Theme: "Make Mine a Triple" - All three words can precede "room" in each theme entry.
22A. *Game piece with a "6" on it: GREEN BILLIARD BALL. Greenroom. Billiard room. Ball room.
64A. *Camp sleeping arrangement: DOUBLE BUNK BED. Double room. Bunk room. Bedroom.
108A. *Where women once learned to stitch: LADIES SEWING CLASS. Ladies room. Sewing room. Classroom.
13D. *Primary concern of a Four Seasons chef: HOTEL GUEST DINING. Hotel room. Guest room. Dining room.
37D. *'50s-'60s ad competition: LAUNDRY POWDER WAR. Laundry room. Powder room. War room.
Reveal:
120. One of three found in each answer to a starred clue: ROOM.
I only know bunk bed, not bunk room. I guess our university dorms were all bunk rooms then.
For
this type of three-part theme, the entries are often wobbly. It's
impossible to find a set with all solid in-the-language answers.
Across:
5. Dapper dudes: FOPS.
9. Break-even transaction: WASH. It's a wash.
13. "__ Eye Is on the Sparrow": hymn: HIS.
16. Easily played: NAIVE.
18. Hilarious sort: RIOT. Also 8. What a comedy show might have you in: STITCHES. Boomer's grouchy & fun answers often make the PT lady chuckle. Here he is at the Spinal Cord Injury PT room last Monday.
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19. Thelma, to Louise, or vice versa: GAL PAL.
21. __ Mae: Whoopi's "Ghost" role: ODA. Love the movie.
25. "3x" on an Rx: TER. Sometimes it's TID.
26. Baskin-Robbins treats: SUNDAES.
27. 27-member gp.: THE EU. NATO has 30 members.
28. Good way to plan: AHEAD.
30. GPS command: TURN.
31. Toon maker of a female road runner costume: ACME.
32. Garland's girl: MINNELLI. Liza. Judy Garland.
35. Tee sizes, initially: SML. Small.
38. Curtain holder: ROD.
39. Pool hustler: SHARK. I only know one: Minnesota Fats
41. It's found in a fizz: SLOE GIN.
42. __-Dazs: HAAGEN.
44. Like many a bow: TIED.
45. Selfish pair?: ESSES. Just the two letters in "Selfish".
47. Take advantage of: USE.
48. Fluish symptoms: AGUES.
49. Lends a hand: AIDS.
50. Do some road repairs: RE-TAR. Winter is brutal on our roads.
51. Add to the pot: BET.
52. Yard opening: VINE. Vineyard. Also 75. Chute opener?: PARA. Parachute.
53. Skin soother: ALOE.
54. Name above "The Lady and Her Music" on a 1981 Broadway poster: LENA. Horne.
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55. Kikkoman sauces: SOYS. Odd in plural form.
57. One of two field borders: END ZONE.
59. Where it's at: LOCALE.
61. "I will if you will": LET'S.
63. Neither partner: NOR.
68. Pops: DAD.
70. Hardly a vet: TYRO. or NOOB.
72. "... __, short and stout": TEAPOT.
73. As-the-crow-flies route: BEELINE.
77. FedEx rounds, briefly: RTES.
78. Hollywood brothers' name: COEN. Joel or Ethan. From St. Louis Park, Minnesota.
80. Extras: ANDS.
81. __ town: COW.
82. It needs a driver: SCREW. Screwdriver.
84. __ dog: SLED.
85. Cook-off bowlful: CHILI. Boomer likes beans in his chili.
86. Stomach: MAW.
87. Thumbs-ups: OKAYS.
88. Move quickly, as clouds: SCUD. Hence scud missile, I guess.
89. Big name in theaters: WARNER.
90. Literally, "going," in scores: ANDANTE. Walking pace.
92. Sierra Nevada lake: TAHOE.
94. Man Ray contemporary: ARP. Jean. Both Dadaists.
95. Higher ed hurdle: GRE.
96. Some union acquisitions: STEPSONS.
98. Poet: BARD.
99. Lowry of kid lit: LOIS.
101. __ firma: TERRA.
102. Pulls an all-nighter: CRAMS.
104. Fictional pilot who said, "Never tell me the odds": HAN SOLO.
107. "TMI!!": EEW.
113. Stranded letters?: RNA. Single-stranded.
114. Disguise, in a way: ENCODE.
115. Wrap that sounds apologetic: SARI. So pretty.
116. Giant's NFL foe: EAGLE. The New York Giants.
117. Belarus, once: Abbr.: SSR.
118. El __: NINO.
119. Parted partners: EXES.
Down:
2. Signal-strength display: BARS.
3. "In __ of gifts ... ": LIEU.
4. Occasion: EVENT.
6. Spa supplies: OILS. Tiny clue/answer dupe: 11. Cruise amenity: SPA.
7. Pro in a party: POL. Politician.
9. Get one's feet wet: WADE.
10. Book of memories: ALBUM.
12. Actor Linden: HAL. "Barney Miller".
14. One with a vision: IDEALIST.
15. Metaphorical rush-hour subway rider: SARDINE.
17. Stands the test of time: ENDURES.
19. Garson of "Mrs. Miniver": GREER. Wikipedia says she's the fourth most-nominated woman for the Best Actress Oscar.
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20. Plains, in Peru: LLANOS. Or PAMPAS.
23. Industry tycoon: BARON.
24. Sportscaster Rashad: AHMAD.
29. "__ Haw": HEE.
31. In reserve: ASIDE.
33. Rae of "The Lovebirds": ISSA.
34. Reds and Cards, briefly: NLers. National Leaguers.
35. Shadowless?: SHAVEN. Going to get Boomer an electric shaver today. Quite a few changes due to the new chemo.
36. French military leader with an eponymous line: MAGINOT. Maginot Line along the French-German border.
40. Actor Wynn: KEENAN.
43. "__ Louise!": GEEZ.
44. Andalusian uncle: TIO. And 53. Mayo is in it: ANO.
46. Celery piece: STALK.
49. Early seal hunter: ALEUT.
50. Shorten further: RE-CUT.
51. "I'm outta here": BYE.
54. Timber wolves: LOBOS.
56. Quaint shoppe adjective: OLDE.
58. Notable feature of 59-Down: ODOR. 59. Toon with a 58-Down: LE PEW.
60. Subsided: EBBED.
62. Adam of "Grown Ups" films: SANDLER.
65. Smoothie fruit: BERRY. Shout-out to our sweet Ohio reader Janice. I wonder if anyone else on our blog knows Paczki.
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| Janice and her daughter at an Indians Game Pre-COVID |
66. Most up-to-date: LATEST.
67. Dusk, to Donne: EEN.
69. Hankering: DESIRE.
71. Like clams on the half shell: RAW. I have not eaten any raw clams for a long time.
74. Bert in Oz: LAHR.
76. "I didn't __ be here": ASK TO.
78. Informed, with "in": CLUED.
79. Ref. that added "chapstick" in 2021: OED. This late?
81. Base bars: CANTEENS.
83. City on the Orne: CAEN. Used to appear in our grids regularly in the old Tribune Daily days.
84. "Taxi Driver" director: SCORSESE.
85. Tony Soprano's "Got it?": CAPISCE.
86. Really nails: MASTERS.
87. Marked down: ON SALE. Our local grocery store had walleye on
sale last week. $8.00 for the one-pound bag. Normally it's between
$12.99 to $14.99 for the bag. Wild-caught in Canada. So tasty.
88. Trickeries: SHAMS.
89. "Don't think so": WRONG.
91. Aries mo.: APR.
93. Put down: ABASE.
94. Grammy winner Morissette: ALANIS. "Thank U!"
97. Offspring: SCION.
100. Word with panel or system: SOLAR.
103. Overhaul: REDO.
104. Bring on board: HIRE.
105. Maracaibo, por ejemplo: LAGO. Lake in Venezuela. Largest in South America.
106. Munch Museum city: OSLO.
109. Fashionable Taylor: ANN.
110. Caesar's 601: DCI.
111. Tussaud's medium: WAX.
112. School yr. division: SEM. Semester.
Boomer had a busy week. We were at the VA hospital every day for various scheduled and unexpected appointments. The good news is that Boomer got the chemo infusion on Friday and he did not suffer nausea or lack of appetite the past two days. He'll receive his next chemo on March 3.
He'll continue his regular PT and OT next Monday and Tuesday. And an MRI, ordered by the neurosurgeon.
Thanks again for all your warm messages, wishes, prayers and cards. They really cheer up Boomer and me during this difficulty time.
C.C.
38 comments:
FIRight! It took a while, and a fair number of t/os, but no particular problems. I hadn't looked for a theme yet when I came to the reveal, but had enough of them filled that I should have suspected it, and I didn't.
I got CSOs today! BARD for certain, more tenuous links to LOBO, LLANOS
WADE and his STEPSON got a HOTEL ROOM,
Made sure to ask for a DOUBLE ROOM.
But when came the dawn,
Their walls were gone!
The room they were in had just been a GUEST ROOM!
Why is it, when women visit the WASH room,
They do it in pairs? To find the LADIES ROOM!
They say men won't ASK,
Then take the task
of finding, without AID, the POWDER ROOM!
A genteel place is a sedate BILLIARD ROOM.
You won't find a SHARK, as you might in a pool room.
There are no pockets,
BALLS bounce like rockets,
And points are made by counting the caroms!
{A-, A-, B+.}
For more info on Pool vs. Billiards, check HERE.
Good morning!
Knew it would be near freezing this morning, so stayed in bed an extra hour this morning. Forgot to look at the puzzle title. Missed reading the reveal clue. Totally missed the theme. Some things never change. Yes, I knew there was a double-letter, but was it HAGGEN or HAAGEN? At the end of the day, d-o labored to produce a DNF. The "shadow" tailing him had been SHAKEN. Yes, KINE yard looked weird, but I let it stand. Bzzzzzzt! Impressive theme, Pam, even though I didn't get it. Thanx for the explication, C.C. (Hope you and Boomer are standing up to that grueling treatment/test schedule.)
AHEAD: "Good way to plan" -- is there another way?
BEE LINE: Wouldn't that be the way a bee flies. Shouldn't a crow fly in a crow line? As a teen I hiked into the hills outside our little town. While resting and eating my sandwich on a boulder, I noticed a crow flying overhead. Then another. Then many others. I wondered where they could all be going. I stood up and looked behind me at a large tree completely black with crows. I don't know what spurred the gathering. I've never seen anything like it since.
Anyone else think of this song at ANDANTE?
The PAK Attack is Back!
On her more familiar turf Pam offers another fun Sunday filled with information from many disciplines. I will take the CSO with the reference to CHAPSTICK one of my most lasting nicknames. Growing up in an area with a nearby large Polish population, a grandfather born in Poland who included Polish amoong the nine languages he spoke, PACSKI are known and yummy. You do need to know Polish or look it up to know how to pronounce the word.
I learned of author LOIS LOWRY and her moving book Number the Stars from reading books my sons had to read in high school. Lois even took the picture of the delicate looking Danish girl on the cover.
I really have not seen much from AHMAD RASHAD lately though I know he continues to be busy in sports television. I also know he includes OJ and Bill Cosby among his longtime friends and has included PHYLICIA ALLEN as on of his 5 (so far) wives.
I really enjoyed the clue for STEPSON and seeing COEN and CAEN both in the puzzle.
Lucy, now you have the update on Boomer which is why we continue to ass prayers.
Thank you Pam and C.C.
Good Morning:
This is not one of my favorite PAK’s offerings. I was totally at sea for several minutes after seeing the Room reveal but, finally, the light went on but, as CC pointed out, this type of theme leads to “wobbly” pairings, e.g., Bunk Room. The phrases, while technically legitimate seemed forced and green-paintish to me. The title was accurate but only after the reveal, therefore, didn’t help at all with the solve. Those negatives aside, I thought much of the fill was fresh and there were many entries I don’t recall ever seeing in a crossword. My favorite C/A was Shadowless?=Shaven. My least favorite was Stomach=Maw, as I always thought Maw meant a huge, gaping mouth; anyone else puzzled by this? ARP, Lois, and Han Solo, all as clued, needed perps.
My w/os were Swap/Wash, Isle/Lago, Paso/Nino, and Rehem/Recut. Lots of cute duos with Coen/Scorsese, Apr/Arp, Ann/Ano, Greer/Green, Caen/Coen, and Hee/Thee, also, a triple with Recut/Redo/Retar. Another treat was the mini creature theme with Shark, Bee, Cow, Eagle, Lobos, Le Pew and stretching a bit, Lahr the Lion! (I was too tired to check for CSOs.)
Thanks, Pam, for your many Sunday challenges and thanks, CC, for the overview and commentary. Looking good, Boomer, keep up the good work. You are both troupers of the highest order!
FLN
YooperPhil, I’m glad you enjoy my little meanderings through the grids.
Have a great day. I hope the Super Bowl 🏈 is a close game rather than a rout. I don’t have a favorite, so may the best team win. I’m in a pool so we’ll see how that turns out.
Ranches had "bunk houses" or "bunk rooms" for the cowhands who worked there.
I'd forgotten that the Super Bowl was today. Don't know anyone in Cleveland or L.A., so I don't have a dog in that hunt.
Terminated the effort for NSF (Non-Sufficient Fun). Way too many unfamiliar names to suit me. Didn't like "sizes" being plural with the fill SML; had to erase sms. I guess that an IDEALIST can be "one with a vision", but it seems like a Saturday clue to me. Also didn't know that MAW could be stomach. Wonderful English language - a word that can mean mouth or stomach. Kinda like "cite" can be good or awful. Or "waste no time interviewing Jinx for that position" could mean "forgetaboutit" or "HIRE him immediately".
Oh well, on to Monday.
FLN: TTP, on my Android 11 Edge, I press settings, apps & notifications, see all apps, clock, notifications, bedtime. You can then select "silent - no sound or vibration", or "default - may ring or vibrate based on phone settings".
D-O, a little knowledge is a dangerous things. I'm pretty sure it's Cincy vs LA, not the team from The Mistake by the Lake.
Well, at least I got the right state. That should be good for partial credit, right?
Boomer seems to be taking the chemo & PT in stride. Good luck. AS for the puzzle, a big fat DNF. The left side did me in. My initial 'Yard opening' was a GATE and SHAVEN & VINE never entered the brain, as I misspelled MAGINOT as MAGANOT. LAUNDRY was not done this morning. MASTERS & COW were not finished. Everything else was filled. Boo.
As for the ROOMS, I never noticed them until I filled ROOM by perps and then looked at the clue for 120A.
RAW- never tried raw clams but many places in NOLA have oyster bars. DW likes them; not me.
Janice will have to go to a Cleveland GUARDIANS game in the future. Which teams' scalps will the PC crowd go after next?
d-OTTO-The CINCINNATI Bengals are playing LA, not the Cleveland Browns.
Doesn't the abbreviation (why is that such a long word?) SML refer to Small, Medium, and Large?
Aargh, NE corner did me in.
Iam surprised that no one realized that the clue 35 "Tee sizes, initially" meant the first letter of each of the three sizes of a t-shirt; Small, Medium and Large.
I thought SOS for stranded letters at first. Hmm. No good. Going down - CANTINAS? That would make it AAA for stranded folks. LOL. Perfect! Hmm. Not good either. Did NOT like RNA as the final answer!
I was stuck on the NE also for the subway rider. Straphanger? Dashing Dan (the old logo on the Long Island Railroad)? Never figured out SARDINE. Doh!
The weather this morning was a bit nippy. But down here in the beautiful Sunshine State (Florida), it doesn't bother us so much. A lot better than y'alls 20 degrees, haha. A lot of w/o, unfortunately.
xoxo
I am very impressed with this construction to make the TRIPLE ROOM theme work. Tough going in the NE with ODA, TER, SARDINE as clued. And SW with MAW and RNA as clued. Learning moment that MAW indeed has a lesser known meaning of STOMACH.
Twice this week to see LENA. Learning moment from Jazzbumpa on Wednesday that she performed the ABC song on the Muppets!
I witnessed this terrifying PARACHUTE moment seven years ago while scouting a hike.
The hang glider had failed. You can see the desperate pilot bracing himself as that tiny PARACHUTE has deployed. A bit more to the story.
Also from last Wednesday:
Splynter It was great to see you emerge from a long hiatus when you saw HOT LEGS. Great to connect via email. Way cool that you are moving to a rather remote area in Connecticut that is just twelve miles from my childhood home.
Hola!
Thank you, Pam, for this Sunday puzzler! It filled slowly and neatly with only one w/o at HAAGEN. Right. Two As. So much to like here.
CSO to my STEPSON whom I inherited when I married his DAD.
My great-great grandmother was named LINA not LENA but pronounced the same. I have an image of her on her knees kneading dough on a metate.
I had never seen a DOUBLE BUNKBED until we had a family reunion at my grand-nephew's wedding where we stayed in a very large cabin at Big Bear, CA. Two of the bedrooms had DOUBLE BUNKBEDS. He and his bride eventually moved to Big Bear where he works as a ranger. He has always loved the outdoors.
As a teenager I took a SEWING CLASS from the Singer SEWING Machine Co. when my mother bought a SEWING machine. She let me take the class because I liked to SEW and after that I made all my own clothes. That interest continued into adulthood.
I also love the movie "Ghost" so ODA Mae filled easily.
I like the clue, Parted partners, for EXES. Also the Spanish words: LOBOS, LLANO, LAGO, NINO, CHILI, though I would spell it CHILE and PARA means "for" in Spanish.
Have a sensational Sunday, everyone! I hope there is a good movie I can go see. No football for me.
Took some work and thought but I eked out a FIR in 41 minutes, didn’t get to the reveal till very late in the solve, and then I saw only one room in the themers and not three till C.C. pointed it out, thought the title referred to just three word phrases, not three “room” words. DNK ODA as clued (would have known “harem room”) Maginot was new to me, SCUD I knew as a missile not as cloud movement, and I was unfamiliar with LOIS. ANDANTE sounds more like a way to cook pasta. Thank you Pam K for the Sunday challenge!
C.C. ~~ thank you for the nice write up and the update on Boomer, sounds like he’s in good spirits joking with his PT lady! Will keep him in my prayers that his upcoming treatments are a success.
Happy Super Bowl Sunday to all!
Well,
at least I finished the puzzle in under an hour...
Things like "shaven" crossing "yard preceder" were really hard,
but worst for me was answers that are combination words and letters.
I cannot possibly parse Theeu crossing "Ahmad?"
(Maybe if clued "too much TMI?)
Actually that was another one, isn't it "eeyew?"
FLN,
Ray-O
Re my location.
DW does not like it when I reveal TMI on the internet
(I dunno, she's right about everything else...)
But if you don't say where you are,
I can say I am about an hours drive south of you...
One other th8ng that sidetracked me was Han Solo.
The clue made me envision "why did it have to be snakes?"
Instead of "never tell me the odds."
I went to look for links showing the comparison,
but again, got sidetracked...
Also while looking I got triple tracked:
May your life's unexpected moments be pleasant ones...
(And watch out for rabbit holes, you never know how deep the go...)
Musings
-A fun tour with a theme that eventually beat me over the head
-I don’t see FOPS as being Dapper
-Super Bowl BETS – Over/under for length of national anthem, over/under for # of jets in flyover, etc.
-Your favorite LOIS?
-I racked up a bunch of “atta boys” in LIEU of cash while teaching
-Mrs. Miniver gave great insight into the battle of Dunkirk
-The city of CAEN was nearly destroyed by post D-Day fighting and it was not liberated until D-Day+44
-A big car dealer here in town now has three of his SCIONS running the operation and doing well
-The Bengal’s coach was a QB for the Huskers and Joe Burrow’s dad played DB for the Huskers and so that’s about as much enthusiasm I can generate. I won’t watch until the ball is kicked off.
-Thanks for the write-up and update, C.C.!
Bluehen and Lee, S-M-L: Of course. V8 can to the cranium.
Sunday Lurk say...
C.C. - Thank you for the update on Boomer...
Cracking corny jokes to make the PT people laugh?; Oh, he's in high spirits and Chemo AIN'T keepin' him down.
//FIL had Chemo for pancreatic cancer; that 'Keg Ass Marine' [his words] gave it his best.
Blessings to both you.
D-O: what's your affinity for that school in College Station (Texas, that is)? If any, you may have a dog in the hunt.
I read this morning that Rams has two A&M-ers and Cincinnati has one Aggie.
//*cough* A&M is a cult *cough*
{B+, A, B+}
FLN - OMK: I did it again mixing up you and OKL's abrivs.
//That's how you abbreviate abbreviation, Bluehen. What's for Super LVI dinner?
LOL escape ROOM comic, CED. Keep your ID & local secret if you love thy's neighbor's husky :-)
Lucina - Youngest has no reason, money-wise, to sew her own clothes but that kid will find fabrics at thrift shops and do something cute with it. If you twos want to trade patterns (mind you Youngest is 6' tall) or sewing secrets, lemme know.
HG - my favorite LOIS is in Superman I's movie.
Thanks y'all for letting me lurk today. Tons 'o fun reading.
Cheers, -T
Thought I'd NAILED this, but when I got here I found I'd missed the meta-clue "Selfish pair": ESSES. Nevertheless thank you Pam for a fine Sunday puzzle and C.C. for a fine review. I got the theme, although I didn't take the trouble to parse out all the triplets in the themers.
A few favs:
31A ACME. Here's a "Best of ACME products" clip. The "Female Road Runner Costume" starts at 1:53 min:sec in. They're all fun though.
50A RE-TAR. The road to our church has been under repair for 6 years now. We thought the county was going to RE-TAR it this past fall, but it looks like they're going to wait until after "pot hole" season.
68A POPS. A CSO to Dash T's Dad.
71A Like clams on the half shell. A CSO to Irish Miss. She and I have similar taste in seafood.
Glad to see that Boomer is back in the saddle again and that the chemo isn't having any side effect. We pray for him each day and I'm sure we'll hear from him tomorrow.
FLN to -T
-T @1:01 PM We're Agatha Raisin fans too. If you like that series, you'll probably also like "The Queens of Mystery", about a young woman detective and her three meddling crime writer aunts. It has a lot of POE references, complete with a trained Raven as a recurring actor (or actress?). We just finished Series 2 and loved it. It also has a mystery within the mysteries that they haven't revealed yet. I'm sure they'll be a Series 3.
Cheers,
Bill
Word of the Day: Cupid
Pronunciation: kyu-pid • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. (Cupid) The Roman god of love. 2. (cupid) A representation of Cupid as a naked cherubic boy usually having wings and holding a bow and arrow, used as a symbol of romantic love.
Notes: Cupid's bow for shooting arrows curves inward in the middle and usually outward at the ends. Cupid's arrows, however, are the delicious pangs of love, and St. Valentine's Day is the day to look out for the little cherub. To learn more about St. Valentine, click here.
In Play: Cupid is first and foremost an abstraction symbolizing romantic, not platonic, love: Gotcha! "Marjorie has been playing Cupid again, trying to fix Ben Gay up with a girlfriend." We do occasionally use this word to refer to the Roman child-god: "In love! You say you are in love! Cupid has been playing around with your psyche just as he played around with the real one in Roman mythology!" (For clarification, read on.)
Word History: Today's Good Word, like so many others, comes to us from Latin: Cupid was the Roman god of love (Eros in Greek mythology). The name is based on cupido "desire" from the verb cupere "to desire". The noun cupidity "greed, avarice" comes from the same source.
See Alpha Dictionary for more info.
Bill's comment: The word "concupiscence" also derives from "cupid" and means "lustful desire".
Irish Miss pretty well said in her first paragraph what I would say about the puzzle today. Big nose wrinkle at MAW being stomach. I would have been happier if it had been clued as "Paw partner" (carrying on the "Willing partner" and "Neither partner" and "Parted partners" theme.)
I have definitely heard of a bunk house but have never heard the term bunk room. Similarly, I am very familiar with the word "vinyard" but "vineyard" sounds alien to me. I would have been happier if VINE had been clued as "Hollywood partner."
Lee at 11:40 AM, I'm a tad miffed by your statement "I am surprised that no one realized that the clue 35 ..." Why do you assume "no one" understood it? I and others realized it immediately. Bluehen pointed it out almost 2 hours before you posted.
I'm rootin' for the Rams.
Good wishes to you all.
Anon-T, no "affinity" for either UT or A&M. I graduated from UW-Madison and dw got degrees from University of St. Thomas and UofH.
Just lurkin, the newstand Sunday paper sold out. Haven't got our home delivery going again, ergo couldn't do the 2 week old NYT CW. 🙄
Lemony...My DW's GPs all born in Poland. The way the family pronounces pączki, the jelly bun type desserts, sounds like "punch-key". The singular is pączek "punzek" also a term of endearment for a toddler. I remember my MIL using it with our kids
CED, respect your privacy and the other cornerites in the witness protection program 🕵️♂️
Is "COW Town" the gerund of Kowtow? (sorry, couldnt stop myself 😂)
Boomer, glad the chemo went well..😊
See everyone tomorrow.
FIR today, although I did not fill in the last square until we got back from an enjoyable hike in a state park just west of downtown ATL. Oh, IDEALIST and ODA. Other slow spots were the SHAVEN and VINE crossing and the two themers going down. I often can't figure out that direction as easily. Thanks, Pam, for a great puzzle! With the reveal I finally understood it was 3 rooms we were looking for, not 3 sets of doubled letters as found in the first themer.
Thanks, C.C. for the review full of information. I hadn't parsed THE EU before you explained it. And hand up for assuming SML was the abbreviation for small, not all three sizes. Thanks, Bluehen and others, for pointing that out. C.C. it's so good to see Boomer and hear how he's doing. Hope the next week is more restful for you all. Take care!
Jayce -- "Lee, I'm a tad miffed by your statement "I am surprised that no one realized that the clue 35 ..." Why do you assume "no one" understood it? I and others realized it immediately."
I would assume Lee meant that as a diplomatic way of correcting those who did get it wrong, without actually listing the ones who commented on it.
Owen and Jayce: I agree with Jayce. Too many people post without first checking what others have alreadyposted.
Super(Bowl) Sunday. Thanks for the fun, Pam and C.C. (Glad to hear that Boomer’s treatments are going well).
I solved online, and had to resort to a couple of Google lookups and a red letter check.
I saw the theme (and the SPA dupe! GEEZ,)
I had FRIEND before GAL PAL, but then needed it on Facebook.
I smiled at the SARI clue.
Hand up for thinking MAW was a mouth, but apparently it had an archaic use meaning stomach. I like Jayce’s alternate. It would go with Pops=DAD.
Fish on our DINING menu - SARDINE, RAW clams (Oysters the other day). And then C.C. adds some tasty Walleye From Cold Pristine Northern Canadian Lakes. Yum. We like Rainbow Trout here also.
I hope we are getting several celery STALKs and blue cheese dressing to go with our pizza and wings tonight, as our Super Bowl fare.
d’o- was that a murder of crows that you saw?! LOL re Beeline.
Wishing you all a good evening.
Good afternoon. Thank you, Pam and C.C.
Who scheduled their tax meeting with the CPA on Superbowl Sunday ? We did. Glad that it's done.
Solved much earlier today. The M in MAW and MASTERS gave me the win, but it took 46 + minutes of periodically inattentive time to get there. IDNK MAW for stomach, but M was the only letter that fit with -ASTERS. Then the clue "Really nails it" finally made sense.
COW town made me think of Ft Worth. And then we had the crowded subway cars for SARDINES, but that clue made me think of "cattle mode" - the imagery of a herd of people getting off the commuter trains to start the work day, or heading to them at the end of the day. Been there, done that. Moo !
C.C., a rare misread for you today at small for SML today. You and Boomer have so much on your plate. I don't know how you can have any kind of focus at all. We're all sending our love and prayers.
BlueHen, what's on the menu for today ?
I made CINCINNATI CHILI this morning. A first for me. Cincinnati is in the Super Bowl, and CHILI is in the puzzle, so why not ? Someone posted a link to a recipe for it from a site called Well Fed 2. Thank you ! ATLGranny, did you use that recipe when you made it ?
Cincinnati chili is different than any kind of chili I've ever had, but I found it to be really good. DW doesn't like it because of the allspice. I had two smothered chili dogs and some cut up celery STALKS. Now not sure how much noshing will occur during the game. More celery and carrots with the onion dip for sure, but that might be it.
Thanks, Jinx ! I found the setting. Notifications, rather than Sounds, was the key. The was well-hidden (to this novice). On the Android 11 Galaxy A51, it's Settings, then Notifications. Then you have to change the setting from Brief to Detailed. Then and only then, you get a selection at the bottom for Do Not Disturb. With that, there's a selection for Sleeping. It was turned off. I turned it on, so it will now be sleeping every day from 10 PM until 7 AM. But also, at the bottom of that screen, there is a selection for Exceptions. So I chose it. Alarms and Media sounds were listed as exceptions, so I turned them off. Calendar events, Reminders and Touch sounds were already turned off. That should do it. Thanks again.
Almost game time !
FIR after a l-o-o-ng time and with several breaks. The reveal helped the solve.
MAW, "mouth, throat, or gullet of an animal, especially a carnivorous mammal.
the crop or craw of a fowl.
the stomach, especially that of an animal.
a cavernous opening that resembles the open jaws of an animal:
the gaping maw of hell.
the symbolic or theoretical center a voracious hunger or appetite of any kind:
the ravenous maw of Death." Seems normal to me. I filled it immediately. My ancestors filled a cleaned pig stomach with sausage and potatoes and called it hog maw.
Alan and I chose a double bunk bed in a cabin. We both slept in the lower bunk instead of taking the rickety climb to the top bunk.
DO, yes in stories about ranches you hear of bunk rooms.
Laundry powder war sounds fine to me. There was a time when all the laundry powder (detergent)brands had ad wars.
My hardest section was around the I in Maginot Line. Sussing that I got VINE and SHAVEN. TaDa
Sleep well, TTP.
Got to the Super Bowl late because of the playoff at the Phoenix Open. Great come-from-behind victory for Scottie Scheffler's first win. He's almost $1.5 million richer this evening. His wife is happy.
FIW because I thought shaken would perhaps make sense for shadowless. As in getting rid of the person who is trailing you.
YAY RAMS !!!!
Becky
This was a puzzle that started very fast - my husband even noticed I was half way through in record time. I then said to him - that means I will likely get mired in the last half somewhere- and that was true. These type of themes I find admirable for the construction- often it's just 2 words and this one is 3.
Similar to what Lucina mentioned about Big Bear- many of the houses down at the many lakes in MO are built with a minimally finished room up in a second or even third floor - this is where the kids of the family sleep and there are 3-6 BUNKbeds up there- so it is always called the BUNKROOM.
I was really hoping for a Chiefs/Packers Super Bowl - but it was not to be. If I don't have a personal interest - I usually root for the underdog. But this time both sides have an element of underdog: Cincinnati hasn't been to the Super Bowl since 1989 and never won it. The Rams have Matt Stafford as QB - who loyally stuck with the hapless Detroit Lions for over 10 years and now with the trade has a chance to go to the Super Bowl
I was stuck in SW. I thought of MAW but couldn't connect it. Finally CANTEEN V8 dropped. Likewise COW (Town). Plus I don't know those music terms.
Bar? Not music, not "Signal strength" but Taproom.
Aha, that kind of strand. I tried SOS.
SARDINE opened up NE; I remembered MINNELLI the father of Lisa.
The alphabet run finally got to the V in SHAVEN. Knew RAW after those OYSTERS yesterday.
Jinx, I just argued about whether purses matter to the pros today. I don't think the money matters but my friend always mentions it. Also, if you can find a Tampa Bay Tines it has the weeks xwords. Actually thats also meant for RayO and CED.
FiR but I was tempted to cheat. I did check the ice cream aisle at Winn Dixie but I'd already grok'ed LAUNDRY
Superbowl came on before I could comment. Hopefully someone reads this.
WC
I was getting 4 with Bengals so had to root for Rams to stop them and prevent OT.
Becky I thought the same re. SHAKE a shadow but perp wouldn't work.
WC
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