Theme: "Color Coordinated" - The left side of each theme entry is a common phrase with a color in it. The right side is another meaning of the phrase.
22. One of a West Coast trio: BLUE STATE. And 24. 22-Across, emotionally: MELANCHOLY.
36. Lover with ulterior motives: GOLD DIGGER. And 39. 36-Across, in the Old West: FORTY-NINER.
52. Street warning: YELLOW LIGHT. And 56. 52-Across, from the sky: SUNBEAM.
74. Lucille Ball, e.g.: RED HEAD. And 76. 74-Across, in the Cold War: FIDEL CASTRO.
90. Big name in frozen food: GREEN GIANT. And 93. 90-Across, in the forest: DOUGLAS FIR.
106. Presidential address: WHITE HOUSE. And 108. 106-Across, at a winter carnival: ICE PALACE.
Really
enjoyed this puzzle. We've seen "Blue state?" as a clue for MELANCHOLY
in the past. Or "Gold diggers?" for FORTY-NINERS. Never thought of an
extra color layer for a theme. Cute.
We have 114 theme squares, higher than our average. Paul also had to deal with 12 entries without much flexibility to shift them around due to the side by side constrict.
Across:
5. Hat-tipper's word: MA'AM.
9. Implied: TACIT. Not MEANT.
14. Spa sigh: AAH.
17. Shine: GLOW. Our Minnesota girl Sunisa Lee. More chance for gold next week.
18. Mallorca o Menorca: ISLA.
19. "It matters to me": I CARE.
20. Barrie's "man who stabbed without offence": SMEE. "Peter Pan".
26. Split to unite: ELOPE.
27. Yoda trainees: JEDIS. The plural of Jedi is still Jedi.
28. Subway gates: STILES.
30. Jabbers: PRATES.
33. Unwise, as a choice: BAD.
34. __-Caps: SNO.
35. NFL brother of Peyton: ELI. Here they are.
43. Accomplished: ABLE.
44. Agra attire: SARIS.
45. Blunted blade: EPEE.
46. Makes sense: FITS.
47. Exhausted: BEAT.
49. PC-to-PC hookup: LAN. Local Area Network.
50. Self-Operating Napkin creator Goldberg: RUBE.
51. 1987 Costner role: NESS. "The Untouchables".
58. "... __ the set of sun": "Macbeth": ERE.
59. Subatomic particle: PION. MUON too.
60. Big-eyed tyke: OWLET.
62. GHWB predecessor: RWR. Ronald Wilson Reagan. Not a common monogram.
63. Syracuse locale: Abbr.: NYS. New York State.
64. RR map dot: STN.
65. High winds: OBOES.
66. Kind of sauce or milk: SOY. Always have upset stomach when I have the reformulated Silk Soy Milk now.
67. Stat on a dealer's sticker: MPG.
70. Photo: PIC.
71. Sing like Dean Martin: CROON.
72. Bang-up: A ONE.
73. Retract, as one's words: EAT.
79. Phony (up): HOKE. Not a word I use.
80. PG-13 issuing org.: MPAA. Motion Picture Association of America.
82. Maracanã Stadium city: RIO. Maracanã Stadium hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2016 Rio Olympics.
83. HR dept. concern: RE-LO.
84. "Othello" villain: IAGO.
85. Seed coat: ARIL.
86. Blessings: BOONS.
88. Turturro of "The Sopranos": AIDA. Don't know her. But love the new clue angle or AIDA.
95. "Catch-22" pilot: ORR. Learned from doing crosswords.
96. Annex: ELL.
97. Misunderstanding metaphor: GAP.
98. Online payment option: E CHECK.
99. Spin: ROTATE.
101. Indeed: TRULY.
104. Mountain ridge: ARETE. Like this.
112. "Smooth Operator" singer: SADE. What's your favorite Sade song? Mine is "Somebody Already Broke My Heart".
113. Island nation east of Fiji: TONGA.
114. Lead-in to second: NANO.
115. Four-legged "king": LION.
116. "Chopped" host Allen: TED.
117. Anger: STEAM.
118. Belmonts lead singer: DION. Dion and the Belmonts.
119. EPA concern: SMOG. Bad air in our area the past few days. Wildfire smoke from Canada. Lots of active fires in Ontario and Manitoba.
Down:
2. Unfavorable, as wind: ILL.
3. Paltry amount: SOU.
4. "That's a terrific price": SWEET DEAL. Great fill.
5. Dividing-cell process: MITOSIS. New word to me.
6. "By yesterday!": ASAP.
7. Der __: Adenauer epithet: ALTE. German for "old".
8. Sassy West: MAE.
9. Like major sports games except baseball: TIMED. Baseball is so slow.
10. Nailed: ACED.
11. Colombian city: CALI. Chickie and her husband Bill used to live in Cali.
12. Srs.' income sources: IRAS.
13. Highest Scrabble letter value: TEN. What's your score? My full name Zhouqin Burnikel scores 42 for me. It's also a grid-spanner.
14. Kutcher of "That '70s Show": ASHTON.
15. Paris possessive: A MOI.
16. Neoclassical movement based on Greek ideals: HELLENISM. Greece's official name is Hellenic Republic.
21. Lace securers: EYELETS.
23. Snow coaster: SLED.
25. "Teach Your Children" group, initially: CSNY. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
27. Frazzles: JARS.
29. Connery and McCartney: SIRS.
30. Tour-organizing gp.: PGA.
31. Highway event?: ROBBERY. Highway robbery.
32. Genetic variations: ALLELES. We had this before.
33. Existence: BEING.
34. Dutch Golden Age artist: STEEN. Jan. Here's his "Skittle Players Outside an Inn".
37. Unit of volume: GALLON.
38. Silo contents: GRAIN.
39. Backin': FER.
40. Numbered works: OPUSES.
41. Confute: REBUT.
42. Words preceding bad news: I FEAR.
48. On the open deck: TOPSIDE.
51. Countdown follower: NEW YEAR.
52. Desire: YEN.
53. Narnia antagonist: WITCH.
54. Large shoulder bag: HOBO. Pretty in red.
55. "Just the __ Us": 1981 and 1998 hit: TWO OF.
57. Rodeo challenge: BRONC.
61. Director Riefenstahl: LENI.
65. Decree: ORDAIN.
66. "Bye now": SO LONG.
67. Insurance company with a longtime Peanuts-based ad campaign: METLIFE.
68. Like Weird Al songs: PARODIC.
69. "Little" car of song: GTO.
70. Orange __ tea: PEKOE.
71. "Meet John Doe" director: CAPRA (Frank)
72. Facetious five?: A E I O U. Just the letters in "Facetious".
74. "Agreed": ROGER THAT.
75. In-box contents: EMAIL. All your comments go to my Gmail.
77. Sag: DROOP.
78. Tongue twister merchandise: SEASHELLS.
79. Soil-smoothing tools: HARROWS.
81. PC shortcut key: ALT.
84. Borodin's "Prince __": IGOR.
87. Think about: SLEEP ON.
89. Ancient couples carrier: ARK.
91. Made after taxes: NETTED.
92. TV show with mashups: GLEE. Seems like ages ago.
94. Official records: ACTA.
97. Flash of light: GLEAM.
100. Adjutant: AIDE.
101. Barfly's binge: TOOT.
102. Old character: RUNE.
103. Org. with an annual open tournament: USGA. No US Open in Minnesota since 1991. We did attend Women's US Open though.
104. Trendy berry: ACAI.
105. Nevada slots spot: RENO.
107. Town name word suggesting higher elev.: HTS. Heights.
108. Ky. neighbor: IND.
109. Draw a bead on: AIM.
110. Bit of baby talk: COO.
111. Coll. major: ENG.
C.C.
33 comments:
Good morning! (Ribbit, Ribbit)
Well, d-o "sensed" the theme, but didn't quite get it. It didn't affect the solve. Does that count? Noticed the old cw staples ARIL and ARETE (only missing EROSE -- the arete in that photo was EROSE). Well done, Paul. Enjoyed the expo, C.C. (My name is also a grid-spanner, but only worth 26 points. Apparently I haven't made much of a name for myself.)
NESS: Timely. I watched The Untouchables yesterday afternoon. Love the scene near the end, "Where's Nitti? He's in the car.."
MET-LIFE: In lieu of a pension, my former employer bought me a Met-Life annuity. End result is the same.
Good morning, everyone and thanks, C.C. This is one of those themes that would have been easy to reject at first glance. Indeed, Rich's response to my query said something to the effect of Color in my title didn't make him optimistic, since color themes are greatly overdone. Fortunately for me, the extra layer sold him.
The weather's finally turned nice in the East. But I'm sure we'll be back to hot and humid soon, so I'll enjoy it while I can. My sister, niece, and her partner are arriving soon, after driving cross-country from Cal. where they live. They're stopping in Nashville to see my daughter Neena, then my sister has a beach house rented here. It will be especially nice to see them, since we missed last year due to the pandemic.
FIR, but erased fifes for OBOES, ori for ORR, truth for TRULY (fade up Lionel Richie), and SOw for SOU (untie!)
I don't get how SUNBEAM connects with YELLOW. Maybe the crayon color kids use to draw it? Also don't know what an ECHECK is. I often deposit checks electronically, but that doesn't make them ECHECKs. Neither Venmo or Paypal are ECHECKs.
Baseball is also the only American sport where the defense controls the ball. Never watch a baseball game after watching a hockey game.
News flash - Experts now estimate that there are 1.6 billion face masks in the world's oceans. Jinx estimates that 1024 of those are from the USA. Obviously, America needs to clean up its act.
Thanks to Paul for the fun grid. Took me two sessions to complete the southeast. My favorite was "ancient couples carrier" for ARK. Least favorite was HOBO. Maybe hating on that will keep me from being cancelled. And thanks to CC for the fun tour.
Jinx, would you please 'splain your math: 1.6 billion vs 1024.
Musings
-Loved this theme and appreciated your comments, Paul!
-Wait a minute, you’re telling me a PROSPECTOR is not a GOLD DIGGER?
-TACET recently and today TACIT
-In Hawaii we heard jokes that insulted TONGANS and Samoans
-Baseball has great action but you sometimes have to wait a long time for it to occur
-Silos will be full of GRAIN this fall with our timely rains
-ACTA and RUNE are two words I learned here
-Big day today! The Washington County Fair!
Good morning everyone,
Fun solve today but had the usual difficult pockets that I was eventually able to work through. SE in particular. When I saw Paul's name as the constructor, I knew I would enjoy the ride. I'll take a CSO at topside. Sometimes use the word at home. BH tolerates it. FIR.
STEEN - A favorite Dutch painter. Wonder how he could capture familiar people scenes so vividly, and that we could identify with them so well today.
ALTE - I grew up with ALTE, but remember the papers referring to Adenauer as such. L. German ole, Dutch oud. Alte Kameraden 旧友进行曲 and Brassessoires - Alte Kameraden beim Woodstock der Blasmusik 2012.
ARETE - CC offers a nice picture of the Lake District in NW England. The highest elevation in England is in this Park; ii has experienced several glacial periods in the last 2 million years, as evidence by the U-shaped valleys.
TONGA - is part of Polynesia along with Tahiti and Hawaii.
HARROW - My dad favored a different style called "drags". (aka spike harrow)
Enjoy the day.
D-o, 1.6 billion is from people who should know, while 1024 was pulled from my nether regions. I just thought 2^10 is a nice round number. Point is, nearly all of the trash in the USA goes into landfills, a little into incinerators, but almost none into the sea. Even the US Navy doesn't dump their trash overboard anymore. Good for us, but we are such a small part of the problem that we can't significantly affect it by modifying our practices.
A Sunday FIR finally! A good start to the day. Only a final proofread made it possible when I caught MPh where I needed MPG. GTO confirmed it. Whew!
Paul, I liked your puzzle theme and challenging fill. Thanks. And C.C., thanks for your careful review. I had AEIOU but didn't know why it worked. Good job figuring that out, C.C. Also tricky, HOKE seemed related to hokey and completed HARROWS. I had tried make and fake but they didn't work with the perp.
Hand up for a grid-spanning name (with 31 points). Hope you all don't STEAM in humidity today. Enjoy your Sunday!
Paul- thanks for checking in.
Jinx- you are correct. a SUNBEAM is WHITE light, not YELLOW. As for landfills vs. incinerators. Both are used for decomposition but the landfills take a wee bit longer- centuries. As much as people don't like it an open dump is better for the environment than an anaerobic landfill that doesn't allow organic matter to decompose.
I caught the "Color Coordinated" early by getting MELANCHOLY by perps. That made filling the 2nd theme answers a lot easier but it was a FIW-DNF today for me. The SW tripped me up. I tried MAKE up & FAKE up for 'Phony' but I'd never heard of HOKE up; it didn't help that I'd never heard of HARROWS or the Catch-22 pilot ORR either. At least I guessed TED correctly but ROGER THAT never entered by brain.
Other unknowns-AIDA, PION, HOBO, LENI- filled by perps
KGB- never really disappeared; still around under another name; ask Vladimir
HELLENISM- unknown but was an easy guess to fill
STILES- people in NYC don't pay and just jump over them. No fear of getting arrested or prosecuted. But they don't arrest shoplifters in SF either.
ARETE- formed by a glacier on both sides; a HORN is formed by three glaciers.
ELI and Peyton's brother Cooper Manning's son-ARCH Manning- plays football in HS. Guess what position he plays? His older sister May played in DW's children's league.
E CHECK- I'll never use one of those because getting a credit can get real difficult and your bank will not help you. Use a credit card.
I really enjoyed this puzzle! I know color themes are pretty common, but I like them. And I really liked the extra layer of the second related answer. Great job, Paul! And great write-up, CC!
Forgot to add -- today I learned that the PGA and the USGA are two different organizations. I'm not a golfer, so I never really thought about it until this puzzle when they both came up in a mini-theme.
Just touching base. Busy week ahead. Valerie's niece is getting married next Sunday and she is (and, therefore, I am) right in the middle of a long list of activities.
Thanks,Paul and CC. It took a "second look" to grasp the "two-tiered" theme - that the second half referred to the answer to the first clue and not to the clue, itself. After that,things went pretty quickly with the few unknowns readily perp-able.
Jinx, a majority of U.S. "recycling" gets shipped overseas. What those countries don't want probably gets dumped into the sea. I think our culpability far exceeds your 2^10.
FIW with Natick cross of tARROWS/tOKE which seemed just as good to me. But I was impressed by this clever theme and a construction that must have been very difficult. Always happy to see WEIRD AL. Tried SATIRIC before PARODIC.
CC Thank you for explaining FACETIOUS FIVE. Now could you explain TOOT?
Jinx and Big Easy Astronomers classify our Sun as a YELLOW Dwarf Star. Its color is determined by its temperature. Every star has a color which is the peak of its black body radiation curve. WHITE is not a color in that sense.
Here I was at Maracanã Stadium in RIO for a major soccer game.
Brazil soccer fans treat this like gang warfare. The fans of each team were let out of different gates to avoid fights as they were leaving. Hard to believe that both teams belong to the same country. Our group from Los Angeles managed to escape with nothing worse than some stolen personal belongings.
Haha...didn't fool me today. TONGA!
Never heard of HOKE nor ACTA. I didn't know Ronald Reagan's middle initial so that came from the perps.
I could never remember MITOSIS vs. MEIOSIS when I took bio in school. Still don't.
I had gyrate instead of ROTATE at first. And I liked IGOR and IAGO together.
My favorite clue/answer was: Party time, casually-> B'DAY. Also the answer FORTYNINERS.
D-O, don't think so. Your logic would make China responsible - they make them (masks AND straws), ship them here, then we ship the refuge back. It would also make the US responsible for the emissions from China and India coal-fired power plants, because we mine much of the coal they use. Let's put the blame where it belongs - the jerks who dump into the ocean.
Picard, if sunbeams are yellow, how do prisms display a rainbow?
This was a very enjoyable puzzle. The theme is easily solved and helped with the overall completion. I loved the pairing of REDHEAD and FIDEL CASTRO. The comments discussing the color of sun beams is interesting. Seems nothing is as straightforward as it initially seems.
I FIW due to HARROWS and HOKE. Never heard of either word. But it was still a good day for me with only two entries that were incorrect at the end. (There were many erasures on the way to completion.)
CC, the HOBO bag is gorgeous. I want one!
Very clever Sunday puzzle, Paul--many thanks, and thanks, too, for stopping by and giving us your comments. And thank you, as always, for your helpful Sunday commentaries, C.C.
I loved the COLOR theme, and how cool to have all those lovely colors pop up, ending with WHITE HOUSE. Nice to have my German kick in early with "Der ALTE" Adenauer. Tougher to figure out that the four-legged "king" would be the LION king, and that the "big-eyed tyke" would be an OWLET. Still, always nice to critters in crossword puzzles. Oh yes, and with KISS and ELOPE we got a little romance too.
Have a great weekend, everybody.
Hi Y'all! Fun puzzle, Paul, thanks. Another great expo, C.C., thanks.
DNK: 17 words. Nuff said. Got 'er filled.
I read "Maracana" as "Macarena", like the dance. Still got RIO.
Learning moment: C.C.'s map showed Galapagos Islands. I thought they were much further south closer to Antarctica.
"Facetious Five" stumped me until I perped the last four, but still didn't understand until C.C. 'splained it. Duh!
Also didn't get BDAY for party time. ESP
This farm owner needed perps to get HARROW. Been in the city too long. wanted "roller" after watching street smoothing work.
Oh, just sunk in why Fidel is paired with RED HEAD: head of the RED's a/k/a communists. Clever! I'm not the sharpest minded today. Missed half the jokes.
Beautiful puzzle, Paul. (File this under "WHY didn't I think of this???" :-))
C.C., I didn't even have to follow the link to see BEQ's puzzle...I remember solving it and loving it!
I read an interesting essay that I thought some others here might enjoy as much as I did.
Why is English spelling so weird and unpredictable? Don’t blame the mix of languages; look to quirks of timing and technology
The preface notes a couple of books by the author that might be also interesting to some members of this community.
Jinx Thank you for asking about why our YELLOW Sun can still produce a spectrum of colors with a prism.
This brief explanation and graph shows the radiation curves of Blue, YELLOW and Red stars.
As you can see, each star color has a wide range of energy at different wavelengths. Each one would produce a full spectrum with a prism. But each star has a PEAK at a different wavelength. It is the peak wavelength that determines the color that it appears to our eyes. Does that make sense?
This is all based on a simple model of "blackbody radiation". The easiest way to imagine this is to imagine a black cast iron poker stuck into a hot flame for awhile and then removed. A blackbody is an idealized object that has no color of its own. But its color is determined by its temperature.
I think we should give credit to children for choosing YELLOW crayons to depict the Sun! They are good observational physicists!
This may seem a bit obscure, but the shape of that curve led to some smart physics people seeing something that did not make sense over 100 years ago. Solving that mystery is what led to the discovery of quantum physics. Which led to most of modern technology.
As for the discussion of resources, it is a matter of definition. But I think desper-otto makes an important point. If China is burning coal to make iPhones and baby carriages for Americans, then I think the ultimate accounting of that pollution rests on the American consumer. However, I agree that some of the blame goes on the Chinese for choosing that energy source.
I am surprised that MITOSIS was alien to some of you. It was part of our basic science curriculum in our public high school in Maryland. My biology teacher who taught it to me is now my Facebook Friend! She was only 20 years old when she started teaching at our school! Very smart young woman!
Bob Lee MEIOSIS is much more complicated than MITOSIS! I remember dreading having to explain MEIOSIS on an exam!
I loved this puzzle even though I didn't fully get all the subtleties in it until C.C. explained them. I ain't no crossword puzzle editor but I'm sold! Fabulous construction, Paul.
Hand up for: (1) not remembering Ronald Reagan's middle name/initial, (2) not remembering the difference between MITOSIS and meiosis, (3) never having heard of an ECHECK, and (4) hiccupping at HOKE.
I immediately put in JOHN for that Turturro person. Fifth hand up for not knowing AIDA Turturro at all.
The only letter in my name that is worth a hoot in Scrabble is J.
ALLELES are to genes what allophones are to phonemes.
Good wishes to you all.
TTP, I definitely enjoyed reading the essay that you linked. Thanks!
Picard, your explanation about the wavelength peak makes very good sense to me, clear and understandable. Thank you.
Holy Camoly!
I have been very busy of late,
but have still been lurking.
Unfortunatley I always seem to be a day behind...
Just had to say "holy Camoly" at yesterdays Becky/Desper-Otto
creeking door links! That was a year before I was born, & i never heard of it!
I want to watch it, (but not before bed...)
but this, and many other comments is why I have to lurk the Blog...
I want to read todays, but I may do the puzzle yet.
saving it for the flight to France on Tuesday.
(DW friends wedding, I cant get out of it...)
returning via the UK, but need to Covid test to get in.
If y ou dont hear from me,
I may have tested positive, (fully Vaxed) & am stranded in Europe...
((cue creeking door intro,,,))
Thank you Mr. Coulter for an appropriately Sunday long puzzle, that I was able to complete, and Thank you CC for a very interesting and informative blog review.
I learnt a lot about Sunisa Lee, the Hmong-American .... among US, and about her fellow Hmongs, hmingling in Minn. We should indeed be proud of this young lady, and indeed all our country's participants in the Olympics.
Thank you Picard, for your link on the special wavelenghts of stars and black bodies, which seemed to be about my wavelenght ... and which I remember studying, Oh, about 52 years ago.
Thank you TTP for your link on the essay about english spelling, which, (despite being totally irrational ...) , and non-phonetic, that we take for granted, and accept as commonplace, for better or for worse.
I am surprised people dont know about ECheck ... here is a beginner article on the subject ...
You can call up (say - ) your utility company and pay your bill over the phone for instant credit and confirmation. Just give them the ABA ( Amer Banking Assn - 8 digit code) code of your bank and branch, and your bank account number, over the phone, and the amount you want to pay... and the rep will key it in, and give you a confirmation number for your payment in one minute, tops... and no extra charge. This is done thru the ACH. as explained above.
The ONLY thing I am worried about, is the abuse or misuse or fraudent movement of my bank account funds, through a security leak in the above transaction. There are protections, and most banks do offer some max liability coverage against fraud ... and thankfully it has not happened, because otherwise it would have happened already.
I would prefer to use my credit card, which comes with a much much stronger garantee against abuse, and fraud, but credit cards incur heavy service fees through most utility and other merchants.
BTW, in a totally different context, Ohio has a compulsory ECheck program , which has to do the EPA regulations on annual car inspections ( for free) ... where they check your gas cap, for leakade, and that your car's pollution control devices are still connected, and in working order, through the car computer etc.
This is a mandatory requirement before you can renew your auto licence.
Have a great week, all.
One of the reasons some solvers have difficulty with some puzzles is they seem to go out of their way to avoid popular culture. Those who proudly announce they have never watched The Simpsons , STAR WARS, or NCIS puzzle me because I am too curious I guess. I just want to know what the big deal is and to make up my own mind about what I think.
In that regard in the last 20 years two very successful media creations have been THE SOPRANOS a very decorated HBO series and BLACKLIST an intriguing and well acted series. They both featured AIDA TURTURRO . She is John's cousin. JOHN TUTURRO had a recurring role in MONK another popular TV show. I am not embarrassed to know these things. Not watching the shows, some will no doubt forget her name. Until dementia sets in, I will not, have a great week all.
CrossEyedDave, I trust you and everyone will have a good time at the wedding. I hope you will be able to get into the UK all right and get into the US also.
Vidwan @ 6:35:
About annual vehicle inspections, California has had them since somewhere in the late 1950s. I recall afternoons in Pasadena then, where the sky was deadly gray, so thick with NOs and particles ... I have had one doctor recently ask me where I grew up, and he noted the L.A. Basin as a lung cancer risk for me.
Good for Ohio's annual E-checks!
Ii see I double posted. Haste makes waste. But if you go on a TOOT you'll get wasted.
WC
Had fun with 3/4 of this entry. Got the theme right away . Then I got to SW quadrant ...OMG, what archane references, t with: RELO, ACTA, ARETE, ALEN ...on and on and on. Caved after over an hour of researching many times of forgotten lore. Mr. Coulter: You shoulda quit when you were ahead!!!
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