Stretched Thin.
20-Across. Go ballistic: HIT THE CEILING.
35-Across. 2002 biopic about con man Frank Abagnale: CATCH ME IF YOU CAN.
41-Across. Cleaner of teeth: DENTAL HYGIENIST.
And the Unifier:
53-Across. Overextended ... and what's literally in each set of circles: STRETCHED THIN. The word THIN is Stretched out in each of the theme answers.
Across:
1. Sousa specialty: MARCH. John Philip Sousa (Nov. 6, 1854 ~ Mar. 6, 1932) was know as the American March King.
USA is even in his name.
6. Show appreciation for the performance: CLAP.
10. __ 67: Montreal World's Fair: EXPO. I went to Expo 67.
I don't remember anything about it other than Buckminister Fuller's
geodesic dome pavilion that housed the United States exhibit.
14. Amtrak speedster: ACELA. I learned of the Acela from
doing the crossword puzzles.
15. Hand-up command: HALT.
16. Really funny sort: RIOT.
17. Food truck fare: TACOS. There is a taco truck that can
be found downtown in Louisiana's capital city near the government buildings.
18. McDonald's slogan since 2003: I'M LOVIN' IT. The story behind the slogan.
22. Bogey on a par 5: SIX. A golfing reference.
23. Homer's TV neighbor: NED.
24. Tough H.S. exams: APs. As in the Advanced Placement exams.
27. Take the sloop out: SAIL. A sloop is a single mast
sailboat.
30. Self-indulgent period: ME TIME.
38. Opera highlight: ARIA. An Aria from Carmen,
one of my favorite operas.
39. Kimono sash: OBI. Not to be confused with Obi-Wan
Kenobi.
40. First female attorney general: RENO. Janet Wood Reno
(July 21, 1938 ~ Nov. 7, 2016) served as the United States Attorney General
from 1993 until 2001 during the Clinton administration.
46. Takes care of: SEES TO.
47. Hammett pooch: ASTA. Asta was the Wirehaired Fox Terrier from Dashiell Hammett's 1934 novel, The Thin Man.
48. Kickoff aid: TEE.
49. Balaam's mount: ASS. The story of Balaam and his Ass can
be found in the Biblical book of Numbers (22:21-39). The story has been the depicted in many paintings,
including this one by Rembrandt.
51. Unit of heat: Abbr.: BTU. As in a British Thermal Unit.
60. In exact terms: PRECISELY.
62. Optimist's phrase: I HOPE.
63. Chef's flavoring: HERB.
64. Ensnare: TRAP.
65. "Take a load off": RELAX.
66. Uncertain: IFFY.
67. "This round's __": ON ME.
68. Romantic rendezvous: TRYST.
Down:
1. Course with operations: MATH.
2. Trendy berry: AÇAI. These berries have become a crossword
staple. They look a bit like blueberries.
3. Four-sided fig.: RECT. As in a Rectangle.
4. Stops bleeding: CLOTS.
5. Cannabis concentrate: HASHISH.
6. Stylish: CHIC.
7. Poor, as an excuse: LAME.
8. Make-or-break poker bet: ALL IN.
9. Ancient Greek astronomer: PTOLEMY. Everything you wanted
to know about Claudius Ptolemy (circa 85 ~ 165 CE), but didn't know to ask.
10. Activist Brockovich: ERIN. Erin Brockovich (b. June 22,
1960) is an environmental activist who was instrumental in building the case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company for contaminating the drinking water. Her story was made into a
movie that starred Julia Roberts.
11. Ped __: street sign: XING.
12. Hawaiian staple: POI. It's not as good as it looks.
13. MLB Hall of Famer Mel: OTT. Mel Ott (né Melvin Thomas
Ott; Mar. 2, 1909 ~ Nov. 21, 1958) was a Louisiana native. He makes
frequent guest appearances in the puzzles. Sadly, he was killed from
injuries sustained in a car accident at age 49.
19. The "v" in vlog: VIDEO.
21. Midterm, e.g.: EXAM.
24. USMA and USNA: Abbr.: ACADS. Both are Academies.
25. "Gay" capital of song: PAREE.
26. "Mostly Ghostly" series writer R.L. __: STINE. R.L.
Stein (né Robert Lawrence Stine; b. Oct. 8, 1943) also makes frequent guest
appearances in the crossword puzzles. He is best know for his young
adult horror fiction novels.
28. The "I" in I.M. Pei: IEOH. I.M. Pei (né Ieoh Ming Pei; Apr. 26, 1917 ~ May 16, 2019) was a Chinese-born
American architect and had a long career designing very unique buildings.
He died 2 years ago shortly after his 102nd birthday. One of his
most famous designes is the pyramid outside the Louvre.
29. Niger neighbor: LIBYA.
31. Chance to play: TURN.
32. Ensure the win: ICE IT.
33. Minister's house: MANSE.
34. Cybermessage: E-NOTE.
36. Musical with the song "Memory": CATS. I saw the
musical Cats years ago. I don't understand why it was
so popular.
37. Newton fruit: FIGS. Yummers! If you are feeling
ambitious, you can make your own. Nabisco's Newtons now come in several flavors, including blueberry,
strawberry and apple cinnamon.
42. Gaming brand since 1972: ATARI.
43. Is bested by: LOSES TO.
44. The Beatles' "Let __": IT BE.
45. Offer a humble retraction: EAT DIRT.
50. Back of the boat: STERN.
52. __ Pendragon, King Arthur's father: UTHER. He doesn't
look very happy.
53. Medieval laborer: SERF.
54. Frozen dessert chain: TCBY. The Country's Best Yogurt. Another big yogurt chain is I Can't Believe It's Yogurt!
If the two companies merged, would the merger be known as I Can't
Believe It's the Country's Best Yogurt?
55. Dig for quahogs, say: CLAM. A quahog is a hard-shelled clam found in the mud flats along the Atlantic Coast.
56. Flashy promotion: HYPE.
57. Sacred: HOLY.
58. Hoppy brews, briefly: IPAs. As in India Pale Ales. Here is an article about the origin of the IPA.
59. "Whose turn is it?" shout: NEXT.
60. Letter before chi: PHI.
61. Ump's NBA counterpart: REF. As in a Referee at the
Basketball game.
Here's the Grid.
חתולה
61 comments:
PTOLEMY the stars would see
As mythological imagery.
These he'd discern
On his nightly "TURN",
Undisturbed by the noise of his silent "P"!
If you want to HALT a RIOT, mate,
And TURN them instead to meditate,
Dense HASHISH smoke
May calm some folks,
For the rest, just pass a collection plate!
{A-, A.}
Good morning!
Wow, that went fast. I seldom finish under 5 on a Monday, and if memory serves, this is a Tuesday. Had the circles, but didn't look at 'em until finishing. Realized that they spelled THIN in each themer, and finally realized that STRETCHED THIN must've been a reveal. D'oh. Thanx, Jesse and Hahtoolah. ("It's not as good as it looks" -- priceless.)
TCBY: Always thought the letters were for "This Can't Be Yogurt." Aha. LIU, and that was the name prior to 1984 when Big Brother struck.
QUAHOG: Who decided "Qua" should be pronounced "Ko?"
ERIN: The new Katey Sagal series Rebel is also patterned on Erin Brockovich.
TRYST: Two Lover's Leap is a popular tourist spot above Tumon Bay on Guam. It was totally undeveloped and hard to get to when I was on the island.
IEOH: Aren't you glad that I. M. Pei went by his initials?
Good Morning, Crossword friends. Hopefully you can see the videos on your mobile phone today. If so, a big Thank You to Bill for providing me with some excellent instructions. Ah, the help and knowledge we learn from our virtual friends!
Very, very heavy rain and wind last night. The ground is already so saturated from a near endless rain last week. We are in danger of losing a crepe myrtle tree due to uprooting. Lots of flooding in my area and the rain is expected to continue. I hope everone reading this blog is safe.
QOD: If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: Who Cares? ~ Tina Fey (née Elizabeth Stamatina Fey; b. May 18, 1970), American comedian and actress
FiIR and saw the theme right away. I quit drinking before IPAS were hitting the crossword circuit.
Also finished under 5:00 today. Wasn't sure how to spell "Paree," and had zero idea of I.M. Pei's first name. Didn't see the theme until after the puzzle was done.
TCBYchanged its initialism because it was sued by ICBIY so they are unikely to get together.
My learning moment was Tina Fey's middle name is STAMATINA which is Italian for This (STA) Morning (MATINA).
My questions: Does anybody ever say "RECT?" Why is BTU (British) measured in Farenheit not Celsius?
Thanks Jesse and Susan, Chag Sameach for this Shavout.
POI like SPAM are acquired tastes needed to survive
Good Morning:
This was a quick and smooth solve except for the two tongue twisters of Ieoh and Uther, but perps were more than fair, so all is well. We had a mini theme of schooling with Math, Exam, APs, Acads, Rect, plus some fun pairings: Ref/Loses To/Ice It, Poi/Phi, Clap/Clam, Holy/Manse, and March/Halt. The theme was evident with the circles and the reveal was spot on.
Thanks, Jesse, for a fun Tuesday and thanks, Hahtoolah, for the commentary and especially for the many memory-evoking musical links. We sang The Stars and Stripes Forever at our high school graduation ceremony and I still cringe when I think of how a bunch of 18 year olds must have sounded and what comes to mind is a bunch of stray cats! It was nice to see and hear Robert Preston and, also, Memory from Cats. I saw Cats on Broadway and also in Florida. I liked it more the second time around because I understood it better. Carmen is one of my favorite operas, as well. Terrific job, as always!
FLN
Lucina, so glad you had such a nice reunion with your family. Tomorrow, we shed the masks, except in certain venues. Individual businesses, though, have the right to keep requiring masks but most of the big chains, Target, Costco, Trader Joe’s, CVS, etc., are going mask free. I haven’t heard any announcements yet from our local grocery markets.
Have a great day.
The moral to Balaam'*s ASS: If a horse's ASS says something , Listen
Marge and Margot in hahtoolah** 's links. A CSO to ???
If There's NAE grit there's NAE CLAM
Re. 59D, Don't stick your neck out
Reverse the A's and you got it Owen. The silent P was cute
Yes, they all came up fine, hahtoolah and I loved them
HM, I quit when Sam Adams was a forgotten patriot.
WC
*I read that story when I was ten. I thought the words were coming out of the donkey's ass
**I see the CHIC chicken is wearing yesterday's stiletto heels. Thanks for all the pics
Good morning everyone.
Looked at the circles after they were filled in and saw each set had a version of elongated THIN. The reveal at 53a confirmed it. Easy enough solve overall. No issues. Only erasure was I had 'ales' before IPAS. Today's learning was IEOH.
I did not know UTHER and I had to fiddle a bit with the spelling of PTOLOMEY (thanks, Ned). Other than that, a pretty quick Tuesday solve.
That was supposed to be CHIC Chick
Groan, a sloppy mistake for a FIW today. A couple of WOs when my first thoughts (EAT crow) (aleS, not noticing the "briefly") were wrong. Oh well, got the theme fine and appreciated the reveal being new. Overall it was fun, Jesse, so thanks! And as usual, you added even more fun with your review, Hahtoolah. Thanks!
Hoping for a better tomorrow and looking forward to reading your comments until then.
Very fast (for me) FIR in 14. I’m always astonished when I read here that someone filled a grid in 5 minutes or less. I recall once finishing a CW and printing out the finished CW and an empty grid of the same CW and copying the answers from the finished to the empty. THAT took me four minutes!! Anyway, I LOVED today’s CW, thanx Jesse, terrific job. Lots of fun. And not a single W/O!! I loved the theme, too! I got lucky in WAGging each theme answer and getting it right with few or no perps. Hahtoolah, how much time do you put into your write-ups? I love them!! All the cartoons, videos, etc., plus great commentary. Thanx for all the time and effort. In your illustration of Balaam’s ass, it looks like Balaam is about to get his ass slain....and I’m not talking about his donkey!
Thank you,Jesse! This was fun. The theme even gave me a letter that helped with the solve. Like ATLGranny, I wanted to EAT crow before EAT DIRT. Hahtoolah's illustration for that answer was my favorite.
Perfect perps today to help with iffy frozen yogurt chains and surprising architectural first names. FIR. Many thanks for the brilliant blog, Hahtoolah! Chag sameach! (Sorry about the crepe myrtle, but here's your chance to plant a tree that is native to your zip code and supports native birds and bees.)
Thank You Mr. Goldberg for a nice, charming and easy puzzle. I had a great time solving it.
Thank you Hahtoolah for your O-so-lovely blog, which I look forward to - every Tuesday !!!
I loved your cartoons, so appropriate ... and the US Marine Band - Star and Stripes Forever - JUST FLOORED ME ! I am going to save that video for onward transmission !!
The Buckminster Fuller Geodesic Dome is alive and well, at the national HQ of the ASM, the American Society of Metals ( or Materials ) at Materials Park (name of the city.... ) also known as Novelty, Ohio, 20 miles ESE of Cleveland, Ohio. At least, half of the dome.
On Advanced Placements Tests :: Last month, I was introduced to a girl who completed 14 APs during her school years ... Maths - Calculus BC, Physics 1,2,3, .... Chem, Biol, Computer Science, .... Macro Eco., Micro Economics, Statistics, Accounting, US History, Human Geography, Psychology, etc., What an achievement.
IEOH - Sounds like, the first sound, IM Pei's mother probably made, when he was being delivered ?
have a nice day, all.
A nice breezy easy Tuesday.
I had seen Leo's movie so the mid wall-to-wall answer was a big perp help and it seems there are more OBI's in CWs than in Osaka. Plus we are exposed so often to the ACÁI berry we should live forever. ACADS was abit clumsy though.
Great writeup and hilarious visuals, H2LH. In the cartoon shouldn't it be the woman complaining about the "glass ceiling"? Anyway loved the "incomplete" unfired "thinning" clay sculpture et al.
Theme: THIN or HINT? (53a settled that.) FIR once I corrected PTOLoEMY. it's NED not NOD Flanders. Plus had no idea what VLOG was so needed the perps...FYI..besides "okily dokily" NED'S frequent insertion of "diddly" between words ("how are you 'diddly' doing?") is a part of speech called an infix..just LIU.
Remember the great fear of "there'll be TACO truck on every corner!!! 🙄
She likes the adjective but not the noun....CHIC
Once destitute in New Orleans....EXPO
Clumsy one....CLOTS
A female pastor's house cannot be a ____ MANSE.
When it came to using correct boat part terms the Captain was ____ STERN
Have a great diddly day!😁
Fun Tuesday puzzle, Jesse--many thanks! And, Hahtoolah, your pictures today were just amazing, one after the other, all of them colorful and delightful.
Nice to see ERIN Brockovich in the puzzle, and RENO and IEOH PEI (big surprise, never knew his first name). Oh, yes, and of course, ASTA. The McDonald's slogan was a surprise too--but then I haven't been to a McDonald's in decades (if ever, now that think about it).
Fun poems, Owen.
Wilbur, thanks for your hint.
Have a good day, everybody.
Hola!
Thanks to Jesse Goldberg for a quick and easy sashay along the grid!
Sousa is of course "the MARCH king" and TACOS as becoming a WD staple.
I've read extensively about the era of King Arthur so UTHER Pendragon was easy and my hand is up for EAT CROW before EAT DIRT. Does anyone else remember the Mary Stewart novels?
The only HERB I have growing right now is rosemary. Basil didn't survive. I've had success with mint in the past so I'll try that again.
When I took my daughter to NY for her 20th birthday we saw CATS, sat in the second row and they came around and "pawed" us. I just realized that was 24 years ago!
Thank you, Hahtoolah, for again amusing us with your illustrations. They are a RIOT! I'm sorry to hear about your tree. Those are so beautiful! I hope it can be saved. My sister has some in Charlotte and of course, they are ubiquitous all over the South.
Have a RELAXING day, everyone!
Thank you Jesse for your encouraging words to those of us trying to lose a little weight. And thank you Susan for another hilarious and educational stroll through this delightful puzzle. And thank you for the CSO, although we all have TTP to thank for coming up with that bug fix in the first place.
A few highlights:
6A If there's one pun worse than a pictorial GROANER, it's this KOANic GROWLER.
14A I remember the ACELA. When I used to take the MARC commuter train from BMore to D.C. everyday for work. The ACELA was that BLUURR that passed us like we were MARC'ING time.
38A What's not to like about the R-RATED opera Carmen - it's got sex, violence, and great music. It's the C in the ABC's of opera, the other's being AIDA and BOHEME. It's a pity Bizet died about a month of after its release, never aware of how iconic it would become.
47A I wonder how many cruciverbal machinations Jesse had to go through to get the THINLY disguised ASTA into this puzzle. Woof, Woof!
3D Well at least Stuey's not a SQRE!
Cheers,
Bill
This Tuesday grid filled quickly.
Write-overs…ICEE/TCBY, EATCROW/EATDIRT.
“Catch Me If You Can” was yet another fine Tom Hanks film, plus Leo never disappoints.
Stay safe.
Here's more on Mel
OTT. He was so young. Leo who gave him the moniker "Nice Guy" replaced him as manager.
Vidwan, lol on Pei's mother. Is that girl a relative of Sheldon?
Yes, I read Mary Stewart. She had Alex and Theseus too. I'd call them part history mostly imagination.
WC
Hi Y'all! Thanks for a fun puzzle, Jesse. All your jokes were a RIOT, Susan, much needed in this dreary weather. Was thinking of you and my granddaughter as I watched the weather report last night. Stay safe & as dry as possible!
Have we ever had IEOH Pei before? DNK. Several weird names today with PTOLEMY and Uther which I did know.
Reading an older English novel by Ellis Peters last night and came across the word ASHLAR which almost none of us knew the other day. They were in a sea wall.
Laughed at the EAT DIRT picture. When I was 4 yrs.old, we were playing in the front yard with the older school-aged neighbor girl. She was spooning dirt into my 2-yr-old sister's mouth while I watched. Mother came roaring out and rescued sis. I got spanked and thought that was unfair enough to remember all this time. Now I wonder how Mother could just let a two-year-old out in the unfenced front yard near a street.
Musings
-Finished the fun puzzle quickly, played 18 and am now back
-SOUSA was the Elvis of his day
-BTU – Teaching kids that heat and temperature are not the same is tough
-Fahrenheit : BTU :: Celsius : Calorie
-Me, “No LAME excuses! I assigned this two months ago and you are either done or you’re not!”
-My partner is very strict about whose TURN it is to play
Just finished the book, "Thinking Inside the Box "Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without them" by Adrienne Rafel. Thanks to a recommendation a while back from ATL.
Highly recommended as well... No spoilers but you'll read about...
OREO wars, Monday Tuesday ghetto puzzLes. Crossword history and fashion. Will Shortz, Playboy and The Simpsons.
Crossword as foreplay.
Crossword glitterati at official crossword. competitions. Can a machine defeat a human at a CW?.., Sudden, mysterious disappearance of a crossword expert at Gothic New England mansions. Tales of crossword plagiarism and treachery
Skullduggery and shallow graves with
crosswords done in human blood (OK, OK this last part I made up....or.. DID...I?).
Plus finally watched the 2006 docu. "Wordplay " when I finished the book.
For TTP: USA Today more challenging than it was before. That’s why I stopped doing them. Universal learned a new word: orbisculate.
Loved doing them.
Mark S
Thank you, Jesse Goldberg, and thank you, Hahtoolah.
HA ! Scanned the clues for the answers with circles first. My first two fills were CATCH ME IF YOU CAN and DENTAL HYGIENIST. Then filled in the T, H, I and N in the first theme answer but couldn't guess it. Found the reveal and guessed STRETCHED THIN based on the clue. Then worked out the first theme answer and solved the rest rather quickly.
Yogurt ? Initialism needed ? OK, here's mine: MWCBITIWLYSMIWETI *
Thanks, Bill.
PK, I see you had a "Topanga recurrence" upon encountering ASHLARS so soon after seeing it here for the first time.
Mark S, it'll be interesting to get your take on the USA Today after solving it a few weeks. What I've been seeing is that the clues aren't the same old, same old.
BTW, crossword constructor Sally Hoelscher has been blogging the USA Today crossword since about June last year, and I've been reading her reviews. Especially when Erik Agard amps up the cluing with new terms and names of people that I'm not familiar with. For instance, yesterday, even though I got SESAME, SEED, EDDY and PIXAR SHORT easily enough, the clues for them left me wondering a bit, so I read her blog review. I'd recommend taking a look.
You can find the link to her blog "Sally's Take On the USA" on the main page of this blog under the heading "Crossword Links". If you are reading this blog on a phone, you may need to scroll down all the way to the bottom, and then press "View web version" to see the main page and various links that C.C. provides.
Canadian Eh, you and Sally have things in common.
FLN, inanehiker's link on "Generation Jones" (of which I was unknowingly also a member of) led me to more links about the common characteristics of the various generations and then even more about the "cuspers", such as the "Xennials", a cusp group of Gen Xers and Millennials. They were the last group that "had to bridge the divide between an analog childhood and digital adulthood."
Also FLN, Malodorous Manatee, I read through the comments and didn't understand your reference made to the Palisades fire and then bringing up Topanga. Then, watching the news earlier this morning, there was a segment on the fires, and how in Topanga Park they had to douse it from the air because of the rough terrain. So now I get the reference.
* My Wife Can't Believe I Think I Won't Like Yogurt So Much I Won't Even Try It.
Hi everyone! Hope everyone is well.
Love the puzzles lately. I am very impressed by the creativity of the constructors and the write-ups on this blog. Thanks. Very enjoyable.
I M Pei is known to me, but his first name wasn’t. Cats was not a favorite of mine. Liked that USA was seen in Sousa, very apropos. And I am a very proud mom of a son who graduated from one of the Acads.
Hectic times right now for me. I’m trying to find time to post. Hope your lives are beginning to return to normal. What a haul we’ve all been through.
I tasted POI once. It's definitely an acquired taste. Couldn't swallow it. I doubt many people in Hawaii eat it these days.
Bill, thanks. Your Word doc describing the specific actions, along with the additional images is definitely much easier to follow than my text alone explanation of the required steps.
Not sure if Blogger is ever going to fix the bug (or even make any comment in reference to the submitted defect).
My work experiences would suggest to me that there was a budgeted amount to bring Legacy Blogger up to the current "technology" of New Blogger, and that there are no funds to correct any additional defects beyond anything deemed Sev 1. In other words, there's a workaround, so no need for a permanent fix.
As with Big Easy and some others here, I worked with various IBM hardware and software products through the years. They used to release some code fixes as PTFs, which stood for Program Temporary Fix. Humorously, the PTF initialism became known as Permanent Temporary Fix, especially when the PTF code only delivered an update that allowed a workaround to be implemented.
This is just a note to thank Ray-O-Sunshine, for his continuing posts on Homophones's.
I enjoy them immensely every day, but I always forget to compliment you.
But, they are a continuing source of pleasure.
Sometimes they take a lot of thinking on my part, like some CW clues, but, in general, I manage to 'get' them.
I was thinking of 3D ... but I'm falling short.... " I used to have a Caddy and a Chevy, but my girlfriend RECT both of em."
Filled CATCH ME IF YOU CAN w/o a perp.
If you have ~1h, Frank Abagnale's talk at Google.
Play later. Cheers, -T
Thank you, Jesse Goldberg, for a puzzle I finished without too much trouble. Thank you, Hahtoolah, for the fun write-up.
Spelled HYGENIST, ran out of letters, checked the grid and added the requisite I. Hand up for EATcrow before EATDIRT. Otherwise, a clean grid.
Fav clue/ans 6a ___ 67: Montreal World's Fair: EXPO. I went there! Our high school didn't have a Senior Class Trip so a couple female friends and I decided to take the train from Ypsilanti to Montreal (and back) to see the Expo. Of course, back then, females couldn't travel without a chaperone so one friends older brother went with us. I remember the Geodesic Dome and the apartment building. Habitati67. Thank you for the memories, Jesse!
Our weather has been unseasonably cool and I haven't complained. Starting tomorrow we're getting into the 80's, maybe reaching 90*. Not a fan!
Have a nice rest of your day.
Hi Pat, Thanks ! Interesting.
Here's Pat's link: Habitat 67
As TTP said, thank you, Jesse Goldberg, and thank you, Hahtoolah. Puzzle was definitely worth solving and write-up was definitely worth savoring.
Also, thank you, OwenKL. Verses definitely worth reciting.
Sadness in our family these days. Our DIL is deathly ill with cancer in her bones, marrow, and liver and the time frame is a matter of days. It is good she has her husband, mother, sister, daughter, and good friend there to surround her with love and beautifulness.
Good wishes to you all.
A nice Tuesday PZL from Mr. Goldberg.
And I always find Hahtoolah's illustrations enjoyable. Today's were well up to the mark.
I wonder who on the Corner can advise us of the proper pronunciation of IEOH? Is it the Chinese equivalent of JOE (with a "Y" sound for the "J")?
~ OMK
____________
DR: Today we have an abundance of diagonals, three on the near side and one in opposition.
Reader Discretion Advised.
Using the main (near end) diagonal, we find an anagram (11 of 15 letters) that designates a fen or quagmire which serves as a suitable home for several lads who earn their living indulging in curious practices.
I am speaking of a...
"CATAMITE BOG"!
TTP, thanks for the correct link. I haven't linked for a while and figured out what I did wrong.
Hi All!
Fun Puzzle, Jesse with lots of learning for me.
Hahtoolah - wow, just wow. Thanks for the enhanced EXPO. Sorry to hear about your tree; cross your fingers.
WOs: VoiceLog->VIDEO; a few other ink-smudges as I was writing faster than I was thinking.
ESPs: PTOLEMY, IEOH, UTHER
Fav: I already shared Frank's (social engineering hacks) talk...
I'll go with Xing.
DW's college friend at OU (who grew up in Kansas but went to China to teach (she's Mennonite) before returning for grad-school)* was visiting and saw the Duck-XING sign in the neighborhood. She said, "What is a duck zing?" :-)
{B+, A}
Always a great DR when I have to Goolge a word, OMK.
Jayce - I'm saddened to read of your family's tribulations. Sending love.
Ray-O: What's wrong with a TACO truck on every corner? Finish one while you walk and buy another :-)
Lucina - I don't mean to be rude, but how'd you kill basil? :-)
I didn't even plant any this year and have ~10-15 volunteer plants.
//I thought I (accidentally) killed Eldest's mint-in-a-pot over winter but it came back with vigor.
Enjoyed reading everyone!
Cheers, -T
*how do you like them nested parens? I can do more - I've programmed in Lisp :-)
Jayce: I am so sorry to hear about your DIL. That is such a difficult ordeal to go through. She is fortunate to be surrounded by loving family and friends.
Hello all. I was watching Jeopardy tonight and the kid from Minnesota came in second, but may get a shot as a runner up. One of the categories was words with for of the same letters. One of the answers was TATTLETALES. Reminded me of yesterday's puzzle. Have a good night.
Jayce, my heart goes out to you and your family.
Jayce - Sorry for your family's sadness at this time. Thanks for sharing.
Vidwan @ 4:13 ***"don't encourage him!***
Anon T @ 5:29...My point exactly.
Jayce..Sorry for your family's struggle. Hoping your daughter-in-law is being kept as comfortable as possible.
Jayce, so sorry to hear of your DIL's illness. Thinking of you all at this trying time. So true that cancer affects the entire family.
Big Easy, glad to see you post. I wondered if you were in the flooding.
TTP 4:01pm I remember IBM PTF's, although I never heard the oxymoronic interpretation (LOL). Our fear was always - "Okay so this is going to fix the problem, but what new problems is it going to cause?". This in fact is my general stance on all technological "advances".
TTP 4:39pm Thank you TTP and thank you Pat for the link on Habitat67. DW and I have wanted to visit Montreal for years and this has moved it to the top of our bucket list.
Jayce @4:49pm I am so sorry for your daughter-in-law. She will be in a better place soon.
Thinking of you Jayce.
T @4:28pm Is Lisp a therapeutic language for nested setters {Woof! {Woof! {Woof! ... }}} ... ?
So very sorry Jayce. May God be with you and your family during this time.
Well. even more exciting than watching a new NCIS tonight, I just saw the ISS orbit by at 2130 local time. For the night owls in the NE, the next. pass is at 2308.
OmK @4:58pm My word for the day. Sounds like an exotic mineral!
Mostly we don't think about our bones, and how important their proper functioning is. We don't think about platelets, about immunoglobulins, ... until we live from blood test to blood test, waiting for incremental rises in WBC or hemoglobin or whatever unpronounceable -- but hugely vital! -- bodily component. For one small example, if platelet density falls below 20,000 per milliliter, most chemotherapy agents cannot be administered.
We have advanced so much medically in this past century, yet only to find new subtleties to study, learn about, and, if not today, then tomorrow, to control and cure. But meantime, it hurts, and our powerlessness is manifest.
Jayce:
How very sad for you and your family. Prayers for your DIL that she be comforted in her journey.
PT’s:
FIR in no time at all
W/O’s @ EAT CROW/EAT DIRT and ACE IT/ ICE IT. Misspelled PRECICELY. PTOLEMY was perped. Somehow the PT start didn’t look right unless BARNUM or erodactyl followed it
Thanks Jesse and Susan. Loved the YouTube clips. Carmen was a worth a second look 🤡
Made another stupid mistake for another one-square FIW. For some reason, I stuck an S in #24, and I never went back and corrected it. Got the theme.
Thanks Jesse and Hahtoolah!
I saw CATS many years ago. My younger daughter is still mad because her mother opted to take me, instead of her. I liked it, but then having lived with a houseful of the creatures, I can relate.
My condolences too, Jayce.
The weather peeps are forecasting four to five inches of rain over the next two days. Got two inches of rain yesterday. Just had a big storm blow through, with tornado warnings 12 miles west if me around beautiful downtown Fulshear. It's kinda moving in your direction, d-o. Hope it doesn't get there.
Rain????? Really? Please send some over!
I may be AWOL for the next few days. I'm expecting company of two special friends from NY and will likely be heavily involved in entertaining/cooking, sightseeing.
LEOIII - -T reporting from Sugar Land: 3+ inches of rain and power just came back online after ~3 hours in the dark.
Lucina - you've never seen it rain until you've lived near the Gulf. Freakin' amazing how much water can fall in so little time. My pool is overflowing and the back yard is a swamp.
You'll be missed at The Corner but enjoy your time with your buddies.
Hahtooha - expect more rain. This storm seems to be headed your way. Good luck to the tree!
Cheers, -T
Jayce, I am so, so sorry. My younger sister passed in similar circumstances. The blessing in this type of death is the chance to see it coming, and to give and receive comfort from loved ones. Still tragic.
Hahtoolah, forgot to mention, I particularly liked the picture of the fit statue chiseling his way out of that obese body. Wish it was doable.
I was stationed in Guam, and was able to revisit a few years back. You won’t recognize Lovers Leap anymore. It used to be a bare tourist spot with barely a sparse viewing platform. Now it’s a tacky gaudy tourist center that now charges admission to get to the viewing platform. NO MORE CHARM.
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