Shining Stars.
4-Down. Movie with Minions: DESPICABLE ME. Spica is the brightest star in the constellation of Vergo.
8-Down. "Spoon-bender" debunked by the Amazing Randi: URI GELLER. Rigel is the brightest star in the constellation of Orion.
32-Down. Diner list for animal product avoiders: VEGAN MENU. Vega is the brightest star in the constellation of Lyra.
And the unifier:
23-Down. Meteors, and what three Down answers aptly contain: FALLING STARS. Note that each of the Stars, which begin with circled letter, is in the Down, or Falling position. Each of the named stars is also the brightest star in its constellation. This puzzle really needs a bit of astronomical knowledge in order to truly appreciate the theme. I don't know that much about the constellations and their stars, so this puzzle was a learning moment for me.
Across:
1. In the thick of: AMID.
5. "Honey, I __ the Kids": 1989 comedy: SHRUNK. Disney film.
11. Brown bag staple, initially: PBJ. Apparently there is a
proper way to make a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich.
14. Waves from the back of a boat: WAKE.
15. Like some sandpaper: COARSE.
16. Sam Adams, e.g.: ALE. Everything you ever wanted to know
about Sam Adams Beers and Ales.
17. Flickered-out flames?: EXES.
18. "24" analyst Chloe __: O'BRIAN. I never watched 24, so
was not familiar with this fictional character. She was played by Mary
Lynn Rajskub (b. June 22, 1971), whom I recognize, but didn't know her name.
19. Operate: RUN.
20. Good thing to have for a change?: DIAPER BAG. Cute clue.
22. A lot: OFTEN.
24. Judith of "Down Home": IVEY. Down Home is a
rather obscure reference to a sit-com that ran for only 1 year in the early
1990s. Judith Ivey (b. Sept. 4, 1951) was the only female star in the
show.
25. Diplomat's post: EMBASSY. Does the Diplomat stay at the
Embassy Suites?
27. Reacted to a really bad pun, perhaps: WINCED. I don't
trust stairs because they are always up to something.
30. Thrash about: FLAIL.
31. Think tank output: IDEAS.
32. South African grassland: VELD.
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| Grasslands throughout the World |
33. Place to bowl: LANE. Hi, Boomer!
37. Hunk of bacon, say: SLAB. Who knew there were so many types of bacon?
38. Flood deterrent: LEVEE. The Levees held up during Hurricane Ida.
39. Like a Frappuccino: ICED. You can find one at your local
Starbucks.
40. Severe criticism: HELL.
41. Word with teen or golden: AGER. As in a Teenager or a
Golden Ager.
42. Nab in a trap: SNARE.
43. The Ellery Queen Award is one: EDGAR. Everything you
ever wanted to know about the Edgar Awards, but didn't know to ask.
45. Mideast or Midwest: REGION.
46. Motorcyclist's invitation: CLIMB ON.
49. "You're gonna need a bigger boat" movie: JAWS.
50. Biblical prophet: HOSEA. Hosea was an 8th century BCE
prophet. He is classified as one of the minor prophets.
51. Apple known by its first three letters: MACINTOSH.
Generally referred to as a Mac. We had one of these a lifetime
ago. It got me through law school.
56. Notable period: ERA.
57. Words to live by: CREDOS.
59. R&B's India.__: ARIE. India.Arie (née India Arie
Simpson; b. Oct. 3, 1975) has won 4 Grammy Awards.
60. Actress de Armas: ANA. Although her name didn't
immediately ring a bell, Cuban-born Ana de Armas (née Ana Celia de Armas
Caso; Apr. 30, 1988), has been in a number of movies, including the 2019
movie Knives Out.
61. Light, as a fire: KINDLE. Also the name of Amazon's
e-book.
62. Demolish: RAZE.
63. Bench press muscle, briefly: PEC.
64. Barflies: SOUSES.
65. Winter ride: SLED.
Down:
1. Blown away: AWED.
2. Calf-covering skirt: MAXI.
3. DIY furniture brand: IKEA. You think I'm going to make an
Ikea joke? Sorry, you'll have to make it yourself. *
5. Got a run home: SCORED.
6. Avocation: HOBBY.
7. __ avis: RARA. Today's Latin lesson. The two word
phrase means Rare Bird. It's also the name of a town in Mississippi.
9. Code-breaking org.: NSA. As in National Security Agency.
10. Jedi Master Obi-Wan ___: KENOBI. A reference to
the Star Wars movies.
11. Repair bill heading: PARTS.
12. B.B. King genre: BLUES. Although he went by B.B. King,
is actual name was Riley B. King (Sept. 16, 1925 ~ May 14, 2015).
13. Female donkey: JENNY.
21. 12/24 and 12/31: EVEs. Tricky. December 24 and
December 31 are Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, respectively.
26. Manufactured: MADE.
27. Genie's offering: WISH.
28. Run without moving: IDLE.
29. "Hud" Oscar-winner Patricia: NEAL. Patricia Neal's (née
Patsy Louise Neal; Jan. 20, 1926 ~ Aug. 8, 2010) career was interrupted when
she suffered a stroke at age 40.
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| Patricia Neal and Paul Newman in Hud. |
30. Flu symptom: FEVER. Here's to you, Jinx!
34. Antioxidant berry: AÇAÍ. This berry has become a crossword staple.
35. Old Roman fiddler: NERO. Emperor Nero makes frequent
guest appearances in the puzzles.
36. Eve's first home: EDEN.
38. Italy's Como, per esempio: LAGO. Today's Italian Lesson.
42. Fixed with thread: SEWN.
44. Arizona MLBers: DBACKS. As in the Diamondbacks Major
League Baseball team.
45. Workers' rewards: RAISES.
46. Inexpensive: CHEAP.
47. "SNL" producer Michaels: LORNE.
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| Lorne Michaels (né Lorne David Lipowitz; b. Nov. 17, 1944) |
48. Author Asimov: ISAAC. Isaac Asimov (Jan. 1920 ~ Apr. 6,
1992) makes frequent appearances in the puzzles.
49. Rapper with the 2013 #1 album "Born Sinner": J COLE. I
am not up on my rap musicians.
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| J Cole (né Jermaine Lamarr Cole; b. Jan. 28, 1985) |
52. Also includes: ADDS.
53. Face-to-face exam: ORAL.
54. XL or L, but not LX: SIZE.
55. Take to heart: HEED.
58. Brazil metropolis: RIO. Rio de Janeiro is known for its
Mardi Gras / Carnaval festival.
חתולה
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38 comments:
Fun puzzle with Susan’s usual great visual write-up
I did not know the rapper either but it all filled
Be well all and keep healing
FIWrong on a Tuesday! Misspelt VELt (and didn't notice perp) and misWAGged a natick at LORdE + AdA. Also spent a lot of time with CREedS < CREDOS, trying AnDS < ADDS, and JC_LE was just plain unknown.
The circles were helpful in sussing out the theme after the fact. I think I'm a little smarter at astronomy than the average bear, and would have figured out VEGA and RIGEL after the reveal, but SPICA might have stumped me, even tho I knew it right off with the bubble prompt.
Some STARS have names to VEGA-ly rescan,
You must w-RIGEL your memory as you can.
Tho you once knew it,
The years have got to it,
And wiped your recall, SPICA and span!
When young, it's easy for both our sexes
To KINDLE a flame, OFTEN to excess!
But the journey from TEENAGER
To mature GOLDEN AGER
May leave FLICKERED OUT FLAMES of EXES.
The proper reaction to a pun, we're convinced
Is when one has involuntarily WINCED!
But the IDEA
May mark an ERA
Before fully-groaned humor was evinced!
{B+, B, A-.}
FIR, but erased use for RUN, ignite for KINDLE, and VEGAN meal for VEGAN MENU. DNK IVEY, ANA or J COLE.
If the world was a fair place, our friends in the Frozen North would have size LX tees, eh?
March Madness has East, South, West and Midwest Regions. With NCAA bb season approaching I hardly think of the others.
When I filled FEVER I thought of Peggy Lee singing that fabulous torch song.
Travel day today as we return the RV to storage until we leave for Florida. Read you later.
Good morning, crossword friends. Autumn has finally arrived here ~ the daylight time is shorter, making it much easier and earlier to be able to look for those constellations in the night sky.
Jinx, I added Fever just for you.
QOD: Get into your own creativity. Sketch and paint with different mediums (sic) and follow your heart. ~ Peter Max (b. Oct. 19, 1937; né Peter Max Finkelstein), German-born American artist
Good morning!
Saw the circles, and wondered what S-V-R was going to represent. Turns out they were just pointers to denote the start of the three FALLING STARS. I've heard of all of 'em, but couldn't tell you where to find them in the sky. This was another "quicky," coming in well under 5 minutes. Thanx, David and Hahtoolah.
OBRIAN: I remember her as Chloe from that series, but didn't recall her last name was O'BRIAN. She was Jack Bauer's trusted "inside" support at the agency.
VELD: Always see it with the final T -- VELDt. Boer spelling, I think.
KINDLE: I'm late to the corner this morning after spending a half-hour on the phone with Amazon Customer Service. My KINDLE Paperwhite stopped responding to touch-screen actions yesterday -- turning into an electronic brick. It's just a few days shy of its 6-month anniversary. They'll replace it...but via snail mail.
Today is quarterly dental cleaning day. Oh, yay. What fun!
As I look at my Tuesday which I did Monday afternoon I see no W/O's. Amazing considering all the names. Which is considerate of Rich to avoid the dreaded Naticks.
I wasn't sure if he'd SHRUNK or shrank the kids and URI GELLER was one of the unknowns plus Jinx list.
Redsox SCORED early and often last night including another granny.
I liked all three Owen. How about 3*A-
I recognized VEGA and RIGEL. SPICA was new.
WC
Trying Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, David and Hahtoolah (I loved that temp on the SLED,)
I can’t say that I enjoyed this offering from fellow-Canadian David Poole. And I guess I can’t claim Canadian disadvantage!
But unlike WC, I had several personal Naticks with all the unknown-to-me names (here’s looking at you URI GELLER, J COLE, ANA, OBRIAN, IVEY).
I got the FALLING STARS themer and knew VEGA, but SPICA was not in my universe.
Hand up for wanting a T on VELD, Use before RUN, creeds before CREDOS.
My Oscar turned into an EDGAR.
Clue for HELL was a little off IMHO, and don’t genies usually offer (three) WISHes.
But I loved the clue for DIAPER BAG.
Flu shots have started here for golden AGERS.
13D reminded me of the Anne Murray song
Cotton JENNY
JINX@5:44am- maybe I am dense this morning, but I don’t get the “LX tees eh!”? Should I have WINCED.
Wishing you all a great day.
Good morning everyone.
Easy one again. One error; had CREeds vs CREDOS. Sigh. Got everything else. Liked the FALLING STARS. Popped out readily with RIGEL. Soon saw SPICA and VEGA. All three are well-known bright stars and easily found in the heavens. All are used in celestial navigation, as well.
VELD - Translates to 'field' from Afrikaans. Dutch veld, German Feld, L. German Feld. (The modern orthography adopted by the Dutch in 1949 would not have included the final 't' as some of us may have seen in some writings.) The 'v' has the English 'f' sound.
Very nice puzzle David, and a great review, as always, with all the cartons, er cartoons, Hahtoolah.
On an academic point ... the stained glass window with Adam and Eve ... shouldn't they be naked Before they actually ate the apple.?
Plucking the apple did not give them the eternal wisdom or the original sin ... eating the apple did ... after which, they realized their nudity and started wearing clothes etc.
On another academic point ... if they were the only people in Eden, why were they ashamed of their nudity ... would the animals be laughing at them ?
I hope the above is not considered messing with religion ....
Sorry for the terse post, I have an covid test due in 30 minutes.
Have a great day, all.
In his opening comment Lemonade said everything that i was going to say except for, well, actually nothing.
falling stars? Make a wish!
how it really works (option 1)
how it really works (option 2)
If you have a keen eye,
In this GIF you can also see a satellite
Just under the "e" heading for the "a"
make a wish!
And if you really want to test your eyesight, like the ancients did,
Go look up at the sky on a clear night, find the constellation Lyra,
And then look closely at the star "Epsilon Lyrae."
A person with 20/20 vision will be able to discern that it is. Or one star, but two very close together.
If you then look at it thru a telescope, you will be able to resolve it into four stars.
A double double!
LAKE COMO
Well, everyone seems to have found this a quick and easy Tuesday level CW. I'm not sure why, but I struggled to FIR in a distressing 29 minutes. Seemed more like a Friday level to me. Just not on the same wavelength as DP? Maybe all the names didn't help; I knew LORNE and ISAAC but none of the others. For some reason I couldn't remember "SHRUNK". Even though I never saw the movie (it sounded silly to me) it was so popular I should have remembered that, but needed perps, and NSA could have been FBI or CIA as well as NSA, and I DNK RARA. I wrote LAKE for LAGO and VEGETABLE for VEGANMENU (which was, admitedly, pretty dopey) and that slowed me down there. DNK EDGAR either, which didn't help. D-O did this in under 5? Oy. Spitz says "easy one"? I'm just not on the same level as the rest of you guys and gals. Anyway, eventually I managed to FIR. Thanx DP for the mental workout, and thanx, Hahtoolah, for the terrific write-up.
Bit of a challenge for a Tuesday, proper names I didn't know. Not up on rappers for example unless surrounding a Snickers bar or other EMBASSY sweets.🍫🍬
The theme? No way Joseph!!
DIAPERBAG...cute. JENNY for a Donkey for the distaff persuasion totally unknown.
At University in Italy in the 70's all exams were ORAL (and you'd better be relatively language fluent)
VELD, we have a nearby hamlet of BARNEVELD, NY..refers to "burn" a field (a technique to clear for planting)
In 1958 Perry Como recklessly told the public to "Catch a FALLING STAR and put it in your pocket" resulting in many pants on fire and third degree burns.☄
Have no idea where I got URI GELLER. OBRIEN was a WAG that fit the perps except it ended up being OBRIAN Loved the IKEA stuff, never gets old.😆
Inkovers: Ives/ IVER, Noah/JAWS (that was dumb 🙄)
Even's partner....AWED
Tan: catch some...RAZE
Lacrymal gLand...ISAAC
On to HUMPDAY
Thank you David for a STELLAR ⭐ puzzle and thanks Susan for another METEORIC review ⚡
Assorted FAVS:
27A WINCED. The really mature puns are fully GROAN.
31A IDEAS. Cruciverbalists need to think OUTSIDE the box about what's INSIDE the box. For a book full of good tips on that see Adrienne Raphel's "Thinking Inside the Box".
51A MACINTOSH. Circa January 24, 1984 I was in the audience for the D.C. unveiling of the Macintosh, hosted by Steve Wozniak, with brief talks by members the design team. The funniest talk was by HW designer Burrell Smith, who had no degree and started as a repair tech. He said that he noticed that all the engineers had beards so he decided to grow one, and within a month was moved to engineering. My favorite demo was Bill Atkinson showing off Mac Paint, complete with a spray can. It blew my mind! (which explains a lot).
9D NSA. Alias No Such Agency, sometimes euphemistically referred to by the adjoining "Ft. Meade", just down the road from Charm City.
23D FALLING STARS. I was really into astronomy as a kid, but when we moved to our current home in 1977 the suburban lights and trees made star gazing almost impossible. But the other evening I actually did see RIGEL setting, with Orion's belt stars pointing to Sirius, Alpha Canis Major (the "Dog Star"). It rises at dawn in August, hence the term "Dog Days" of summer.
My favorite star is Mizar in Ursa Major. It's only 2nd magnitude, but has a faint double which can be seen with the naked eye. Also it shares a name with the hill Mizar mentioned in Psalm 42. I not sure of the connection, but as many stars derive their names from the ancient Chaldeans (the first astronomers), it's probably not a coincidence.
Jinx @ 5:44 AM Taking the paddle boat? 😀
Vidwan @8:53 AM I think Cat picked that one to get past the censors. WHY they were ashamed WOULD be messing with religion. 😀
Cheers,
Bill
I thought I clicked on PREVIEW, obviously not. I lost another post with many links.
Just one recap: 40A severe criticism = Hell. From the Truman era, "Give 'em HELL, Harry."
FIR, perps and wags on the many names.
A bit tough for a Tuesday, but a lot of fun--thank you, David. And as soon as I saw all those great pictures, I knew it was Susan doing our commentary today. They were a pleasure, many thanks.
Owen, wonderful poems all around today, many thanks. Don't know how you do it, but what a gift!
Kept wondering what the three circles would contain--but never got it until I came to the blog. All the comments make me wish I knew more about astronomy. But, hey, I'm hardly ever out at night anymore these days, so I wouldn't recognize them anyway.
Got MAXI--guess I know my skirts.
Have a good day, everybody.
YR, before you do anything, preview or publish, copy everything to the clipboard.
I've lost so much I rarely post directly as I'm doing now. Better select and copy right now
I do it all on Android and the bottom of the rectangle is dangerously close to the " comment as" tab which will lose what I've typed.
WC
Hi All!
Thanks David for the twinkly puzzle. I found the Minnesota area a bit crunchy.
Great expo, Hahtoolah. Loved all the comics & links.
WOs: N/A
ESPs: OBRIAN, NEAL|HELL (as clued), JCOLE, ANA, LAGO, IVEY, VELD(?)
Hey!...: 36a Eve's home & 21d EVES ???
Fav: JAWS' clue was particularly fun.
Runner-up: ISAAC Asimov - teenAGE years, I read everything I could get my hands on.
{A+, B+, B}
CED - LOL#3
Waseeley - cool you were there for the '84 MAC announcement. I only got to see it on TV :-) [1m]
Also, on my first trip into DC for a gig w/ USDA, I saw a brown sign on the highway that said "NSA Entrance ->". I LOL'd.
Back to work. Cheers, -T
Hello, Cornerites! This was a nice,easy, Tuesday puzzle. Thank you, David P. Thank you for the excellent write-up and links, Hatoolah!
W-Os: COuRSE/COARSE, CREedS/CREDOS, VEGANMEal/VEGANMENU.
Favs: 40a Severe criticism/HELL, Michigan, 23d Meteors, FALLING STARS Catch a Falling Star by Perry Como, 49a You're gonna need a bigger boat/ JAWS. That was a great movie!
I hope everyone who has been ailing is recovering and will soon be back to good health. Have a great day!
Not too be too critical (lol), but I don’t care for themes that are secondary to solving the puzzle. I got done, and it’s like, that’s cute. I think the clueing or answers to the theme should help in the solving of the puzzle, not be just a that was clever. But other than that, a perfectly fine Tuesday level solve.
Fairly easy Tuesday puzzle for me as I FIR in 8:19, which was about a minute and a half slower than I did Monday’s, so right on track for a progressively difficult wee as the editor intends. Took a lot of help from the perps though as I wasn’t familiar with O’Brian, Ivey, Ana or JCole, but that usually the case with names. Also never heard of Spica, although it’s supposed to be one of the twenty brightest stars in the sky. Hahtoolah ~~ nice commentary and very humorous illustrations to go along with it! Especially liked the couple in the paddle boat, as my experiences in paddle boats is like pedaling a 10-speed bike in 1st gear, or “run without moving” so to speak. The two handed duck pin or candle pin bowler was quite hilarious too (that type of bowling doesn’t exist in my neck of the woods). Also, the bar band I play in has covered “Fever” for many years and it’s always a crowd favorite, Peggy might have even liked our version. Thanks for your efforts on this one David and Rich!
Wonderful illustrations today, Hahtoolah! Thanks for all you do!
Like you, I had no idea there was a correct way to make PB&J sandwiches. How much thought a chef must put into his work.
To think of which jelly to use, and to be sure it has a clear bread surface to cling to!
Separate knives for each element... Flipping the peanut butter side down to form a solid platform... OMG.
The "Mideast/Midwest" cartoon seems an apt way to symbolize "false equivalency." I'll have to copy it to my old friend who stands on the opposite political side.
(Hmm. Even "side" seems a false equivalency.)
~ OMK
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DR: Today we have two diagonals, one to each side.
The letters available for anagrams are full of unusable combos. Neither diagonal offers an anagram longer than eight letters.
The best message I can find draws on the far side for a noun used historically as the label for the scrap metal found aboard old naval vessels, junk that was often loaded into their cannons and fired to rip the enemy's sails to shreds.
This is accompanied by a word from the near side that tells which direction this scrap might be fired.
I give you...
"REARWARD LANGRAGE"!
(We learn so much from XWDs...!)
Musings
-Beautiful fall weather here in the American VELD? The beat goes on!
-A fun theme for us amateur astronomers
-Of course we all know if a star actually fell to earth we’d be incinerated but the poetic license is just fine
-Hugh O’BRIAN would have been more familiar to me: 18. TV’s Earp
-HST: “I don’t give ’em HELL, I just tell the truth and they think it’s HELL!”
-We’ve gone from an Apple IIe to a 27” iMac
-If the Buffalo Bills had SCORED a FG last night and not gotten stopped an inch short on fourth down, the coach could have avoided a lot of questions today
-My audiologist’s husband is the PARTS manager for our towns huge chicken plant. When a machine PART breaks, he feels the heat
-Should anyone else really try to sing Fever but Peggy Lee?
-“How come your motel prices are so cheap?” “We ask you to make your own bed.” “Oh, we don’t mind.” “Okay, here’s a hammer and a saw.”
Yellowrocks @11:34 AM I STRONGLY suggest that you compose lengthier comments, and especially those with links, offline using a text editor (like Notepad) or a word processor. Save the file when you're done, click Ctrl-A, then Ctrl-C to copy it to your scratchpad. Open your comment window and press Ctrl-V to moVe it to the window. You can then correct/add "misspelled" words and then Publish it. If you want to check that the links are correctly entered, use Preview first, right-click on the link and select "Open in a new window". Just close the Window when you're satisfied with it. That way you won't loose your position in the Comments section. I've learned this through bitter experience!
Misreads the DR say...
I "saw" LaGrange [ZZ Top]. I had to look up the etymology... Wait? Wha? another Brilliant Italiano? [keeps w/ the theme - Astronomer, he was].
Oh, laNgrange... Nevermind.
//thanks for the new-to-me word OMK.
HG - I kept misunderstanding... Chicken PARTS? Nuggets? :-)
YR - I'll ++WC* & Waseeley... I draft posts outside of Blogger in something w/ spell-check (I'm bad at spelling), then cut-n-paste.
IM - we miss you!
Cheers, -T
*see you (BOSox) on the diamond tonight. Hopefully we ('Stros) found a starting pitcher :-)
Not too many comments and its almost 5 pm ....
I'm baack from my supposed Covid test ( long story -) ... the nurse took one look at me, and said, 'No way, you could have gotten Covid ..!' ( ... as if...)
I am reminded of the 'Greatest' Muhammad Ali, who famously said, 'I'm so mean, I could make medicine sick ...' .
I would not have even recognized most of the famous stars, by name, though I used to collect small meteorites from rock shows, at one time. Although most of them I saw are the high nickel-iron variety, they are only 8 percent of all the fallen rocks. Most rocks from asteroids, the moon and mars look so ordinary, that you would probably toss them out the door ... they require intense examination under electron microscopes and delicate chemical analysis to prove their authenticity.
If a Nickel-Iron meteorite, is sliced open and then finely polished, ... the surface will display a Widmanstatten Pattern, ....a tongue twister .
The above Wiki article is quite involved, detailed reading, but the bottom line is that the existence of that pattern is definite proof of its extraterritorial origin.
It simply cannot be reproduced in a lab on Earth, because it takes 3 or 4 million years to form...
Some collectors are so blase about this, that I once met an a--h--e who put a meteorite on a lathe and turned a sphere with a Widman pattern ... and I was the second a--h--e who purchased the ball off of him. When I gaze at the ball, I am reminded of how young I am.
Have a nice day, all.
Pat @ 12:36 -- I must confess that my knowledge of Michigan arcana is non-existent, so thanks for the info on Hell. If you take the train in Norway from Trondheim north, right before reaching the airport stop is the Hell station. The British passengers all notice this at once, but the word has no significance to the Norse.
-T @ 4:20 --
"Joseph-Louis Lagrange[a] (born Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia[5][b] or Giuseppe Ludovico De la Grange Tournier;[6][c] 25 January 1736 – 10 April 1813), also reported as Giuseppe Luigi Lagrange[7] or Lagrangia,[8"
Well, sure, but everyone just called him Jason....
Michael # 1649 - - We went through HELL on the Airport bus from Vaernes to Trondheim and return. At the head of a long broad fjord.
Anon T ~ Glad to be of service.
L O L.
Those "n"s can be tricky. Ya gotta be careful where they fall...
~ OMK
I like the link, Hahtoolah. The 45 rpm single with the spindle knock-out removed was a great visual.
Canadian Eh, no malice intended. It just seemed if you have litres, centres and theatres, you should be able to have LX tee shirts (or at least UXL tees).
CED, when I look at faint light sources I see a single light as a triangle of three lights. RK surgery gone bad. Discovered it many years ago while being the navigator on an overnight sailboat race on the Chesapeake Bay. I actually asked a buddy what the three lights were. I think he thought I was having flashbacks from my misspent ute.
I enjoyed this puzzle but didn't know most of the names. Fortunately the perps revealed them, except for that letter crossing LOR-E and A-A, which as Owen said, could have been a D.
IGNITE --> KINDLE.
GROANED didn't fit so --> WINCED.
CREEDS --> CREDOS (revealing the totally unknown-to-me J COLE).
I followed Hahtoolah's link to the Sam Adams website and learned most of their beers are lagers but they do also make some ALEs such as the Summer Ale that Hahtoolah shows.
I learned the Ellery Queen Award is a category of EDGAR award.
Stay well, all.
Ah, Jinx, no malice received. I was slow to get your humoUr, but now I WINCED. LOL.
Spitzboov @6:00 PM But look in the bright (Hell) side Spitz - you made it home.
FIW. Messed up 8D (A, instead of U) and 20A (BIN, not BAG). Oh, well. I got the unifier, and I saw VEGA, but I didn’t recognize SPICA, and my mess up on 8D really did mess me up with RIGEL, although I might not have seen that one either.
As usual, I didn’t know a bunch of the names, not being much of a current-day TV or movie watcher. I did remember CHOLE (loved her on “24”), but not her last name. I really liked “24” when it first aired, but I somehow lost track of it. Perps got the other names.
Mr. White, Bond’s nemesis from CASINO ROYALE forward (although he DID save Bond’s life in THAT movie) had a villa on Lake COMO.
Um, I think I’d like a villa on Lake Como too.
Thanks, David and Hahtoolah!
Still too early in the series to talk trash say...
How 'bout them 'Stros, WC?
I honestly thought we were going to 10 but, as Harry Caray would say, Holy Cow!
7 runs in the top of the 9th?!?.
I'm now begging my vendor for Game Six tix :-)
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OMK - I just sprinkle 'N's about like C, Eh! does 'U's :-)
Michael - LOL Jason. If he's the same dude who had some calc transforms, I kinda remember studying it (Laplace [WikiP] also comes to mind)
Nice to read you LeoIII.
Cheers, -T
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