Watch your Tongue! The first word of each theme answer can by "tied" to the word tongue to give us a new concept.
17-Across. Sci-fi fleet leader: MOTHER SHIP. Mother Tongue.
23-Across. Perceptive person: SHARP COOKIE. Sharp Tongue.
38-Across. Indigenous U.S. people: NATIVE AMERICANS. Native Tongue.
47-Across. Uncontrollable person: LOOSE CANNON. Loose Tongue.
And the Unifier:
60-Across. At a loss for words, and what the starts of 17-, 23-, 38- and 47-Across can literally be?: TONGUE TIED. Say this 3 times fast:
Across:
1. Bursting with testosterone: MACHO.
6. RPM gauge: TACH. A Tachometer is the instrument that
mesures the rotation speed of the wheel shaft. It is usually measured
in Revolutions Per Minute.
10. Border on: ABUT.
14. Aquafina competitor: EVIAN. Expensive bottled mineral
water from the Évian-les-Bains region of Southeastern France.
15. Beige hue: ECRU. Shades of Beige.
16. Aussie pal: MATE. Hi, Kazie! I am currently
reading Picnic at Hanging Rock, which is an Australian historical
novel by Joan Lindsay. I am finding it a bit challenging with all the
Aussie terms that I am not familiar with.
19. Vicinity: AREA.
20. New Age Irish singer: ENYA. Enya (née Eithne Pádraigín
Ní Bhraonáin; b. May 17, 1961) was big in the 1990s, but I haven't heart much
of her recently.
21. They're drawn in pubs: ALES.
22. Industry bigwigs: CZARS.
25. Displeased looks: SCOWLS.
29. Sweetie pie: HON.
30. "Star Trek" communications officer: UHURA. Hi, Picard!
31. Skeleton component: BONE.
34. Old Testament twin: ESAU. From the Biblical book of
Genesis, we learn that Esau and Jacob were the twin sons of Isaac and Rebecca.
Esau was the older twin, but he sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl
of lentils.
41. Hershey's foil-wrapped chocolate treat: KISS.
42. Website unit: PAGE.
43. First color to move, in chess: WHITE. Some chess sets
have very elaborate pieces.
44. Prefix with pod: TRI-. A three-legged stand.
46. Drove (around): TOOLED.
53. With room to spare: AMPLY.
54. Many a Dickens child: WAIF.
55. Wise, as advice: SAGE.
59. "Ciao!": TA TA!
62. Greenside shot: CHIP.
63. Burn soother: ALOE. A crossword staple.
64. Backed, with "with": SIDED.
65. __ Christian Andersen: HANS. Hans Christian Andersen
(Apr. 2, 1805 ~ Aug. 4, 1875) is best known for his fairy tales.
66. KGB country: USSR.
67. See 55-Down: CRAZY. // And 55-Down. With
67-Across, like one who's been stuck at home for too long,
slangily: STIR. Stir Crazy is also the name of a 1980 movie
starring Gene Wilder (né Jerome Silberman; June 11, 1933 ~ Aug. 29, 2016) and
Richard Pryor (né Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor; Dec. 1, 1940 ~ Dec. 10,
2005).
Down:
1. Viral online item: MEME.
2. Door-to-door cosmetics seller: AVON.
3. Atlantic __, N.J.: CITY.
4. "LOL": HA HA!
5. Buck in a wallet: ONE.
6. Cybertruck maker: TESLA. It is a cool design.
7. Complainer's "belly" ending: ACHER. Don't Belly Ache
about today's puzzle.
8. Like fresh chips: CRISP.
9. Drill sergeant's syllable: HUP.
10. Smart speaker brand: AMAZON ECHO. Anyone have one of
these?
11. Netanyahu's successor: BARAK. Ehud Barak (b. Feb. 12,
1942) succeeded Benjamin Netanyahu (b. Oct. 21, 1949) as the Israeli Prime
Minister after Netanyahu's first term. Barak was Prime Minister from
July 1999 until March 2001.
12. Wombs: UTERI.
13. Poke fun at: TEASE.
18. Stadium sounds: RAHs. Cheering can also take place at
the nearby bar.
22. Dove sound: COO. Bird sounds.
23. Balkan native: SLAV.
24. Only singer to have a #1 single in six straight decades
(1960s-2010s): CHER. Cher (née Cherilyn Sarkisian; b.
May 20, 1946) makes occasional guest appearances in the puzzles.
25. Doomed: SUNK.
26. Spiced tea: CHAI.
27. Double play pair: OUTS.
28. Mild reprimands: WRIST SLAPS.
31. Sheep bleat: BAA.
32. Texter's "Holy cow!": OMG. This has become a crossword
staple.
33. Once named: NÉE. Today's French lesson.
35. Yacht propeller: SAIL.
36. Initial poker bet: ANTE.
37. Previously owned: USED. Sometimes used books stores call
themselves sellers of "pre-read" books.
39. "Outta this world!": EPIC.
40. Victor's shout: I WON!
45. "The Last Jedi" heroine: REY. Rey Skywalker is a Jedi
Master from the Star Wars series. I never saw the
movies after the first one or two, so I don't know how she fits into the
series. In the movie, she is played by the actress Daisy Ridley (b. Apr.
10, 1992).
46. Miso soup cube: TOFU. Yummers! I like a bowl of
miso soup before my sushi.
47. Door fastener: LATCH.
48. Nebraska city: OMAHA. Hi, Husker!
49. Agree to take part: OPT IN.
50. GI truants: AWOLs. Absent WithOut Leave.
51. Old iPods: NANOs. I still use my iPod Nano.
52. Nation bordering Libya: NIGER. Niger touches just a
small portion of the southern border of Libya.
56. Verdi classic: AIDA. Elton John and Tim Rice gave the
Verdi classic an update over 20 years ago.
57. "Oh, wow!": GEEZ.
58. Drain swirl: EDDY. Not to be confused with Duane Eddy.
60. Sigma follower: TAU.
61. PC "oops" key: ESC.
Here's the Grid:
חתולה
These days it's CRAZY to be MACHO,
ReplyDeleteTo have TESTOSTERONE all too mucho.
It's not allowed
By the #metoo crowd,
Not even towards Miss AMAZON ECHO!
She wanted to give help to her MATE.
The guards had found the hacksaw in her cake.
Her next try was a batch
That she made from scratch --
Knife-hard real SHARP COOKIES she did bake!
{B+, B-.}
Good Morning, Crossword friends. I am still in New England and today promises to be another very hot day.
ReplyDeleteBelated Happy Birthday to Tinbini!
QOD: The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists. ~ Jorge Luis Borges (Aug. 24, 1899 ~ June 14, 1986), Argentine author
Took me a little over 5.5 minutes to taste victory on this puzzle.
ReplyDeleteGood morning!
ReplyDeleteThere was AMPLE time for a DNF this morning. Should'a been AMPLY. REE didn't look great, but couldn't figure out what that third character should be. Bzzzzzzt! As usual, d-o failed to read the "reveal" clue, and totally missed the theme. [Sigh] Still, I thought the puz was pretty good. Thanx, Freddie and Hahtoolah. ("Titanic" and "Witness Protection" were great.)
FIW. Hand up for missing AMPLe x REe. But I waited for I WiN / I WON, so I got that goin' for me. REY was my only unknown, and american indians was my only erasure. NATIVE AMERICANS is what I meant to write, of course. Merely a sip of the pen. I'm so PC that I cringed when I admitted that the WHITE chess side always gets to move first.
ReplyDeleteAnyone know why today's cars have TACHs? In the old days you could blow up the 390 cid engine in your Mustang GT if you missed a gear during a speed shift, but now you can put your automatic tranny in neutral and floor the gas, and the computer will prevent you from overrevving the engine.
Thanks for the fun puzzle, Freddy. and thanks to Hahtoolah for explaining it. But I'll have to have a little fun at your expense. If you haven't heard ENYA lately you must not watch much TV, which is unAMERICAN. Whenever the brat won't cooperate at meal time, ENYA sings "Who Can Say" and Kraft mac & cheese saves the day. Less annoying that Limu the Emu, but more annoying than the blonde dog and doggie daddy (at least IMO).
Jinx, just give the blonde dog/doggie daddy a little more time. It'll grate.
ReplyDeleteMACHO reminded me of an embarrassing moment of my ute. It involved the restrooms at a seafood restaurant. I stood confused before the two doors, one with the image of a seagull, and the other with the image of a buoy. I had to go out to the "greeter" to find out which door I should use. Guess I was thinking visually rather than aurally.
Me too, DO and Jinx. I wondered about AMPLe and REe, thinking it could be a Y instead of E. Unfortunately I had forgotten how the name was spelled because "with room to spare" worked both ways, IMHO. So I guessed wrong.
ReplyDeleteIt was not a beautiful grid like yesterday anyway because I had a WO first thing: MAnly/MACHO. Perps fixed that quickly along with my TACH and TESLA crossing. (MACH always comes to mind first, unfortunately.) While proofreading I changed HoHo to HAHA. I did get the theme but only after the reveal. But I am not complaining, Freddie. It was a fine Tuesday puzzle and it didn't drive me CRAZY.
Thanks, Hahtoolah, for all the fun today. You add so much to the puzzle experience every Tuesday. Hope you, and everyone else, manage to stay cool somehow this August day.
Fun, fast solve today made even more so with the Bizarro cartoon used for 44 across. Followers of Bizarro know that not only are the cartoons amusing, but they also present an extra bit of fun finding the hidden objects the author inserts into his daily cartoon strip.
ReplyDeleteHola!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Susan! I love the images especially the witness protection one.
A phone call about a missing man wandering about woke me at 5 this morning. What else to do but solve the puzzle, of course! And it was quickly done.
UHURA and MOTHERSHIP should please the Star Wars fans. Oh, there's REY, too, though I didn't know it and had REE/AMPLE.
Many people are STIR CRAZY during this pandemic.
Nice CSO to Husker Gary at OMAHJA.
My ALOE plants were looking a bit dry until the rains came. Now they are plump again.
My daughter has not one or two, but three AMAZON ECHOs, one for each floor plus a spare.
I'll try going back to sleep. You all have a fabulous day!
Good morning all.
ReplyDeleteFun puzzle today thanks Freddie Chan for the construction.
Enjoyed the review Hahtoola thanks.
Two fills especially brought me back to my teens.
CHER and TOOLED.
Sony and Chers “I got you babe “ was music to suck face by with my first puppy love.
Tooling around the back roads with the guys on what we called drain tours. Drinking beer and staying out of trouble.
Have a wonderful day.
Cheers
ReplyDeleteGood morning.
Yet another one cell FIW ! On my very last letter to fill the grid.
"With room to spare" could be AMPLe or AMPLY, and with very little knowledge of Star Wars, I went with REe instead of REY for the Jedi heroine.
Oh well. Every cloud has a silver lining. Silver lining could have been an answer in this puzzle.
Not complaining. An enjoyable crossword. Thank you, Freddie Cheng and Hahtoolah.
Cherilyn Sarkisian and Krekor Ohanian. Both born in California and of Armenian descent. AKA Cher and Mike Connors.
I found this article interesting: Why you lose words on the tip of your tongue
Liked the puzzle until the amply/ray crossing. Not into star wars so I had no idea. Could have gone either way e or y. I chose e. Ample seemed logical. I find it really annoying that you can finish a entire puzzle only to be tripped up by one letter. Oh well. There's tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteDO; I too remember a seafood restautant with "Gulls and Bouys" Maybe the Mariner's Inn on Lake Mendota in Madison??
ReplyDeleteNice, fast, enjoyable Tuesday puzzle. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteYes, White moves first in Chess, and Black goes first in Checkers. Go figure. (And I hate to admit how many crazy-looking chess sets and boards I have going back to when I was a kid.)
My favorite marching cadence instead of HUP, two, three, four was Bill Murray singing Do Wah Diddy in the movie "Stripes" -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMzFK6kWmcU
TokenCreek, I'm not familiar with Mariner's Inn. I looked 'em up, and see they were located near the northern tip of Lake Mendota. Don't think I've ever been near that spot. It could've been at one of the many Hoffman House restaurants that popped up in southern Wisconsin back in the day. I think they're all gone now.
ReplyDeleteTTP, "tots," eh? Is that like the "tots and pears" we hear so often? I had one of those moments last night. We had re-watched Absolute Power -- a star-studded '90s movie with Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Scott Glenn, and Judy Davis. Two others were very familiar, but I couldn't dredge up their names: Dennis Haysbert (the "good hands" Allstate insurance salesman) and E.G. Marshall (the senior partner of L.A. Law). Had to wait for the closing credits.
Good morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteGot it done without incident. Got the theme fill but didn't pay much attention to it. Enjoyed Hahtoolah's recap.
Yes, WHITE moves first and Queen goes on her own color.
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteHand-up. I FIW @ AMPLE|REE. //and we've had Rey so many times...
Thanks Freddie for the grid. Thank you Hahtoolah for expo-ing even whilst on vacation. LOL the 'witness protection' comic.
WO: Serb -> SLAV
ESPs: N/A
Fav: MATE as clued just for the graphic Hahtoolah presented (we had an office in Perth - those guys were fun)
{B, A}
Jinx - My daily driver is a Civic Si w/ 6 on the floor. The TACH tells me nothing other than revs; the engine's hum tells me when to shift ;-)
Lucina, my friend... Please don't mix universes. UHURA is Star Trek; REY is Star Wars.
The distinction (SciFi v. SciFantasy) is a big deal among chess-playing nerds.
Spitz - 'Queen to color and Bishops close at Royal's hand' is how I learned to setup the board properly.
D-O: When you open the door and there's no urinals, you'll know you're in the wrong john.
"I won't get the vaccine 'cuz tracking chips!" says the guy with an AMAZON ECHO and a Smart phone in his pocket.
I will not have an ECHO in my house (join me in the #TinFoilHatClub :-))
TTP - I was thinking about the TOT issue (though I didn't call it that) the other day after I posted exhort instead of extort.
Think it's 'cuz, as we age, we learn more words and then start mixing them up? I mean, a tot doesn't have a huge vocab so 'hot-dog' is any tube-shaped sausage.
//Could I make a wurst analogy? ;-)
And with that, I'll find the door myself...
Cheers, -T
Duane Eddy and a North Atlantic GPS. Thanks for the great start to the day, Cat.
ReplyDeleteAnother great write-up from hahtoolah. Where do you find those links?
ReplyDeleteOwen 2 solids for those l'icks
FIR as I guessed right on AMPLY/REY. I didn't like REe
I've temporarily shed the "One-Box Wilbur ". He'll be back along with Mr Stupidity
Lucina, re. Middle school girlfriends… That was 50 years ago and we were teaching at a Boys School. I'd forgotten about it until that movie "Teachers" was linked. And then there was my HS classmate that allegedly had a baby with the Socsh Teacher.
WC
Thank you Freddie and thank you Hahtoolah. Your reviews get better every week.
ReplyDeleteLiked the puzzle and liked the theme. As DW will tell you, I'm never at a loss for words. But in this case I got a horseshoe, falling into them same TRAP of AMPLE and REE that seems to have snared so many Cornerites today. I've not seen "The Last Jedi", but REY has already joined the ranks of CWD staples and a proofread might have salvaged an FIR. But ALAS, ALACK, no use BELLYACHING over a spilt letter.
Too many great cartoons to even decide, but I guess I'd go with the one 60A, as my TONGUE was TIED before I got through the first iteration, slowly.
16A was a close second and I've already saved the 'AUSSIE "GENTLEMAN"' toon for future reference. I'm sure the CORNER blogs are read avidly by constructors all over the world, and I predict we'll start seeing some of those phrases POPPING UP in puzzles within 6 months.
Oh, and I loved the music, especially the SIMON and GARFUNKEL clip.
Cheers,
Bill
Thank you Freddie Cheng for a very pleasing puzzle, and Hah2lah for a fun filled imaginative review. I had a good time, and it was Tuesday, easy. I guessed ReY because the name sounded more likely, had spanish/portugese connotations.
ReplyDeleteThanks to your cartoons, and the Anon (at 8:11 am) 's comment, I looked up and read up on, Bizarro and Don Piraro on Wiki, and learnt a lot. We often take cartoons for granted ---- there is a human being behind all of them,..... who thought it up, and drew them .....
Hah2lah, further to your Quote of the Day .... may I opine, that humans have an innate need for happiness, and that it is inextricably linked with expectations. In my childhood, my mother knitted and wove, for me, a black wool gollywog, with black hair and white and red eyes and a bulbous mouth ... that was the love of my life, and made me soo happy and joyful, whenever I played with it. It would instantly cheer me on, whenever I was sad or disappointed ... Today, that doll or those type of dolls are considered non-PC, and are rarely seen ... nor books like Noddy the Golliwog, by Enid Blyton. They are banned, even in England.
Last Xmas, I gave my eldest grandson, a new Iphone for his present. He was blah .... maybe kids expect something more nowadays ... like an electric scooter, perhaps. Too much happiness, raises Expectations, and dilutes the effect. Like food, there is only so much happiness, one can have in ones life .... you should be able to get up from the dinner table, when you're only half full ...
End of rant. and apologies for the TMI.
Moved along but forgot to check out the theme.. guess I deserve a tongue lashing..😳
ReplyDeleteThought the drill Sargeant said "HUt". I should have been balkin' when I wrote in "Serb" not SLAV.. Then filled sweetie pie with the ridiculous term "bae" and of course this time it was wrong. (Guess HON is not an abbrev for Honey). 🤔
Yachts (I'm thinking those multimillion dollar monsters) are the one ship that usually don't have sails..but then I saw this Google yacht definition.."a medium-sized sailboat equipped for cruising or racing" ⛵
Ipod NANOS ("nano" Italian [from Greek] "dwarf", nanism = medical dwarfism)
Oas: Summer of 1965, I was 15, "I Got You Babe" on our home radio; I thought the announcer said the singers were Sonny and Sharon
Netanyahu has been replaced by an ex US president? I gotta pay more attention!! 🙄
H2LH, if that's a pic of a Cybertruck where do you put stuff? 😲
Herbal advice....SAGE
Home-made preserves can go bad due to....LOOSECANNON
How to take down a digital tree...ESAU
" ____ apple a day to keep the doctor away"...AIDA.
So far lotsa sun...Have a solar filled day.
🌞
Nice fun CW, thanx FC, lots of fun clues. Reading Susan’s outstanding write-up, I learned AWOL stands for Absent WithOut Leave; I always thought it stood for Absent Without Official Leave. Hmmm. Whenever I see EVIAN I think of what it spells backward: naive. People willing to spend big bucks for a bottle of water! I have a very good water filter under my sink and all water going to the instant-hot, the two refrigerator ice-makers, and the spout fir water used for cooking runs through that filter. It tastes perfect! A change of filters once every two years is so for <$30 saves buying drinking water, and makes for better tasting ice cubes. 22A I’ve seen spelled TSARS, TZARS, CZARS. Always need perps. Once again although I FIR, I didn’t get the theme until I came here and Susan ‘splained it. What a great write-up, Hahtoolah, thanx. It is obvious u put a lot of time into it. That Tesla truck looks cool but doesn’t look very useful as a truck. Only W/O was HUT:HUP.
ReplyDeleteMe, too. AMPLE and REE.
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ReplyDeleteThe French .... not only do they have us drink over priced / over rated, imported wines ... now they sell us water, au naturel, with benzene and all. Perrier, Evian ... when will we americans ever learn ? Give me the florinated, chlorinated, flocculated hard water anytime ... its good for my bones !
I was hoping to get another perfect solve today, but the middle west got me, I'm afraid. Still, delightful puzzle, many thanks, Freddie. And, Susan, your pictures are just wonderful. My absolute favorite one was that scowling baby--cracked me up.
ReplyDeleteNice to see HANS Christian Andersen in the puzzle. I put ARIA in for that Verdi classic before I realized it has to be AIDA. Fun to see both CZARS and USSR in the puzzle, even though these were different czars.
Have a great day, everybody.
ReplyDeleteNo write-overs for this Tuesday XWord.
Had the R and the Y for Rey, waited on the vowel.
Vidwan827…he got a new iPhone and was “blasé”? Next time give him a card, when you get the blank look just say “well, you didn’t like the present last year”. I never fertilize ingratitude.
See you tomorrow.
Anon-T:
ReplyDeleteThank you. But I doubt I'll ever understand either one of those universes. I will try, however, to use the correct one in CWDS. Star Wars? Star Trek? They are both out of this world.
In the distant past our water here in Scottsdale was really terrible and undrinkable. But the City has worked mightily at correcting that and now I find it quite acceptable so don't buy any bottled water.
At the San Francisco airport it is impossible to buy plastic bottles. Only metal water bottles are available and so I now have a small collection. Did you notice that, Tony?
Lucina: Don't you fret about us nerds :-)
ReplyDeleteOh, and yep, me too.
I have two aluminum water bottles from SFO. They're pretty cool.
Literally.
I put ice water in them and they have an insulating layer that keeps 'em cold. I take 'em to the gym.
//Youngest mistook the water refill stations at SFO and thought ONE option was for sparkling water.
She said, "You know you're in San Francisco when you can get still or carbonated -- at the airport!" :-)
Cheers, -T
ReplyDeleteJust had a quick bite for lunch after morning shopping and the start of a new project.
More shelves in the garage, because as George Carlin says, "You need to find a pace to put all that stuff".
I should follow Yellowrocks (and other's) lead and just start getting rid of stuff. Anyone have Marie Kondo's number ? I think that's her name. My TOT moment.
D-O and Dash T, I came up with the wrong word when reading that article's definition for the mariner's tool.
Anyway, back to the project for now.
Hahtoolah: Once again your write-up & links were more FUN than solving today's puzzle.
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU to Y'all for yesterday's birthday wishes.
It was a Great Day.
Cheers!
Enjoyed the TONGUE theme. I have seen the Star Wars movies with REY. But I only know the spelling because of these puzzles where we have seen her name before.
ReplyDeleteWe have a huge NATIVE AMERICAN gathering each year in the mountains less than an hour from here.
Here is my video of the grand entry procession at the NATIVE AMERICAN Pow Wow we attended in 2017.
Did anyone else think of the Village People song MACHO Man?
Here is the MACHO Man song by the Village People.
Hahtoolah Thank you for the shout out about UHURA. She was so competent and beautiful.
Lucina UHURA was on Star Trek not Star Wars. But you are forgiven.
From Sunday:
ReplyDeleteTTP, Malodorous Manatee, Jinx, AnonT Thank you for validating that you have heard BOOSTS used to mean "steals". It may indeed be that it is something on TV shows that I haven't seen.
AnonT and Lucina Thank you for the kind words about our NANOScope. Good to see NANOS again today!
My father was a pioneer in using electron microscopes in biology research. So it was exciting to help design and build a microscope that was far more powerful. The NANOScope does not use light, lenses or electron beams. It is a totally mechanical system!
It feels the atoms mechanically just like a stylus in a phonograph record. Just a smaller stylus and more sensitive pickup!
Thought none down was hut, obviously that was wrong!
ReplyDeleteI'm reading posts at a Cafe in St Pete. I got lots to add but it'll wait. Got lotsa looks at lovely ladies. Out of a dozen I leered half but only ogled one or two
ReplyDeleteWC
Musings
ReplyDelete-18 holes on a day that is only good for the corn
-A real Tuesday test
-That ENYA song is a very pleasant listen even though I had to look up the lyrics even though they were in my MOTHER TONGUE. If you understand her lyrics, you’re a better man than I am Charlie Brown but I love to listen to it.
-Hi, Susan! Thanks for a fun review!
Vidwan @10:57 AM Vid, I took your advice and Wiki'd Don Piraro. A half and hour later I emerged, blinded by the bright lights of the Corner. Is there an ECHO in here?
ReplyDeleteLucina, join the club...I actually took the kids on a Star Wars themed Disney Cruise a few years ago. Attended a seminar with visuals that explained all the Star Wars Characters. (Thankfully there was no test to follow.)
ReplyDeleteI still confuse the Trekkies from the ??Warries?? 🤔
A fun PZL today. Thanks to Mr. Cheng--and for a delightful follow-up from Hahtoolah!
ReplyDeleteThe presence of ESC reminded me that this key seems highly over-rated.
I can barely remember a time when I made use of it, except maybe to resize my Mac screen after I had enlarged the picture. That was about it.
I visited Copenhagen one time only. We got off the boat and--Boom!--there she was, "The Little Mermaid," just sitting there on her rock.
No signs, no crowd, no price of admission--just sitting out there, naked as the day.
The cartoon chosen by Hahtoolah to illustrate I WON seems rather appropriate these days to represent the over-crowded COVID wards in many hospitals in anti-Vaxxer territory.
Sad to say.
One ER doctor was recently quoted:
"If you're healthy, your only job is to stay the *#@! outta my hospital!"
~ OMK
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DR: Two diagonals, same as yesterday.
The main near-side diagonal offers an anagram (14 of 15 letters) specific to the craziness that is televised show-business.
But most of us--in the "biz" or not-- are drawn into the maelstrom with all the advertising hyping the nominees.
Yes, I am speaking of the...
"EMMYS' BATTINESS"!
OMK @3:16 PM One has a lot more to ESCape from on Windows system.🙃
DeleteD-O and -T,
ReplyDeleteIf you get the chance, you might want to try a Ford's Garage restaurant. There are a bunch of them, mostly in Florida. When you leave the men's room, the inside of the door glass is emblazoned with the label "WOMENS". Startling, until you realize that if it was truly a label it would appear backwards (to read properly on the OUTSIDE of the door). The sink faucets are gas pump handles, and the urinals are cut-out beer kegs. Back at the table, the napkins are shop rags, and the napkin rings are hose clamps. Pretty good food too, but a little spendy.
Jinx @3:22 PM They obviously spare no expense on accoutrements. ☺️
DeleteMy hand is way up for filling AMPLE and REE. Those Star Wars names can be, and often are, ANYTHING! Anakin, Amydala, Chewbacca, Vader, Boba Fett, etc. REE sounds perfectly Star Warish to me. And, as several of you have already pointed out, AMPLE fits the clue.
ReplyDeleteOther than that, and ACHER and HUP, I found this to be a nice puzzle.
Hahtoolah, reading your write-up gave me more pleasure than the puzzle. Laughed out loud at some of the cartoons and graphics that you included. Thank you.
LW and I simply will not permit an Amazon Echo or any other "Alexa enabled" device in our house.
Good wishes to you all.
Picard, thank you for the forgiveness. And also for linking MACHO Man by the Village People. I love it!
ReplyDeleteHowever, I doubt my daughter and her husband would forgive me for the error. They are die hard Star Wars fans as I'm sure I've mentioned before. I fear they would only regard me with disdain for not knowing the difference! Every time I visit them they have a new addition to their collection of characters in the room dedicated to them.
I also enjoyed the Indian Pow Wow of which I've been privileged to witness many both here and in Flagstaff. At the Heard Museum here the tribes have annual festivals featuring their dances which they perform in full tribal regalia. Very colorful! Thank you for posting that parade! Even young children perform the dances and look fetching in their costumes.
I went to an all boys prep school and was excited to begin my college career at the very co-educational University of Connecticut. I was invited to orientation before the school year began. The day was fun until needing to use the pissoir, I saw a room with MEN on the door, entered only to find no urinals and 3 or 4 giggling young ladies. No one screamed and they pointed out some rascal had scraped the WO off the door. Joke was on me and none of them were dishabille. 56 years ago.
ReplyDeleteSusan, you really do have the knack for finding the most interesting links. I applaud you
"The Last Jedi" heroine lat Joe Deeney Thu Nov 26, 2020
Daisy Ridley's role in three "Star Wars" films lat Bryant White Wed Nov 11, 2020
"Star Wars" sequel trilogy heroine lat Sloan/Trudeau Wed Aug 19, 2020
"The Last Jedi" heroine lat Joe Deeney Thu Jun 25, 2020
"The Last Jedi" heroine lat Chris Adams Sat Dec 28, 2019
Daisy Ridley's "The Last Jedi" role lat Bryant Shain Wed Feb 27, 2019
Thanks Freddie C, your third LAT this year
ReplyDeleteLemonade, Hi ! I learnt a new french word dishabille .... since I think I know you, I realized what it meant, but I'm not so sure I would use that word in public, with strangers...
So, it means scantily or sexually provocatively clad ....
It's never-the-less a very cute word, and apt, under the circumstances.
Would the opposite word (antonym) be "in flagrante delicto" ?
Thats how husbands or wives are sometimes 'caught', and the given reasons for an un-messy divorce. Or so, I've read about, in novels and novellas. Alas, I'm too late in my prime, to be caught anywhere and anytime, in such compromising positions ... ;-)
Picard, thank you for your video of the native american Pow-wow procession. There were no tomahawks swung, and no peace pipes waved... but an awful lot of bird feathers. And, more importantly, no rain fell, not a drop. Just yesterday, RayOSunshine was asking for a reverse rain dance, in his neck of the woods. Today, it seems to have worked.
Sadness follows...
ReplyDeleteI walked past the TV and Charlie Watts was on. "Must be Pledge Week," I thought. "PBS always pulls out the oldies to get an extra buck"...
Nope. Turns out Charlie, at 80, has crashed his last cymbal. R.I.P. Mr Watts.
//now we all bow our heads and think about making 7-Up pound-cakes for one of the best rock & jazz drummers of our time.
-T
-T @7:17 PM Thanks for the testimonial on Charlie. He and Jeanne are probably sitting in the Great Entertainers' Lounge up in the sky, swapping tales and feasting on 7UP Angel Food Cake.
DeleteTerrific Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, .Freddie and Hahtoolah.
ReplyDeleteI arrived here to discover that I FIWed by falling into the ample/REe trap.
I did get the TONGUE theme, but secondarily.
Did anyone else see the long 55D clue (with its crossing 67A clue) before seeing the actual reveal at 60A? Well, I thought STIR CRAZY was a wonderful theme, and went looking for CRAZY all STIRred up in the longest answers. The lack of Zeds soon disallowed that! But, I think it might have promise as an idea for all you constructors😮🤔😁👍
(I just saw CZARS which is only lacking a Y!)
Wishing you all a good evening.