Theme: "Elongation" - EL is added to each common phrase.
23. Censor of controversial parts of "Messiah"?: HANDEL SANITIZER. Hand sanitizer.
42. Cause of restaurant complaints?: SALAD DELAYS. Salad days.
48. Conventional rubies?: ORTHODOX JEWELS. Orthodox Jews.
69. Sign of a cat burglar?: FELINE PRINT. Fine print.
90. What people and leopards have in common?: VOWEL OF SILENCE. Vow of silence.
98. Stallone hero putting more film in his camera?: ROCKY RELOAD. Rocky Road.
119. Enjoy the track meet?: CATCH A FEW RELAYS. Catch a few rays.
Tried and true theme. I bet every constructor thought of adding EL or removal EL ("Noel") in their construction career.
Smooth grid for a 140-worder. Low 3-letter count (24), the limit for a weekday 15x15 grid.
Across:
5. Spill stopper: LID.
8. Beetle in Egyptian hieroglyphs: SCARAB.
14. Old Eurasian rulers: TSARS.
19. Many a restaurant website page: MENU.
20. Addr. line ending: AVE.
21. Brother of Scar: MUFASA. In "The Lion King".
22. Juice box go-with: STRAW.
26. Hold forth: ORATE.
27. "Top Chef" host Lakshmi: PADMA. India-born. Once married to Salman Rushdie.
28. Knish seller: DELI.
29. __ Morris, "Saved by the Bell" protagonist: ZACK. Unknown to me.
31. Award for good plays: OBIE. Theatrical play.
32. Bagel feature: HOLE.
34. Spots: SEES.
36. Emergency delivery method: AIRLIFT.
38. Family tree woman: GREAT-AUNT. My grandma's younger sister
used to visit us once a year. She could not walk much due to her bound
feet. Hideous practice those days. My poor grandma used layers and
layers of cloth to wrap her feet.
45. Intraoffice IT system: LAN.
46. Memo start: IN RE.
47. Get around: FINESSE.
53. Choir accompaniment: ORGAN.
57. 20th-century Argentine leader: PERON. Juan and Eva.
58. Room in Clue: STUDY. 64. Family room: DEN.
59. Original "Star Trek" actor: TAKEI (George)
62. Nice way to say yes?: OUI. Nice the city.
63. Stubborn animal: ASS.
65. Group email function: REPLY ALL.
67. A, in Aachen: EINE.
74. Shoppe modifier: OLDE.
75. Brand mentioned in the Beatles' "Come Together": COCA COLA.
77. Golf club part: TOE.
78. "I pity the fool" speaker: MR T.
79. Word that's a homophone of its first letter: OWE.
80. Willing subjects: HEIRS. The estate will.
82. Melodious: TONAL.
85. BILLY bookcase sellers: IKEAS.
88. Big dipper: LADLE.
93. Gallery event: ART SALE.
96. __ top: TANK.
97. Kinshasa's country, briefly: DRC. The Democratic Republic of the Congo. Not a common abbr.
102. Research staples: DATABASES.
104. Sister of Laertes: OPHELIA. "Hamlet".
105. Like yellow bananas: RIPE. Bill G mentioned that he only likes green bananas. Are you still there, Bill?
107. Look for gifts, say: SHOP.
108. Green and white: TEAS.
109. Almost never: ONCE. Try to blog a Thursday LAT once, you'll
know the amount of work MM, Bill and all my other team members put on
their writeups. So grateful to them, week after week.
112. Greenish-blue: TEAL.
114. Allow to fluctuate, as a currency: UNPEG. Yuan is pegged to the US Dollar.
117. Type of navel: INNIE.
123. Can't live without: NEEDS.
124. Bible book read during Purim: ESTHER. Also 49. Book after Daniel: HOSEA.
125. Hardly walking distance: FAR.
126. Neutral shade: ECRU.
127. Doesn't do much: IDLES.
128. What a broken escalator can serve as, aptly: STAIRS. I wish our townhome were one-level. It would be easier for Boomer to maneuver.
129. "Go for it!": TRY.
130. Loafer, e.g.: SHOE.
Down:
2. Faithful spring?: LEAP. Leap of faith.
3. Actress Kendrick: ANNA.
4. Founder of an Eastern religion: BUDDHA. My favorite Buddha quote.
5. Euphoria: LA LA LAND. Great fill.
6. Providers of liquid assets?: IVS. I always look away when they jab Boomer.
7. Out of juice: DEAD.
8. Cheese alternative?: SMILE. Say "cheese".
9. Adorable ones: CUTIES.
10. "100 Years... 100 Movies" org.: AFI. American Film Institute.
11. Heckle: RAZZ.
12. On the briny: ASEA.
13. Chain of pubs with beer and video games: BARCADE.
14. General on a menu: TSO.
15. Tot toter: STROLLER.
16. Peninsula between the Red Sea and Persian Gulf: ARABIA.
17. Sanction: RATIFY.
18. Candy store buys: SWEETS.
24. Personified things in Pixar's "Inside Out": EMOTIONS. Mindy Kaling voiced Disgust.
25. Sticky home?: NEST. Home with sticks.
30. Isn't serious: KIDS.
33. Money in Münster: EUROS. Münster, Germany.
35. It may be cracked: SAFE.
37. Prepare for new planting, as a garden: RE-SOIL.
38. Zero-star fare: GLOP.
39. Not seen often: RARE.
40. Spellbound: ENTRANCED.
41. On deck: NEXT.
43. Upbeat melody: LILT.
44. "Master of None" co-creator Aziz __: ANSARI. Me too always derailed his career.
50. Dame Dench: JUDI.
51. First place: EDEN.
52. Musical Lynn contemporary: WYNETTE (Tammy). Loretta Lynn.
54. Commits a hoops violation: GOALTENDS. Here's Wikipedia's
goaltending explanation: "In basketball, goaltending is the violation of
interfering with the ball while it is on its way to the basket and it
is (a) in a downward flight (b) above the basket ring and within the
imaginary cylinder and (c) not touching the rim."
55. "__ Lang Syne": AULD.
56. River to the Mediterranean: NILE.
60. "The Masked Singer" panelist Jeong: KEN. He also hosts "I Can See Your Voice".
61. Able, facetiously: EPT. Apt?
66. Radiohead lead singer/songwriter Thom: YORKE.
67. Subj. including the study of extinctions: ECOL. Ecology.
68. Field of Dreams setting: IOWA. "If you build it, they will come..."
69. Nemesis, e.g.: FOE.
70. Late philanthropist Broad: ELI. Some names are gimmes for me because I do clue research on a regular basis.
71. Like tadpoles: LARVAL.
72. Combine: POOL.
73. A.G. under Clinton: RENO.
76. "Curb Your Enthusiasm" actress Hines: CHERYL.
78. Biscuit whose name describes its shape: MILK-BONE.
81. Part for one: SOLO.
83. Men's grooming brand: AFTA.
84. Exams for future attys.: LSATS.
86. Decent-sized lot: ACRE.
87. Brief periods: SECS.
89. Summer cabin site: LAKESIDE. Before Boomer's cancer, we used to set up at Annadale Flea market. Lots lots of lake homes there.
91. Sport: WEAR.
92. Racing the deadline: IN A HURRY.
94. Chamber music work: TRIO.
95. Spirited events?: SEANCES. Good old clue.
98. Corkscrew pasta: ROTINI.
99. Warmed up the crowd: OPENED.
100. French fashion house: CHANEL. You can buy their bags as long
as you have money. For Hermès Birkin bags, you have to be on a waiting
list. Huge status symbol for many Asian girls.
101. Agitated state: DITHER.
102. Like Beethoven, late in life: DEAF.
103. Pie fruit: APPLES. And
106. Pie fruit: PEARS.
110. Ones getting a lot of props?: CAST. Stage props.
111. "At Last" singer James: ETTA.
113. Split: LEFT.
115. A pop: EACH.
116. Halal cart offering: GYRO.
118. Supergirl symbol: ESS.
120. Greek X: CHI.
121. Tolstoy title word: WAR.
122. Refuse to settle: SUE.
A few extra notes:
1) Here's a happy picture of Dr. Nina (Inanehiker) and her mom Jorae, who turned 90 years old on Friday (Sept 24th). See the crossword she's solving? Nina and I made it together!
2) Happy birthday to Dennis, who helped me greatly in the earlier years of this blog. Dennis was always the first one to post on the blog, followed by Kathy, who was married shortly after and Crockett1947 (Richard), who still posts here from time to time. Dennis fought a scary heath battle in 2019 and is doing great now.
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| Dennis, Jan 2010 |
3) Please continue to keep Agnes (Irish Miss) in your thoughts and prayers. It hurts me so much to see her suffer. I'm so used to reading her bubbly email with cheerful emojis.
She'll see an oncologist on Oct 7th and hopefully we'll know more about the next steps. Please email me (crosswordc@gmail.com) if you want to send Agnes an email or a card. We miss your presence on the blog, Agnes, stay strong!
C.C.
40 comments:
FIWrong. Misspelt TAKaI, which gave aPT < EPT. TAKEI is becoming crosswordese, so I put it in before even considering Kelly or Nimoy, and ept and apt are near synonyms.
But the bigger problem was in the NW corner, where ANNA was wagged as ANNe, PADMA as keDMA, both unknowns, and LEAk < LEAP, an excellent misdirection that caught me!
On the ORGAN, ANNA played music TONAL.
Her brother ZACK thought that was too normal.
So he took to contortion,
And thus made his fortune
Playing guitar that he strummed with his TOE nail!
OPHELIA was all in a DITHER
About what to get for her sister.
At last what she got
At a RENO pet SHOP,
Was a parrot, a Polly for ESTHER!
ROCKY claimed he could CRACK any SAFE.
CHERYL, the detective, cracked the case!
She closed Rocky's file,
While cracking a SMILE. --
She'd managed to crack his DATA BASE!
{A-, B+, B.}
Good morning!
Well, mark me down for two in a row...DNF, that is. Tried WTF and OMG for 1d. Have I ever mentioned that I hate it when I get 1a or 1d wrong? Never did figure out what SMH meant. (Thanx, C.C.) There were just too many proper names I didn't know: CHERYL Hines, PADMA Lakshmi, KEN Jeong, Asiz ANSARI, ZACK Morris, MUFASA, and ELI Broad, I'm lookin' at you! Plus, d-o tried RAMBO where proper name ROCKY needed to go. Sheesh. Well done, Michael, though I found it to be a slog. Thanx for 'splainin' my mess, C.C.
HEIRS are not "willing" subjects; heirs take assets of decedents' estates by intestate succession. Those who take by last wills are devisees and legatees.
Anon@7:35 -- Of course, you are correct. But a crossword puzzle is just an amusement, specializing in word-play, not a treatise on law or science or any other discipline. To a non-lawyer that C/A seems logical...obvious, even.
Up early this morning. We're watching the grandkids again.
Thank you Michael for a fine Sunday-go-to-Meetin' puzzle - fared much better than yesterday, but still FIW. The theme was very helpful and prevented the PROLONGATION of the solve.
And thank you C.C. for elucidating all those elusive clues.
Noteworthy C/A's:
21A DNK SCAR or MUFASA, although I should have known AFI from a previous puzzle.
23A EVERYTHING about the "Messiah" is controversial!
90A VOWEL OF SILENCE doesn't really need the EL removed, as it literally refers to the O in people and leopard.
124A ESTHER and HOSEA were both Sunday suitable.
78A Got MRT confused with ALI and things went SOUTH in the MIDDLE EAST.
61D EPT as in INEPT.
4D Loved the BUDDHA quote C.C.
113D Beethoven became DEAF at age 44 and died at age 56. All he could hear during that time were some of the greatest pieces of music ever written.
Thanks for the CSO C.C. I'm trying, or as DW would say "Very trying!".
Cheers,
Bill
OwenKL @4:05 AM Tony Melendez was born without arms, but actually became a virtuoso guitarist using only his feet to play.
{A+,A,A}
An interesting and somewhat challenging Sunday from another of the new wave of constructors who have emerged since 2020. This is his second LAT and his 14th major puzzle publication.
I did not know ELI BROAD though I have done work on may Kaufman & Broad developments. Nor Thom YORKE from Radiohead; and SMH was new to me. BARCADE was inferable as was DRC . RESOIL was a complete clanker, but it did appear in the NYT in 2002.
Thanks Michael from a card carrying JewBu married to alovely Thai woman, and C.C. I will ramp up my prayers for all the Cornerites.
Musings
-Labor shortage has delayed newspaper and so I did this online which adds to errors
-The Berlin AIRLIFT saved Berlin and avoided WWIII
-What a horrible story about your aunt, C.C.
-FINESSE – Our kids tried to get around their mother by coming to me
-My uncles RAZZED me constantly and that led to “Dutch Rubs” and other physical harassment
-We garden every year but have never done, or heard of, RESOILING. I RETILL every year
-Always gets me emotional - At the end of Field Of Dreams, “he” is substituted for “they” in “If you build it they will come” and Ray gets to reconcile with his father to “ease his pain”.
-INEPT - The Huskers found a new way to lose last night on a play I've never seen in 60 years of watching football
-Com BINE around here this time of year is a machine called a COM bine
-At the end of his life, Harry Houdini devoted a lot of time to debunking SEANCES
-Taylor Swift used to be the OPENING ACT for Rascal Flatts
-HBD, Nina! You and I will meet one of these days! I appreciated all the other info on “Cornerites”
A lot of names I didn’t know made this a challenge. Thanks for the expo C.C.
Good morning everyone.
Botched REPLY ALL, but got everything else. Good puzzle with nifty theme. Nice job, Michael. Favorite fill was probably HAND(EL) SANITIZER. EINE was a gimme.
LAKESIDE - CSO to Ray-O-'s camp.
I'll take a CSO at INNIE. Probably TMI; LOL.
6d - IVS - - I look away when they jab me! Had a contrast IV the other day for a CAT scan, and looked away. Same when they jab me for Warfarin test.
17d - Sanction : RATIFY. Sanction is one of those words with dual meaning. It can mean to endorse in today's sense, or to 'prevent'. Kinda like the Canadian use of 'table'.
37d - RE-SOIL - - We never had to re-soil our soil; it always stayed where it was. Lots of fertilizer, manure, and occasional lime to kick up the pH.
Nice pic of Dr. IH and her Mom. Thanks for sharing.
Happy Birthday to Dennis; and many more. One of the early stalwarts when I first came to this blog in 2009.
Wishing Irish Miss a good outcome to her health issues. We MISS you.
Forgot to wish a happy birthday to Inanehiker and to the cornerite formerly know as Dennis.
IM, come back soon.
Hi Y'all! Michael gave us another challenge. Took me over an hour steadily slogging. Sorta got the theme but needed C.C.'s explanation to understand.
C.C. Sorry your grandma & aunt had to suffer the diabolic torture of bound feet. Don't you wonder how such a thing ever got started? Men apparently didn't want their women to run away.
DNK: what names D-O didn't know etc. Could see a picture in my mind of Janet RENO but took two perps to get the name.
RE-SOIL? What the hay is this? Tried "plowed" which at least makes sense to a gardener. I do need to have the dirt dug out of a flower bed and new dirt put there because yardmen liberally sprayed with weedkiller and now nothing grows but dandelions. Is that RE-SOIL?
Good to see a picture of lovely Dr. Nina. Belated happy birthday to her mom.
Miss you Agnes! Praying for your return to health.
Happy Birthday, Dennis. Miss your humor.
Got the theme quickly with CATCH A FEW R-EL-AYS which helped a lot with the solve. Quite a few unknown names. ESTHER was a gimme as my mother used to tell me that story of PURIM as a child. But I could not figure out how to make it work with PECAN pie. Oh. PEARS. Anyone else? Tried NIMOY before TAKEI. BARCADE a learning moment. SMH?? Smack My Head? Oh. PADMA/ANNA final WAG to FIR.
ELI BROAD was another gimme that would be hard for most people.
Here are just a few of my photos of us at the BROAD Museum in Los Angeles.
I thought WILLING SUBJECTS was a funny clue even if technically off.
From Yesterday:
OwenKL Thank you for the explanation about the hiking article. I publish a lot of articles on local events. But my hike articles get by far the most interest. I am mystified, but people do like those hike photos!
Bill Seeley Interesting about the SILVER SPRING(s) song about my home town in Maryland. Argh! You can't imagine how painful it is to hear an "S" added to the name. Everyone not from there does it. I would think Stevie Nick(s) would check a map before writing a song for millions to hear.
MalMan Thank you for the clarification that you were a HIPPIE, but not at WOODSTOCK.
Lemonade Way cool that YOU actually were at WOODSTOCK! How come you have an unused ticket if you were there? Do you have any photos? I don't get the humor of your friend.
Wilbur Charles Thank you for the kind words about my METEOR photos. Can you explain what you meant about SHOT? Sorry for being dense!
CC I am very sorry to hear about Irish Miss. Definitely wishing her the best and please keep us updated. Yes, please email me with her address for a card. Thanks!
Picard, I've read that things go so confused (out of hand?) at Woodstock that they just stopped taking tickets.
"got" not "go"
Picard @12:36 AM It rankled me too Robert, but since it inspired Nicks it was worth a spin.
Great pics of the Broad Museum. Eli apparently liked to play with scale, not only within dinner tables, but commentaries on enlarged, festive objects.
Sunday Lurk Say...
FLN - DNF. It was our Anniversary and there was no time for puzzle-play.
FNL - Glad D-O was able to tell you about the batteries, PK.
{C+, B+}
{B, B+, B}
Happy Birthday Dennis & Inanehiker.
C.C. - Thanks for keeping up up-to-date on IM.
Cool BROAD pics, Picard.
Mitch on Escalators [:35]
Cheers, -T
D-O @1:17 PM "It's a free concert now!"
HBD Nina. I'm a big fan of yours. 🙂
Robert I was obliquely comparing your "Shots" eg photos with the clue "Shot" for which I had tried to fit PIC. My mind works that way
I completely messed up the NW. Mr S insisted that meNDEL wrote the Messiah(while studying peas?)
SMM could've been "Shut My Mouth". The chef was a mystery but a LEAP of faith is cute. Then…
After actually linking George T fln, I misspelled his name as TAKaI
Got all the rest. I'll give you three W's Owen
Hbd, inanehiker, if you can FIR yesterday's tester then I can see how you excel at constructing. CC, ditto on the IM address. Hbd Dennis.
WC
Hola!
Not much time to post. Super Sunday puzzle. Thank you, C.C. for your colorful commentary!
Happy birthday, Nina! Lucky you to have your mother with you.
Happy birthday, Dennis, wherever you are and I hope you are enjoying life.
Birthday lunch today for two of my friends.
Have a lovely day, everyone! It's raining here!
Spent the weekend at our LAKESIDE place. The nearby town of Old Forge filled with Leaf Peepers.
With an orthopedic boot easier to get around in a smaller space, no stairs. Just finished our 2 week old NYT Sunday CW. Decided to lurk a bit. (HBD to Dr's Mom Jorae)
Yesterday couldn't stop watching each new episode of and completed streaming a riveting new Netflix series Midnight Mass...Highly recommended.
Husker Gary, even tho I'm not a football fan, your comment puzzled me enough I LIU.
Picard That Broad Museum looks FANTASTIC! Is that ball just hovering in the air? Is that woman in the psychedelic dress part of the show?
Here in Santa Fe we've been hearing a lot about Meow Wolf, which started as an art collective here, and their immersive exhibits in Las Vegas and Denver. Some of your pics look like they'd fit right in to them.
After 20 FIRs in a row, today I couldn't come up with the K needed for KEN and TAKEI. I had worked out the themers and other tricky clue over time but..... So tomorrow I start trying for a new string of puzzles solved. Thanks, Michael, for this day long challenge. And thanks, C.C., for your interesting and helpful review. As a person with large feet, I am glad I wasn't required to have them bound to be smaller. And thanks for the updates on our CW friends.
Glad you could celebrate with your mother on her 90th birthday, inanehiker. And to work a special cw puzzle together! Good gracious, Irish Miss, you have us all worried about you. We not only miss you but send you our best healing wishes. And I hope the rest of you all have enjoyed the weekend.
I liked this puzzle. An hour and 10 minutes of pleasurable thinking. Yeah, some names I didn't know but the perps were helpful. FLOAT --> UNPEG.
EPT as the opposite of INEPT reminds me of how Bill G would sometimes say he was whelmed by something.
Bill Seeley, AnonT, OwenKL Thank you for the kind words about my BROAD Museum photos! I had seen some of these pieces before in other museums. Apparently, the BROADs collected a lot of art, but never had an actual museum. So, they would lend them out to other museums. It is fairly recent that the BROAD museum opened in Los Angeles. It is free and you really need to make a reservation because it is quite popular.
OwenKL That is not actually a ball. It is some kind of display that keeps changing. You are looking at a mirror with a hole in it, if I remember correctly. I think the "ball" is actually that window through the mirror!
Yes, that woman certainly looked as if she was part of the exhibit! She was very kind to pose for several photos for me!
In case you don't know (I didn't) they pronounce their name BROAD to rhyme with "road". I am inspired to dig out more of my photos from our BROAD visits. The first set was upon our return from Mexico where I had been snorkeling. Hence the weirdly trimmed mustache.
Wilbur Charles Thank you for the SHOT explanation. Yes, your mind works differently than mine. Makes life interesting!
desper-otto Yes I knew that about the tickets at WOODSTOCK. But I was still curious to hear directly from Lemonade why he has an unused WOODSTOCK ticket! I am also curious if he has photos!
If anyone is interested, here is my photo of the spot where HANDEL's MESSIAH was performed for the first time.
The spot is actually in Dublin, Ireland. This was long ago, when I had an Irish lady friend.
57A is my 38A
Eva Duarte Peron
Picard - since DW's cousin is an LA artist, I knew the pronunciation...
Unfortunately, I didn't think about it nor did I didn't modify 'broad' with 'museum.'
I wonder how many went back to see lady-snaps :-)
Cheers, -T
Legend has it that King George II stood during the Hallelujah Chorus the first time he attended the Messiah. This article speculates on several possible reasons why he might have done that. A simpler reason may be that he did it out of respect for this prayer to his Creator and due to the magnificence of Handel's music. This practice has since become the custom of attendees to Messiah performances during the Christmas season.
Edward Duarte @5:01 PM I see that she died in 1952. Did you ever meet her, as a child perhaps?
I just got back home from KC - thanks for the birthday wishes - but it isn't my birthday - it is my mom's who turned 90 years old on Friday!
In the picture she is solving the puzzle that CC and I worked on together. CC did the heavy lifting, of course. My mom & I both enjoy solving crosswords and she is at that age where she doesn't want any more "things" to dust :).
She really enjoyed the puzzle with all the theme answers that included all the immediate family's names, her alma mater MIZZOU and her pro teams, favorite dessert, favorite big band among others!
Thank you so much CC!
and HBD to Dennis and prayers for Agnes
inanehiker: The penny drops... It was your Mom's BDay (I was a bit confused).
A C.C. custom-puzzle is a wonderful gift! I gave MIL (and avid puzzler) one a few years ago and she was elated to the point of tears. Good on you and Happy 90th to your Mom.
Cheers, -T
This was a challenging puzzle, Mr. Lieberman, and thank you for an absorbing Sunday. Thank you CC for the review, and the notes on Dr. IH ( who I didn't know of ) and Dennis and Ms. Agnes. Happy Birthday to Dr. IH's mom, and to Dennis, and best wishes to all.
Prayers for better health and prognosis to Ms. Agnes... and to Dennis.
I remember Dennis who used to post first ( sometimes, with Dr. Fermat Prime), and was the first censor and blog moderator, and always had notifications for each day as a special day for something.... National HogDog day, National Kite Day etc. He was the Dr. Watson to Argyle's Sherlock Holmes. His wife was a CFO of a US multinational, and once she and Dennis went to India, for a working vacation.
I remember he was an ex-Marine, he owned a puzzle, toy trains and hobby store in Northern NJ, until he sold out and settled in Fla...
Todays learning moment was reading about Mr. Eli Broad, and I read his bio in wiki. The sheer magnitude of his and his wife's donations is awe spiring... hundreds upon hundreds of millions to Univ's and art museums all over. I've heard of Broad and Kaufman, but never knew what business they were in... Housing, construction and Insurance, mostly life.
Thank you Picard for the pictures of the Broad museum. I thought the lady in the psychedelic dress was a part of the exhibit .... might as well, have been.
I had no idea about SMH - shaking my head - it seems like every time I turn around, there is a new acronym coming up...
I didn't know Lemonade was at Woodstock, ... why am I not surprised ...
... the first I heard of the festival, was in 1971, when I saw the movie, Woodstock, a coupla yrs later.
I remember thinking, at the time .... if this is what young americans do, and are into, ...that country is doomed for sure... why, the yankees, might, just as well crawl back into their caves. Then I came here, anyway, and I'm sure glad I was proved wrong.
Have a nice night, and a great week ahead.
Talking about Mr. Eli Broad ( pronounce to rhyme with 'road') .... Thank you Picard ...
reminds me of a story in an old Reader's Digest.
One fine day, a small group of first graders went on a field trip to look over a lumber yard.
The following week, the Lumber Yard manager, got 20 letters from the tiny tots, thanking him for his help and kindness during their visit.
Thank you Mr. Smith, for inviting us to your company, and letting us look at all those lovely broads. ....
A chuckle for the night.
I wish Irish Miss the very best outcome with her recovery. Her puzzle commentary is always spot on with particulars of any puzzle. She is a delight to read.
FLN - Y'all were discussing Spaghetti Westerns...
Well, I was just clicking around before bed looking for a 'funny' and stumbled upon this What America means in other Countries video (told by a Canadian, How very nice of him :-) ).
Anyway, FF to 11:20.
[the video it's mostly about food we -USA!USA!- don't really eat.
I mean, OK, maybe, sometimes...]
//or watch the whole thing for a giggle.
Cheers, -T
Early on here we were told that Xword puzzles were "...amusements..." NO, NO,NO! Amusements bring fun to your life, not the mental confusion of this entry! Though I completed about 3/4 of this entry breezingly, it's center was a DNF!?!? Four of the constructor's cdefs we're so far off the mark Sherlock Holmes couldn't have found the answer.
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