Theme: "Nuts!" - Each theme entry is punnily rephrased as if it's super-fan of something.
23. Hex nut?: WITCH DOCTOR.
32. Palm nut?: FORTUNE TELLER.
50. Date nut?: HISTORY BUFF.
65. Wing nut?: STUNT PILOT.
71. Butternut?: PASTRY CHEF.
91. Doughnut?: BANK MANAGER.
104. Wheel nut?: RACECAR DRIVER.
120. Chestnut?: BODYBUILDER.
Fun
theme. It's tougher than it looks. First, each * nut must be an
in-the-language phrase, then each answer is a person who can be a fan of
the first part of the clue.
Across:
6. __ wind: SOLAR.
11. "Carmina Burana" composer: ORFF (Carl). German composer. Sometimes we see the "O Fortuna" clue.
15. Breaks down: ROTS.
19. Verdi creations: ARIAS.
20. Milan fashion house: PRADA.
21. Letter-shaped support: I BAR.
22. Hose color: ECRU.
25. Paints the town red: LIVES IT UP. Great fill.
27. Sinus-clearing aids: NETIPOTS.
28. Boilermaker ingredient: BEER. The beer & whiskey cocktail.
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30. Go in for: REPLACE.
31. Cool, in a way: FAN. Verb "fan".
34. Encircle: HEM IN.
37. "__ Bop": Cyndi Lauper song: SHE.
39. Fiver: ABE.
40. "Curious George" co-author Margret: REY.
41. City on the Skunk: AMES.
42. Audrey of "The Da Vinci Code": TAUTOU. Do you like her "Amélie"?
45. Flavorful: SAPID. Not a word I use.
47. It's almost always fishy: SEA.
52. Brewers' gadgets: TEA BALLS.
54. "Sorry, can't do it": ALAS NO.
55. Customary: STOCK.
58. Mischievous glance: SLY LOOK.
59. Bit: IOTA.
62. "Sorry not sorry": SUE ME. Also 34. "Funny not funny": HA HA.
64. Old Bruins nickname: ESPO. Phil Esposito. Boston Bruins.
74. Folksy Guthrie: ARLO.
75. Abdominal scar, actually: NAVEL. Boomer's scar is healing nicely.
77. Earth goddess: GAIA.
78. One in the alley's back row: NINE PIN. Ha, alley!
81. Pueblo building material: ADOBE.
84. Breakfast cereal magnate: C.W. POST. Post cereals, headquartered here in MN.
89. Zigzagged, in a sport: SLALOMED.
94. Drink with a painful homophone: ALE. Ail.
95. Packed (with): LADEN.
97. "Phooey!": OH DARN.
98. Family figure?: TREE. Great clue.
99. Kind of blanket or paint: WET.
100. Bubbly prefix: AER. Oh OK, like aerate.
102. New Haven collegian: ELI.
103. FDR had three of them: VEEPS.
110. Card game cry: GIN.
111. "C'est magnifique!": OOH LA LA.
112. "How ya __?": DOIN'.
113. Punter's metric: HANG TIME.
118. Reggie Jackson nickname based on his postseason success: MR OCTOBER. Jeter is Mr. November.
122. Impress: ETCH.
123. "Game of Thrones," for one: SAGA.
124. Dodge: ELUDE.
125. Hawaiian veranda: LANAI.
126. Squirrels' haunts: OAKS.
127. Train station, e.g.: STOP.
128. Bob who was the voice of Future Ted Mosby in "How I Met Your Mother": SAGET. Sadly he's gone.
129. Muscular, in modern lingo: SWOLE. Instead of SWELLED.
Down:
2. Indy champ Luyendyk: ARIE. Only two clue options for this fill.
3. Glove: MITT.
4. Protest group, perhaps: PACIFISTS.
5. Sooty receptacle: ASH PAN.
6. Allow as a handicap: SPOT. I don't get this clue.
7. "LOTR" menaces: ORCS.
8. Delt neighbor: LAT.
9. Tangy Mexican sauce: ADOBO. I just learned that it has paprika instead of the red chili pepper. So it's not hot.
10. More desirable to collectors: RARER.
11. Massage parlor services: OIL RUBS.
12. Triple Crown stat: RBI.
13. Packers QB before Rodgers: FAVRE. Brett Favre. Aaron Rodgers.
14. Streaming service offer: FREE TRIAL.
15. "Match Game" regular Charles Nelson __: REILLY.
16. In base eight: OCTAL.
17. Fighters' pact: TRUCE.
18. Word that's its own synonym when a "b" is added to the end: SUPER. Superb.
24. Family title?: DON. Mafia family.
26. Fly past: SPEED BY.
29. Due-in hr.: ETA.
32. Former embryo: FETUS.
33. Bourbon order: NEAT.
35. Pianist Gilels: EMIL. We had him before. Soviet pianist.
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36. Arizona College of Nursing city: MESA.
37. "Here's a thought ... ": SAY.
38. Center of activity: HUB.
42. Move en masse: TROOP.
43. Many times o'er: OFT.
44. Aerial enigmas: UFOS.
46. Old Spanish dough: PESETA. Replaced by EURO of course.
47. Splash (through): SLOSH.
48. Split to come together: ELOPE.
49. Request from: ASK OF. So what do you call this treat? Boomer calls it Bismarck.
51. "Will do": ON IT.
53. Novelist Waugh: ALEC.
56. Golf green insert: CUP.
57. Mauna __: KEA.
60. Preserved, as sardines: TINNED.
61. Like: ALA.
63. Chinese sauce additive: MSG. Xi'an has not had any new cases
for a few days. Andy was able to visit the supermarket yesterday. He
bought some kelp (for salad), sesame seeds, and this addictive Lao Gan
Ma chili sauce.
65. Prefix with belt, in slacks: SANSA. Not familiar with Sansabelt. Jack is wearing the brand.
66. What a wavy line may mean in music: TRILL.
67. Long bones: ULNAE.
68. Advent air: NOEL.
69. Eggs in a lab: OVA.
70. "Chopped" host Allen: TED. I caught a few "Chopped" over the years.
72. Costa __: RICAN.
73. Sign of boredom: YAWN.
76. Western wolf: LOBO. Followed by
79. Skunk cousin: POLECAT.
80. "Haven't the foggiest": I'M AT A LOSS. Another great fill.
82. "Phooey!": BAH.
83. Week add-on: ENDER.
85. Inventor's protection: PATENT LAW.
86. Nasty sort: OGRE.
87. Ooze: SEEP.
88. A fourth of doce: TRES. 1/4 of 12.
90. Out of juice: DEAD.
92. Penn of the Harold & Kumar films: KAL.
93. Hosp. test in a tube: MRI.
96. MC Chris genre: NERD RAP. Google
shows that "Simply put, it's any hip hop beat paired with an emcee (or
multiple microphone fiends) rapping about geek culture."
99. Big name in jam: WELCH'S.
101. Maracanã Stadium city: RIO.
103. Watches: VIGILS.
104. "Did my heart love till now?" speaker: ROMEO.
105. Main artery: AORTA.
106. As much as possible: CHOCK. Ful.
107. Capital near Casablanca: RABAT.
108. Empaths pick them up: VIBES. There was a psychic in the
neighborhood where I grew up. People would give her money, or fresh
fruit or other goodies so she could tell others what was wrong in their
life.
109. __ Gay: ENOLA.
110. Serengeti bovine: GNU.
113. London's __ Park: HYDE.
114. Help in a risky way: ABET.
115. Passport fig.: ID NO.
116. It may include several courses: MEAL. Chinese Spring Festival is coming!
117. One in a wet quintet: ERIE. Nice clue angle.
119. __ trip: EGO.
121. Exposed, with "up": DUG.
We met with the SCI (Spinal Cord Injury) doctor at the VA hospital last Wednesday. Then Boomer had a PT session. He also had a session with the OT (Occupational Therapist) last Friday. He'll have weekly sessions with the PT/OT starting on Feb 7th.
Boomer starts his radiation tomorrow morning.
C.C.
46 comments:
DNF. Still had a scattering of white When hit the red button. Still had a few (mostly in the NE) when I hit it the second time. Fixed those. Gave up then with one cell still blank, ARIe + NeTIPOTS. I even knew what netipots are, but not how to spell them.
The theme was cute and easy, only needed a few perps for each.
The FORTUNE TELLER read the WITCH DOCTOR's palm,
Then said to the Shaman, "What's going on?
The lines all say
you've no intent to pay!
Well give me my fee, and I'll be gone!"
The HISTORY BUFF told the PASTRY CHEF
That German Chocolate Cake was from the U.S.!
Also Chinese Chop Suey!
The chef said SUE ME,
I don't make the names, I just make them best!
{B+, B+.}
Good morning!
Yup, tried LLANO. Have I ever mentioned that I hate it when 1a isn't obvious? Got no traction in the NW, and began to fear that this one was gonna get me. Circled around and came back to the NW, and guess what? It got me. Got stuck on ASHCAN and ACTIVISTS, and just couldn't see PACIFISTS. First saw (and quickly forgot) NETIPOTS here. Bzzzzt! Thanx, Michael and C.C. (I call it a jelly doughnut.)
Wow, I hope all that medical attention is going to give Boomer some relief. I try to keep my Dr. appts to once yearly, but my doctor seems to think she needs to see me twice. She's got the upper hand, because she can refuse to renew my meds unless I visit. She did agree to a phone-in refill last week, and then she called it in to the wrong pharmacy. I'd been raising hell, because I'd gotten that "your prescriptions are ready for pickup" robocall, but the drugs weren't ready. Oops.
Best wishes to Boomer for the next stage of his treatment.
Bismarck = Jelly Doughnut. Reminds me we are missing Spitzboov who could expand on Bismarck and Berliner...He also could explain the word SCHLOSS which means CASTLE . Like our puzzle creator, the name remains news worthy.
A tough day for number 1 seeds in the NFL. Packers fail in the playoffs again as did the Cowboys last week. The young guns are winning.
SANSA a way to say without from the French, replacing the Stark daughter?
Thanl you Michael and C.C.
For 6 down, "SPOT", a superior player might tell another player "I'll SPOT you ten points this round" - hence the "handicap" reference.
I FIW in 35 minutes then pored over the puzzle trying to find my error which ultimately proved unsuccessful and I clicked on “reveal grid” and realized I had ASHCAN, (have also heard ashBIN but not ashPAN), having never heard of NETAPOTS I just didn’t see it 🤦🏻♂️. Interesting theme and a well put together CW, thank you Michael S for providing me my Sunday morning mental challenge.
DNK’s included ORFF, TAUTOU, SANSA or SWOLE, but the perps filled those in. Didn’t really get the clue for ALE, as AIL doesn’t necessarily mean painful. Learning moment for me - there’s actually a genre called NERD RAP?? And why is the abbreviation for number NO and not NU? (not just in this puzzle’s IDNO, but in general)
d-o ~~ I would also call it a jelly doughnut, even if it doesn’t have a hole, although Wiki says there are 2 types, ring doughnuts and filled doughnuts, terms I never use.
C.C. ~~ thank you for your commentary, and again for creating this blog for all to enjoy! As far as the meaning of to SPOT, if Boomer was bowling a friendly game against a less skilled person, he may “spot” the guy say 30 pins to level the playing field, if the guy rolled 170 and Boomer 201, Boomer would win by 1. Hope his PT is going good and that he will respond well to radiation. Keeping him in my prayers.
My daughter introduced me to NETIPOTS, but I've never used one.
Always knew POST cereals, but CW only from the CW POST campus of Long Island University, built on the former estate of CW's only daughter Marjorie Meriweather Post.
Happy to have a FIR Sunday! Often I mess up on the longer puzzle, but today my only doubts seemed to have solid perps: SAPID and SWOLE. The theme was helpful in general. It took time to get CUP, KEA, and PASTRY CHEF since I had confidently written in "tee" first. Bzzzzt, as DO says. Fixing that led to better results. Good clue for ERIE today, Michael. Thanks for an interesting Sunday puzzle!
Thanks C.C. for the puzzle review and helpful extras. Good to hear how Boomer and your brother Andy are doing. I grew up thinking it was a jelly doughnut, but have heard of Bismarck. Umm, makes me hungry to think of it.
Hope you all have a sunny, satisfying Sunday.
Musings
-I first filled in from Seattle to Bangor to Miami and had not touched the PAMPAS of the puzzle
-100%? ALAS NO, but I’m taking DAD for DON as a family nickname and FAD for FAN as “cool”
-Voyager 2 got beyond the SOLAR WIND in 2018 after 41 years of travel at 9 miles/second
-At this time of year, NFL teams still playing have had to REPLACE many injured starters
-The Da Vinci Code was a perfect movie for me – Mystery, History, Science and Intrigue!!
-HISTORY NUTS wonder about America if Henry Wallace had not been dumped for HST and became president
-Punters and FG kickers decided the Packers’ game yesterday not FAVRE’s successor. Dropped Packer passes in the 0F wind chill did not help Rodgers.
-MESA, AZ will soon see Cub fans TROOPING down there
-Competitive cooking shows seem silly at best and mean at worst
I call it a jelly donut. The Germans call it a Berliner. When he visited the city of Berlin, JFK called himself a jelly donut (ein Berliner). He meant to call himself a resident of Berlin but for that you should not use "ein", just "Ich bin Berliner", not "Ich bin ein Berliner".
Hola!
Clever cluing and play on words made this an entertaining solve! Thank you, Michael Schlossberg.
PAMPA was not my first thought at 1A. I mulled VEGAS for a few moments then saw nothing would work with it.
The Devil Wears PRADA is a great movie with Meryl Streep (has she ever not had a great one?) She really rocks her drama skills.
OOHLALA is my favorite fill.
A few years ago I drove through my home town, Concho, and saw that all the ADOBE homes were slowly eroding.
Aha! I spelled FAVRE correctly and know the name only from the newscasts.
LANAI recalls some happy memories of Hawaii.
Thank you, C.C., for further expanding the theme for us. I wish only the best outcome for Boomer.
Have a SUPER Sunday, everyone! Lunch with my besties today.
FIW, like D-O I had dad and fan. My only exposure to NETIPOT is that commercial for an alternative device that pumps water up one side of your schnoz and sucks out the refuse from the other side. Never tempted to spring for that device.
We used to say "he's so dumb he couldn't spell "cat" if you SPOTted him "ca".
My first thought at "massage parlor services" wouldn't fit as a plural, and wouldn't have been allowed by Rich anyway.
I always thought POLECAT and skunk were synonyms.
I don't think of "jam" when I see WELCHS, I think of juice. I see that CC agrees. In my household, if it isn't Smucker's we'll settle for the grocery store brand.
My Verizon internet access died Friday night. Spent three hours trying to fix it, including switching the service to my DW's phone. Still no good. Ended up buying a new phone, and have been trying to ensure that I can do everything I could do on the new phone that I could do with the old. I think I'm there, though I still have a few hours of work to organize stuff so I can find it.
Thanks to Michael for the challenge. Too hard for me, but I don't usually mind that. And thanks to CC for the fun tour. Don't show Boomer the NINE PIN clue.
After 45 minutes I still had half to do. Not willing to spend probably another hour on it, I gave up. Do….big DNF. I usually don’t even try to do the Sunday CW, and today I was reminded why. Just too much for my meager abilities. Very nice CW, though, RN & JNL. Great write-up, C.C., thanx for ‘splainin’ it all. Glad to hear Boomer is coming along.
Tough puzzle but ultimately FIR with SANSA being the last to fall and only through the magic of perps.
Thanks for the recap and, especially, for the update on Boomer's treatment, C.C.
Hand up done in by ASH CAN. I actually have heard of NETI POTS, but confused at that cross. Got everything else OK and enjoyed this very clever theme! I am one who is NUTS about NUTS. Stock up every week at Trader Joe's. Anyone else?
Interesting to note that when I was in Costa Rica, the COSTA RICAN president was ARIAS. I want to go back.
Husker Gary In my humble opinion as a HISTORY BUFF the world would have been better off with Henry Wallace remaining FDR's VEEP. My father worked on his campaign.
This is the most amazing STUNT PILOT I have ever seen or heard of.
This guy Chuck Aaron designed his own specially modified helicopter to be able to do these STUNTs that no one else can do. I made a special trip to attend the Camarillo Air Show when he announced this was the last time he was going to do this STUNT. Quit while you are still alive. Has anyone else seen or heard of a helicopter flying upside down?
From Yesterday:
Bill Seeley Yes, I knew about the James Joyce origin of the actual word QUARK. My father was a big fan of James Joyce and named their cat Molly Bloom after a James Joyce character. But it was PHYSICIST Gell-Mann who gave it the ATOMIC meaning.
Yes, I will look forward to any tidbits you can offer from that book. Any luck contacting the WATERSHED MOMENT puzzle constructor?
unclefred, RayOSunshine, Chairman Moe, Wilbur Charles, Husker Gary Thank you for the amusing and kind words about my AFRO! I am not sure I was trying for any particular effect. I really was too busy and poor with my PHYSICIST studies to spend time and money getting a haircut!
RayOSunshine: Your yearbook people were more flexible than our Department of Motor Vehicles people! As you can see, my hair went beyond the photo frame!
Chairman Moe: Thank you for noticing my trim figure! Yes, 5'10" and 130lbs. I was actually very fit as I am now due to biking for most of my transportation needs. Didn't own a car until many years after that DMV photo was taken.
I found this very time consuming, but fun, especially after I got the first theme fill. Great theme. I eked it out with only two bad cells. I wanted a watch doctor. I was thinking of the stem of the watch as hex shape, but it's not. Witch doctor didn't dawn on me, but it is much better than watch.
I wavered between THE BOP and SHE BOP. I had THE with TRY and TRUTOU.
Another coulda, woulda, shoulda puzzle. I am happy just to have gotten that much.
"By the end of the century, jelly doughnuts were also called Bismarcken, after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. Due to the large number of central European immigrants, jelly doughnuts are known as bismarcks in parts of the American Upper Midwest, in Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada, and even in Boston, Massachusetts." New to me.
Jelly doughnut, Berliner and Bismarck are synonyms.
The objection to alley, which is in the language, reminds me that "buffs" in any field are more exacting of the terms than the average person.
The Devil Wears Prada is one of my favorite movies. I have a very conservative friend who will not watch anything with the word DEVIL in it. IMO this was a parable with a righteous message.
I am a fan of WELCH'S grape jelly and jam. With other fruits I buy Smucker's.
I heard spot as giving an opponent a point advantage (handicap) and as meaning to lend. Could you spot me $10?
Senior moment. I knew ORFF, but it took me almost to the end to recall it. I have seen Carmina Burana staged. The lyrics are quite profane. I saw (attended) it with a blind friend and whispered the action on the stage to her. Since we were outdoors no-one noticed me whispering.
Boomer, I hope your treatments bring you relief,
It took me 2 1/2 hours to FIW. Three bad cells. But I sure had fun and was so proud of myself to not look anything up.
Boomer, take real good care of yourself, use that special cream they give you, and I'm sure you'll do everything the therapists tell you.
GO RAMS!!!
Becky
Hi Y'all! Thanks for the challenge, Michael, but I'm not NUTS about the puzzle. Groan! Nothing came easy in the hour I spent on it.
SWOLE? That's a word? Oh, the poor language.
As I've said before, I have a NETI POT which I don't use often, but it does me good.
Good luck, Boomer, on your further treatment. Praying for you and C.C. Thanks, C.C. for an interesting expo. Glad to hear your brother was able to get out.
Thank you OwenKL!
The puzzle didn't drive me nuts,
but the capitalization of every line sure did.
It never occurred to me that hitting return was the the cause.
I think it all started some 5 odd years ago when
CC personally told me not to post over 20 lines.
I've been paranoid about it ever since...
It seems the box for posting is about four times wider in the Ipad
than the final line size in a completed post.
So i have been writing lines as long as i think the final post
will be, (don't always get it right, ) and then hitting return like a typewriter
which is actually "enter " on an Ipad.
The fix was,
Go to settings,
General
Keyboard
and turn off Auto-Capitalization.
There are a whole bunch of options there that
are automatically turned on, with the exception of
"auto-punctuation" for which I have no idea what it does.
"Accessibility" also has some keyboard options.
Your Browser (in my case, Safari.)
has a choice called "experimental features" which has pages
and pages of stuff i never knew existed...
Cracking the 'nuts' was tough to figure out but they all finally fell. I had the most trouble in the SW because my first thought was USED CAR DEALER and even though I knew it was wrong the thought stuck in my head. CHOCK was the hardest; never heard it used without full and I knew 96D was some type of RAP but NERD was unknown. I just guessed ROMEO, DNK. But I FIR.
ORFF- learned from Xwords.
ASH PAN- like 'Upper Peninsula Phil' I'd never heard a dust pan called 'ash pan' but it makes sense if you burn wood and have to clean it up.
REY, TAUTOU, SAGET, SWOLE, ADOBO, EMIL Gilels, TED Allen, KAL Penn- unknowns today
ASK OF- is that a jelly filled doughNUT? I'd call it about 300 Calories coming from fried dough.
SANSA-belt- 'frawnch' for without belt. SANKA- SANs caffeine
Lucina-Bret FAVRE is from Kiln, MS which is separated by about 30 miles from Slidell, LA. The car dealer in Slidell with the same last name advertised on television as 'Fav-ray' and Bret's name rhymes with 'Carve'. Only 30 miles apart, separated by the Pearl River.
Boomer, good luck with the radiation treatments.
Lurkin' and learnin' like usual on Sunday 🦉
Just finished the 2 week old Sunday NYT CW our local rag prints today.
You had Cyndi Lauper's (controversial) "She Bop" 🤭
We had Hanson's 1997 (nonsensical) "MMMBop" 🙄
A new clue for OBOES ..."Small section of a pit.😃
Cleverest (most clever?) clue: "Hardly a lover of hot wings"....ICARUS.😊
February is Jelly Bun month in Utica If you see giddy Uticans with white powder around their mouths they ain't using cocaine but on a sugar high. Our local Jelly Buns are coated with powdered sugar... So much so that if you inhale before taking a bite you might have an asthma attack.😲
Boomer: Good to see you're moving forward.
ttyall tomorrow.
Puzzling thoughts:
FIW, but I cry BS to my Naticks: NETIPOTS/DON; NETIPOTS/ASHPAN; FAN/DON. I too had FAD/DAD/ASH CAN. And my “true” Natick occurred 42-Across and 42-Down. Didn’t recall the actor’s name TAUTOU; maybe could’ve gotten it with a WAG if the clue for TROOP was so vague
65-Down —> SANSA - as Jason said, the word “sans” is French for “without”. Sans-A-Belt was a very appropriate name for those polyester pants that pro golfers donned back in the ‘70’s
I had way too many w/o’s: SHOT/BEER; SALSA/ADOBO; LOA/KEA; USUAL/STOCK; STUN/ETCH; FIN/ABE; RENO/AMES
Another CSO to “moi” @ 36-down. 85201-85209 zip codes are this city’s ID NO
CSO to Tinbeni @ NEAT; but the clue was incorrect (for him, anyway). Should’ve been “Scotch order”
The NFL playoffs have been interesting, to say the least. If either Cincinnati or SF make it to the Super Bowl that would be quite the payoff to anyone who bet that before the season began. I’d think that the odds for either of them to make the Super Bowl was 50-1 or higher
BigEasy:
Thank you for the interesting facts about Bret. You never know when knowing that will be useful! As I've said, I have no interest in sports except when I need to solve a puzzle.
Will someone please tell me about Wordl. Is that the right spelling? I had not heard of it until it was mentioned here.
Oops. Time to go.
With a title like "nuts," I knew this was going to be a funny and clever Sunday puzzle. It was, so many thanks, Michael.
And C.C., many thanks for a helpful commentary, and for giving us an update on Boomer. Will pray that the next phase goes well for him.
Nice to get some music near the beginning: ORFF and Verdi's ARIAS.
NAVEL an abdominal scar? Well, yes, actually, when you think of its origin.
My favorite silly clue was having SUPER become SUPERB if you added a "b."
Wanted to put CANNED for preserving sardines, but, of course, they're TINNED.
Enjoyed your verses, Owen, thanks.
We're having a lovely sunny Sunday in California. I wish everyone a good day too.
Yooper Phil, I’m from Ann Arbor, and i never heard this term for a resident of the U.P. - very fun! I do know that the folks who live there consider it God’s country, and I don’t blame them. It is so beautiful and largely unspoiled. Lucky you!
I had to get help with today’s puzzle from my resident guru, AKA Jack. I got all the long ones ( very clever) , but I didn’t know ESPO or ALEC, and I had ashcan before ASHPAN, so I FIW, alas.
Thanks for the tour, C.C. We are sending positive thoughts to you and Boomer as he starts radiation.
Thank you Mike Schlossberg for a challenging Sunday puzzle, and Thank you CC for a very good explanatory review.
Glad to know Boomer is doing better, and hopes for a further cheerful prognosis.
I had a tough time with the puzzle, lots of names and arcane meanings, although the long answers were quite clever and punny.
Learning moment:: Net I Pots ... never heard of them, though my late M-I-L used steam from a small teapot to clear her lungs, she suffered from eosinophilia, endemic in the tropics. The drug of choice was Hetrazan. The steam from the teapot spout went into her mouth, not her nose, and then into the lungs.
Two of my classmates were professors in Engineering at Purdue University, where the teams are called Boilermakers. I'm sure it has to do with actually designing blast furnaces, boilers, and Heat Exchangers, and nothing whatsoever to do with whiskey or beer.
Not familiar with HANG TIME with Punters. I guess its a technical term on how long the football is in the air, after being punted ...
32 Down.... Former Embryo ... FETUS. .... since the fetus follows. in development, from an embryo, IMHO, the clue is not accurate or correct ? Is this 'stunt' typical of difficult / challenging Cross Words ? My answer would have been sperm, eggs, Ova or similar. Altho' Ova has been repeated elsewhere.
Have a nice Sunday, you all.
Lucina,
Here is the link for Wordle
SUPER (I said Superb last Sunday) Sunday. Thanks for the fun, Michael and C.C.
Officially a DNF because I resorted to red letters and reveal word in the North.
I knew NETIPOTS. Hand up for ASH bins before CANS.
My Pop changed to Mob (I was getting the Italian connection!), before DON.
Loved the TREE clue.
Hand up for liking Streep in The Devil Wears Pravda (and anything she acts in).
FAVRE was timely (but I had to ask DH).
This Canadian calls them Jelly doughnuts.
Smuckers wouldn’t fit, WELCHS did. But here we like Greaves and Kurtz Orchards out of Niagara on the Lake. (Spitzboov would have recognized the names and commented.)
Lucina- Yuman and I brought WORDLE to the Corner almost simultaneously on January 14. Blame us for the addictions.
Thoughts and prayers for Boomer with radiation starting, and C.C. as you support him.
Wishing you all a great day.
Thank you Michael for a Sunday challenge, which I filled in two sessions: before we TROOPED off EN MASS (all two of us) to church, and then afterwards. But when the dust had settled it was close, but no cigar. I'd not heard of NERD RAP (sounds like a genre I might like) and I fell for the ambiguity between the past tense and its adjective of LADED/LADEN. Nevertheless I am a big FAN of this puzzle. How about "Box nut: CRAZY CRUCIVERBALISTS.
And thank you C.C. for a well illustrated review and for keeping us up to date on Boomer's progress (I noticed Michael's attempted CSO to him in 78A, but Boomer will not be pleased).
84A CW POST. In the East we know CW better for his enterprising daughter Marjorie Merriweather Post, who invented frozen foods, built a home in Florida called Mar-a-Lago, and married often and occasionally well. If you're ever in the D.C. area you owe yourself a visit to her magnificent Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens.
11A ORFF. It's a pity that all anyone hears of this "Secular Cantata", is the opening and closing chorus "O Fortuna". Here's the VERY secular final soprano aria ("Dulcissime" ("Very Sweet")), just before the reprise of the familiar final chorus. If this isn't the musical equivalent of onomatopoeia, I don't know what is. She sings just two lines:.
"Sweetest one! Ah!
I give myself to you totally!"
Not to leave you hanging, here's the finale.
41A AMES & 79D POLECAT. Mini Methitidae theme today.
52A TEA BALLS. We use a variation on this called a TEA INFUSER.
24D DON. This has a familiar ring too it.
32D FETUS. So a FETUS is an old EMBRYO and even older than an OVA? Early onset AGEISM?
35D EMIL. Here he is playing a bit of Bach: the Gavotte from the French Suite 5.
36D MESA. A CSO to our SW Cornerites (Lucina, CMOE, Yuman, et. al.)
44D UFOS. Now that they've gained a modicum of respectability, it's more PC to call them UAPS ("Unidentified Aerial Phenomena").
110D GNU. Besides being a bovine, GNU is also an OS. But GNU is NOT UNIX.
Cheers,
Bill
Word of the Day: casino
Pronunciation: kê-see-no
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. A luxurious entertainment establishment, usually offering gambling. 2. (Also spelled cassino) A card game for two to four players in which the 10 of diamonds is the card with the highest value.
Notes: Today's Good Word is a variant of casa found in the names of pizza parlors all over the US and the Spanish aphorism, mi casa, su casa "my house (is) your house". The plural is formed with just an S, not ES: casinos.
In Play: Casino began its life referring to an Italian cottage but today it is associated with large, luxurious, even gaudy gambling palaces: "Not only has Portia Radclyffe decorated her house like a casino, you gamble with your life if you dine there." Portia obviously needs to hire a new chef. Casinos are closely associated with money: "Jack Potts lost his heart to a blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas casino as well as most of his money."
For more on this word see the Alpha Dictionary.
Speaking of NOTL, I bought my TEABALL there at a British shop. I have been using it with my St David’s Candy Cane Crush tea which was a lovely Christmas present ( and is a loose tea as opposed to my usual Red Rose).
Vidwan- a FETUS was formerly (previously) an Embryo. An embryo would be a former sperm/ova. Perhaps a confusing use of former?
Thank you Cand Eh! for the explanation ... i was miffed off for no reason ...
Thank you also for introducing Wordle, on 1/14 , just when the phenom hit big time.
Knowing you are a pharmacy specialist, I might mention that my M I L who used Hetrazan for eosinophilia couldn't get her meds here in the Us, so we had to go to a doc in Toronto, to get the Rx, and the drug... and the CDC who found out about her condition, asked her for a (compensated) pint of her blood for their specimen samples. The blood test of white blood cells can be easily, and wrongly, conflated with leukemia.
For Lucina :::
Thanks to C E D for linking the Wordle site, today. Of course, we're all grateful to Canadian Eh! and Yuman for first introducing it, here on the blog.
Here is the Wiki article on Wordle.
Google adds Easter Eggs on search for Wordle
Five Facts to know about the Wordle puzzle game.
Three Wordle alternatives that you must try....
Absurdle AND Sweardle ....Horrors ... this is to 'hook' your kids, especially Calvin and Hobbes .....!!!!
and, finally, the Wordle Archive, which my niece from Dallas sent me.... to drive you absolutely bonkers ...
Picard @11:37 AM I've got a bag of TJ's unsalted peanuts open and two waiting in the wings. I have almond butter toast at least twice a week.
Yellowrocks @11:59. Carmina Burana is part of a trilogy. The second cantata, Catulli Carmina, is far more profane than the first. Only the first cantata is still in the repertoire.
Hand up for getting entangled in the NW corner. Had to do a "Check Grid" to reveal which cells I had filled wrong.
Good wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Burnikel.
Took 19:24, but had Fat & Dot, instead of Fan & Don. Maybe this is why I haven't done a Sunday puzzle in a long, long time. It was a good puzzle though, well-executed theme, and no circles.
Well, it’s a good news/bad news day. I actually completed a Sunday puzzle, and I even had the audacity to think that I had an FIR. Alas, no such luck. I had a bunch of unknowns, and I thought I had outsmarted all of them. Nope!
The only incorrect fill that I SHOULD have gotten was ESPO. Back when Bobby Orr and he were playing together, the Bruins were on TV all the time, and I was a fan. Today, however, I was trying to come up with an old nickname for the team itself, and failing at that, for UCLA. Duh!
I think all of my unknowns have been mentioned already by others. Happily, I got all of the theme clues correctly.
Thanks, C.C and Michael!
I still want to know HOW Brett gets THAT pronunciation from THAT spelling. It’s not like the V and the R are SILENT! They are just BACKWARD!
BOURBON NEAT??? --- No, but my SCOTCH was! I never really did chase it with a beer. Too dangerous. It was either one or the other.
I liked the clue for TROOP.
What FUN is Mexican sauce, if it isn’t HOT?
Had an MRI once. Very uncomfortable. Last thing the tech said was DON’T MOVE! You know what that caused.
Continued prayers for Boomer!
LEOIII @7:01 PM I think that's the Frawnch pronunciation.
You're probably correct, Bill.
And from Friday and Saturday (since I didn’t make it here either day), I’m SHOCKED --- SHOCKED, I SAY that nobody--- especially Picard --- mentioned the most famous (to those of us who aren't in the field) QUARK of all:
Quark
Vidwan- interesting re your MIL and Hetrazan (diethlycarbamazine), an antiparasitic medication. It is no longer marketed in Canada (since 2000). Secondary eosinophilia (vs. Primary eosinophilia for leukaemia) can be caused by parasitic infection, which I presume is what was being treated in her case. Canada only has mebendazole (Vermox) on the market now for parasites. But albendazole and ivermectin can be obtained through the Special Access Program.
Education has improved about the differences (many thanks to her for contributing to this education with her blood donation), and has improved treatment of refugees, tropical medicine for travellers. You might like to see this article.
RefugeeHealth
NW was tough since NETIPOTS was complete unknown. Crossed with clever DON and FAN made for major FIW. I also had inked ED and when LAD filled I had wrong pasr tense. No idea about NERD RAP.
Picard, my pal a cobra pilot offered me a ride. Turns out I was ballast as he was testing it out. He shut off engine and chopper dropped like a rock until he started it up.
Jinx, the type of massage you're thinking of probably starts with an OIL RUB. Unless they use the "special cream"
Misty is our house Joyce expert
Of course the French pronunciation of SANS is completely different from SANS(a belt) - S is not spoken.
I did think of you with MESA, C-Moe. How far away are Lucina and Owen? And, I guess that tsunami didn't affect our Cali gang
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Slow going and slow to start going. Before filling ROTS I had rot/BAH. Reggie earned his moniker by hitting three HRs* to clinch 77 WS for Yankees.
LIU told me that for 30 years GB has only had the two QBs. But 20 years of dearth between Starr and Favre.
Was I the only one to have RAD for cool(in way)
Betsy didn't understand why I wasn't watching Bill's game. I caught the OT. FOR playoffs both teams should have a chance to score.
WC
* And I won a big bet, bought a VW for $100 which took me to school and a 20 year job.
Wilbur Charles:
I live in Scottsdale which is about 5 miles from MESA depending on which route I take. Tempe is directly south of Scottsdale and MESA abuts Tempe. All these communities are very close to each other.
Wilbur Charles @9:35 PM Actually in Frawnch a trailing ess is pronounced if it is immediately followed by a vowel, e.g. Champs Elysees.
WC @ 9:35 - based on what Lucina said, I would guess that we are about 25-30 minute drive apart. Lucina, I/we live east of the 202; almost in AJ
Owen lives in NM. I'd guess that it would be about a 6-8 hour drive depending on the time of year, how many potty stops you need, etc
Unbelievable finish to the football games this weekend
Waseely, agreed except where folk want to rhyme sans with sand. I couldn't help looking up this favorite: La belle dame sans merci
Speaking of no mercy, I had the Bills today and the ABE was in my pocket with 13 seconds to go. The Bills could have clinched an all underdog weekend.
WC
Not sure why you don't get 32D. It starts as an embryo (former) and later develops into a fetus. The cluing was fair.
Where did the day go ?
FIW. BOfY BUILDER and fUG. I think I meant to press the D key :>0
Hang tough Boomer.
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