Straighten Up And Fly Right
Good Morning, Cruciverbalists, from high altitude. Well, perhaps not as high as our friends above, but at 9,375 feet the weather has been cold and snowy and goggles do come in handy.
Today's puzzle setter is George Jasper. The earliest puzzle by George that I was able to find on the Corner website was from 2017 with something like a half-dozen others also recapped here between 2019 and 2021.
Similar to the puzzle this marine mammal recapped a couple of weeks ago, there are no topically-defined theme answers but, rather, four places marked with asterisks where adjoining scrambled letters spanning two words can be found in circles. When unscrambled, the letters all spell GATE. The unifier appears at:
56 Across: Airport annoyance, and a literal hint to the answers to starred clues: GATE CHANGE. By today's standards, a minor annoyance indeed.
Here are the asterisked clues and answers:
17 Across: *It's hard to put down: PAGE TURNER. A book that one cannot stop reading.
23 Across: *Bond, for one: SECRET AGENT. Bond, James Bond.
36 Across: *One of about 50 orbiting the Milky Way: SATELLITE GALAXY. A smaller companion galaxy that is in orbit around a larger "host" galaxy
47 Across: *Put the pedal to the metal: GO GREAT GUNS.
. . . . and here is how this all appears in the grid:
There are many polysemous words used in the cluing today. They keep us on our toes.
Across:
1. Assurance on some menus: NO MSG.
6. Current event: EDDY. Clever cluing. Not the news of the day but a current in the water or atmosphere that runs contrary to the main current.
10. Crawled?: SWAM. The crawl is a type of swimming stroke.
14. Have the floor: ORATE.
15. Outback option: RARE. Outback, in this case is the name of a chain of steakhouse restaurants. A clue that riffs on the fact that all crossword clues start with a capital letter.
16. Head light: HALO. Not an automobile reference in this case. A religious reference.
19. Like much cheese: AGED. I really like a well-aged Gouda with those crystals.
20. Middle of Cannes?: ENS. We have seen this type of clue before and are less likely than in the past to be significantly delayed by it. CANNES. Two ENS in the middle of the word.
21. Lend, informally, as money: SPOT. Can you SPOT me a ten-spot until pay day?
22. Think the world of: ADORE.
26. Clothing buyer's pleased words: IT FITS. If the shoe fits wear it.
29. Also-ran's terse summary: I LOST.
30. Buzzer beater?: SWAT. Not a basketball reference. As in to SWAT (or beat, apparently) a buzzing insect.
31. Low point: NADIR.
33. "Awesome, dude!": RAD. Slang word. Shortened form of "radical". Popular in the 1980's.
40. Saddlebag carrier: ASS. It's not yet as difficult to come up with new clues for ASS as it is to do so for OREO - but it's getting close.
41. Roof features: EAVES.
42. Qwirkle piece: TILE. I do not know the game. It looks a bit like Dominoes.
43. Colonial diplomat Silas: DEANE. The first of six proper nouns in a row.
45. Julia of "Ozark": GARNER.
50. Toyota since 1982: CAMRY.
1982 Camry
51. 31-Down competitor: OLAY.
52. Anthem author: KEY.
55. Component of 53-Down: OBIE. Is this an editing oversight? The OBIE (Off Broadway Theater Award) is a "cousin" of a TONY but I do not believe that an OBIE is a part of the EGOT (see 53 Down) quartet.
59. Slips on: DONS. Not mafia leaders. Opposite of DOFF.
60. Appearance: MIEN.
Chow Mien?
61. Bagel flavor: ONION. Poppy, Plain, and Bialy would have fit the allotted space.
62. Genesis grandson: ENOS. Son of Seth. Grandson of Adam and Eve.
63. Shaw's "__ and the Man": ARMS.
64. Units of power: WATTS. What's the difference between WATTS and Ohms? Watts are units of electrical energy. Ohms are where British people live.
Down:
1. "Don't think so": NOPE. We often see "I bet" as a similar quote.
2. Algerian coastal city: ORAN. Frequently visited in xword puzzles.
3. Time and Money, briefly: MAGS. Clever clue. Time is money, as they say but in this case they are both names of MAGazineS.
4. Abbr. in some vineyard names: STE. Often clued as a French Holy Woman.
5. Prepare: GET SET. On your mark . . .
6. Catcher's interference is charged as one in baseball: ERROR. A somewhat obscure clue for this answer.
Do you know why baseball games are often played at night? Because the bats sleep during the day.
7. Italy's "Supreme Poet": DANTE. DANTE Alighieri (b. 1265 d. 1321)
8. Titled rapper: DRE. Doctor DRE.
9. "__ Blues": "White Album" track: YER. A Beatles reference.
10. Nuances: SHADES.
11. Old West traveling group: WAGON TRAIN.
12. Warn: ALERT. Be A LERT. The world needs more LERTS.
13. Rock's Depeche __: MODE. More New Wave than Rock n' Roll.
18. Lines at the checkout counter?: UPCS. Universal Product CodeS
22. Greek marketplace: AGORA.
23. Something to build on: SITE.
24. Oceans' motions: TIDES.
25. Sacha Baron Cohen persona: ALI G. Borat would not fit.
26. Rae of "Insecure": ISSA.
27. Christmas poem opener: TWAS. . . . and all through the house . . .
28. Inaugural Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee: FATS DOMINO. Along with Ray Charles, James Brown, Chuck Berry, Don & Phil Everly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke and Buddy Holly.
31. Skin care brand: NIVEA.
32. Bolted down: ATE. Not a hardware reference. To eat your food very quickly.
34. Bridge toll unit: AXLE.
35. One skilled at giving hints?: DYER. Hints of color, I suppose. One skilled at giving lints? Innie.
37. "Rescue Me" actor Denis: LEARY. Had it been clued with Timothy I would have solved the clue more rapidly.
38. Road division: LANE.
39. USPS deliveries: LTRS. LeTteRS Abbreviated clue. Abbreviated answer. At least this one has some usage in the "real world" unlike some of the three-or-four-letters-plucked-out-of-a-word that we sometimes see.
44. Way out: EGRESS. Not as in "That's way out, man." The opposite of ingress.
45. Short dip?: GUAC. Not a swim. GUACamole
46. "As I was saying ... ": ANYHOW.
47. Cameroon neighbor: GABON.
48. __ pole: TOTEM. Ski was too short.
49. Secluded locations: GLENS. One of my favorites is GLENdronach.
50. Airport ID, e.g.: CODE.
52. Heal, in a way: KNIT. As with broken bones.
53. Showbiz "grand slam" acronym: EGOT. Emmy. Grammy. Oscar. Tony. EGOOT, anyone?
54. Itches: YENS. Not the Japanese currency.
56. Morning TV fare, initially: GMA. Good Morning America.
57. Word before France or Jordan: AIR. Jordan's national airline is called Royal Jordanian Airlines.
Air Jordan Basketball Shoe
58. CNN anchor Cabrera: ANA. For an interesting take on how the "news of the day" as presented on television stymies rational discussion and shapes the manner in which we process ideas, I recommend the book Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse In The Age of Show Business by Neil Postman.
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50 comments:
Whew! FIRight, but what a battle! Top 2/3rds went fine, but the bottom third I think I changed everything at least once! CURE < KNIT, MIX-UPS < CHANGE, REAL < CODE, TONY < EMMY < OBIE, etc. I remembered Emmy+Grammy+Oscar+Tony, but not which order. And I bet nearly everybody here will complain about the really egregious ERROR at 55a, OBIE as part of EGOT!
Although I fir, I had a rather egregious mental error today. Although I have written down "gate change" correctly, when I looked back at it, I persisted to read it as "late change" and so didn't grasp the theme until I read it on this blog. Oh, well, the important thing is I fir!
Good morning!
No drama, no circles, no Wite-Out. And no, d-o didn't read the full reveal clue and didn't get the theme. Not sure I've ever heard the term "SATELLITE GALAXY." The whole shebang is usually called the Local Group. Also not sure I've ever eaten a bagel. It wasn't common fare in rural Wisconsin back in my ute. Thanx for the diversion, George, and for the expo, Mal-Man. (Enjoy the slopes. I prefer to enjoy my skiing on TV.)
FIR, but erased auto for AXLE and pkgs for LTRS, having misread USPS as UPS.
I'm not a fan of Sacha Baron Cohen, although I know a lot of people who love him. Same with Gilbert Gottfried.
I thought I knew all the cuts on all the Beatles albums, but DNK YER Blues.
My ASS does not carry saddlebags, thank you very much. But I've seen plenty that do.
Thanks to George for the fun, Thursday-difficult puzzle. And thanks to MalMan for delivering again.
Wow, this is one tough CW. 38 minute struggle to FIR. I started off great and filled the NW in a heartbeat, even filling PAGETURNER in an instant. Then things bogged down. “Current event” is a clever clue, but EDDY as a fill stymied me for a while. I started writing down my DNKs but the list got ridiculously long. Who in the world, except maybe a history teacher, would know Silas Deane? W/Os MAIL:LTRS, ANYWAY:ANYHOW. Thanx a lot for the skull-buster, GJ. Marvelous write-up, MM. I especially like the Twisting Hwy thing.
55 Across ONE BIG ERROR - the OBIE (Off Bway Award) is not part of the EGOT--the O is for Oscar
Love me that Chow MIEN. Had to fill carefully but perps confirmed my guesses.
I'm reading the Book authored by God himself. I'm curious to read his take on the Balaam's ASS incident
Originally, the batter received a hit on catcher's interference. I'm not sure how it's scored today
Oops. When I inked pkgs thinking USPS was UPS I never changed the G although I meant to. FIW unlike Jinx who changed all three(and like, also unfamiliar with YER Blues
I actually thought this was an easy Thurs, easier than Wednesday
WC
This filled pretty smoothly. I saw the GET in every theme answer but it took the reveal answer to get the A involved for the GATE. I thought the clue for SWAT as a buzzer beater was creative.
Glad our blogger picked up the EGOT/OBIE mistake.
Time to get to work!
Thanks MM and George
I had a similar experience today as our leadoff hitter, OwenKL. The top 2/3 were going great, until I hit the bottom 1/3. I finally arrived at my gate at 13 minutes even. Like Owen & the Manatee said, I was perplexed at "Obie". With 4 letters, it had to be Emmy or Tony. Then, with the O, it had to be Oscar (which of course didn't fit).
I've never heard of "go great guns," so that was a major hurdle to overcome, as well as the "Deane" and "Garner" row.
Ultimately a Thursday FIR for me. It was slow going in the Middle East where I had trouble with AXLE and DYER. Thanks, MalMan for explaining hints of color. I had thought that might be what was meant but kept trying to fit theater cues in. Hand up for disagreeing with OBIE for the O in EGOT. I liked HALO for head light in spite of a WO there. Not a perfect grid like DO, but a satisfying solve and fun finding the GATE CHANGEs. Thanks, George.
Enjoy skiing, MalMan, and stay warm! Thanks for all the learning moments in your puzzle review. Those plus brisk walks keep us ready to GO GREAT GUNS the rest of the day. Hope you all are warm and cozy this morning!
Not a real toughie CW for a Thursday and it did have some clever clueing which added some flair. Thanks George for putting this one together.
DNK DEANE, GARNER, MODE as clued, and never heard of Quirkle but the perps helped with the fill. GABON is the third W. African nation to make an appearance this week after Tenerife and Benin, and to the north, ORAN.
Speaking of GATECHANGEs, that seems to be the norm the last few years at the major airports, having flown maybe a dozen times in the last three years I don’t think my final gate was the original assigned one on any occasion. It kinda shows how the airlines operate “on the fly” as conditions and schedules change by the minute, And it keeps people moving around rather than stand at a desk complaining.
Lucina ~~ I know it’s been a rough week for you, hopefully after today’s procedure your dental pain will be alleviated, sometimes those oral issues can distract from everything else.
Thanks MM for your illustrative expo, I too enjoyed the twisting highway!
Did I notice a GATE CHANGE? NO, I kept seeing AGE in pAGE turner, secret AGEnt, satellitE GAlaxy, and and even AGEd. When I hit GO GREAT guns I saw I was wrong. But the puzzle was a rapid fill for Thursday.
TILE- an easy guess but I'd never heard of Qwirkle. GARNER, ARMS, LEARY, ANA- other unknowns filled by perps.
I'm glad to see my late neighborhood resident ANTOINE "FATS" DOMINO. He moved here after hurricane Katrina flooded his house in NOLA; I didn't know he lived close to me until he died.
"58. CNN anchor Cabrera: ANA. For an interesting take on how the "news of the day" as presented on television stymies rational discussion and shapes the manner in which we process ideas," That's the reason most people quit bothering to watch television news. All the networks seem to have an agenda and want you consider what they think is 'the news' is what you should care about. There's a million other 'news' stories out there, which they completely ignore.
Good Morning:
I agree with Wilbur that this was a fairly easy Thursday and I share Inanehiker’s experience of seeing the G E T but not the A. I guess I didn’t focus on the entire words long enough. I’ve never seen “Ozark” so I guessed Warner until the silly looking Wuac led me to Garner and my Auto eventually morphed into Axle. I remembered Deane from previous puzzles. Some cute duos included Obie/EGOT, Ste/Set, Nivea/Olay, and the triplet, Swam/Tides/Eddy. I completely missed the Obie error. Loved the clue for Eddy which didn’t fool me but its playfulness led me to confidently think that Head Light was Idea, which I thought was brilliant, but no, it was Halo, still a very clever clue.
Thanks, George, for a Thursday treat and thanks, MalMan, for the humorous and informative expo, especially for pointing out the faux pas with Obie. Will return later to see the photos as none showed up, as usual.
FLN
Anon T, I hope the Caruso clan is feeling better. Beware of the Lysol Lady!
Lucina, here’s hoping you’re pain free and back to normal!
Have a great day.
Thursday Toughie. Thanks for the fun, George and MalMan. (hand up for loving that LANE)
Officially a FIW but I got the theme (after seeing AGE at first).
I had Cuer instead of DYER and failed to fix.
A plethora of proper names that almost created Natick crosses. WAGs filled them in thankfully. But this Canadian needed a couple of perps to nudge KEYS out of the memory bank. Of course, the clue just assumes the American anthem!
Hand up for not being able to remember the order of those awards . . . and I thought the O was for Oscar!
Busy day ahead.Read you all later.
Wishing you all a great day.
Musings
-A delightful struggle with devious cluing for this solver, especially the bottom third!
-Our AGED cheese had a mold housing development last week
-At his best, Boomer would have had to SPOT me 50 pins/game to make it competitive
-CAMRY – “Okay, we’ve run out of ways to make cars look distinctive, so here you go!”
-Our Wal-Mart did not have any 3-way bulbs with variable WATTAGE yesterday
-America – Ready, Set, Go. Britain – Ready, Steady, Go.
-My friend is the official scorer for the KC Royals farm team in Omaha. It’s commonplace for players and managers try to talk him into changing his rulings
-15 NUANCED insults
-ALERTS – DW always asks, “Which is worse – A tornado warning or a tornado watch?”
-I’ve seen DYERS use aluminum (NOT TIN) foil strips to give hints of color.
-Short dip/GUAC? Wow!
-Five-letter African countries starting with “G” - Find GHANA and GABON on this map
-Nice job, MM!
Addendum
It is really a treat to see new bloggers on our site! Welcome all!!
Thank you George. Didn't get the circles in the Sun and thus didn't get the theme. But as luck would have it, I did get the puzzle.
And thank you MalMan for another illuminating and entertaining review.
A few favs:
26A IT FITS. Or the converse: "If it don't fit, you have to acquit".
31A NADIR. So far the NADIR of my puzzling weak has been Monday/Tuesday. As of today everything is looking up.
55A OBIE. I'm with you on this MalMan, unless Rich has a PRREETTY good excuse!
60A MIEN. Yep, it looks like a Chow Chow to me. I had one for a neighbor once, and he wasn't as friendly as that one looks.
63A ENOS. Also Hall of Famer ENOS SLAUGHTER
64A WATTS. You almost made it to the DOWNS without a groaner. And then it was all DOWN hill from there.
38D LANE. Einstein tells us that parallel lines meet at infinity, but I didn't have time to wait around and find out.
44D EGRESS. P.T. Barnum had a sign in his circus tent with arrow pointing to "The Great EGRESS". Crowd control.
53D EGOT. If we just change the T from TONY to THEATER, we're covered.
58D ANA. I'm with you on this MM, but as I've already got too many books, I've settled for the Cliff Notes.
Cheers,
Bill
Curious: What DOES Obie stand for?
Word of the day: muniment
Pronunciation: myu-nê-mênt
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. An archived official document that proves someone's rights or privileges. 2. (Obsolete) Something serving as defense or protection.
Notes: This word is from a broken family. If it reminds you of munition, you're right: munition and munity had the same by now archaic meaning, "right or privilege", in the past. The obsolete verb munite, meant "to fortify, protect". How the semantic shift came about will become clear in the Word History.
In Play: This word refers to documents only rarely accessed: "Rhoda Book is working on a history Gallstone Castle, work that is painstaking for it involves combing through a multitude of estate muniments." Muniments must attest to facts: "One muniment proved that Horace Gallstone IV had lived in the castle with his wife and his mistress for 13 years."
For more on this Word of the day see alphaDictionary
Bill's comment:
I once attended a lecture by the director of the Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture. She brought along her favorite museum piece: a "muniment holder". This was a cylindrical tin container and cap, fashioned by a freed slave who was a metal worker. In it was the "official document of his rights and privileges" attesting to his freedom. He carried it in his hand wherever he went, in the event that he had to produce it on demand to prove that he wasn't a runaway slave.
Wilbur Charles @10:42 AM Off-Broadway Theater Awards
Tough for me today, but I did finish it with Red Letters. MalMan's tour through the grid was enlightening.
The OBIE could have been clued as related to the EGOT, but not part of it.
Every now and then I get a book that is a PAGE TURNER and I end up staying up until I finish it, usually in the middle of the night. Some books are hard to get into and I end up taking days and weeks to finish them, or I just give up on them.
Sean Connery was the best SECRET AGENT in the James Bond movies, with Daniel Craig being a close second IMO.
One of my toughest GATE CHANGEs was at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport with the gate change being from Gate A1 to Gate E35 in less than 20 minutes. I think the airlines do it on purpose sometimes to get a few chuckles. (I did make it, but just barely.)
Have a fun day.
MalMan You outdid yourself today! How did you create that flying animation? And that LANE animation was WAY OUT!
Hand up I cry foul or at least an ERROR for OBIE. That had me stuck a very long time as the rest of that area was also difficult for me. DEANE/LEARY unknown proper name cross. WAG to FIR.
I think we have seen this before. But WAGON TRAIN will always mean this scene from Blazing Saddles.
From Yesterday:
Subgenius I sent you two emails. Please check your spam folder to see if you got them. Hope to connect!
AnonT Glad you also thought of DITCH in a different way. Thanks for the kind words about my MOAT photo. And thanks for the amusing Austin Powers MOAT video! Ill tempered sea bass.
Puzzles get a bit tough for me on Thursdays, but this one was nice and still manageable, so, many thanks, George. And always enjoy your commentary, MalMan.
Got ORATE instantly. As a professor, you end up doing that fairly often.
HALO shows up in puzzles pretty regularly, so no problem getting this one.
But I've never heard of SPOT as a way to lend money.
I chuckled at seeing opposing comments--IT FITS and I LOST--next to each other.
Have a good day, everybody.
For me this was of normal Thursday difficulty. I process more slowly these days but FIR. With the reveal, I easily found the GATEs.
Perps and wags gave me the unknown TWIRKLE, GARNER, YER, LEARY and DEANE (which I now recognize.) MODE needed Every Single Perp. I doubted MODE but the perps were solid. Same with DYER. Why? Oh, a hint of color. Thanks, MM. The SW held me up a bit, because it had to be Oscar. The perps said OBIE. So I let it be.
When I left Australia and went out to eat, I parsed OUTBACK.
To me "go great guns" is more vigorous than some of the Thesaurus answers, more than merely going well.
I am still amazed that some parts of the US are not as acquainted with bagels as we are. They don't even have the unsatisfactory packaged ones. The same day freshly made bagels are ubiquitous here.
I always ask myself why, with a "million other" possibilities, most news outlets endlessly air the same stories ad infinitum.
ERROR didn't bother me. Not as a statistic, but in the usual sense of the word error. The catcher made an error.
I am a lover of early American adventure and have read quite a few great, well researched historical novels about the wagon trains.
Most of our activities here are canceled and those still scheduled attract a bare minimum in attendance. Most of us rarely gather. Boring, but safe. I am back to reading a novel a day. My contacts now are by phone, email and text.
Thanks, everyone, for your kind comments with a special CSO to waseeley for linking the "Cliff Notes" and to Picard for linking the Mel(vin Kaminsky) Brooks version of Wagon Train.
Gate change?
I hope I don't end up paying for this Blog post..,
PSA: do not wear corduroys to an airport!
I know from experience because gate change running
Friction can cause your pants to catch fire!
(& they ban lithium batteries, but not corduroys?)
I mentioned several days ago how hard it is to find new
Clues for "Oreo," and I was not sure how to re-introduce the subject.
I was thinking, and now a change of gait, as a segue,
But thankfully MalMan mentioned it in 40A and I don't have to use it....
Anywho,
I always thought The Wizard of Oz Witches Guards song sounded
Like "Oreo." what do you think?
But before I could submit "witch guards song words=Oreo" to Rich,
I had to research it...
It is called March of the winkies
And the exact words are listed in the link, and do not resemble "Oreo" in any way.
But!
In researching a little further,
I discovered this!?!?
Who in the hell possibly thinks like I do?
Picard, I managed to retrieve your emails from the "spam"folder. We shouldn't have any problem like that in the future!
Perhaps it is because I logged on a bit late, the clue for OBIE appeared on my computer as "NYC theater award." I guess it was "corrected."
I rather liked this puzzle. No circles, but I somehow saw the gates anyway. Last to fill was the A crossing DEANE and LEARY, where I originally had an E.
MM, fabulous write-up. Thank you.
MalMan, I enjoyed all of your photos but my favorite was of the “Chow Mein.” I also liked the little furry fella next to the Adore answer but I’m not sure what he is? The Lane clip made my stomach flip-flop!
Picard @11:44 AM With all the difficulty you're having getting through to him, perhaps you should take Subgenius' handle at face value. The Pastafarian faith might be a better one for parodying religion, with this as his avatar. 🤣
I.M., I believe that is a raccoon.
CED, your comment, combined Picard's previous link, made me think of this other Mel(vin Kaminsky) Brooks bit which, come to think of it, would have made a reasonably appropriate reference point for "GATE change" (pun intended):
Possibly Offensive Language
waseeley, it's always good to see the FSM with whom, I have reason to believe, Picard is familiar.
I see my objection to 55A is unnecessary at this stage. Nearly everybody on the Corner, beginning with our host, the ever-ALERT MalMan, has caught on to the mistaken inclusion of the OBIE award as part of EGOT.
Speaking as a regional (PHEOBE award) theater winner, I dislike seeing the "Grand Slam" watered down. An OBIE is nothing to sneeze at, but it cannot be considered equivalent to the "O" of OSCAR.
Editors Norris & Lewis need to be on their toes!
~ OMK
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DR: We have three diagonals today, all on the far side.
They all present problems for anagramming. The central line contains only three vowels. while the flankers are overloaded with vowels--nearly all "A"s in the upper line and too many "E"s in the lower.
Sticking with the central line, then, we can make one fairly long anagram (10 of 15 letters) by metaphorically bowing and kneeling--kowtowing!--to the great gods of ANNA GRAMO.
Yea, this is OMK fully...
"GROVELLING"!
With apologies to MalMan,
and poss8bly Mel Brooks....
Gate Change
Thank you George Jasper for a very interesting Thursday puzzle. The long answers were easy and a big help in solving the CW. I was surprised that Obie was a part of EGOT, but I let it pass, no nits.
Thank you MalMan for very educational and funny blog review. I hope you're having fun on the slopes.
64 Across WATTS ... whats the difference between Watts and Ohms ? One is a unit of electrical energy, and the other is where the British people live.
May I also add,.... Watts in LA, .... not a place where most CW'ites would want to live .......
Husker Gary, thank you for the link to 15 nuanced insults ... I would not be insulted by most or any of them ... maybe I have a thick skin. I tend to take things at face value, and not go looking for hurtful inferences. I want to look at the happier instances in life.
I still don't understand why people are concerned about the inclusion of MSG in their food. So long as it is not carried to excess, MSG is a natural ingredient in many of our foods like tomatoes, mushrooms and many other vegetables. I personally think that the ill effects of MSG, are somewhat hyped. The FDA has no problem with this food additive.
Have a nice day, all.
Hi All!
NOPE - DNF in the south (pole?)... I really bollixed that up and couldn't continue play w/o peeking at MManatee's grid (Go Great Guns?!? wtf?)
Thanks George for the puzzle to play as I'm slowly coming out of a (not C19!) funk*. Thank you MManatee for finishing my grid and the LOL "Ohms are where Brits live."
Bats sleep during the day? That explains the Cubs :-)
++Depeche Mode isn't Rock
WO: I had 'hard' cheese b/f AGED
ESPs: I wish.
Fav: I must go w/ I LOST 'cuz um....Today..., ANY HOW.
Nit: How is OBIE part of EGOT? I kept trying to ink my own name but perps prevented it. //OKL (and WEES) beat me by hours to this pzl ERROR.
When RUSH was (FINALLY!!!!) inducted into The R&RHoF, Run DMC intro'd with the Truth: Blues gave birth to Rock & Roll [7:00 of Crossroads]
Jinx - Cohen is funny is small doses but he pushes too far to the point of cringe. And your saddlebags comment -- Fat Bottomed Girls [Queen] :-)
HG - our grocery store, HEB, didn't have any Charmin (among other things) on the shelf. I went to Lowes and they had pallets of Charmin; I should have looked for egg noodles among the A/C filters :-) Thanks for the NUANCED LOLs
CED - I'd be on the lookout for anyone who thinks like you. They'd likely add to your delightful BEVY.
Picard (& MalMan!), Thx for the Blazing Saddles clip(s).
Oy! Even the Natives knew who had it worse and I'm nearly outta dimes!
And, D-O, don't call me Shirley :-)
Cheers, -T
*you know I'm sick when I'm watching MeTV - 'Wow! Twilight Zone is on and then Dragnet!!' B&W TV is somehow comforting.
D.O. , I wish that I had remembered that Abrahams, Zucker, Zucker bit. Perfect for today! I need to take some Prevagen.
Anon T, I am currently watching Perry Mason on FeT so I selfishly hope that you are not sick.
Didn't refresh b/f posting say...
Vidwan - Rodia would disagree WATTS Towers. I't good good good.
//check out the full documentary if you have the time
C, -T
I read the "Cliff Notes" and found it all very interesting. Thanks, MM and waseeley.
Hola!
Thank you, my friends, for your expressions of concern. Today was the day I finally went to the orthodontist and got completely and totally drilled! The swelling is slowly receding and I am just about starting to feel normal. What a week this has been! I'm still eating, or should I say drinking, liquids, namely soups, apple sauce, etc. Mark has been a dear, driving me there, waiting for me the entire time, a little over an hour and then picking up my prescription while I rested.
Off and on, in between all that activity I managed to work on the puzzle and though my brain is fuzzy, did finish most of it. SPOT as lend is unfamiliar to me so that was a Natick.
You are all so much fun to read!
One of my sisters has severe allergies so GMS is a real problem for her.
I really, really dislike GUAC as an abbreviation but it's a lost cause.
The worst scenario of a GATE CHANGE is when it happens in a foreign language!
Time to take another pill and go back to bed but at least the worst is over.
I know you all are having fun! Canadian eh!, you are such a trooper for engaging in our Americanisms, history and spelling!
Yes, it was a sorta tough Thursday puzzle, but I only had another one-square FIW. Among the plethora of unknown names, the only one that I didn’t suss correctly was DYER. I had RAH at 33A, and that looked good enough for me.
Thanks, George and MalMan!
I knew EGOT, but I wasn’t sure the acronym was in alphabetical order, so it took the perps for me to get it correctly. I agree that OBIE doesn’t belong there, as does Wiki.
Our museum is across the airport from the terminal building, so we spend much or our time keeping tabs on what is going on over there. One thing that we’ve noticed lately is that there have been arriving planes sitting on the ramp waiting for their gate to be vacated, while there have been an number of open gates available. I’m talking like waiting for as much as a half hour. It has been happening more frequently recently, with all of the cancelled flights, but we are supposing that the same flight numbers are assigned to the same gates every day, and SWA doesn’t want to upset the apple cart. We know the peeps on board cannot be happy. Gonna have to do some more research….
Yes, playing softball, I got a few errors called on me for catcher’s interference. I much preferred THAT to giving the #XX$@%XX# a base hit!
For those who have forgotten, or who weren’t paying attention, or who didn’t care, or who might not have been born yet…
Johnny Rivers - "Secret Agent Man"
Lucina, I am happy to hear that you are "just about starting to feel normal". I hope that the trend continues unabated.
Thank you, MalMan! For some reason the sound on my computer is not working. Yes, the volume control on the speakers is at its highest, but nothing. Maybe I need new speakers since they did cost only $10. Now that I feel better I can start looking.
Lucina, you said ...(sic) I finally went to the orthodontist and got completely and totally drilled.!..
Maybe, ... ?? ,,,, it was an endodontist ( root canals) or a periodontist (gums and implants) ? Orthodontists generally don't drill ... ( unless they are also inducted into the armed forces .. ;-) )
Anyway, we are all glad you're doing better !! Prayers and Best Wishes. !
Waseely, @ 2.21 pm, Thank you for that link on the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Pastafarianism ... A Big learning moment for today, on this blog. I had the most enjoyable time reading through the slew of articles ! I have seen those 'crab' logos on some cars in my hood... I thought it was some adventure game.
Truly the concept of separation of church and state has led to some very interesting scenarios. Just last yaer, one of my teenager (>18 years old) nephews became a mail order pastor and a marriage priest, and officiant, in Austin Tx, so he could conduct the marriage of his elder brother, and his fiancee' ... Covid has made all sorts of alternate arrangements necessary.
-T @3:12 PM I'm with you Watts Towers. A very moving and beautiful story.
Echoing Vidwan827. MSG is not something to worry about, and since glutamate occurs naturally in foods, it's almost ridiculous to put "No MSG" on the menu. This is a crossword trope that has gone past its pull date, and constructors need to take it out of their word lists.
IMO, think it would be better for mail order civil servants to officiate at marriages, rather than mail order clergy. Being clergy is a calling from God. Just my personal thoughts.
Lucina, I am glad your dental procedure is over and you are slowly recovering. What an ordeal.
I lost my computer sound one time. I checked all my connections and all my settings over several days. Just serendipity, the sound returned. I don't recall exactly which attempt worked.
Back in the day I had quite a few colleagues who insisted MSG was bad for them, I was never a convert.
Re-reading MalMan’s excellent review, he mentioned circles. Was this CW supposed to have circles? Mine didn’t. There, that’s my excuse for not getting the theme, even after filling the reveal!
Vidwan:
You are right. He is an endodontist. I'm afraid I just think of them all as "dentists".
Yellowrocks @ 8:30 PM And Lucina, this sort of problem sometimes responds to the "Three Finger Salute", aka Atl-Ctrl-Del, aka a soft reboot, aka "getting out of the car and getting back in again". If all of these fail, turn the computer off and then on again, aka a hard reboot. Sometime all it takes to hang up a process (like sound) is a single flipped bit. Cosmic rays?
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