Ready for Prime Time? The number in each of the theme answers is a Prime Number. To take you back to math class, a Prime Number a whole number above 1 that cannot be made by multiplying other whole numbers. The actors in the clip below were not considered ready for Prime Time.
18-Across. Automatic time-out near the end of each NFL half: TWO MINUTE WARNING.
29-Across. Guided sightseeing event in the "Gilligan's Island" theme: THREE HOUR TOUR.
37-Across. Food-dropped-on-the-floor "policy": FIVE SECOND RULE.
47-Across 1955 Marilyn Monroe film, with "The": SEVEN YEAR ITCH.
And the unifier:
62. Large-audience schedule item ... and what the four other longest answers comprise?: PRIME TIME LISTING.
Across:1. Outer border: EDGE.
5. Soft "Hey, you!": PSST!
15. "Wuthering Heights" setting: MOOR. Wuthering Heights
is a 1847 novel by Emily Brontë (July 30, 1818 ~ Dec. 19, 1848).
It's the novel with Heathcliff and it takes place in the English
moors. That is my entire knowledge of the novel.
16. "I have a bad feeling about this": UH, OH!
17. Removed, as a pencil mark: ERASED.
22. Auction offer: BID.
23. Medium-sized apple: GALA. Everything you wanted to
know about the Gala apples, but didn't know to ask.
24. Parts of an act: SCENES. Hi, Keith!
26. Dance named for a horse's gait: GALOP. Hand up if you knew this dance.
28. Here-there in-between: NOR. Neither here NOR there ...
32. Biotech room: LAB.
33. Paleozoic __: ERA. The Paleozoic area is estimated
to have occurred from 541 to 251 million years ago.
34. Knocks firmly: RAPS.
43. Pulitzer author Jennifer: EGAN. I am not familiar
with Jennifer Egan (b. Sept. 7, 1962), but I had heard of her book, A
Visit from the Goon Squad, which is what won her the 2011 Pulitzer Prize
for Fiction.
44. Reuben bread: RYE.
45. LGBT History Mo.: OCT. October is LGBT month.
53. __-rock: music: ALT. Everything you wanted to know
about Alternative Rock music, but didn't know to ask.
56. Pricey watch: ROLEX. They do look nice, though.
57. Pooch's plaything: DOG TOY.
58. Nagano noodle: SOBA. Soba noodles are Japanese noodles. They can be eaten in hot or cold dishes.
60. Worksheet line: ROW.
61. Noodle shape: ELBOW. I uses Elbow Macaroni noodles
for my Mac and Cheese.
67. Anger to the max: ENRAGE.
68. Baker's appliance: OVEN.
69. Golfer Aoki: ISAO. Isao Aoki (b. Aug. 31, 1942)
makes frequent guest appearances in the puzzle. He was inducted into
the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2004.
70. Fenway team: RED SOX. Years ago, I lived just a
couple of blocks from Fenway Park. That was back in the day when the
bleacher seats were only $3, so I could even afford to go to the games.
71. Viral internet item: MEME.
72. "bye 4 now": TTYL. Textspeak for Talk To You Later.
Down:
1. Defib expert: EMT. As in an Emergency Medical Technician.
2. The "D" in DJIA: DOW. As in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
3. Succeed impressively: GO OVER BIG. I first looked at
this answer and though it was Goover Big.
4. Ferret's cousin: ERMINE. Everything you wanted to
know about Ferrets, Stoats, Weasels, and Ermines, but didn't know to ask.
5. Grounds for bad behavior, say: PUNISHES. A bit of an
oddly worded clue and answer, in my opinion.
6. Close: SHUT.
7. Drunkard: SOT.
8. Law exam, familiarly: THE BAR. The Bar Exam in Louisiana is the longest bar exam in the United States. It is 21 hours
long and takes place over 3 days. There are nine sections of the
exam and topics cover both common law and Civil Law. By the end of
the 3rd day, your brain is essentially mush.
9. Jet Ski rival: SEA DOO.
10. Drop a fly, e.g.: ERR. A baseball reference.
11. Did a number: SANG.
12. Lai or Thai: ASIAN.
13. __ Park: Edison lab site: MENLO. Thomas Edison's lab
was in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
14. Mystery writers' award: EDGAR. The Edgar award
appeared in a recent crossword that I commented on.
19. "That makes sense": I SEE!
20. Become limp: WILT.
24. Mo. metropolis: ST. L. St. Louis is a metropolis in Missouri.
25. Rub the wrong way: CHAFE.
26. Chip dip, casually: GUAC. As in Guacamole.
Yummers!
27. Run smoothly, as an engine: PURR.
30. Tram load: ORE.
31. India-born author Santha Rama __: RAU. Santha Rama
Ran (Jan. 24, 1923 ~ Apr. 21, 2009) was an Indian-born American is
probably best known for her screenplays. She adapted E.M. Foster's
novel, A Passage to India, for the theater. She is
not a household name, and rather tricky for a Tuesday.
35. Story line surprise: PLOT TWIST.
36. Italian for "dry": SECCO. Today's Italian lesson.
38. Mil. hospitals: VAs. As in Veteran Administration hospitals. Hi, Boomer! Hope you are doing well.
39. Part of DOE: Abbr.: ENER. As in the Department of Energy.
40. African antelope: ORYX.
41. "Bill __ the Science Guy": '90s TV show: NYE. Bill
Nye (né William Sanford Nye; b. Nov. 27, 1955) makes frequent appearances
in the puzzles.
42. When the story is due: DEADLINE. I am also under a
deadline to get this blog written!
46. " ... hallowed be __ name": THY. A phrase from the
Lord's Prayer.
48. Whirlpool: VORTEX.
49. "The Time Machine" race: ELOI. These creatures make
frequent crossword appearances.
50. One raising her first child: NEW MOM.
51. Takes badly?: ROBS.
52. "Eureka!": I GOT IT!
53. In accordance with: AS PER.
54. Michaels of "SNL": LORNE. Lorne Michaels (né Lorne
David Lipowitz; b. Nov. 17, 1944) turns 77 tomorrow. He introduced
us to the Not Ready For Prime Time players back in 1975.
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| Lorne Michaels is holding the star. |
55. "Thelma & Louise" car: T-BIRD. Thelma & Louise came out in 1991. I can't believe it has been 30 years!
59. Amo, __, amat ...: AMAS. Today's Latin lesson.
61. S, Am, Ac, K or Er: ELEM. These are all Elements on the periodic table: S = Sulfur; Am = Americium; Ac = Actinium; K = Potassium; and Er =
Erbium.
63. It may be inflated: EGO.
64. Ill-fated fruit eater: EVE. Fresh new clue for Eve.
65. Vote of opposition: NAY.
66. Score in fútbol: GOL. Today's Spanish lesson.
Here's the grid:
חתולה
60 comments:
Good morning!
Wow, quicker than yesterday. Didn't snap that "Prime Time" was a reveal, and wondered why the number progression was 2-3-5-7. D'oh. Still, today was Wite-Out-free, so I call that a winner. Thanx, Sam and Hahtoolah. (I think I'm qualified to be a Louisiana attorney -- my mind is already mush.)
GALOP: Yup, I know it's a type of dance, but have no idea how to do it. D-o is no hoofer.
FIR with no erasures, but DNK MOOR, GALOP, EGAN, RAU, when LBGT Month is (or CIS month, for that matter), and I only know three apple types: red, yellow and green.
A winglet on a jet plane is there to capture the energy from the wingtip VORTEX that used to escape into the air. The concept was shown to be practical by the keel on Austrailia's groundbreaking America's Cup boat in the '80s.
My favorite clue/fill was "grounds for bad behavior, say" for PUNISHES. I must have been grounded a lot more than Hahtoolah when I was a kid. I'm sure that would be a surprise to those who suffer through my off-color comments here in the Corner.
Speaking of which, I too was thinking of Viagra at WILT. BTW, there is a folk remedy for an overdose of Viagra: Just put a rock in your shoe. Makes you limp.
Thanks to Sam and Hahtoolah for all the fun
Forgot to mention that on the first day of business law for my MBA, the instructor told us that what we learned in the class would be applicable in every state except LA. Until then I had no idea that legalities were so much different there.
Good Morning, crossword friends. As I was doing today's puzzle, I noticed the numbers and immediately thought of Prime numbers before I got to the reveal. Of course, I have the advantage of living in a mathematical family, so know of math terms even if I don't understand them all!
Jinx: Louisiana civil law is based on the Code Napoléon, which was promulgated in France in 1804. Many legal terms used here are very different from those used in common law states. For example, there is no Statute of Limitations, but we do have Prescriptive Periods, which are essentially the same. Although the principles are the same, prior legal decision don't necessarily carry the same weight as they would in other states. Judges are given greater discretion in their interpretation of Civil Code articles.
QOD: I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra. ~ George S. Kaufman (né George Simon Kaufman; Nov. 16, 1889 ~ June 2, 1961), American playwright
Jinx, Lousiana adopted the legal system of France rather than the English system adopted by the rest of the colonies.
While this did go reasonably quickly there was much I did not remember...GALOP why isn't on DWTS? Jennifer EGAN ? Though we have had Samantha RAU enough for that to stick.
Susan you write-up was flawless; I especialy loved the squeaky toy cartoon. Thank you.
And thank you Sam. You stopped by when you had your break through publication back in May of 2019 and we are happy to see you back.
Had to do today's CW on the computer again. It's faster than ink-on-paper, but I like the ink-on-paper way far better anyway. FIR in 13, with several DNK pretty much in line with what Jinx listed. Also could not recall what kind of car Thelma and Louise drove. When TB showed up as the first two letters, TBIRD did not pop into my mind, and I thought, "TB...?" That can't be right. Finally, the bulb lit up. I did not get the Prime Numbers theme until Hahtoolah 'splained it. Nice CW, thanx, Sam. And terrific write-up, thanx Hahtoolah.
Fln, I was at Sam's last night and spotted Pokémon ice cream.
Also, fln(re. Ask Andy and "Evils" of comic books), Seduction of the Innocent wiki page. As a comic book fiend of the fifties I'd wondered what happened to some of my favs. Anybody remember "Long Sam"
Seven Year Itch was airing and I watched a bit before Sunday night FB. Yep, MM in her glory
SESAME is my fave bagel. PSST, I forgot to suss the theme
I just solved thos morning so my mention of Isao was mere prescience. I'm reading a Nicklaus bio and a pic of Jack with I A. is in there(1980 US Open)
Hahtoolah, did you go to BU? I remember $1.00 bleacher tix. Plus you could drink beer there but not grandstand
WC
I primed the pump in 4:30 today.
Reading the amusing review, I see I luckily was able to avoid the unknown (to me) writers, Rau and Egan, and the Italian word.
Galop reminds me of "Infernal Galop" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=okQRnHvw3is), frequently referred to "the can can song."
Good frosty morning all.
Easy enough but fun puzzle.
I’m with you Jinx on PUNISHES . Took right up to the end to make sense of it til I thought of grounds as a verb. Grounding was never a form of punishment in my experience. Grounding would have been like a slap on the wrist compared to what was in store if behavior warranted punishment.
Cheers
Thanks Sam for a Tuesday GALOP in the park, with no 10D's today. Got the numbers, but wasn't PRIMED for the theme.
And thank you Susan for a great review. The funnies were especially funny today.
15A MOOR. I've not read JANE EYRE, but have streamed it. It has a very interesting 35D at the end.
26A GALOP. Hand up for having heard of it, but can't dance it (or anything else for that matter). The gait also appears frequently in classical DANCE SUITES. Our local South African DJ pronounces it with the emPHASis on the second sylLABle and a short O. You'll recognize Jacque Offenbach's Infernal Galop, from his operetta "La Vie Parisienne". The galop proper starts about one minute in.
Liked 32A LAB + 13D MENLO + 41D NYE ("not a scientist"), but he plays one on TV.
33A ERA. Favorite cartoon. Here we are in the CENOZOIC ERA and we still can't write checks.
4D ERMINE. Who STOLE the MINK?
5D PUNISHES. Great piece of misdirection.
13D MENLO. We had EDISON's rival TESLA yesterday I think.
20D WILT. Another great cartoon. Teri just snips the ends off and adds more water.
54D LORNE. Liked the book-ending of this with the reveal at 62A.
70D RED SOX. I know it's impolite to mention a woman's age, but the information revealed in that comment would make it possible to come up with a reasonable estimate. 😉
Cheers,
Bill
Hmm...I've never heard of Galop, so thanks for the video. It looks like a sedate Quick Step.
Although not a big fan of the Star Wars movie SOLO, I always appreciated that the young Solo kept saying, "I have a GOOD feeling about this."
My favorite clue/answer: Ill fated fruit eater/EVE
My poor head if full of all those 1960s TV theme songs: Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, etc. (I apologize if you are now singing those--revenge for the Gilligan's Island clue)
Good Morning:
Had no idea where the number theme was going, so the reveal was a surprise. No w/os, no unknowns, no problems. Liked Galop/Gala, Edge/Edgar, and Nye/Rye. Nice CSO to Wilbur at Red Sox. Punishes didn’t make sense until I finally until I realized Grounds was a verb in the clue.
Thanks, Sam, for a Tuesday treat and thanks, Susan, for the informative review. I’ll have to return to appreciate most of the links, as they didn’t come through first time around. This glitch doesn’t usually happen with your write-ups but it did today.
Ray O, welcome back. Your sunny, punny silliness was greatly missed! I’m very familiar with Sanibel and Captiva as I spent 17 winters in that area, south of Ft. Myers. Are The Mucky Duck and The Bubble Room still around?
Have a great day.
Scratch one “Until I”.
Ohh, I dislike this! Wrote these poems last night, but then fell asleep before the blog posted, so there's already a dozen or more posts above me!
There was a genius at MENLO park
Who quit to follow his own spark.
He fought with Thomas,
Sought his own promise,
Nicola eventually made his mark!
The DOW Jones Industrial Average
Gives companies numbers for an EDGE.
A ROW on a grid
Of the prices BID,
Sometimes will investors ENRAGE!
{A-, B.}
Terrific Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, Sam and Hahtoolah.
I smiled broadly when I saw the PRIME TIME theme. (Any hands up for entering Four before FIVE in 37A, thinking it was a number progression?). But I failed to correct my O from entering Pop rock, thus missing LORNE. Plus I had NIL for that fútbol score, and when I corrected the N to G, I failed to correct the I to O. UHOH!
I noted the SOBA and ELBOW noodles.
We had ELOI and ELEM (but no ElHi thankfully!), ROLEX crossing VORTEX.
How did GALOP lose the second L? Or is the One L in the same genre as THE BAR?
Hand up for preferring Everything bagels.
Wishing you all a great day. TTYL
Quick interesting puzzle, Sam. From the first theme answer I suspected each would begin with a number, That sped up solving. I needed the reveal to see that they were primes.
I know people with little kids who quote the five second rule. Science shows it is inaccurate. OTOH science says that some of us try to be so clean and antiseptic that we have less immunity as a result.
Susan, I loved the PSST, so little time cartoon. I also loved the late notice of tomorrow's project. So true to life.
I have seen the GALOP on TV and in movies, not in person.
There is a grand 26 foot statue of Marilyn in that pose which I saw it at the Grounds for Sculpture gardens in Hamilton, NJ. Now it is back at its home in FL. There is a controversy over erecting it again because they call it misogynistic. I, a feminist, disagree. IMO we are going overboard these days.
Good morning.
Speed run, and it showed.
Channeling Canadian Eh's alliterative intros to her posts, I'd have to start mine as Typo Tuesday.
I don't know what a FIVR SECOND RULE is, but I know what I intended to type.
I'll have to read the review and comments later today. At least a full day of yard work needs to be done. As Hondo used to say, "Time to go chase leaves"
An entertaining and quickly solved puzzle this morning. The recap was even more entertaining . . . and it took more time to read it than to do the puzzle. Time well spent. I had not previously thought about the problems that Tyrannosaurs would have with chest compression. A learning moment.
Musings
-This math guy took far too long to see the PRIME numbers but did eventually! Duh!
-SECCO, RAU, EGAN, GALOP and GOL made things interesting
-I suspect you know who started some very funny stories with "Well, it's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, my hometown, out there on the EDGE of the prairie."
-Our last OVEN was cheaper than we thought. Turns out, among other things, it was not self-cleaning
-Bill NYE’s 15 minute videos informed and entertained my student for years
-Our constructor Dr. Ed Sessa lives on Sanibel Island
-Fun review, Susan.
-73F and full sun. What to do? What to do? Wait a minute...
Hi Y'all! Fun with a few TWISTs, Sam. Great expo, Hahtoolah. Needed those giggles.
How'd I get so old without needing to know what PRIME numbers were until today. Surprise theme TWIST. First theme answer was the last to fill because I don't watch football.
Hand up for knowing GALOP. Sounds like fun.
Never eat BAGELs. Tried one once.
DNK: EGAN (or her book), ALT-rock, SOBA, DJIA, LORNE.
ISAO Aoki, B: 1942. Retired from golf. Will live forever on the CW tour.
61d ELEM: all perps. Didn't even think "periodic table" when filled. DUH! The clue for EVE stumped me too. Need to eat one of those apples that give wisdom today.
My new yardman ground thru shin-deep maple leaves with his super mower yesterday to clean up my yard for almost two hours. I pointed out the still almost full of leaves tree above him. He responded with a deep groan. Hope he'll show up again. And again. Very dusty work.
Musings 2
-PRIME numbers in the movies (3:26)
PK, I believe if you got that bagel from a package sold in stores, the bagel was not given a fair trial. I have had bagels from packages and those made in other areas of the country. MEH! In my experience, those made in Yiddish regions are best. They are boiled for a sort time and then baked. I buy them at the bagel shop fresh from the oven and then toasted. Yummy. I always eat them spread them with cream cheese. I like to add smoked salmon, capers and sweet onion. Here many delis, diners, etc. buy them fresh from the bagel shop every morning. Those are very good, too.
I used to live on a large corner lot with many oak trees of several varieties. They kept dropping their leaves until almost Thanksgiving. This year almost all of the trees of every variety here still have many leaves. I am glad I no longer live on that lot. The new owners could be raking into Dec. I used to get more than a hundred and fifty bags of leaves. In the last few years there I hired a handyman. Here we have a yard service.
Ditto on the everything bagels!
In fact,
I bought this stuff
So I can have everything EVERYTHING!
(Sometimes I just snack on it by itself...)
Thanks for that Husker! Great, many layered movie. And IMHO Sagan's book was even greater.
Also,
It is very easy to make scallion cream cheese
At home, just slice up a scallion and mash it into the cream cheese!
The longer it sits in the fridge the better it gets!
Also, also,,,
If you cut off a half inch of the white part
With the roots and put it in water, the scallion will
Regrow the green part at a rate of a third of an inch a day!
No, scallions are not related to prime numbers....
Now, if only I could get the cream cheese to reproduce itself...
First, I would have to get a cow, and then...
Nice Tuesday challenge. 2, 3, 5, and 7 PRIME numbers. 😃
Inkovers: rues/ROBS, ttfn/TTYL (the former would have had elements of the clue in the answer). "Wuthering Heights" (remember giggling in HS about Heathcliff's secret place Penistone Crag)🤭😄
lesson 2
Latin amo, amas, amat
Italian amo, ami, ama
"Noodle" to me is a long flat pasta like fettucIne. "Egg noodles" are not egg-shaped. Nor are fried noodles or SOBA ever elbows...🍜🍝
There's a dance called the GALOP? and with one L so LIUed and found among other things: The Ghana Accountability for Learning Outcomes Project (GALOP) ENRAGE not ire 😐
The film sequel Thelma and Louise 2, where the girls used parachutes....never quite "got off the ground"😅
Othello cut the grass with a rider lawn ____ ...MOOR
"Et tu Bruté?"........DEADLINE
Witness.....SEADOO
H2LH..LOVED the cartoons...so now we know why T Rex really became extinct.🦖
Great puzzle and tour from Sam and Hahtoolah.
I had a few unknowns that others had, but perps were very helpful today in filling the unknowns in. MOOR, EGAN, RAU and SOBA were the main unknowns.
There is an author, Randy Wayne White who writes mysteries about a character called Doc Ford who is a marine biologist (actually a former spy) who hangs out in the Captiva and Sanibel area of Florida and solves all kinds of mysteries. His books are interesting if you like a little history thrown in.
There is a parallel to the New Mom cartoon that was told to DW and me when we had our first child. When the first child scrapes a knee you rush the child to the ER. When the second child gets a cut, you bandage the injury. When the third child is injured, you just check to make sure that there is no major arterial bleeding.
Plain and cinnamon raisin are my favorite bagels. I agree with YR that the best bagels come fresh baked from a real bagel shop and are still warm. I used to live on Long Island and you could find good bagels in just about every neighborhood.
Cold but sunny today. Hope you have a great day.
FIR today like many of you all. Some WOs, as usual, as I tried GAvOt/GALOP and oHOH/UHOH. Also had SkiDOO/SEADOO. But lots of fun and saw the number progression. PRIME numbers, OK. That was a surprise. Thanks, Sam. And a big Tuesday thank you to Hahtoolah for today's extra entertainment.
Did the puzzle early this morning then got busy baking. Now it's time to fix lunch. Have a yummy day today!
Irish M
Many great restaurants on Sanibel have closed including one of my favorites The Jacaranda...and my grandkids and daughter Catherine's favorite Matza Luna is closing soon..but Captiva's Mucky Duck and the insane Bubble Room still going strong
🌴
Returning to Sanibel for two weeks in January and a one week rad conference (staying an extra week) on Captiva.
Hola!
Math is not my strong point either, but this puzzle filled in short order, actually at about 6 this morning. Then before finishing the SW corner, I just WILTed and returned to bed. It was a chilly 60 degrees.
After I got up again and with a warm cup of coffee, I finished. Though Jennifer EGAN is unknown, the name filled appropriately at the end of GO OVER BIG which apparently her writing has done.
Watching Thelma and Louise I could not finish it and so never saw that famous last scene but did recall the T-BIRD. Have I mentioned that my dad had two cousins named Thelma and Louise? Thelma died young from some kind of weight loss system and my mother made sure we always laid flowers on her grave. Louise moved to California where she married, had a son and lived out the rest of her life. I never saw her after she moved but we used to visit them frequently when they lived here. Visiting relatives on Sunday was a regular ritual.
Last night we ate Japanese noodles but I don't know if they were MISO.
Susan, thank you for posting the photo of ISAO; for some reason I always think it's a woman.
And thank you for the amusing, photo filled Blog! You always find the best cartoons.
Another CSO to Keith at PLOT TWIST.
Have a spectacular day, everyone!
After reading The Secret Garden to my class and hearing so much about the MOORs I was eager to view them but when I got to England what I saw was mostly big cities and towns which had overtaken the MOORs. Wales still had some and it thrilled me to see them.
oc4beach @ 10:39
I read a slew of Randy Wayne White's Doc Ford but never kept up. (LIU there are 24 books in the series)..He opened two Doc Ford restaurants, one on Sanibel that closed and another in Ft Myers Beach.
Based on the books' physical description and Randy's pic I suspect he modeled Doc Ford after himself.
Hi All!
Thank you Sam for a PRIME example of a Tuesday puzzle.
Thank you Hahtoolah for the comic-laden expo; loved 'em! Also, the links were fun side attractions.
WOs: N/A
ESPs: RAU, EGAN, SECCO
Fav: I'll go w/ LORNE who developed the Not Ready for PRIME Time Players
{B+, A}
YR - yes, the pendulum has swung too far.
CSO to WC @ Bo SOX.
BobLee - a pox on you: "Farm living is the life for me / land spreading out so far and wide..." is now stuck in my head.
C, Eh! - LOL ONE-L / Bar.
I was thinking 'four' too for the progression until I said to meself, "-T, it's five SECOND. Oh, we're PRIMEing here."
Me thinks a Fibonacci progression (1-1-2-3-5-8) is in order. Rich will let a two ONEs dupe slide, right? :-)
Poppy seed bagels unless going with lox; then it's plain with smear, lox, red onions and --you can keep the capers.
Play later, Cheers! -T
Fun Tuesday puzzle, many thanks, Sam. And as soon as I saw all those great pictures I knew the commentator today would be you, Hahtoolah. Thank you for that too, Susan.
Had good luck at the top with DOW (know it only from crosswords, not from finances),
MENLO (I don't know why, but I know my Edison), and EDGAR (remembered that mystery writer award).
As soon as I saw NYE crossing RYE, I knew Irish Miss would love it.
Had D_____Y and guessed instantly that that Pooch's plaything would be a DOG TOY.
And, of course, the only ill-fated fruit eater in history is EVE, isn't she? (Well, at least, the most famous).
Have a great day, everybody.
Misty - Is hemlock a fruit?
In the words of Socrates, "What did I just drink?" :-)
-T
I'm surprised that everyone missed the whole theme. The reveal hints that each theme answer lists a prime number and a period of time in that order. Good job Sam! Well ain't I the smart one!
Yes, you are. Good catch!
Anonymous T,
Well, I'm not a botanist (literary critic, believe it or not) but I wanted to help so I looked up 'hemlock' on Wiki.
It appears to be "a highly poisonous biennial herbaceous flowering plant"--in other words, a poisonous weed. It clearly shouldn't serve as a fruit for anyone or anything. Does that help?
May I ask, why did you ask?
I need to take a long walk; hopefully, there are no short piers around. DNF on a Tuesday hurts. Some of the SE still doesn't make sense to me.
I still don't consider that a listing, but it's clever.
What does a scallion have to do to become a rapscallion?
GJ - OMG! That (TIME unit) is another layer. Nice catch.
Misty - just a play on your last line...
The 'famous' Socrates was pretty ill-fated in the tea (fruit) he drank. 'Twasn't only EVE.
//try not to read anything too literally into what I post :-)
Cheers, -T
Thank you for explaining, Anonymous T. I don't know the history of Socrates very well and didn't realize that he was sentenced to death by being obliged to drink poison hemlock. The things you learn on blogs!
I also liked C-Eh!'s "How did GALOP lose the second L? Or is the One L in the same genre as THE BAR?" It is only going to get worse. A little later than this time last year, I saw a bunch of town folks standing outside my neighbor's house chanting "no L, no L, no L, no L". In fact it sounded like they were singing the warning. Then they went to the next house up the street and did the same thing.
I saw a bumper sticker once that declared "Socrates eats hemlock!"
Just for Jinx.
DO @ 2:06pm: I guess a scallion would have to become a RAP music star.
At the certain risk of over posting asks...
WinthorpeIII - what in the SE is flummoxing you?
===
D-O, Jinx, & OC4 - just stop. You're hurting America :-)
//I'm still giggling at NO-L.
Reminds me of the Orange Protest signs that say "End Construction"
I'm down with that. Yeah man - end...
Wait, the infrastructure bill was just signed?!?
Oy. :-)
Cheers, -T
Re that iconic scene from "The Seven Year Itch": word on the street is that for some reason Billy Wilder and all the camera men requested oodles of takes to get that scene JUST right. Ya know what I mean? 😉
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-T, I'm with you on road construction. I've scheduled my trip down I-95 on the Saturday after Thanksgiving in hopes of minimizing delay on the huge construction project north of Fayetteville, NC. Last month I was in North and South Carolina, and encountered major delay on I-40 for the final part of a widening project. From there I had to go way out of my way to get home because long-term construction on I-85 shut down all northbound lanes. Once home, I found out that it was impractical to travel the free I-64 route west because they are building new tunnels under the Elizabeth River. Can't go north because they are digging new tunnels on the engineering marvel called the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. Pay the toll and drive 20 miles out of your way and you can get on I-64 west of the construction. But that's no good, because they have a decades-long project to widen I-64 between Newport News and Richmond.
I can't even imagine how hard it will be to get around if we throw that kind of money to more roads and bridges projects. And if I still flew a lot I would dread the prospect of renovation projects in major airports. I suffered through the revamps of LAX, EWR, ORD and PHX.
The good news (for me) is that a lot of the money won't be spent on traditional infrastructure. And it's not that these projects aren't (mostly) needed, it's just that it will be hell to have them done simultaneously. And we'll get a lot of wasteful projects like Norfolk sidewalks' handicap ramps. First, they installed a bunch of them on well thought-out places. I cheered. The following year they tore them all out and installed new ones with "pimples" instead of grooves for traction. This year they tore all those out and installed ones that were a little wider and had different pimples. I asked one of the workers who looked like he was in charge, and he said that the feds issue new standards and provide all the funding, so it gets rubber-stamped by the local pols.
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I did see the TIME as well as the PRIME, but forgot to comment on it (and didn’t realize that others had not seen it). Thanks GJ for bringing it to our attention.
Jinx- No L! LOL!
And since nobody answered my question, I LIUed. GALOP comes from the French “galoper”, meaning to gallop. The dance keeps the French spelling as it originated as a French country dance in the 19th century. Was it danced at the GALA?
More giggles at rapscallion.
This blog is never boring.
A fun puzzle, I think. Enjoyed solving it. Didn't know Jennifer EGAN but four perps and I had it.
A rapscallion is what you use to "knock firmly" on a door. Saves your knuckles.
Hand up for the everything bagel.
The story of Adam and Eve does not specify what fruit it was, simply that it was the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (I vote for fig).
When I was a kid I thought the universe of pasta consisted only of ELBOW macaroni and spaghetti. I never gave any thought to where the rest of the macaroni noodle went.
I have never felt rubbed the wrong way by a Chafing dish. The term MEME does rub me the wrong way a little bit, though, but I don't know why.
Good wishes to you all.
Jayce - I'm with you. That's probably why they named the cookie "Fig Nude Ton".
Thank you Mr. Sam Acker for a very nice Tues puzzle, with an easy theme. I did notice the number progression and the 'times' but I thought that had to do with the common idioms and myths and TV logs ... It never occurred that they were also Prime nmbers.
BTW, the second is out of order in the time progression...
But overall, a delightful puzzle.
Hah2lah, your review was really special and the cartoons were delightful ... you must be spending an enormous amount of time on them, and it shows.!!!
I knew of Shanta Rama Rau ... through her father B Rama Rau, who was the most imp Gov of the Reserve Bank of India ( Like the US Fed Resv Bank System ) for 10 years, and then a diplomat and an Indian Ambass to the US. She is not well known in India, since she settled in the US and wrote in english, a rare language ( for native indians -) in the 50's and 60's.
Rau, actually means Gentleman, like an esquire ( but not necessarily a lawyer, as in the US).
It is more commonly spelt as RAO or even, rarely ROW. Rao is one of the most common surnames in south india. A Rao Bahadur ( 'brave rao' ) was a title of minor native nobility spewed by the British for years of dedicated service, by civil servants. This was only for hindus, other religions had an equivalent of Khan Bahadur, and so on.
Like Bill G., I also have a fair degree of interest in recreational mathematics, not necessarily for prime numbers. Mostly in the style of Martin Gardener.
The number 1729, is the smallest number that is the sum of 2 sets of cubes ... Nine cubed plus Ten cubed ... and also twelve cubed plus one cubed. It is also called Ramanujam's number, because he mentioned it first...
Have a good evening, folks.
YR & CED: my mid-continent state is a long way food-wise from your New Jersey. I have never heard of a bagel shop, Kosher deli, or lox or scallions out here. I was attending a writer's conference and took a bagel from the breakfast buffet. I thought it was a donut and was expecting a sweet treat. NOT. Haven't tried one since because I like other things better.
oc4beach: love Randy Wayne White. Have all his books in one form or another.
When is Comedy Central getting here to sign you all to contracts?
FIR. I got the answers to all of the theme clues, but missed the part about their being prime numbers. I had a few unknowns, which were resolved with kind perps.
Back in the good old days when I was a rookie credit man, one of the first things I was told (warned about) was that in the LAW, there are 49 states and Louisiana. Since I never had any customers there, I never enjoyed experiencing the differences, so I’m still oblivious.
I guess THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH came out shortly after my dad got home from Korea. We were still living in Savannah, and he took the fam to see the movie. (Mind you, this was way before any ratings system was a gleam in anybody’s eye.) I don’t know how far into the movie we got --- it wasn’t very far, I’m sure --- when all of a sudden he is marching us out the door, demanding and receiving his money back on the way. I could have sworn it was a little earlier than mid-1955, though, but I guess not. Oh, the tickets were either twenty-five or fifty cents apiece. I also don’t remember when I finally saw the movie on TV, but it had to be in the ‘80s or ‘90s.
My breakfast almost every morning is an ET (Everything) bagel, split in half and toasted, and topped with “guacamole” --- well, actually, it is just a mashed up avocado with a little Konriko Creole Seasoning and black pepper mixed into it. On the few days when I don’t have an avocado, I just slather some crunchy peanut butter on it. Yes, I eat some strange stuff.
Misty, back in my ute, one of the finest shows on television was YOU ARE THERE, hosted by Walter Cronkite. They were half-hour reenactments of famous historical events. I used to watch them religiously, but the only episode that was seared in my brain was the one about Socrates drinking the hemlock.
You Are There - Wiki
Vidwan - you made me LIU: The Hardy-Ramanujan number (leave it to the Brits to stamp their name on something Indian :-)).
C, Eh! - thanks for looking up GALOP and enlightening us (well, me anyway)
PK - I can see why, expecting a doughnut, a bagel would be a disappointment. Like thinking you grabbed a Coke but found it was unsweetened tea.*
There's gotta be a bagel shop somewhere out there. Even a chain-store like Einstein's Bagels makes better ones than a hotel buffet. :-)
LEOIII - guac on a bagel? That's a new one on me.
Cheers, -T
*Oh, a story you (didn't) ask?
Boss-man & I were interviewing a new recruit over a fancy lunch. Boss-man ordered tea, I water, & the recruit ordered a Coke (a no-no in the $consulting$ world (at least that's what I was told)).
Half-way through lunch, new recruit accidentally grabbed Boss-man's tea and took a sip.
It was the look on his face (a cross between "Gross!" and "did I just drink his drink?") and subsequent sense of humor about the situation that led us to hire him.
AnonT: Since I haven't been off my property for almost two years, I really don't know what is new in town, but we have a small Jewish population. I never see bagels advertised. Don't understand why everyone thinks this is strange.
On the few occasions when I've eaten bagels, I found them hard and much too chewy but it's all moot, anyway, because any kind of bread/dough is off my diet. However, I love cream cheese! That alone would make them worth eating.
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