Theme: Start to Finish
17. How books are usually read: FRONT TO BACK.
30. How chapters in books are read: FIRST TO LAST.
46. How pages in chapters in books are read: TOP TO BOTTOM.
61. How words on pages in chapters in books are usually read: LEFT TO RIGHT.
Boomer here again.
My Monday bowling team has gone from FIRST to LAST in a short time, Also TOP to BOTTOM in the standings. Too much LEFT to RIGHT on those darn ten pins.
Across:
6. Bumbling: INEPT. Did I mention those darn ten pins ?
11. Frisk, as a suspect, with "down": PAT. Kansas City Quarterback PATrick Mahomes also does commercials for State Farm in his spare time. Aaron Rodgers also.
14. Sharpen the image in the viewfinder: FOCUS.
15. Give a recap: SUM UP.
16. Grow older: AGE. It happens to all of us.
19. Tide competitor: ERA. I think TIDE wins.
20. Gaming novice, in slang: NOOB. Newbie.
21. Snuggles: NESTLES. N_E_S_T_L_E_S, Nestles makes the very best ... Chocolate.
23. Quite: VERY.
26. Female rodent, to Fernando: RATA. Spanish for "rat". RATA TAT TAT
28. Out of the wind: ALEE.
29. Fútbol cheer: OLE. Also a butt of many Minnesota Jokes with his buddy SVEN.
33. Frisbee company: WHAMO. I owned one of these once but never got very good at it.
35. New Hampshire college town that sounds peachy: KEENE.
36. Akin: SIMILAR.
39. Sign-lettering aid: STENCIL. It won't be long before campaign signs start appearing on lawns. Our townhome association does not permit them. Yay!
43. __ Says: imitation game: SIMON. Art's buddy Paul.
45. Arcade pioneer: ATARI. I had one for my old Compaq. Played it too much I admit.
51. Western omelet meat: HAM. Of course we had Turkey for dinner last Thursday, and Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I think we'll go for HAM for Christmas.
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52. Mayberry boy: OPIE. Ronny Howard went on to a pretty great career.
53. "__ she blows!": THAR.
54. The "A" in A.D.: ANNO. Year of our Lord.
55. Numbs: DEADENS.
58. Old fast fliers: Abbr.: SSTS. Super Sonic Transports. I never rode in one.
60. __ Arbor, Michigan: ANN. Home of Big Ten powerhouse
University of Michigan. Took care of Ohio State on Saturday. Then our
Gophers upset the Wisconsin Badgers!
66. Uruguay uncle: TIO.
67. Actress Demi: MOORE.
68. "Farewell, mon ami": ADIEU. ADIEU, my friend Adieu. I'll hang my heart on the weeping willow tree, and may the world go well with thee!
69. UFO pilots: ETS.
70. No right __: road sign: ON RED. We have a few in Minnesota.
71. Intended: MEANT.
Down:
1. "We're __ to See the Wizard": OFF. That great movie was on again last week on TBS. Hats off to Judy Garland from Grand Rapids MINNESOTA ! (not Michigan).
2. Iberian land: Abbr.: POR. Portugal.
3. Environmentalist's prefix: ECO.
4. Like undercooked eggs: RUNNY. If served at Easter are they RUNNY Bunnies??
5. Regarding: AS TO.
6. Weather map line: ISOBAR.
7. Worn-down pencil: NUB. I never wore one down that far. Pencils are cheap.
8. Comes out of, as a scent from blossoms: EMANATES. Sun in the morning.
9. Brownish purple: PUCE. I could talk about a Purple Jersey
football team but I'll leave it alone. Last week our pastor said he
was a Green Bay Packer owner. They issue shares of stock. However,
after last Sunday when the Vikings squeaked one out, this Sunday the
pastor told us he was wearing purple vestments because it was Advent and
not because of football.
10. Toll rds. often named for states: TPKS. Got me. We have no Toll Roads in Minnesota. But our state charges a lot for license plates.
11. Spanish rice dish: PAELLA. Add a "T" and you have a kneecap.
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12. Goes along (with): AGREES.
13. Service with cups and saucers: TEA SET. All my sisters had one of these in days gone by.
18. Pop singer Amos: TORI. Torii Hunter, who played for the Twins, has an extra I.
22. "America's Got __": TALENT. I think it's fixed. They never asked me to go on.
23. Swears: VOWS. I guess I've made a few VOWS on the Golf Course.
24. K-12, for short: EL HI.
25. Paper purchase: REAM. 500 sheets.
27. "Naughty, naughty!": TSK.
30. Manuscript sheet: FOLIO.
31. Vietnamese New Year: TET. A Nasty attack from the North Vietnam on the South, back around 1968.
32. Wee hour: ONE AM.
34. Lightly sprayed: MISTED.
37. Embassy rep.: AMB. Ambassador.
38. Cheers on: ROOTS FOR. Of course I tirelessly ROOT FOR the Vikings and Gophers every week. I gave up on the Twins last summer.
40. "Let It Snow" lyricist: CAHN. Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne.
41. Tehran's land: IRAN.
42. "Stretch" vehicle: LIMO. Never rode in one. My Santa Fe is just fine, thank you.
44. Extreme degree: NTH.
46. Until now: TO DATE.
47. Gift giver's cry: OPEN IT. This will be coming next month with cards and presents.
48. Steinways, e.g.: PIANOS.
49. Sampled, as food: TASTED.
50. Approximately: OR SO.
54. "All kidding __ ... ": ASIDE. Sorry, I never put it aside.
56. Red Muppet: ELMO. Tickle Me.
57. Brightly colored: NEON. We visited the Mall of America last
week. Indoor stores with many NEON signs. Then the local news showed
MSP Airport on TV. Looked like Mall of America without the stores.
59. Ore carrier: TRAM.
62. Luigi's three: TRE.
63. Supermodel Carangi: GIA. Sorry, I have never heard of her.
64. Barnyard layer: HEN. But I have heard of her.
65. Boy king: TUT.
Boomer
56 comments:
Thank goodness for Mondays! I did this puzzle, start to finish, so easily that I don't think I even saw a lot of the clues.
Looking over the theme clues, I'm reminded of some nursery stories like "The House that Jack Built", or one of my favorites as a storyteller, "The Old Woman And the Stile".
There was a senhorita of PORTUGAL
Who shouted OLÉ at every goal!
And if a shot
Was fairly blocked,
She'd write it down in her FOLIO!
What would have happened if Frisbee's WHAM-O
Had merged with Tyco's Tickle-Me-ELMO?
A ticklish disk flyer?
A spinning Muppet crier?
Or something for ATARI to turn into a PIANO?
{B, C.}
Good morning!
Zip, zip, done. Wite-out need not apply. Interesting to see both TSK and TUT. Nicely done, Kurt and Boomer.
TPKS: Every new road built in Texas is a toll road. The latest around here is Hwy 99 known as the Grand Parkway. It's a third loop around Houston -- this time 35-40 miles out. It runs along my Thursday M-o-W route. Construction changes make it an adventure every week.
JULE STYNE: How can I misspell that name? Let me count the ways.
FIR, but erased inane for INEPT, which is obviously a CSO to moi. Hand up for not knowing the lovely GIA, and I only sorta knew KEENE.
I once lived near Steinway Street in what is now Santa Clarita, CA. The simplifier in me wanted them to rename it Stein Way. But that's not why ELHI is my favorite fill today, I like it because it causes so many Cornerites' heads to spin like in "The Exorcist."
Will wend our way from Florence, SC to St. Mary's GA today. Also have to visit the truck stop for diesel in Manning, SC. Talk about horror stories...
Thanks to Kurt for the fun, and to Boomer for the laughs. I've been in limos quite a bit, but I didn't find them addicting. Flying first / business class - THAT'S addicting.
Ah, a marvelous Monday! My level!! Very nice CW, thanx, KK. Fun theme, easy to suss, and helpful to fill. 12 minutes for me. I liked having NOOB and NUB, too. Only W/O was my misspelling of STENCIL as STENSIL,
until CAHN showed up. B4 my coffee, I guess. Very nice write-up, too, Boomer, thanx for all your time and effort to make your reviews always fun.
Hi Y'all! Oh, what fun it is, dashing thru this puzzle, thanks Kurt. No big snow fields today.
Thanks, Boomer, our jolly ol' soul. Your turkey looks yummy and browned just right.
Fred, you beat me by 6 seconds today.
Theme was unusual and easy to suss.
DNK: KEENE or GIA. No problem. Perps filled them before the clue was read.
I wore myself watching football yesterday. After the Vikings showed promise a week ago against Green Bay they let met down by losing on the west coast to another 5-5 team. I don't care if his name is Cousins, I am hollering UNCLE. Maybe there will be a "Law and Order" rerun on that I can watch next Sunday.
Thanks Kurt and Rich for starting my week with a relatively stress free romp, (especially after the previous 2 days of struggle). As Owen stated, I also missed a good many clues till I read Boomer’s SUM UP, as many words were filled by the perps.
Boomer, have you been to the Green Bay Packers store in the Mall of America? Always thought it ironic that it exists mere blocks from where the Vikings play, and to my recollection there is no store dedicated to the Minnesota Vikings. Like your pastor I also own a share of the Packers, which means I paid $250 for a piece of paper that pays no dividends. And while on the subject of football, GO BLUE in next weeks matchup with Iowa!
As an ASIDE~~ I’m somewhat of a language geek (and I’m sure many other Cornerites share this trait), so I’m always interested when I come across a word I’ve never seen before, and yesterday I was reading an article that had the word “shadenfreude”, of which a synonym was another unknown, “epicaricacy”, and the sentence used to show usage of that word contained yet another unknown, “defenestrated”. So now I’ve added 3 words to my vocabulary that I’ll never use! Hope everyone has a great week!
Nice and quick Monday as usual- which is good, as it will be a rude awakening to get back to the office today after 4 days off! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend- Boomer, your turkey looked yummy!
I think of Shakespeare when I think of FOLIO as his collection of works is called First Folios - the largest collection is not in the UK but in Washington D.C. at the Folger Shakespeare library there: https://www.folger.edu/
Thanks Boomer and Kurt
From blank to filled-in in 3:54 today.
Nestles didn't come easy, and never sure how to abbreviate turnpikes.
Didn't know the lyricist or the supermodel (are there any mere models anymore, or are they all super these days?).
One of the easiest Mondays ever, only GIA was unfamiliar, but easily perped. It is hard to believe this is a LAT puzzle. FRONT TO BACK established the theme immediately. CSO to all of us bibliophiles here.
BTW, occasionally when a plot leaves a thread hanging and takes off in a new direction, I page forward to pick up the old thread and then go back.
I recognize NOOB from many puzzles, but I use NEWBIE.
I like my eggs over easy with runny yolk and firm white part. I find runny whites repellent.
Cute post, PK.
We had our first dusting of snow in the early morning yesterday. The roads were fine.
Either David or I has made roast beef and Yorkshire pudding every Christmas since the 1960's.
Yooper Phil, you taught me a new word, EPICARICACY. I know schadenfreude and defenestrated. It amazes me how some take joy in others' misfortunes and resent other's successes or good fortune.
Busy day. TTYL.
Good morning. Thank you, Kurt, and thank you, Boomer.
That was easy. But that's ok.
Good looking bird, Boomer. DW made our bird in a granite ware roaster as you did. Just enough turkey left for a few more sandwiches. All the fixin's and sides are gone except one slice of pumpkin. She says it has my name on it.
YooperPhil, I knew fenestration and Schadenfreude, but not epicaricacy. The next time you are in home improvement store, stop by the windows and doors department and look for the NFRC label. I first came across the word was when I looking to replace all the single pane windows in this house with sash replacement kits. It's a fun word to intentionally misuse.
Thank you Kurt for a pleasant Monday morning stroll. It's great to get some fresh air after a very stuffy weekend. The theme was actually helpful for solving this, although I think Hahtoolah might have few words to say about the lexical order of the themers.
And thank you Boomer for your sparkling RECAP. As religion is off-topic in this blog, I'll forgive your comment about 1A, but subject you to this modern RECAP of the Flying Dutchman by the Jolly Rogers (it catches the DRIFT if not the PLOT).
63D GIA. I think we've met Ms Carangi in this neighborhood. Here's her sad, sorry story.
inanehiker @ 7:01 AM The Folger library is also home to a reproduction of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and they do some very imaginative performances of his plays there, plus some nice Renaissance concerts.
Cheers,
Bill
Musings
-Thanks to Kurt and Boomer for a lovely Monday exercise. TOP TO BOTTOM, Boomer? Yup, I'm a Husker fan.
-A famous OPERA hater
-In his 11/20/21 puzzle, David Distenfeld clued AGE as "A number that never goes down"
-It felt warm enough for golf yesterday on the ALEE side of the house, but...
-Paul SIMON recently said of Art, "Quite honestly, we don't get along"
-All of us with daughters have had a party with a very small TEA SET
-I used to be an ELHI sub, now just HI
-Schadenfreude and Karma in one cartoon
FOCUS on this! An easy FIR today with no WOs! Thanks Kurt for a successful start to the week with a fun theme to boot. From TOP TO BOTTOM a total joy.
Boomer, as usual your review brought smiles as well as a picture of your yummy turkey. Thanks!
It's been a while since we saw ELHI but TET has popped up recently. Helpful words for crossword fill apparently.
Hope you all have a VERY good week.
Fln, geico/GECKO did me in. But I also had plug/FLOG
KEENE is on the Connecticut River. There's an old hippy town? on the Vermont side
OK, I'll bite. If there's NAE vows there's NAE Golf and…
CSO to Misty(ed)
FIW, I had TOnI Amos. nATA I guessed was from Disney's Ratatouille movie. A girlfriend. I solved online and came here to find out why "Congrats" didn't show.
Owen, your a harsh marker. #2 tickled my inner ELMO
Jinx, I'm guessing $400 ORSO for that fill up. We could have a contest but I hit CIRCA $70 on the BMW last night. 21 gal at 3.42
I naturally thought of this Flying Dutchman
WC
Ps, Boomer as a baseball card collector knows all about Honus
Good Morning:
Another fresh, fun theme and Monday-easy to boot! I was unfamiliar with Rata and, until reading the expo, thought it was Fernando’s girlfriend’s name. No other unknowns or w/os, so a smooth and satisfying solve. CSOs to Lucina (Ole, Paella and Tio) Pat (Pat), Ray O and Anon T (Tre) and a tongue-in-cheek to Keith who probably has seen his share of Ham(s)!
Thanks, Kurt, for a fun romp and thanks, Boomer, for a lively recap. Your turkey looks yummy and I love your Pastor’s sense of humor. However, I could do without any picture of Aaron Rodgers. Packer fans, forgive me, but from what I have seen and heard from and about him, he is a first-class jerk! Besides that, he looks like he needs a haircut and a bath! A close runner-up in the most annoying people in the news contest is Pete Davidson. The less said about him, the better.
Have a great day.
Here's another hand up for "schadenfreude" and "fenestration" plus a hand down for "epicaricacy."
Waseeley, thanx for the info on Gia Carangi. I figured she was some Gia-come-lately that I didn't recognize. Sad story.
I have to look up password in order to post. It’s been too long, I guess.
So, I’ll just comment as a Guest.
I do the crosswords every evening which is then too early (or late) to post.
I thought this puzzle was downright fun!!
No problems at all.
Have a great month!
Montana
Husker @ 8:36 AM I wonder what one of ARI's SO's would have had to say about that quote?
Waseeley, she was calloused to his opinions.
Thank you Kurt Krauss for a nice and easy Monday puzzle, and Boomer, for a humorous review.
Glad you are doing well, and enjoying life.
I just found out through a tel call, that one of my client's son had open heart surgery ... very sad, but made all my minor medical problems pale into insignificance.
HuskerG, per your link, Ari Onassis hated opera ... BUT, !! ... he was married to Maria Callas, the most most famous aria diva in opera-dom ! For most of his life, ere, he married Jackie O.
I have heard of schadenfreude = Happiness, in someone else's misfortune.
and defenestration: throwing someone out of a window.
But not epicaricacy = which is a synonym of schadenfreude.
schadenfreude altho german, is easier to pronounce.... some words are best memorized and remembered in the foreign language. Like je ne sais quoi ...
I was once reading ( and following the verses - ) in the jewish Torah, in a visit to a synagogue, as a Bat Mitzvah guest, and I was amazed at how the book ran backwards ( from back to front, because of the Hebrew language, reading from right to left -) and yet the english translation read 'normally' in the other direction.
I wonder how japanese english books read like ... since japanese reads from top to bottom, in columns.
My first answer to 'The Flying Dutchman' was PLANE, because it was the logo symbol of KLM, the Dutch air carrier... now ownwed by AirFrance.
One of Cleveland's poshest suburbs, found out, the hard way, though expensive litigation, that a city cannot ban ... campaign signs, TO LET or FOR SALE or REALTOR signs and such other material on people's front lawns ... its one of the freedoms of expression.
EMANATES ... sounds like the internet version of Mal Man's relatives ....
Have a good day, and a good rest of the week, all.
What no Sven and Ole Minnesota jokes ??
Why do New Yorkers visit Minnesota ?
So that they can make fun of it, .... as thats where the mini-apple-is .
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Sven and Ole die in an auto accident and apparently, appropriately, go to Hell.
The devil finds, to his chagrin, that they are having a great time in the steamy, hot, burning, weather....
So he converts, and turns Hell into a frigid bleak ice sheet ....
And, yet the guys seem to whooping it up, and cheering . ?
He asks them, why ...
They say: We've been told, that when Hell freezes over .... da Vikings will have won da Super Bowl.
Did the puzzle on my iPhone while sitting in
The dermatologists chair while she removed three
Sebaceous cysts from my scalp.
While I would like to give you the whole story,
Front to back
Left to right
Top to bottom and first to last,
I will spare you all the gory details.
One thing I can tell you is that when I came across
Numbed=deadened
Both I, and the dermatologist were stumped until
At least 3/4 of the perps were revealed...
Re: the Flying Dutchman
I am afraid my only knowledge of this
Is because of SpongeBob Squarepants' encounter with him.
Again, sparing you the whole story,
here is a 5 minute synopsis
That I include only because I know Anonymous-T will get
A kick out of the story's conclusion...
Woohoo! Woohoo! Delightful and totally doable Monday puzzle--I got every single word, even ones I didn't know filled in by surroundings. A huge treat, many, many thanks, Kurt. And another great commentary from you, Boomer, thanks for that too.
What a great start with a Wagner OPERA and the song "We're OFF to see the Wizard."
I used to read a lot of books, so it was easy to fill in how books are read.
Love seeing sweet OPIE in crossword puzzles every week.
Never heard of the New Hampshire college, but peachy KEENE cracked me up.
Thanks for the shout-out, Wilbur.
Lots of fun, and a great start to our post Thanksgiving week. Have a good week coming up, everybody.
Hola!
An easy Monday solve from Kurt Krauss! Thank you for that and thank you, Boomer, for your light-hearted review. When my family traveled to Minnesota for a great-nephew's wedding we, of course, had to go to the MoA where we met up with you and C.C.
I liked the simplicity of this puzzle. It's a good thing, too, because I had such a bad night. Finally, I fell asleep at 5:00 A.M. It's all because of that three hour nap! Even if I have to staple my eyelids, I won't ever take a nap again.
Luckily I have a good book to keep me entertained, Night Music, by Jojo Moyes.
The only time I have been in a LIMO was when my late niece and her friends organized a tour of various small businesses in her town. It was fun, and I'm sure, profitable, for those shops.
Today I'll get my new phone activated and (sigh) learn to use it.
Ooh! PAELLA is so delicious!
It's legal to turn on RED here unless it designates otherwise.
Have a magical Monday, everyone, especially if you are cyber-shopping!
Nice post Tryptophan infused puzzle.
ELHI should go into the circular file with OWIE,IRED etc. (Jinx, so angry I'm levitating) 😡
My wee can be at ONE AM but usually at least one more time during the night..🤭🤭😆
Hieroglyphic translation from the tomb of King TUT...
"He coulda won a Grammy,
Buried in his jammies,
Born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia,
He was born in Arizona, lived in a condo made of stone-a ....King TUT"..
Florentine bear....ORSO
Hunts truffles....ROOTSFOR
"Get off the fence and choose _____" ...ASIDE
Novel not finished? How many chapters ____ ? LEFT TO RIGHT.
Wail about a New Hampshire College....KEEN
Our Chairman's moniker in Madrid...EL MO.
Dug through the snow to plant spring bulbs yesterday with flurries in the air. Too early for this much white stuff. ❄❄❄🌨
Boomer: Nice write-up & links. Good job!
Hope everyone had a safe & wonderful Thanksgiving weekend.
Turns out that a slice of Pumpkin Pie is the "perfect breakfast."
A "Toast-to-ALL" at Sunset.
Cheers!
Just when I thought I had reached my quota for the week of seeing new unfamiliar words, Ray-O leads off with TRYPTOPHAN 🤦🏻♂️
ELHI only refers to 1-12, as in ELementary and HIgh schools. How hard is it to get a clue right??
Yooper...It's the stuff in turkey that we useda think made us sleepy after overeating ..when it's prolly the carbs in the dessert pies.🍰🥧
What an easy, fun start to the week! My only w/o was 70A No right _____ I put turns/ONRED. Otherwise, zip, zip, done! I even got the theme, something I usually don't do.
Thank you, Kurt Krauss, for the exercise! Thank you, Boomer, for the excellent expo!
Thank you, IM, for the CSO at PAT! I'll also take one at 60A ___ Arbor, MI. I was up there at the beginning of the month for a siblings get-together. One sister goes overboard with Halloween decorations so I wanted to see them. It was a good visit, we all had a great time.
I hope you all have a wonderful week!
YooperPhil
-- schadenfreude is a familiar word to me. Guess I must read a lot of stories about nasty people.
--On the other hand epicaricacy is a new one to me.
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπιχαιρεκακία (epikhairekakía, “joy upon evil”).
(rare) Rejoicing at or deriving pleasure from the misfortunes of others.
Usage notes
The word appears in most of the editions of Nathaniel Bailey's dictionary. Bailey's dictionary was highly respected, was published and republished for about 50 years starting in 1721, and was Samuel Johnson's basic word-list from which he prepared his dictionary, acknowledged to be the master. Linguist Joseph T. Shipley included it in his Dictionary of Early English (1963), citing Bailey.
Evidence of actual usage seems scant until it was picked up by various "interesting word" websites around the turn of the twenty-first century.
-- And it's a shame many history books today overlook the Defenestration(s) of Prague.
A few months ago there was a discussion about matching storage containers with the correct lid. I finally found a link for the set we have: each container has the same opening, the amount it will hold varies by height. Every lid fits every container! https://www.qvc.com/LocknLock-6-Piece-Rectangle-Pantry-Set.product.K50168.html?sc=NAVLIST
Musings 2
-70F on the Great Plains and near that all week. I got in 18 holes in 90 minutes and could not go any farther because the course was jammed. It's Monday for crying out loud, who's minding the store?
-The golf course was watering like crazy and so I restarted my underground sprinklers! I then did some yard work in shorts and a tank top.
-I loved relearning SCHADENFREUDE. There are some arrogant athletes and coaches that I don't mind seeing struggle.
-OPERA is not my thing but every so often one piece of music can stir my soul. Nessum Dorma leaps to mind.
-Opie manages to get his little brother Cling into movies he directs
D-O @10:30 AM A very BOOMER worthy "meta groaner" comment to a BOOMER review.
Vidwan @11:19 AM According to Dante, the 9th Circle of Hell (the lowest) is a frozen lake with the Devil stuck in the center. Per Signor Alighieri, Hell is the coldest place in the Universe, because this spot is the farthest from God.
Ray - O @12:06 PM Re that nocturnal problem you mention, ya know you can get plastic pissoirs for that. 😂
Phil @1:01 PM Tryptophan is an amino acid that, as Ray - O has pointed out, gets the bad rap for making us sleepy after a Turkey dinner. It turns out that eggs have a much higher concentration of the stuff.
There's a girl I went to Elementary school (k-8), High School and College with. She says we were in K through 16 together.
She should say ELHICO..and I expect that to be a future puzzle answer!! 🤨
Marvellous Monday. Thanks for the fun, Kurt and Boomer.
I FIRed in quick Monday time while on the highway (don’t worry, DH was driving).
GIA required perps, and CAHN took a couple to fall.
I must run. We got some snow and I am in the mood for Christmas decorating.
Wishing you all a great day. Good to hear from you Montana.
This is why I love the Blog!
Learning things I didn't know I didn't know....
Today's learning moment: defenestration
1st, I didn't know it was a word,
& 2nd, I thought it was something people
Did with TV sets claiming they were not going to
Take it anymore!
OwenKL, you are a rock star!
Perhaps people on the blog can help enlighten me to something
The internet has so far been unable to uncover.
Yesterday when Khafre appeared, we were shown a miraculous statue
Carved out diorite. A stone so hard that it is deemed impossible to
To shape with the tools the dynastic Egyptians had available.
My question is how do we know that this statue is actually a
Depiction of "Khafre?"
I mean, it doesn't have his name on it...
And so far as I can tell, it was because it was found in a burial chamber with other
Stuff with his name on it.
Could it be someone else, and far older?
Puzzling thoughts:
FIR with some assistance from Margaret. We are doing the puzzles together now, a la Malodorous Manatee and Valerie. Good fun!
Ray-O: "The Chairman's moniker, in Madrid: EL MO"; really??! :-D
I think I can tolerate one more leftover dish from Thanksgiving ... one
We watched the first part of three in the documentary series, "Get Back" (The Beatles). If you have access to Disney Plus it's a must watch. A bit slow in parts, but it's fascinating to see how these four lads from Liverpool interacted
In the Army -- long ago, when everything was new and I was young -- the name was "NooG", short for 'New Guy'. (As opposed to a 'short-timer,' someone so short in remaining time that he had to 'look uo to look down.')
I enjoyed zipping through this puzzle, so quickly that I didn't see several clues/answers. Like Misty, peachy KEENE cracked me up.
CED @5:04 PM You mean .. like .. an Ancient Astronaut?
Waseely@6:25
No, seriously, ancient astronauts aside...
It is another puzzle!
The quality of the artwork does not match the tools
Available at the time.
Something is missing that leads to ask8ng questions.
So I ask,
How do we know this is really a depiction of Khafre?
If you research this question, you will find it leads to an intriguing puzzle
That deserves attention. The answer, "because we say so" does not satisfy my curiosity.
Cross Eyed Dave, your stone image could be very perplexing.
But as for carving, very hard stone - mineral materials, ..... carborundum and emery were known in ancient times. Carborundum, SiC, Silicon Carbide, occurs, naturally, in a few minerals like moissanite. Mohs hardness > 9.4
Also Bauxite Al2O3 aluminum oxide, occurs naturally and can be used for carving hard stones. Mohs hardness > 8.6
and ofcourse, small diamonds were always available, if rare. Mohs hardness = 10.
Good Luck with your search, post a picture if you can.
Hi All!
Thanks Kurt for a quick Monday puzzle; I liked the theme clues building.
Wonderful expo and pretty bird, Boomer. Thank you.
WOs: N/A
ESPs: GIA, CAHN, KEENE
Fav: I'll go with ATARI -- Bro has our old 2600 console.
{B+, B}
Hand-up: epicaricacy is new to me (and apparently spell-check too).
Thanks for the SpongeBob link CED - the end was cute.
"Stein Way" - LOL Jinx
C. Moe - Bro is watching the Beatles documentary. It's on my list but 6 hours... - that's a lot of TV :-)
RUNNY scrambled eggs (someone say Army, Michael?) are the worst. I use Gordon Ramsay's method. Try it once and you'll never go back.
CED - "Because we say so" is about as good as you're going to get. Just like 'which one is the real boulder that the Pilgrims set foot on.
//After Thanksgiving dinner, we were discussing biggest letdowns in life -- Plymouth rock was one of them :-)
Cheers, -T
Bill - thanks for the heads up about the theater offerings at the Folger Library - now that my son lives in DC - it would be fun to go when we visit! My main experience in Shakespearean theaters is the Elizabethan theater at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, OR. Our cousin's husband worked on the tech side there for many years. I always wanted to go to Stratford,Ontario - but haven't gotten there yet
Easy, but fun, Monday, as expected. At least there is a little thought required with Monday crosswords, as opposed to Sudoku.
My nit - NOOB, not a gimme, was also in yesterday’s puzzle. I don’t like the same answer in back-to-back puzzles. Bah!
CED @7:26 Dave, I think that we tend to condescend to the past, seriously underestimating the knowledge and skills of "primitive" peoples. I remember years ago attending an exhibit of Mesopotamian art in NY, dating back to 3000 years BC. I was most impressed by their lost wax bronze casting of small figurines. The know how to achieve this didn't just appear de Novo 5000 years ago, but had to have been preceded by hundreds, or even thousands of years of research, experimentation, and apprenticeship. To paraphrase Arthur C Clark, "The works of any sufficiently ancient civilization is indistinguishable from magic".
CED -- "And so far as I can tell, it was because it was found in a burial chamber with other Stuff with his name on it."
Well if it looks like the other stuff, then it's the same guy, isn't it? And if it didn't look like the rest, then they'd know it wasn't him. And they've got the Sphinx to compare it to, besides.
Last time I looked the Sphinx's face was pretty banged up. 😳
A FIW for a Monday. It was an honest one, though. I knew neither RATA nor TORI (although an R in the first would have been a better guess, had I thought that hard. I think I stuck the N in 18D first, though.
Thanks for another fine puzzle and expo, Kurt and Boomer.
Speaking of...Montana dropping in … He surely knows about the Honus Wagner Baseball Card
As surely does Boomer know
WC
The Egyptians built the pyramids which certainly required some finesse in building skills. Those blocks did not cut themselves.
It has been a long, frustrating day for me today trying to learn to use my new telephone. I knew that if I ever got one, it would be so. My mind simply is not geared toward complicated electronics especially at this age. My daughter will come to help me as soon as she can take some time off. So far I know that "swiping" upward is going to be the main gesture. There is a reason I originally bought a flip phone.
Montana, it is so good to hear from you!
Oops. Not Montana, Pat.
Still Up say...
I love reading the late night comments; something nice to wrap up the day.
LeoIII - I can see you mixing up TORI with other letters. Only reason I know of her is DW likes drone-y pop female voices. Frankly, her music is too boring for me.
WC - Montana is a She. I can't assume what she knows about Baseball :-)
Lucina - give me 10,000 slaves and I might could build a pyramid.
//Too soon? :-)
I did get to go to Giza and see the Great Pyramids and, less than a mile or so away, the Sphinx. The latter was roped off for renovations (?). It was amazing.
Going to Egypt was a trip of a lifetime - even if it was for work.
Lucina (again) - I also love when semi-regulars show up at The Corner. Pat, Montana, Ave Joe [hasn't showed himself in a spell] -- it's like a little family reunion.
jfromvt - I like when new-to-me words show up a second time in a week. Reinforces a new word, it does.
Fodder for tomorrow - what 'must-see' have you gone out of your way for and then were all like - "that's it?"
I mentioned Plymouth Rock. BIL agreed and added "Mount Rushmore. It's cool but, um, Ok, well I saw it. Now what?"
Cheers, -T
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