Theme: SEESAWS (39. Vacillates ... or what you can do when you look at the starts of the answers to starred clues?)
17A. *Trendy terms: BUZZWORDS. Buzzsaw.
60A. *Popular cause to jump on: BANDWAGON. Band saw.
11D. *Mall anchors: CHAIN STORES. Chainsaw.
25D. *Game with paddles: TABLE TENNIS. Table saw.
Boomer here.
Hello everyone. Last week we ventured into Western Wisconsin for a birthday trip and to SEE a casino. Instead we SAW beautiful landscape and fall colors as we crossed the St. Croix river. The St. Croix Casino was nothing that we have not SEEn before, but we had a good time.
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| Boomer, St Croix Casino Turtle Lake, 10/26/2021 |
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9. Young fellow, in Ireland: BUCKO. The casino machines accepted a BUCK. Sometimes it paid back 50 cents.
14. Square footage, say: AREA. I watch a bit of NFL football, I
am amazed at the AREA taken up by some of these stadiums. The playing
field, then the seating for the ticket holders, and the parking AREA.
15. Mama's mate: DADA.
16. Rapper Ice Cube's first name: O'SHEA. Jackson.
19. Cardinals and Orioles: TEAMS. Talkin' baseball. The Washington Football team does not have a name.
20. Runs in, cop-style: ARRESTS. George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis. Two of the cops involved are still awaiting trial
22. Ready for picking: RIPE. A great time of year for apples and other fruit.
23. Passage in a personal journal: ENTRY. I have never used a journal. Now at my age I do not remember everything.
26. Runs at full speed: SPRINTS. I certainly do not do this anymore.
28. College courtyard: QUAD.
29. Guerrilla Guevara: CHE.
32. Curtain holders: RODS. I remember installing in our home twenty or more years ago. They are still up so I must have done something right.
33. Cities, informally: URBS. I don't know about this. I thought they were called "BURBS".
34. "(Marie's the Name) __ Latest Flame": Elvis hit: HIS.
35. Dutch beer brand: AMSTEL. When you say BUD you've said a lot of things nobody else can say.
38. Silent communication syst.: ASL.
41. Mine find: ORE. Or a state south of Washington.
42. Eyed lecherously: LEERED.
44. Rose of Guns N' Roses: AXL.
45. Not kosher: TREF.
46. Elevated on a peg, as a golf ball: TEED. TEED off when you hit it, and TEED off when you miss the putt.
47. Hoped-for response to a marriage proposal: YES.
48. Splinter group: SECT.
49. Mongoose family member: MEERKAT.
52. Needing practice: RUSTY. My bowling has been a bit RUSTY but I am working on it. Time off for Covid was brutal.
53. Luxury hotel: OMNI. Tiny Dodge in the 1980s
54. Ketchup-and-mayo dressing: RUSSIAN. I've never heard of Russian dressing.
58. Title film cousin: VINNY. Gambini with Joe Pesci
64. Formal "Just me": IT IS I. IT IS what it is.
65. Lake with the same first and last letter: ERIE.
66. Long skirt: MAXI.
67. German steel city: ESSEN. Population over half a million.
68. Pro __: in proportion: RATA.
69. Fan favorite: IDOL. Pop singer Billy with punk rock hair.
Down:
2. Christian sch. in Tulsa: ORU. Oral Roberts University.
3. States, slangily: SEZ. Just SAYS spelled wrong.
4. Ventures, as a guess: HAZARDS. Ponds and Sand Traps.
5. Skunk's defense: ODOR. I consider to be lucky to have never encountered a SKUNK.
6. Naked: BARE.
7. Betting ratios: ODDS. I believe the ODDS at the Casino we visited were are quite a bit in the casino's favor.
8. Divisions for the Yanks and Mets: EASTS.
9. Automated spam sender: BOT.
10. Log-in needs: USER IDS. I tried to develop passwords that were easy to remember but I cannot remember everything!!
12. Well-groomed: KEMPT.
13. Desert havens: OASES.
18. Dryly humorous: WRY. A crossword talking about me ??
21. Spreads out one's arms and legs: SPRAWLS. Great activity on a beach of one of Minnesota lakes. Not too much fun in the winter though.
23. Math sign: EQUAL. I used to always say it with an "S".
24. Hospital worker: NURSE. A thankless job, especially with the pandemic going on.
27. CD-__: data holders: ROMS.
29. Cracker cheese: CHEDDAR. I always need a little on top of the Mozzarella on a pizza.
30. Rush, old-style: HIE.
31. Op-ed piece, e.g.: ESSAY. I always skip the Op-eds in the Minneapolis paper. Not interested in others' opinion.
36. Upright: ERECT.
37. Southpaw: LEFTY. Great reference which never made any sense.
39. Search for: SEEK.
40. Chopping tool: AXE.
43. Get the rest of the soap out of: RE-RINSE. I need to perform this task because I still have real hair.
45. Tidal wave cousin: TSUNAMI.
49. Theater feature: MOVIE. It's been a long time since C.C. and I have attended a movie. Normally you can wait a few months and it's on TV.
50. Radiates: EMITS.
51. Potato or yam: TUBER. Odd name for a vegetable.
52. Uncooked: RAW.
55. __ Lee: dessert brand: SARA. Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee.
56. Sulky state: SNIT. I will not mention politics.
57. "Good thinking!" thought: IDEA.
59. Yang's partner: YIN.
61. Wander (about): GAD.
62. Kitchen tool brand: OXO. A line in a tic tac toe puzzle.
63. Naught: NIL.
Boomer
FIRight. I think my only t/os were PAPA < DADA, BUFFO < BUCKO, and USER PIN < IDS.
ReplyDeleteThe reveal was placed too early in the puzzle, but I think I was able to avoid reading it until after I found the simple theme. My quick glances gave me the first word as vacation or variation.
SEESAW, courts of law
Johnny shall have a new shyster.
He shall see naught a penny a suit,
The attorney fee's a disaster!
{C.}
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteSusan provided a nice early-week romp. PAPA/DADA was my only Wite-Out moment. But guess who failed to read the reveal clue? Yup, the same guy who failed to get the theme. [Sigh] Enjoyed your expo, Boomer.
USER IDS: I rely on a password manager (LastPass) to generate complex passwords and remember them for me. Just select the destination from the LastPass menu, and it takes you to the site and logs you in. Sweet.
OXO: We've got quite an array of their products in our kitchen: Peeler, tongs, can opener, spatula, bench scraper, ad nauseum.
MEERKAT: We just finished watching the new Meerkat Dynasty on BBC America. Cute show.
FIR WITH NO ERASURE. DNK OSHEA or MERKAT, and only sorta knew BUCKO, TREF and KEMPT, but I'm told that I epitomize unKEMPT.
ReplyDeleteWe don't have hazards anymore in golf, we have "penalty areas". Next they will change "@$(%@&&" to "Oh drat, I mishit the foolish ball".
Peschi was in My Cousin Vinnie? I only saw Marisa Tomei (Mona Lisa Vito).
Data held on CD-ROMs? How quaint. My data forecast calls for cloudy days.
How 'bout them Cowboys!
Thanks to Susan for the easy Monday fun. And thanks to Boomer for more mirth this fine Monday.
The VI QUEENS lost to a rookie quarterback and a better team. Chicago also lost, but I am sure they cannot wait to get the Minnesota team in there sights. It's okay though. We have the Twins so we got used to losing last summer. I am on my way to bowling. My team is in 15th place in a 16 team league. Maybe with a little luck, we can get back to last.
ReplyDeleteA Monday FIR, so I am back on track. Didn't look for the theme until after I read the reveal, as I was too busy enjoying the fill. Favorite was MEERKAT. One WO quickly corrected by perps: EssaY/ENTRY, later finding out it was used at 31D. Handy word today, it turns out. Thanks, Susan. And thanks to our WRY Boomer for the review.
ReplyDeleteHope you all have a better day than the Braves had yesterday. Over to you, AnonT!
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteMany, many thanks for the thoughts, prayers (especially Bill & Teri’s ), well-wishes, cards, emails, and frequent inquiries over the last several weeks. A special thank you to Boomer for his heartfelt and touching serenades and to CC for keeping you all up to date and for being such a faithful and encouraging cheerleader from the sidelines. While I’m not ready to do any jigs, Irish or otherwise, I’ve made considerable progress and am headed in the right direction. (Those lobster rolls were better than any medication!)
I thought this was a very clever theme which I spotted early, once I saw Buzz and then Chain. The actual reveal, however, was a nice Aha. My only w/o was Joke/Josh. Urbs, Kempt, and Rerinse we’re sort of clunky, but if they’re okay with Rich, they’re okay with me. Liked the Axl/Axe and Movie/Vinny crossing. All in all, a fun, smooth Monday solve.
Lemony, I can’t believe Charlotte is 9! Wow, does time fly. Congratulations to your son and new DIL; great pictures.
Spitz, I really enjoyed the RPI alma mater piece, as I’ve never heard it before.
Have a great day everyone. It’s nice to be “home.”
Barely beat the 5 minute mark (4:51) today, so I did not rip through this one, nor did I see saws.
ReplyDeleteIM, thank you for your nice words and beginning our November with your happy voice back at the Corner. White rabbit, white rabbit all.
ReplyDeleteThe puzzle was fun and I like that D-O didn't see saw.
Thank you Susan, and as always Boomer
Welcome back, IM. We've missed you and your spot-on observations. Good to hear that your "headed in the right direction" at last.
ReplyDelete"you're" Oops.
ReplyDeleteIf I'm not mistaken, this puzzle used every letter of the alphabet. I'm guessing that was intentional.
ReplyDeleteBoomer, baseball fields were almost always laid out with the western, late-afternoon sun behind home plate (so as not to blind the hitter, catcher and umpire), therefore the pitcher's left arm is to the south, so he's a southpaw. Waconah Park in Pittsfield MA is locally semi-famous because it faced the wrong way, and games had to be stopped about 6:00 until the sun moved out of the batter's eyes.
ReplyDeleteAlso, never heard of Russian dressing? It's often used on a Reuben sandwich. Similar to Thousand Island.
Irish Miss @ 7:20 AM
ReplyDeleteSo good to see your post!
Shouldn't it be the name OF HIS (Elvis) latest flame.
ReplyDeleteBUD now has a zero alcohol beer. Will Yuengling make one too?
TREF on a Monday? Looking back , not difficult but I was looking for my Monday sitting ducks, no w/o sprint . Anon may have come in at the high 5's. I see he broke 5 but still high for Mon-Anon
And when you leave the putt short do you hear ALICE!. I asked my women leaguers if they ever hear RALPH?
I believe RUSSIAN dressing went on the Reuben. I think they use 1000 Islands. Ketchup and mayo?*
I inked MidI, Susan was tricky. Or is it me. No, blame it on Mr S. He's been around a lot lately. Anybody buy those brain enhancer OTC tablets?
Sez Who? SEZ Me Mike Royko a Chi-town guy TTP may know
I gave you all the LEFTY Sprockett youse cud stands last week
I can't believe I dredged up MEERKAT and I needed it
WC
* From bon appetit
½ cup mayonnaise
¼ cup sweet pickle relish
3 tablespoons ketchup
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon prepared horseradish
1 teaspoon onion powder
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
Kosher salt
Oh yeah, I got the theme finally
DeleteWelcome back Irish Miss. This CC party missed you big time. McDonald's actually sold lobster rolls for a brief time in the Boston area. Not worth the $6.00
ReplyDeleteWC
Thanks Susan for easing us into the week with a clever pangram, I usual notice when all letters are used when I see J’s and Q’s and Z’s but didn’t until Anon pointed it out. Never heard of “TREF” before but will make a mental note for next time.
ReplyDeleteBoomer ~~ I had the dubious distinction of finishing in last place in a bowling league one time, our individual trophies were of a guy clutching his foot in pain cuz he had just dropped his ball on it.
Marvellous Monday. Thanks for the fun, Susan and Boomer.
ReplyDeleteI FIRed in good time with a couple of inkblots, and saw the SAW theme.
We had a pangram today.
I moved from England to Ireland, changing Bloke to BUCKO.
I had the final RY and entered Diary. ENTRY matched the clue.
TREF was unknown but perps were solid. Same for OSHEA.
Clue for 42A fit Ogled (but that word didn’t fit the spaces). (At) in the clue would have fit LEERED better IMHO.
I noted ORU and ORE.
FLN- I completed the CW but didn’t make it here until this morning. White rabbit today; SCUT yesterday.
Speaking of Scut, I’ll take all those U’s TTP. LOL. ODOR was missing one today.
Spitzboov- I’ll look for that article. Yes, Niagara is a beautiful area, and it seems a new winery pops up frequently. Ball’s Falls is a scenic conservation area in the Vineland area with a nature centre, old house and church, and grist mill. The Lower Falls is in that area; lots of water flow after all our rain this fall. The huge Thanksgiving craft show has been much curtailed for the last two years because of Covid.
Lemonade- congrats to your son and DIL, and HBD to Charlotte.Great photos.
IM- wonderful to see your post today. We have missed you. Glad to hear that you are improving.
Wishing you all a great day.
KEMPT? 😳 wha? Slowed me up in the Nor' East as well as "me" BUCKO...but persisted thus avoiding/evading the shame of a possible Monday DNF, and an ominous omen (is that redundant?) for a bad week. 😒
ReplyDeleteLake with first and last letter the same. Lake OntariO eerily wouldn't fit.
One inkover: papa/DADA (glad 'twern't just me.) Thought URBS was Latin for "city" not an informal expression like burbs, the sub URBS.🤔
I saw the saws, so at least not a struggle with the theme.
Off this week so time for more nonsense today than usual...🙄
Where a Scots body meets.....WRY
Spice cousins .....URBS
Leaves in a cup....LEFTY
Simple feline...MEERKAT
In a hurry...RUSSIAN
When a second transport service arrives at the same time...TUBER
Lightyear aphorisms....BUZZWORDS
Prego....SAWS
Boomer I see from your pic you didn't lose your shirt at the casino (St Croix, "Holy Cross", what an irreverent name for a den of iniquity 😉)
🍀Irish M. Happy to see you back blogging and doing better..😃
Musings
ReplyDelete-I played golf last week with my partner and his grandson JOSH. Here is JOSH proudly flashing his score on the Par 3 eighth hole
-Why do I remember Richie Cunningham using BUCKO as an insult on Happy Days?
-Amari Cooper of Dallas nursed a bad QUAD all night but came back to catch the winning TD against Minnesota
-Some people who grew up deaf actually prefer onscreen ASL to closed captioning
-I prefer RUSSIAN Dressing but it is seldomly available at restaurants we frequent
-The RAF dropped over 36,000 bombs on ESSEN in WWII
-Hmmm… I SAY you’re right, but she SAYS/SEZ you’re wrong.
-A SPRAWL can be a wrestling strategy to make it harder for your opponent to move you
-TSUNAMI – If you see the ocean dramatically recede from the shore, you might HIE to get out of there
-It’s great to see you back in the lineup, Irish!
Canada Eh
ReplyDeleteBall's Falls??....the opposite of cryptorchidism?
😆😆😆
Sorry, couldn't help myself...😳
Good morning everyone.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back IM. Thanks for the RPI comment.
A bit chunky, but still early-in-the-week easy. Got it all without aid. Had Papa before DADA.
Good one from Susan. Thanks Boomer for the intro.
Hola!
ReplyDeleteWelcome back, Irish Miss! It's a delight to see your post and know that your health is improving.
Tricky start in the NW with JOSH/JAB. My first thought was JOKE but waited for perps. I also had to change PAPA to DADA. That was my only w/o.
Is there a funnier MOVIE than My Cousin VINNY? Not many.
Anon@7:46, thank you for pointing out the pangram.
MAXI skirts were all the rage in the 70s. They were a big change after the miniskirts.
Thanks to Susan Gelfand for a clever Monday puzzle and to Boomer for an excellent expose'.
Lately I am hooked on a Netflix series set in Morocco in the 1920s. It has a great story line and good acting. The translation from Spanish to English leaves something to be desired but the plot makes up for that.
I'm expecting two of my sisters this morning. We are going out for breakfast.
Have a marvelous Monday, everyone!
Lovely, wonderful, glorious, doable Monday CW!! My level!! And with a nice theme, good clues, and only a few names. Great job, SG, thanx! Somehow I managed to still take 16 minutes to FIR, and didn’t see the saws until Boomer ‘splained it. DNK OSHEA, nor did I know that BUCKO was an Irish term. I’m familiar with the term but obviously not it’s origin. OXO makes me think of a comment I made last week about a side-cutting can opener that I really like. Picard emailed me for the brand and model, and over a four or five email exchange I learned how little I know about the way Amazon pages are structured! Eventually Picard found the correct one in spite of me!! I hope he likes it as much as I do. WB @8:01 I’m quite sure Yuengling already makes a non-alcohol beer. And thanx for the Thousand Island Dressing recipe. I’ve always just mixed some mayo, ketchup and pickle relish and thought I had it nailed. This recipe looks like a definite improvement. Can’t go wrong adding Worcestershire sauce to just about anything. Only Lea & Perrins (sp?) will do though. Boomer thanx for your outstanding write up, and your humor! There IS actually a certain honor to being in last place, so I wish you good luck there. Or maybe I should wish you bad luck? Irish Miss, wishing you continued improvement all the way back to “perfectly healthy” again! And now, I’ve run out of exclamation points, so hafta close.
ReplyDeleteHalloween musings
ReplyDelete-We handed out all 240 bags by 8:15
-Almost all said “Thank You” unprompted.
-The little ones seemed very confused and apprehensive about the whole process
-I had a great many former students bring their children and grandchildren
-The most common costume was that of a Super Hero who is probably in our puzzles
-One grade school boy wore an outfit very similar to this. I asked about his costume, he replied, “I’m a Christian crusader who is going to fight the Muslims in the holy land.” Hmmm…
-I had three H.S. foreign exchange students that came as a trio. One each from France, Brazil and Spain. They were a delight to visit with.
-As the night wore on the kids got a lot older but that was fine.
-Our high school’s VB team qualified to play at state on Wednesday and so the coaches and parents kept them together as a unit to “keep them from making bad decisions”
-My childhood Halloweens involved much more vandalism. What, we weren’t better than kids today? :-)
-You?
Thank you Susan for a welcome respite from the weekend puzzle wars. And thank you Boomer for helping me SEE the SAWS, as they just didn't CUT IT for me.
ReplyDeleteClueLites:
5A OBOE. An easy clue for a beautiful instrument. Not only does it have valves, it has lots of vowel's as well (75% of 4 letters) so we hear it here a lot. Here's Gabriel's OBOE from Ennio Morricone's soundtrack to the The Mission
9A BUCKO. Filled with perps. I'd heard this somewhere before, but couldn't place it right away. Now I know why my Irish B.I.L. often refers to his youngest son as BUCKO.
15A DADA. Finally a clue sans ARP for DADA.
16A OSHEA. Sounds like ICE CUBE might have been a BUCKO in his youth. ODDS are this stack wasn't a co-incidence.
29A CHE. Also the name of my grandson's soccer team, but I don't know what it stands for.
49A MEERKAT. Aww, aren't they cute! But these feisty little critters will gang up on a cobra to protect their young if the have to.
54A RUSSIAN. It's not as fast as it's cracked up to be.
Cheers,
Bill
HG @10:23 AM Halloweens were a three day affair when we were kids. We call the first one "moving night", with a little TPing thrown in to boot.
ReplyDeleteunclefred @10:16 AM Aren't Lea & Perrins and Worcestershire Sauce synonyms?
ReplyDeleteIrish Miss @7:20 AM It's so great to see that Shamrock ☘ again! [brushing away tears].
ReplyDeleteWoohoo! Woohoo! Irish Miss is back! What a great way to start the month and the week! Woohoo!
ReplyDeleteFun Monday puzzle, Susan--many thanks. And Boomer, your write-ups are always a pleasure.
Filled in slowly but surely with both knowns (ORU--I lived in Tulsa on my first teaching job) and unknowns (never heard of "meerket").
So an OBOE has two reeds? Who knew?
Those skirts--MAXI and MINI--pop up pretty regularly, don't they?
Have a great week, and a great month, coming up, everybody.
It is so great to see you back in "action", IM!
ReplyDeleteThank you Ms. Susan Gelfand for a easy but crunchy Monday puzzle. T really enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteI generally finish Mondays in less than 15 mins., though I rarely time myself, today's took 18 minutes. I was stuck in the NE corner with BUCKO, OSHEA, ---INSTORES, and ---MS ... I kept thinking of a zoological or ornithological term for Cardinals and Orioles... overthinking.
Thank you Boomer, for your WRY humor ... that word is so apt ! Glad to know you are doing OK, and having a good time. Although going to a casino is not my cuppa tea, I'm glad you enjoyed yourself.
Ray-O-Sunshine, you're in fine form ... and drew many chuckles from me, altho I had to, sometimes, struggle to understand your clues. I also had to look up cryptorchidism, .... your response to the Balls Falls, ... quite appropriate, though exceedingly, cryptic for most of us. I think most medical terms are made up too unnecessarily complex, so that they would definitely not be understood by most patients (or laity). Like iatrogenic.
A few weeks ago, I was talking to a very old acquaintance, a Dr. Patel, in California, who used to live in Rochester NY, a long time ago, and he said he had heard, in passing, of a radiologist, whose name sounded like he was related to Madame Curie, the co-discoverer of X-Rays... and she, in fact coined that term ... radioactivity. If this could be you, How wonderful !!, ... if not, maybe somebody else.
My post is already tooo long. Have a nice day, all.
Waseeley @10:16 I LOVE Lea & Perrins Worcestershire sauce, and even splash it on scrambled eggs! Also love V-8 juice, and always add Lea & Perrins to it, too! Did you ever read the ingredients list? It contains anchovies....which I also love! My favorite pizza? Thin and crispy crust white pizza (little or no tomatoes sauce), sliced green olives, green bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, and double anchovies, with the fillets lain on top to criss-cross the entire pizza. YUM!! (Geez, now I'm gonna hafta make a pizza for dinner!) Anyway, no, there are many other brands and generic or house brands of Worcestershire sauce, none of which get even close to the Lea and Perrins flavor. Being frugal, I've tried cheaper brands, but it's not worth it. BTW, I have a Brit for a new behind-my-house neighbor. He built a huge three-story house. Talking over the fence, we became friends, and I invited him over for a Guinness. The Guinness cans have a little ball in them that magically give the Guinness a head similar to the draft. Next time Tom came over he brought some Boddington's Ale, a Britsh brew that also has one of the little fizz-balls (their scientific name, LOL) and I really like it a lot, and now seek it out. Beer lovers, try Boddington's Ale in the can, I predict you will love it! Cheers!
ReplyDeleteHGary, thanks for your link on Closed Captioning. My hearing has gone downhill, so despite my hearing aids, I greatly prefer CCaptions, ... which is why, watching old british movies, is now no fun at all. Although CCing gives away the jokes, a second early, I simply cannot do without it.
ReplyDeleteI live in a very jewish neighborhood, and am very familiar with jewish terms ... although most of my 'bors dont necessarily observe Kosher. I knew of Tref. The muslim equivalents are Halal (permitted) and Haram ( taboo). A Harami ( - one who commits or does Haram - ) is one of the most obnoxious curses or epithets ( like s.o.b. ) in most indian languages ... across the board, across all religions. Most people dont even think about cognates or origins of the word.
BTW, when the lake clue turned up, I first thought of OHIO ... begins and ends with the same letter ;-) ... alas, there is no such lake... so sigh, ERIE.
Does or national anthem,start with the question ..OSHEA, can you see ...
Where hogs 'fill' themselves ... TREF
Had many, many cuppas ..... TEED
Asked your German shephard to chase an intruder ... SECT
with a lil bit of alchohol ..... VINNY
Tin's elemental name .... ESSEN
you will revolve around me .... T SUNAMI
Do they have just oral tests at ORU ?
VIDWAN is there a reason you don't capitalize Muslim and Jewish?
ReplyDeleteVid: "Do they have just oral tests at ORU ?" Maybe. I heard that Linda Lovelace had planned to be a guest lecturer there, but because of Cancel Culture she was afraid to open her mouth.
ReplyDeletePuzzling thoughts:
ReplyDeleteFIR; thanks Susan for a fun puzzle - quite easy for even a Monday, but that's how I like them!
IM: Welcome back! Hope you continue your healing ways
Vidwan @12:32 PM You're getting warm Vid. I was told his name by a young lady who lives in the region, but as he seems to want to keep it a mystery, I shan't reveal it. ☀
ReplyDeleteA fine Gelfand PZL, suitable for a Monday morning. Nicely parsed by Boomer!
ReplyDeleteAh, yes, once again, the famous OBOE, that double-reeded instrument!
Loved the clue for 54A, an editor going out of the way to avoid national or ethnic slurs!
My wife and her Mom are leaving this afternoon for two weeks, visiting their family back east and in Arizona. I have not played the bachelor for three years, so it may feel like a brand new experience.
Can the dogs and I handle it?!
~ OMK
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DR: One diagonal, near side.
But a toughie for anagramming, with only two vowels and a "Y."
Still, I can squeeze 11 of 15 letters into an anagram that captures some of the ex-serf and peasant attitudes towards the last of the Romanov dynasty. After their villages were raided by their royal representatives, these oppressed folk were likely to raise outcrys of ...
"GRISLY CZARS"!
Ray-o- I’ll second Videan’s comment that you are in fine form today. The week off must agree with you.
ReplyDeleteRe Ball’s Falls: yes we have heard all the jokes. But I loved that your comment could be figured out only by people with some medical knowledge (without resorting to Dr. Google that is). All the BUCKOs are cringing!
Billicoes, so it wasn't that "Souse"paw Sprockett?
ReplyDeleteOld, old one. But with Jinx and RayO around….
So there's this house of I'll repute* on a hill. On the right is a guy going down the hill, smile on his face. Headng up is a guy in a big hurry. And in the upstairs bedroom? Hmm.
So what are the nationalities of the three gents?
OK, guy on the right? Him Finnish. On the left? Him RUSSIAN. And, the guy upstairs???
TUBER!!! When I finally got it. Rotfl
Lucina, so what's the name of that Morrocan Netflix Series?
If you use smart phone, Caps can be a pain because Google is inconsistent about inserting them.
WC
* Or as RayO would say: "den of iniquity". Oh, the third guy up in the bedroom? Himalayan
Vidwan @1:17 PM We watch mostly streamed British TV & movies and without captioning we'd never be able to understand the plethora of dialects in the UK. Just last week we watched an old series called "Anna of the Five Towns", based on a novel written about 1905. It's set in the pottery district, 5 towns surrounding Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, where my Mother was born, and where everyone spoke in the "pottery dialect". We've visited there a couple of times and could barely understand my cousins. The dialect in the TV series was very authentic and the dialect coach was even listed in the credits. The milieu was a time over a century ago, and without captions there would have been no point in watching it. It's on Britbox, and I'd highly recommend it. One scene of particular interest to me was of Anna touring one of the "works", the term the locals used to describe the factories where the pottery was made and fired.
ReplyDeleteWC @3:16 PM LMAO! 🤣
ReplyDeleteHi Y'all! Thanks, Susan, I SAW your fine theme & enjoyed the puzzle. Thanks, Boomer, you WRY wit.
ReplyDeleteDNK: OSHEA, BUCKO - wanted Boyo, 34a HIS.
I knew TREF from reading Faye Kellerman novels.
Agnes, so glad to see you back.
Wilbur Charles:
ReplyDeleteThe series I have been watching is called Morocco-Love in Times of War.
Two of my sisters and I went o brunch at U.S. Egg. We were intrigued by a large flag on the wall made entirely out egg crates!
Fun puzzle. When I filled BUZZWORDS and BANDWAGON I starting expecting something to do with BW.
ReplyDeleteLoved reading all of your comments. Plenty of good humor to go around!
See y'all tomorrow.
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteEspecially you Irish Miss. So good to see you back in fine fettle.
Thanks Susan for the puzzle. Bonus: RIP saw (22a) and AXE crossing SAW.
Thanks for kicking-off the after-party with a WRY expo, Boomer.
WOs: N/A
ESPs: OSHEA, TREF, SEZ
Fav: KEMPT is a fun word
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Nice DR, OMK.
@7:46a - Nice catch on the pangram.
WC - Mike Royko was syndicated down-state to Springfield, IL's paper. Read it three days a week after my paper-route. And, LOL @3:16.
Password manager: I use KeePass. Passwords are kept locally [read: not in The Cloud]. However, not as easy to use across multiple devices like LastPass is.
HG - we only had a handful of kids last night. I suspect parents just handed their own kids their home candy they could stay in and watch the Astros.
//When the Girls were younger, DW would get so mad at me when I'd take along my pocket AM radio to listen to the games while minding our monsters Trick-or-Treating.
Oh, I never TP'd nor egg'd a house.
unclefred - DW used to think that I put anchovies on my pizza to keep everyone else away from leftovers. However, when we were in Venice, a restaurant offered anchovy pasta - which I ordered.
DW was taken aback "I guess you really do like anchovies." :-)
Yes to Lee & Perrins - no substitute.
Cheers, -T
I like anchovies on pizza. In some salads too.
ReplyDeleteNo, thank you, on anchovies.
ReplyDeleteI had such a nice visit with my sisters and one of them left her extra shoes here so she will have to return. Yea! She has serious neuropathy so changed to slippers then forgot.
Off to watch Morocco on Netflix.
ReplyDeleteI dont know if I would enjoy anchovies, although I was told my ancestor's ( 5 generations up -) were fishermen, on India's western coast.
I recently 'invested' in a bottle of top class Nam Pla ... Thai salt fermented, fish sauce, because I've been told it really adds flavor to any asian ( non-indian) meal. I think it is made from anchovies, or similar like fish.
Capital Curious @1.51 pm ....
... why did I not capitalize 'muslim' and 'jewish' ?
I really don't know. I didn't know it would make a difference ... I just, unconsciously thought they were common nouns ... and I am rather careless, in my puntuation when posting at this blog.
I definitely did not mean any offence or offense, by omission or commission. My sincere Apologies, if I did cause any.
Wilbur Charles, your Himalayan joke was funny ... I must try to remember it, for the future.
Waseeley, I am surprised, with all the british-ness in you, that you would have a problem with the accents ... I was watching 39 Steps,( Hitchcock suspense famous picture -) and I just couldnt follow the conversation... but no CCaption's at that time, so I just gave up.
I even have a problem understanding the conversation in Bollywood indian movies, because they either use a lot of Urdu, which I am not familiar with, or a simulated local argot that is impossible for me to decipher ... so I use closed captions, translations in the english... much easier, and I dont miss much.... AT ALL !
In fact, youtube has some 50+ year old hindi songs that I used to know, "by heart", and now they have english translations at the bottom, ....
.... and wonder of wonders !!! I can now understand what the words meant, 50 years later ..!! What a wonderful feeling !!!
Chaudhvin ka chand, an old favorite, 1958, with english subtitles .
The song title means,..... The moon of the 14th,(of the month ) .. a full moon, in a lunar month.... equating to a woman of great beauty.
The man Gurudutt is lip syncing the song, the actual singer, is not pictured.
The male lover, (actually husband in this role ), died in 1966, by suicide.
The woman/heroine Waheeda Rehman, is still alive, at 83 yrs old.
Welcome back, IM!
ReplyDeleteFIR. Luckily, I proofread this evening, and cleaned up a little mess I made in the SE corner.
Thanks, Susan and Boomer! Nice puzzle!
“…OF His Latest Flame”
“My Cousin Vinny” is one of my favorite movies.
The Washington Football Team DOES have a NAME, and it has been their name since 1933 when the team was still in Boston. They just aren’t allowed to use it!