Theme: HAT TRICKS (62. Three-goals-in-one-game hockey scoring
feats ... or what the ends of 17-, 28- and 46-Across are when they're
rearranged?) - The last word of each answer is an anagram of a hat.
17A. Auto on-off baking gadget: OVEN TIMER. Miter.
28A. Artisan who makes delicate items: GLASS BLOWER. Bowler.
46A. Exact repetition of what was said: DIRECT QUOTE. Toque.
Boomer here. Pretty fancy hat for an Archbishop. Of course I am a bowler, but I never wore a hat like that. In fact, most bowlers do not wear bowlers but a few wear baseball caps. Finally the chef wearing a Toque. I never knew it was called that. We learn something new every day, no matter how old we get.
Across:
5. Spontaneous notion: WHIM.
9. Leveled, as a building: RAZED. Seems as though Mother Nature or some atmospheric development did a number on the tall highrise in Florida. Hard to believe.
14. Tahoe or Titicaca: LAKE. On one of my bowling trips to Reno,
I took a ride by Lake Tahoe to visit a casino in Tahoe. We have 10,000
lakes here at home but very few are a beautiful as Tahoe.
15. Role model: HERO.
16. Bakery emanation: AROMA. When it smells as good as a bakery you have to use the word AROMA.
19. Like a legally binding contract: VALID.
20. Volkswagen sedan: PASSAT.
21. Bring to life, as cartoons: ANIMATE. When I was young, it was Mickey Mouse, Bugs bunny, and Porky Pig. Later in life it became Fred "Yabba Dabba Do" Flintstone.
23. Opposite of WSW: ENE. Black sidewall tires did not fit.
24. Golfer Aoki: ISAO. We do not see him much on the PGA. He is Japanese so we could see him in Tokyo in a few weeks.
25. Tongue twister seashell seller: SHE. SHE sells seashells on the seashore. -- say it four times real fast.
34. Locate precisely: PINPOINT.
36. "You win": I LOSE. One of my phrases in golf and bowling (since I got old).
37. Fascinated by: INTO.
38. Prefix with centric: ETHNO.
41. Deco artist Romain de Tirtoff's pseudonym: ERTE. His initials.
42. Plant swelling: EDEMA. I don't know about plants but this is dangerous swelling usually in the legs or feet. You don't want to mess with this.
44. Tutored: MENTORED. Hoping to return to mentor the Benilde St.
Margaret's High School Bowling team again this fall. We missed all of
last year. You know why.
49. "You bet!": YES.
50. Sorority T's: TAUS. A Greek letter. My knowledge ends with Delta.
51. Shoo-__: easy winners: INS.
53. Indonesia's capital: JAKARTA.
57. Idaho product: POTATO. My uncle left with his family to grow
POTATOES in Twin Falls, Idaho years ago. I still trade occasional news
with my cousin. He plays golf and does not play potatoes.
61. Banish: EXILE.
65. Perry of fashion: ELLIS. Interesting that ELLIS happened to be my Idaho aunt Gerry's maiden name.
66. Buckeye State: OHIO. They have Two MLB Teams, Minnesota is scratching to call the only team we have as Major League.
67. Latticework piece: LATH.
68. Hits with snowballs: PELTS. In my youth I was guilty of this in the winter.
69. Checkers or chess: GAME. Bowling or Golf.
70. Crossword-solving Simpson: LISA. This is the episode featuring Will Shortz and Merl Reagle.
Down:
2. Volcano flow: LAVA. "Only one way to get those hands clean mister."
3. __ out a living: barely manages: EKES. I am sure this stupid Covid has caused some EKEing.
4. Thick, as fog: DENSE.
5. "Little" fib: WHITE LIE. I am not sure why LIES have colors.
6. Skirt's edge: HEM.
7. Wrath: IRE.
8. Boggy tract: MORASS.
9. Stuffed pasta pockets: RAVIOLI. I've never tried this. I use curly pasta and make Goulash.
10. Composer Khachaturian: ARAM. A Los Angeles Football player.
11. "Nana" novelist Émile: ZOLA.
12. Give off: EMIT.
13. Florida's Miami-__ County: DADE. I guess I mentioned this tragedy earlier.
18. Dance that "takes two": TANGO.
22. Capture: NAB.
24. __ of Panama: narrow landform: ISTHMUS. THIS MUST be an interesting word.
25. Went undercover: SPIED.
26. Language of India: HINDI.
27. Key in: ENTER.
29. Colony crawler: ANT. Have not seen many this year. We used to have ANT hills in our driveway. Never sure how they got through the black tar.
30. Butter substitute: OLEO. We call it Margarine now. I
remember when OLEO was not for sale in Wisconsin. Then later it could
not be yellow. Wisconsin's cows needed the work.
31. Fret: WORRY.
32. Makeup mogul Lauder: ESTEE.
33. Clarinets and oboes: REEDS. Also actress Donna in the Donna Reed Show. Yes I am that old.
35. Apple or pear: POME. Do not MOPE waiting for them to get ripe.
39. Prefix with natal or -phyte: NEO.
40. How ballerinas often dance: ON TIPTOE. "Through the Tulips. Tiny Tim.
43. Monroe or Taylor: ACTRESS. Or Donna Reed..
45. Pavarotti, vocally: TENOR. I was a Bass (not a fish) in the high school glee club.
47. Pic on a pec, say: TAT.
48. Clam used in chowder: QUAHOG. This one got me.
52. "In the __ of the Night": doo-wop classic: STILL. Written by Cole Porter and sung by many.
53. Cherokee automaker: JEEP. Pretty tough looking but we are enjoying our Santa Fe.
54. Wheel shaft: AXLE.
55. While away, as time: KILL. I've heard that many people KILL time by solving a crossword puzzle.
56. Landed: ALIT.
58. Antioxidant-rich berry: ACAI.
59. Sign on a B'way booth: TKTS. I've never been to THE B'way.
We have a Broadway Avenue close to our home. Is there any city of over
10,000 people that does not have a Broadway ??
60. Fed. workplace monitor: OSHA.
63. "Bingo!": AHA.
64. Apple CEO Cook: TIM.
Boomer
51 comments:
FIRight with Monday ease, but the gimmick totally stumped me. So different from normal (unless there're circles) that I would never have gotten it without the reveal.
Many years ago I developed an accounting program on an Atari ST, which I named Estée, then ported it to a PC Clone, and renamed it Chloé. I liked those é's.
When Occam MENTORED about his razor,
Did he answer when a question would raise, or
If it was a SHE,
Would he snarky be,
And belittle and simply RAZE 'er?
Three Thanksgiving turkeys, in the after-life
Discussed how they fared under the knife.
"In my day, I was microwave zapped."
"In my age, on a spit I was wrapped."
"I'm an era between you, I'm an OVEN TIMER!"
{B, B-.}
Generally, Monday puzzles are hard to comment on since they tend to be easy, but this was fun. Using actual anagrams rather than simpler scrambles made it better. Also the inclusion of the Armenian composer from Tbsili, Georgia ARAM KATCHATURIAN added some memories from my childhood. My father liked his music.
I also wonder why a nice 12 letter word like KATCHATURIAN has never been used as fill or part of a theme.
On the CONDO COLLAPSE as the local news calls it, this is a horrific and extremely frightening event not just for those with families in that building, but for the hundreds of thousands living in beach front high rise buildings. Our prayers continue, but SoFla will never be the same
FIR, but erased "word for word" for DIRECT QUOTE and HINDu. I DNK QUAHOG, and thought a POME was something OKL writes.
Few folks visit the ISTHMUS of Catalina, but it is my favorite area of the island. There isn't nearly as much to do there, but it is beautiful and quiet. Just stay away from the buffalo if they wander onto your way.
I knew all of the hats, and was able to work out the anagrams! I usually skip them because I'm so bad at them, but BOWLER came easy and the rest were Monday-level as well. I only knew TOQUE because for about a nanosecond, Norfolk once had a banquet hall by that name. Nice place for a fancy reception or cocktail party. The building is now used to teach youth ballet.
FIR, but never figured out the theme.
A TOQUE may also be a knit cap. Doug and Bob McKenzie's true love gave them five golden toques on the Fifth Day of a Canadian Christmas. (sometimes spelled tuqye or touque) https://youtu.be/c3aCw-RurOk
Never had RAVIOLI, Boomer? We referred to them as Italian pierogi.
Good morning!
Yay, d-o read the reveal clue, and was able to spot the theme within the next 30 seconds (which is just about as much theme-hunting patience as d-o possesses). Still wanna know how QUA becomes "kō." Good one, Susan. You, too, Boomer.
ISTHMUS: Favorite word of Sylvester the cat. Going from the Atlantic to the Pacific via the canal is a west-to-east trip. Really.
GLASS BLOWER: We made a one-day round-trip to Dallas (400+ miles) to view an exhibit of Dale Chilhuly's art. Pretty neat stuff.
Fun theme -which didn't slow down the solve much.
I knew QUAHOG from the fictional city in Rhode Island that the animated TV series "Family Guy" is set in.
Have an early morning meeting - happy Monday!
Thanks Boomer and Susan!
FIR this Monday, again on my phone but cable guy is scheduled to come hook us up today. Yay!
However like others mentioned before me, I didn't get the theme. I tried rearranging the words but not the letters of the last words. So, good work, Susan! You sure puzzled me. Thanks for the tour, Boomer. Very helpful. YES, indeed.
I hope you all are doing well as the week begins.
Lemonade. the capital city of Georgia SSR is Tbilisi.
I realize you have serious eye problems, but I felt I should correct it for posterity.
The word, as typed, seemed odd.
As to, why Armenian or pseudo-armenian names, like Khatchaturian, don't make it into CW puzzles, maybe, too many letters and syllables. Like Ara Parseghian, the Nortre Dame ex-football coach or Mr. George Duekmejian, the ex-governor of California.
Musings
-Never saw the gimmick until the reveal for this wonderful Monday puzzle
-GLASS BLOWER extraordinaire Dale Chihuly has a fabulous display under Space Needle
-When I see Ellis Island any more, I’ll think of ISIS that we had on Saturday
-Drywall was a giant step forward from LATH and plaster
-Roy Orbison was a great TENOR as well
-No cicadas have ALIT around here yet this year
-I’m a little woozy today as my second shingles shot from yesterday made me pile on blankets as I was so cold. Bobby Lewis’ song on my situation
Interesting theme.
From crosswords, I learned beanie as a warm winter hat. My previous view of beanie was for a hat looking somewhat like a baseball cap worn by college freshman. I remember wearing a Susquehanna beanie. In this link scroll down to the university section.
college freshman beanie
Before today, I knew toque only a chef's hat.
Seafood lovers who live along the Atlantic coast know quahogs.
NPR often mentions Aram Khachaturian. It is difficult to remember the spelling as I more often hear it than read it.
Tutor- CSO to the many of us who have tutored or still do so. I enjoyed tutoring. We teachers tutored our own students at recess or after school as part of the job. I also got paid for private tutoring those who were not my current students.
White lies. Colors have long been used as symbols. White is for purity and goodness. Black is for evil. This has nothing at all to do with race. Think of the white hats and the black hats in westerns.
White lies are often minor fibs used to spare someone's feelings. Does this dress make me look fat. No honey, you look lovely.
Green can symbolize envy. Yellow can symbolize cowardice. Rosy can symbolize good fortune or happiness.
Finished it in 4:17.
I owned a PASSAT but needed perps. I had a lotto ticket score $100 , who needs Tahoe
A new movie about Tampa, stripping and tweeting named
Zola is coming to theaters soon
I'll see your Bobby Lewis and raise you Five
Satins
But we sure see AOKI a lot in here. As well as ERTE. BTW, Who won that playoff last night?
OHIO's pair aren't burning up their league, either
Once I located the H I could spell ISTHMUS
And the POTATO is POMmE de Terre
There must be thousands of beach front high rise buildings in FLA. Florida is infamous for contractor shortcuts.
Harry we do have ARA a lot and even Tbilisi not long ago.
WC
I spotted BOWLER and dug out the other two. Ink free FIR
Good morning everyone.
Nice clean solve today. No strikethroughs; no searches needed. FIR. Solve moved right along with a pause at TKTS (oh, 'tickets').
Saw the schtick with HAT TRICKS. Anagrams wise, saw bowler and toque right away. Then TIMER ………oh, 'miter'. Mitre in Canada, I guess. Nice touch.
GPS has helped PINPOINT things better. Within a few feet, depending on the equipment. A navigation fix with sextant and chronometer was considered excellent if the lines of position (LOPS) crossed to make a small triangle 1 mile wide.
HATS - In the Navy an officers cap is called a 'cover'. The garrison (fore and aft) cap was called a pisscutter.
Enjoy the day.
Clever and fun Monday CW, thanx, SG! FIR IN 15, although I did not get the theme until Lemonade ‘splained it in his terrific write-up. W/Os, PASSEO:PASSET, ASAO: ISAO.
OK, who was it who recommended Line of Duty? Waseeley, was that you? Fie on whoever (whomever? I can never get those straight) it was. Now half-way through season two and firmly hooked. "Season" may be a misnomer -- most consist of only six episodes. It's on Prime Video, so I'm guessing almost everybody here has access to it.
Hi Y'all! Fun & fast puzzle, thanks, Susan. Always more fun with Boomer. Thanks.
It started to rain and I ran out to bring in the mail I'd attached to my mailbox before it got wet. Forgot to even look for the theme. Looks like a good one anyway.
ISTHMUS: my husband had some ancestors who immigrated from Ireland and were in Baltimore when the Civil War started. Three brothers were about to be conscripted into the Union Army so they hopped on a ship for Panama. Then they hiked across the ISTHMUS and took a ship to California, hoping to make their fortune there. That didn't work out very well so they headed back east taking whatever jobs were available with wagon trains, etc. Got sick in Nevada and one of them died there. Eventually, met their families in Iowa and homesteaded then moved to homesteads in Kansas where they stayed until death. The hike across the ISTHMUS has always intrigued me. Don't know if they were more adventurous or just dumb.
Good Morning:
I love a puzzle that keeps you in suspense until the reveal, so this was a perfect Monday. I liked Jeep abutting Axle and the Tim/Timer visual. Susan brought her A Game with Aroma, Aha, Edema, Jakarta, Lisa, Lava, Zola, and OSHA. No unknowns, no W/os, no nits.
Thanks, Susan, nice job and thanks, Boomer, nice job, as well.
FLN
Anon T, is book sewing the latest trend with the younger set? Based on the Reddit comments, it sure seems popular.
Lucina, I hope your A/C problem is short-lived. I’m thankful I have a brand new one, especially today and tomorrow with a projected heat index in the high 90s.
Because there was nothing interesting on TV last night, I watched the second two hours of Us. (I thought that it was going to be an extended series, but, no, only two episodes.) Anyway, the second was a little more palatable than the first, although the characters still have a long way to go maturity-wise. I will say they softened around the edges somewhat and there was a happy ending.
Have a great day.
Having grown up on Long Island, NY, Quahog was easy for me since you pass that town when driving along the south shore to the Hamptons or Montauk Point.
Also, I lived and worked in Manhattan and saw a bazillion plays by getting 1/2 price Broadway tickets at TKTS. My favorite play was Noises Off (which they made into a horrible movie). It was a 3 Act play where Act I was the rehearsal before opening night and you could tell none of the actors got along. Act II was opening night seen from behind the scenes and actors were sabotaging others. Act III was last night from the front, and all sorts of banging in the back was hysterical since you knew what was going on.
And one time at another play I had to tell the lady next to me to please stop singing along with the performers as I would like to hear the actors instead!
FIR in good time but, still, there were a number of things that were a bit more challenging than what one might expect in a "typical" Monday puzzle e.g. QUAHOG, PASSAT, EDEMA, HINDI, ISTHMUS, MORASS, ARAM. Not truly difficult just relatively so, I suspect,for this day of the week if one is a less experienced solver. Having a theme involving anagrams could also, arguably, be on the list. The preceding is IMHO, YMMV.
FIR, maybe if I had more time I woulda unraveled the hat anagrams...but family on their way up to camp. So unusually hot, fans in the camp windows..seems more necessary each summer as temps rise.☀️☀️☀️
exactQUOTE..too short
Didn't realize plants have EDEMA (this clue usually takes "NODES" as an answer)...a serious human affliction.
early inkover: idea/WHIM.
So when is a female performer an "actor" or an "actress"? 🤔
Digital baseball glove....EMIT
Prisoner....ANIMATE
Now part of a land mass...EXILE
It rhymes....POME
Haw mate...HEM
The cad made a ____ her....PASSAT
Boomer our local Mexican baroque theater has made so many improvements that musical productions equal what Broadway provides at a fraction of the cost. NY show TKT prices have gotten out of hand. We hardly ever take the train to NY anymore for shows. anyway.
Our Stanely Performing Arts center
Going for a swim, even the lakes here have warmed.🏊♂️
Well, I almost got this delightful Monday puzzle, but had a single slip-up when I didn't get JEEP. Guess I just don't know my cars. But still, lots of fun, so many thanks, Susan. And always enjoy your Monday commentaries, Boomer--many thanks to you too.
Boomer, and others, I too thought of RAZED in relation to that terrible Florida high-rise disaster, so sad to watch on the news every night, now with families whose hope is fading as the days go by.
Always nice to see Emile ZOLA and ESTEE Lauder and, of course, ERTE.
Have a good week coming up, everybody.
HATS OFF to Susan for this TOPIC of TOPPERS. And to BOOMER for another review HAT TRICK.
Assorted gooduns' ...
17 I think that when this photo was taken, the TIMER had gone of on JOSEPH RATZINGER's Archbishopric and he'd graduated to POPE BENEDICT, with a new CAP and GOWN.
20A I'll PASS AT this one.
28A GLASSBLOWING is much more energy intensive than HAT MAKING. Once the glass in the furnace becomes molten, it must be kept in this state continuously until the furnace has reached the end of its useful life. This is because the "coefficient of expansion" of glass is very high, and when it cools to room temperature it adheres to the furnace firebricks and destroys them as it contracts.
46A HEADS UP - you should see a HOMOPHONE for this answer later this week.
25A Now I have to go to an ENT DOC to get my tongue straightened out, And I'm sending you the bill Boomster!
36A This is known as a ZERO SUM game, the type described in the highly recommended "Games People Play" by Eric Berne. But as we'll see later this week in "Children's Games", no one really LOSES.
8D Also "a complicated or confused situation", e.g. "She would become lost in a MORASS of lies and explanations". And these kinds of LIES are definitely NOT WHITE.
10D ARAM KATCHATURIAN perhaps best known for the Sabre Dance from his ballet GAYANE and for the beautiful ballet about the gladiator Spartacus and his wife Phrygia.
25D SLEPT fit but didn't perp.
52D Originally composed by Cole Porter, but made popular by Fred Parris and The Satins
55D MOI? Never!
Cheers,
Bill
Lemonade @5:16 AM Thanks for the Khachaturian link (and for spelling his name right!). Spartacus was my other choice for a video. His violin concerto is also one of the 20th century greats in that genre.
The memory of the souls of those who have died in the South Florida disaster are in my morning prayers.
YR 8:03 AM There also "White Hat" and "Black Hat Hackers". We have one of the former among us, but his name will remain Anonymous.
Can someone explain the origin of the name BOWLER for the BOWLER HAT?
D-O @9:46 AM I fess up to your Line of Duty Jones. I'm counting on episode 7 of Season 6 to drop on Prime on Tuesday and my money is on DCS Carmichael and CC Phillip Osbourne to be the baddies. But if episode 6 turns out to be an end of Series cliff hanger, then Curse you Britbox!
I am stunned that someone of our general age has never had a ravioli. Stunned.
As it turns out, my very first girlfriend became a noted glassblower. She broke up with me to go with another of that trade. That was a bit over 45 years ago. Last I heard they were still together, she obviously made the right choice.
This Monday grid was a nice way to start the week.
Write-overs….HINDU/HINDI, EKED/EKES. These are the kind of white-overs that make me do an eye roll. Sloppy.
Quahogs are used for chowder, way too chewy to have alone.
See you tomorrow.
Wonderful puzzle, Susan -- thank you! And as always, I enjoyed your tour, Boomer.
Hat Curious? A guy named William BOWLER designed the hat style back in 1850.
Definitely a tip of the HAT to Susan for the interesting puzzle. Boomer added a nice tour of the grid.
One WO today. I initially had QUoHOG but JAKARTA changed it. Even though I lived on Long Island, clam chowder (or as Bostonians would say, CHOWDA) was not my favorite, the clams were too chewy.
DO: Whoever got us going on Line of Duty has resulted in my spending a lot of time in front of the tube. It's a good show, but like a lot of British shows it has sent me scrambling to figure out what the slang means. I've also checked in on The Bodyguard which has a couple of the same actors as Line of Duty. Both series were created by Jeff Mercurio and the Bodyguard has a similar edginess.
For those who like Michael Connelly books about his hero Hieronlymous Bosch, the final ten show season of Bosch is currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
I think I'll go check in on Line of Duty season 4,
Have a great day everyone.
Hieronymous not Hieronlymous.
Marvellous Monday. Thanks for the fun, Susan and Boomer.
I FIRed in good time and thought there was a tiny bit of crunch for a Monday.
I saw the theme, but like MadameD (welcome back), I could not parse Miter (and yes Spitz, I would spell it Mitre).
My ballerinas were En Pointe before ON TIPTOE. Point was needed for PINPOINT.
I have discussed the Canadian touque (yes, billocohoes, of course it needs a that extra U😁). I do not call a chef’s hat a Toque- I learned about that meaning here.
(ray-o - re that Maple Leaf CW you mentioned yesterday. I found it and will have to try it. Rex Parker sure panned it, but then he didn’t even know that there is an ICE HOTEL every winter just north of Quebec City. Sheesh, Americans!😁)
The hockey hat trick theme reminds me that we have a big Tampa-Montreal opening game tonight.
Enjoy the day.
FIR. Got the reveal first, of course, but I didn’t see the hats. Didn’t look for them too long, though.
Thanks, Susan and Boomer.
MY favorite rendition of “In the Still of the Night” is the Aaron Neville version, which I first heard on my “The Best of Cole Porter” CD (each song done by a different artist) that I found years ago. I wasn't even a Neville Brothers fan really, but it became my REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT track on that particular CD, when traveling down the highway of life on long road trips. Here, however, is the video version of it, which I like even better:
In the Still of the Night - Neville Brothers
Oh, Bob Seger’s “Still the Same” is my current REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT track. Played it for the last hour of a trip back from north Texas a couple of weekends ago, and it’s still in the CD player, getting me back and forth from wherever --- usually the airport. Might be time for a switch back to ITSOTN.
opps, sorry Hatoolah! My error!
Thank you Susan Gelfand, our very own, Hahtoolah, for a very nice Monday puzzle,
..... without any legal terminology or arcane Latin phrases ... ;-)
Thank you Boomer, for an interesting review.
The Mad Hatter theme, kind of, escaped me. I was familiar with the Miter and the Bowler and the Toque, but did not think of looking for them. Very enjoyable, never the less.
A Torc or even a Torque - Celtic - is something totally different, it is an ancient solid stiff neck ring, generally in gold, made of one piece.
Hat Curious Here is the low down on the invention of the Bowler Hat .
Please note: Google says this site is 'not secure'.
( Maybe you'll have to tie it down, firmly ...)
As is to be commonly understood, the Bowler hat was ordered by some Lord, for his gamekeepers, so they could, in turn, chase the wild game on their horses, in thick underbrush, without losing their own hats.... Literally.
Ah ... what would we do without the Grand Ole Aristocracy ...
i am reminded of a quote by the inimitable Oscar Wilde, who described Fox Hunting, as ...
" .....The insufferable in full pursuit of the inedible ...".
have a nice day, all.
Even with the theme clue (62A), I didn't notice the HAT TRICKS while whizzing through today's PZL. I did an injustice to Ms. Gelfand who deserved more of my time.
I see where JEEP is in trouble now, with N.A. tribes wanting them to quit using the "Cherokee" label.
I miss TKTS. For several decades I made an annual pilgrimage to NYC and always reserved time for Broadway and Off-B'way shows.
I haven't been back to the Big Apple for nearly seven years. Farewell to all that....
~ OMK
___________
DR: Three diagonals, on the near side.
The central diagonal offers an anagram (13 of 15 letters) which might serve as the title for a series of tales or philosophical discourses on the art of criminal appropriation.
I refer of course to the...
"THEFT ANALECTS"!
LEO III @1:58 PM With a back up band like that, how could this not be the greatest? And it's great to see you again.
Cheers,
Bill
I liked this puzzle but didn't understand the rearranged last words of the answers.
Susan Gelfand is Hahtoolah?
Good wishes to you all.
Jayce, no.
My sincere apologies, to Susan Gelfand, Hahtoolah and anybody else, for my confusion over your identities.
I was somewhat misled by another blogger's posting.
So, Susan Gelfand is NOT Hahtoolah.
Never the less, a very nice puzzle.
Canada Eh, There were comments from that CW made by Canadians et al who claimed they were insulted by the implications that Canadians use the term "Eh" and felt disparaged by the whole puzzle...One claimed it's actually "aye" (doesn't sound like that to me). I feel it is similar to the way Italians use it..."É bello, eh" ("it's beautiful, isn't it" or "yes?). I worked with a surgeon from Canada, he would show me a film and say "looks like acute appendicitis, eh?
Boomer, hilarious comment about never having eaten ravioli☺..you were kidding, eh? 😳
Ray-O-Sun, your explanation about the Canadians' saying "Eh " is a point well noted. I have not met any C's. enough, to be alerted to that fact.
However, I have heard .... and read in novels, magazines and heard in films about other communities who use the terminal 'no!?', as an end, to comments.
As in, .... 'She's a really pretty girl, no ?' ...
This is not a question, but an assertion, and the 'no' is supposed to mean ... don't you think so, or would you agree .... or just 'Right ?.'
I am not familiar as to what figure of speech that is, or what it is called, but I think such a terminal suffix occurs because of people who are atleast bilingual, .... and who are trying to use a different style of grammer, into the english. This habit probably occurs more on the Continent, and maybe in South America.
Speaking of canadians, I personally dont think it is any matter of shame for their adding an Eh! .... if I were canadian, I would be quietly proud of that fact. But, thats just me.
Finally, on the surgeon discussing HIPAA rules with you .... are you sure, he was not saying ... That looks like a cute appendix, Eh ? ;-) rather than acute appendicitis ....
For medical humor, you should read the Doctor in the House series...by Richard Gordon.
TTP, thank you. I didn’t think so.
I attended college with a Canadian. To me it sounded like she was saying EH! and aboot for about. We loved her.
She found living with actual middle class Americans at college and also baby sitting for local families pleasantly eye opening.
North of the white mountains and into Maine the indiginous locals add "AH-Yah " to comments
A Monday puzzle with only one unknown. 70A- crossword solving Simpson. George (me) wouldn't fit so it had to be LISA.
As for HAT TRICKS there was no way I saw that.
Hi All!
Thanks Susan for the fine Monday puzzle to kick-off the work-week. Thank you, Boomer, for the tour / kicking-off the after-party.
WO: HINDu
ESPs: ZOLA, ISAO, POME, QUAHOG
Fav: RAVIOLI!
{B-, B}
I had to lookup Analects, OMK :-)
Neat story of your ancestors, PK.
C, Eh! - with two, girls who took a combined 25+ years of ballet, I too was wanting En Pointe. Fortunately, I couldn't spell it off the top of my head so it stayed blank until perps proved otherwise :-)
Help us out, eh?
a) is it "insulting?"
b) in my travels, it seems "eh?" is less prevalent the further west one goes. I don't recall hearing it much in Calgary and barely at all in BC. Is that so?
billocohoes - I love Bob & Doug (your link)
I've seen Chilhuly's* exhibit in SFO and watched them BLOW GLASS in Murano. [6:42]
IM - Eldest says no, it's not a trend w/ the younger set. She just thought it'd be fun and started learning how to. She's made a few 6x5" notebooks from scratch (including the paper) and repaired a few old books.
waseeley - as CyberSec becomes diversified (i.e. not just white guys), there's a movement to get rid of the WHITE/Black nomenclature for good/bad; White/BlackHATs -> Blue-team/attackers [though you can be a good-guy attacker, aka red-team Whitehat], whitelists are now allowlists, etc. Kinda like getting rid of master/slave vernacular for IDE drives.
Vidwan - the site is "not secure" b/c it uses http (no 's') and everything is in plain-text. The site is not dangerous.
Cheers, -T
*went with DW's Aunt who lives in SFO and ran into our college chums (who lived in Gilroy) with their three (3) rambunctious little boys in tow. I was sure something was going to get broken.
Ray-o et al. - yes, I can see that some Canadians might not like to be stereotyped with the Eh! I just think it is funny, and I’m not actually sure if I use the word much😁😁. But your surgeon from Canada was using it in the most common method but there are many more uses; (we can through it on the end of a statement just for fun!)
I have never heard it pronounced Aye (it is pronounced A as in ABC).
As for “about”, I don’t think I pronounce it as “aboot”, but then I don’t listen to myself either🤔😁😮
AnonT- we were posting simultaneously!
https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/canadian-eh
You may be correct about eh being used more in Central Canada (per 2004 study, Gold)
I probably don’t even think about how often I hear or say it., as I am so accustomed to it.
From the same reference,
“Johnson (1976) argues that eh can only be used when the assumptions associated with the sentence to which it is being added are weak. In other words, eh “leaves the door open for a different point of view to be expressed” .
How typically Canadian!
Thanks for the research, CEh! I haven't been to BC in ~20 years nor Calgary for 5 so my memory may have been a bit fuzzy.
Lets get back to RAVIOLI (I like Ravioli).
The best I had was a nearby restaurant run by a guy from Boston's North End using his Grandma's recipe. It was stuffed with lobster (flown in daily) in a creamy tomato sauce. Unfortunately, C19 put that location out of business (he has another spot near Katy - about 45 minutes away).
I also love it stuffed w/ four cheese mixed with a bit of Italian sausage and parsley. Oh, yum!
I've made my own ravioli from scratch but, boy, it's time consuming; gotta set aside a full day. //maybe July 4th weekend I'll do it - 'cuz now I'm getting hungry.
Boomer - if you were being serious that you've never had it... Find a spot that makes the best "basic" spaghetti (if "basic" is stellar, it's a good joint) and then order some ravioli. You won't be disappointed.
Cheers, -T
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