A Visit to the Emergency Room: The theme clues are all in the down position in this puzzle. Notice that the first word of the theme answer begins with an I and the second word begins with a V. Together, this gives us a hanging IV, or Intravenous (tube). Fate presented me with this all too appropriate theme this week. I have become the caretake to my elderly father, and he spent several days in the hospital with an IV line.
3-Down. Conscience: INNER VOICE.
8-Down. Come and go, e.g., grammatically: IRREGULAR VERBS.
14-Down. Essential worth: INTRINSIC VALUE.
And the Unifier:
28-Down. Greenery in suspended baskets ... or, phonetically, what 3-, 8- or 14-Down is?: HANGING IVY.
Across:
1. Where time is served: JAIL.
5. Hindu divinity whose name is a homophone for a herding dog: KALI. Not a Tuesday clue and answer.
9. Spanish kiss: BESO. Today's Spanish lesson. Hello, Lucina!
13. River of Pisa: ARNO. This Italian river often winds its way into the puzzles.
14. More under the weather: ILLER. Awkward!
15. "If you ask me," to a texter: IMHO. Textspeak for In My Humble Opinion. Usually, when this is used, the texter is not being Humble.
16. Vase-making dynasty: MING. Everything you wanted to know about the Ming vase, but didn't know to ask.
17. "I won't do this anymore": NEVER AGAIN.
19. BBC nickname, with "the": BEEB. Affectionately known as The Beeb.
20. Scones go-with: TEA. Yummers!
21. Mind-boggler: ENIGMA. Alan Turing (June 23, 1912 ~ June 7, 1954) cracked the Enigma Code.
22. Lions' calls: ROARS.
24. "What a long week!": TGIF. Thank Goodness It's Friday. Wait! Today is only Tuesday! TGI Friday's is also a restaurant chain.
25. Copenhagen's __ Gardens: TIVOLI. Tivoli Gardens is an amusement park in the city of Copenhagen. It is one of the oldest amusement parks in the world. It opened in 1843. I visited there a few years ago. There were some good restaurants in the park.
27. Chef lead-in: SOUS. I provided you with the background of the Sous Chef a couple of weeks ago.
28. '50s dance party: HOP.
31. Grossed: TOOK IN.
32. Christmastime: YULE. // And 35-Across. Sleigh driver: SANTA.
33. What to buy to solve P_T S_J_K: AN A. Pat Sajak (né Patrick Leonard Sajdak; b. Oct. 26, 1946) is the host of Wheel of Fortune. Three A's will complete the spelling of his name.
34. Elevator guy: OTIS. Elisha Graves Otis (Aug. 3, 1811 ~ Apr. 8, 1861) makes frequent guest appearances in the puzzles. He didn't actually invent the elevator, but he did invent a safety device to prevent elevators from falling.
37. '60s civil rights gp.: SNCC. I was not familiar with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
38. UCLA's __-12 Conference: PAC. College Sports.
39. Fodder holder: SILO.
40. Cheap booze: ROT GUT.
42. Opposite of NNW: SSE. Just take a look at your compass.
43. Kept in the loop, in emails: CC'ED. It is a relic from the old typewriter days, when carbon paper was used to make a copy.
44. Fluctuates: VARIES.
45. Dallas NBA team: MAVS. The Dallas Mavericks are a professional basketball team.
46. Aired again: RERAN. Lots of reruns on TV during the summer.
47. Actress MacRae who played Alice Kramden on "The Jackie Gleason Show": SHEILA. Sheila MacRae (née Sheila Margaret Stevens; Sept. 24, 1921 ~ Mar. 6, 2014) was a British actress. She took over the role from Audrey Meadows (née Audrey Cotter; Feb. 8, 1922 ~ Feb. 3, 1996) and was in 52 episodes of The Jackie Gleason Show in 1966.
50. Pro: FOR.
51. Role in "Son of Frankenstein": YGOR.
54. Dog breeders' group: KENNEL CLUB.
56. Go off the board: DIVE.
57. ESPN MLB analyst: A-ROD. Alex Rodriguez (b. July 27, 1975) makes frequent guest appearances in the puzzles.
58. Military divisions: UNITS.
59. Range component: OVEN. It is 95F as I type this in "sunny" New Hampshire. I feel like I am in an oven.
60. Hardy's "___ of the D'Urbervilles": TESS. Tess makes frequent guest appearances in the puzzles. Maybe one of these days I will read this book and get to know her.
61. Tolkien creatures: ENTS. These creatures are also frequent visitors to the puzzles. Not being a fan fo Tolkien, I don't know if these critters are good or bad.
62. Greek sandwich: GYRO. Yummers!
Down:
1. Door frame segment: JAMB. Who knew there were so many parts to the door!
2. R&B vocalist India.__: ARIE.
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| India.Arie (née India Arie Simpson; b. Oct. 3, 1975) |
4. Captain's records: LOG BOOKS.
5. Works by Swiss cubist Paul: KLEEs. Paul Klee (Dec. 18, 1879 ~ June 29, 1940) has a very unique artistic style.
6. Thomas __ Edison: ALVA.
7. Martial artist Bruce __: LEE. Bruce Lee (Nov. 27, 1940 ~ July 20, 1973) died of cerebral edema at age 32. Sadly, his actor son, Brandon Lee (Feb. 1, 1965 ~ Mar. 31, 1993) also died young when he was wounded on the set while filming a movie.
9. Major condition: BIG IF.
10. Kindle download: E-MAG.
11. Carpentry wedge: SHIM.
12. Chaplin of "Game of Thrones": OONA. Oona Chaplin (née Oona Castilla Chaplin; b. June 4, 1986) is the granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin (né Charles Spencer Chaplin; Apr. 16, 1889 ~ Dec. 25, 1977) and the great-granddaughter of playwright Eugene O'Neill (né Eugene Gladstone O'Neill; Oct. 16, 1888 ~ Nov. 27, 1953). Her mother is actress Geraldine Chaplin (née Geraldine Leigh Chaplin; b. July 31, 1944). She was named after her maternal grandmother, Oona Chaplin (née Oona Ella O'Neill; May 14, 1925 ~ Sept. 27, 1991) who was Charlie Chaplin's fourth wife. Quite a pedigree!
18. Cordial flavoring: ANISE.
23. "The Greatest": ALI. Muhammad Ali (né Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.; Jan. 17, 1942 ~ June 3, 2016).
24. Promote big-time: TOUT.
25. Sporty sunroofs: T-TOPS.
26. Teensy amounts: IOTAs.
27. Church assembly: SYNOD.
29. Perfectly timed: ON CUE.
30. Agreements: PACTS.
36. Brewpub orders: ALES. Since I am currently in New Hampshire, and it is excruciatingly hot, here are some places I can get a nice cold ale.
37. Unowned, free-ranging pooch: STRAY DOG.
39. Weigh station?: SCALE.
41. Galley implement: OAR.
45. Gives a hoot: MINDS.
46. Beats but good: ROUTS.
47. Three-handed game: SKAT. In case you are curious about the game of Skat.
48. "Psst! Over __!": HERE.
49. Grandson of Eve: ENOS. Enos is supposedly the son of Seth, the third son of Adam and Eve. Very little is known about him other than Seth was 105 years old when Enos was born. (See Genesis 5:6-11).
50. Move like a bee: FLIT. Butterflies can also flit.
52. Finished: OVER.
53. City near Tahoe: RENO. Reno is also the home of the National Judicial College. I took some classes there about 20 years ago.
55. "Inside Politics" airer: CNN.
Here's the Grid:
חתולה
47 comments:
FIR, but erased ace for PRO, esau for ENOS, and fixed BuSO and heRO. I blame decaf.
Want a great day trip? Spend about a half-day at the railroad museum in Sacramento, then take Amtrak's California Zephyr to RENO. I would follow it up with blackjack all night and an early flight home, but that's just me.
FLN, -T, I have a Ping 2 putter that says PING at every impact. Can't putt worth a sou with it, but it earns its keep by driving my playing companions nuts. Regarding backward compatibility, cell phone makers have already abandoned that concept. My LG G5 is stuck on Droid 8.0. I'll upgrade it one of these days, I guess. The GPS in my 2013 CRV received its final data base update this year. Kenwood only issued updates for my high-end car stereo/GPS for 3 or 4 years, and now the GPS won't work because a custom chip died and there are no replacement parts available. I suspect that my trusty LJ 1300 will not work on Win 11. It isn't supported on 10 either, but I was able to cobble together some drivers to make it work.
For those who wondered about the high cost of ink, remember the Gillette marketing approach: Give 'em the razor, sell 'em the blades. Same thinking at HP.
Thanks to Ed for another fun challenge. And thanks for Hahtoolah for the fun tour.
Good morning, crossword friends. Hope everyone here is will and without an IV line! I think our heat wave is about to break and it will be a bit less humid this week in New England.
QOD: Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution. ~ Mae West (née Mary Jane West; Aug. 17, 1893 ~ Nov. 22, 1980), American actress
A fun romp and FIR in 21. Only W/O was from badly misreading 39A as “Folder holder” and filling FILE. DOH!! It says FODDER, not FOLDER. That little error buggered up that section for a bit. CW had a clever theme and a nice reveal, which, for a change, I remembered to look at. Thanx ES for the fun Tuesday level CW, and thanx, Hahtoolah, for the entertaining and informative write-up. And you are right: I, at least, did not know all those door part names.
Another day of entertainment from Dr. Ed, supplemented by the cartoon queen.
KALI has only appeared in the LAT on 2 Saturdays
We have met a construtor who has the same last name as the WHEEL host who we met 10 years ago, JAMES SAJDAK . He hasn't published anything I can find since 2019, so I hope he is fine in WISCONSIN .
Thank you Susan andDr. Sessa
Good morning!
Got 'er done without noticing the theme, but found it after a short hunt. Don't know my MAVS from my CAVS, and tried AAA for that Sajak answer. Those were my only Wite-Out moments. ILLER is just plain ugly. So KALI rhymes with collie? I thought it rhymed with that drug city in Colombia. Thanx for the outing, Dr. Ed, and for the well-illustrated expo, Hahtoolah. (It's just as hot back home.)
SNCC: Big on the campus when I was there, of course, so was tear gas. It's pronounced "snick."
SKAT: My father was a skat player -- 7-to-10 every Monday night, with a 10-minute beer-break at 9. On a bad night a player could lose as much as 15¢.
SHEILA: She and husband Gordon MacRae (Oklahoma, Carousel, etc.) were fixtures on the TV talk-show circuit.
"GPS": Jinx, that's exactly why I didn't get factory-installed GPS in my car. I'll stick with my stand-alone Tom-Tom. With a name like that, how could I not?
Another Tuesday Natick on KALI/KLEES. The latter shows up enough to get WAG
The Mrs Kramden clue threw me off as I remembered Ms Meadows.
Enjoyed the hahtoolah write-up. Belated hbd to maloman. We had a "Joe " clue Sunday
WC
FIR Tuesday, but with WOs this time. My "gives a hoot" was CARES, DO, which complicated things a few minutes. I blame my sports ignorance, though the CW Corner is slowly improving that. CAVS, MAVS, SCHMAVS-- who gives a hoot? I should.
The other WO was a failure to notice the verb tense so I put DIVE. Wrong! On the other hand, I got the rest, including the theme. I wondered if WC's LHF (low hanging fruit) was making an appearance at last but it turned out to be IVY. Only while proofreading did I understand KALI was the homophone for collie.
Great job, Ed. And lots of fun and info as usual, Hahtoolah. PAT SAJAK looks good for his age and I see SKAT is too complicated for me. I'll stick to Rummikub. Hope you all have some fun today!
I'm not sure KALI is an exact homophone of "collie", but could be a regional pronunciation variation that needs Prof. Henry Higgins to tell the difference.
Hahtoolah, either OTIS's safety device worked really well, or there's a misprint in the writeup - I don't think he lived almost 150 years.
Took me 5:20 to get a line on this one.
I didn't care for much of the first several Acrosses (Kali, Beso, Arno), given my apparent "America First" approach to crossword puzzles. I didn't know the Sheila, SNCC, or rotgut.
But hey, three sets of two-word phrases started with "IV".
Terrific Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, Ed and Hahtoolah (thoughts and prayers for your Dad)
I FIRed in good time and saw the theme. I had noted the plethora of Vs (7 today).
Only one inkblot where I entered Bigie (and wondered about the solo G) before BIG IF parsed.
LOL ATLGranny, I thought of WC’s LHF too.😁. (DIVE was correct🤔???- was that a typo and you had Dove).
Yes, billocohoes, I would pronounce KALI like Valley, which would not be a homophone of Collie.
We have complained before about ILLER. Gluey fill IMHO.
Anka’s ESO BESO helps our Spanish memory.
We had The BEEB and CNN. No love for the CBC?
I noted OVER crossing OVEN, TOUT and ROUTS.
I also noted DOG in the answer for 37D, and in two clues 5A and 54A. Dupes seem to be OK now.🤔
Of course, SANTA reminds us of Argyle.
Wishing you all a great day.
Members of the Pacific Athletic Conference, PAC,
Agreed to a league, and signed a PACT.
To their chagrin,
The group TOOK IN
A dozen schools, so they were packed.
NEVER AGAIN will I shop that distiller.
I got so ill, I couldn't've been ILLER!
It wasn't his ALES
Disturbed my entrails --
It was his prices that made the chiller!
{B, B+.} BTW, spellcheck doesn't like iller, either.
Good morning everyone.
An Ed Sessa treat on a Tuesday. Got it all w/o error. FIR.
Liked the several long downs.
Thank You Ed Sessa for a much easier puzzle, and mucho thanks, Hah2lah for a funny charming review.
The omnipresent cat was duly noted in the last cartoon.... Do / Can Cats consume / handle chocolate ? ( ... unlike dogs, for whom, chocolate is supposedly poison .?)
Hope your Dad is doing better, and prayers and best wishes for a good prognosis.
It is indeed admirable that you are getting an opportunity, to 'paying it back' and contributing, in some small way, to improve and ameliorate the quality of your parent's life ... Not all of us, have such opportunities.
In certain parts of India, this devotion is considered the highest form of 'good karma', which follows you doggedly, even unto your next life.
I had no real problems with the solve, today. I was surprised at the Kali clue. I always thought, that Kali is pronounced 'Caa-lee' and Lassie, I thought, was a 'Caw-li' ... but, what would I know. Kali, as a goddess, is worshipped more in eastern India, Kolkata (Calcutta ) and northern India.
My first choice for SNCC was SCLC ( Southern Chrst Leadership Conf.)
Thomas Edison: I just saw a recent film on DVD "The Current War", a mini-pseudo-documentary with Benedict Cumberbatch (as Edison - ),and Nikolai Tesla and George Westinghouse, about the DC and AC current ( ... war ) controversy. The concept could have been fascinating, but the movie is not well made ... in my opinion.
Have a nice day, all.
Hi All!
Ed, I think I got up too early to clearly think... what a mess I made on the way to a FIR. Thanks for the long-downs grid.
//ILLER? (Hi C, Eh!) You be illin' [Run DMC]
And thank you Hahtoolah for waking me up with the comics. God Speed to you & your Pop.
WOs: ALdA - >ALVA, noel -> YULE, MAVS (cAVS) back to MAVS. Fo(l)dder (what I read) wasn't folder so SILO wasn't fiLe (25% right!)
ESPs: ARNO, KALI (as clued - anyone ever use KALI Linux?. Nice burner-OS for fun (and profit!*) hacking :-))
Fav: ENIGMA - now there's a machine that's a puzzler.
{A, A+}
D-O: LOL Tom-Tom.
Jinx - un-planned obsolescence is a lack of vision. #GilletteRazors :-)
Back at it. Play later. Cheers, -T
*no, I don't really exhort $$.
Good Morning:
Seeing Ed Sessa’s byline is a guarantee of an enjoyable solve, as today’s offering proves. Loved the theme and the very-much-in-the-language themers. Side eye and wrinkled nose to Iller. (Why does the capital i have to look just like the lower case l?) My only w/o was Besa/Beso and the only unknown was Kali, which I would prounce Callie not Collie. We had scads of fun duos today: CNN/(S)NCC, Ana/Oona, Yule/Santa, Santa/Ana, PAC/Pacts, Ali/Ale(s), Tout/Rout(s), and Oven crossing Over.
Thanks, Dr. Ed, for never disappointing and always pleasing and thanks, Hahtoolah, for the same reason! Today’s favs were the contrasting Lions and the Stray Bar, which made me laugh out loud. I don’t know where you find these gems but you certainly have a “nose” for tracking down the funniest and apt visuals. A trivia learning moment was that Shelia McRae was British. I remember her and Gordon quite well but I think Audrey Meadows was the defining Alice Kramden.
Have a great day.
Hola!
I finished Ed Sessa'a opus in a flash early this morning then returned to bed. I loved the HANGING IVY.
BESO is a very nice thought for early in the day or any time of the day.
I also had CAVS before MAVS (hello, AtlGranny).
Thank you for the explanation about Audrey Meadows. It baffled me when I saw SHEILA MacRae.
I loved the simplicity of this puzzle with mostly sraightforward words.
Again, thanks, Ed Sessa and Susan. I appreciate the shoutout.
Have a lovely day, everyone!
Thank you for the short film on butterflies. I am reminded of the old song, Multiplication, by Bobby Darin.
Now, there was two butterflies, casting their eyes,
Both in the same direction
You'd never guess, the little one, yes
He could start a butterfly collection.
Multiplication, thats the name of the game,
and in each generation, they play the same.
But, he could also be wrong , ... as in,
When you see, a gentleman bee, round a lady bee buzzing,
Just count to ten, then count again, there's sure to be an even dozen...
He probably never heard of apiaries and hives and the Queen Bee ...
Nice to see a Tuesday Ed Sessa. Hahtoolah's explanation with her cartoons and graphics was enjoyable. I didn't see the IV theme until Hatoolah pointed it out.
I agree with WC about the KALI/KLEES crossing and with others on KALI not really being a Homophone of collie.
I also had DoVE before HANGING IVY corrected it to DIVE.
There are a number of ESPN MLB analysts, so had to wait for a few perps to fill in AROD. Looks like JLo is moving on from her relationship with him. Probably in his best interest.
MAVS replaced my initial cAVS when CARES was changed to MINDS. Perps to the rescue.
On to Wednesday.
Have a great day everyone.
Good Tuesday challenge..one inkover HANGING pot/IVY.. There's a "v" in the second part of each theme word but so? What am I missing? OK..just read the commentary IV either the number 4 or something I used to be pretty nifty at. (Intern: "How do you get proficient at starting IV's?"...Me: "I use a blood pressure cuff instead of a tourniquet [true] and I always lick the end of the needle." [wide-eyed shocked stare]😳)...😅🤣😂
Started "dilemma" for mind boggler..oops, but 'twoudn't fit..
H2LH had to think twice about the remark that "Seth was 105 years old when he was born." Sounds the the Genesis version of "Benjamin Button"
ILLER? seriously? (makes me nauseateder) 🤢
"A FODDER and Mudder" Abbott and Costello
Igor seems Egor to spell his name many different ways, Y?
Galley guys....ROARS
Constipated parts of speech....IRREGULAR VERBS
Where the golf balls start...TTOPS
US pop star nickname, with the....BEEB
Elf "sleighve" driver....SANTA
Mutually agrees to fill a suitcase....PACTS
On to Hump day
Fun Tuesday puzzle, many thanks, Ed. And always enjoy your great pictures, Hahtoolah, thanks for that too. I especially appreciated the complex explanation of OONA Chaplin.
And how sad that Bruce LEE died so young.
I got nearly the whole thing, except my Spanish failed me with BESO, and I put DEALS before PACTS and needed a little help to fix that. Also had IGOR before YGOR until I realized it had to be a STRAY DOG and not a STRAI DOG.
Have a great day, everybody.
Nice Tuesday. The left side gave me a challenge, esp. the SW since I had cARES crossing with cAVS, but filled everything in once I changed it to MAVS.
LOL - the only reason I know KALI is from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Not sure how many times the bad guy, Mola Ram, says "Kali Ma" but enough times that it's awfully hard to forget!
Oops..above Anonymous comment is from ME! Not sure why it changed it.
Bob
That's what I did too, oc4Beach ("I also had DoVE before HANGING IVY corrected it to DIVE.") I just got it backwards in my earlier comment. Must. Pay. Attention.....
Tony: fILe is 50% in agreement with SILO, not 25%.
L714: Pat Sajak has a different last name than James Sajdak.
Close, but those WOF judges definitely would not consider it the same.
Anon@12:47 -- Pat's birth name was Sajdak. At some point in his career he dropped the D.
For a guy whose career is based on selecting letters, seems ironic - doesn't it?
This Tuesday Sessa grid was the usual treat.
I would only question the clue for 9D, kind of weak.
But no write-overs today.
I envy seeing the Big Boy…I have that on my coffee mug, what a machine!
See you tomorrow.
AnonPVX, is this your coffee mug? :)
Musings
-BIG IF – I would have shot par this morning but I finished with three bogies. Choke!
-What a great Tuesday offering by Dr. Sessa!
-Eso BESO (Ooo, that kiss) sang Paul Anka
-Pat is testimony that having extraordinary talent is not necessary for TV longevity
-DIVING boards are disappearing due to liability insurance
-Melanie Griffith as a fictional TESS (McGill) is lesser known
-AROD admitted to taking steroids and baseball welcomed him back. Sammy Sosa? No on both counts.
-I learned of KLEE from this movie
-When Tim Anderson hit his walk-off homerun in the Field Of Dreams game last week, the fireworks went off right ON CUE!
-America First – British Sheila was married to Nebraskan Gordon MacRae
The fill STRAYDOGS reminds of my BFF’s band, the Stray Dawgs. The band is actually pretty good. Several years ago I wrote I poem and titled it “The Srien Sea”, which I sent to my BFF Lewdawg. He said he could use the lyrics in a song, which he sorta did, he made some changes to make the music work better. Stray Dawgs has made several albums, available on iTunes, or you can listen on YouTube. Lew gave me credit for the lyrics, so I’m now a proud member of ASCAP! Give them a listen on YouTube, or better yet, buy a download of one of their albums.
Siren Sea, not Srien Sea
Thank you Dr. Ed for HANGING out on the Corner with a really IVY LEAGUE puzzle. And thank you Susan for your usual funny/punny review, but one tinged with a bit of sadness; weaving Ed's whimsical theme with the more poignant one of your INNER VOICE tuning yourself to your father's needs.
19A DW and I watch a lot of shows that originated on the BEEB and are grateful for them.
21A My favorite fill was ENIGMA. Not only was ALAN TURING a great CODEBREAKER, but he was the most influential mathematician of the 20th Century, devising a series of mathematical constructs including: his proof on "the decidability of computable numbers"; the "Turing Machine", a theoretical model for all computing machines; and the "Turing Test", a means to test whether a machine is "Artificially Intelligent".
As a result of these achievements the BEEB awarded Turing the competitively decided distinction of the Greatest Scientist of the 20th Century
Turing iconic status has also resulted in several media presentations on his work at Bletchley Circle, where the ENIGMA code was broken. Probably the most popular of these was The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch.
Perhaps less well known is the 2012-13 PBS series called
The Bletchley Circle, about 4 women who had served at Bletchley, but in aftermath of WWII, due to the Official Secrets Act were not allowed to talk to anyone about their work, not even their husbands. They somehow found one another and applied their reasoning and cryptography skills to tracking serial murder cases. Highly entertaining.
Cheers,
Bill
A fine Sessa Tuesday PZL, beautifully illustrated by our Hahtoolah!
Why on earth would director Mel Brooks or actor Marty Feldman spell IGOR as YGOR?
(The answer is they didn't, not if IMDB is to be believed.
The posted cast list uses the first spelling.)
I did not know SHEILA MacRae...
but I directed her daughter, Heather MacRae,
in the American premiere of Pete Gurney's play, Children.
A bright, warm-spirited actress.
~ OMK
___________
DR: Three diagonals, on the far side.
The central diagonal gives us a whacking-good anagram, a full 14 of 15 letters!
This one strikes close to home, as it designates a hater of higher education. It refers to an entity--possibly something like Godzilla (!)--capable of destroying my very own campus.
(Watch out, Misty!)
Yes, my friends, be on the lookout for the terrible...
"UCI ANNIHILATOR"!
OKL - re: fILe: Well look at me, twice as good I thought and yet still 1/2 as bad... ;-)
Hand-up for thinking of Audrey Meadows first - perps said otherwise which was a surprise.
Also, I failed to mention KLEES was an ESP.
oc4 - Kal-EE is how I've pronounce it.
Si, collie doesn't really rhyme.
unclefred - will the STRAY Dawgs ASCAP royalties get you a new termite proof solar roof? Any word on from the new contractor?
Ray-O: LOL constipated vocabulary!
OMK -
a) 51a's clue is 'Son of Frankenstein' not Brooks' 'Young.'
2) cool you knew SHEILA's daughter!
iii) opened the can o' worms, you did... BOC's Godzilla.
//I know where the door is. I'll be sure it doesn't hit me on the way out ;-)
Cheers, -T
I liked this puzzle except for ILLER. Took me a minute to figure out what the clue "...phonetically, what 3-, 8- or 14-Down is" meant. At first I took it to mean that those three long down answers were phonetically pronounced "ivy," which made no sense. Now I get it, namely that something about those answers, i.e. that the initial letters of the two words are I and V. Sorry, but I found that cluing to be rather clumsy. (Additional nit: the clue should say "and" rather than "or". All three of them are IV.)
Then there's the whole KALI/collie homophone thing.
Sending good thoughts and wishes for your dad, Hahtoolah.
I have always liked the term ROTGUT. So descriptive.
Hmm, OVEN crossing OVER.
Besides Alan Turing, I think Nicola Tesla was also a genius.
Good wishes to you all.
SW corner a bit too heavy on proper names with SHEILA, SKAT, TESS, AROD, ENOS. WAGs to FIR.
Fun to have IV as a theme. Where we live IV stands for Isla Vista, the student village next to UC Santa Barbara.
Here is my latest article on IV (Isla Vista) which features Santa Barbara County Firefighters practicing rescue operations on the cliffs by the beach.
As I note in my article, rescues are needed all too often when students become drunk and fall off the cliffs onto the beach. Also when surfers are injured crashing onto rocks.
From Yesterday:
Lucina Yes, RABAT is quite similar to Casablanca. What we really appreciated in Rabat was the fact that there was no one harassing you for money.
AnonT Thank you for the kind words about my RABAT photos. And I am happy that you liked my Watts Towers photos. Did you notice that a few of the photos near the end are taken from that film that you sent us? It is shown at the visitor center there.
Judging by the signs, it seems that some sort of restoration is happening. I am guessing that structure is scaffolding to allow workers to do the restoration. If you are interested I will dig up my photos from 30 years ago before that was in place.
Picard:
Yet again another set of fantastic, real life photos from you! Thank you for sharing. I'm sure the group appreciated your photos, too.
Names.com has a widget for sounding out pronunciations and apparently there are multiple ways of pronouncing KALI, one of which is with "pure" vowels (i.e. no short/long or diphthongs at the end), a'la Italian, German, or Spanish. Dr. Ed (or Rich), clued the A as sounding like the one in FATHER, and that would rhyme with COLLIE. Definitely not a Tuesday clue, but that's a matter for the Crossword Stasi.
PICARD @ 5:31 PM Thanks for the pics Picard. I don't think that mannequin is going to make it!
JayCe @5:15 PM There were so many great scientists in the 20th Century that it's easy to lose track of them. Tesla was definitely in the Top Ten. If you look at the BEEB awards, they were necessarily arbitrary and show Turing beating out Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, and even Chinese chemist Tu Youyou (who knew?)
Husker Gary @2:39 pm.
You said the movie Woman in Gold, reminded you of Paul Klee ?
.... Unless he was mentioned in some other part of the movie, the actual painting of the Woman in Gold was painted by Gustav Klimt, who was an Austrian painter.
The painting was originally titled .... Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I.
Maybe, I misunderstood you.
Waseeley@6:58PM, interesting about Tu Youyou. Now I'm exploring multiple rabbit holes to learn more about her and her work. I find it fascinating to learn her name, Youyou, comes from the classical work The Book of Odes.
Bill Waseeley and Jayce, I was following Tu Youyou also and learning about her life.
At first, I thought the name Tu Youyou was some sort of a joke, but Google and Wiki have a lot about her. Who Knew ?
She, with others, discovered the chinese herbal anti-malarial, drug, Artemisinin ... sounds like a Jumble of the word, antisemitism, doesn't it ? !!!
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On the subject of the BBC .... and how FAIR can they be ?
If you look at the agency from a strictly editorial media point of view ....
In the eyes of a western FREE PRESS ....
1. It is entirely funded by radio TV licenses. No private monies.
2. Its employees are, for all practical purposes, civil govt employees.
3. Its political views, .... consistently toes the govt line .... it has to.
...... The govt appoints its top cadre...
So, what is the difference between the BBC, Pravda, Radio Moscow. and the entire Chinese media from the P.R.C. ?? Not much difference, hierarchy wise,,,
Sure, the BBC has some great programs, but .... the entire finance and control aspect, it might as well be a state appartachik....
I realize this is political ... but ... we are talking concepts here.
This is strictly a theoritical discussion, I really dont care either way ....
Vidwan @8:00 PM As always I respect your POV and in this case it a supported by statements of fact. Dw and have just been seduced by the quality of their programming. That plus the fact that you don't have to wade through 20 minutes of commercials each hour, trying to sell you useless products or questionable politics on the right or the left.
Most sites say KALI is pronounced with the A in father. Why speculate. LIU.
I had a yummy gyro for lunch. Yee rrro. Roll those r's.
I am fighting the group home for my right as guardian to have the final say so on medical decisions for Alan. Disheartening.
Well, another one square FIW. After cleaning up the big mess that I made down in the SW corner, I found that I had put a C instead of a K in #5. Also, forgot to look for the theme.
Thanks, Ed and Hahtoolah!
Yeah, my RAV4 came with a built-in GPS. When the touchscreen quit working, Toyota said that they would be happy to replace it for something around $800. Uh, no thanks. I’ll stick with my Garmin.
BESO was easy. BESOME MUCHO is about my favorite Diana Krall song. Sorry, I couldn‘t find a decent video to attach. She's about my favorite torch singer, even if she is married to Elvis Costello, instead of ME!
People in Texas know the MAVS --- like ‘em or not. Mark Cuban owns the team.
Mark Cuban
YES!!! CHOCOLATE IS POISONOUS TO CATS ALSO!!!
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