Good morning, cruciverbalists. Malodorous Manatee here with today's recap.
History seems to be repeating itself or, as Yogi Berra once said, "It's like deja vu all over again." The puzzle that I recapped two weeks ago was constructed by Chris Sablich and so is today's puzzle. He, like the Labrador Retriever above, seems to be on a roll.
ONE TWO BUCKLE MY SHOE, THREE FOUR KNOCK AT THE DOOR, FIVE SIX . . .
With that lead-in what can we do except to start with the unifier (drum roll, please):
54 Across. Game requiring fine motor skills ... and what people do before playing 19-, 26- and a 49-Across?: PICK UP STICKS. At three places in the grid Chris has inserted activities that require humans to pick up and use sticks of one kind or another
Here are the identified theme answers:
19 Across. Game in which Willie Mosconi holds the competitive record run of 526 points: STRAIGHT POOL. A POOL cue. It would have been nice if this was called a "pool stick".
26 Across. National summer sport of Canada: LACROSSE. A LACROSSE stick, or CROSSE.
49 Across. Rock concert highlight: DRUM SOLO. A DRUM stick (but not a piece of fried chicken).
. . . and here is how this all looks in the grid:
1. Horse known for its endurance: ARAB.
5. Fitzgerald specialty: SCAT.
Ella and The Duke
9. Block: CLOG. Also a wooden shoe. My nose was CLOGged the other day. A Dutch woman kicked me in the face.
13. Lingerie brand: BALI.
14. Sport with mallets: POLO. This also could have been clued as a garment brand.
15. Now, in Nogales: AHORA. Today's Spanish lesson (also 9 Down and 28 Down).
16. Big drink of water: SWIG. Water?
17. Mathematician Turing: ALAN. Sometimes referred to as "the father of modern computer science".
18. Actionable words: LIBEL.
22. Guarantee: ASSURE. Looks a lot like 43 Down.
25. London district: SOHO.
29. Gambler: BETTOR. A local casino is offering marijuana-infused beef to their best BETTORs. Them's pretty high steaks.
33. "So that's it!": OHO. Hands up for filling in the H and then checking the perps to see if it was going to be OHO or AHA.
34. Spills: TELLS. As is "to spill the beans."
36. Coeur d'__: ALENE. A city in Idaho
37. Blemish: MARK. "You're a blemish, Mark." "I'm a wart?"
39. Fastening hardware: TACKS. Not usually referred to as "hardware".
41. __ Timor: EAST.
39. Fastening hardware: TACKS. Not usually referred to as "hardware".
41. __ Timor: EAST.
42. Concert site: ARENA. ARENA Rock has almost, but not quite, run its course. Hey, it's preferable to Yacht Rock.
44. Local life: BIOTA.
46. Something to shoot for: PAR. PAR for the course.
47. Salad veggie: RADISH. Why couldn't the RADISH finish the race? He was just a little beet.
51. Forensic detectives, for short: CSIS. Crime Scene Investigation S
53. Easier to swallow, as pills: COATED.
59. "The King and I" group: HAREM. I used a "King and I" clip in the last recap to illustrate ETC. Chris, or Rich, might have watched it.
60. __ Tuesday: TACO. Alliterative. The first use of the phrase is attributed to the August 20, 1973 edition of the Rapid City (South Dakota) Journal.
61. Sound partner: SAFE. As in SAFE and sound.
65. Love abroad: AMORE. That's what Dino told us. Today's Italian lesson.
66. Sailor's direction: ALEE.
67. Blue-pencil: EDIT. A blue pencil is traditionally used by a copy editor because the color will not show in some lithographic and photographic reproduction processes.
68. Recipe amts.: TSPS. TeaSPoonS Abbreviations, both in clue and answer.
69. Foxx whose real last name was Sanford: REDD. It was fairly obvious that REDD Foxx was a stage name but I did not know that his real last name was Sanford.
70. Lavish affection (on): DOTE. When I get sad, my dad's sister really knows how to cheer me up. She's the perfect auntie-dote.
Down:
1. Six-pack makeup: ABS. An ABdominal muscleS reference.
2. Not even rare: RAW. A cooking reference.
3. Frazier foe: ALI.
4. California coastal destination: BIG SUR.
A Lesser-known Beach Boys Tune
5. Extra keys, say: SPARE SET. Now, where did I put those?
6. Soda order: COLA. Coke also starts with C O.
7. Kyrgyzstan range: ALAI. Not the best-known range. Often clued with Jai.
8. Drinks table accessory: TONGS. Swizzle stick would not fit but it would have been fun given the theme.
9. Qdoba competitor: CHIPOTLE. Both are Mexican-style eateries.
10. Gray wolf: LOBO.
11. Nabisco brand: OREO. Needs no comment - but I will anyway. I have sometimes wondered if it would be possible to construct a puzzle using only the word OREO clued seventy different ways,
12. Chutzpah: GALL. Chutzpah is Yiddish. From the Aramaic ḥu ṣpā via the Hebrew hutspah.
15. Tennis Hall of Famer Gibson: ALTHEA.
July 6, 1957
20. Variable pace: TROT. Pace was helpful but I'm not at all certain about the use of "variable" to clue this answer.
21. Fireplace food-warming shelf: HOB. A flat metal shelf at the back of a fireplace. Manatees are unfamiliar with this.
22. 12-time MLB All-Star Roberto: ALOMAR.
23. About 30% of Africa: SAHARA.
24. Made a point: SCORED. In sports and in debate. There are other uses for the word, too. Stick that in your pipe.
27. Big piece: SLAB. Or, in motorcycle jargon an Interstate Highway.
28. Castilian hero: EL CID. You no doubt remember LE CID from Chris's last puzzle.
30. Tempest site?: TEAPOT.
31. Reduced: ON SALE.
32. Went over again: RETROD. Never have I ever used this word. Retread? Yes.
35. HEATH Bar rival: SKOR.
38. Fashion trademark of old-time golfer Gene Sarazen: KNICKERS.
40. Covered with plaster: STUCCOED. I just watched a movie about a woman having her broken leg set. What a great cast.
43. Presuppose: ASSUME. Looks a lot like 22 Across. My girlfriend constantly complains that I don't listen to her. Or, at least I ASSUME she does.
45. One way to run: AMOK. Although I am pretty certain that we have seen it before it is still clever cluing.
48. With it: HIP. Not the body part.
50. Talked back to: SASSED. This type of behavior is often exhibited in x-word puzzles. That must be because of all the vowels and esses.
52. Cool red giant: S-STAR. An astronomy reference. An S-type STAR is a cool giant (they said that) with approximately equal amounts of oxygen and carbon in its atmosphere.
54. Cool, in dated slang: PHAT.
55. Dog food brand: IAMS.
56. Corn, e.g.: CROP. Very ambiguous cluing. Corn could be a type of humor . . or liquor. It could be something on your foot and there must be hundreds of types of CROPs that are grown.
57. "Cautionary" account: TALE. A Cautionary TALE is a story told in folklore to warn its listeners of a danger.
58. __ tea: ICED. CHAI? PUER? DARK?
62. Big fuss: ADO. Misspelled?
63. Tailor's concern: FIT.
64. Summer in France: ETE. A French lesson. It is often ETE time in our puzzles. Et la vie est easy . . .
As you read this, Valerie and I will likely be on a road trip to Oregon for a gathering with my motorcycle riding friends of many years. On the slab but not on a motorcycle. The excuse for this gathering? A Reuben Sandwich.
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39 comments:
MalMan:
Clogged --*Groan*
High steaks -- *GROAN*
And several other smaller moans.
CSIS = Crime Scene InvestigatorS
Aweather? Has that ever been in a crossword puzzle?
CROP -- *grown*
The pool party started with a DRUM SOLO
Then dads bailed to a parlor in SOHO
On green baize: STRAIGHT POOL
On pink felt: Gay pool.
While at the party, kids played MARKo POLO!
We could join ALI and climb mountains in ALAI,
Play LA CROSSE, or do CROSS-words in the Times of L.A.!
I ASSURE you, I'm AS SURE as can be.
I ASSUME we'll be ASSociates, U & ME!
{B-, C.}
I thought of croquet for that mallet sport. "What are your favorite sports?" Betsy was asked. "POLO and croquet".
Weed in the loin, eh? I'm reading Harlot by Mailer about the CIA. They played around with LSD as did others.
Heresy though it may be(eh -T?) But Yacht Rock was my Sirius goto.
One of the dirtiest monologs I ever heard was by REDD. Yes I listened to the whole thing.
Qdoba was unknown. CHIPOTLE got in trouble with the Board of Health in st Pete awhile back
How do I love thee, OREO, let me count the ways
Cleveland broke up their team of Allstars: Toronto got ALOMAR, Boston got Ramirez* and sans steroids Bell became Tinker Bell.
The late Payne Stewart recreated the KNICKER tradition
Very doable Thursday. Thanks to Chris and the ever entertaining maloman.
Fitzgerald had me thinking F. Scott. Dnk BALI and forgot there was an ALAI Range and inked Ural.
WC
** New Redsox owners considered the Ramirez contract a poison pill and bashed him unmercifulky through their paid media. He only brought 2 WS to Boston
Good morning!
Up early again. Zipped through this one in short order. Don't really consider AHA and OHO to be similar. AHA = "I understand." OHO = "I caught ya!" Enjoyed the ride, Chris, even though I failed to read the full reveal and, once again, missed the theme. l [Sigh.] Excellent review, Mal-Man.
HAREM -- Both BBC nature narrators, David Attenborough and Helena Bonham Carter, pronounce it Hah-REEM. Drives me nuts. (OK, more nuts.) I say HAIR-'em. You?
FIR but erased verbs for LIBEL, and liene for ALENE. DNK ALAI, ALTHEA or HOB.
Hand up for not knowing Foxx's real last name, and the connection to one of my all-time favorite sitcoms.
TACKS reminds me of the story of the young man who stopped into the pharmacy before going on his "tonight's the night" date. He took his $5 box of condoms to the counter, where the clerk said "that'll be 5 dollars and 46 cents". He replied "what's the 46 cents for"? "TAX", she replied. His eyes got huge, and he replied "oh my God, I thought they stayed on by themselves"!
People are hoarding Nabisco products because the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union is on strike. OREOs may become scarce soon.
Around here the restaurants call it "TACO Tuesday. The servers call it CAT night - cheap-ass TACOs.
Thanks to Chris for the fun, easy-for-Thursday puzzle. And thanks to The Man for the funny explanation.
MalMan, I think you are being too much of a stickler in criticizing the inclusion of the Pool Cue as stick. A fun Thursday from the first new constructor that you are the caddie for MM.
I too did not know ALAI as clued but the perps were fair. Joseph, I was amazed by your choice of the poster for SUED FOR LIBEL a 1939 film with no major stars. LIBEL must be written and published, not just words.
Not sure why I have this large font, but thank you Chris and JS.
This was a faster solve than many Thursdays. I often debate between ARAL and URAL only today it was ALAI.
I would have put 14A in the theme category as many call POLO mallets STICKS!
Gotta run - but have a beautiful Thursday!
Thanks MM and Chris!
The large font did not translate to what was published but I am still confused.
Good Morning:
Another well-hidden theme that brought an Aha, literary, before the Oho showed up. I also stumbled on Tea Cup instead of Pot, don’t know why but I stuck with it far too long, and I had Tonic before Tongs. Retrod was a major nose wrinkler but was redeemed by the numerous fun pairings: Ahora/Amore, Assume/Assure, Ali/Alai, Polo/pPool, SKOR/Score(d), Scored crossing Lacrosse and the melodic, rhythmic Solo/Soho/Polo/Oho. We also have a mini O Team with Taco, Oreo, Lobo, Polo, Solo, Soho, and Oho.
Thanks, Chris, for a fun solve and thanks, MalMan, for the generous dose of humor and lighthearted banter. Have a fun and safe trip and enjoy that Reuben!
Have a great day.
Literally, naturally.
Good Morning.
Thanks, Chris. This puzzle was very doable for Thursdays of late, at least for me. I made my usual first entry mistakes, such as guts instead of GALL for chutzpah. All of my erors made sense on crosses.
MM, Thank you for another amazing tour. Very well done. (as opposed to rare) I enjoyed the Dean Martin clip. I always thought he had a grand voice and was usually underrated.
Have a sunny day. There's a bit of fall in the air here on the western shore of Lake Michigan. Of course, the sun's angle tells the real story.
I picked my way through this one in 5:50. Maybe my love of lacrosse and Chipotle came in handy.
A Thursday FIR for a faster puzzle than usual, as inanehiker noted. A few WOs corrected by perps: CLOt/CLOG, aHa/OHO, AMOur/AMORE, and MARs/MARK. The last one I caught during my proofreading just before checking the blog. I sNICKERed when I saw it should be KNICKERS that Sarazen wore. All in all an enjoyable puzzle with interesting fill and theme, Chris. Thanks. STICK to it and come back again.
Thanks, MalMan, for your review with added info and chuckles. Hope your trip goes well. More chuckles from Jinx and OwenKL. We're off to a jolly start today!
Thank you Chris for a breezy Thursday puzzzle, although I FIW for not knowing AHORA and keeping AHA instead of OHA (?). The rest was pretty smooth sailing. And thank you MalMan as always for a fun review - loved the LAB GIF - used to have two of the wacky dogs.
Funny how time flies. Don't know if anyone has picked this up yet, but Willie Mosconi has already lost the record to John Schmidt who shot 626 STRAIGHT on May 27, 2019. BTW MM, I've heard the term "pool stick", but I'm sure the purists prefer "cue" (pronounced "CEW").
On the subject of DRUM SOLOS, Charlie Watts never performed them for the STONES.
52D SSTAR. Yeah COOL, but is it HIP?
Cheers,
Bill
Musings
-Minnesota Fats said to Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler, “You shoot a good STICK”
-Nebraska is abandoning its “holier than though” attitude about gamblers and will soon have several casinos
-My friends and I’ll be shooting for PAR today in a fun little converted pasture an hour’s drive from here
-The ALEE side of the house is where the snow causes the biggest drifts
-Most of REDD Fox’s “naughty” humor of 50 years ago is common fare now
-Nebraska is close to harvesting about 1.9 billion bushels of CORN this year. That’s about 181 bu/acre.
-FORE!
Pick Up Sticks? I never noticed it. SSTAR was the only logical fill for the cool red giant with CRIS already in place . HOB, I've seen before but didn't remember.
Then there's RETROD, a weird word that makes sense but was unknown to me. I wanted RETOLD but couldn't shoot PAO and my DRUM ROLL became a SOLO.
And I can't shoot PAR either while I'm not wearing KNICKERS.
Good morning.
Speed run. Led to some corrections:
- Locks before TACKS
- Fauna before BIOTA
- Sky before PAR
- Started to key in Clemente before running out of room, then ALOMAR.
Hand up for not knowing that Redd Foxx's real last name was Sanford.
I think the first time I heard PHAT was in the movie "Money Talks" with Chris Tucker telling Heather Locklear, "You're PHAT !" She says "Excuse me ?" and he responds with "You're phat. P-H-A-T. Pretty Hot And Tempting." Just about fell out of my chair laughing.
My brother used to hustle pool around the neighborhoods in the city of Chicago when he worked there in the late 60's and early 70's. He told me that he often doubled the money from his paycheck. He said he shot a few "bigger money" games of pool against Willie Mosconi (and lost) before knowing who he was. My brother said that Willie told him, "You're a good shot maker, but you shoot too fast to be any good." Egging him on, before someone finally asked him if he knew who he was playing against.
I totally forgot about that "ONE TWO BUCKLE MY SHOE, THREE FOUR KNOCK AT THE DOOR, FIVE SIX . . . PICK UP STICKS"
"A Dutch woman kicked me in the face" - Groan :>) And more. Many more. Fun to read.
Enjoyed the recap, MM. Nice puzzle, Chris !
Tremendous Thursday. Thanks for the fun, Chris and MalMan.
I FIRed in good time and saw the STICKS theme (this Canadian knows her hockey Sticks in the ARENA, but we had LACROSSE instead today!). The NE corner was the last to fall.
Several inkblots. Hand up for Aha before OHO.
Another hand up for Tonic before TONGS (but Coho is a fish not an area of London!), and Aral before ALAI.
I debated over the meaning of 9A "Block": is it a SLAB giving me CLOd, or the verb "to prevent" giving me CLOG. Straightening out STRAIGHT straightened that out!
I waited for perps to decide if Timor was EAST or West. And I agree that RETROD could have been better clued. CHIPOTLE was all perps as I did not know Qdoba.
Other unknown names included Mosconi, ALTHEA, Sarazen; ALOMAR I knew from his time as a Toronto Blue Jay.
I noted OHO and SOHO, SCORED and SKOR, SCORED crossing LACROSSE. (I see IM beat me!)
We seemed to have a plethora of Cs and CKs today with SCAT, CLOG, LACROSSE/SCORED, TACKS, KNICKERS, STICKS, TACO.
A tempest in a TEAPOT would be an ADO. Better be SAFE,TACK those sails and get ALEE.
I say Hair-em.
Wishing you all a great day.
Hola!
What a terrific Thursday puzzle to return home to! Gracias, Chris. And wonderful review, MalMan. Enjoy your trip and the cool weather.
I know I don't appreciate these sports themes as much as you sports fans do, but it was a bit of fun and the first puzzle I have solved in almost two weeks! I never even saw a newspaper there and my friend doesn't have a computer. She uses her tablet.
It's surprising to me that my memory is not completely gone as I recalled Roberto ALOMAR, was happy to see EL CID and thrilled to see CHPOTLE/AHORA as well as LOBO. Thanks to Chris Sablich for the smattering of Spanish.
Tempest site made me think it would be a Shakespearean reference but TEAPOT made me smile.
No, I did not get PAR/RETROD. Had RETOLD instead. Another error was DRUMROLL. RETOLD made sense and I thought PAO was some sort of food.
Ah, well, I'm sure I'll get into the swing soon enough.
It's lovely to read you all and hope you have been well. I can report that northern California is cool and breezy though suffering from a severe drought. My friend of 70 years whom I visited is a most gracious hostess. We entertain ourselves by laughing and laughing and laughing!
Have a terrific Thursday, everyone!
Well, Thursdays are the beginning of weekend toughies for me, but still fun, Chris--many thanks. And thanks for the pictures, MalMan, always enjoyable. I'm not sure that pup was happy with his IAMS, though.
Glad to begin by getting ALTHEA--which, along with OREO, helped me get LIBEL. Like others I put AHA before OHO.
Didn't think of the "King and I"'s group as a HAREM (yes, I pronounce it hair-em). Not sure HAREM belongs over AMORE.
Wilbur, you love OREOS? Once, twice, three times?
Have a good day, everybody.
Mal man: "A Dutch woman kicked me in the face..." love it.. "great cast"..lol 😂
Inkovers:coke/COLA, saidso/ASSURE , fauna/biome, BIOTA, fury/SAFE, amour/AMORE , (thought we weren't supposed to say things like "love a broad", "There Ain't Nothing Like a Dame").."requiring fine motor skills" almost wrote pickup artist
I play POLO often, Marco POLO in the pool with my grandkids. Canada Eh, I thought the second summer sport in your neck of the woods is watching glaciers melt.😉
Oh yeah, the theme...hmmm, nope, not today (actually forgot to check). 🙄
"aha"! OHO appears for the nth time.
Kept thinking F. Scot Fitzgerald not Ella who's always dropping her cool SCAT into our puzzles.
Generous gentleman...BIG SUR
For ____ or worse...BETTOR
Dull razors....KNICKERS
To pretend I can pronounce Kyrgyzstan would be _____ ALAI.
The weekend aproacheth
C-Eh, I think a tempest in a TEAPOT would be much ADO about nothing.
I'm surprised that no one complains about ALEE, even though we get it a lot. Other words that are constructed by adding an "a" to a familiar word, such "atilt", bring out the armchair linguists here in our Corner. And the root word is LEE, meaning the downwind side. "Let's get in the LEE of that container ship and get the spinnaker down" or "let's get in the LEE of that cliff and ride out that tempest".
TTP- Your story brought to mind Jim Croce's "You Don't Mess Around With Jim."
For all the pocket billiards afficiandos here is the 626 BALL RUN which WASEELY brought up.
SPINNAKER. We went to lunch at a restaurant called The SPINNAKER, overlooking the ocean. Seafood, of course.
A drum solo is a rock concert highlight? I thought it was when everyone went to get another beer...
MM- Cute radish joke, and the dog eating with a fork, but was that last t-shirt Reuben picture really necessary? It seems that I can't look at anything anymore on the internet without seeing the F-word and the middle finger to boot.
It's just sad that it's so prevalent and now it's accepted and no one takes offense.
I still do.
Lucina, if you ever find yourself in San Diego (and what Zonie desn't), I highly recommend Red Sails Inn. Great food (mainly seafood but a lot of "turf" too), and an even better place to people watch. Pricy, except their breakfasts are very reasonable.
L714, I agree. The pool STICK is often referred to as a cue.
Fln-2, re. Yellow Stop sign. Found an ex-Bostonian who corroborated my take re. 3 on a Match ie if Yellow, 2nd and 3rd cars could follow through intersection after first stopped.
WE'RE NOT MAKING THIS UP!!!
Misty, actually my fav is Pepperidge Farm Sausalitos. I'll only buy on bogo or at least a 2/$6.00. $3.89 for 8 cookies is too much.
BTW, Owen those were two solid W's in my book.
Re. Thay ubiquitous middle digit. Just saw a video of 4 yr old extending the finger out cuz Dada wouldn't play. To hilarity from the millennials.
WC
I enjoyed this puzzle. So, it wasn't RUBY Tuesday and it wasn't Sound and FURY. Like several of you I didn't know Qdoba but after a few letters CHIPOTLE was the only word it could possibly be. the 5-letter Love abroad could be AMORE or AMOUR; wait for perps.
I guess there must be such a thing as a slow trot and fast trot. Could there also be such a thing as a medium-speed trot?
I liked the clue for TEAPOT.
So, Ol'Man Keith, how many times have you RETROD the boards?
KNICKERS in Britain are underpanties.
How many people who don't know Spanish might be expected to know AHORA, even after getting it solely from perps?
In Arabic, SAHARA simply means desert.
I pronounce HAREM as HAIR-em but my Egyptian friend taught me it is ha-REEM in Arabic. I still pronounce it HAIR-em anyway. (He's the guy who taught me that SAHARA simply means desert.)
Loved reading all your comments. Good wishes to you all.
I just read that the Red Sails Inn has closed, as of August 31.
https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2016/sep/01/stringers-red-sails-inn-takes-sunset-cruise/
A fine piece of work, this Thursday PZL from Mr. Sablich! Well answered by MalM!
I know about the different pronunciations of HAREM, but I will stick to "HAIR-em" when speaking with anglophones.
Lest they hang up on me.
~ OMK
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DR: Two diagonals, one to each side.
The far side diag is entirely made up of consonants, not a chance for an anagram there, except perhaps for humming.
The near side is crammed with vowels, not much opportunity here.
The best I can do is a single word anagram (11 of 15 letters) that tells us what crosswords do for members of this Corner.
They turn us into long distance...
"SOCIALISERS"!
Wilbur, had to look up BOGO ("a sales promotion at a reduced price").
So what's a "sausalito" and what makes it cheaper than an oreo cookie?
Puzzling thoughts:
FIW. And today I do mean "Wrong". My hangup was in the SW corner having PFAT/FAREM instead of PHAT/HAREM, and again in the SE corner with SANE/NIT instead of SAFE/FIT.
CSIS looked weird as did SSTAR. Guess I'm not "HIP"!
My corrected WO's were LOG ROLLS/LACROSSE and ALPO/IAMS
Are they really a SET of keys anymore? None of my cars for god knows how many years have come with more than one key - and many cars are operated by a fob - and I think of "SET" as more than one . . .
MM, your recap was far more enjoyable to read than the puzzle was to fill. RETROD, HOB, SSTAR, and CSIS did me in. No offense, Chris!
CMoe:
My SET of keys consists of the house key and car key. BTW, while I was gone my friend, Mark, replaced the screen door which was destroyed by the early summer storm we had some weeks ago. It is a beautiful, white metal door and a great improvement on the old one.
Jinx:
Thank you for the recommendation though I don't know when I'll go to San Diego. I no longer have contacts there but I'll keep it in mind. My sister lives in Highland, CA, and we go to a beach just west of there or to Huntington Beach.
Lucina: welcome back from your trip.
I keep my house key separate from my car key so maybe that was my reaction! I do know that many keep the two together but I always figure if one’s lost the other probably isn’t. But then there’s also the problem with which key ring you park your Basha’s, Fry’s, and Safeway ID tag!!
We’re getting plenty mosquitoes over here …
Many years ago, (1984, pre-web) I was president of the National Fantasy Fan Federation (N3F), an international science fiction correspondence club. Fanzines were very much a thing, and the 6 members of the directorate corresponded by personal fanzines that we mailed to each other. It is amazing how heated we could get about how many picaune details that were involved. So many tempests, so my personal-zine to the other officers I named The Teapot.
CMoe:
Thank you for the welcome!
Yes, it is a quandary where to keep all those ID tags! I have them all on one ring so they will be available in whichever store I happen to be.
Well, I had a FIR on a Thursday puzzle! I got the theme and all of the STICKS.
Can’t say that it was just a walk in the park, Kazansky. I have eight purple highlights on my grid for words I didn’t know. Most of them have been mentioned by others.
Thanks, Chris! The perps were more than kind today!
Great review, MalMan!
WC, do you mean the one about the soap?
Later….
Hi All!
Late 'cuz I'm in IL chillin' w/ (Army) Bro. I'm up here for his retirement party this Saturday. CEO Bro will fly in tomorrow but don't tell anyone - it will be a surprise.
//First time in years all 5 Sibs will be together at Pop's house (poor bastard :-))
I DNF'd it in the NE. Block ≠ STOP & AHROA was not in my wheelhouse.
Thanks Chris for the travel-day puzzle (easier than NYT or WSJ - a triple DNF today :-() and thanks MManatee for the expo.
Welcome home Lucina!
SynergyGirl: If you've never been to a RUSH concert... The Professor.
Play with y'all as vacation-time permits.
Cheers, -T
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