17. *SofÌa Vergara's "Modern Family" role, to her nephews: AUNT GLORIA.
34. *Tree in a foyer: COAT RACK.
43. *Deletes: TAKES OUT.
11. *Highway warning: DANGER AHEAD.
24. *Conventioneer's stop on arrival: CHECKIN DESK.
62. Green course ... and what the start of each answer to the starred clues is?: MIXED SALAD.
OF COURSE! The first words are anagrams of a kind of salad. The word MIXED indicates these were anagrams - and even so it took me way too long to figure this out.
AUNT = TUNA
COAT = TACO
TAKES = STEAK
DANGER = GARDEN
CHECKIN = CHICKEN
Across:
1. Sudden sharp sensations: STABS. That cluing allows it to pass the breakfast test.
6. Place for a meal: CAFE. What's your favorite cafe?
10. Eldest "Bonanza" brother: ADAM. Portrayed by Pernell Roberts.
14. Oahu veranda: LANAI. AKA porch or veranda.
15. Mannheim mister: HERR. Conventional German title of respect and term of address for a man, corresponding to Mr. or in direct address to sir.
16. Still-life subject: VASE. Not enough letters for fruit.
19. Signs: INKS. Not pens.
20. Opening words: INTRO.
21. Western movie staples: STAGES.
23. Deliverers of 20-Acrosses, briefly: MCS. Master of Ceremonies.
25. Small amount: DAB.
26. Place for a meal: EATERY. Another place for a meal.
27. Emmy winner Christine: LAHTI.
29. Eye protector: LID.
31. Maple Leafs, on scoreboards: TOR. Hockey - TORonto, Canada.
32. "Paper Moon" co-stars: O'NEALS. Ryan and Tatum - father and daughter.
38. Muscle spasm: TIC.
39. Lummox: OAF.
41. Nothing: NIL.
42. Longtime Eur. realm: HRE. A bit obscure, this refers to the Holy Roman Empire, located in western and central Europe and including parts of what is now France, Germany, and Italy. Dissolved in 1806.
46. Summer TV staple: REPEAT.
48. Natural ending?: IST. Naturalist.
49. "The Matrix" hero: NEO.
51. Liquid-Plumr shelfmate: DRANO.
52. Bug-eyed prayer: MANTIS.
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55. Units of wt.: LBS.
57. Shelley's "__ to the West Wind": ODE. Another obscure one ... poem written by Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1819.
58. Correct, perhaps, as a check: RE-DATE. For work I count and date (with a date stamp) incoming mail daily - sometimes over 100 in a single day. I tend to do this chore while watching Netflix, thus both re-counting and re-dating are regular activities.
59. Colorado's __ Park: ESTES.
61. Champagne brand: MOET. If you like prosecco (Italian sparking wine), try Ruffino - great price, too.
67. Start of Massachusetts' motto: ENSE. Is this Wednesday? Another obscurity. 'Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem,' which means 'By the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty.'
68. Fateful March date: IDES.
69. Persistent attack: SIEGE.
70. Sounds of disapproval: TSKS.
71. Mouth off to: SASS.
72. SpongeBob's home: OCEAN. Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
Down:
1. P. Hearst's captors: SLA. Symbionese Liberation Army2. Cross-shaped letter: TAU.
3. __ Wilson, lead singer of Heart: ANN. Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson.
4. Leader overthrown by Castro: BATISTA. Fulgencio Batista was president of Cuba from 1940 - 1944.
5. Highway exit feature: SIGN.
6. Like many holiday concerts: CHORAL.
7. Type of exercise: AEROBIC.
8. Part of TGIF: Abbr.: FRI. Thank Goodness it's Friday.
9. Rub off: ERASE.
10. Howard Hughes, e.g.: AVIATOR.
12. One with questions: ASKER.
13. Unkempt: MESSY.
18. Ford classic: LTD. What did it stand for?
22. Told all: TATTLED.
23. Craze: MANIA.
27. Politician Trent: LOTT. Author and former United States Senator from Mississippi.
28. Homework shirker's lame excuse: I LOST IT.
30. Spanish noble title: DON. A courtesy title placed before the 1st name of an older or more senior man/woman as a way of showing them your respect when talking to them or about them.
33. First word of some Brazilian cities: SAO.
35. __ conditioner: AIR.
40. Enjoyment: FUN.
44. Ritzy properties: ESTATES.
45. Old-fashioned messages: TELEXES.
47. Ordinary: PROSAIC. Having the style or diction of prose; lacking poetic beauty, commonplace; unromantic.
50. Persistently preoccupy: OBSESS.
52. N.L. mascot with a baseball head: MR MET.
53. Long times: AEONS.
54. Round before finals: SEMIS.
56. Part of CST: Abbr.: STD. Central Standard Time.
60. Standard Oil brand: ESSO.
63. Snake River st.: IDA. Idaho. The drainage basin covers part of six U.S. states: Washington, Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and Wyoming.
64. Jeans brand: LEE.
65. Ottoman title: AGA. Person of high rank or social position.
66. Pride's place: DEN.
54 comments:
FIRight, but did not have a clue on the gimmick until the reveal. Even then, had a hard time of it. Despite my involvement with cyptics and the Jumble Hints blog, I'm really not that good with anagrams. Plus, never heard of a STEAK salad, and couldn't make anything out of CHECK before I thought to read CHECK-IN as a single word. Even TUNA, TACO, and CHICKEN are not among the first words I'd associate with SALAD.
An EATERY known as a CAFE
Might not have choice STEAKS or buffet,
But a glass of MOËT
Satisfies a poet,
Who is also a latte gourmet!
SHELLEY, to the West Wind, wrote an ODE.
Poetry, a la literature's favorite mode.
I, too, have sent
My literary bent
To a library fine, my dedication was as owed.
Brian thought it a marvelous feat
To RE-DATE a lass he thought neat!
And, as on the first eve,
To the bog they did weave,
For more fuel, they had to RE-PEAT!
{B+, A-, A-.}
Good morning!
Yup, got 'er right. Nope, didn't notice the theme until I went hunting for it. Batista was also the Cuban dictator from '52 - '59, until Castro ousted him. I'm with Owen -- STEAK salad is a new one for d-o. Thanx for the exercise, Darryl (Don't recognize the name, is this a debut?) and Melissa Bee.
FIR, but erased reruns, then reheats, for REPEATS. DNK AUNT GLORIA, LAHTI or ENSE.
I remember Telex (and TWX). The machines were located in the mail room, and the sender had to fill out a form and obtain appropriate signatures before sending anything. It wasn't long before inexpensive fax machines made them obsolete.
I've never been a NATURALIST, but I have been a naturist. Gotta make sure them tender bits git slathered with SPF 50.
Good Morning:
I liked the theme which I didn’t see until the reveal. Garden took me longer than it should have but the others were quick to parse. I liked Intro/MCs/Stages, Ode/Ide(s), Cafe/Eatery, and Den/Don. I didn’t like the plethora of three letter words, but that’s a personal bugaboo. CSO to CEh at TOR and ESSO.
Thanks, Darryl and thanks, MB, for your gracious guidance.
Have a great day.
FIR so it's a Wednesday well done. (Pat on back) Needed the reveal to know what to look for in the themes. TUNA and TACO came easily, but like Irish Miss, GARDEN didn't. I've enjoyed all the salads, especially during the summer.
Had the usual WOs due to verb tense mistakes, plus my excuse was illness/I LOST IT and I started writing in nude/VASE. Thanks for the FUN puzzle, Darryl, and for the helpful review, Melissa B. Hope you all have a wonderful Wednesday!
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OK..OK...FIW! one measly (Covidy?) space: MR M__T crossed with __NSE; had a 1 in 5 (and sometimes 6) chance to choose the correct vowel and went with I...D'OH!! (it's MR MET, stoopid.) and then forgot to even consider a theme. 🙄
SLA..so was Symbion ever finally freed? Guess INTRO not considered an abbrev.
Inkovers: panic/MANIA, Lahte/LAHTI
Ritzy properties: cracker factories? ESTES park I know only from CWs. It means "THIS park" in Spanish, right Lucina? 🙊
Lame homework excuse: "dog ate it" wouldn't quite fit. ADAM the first spawn of polyamorous Ben Cartwright. When it came to wives, he had a Bonanza. Summer TV staples usually called "reruns".
My buddy Leo shoulda got the Oscar for "The Aviator"
Who just hahz to say "vahz"? 🧐. It's ÆONS but not NÆO.
FLN Vid, where does your doc practice?
Guy with a salty wife...LOTT.
Dates...TAKESOUT.
Take out again...REDATE.
Our Chairman's little French cousin...MOËT.
Won't stop raining long enough to mow the lawn or as the French say "coup de gras"
Musings
-A fun trip (I loved “Bug-eyed prayer) where I needed the reveal for the gimmick
-My favorite café is a teen hangout that now exists only in my memory
-“You oughta be on the STAGE! There’s one leaving in 20 minutes!”
-The Siege of Vicksburg gave the Union a big win the day after the battlefield win at Gettysburg
-A scene in The Godfather shows Batista being run out of Havana
-One Seinfeld episode where Kramer accidentally starts a Puerto Rican flag on fire generated such a backlash that it was excluded from REPEATS
-TATTLED – Grade school kids TATTLE frequently. Secondary kids, hardly ever.
-Teachers who OBSESS over missing homework never have a good day
-My iPhone supplanted the fax machine that supplanted the TELEX machine that…
FIR, the theme seems easy now that mb tipped us off. "Shoulda" known. I supposed the first words of the starred answers were anagrams of salads, but didn't look long enough.
I always have to wait for the crosses, ONEIL or ONEAL.
ODE and HRE were gimmes.
I know eatery is legit, but I seldom see or hear it. Our cafe here is now open for free continental breakfast. I did the puzzle there today. It is open at 9 AM, kind of late for me. I have my coffee pot going by 6:30 most days.
I like steak salad. All versions have greens and veggies topped by sliced pan seared steak. I like mixed greens like romaine with tomatoes, cucumbers, sweet onion, blue cheese, and sometimes sliced avocado topped by pan seared sliced steak. The internet has many recipes for it and it is on restaurant menus.
I liked the theme, the SIGN as an answer and as a clue and the two eateries which were appropriate for the salad theme - which I did not grasp until the puzzle was completed when, as with others, the anagrams became a second set of challenges.
Good morning everyone.
Another easy one. FIR. WAGged ENSE, but we've had it before. Don't care much for anagrams, but got them all after filling in the starred theme words.
I LOST IT - Was hoping Gary or other ret. teachers could regale us with a tale or two of shirked homework.
Have a great day.
I've mentioned this before but don't want to repeat it ad nauseum. It keeps coming up in crosswords...a SIEGE is not "a persistent attack". It's not an attack at all, kinda just the opposite. Those employing this tactic basically passively surround a town to starve it into surrender.
noun
a military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling the surrender of those inside.
I was always especially amused at wearing jeans with a big LEE patch on the back.
My favorite answer was I LOST IT (although at first I also thought DOG ATE IT)
Wait -- SpongeBob lives under the SEA! Oh--OCEAN.
My brother-in-law's sister and her husband were named Sandy and Gary. I could never remember their names until I decided to just think SpongeBob characters whenever I saw them. I never told them, of course!
Ray - O - SIEGE has been bothering me for some time in how it's clued. Glad you set 'em straight.
BTW - My dopey paper ran out of INK on the puzzle page so I called them up and got a credit for today. The customer rep. was very accommodating.
Musings 2
-I rarely gave homework as I know some kids are not disposed to doing it and some kids go home to situations that make it impossible to accomplish anything productive. The amazing thing was that I always assigned a project two months in advance, checked on reported progress periodically and then the kid still wasn’t done on the due date. Wonder of wonders – they were almost always done the next day and I only gave a small penalty. Sounds too much like me!
-I found this to be a better way to “check for understanding!”
Wonderful Wednesday. Thanks for the fun, Darryl and melissa bee.
I had a personal Natick at the cross of 27D and A; my alphabet run yielded an M instead of an L (although we have seen LOTT and LAHTI here before). Ah well.
I did get the theme and did the word-salad Jumble to find the MIXED SALADs. Loved it. I was trying to make a salad out of CHECK until I realized in needed to add IN (hello OwenKL).Plus, I smiled when Danger turned into GARDEN.
I knew IM would not like all the three-letter fill; I counted 24.
I will take my CSOs with TOR and the ubiquitous ESSO. Re those Maple Leafs, maybe next year😀👍. Hope springs eternal🇨🇦
We had male titles from around the world today with HERR, AGA, DON, and MR MET.
We had a EATERY and a CAFE; TAKES OUT and ERASES for another pair. (Maybe LBS and KETO diet for another pair.)
“The dog ate it” would not fit for that excuse(hello Ray-o and Bob Lee). “I forgot” fit but did not perp.
I no longer write many cheques (note proper spelling LOL), but I used to INK the new year on several blank cheques in January, to prevent having to REDATE.
Wishing you all a great day.
Canada Eh...Do you sign the baque of the cheque at the banque lique we do? 🤭
Fun Wednesday puzzle, Darryl--many thanks. And always enjoy your commentary, Melissa, thanks for that too. I was amazed to see the eyes on that MANTIS. Yep, that could be called BUG-EYED.
My German seems to come in handy almost daily--today with HERR. And didn't we have Tatum O'NEAL in a puzzle recently--today we have both father and daughter (thanks for the cute picture, Melissa). Can't believe I remembered BATISTA. But I've never heard of KETO.
Enjoyed your poems, Owen, many thanks.
Have a good Wednesday, everybody.
Hi Y'all! Thanks for a fun start to the morning, Darryl & Melissa.
Watched every Bonanza episode & REPEATS in their day. Could not remember ADAM for awhile. Knew Hoss & Joe.
Theme? There was a theme in there some place? Thanks for revealing it Melissa. Groan!
Pangs B4 STABS. Nude B4 VASE. Not horses but STAGES.
DNK: LAHTI, ENSE, TELEXES, PROSAIC, MR.MET.
Thanks, D-O for adding that BATISTA was ousted in 1959. Saved me looking it up. I was sure Castro took over then. I was in Texas that year and at a party where I was staying, some wealthy men were having a good laugh. A rich man who owned a refinery in Cuba had financially supported Castro & sent him a white horse to ride triumphantly into Havana. First thing Castro then did was to take over the refinery & kick his supporter out.
Ray-O, you're showing a lot of cheeque. Are you a plumber?
I enjoyed finding the theme and trying to solve the MIXED SALAD anagrams. I don't consider a meal complete unless it includes a SALAD. And I don't consider a puzzle solved unless I solve the theme. Unless it is a Saturday there is always a theme.
Confused about CHICKEN SALAD until I realized I needed both words CHECK and IN. And I struggled with decoding DANGER into GARDEN. Got it all to FIR.
Never watched BONANZA. I vaguely remember the name HOSS which also fit. Anyone else?
Since ESTES PARK appears so often in these puzzles I decided to dig out these photos of my visit there.
We had an AIR CONDITIONER company at our house yesterday to give us an estimate on installing a system. We live less than a mile from the ocean so it is rarely needed. But I am thinking on the days where it is needed it may end up cheaper than getting a hotel room with an AIR CONDITIONER! We first have to get approval from the Home Owners Association.
From Yesterday:
Vidwan, Wilbur Charles, Lucina Thank you for your comments on PETRA and my photos there. I don't know how old you are, Vidwan, but it is never too late to make a visit! The border crossing does take some time, but it seems they let most people through after they hassle you with lots of questions.
DO et al...
I'm up at camp, it's raining constantly. My Direct TV satellite affected by the weather won't work.
so I have nothing better to do but annoy my Cornerite buds.
If I ask for a side salad in a restaurant I most often get a small garden salad. In my family, if we don't specify the type, salad always means garden salad. We almost never use the term garden salad.
Siege is not always used in the military sense such as the #1 definition here.
1.the act or process of surrounding and attacking a fortified place in such a way as to isolate it from help and supplies, for the purpose of lessening the resistance of the defenders and thereby making capture possible.
2.any prolonged or persistent effort to overcome resistance.
3.a series of illnesses, troubles, or annoyances besetting a person or group:
a siege of head colds.
4. a prolonged period of trouble or annoyance.
The clue, "persistent attack" fits definitions 2 and 4.
"It is a perfect parody of the siege mentality of the modern art gallery, always embattled no matter how well protected by money or status."
The Guardian May 19, 2012
"Toyota's deal with Tesla ought to play well in Washington, too, where the carmaker is under siege for its handling of sudden acceleration complaints."
Forbes May 21, 2010.
My dog actually ate my pay check. There were few pieces left to ID it. The school business office had a ball ribbing me about it, but they did replace.
Hola!
Nice one, Darryl and Melissa Bee! Thank you for tossing the meanings which I did not do. I, too, have seen STEAK SALAD on menus though was never tempted to have one. CHICKEN SALAD, yes, many times.
Ray-o;
Sorry to disappoint but no, ESTES is not Spanish. I believe it is a surname. I lIU and learned it is named after Joel ESTES from Missouri, a trapper.
For the longest time I wanted HOSS as the Bonanza brother but ADAM fit better especially after the AVIATOR Hughes emerged. One of the brothers, I don't recall which one, came into a store where one of my friends worked and was insulted that she didn't know him. He asked her, "Don't you know who I am?" She didn't know.
LANAI opens many memories of tropical breezes, sitting there while sipping my coffee or other beverage. A COATRACK is rarely needed here in the high desert. However, a raincoat might be needed today if the overnight rainfall persists. Yea for rain!
My maternal grandmother always referred to her husband as DON Benigno. He was decades older than she who married him at age 15 or 16. DON is pronounced with a long o.
One write-over at RERUN before REPEAT.
Thank you, again, Melissa Bee.
Have a GLORIous day, everyone!
None of those definitions have anything to do with a "persistent attack"
seige mentality: "a defensive or paranoid attitude based on the belief that others are hostile toward one."
I overlooked the two *ed downs but fortunately I had a minute to unravel CHICKEN and GARDEN. Now to see if I grokes the rest correctly.
I couldn't think of ADAM and Hoss obviously was wrong. Adam got written out after a few years, superfluous (ie no flaws)
My HS basketball Coach said,"Get a haircut or else!" Thus ruining my social life.
Wow, what a poem.
This Bostonian had no clue to that motto
LTD was popular with police
The FAX is just about obsolete too
"Salty wife", good one RayO
Ok, if no one else has it here's Kramer
WC (halfway through comments)
I am definitely getting slower to solve as I age. Today took 27 to FIR, with some W/Os, LETTERS:TELEXES made a big mess, MON:TOR made a little mess. (I thought the Maple Leafs were from Montreal). I read PRAYER and not PRAY ER, and was baffled by the clue until PERPS came to the rescue. AUNTGLORIA was also all PERPS since I didn’t know, have never watched “Modern Family”. I never looked for the theme, just came to the blog to see if I’d FIR, snd had Melissa Bee’s excellent write-up ‘splain it to me. I would have seen the theme had I looked. Thanx DG for the fun CW, and thanx MB for the terrific write-up.
The car maker is under siege, under persisent attack. A siege mentality is acting and feeling as though one is under persistent attack, whether or not they really are. Fits perfectly. In a military siege they surround the enemy and wait them out. Other types of sieges are about actual attacks or feelings of being attacked. There is also a siege of illness, a prolonged period of illness. Think of heart attack. So many different meanings of the same word.
Rant...
Has anyone finished watching 3 years worth of "Manifest" and is totally psst off that not only was it canceled without revealing what happened it introduced an entirely new plot line at the end of the final episode.😡
There oughta be a law preventing a network from cancelling a show without a final reveal!!🤬
Rumors of a 4th season or a movie better be true
I wanted to throw my shoe at the TV screen but I have a projection TV so it woulda just bounced off the wall.😠😠😠
if you are under seige, or have a seige mentality you are surrounded by or think you are surrounded by hostile forces but they not actually attacking you. Certainly not as clued in this puzzle as a "persistent attack"
I think I'm having a siegure..🤯
This Wednesday grid seemed appropriate to the day.
Write-over….RERUNS/REPEAT.
ADAM was not written out of the show, he (finally) quit after complaining for years. Oddly enough, I never missed him. I just love it when a relative nobody finally hits it big and then figures he’s the reason. Like I said, never missed him. Or watched him in any other show.
DirecTV…I finally got rid of it. I lost the picture when it rained. That took me back to the days of my youth, when you’d get bad reception in bad weather. I didn’t need the same thing with a damn satellite. Plus you had to call them every few months for the new line of discounts. The last time I did call they refused to continue the discount while informing me of the rather large overall price increase, plus the new additional costs of renting the decoders. I only really needed it to watch the NY Giants games, as they started to be uncompetitive I just said “bye”. No regrets there either.
See you tomorrow.
I also had DISH TV in Connecticut. Never lost the picture once, even in snow storms. Must be something magic DISH does that the other does not. Not an alignment issue, they came here it was 99%.
I'm not particularly good at, nor do I particularly care for, anagrams, so the theme did not excite me. The weird thing is, though, that I usually rather like the "mixed" this or that gimmick. Maybe the ennui I feel about that gimmick today is that I didn't mentally decode AUNT, COAT. TAKES, DANGER, and CHECK(IN) into kinds of salads.
Other than that I do like fill such as EATERY, DRANO, MANTIS, BATISTA, AVIATOR, PROSAIC, and AEROBIC.
Gosh, lots of 3-letter fill, too. :(
Looking back at it, it seems to me the old Atkins diet was actually what we now call a KETO diet.
I think if a person said to me in a demanding tone of entitlement, "Do you know who I am?" I would give him or her a fishy-eyed, slit-lidded look and blandly reply, "No. Who are you?"
Good wishes to you all.
Jeez, yesterday there was much to-ing and fro-ing about whether Inuk or Inuit was the "correct" word, and now today it's a big back and forth as to whether the clue for SIEGE is right or wrong. Sheesh.
DirecTV has not given me any trouble in the many years I've had it. Only when the weather interrupts does it go out and that is rare. It later reboots itself when the weather clears.
When I was teaching I sometimes felt BESIEGED by questions when a problem arose and all the hands were raised at once.
I find it strange that anyone would question HRE (Holy Roman Empire) when it lasted 1,000 years!
Direct TV..
I use the satellite at my place in the Adirondacks only because when I close camp for the winter Direct TV will suspend premiums for the 6 months it's closed.
I can lose signal not just from storms but being in the woods the towering trees (not on my property) block signal even when the wind blows.
Alternate is Spectrum (cable) who will charge for service each of the 6 months camp is closed.
I can aways drive into the village nearby, park in the Library parking lot, use its internet (yeah I don't have that at camp either) and download content from Netflix, HBO max etc. onto my ipad.
I was one of the first DirecTV customers, signing up more than 25 years ago. I had to wait for weeks before the backordered equipment became available. They had great customer service. Then in 2015 AT&T bought them, and brought the AT&T standard of customer service to DirecTV. I still use them largely because I can have a DVR in my motor home for $10 per month extra. They think the receiver normally lives in the bedroom, but it doesn't.
The satellite system doesn't work while the coach is in motion, but when we get to our campground I just push a button and Winegard's fabulous Trav'ler dish system rises up and finds the satellites, and the DVR presents all those channels in high def. I keep a tripod and dish in storage for whenever we park under trees.
I think that 5G wireless will eventually make satellite TV systems obsolete, but progress seems very slow.
The puzzle was a fast fill but unless all the anagrams are of the same word I'll never notice. DNK LAHTI or AUNT GLORIA but the perps solved them for me. MR MET has been seen in previous puzzles.
I've never watched Modern Family but have seen Sofia Vergara on commercials for a furniture store.
STEAK salad is one I've never heard or seen on any menu. What's next, hamburger ssalad.
Jinx, I remember back in '94 when small-dish satellite first became available. I waited until the second day to sign up -- didn't want to be accused as an early adopter. Back then you had to sign up with USSB ($360/year for all premium channels)+DirecTV (about $30/month) for non-premium channels. I've had my DirecTV account ever since. My Acct # is just 6 digits, less than 175000. When I call them they keep waiting for me to continue with additional digits. I don't appreciate having to pay for "whole house" Genie (I think that's what it's called) when he have just a single TV. But DirecTV is much more reliable than SoddenLink's cable service which I have to use for Internet.
If you ever go to Sacramento, go to the Tower Cafe on Broadway, and try their Thai Steak Salad. Like many of you, I always had thought that a small garden salad was the epitome of saladness, but the Tower Cafe's magnum opus convinced me otherwise.
Yes, the Definition Police are out and about recently.
My mom used to say, "You two should both just agree to disagree." Smart mom.
steak salad
HG I am baffled what your "check for understanding" photo represents! Please explain.
In my much younger and less tolerant days I was working the night shift at a hotel in Mobile. Alabama, about 1972, 2 A.M., a group of Black men came in together and wanted rooms. I hassled them, I guess. The leader asked if I knew who he was. I had no idea, although the American Express card he handed me to pay for the whole group said Sly Stone. The card cleared, so I somewhat reluctantly checked them in. Only much later did I learn 'Sly and the Family Stone' were passing thru on a concert tour.
I didn't learn not to be so judgemental. A few years later at a hotel in New Mexico, a group of Hell's Angels wanted to check in. I was really leery until they all had American Express cards. Motorcycles were their week-end thing. Weekdays, they told me, they were mostly corporate lawyers.
I tried to sign up for Dish TV a few years ago. The installer came out, told me our condo unit was on the wrong side of the building. The management didn't allow dishes to be set up away from the unit, like on the roof, so we were stuck with just basic cable.
Siege the day !
I'm gonna go with the one that actually knows how to spell siege.
Owen
-Each of those kids has a “clicker” that has a button they can push to select an answer from the question I have on the screen. A machine that comes with the “clickers” tells the kids the correct answer and counts how many correct and incorrect responses there were. They and the instructor then know how well the instructional objective was retained. I could then adjust my lesson.
-More info!
Puzzling thoughts:
FIR with just two blotches: ITS/GOD/FRI ( like others said, AUNT GLORIA was all perps) and OBCESS/OBSESS
24 three-letter words? WOW!
I recall having an LTD in the ‘80’s maybe? As a company car. I was in sales for a Fortune 100 company back then
RAY - O —> Moët = Chairman’s little French cousin! 😂😂😂
Here's, a suggestion. Make all homework voluntary and ungraded. Parents do most of it anyway. I see Gary is nearly on that page
Picard,, I need to get to that museum . Approval for an AC? Insanity thou art homeowner associations
Let's see how Google spells siege or is it … nope, siege. What makes it a siege is surrounding the target. Attacking can go on during the siege. c. Stalingrad
WC
Pd, did Tony survive denver?
FIR, although it was iffy until I had an AHA! moment. My last fill was the N in ENSE/AEONS.
Started the puzzle right after I posted my comments to yesterday’s puzzle late last night, and I went to sleep with that one blank square. Had to work again today (they tried to kill this old man again on his day off, but that’s another story), came home and took a nap, changed the A/C filters, and then finally picked up the clipboard. Double-checked everything else, and STILL that one square was blank. I finally figured out the only reasonable meaning of 53D, slapped in the N, and that was that! I even got all of the salads!
Having lived in Denver and having made an annual pilgrimage over Trail Ridge Road through Rocky Mountain National Park, I am quite familiar with Estes Park. It’s the home of the Stanley Hotel (REDRUM! REDRUM! from the movie THE SHINING, and the first of Picard’s photos). Never quite had the dough to stay there!
The SIEGE at the Alamo lasted from February 23 until March 6. It then ended with the attack.
Thanks, Darryl and Melissa Bee!
Big Easy, you asked if a hamburger salad was next. They already make them but they're called TACOS. Think about it.
Do you really think a taco is a hamburger salad? Not my tacos!
Lucina, the tacos I've had were fried tortilla shells containing lettuce, tomato, chopped onions, salsa, spicy cooked hamburger & sometimes sour cream -- so seems like sort of a salad to me. Local restaurants also served "taco salads" years ago with all these ingredients in a big bowl shaped fried tortilla. Don't know what your tacos are like. Some of the tacos I've eaten here were made in authentic Mexican restaurants.
Hi All!
Back in Houston after a multi-delayed flight.
Last few days I've worked the puzzles (online - boo! hiss!) and enjoyed reading everyone but I was too busy having fun w/ Bros to post.
Today, I also got to do the NYT and WSJ puzzles (lots of time at the airport). Finished both on the flight.
STEAK Salad:
last night's steak; sliced into strips or 'cubes'
onion, sliced into rings
1 clove garlic, sliced
beds of mixed greens (one plate for each EATER)
1/4c balsamic vinegar
olive oil
In a pan, saute onions in olive oil; when translucent, add garlic and steak. Cover to warm steak.
Uncover and let all liquids cook out
With onions, garlic, & steak still in the pan, deglaze with 1/4c balsamic
Serve warm over (soon to be wilted) lettuce
Drizzle a little olive oil & top with cracked pepper (and some Parmesan if you have it).
Great way to use left-over steak.
Cheers, -T
PK:
The taco salads I've had are in a corn tortilla molded into a bowl shape then filled with lettuce, ground beef, onion, tomato and hot sauce. It's delicious and makes a complete meal.
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