Theme: LINCOLN CENTER (58. Home of the Metropolitan Opera ...
and a hint to the "honest" guy hiding in 20-, 32- and 45-Across) - ABE
is in the very center of each theme entry.
20. Gets trounced: TAKES A BEATING.
32. Cubs' caretakers: MAMA BEARS.
45. Veggies from Peru: LIMA BEANS.
Boomer here.
Happy Birthday, ABE! (February 12). When I think of Lincoln Center, of course I think of a five dollar bill. Usually I complain about Minnesota winter weather, but this week I send sympathy out to any of our blog members who live in the 24 state area stretching from Texas to Maine.
I cannot imagine travel on highways that are strewn with cars in ditches and semi trucks jackknifed backing traffic for hours. And don't take a plane. About 3000 flights were canceled. Minnesota managed to escape the snow, but International Falls on the Canadian border woke up to 42 degrees Below zero last Thursday. Brrr.
Across:
1. Has a balance due: OWES. I OWE, I OWE, so off to work I go.
5. Fish with valuable roe: SHAD. These are edible, but nothing beats Minnesota walleye.
9. Jeweler's weight unit: CARAT. Not a California rat.
14. Extra-long dress: MAXI.
15. ''Those __ the days!'': WERE. My friend, we thought they'd never end, We'd sing and dance, forever and a day.
16. Sister company of Enterprise Rent-A-Car: ALAMO. Car rentals are very spendy in Las Vegas. Our reunion was cancelled this year.
17. Wide smile: GRIN. And bare it.
18. Arab League dignitary: EMIR.
19. "The Thinker" sculptor: RODIN.
23. Crime scene clue exposed by dusting: PRINT. Wear gloves.
24. Candied veggie: YAM. Sweet potato.
25. Apple operating system: IOS.
26. "I get it now!": AHA
27. Palindromic man's name: OTTO. Otto Graham was a quarterback for the Cleveland Browns many years ago.
30. Royal flush card: TEN. Goes well with a Jack, Queen. King. and Ace.
35. Foamy hot drink: LATTE. Is this any good?? Or is it just a fancy word for coffee so Starbucks can charge more ?
39. "College GameDay" channel: ESPN. Lots of sports.
40. Vinyl collectible: ALBUM. I use these for my best baseball cards.
42. Pork or beef: MEAT. Crash Davis called Tim Robbins MEAT in "Field of Dreams".
43. Tree houses: NESTS. Okay, but we would build real tree houses when I was a kid.
47. Approx. landing hr.: ETA. Airlines across the country needed an approx. taking off hour.
49. Ripped apart: TORE.
50. Cloud's place: SKY.
51. Govt. Rx watchdog: FDA. The Feds have an administration for nearly everything.
54. Fútbol cheer: OLE. Sven's buddy.
56. Caribbean cruise stops: ISLES.
62. Like much beer at a bar: ON TAP. "I say first, medicinal wine from a teaspoon, then beer from a bottle" Trouble in River City - the Music Man.
63. "Et voilà!": TA DA.
64. Slack-jawed look: GAPE.
67. Salary increase: RAISE. Social Security isn't really salary, but we all got a RAISE this year.
68. Managed, with "out": EKED. And we all EKE out with the SS check.
69. Brainstorm: IDEA.
70. Like a javelin's path: ARCED.
71. Russo of "Tin Cup": RENE. "Gimme another ball" Costner.
72. Russian autocrat: TSAR.
Down:
2. Card-vs.-card game: WAR. We played a lot when we were kids.
3. Highway turnoffs: EXIT RAMPS. Many were blocked last week.
4. Red Sea peninsula: SINAI.
5. Sugary Southern beverage: SWEET TEA. I prefer coffee.
6. Blouse edges: HEMS.
7. Operatic solo: ARIA. Did this in NOYE's FLUDDE.
8. Churchill Downs race: DERBY. Coming in May. I have never gone to one in person.
9. Milky Way ingredient: CARAMEL. And lots of sugar.
10. Tons: A LOT. Number of fans at the Super Bowl
11. Diameter halves: RADII.
12. Essential acid, familiarly: AMINO. A source of protein
13. Salad bar pair: TONGS.
21. Etch A Sketch control: KNOB. I had an Etch -A-Sketch many years ago. Too hard to make it work.
22. Have a bite: EAT.
23. Temporary stage: PHASE.
26. "I feel the same way!": AMEN. Church on the weekends.
28. Starbucks size after Short: TALL. But is it any better than what we brew at home??
29. Planet's path: ORBIT. I don't think Pluto is a planet any more. but I don't think it completed one orbit since I was born.
31. Birth certificate entry: NAME. I do not know where mine is.
33. Initial poker stake: ANTE.
34. Osaka wrestler: SUMO.
36. Promos to pique interest: TEASER ADS. These are all over cable TV. I really hate Liberty Mutual and Medicare ads.
37. Homes for pet fish: TANKS. My car's home for gas.
38. Site with homemade gifts: ETSY. Never been there or used it.
41. Pre-grilling sauce: MARINADE.
44. Bent down: STOOPED. I used to be able to do this 20 years ago.
46. Second to none: BEST. We spend a few bucks at BEST Buy each year.
48. Every one: ALL.
51. Plant life: FLORA. Nothing around our home this time of year.
52. Bahrain currency: DINAR.
53. Playful prank: ANTIC.
55. Large keyboard key: ENTER. Not as big as the space bar though.
57. On the level: LEGIT. Really!!
59. Social worker's assignment: CASE. You should put the CASE files in a a CASE just in CASE.
60. Birthday candle holder: CAKE. Happy Birthday President Lincoln !
61. Genesis garden: EDEN.
65. Split __ soup: PEA.
66. Organ with a canal: EAR. What ??
Boomer
Congratulations to my wife, C.C. her brother Andy for their third publication together. Abe Lincoln would be very proud. Speaking of PROUD, last week we ventured to the bowling center so I could limp in and say hello to my teammates and friends. One of my bowling friends, Bruce, is an avid crossword solver and whenever C.C. has a puzzle in print in our Minneapolis paper, Bruce gives compliments for her to me. So last Monday I was going to introduce C.C. to Bruce, but when we walked in together Bruce spotted her immediately and started a conversation. I was very proud of C.C.'s magnetism to a crowd of bowlers who like puzzles
ReplyDeleteGood morning!
ReplyDeleteCongrats to C.C. and Andy. This was a quick run -- over in less than five minutes, which is just about as fast as I can write. When I saw LINCOLN CENTER and went back and looked at the other themers and found the hidden ABES. Nicely done. Good recap, Boomer.
ALAMO -- We rented an AWD SUV in Vegas on our trip to Death Valley. After a week in the dust and sand the rental folks wanted an extra cleanup fee. Dw stomped and fumed and got us out of it.
SWEET TEA -- Definitely a brew to eschew. Around here, if you don't specify, SWEET TEA is what you'll get.
I went back...aw heck, you know what I meant.
ReplyDeleteFIRight. It's a little bit early, but Lincoln's birthday is a Saturday, however President's Day is a Monday.
ReplyDeleteThe theme was simple, except that all had the sequence ABEA, which threw me off. Neat that the ABE was the exact center of the themers.
I didn't need 4 scores, 7 years, or even 4 minutes. This might have been my fastest solve ever, 3:13.
ReplyDeleteI think the review mixed "Field of Dreams" with "Bull Durham."
FIR with no erasure. But I got the theme wrong. Until I got to the reveal, I had convinced myself that we would see a reveal heralding BEA Arthur. Not too often when we see a native Kentuckian lauded. Waited for ace/TEN and czar/TSAR. Only (mild) unknown was TALL. I know as much about Starbucks as I do about Pixar films.
ReplyDeleteOTTO Carr was an icon in my little town. Always loved that name.
Didn't need no welfare state,
Everybody pulled his weight.
Gee our old LaSalle ran great.
Those WERE the days.
No Man Stands So Tall As When He STOOPs To Help A Child. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital motto. Loosely attributed to our theme president, ABE.
MEAT Tuperello was a big character in Porky's. Literally.
HG - I watch Golf Channel a lot too. That's the only place I've ever heard "fairway metal" instead of "wood". Wonder what they'll say if the new advanced technology clubs take off - "fairway Kevlar" or "Fairway Carbon Fiber"? WC - I guess one of the jobs of the USGA is to grow the sport. They probably think that replacing jargon with everyday terms must make the game more accessible to newbies. Why say "dormie" when you could say "no worse than a tie". History, smishtory.
Thanks to the sibs for the easy Monday fun. And thanks to Boomer for more fun. Good to see your sense of humor hasn't diminished.
To make more of a challenge, I started out only doing the across clues and fill. That led to my three WOs: ace/TEN, rent/TORE and portS/ISLES. The downside of not looking at perps! Found the ABEs after the reveal but didn't notice how they were centered in the phrase. Well done, C.C. and Andy! And thanks Boomer for explaining the puzzle and confirming my suspicion that Andy was C.C.'s brother. A fun Monday puzzle that I FIR.
ReplyDeleteFebruary is a busy month for us with four family birthdays, a wedding anniversary, Valentine's Day, and two presidents' birthdays to celebrate. And we have FLORA all year round. Enjoying camelia blooms now. Have a good week, everyone!
OTTO played for the Great Lakes Naval Station team during WWII but Wikipedia disagrees. Wikipedia is often wrong IMHO
ReplyDeleteWasn't that Bull Durham, Boomer (re. MEAT)- I see anon@702 beat me to it. I awoke at 4:30 EST but couldn't post. I guess a switch has to be hit and Boomer's post #1 did it
SWEET TEA and iced tea are synonymous at McDonald's but they offer unsweetened. Some places don't.
I like the Starbucks americano decaf. Espresso + boiling water
"Second to none" is a way to avoid saying BEST
Thx Boomer, CC and Andy
WC
Yes, easy, even for a Monday. Perfect for aspiring Eric Asgards
WC, "aspiring Eric Asgards" too funny. Are we talking the Norse homeplace or the the USA Today crossword editor Erik Agard?
ReplyDeleteA real family affair treat to greet us on Monday. We are literally fogged in here but my brain was not in a fog as I too breezed through this great introductory puzzle. I wonder if C.C. and Andy do all of their collaboration in English? Boomer's droll take is always a joy.
Speaking of the USA Today puzzle which is scripted by Zhouqin every Sunday and Wednesday, yesterday's was a treat and I learned of a new website SALLY'S TAKE ON THE USA that reviews the USA puzzles. The review of yesterdays was enjoyable.
Keep getting better Boomer and best to the Wang siblings.
Ahhh, a lovely Monday romp. Even then, I managed to have some W/Os, EBONY:ENTER, TORN:TORE, LEGAL:LEGIT. Sooo, ended up taking 12 to FIR. I really loved this CW! Very clever to get ABE right in the center of the theme fills, too. Thanx, AW & CC. And thanx too to Boomer for the fun expo. C.C. & Boomer: the dynamic duo scores again for our entertainment! Thanx again to you both.
ReplyDeleteFast and fun Monday with Andy & CC brother/sister duo! Missouri is one of the few states that still observes ABE LINCOLN's birthday (Feb 12) separately from Presidents Day (closer to Washington's birthday) I know Illinois does too, but not sure of others (Kentucky?) We are the only state that observes Truman's birthday on May 8. Since Lincoln's and Truman's aren't usually on Monday they take me by surprise, but living in the capital that's a lot of people off. Other places in the state, no one probably notices unless you are trying to get your license renewed.
ReplyDeleteBoomer - the EAR is a sensory organ and it has an EAR canal leading into it. The outer ear and canal help protect the important part - but also a source of annoyance for those whose canals regularly get clogged with earwax!
Thanks Boomer - hope all your therapies/chemo go well- most of the chemo for recurrent prostate cancer aren't too rough on the system - so hope it goes that way for you as well!
The original ASGARD was clued recently, n'est ce pas?
ReplyDeleteFred, piano keys were my first thought, too
Jinx, dormie says it all in two simple syllables. And btw , just exactly what is a gap wedge? A new term for a classic pitching wedge?
WC
I always get a kick out of people that think they are drinking a healthier drink than soda pop when they have SWEET TEA. All you need to see is the 4 lb bag of sugar they dump into the tea dispensers at restaurants that it is the same or worse than a soft drink!
ReplyDeleteWe kid around here that we are just above the SWEET TEA and GRITS line which is down in southern Missouri/Arkansas - below that iced tea is always SWEET unless you ask, and grits are always on the breakfast menu. We are in the heart of the area where biscuits and gravy are on the breakfast menu.
This was, as usual, an easy Monday puzzle. The only thing I might note is that I didn't grasp the gimmick until the reveal, but I did get it then. And, by the way, even though I couldn't be here yesterday (for reasons previously mentioned) I want the cornerites to know that I did FIR Sunday's puzzle. It helped that I knew all but one of the (original) songs.
ReplyDeleteGood Morning:
ReplyDeleteIf a person who had never solved a crossword puzzle started with this one, he/she would be hooked for life, IMO. It has all the right ingredients for a newbie: Easy cluing, helpful perps, a cute theme, and a smile-inducing, spot on reveal. And I, a non-newbie, smiled broadly at the marvelous reveal! I also smiled at the mouth-watering meal our siblings served to us: Meat with Yam and Lima Beans, and Cake and Latte for dessert! Some added treats were Eat/Tea/ETA, Tall/Latte, Lima Beans/Pea, Orbit/Sky, Grin/Gape, and Best/Ten. CSOs to DO (Otto), Lucina (Olé), and HG (Orbit). I, too, noticed the exact placement of Abe in the center.
Bravo/Brava, Andy and CC, for a most enjoyable theme and solving experience and thanks, Boomer, for your wonderful wit and humor. Best wishes with all of your medical procedures.
Speedy Solver @ 7:02 ~ Congrats on your record solve. I chuckled at your Four Score and Seven comment!
Did all of my fellow fans of ACGAS enjoy Tricky’s amorous adventures in last night’s episode? I thought it was hilarious, especially the delicate dialogue between Mrs. Pumpfrey and Siegfried. I just love the character of James Herriot.
Have a great day.
Thanks to SIBS Andy and C.C. for a Monday "theme splitter" guided by our 16th President, ABE ("the rail splitter") Lincoln. What he kept together let no one split asunder.
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you Boomer for your usual ANTICS. We pray that you are on the mend.
20A TAKES A BEATING. Like my cheapo Timex watch.
27A OTTO. A CSO to one of our O-dark-30 solvers.
45A LIMABEANS. Despite my best efforts, I've never had much luck growing them. Maybe it's because I was pronouncing them wrong. Plants are sensitive ya know.
58A LINCOLN CENTER. A national treasure and the best place in the US to see/hear an ARIA.
2D WAR. Seems determined to rear its ugly head again any day now.
12D AMINO. Some AMINO ACIDS are essential, others are not.
Cheers,
Bill
p.s. Have I missed some news? Has anyone heard from Vidwan?
Word of the Day: crackpot
ReplyDeletePronunciation: kræk-paht
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: A fool with crazy ideas or, if you are wealthy, an eccentric with bizarre ideas.
Notes: Today's Good Word is a lexical orphan, but in a class with rare or obsolete crack-skull and crack-brain with the same meaning. The obsolete crack-rope and crack-halter meant "a rogue, someone likely to crack a gallows rope".
In Play: Crackpot usually refers to someone with crazy ideas: "The problems in the US stem from the networks' fascination with kooks, crackpots, loons, and cranks." Here is a noun that works just as well as an attributive adjective: "Lucinda Head could not see that her idea of a helicopter ejection seat was a crackpot idea."
See Alpha Dictionary for more info.
Musings
ReplyDelete-C.C. and her brother are both native to China but came up with this puzzle with a American president gimmick and A LOT of other “American” fill? OMG, that is so cool!
-Everything you need to know about ROE
-Golf is definitely ON TAP for me on this beautiful mid-winter day. I had to get a tee time because it’ll be crowded
-Do beautiful women like RENE really think they can be happy with a guy like Tin Cup?
-Do you use TONGS at a buffet to take the isolated, top roll off a platter?
-AMEN and alleluia sound pretty ho-hum in church
-I’m sure RETURN comes from “carriage return” we used in high school typing
-Golf sidebar for Jinx: I’m sure the PGA has focus groups just like ad-men where they test new language
Marvellous Monday. Thanks for the fun, Andy and C.C., and Boomer. Love the family day today!
ReplyDeleteI FIRed in very good time, and saw the theme (although like Jinx, I saw BEA early in the solve, and was looking for a BEA Arthur theme).
I did fill in CENTER because staunch American ABE would not have a Centre!
No great AHA or TADA moments today - just a steady solve, using downs and acrosses. DINAR was the only word requiring perps.
Oh, we each have more than one fish and need TANKS, not Bowls (which was my first thought).
CSO to d’OTTO.
CARAT today not Caret.
I think I have shared my SWEET TEA story here before, but it fits again today. This Canadian asked for tea in a Georgia restaurant. Of course I wanted hot tea (and had forgotten the regional differences). The waitress asked if I wanted it sweet; I was startled, but I do put sugar in my tea, and I said yes. A minute later, I had an AHA moment, and said to DH, “I’m getting Ice Tea!”. Sure enough! Live and learn . . .but it was delicious!
We had a mini-food theme today. On the menu we have MEAT to EAT (in MARINADE.), YAMs, LIMA BEANS, Split PEA soup, (and CARATs! LOL), and even SHAD for the gourmets. For dessert, we have CAKE with CARAMEL, and we can wash it all down with our choice of Beer on TAP, LATTE, or SWEET TEA.
Wishing you all a great day.
As previously mentioned, a fast and fun puzzle - and a family effort to boot.
ReplyDeleteI did not see the theme until reaching 58 Across.
Happy early B'day, Abe!
Not refreshing before posting - I see that Irish Miss is joining me at that restaurant today. Mangia! Bon appetit!
ReplyDeleteAnybody else? I can make the reservation. What is our ETA?
ReplyDeleteGood morning. Thank you, C.C., Andy and Boomer.
Keyed in cHAD and never looked back. D'OH !
Boomer, your comments about the interstate traffic and weather made me recall one memorable December trip to Texas and the conditions on I-55 near St Louis. The most spin outs and cars/trucks in the ditches and median than I have ever seen. The last 20 miles took about 2 hours as I followed an eighteen wheeler on the nearly impassable interstate. Could not use an EXIT RAMP as neither the interstate nor the ramps had been plowed yet in that freak storm, and the exits were all blocked with stuck cars.
Another time was when coming back from Texas one year to find ice 2" thick on the driveway. I could stand at the top of the drive and start sliding all the way down to the garage, and that grade isn't all that steep. I used a crowbar and a 5 lb sledge to break up that ice into chunks. I might have needed a ton of salt :>)
Eleven years ago I woke up one morning and had to deal with this
Glad that doesn't happen very often around here, or I'd considering moving.
Desper-OTTO looked for the theme ? Wow. :>)
Speaking of OTTO... Wilbur Charles, Otto Graham played college football at Northwestern. What may be confusing you is that he was in the Naval training program at Northwestern while enrolled there. His Northwestern team beat a team from Great Lakes Naval Station. He is the most celebrated and honored NU athlete of all time.
Hola!
ReplyDeleteOLE! OLE! Congratulations to C.C. and Andy for this great sibling collaboration! Yes, I was pleased to find ABE in the CENTER.
CSO to desper-OTTO
If I had focused on it, I'm sure this could have been a runaway but I like to take my time while drinking coffee and be leisurely about it.
Thank you, Boomer, for keeping the family intact while amusing us with your humorous narrative.
This looks like an uneventful week for me until Thursday when I'll return to the dentist for a checkup.
I wish you all a wonderful day and sending warmth and sunshine!
TTP
ReplyDeleteThat is some serious snow in those photos. When I lived in Denver we had light snow, nothing like that!
Mondays don't get any better than this, starting our week with a delightful C.C. and brother puzzle, narrated by our beloved Boomer, happily feeling well enough to give us his fun commentary. A total pleasure all around.
ReplyDeleteI didn't get the theme until I got the reveal and then, instantly, there they were: all the ABE Lincoln's right in the middle of each theme expression. Made me smile.
Couldn't think of the "Thinker" sculptor until the R popped up as first letter: of course, RODIN!
Yep, there sure was a lot of food in this puzzle. Made me hungry and I don't get my breakfast cereal for another two hours.
Can't believe how often EKE shows up in puzzles.
Have a great week coming up, everybody.
Irish Miss, as often happens, an acronym escapes me. What in the world does "ACGAS" stand for? Can you enlighten me?
ReplyDeleteABE in the middle/LINCOLN ENTER...clever. Nice Tues challenge. Done eckpedishusly. 😊
ReplyDelete"Birth certificate entry" my first amd last names were (written in cursive in 1950) spelt wrong, Dad's with the same first name equally wrong and Mom's first and middle name reversed. Then Dad tried to INKOVER the errors himself !! Luckily when I applied for my enhanced license a few years ago my electronic certificate was correct.
inkover: torn/TORN, (one of my common errors)..OffRAMPS too short.
Perpwaited the K in KARAT, know sometimes it's C. Don't bother 'splainin' the difference I'll forget by tomorrow.🙄
OTTO looks seriously banged up.. only needed a few stitches? c'mon.😏
LATTE nonsense today..must be too much 🌞
Haws go with....HEMS
Cæsar's boomboxes...RADII
Eggs whites to meringue...TAKESABEATING
ENTs....AMEN
Clean laundry with " ___ in the Family"....ALL
<...ISLES
Oared to shore...RODIN
RUN....LEGIT
"She gets too hungy for ____ at 8" .....DINAR.
enuff is enough.😲
ReplyDelete"... or I'd be considering moving." ...aw heck, you know what I meant.
Lucina, yes, that was a lot of snow to come down in one snowfall for here, about 30 miles west of of Lake Michigan. We're on the right side, er, "correct side ?" of the lake, and far enough west to not usually get any major lake effect snow.
Northwestern Indiana and western Michigan get considerably more snow than we do because of the prevailing weather patterns and the lake effect snow.
There have been some big winter storms this year, but so far our areas west of the lake have been spared the big snowfalls. Fingers crossed.
Woodstock Willy indicated we weren't going to have six more weeks of winter, but further east, Punxsutawney Phil indicated there would be. Makes me wonder if anyone has been keeping records of their prediction accuracy.
Groundhogs are used because the American and European models are only accurate for forecasts of 16 and 10 days out, respectively. :>)
Nice to see this mornings’ family affair with the CW by C.C. and brother Andy, followed by the critique by Boomer! Glad to see you getting along Boomer, and hope all goes well with your upcoming medical treatments. I’ve actually been to Sven and Ole’s up in Grand Marais, beautiful little town on Lake Superior in the Arrowhead of Minnesota. Start of the Gunflint Trail which needs north to the boundary waters with Canada.
ReplyDeleteThank you C.C. and Andy for easing us into the puzzle week, managed a FIR in a little over 7 minutes, nice theme just ahead of Lincoln’s b/day.
From History
ReplyDeleteGroundhog Day has its roots in the ancient Christian tradition of Candlemas, when clergy would bless and distribute candles needed for winter. The candles represented how long and cold the winter would be. Germans expanded on this concept by selecting an animal—the hedgehog—as a means of predicting weather. Once they came to America, German settlers in Pennsylvania continued the tradition, although they switched from hedgehogs to groundhogs, which were plentiful in the Keystone State.
Subgenius @ 11:50 ~ All Creatures Great And Small is a PBS series based on the writings of a Scottish vet, James Herriot. Sorry I didn’t spell it out but I knew those who watch it would recognize it by my references to Triki, which I misspelled earlier, and the James Herriot character. (Triki is a pampered, passionate Pomeranian!) 😉
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful puzzle! Thank you so much, Andy and C.C., and you too, Boomer. God bless you all!
ReplyDeleteFine PZL today from the Wang/C.C. team!
ReplyDeleteReferring to OTTO Graham's photo, Boomer, what is wrong with his mouth and jaw?!
I know QBs have to be prepared to take a few sacks, but this seems to be beyond the pale. If it is a birth defect, I apologize for drawing attention to it.
~ OMK
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DR: Four diagonals, one on the far side and a 3-way at home.
The anagram (13 of 15 letters) of the nearside center diag, is our reaction to an extremely clever new idea.
That's when we say...
"AA(h), A BRAINSTORM!"!
TTP @ 10:38:
ReplyDeleteWhen living back in Yonkers, NY, the evening news showed a picture of a house in Buffalo with around a 40' drift on it. That's lake effect snow too, but imagine tunneling out through 20-odd feet of snow just to get out!
TTP @ 12:04--
ReplyDeleteMy experience here in the Willamette Valley in Oregon, is that any weather forecast beyond 36 hours out is highly speculative, at best.
To paraphrase Garlic Gal, I've gathered and summarized all of the tax crap stuff (minus one form - there's always one laggard) for the meeting this weekend with the CPA that does our taxes.
ReplyDeleteMichael, I remember coverage of winter storms on TV with images like that being aired on the nightly news, especially during the winter storms of my youth back in NE Ohio. I think they did that to make the local population feel that we didn't have it so bad.
Similar to being in Houston and the local weather reports in the summer showing the heat in Vegas or elsewhere in the desert SW. Since I've been in Chicago, they tend focus on the exceptional cold in extreme northern Minnesota. Or, at least that's how it seems. :>)
I liked this puzzle. Glad to see the tribute to Mr. Lincoln. Only writeover was changing RENT to TORN to TORE. (I love the name of the actor Rip Torn.) Smiled at MAMA BEARS. Waited for a perp (all it took was one) to reveal whether the beer was DRAFT or ON TAP. Fun puzzle.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of MEAT, LW and I met with our son and his girlfriend last evening at a local restaurant to try out a Prix Fixe meal called "La Freak." Holy cow, what a variety of meats they served which we cooked ourselves on a hot grill in the center of the table. Among the usual fish, shrimp, prawns, chicken, beef, duck, etc. there was ostrich, alligator, bison, antelope, wild boar, and kangaroo meat. The difficulty was keeping track of which bit was which as we pushed around the precut, bite sized pieces in the grill pan while cooking them.
Good to read you all.
What a day we have today! A least here in Irvine.
ReplyDeleteStarting week #2 of February with the balmy Pacific breeze--a kind of Föhn wind, I believe, opposite to a Santa Ana--wafting the clouds and haze away, leaving us with pure SoCal sunshine.
Today's temp? A sweet mid-winter 80 degrees.
The forecast is for another week of this at least.
My wife would prefer "real seasons, with snow and all," but I am content.
Hear me purrrring.
Especially when I see blizzards blotting out most of the east coast.
~ OMK
Congrats Mr. & Mrs. Burnikel. You too Andy and I hope I you are able to get out of your house after having to endure a lockdown. I'm not a coffee drinker, never been in a Starbucks, so TALL and LATTE were my unknowns today.
ReplyDeleteSWEET TEA,not for this Southern man.
LIMA BEANS,Peru, Indiana or Lima,Peru?
TORE or TORN- wait for the last perp
Nice puzzle; thanks C.C. and Andy. Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteWOW! No circles around the ABEs!
I haven’t drunk SWEET tea since 10/21/67. We went to lunch, and when the ice tea came, I was so hot and thirsty that I started drinking it without putting any sugar in it. I haven’t since then. It was one of the best mistakes I ever made.
I think I’ve been in a Starbucks two – maybe three – times. Each time was for a group meeting.
ME: Can I just get a cup of plain, black coffee?
THEM: Huh??? What’s that????
I think my brother and SIL have to go there at least twice a day. My sister is just a little bit smarter: She goes to the McDonalds across the street from the Starbucks.
Some scenes in TIN CUP were filmed in the Houston area. One of the guys who worked in our office was an extra in the movie. BTW, that’s another one I’ve never seen.
OMK, here’s the caption on that Otto Graham photo:
“…shown as he talked with newsmen in dressing room after Cleveland Browns-San Francisco 49ers game at Cleveland Stadium 11/15. Graham was injured in the 2nd quarter of the game but after having stitches taken on his face he donned protective headgear and continued in the game. The Cleveland Browns won by a score of 23 – 21.”
I typed the caption, including punctuation, exactly as it was written in the newspaper. Although the caption on the photo doesn’t show it, the year was 1953. Back then, there were no face guards, and the first ones were simply a single bar to “protect” the mouth/nose. Doesn't look like there was too much editing either.
TTP, hahaha...my tax person just dropped off my "tax planner guide" this afternoon. Guess I'll be getting my tax crap out tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteIrish Miss, I too love All Creatures etc. etc. Last nights episode was particularly entertaining. I'm also hooked on Vienna Blood. How about The Gilded Age? It's an HBO program. Very pretty, lavish sets, clothes, scenery. The Catherine Baranski character is a hoot.
Yep, I sped through the puzzle today. Loved the cluing.
No snow here. A balmy 66 here today.
Good night all.
ReplyDeleteC.C. Burnikel created the puzzle for the Wall Street Journal for Tuesday, 2/9/22.
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ReplyDeleteSorry for the typo above. Should read: Tuesday, 2/8/22.