Musical Cities:
16-Across. 1994 Collin Raye song (AR): LITTLE ROCK.
65-Across. 1959 Wilbert Harrison song (MO): KANSAS CITY.
10-Down. 1969 Glen Campbell song (TX): GALVESTON. I went to Galveston. Once. For a fascinating look at the city, its the devastating 1900 hurricane, and the early politics of the Nation's Weather Bureau, read Erik Larson's book, Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History.
32-Down. 1982 Billy Joel song (PA): ALLENTOWN.
There is more music as we take our journey into this Tuesday puzzle.
Across:
1. They're what really happened: FACTS.
6. Garfield, e.g.: CAT. Garfield the Cat is a comic strip,
created by Jim Davis (b. July 28, 1945) that has been published since the late
1970s.
9. Eye wolfishly: OGLE.
13. Nunavut native: INUIT. Hi, CanadianEh! Nuavat is
a sparsely populated territory of northern Canada. It forms much of
the Canadian arctic archipelago.
14. Kid's comeback: AM SO!
15. Sit tight: WAIT.
18. Sommer of "The Prize": ELKE. Elke Sommer (b. Nov. 5,
1940), is a German actress. The Prize was a 1963 movie
that also starred Paul Newman (Jan. 26, 1925 ~ Sept. 26, 2008).
19. Pianist Gilels: EMIL. Emil Grigoryevich Gilels (Oct.
19, 1916 ~ Oct. 14, 1985) was a Ukranian pianist.
20. __ Army: golfer Palmer's fans: ARNIES.
22. Gall: VEX.
23. For all ages, filmwise: RATED G.
25. Most trifling: MINUTEST.
27. Spicy dip for chips: SALSA. Yummers!
29. Pulpit talks: Abbr.: SERS. As in Sermons.
30. Cry of illumination: AHA!
33. Wee: TEENY.
35. Songwriter Redding: OTIS. Otis Ray Redding, Jr. (Sept.
9, 1941 ~ Dec. 10, 1967) was tragically killed in a plane crash at just age
26.
38. Throb: PULSATE.
40. Sunny-side-up feature: EGG YOLK.
43. Accessory put through loops: BELT.
44. Historic Jordanian city: PETRA. I have yet to visit
this beautiful city.
46. Opposing vote: NAY.
47. Key of Vivaldi's "Spring Concerto": Abbr.: E MAJ. As
in E Major. Not a city, but still some beautiful music.
50. Mazda MX-5, familiarly: MIATA.
52. "The Sound of Music" family name: VON TRAPP.
55. Wild clashes: MELEES.
59. Pick, to a QB: INT. Interception in football.
60. Stage lighting hardware: C CLAMP.
62. Smithsonian, e.g.: Abbr.: INST. The Smithsonian is
an Institution with many museums on the Washington Mall.
63. MGM mascot: LION.
67. Premier League soccer anchor Rebecca: LOWE. Rebecca
Lowe (b. Nov. 11, 1980) is a British sportscaster. Rather obscure to
those who don't follow soccer, I would presume.
68. French articles: UNEs. Today's French lesson
69. Scary kind of wave: TIDAL. Terrifying!
70. Gunn of "Breaking Bad": ANNA.
71. Old televangelist org.: PTL. As in Praise The Lord. A program hosted by Jim (b. Jan. 2, 1940) and Tammy Faye Bakker
(Mar. 7, 1942 ~ July 20, 2007).
72. Behind the times: PASSÉ.
Down:
1. Taxpayer, e.g.: FILER.
2. Jungian concept: ANIMA. Anima explained.
3. Make the grade: CUT IT.
4. Library names: TITLES.
5. Cards' cap letters: STL. The Saint Louis Cardinals.
6. "Don't mess with me, bro!": C'MON MAN.
7. Computer acronym: ASCII. An abbreviation for American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
8. Arcade coins: TOKENS.
9. Be indebted to: OWE.
11. Enjoys: LIKES.
12. Digital book format: E-TEXT.
14. Part of ETA: Abbr.: ARR. Estimated Time of Arrival.
17. Aerie hatchling: EAGLET.
21. Curt legal advice: SUE.
24. Almanac info: DATA.
26. "Iliad" setting: TROY. Everything you wanted to know
about the ancient poem Iliad, but didn't know to ask.
28. Ooze: SEEP.
30. PD alert: APB. Police Departments may issue an All Points Bulletin.
31. Color gradation: HUE.
34. Himalayan legend: YETI.
36. Waterfront org.: ILA. As in the International Longshoremen Association.
37. Wild blue yonder: SKY.
39. Monthly acct. summary: STMT. Think of your monthly
bank Statement.
41. Family nickname: GRAMPA. Mine were called Grandpa and
Gramp.
42. Flight board info: GATE. I will be going through a
boarding gate tomorrow.
45. Select, as a jury: EMPANEL.
48. Ongoing story line: ARC.
49. Prepare for changing a flat tire: JACK UP.
51. Keys on a piano?: ALICIA. Clever clue.
52. Luxurious residence: VILLA. A trip to Sicily is not
complete unless you visit the Villa Romana del Casale. It is was ancient Roman villa that has some of the most beautiful,
intact mosaics that I have ever seen.
53. Gibson garnish: ONION.
54. Garden growth: PLANT.
56. Authors Blyton and Bagnold: ENIDs. I am not familiar
with Enid Blyton (Aug. 11, 1897 ~ Nov. 28, 1968), but Edna Bagnold (Oct. 27,
1889 ~ Mar. 31, 1981) makes frequent guest appearances in the puzzles.
Both were British authors.
57. These, to Tomás: ESTAS. Today's Spanish lesson.
Hi, Lucina!
58. Hairdresser's concern: STYLE.
61. Ed.'s backlog: MSS. As in Manuscripts.
64. PBS funder: NEA. As in the National Endowment for the Arts.
66. Longtime NASCAR sponsor: STP. Short for Scientifically Treated Petroleum.
Here's the Grid
חתולה
54 comments:
FIW @ GALViSTON x MINUTiST. BAD SPELARS OF THE WORLD UNTIE!!!
Erased cbc for PTL, and loves for LIKES.
My favorite computer acronym is HASP - Houston Automatic Spooling Program, which itself contains an acronym - Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On Line.
Having being bombarded with "story arc" in recent crosswords, I'm finally starting to remember the concept.
GALVESTON is beautiful but HOT in the summer. What I remember most is that government workers there seceded from Social Security. Workers there generally have higher incomes in retirement from their private plan than they received in their paycheck when they were working, in lieu of Social Security. Congress quickly closed that loophole for obvious reasons.
Didn't love this puzzle and cluing, but we've seen worse. Hahtoolah's fun review made up for it.
Good Morning, crossword friends. I was not familiar with all of the city songs in this puzzle. Does your city have a song?
QOD: If you want to live a long live, don’t hold a grudge ~ Edwin W. Edwards (né Edwin Washington Edwards Aug. 7, 1927 ~ July 12, 2021), former Louisiana Governor
Good morning!
This took about a minute longer than yesterday -- par for a Tuesday course. My GRAMPA was Dahmper -- I didn't pronounce too well at age 4. the year that he died. CCLAMP is what our blog mistress uses to read. Thanx Matt & Hahtoolah. (Our cats also prefer the Chewy box to what comes in it.)
I found this chewy for a Tuesday. FIR with perps and wags. I didn't know any of the city songs, but the state abbreviations helped and I have heard of all the cities. Allentown is the only one I have visited. I knew and enjoy Vivaldi's Spring and the Beethoven selection.
I have never seen the abbr, STMT.
I was looking for some version of Grandma until the P arose.
TYL
Musings
-What’s the record for obscure (but gettable) names on a Tuesday? At least I knew ELKE, OTIS and ARNIE
-Lots of gluey fill with MSS, PTL, ILA, STMT, SERS…
-I did not need the state appended to the clue for three of the four songs
-SEEP – A common phenomena in our very flat city after a 5” rain like last week
-JACK UP – Our hotels are a 30 minute drive from the College World Series and the USOC Swimming Trials but are filled because Omaha JACKS UP their rates outrageously during these events
This went fast once I realized that they were all city songs - didn't know "LITTLE ROCK" the song - but with the state abbreviations at the end made it easier. What a morning concert Susan- I don't have time to listen to them all now - will come back later. I'm a fan of Billy Joel and Glen Campbell so that was fun and the classical thrown in as well!
I'll take the CSO for KANSAS CITY - my hometown and STL for one of my MLB teams (the other being the KC Royals!
Time to get to work!
Thanks Susan and Matt!
Spelling YOLK was a challenge to fit perps.
No more obscure than ANNA and EMIL although Rebecca if known was in an obscure part of my sports consciousness
That garnish was not an olive. And PASts => PASSE.
Very quick solve today. I forgot to wish one of our favorite Canadians a HBD
WC
Travel Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, Matt and Hahtoolah.
Well, if our border isn’t open, I can still travel virtually to these American cities of song. No worries about having to JACK UP our car!
A little crunchy for this Canadian, but I prevailed with a few AHA moments.
The SW corner opened when I changed my olive to an ONION. I don’t know my drinks.
My almanac info was Date before DATA.
We had ARR and GATE for our travels.
13A is timely as it was Nunavut Day on July 9.
Nunavut
Wishing you all a great day.
Thanks WC and all who posted bday greetings after my post yesterday.
FIR with perps and a lot of WAGs. OTIS REDDING' plane crashed into Lake Monona in Madison, WI. Watched as a barge brought the formerly submerged aircraft to a DOCK on the BAY. He was supposed to sing at a culb downtown Madison that night. Sad. Hear a lot of "C'MON MAN"s on TV since January. (:^) TC
Good Morning:
This had a bit of a bite for a Tuesday with ASCII, Petra, C Clamp, Lowe, and E Maj. Fortunately, the perps were fair, so no real stumbling blocks. Stmt was clunky but I’ve seen worse. The only song/singer I knew was Galveston. Some cute duos were: Minutest/Teeny, Sue/Hue, STL/STP, PTL/STL, and Arr/Gate. Nice CSOs to Lucina (Estas), CEh (Inuit), Moi (Troy), and CED, Hahtoolah, DO and all other feline fanciers (Cat).
Thanks, Matt, for a Tuesday treat and thanks, Hahtoolah, for the fun commentary and links. Loved all the cat cartoons. (It would be nice to see some woof-woofs once in awhile. 🐶 😉)
FLN
Sincere condolences to MalMan, Bill, and Picard on the loss of your dear friends.
Have a great day.
Oh, sorry Wilbur, I forgot to answer your question re tar. Wasn’t it pine tar that got George Brett and his bat into hot water?
FIR with two WOs: GRAMmA/GRAMPA and OlIve/ONION. They slowed me down but perps finally prevailed. The Southern grandfather in our family was called Granddaddy. And as you saw, I temporarily forgot what the Gibsons I served years ago when I worked summers in a restaurant looked like. The garnishes helped distinguish all the different drinks on a tray. Saw others of you put olive too.
Thanks Matt and Hahtoolah for a nice musical start to the day. And I enjoyed your additions to your review, Hahtoolah, especially the EGG YOLK cat! Hope you all have a great day!
Good morning everyone.
Another easy one. Cities in song theme today. No erasures needed. FIR. CSO to IM at TROY.
OGLE - Came from L. German Oog, pl. Ogen. Also Dutch oog. Oo has o sound as in bode; g is like a voiced ch as in loch.
NAE - In L. German, 'nee' means 'no'. Sounds the same as NAY.
Entertaining intro, Hahtoolah. Thank you.
Just wanted to point out the NEA on 64 down is NOT The National Education Association support of PBS but the National Endowment for the Arts.
Bostons song might be this one about the banks of
The River Charles
But Fenway fans have adopted this sweet gal Caroline
IM, excellente, it certainly was and what ensued was George's temper tantrum
I always appreciate hahtoolah write-ups. Yes, Endowment for the Arts
WC
Puzzling thoughts:
FIR, but with several WO’s:
ALEUT/INUIT; DATE/DATA; GRAMPS/GRAMPA; YEDI/YETI; E TEST/
E TEXT
Agree with others that there were several forced words: STMT/SERS, as well as a plethora of abbreviations: CMON/APB/ILA/MSS/EMAJ, et al
Thanks Susan for the detailed recap and fun cartoons and song links
Dash T - if you stop by today … that was quite a show you got to see last night ⚾️⚾️⚾️
Moe-ku:
Mazda hired a
Karate instructor named
Mr. MIATA
{C+, on the OKL rating scale}
Thanks for the morning music, Cat.
On two or three occasions I was a "soldier" in Arnie's Army". The Los Angeles Open used to be played at Rancho Park Golf Course and I would "hop the fence" to follow the action first hand.
Just wondering when the crossword constructors will adopt the correct usage of Inuit.
It is the plural of Inuk, a native of Nunavut
Inuit and Inuk in English
Singular noun
Inuk is the singular noun. It is always capitalized:
the first Inuk to play in the NHL
Plural noun
Inuit is the plural noun. It is always capitalized:
Inuit enjoy the arrival of spring. (not Inuits enjoy)
FIR...thought state capitals first but just songs about cities.
Where's "New York, New York", "Shuffle off to Buffalo" or "I Can't Spell Schenectady"? for OUR state? 😠
Gilels?,Collin Raye?, Wilbert Harrison? Hey, look at the calendar this is TUESDAY!! C'MON?...c'mon, who ever says that...🙉
Some restaurants won't serve eggs "Sunny side up" because of the salmonella risk and that's no yolk!🤭...DW's favorite is an "Arnold Palmer" (iced tea/lemonade).
Ebony? Ivory? 🎹....Nope ALICIA
"What really happened" doesn't seem to matter in the last few years.😳 In the new realm of "alternate" FACTS ..knew ANIMA(Italian for "soul") from prior puzzles. TIDAL and TITLES...our lazy English makes them homophones 😖. Inkover: gramma/GRAMPA, (shoulda waited for the CCLAMP perp)
Had EnPANEL first then with a stroke of the pen added another "leg" to the "N" to create an "M". AHA! try doing that on yer digital devices!!!😁
***ETEXT ...grrr..another invented E-noun (see below)😡
Lots of errors _____ finished the puzzle...YETI
Quick quiz...MINUTEST.
Irish M setting...TROY.
*** Computerized lice ova....ENIDS.
Finally a sunny day.. I'm outside on the deck, puzzle finished, stock still, staring down my squirrel friend who is trying to figure out if I'm just an oversized garden gnome..who will flinch...first?
INUIT - As far as I can see, the cluing for INUIT in the puzzle is consistent with the usage, spelling and inflections given by Merriam Webster.
The format of the clues was "(Date) song (Singer) (state)"
1959 Wilbert Harrison song (MO)
1977 Liza Minelli song (NY) Answer = NEW YORK,NEW YORK
2017 Miley Cyrus song (CA) Answer = MALIBU
Hola!
Ooh! Ooh! What a treat! I'm listening to Sweet CAROLINE while typing. Love it. I can't say much about the songs in the puzzle since I'm not familiar with them. Glen Campbell also sang, By the time I get to Phoenix. He must have liked it because he retired there.
My grandfathers were already gone by the time I was born, but my great-grandfather, whom we called GRAMPA, was alive. He outlived his own grandson, my dad.
Thank you for the CSO at ESTAS.
The puzzle filled very quickly. Nice to see the VONTRAPP family there. I recalled ANNA Gunn from an interview she did explaining how much she liked her role in Breaking Bad which I never saw. I don't know Rebecca LOWE but Rob LOWE would have been easy.
Olive before ONION. I've never had a Gibson.
Safe travels, Susan! Thank you for the tour and funny cartoons. I hope you get to PETRA some day. It's fascinating. Have you been to TROY?
Enjoy the day, everyone!
Tough for a Tuesday, but knowing the cities helped a lot.
Had GRAMMY at first, changed to GRAMMA, but CC-AMM? Eventually figured out CCLAMP - oh, GRAMPA!
I bought one of the first Miata's and had it for 30 years. I used to joke to friends it was older than the MIR Space Station. Horrible in the snow (rear wheel drive), but a wonderful car to cruise around in. It was my and my wife's "Date Night" car.
well, here's what i get from Merriam Webster on-line...
\ i-ˈnük \
plural Inuit\ ˈi-n(y)ü-wət \
Definition of Inuk
: a member of the Inuit people
it shows Inuk as singular, Inuit as plural... and as the word itself comes from Inuktitut, maybe the constructors could show a little more awareness of its meaning.
Bertie Higgins "Key Largo", Jimmy Buffett's "Everybody's got a Cousin in Miami," George Strait's "Marina del Rey" and Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman" are great old songs that I haven't thought of in a long time, until reading today's comments.
Thanks to Spitz for your explanation of the German / Dutch roots of common English words. Very interesting, and I don't mention it often enough.
Thanks. I made the correction.
I found this quite crunchy for a Tuesday. I was not familiar with the “LITTLEROCK” song, but knew others. Anyway, managed to FIR but took an embarrassing 26 minutes, I believe the longest Tuesday time for me ever. When I look at the finished CW I don’t see why it took me so long, it looks like it should have filled quickly. Oh well. Thanx, MS for what was (for me) a challenging CW. Terrific write-up, Susan, thanx.
. . .and, let us not forget OMAHA. . .although the city is never mentioned in the song!
Moby Grape - Omaha
Hi Y'all! Fun puzzle, Matt! Great info, Hahtoolah! Thanks. Have a nice trip, Susan.
I saw/heard Collin Raye sing "LITTLE ROCK" in concert on my birthday in 1997. Fun night.
Visited GALVESTON one New Year's Eve, two couples of us. Ended up down on the DOCKS where a big ocean-going vessel was tied up. On a dare we girls (teenaged still) climbed up the gangplank and were met by a bored & personable officer who took us on a tour of the ship. Later when Glen Campbell's song came out, I would sing it long & loud while driving.
My family lived in Kansas City, MO when I was small. So all these songs had personal meaning for me. Never went to ALLENTOWN in the short time I lived in PA.
DKN: EMIL Gilels, LOWE, ANNA, ASCII, or ENIDS. I see ASCII occasionally but never knew what it meant.
Bit of a rare Tuesday toughie for me, but I'm not into contemporary music and so only got GALVESTON--mainly because the across items filled it in for me. Still, many thanks, Matt--there were some clues and answers I enjoyed. And thanks, as always, for your nice commentary, Susan.
I knew the "Sound of Music" family name was TRAPP, but was puzzled by the extra letters. Had forgotten the VON--duh, and I'm Austrian by background. Was also a little puzzled by MINUTEST--an expression that makes perfect sense, but never heard it before.
Have a wonderful day, everybody.
From Merriam:
In·u·it | \ ˈi-n(y)ü-wət \
variants: or less commonly Innuit
Definition of Inuit
1 plural Inuit or Inuits also Innuit or Innuits
a : a group of Indigenous peoples of northern Alaska, arctic Canada, and Greenland —used especially for those of the Canadian Arctic and Greenland
NOTE: In Canada, the name Inuit refers to one of three major, legally recognized groups of aboriginal peoples, the other two being the First Nations and the Métis.
— see also INUK
b : a member of such people
2 : any of the languages of the Inuit
Ten percent of this puzzle was gibberish.
SERS,INT,INST,PTL,STL,ASCII,ARR,APB,ILA,STMT,MSS,NEA,STP.
How does Matt Skoczen get this published. And how does Rich Norris OK this?
FIR. Enjoyed the theme. The rest of this PP filled slog was not for me.
Canada Eh...isn't it true the rest of Canada tried to impose a name on the new Inuit territory and they responded
enough!
we will have NUNAVUT!! 🤣
I counted 14 abbrv clues. Cmon, thats almost standard for a Friday puzzle. Its tueday? But i did finish, so its no prob. Have a good day.
I got off to a bit of a slow start here, but got the solve.
Write-overs…ALEUT/INUIT, GRAMPS/GRAMPA.
That ALEUT slowed down the NW before it got fixed.
Lots of abbrs in the grid. Get it?
See you tomorrow.
YR, don't know Kansas City? "They've got some crazy little women there and I'm gonna get me one".
Thanks Matt for a slightly crunch Tuesday FIR. And thank you Hahtoolah for the tour of MUSICAL CITIES and all the other musical works. Nicely researched and illustrated. DNK Little Rock, an aria from a C&W tenor's tragic opera, or did I miss a happy ending?
1A Apparently there is some debate about this this days.
6A And a CSO to our reviewer! Did Matt know this was going to be published on a Tuesday?
9A WHERE do you get these cartoons? Everything about this particular one is very WELL-CONSTRUCTED!.
19A My fav of the Master's piano concertos.
23A Do they still make RATED G films?
35A Another classic by another master. He was one year short of making the 27 club that -T told us about yesterday.
40A What a PURRfect work of art!
47A We could use a little Spring on the steamy East Coast. I loved the animation - what a great way to teach musical structure.
52A EDELWEISS - don't know which of the sisters in the video it was, perhaps the youngest, but she settled in Glyndon community on the outskirts of Baltimore, and was for many years a parishioner at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, our sister parish. I never met her though.
4D Don't let the BUNS fool you. Librarians mean business!
7D ASCII One answer to the question "what does this sequence of bits really mean?" Widely used on micro and mini computers. IBM mainframes (are there any other kind?) use EBCDIC (Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code). Among other advantages, it's more efficient for doing the decimal arithmetic needed to process large scale batch-oriented financial transactions.
41D When my first grandchild was born, my son asked me what did I want her to call me? I said "whatever she calls you with, GRAND in front of it". So the grandchildren call me GRANDDAD.
Cheers,
Bill
Spitz @10:37 AM But is that the Inuk-English Merriam dictionary?
Enjoyed seeing TROY today after seeing Picard's Counselor TROI yesterday! I enjoyed the musical cities theme. LITTLE ROCK was the only song I never heard of, but it was very easy to guess!
PETRA is one of the most spectacular places I have ever visited. The natural beauty and the heroic human structures blend in a memorably dreamlike experience.
Here are our photos at PETRA which I have shared before.
I used to work at the SMITHSONIAN INST and have lots of photos there.
Here I was using a JACK to change a FLAT TIRE on a road trip back east.
It was a rental car from Hertz. Instead of being grateful that I changed the tire myself, they tried to charge me for causing the flat! Fortunately, a saner person at Hertz prevailed and they gave us another car and sent us on our way. That person could see that it was a defective tire that had failed.
Kelly Clark, CanadianEh, Irish Miss Thank you for the kind words on the loss of my music teacher, hiking and unicycling companion and friend Nancy. It has been a chance to connect with her family and share memories.
And that brings to mind
- "La Grange" from ZZ Top
- "Jackson" from Johnny and June Carter Cash
- "Nashville Cats" by The Lovin' Spoonful
As the only “outed” Canadian here (haari are you Canadian?) I should comment on Inuit, although I am certainly not an expert.
haari’s info @10:29 was taken from a Govt. of Canada website and should be correct.
https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2guides/guides/wrtps/index-eng.html?lang=eng&lettr=indx_catlog_i&page=91V1uxvxfEc4.html
Clue should be “Nunavut natives” as a Nunavut native would be Inuk. Error may belong to Rich and not Matt, as we all know that Rich changes many of the clues. But there may be sensitivity to the use of the word “natives” also (as it could have a derivative connotation).
Inuit means “the people” and Nunavut means “our land”.
LOL Ray’o. But OTOH, sadly, many of our indigenous groups wish that they had said NUNAVUT! We are currently facing up to our sad history.
This puzzle had stuff I liked and stuff I didn't. Liked the answers PULSATE, EGG YOLK, PETRA, VON TRAPP, C CLAMP (but not the clue), C'MON MAN (sounds like something President Biden would say), EMPANEL, and ALICIA. Liked the theme gimmick. Did not like the abbreviations.
Loved Hahtoolah's review. I hope you make it to Petra.
Yes, my city has a song: Do You Know the Way to San Jose.
Story ARC reminds me that our local news anchor recently reported "arsing" electric power lines as the cause of one of the fires in California.
So, what do you call a man who lets people walk all over him? Matt. (Sorry, I couldn't resist.)
A few years ago a friend offered to let me drive his MIATA, Sheesh, I couldn't fit into it!
I remember the earliest Atari personal computers used Binary Coded Decimal. Spreadsheets were more accurate on them.
Good wishes to you all.
The Navajo call themselves "Dineh" (dee-neh) which means "the people."
Jinx, I loved that HASP computer acronym too.
Since we seem to be stuck on geographical songs today, here's Dean Martin's Houston.
Do agree with Anonymous, way too many abbreviations. It is supposed to be a crossWORD puzzle. Also thought the states in the theme clues were unnecessary, even for a Tuesday level.
How did I miss Glen Campbell's "By the Time I Get to Phoenix"? It was an old song by the time I MOVED to Phoenix.
Picard, enjoyed you PETRA Pics. Just lost my post. You looked so natural on that camel
WC
I did too. Arnie was kind enough to put his arm around me for a photo. A very nice gentleman!
Thank you Matt Skoczen for a nice, charming and Tuesday appropriate ( IMHO ) puzzle. Emjoyed it - I got the idea of the theme early on, though I am not familiar with any of the songs. ;-o)
Jayce, I loved your pun on the name Matt ... I must try to remember it for my grandkids.
Hahtoolah, I loved your review, with the usual cat toons. In fact, when I saw the word 'cat' in the CW , I thought ... how appropriate for our cat loving reviewer of Toesdays...
Picard thank you for the Petra pictures, .... some of the camels are better looking than the ;-) ...
We had a chance to make a side visit to Petra, when we were visiting Israel ... but it seemed to be too much of a political hassle, and would have extended our tour even longer. I dont regret not having gone there ... you cannot achieve Everything in Life, you have to learn to let go, and savor what you've got, and what you've already seen.
RayO, I loved your pun on Nunavit !! ;-)))
Did anybody, Ever describe you to be a Homo-phone-a-phile ??
BTW, I described your experience during your annual physical to my P.C.P. - personal care physician. He was delighted, and says he would like to meet you. He's italian american, seems 20 yrs younger than he is, ... and looks like a 60's movie star. I am so much in awe, sometimes I forget to tell him, all my ailments ....
BTW, the moment I saw the clue on Nunavit ... I knew It !! ... then it was just a matter of spelling it correctly in their language ... I nu it....
I'm so glad the answer was not Inuk ... because that is what Ch Moe says . Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk
Have a nice day, all .... and lets keep a sense of humor, lifes too short...
Vidwan827: My brother Curly is the “nyuk nyuk nyuker”; but I also resemble that! 🤡 Life is too short. 😂😂😂
I hesitate to use the word awesome or awe inspiring because it is so overused, but Petra definitely is awe-inspiring. It is a journey back in time. Anyone who has the chance to visit it, should do so!
Thanks Matt and Hahtoolah!
FIR, with just a little Wite-Out. Saw GALVESTON right off the bat, and it wasn’t difficult to get the other cities. I think getting the cities first helped immensely. For all of the Billy Joel I’ve listened to in my lifetime, I could not remember the song ALLENTOWN. Didn’t keep me from figuring it out, though.
Yes, Hahtoolah, some people from either coast look at Galveston with scorn and/or dismay, but it’s all we’ve got. However, since I don’t do beaches anywhere anymore, it’s OK. Rather historical city, though, if one knows where to look.
I guess my having had a career in credit and finance made STMT a gimme. Now you know how I feel when you talk COMPUTER!
Yes, IM and WC, it was pine tar:
George Brett Pine Tar Incident
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