Theme: WATERFRONT (62. Like oceanside resort property ... and what the starts to the answers to starred clues can have?)
39A. *Sleeveless shirt: TANK TOP. Water tank.
11D. *Monopoly property three squares before Go: PARK PLACE. Water park.
Boomer
here again. Hahtoolah will be back on the blog soon. Please accept C.C.
and my deepest sympathy regarding the loss of you father.
This puzzle's water theme came right on time. Last week Minnesota
received a ridiculous amount of rain including thunder and lightning.
It gave C.C. and I pause to visit the Mississippi River Dam a few miles
from our home. The water gushes through the dam and supplies
electricity to many of suburban residents on the North side of
Minneapolis. While we visited however, we did notice a huge expanded
shoreline on each side of the river.
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| Boomer 8/25/2021 |
Across:
5. Chose: OPTED. We OPTED to walk down a half mile of shoreline rather than hike along the dam.
10. Imitates: APES. Harry was a hairy one.
14. Poet's "in a trice": ANON.
15. Legendary crooner Mel: TORME. Known as the "Velvet Fog" I remember an episode on "Seinfeld" in a goofy act with Kramer.
16. Red inside: RARE. After a big league ball game the home
plate umpire may go to a restaurant and Raise his right arm in the air
order loudly "STEAK RARE"
19. H.S. math class: TRIG. Roy Rogers pet name for his horse.
20. Year at the Sorbonne: ANNEE.
21. Spare in a boot: TYRE. This must be for someone with a flat foot.
22. DIY furniture giant: IKEA. A favorite word in crosswords. This outfit sells bare furniture.
23. Took five: RESTED. Don't tell - sometimes I take more than five.
25. Clutch: GRASP. I had to remember how to grasp the bowling ball yesterday. It's a little heavier than a golf club.
27. Stereo knob: TREBLE.
30. Corporate department: SALES. Years ago I had a SALES job
with Graybar. But I ended up as a coordinator supporting the entire
sales department. They liked me because I increased profits which
increase everyone's salary.
33. Apartment overseer, informally: SUPE. We have a townhome paid up with an Association SUPE. It's about the same except I pay dues but no rent.
36. "Homeland" org.: CIA.
37. Fruit in a split: BANANA. Yes, we have some BANANAS !!
38. Japanese sash: OBI. Star Wars' Wan Kenobi's first name.
41. NYSE listings: COS.
42. Undo legislatively: REPEAL. So much on the news these days. REPEALING some past mistakes and mask mandates. We are still wearing our masks indoors.
44. Place for a ring: EAR. I have always kept my EARS Naked
45. "Winter Song" musician John: TESH.
46. Nottingham's river: TRENT. Not Familiar with it. I favor our Mississippi.
47. Goofs: ERRORS. I usually get to watch TWINS ERRORS nearly every day. Sad.
49. Stuff, as a turkey: DRESS. Around Thanksgiving I will usually stuff the turkey, but I put it in the oven Naked.
51. Zero chance: NO HOPE. My Mom's name was HOPE and I had aunts named Faith and Charity. My Grandmother was very religious.
55. Root for a luau: TARO. What position does he play ??
57. Supply-and-demand sci.: ECON.
60. Turkish coins: LIRAS.
61. Cheese couleur: BLEU. Looks like they spelled it wrong.
64. Football's QB rating, for one: STAT. Our Vikings QB Cousins stat is NO Vaccine yet.
65. Modeling adhesive: EPOXY.
66. Arrogance, in slang: TUDE. Attitude.
67. Fleshy fruit: POME. Never tried one. Bananas and Pineapple for me.
68. Tivoli's Villa __: DESTE.
69. Headliner: STAR. No STARS on the Twins roster. They traded two away.
Down:
2. Mindless: INANE.
3. Meat cuts: LOINS. SirLOIN, Tender LOIN, and Hamburger LOIN.
4. "Being Julia" co-star Bening: ANNETTE.
5. Old-time baseball slugger called "Master Melvin": OTT. Of
course I only know of him. He played for the New York Giants long ago.
That's right, the team that moved to the west coast years ago. Mel hit
511 major league home runs. He was joined in the 500 club last week by
Miggy Cabrera who now has 501.
6. Dessert wine: PORT.
7. It beats a deuce: TREY. Funny, when I play golf and beat a deuce I write down three.
8. Come forth: EMERGE. The bowling centers are beckoning to "Come Forth" and I am emerging.
9. Put a damper on: DETER. Reminds me of a shortstop for the Yankees.
10. Craftsperson: ARTISAN.
12. Toledo's lake: ERIE. Is this the smallest of the five?
13. Big name in computer games: SEGA.
18. Fortuneteller: SEER. I am sure they charge a fortune to tell you yours.
24. Image-transfer item: DECAL.
26. "Now!": ASAP. I think this means "As soon as possible" so Later will be okay.
28. Coal holder: BIN. Osama's middle name.
29. Staples Center player: LAKER. Of course they got the name
LAKERS when they played in the land of 10,000 LAKEs. Devean George
played with them for awhile. He graduated from Benilde St. Margaret's
where I now help coaching bowling. And speaking of bowling, I play in
the same league as Devean's father, Eddie George.
31. Slaughter on the diamond: ENOS. Another great Cardinal.
32. Pageant body band: SASH. I wear something like a SASH for back support. It's a "Copperfit."
33. Database command: SORT. A tireless activity if you own baseball cards.
34. Above, in Berlin: UBER. Sounds like a Taxi. I was in Hardheim, never got to Berlin.
37. B in chem class: BORON.
39. London art gallery: TATE.
40. Old salt: TAR. We got new TAR paving a road near our home. I take it as a route to TARGET.
43. On the way: EN ROUTE. "Get it ???"
45. Vacation souvenirs: T SHIRTS. I used to get mine at a Kids for Kids garage sale for 50 cents. They have not had one for a year or two. Nasty Covid.
47. Break out: ESCAPE. C.C. and I continue to try to ESCAPE the Delta Version.
48. Massage therapeutically: ROLF.
50. Put in stitches: SEWED.
52. "Are you in __?": OR OUT. Yup, I am OUT in seven more clues. Have a good week.
53. Bamboo muncher: PANDA. I once visited the San Diego Zoo. I think they had a couple of them.
54. Aromatic compound: ESTER.
55. 1/2 fl. oz.: TBSP.
56. Choir part: ALTO. Still higher than me. I was also a Bass. Not to be confused with BASE, I played centerfield.
58. Platte River people: OTOS.
59. Preceded in line by only one person: NEXT.
63. Bar staple: RYE. Dark brown bread.
Boomer
47 comments:
The romance of LILA and LAMAR
May be among the strangest by far!
Both of them cross-dressed,
But neither confessed --
They found out in their honeymoon boudoir!
Your stereo cost you many shekels
And highest notes still causes echos.
The case was IKEA,
But innards dismay ya,
Star Trek's theme shows the Trouble with TREBLES!
{A, A-.}
Good morning Cornerites.
Carol and I have not even looked at today's CW, but I want to share with you the excellent care we receive. Yesterday the President of Wesley Manor wrote.
"It was brought to my attention this morning that one of our staff tested positive for the Coronavirus. This person was fully vaccinated and had contact with residents in all of our buildings. No one in any of our buildings, however, is showing symptoms. That being said, based on CDC guidance and sound medical practice, we are instituting the following actions:
All residents will be tested for the virus twice a week for 2 weeks.
Visitation for our residents will be stopped.
Trips off campus will be stopped except for necessary medical appointments.
Group activities will be stopped.
Congregate dining will be stopped. (Residents will be served meals in their rooms or apartments.)
If our testing of residents and staff results in no additional positive cases in the next 14 days,we will resume our normal activities at that time. Stay tuned. I hope and pray that this is a short-term issue."
Ðavið
Good morning!
This was another fast one, but it's early-week and that's supposed to be the norm. No problems, no Wite-Out, no drama. Thanx for pinch-hitting, Boomer. (Yes I say your TAR ENROUTE to Get.)
TORME: He was Harry Anderson's favorite singer, and made appearances on Harry's show Night Court.
FIW, missing my wag at the Natick mILA x mAMAR. Also didn't know ANNEE, DESTE, and got SUPE just from inference. Erased resew for SEWED and trebel for TREBLE (bad spelars of the world UNTIE!)
Jack Welch or Charles Schwab (I've heard both credited) touted the paradigm "if you aren't in sales, you are in sales support." Good advice for new hires.
I will be at the mouth of the TRENT river in October. In North Carolina. New Bern, specifically.
D-O, I also thought of Night Court when I saw the Velvet Fog this morning.
Boomer, couldn't you at least put on an apron when you put the turkey in the oven? At least if you have holiday company? (Nit: I'll bet you meant "Funny, when I play golf and beat three I write down a deuce.") Nice treat to read your comments again today.
Thanks to Kurt for the mostly easy puzzle. But rap crossing country? Meh. But the image of women in TANK TOPs and TSHIRTS neutralizes the visage of Boomer cooking naked.
Good morning. Thank Kurt, thanks Boomer.
Sailed right along to another one cell FIW. Recognized that MAIN, TANK and PIPE were water related, and was thinking plumbing, but then PARK didn't fit, so I needed the reveal to get the theme.
I was happy that my last entry, the D in SEWED was simple, because I hadn't heard of Villa DESTE. However, my answer for Platte River people was OTOE, which would also be correct, but in this crossword the answer was OTOS. I'll take another one cell FIW.
I scanned through the Wikipedia article on Villa d'Este. Ippolito d'Este became archbishop of Milan at age 10, and a cardinal at age 30. "... he became one of the wealthiest cardinals of the time, with an annual income estimated at 120,000 scudi." (Sounds like a lot, doesn't it ?). Anyway, although he was a candidate for Pope five times, he never made it. But he was elected Governor of Tivoli, which "...came with an official residence..." "The residence was not large enough for the enormous household of a Cardinal as prominent as d'Este." "D'Este commissioned a prominent classical scholar... to plan a new villa and garden which would exceed anything the Romans had built." He spent all of his scudi on it.
Had to see what scudi was. Coins. Singular scudo. Furthermore, " It was subdivided into 100 baiocchi." That didn't help much, but it does sound somewhat like pennies and dollars.
Enough of that. Time to move on...
Take care, Dave and Carol.
I managed the early Natick with LILA/LAMAR then got careless and didn't check the perps and FIW. Missed the Y on TYRE and had nIA not CIA. Actually, I was thinking NSA and put no thought into the image transfer DECAL.
I played the game of no perps so I could see words on the write-up for the first time. Bad idea.
I remember the Minn LAKERS beating the St Louis Hawks in 59 with an exciting rookie, Elgin Baylor.
Kramer meets Mel #1
#2
WC
Jinx, you'll be near my old stomping grounds, Camp LeJeune
Made it to the coast in 5:01. Didn't know "Lila," "annee," or "deste".
Was intrigued by the CIA crossing Bin (Laden).
Enos:Ott::sash:obi.
(You get the picture).
Quick run through - pulled a D-O and didn't get the theme until the reveal.
I have visited Villa D'Este - the one in Tivoli outside Rome - we were able to go at night when they had all the water features lit - one of the most magical nights in my memory!
Starting to work!
Thanks Boomer for pinchhitting and Kurt for the puzzle!
Good for you, DO. I'm in the same boat as WC, Jinx and TTP. One wrong square today, just like TTP: OTOe. So I FIW after a great start. My grid was pretty until my first WO in the middle: hod/BIN. That made TANK TOP hard to see. (I usually skip around doing perps to check, trying to avoid mindless entries like writing ESCcap when my brain and pen got out of sync.) Lots of interesting fill today, Kurt. For the theme I wondered about beachFRONT but patiently waited. Thanks, Kurt.
Good job, Boomer. Thanks for helping out today. Glad to hear you can enjoy bowling again. Interesting information about DESTE, TTP. I hadn't considered it might be D'ESTE. Keeping an eye on Ida today as it approaches and thinking of everyone to the west of us. Hope you all are doing well.
Good Morning:
This was a smooth solve with Lila being the only unknown. Had no clue about the theme until the reveal. Some fun duos were Lila/Lira(s), D’Este/Ester, Obi/Sash, Ott/Enos, and ASAP/Stat.
Thanks, Kurt, for a Tuesday treat and thanks, Boomer, for back to back blogging. Your humor is as droll as ever!
Dave, stay well and say hi to Carol.
FLN
TTP, thanks for the Grand/Great usage. Now all I have to do is remember which is which! 🙃
Picard, thanks for sharing the stunning photos of Acadia. My memories of the beauty are overshadowed by the memory of the nerve-wracking drive up Cadillac Mountain, an acrophobic’s nightmare. I love Maine and spent lots of time there over the years. 🦞
YR, Alan is so lucky to have such a caring and giving mother. I’m sorry he’s dealing with so many obstacles; it’s hard on you both.
My favorite niece is bringing dinner tonight from a favorite restaurant. I’m looking forward to a nice, long catch-up visit.
Has anyone watched The Chair on Netflix with Sandra Oh? I enjoyed it very much.
Have a great day.
One issue with today's answers:
49 across, turkeys are trussed not dressed. Didn't know Lamar or Lila nor the French word for year.otherwuse pretty straight forward.
Good morning everyone.
Easy enough Tuesday puzzle. No help needed. FIR.
ÜBER - is umlauted in Berlin. Can also mean 'across' like in 'across the ocean'. Contrast with 'ober' meaning 'upper'. Since I don't write these often, I have to pause and make sure I've got the right sense.
I enjoy Kurt's crosswords.
Hi Y'all! Enjoyed the puzzle, Kurt. Thanks. Boomer, you do a good job "selling" the puzzle to us Thanks.
Sincere condolences on the loss of your father, Hahtoolah!
Forgot to look for the theme, but it was pretty straightforward.
Starting off the NW corner with 3 names seems a bit ornery, but they perped in okay. I knew ANNETTE.
DNK: LAMAR, TRENT, DESTE. Thanks for all the interesting info on DESTE.
D4, good to know you and Carol are weathering the covid storm. Good luck to you. I've been in quarantine home alone for over a year now and getting antsy to get out. My brother is coming by next week after a big Christian rally. I'm afraid to meet with them except 20 ft. apart in my front yard for 10 minutes. I may not even do that. I finally tried to sign up on line for shots. I typed in my birthdate as requested and was told the date was "not valid". Haven't called to see why. Guess I was supposed to get mine in an earlier time slot? I've put it off because I've had bad reactions to shots in the past.
My electronics have kept the quarantine from becoming unbearable. I can still meet with y'all & family online.
I looked at the picture of the OTOS and their apparel for a long time. Interesting.
Musings
-WATER theme, Platte River with flood warnings here after 3” of rain and a soggy newspaper this morning!
-I OPTED to use the online solve because my pencil cannot navigate soaked newsprint. The LA Times online version of today’s puzzle highlights all the theme fills as soon as you click in any of their filled or unfilled cells
-They’ll put one in your boot
-Opening with _AMAR/_ILA was minor league proper name Natick as only the “L” made real sense but still…
-If SEERS can see the future, why do they ply their trade in a cheap tent in carnivals?
-Which is weirder – Minneapolis LAKERS keeping the name in LA or New Orleans JAZZ taking that name to Salt Lake City?
-Deutschland ÜBER alles and its tricky past
-Omaha’s world class zoo built a facility for housing PANDAS and then politics and outrageous financial requirements from China made that untenable. They do just fine without them, thank you.
Sherry, the turkeys at my house were DRESSED when they were stuffed with DRESSing then trussed to keep the stuffing in. Or I DRESSED them with apples in the cavity. The term is used locally here.
Dave @5:06AM It sounds like you and Carol are in a good place. Nice to hear from you.
In the South stuffing is often called dressing.
Becky
Terrific Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, Kurt and Boomer (thanks for pinch- hitting again, and continued thoughts and prayers for Hahtoolah).
I FIWed today, because I OPTED for M instead of L at that Natick crossing to start the CW. (WC did warn us yesterday!)
Like ATLGranny, I thought of Beach FRONT before WATER filled the spot.
I noted OBI/ SASH (IM beat me!), ANNEE crossing ANNETTE, TRIG and COS.
CSO to inanehiker who is anything but mindless.
Yes Boomer, ERIE is the smallest by volume and the shallowest of the Great Lakes. Boaters and swimmers need to take care and be aware that storms can arise quickly with large waves and undertow. It has been called “the world’s worst-tempered lake”.
Lots of French today with ANNEE, D’ESTE, BLEU, and EN ROUTE. (Only TYRE for the Brits.)
I wanted Erupt or Emerge before ESCAPED perped, and Grab before GRASP.
Yesterday we had DEMAND, today ECON.
Other misdirections: B was a symbol not a mark; Goofs was a noun not a verb; put was past tense not present.
TUDE I have heard; SUPE was a stretch.
D4, yes those precautions sound like good care. Hopefully no spread and/or less severe sickness with vaccine.
Wishing you all a great day.
Thanks for pinch hitting, Boomer.
I liked the crossing of the two Mels - OTT and TORME.
When I started this CW I quickly developed a bad case of "the grumps", seeing three names and a French word all in the same NW corner. I didn't know any of them, along with TRENT. MAINSTREET, INANE and LOINS got me through this rough start, and the rest flowed pretty well. 16A "Red inside" is a great, witty clue that had me scratching my head at first. Still, after the difficult start, I managed to FIR in 16. Thoughts: Does port wine need to be served on the left side of the table? WC@7:12, I had the same first thought: NSA. BIN made it obvious it had to be CIA. PKE@9:15, I had the same DNKs. Most of them in the NE made that a struggle for a bit. CIA and BIN Laden also occurred to me. PK@9:15 my best advice is to put on a good mask and go to CVS or Walgreens. Here in FLL, at least, we can just walk in and get the immunization, and walk out 20 minutes later after the 15 minute wait to make sure there is no adverse reaction. Owen, I give you an A+ on that first limerick. The second, not so good, but u rescued it by remembering "The Trouble With Tribbles" episode from Star Trek. I always enjoy your poems, though I usually neglect to mention that fact. Thanx for the smiles you bring on a daily basis. 41A "NYSE listings" first thought IPO, when COS filled I had to think for a few seconds: cosine? What? DOH!! COMPANIES!! Very nice CW, KK, except for the NW. Thanx for the REST of the CW. Terrific write-up, Boomer, thanx.
21 Across: Spare in a boot-TYRE. Boot, in Great Britain is the “trunk” of a car. The British spell TIRE-TYRE. Looked that up, after I got most of the perps! Ah, the stuff we learn from CWP’s! Thanks for today’s romp.
A bit tricky in the SE, and wanted to put in tchotchke instead of TSHIRTS but like a tsotckes or something like that, but otherwise a nice and easy Tuesday.
I haven't heard the term ROLF in ages. Do they still do that?
Spitzboov-> The only word I know with 'ober' is the town Oberammergau because of its Passion Plays. We need that word in the puzzle some day! At least I'll know that vs. Villa D'ESTE!!
Much easier than yesterday especially the "water" theme. One inkover: tsa/CIA, I should have been suspicious of the quotation marks around "Homeland" org. (Heard the TV show was good but never watched.)
An OBI (an old CW standby) a SASH, T-SHIRTS and TANKTOPS, an elegant turkey DRESS: all neatly sewed (sewn?). Does LILA McCann's Dad, Tom design her shoes? 🤔
Thought POME was a shape not a fruit. Are there POME pies? jellies and jams? ("Give me thin skinned POMEs that I wont have to REPEAL".) 🤣 Today we have APES in the same squares we had APED yesterday 🦧. Was tempted to write in tub for "Place for a ring." 🛀 Is it called UBER because the company considers itself better, "above" LYFT? 🙄
"Now!" really means STAT "Stop what you're doing and address the issue immediately" not ASAP "As soon as you can get to it" (What is the CW term for two different clues with the same answer? (STAT, "QB rating", STAT, "Now!").
The orator ____... BORON
What River City, Iowa once had....TREBLE
What Lucina used to be....ANON.
Lauren or Kramden...ROLF
He oversees the building "____ to nuts" SUPE
Plumber's reverie PIPE DREAM
FLN: Canada eh, thanks for 'splainin' how Nova Scotia got it's Latin name.
Irish M. I mentioned last week I watched (actually binged in one evening!) "The Chair"..I thought Sandra Oh was her usual "great". Looking forward to the next/last season of "Killing Eve" in 2022.
Delightful Tuesday puzzle, Kurt--thank you for this treat. And nice to see you again, Boomer, with your cool picture.
I eased my way through this fun puzzle until I got to the middle-south. Can't figure out why that particular corner is often a problem for me--but maybe I often have trouble figuring out the theme, even after getting all the theme words.
No problem with name crossings, like LILA and ANNETTE.
Seems like ERIE is showing up in puzzles almost every day.
Liked the French clue for BLEU.
Irish Miss, I always enjoy your fun duos.
Have a great day, everybody.
This Tuesday crossword filled quickly.
No write-overs today.
TURKEY…DRESSING vs STUFFING….it was taught to me that although they may be made exactly the same, Dressing is cooked out of the Turkey, stuffing is cooked inside. It is not recommended to stuff the Turkey as the stuffing can remain cooler than you want it. I cook my (famous) Dressing in a casserole dish.
BOOMER…POME….you’ve never hahah an apple or a pear? Really?
See you tomorrow.
hahah = “had an”
Geez, no idea how it did that.
Ray O @ 11:12 ~ Now that you’ve jogged my memory, I do remember you saying that you binged-watched The Chair in one sitting. It struck a chord because I did the same! I’ve never seen Killing Eve but you’ve piqued my interest in giving it a look-see.
Misty @ 11:28 ~ Glad you enjoy my musings.
A POME is a type of fruit consisting of a fleshy enlarged receptacle and a tough central core containing the seeds, e.g., an apple or pear. Other types of fruit are stone fruits, citrus and berries.
Dressing or stuffing?
As PVC said "According to most dictionaries, stuffing is defined as “a mixture used to stuff another food, traditionally poultry, before cooking.” Whereas dressing is cooked in a pan outside of the turkey cavity."
I believe the term depends on the culture you grew up with and on geography.
"Northerners tend to call it stuffing, and southerners call it dressing. (regardless of whether it's cooked inside or outside the bird."
I make a large amount of bread stuffing with mushrooms, enough to stuff the turkey and have some left for a hearty dishful on the side. We call both, stuffing. My family always gobbles up the stuffing taken from the bird first. It is more flavorful because it absorbs the turkey juices. You can test the doneness of the stuffing with a thermometer. I always stuff the bird with no worries.
We PA Dutch call our traditional potato dish, potato filling. When I was little I asked my mom why? She said in the old days it was used to stuff the chicken or turkey. Now it is almost always made as side dish and always called filling.
Thank you Kurt for a delightful Tuesday stroll along the WATERFRONT. Baltimore's HARBOR PLACE it was not, but I did manage to see what it was FIR.
And thank you Boomer. You're not as good looking as Susan, but you are a pretty good PUNch hitter! If Thursday wasn't already scheduled, I'd consider letting you DH for a THREEPEAT.
I just had to wait out the 1A/1D NATICK for some namesounding fill to eventually perp up. The rest was a pleasant SEA BREEZE.
46A TRENT was my favorite. West of NOTTINGHAM is STOKE-ON-TRENT, a city of 6 towns known collectively as the POTTERIES. One of those towns is FENTON, where my ancestors the PRATT family hail from.
Cheers,
Bill
FYI
Wanted to share some information with my still working Cornerites of a certain age. I'm sure you're all brighter than I am and are already aware of this if you self-pay for your employment disability insurance
Earlier today I was filling out a check to pay my employment disability insurance premium with UNUM. I've reduced hours to 26 weeks a year for at least the last 6 years. It occurred to me that at 71 my coverage might be limited should I ever need to submit a claim
I called the company and to my chagrin discovered that since age 65 as I work less than 30 hrs a week (26 weeks a year averages out to 20 hrs a week) I would get NO paid benefits on a claim. So I've been paying a premium for insurance that won't cover me for 6 years..
The fault is mine for not being aware of the terms of a policy that I've had for about 35 years. I tend to pay bills as they come in and then forget about them.
Just sayin'
Ray - O @11:12 AM A POME is a set of verses recited by Bullwinkle the Moose.
YR @11:12 AM It's hard for me to think about the issue of DRESSING vs STUFFING, with the image of Boomer baking in his birthday suit in my mind! 🍗
Thank you Kurt for a relatively easy puzzle and Boomer for pinch hitting on a Tuesday. Enjoyed your humorous comments.
Best of Luck, and good wishes for a successful treatment tomorrow. Hope all goes well.
I don't know if you were joking Boomer, but POME is Type of fruit of the family Rosaceae which includes the Apple, the Pear and Quince among its many other types - varieties... so you must have eaten some of them.
Thank you, Ray- O- Sunshine for the difference between ASAP and STAT ... I dont think most people differentiate between the two. ( I didnt ...) BTW, my wife agrees with your explanation ... it must be a hospital thing.
Our Phys Educ teacher always commanded .... Gird your LOINS and stand in 2 straight LOINS.
To make a more lively blog, we OTT to use more humor.
Many a foreign call center will try to phish and lay an E CON on you....
Have a nice day, all.
A solid Tuesday PZL from Mr. Krauss, well 'splained by Boomer!
My fastest finish in a long, long while.
Only the cross of LAMAR and LILA had to wait for perps.
Great photo
of those OTOS!
~ OMK
____________
DR: Three diagonals on the near end.
The main diagonal is overstuffed with vowels. That leaves it with few really good anagram possibilities. I'll go with the one that offers the best use of its few consonants.
This anagram (only 11 of 15 letters) refers to the "mortality" association with the second item and the ornamental swimmer referenced by the first--to come up with a sad object--a dead goldfish, or a...
"KOI DOORNAIL"!
I liked this puzzle and finished it in 14 pleasant minutes. I, too, noticed APES in exactly the same position as yesterday's APED. The last letter I filled was the L crossing LILA and LAMAR, which I simply guessed as being the most likely.
The theme eluded me until the reveal. At first, when I got STREET and PLACE, I thought we were dealing with different kinds of mailing addresses. TANKTOP put the kibosh on that idea, but then, what with having MAIN, TANK, and PIPE, like TTP, I thought maybe were were dealing with plumbing terms but PARK didn't fit.
I did wrinkle my nose a little bit, just a little bit, at COS.
Quite a few years ago LW and I had the great pleasure of seeing, and hearing!, Mel TORME and pianist George Shearing perform together at what used to be the Paul Masson Winery in Saratoga. Very impressive indeed. Amazing how the two of them were so sympatico together and could make a piano and a voice blend so perfectly.
Excellent verses today, Owen. Thank you again for them.
Take care, Dave and Carol.
Thank you for filling in for Hahtoolah today, Boomer.
Ray-O, yikes!
Good wishes to you all.
WC, you're referencing the REAL Jacksonville. The Beirut Memorial on the road to Camp LeJeune's main entrance is very moving. I thought it would take about 5 minutes to walk through, but I ended up staying for an hour and a half.
PK,
Check your typing when trying to get thru the vaccination site. Most ask for the 4 digit birthday year.
Good luck.
John
What an appropriate theme for us down here in Hurricane Central! When the roof blew off my building my living room was turned into WATER PROPERTY. I spent the night on a hard pew in the church across the street…and was grateful for it. Now on the Gulf Coast. Thanks Kurt and boomer for the diversion. Owen, A++ !
Jinx @3:05 PM Thanks for that Jinx. While I vaguely recall that disaster in Beirut, I wasn't really aware of its impact statewide on the small community of Jacksonville, N.C. until I found this page via Google.
It's not as if L.A. doesn't have plenty of lakes of its own, natural & manmade, here in SoCal.
But we aren't famous for them, as was Minnesota ("Land of 10,000 Lakes"), so I guess the more obvious connection to the team title comes with the abbreviation "L.A."
Instead of thinking of a bunch of Los Angeles peeps as "Angelenos," it's only a small stretch to call them "LA-kers."
I dunno. Maybe they shouldda gone all the way back to the team's origin as the "Detroit Gems."
"Gems" is kinda neutral, city-wise and, after all, the team is known for its brilliance!
Misty ~ To fully appreciate the Frenchness of the clue for 61A, shouldn't it read "Fromage couleur"?
Pretty sure that's Villa D'ESTE--WITH an apostrophe--at 68A.
(And NOT D'ETER for 9D or D'ECAL for 24A.)
Of course XWDs don't allow for the apostrophes or dashes that are part of correct spellings. This can throw one off when filling the grid, but I believe ought to be included in follow-up writing.
~ OMK
Waseeley, thanks for the link. Didn't know the back story to the memorial.
Hi All!
Thanks Kurt for the puzzle. Those names created a WAG-fest in the NW [see: ESPs]
Thanks for stepping in again Boomer! LOL your naked danglin' modifier ;-)
//fun catch, Jinx.
WO: SEWEs
ESPS: LILA | LAMAR | ANNEE | ANNETTE (also wasn't sure 14a was going to be ANON). DESTE, ROLF(?)
Fav: Clue for BORON was cute.
{A, B+}
FLN's DYNEr pleasanter than today's stiff KOI ;-)
Waseeley's POME==poem & Jinx's BONON orator deserve a + today.
Nice to read you D4. Glad you & Carol are being well taken care of.
YR - If you don't have the V, I'd stick with the lawn-party. That's what we did with MIL b/f her second Pfizer.
HG - your 'boot' link is a 403 (no permissions) for me.
FLN - Michael: The Quest for Saint Aquin? link [Ctrl-F (find) robo-ass for the full synopsis]. I wonder if Douglas Adams read that...
D-O: I forgot about Mel TORME on Night Court (I recalled Seinfeld, WC).
Anytime I hear Mel's name, however, I think of Girls Town ala MST3K. [19:55] :-)
Cheers, -T
Swampcat, How horrible! So sorry you had such a bad experience with that storm, but glad you could shelter nearby. Hope you can salvage some of your things. Virtual hugs to you.
Fred & JohnE: thanks for the immunization info. Will check it out.
Oh, Swamp...
How did I scroll past that news? How awful. So sorry you lost part of your house and probably some sentimentals.
Loving thoughts your way... -T
OMKeith, you sure have some interesting points of view.
Swamp, how terrible for you. My thoughts are with you as you recover
Dear -T @ 7:50:
Yes, you're right: IIRC -- this being 60 or so years ago -- Saint Aquin was the roboass's name or persona.
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