That's Deep, Dude!
17-Across. * Stuffed items in the frozen-food aisle: HOT POCKETS. Deep Pockets.
23-Across. * Apartment storage measure: CLOSET SPACE. Deep Space.
39-Across. * Ideas in support of gender equality: FEMINIST THOUGHT. Deep Thoughts.
50-Across. * Tiny white flower used as filler in bouquets: BABY'S BREATH. Deep Breath.
And the unifier:
63-Across. * Where to dive in a pool ... and what the answers to
starred clues all share?: THE DEEP END.
Across:
1. The "A" in many gp. names: ASS'N. As in Association. // See 21-Across. Docs' org. with a noted
journal: AMA. As in the American Medical Association.
5. Pandowdy fruit: APPLE. A Pandowdy is a type of apple pie or cobbler. A learning moment for me.
10. Golden St. school: UCLA. As in the University of California, Los Angeles.
14. Seed in some yogurt: CHIA. Apparently this "growing
pet" is also mixed overnight in yogurt for a healthy breakfast.
15. Manicurist's smoothing tool: FILER. Also known as an Emery Board.
16. Bridal accessory: VEIL. We had a bridal veil just last
Tuesday, but that was so last year.
20. Hunt played by Cruise in "Mission: Impossible" films: ETHAN.
I didn't remember that the character's first name was Ethan, but the
perps gave me enough letters to fill in the name.
22. Chinese city that was the starting point of the Silk
Road: XI'AN. Hi, C.C.! The home of C.C. and the
Terra Cotta Warriors.
27. Dwelled: RESIDED.
31. Monkey house site: ZOO.
32. Amazed: AWED.
33. Requirement for travel abroad, at times: VISA. Don't
leave home without it. Oh, wait ... that's American Express
36. Future atty.'s exam: LSAT. As in the Law School Admission Test.
43. Take a taxi, say: RIDE.
44. Hatcher of "Lois & Clark": TERI. Teri Lynn Hatcher
(b. Dec. 8, 1954) also appeared in some episodes of Seinfeld.
45. Enjoy a book: READ. So many books, so little time.
46. NYC subway org.: MTA. As in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
48. Swallows: INGESTS.
55. Saudi, usually: ARAB.
56. Gaelic counterpart of John: IAN.
57. Spine-tingling: EERIE.
62. Number of Supreme Court justices: NINE. There have
been Nine Justices on the Supreme Court since 1869, although there is no Constitutional
mandate on the number of sitting Justices. Enough said.
66. Makes a request: ASKS.
67. Propelled a rowboat: OARED.
68. Tempo: PACE.
69. For fear that: LEST.
70. Moves smoothly: FLOWS.
71. Stretch across: SPAN.
Down:
1. Pang: ACHE.
2. Injection: SHOT.
3. "Star Wars" baddies: SITH.
4. Oenotourist's destination: NAPA. Wine tasting!
5. Balt. Ravens' group: AFC. The Baltimore Ravens are in
the American Football Conference.
6. Commercial suffix with Water: PIK.
7. Court answers: PLEAS.
8. Eager volunteer's cry: LET ME!
9. Like a bad copy: ERSATZ.
10. Sunburn cause, for short: UV EXPOSURE.
11. Salsa singer Cruz: CELIA. Celia Cruz (Oct. 21, 1925 ~
July 16, 2003) was known as the Queen of Salsa Music. Her full name
was Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso.
12. Purple hue: LILAC. There are lots of shades of purple.
13. Unaccompanied: ALONE. // And 26-Down:
Unaccompanied: SOLO. Hand up if you tried Stag for the
latter.
18. Like a lot of '80s-'90s music: ON CD.
24. Son of Jacob: LEVI. The Biblical patriarch Jacob had
12 sons, but only one son's name has 4 letters in English. In Hebrew
his name would be spelled: לֵוִי
25. Lofty poet: ODIST. As in one who writes Odes.
27. Where Prince William served: Abbr.: RAF. Prince William (b. June 21, 1982) served for several years in the Royal Air Force.
28. Pitcher in art: EWER.
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| Broken Porcelain Ewer by David Olander |
29. Final Four game: SEMI.
30. "That was as good as it gets for me!": I DID MY BEST.
34. Fr. holy woman: STE. French abbreviation for Saint.
35. Heart chambers: ATRIA. Plural of Atrium.
37. Many years: AGES.
38. "__ does it!": THAT.
40. Brooklyn NBA team: NETS.
41. Help for a stumped solver: HINT. Did anyone need Hints
on today's puzzle?
42. NFL six-pointers: TDs. As in Touch Downs.
47. Not very much: A BIT OF.
49. Clarified butter used in Indian cuisine: GHEE.
50. Boring: BANAL.
51. Come to light: ARISE.
52. Fog or cloud masses: BANKS.
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| That's a massive cloud bank! |
53. 1986 Indy 500 winner Bobby: RAHAL. I am not up on my
race car drivers, so was not familiar with this name. Bobby Rahal (né
Robert Woodward Rahal; b. Jan. 10, 1953) will celebrate his 69th birthday
next Monday.
54. Primer mes del año: ENERO. Today's Spanish lesson.
Hi, Lucina! January is the first month of the year. It's
an appropriate clue, since we have just begun a new year.
58. Omar of "House": EPPS. Omar Epps (né Omar Hashim Epps;
b. July 20, 1973) makes frequent guest appearances in the puzzles. He
played Dr. Eric Foreman on House.
59. Take in the harvest: REAP.
60. Ancient Peruvian: INCA. More about the Inca Empire.
61. Eve's first home: EDEN.
64. Beads on blades: DEW. My favorite clue of the puzzle.
65. Masthead names, for short: EDs. As in Editors.
Here's the Grid:
חתולה
39 comments:
We have had lots of references to Jacob and his sons recently. We also have had lots of jam packed write-ups from Susan. This was another loaded potato.
I hope one day they stop OARING boats to complete grids. I love the inclusion of a northern favorite - PANDOWDY so I leave you all with this DINAH SHORE RECORDING and my thanks to Stella and Susan
FIWrong. Misspelt EPsS, and the perp was filled in, so I didn't even see that clue.
I rarely get add-a-word themes without the reveal, and today was no exception.
CSOs at XI'AN for CC and ODIST for moi. (I once wrote a poem entitled "Owed To The Public Library," about an overdue book.)
ETHAN and IAN would fain be ODISTS.
Ethan wrote "An Ode To VEILING Mists."
Ian wrote "An Ode
To An Obscene Toad."
(Of the two brothers, Ian was the oddest!)
We dive in the pool at THE DEEP END.
We go down deep, then surface again!
To do a dive
On the other side,
You'd break your neck, you can depend!
The Silk Road rolled out from XI'AN
Adding spice to things European.
The Silky way
Continues today,
With our C.C. maven, Tàitai 太太 Zhouqin
{A-, A-, CC.}
Good Morning, Crossword Friends. I hope everyone is safe and warm and no one is stuck on I-95 in the snow. It certainly turned cold here in a hurry. When I awoke on Sunday, it was 76F, by 5:00 that evening it was 32F.
QOD: When it’s all said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there. ~ Everett Dirksen (née Everett McKinley Dirksen: Jan. 4, 1896 ~ Sept. 7, 1969), American politician and former United States Senator
Jeez, I guess I’m getting dopier the older I get, as this seemed a bit tough for a Tuesday. But got ‘er done, for a prize winning FIR in 27 (Sigh). W/O NFL:AFC. Never heard of a pandowdy. CW fill started slowly, but finished with the last few fills flying into place. I don’t like the word “oared”. When you use oars you are rowing, not oaring, in my book. Overall, a tough-for-a-Tuesday but very doable and fun CW, thanx, SZ. Hahtoolah you never fail to have a terrific, fun and informative write-up, thanx again for all your hard work on our (cornerites) behalf.
Good morning!
Got the puzzle, but missed the reveal and the theme. [Sigh] No problems as I skated through to the finish line. Thanx, Stella and Hahtoolah. (Salas music?)
Deep POCKETS: My periodontist loves folks who've got 'em. That reminds me, I'm due for my quarterly cleaning tomorrow.
APPLE Pandowdy: I've only heard of it in that 1946 song that Lemonade linked. That's also the only time I've heard of Shoo-Fly Pie.
ON CD: I've mentioned before that I still buy the occasional CD to load onto my music server. I ordered a rare Chad Mitchell Trio CD last week...and received a needlepoint kit, instead. Returned/re-ordered and the correct CD finally arrived yesterday.
VISA: My replacement BofA Visa has no "raised" information. My name, account #, and exp date are all printed on the back.
Proper names crossing, Xian and Calia, to me really bad form in a crossword!
This took 5:10 to get in deep.
Like the others have said, Pandowdy (on a Tuesday?) was unknown, and I didn't care for the crossing of a salsa singer and a foreign city. I also was surprised that "ideas" resulted in "thought" not "thoughts".
Nice write-up today.
Yes, I needed the reveal to get the theme today, too. And Stella had some devious clues but perps saved the day for me. FIR! Thanks Stella for including some new fill. I had heard of pandowdy, maybe from the song, but didn't know it was always APPLE. Thanks Hahtoolah for all the extras, including the humorous cartoons. You always bring us smiles.
A layer of ice on our rain barrel this morning for the first time this winter. Hope you all are staying warm.
FIR, but erased INjEST. UNTIE! Only unknown was ETHAN Hunt, but I thought the clue for FILER would have been better clued as "manicurist, at times". And OARER? As Brando said, "STELLA-A-A-A-A-A!".
D-O, my Sam's Club VISA is also configured that way.
I don't think I have eaten APPLE pandowdy, but I have known about it for as long as I can remember.
The low here was 42, and the high today will struggle to get to 70. Break out the winter clothes! I thinking of suing the ACM (ASSN of Certified Meteorologists) for climatory cruelty. If it isn't a tort, it should be.
I still have constant ATRIAl fibrillation. Thinking about ablation surgery, but I'm not totally convinced. Meds and zapping didn't fix it.
FLN -T, thanks for the link. I remember learning how to sort with hashing in a cosci class at Pierce College (affectionately known as PU) and comparing the speed with a bubble sort. I am in awe of data base designers. I worked with several good ones when we built our data warehouse.
Thanks to Stella and Hahtoolah for the fun.
Terrific Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, Stella and Hahtoolah.
If I had know it was a “Stella creation”, I would have been totally intimidated after my first introduction to her in a previous Saturday CW; but my paper does not credit the creator, and I plowed through. But Stella got me, as I FIWed with OVERPOSURE (the clue does say “for short” but I thought this was a meh abbreviation!). I did think it should be UCLA (not O for Oregon), but this Canadian does not know her state nicknames! And as mentioned already by our Anon and KS, the cross of XIAN and CELIA was a possible Natick (apologies to C.C. for not getting XIAN).
But I did get the DEEP theme, but only with the reveal. I was looking for Sets after the first two themers.
Hand up for not liking the clue for FILER. The tool is a File.
Anybody else enter Aeon before AGES, and think of Perp before HINT?
I had enough perps to see that our Indy winner was not Unser, but RAHAL required all five perps. (Wrong decade for Bobby Unser win)
I have heard of Pandowdy, but we call it APPLE Crisp.
4A could have been Niagara, but NAPA fit.
Anon@7:14- I think of FEMINIST THOUGHT as a collection of ideas, and thus singular.
Warmer here today (just at the freezing point) with sunshine again. Beautiful.
Helps to combat the depression of our return to partial lockdown.
Wishing you all a great day.
Thank you Stella for a slightly crunchy but FIRable puzzle.
And thank you Hahtoolah for your typical Tuesday tour de force (nothing BANAL about it).
Some favs:
5A APPLE. Haven't hear the word "Pandowdy" in a coon's age.
15A FILER. A bit of a stretch.
20A XIAN. A regiment of the XIAN warriors came to Baltimore years back. They were spectacular! As was the clip for 44A.
39A FEMINIST THOUGHT. In Douglas Adam's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", DEEP THOUGHT was the computer at the end of the Universe that revealed the answer to the question "What is the meaning of life?": "42". And as life would have it, 42 is a very pregnant number indeed.
45A. READ. Hi, my name is Bill, and I have a book jones.
46A MTA. The only way to get around in NY. There's nothing happening up there on the avenues and streets.
67A OARED. Hand up if you've ever OARED a ROWBOAT?
2D SHOT. Or NOT.
5D AFC. I wouldn't have gotten this one if I hadn't heard it on the radio this morning. Is that an LIU?
9D ERSATZ. Accept no substitutes for ERSATZ.
41D HINT. See 5D.
Cheers,
Bill
Word of the day: recant
Pronunciation: ri-kænt
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: This word is not to be confused with decant, pouring wine into a decanter to let it breathe. Pouring wine into a recanter is another proposition altogether. The action noun is recantation.
In Play: Recantation involves a change of mind: "Jessie had published a lot, but nothing he couldn't comfortably recant should the occasion arise." Recantations may be forced or voluntary: "Jessie later recanted his proposal that the company build helicopter ejection seats."
from the alphaDictionary
Hola!
So that's what APPLE pandowdy looks like! Thank you, Susan, for the photo and though I've heard of it, had not seen it.
And I believe it should just be FILE not FILER, that would be the person who FILES.
Just yesterday I threw out my Christmas flowers which contained BABY'S BREATH.
PLEAS next to LET ME seems appropriate.
Since the passing of my late DH I have taken over all the closet space.
I'm surprised more people don't know CELIA Cruz, a phenomenal singer. Her biography is featured on Netflix.
Thank you, Susan, for guiding us through the grid with your amusing cartoons and detailed explanations.
Have a terrific Tuesday, everyone!
This was slow for me for a Tuesday puzzle. Maybe I am not awake. In NE CELLA didn't fit, but I didn't change it, obscuring XIAN.
REHAL ESP. I was looking for UNSER.
Apple pan dowdy is a kind of apple crisp. I know it from the song. IMO we PA Dutch make the best shoofly pie, one of my favorites.
My SIL had severe atrial fibrillation. After trying many things she had atrial ablation. She has a good deal better heart function, but not perfect. Jinx, I hope you find an acceptable treatment.
READ, CSO to us logophiles. Bill, I have a book jones, too. With this pandemic, reading has become my primary hobby. I read about two books a week from the library or online. I have saved years of books on my Kindle app. In my former house I set up a wall to wall, floor to ceiling bookcase in my den closet. It became somewhat like Susan's illustration. I had to get rid of most of those books when I moved. I don't miss them because I can usually find what I want online.
It seems I always have mountains of paperwork. As soon as I pare it down more appears. Off to do the dreaded task one more time.
Tough Tues. Never heard of pandowdy. Crossing proper nouns is such a bore if unknown.
Good Morning:
I was in the middle of a nice, long post, got a phone call and whatever I did, the post disappeared into the ether. I shall try to reconstruct it as best I can.
This was an easy romp from the same Stella who brought me to my knees awhile back with a Saturday Stumper from Hell. No complaints today, though, except a little side-eye to Oared and Filer, words never heard in real life. Cute pairings with Solo/Alone, MTA/Ride, and Read/Reap. Stella brought her A Team with Napa, Atria, UCLA, Chia, AMA, VISA, MTA, Celia, and Inca. Oodles of CSOs, as well: CC (Xi’An), Lucina (Enero), Moe (Napa), Owen (Odist), Bill (Teri), Vidwan (Ghee) and a hat trick for Hahtoolah and Lemony (LSAT, Pleas, and Nine (Justices). The theme was well-hidden and the reveal was a pleasant surprise.
Thanks, Stella, for not making me tear my hair out and thanks, Hahtoolah, for the usual chuckles and commentary. The cartoons were all funny, especially the aliens taking selfies. I also got a kick out of the Cork Bird House. (Wonder if Moe has one!) The purple color chart reminded me of my sister, Eileen, who probably has something in her closet of every single one of those shades. She is known by the family as Purple Lady #1.
The final season of This Is Us begins tonight and while I’ll miss the Pearson’s, I think it’s the right time to say goodbye. My favorite characters were Jack (Milo Ventimiglia) and his brother, Nick (Griffin Dunn), as he matured, not when he was younger. Anyway, it was a great series, IMO.
Have a great day.
Musings
-Our Brooklyn weightlifter, Stella, gave us a nice early ENERO puzzle!
-How much CLOSET SPACE is for me? I’d say about 20% and I really don’t need that much
-DEEP POCKETS – Don’t sue the doctor, sue the hospital
-All FILERS should be done by April 15
-1980 NYC Marathon “winner” Rosie Ruiz was found to have cheated by getting a RIDE on the MTA and then jumping back in at the finish of the race.
-Speaking of My Fair Lady, Liza’s dad sang, With A Little BIT OF Luck
-College FB’s SEMI finals were BANAL at best
-Why are racial taunts thrown at EPPS’ character by House tolerated these days?
-Those beads of blades of grass show the exact paths your golf ball or cart take in the early morning
-Even travelling at 35,000 mph, it took Voyager 2 forty three years to leave our solar system and enter DEEP SPACE.
Hi All!
Thanks Stella for a fun puzzle to play in the waiting room at Dr.'s office. Nit: Is RAF a where? You or Rich, please provide a why :-)
Hahtoolah - you're just too much w/ your expos... and I appreciate you making Tuesdays even more fun.
WOs: ASSc, Aeon (there's C, Eh!*) -> AGES, started beat b/f PACE @68a
ESPs: CELIA, RAHAL, TERI. ETHAN took some perpage as did c/NAPA
Fav: I agree w/ Hahtoolah; DEW's clue was cute.
Learnt(?): Pandowdy == cobler(?)
{B, B, A}
Jumping further onto the nit-pick bandwagon... Yes, C, Eh!, 15a is an emery or a file. A FILER is D-O when submitting folks' IRS forms (and, there, HG beat me by an hour :-))
Jinx - what's so funny to me is that sorting, no matter how computationally expensive [see: Bubble Sort], is done quickly on today's hardware. I have to repeat that to myself every time I look for (spend hours) a more elegant method of processing whatever problem is a one-off solve.
Waseeley - DEEP THOUGHT had the answer '42' but no one (not even Alex Trebek!) asked the right question. [cite]
Lab mice need to get involved for Earth 2.0, methinks.
Cheers, -T
*and yes, I wanted perp b/f HINT. We xword too much :-)
Tuesday toughie, Stella, but with lots of neat items--many thanks. And loved your pictures, Hahtoolah, thanks for those too.
Like others, I gulped when I saw "Pandowdy" on a Tuesday puzzle. But the northeast corner filled in quickly with VEIL and that funny 'ELLO from 'Enry'.
Of course the monkey house site had to be a ZOO, but what words end with a Z.
Oh, German words, of course: ERSATZ. Should have gotten that but never heard it used in an English sentence.
Other language problem was getting ENERO, but I got it.
Anyway, lots of fun, even with the toughies.
Have a great day, everybody.
I always enjoy Stella’s puzzles, was nice to see her byline on a Tuesday instead of late week or Sunday as she can be rather devious in her clueing, and I mean that as a compliment as she is a very talented constructor! Her last Sunday offering a month or so ago I had to cry Uncle after more than an hour, and it’s rare that I can’t eventually suss grid correctly. Thank you for today’s challenge SZ.
I actually have heard of the song ~ Shoo fly pie and apple pandowdy. I agree that a boat isn’t oared, it’s rowed using oars. (Oared sounds like the way a backwoods hick might describe it, and I don’t mean that in a derogatory way cuz I’m sort of a backwoods hick myself 🤣)
Hahtoolah ~~ I always enjoy your Tuesday write-ups and the time and effort you put it to making it enjoyable for all, very informative and humorous with all your cartoons and illustrations!
Increasing the number of justices from NINE to say, thirteen, in order to ram through a radical agenda is a really bad idea, regardless of whether it is constitutionally allowable or not. Enough said.
A bit tough for a Tuesday, but I got everything eventually.
Having worked in Manhattan and taken the 7th Ave. Subway, I penciled in IRT instead of MTA at first. The Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) was the original NY subway company over 100 years ago before they were bought by NYC in 1940. You still see IRT on lots of the lines and signs.
I was on the crew team in college, so OARED doesn't look so weird to me. But FILER instead of EMERY? Yuck!
LOL because of the way the clue was written, I penciled in for the wine lover's destination PARI as in Gay Pari (hey, that's how it's pronounced, so that's how I'll spell it). Oh, I should have guessed the L.A.Times would use NAPA.
I mostly know Teri Hatcher from my wife always watching Desperate Housewives when it was on. Teri also did 1 episode of Two and a Half Men.
I believe that filer, in this sense, and oared are awkward. They may be technically correct words, but seldom used. Bob Lee, have you heard oared said by a crew team? Can you convert me? Always willing to learn. I have heard oared as an adjective meaning oar powered. It is very difficult or impossible to find print examples of the verb.
I think I have encountered pan dowdy only in the song, but have seen quite a few recipes for it. They seem more doughy than apple crisp.
Wet bottom shoofly pie, my favorite, has a molasses based bottom and a crumb top half. Yummy. Dry bottom, mostly from commercial bakers, has the crumbs mixed through out and is more cakelike. IMO not as good.
It took the DEEP theme to get HOT POCKETS as I did not know AFC and I was not getting APPLE or FILER. Fun theme!
KS, CanadianEh, AnonT Agree that CELIA crossing XIAN unfair for most people. But I know about CC and the Terra Cotta Soldiers to know XIAN. I was supposed to go there in 2017 for a work conference, but it was cancelled at the last minute. Hope to get there someday!
Lemonade Big thanks for linking to the Shoo Fly Pie song! I have been swing dancing to that song for many years and never understood that line APPLE PAN DOWDY! Learning moment!
Here DW posed under our spectacular local Cold Spring Arch Bridge SPAN on New Year's Day.
Yes, it is not world class, but pretty good for our small town! We had gone hiking and then over for lunch in Solvang. Took the scenic route home!
Hi Y'all! Fun one, Stella, thanks. Great 'toons & commentary, Susan.
Only unknowns: RAHAL, AFC.
Got the DEEP theme. As to POCKETS in that cartoon, do male kangaroos have pouches? Inquiring minds want to know.
Sorry, I don't want CHIA seeds in yogurt to start growing that green stuff in my guts.
LEVI, I have both a grandson & great nephew named that.
XIAN: a gimmee thanks to C.C.'s posts.
What next! My water faucets were putting out a trickle of dirty water this morning. After sub-freezing weather for a couple days, a backhoe is digging up the main up the hill east of my house. Oh well, I still have Pepsi & milk to drink. In the past three weeks, I've had the tree take out my electricity for two days, a notice that IRS lost my 2020 tax forms, the bearings going out on my furnace motor Jan.2, and now dirty water. And I hoped 2021 would be a better year. The sun is shining and the snow is melting. yay
From Sunday:
Vidwan Thank you for answering my question about the BAHAI Gardens in Haifa. Very happy that you got to experience this beautiful wonder of the world. It sounds as if you were on a tour if you were bussed to the top. I was not so fortunate. I did not realize until it was almost too late that the tour started at that obscure location at the top and not the obvious huge gate at the bottom!
A bunch of us were waiting for a kind of city bus up there, but I realized it would not make it to the top in time. I asked the driver if we could pay an extra fee and have him leave early. I asked others waiting if they were willing to pay. The deal was made and we got there just in the nick of time! They only do one tour each day. And the train back to Tel Aviv stopped running at 4PM due to the Sabbath. Very fortunate to barely make it all work!
Yes, Vidwan, Israel indeed is happy to host the BAHAI. Israel welcomes anyone who does not mean to do them harm. My DW then held a passport from a poor country that is not accepted in many places. But Israel welcomed her in.
I meant to say, I was hoping 2022 would be a better year.
I watched both Power of the Dog (kudos from critics) and The Lost Daughter. I hated them both, in the middle of The Lost Daughter I turned to DH and asked, "Do we really want to watch this?" He said, "Let's give it a chance." At the end we both said,"What was that about? What was the point of this stupid movie?" As to the former, we both thought it was awful, just awful. I would not recommend either of them.
On a more light hearted note, have any of you noticed that the little chair on the porch of the wine cork bird house is made from the wire from a champagne cork?
And yes, Boomer has a lovely smile in that hospital picture. Made my heart sing a little.
Becky
Today is Tueday right. I counted almost 14 abbrv clues. That's the most ever for a Tuesday. A lot I've never heard of but got thru it no prob. Loved mission impossible series.
Wrong marathon, Husker. Rosie Ruiz cheated in the 1980 Boston Marathon, not the New York Marathon.
Musings 2,
-It looks like you are right about Ms. Ruiz. It was the Boston Marathon where she rode and then jumped back in the race. The NYC Marathon thought something was fishy and challenged her.
-I also found out that she somehow wound up going to college here in NE Nebraska at the same school (Wayne State College) where I got my B.S. twelve years after me. Small world, huh?
Puzzling thoughts:
FIR with several w/o's:
AEON/AGES; DIGESTS/INGESTS; AORTA/ATRIA
Good work from the S & H" team today - Stella and Hahtoolah; I give them my "stamp" of approval! ;^)
CELIA/XI'AN crossing was a WAG
GHEE - I use this quite often when cooking. It is great for a shrimp scampi and so many other dishes where regular "stick" butter is called for
LILAC - as a kid, my crayon box had 8 colors. Anything thank looked "purple" was purple. The rest of the "shades" might as well be made-up names!
Moe-ku:
Using formula
To water plant, resulted
In bad BABY'S BREATH
Spoiler alert: Friday's puzzle is a bear
Workable Tuesday challenge. Late start today, the honey-do list was long. Plus inside Christmas decorations put away. When it hits 40 degrees tomorrow the outside lights will come down.
Was trying to shoehorn "overexposed" in UVEXPOSURE, Celia Cruze, unknown, perped the Chinese city. So the NE was last to fall..Ended up with a FIR with one inkover:Pic/PIK
Agree WEES enough with OARED...join your buds "owie" and 'ired"
Isn't it file not FILER? 🤔
Follow the straight _____ ENERO
Replaced clapboards....RESIDED.
Accident? That's what ____ is for...THEDEEPEND.
Using only organic cow milk is the ____ to success....GHEE
As paradise had no restaurants, the Apple was the first ____ meal...EDEN
H2LH how did you get the artist's rendering of one of DW's book shelves? Loved the "curious cat cartoon" 🤣
Waz ..Recant: "unable to do again"...IM..so after tonight it's "That was Them"😄
DW gave me two "STELLA" Artois beer glasses for Christmas for when my younger bro and I have a "Stella"🍻 to toast our mom. ( I also have a set of "footed" pilsner glasses, gifts from our parent's 1949 wedding)
On to humpday.
Husker Gary and Hahtoolah You were correct, Husker Gary. Rosie Ruiz did take the MTA subway in New York to fake winning the New York Marathon.
That bit of fraud qualified her for the Boston Marathon where she did a different fraudulent finish. When suspicions were raised about that "win", that is when investigators discovered the earlier fraud in New York using the MTA subway.
This account at History.com confirms my memory and Husker Gary's that Rosie Ruiz indeed took the MTA subway in New York to make a fake marathon win.
She went on to commit other frauds and crimes. Something was clearly not right with her.
Picard:;: You certainly do your research !!@#@! We'll never know what 'motivates' certain types of people. I wouldn't want a Marathon, if they gave it to me on a silver platter ...
Thanks for the reply to my reply on the Bahai temples.
Do you know there is a Bahai Temple in New Delhi, India, in the shape of a lotus flower.
The Bahai religion was founded in Iran, and is now severely prosecuted in that country. But, enough about religion.
Todays CW, Thanks to Stella Zawistowski for a lil challenging puzzle, that I enjoyed.
Thank you Hahtoolah for your amusing cartoons and cat figures, which made my evening !!
Aso thank you for that info on the Nine US SCOTUS Supreme Ct Justices, INteresting.
I normally look at the CW, first thing in the morning but I had a loong drive, 580 miles from south NJ to OH... just got back. And the first thing I did was to solve the CW.
Thanks to CC's comments, I 'knew' Xian, so that helped. Not familiar with Celia or Pandowdy, but APPLE filled itself in.
READ:: I have over 5k books in my basement, most of which will never get read. I just like to have books, and .... and especially ones that I like, I have multiple copies of.
Who said::
Books are masters that instruct us, without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money.
If you blunder, they do not scold you; if you seek them, they do not hide from you;
If you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you.
Have a nice evening, all.
What is it about the love of books? Vidwan827, that is amazing and impressing to have 5K books! My library is quite modest though I've never counted the number of books I own. They take up three tall book shelves as well as one five foot one and two narrow, tall ones. Also many books are doubled on shelves. Oh, and two small ones in my bedroom.
Most of my friends donate their books as soon as they read them and of course, with the advent of Kindals and other electronic devices, some have no books in evidence.
FIR, and I got the theme and the reveal. I needed a few perps, but I got through the puzzle fairly easily.
Thanks, Stella and Susan!
I knew about Bobby Rahal, from back in the days when I used to religiously watch auto racing, both NASCAR and IndyCar. I don’t bother anymore.
I always though Teri Hatcher was SO cute in Lois and Clark. She was also a Bond girl in “Tomorrow Never Dies.” SHE did! Die, that is! One of my favorite Bond-film BAD guys was the guy who killed her off, Dr. Kaufman, played wonderfully by the wonderful Vincent Schiavelli.
NFL/AFC slowed me wayyyy down. Wording of clue was off. I knew ME but not LET. We'd had ERSATZ recently but with a new Def. I discovered an interesting word: Patronize. Two opposite meanings for the same word. Do we have a name for that? NtSO THOUGHT truly can have more than one idea(ie sing/plural
W/O: aorti/ATRIA. I quickly searched for the theme upon coming here; fell asleep somewhere around LSAT
Great ODE-L'icks today(fln) Owen
My mother often baked APPLE Pan Dowdy. One word?
XIAN should not have been a Natick for any CCer
42 as Jackie R's #. Interesting.
Regardless...Rosie took the Green Line on the Boston Marathon. I didn't know about NY. Boston MTA morphed to MBTA but is referred to by the former as per Kingston TRIO.
Thanks again hahtoolah for your most entertaining write-up
WC
Now to solve Wednesday
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