Theme: "Mondegreens" - Song titles are funnily misinterpreted.
23. Song in which Pat Benatar challenges the owner of an aquarium? (1980): HIT ME WITH YOUR PET SHARK. "Hit Me with Your Best Shot".
30. Song in which The Beatles say goodbye to a girl on a big bird? (1965): CHICKEN TO RIDE. "Ticket to Ride"
43. Song in which Johnny Rivers unmasks a Far East spy? (1966): SECRET ASIAN MAN.
"Secret Agent Man".
60. Song in which Peter Gabriel bakes a simian-shaped dessert? (1982): CHOCOLATE MONKEY. "Shock The Monkey".
69. Song in which the Plastic Ono Band promotes legumes? (1969): GIVE PEAS A CHANCE. "Give Peace a Chance." Homophone.
86. Song in which Culture Club dons lizard costumes to teach punctuation? (1983): COMMA CHAMELEON. "Karma Chameleon".
99. Song in which The Clash knocks over a wedding reception? (1982): ROB THE CASH BAR. "Rock the Casbah".
107. Song in which AC/DC plays nasty tricks on livestock? (1976): DIRTY DEEDS DONE TO SHEEP. "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap".
Here is the Wikipedia article on Mondegreen. I bet D-Otto enjoyed this puzzle.
I
don't recall a theme with more theme material. Peter's grid has 126
squares dedicated to the gimmick, including two grid spanners.
Across:
6. Pickle piece: SPEAR. I was intrigued by the fried pickles at our state fair. But they wanted $9 for a pickle.
11. Eschew: SHUN.
15. On its way: SENT.
19. Scouting party?: TROOP. Oh boy/girl scout troop.
20. 2018 CVS Health acquisition: AETNA.
21. Prepare to be shot?: POSE. By a photographer.
22. x, y and z, in math: AXES.
27. Trapped by a winter storm: ICED IN.
28. It's not an option: NEED.
29. Split in two: HALVE.
35. Zipped: DARTED.
36. IRS exam: AUD. Audit.
37. Tokyo, once: EDO. Before 1868.
38. Peruvian pronoun: ESO.
39. Gibbons on TV: LEEZA. She won "The Celebrity Apprentice".
41. Answered an invite: RSVP'D.
49. Puritan pronoun: THEE.
50. Judge's seat: BANC.
52. Release money: RANSOM. Have you seen Jennifer Aniston's "Derailed". Such a disturbing movie.
53. Big pitcher: ACE.
54. Like some office jobs: CLERICAL.
58. Checkout task: SCAN.
59. Bit of sediment: DREG.
64. Volkswagen model: JETTA.
65. Veracruz neighbor: OAXACA. South of Veracruz.
66. Ending with calc and sod: IUM. Gluey. Needed for a Sunday grid.
67. "Amen": SO BE IT.
68. Drag racer's fuel, briefly: NITRO.
75. Good card for lowball: TREY.
76. Explorer Hernando de __: SOTO.
77. Former renter: EX-TENANT. Well, if this is OK, then we can have ex-employee, ex-college, ex-boss, etc.
78. Oral health org.: ADA.
79. Tool in a wheeled bucket: WET MOP.
81. Polite address: MA'AM.
82. Biblical twin: ESAU.
90. Nickname for Chicago's Ernie Banks: MR CUB. "Let's Play Two!"
91. Pretentious: ARTSY.
92. Ewe wish?: RAM. Ha.
93. Apt name for a chef?: STU.
95. "We __ the World": ARE.
96. Mid-calf pants: CAPRIS.
103. Ninja Turtles' ally April __: O'NEIL. We had her before.
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104. Pension __: PLAN.
106. Pablo's "precise": EXACTO.
114. Actress Watson: EMMA.
115. Nabisco cookie: OREO. These are sweet snacks in Guangzhou during Spring Festival. Yau gok, filled with sweetened ground peanuts and toasted sesame seeds.
116. Home on the range: RANCH.
117. Calculus pioneer: EULER. Swiss mathematician (April 15, 1707- Sept 18, 1783)
118. Negotiation ender: DEAL.
119. Ballroom basic: TURN.
120. Remove: ERASE.
121. Brontë sister: EMILY.
Down:
2. Singer Grande's debut fragrance: ARI. Quite popular among the YouTube crowd.
3. Hogwash: ROT.
4. Larry the Cable Guy, for one: COMIC.
5. Dotted (with): SPECKED.
6. Declined: SAID NO.
7. Small, at the Sorbonne: PETIT.
8. Culture: Pref.: ETHNO.
9. Even one: ANY.
10. '90s Indian prime minister: RAO. Learned from doing crosswords.
11. Jag: SPREE.
12. Crossed-fingers sentiment: HOPE. We hope Bloomer's radiation works.
13. Yard sale adjective: USED.
14. Hoops hanger: NET.
15. Very hot and dry: SAHARAN.
16. Glorify: EXALT.
17. Chutzpah: NERVE.
18. Expressed disdain for: TSKED.
24. Neaten the garden, perhaps: WEED.
25. Scandal, to a politician, perhaps: UNDOER. Or to a news media CEO.
26. Captain Marvel's magic word: SHAZAM. Also the app that can help you identify the song. Amazing.
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30. E-commerce icon: CART.
31. "Quiet!": HUSH.
32. "If only __ known ... ": I'D'VE.
33. Tape deck button: REC.
34. Leb. neighbor: ISR.
35. __ Sanders, only athlete to play in both the Super Bowl and World Series: DEION. Gimme for our regulars.
39. Jousting weapon: LANCE.
40. Homework assignment: ESSAY.
42. South American pig relative: PECCARY. Learning moment for me. Look at their stiff hair.
43. Vexed state: SNIT.
44. "__ homo": ECCE.
45. Job: TASK.
46. Mink cousin: MARTEN.
47. Acid type found in vinegar: ACETIC. What vinegar do you normally use? I like Mizkan rice vinegar. Very mild.
48. Cancel out: NEGATE.
50. Composer Bartók: BELA.
51. Altar in the sky: ARA.
55. In __ parentis: LOCO.
56. French friend: AMIE.
57. Jeweler's tool: LOUPE. Boomer has a big magnifier for his baseball cards.
59. Con, half the time: DEBATER.
60. Cold relief brand: CONTAC.
61. High style, maybe: HAIRDO.
62. It can take a yoke: OX TEAM.
63. Truth or Consequences st.: N MEX.
64. Father of Julian Lennon: JOHN. And 73. Half-brother of Julian Lennon: SEAN. From left to right: Sean Lennon, Yoko Ono, Cynthia Lennon & Julian Lennon.
67. Con job: SCAM.
69. Some black-clad teens: GOTHS.
70. "Possibly": IT MAY.
71. "Va-va-__!": VOOM.
72. Prefix with sphere: ATMO.
74. Santa __ winds: ANA.
76. Splinter groups: SECTS.
79. With suspicion: WARILY.
80. Argentine icons: PERONS. Eva and Juan.
83. Worker during a walkout: SCAB.
84. Ambiance: AURA.
85. Ride provider: UBER.
87. Kind of vows: MARITAL.
88. Chocolate __: LAB.
89. First responder: Abbr.: EMT.
90. Rave review word: MUST SEE.
93. Rake over the coals: SCATHE. I only know "scathing".
94. Sinaloa street snack: TACO. We need more taco mixes. Otherwise, I don't know how to make tacos for Boomer.
96. Like apps: CODED.
97. Cartoon genre: ANIME.
98. Prefix with frost: PERMA.
99. Odorless basement hazard: RADON.
100. Temporary tattoo dye: HENNA.
101. C-suite VIPs: EXECS. CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, etc.
102. "Meh": HO HUM.
104. Major quinoa producer: PERU. Tasty quinoa salad.
105. Creepy look: LEER.
108. Web address component: DOT.
109. Hip-hop Dr.: DRE.
110. Propeller with just one blade: OAR.
111. Philanthropist Broad: ELI. Just passed away last year.
112. Fish that may be jellied: EEL.
113. Meddle: PRY.
We enjoyed our VA-free week. Boomer visited his bowling buddies last Monday and we had our 42-year-old furnace replaced last Thursday. Now the basement is warm for Boomer to lounge around.
We're
going to VA Spinal Cord Injury center tomorrow morning for a PT
session, then a blood draw, then a meeting at the oncology about the new
chemo. Boomer was told to stop taking the oral chemo when he was
hospitalized. We'll have an OT session on Tuesday. Wish the VA could
arrange the PT and OT in the same day, as it's a long drive for us, but
they can't. We'll go to VA hospital every Monday and Tuesday for the
next few weeks. So happy that it's not below zero any more.
C.C.
35 comments:
DNF. When I gave in, the NE corner was almost all red or white. Once I got the deadwood out of the way, it solved with only a bit more effort.
The theme was okay, not the best, but far from the worst. Though one needed to know their songs to get it. I didn't get CHOCOLATE MONKEY or ROB THE CASH BAR or DIRTY DEEDS DONE TO SHEEP, but either knew or knew of the rest.
EMILY was finicky about her sustenance
She dined on frog legs and snails from France!
Veggies on her plate
Put a SNIT on her face.
Her mother pleaded, "GIVE PEAS A CHANCE!"
Once a little lizard was favored by karma.
He learned to speak, and became a charmer.
His religion was Hindu,
Majored in English, too.
At Oxford he taught "COMMA, COMMA, COMMA is this CHAMELEON'S Dharma!"
{B+, B+.}
Re: Wordle
I invite you all come to JumbleHints to show off your prowess! It should result in some synergy. And as with the Jumble, the subtitle is "No Spoilers".
Good morning!
Very punny theme. I could really relate to Secret Asian Man -- for years I thought that was the lyric. DEION? Vowel-friendly, but unfamiliar to d-o. LEEZA Gibbons -- also unfamiliar, but I do remember Euell Gibbons. This was an enjoyable outing. Thanx, Peter and C.C. (I had trouble parsing your, "Oh boy/girl scout troop.")
CONTAC: It was a big deal back in my drug store clerking days. (Could that be 60+ years ago?) I don't recall seeing it in years -- thought it was banned.
PECCARY: At the San Diego Zoo we saw a PECCARY named Gregory.
FIW, missing SeeTHE. Dagnabbit! I knew eASH BAR and EXeCTO were wrong, and they should have been easy fixes. Erased pend for SENT, duce (untie!) for TREY, pension fund for PLAN, step for TURN, parched for SAHARAN, extol for EXALT, and chocolate bar for LAB.
I like malt vinegar on carbs, and balsamic on salads. Apple cider vinegar goes into my barbecue baste. White wine vinegar for cleaning and dissolving crud.
I you are ever in the Ocala area, Big Daddy Don Garlits' Museum of Drag Racing is worth a half day visit. His collection of historic nonracing cars are worth the trip alone.
GIVE PEAS A CHANCE has been a bumper sticker for as long as I can remember, so no creativity points for that one. I remember folks joking about rocking the cats' paws, but the rest are quite clever and original.
If you tell a Jag driver "nice Ford", he'll love it. Or not.
CC beat me to scandal taking down a network or its EXEC.
FLN - Good news about Maggie, OMK. Give her some ear runs for me when she gets home.
Thanks to Peter for the fun. I knew all the songs and most of the names, for a change. And thanks to CC for the tour. My prayers for Boomer continue.
Good Morning:
While I appreciate the constructor’s cleverness, this was not a pleasant solve for me as I knew only two performers, Pat Benatar and The Beatles and was familiar with only one song, Secret Agent Man, although I couldn’t tell you who sang it if my life depended on it. Not knowing the titles turned the solve into a slog instead of a pleasant exercise. The number of abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes didn’t help, either, nor did the fingernails-on-a-blackboard Undoer.
Thanks, Peter, and thanks, CC, for your candid and concise commentary. I saw that Jennifer Aniston movie and, yes, it was very disturbing.
It’s bitter cold here right now, but the week ahead looks on the milder side with temps in the 30s and one day in the 40s. Sooner or later, though, we’re sure to get some significant snowfalls.
Have a great day.
Learning moment: Mondegreens?
(There's a word for that?)
What is your Mondegreen?
My favorite has to be The Stones "Beast of Burden."
I hated the words, until I misheard "I'll never leave your pizza burning"
(It's a love song!)
Anywho,
as Bill G says,
Watch how you go...
As CED stated, I neither knew what a Mondegreens was but I figured out the theme after the top spanner of HIT ME WITH YOUR PET SHARK. The only song I was unfamiliar with was Shock the Monkey, but as always the perps helped with that and the other themers. A not too stressful Sunday morning brain exercise for a half hour, thank you Peter for your work on this one!
The only real unknown was PECCARY, although like d-o, I saw some at the San Diego zoo last summer. I know of Euler only from CW’s, and I don’t know anything about calculus, higher math was never my thing, but I’m very good in lower arithmetic! Noticed a lot of X’s in this grid.
C.C. ~~ thank you for your enlightening Sunday narrative, glad to hear Boomer is up and about visiting some friends. Give him my best and I’m keeping him in my prayers. Good day to all!
CC
I second the prayers for Boomer.
Unlike many of the others, these songs were from my era, but Chocolate Monkey took a while sluice out.
JAG/SPREE I didn't understand and guessed with the crosses.
Had to look up ECCE Homo and Judges seat, then, Peccary, which was a new one, was solved via the Chocolate Monkey cross.
Bottom line, fun puzzle for me.
Musings
-Mondegreen was fun to learn in this brilliant puzzle
-Two memories of my mother – Her doing the Sunday crossword and singing the wrong lyric over and over
-SENT – Emails give you a few seconds to reconsider but iMessages do not
-In match play golf, if the two players both get the same score, they are said to have HALVED the hole and no one gets a point
-The next step is to put the scanner on the CART and skip the checkout counter.
-ARTSY – “It’s art because I say it is”
-Jefferson, “So we get 820,000 sq. miles of land and you get $15M? Deal?” Napoleon, “DEAL!”
-Declined: SLID TO hid SAID NO for a while
-You can plant plants and weed weeds
-My congressman is hip-deep in a scandal
-In LOCO parentis is a contentious topic these days between schools and parents
Thanks for the recap and the update, C.C.
An amusing puzzle with an odd twist for this solver. I inadvertently learned about the Irrawaddy (River) from the Secret Agent Man song. I had misheard the Bombay Alley part of the lyrics. That was a mondegreen, I suppose, but I had no idea what such things were called until this morning. Thanks, Peter.
Thanks, all. This is Peter, the puzzle constructor.
I knew these song titles might be more familiar to some than others, and I knew the term "Mondegreen" would be unknown to most, so I figured the deck was stacked against this one. However, I have never had more fun putting a puzzle together as I gathered the candidate theme entries off the web and wrote them down. It's an absolute blast to bring up these songs on YouTube and listen with the Mondegreens in mind, I promise. I wish I could have used "PIZZA BURNING," CrosssEyedDave, but never found a good 12-letter twin to match it with.
Anyway, I hope somebody shares my glee discovering some of these, or thinking about their own favorite Mondegreen. And I appreciate the kind words for this puzzle in which I needed a little more "gluey" entries than I usually like. Hope it was worth it!
CC Thanks for the update on Boomer. Good that he was able to meet up with his bowling buddies!
I loved this MONDEGREENS theme! I am terrible at understanding the lyrics to songs and am very grateful to Google for finding the correct ones. How many of us were sure the words to a certain Creedence song were "There's a Bathroom on the Right"?
There was a web site with that title just for people to post their MONDEGREENS.
Here is that MONDEGREENS page from the site which is now called AMIRIGHT
I am also in awe of how many of these songs he packed in. I knew all of the songs, but I never actually knew the correct title or words for DIRTY DEEDS DONE TO SHEEP! Learning moment! LEEZA/DEION a Natick cross for me. Last to WAG to FIR.
Here I got to meet SEAN LENNON along with his mother who often appears in our puzzles.
SEAN was very down to earth and happy to talk to us!
Good morning.
"You made the rice. I made the gravy, but it just may be the tuna fish you're looking for." *
Fun puzzle, and easy solve since I've heard of the mondegreens for each of those songs. Another version of the Clash hit was "Lockin' the taskbar" or "Lock the taskbar" depending on which verse in the song.
We've had some before and discussed mondegreens in previous puzzle comments.
I remember hearing my wife yell "Nagila !" while dancing. The song only had one word: Tequilla !
Anon, I only learned jag as spree later in life. Growing up near Pittsburgh, jaggers was a thorn bush. One of the local bands was The Jaggerz. They had a national hit song with "The Rapper" in 1970.
The bush would jag you if you got too close. Jag is also a derogatory term. Calling someone a jag or a jagoff is an insult, akin to calling someone a dumbass or stupid.
Thank you, Peter and C.C. Fun way to start the day.
The big, soft and chewy pretzels we made yesterday are still so good today, reheated in the air fryer.
* Bill Joel.
From Yesterday:
Bill Seeley and Lemonade Thanks for the learning moment about Werner and OTTO KLEMPERER.
I knew that "Frenchie" in Hogan's Heroes was an actual concentration camp survivor. He is still alive now. I did not realize that the bad guys Klink and Schultz were also Jewish in real life! Werner KLEMPERER was willing to play the bad guy only on condition that he always lost in the story!
Musings 2
-Thanks for stopping by Peter! Your puzzle was fabulous and very welcome out here on the Great Plains.
-C.C. calls such fill “gluey” and I call them “any port in a storm”. Even master carpenters use shims.
-I wonder if there are any names for singing gibberish when you don’t know a lyric? I never did figure out the second line below in Gene Pitney’s Mecca but bellowed out something unintelligible
Each morning I face her window and pray that our love can be
'Cause that brownstone house where my baby lives
Is Mecca (Mecca, Mecca, Mecca) Mecca (Mecca, Mecca) to me-e-e-e-e-e.
-I never got the line until the internet allowed me to search for it.
Thank you Peter for a funny Sunday FIR. Of the 8 theme songs, I'd heard only three: "Ticket to Ride", "Secret Agent Man", and "Give Peace a Chance", but the perps were generous and the rest sorta made sense.
Thank you C.C. for a grea explanation, and especially for teaching us a new word. Here's my favorite "Mondegreen" from the carol "Silent Night". Another from Manfred Man's Earth Band, which I'd always heard as "Creapt up like a douchin, in the roaner in the night", whatever that meant. Learned it just now.
A few fav fills:
32D I'D'VE. Tricky!
42D PECCARY. AKA JAVELINA.
44D ECCE. Said PONTIUS PILATE.
47D ACETIC. TJ's White Moderna vinegar.
50D BELA. Here are 6 short Rumanian Folk Dances played by Béla Bartók himself. Teri introduced him to me when we were dating in High School.
88D LAB. We had male black (NEPTUNE) and yellow (JUPITER) LABS, and I wanted a CHOCOLATE female named SATURN, nicknamed SADDIE, but Teri wouldn't hear of it.
Cheers,
Bill
Word of the Day: hoodwink
Pronunciation: hUd-wingk
Part of Speech: Verb, transitive
Meaning: 1. To fool, deceive; to pull the wool over someone's eyes, hornswoggle, boondoggle. 2. (Archaic) To blindfold.
Notes: There is little to say about this word; other than the opaqueness of its meaning (see Word History), it is a perfectly normal compound verb. A person who hoodwinks is a hoodwink himself or a hoodwinker who engages in hoodwinkery.
In Play: Hoodwink generally implies mischief more than crime, but its meaning often hovers over the line between the two: "Gertrude hoodwinked me into cleaning her house last weekend by telling me that she was scheduled for surgery today. I just saw her at the mall." Anywhere you can use pull the wool over someone's eyes, you can use today's word to shorten your sentence: "Lenny knows a dozen ways to hoodwink a bartender into giving him a free drink."
See Alpha Dictionary for more info.
Lurking but just hadda put in my tuppence
Mis-heard lyrics, a fun topic. 🎶🎶
I think this was common among us boomers who listened to songs on the car radio because there were only AM stations available and usually only one speaker in the vehicle...or palm-sized transistor radios
Two of my favorites
Herman's Hermits 1965
She's a Muscular Boy ..."She's a Must to Avoid"
CCR 1969
there's a bathroom on the right ..."there's a bad moon on the rise"
Was looking at the answers in the commen tary...I'D'VE? (what about I'VE'D , I have had?) Would an EX-TENANT be equivalent to a British LEFT-TENANT? Pot growers nightmare..WEEDs among the WEED
Is that a rare two-headed peccary, and did Indian PM RAO really learn by doing Crosswords? Isn't calling a philanthropist a "broad" kinda insulting.
Mink cousin: MARTEN, (but what's his cousin's last name?)
I see that I've outstayed my Sunday lurk time..(yes, I hear you groaning)....off to the beach
CC Good luck to Boomer 👍
HG, as you probably know, holes are no longer halved, they are tied (at least in the rules book). Also there are no longer "hazards", but "penalty Areas". Since there are no more hazards in golf, I expected my scores to improve, but nooooo.
I think the granddaddy of all Mondegreens was "Louie, Louie" by The Kingsmen. It was banned in Indiana and investigated by the FBI. Ironically, even the "dirty" lyrics seem quaintly tame compared to today's popular rap "songs".
Puzzling thoughts:
FIR with a few w/o’s. I had no idea what a mondegreen is, so of course I didn’t thoroughly read the clue for 23-across and entered HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT. But as the perps began to emerge, I saw something fishy. So, I looked up the word “mondegreen” in the dictionary and saw what I needed to do
I had SEASONAL/CLERICAL and OGLE/LEER; otherwise a clean grid
Know exactly what y’all are saying about mucking up song lyrics. Not sure where to begin. My most egregious one was Jackson Browne’s “Doctor my Eyes”. I seem to remember singing “gotcha in my eyes” during the refrain. Another was “American Pie”. I think I saw them dancing “chin to chin” instead of “in the gym” …
OK, got it today: FIR! After a bit I remembered we had mondegreens before which helped since I wasn't familiar with all the songs. Perps saved the day. The NE corner and the block below it were my hardest to get. AXES was my last fill and I was reminded that I don't know how to spell EXALT. For some reason I think it needs a U somewhere. In the lower section JETTA and CHANCE seemed right but the other words were slow to come. I put "Siamese" instead of ASIAN MAN which complicated things for a while. Slowly it came together.
Thanks Peter for a worthy Sunday puzzle and for coming by. Thanks also to C.C. for reviewing it and adding to our experience. It's especially good to get updates on Boomer. Thanks.
I'm late checking in since I fixed Cincinnati chili for lunch today. A tasty and warming meal for a cold day. Learning new things is definitely a benefit of doing puzzles and reading the blog! Have a pleasant afternoon, everyone!
Wishing y'all the best during your VA treatments. Stay positive.
Picard @11:25 AM Way cool that you met Yoko and Sean. You look so young there. When and where was that taken?
Picard @11:33 AM IMHO Klemperer was certainly in the top 10 conductors of the 20th Century. I never saw Hogan's Heroes. Had I known the connection I would have made an effort to watch it.
Ray - O @12:23 PM Yeah, and from the back seat, in paradise by the dashboard light, with my mind on other things.
Jynx @1:13 PM Just read to the lyrics to "Louie, Louie". Shocking! Absolutely shocking!
Hola!
I was unfamiliar with MONDEGREENS and had to look up the meaning. New learning for me! It's easy to misinterpret song lyrics when you hear them and especially if they are not articulated well. And I don't often listen to popular music so it's doubly difficult for me but I persevered and FIR. The only phrase I recognized is GIVE PEACE (peas) A CHANCE. Oh, and I have heard SECRET AGENT (Asican) MAN.
Thank you, C.C. for expanding my knowledge of this.
Something I never have to worry about is being ICED IN. However, I worry about my sister who lives in Charlotte. There is a real chance she might be in that situation.
My daughter originally worked for AETNA and was upset when CVS took over. CVS is not a good overseer.
CSO to my granddaughter EMMA. Also a CSO to my nephew SEAN Paul.
My family loves RANCH salad dressing so I need to make some more before they arrive.
The movie about Eva PERON was fascinating. She was the ultimate social climber!
A former basketball announcer often said SHAZAM when reporting. That's how you knew the home team had scored.
Besides EXALT there is a word, EXULT but with a different meaning, of course.
EXALT: to praise highly; extol
EXULT: to show or feel a triumphant joy
Have a joyous Sunday, everyone!
Super Sunday. Thanks for the fun, Peter and C.C.
I FIRed eventually, but not being familiar with a couple of the songs held me up.
GIVE PEAS A CHANCE was my favourite. We had a mini-Lennon theme today.
Of course, I thought the shot we were preparing for was a vaccine. But Bare Arm wouldn’t fit. Ok,POSE for a photo. LOL.
PECCARY perped, thankfully, but I think I have heard it before.
Why would Rich allow “Peruvian pronoun=ESO” and “Quinoa producer=PERU” dupe, when it would have been simple to use any other Spanish-speaking country in the ESO clue. YEESH! I TSKED.
Read you all later.
Thanks for the Boomer update C.C.
Wishing you all a great day.
Serendipitously there is an article about Cincinnati Chili today in the Washington Post. It also includes a recipe.
I loved this puzzle and I learned what these mis-hearings are officially called.
I had to change ARGON to RADON, COM to DOT, and STEP to TURN, which finally untangled that area. Took a long time for me to parse TSKED. Last to correct was DEBATES to DEBATER, which mad MRCUB make sense. Also had to change LONGS to AETNA and SUE (as in sous chef) to STU.
There is a British actress named Jessica RANSOM who played Doc Martin's receptionist.
$9 for a pickle???!!!
Good wishes to you all.
Delightful Sunday toughie for me, even if the only song I remembered was "GIVE PEAS A CHANCE." So, thank you Peter, and thanks for checking in with with us. And C.C. your Sunday commentaries are always a treat. You and Boomer have a busy and a tough week coming up, and you'll be in my prayer every day.
I started off by getting EDO and WEED in the northwest.
But lots of fun items followed, like JOHN Lennon, and VA-VA-VOOM, and Santa ANA winds. (Helps to live in California sometimes, with crossword geography).
But my favorite silly clue and answer were having "Propeller with just one blade" turn out to be an OAR.
And how nice to end the puzzle with EMILY Bronte.
Have a great week coming up, everybody.
Peter Koetters Thank you for stopping by! It seems you were posting at the same time I was. What a brilliant and delightful construction you gave us!
Bill Seeley Thank you for the kind words! Actually, I am not in the photo. Not sure who that is who photo bombed it. I was quite shy back than about asking to be in such a photo.
According to my notes, this was September 10, 1994. It was at the newly opened Contemporary Arts Forum here in Santa Barbara. A tiny place upstairs in a small mall that had recently opened. They must have put out a lot of money to get SEAN and his mother to come. But it may have paid off. It got me to join and probably many others, too.
SEAN also was there with his beautiful girlfriend at the time who was starting an interesting project about expanding consciousness. She gave me contact information, but I was never able to reach her.
Yes, I probably would have watched more of Hogan's Heroes as well if I knew the back story. I know that my father was hostile to the show. He didn't like that the Nazis were portrayed as amiable bumbling idiots. My brother found out that Frenchie in real life was a Holocaust survivor and that may have helped a bit. But I had no idea that the Nazis in the program were also Jewish refugees of the Nazis!
I am not clear if much of the story was based on reality. But it seems bits of it are. Here is one article:
https://outsider.com/news/entertainment/hogans-heroes-based-real-pow-camp-german-town-hammelburg/
SECRET ASIAN MAN made me laugh. I have an ASIAN friend Chuck from swing dancing and he also was a Sierra Club hike leader. One time we were dancing and that song came on. We teased him that he was the SECRET ASIAN MAN and he laughed.
Musings 3
-Jinx, I am a devotee of the Golf Channel and hear some variation of this phrase, "He needs this putt to halve the hole." quite often. Hazards are now called penalty areas somewhere? A hazard by any other name is just as horrible.
-BTW, 55F and sunny tomorrow? What to do? What to do?
-I remember this PEAS poster
-Worst song for Modegreens - This song of which I can only pick out a few words
-Good to see you back Jayce.
Addendum
Unintentional Mondegreens: When I watch Poirot on YouTube, the closed captioning is "English - Auto Generated" and they aren't even close sometimes. Murder always comes out as Mother and they can't come close to Poirot.
Got back in town late Sunday and found the easiest Sunday puzzle waiting for me with only a few unknowns that were easy fills ARI, RAO, ONEIL and CHOCOLATE MONKEY. Never heard of SHOCK THE MONKEY but the perps were solid.
CONTAC- I see some company bought the name for an old drug that was taken off the market by the FDA many years ago. Phenylpropanolamine (PPA) 'was' the ingredient. From C.C.'s photo I see the 'new' Contac has phenylephrine- the same as the 'new' Sudafed (formerly pseudoephedrine). Using the same names for a completely different ingredient.
This was a steady solve - with lots of amusing theme answers- I hadn't heard of two of the original songs but they were slowly perped.
One of the most common songs that people have mondegreens is Elton John's "Rocket Man" - I was singing that for quite a few years along with the radio before I knew the line was "burning out his fuse up here alone"
https://mondegreen.us/?q=article/rocket-man-mondegreens-used-volkswagen-commercial
A few switches 13D AS IS changed to USED and 119A - STEP became TURN; had to wait to see if 33D was going to be REW or REC
Thanks CC and Peter!
Hope all the treks over to the VA go well CC and Boomer - maybe you can find a fun audio book to listen to as you go back and forth
We finally had temps above freezing today - melted some areas - but the thick layer of ice underneath everything has been slow to budge!
FIW on OAXiCA/PECCiRY and a typo somewhere(DRiG)
Started smooth and quick. I was surprised I knew any of the performers or songs. Pieced it all together.
Calculus? Side door exit was labeled Economics. At least I got out after fresh year there was a second wave of guys that had the easy profs. Guys? Not coed until 70s
DEAL? How about 7 mil for Alaska. 15 mil was found money for Nap. SMsince he was busy.
Jinx another one that's passed is Dormie. Who does that stuff?
I think "chin to chin" is the better lyric. I wonder if McLean was familiar with the term.
Thx Aces, I have two VA appts this week
In HH the Nazis were portrayed as just that; the non Nazi Germans were portrayed as human
WC
Dinner with my family was nice, of course! My two step-grandchildren grow more every time I seen them! Emma, who is 17 is almost 6 ft. and Aiden, who is 14, is 6'2"! Of course, their father, my son-in-law, is himself, 6 ft. He has a brother who is well over 6 ft. So it's all in the genes.
You can make your own taco mix. Google Alton Brown Taco Potion number 19.
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