Three Letters, Six Words. The circles give us the sign.
16-Across. Carrier to Cork and Shannon: AER LINGUS.
22-Across. She played Ika in "Quest for Fire": RAE DAWN CHONG. Rae Dawn Chong (b. Feb. 28, 1961) is the daughter of Tommy Chong of Cheech and Chong fame.
29-Across. "Really?": ARE YOU SURE?
41-Across. Best Actor nominee for "The Crying Game": STEPHEN REA. Stephen Rea (b. Oct. 31, 1946) had been in many films, but is probably best know for 1992 film The Crying Game.
46-Across. Ignore, with "to": TURN A DEAF EAR.
59-Across. Period preceding Reagan's presidency: CARTER ERA.
President Jimmy Carter (b. Oct. 1, 1924)
Notice the symmetry. In the first three answers, the theme "word" begins the phrase. In the last three answers, the theme "word" ends the phrase.
Across:1. Church seating: PEW. The eytomology of the word pew.
8. Hint of hunger: PANG.
12. Señora Perón: EVA. Eva Perón (né María Eva Duarte, May 7, 1919 ~ July 26, 1952) was the 2nd wife of Argentine President Juan Perón. The musical Evita was based on her life.
13. Soften the effect of, as words: MINCE. My mother made the best Minced pie.
14. Pen name: ALIAS. // And 37-Across. Letters before a pen name: AKA. As in Also Known As.
18. Release: LET GO.
19. Streamlined, as a sports car: SLEEK.
20. Miner's find: ORE. A crossword staple.
21. Kitchen protector with strings: APRON. Cute clue.
25. Tiered Eastern temple: PAGODA.
The Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an, China
28. "Definitely": YES.
33. Chomped: BIT.
36. Graduating group: CLASS. There were 99 students in my high school graduating class.
38. Back of a hit 45 record: B-SIDE. Here are 25 B-side hits that you have probably listened to.
40. Rocky crest: TOR. I learned this word from doing the crossword puzzles.
43. Slippery, as a winter road: ICY.
45. Colossus island: RHODES. The Colossus of Rhodes was one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It was said to have been a giant (colossus) statue of the Greek sun god Helios. According to contemporary descriptions, it was about 108 feet tall, making it the tallest man-made structure in the ancient world. Sadly, an earthquake that occurred in about 226 BCE was the statue's demise. We can only speculate what the statue looked like.
53. Baton Rouge sch.: LSU. I'll that the CSO for Louisiana State University.
54. Snake secretion: VENOM.
58. Italian sauce with pine nuts: PESTO. I misread this clue as being Italian sausage.
61. Tavern mug: STEIN. The Maine Stein song is the song of my alma mater.
62. Killed time: IDLED.
63. Boomer's kid: X'ER. Generation X.
64. Change for a ten: ONEs.
63. Boomer's kid: X'ER. Generation X.
64. Change for a ten: ONEs.
66. Mattel product: TOY. This company makes lots and lots of toys.
2. Daredevil Robbie's dad: EVEL. Evel Knievel (né Robert Craig Knievel; Oct. 17, 1938 ~ Nov. 30, 2007) bragged that he could jump the Grand Canyon on his motorcycle. He never actually attempted this stunt, however.
3. Suffix with hard or soft: WARE. As in Hardware and Software.
4. "Hamilton" creator __-Manuel Miranda: LIN. Not only did Lin-Manuel Miranda (b. Jan. 16, 1980), write Hamilton, he starred in the original musical as Alexander Hamilton.
8. Regal abode: PALACE. The Neuschwanstein Castle may be one of the most recognizable palaces in the world. It was one of Mad King Ludwig II's castles. He had this castle commissioned to honor composer Richard Wagner.
10. Part of TNT: NITRO. The full name of this chemical compound is Trinitrotoluene, or more specifically 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene. Its the formula C₆H₂(NO₂)₃CH₃.
11. Be unable to swallow: GAG ON.
13. Onetime Japanese emperors: MIKADOS. The Mikado is also the name of an opera by Gilbert and Sullivan.
15. Neil Diamond work: SONG.
17. Composer Anderson and Jim Croce's "Bad, Bad" Brown: LEROYs. Leroy Anderson (June 29, 1908 ~ May 18, 1975) was a New Englander and wrote many pieces that were played by the Boston Pops Orchestra. Sadly, Jim Croce (né James Joseph Croce; Jan. 10, 1943 ~ Sept. 20, 1973) was killed when the small plane he was in crashed in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
23. Nice water?: EAU. // And 34-Across. Cannes concept: IDÉE. Today's French lesson. Both cities are on the French Riviera. We frequented both cities when we lived in Aix-en-Provence.
24. "Science Guy" Bill: NYE. Bill Nye (né William Sanford Nye; b. Nov. 27, 1955) makes frequent appearances in the crossword puzzles.
25. Agreement: PACT.
26. Woody's son: ARLO. Arlo Guthrie (né Arlo Davy Guthrie; b. July 10, 1947) is best known for Alice's restaurant.
27. Camping equipment: GEAR.
32. Eminem genre: RAP. Marshall Bruce Mathers, III (b. Oct. 17, 1972) is better known by his Rap name of Eminem. He always looks so angry.
35. Black or green beverages: TEAS. Do you know the difference between Black and Green teas?
38. Acted properly: BEHAVED.
39. Noisy napper: SNORER.
41. Australian airport code: SYD. As in the airport that services Sydney, Australia. // Not to be confused with 49-Down. Legendary Spanish hero: EL CID. El Cid (né Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar; 1043 ~ July 10, 1099) was a Castilian knight and national folk hero.
42. Charlemagne's realm: Abbr.: HRE. As in the Holy Roman Empire, which as we have noted before was neither Holy nor Roman. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the 1st Holy Roman Emperor after Charlemagne protected the Pope from his enemies. Charlemagne is sometimes referred to as Charles I, as Charles was his given name. Charlemagne comes from a corruption of the old French, Charles le Magne, meaning Charles the Great. The territory of the HRE was largely in what is now Germany and France.
43. How football games rarely end: IN A TIE.
48. Up: RISEN.
50. South American grilled meat dish: ASADO.
51. Rolls up, as a flag: FURLS. Furl vs. Unfurl.
55. Deli counter call: NEXT.
57. Contrary girl of rhyme: MARY.
60. Golf ball holder: TEE.
Here's the Grid:
Notes from C.C.:
1) Chairman Moe (Chris Gross) and I made today's Universal puzzle, edited by David Steinberg. Click here to solve. Congrats on your crossword debut, Chris!
2) Happy birthday to Husker Gary's amazing wife Joann and her twin sister
Joyce! Both turn 74 years old today. Here they're with their mom Martha.
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteSaw all the iterations of EAR, but thought the theme was somewhat weak sauce. It wasn't needed for the theme, so no foul. My only Wite-Out moment was changing ASADa to ASADO. Thanx for the outing, Jerry, and for the tour, Hahtoolah. (Your H.S. class was lots bigger than mine.)
B-SIDE: The one which popped to mind immediately didn't make your list -- Don't Be Cruel.
PALACE: We were visiting one of dw's uncles in Kempten, and took the short drive to Füssen to visit Neuschwanstein. Ludwig sure knew how to make a small fortune -- start with a large one. Actually, it was the state's money, not his. His death by drowning is still a mystery, but suicide is the official line.
Rumor has it that Ludwig got too frisky with Wagner.
DeleteYou'd have to have pretty intense feelings for someone to dedicate an edifice like Neuschwanstein to him. Richard probably didn't commit the deed, but he might have told the one who did.
Good Morning, Crossword friends.
ReplyDeleteQOD: Being happy never goes out of style. ~ Lilly Pulitzer (née Lillian Lee McKim; Nov. 10, 1931 ~ Apr. 7, 2013), American socialite and fashion designer
Hola!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jerry Edelstein and Hahtoolah! This was quick but entertaining. Susan, your choice of graphics always evokes a smile. And your graduating class was definitely larger than mine which totaled 18.
I liked the crossing of MIDADO/PAGODA.
Hydrox seems like such an odd name for a cookie. To me it sounds more like a cleaning product.
My trip to Benson, AZ was loads of fun. We laughed until our sides ached. But it was so cold! The wind only exacerbated the cold.
I hope all is well with all of you!
FIR, no problem with the 6 permutations of 3 letters. I’m glad we didn’t have to fill-in all permutations of 8 letters.
ReplyDeleteThis was a fast solve - felt quicker than Monday this week!
ReplyDeleteI liked Jim Croce during my high school days!
Gotta go - but happy birthday Joann! I'll try to do CC and Moe's puzzle over lunch!
Thanks Susan and Jerry!
Thanks to Jerry for a nice puzzle and Hahtoolah for your always humorous blog. I love your cartoons, What Talent !!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Joanne and Joyce ... seems you are prob fraternal twins, like my wife. But I'm sure you remember each others birthdays.
Good wishes to your Mom as well, she's given you good genes !
Thank you for not linking any Rap songs. Mercy.
The Japanese camera brand Canon was not named after any Cannons or ammunition but from a Japanese Buddhist goddess Guanyin, Goddess of Mercy, also Kanon . She has a dozen heads, and a thousand hands to hold and give succor to the people of the world in poverty. misery and in deplorable circumstances, and emphathize with them, and to give them respite.
Just permutations of EAR today. Hahtoolah, I always love your illustrations and cartoons.
ReplyDeleteI read a historical novel based on Neuschwanstein castle. It seems so real to me. I can't remember whether it was just the novel or whether I actually saw it on my visit to Europe. as well.
My primary grade students every year thought it was funny when we talked about how animals behave. The kids were thinking of how they were always admonished to behave.
I am a G&S fan. The Mikado is one of my favorites. BTW I miss attending plays and musicals during this virus period. We used to have many nearby venues that were quite professional in acting, if not in staging.
I still like Jim Croce's songs.
To me a PANG is very sharp, not just a hint.
Susan, your deaf ear picture reminds me of the younger students when we had assemblies. Many held their ears like that when singers hit a high note. They called it screaming.
A very happy birthday, Joann. Enjoy your day.
PANG, the middle man in Puccini's Turandot?
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ReplyDelete-The “ARE YOU SURE” prompt has saved me a couple of times
-“Don’t MINCE words, tell me what you think!”
-Al Capone hated the AKA the press gave him of “Scarface”
-The APRON strings are still attached to my 26-yr-old nephew
-Speaking of ICY, here’s what greeted me this morning. Click Zoom to get the full effect. I still ventured out to get Joann her favorite roll.
-After losing so many players to the NFL, 2019 national champion LSU’s football fortunes fell
-IDLED – What I did for 20 minutes in the Walgreens pickup window yesterday
-Crazy King Ludwig nearly bankrupted Bavaria by building Neuschwanstein
-Our feeders attract Cardinals only. My friend across town gets both cardinals and orioles.
-COVID masks don’t bother me as I have been sleeping with an antiSNORING CPAP machine for years
-D-O, me too on ASADO/A
-Well done, Susan.
Lucy na, re. EXACERBATE (d). Didn't we have that word recently? Was it Saturday?
ReplyDeleteAdvice: A moi: Wear reading glasses when solving. I bolloxed up the SW get clue #s mixed up. Somehow I thought "lend a Dull EAR made sense.
I remember reading EL CID by Corneille* in French IV unless it was in college. I was recup'ing from back surgery in 67 and subbing. They realized I knew French and hired me for the year. What I didn't know was the art of discipline.
I started C-Moe's xword. Not android friendly but the xword is Tuesday friendly. As was this one.
I enjoyed Hahtoolah's song and other links. Speaking of... Hahtoolah's BSIDE list says "Don't be Cruel" was the A side of "Hound Dog". The latter virtually launched Elvis and R&R.
WC
I almost said Racine but wisely LIU
Good morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday to Joann and Joyce. Raise a STEIN or two.
Congrats to C Moe on 1st published puzzle. Always a thrill.
Easy solve. FIR. No wite-out. Seemed like more than usual 3 ltr fill today; the bane of several solvers. I counted 17.
RHODES - My ship's sister ship, USS Bache (DD-470), was wrecked there. Bache was blown aground outside of the Rhodes harbor by a gale during a three-day port visit to the Island of Rhodes, Greece on 6 February 1968. She was declared a constructive total loss and scrapped there.
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteThanks Jerry for the grid to pass the morning. Thanks Hahtoolah for following-up with a fun expo; loved the comics!
WOs: Acord [sic] -> ACURA, tEnt -> GEAR
ESPs: TOR, STEPHEN REA, RAE DAWN CHONG, MIKADOS,
Fav: LEROY Brown
C. Moe - congrats on the debut. No hang-ups in the solve.
Welcome back Lucina.
D-O: I was looking for Led Zeppelin's 'Immigrant Song' but found that was the A-Side(?) :-)
Happy Birthday to Joann & twin!
Cheers, -T
Sorry I bolluxed up my previous post. I posted the unedited one. I was referring to Lucina using the word "EXACERBATE(d) and seemed to recall its use in an earlier xword. And..
ReplyDeleteAccording to the BSIDE list it was "Don't Be Cruel," as A and "Hound Dog" as B.
A good, solid Tuesday puzzle. Hahtoolah's write up and graphics are always a real treat.
ReplyDeleteOn the Universal front, congratulations Ch. Moe. A very good puzzle for a debut or at any time. When I was a child my parents read to me from something called "The Bumper Book". It was an illustrated collection of children's (DUH) stories and verses. In it was one called The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat. I hadn't thought of that in decades. Thanks.
The Duel - AKA The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat
Under "A-Side and B-Side" WIKI says: "..."Don't Be Cruel", the B-side of "Hound Dog" by Elvis Presley, became as big a hit as its A-side even though "Don't Be Cruel" was not the intended A-side when released in 1956. Reissues later in the 1960s (and after the Beatles' "Day Tripper"/"We Can Work It Out") listed the single with both songs as the A-side"
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday, Joann and sister! I expect you will be well treated for your celebration.
ReplyDeleteAnon-T:
Thank you for the welcome. It's good to be home.
I also thought the number of three letter words was exceptional but didn't count them and none were objectionable or offensive.
Like inanehiker I agree that today was as easy, if not easier, than yesterday. Fasten you seatbelts though. It's bound to ramp up in difficulty in a day or two. BTW, does anyone pay much attention to the circles? I didn't even notice them.
ReplyDeleteGood Morning:
ReplyDeleteEasy, breezy Tuesday. No w/os, no unknowns, but too many of those pesky three letter words, of which I counted 20. (Hi, Spitz.) I guess six themers comes with a price. Big CSO to the Louisiana contingent at LSU. Stephen Rea was in the recent Flesh and Blood series on PBS; I’m still trying to figure out if played a saint or a sinner!
Thanks, Jerry, for a Tuesday treat and thanks, Hahtoolah, for a sparkling review with so many fun visuals and lots of memory-evoking music. My high school graduating class was well over 300.
Congratulations, Moe, on your debut. I’ll solve it later on.
Happy Birthday to Joann and Joyce on your special day. 🎂🎉🎁🎈🎊🥂
I received a package yesterday with my correct street and city-state address but the addressee was 4PRAACRLV. I opened it to verify the rightful recipient and the packing list showed a woman’s full name with a Troy street address that I’m familiar with, although not even close to my address, literally or geographically. After several futile Google attempts to find a phone number, I contacted the purveyor via chat and after a back and forth exchange, I asked if they would contact her and give her my telephone number so she could arrange to retrieve the package. They said yes and thanked me for my concern, but I haven’t gotten a call yet. ‘Tis a puzzlement!
Have a great day.
"4PRAACRLV" sounds like an Xwd answer in search of a clue.
DeleteC-Moe and C.C.: I enjoyed your puzzle, though I had to look at a map of Canada before I could believe 66a. Spoiler Alert: And is Taco Soup really a thing?
ReplyDeleteIM - going out on a limb here but what was in the package? I've heard of random shipments to up the ratings of certain sellers. They ship to #random and then ++ seller ratings.
ReplyDeleteOr is this just a true mix-up?
Cheers, -T
Pleasant Tuesday puzzle and informative write up. Thanx Hahtoolah for the link on split peas. And here I've always thought that "Dal" was synonymous with "Lentil"! I think we've got some split peas hiding in one of our cupboards. I've printed the recipe and plan to make it today.
ReplyDelete"Chana Dal" and "Tor Dal" both look a lot like split yellow peas. However the yellow split peas in my cupboard were really in my fading imagination, so I ended substituting a cup each of orange and green lentils and adding 1/2 cup each of barley and farro, a reddish barley (the amino acids in grains complement those in legumes to provide a more complete vegetable protein). Just took it off the stove - it tastes great! Thanx again to Hahtoolah for the tip.
DeleteToday's puzzle was finished too soon! I was enjoying it! Thankfully I can extend the pleasure by visiting the Corner, where Hahtoolah treated me to a little ukulele music from one of my favorite artists, Iz Kamakawiwo'ole. That would make a nice crossword entry! How glorious, Hahtoolah, to have lived in Aix-en-Provence. And to have had, perhaps, at least a passing acquaintance with all 99 members of your high school graduating class! There were 1,000 students in my class of 1972 at University High School in Los Angeles.
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ReplyDelete-TACO SOUP? Well done Chris and Zhouqin!
-I didn’t look for the gimmick until I was half done and the # to # didn’t make sense because I skipped the first theme fill. Did you or David decide to leave off “letters” from subsequent clues or even put them on in the first place?
-BTW, my lovely bride is the one on the right
-I was in a class of 28 and ranked somewhere near the middle. I had an aversion to homework but did very well in standardized testing. There might have been one or two others who got college degrees.
There were 700+ kids in my graduating class from C.E.Byrd. It was massive compared to where I spent freshman & 1/2 of sophomore year at Ursuline (~100? It was an all girls' school until my freshman year - >3/4 ratio girls:boys! Even I could get a date for Sadie Hawkins :-)
ReplyDeleteI remember one Nun commenting on how nice the girls looked; no ripped uniforms, had makeup, etc. after Ursuline went co-ed).
Welp, back to the salt-MINEs.
Cheers, -T
I zoomed right through this delightful Tuesday puzzle--many thanks, Jerry. And your write-ups and pictures are always a pleasure, Hahtoolah. Congratulations on the puzzle with C.C., Chairman Moe. And happy birthday Joann and Joyce.
ReplyDeleteLike, Lucina, I thought of HYDROX as a detergent and was surprised when OREO had to be the answer. My one erasure this morning was putting ATE instead of BIT for chomping. Liked getting MARY at the end--I sure remembered that rhyme. Funny to get two musical items, UKE and RAP, next to each other--very different music, I imagine. Found it funny that the answer YES popped up before the question ARE YOU SURE? Clever puzzle-making, Jerry, thanks again.
Have a good day, everybody.
Anon T @ 10:34 ~ This was a legitimate shipment from Proactiv containing $70.00+ worth of their products. I still haven’t heard from the intended recipient and I’m wondering whether she was contacted. The big mystery is how my address came into play, not to mention the bizarre cluster of letters as the addressee.
ReplyDeleteI actually saw Evel Knievel in the bar at the Tower Hotel in London (near the tower bridge, of cource). he acted exactly like you woukd expect. The bar does have an excellent view of the bridge, especially at night or at least it in late 70s.
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Nice puzzle, Moe and CC. FIR, but didn't get the theme. Letters 10 to 5? 9 to 6? 8 to 5?
ReplyDeleteMom used to read poems to the 6 of us. Eugene Field was one of my favorite poets. I remember The Duel. A Child's Garden of Verses by RLS was another favorite.
CLASS - There were 21 in our graduating HS class; 14 girls, 7 guys. Only 2 guys are left now, and a handful of the women. Our class was 'together' from 1st grade thru grade 12; and in the same building throughout the 12 years. Interestingly our 12th grade home room was the same room as our 1st grade room. Déjà vu? or - (What goes around comes around?)
ReplyDeleteMIKADO - Was a popular steam locomotive and was used on many of the world's railroads. It had a 2-8-2 wheel configuration.
ReplyDeleteTypical Tuesday grid, no issues.
Bound to over-post say...
ReplyDeleteSpitz - you made me LIU re: 2-8-2.
I was off by a couple of years when Ursuline went co-ed. It was 3 years b/f I was enrolled. Culpa, Mea and all that...
Ursuline had 5 black kids in the whole school. Pretty white-bread (and, of course, Catholic).
C.E. Byrd (also leart today he was president of LA Tech! (my undergrad school)) was >35% black.
We had the best marching band [football is BIG in the south!] I'd ever seen until I heard Grambling State's [9m] (just 15 minutes from Ruston/LA Tech) and Prairie View A&M's [13m] bands.
They's got rhythm.
Youngest's school's band is pretty good too. But,... I gotta dance Rawhide [Blues Brothers] (and something else I didn't pay attention to) tonight to a drone filming us. Wish me luck.
I've already told my trainer - Stretches Man, Stretches... //high kicks are going to kick my butt.
Cheers, -T
Hahtoolah: Wonderful write-up.
ReplyDeleteThis was a FUN puzzle to solve.
It is 86 degrees on a beautiful sunny day.
Time for a 6 mile beach walk on Honeymoon Island.
Cheers!
While everyone is on the subject of graduation class size, I may as well chime in. There were about 500 in mine. I was in the very first graduating class of West Leyden H.S. in Northlake Il. The year? 1962. The interesting thing is that it opened in 1960 with only frosh and sophs, no juniors or seniors. The next year again no seniors. So, I was an upperclassman all three years from 10 to 11 to 12. No one to look up to which is not always a good thing.
ReplyDeleteThanx Jerry!! Fun, perfect Tuesday CW. Got ‘Er done w/o write-overs, and in reasonable time. “Mincemeat” is a peculiar word. I’ve sampled many mincemeat pies and I don’t believe there was a molecule of meat in any of them. But, they were still good! Great write-up, Hahtoolah!! I really don’t know how u manage to do such a good write-up every time! Stay safe, everyone, the virus is really getting BAD. I expect Uncle Joe will do a better job managing it!!
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ReplyDeleteJerry and Susan: well done! Very creatively placed anagrams of the word EAR (or was it ERA? or ARE?). At any rate, a very enjoyable solve.
And Susan, as others said, your graphics and links are clever and informative. Thanks!
D Otto @ 10:28 —> yes to Taco Soup. Back when I presented the theme and idea to C.C., I had “split pea soup” as the theme. My theme entries were different but CC came to the rescue with a couple of soups I hadn’t thought of. In reflection, it was prior to my purchasing the necessary software to construct puzzles, but now I’m all in. I needed a hobby to keep myself more active during the pandemic!
HG @ 11:30 —-> first, HB to your DW and her sister! Second, as an LSU “Dad” (my daughter graduated from there in 2004), I totally concur that the combination of so many replacement players from last years team, the pandemic that caused a few return starters to opt out of this season, plus adding Bo Pelini as their DC (you no doubt have some memories of him when he coached the Cornhuskers) has had an impact. It looks as if their big game vs ALA may be canceled due to some LSU players testing + for Covid
Regarding the clue changes, I’d have to look but I’m thinking that David edited at least 10-12 of our original clues for publication, as well as the puzzle title
Yellowrocks @ 12:24 —> I think in lieu of circles to highlight hidden words, Universal uses a more cryptic method. If you look at the number of letters in each of the starred clues, 10-5, etc refers to that position in the clue. In other words, the hidden word is located between the 10th and 5th letters within that entry.
Re: today’s LAT: the anagrams came easily and helped with RAE Dawn Chong, and Turn a deaf EAR. I misspelled STEPHEN for some reason, and I had to write over IDLED/BEHAVED as I misread the verb tense.
Fun puzzle today to FIR. Thanks, Jerry. And thanks Hahtoolah for your information packed review. It made me put on my happy face, always in style.
ReplyDeleteW/O's were caused by slips in spelling (Hi, -T) and slips in assumptions before looking at perps: ate/BIT (Hi, Misty) and TOp/TOR. I figured out the theme as I saw what letters were in the circles early on. I did wonder how many 3 letter words could make all 6 variations and be actual words as EAR did.
My high school class had 75 graduates and we all knew each other. In my village of 2000 people, the community high school had several area grade schools feeding into it to make that large a class. After I graduated from college, I taught there for two years along with many teachers who had taught me. An interesting experience.
This just in:
ReplyDelete-The city police just called me to tell me my billfold had been turned in to them. I wore sweatpants to get Joann’s maple roll this morning and it had to have slipped out of my pocket. Someone saw it, took the $80 and threw it back down on the parking lot. A woman found it and turned it in with all 3 credit cards and other stuff still intact. No more sweatpants being worn out of the house. Seinfeld line to George, “Sweatpants just tell the world you’ve given up.”
I agree that "Hound Dog" was the big elvis hit. "Heartbreak Hotel" is my favorite. The safest place for Elvis was the Army. When he came back he played "Safe," music and stayed alive.
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Finally got around to Moe's and CC's puzzle over at Universal - clever theme, and congrats on your first publish Moe!
ReplyDeleteD-O - there is definitely a thing called taco soup! Sometimes it's called chicken tortilla soup - it can have chicken or beef in it and base can vary from more tomato based like a chili or more a yellow based broth - and a whole variety of ingredients much like tacos can!
My graduating class had ~600 but we didn't think we were that big because we were the smallest of the 5 high schools in our district - the largest had 800+! So it's all in your perspective :) We moved from the biggest high school to the smallest between my 9 and 10th grade year which was hard as far as being the new kid - but I liked the more personal feel of the school. Our principal had an amazing memory and he knew the name of every kid in school and something about you - he always came out during class change if he was free and greeted us by name and asked how ____ was going (fill in the blank: speech, choir, sports)
Tame Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, Jerry and Hahtoolah.
ReplyDeleteI FIRed in good time (yes, probably faster than yesterday, but I was not online). Theme was a little blah, and I did note the plethora of 3 letter words. But pleasant enough for a beautiful day that included another backyard visit and lunch. No ice for us HuskerG, but apparently it all changes tomorrow.👎
I’m glad to hear that others did not know Hydrox. OREO perped thankfully, as it would have been embarrassing as a Natick.
Congrats CMoe on your CW debut. I will try to do it later . . . especially if there is a Canadian clue/answer😀
Happy Birthday to Joann and Joyce.
HG, glad you got your wallet back with jus5 a loss of cash. Stolen Credit cards and ID can be a real problem.
Wishing you all a good evening.
I enjoyed solving this puzzle, which I found to be pretty easy, so easy, in fact, that I didn't see several of the down clues/answers because they had already been filled in as I did the acrosses. My one stumble was filling SIDEB instead of BSIDE, but was quickly fixed. I stared at ASADO for a while, thinking it must be wrong, but it couldn't be ASADA because of DOSE.
ReplyDeleteHahtoolah, wonderful review. Thanks.
Anonymous @ 8:30AM, thanks for your explanation of the name CANON and its linkage to Guanyin. I learned of Guanyin when I was living in Taiwan. Looking northwest from Taipei city you could see Mount Guanyin (觀音山 Guānyīn Shān), which was a well-known landmark. Supposedly it got its name because it looks sort of like a woman lying on her back.
Good wishes to you all.
Happy birthday wishes to Joann and Joyce.
ReplyDeleteI loved this easy Tuesday puzzle! Thanks Jerry. Hahtoolah, where do you find all these wonderful visuals? Special thanks for the ukulele music. IZ is one of my favorites, but unlike Naomi I can’t spell his last name.
ReplyDeleteLSU is rebuilding like all college teams eventually, and they will be fine. I just heard the Alabama game has been postponed due to COVID-19. This is not going to be a good year!
Happy birthday Joann.
NaomiZ - Your High School sounds quite a bit like mine. In fact, I know it's very similar. Yours is not very far from Texas. Texas Ave and Barrington Ave that is. Mine, Robertson and Cattarugus. Hamilton High class of '68 here.
ReplyDeleteC Moe - great job on your debut CW.
ReplyDeleteI loved the title, Raise the Bowl.
Nice puzzle debut, C Moe. Earlier comments helped me understand what was going on. Hope to see one of yours in LAT before long.
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed your trip, Lucina, in spite of it being unexpectedly cold. Since you recently pointed out your name isn't Lucinda, I have been wondering how you pronounce it: "Lu SEE na" or "Lu SIN a" or some other way?
HG, hope Joann and Joyce have had a Happy Birthday. We have twins in the family too. Always lively times.
See everyone tomorrow.
ATLGranny:
ReplyDeleteThank you for asking. The pronunciation is your first one, Lu-SI-na. However, I am called Lucy by my family and friends. That originated to distinguish me from my maternal grandmother whose name I shared.
As others have said, we had a fairly easy puzzle today. Howsomever, I tried very hard to mess up the whole thing, because I didn’t bother to go back and check out the circles. My last fill was STEPHENREA (unknown) and IDEE (also unknown). After staring at it for a while, I stuck in the “E” as my best guess. Had I looked at the circles, it would have been a gimme! DUH!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jerry and Hahtoolah!
I kinda have to disagree that “Don’t Be Cruel” was the A-side. My memory is that KELP in El Paso played “Hound Dog” first, and switched to “Don’t Be Cruel” after they wore out the “Hound Dog” side of the record. Wiki does say that “Don’t Be Cruel” eventually outsold “Hound Dog” (how can anyone say that, when they were on the same piece of vinyl?), but I consider “Hound Dog” the A-side, because it hit the radio first.
(I wonder if my brother still has the 45 stashed away somewhere? I doubt that he does, because I think he put all the old stuff on CDs years ago. If he did, I doubt the label would be legible enough, if they even printed “A” or “B” on them back then. I can’t remember if they did or not.)
I also remember one of the DJs “locked” himself in the control room one night and played “Don’t Be Cruel” over and over and over again, supposedly as a protest about something (or maybe it was a demand for more money). I think he finally “gave up” just before his shift ended. It was a fun thing the DJs would do back then.
Did you ever do that, d-o?