Theme: "I Have a Dream" - Last word in each theme entry can precede "free".
23. *Like one of two parents, often: STAY AT HOME. Home free.
32. *When many grab a bite: COMMERCIAL BREAK. Break free.
39. *Inverness native: HIGHLAND SCOT. Scot-free.
52. *Software design considerations: LOOK AND FEEL. Feel free.
66. *Cube in a bowl: LUMP OF SUGAR. Sugar-free.
79. *Bridge holdings sufficient to start the bidding with: OPENING HANDS. Hands free.
85. *Cardiologist's dietary concern: HYDROGENATED FAT. Fat-free.
98. End of an iconic speech ... and what the ends of the answers to starred clues can have?: FREE AT LAST.
So timely. Tomorrow is Martin Luther King Jr. Day
This reminds me of the FREE AT LAST puzzle Agnes and I made for the NYT a few years ago. Ours is a synonym approach.
Congrats on your Sunday LAT debut, Darryl! A big milestone.
Across:
4. Snuck: CREPT.
9. Venomous snake: MAMBA. Can be black or green.
14. ER readouts: EKGS.
18. Env. insert: ENC. Enclosure.
19. Art movement since the '70s: HIP HOP. Tiny dupe with 81. Trendy type often parodied on "Portlandia": HIPSTER.
21. In different places: APART.
22. Sty fare: SLOP.
25. Turkish bread: LIRAS.
26. Correct the pitch of: TUNE.
27. Maria __ Trapp: VON.
28. Beyond repair: TOTALED.
30. Insurance giant: AETNA. Quite a few 5-letter choices: AFLAC, CIGNA or GEICO.
31. Drei squared: NEUN. 3/9.
35. Four-time Grammy-nominated metal band: PANTERA. Unfamiliar to me.
37. "Dies __": hymn: IRAE.
38. Amazon and others, locally: RIOS. Not E-tails.
42. Large green moth: LUNA.
43. Bio or chem: SCI.
46. Pre-revelry nights: EVES. I'll never forget Boomer's face when I visited him in the VA hospital on New Year's Day. Big, sweet smile.
47. Navel variety: INNIE.
48. Unchains: LIBERATES.
50. United: WED.
51. "... without trying to change me": AS I AM.
54. Makes less dense: THINS.
55. Break down: PARSE. Also a pricey restaurant.
56. Gram prefix: TELE.
57. Partaking of: HAVING.
59. Big celebrations: FETES. I made Boomer some walleye last Friday. He loved it.
60. Rio Grande city: LAREDO.
63. Green-skinned "Return of the Jedi" girl: OOLA.
64. Snacks: BITES.
65. Underground conduit: SEWER.
70. Credited in a note: CITED.
71. Windy City rail initials: CTA. The Chicago Transit Authority.
74. Wrestling foes: GRAPPLERS.
75. Iranian language: FARSI.
76. Many hybrid dogs, casually: POOS.
77. Jack or jenny: ASS.
78. Zest: TANG. Also the big dynasty in China. Tang's capital was
Xi'an, which is still under a lockdown now. They had 8 new cases
yesterday. But they don't need to have a COVID test every day. Andy is
still cooped up at home, but at least, he can order veggies and other
stuff again. The delivery services are back.
82. Eighteen-wheelers: RIGS.
83. Raison d'__: ETRE.
84. "You better believe I'll fight!": OH IT'S ON.
91. They know the ropes: PROS.
92. Ames native: IOWAN.
93. Bob Hope venue: USO TOUR. Did you know that Bob Hope was born in London?
94. Luke, to Darth: SON.
95. Sonny & Cher hit: DUET. I only know their "I Got You Babe".
96. "Chase those guys!": GET 'EM.
103. Mystery's Gardner: ERLE. Old regular.
104. Sunlit courts: ATRIA.
105. Fired at the table?: FLAMBE.
106. Once named: NEE.
107. On a pension: Abbr.: RET'D.
108. Rimes of country: LEANN.
109. Cool giant: S STAR.
110. Ecru relative: TAN.
Down:
2. Queen's subject: ANT. Good old clue.
3. Picked around in, as a junkyard: SCAVENGED.
4. English __: CHANNEL.
5. Slowing, to an orch.: RIT. Ritardando.
6. N.T. book: EPH. Ephesians.
7. Start to finish?: PHOTO. Photo finish.
8. May bouquet words: TO MOM.
9. Shopping area loiterer: MALL RAT.
10. Each: APIECE.
11. Lundi follower: MARDI. Monday/Tuesday.
12. Lingerie item: BRA. So many cute bralettes these days.
13. @@@: ATS.
14. Fragrant compounds: ESTERS.
15. 1971 Fonda/Sutherland film: KLUTE.
16. Plannin' to: GONNA.
17. Jargon ending: SPEAK. OK, like teenspeak.
20. Rodents on wheels, perhaps: PET MICE.
24. Some hostel visitors: YOUTHS.
29. Dynamic start?: AERO. Aerodynamic.
30. On the train: ABOARD.
31. None too worldly: NAIVE.
32. Food preservation method: CANNING.
33. Island that's the first word of The Beach Boys' "Kokomo": ARUBA. Also unknown to me.
34. Strong textile: LINEN.
35. "What a relief!": PHEW.
36. Gorp bit: RAISIN.
40. Genetic carriers: DNAS. Spell check does not like the plural form.
41. __City: computer game: SIM.
42. Facebook option: LIKE.
43. Knight's ride: STEED.
44. "Heart Blanche" rapper Green: CEELO.
45. Atoll, say: ISLE.
48. L in a box score: LOSS.
49. Word before party or math: AFTER.
51. Sushi-grade tuna: AHI. Our local Aldi carries ahi tuna.
52. "See ya": LATER.
53. Rock groups?: ORES. Great clue.
54. Sling on a phone: TV APP.
55. Animal rights org.: PETA.
57. Doctor's office posting: HOURS.
58. Salamanca souls: ALMAS. Spanish for "souls". Salamanca is a
city in Spain. According to Wiki: The University of Salamanca, founded
in 1218, is the oldest university in Spain and the third oldest western
university."
59. Mulberry family fruit: FIGS.
60. "We should just skip it": LET'S NOT.
61. Barely clear of the bottom: AWEIGH.
62. __ state: RED.
63. First name in '70s Olympics gymnastics: OLGA. Korbut
64. Town: BURG.
65. Virtual name that means "beautiful woman who leads you to victory" in Norwegian: SIRI. Good to know.
67. Sales rep's upsell: OPTION.
68. Fannie of "Fried Green Tomatoes" fame: FLAGG. We had her before.
69. Feeling: SENSE.
70. Has the ability to: CAN.
71. One of 21, or sometimes 20: CONSONANT. Due to Y.
72. Brouhahas: TO-DOS.
73. Trade gp.: ASSN.
75. Get energy from: FEED OFF.
76. Girl Scout group: PATROL.
79. Den piece: OTTOMAN.
80. __-à-porter: ready-to-wear: PRET. This loom is similar to my
grandma's. She would then make cotton bed sheets and shirts for us. It
felt a bit rough on the skin.
82. For mature audiences: R-RATED.
83. Enter with caution: EASE IN.
85. It's quarry: HIDER. I was thinking of the stone pit quarry.
86. "Now __ talking!": YOU'RE.
87. Obsessed (on): DWELT.
88. __Sweet: sugar substitute: NUTRA.
89. Rolls and binds: FURLS.
90. Zones: AREAS.
96. Eight pts.: GAL. Gallon.
97. Tour de France saison: ETE. It's called Xia Ji in Chinese. So scrabbly.
99. Vitals checker, briefly: EMT.
100. Law school accrediting org.: ABA.
101. Cruiser's milieu: SEA.
102. Highest Scrabble tile point value: TEN.
C.C.
Boomer
have 3 appointments next week with the the PT and the OT, then his
radiation starts on 1/24. We'll go to VA on 1/8/2022 for an appointment
regarding chemo infusion.
Thanks again for your caring email
and cards. Your messages bring tears, love and encouragement to us.
Thanks for supporting us during these challenging times.
C.C.
44 comments:
FIWrong. 3 bad cells, all essentially misspellings, so I won't bore you with them.
AT LAST, an add-a-word theme that I got without the reveal!
They were HAVING a FETE in LAREDO
It was going to be a big TO-DO!
To keep things poppin'
They had Marty Robbins,
And burning effigies of Smothers Brothers, too!
Now a poem should rhyme, there's that.
And rhythm should keep it from falling flat.
But meaning's the key
To how it should be --
Even dedicated to HYDROGENATED FAT!
{B+, B+.}
Good morning!
Managed to catch a "bug," and spent a miserable night. Chills followed by sweats, punctuated by Izzy (a cat) tuning in a full-volume infomercial at 1 AM. No sore throat, no dry cough, no breathing problems, so I don't think it's Covid. Probably just the flu. I've had the flu shot, but read that it's not very effective this year.
Never quite got on Darryl's wavelength. Scratched my head at some of the c/a's. OK, if you say so. Do you suppose the students in Salamanca are known as Salamanders? Got 'er done, but missed the theme (as usual). Thanx for the expo, C.C. (Bralettes? That's a new one.)
FIW, missing my WAG @ OOmA x AmMAS.
STAY AT HOME parenting makes sense. I read somewhere that when both spouses work in an average household, the entire salary made by the lower-paid one is about equal to the couple's tax burden. My daughter was the breadwinner, her husband stayed at home and raised the kids. He picked up pin money doing HVAC work for his dad on weekends.
TELEgram weeds out all the whippersnappers in the Corner, unless they are old movie buffs. CEELO Green weeds out the old farts.
FLAMBE is nice, but I really like queso flameado. One-ups the sizzling plates of fajitas.
With indoor shopping centers going the way of buggy whips and 78 RPM records, I wonder if MALL RATs are an endangered species.
YOUTHS. Or as some "My Cousin Vinny" fans in the Corner say, "utes".
Interesting that FEED OFF and FEED on are synonyms.
Rolls and binds made me think of nearby Ybor City, once known as the Cigar Capital of the World. (Ybor City would be good Friday / Saturday fill.)
PETA World HQ is less than a mile from my house in Norfolk. Good neighbors who sometimes do questionable acts.
Lots of waffling before I decided on PANTERA instead of wANTERA, since I had seen PHEW before in puzzles and didn't know the band. I like "whew" better but......
So, FIR today on a Sunday puzzle. Thanks, C.C. for confirming that unusual accomplishment! I needed the reveal to get the timely theme today. Well done, Darryl on your Sunday debut!
Plenty of WOs in my grid, including the space for PET MICE where I tried to fit "hamsters" before seeing it didn't fit. And ASS was another WO space where I started with "roo" thinking it could be a jack or jenny too. It's not. I looked it up and males are boomers, females flyers, and baby kangaroos are joeys, which I had heard of. Learning moment!
Hope you are feeling better now, DO! And I hope Boomer's appointments this week go well, C.C. Thanks for the update.
We wait to see how much wintery mix the weather brings our neighborhood. Atlanta doesn't handle snow and ice well.
Had the grid filled in about a half hour but something was amiss because the congratulatory message didn’t pop up, scanned the puzzle and found a typo which I corrected but still no message....hmm...went back to the couple WAG’s I’d made...was it PHEW or WHEW, WANTERA or PANTERA. And then where OOLA crossed ALMAS, both unknowns so I tried every combo of letters in the L spot but still no success, after another half hour I had to throw up the white flag and hit the “reveal grid” which showed me my mistake, I had misspelled SCAVENGED as SCAVANGED, which erroneously made NAUN, something I really should have NEUN 🤦🏻♂️. I did notice LIBERATES, which was very apt for the theme. Hats off to Darryl for a fine creation and a tribute to Dr. MLK. In 2020 I attended a military funeral at Arlington, then spent the day walking the Mall which was practically deserted due to the city being almost shut down due to Covid. Went up the Lincoln Memorial and stood at the exact spot where MLK delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. Pretty powerful stuff!
Thank you C.C. for today’s informative commentary, and your updates on Boomer. I will continue to pray for success in his upcoming procedures.
Word of the day: passel
Pronunciation: pæs-êl
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. A lot (of), a large group (of). 2. A large amount.
Notes: Today's is an interesting word that demonstrates how a mispronunciation of a common word can be the genesis of a new word (see Word History). Today parcel and passel are two entirely different words. Although the mispronunciation has been around at least since the 1460s, only in a few regions of England and, mostly, the southeastern US is the new form used. Remember the E comes before the L in this word.
In Play: We generally think of parcels as small packages, but its mispronunciation refers to large amounts: "You will find yourself in a passel of trouble if you criticize my wife's cooking." Apparently, the meaning originally referred to several as opposed to one item, but now it can refer to countable and uncountable things but always in large amounts: "Al Falfa has a passel of collards in his garden this year, but his okra didn't get enough rain."
For more on this Word of the day see alphaDictionary
Bill's comment:
Finished today's puzzle, but we're finally having a Christmas Party. Unlike the ones on the 12/25, this one looks like it will be a white one. When everyone leaves and my driveway is SNOW FREE, I'll stop by at the after party and see what everyone is DREAMING.
The band Chicago was called CTA but when threatened with legal action by the actual CTA, they changed their name to Chicago.
Musings
-I had one bad cell at the Natick corner of OO_A and A_MAS
-Pew research – 27% of moms and 8% of dads are stay-at-home parents
-My convenient guitar TUNER (Tuna)
-Oh, that Amazon, like the RIO Grande near LAREDO
-IOWANS and other can see a lotta RIGS at this world’s biggest truck stop in the Hawkeye State
-English CHANNEL – In 1066 the invaders crossed to the north, in 1944 they crossed to the south
-I never use the word YOUTHS when referring to kids
-Like many HIP-HOP artists, CEELO makes “clean” versions and “street” versions
-Ten famous TELEGRAMS
Addendum
-Mahalia Jackson (lower right part of picture) shouted to MLK during his speech, “Tell them about the dream, Martin” and he can be seen abandoning his prepared remarks and launching into the dream speech he and Mahalia had often discussed
Well nuts !
Two letter FIW.
1) EcG and cLUTE rather than EKG and KLUTE
2) At the intersection of the unknown Spanish word for souls (ALMAS) and name of an obscure character (OOLA) in an obscure movie "Return of the Jedi" :>)
Other than that, a fairly smooth solve, although:
- I did not know that a Girl Scout troop was called a PATROL. I thought it was called a troop. I'm certain that troop is the word used by our neighbor with three daughters in it, as well as the neighbor up the street with two daughters in it. I was apparently an easy mark for those cookie-selling girls year after year until everything started shutting down.
- I also knew nothing about Portlandia, so anything related to it would have to be perped in. It didn't help that the first crossing clue had to do with Bridge. I first had OPENING cards before working out HANDS.
Thank you Darryl and C.C.
Plannin' to: 5 letters ? Easy. FIXIN', only the crosses didn't agree.
I remember driving to town on one of the back roads in Central Texas one day, listening to the radio as I always did, and switching stations and hearing this Patsy Cline song I'd never heard before. Only that, as I quickly learned, it wasn't Patsy, it way a fourteen year old singer named LEANN Rimes that had just hit the airwaves with her debut single BLUE
Hand up this seemed to have too many Natick crossings:
E?GS/?LUTE
?ANTERA/?HEW
OO?A/A?MAS
Can someone please explain how FELT is a clue for WAS? Also, what is FEEL FREE? I enjoyed the other theme answers.
All that said, I was very happy to see MARTIN LUTHER KING celebrated on his birthday weekend. My nephew shares his birthday which makes all of us happy!
Here we were at the MARTIN LUTHER KING memorial fountain in San Francisco last month.
A reference to this quote displayed there: "No. No, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream."
Last WAG was OOLA. I figured if she was presented that way, she was supposed to be sexy. I thought of OOLALA. Good guess. FIR!
We had this FLAMBE at a birthday party for my friend's son William in San Jose.
The kids are so good looking as you can see. My friend is Persian and his wife is Asian. Good mix!
PIcard ~~ feel free, as in “feel free to stop by anytime”
From Wednesday:
CanadianEh Thanks for the link to the SHERYL CROW song Soak Up the Sun. I love that song and never knew the title or some of the lyrics! I discovered I had some wrong! What do you think she means by
"Got my 45 on
So I can rock on"
From Thursday:
MalMan and AnonT Thanks for the Blazing Saddles WAGON TRAIN appreciation!
MalMan Thanks for the other Blazing Saddles clip with the "pile" of dimes. The greatest movie of all time.
Bill Seeley After a few false starts Subgenius and I have connected. The problem was due to my messages going to his spam folder. Yes, I am very familiar with the FSM Flying Spaghetti Monster. It might have once been appropriate for him, but not now. Our conversations revealed a change in religious direction for him and we are enjoying discussing this.
YooperPhil Thanks for that FEEL FREE explanation! I see now that BREAK FREE and FEEL FREE both have the first word being a verb. The others are all nouns.
Can someone please explain this clue/fill?
It's quarry: HIDER.
Thanks!
Pantera is a bit obscure though they did have the number one album in the country at one point. ""Far Beyond Driven" is the seventh studio album by American heavy metal band Pantera, released on March 22, 1994 by East West Records. Pantera's fastest-selling album, it peaked at number 1 on the Billboard 200 and was certified Platinum by the RIAA."
Have a great Sunday!
Hola!
What a surprise to find Bob Hope's USO TOUR in the grid! I loved him and yes, I knew he was born in London. I was so sad when he died; I wanted him to live forever and he almost did, at 99.
This puzzle was great fun to solve. Thank you, Daryl Gonzalez! It's rare to see a hispanic name in puzzles and I hope to see more of you. Nice job!
Spain is a wonderful place to visit and Salamanca was no exception of all the cities where we stopped. I bought some of their unique pottery though it had to be small PIECES for easy packing. In this case, some very pretty, colorful coasters.
One year my daughter had a Halloween party and I went as a modified OOLA. She was a bit under dressed for me.
CSO to the late Spitzboov at OPENING HANDS. I'm sure his bridge mates miss him as much as we do.
Abbreviations almost always beat me since they could be in any form. This time it was LSSN/CTL.
I hope you are all enjoying a nice Sunday! It's the Rock and Roll Marathon Race here so no morning Mass. I hope to go later this evening.
Anon - "It's quarry: HIDER". Think of the kids game "tag". You hide until the kid who is "it" discovers and tags you, then you are the new "it". My favorite clue/fill today, after I noodled on it for a while.
Hider is from Hide and Seek. The person who is "it" seeks the "hider".
Fun Sunday puzzle, Darryl, and congratulations on your debut. Always love your pictures, C.C., and many thanks for the update on Boomer. Hope he has a good week coming up.
My German got me off to a good start with Maria VON Trapp and the easy NEUN for the 9 you get with 3 squared.
My Latin then helped with DIES IRAE--or my Catholic background.
I originally has ASIAN and wondered why anyone would have to say "without trying to change me." Oh, not Asian but ASIAM-- of course I want to stay AS I AM and not have anyone trying to change me.
Picard, appreciated your comments about Martin Luther King.
Owen, I loved the way you worked HYDROGEN FAT into your verse.
Hope Desper-otto feels okay again soon.
Have a great week coming up, everybody.
Superb Sunday. Thanks for the fun, Darryl and C.C. (Continued thoughts and prayers for you and Boomer.)
I FIRed in good time, and saw the FREE AT LAST theme. This Canadian forgot that it is MLK day tomorrow; I might have connected the theme and the I HAVE A DREAM title sooner.
Great catch, Yooper Phil, on the Easter Egg LIBERATES.
I had.Cobra before MAMBA (and of course my first thought was Asp).
Also had Galas before FETES.
I WAGged the ALMAS/ OOLA cross.
I noted PARSE and FARSI, SEWER and POOS, TAN and TANG.
I smiled at LUMP OF SUGAR (sugar free) and NUTRA, although it was a bit of a dupe.
CAN today and CAN I yesterday. CAN =. Has the ability to; May= has permission to.
Wishing you all a great day.
Picard- I always associated the 45 with suntan lotion (SPF 45) to soak up the sun. I did wonder about the 45 rpm association with records and rocking on.
But apparently there is some possible association that has been suggested.with a Colt 45 and the Columbine shootings; that would not be the first thought for this Canadian (who doesn’t have the right to bear arms!).
D’o- hope you feel better soon.
Good morning all. I CREPT around this puzzle leaving many holes and worked back to the NW, and couldn't EASE IN or FEEL FREE about guessing the theme. Wasn't ever on Daryl's wavelength. A FIW today.
PANTERA is a band I've never heard of but I don't know anything about most of the bands that have started in the last thirty years. WHEW or PHEW. WANTERA looked as good as PANTERA and I've only seen PHEW in a puzzle; never heard it said aloud; does it sound like 'few'?
OOLA, POOS, FLAMBE, S STAR, ALMAS, AWEIGH & PATROL (as clued), SIRI- filled by perps
KLUTE- I saw it back when it came out; all I can remember about it was that Fonda was a hooker.
Boomer & C.C.- keep that positive attitude.
HIP HOP, aka RAP music, glorifying the vulgar thug culture as an 'Art movement' is quite a stretch. Rapper CEELO Green did go to prison and was removed as a judge for American Idol. Uncounted numbers of 'hip hop' entertainers have been shot or have done the shooting. But they make a ton of money.
I am still asking: Can someone please explain how FELT is a clue for WAS?
Misty Thank you for the kind words about my MARTIN LUTHER KING comments. I love that waterfall and the symbolism. Before COVID we used to have big MLK events here in our little city.
CanadianEh Thank you for your interpretations of "Got my 45 on" in the SHERYL CROW song. I was always afraid it was a gun reference. I did a bunch of Google searching on this and it seems she once claimed it was indeed SPF 45. But the original source was deleted.
I can imagine it would feel a bit scary coming to our country and having so many people who "Got my 45 on" in the arms sense. I have never gotten used to it, either.
I was amused by your comment yesterday about the use of "sorry" in Canada. I just did some searching and discovered there is an actual law in Canada called the Apology Act of 2009. It acknowledges that Canadians use "sorry" a lot and made it a legal matter that saying "sorry" is not an admission of guilt! Perhaps you could say more.
Thanks for the recap and the update, C.C.
Picard @3:45, I share your dissatisfaction with that c/a. The only thing I am able to come up with is teen-speak - "I was,like, you know, really angry at my mom." Or I WAS like that clue and answer made no sense.
When I had the ague, I felt very sick.
When I had the ague, I was very sick.
If you're quarry for a lion or a mobster, hiding may be your best defense.
Picard- the best that I can do to explain Felt= WAS would be that feeling is a state of being. I felt ill= I WAS ILL; I felt sad= I WAS sad. But I agree that it is a bit of a stretch perhaps.
The Apology Act of 2009 is an Ontario law, but every province (not Yukon) has a similar law now. It protects people from legal action if they express empathy. Ie. a physician could say “I’m sorry that happened” and not have that statement used in a malpractice case. Our governments have recently apologized to our indigenous people for historical wrongs. There will be monetary reparations and other attempts to correct these wrongs, but the apology is not a legal admission of guilt.
No idea why my 4:19 post came out as anonymous.
Sorry Picard,
I spent so much time trying to figure out
A response to why felt/was made some sort of sense
That everyone beat me to it...
(Ditto anons it's quarry/hider)
I have a hard time parsing and/or rationalising these things.
For instance,
Soak up the sun/Sheryll Crow ,
I always thought the last line
"Got my 45 on, so I can rock on"
Was 45rpm record on the player...
Can't remember if it was linked before,
but here's the official video
Oh,
And "free at last"
can be kind of ambiguous too...
Sunday Lurking (while trying to keep warm))
Canada eh..re: "sorry"
When I lived in Europe I noticed "sorry" was Brit-speak for when we say "excuse me".If I had to get past someone on a train I'd say "excuse me" while(whilst) an English speaker from the Old British Empire would say "sorry"..
Same for when a comment or request needed repeating.
You have an "Apology Act"...We have "Stand your ground" laws..Hard to believe we share the same border.
Way too many "liberties" taken by Mr. Gonzalez's defs. A two hour drag for me ending in a DNF! The saddest part is that Darryl erred too often on the side of "cutesiness" instead of "cleverness". I'll probably skip his next entry as irrelevant!
It just wasn't on my wavelength and the cluing often seemed off or awkward and for that reason made this a slog.
Not my cup of tea today; in theme, fill nor cluing.
Happy MLK Day and birthday to Michelle Obama, Picard's relative and me (I am old so had it first). I enjoyed this puzzle and the reference to the MLK tribute puzzle several years ago in the NYT by CC and Agnes. Bob Hope and family are buried in a beautiful garden in the San Fernando Mission. Best wishes to CC and Boomer in the coming weeks.
Two silly mistakes and missed the dratted WAS.
When I had the ague, I felt very sick.
When I had the ague, I was very sick.
Anonymous, I am sure your are right, but MEH.
BTW, I am sick now, but I don't feel sick.
DO, I hope your feel better soon.
Still pulling for you, Boomer
Am I the only one who wanted cuffs for rolls and binds? Maybe I did too many cop shows in my ute. I eventually got furls with perps and as for telegram and Ceelo, I can only surmise I am an old whippersnapper.
My favorite telegrams (from hearsay) -- How old Cary Grant? Old Cary Grant fine. How you?
Becky
Becky- yes.
I did enjoy seeing an Hispanic named constructor but that can be deceptive. My hispanic named boss was adopted. Ella no habla español.
I thought the puzzle was an interesting tribute puzzle which I believe are hard to create, at least it was for me working with JW on our Mel Brooks collaboration.
For those few here who watch football, MARGARET LeANN RIMES used to sing the Star-Spangled Banner at Dallas Cowboy Home games. I am not suggesting her absence is why they lost.
My youngest son was (is?) a big fan of PANTERA which was upsetting to me. Their success with a lead singer known as DIMEBAG seemed disproportionate to their talent, especially since they did not sing but scream. That became quite popular underscoring why I was never a music executive. Enjoy (?) the link
Thank you Darryl Gonzalez for a very nice Sunday puzzle, and CC, thank you for a very nice review.
I did not post yesterday, .... (ellipses here ) ... because, of ohh, too many rather important matters. And I am posting very late today, when all important things have already been said, discussed, hashed and resolved .... ( more ellipses ).
I cant forget Ceelo Green, for his epic song F--- you, which was also mimed by a speech translator for the deaf, on Youtube.
As for hispanic surnames, I actually came across an industrialist, in Indiana, in the 80's who 'took' a spanish surname, so he could get entitled to a section 8(a) SBA, set aside minority grant and negotiated GSA program. He did rather well, for himself, financially, but his CPA messed up his tax status...
As for 'terse' telegrams, which Husker Gary linked, I have a story...
Two ladies, a blonde (B) and a redhead (R) join together to set up a cattle ranch in a small town in Texas. They soon realize that they need a stud bull badly, to keep propagating the husbandry cow stock. So, the redhead R decides to ride the train to the next town and buy a bull. They pool their savings and have exactly $500, to buy the bull.
So, Ms. R. goes to the next town, finds a bull, who meets her requirements, and the owner settles the price at $490. So now, she has exactly ten dollars to telegram ( this is an old story ...) to the blondy B, to get her pickup, and a trailer, and come and pick up the bull.
Ms. R. goes to the telegraph office, and writes out a detailed message for the blonde, to hitch the trailer to the pickup, and drive over and pick up Ms.R. and the bull.
The telegraph clerk tells her, it'll cost $65 dollars to send the telegram, because she has to pay for each word. The first word in the message costs her ten dollars ... which is just what she has left...
So, she thinks for a second, then she tells the clerk to send a one word telegram message ...Comfortable.
The clerk is surprised as to how she could project all her info into one word ?
The redhead Ms. R. replies ,' My partner is a blonde, and she can't pronounce long words, and so she has to break them up into syllables .... Come-for-the-bull ...'
I'll see myself out. Have a nice night, all.
Vidwan
That is pathetic but funny. . .
Lemonade
I was impressed because I rarely see hispanics as constructors and as a matter of fact, I haven't seen one other than myself on this site. E.G., no one else in my family is interested in CWDS. I've tried to get my grandchildren interested but so far none. One has to be interested in words, in learning further and a wide range of other things to work on crosswords. I believe, my father, had he lived might have become interested in them but, alas, he died young.
C.C.
Please keep us posted on Boomer's condition and progress and please take care of yourself, as well.
Re 8:21 am, C.C. is married to a kangaroo?
Boomer has it good. Walleye, Yum
POOS???? We just had ATS.
I first thought of gerbils/..mice
Kokomo was a late hit for Beach Boys well after Rhonda etc.
Jinx, I lucked out on ALMAS but thought it was folk from Alma. I knew ETE and PRET though
FIR although a lot of white showing after first pass through.
WC
BTW, I played Wordle. 4th pass , I got SOLAR after salon.
Well, your "subgenius" was certainly "sub" this time, as I thought the green-skinned girl was named "Oona" not "Oola" so I ended up with one bad cell and fiw. Still, I got the rest right, so I still feel pretty good about it.
Well, your "subgenius" was certainly "sub" this time, and I thought the green-skinned girl was named "Oona" not "Oola" so I got one bad cell and FIW. Still, I got the rest of it right, so I feel pretty good about it, if not great.
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