TailSpins: The word Tail is "spun" into each of today's theme answers.
17-Across. Crude carrier: OIL TANKER.
31-Across. Gem set by itself: SOLITAIRE.
46-Across. It's useless to argue with one: KNOW IT ALL.
9-Down. Good thing to spend with one's kids: QUALITY TIME.
25-Down. "Rebel Without a Cause" co-star: NATALIE WOOD. Natalie Wood (née Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko; July 20, 1938 ~ Nov.
29, 1981) died under mysterious circumstances.
And the unifier:
66-Across. Dramatic descents, and a hint to each set of circles: TAIL SPINS. Interesting how two of the spun tails intersect. The forms sort
of form a bit of a tail spin, I suppose.
Across:
1. Crosses by wading: FORDS.
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| A Ford Fording a River. |
6. Bag-checking org.: TSA. As in the Transportation Security Administration.
9. Juice buy: QUART.
14. Spreads used instead of butter: OLEOs. // Not to
be confused with 2-Down. Hodgepodges: OLIOs.
15. Bar passer, briefly: ATT. As in an Attorney.
16. Latin bears: URSAE. Today's Latin lesson. Probably
the most well known Latin bears are Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
19. De La Garza of "FBI": ALANA. Alana de la Graza (b. June
18, 1976) was also a character in the Law & Order franchise.
20. "Stop stalling!": DO IT!
21. Like a stunt pilot's maneuvers: AERIAL. See the video
above.
23. Disfigure: MAR.
24. Part of an act: SCENE. Hi, OMK!
26. Notable biblical birth: NATIVITY.
28. "Inferno" poet: DANTE. Dante Alighieri (circa 1265 ~ d.
1321) was from Florence, Italy. The Inferno is just one
part of his longer poem The Divine Comedy. The other 2 parts
are Purgatorio and Paradiso. The focus of
this poem is the SOUL.
30. Tour de France saison: ÉTÉ. Today's French lesson.
The Tour de France bicycle race takes place in the Summer.
35. "She loves you" followers, in song: YEAHs. The Beatles!
39. What may be before now?: ERE.
40. Old nuclear agcy.: AEC. As in the Atomic Energy Commission. It operated from August 1946 to 1975. It was created by
Congress during the Truman administration and was designed to control the
peacetime development of atomic science and technology for military and
civilian use.
41. Chicago winter hrs.: CST. As in Central Standard Time.
43. Statesman with an eponymous jacket: MAO. Andy Warhol made many portraits of Mao.
44. Court case: TRIAL.
49. Predicament: FIX.
51. "Speed Racer" genre: ANIME. Speed Racer is a
Japanese comic about car racing.
52. Hikers' flasks: CANTEENS.
56. Serena's sister: VENUS. As in the tennis-playing
sisters Serena (née Serena Jameka Williams; b. Sept. 26, 1981) and Venus (née
Venus Ebony Starr Williams; b. July 17, 1980) Williams.
59. Time to remember: ERA.
60. Twist in pain: WRITHE.
62. Barbershop sound: SNIP.
64. Kaka'ako crooner: DON HO. Don Ho (né Donald Tai Loy Ho;
Aug. 13, 1930 ~ Apr. 14, 2007) is best known for his song Tiny Bubbles.
68. Prenatal test, informally: AMNIO.
69. Circus closing?: ESS. As in the letter "S".
Circus. I am not a fan of this type of clue.
70. Pigeon shelters: COTES. These shelters are usually
referred to as Dovecotes. They can come in all shapes and sizes.
You can make your own pigeon cote if you are so inclined.
71. Like starfish: RAYED.
72. Legal thing: RES. More of today's Latin lesson.
73. It's quite a blast: H-TEST. Hydrogen Bomb.
Down:
1. __ chain: FOOD.
3. Bit of antiquity: RELIC.
4. Punctuational symbol of completeness: DOTTED I.
5. U.S. ID issuer: SSA. As in the Social Security Administration.
6. Word before heart or heed: TAKE. Take heart, you know you
can complete today's puzzle.
7. Less lax: STERNER.
8. Skylit courts: ATRIA.
Take Heed of the Atria in the Heart
10. Internet acronym: URL. As in the Universal Resource Locator. This appears with some frequency in the puzzles.
11. "Ditto": AS AM I.
12. Approached aggressively: RAN AT.
13. Lachrymose: TEARY.
18. Swaying hip-hop dance: NAE NAE. I am not familiar with
this dance despite the fact that half of the dance appeared in a recent puzzle.
22. Downed: ATE.
27. Sign of success: VEE.
29. Clock sound: TICK.
31. Collector's goal: SET.
32. Yossarian's "Catch-22" tentmate: ORR.
Catch-22 is a 1961 satirical war novel by Joseph Heller (May
1, 1923 ~ Dec. 12, 1999)
33. Island garland: LEI.
34. Janet Yellen's field: Abbr.: ECON. Janet Louise Yellen
(b. Aug. 13, 1946) is an Economist who is the current United States Secretary of the Treasury. She
earned her Ph.D. in Economics at Yale University.
36. Physicians' org.: AMA. As in the American Medical Association.
37. Scary "2001" computer: HAL.
38. Fifth of a musical series: SOL.
42. Desk chair feature: SWIVEL.
45. Admiral's rear: AFT. Hi, Spitzboov!
47. '70s tennis star Ilie: NĂSTASE. In the 1970s, Ilie Năstase (né Ilie Theodoriu Năstase; b. July 19, 1946) was ranked the number 1 tennis
singles player. He was born in Bucharest, Romania.
48. Two fins: TEN SPOT.
50. Gen-__: XER.
52. Aromatic closet-lining wood: CEDAR.
53. Barbecue draw: AROMA.
54. Child minder: NANNY.
55. Fertilizer compound: NITER. Niter is another term for
Potasium Nitrate. A weird word for a Tuesday puzzle.
57. Act in concert: UNITE.
58. Angle calculations: SINEs. We all remember this from
high school math, don't we!
61. Escaping-steam sound: HISS.
63. Verbal nudge: PSST!
65. Step on it, quaintly: HIE.
67. BYU or NYU: SCH. Brigham Young University and New York
University are both Schools.
חתולה
Another Tuesday where the challenge was reading all of Hahtoolah's cartoons and links. We also had another editing puzzle with the word AROMATIC in the clue just before the fill AROMA . I liked Alana in FOREVER which wasn't given much of a chance.
ReplyDeleteI guess Susan missed last Friday's introduction to the NAE NAE dance
Thanks H and Alan
Alan O. by the way had his first LAT publication in January 2002, almost 20 years ago.
ReplyDeleteAlana (I wonder if he likes her because of her name) may be the first actor to appear as the same character in three related series two times. First the Law and Order franchise, and now in the new CBS Tuesday night FBI troika.
I know, I just couldn't sleep
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteI was a-slippin' and a-slidin' from top left to bottom right, and then I ran into _TEST. Would it be A or N? Neither made much sense. Ooh...it's an H. Yay. Thanks Alan. I'd write your full name, but I fear the Google algorithm would trash my post. Enjoyed the tour, Hahtoolah. (Was that cartoon about the bar exam biographical?)
NATIVITY: I was quite old when I learned it wasn't an "activity scene." Probably 40-something.
NAE-NAE: That was the Scotsman's evaluation of the dance.
D-O, you are too funny
ReplyDeleteGood Morning, Crossword friends. D-O, you are so right in so many ways!
ReplyDeleteQOD: It’s choice, not chance, that determines your destiny. ~ Jean Nidetch (née Jean Evelyn Slutsky; Oct. 12, 1923 ~ Apr. 29, 2015), American co-founder of Weight Watchers
FIW. I knew NASTASi and thought RiS was legal. UNtiE! But I got the Natick of ALANA x TEARY by recognizing that TEARY was more likely than TSARY, and erasing URSAs.
ReplyDeleteI'm familiar with the NATALIE WOOD death. The boat was in the designated anchorage area in Isthmus Harbor, which is the yachtie hangout on Catalina Island. Unlike Avalon, there are only a few businesses. One restaurant/bar, a snack bar, a fuel dock and a boating supply store. "Everyone" over there (meaning the every-weekend visitors and the employee community) knew that Wagoner killed Wood. Her portrait hung in the stores, but there weren't any of him, or of them as a couple. But because the anchorage is relatively small, it is very quiet after the bar-closing crowd gets back aboard, and many skippers sleep lightly when anchored (or on a mooring), it is hard for me to believe that if she had cried out for help she wouldn't be heard. I suspect that she was unconscious when she went into the water. But with all of that, I am distrustful of accusations of coroners covering up murder and prosecutors not being willing to pursue solid cases because a suspect is famous. Maybe OJ can figure it out after he finds Nicole's real killer.
"Act in concert" - As long as you don't sing along at the concert unless the performers invite it, you are acting OK my me. The old me would have added "and as long as you don't bogart that joint", but not the current me.
Today is the best day of the sports season - the NHL opener! Word of advice - don't watch the hockey game and then watch baseball. Tivo the Lightning game, watch the playoffs, then watch NHL. On the other hand, if you are having trouble getting to sleep, watch hockey first. You'll never make it through nine innings of baseball.
Thanks to Alan and Ha2lah for the fun.
Fln, HG, I'm very sensitive to caffeine. Coca Cola etc does indeed have a lot of caffeine. Iced tea not so much.
ReplyDeleteOops, there's the problem with racing through and not checking perps. I had NITro* and never noticed oES*, rSS*
FIW
I missed the NAE NAE dance from last week. ie* I missed nothing
Thanks hahtoola. As Anon-T said, fln, sometimes the most interesting links are the secondary ones.
WC
*'s (again) are for thwarting Google auto-correct
Good morning all. Thanks for an easy solve Alan and thanks Hahtoola for the review.
ReplyDeleteWith Oleos, Olios crossing, Quart giving up Quality Time the Fix was in.
Almost as quick as the reveal, one of my less favorite excercises in pilot training.
Mcd’s coffee still warm,suns up and warm, fall colors are great . What’s not to love? DW and I went hiking park trails yesterday . Today we clean up the flower beds and hope for some rain before winter.
Have a great day , cheers
Testing Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, Alan and Hahtoolah.
ReplyDeleteI FIWed by vacillating between A and N for that TEST (hello d’o), and having no idea about those American SCHs.
But I did see the TAIL SPINS.
Actually, I will blame Canadian disadvantage fir my difficulties today. TSA, SSA, SCH, Yellen ECON, OLEOS, TEN SPOT, AMA, AEC, QUART instead of metric measure, NITER spelled the American way - sigh. But most of the previous, I have seen before, and perps filled the rest ( except for the afore-mentioned H TEST).
I noted a plethora of three-letter words (at least 24).
Also noted were ERA and ERE, CST crossing TIME ( think about it!).
For those who have trouble deciding between OLEOS and OLIOS, we had them crossing today!
Nehru was too long for the jacket - ok MAO.
Elena changed to ALANA with perps.
I thought of Cold chain before FOOD perped. The former is vitally important for vaccines (and creates distribution issues in many areas).
I see that my post from last night has disappeared along with many others.
Glad to hear from SwampCat.
Wishing good health to YR, IM.
Good day all.
Fortunately, NAE NAE was recalled, OLEO and OLIO are old acquaintances and "they" decided on TANKER instead of the oft-appearing misnomer, OILER. I could have done without SCH but it was still a very pleasant day-starting puzzle and Cat's recaps are always a joy to peruse. It got down into the 40's here overnight and that is just fine with me.
ReplyDeleteLet’s try EROS and erotic today and see if we are deleted by the Google censors.
ReplyDeleteJeesh, as Jayce would say!
Good morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteA puzzle from an old stalwart. Haven't seen much of Alan's work in the past couple years. Got it all w/o help. FIR. Only write-over was I had 'NEC' before AEC. Held off on the 'I' in TICK (tock?) until SOLITAIRE fell.
Enjoyed your write-up, Hahtoolah.
AFT - I use it here around the house. BH tolerates it.
juice in ½ gallon (2 QUART) cartons - Good luck with that. Around here much juice is sold in 52 oz. containers.. Except they sport 64 oz. prices. Sic Transit Gloria.
Hope SwampCat's building restoration proceeds satisfactorily. Always a hassle.
Thank you Alan for taking a SPIN over the Corner today. I TAILED you all the way to a Tuesday FIR. And thank you Hahtoolah for WAVING him in with another WACKY set of cartoons.
ReplyDelete71A RAYED. A CSO to Raphael? I'm sure he'll be tickled pink.
8D ATRIA. One of mine flutters a bit.
10D URL. And here's the one for this puzzle. No RECURSING!!!
37D HAL. Shift each letter to the right one letter and you get IBM. Some people think they're pretty "scary".
52D CEDAR. CEDAR is an excellent MOTH repellent. My Dad made chests for my 4 sisters and Teri, lined inside with cedar. Making the whole chest out of the wood would have been costly.
53D AROMA. I love the AROMA of 52D.
57D UNITE. If the musicians in a concert aren't UNITED, you can usually tell right away.
Cheers,
Bill
The reveal “tailspin” really hit home, as My wonderful, caring, cardiologist, Dr. Sugata Das, was killed yesterday in the plane crash in Santee, CA. He was an amazing, talented doctor, and this is a tragic loss to our Yuma community.
ReplyDeleteFor the wannabe pilots,
ReplyDeleteHere is a 60 second video explaining P.A.R.E.
which most people refer to as S.P.A.R.E.
(Swear first...)
Nae nae did not make any sense until you pointed out it was two words...
(Actually, it still doesn't...)
Sorry if I bore you with tales of my flight sim game, Battle of Britain,
But I learned early on how to get out of a spin using p.a.r.e.
However, when I tried flying the twin engine Beufighter, I would often
Get into a "flat" spin that was completely unrecoverable.
This big fat plane has great firepower, but does not maneuver well.
I have even tried idling one engine and revving the other without success.
Hmm,maybe if I feather the idling propeller I might be able to untwist this spin...
Makes me want to take my simulated plane out for a spin...
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteOh the missteps on this one...
Thanks Alan for the Tuesday puzzle; crunchy as Grape Nuts.
Loved the expo, Hahtoolah. Thanks for the morning giggle.
WOs: FORge; OIL[something underneath the ink(?)], STricer[sic], ToCK, sitte[r] -> NANNY, TsARY (Hi Jinx!)
ESPs: ORR, TEARY, SOL (duh).
Fav: ECONomist Yellen. It made me think of this SNL bit.
//if you think crypto-currency is nutty, get a load of NFTs
Yuman - so sad to read about your Dr.
Funny, D-O.
C, Eh! - So a yummy Canadian Thanksgiving turkey?
//BTW, TTP released your FLN post from the "EROS" smut-pit / Spam folder.
Back to work.
Cheers, -T
Not bad for Tuesday...the tale of tails theme was easy and helped with the fill. Inkover: atest/HTEST (Canada.Eh)
ReplyDeleteWhen butter prices rise there are OLIOS of OLEOS in the supermarket margarine section. Wood like to know what really happened to NATALIE. (Natalie from Natale = NATIVITY).
Googled it but couldn't find a popular jaunty instrumental background song I remember about a clock that tock-ticked instead of tick-tocked from the 50's/60s 🕰..Anybody? 🤔
Waz: we have a large CEDAR storage room in the basement. No moths cuz it's so packed with DW's junk there ain't no room for 'em.🙄
Dante's Inferno (Ital: Hell) only one letter off from Inverno "winter"🥶
Mermaid stunt pilot....AERIAL
Foray....RAYED
Cram instead of sleep: Pull an all ___ ..NITER.
"Goldilocks and the 3" ____....URSAE (Major, Minor and Medium).🐻🐻🐻
Loved the cartoons H2LH!!🤣😂😆
A Tuesday “Tale” of chasing my “tail” the S.E. corner took me a few tries but I got ‘er done. I saw Don Ho in concert in the early 80’s. Thanks Alan and Hahtoolah.
ReplyDeleteLOL I erred in trying to check if Er__ and Er___ic we’re the triggers for Google to make my post vanish. Yes, my 9:44 post is gone.
ReplyDeleteAnonT- did you catch my post FLN before it vanished. Yes, we had yummy turkey (and leftovers tonight). Recovery day today; I am going to sit out on the patio and read this afternoon and enjoy this beautiful weather. We will be cool soon.
Ray-o- The only song I remember is My Grandfather’s Clock that went TICK-tock, TICK-tock, and “stopped short, never to go again, when the old man died”.
Rats! Got the theme early, didn’t need but got the reveal. ATEST:NTEST:HTEST = only W/O. Like WS@7:55 I messed up and put NITRO for 55d. OES didn’t make any sense but neither does RES to me, and never thought of ESS fir 69a. So….FIW. Very nice CW anyway, thanx, AO. And thanx too to Susan for her as always terrific write-up.
ReplyDeleteC, Eh! - Your FLN post stands today if you go back in time blog-wise.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Yes!, Ray-O's tock-tick made me think of Johnny Cash too.
//I tried to find what Ray-O was talking about but Google kept "fixing" my query.
Cheers, -T
Canada Eh...No not that one...This is gonna drive me crazy...plus most of the sites that pop up when I search are TIK TOK related. The tune was mainly used as an instrumental with a tick tock or metronome keeping time in the background. You would immediately recognize the tune..😖
ReplyDeleteRay-O: I'm sure you'll noodle on it all day :-)
ReplyDeleteArmy training, Sir!
When I was in Basic, we had two types of Drill Sergeants: the black guys that would make an 8 mile hike go by in a flash and the white guys who couldn't quite keep rhythm*.
Worse, we had one pudgy white-guy DS who'd make us march to DON HO's Tiny Bubbles.
When he called cadence, a 300-yard march to the mess hall seemed to take forever!
Cheers, -T
*hey, some stereotypes are true :-)
Fun Tuesday puzzle, Alan--many thanks. And Hahtoolah, thanks for your always delightful commentary--I enjoy your pictures.
ReplyDeleteDon't know why I didn't notice the circle words until I got the reveal: oh the word TAIL spinning around. Very cute.
Lots of different characters and names. My favorite: DANTE.
Would have considered SOLITAIRE a card game rather than a gem.
Sad to read and remember NATALIE WOOD's sad life and ending.
Have a good day, everybody.
CanadianEh!:
ReplyDeleteMy Grandfather's Clock
Ray-O, I think this may be the piece you're remembering. Leroy Anderson wrote it as a novelty number for the Boston Pops: The Syncopated Clock
ReplyDeleteRay: The song you are thinking of is The Syncopated Clock.
ReplyDeleteYuma: Sorry to hear your Doctor was piloting the plane that crashed yesterday.
ReplyDeleteThank you Alan O. for an easy Tuesday puzzle with a cute theme, that was easy to suss.
Thank you Hahtoolah for your blog review and the catty cartoons ... although the last one took me all of five minutes to figure out ... I am not familiar with Bed, Bath and Beyond, and with cat antics ...(sigh) I guess you have to be a cat owner to figure that out.
Lemonade, I looked at the link for the Forever trailer, and the wiki'ed Forever and got 2 totally diferent things !! The latter was about a B film, about death, depression, religious sects and mass suicide ... that I would not care to watch.... and Alana was not in the latter film. Don't they have copyrights as to name a movie and reserve the title ?
52 D CEDAR ... Our house, supposedly, has "cedar" siding ... but I'm pretty sure it must a cheaper version of cedar, if it is cedar at all.. We dont have any moths, but we've had squirrels, field mice, black large ants, hornets, yellow jackets, spiders, centipedes and other unmentionables. No undesirable humans, yet.
55 D NITER ... it was a choice between Nitre and Niter, and the latter won out. Sorry, C-Eh ! Aaah, the american spelling. I am surprised it is used as a fertilizer ... generally it is KCl Pot Chloride, and NH4NO3 Ammonium nitrate, .... since Pot Nitrate is hygroscopic - attracts and soaks water, and is an explosive. It is the main ingredient of gunpowder. Historically, it was obtained from human and animal (- horse ) excrement - mostly the liquid kind. It used to be The Limiting Factor in wars, because there was no technology to manufacture nitrates for gunpowder ... until in the middle of WW I , the german scientists and technologists invented the Haber-Bosch process, to make nitrates from air and natural gas, via ammonia. BTW, Fritz Haber got the Nobel for Chemistry ... he also invented phosgene and mustard gas, was persecuted for his religion, prior to WWII, and his invention of Zyklon B was used in the Holocaust, after his death.
Pl excuse the TMI and the long post. Have a nice day, all.
DO and H2LH...
ReplyDeleteThat's it..exactly
Apparently the theme for a TV 1950s series of movies called the LATE SHOW. my BR was off the den. I probably heard it when M & D were watching TV and I was supposed to be asleep.
Tanks😀,
Yuma, sorry for the loss of your friend, and for the loss of the UPS guy he struck at the end. The surviving couple in the house are expected to survive.
ReplyDeleteThe Cessna 340A is a beautiful plane. I suspect Dr. Das' plane wouldn't have been nearly as difficult to recover from a spin as CED's simulated plane. Both are twins, but the Cessna was designed for safety and comfort. The plane should have been well under maximum weight with only him (apparently) on board the six-seater. The FAA instructed him to climb; he was at 1,500 feet and they wanted him to be at 5,000. Kinda seems like a medical emergency, but wouldn't want to speculate the actual cause. The NTSB will figure it out.
"Syncopated Clock" by Leroy Anderson brings back memories. My folks had the record. On the flip side was The Waltzing Cat. I also played "Trumpeter's Lullaby" in my Junior High school orchestra (3rd Chair First Trumpet).
ReplyDeleteYuman that story was, obviously much in the new here in SoCal. I am sorry to hear of the loss.
FIR today again with three WOs getting fixed by perps to become YEAHS, TEN SPOT, UNITE, and COTES. I won't confess what ridiculous words I started to fill those spaces with. I saw the repeating circled letters for the theme but needed the reveal to get the cuteness. Thanks Alan!
ReplyDeleteAnother fine review, Hahtoolah. Many thanks and a promise to finish looking at the links later for further enjoyment. Hope you all are having an enjoyable day.
ReplyDeleteMy prior post went on too long .... ;-o)
34 D ECON
Janet Yellen is the first female Secy of the Treasury, and prob the first female Chairman of the Boards of the Federal Reserve Banks, prior to that. Plus, she is married to George Akerlof, a Nobel prize winner in Econ. Reputedly they have one child, who can make MONEY appear or disappear, just by snapping his fingers..... ;-o)
Immediately, after solving the clue, I searched desperately in my small wad of banknotes to see if I had any with Janet's signature on them. Alas no ... I guess, its much too early .....I use mostly plastic cards nowadays, and havent been to a bank, or ATM, for ages ... I had a couple of Paulsons, a few Summers, Snow and Mnuchins, some Geithners, a bunch of Jack Lew ( of the infamous loopy signature ...) and even a Rubin ....
How many of you have heard of Rosa Gumataotao Rios ... or of Anna Escobado Cabral ?
These women have signed over 67 Billion Dollars of US Banknotes, as The Treasurer of the US.
6 of the last 10 Treasurers have been female and Mexican American / Latina / Hispanic ... Hi Lucina !
It is true they do not set US economic policy but they do manage the US Mint etc.
CEh! @12:39 PM For a minute I thought you meant this song by Jacques Brel. Not the same, but they end the same way.
ReplyDeleteYuman, I am so sorry to hear about your friend. Such a tragic loss.
Bill
Ray - O @11:21 AM As I recall, the deepest part in Hell was actually the coldest (it was the furthest place in the Universe from God). It was "inverno perpetuo". What a difference a "v" makes.
ReplyDeleteI liked this puzzle, but not as much as I like Alan's surname. My IKE jacket turned out to be a MAO jacket. Jeez, both NAEs today. ASAMI looks sort of like either a bamboo mat or a yoga position. And yep, I totally noticed OLEOS crossing OLIOS.
ReplyDeleteFunny how we sometimes know a famous artist (painter, writer, sculptor) by only his first name, eg DANTE, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, etc.
15 across is our ISP as well as our cell phone carrier.
LW and I like COTES du Rhone wines.
My ATRIA fibrillate also.
Always a pleasure to read your recaps, Hahtoolah.
Good wishes to you all.
Musings
ReplyDelete-A nice puzzle after 18 holes on a fabulous fall day.
-Beatles? YEAH, YEAH, YEAH!
-Off to get a flu shot to go with my two Covid shots and two Shingles shots in 2021
DNF. This seemed strangely chewy for a Tuesday PZL. I managed everything except for the SE corner. All because my memory blanked on COTES.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't get beyond COOPS, and that blocked the perps for me as well.
NAE-NAE was OK-OK. Never heard of it before, but it looked fine.
~ OMK
Spitzboov @ 9:57:
ReplyDeleteIt's not just juice -- my recent purchase of a 'gallon' of bleach wound up being just 2.53 quarts (the jug looks like it holds 4 quarts, but that's just click bait). Ditto for the small 7-oz, cans of soda that now clock in at 5 ounces. Scams everywhere ... sometimes it seems like our national hobby for businesses is deceit and fibbing.
Another FIR, but it’s still early in the week. I also got the TAILSPINS theme.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Alan and Hahtoolah!
Susan’s graphic for 1D reminded me of the opening of James Michener’s Centennial, featuring the fight between the eagle and the rattlesnake. Remember which one won???
I am very disappointed at the clue for 43A.
Yuman, my condolences too. Working at an aviation museum at a major airport, I’ve developed many, many aviator friends. Events such as this one shake me to the core!
Oh, boy!!! The puddy tatses ordered eight bags of litter from Chewy on Sunday, and they just got delivered by Fed Ex. The boys and girls have been looking out the front window --- the one by my desk --- all day, worried unto death. (Well, they look out that window all the time anyway. Somebody has ALWAYS got to be on duty.) Anyway, all the bags are stacked in the garage, and the boxes are all cut up to take their ride on the recycle truck tomorrow.
- T @ 1:10:
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame that cadence never got to Ft. Ord.
OTOH, once upon a time someone decided to clear out the Korean War C-rations, so one night in 1963, for chow at Ft. Meade, the mess crew just emptied out case after case of cans into the warming pans .... the exodus off-post that night was tremendous.
I liked this puzzle, I saw the spinning letters in the tails early on.
ReplyDelete46A, it is also useless to argue with a closed mind.(my son on politics)
Nice links and visuals, Susan.
Yuma, sorry for the loss of your friend.
Thanks for all the concern about me. I am fine. I even have the insurance straightened out. The misunderstanding came from hospital's lack of communication. The young girl who talked to me had no understanding of the issue and made no move to find out. I started with the insurance rep who was very helpful and resolved the issue.
I did today's puzzle in the dentist's office. An implant is infected and is losing contact with the bone. I will need a new implant, two crowns and bone grafting. $$$$.
Last night our club had a delightful first square dance in 18 months. We had a helpful and encouraging caller who started to bring us up to speed in a fun way. We renewed many friendships with plenty of yellow rocks.
Vidwan, one of the most interesting aspects of copyright law is that noone can make a title their own. Not a movie, not a TV series, not a book. If you wanted to write WAR and PEACE , go ahead start typing. If you want more information on why not, here is the OFFICIAL POSITION
ReplyDeleteYR, glad you are okay but your dental woes frighten me
ReplyDeleteMichael @ 4:38 PM And another thing: TUNA FISH. 50% of the metal in the can is used to hold water.
ReplyDeleteVidwan: My neighbor's cat brings me "gifts" every other morning. Earlier this week, it was an opposum. I wish that cat could make a return!
ReplyDeleteYikes, an opossum! That’s quite a gift!
ReplyDeleteWaseeley @ 5:33 -- It's been a while since we bought any tuna, but I'll check. No surprise here.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is that it is the MBAs at work: every little sliver that can be gnawed away, will be, and probably in secret.
Just saw a video by Robert Bernstein a/k/a Picard on YouTube of the Alisal Fire taken today in Santa Barbara Co. Pretty scary as are some other news crew videos. Wonder if the Bernsteins are among those who had ot evacuate.
ReplyDeleteYuman - Dr. Das on your local news. Again, my condolences.
ReplyDeleteMichael - The cadence was at (ironically-named*) Ft. Bliss in '88.
PK - Picard's Alisal Fire video
Cheers, -T
*El Paso in July is far from bliss :-)