think I didn't see you SNEAKBY into the puzzle. Watched the 1922 film "NANOOK of the North" in college Anthropology class ('68 or 69?). Never saw the musical version "No! No! NANOOK!" (BTW Boomer, he was guy, not Paul Bunyan's type a far as we know)
Had Cola first which blocked TICKLY but QTIP provided the SEQUENCE that led to a change to COKE.
Who would let their kid eat candy called ACIDDROP??... Why not just drop acid with chocolate flavored LSD!? Does this go along with REEFER MADNESS?
I wish high field MRI could diagnose migraine HA's. Usually used to r/o other conditions that mimic symptoms. My son is a pain management MD in Syracuse and has had success using botox injections to abate or decrease the frequency of attacks.
Once I parsed the DREAM theme (a confused team of jumbled Dreams?...or... the Everly Bros song " Dream, Dream etc. Duly noted by the Boomer. I changed EVEN (level) to RAZE (I had inkedover BOOZE) filled in the SW lst to go.
Vocalized audience displeasure.....BOOZE.
______ when "finishing it right".....IBEAM.
Created colors.....MADEEYES.
Regret...ROO.
Tans, catches____ RAZE
Have a great day everyone. Masks off long enough to stuff our faces...
D4...hope Carol is home soon in good health.
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteI saw the Dream scramble early on but the reveal was an Aha surprise. I thought some of the cluing was unnecessarily difficult, even for a Friday, e.g, the clue for a simple word like Need. I never heard of Acid Drop, In Run, Ari, Ron, Rey, and Chieng, so, many perps were needed for the solve; fortunately, the crosses were fair but a couple of wags were needed for Chi and In Run.
Thanks, Joe, for a definite challenge and thanks, Boomer, for your usual wit and nostalgia-evoking commentary. Good luck with the turkey!
Dave, best wishes for Carol’s speedy return to you and good health.
Happy Thanksgiving to all; as terrible as this year has been, we still have much to be thankful for. (The verdict is still out on watermelons, though.)
FLN I played Carla Mardigian, a reporter for the LA Times. The producers thought I wasn't tough enough and that audiences would worry about my character too much. Thanks for the kind words Lemonade!
ReplyDeleteBecky
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! It's going to be a rather quiet one here at the Bluehen Ponderosa. Just the old head of the pride and the three young lions. And football, of course. I broke down a twenty-two pound bird yesterday. Eldest is in charge of roasting the breast, the youngest is making some fancy mashed potatoes from a recipe he found online, and middlest is in charge of veggies. Thanks to the two youngest being on the keto diet, no rolls, no stuffing, no dessert. Oh, well, if they lose some of their weight it's worth it. I froze the two thighs, and poached the rest with a mirepoix . We got a pint of turkey fat, a half gallon of rich stock, and picked off probably 6 cups of meat. We're going to be eating turkey for a while. Anybody know a good keto-friendly turkey casserole recipe? My usual leftover turkey recipes are decidedly NOT keto-friendly (but durned good). Oops. Said young lions are back from a hunting expedition. Cya!
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Wow Bluehen. All the constructors on the Corner are probably salivating over "mirepoix". Think of the possibilities! And Happy Thanksgiving to you and your Pride.
DeleteIM, and I thought it was tough for a Wednesday. It doesn't get any easier tomorrow and Saturday. I never thought I'd finish Saturday's xword.
ReplyDeleteThis is my musical Dream Sequence
WC
Becky, I think they realized that Mardigian was just too hard to pronounce. Here you are back with the LAT and nobody can fire you.
ReplyDeleteI followed my DREAM but FIW with one bad cell: I had WiN for "bid the most" and didn't know that "biographer Chernow" was RON, but should have realized that was more likely than RiN. Like Irish Miss, I had a couple of WAGs in the northwest. I give thanks to Joe for the puzzle, Rich and Joyce for editing, Boomer for the roundup, and all Cornerites for the good company.
ReplyDeleteIn my house, we spend a lot of time looking at birds through binoculars and cameras, but we don't eat them! We are looking forward to a vegan Field Roast, mushroom gravy, yams, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, salad, cranberries, rolls, and pie. My children and grandchildren, who are part of our pandemic bubble, will be here for a late lunch outdoors in the LA sunshine.
My turkey is now in the oven. We'll have a small family gathering, not the usual 30-4o of past times.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter and my niece will bring the side dishes so all I have to do is cook the biscuits (Grands), make a salad and gravy. I'll have the first arrivals set the table. We'll eat at about 2:30.
I love Thanksgiving Day but can you believe it, someone called trying to sell me solar??? I guess not everyone observes the day.
I read and still have one of Ron Chernow's biographies.
ReplyDeleteA bit sticky for a Thursday I thought. Generally I pay no attention to circles, but today they were most helpful after getting dream sequence. Chieng and inrun were both wags. I think ticklish would have been more acceptable, but wouldn't fit so I gave in to tickly. In the end I had four wrong squares all in the center-east having insisted on mix before men. Close but no cigar today. Let's all give thanks today for the countless blessings we enjoy.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving, C.C. and Boomer! Thanks for the fun puzzle, Joe, and Boomer, your write-up always mentions a song that then stays with me all day. Today it will be the Everly Brothers in my ear.
ReplyDeleteNice to have a DREAM themed puzzle. My favorite clue was "Vicious on stage." What? Oh, you mean SID?
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving with family or friends or just food, everybody! And a nice holiday season ahead.
FIR but needed every perp for Chieng. Nice review by Boomer as always.
ReplyDeleteMany years ago now, I worked with a very bright young woman who purchased a newly built condominium early in the year. She subsequently decided to express her independence by hosting thanksgiving. She asked for recipes and advice and felt ready for the big day. Thanksgiving morning she got the turkey ready only to discover, after living in the condo for nearly a year at that point, that the kitchen didn't have an oven!
Happy thanksgiving everyone.
JB2
ReplyDeleteThis one started slow but finally got there. A rather inky grid is the result.
I’m no expert on the Keto diet but why bother excluding rolls and dessert if you are having potatoes?
The Steeler game being postponed is a disappointment.
Enjoy the day.
Cancelled the 12 lb Turkey with friends so spouse and I are down to splitting a Cornish hen.
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to stop by and wish the Corner family a very Happy Thanksgiving! It'll just be DH, Youngest, DIL and me for dinner, so we narrowed the menu to the faves. Kind of nice not to have so many dishes to prepare. Enjoy your day everyone!
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving! Enjoyed the puzzle (thanks Joe) as well as the write up (thanks Boomer for stepping up). Like others who have already commented, I FIW because of my lack of knowledge of the Greek alphabet. I entered pHI, expecting it to be closer to omega. That was my only bad square. WOs were AbU, AMfM, and Pass/POOR. Before I saw the perps, I was thinking how clever to have PAST and Pass intersect! INRUN was a WAG as I didn't know CHIENG, obviously.
ReplyDeleteI suspected DREAM was involved in the theme but needed the reveal for the SEQUENCE part. Nice. My favorite fill was GINGERBREAD MEN. Yum! Enjoy your yummy feast today. Ours will arrive this afternoon.
Wilbur @ 11:31 ~ Thank you for giving me back a day. I must have been wool-gathering when I typed Friday, why else would I be so off base, especially on Thanksgiving which is always on a Thursday.
ReplyDeleteJB2 @ 12:10 ~ What was the outcome of your co-worker’s dilemma? I guess the more important question is why was there no oven. Even more baffling is not needing to use an oven for so long. I’m guessing cooking wasn’t one of her interests.
Happy Thanksgiving All!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the grid Joe. Figured out the theme at second near-spanner; I was going for "nightmares" (messed-up dreams) but DREAM (out of) SEQUENCE is cute too.
Lightsaber == roll of candy... LOL, Boomer! Thank you kindly for pinch-hitting this Thursday - no ERR on your score-card //and your Turkey o' the Year essay is (literally, unfortunately) dead on...
You and C.C. have a great day.
WOs: Ronny Chang (oh, it's CHIENG? - I love his humor), AM/fM, Sack -> REAM, Toss -> OUST, I was going to have ???TEA before being served a MIMOSA.
ESPs: SEGAL, ARI, GOSSAMER (isn't he the Uncle in the Nutcracker? A: No, that's Drosselmeyer.)
Surprised myself: N----OK and I knew 47d? I've heard the name but never context.
I was actually Thankful for ELHI today - it was an my only toe-hold in the LA Basin for a bit.
Fav: Ronny Chieng again! - He was stuck in AU at the beginning of Covid. [Daily Show]
D4 - Sounds like Carol is on the upswing. Continued good wishes.
HG - DBA to me is Data Base Administrator.
LOL - HEAD MRI showing 'nothing' D-O :-)
Speaking... LOL Chocolate LSD Ray-O.
TTP - In these trouble'd times - there's nothing wrong with Pumpkin Pie w/ your morning coffee on Thanksgiving.
//LOL pie-server counts! I have 3 of 'em too.
W is a hotel? I know there's one with a circled D just inside the loop (been there a few times for local security nerd-fests) but I have no idea what it's called. I LIU - Hotel Derek. Who's Derek? :-)
Youngest & I picked up our feast for 3 from la Madeleine's this morning. I usually cook for hours but, for only 3 of quarantined (DW was exposed again last week) us - no point.
Enjoyed reading everyone else this afternoon //Googles Mirepoix - Oh, the Holy Trinity! .
Cheers, -T
Happy Thanksgiving One and All !
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a small child, one of the nicknames that my father gave me was NANOOK of the North. Years later I was fortunate enough to see the film. It is good to see Nanook here.
Irish Miss....
ReplyDeleteEverything was moved to her parents home and turned out well.
As to why no oven, I can only guess. But clearly roasting or baking wasn't high on her list of priorities.
JB2
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
ReplyDeleteThe REI and REY got me.
A modest but delicious feast for LW and me a little later.
Puzzling thoughts:
ReplyDeleteFIR with a few write-overs
Thanks Joe and Boomer for a fun puzzle and recap
ACID HEAD/DROP; EVEN/RAZE; REI/REY was almost a Natick but I got it
Thanksgiving Day haiku:
Shoe repairman bought
Male bird for Thanksgiving. It’s
A turkey cobbler.
🦃🦃🦃👞👞👞
Terrific Thanksgiving Thursday. I’m late to the party today (I was arranging my Christmas porchpots) and WEES by now. I agree there was a little crunch today.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the fun, Joe and Boomer.
I saw the DREAM SEQUENCE early which helped fill the circles. But I arrived here to see that I FIWed. Hand up for Win instead of WON (it could have been present or past tense!) and not noticing the crossing Rin instead of RON.
I thought there might be a turkey theme today, but we had GINGERBREAD MEN!😀. Run, run, as fast as you can . . . .
But I do wish all my American friends here a Happy Thanksgiving (sure I’ll enjoy leftovers Ray’o😊-actually we just finished a chicken stir-fry)
Thank you Joe and thank you Boomer. I’m trying to get this posted before I collapse from a Tryptophan overdose!
ReplyDelete14A W competitor - like several others I took the bait and initially penciled in GORE, but it didn’t perp so I erased it. It eventually perped to OMNI. I find that “W” is a holding company for hotels that appeal “hip” youngsters. I think ILIAC might have been better, but I guess it’s too long.
2D Upper arm bones. Sneaky (see 6D), because the upper arm only has one bone. But here it’s being as a collective noun. Strictly speaking the HUMERI are not “funny bones” The latter are not a bone per se, but rather the “olecronan nerve” protruding from the Ulna in the lower arm. Whenever it gets wacked it creates that electrifying feeling that you’ve been shocked. I owe this bit of trivia to Mr. Goedeke, my 8th grade science teacher.
5D Alarm clock toggle. Like many other retired people I don’t use an alarm clock, not that I don’t have a busy schedule. Instead I use my “much smarter than me” phone, which can trigger alarms at all different days of the week and times of the day. I just have make sure the “down” button is off on days when I don’t want to be rudely awakened (machines are not very empathetic).
11 Sri Nahasapeemapetilon is actually an X character (not a super hero, just no longer on the show), probably because of name length discrimination.
20D The official language of Belize may be English, but over a dozen other languages are spoken there including Spanish, Creole, 2 dialects of Mayan, and 2 of German. .
35D ACID DROP “… Timothy Leary’s dead .. No, no he’s outside looking in”. Leary’s actual death, captured on an early web cam in 1996 was years after the Moody Blues’ paean to their spiritual master in 1966. But Aldous Huxley, who wrote the “Doors of Perception” in 1954 about his experiences on Mescaline, beat Leary by dying in 1963,under the influence of LSD, injected by his wife Laura.
30D DBA Where Anonymous T and I come from (and others on the Corner I’m sure) DBA means “Database Administrator”. In large IT shops there is usually a team of DBAs who install and patch DB software and act as internal consultants. Systems integrators and specialists who need databases to support software that they rely on, usually have to “roll their own” (see 19A). The latter can be really dangerous as I I know from personal experience!
48D Subjects are touchy, people are tickly.
And a Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
Bill
Canadian Eh. I meant your leftovers from your Thanksgiving in Canada
ReplyDeleteLOL Ray’o, those leftovers are long gone😀. I’m looking forward to the Christmas turkey.
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