Theme: BANDLEADER (61. Musical conductor ... and what
the end of 18-, 23-, 40- or 51-Across can be?) - Band can follow the
last word of each theme answer.
18. Do a guard's job: STAND WATCH. Watch band.
23. Prevail in the race (just barely): WIN BY A HAIR. Hairband
40. "Brace yourself": HOLD ON TO YOUR HAT. Hat band.
51. Peel out: BURN RUBBER. Rubber band.
Boomer here again. Hahtoolah needs some extra time. She'll be back soon.
I saw a peanut stand, I've heard a rubber BAND and seen a needle wink it's eye. But I be done seen about everything, when I see an elephant fly.
Across:
5. One of a yardstick's 36: INCH. I do not see many yardsticks anymore. Companies used to give them away at the State Fair.
9. "High waving heather __ stormy blasts bending": E. Brontë: NEATH.
14. Actor Baldwin: ALEC. I think he shot a camera lady on a movie set a year or two ago.
15. Home of the NFL's Saints, informally: NOLA. New Orleans.
16. Bert's Muppet buddy: ERNIE.
17. Old Italian money: LIRA. I guess most money is old. Mine is.
20. Addis __: ABABA.
22. Zagreb natives: CROATS.
25. Pitching stats: ERAS. Earned Run Average. Twins pitchers built theirs up during spring training.
29. "Furthermore ... ": AND.
30. Musical effect involving two quickly played repeated notes: TRILL.
31. Lasting emotional injury: SCAR.
34. Llama relative: ALPACA.
39. Jack Ryan org.: CIA.
43. QB's concern: INT. Then throw it on target meathead.
44. Food on the farm: FODDER.
45. Gas sign in green letters: HESS. A big number, then a dot and two more big numbers. Why is the final number usually a nine?
46. Laugh at a joke, say: REACT.
48. Big Aussie bird: EMU. I really cannot stand the commercials.
50. Banks of "America's Next Top Model": TYRA.
58. Seaman's "Help!": MAYDAY.
60. Surname of vintners Ernest and Julio: GALLO. I never developed a taste for wine.
65. Hoarse voice: RASP. Chemo has turned me into a soprano.
66. Disney's Little Mermaid: ARIEL.
67. Miller __: beer: LITE. Have no taste for beer either. Even when I served in Germany.
68. Soft French cheese: BRIE.
69. First AFL-CIO leader George __: MEANY. And he was a Meanie.
70. Unable to find the way: LOST.
71. Tourney ranking: SEED. I am wondering if we should buy small
flower seedlings for our garden, (if it ever warms up here) or maybe we
should just plant seeds?
Down:
2. Suspect's out: ALIBI. I didn't do it .
3. Showed over: RERAN. I have been watching a ton of "Law and Order" reruns.
4. Sword sheath: SCABBARD.
5. __ and outs: workings: INS.
6. Mountain gap: NOTCH.
7. Santa __, Calif.: CLARA. Near San Jose, just south of San Francisco.
8. Vietnam's capital: HANOI.
9. Small salamander: NEWT. Mr. Gingrich.
10. Solution for a pencil error: ERASER.
11. Tiny six-legged crawler: ANT. We have them. I never counted their legs.
12. It can precede or follow tac: TIC. OK, tactic.
13. Clever chuckle: HEH.
19. __ es Salaam: DAR.
21. Author Rand: AYN. Russian-born writer.
24. Hersey's "A Bell for __": ADANO.
26. Rolling in francs: RICHE. A franc is worth a little more than a dollar.
27. "a.k.a." name: ALIAS. Smith and Jones.
28. Blind strips: SLATS. We have then on our front window. Keeps the sun out, if we ever get some.
30. Cross-shaped letter: TAU.
31. Metaphor in a big gambling loss: SHIRT. Usual sponsor advertisement in bowling.
32. __ Island, home of the original Nathan's: CONEY. "Good bye my Coney Island Baby".
33. "I do" site: ALTAR. They used to be marble. Now it seems like a big table.
35. Part of LLC: Abbr.: LTD. Limited
36. Group of whales: POD. Generally they hang out at high stakes tables in Vegas.
37. Vote of approval: AYE.
38. Apple pie maker's device: CORER. Some apple pie makers just open a can.
41. Poet's "many times": OFT.
42. Tart-tasting preserve veggies: RHUBARBS. When I was young, a
neighbor grew that stuff in a garden. It tastes terrible, but with a
lot of sugar, I have heard of rhubarb pie.
47. Oriole Park at __ Yards: CAMDEN. Cal Ripken was the best.
49. Coffee cup: MUG. I have coffee in a tall insulated cup.
51. "So long": BYE. "See ya!"
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53. Car music source: RADIO. 55. Play loudly, as a 53-Down: BLARE. Some people think its cool to BLARE the entire neighborhood.
54. Nos in Novgorod: NYETS.
56. Commercial cow: ELSIE. A Borden Cow. We have an Elsie's bowling center on the north side of Minneapolis.
57. Lured (in): ROPED.
59. Friend: ALLY.
61. "Pow!" relative: BAM. Flintstone pet, BAM BAM
62. "What __ the odds?": ARE. Six to five on the 6 and 8 in craps.
63. Vardalos or Long: NIA.
64. IRA part: Abbr.: RET. Individual Retirement Account.
Boomer
Notes from C.C.:
36 comments:
FIRight. It's only Tuesday.
Before I got to the reveal, before the last themer even, I saw a pattern to the end words: WATCH, HAIR, HAT. Things a man might check before a night on the town.
RUBBER?!
Needed the reveal for this theme!
He used an ALIAS as a spy,
He had an airtight ALIBI.
He loved to play
The C.I.A. --
But he answered NYET instead of AYE!
A CROAT girl, from ZAGREB,
Planned at an ALTAR to wed.
But LARS, her beau
Refused to go --
He'd not be altered, he said!
{B+, B.}
Good morning!
This was another fast excursion. D-o outdid himself, actually reading the reveal clue and finding the hidden bands. Yay, me. Thanx, Jerry Edelstein and Boomer. (The Rubble kid was a pet?)
SLATS: We've got blinds on practically every window in the house. Even in the attic.
RHUBARB: The pie tastes a lot like raspberry pie. Only the stalk of the leaf is used. I've read that the leafy part is poisonous.
Happy Birthday, IM. I always enjoy your insightful posts, pointing out all the things I missed in my race to the bottom.
HBDTY, IM. May you enjoy many more.
FIR, but erased ptsd for SCAR, and edam for BRIE. DNK ABABA (sounds like a rhyming scheme) nor DAR.
Yes boomer, and the odds for 5 and 9 are 3:2; 4 and 10 are 2:1. Even though a craps table layout looks complicated, the best bet is to play the pass line and take maximum odds bets. "Odds bets" have no house advantage. The only time I play anything else is a bet for the dealers: "Gimmie a dollar yo for the boys" will be a nice tip, or get me a "thank you for the bet" from them. (A "yo" refers to e-o-e-leven, stickman-speak for 11.)
My family took a cross country car trip before I was born, circa 1950. No interstates in those days, so it was a long trip. Family lore has it that they ate at Knotts Berry Farm in SoCal, and shared a slice of strawberry RHUBARB pie for dessert. Everyone loved it, and my mom asked for and was given the recipe. Our little restaurant became known for that, along with her fried chicken.
Our HESS stations are Speedways now.
I think that GALLO's Barefoot label has decent wines for the money. At least they did back in my imbibing days. And I liked Bud Light better than Miller LITE in those days, but my favorite was beer that someone else bought.
FLN: Michael, I can't read or print those Symphony docs, but you gave me an idea. Maybe I can open them with Notepad, and edit out the formatting crap.
Thanks to Jerry for the fun, Tuesday-easy puzzle. And thanks to Boomer for another day of mirth.
Even faster than yesterday. Many cells were filled without even reading the perp clues. No unfamiliar clues or fill.
Band also can go before STAND. As teens we loved American Bandstand.
I enjoy Barefoot merlot and cab, but only once a month these days to keep my BP and glucose readings low. Brie is so yummy with fig jam and a glass of wine.
Not many free yardsticks, but plenty on sale at home improvement stores. I use mine a lot.
I love rhubarb/strawberry pie. My mom used to make it. I never have. Canned apples for apple pie? Heaven forbid!! Apple pie is my specialty.
Happy birthday, Agnes. I love your posts and your caring ways.
Hi All!
FIW on a Tuesday :-(
hEATH & HEe
Thanks for the grid Jerry. I got the theme but my pen ink'd faster than my brain think'd.
Boomer! Thanks for the double-header double-duty. BAM BAM was the kid, Dino was the pet (and then Esso, er, HESS's mascot).
WOs: AnN, Esso->HESS
ESPs: NIA|MEANY, ADANO, UDALL
Fav: CAMDAN Yard just 'cuz Baseball! #ERAs
Keillor has been canceled but you can't not RHUBARB pie.
Happy Birthday IM! You're such a sweet person IRL. And your daily 'finds' in the puzzle adds joy.
FLN - Thanks Lucina for the info re: Ben Franklin program. As soon as Comcast fixes our service (AT&T is digging up the back yard; I think they cut our service), I'll queue it up.
FLN - Good catch re: Airplane LeoIII!
Jinx - I still don't 'get' craps. I've tried to play but found it was more fun (profitable!) watching everyone else and, 'cuz the house thinks I'm rolling, getting free drinks. #Winning
YR - I cut this from the paper w/ American BAND Stand's host passed. R.I.P. Dick Clark.
I need to get back to working so play later.
Cheers, -T
Took 4:57 before I SAW the finish line.
(Sorry, but bandsaw is the best I can come up with today.)
Starting a puzzle with a clue for a Danish director? Then, an "inch" farther there's a fill in the blank poem clue -- in a Tuesday puzzle? Sure.
I didn't know the Dane, the missing word, or the Meany, thankfully though, the crosses were fair.
FIR. Fun Tuesday puzzle. Nice theme.
This was another fun run - at first I thought the theme had to do with the front end of the long answers : STAND, HOLD, WIN - something to do with poker or blackjack, but no, it was related to the back end of the long answers with watch.
Learning moment today - I always thought that the plural of RHUBARB was RHUBARB not RHUBARBS but always open to learn. My husband loves RHUBARB with or without the strawberries in the pie or in a sauce which he'll drizzle over vanilla ice cream.
Thanks Boomer for batting twice this week and to Jerry for the puzzle!
Happy birthday Agnes(Irish Miss) - I enjoy your blog entries' assessment of the puzzle and keeping tabs on all of us Cornerites!
Did OK today with another FIR and only two WOs. ALIBI corrected my misspelling of ABABA and LITE pointed out my error at UDALL. At least that name I had been pronouncing right. Got the themers with no problem and enjoyed the fill, especially RHUBARB. I have enjoyed eating it too, inanehiker, YR, and Jinx. Thanks, Jerry, for the fun start to the day.
Thanks go to Boomer for stepping up to do today's review again so ably during Hahtoolah's absence. Early smiles on a rainy morning are especially appreciated.
A special Happy Birthday to Irish Miss today! I've enjoyed reading your posts, getting to know you as well as learning from you. And you are a constructor as well!
I noticed your cheery post today, OwenKL. Thanks! Hope everyone has a great day today!
Re. FLW(From last week). My "Dear hearts" ditty was prescient 25 years ago with NC and Kansas in the final. It turned out not to be a Manek Monday after all.
Even with a Swedish director and an Emily Bronte clue I solved as fast as ink can fly. Never saw a lot of the fill until Boomer's most excellent write-up
WC
Ps, hbd to Agnes our lovable Irish Miss
Pps, Owen I got ya at at least A- for the pair today
Terrific Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, Jerry and Boomer (and for pinch-hitting again!).
I FIRed in good time, and saw the theme (but only at the reveal). Like Anon@7:47, I thought this might be a stumper when I didn’t know 1A, but it actually was straight-forward. LOL OKL re your first theme thought!
One inkblot to correct my spelling of Nyat to NYET.
We had a trip to Africa today with DAR Es Salaam in Tanzania and Addis ABABA in Ethiopia.
More duos with poetic OFT/NEATH, ALIBI/ALIAS, EMU/ALPACA, LIRA/TYRA, INT/ANT.
Like inanehiker, I winced at the plural RHUBARBS. I like to use a combo of strawberries and rhubarb in my pie; it lessens the tartness of the rhubarb and less sugar is needed.
Like Boomer, I had a lightbulb moment with TacTIC.
Happy Birthday Irish Miss. I love your observations on the CW; you always see more than I do.
Wishing you all a great day.
Thank you Jerry Edelstein for an easier Tuesday puzzle, which I completed in (my) record time. But, ... I 'didn't' get the theme ... I was looking for 'names' of Band Leaders ... and the common nouns made no sense, as names. Then I thought, maybe it was in the Big Band Era ... well before my time ... I'm glad I came and read the blog. I was overanalyzing the theme....
Thank you Boomer, for doing double duty. Always nice to read your comments ... hope you are doing better. I admire your courage and perseverance.
Happy Birthday, Agnes, Irish Miss, and hopes and prayers for many more to come. Your terse analysis of the CWs shows how sharp your mind is, and that is an inspiration, to those a lil younger than you.
Other than (Mo, Morris) Udall the words were pretty easy and commonplace.
I used to think that Mo Udall was Secy of the Interior in the Johnson Administration...
But I was wrong ... it was his elder brother, Stewart Udall, also a congressman, before Mo got his seat, ... who was Secy of the Interior in the Kennedy Administration.
Mo was the succeeding congressman, and also did a lot for the interior and the environment, during his 30 odd years in the U S Congress. One of his sons became a senator... of Colorado .. and his nephew became a Senator of New Mexico. ( Hi Lucina ).
Interesting TRIVIA ... The USA eaternmost point .... in the US Virgin Islands is called Point Udall for Stewart Udall,..... and the USA westernmost point... on Guam, .....is also called Point Udall, for Cong. Mo Udall.
"So, the America's day .... begin(s) and end(s) with a Point Udall" .... per Wiki.
Have a nice day, you all.
Crossword puzzles have been using the plural form for different varieties of the same plant, always a bit of a stretch. Here we are not even speaking of different varieties of rhubarb, so the clue is stretched to the breaking point.
A less controversial clue for rhubarbs would be melees or donnybrooks.
Musings
-Hmmm… First word/Last word/Both words/before or after? AHA, got it!
-The best girl BB player in Nebraska is my friend’s daughter who wears a distinctive HAIR BAND
-Another friend of mine does this with ALPACAS
-SEED – Time for me to plant (NOT sow) my radishes
-The old TV westerns had cowboys with rifle horseback SCABBARDS
-My coffee containers are cylinders so they fit in my cup holders
-Garrison Keillor on RHUBARB pie – A lovely sweet delight with just a hint of underlying bitterness. Similar to living in Minnesota.
-HBD Agnes, your kind comments are always appreciated.
I had " by a nose" before I got " by a hair". And I did not know what the connection between the themed answers was until I got to the reveal, but I got it then. Happy birthday, Irish Miss! Your spirit shines as bright as the proverbial gold of a leprechaun! I'm always happy to see your comments here!
Good Morning:
Thank you for all of the birthday wishes and kind words. CC, your touching and heartfelt expressions brought tears to my eyes and believe me when I say the feelings are mutual. 🥰
I liked this puzzle very much because the theme was well hidden (to me, anyway) until the very Aha! reveal. I also like the mini creature-related theme with Emu, Ant, Newt, Alpaca, Elsie, Fodder, and Pod. The icing on the cake was the slew of pairings: Neath/Oft, Blare/Radio, Ayn/Aye, Ins/Inch, Aye/Nyets, and Alias/Alibi/Law, plus the ones I missed but Eagle-eyed CanadianEh caught! Good job, CEh. CSOs to our Louisiana denizens (NOLA), our California denizens (Santa) Clara, and our Maryland denizen, Bill W (Camden).
Thanks, Jerry, for a nice birthday gift and thanks, Boomer, for pinch hitting again, especially on my birthday. You and CC made my day brighter and more special. Thank you both.
Have a great day.
Franckly speaking "rolling in francs" doesn't makes you RICHE if they haven't been converted to euros. Same with the LIRA. Today we greet Bert & ERNIE and Ernest & Julio.
Still don't understand why there was live ammo in ALEC'S gun. 😲.. BTW the Balwin boys hail from Syracuse
The puzzle was set up like a Tic-Tac-Toe board and thus TIC "can precede or follow tac"😃
"QB's concern" INT: (INTimacy?, INTrigue?, INTernet)? " knew "Gas sign in green letters" wasn't Neon so perpwaited.
Inkover: grace(notes)/TRILL, blast/BLARE (c'mon you know who you are).🤨
Hadda let the ___ go, he had a "2down". ___ MUG.
Take the whole family, _____ love the movie...UDALL
"Hello Mudder, hello _____." FODDER
Come to regret Ms Streisand songs....RHUBARB'S
"The Big Apple outer space team"...NYETS
Boomer, your comments gave me a "clever chuckle" ☺
Bamm-Bamm was Betty and Barney Rubble's kid.
Happy B day 🍀 miss. 🎁🎂🎉
In my exuberance I forgot to say that I FIRed, but that was probably implied in my previous comments.
bandleader?
I would follow a bandleader anywhere...
and in conclusion...
Wait a sec! I'm not done yet!...
Thank you Boomer for "splainin" the before and after "tic tac/tactic."
but the dang thingies still scare the crap outta me...
And Dear Irish Miss,
May you have the happiest of Birthdays, today, and every year onward..
It is you that makes me want to be the Best Imp I can possibly be...
I was going to post a pic of a green cake that had a pint o Guinness and a rainbow going into a pot of gold,
but it was one of those spam links that are made up of about three yards of text. (Don't trust em...)
Plus, I think it was here on the Blog that I learned that Guinness is actually a British beer posing as Irish in disguise!
so I am going with this cake.
I know it is a year off,
(And I would be very happy if I could call you Mum...)
Aw, what the heck!
Cakes are not good enough...
You should be surrounded by Puppies!
Hola!
A very happy birthday to you, Irish Miss, aka Agnes!
Thank you, Boomer, for again subbing.
And thanks to Jerry Edelstein for a fun-filled, easy puzzle with lots to chew on. We have wine (GALLO) and cheese (BRIE) as well as RHUBARB(S) for a fine repast.
ARIEL was my granddaughter's favorite movie character when she was younger. She is now 26.
Yes, Mo UDALL was popular here for decades.
CSO to Hahtoolah and Big Easy at NOLA.
Have a wonderful day, everyone!
Note to Boomer: I heard the Elephant Fly is just a larger version of the dreaded Tsetse...
Boomer Thanks for yet another review! The ALEC BALDWIN gun tragedy/mystery was just last October, not a year or two ago.
Irish Miss Happy Birthday!
Enjoyed the MUSICAL CONDUCTOR theme. Our Early MUSIC Ensemble is having our first performances since COVID. Our MUSICAL CONDUCTOR Katie picked MUSIC from the Plague of the 14th century. She has a dry wit.
DW took this photo of us just before our first performance. Our MUSICAL CONDUCTOR Katie is at left, raising a tambourine high.
Here is a video of our MUSICAL performance.
We have four more performances to go this week!
From Yesterday:
desper-otto, Jinx, Ol' Man Keith, CanadianEh, Yellowrocks Thanks for the comments on the clue for ELSE.
Delightful Tuesday puzzle, many thanks for the fun, Jerry. And how cool to have you back for another day, Boomer, with your always entertaining comments. Thank you, too.
Lots of neat A items today: AYN, ALEC, ARIEL, ADANO, ALPACA ABABA, ALIAS, AND there ARE more.
Loved Bert and ERNIE, back in the day.
Think of a SCAR as more of a physical injury than an emotional one.
Nice to have ELSIE show up again this morning.
Have a wonderful, wonderful birthday, dear AGNES. What a treat your comments are every day--I always look forward to them. And love the picture of you and your sisters. Have a terrific day!
And I wish everyone a good day, as well.
Forgot to mention that one of my favorites is Beetle Bailey's Captain SCABBARD. Right up there with Chaplain Stainglass.
-T, the way I learned craps was I observed for a while, until I saw another beginner. If you are at a table that's not too busy, one of the dealers will be happy to help you learn. Before you start you should know what the table minimum is (there's usually a sign), and who is up next (it's considered rude to squeeze in ahead of the person who was supposed to be next).
But the mechanics are very simple. There are two hockey puck looking discs with "ON" on one side and "OFF" on the other. When you see "ON", a game is under way and you can just watch until that game is over and the dealers turn the pucks to "OFF". Then place your bet, say $5, directly in front of you on the pass line. The dice will be rolled, and if a 2, 3 or 12 are rolled you lose your bet. If a 7 or 11 is rolled, you win even money on your bet. Anything else becomes "the number", and the dealers will flip the puck to "ON" and put on "the number" on the felt layout. You make an odds bet by putting chip(s) behind your pass line bet. In this case, you put another $5 if the number is a 4, 5, 9,or 10, and $6 if the number is 5 or 9 (makes the 3:2 payout easier. Then sit back and watch the dice. You lose if a 7 is rolled, win if The Number is rolled, and any other roll doesn't affect you. If you win, you will get paid even money for your pass line bet, and the true dice odds for your odds bet (if you bet $5 to pass and $6 odds when The Number turned out to be 9, you win $5 for the pass bet and $9 for your odds bet). Then you leave $5 on the pass line and put the rest in the rack in front of you (or in your pocket if you are so inclined), and the process starts over. If the shooter "sevens out", you lose your bets and the dice pass to the next player counter clockwise. (Players can and do opt not to roll, but most people want to give 'em a toss).
Most casinos allow you to make odds bets greater than your pass line bets. Double odds are the most common, which would allow you to bet $10 odds behind your $5 pass line bet. 4x odds isn't unheard of, and comes pretty close to eliminating the house advantage. Those casinos make their money on people who play the other bets, like hard ways, 6/8, eleven, any craps, buy bets and others that you want nothing to do with.
Owen, I loved your two verses this morning, and your second one cracked me up, with your fun play on 'altered.'
A fair PZL from Mr. Edelstein, parsed by our Boomer.
Everything pretty straight forward. Nothing particularly clever in the cluing, no misdirections either. A solid, workaday PZL.
Boomer ~ To answer your opening rhyming riddle, the "elephant fly" (scientifically Tabanus sulcifrons, aka the "horse fly") is found in various parts of the world--if Wikipedia is to be believed.
~ OMK
___________
DR: One diagonal, near side.
I dunno. This anagram (11 of 15 letters) is a bit strange.
Maybe it is a more formal way of identifying a character, too-slick for his own good, an irascible sort full o' piss 'n vinegar.
We'll call him an...
"OILY BLADDER"!
Hi Y'all! Fun puzzle & expo, Jerry & Boomer. Many thanks!
Knew UDALL as soon as the U perped in. Goldwater didn't fit.
When I was on the farm & all my family was home, I always baked the seasonal spring treat of RHUBARB-mulberry pie. I usually froze some RHUBARB for sauce later in the year, but mulberries didn't freeze well. I didn't have strawberries because the years I tried to grow them, my German shepherd ate every ripe berry.
Happy Birthday, dear Agnes!
Lots of loud fireworks in my neighborhood last night after University of Kansas won the NCAA Basketball championship, setting some records such as winning comeback after the largest deficit ever. It was a game that kept even moi awake. I got interested in watching basketball after my niece married a former KU basketball player (white). Coach Self came to the wedding. His star player, who had been drafted by the NBA, and his friend ate dinner at our "reserved for family" marked table. I had to watch basketball on TV to see how my "new cousin" (black) was doing. My nieces' husband played pro ball overseas for a few years. Never saw him play.
Happy birthday plaudits to you, dear Irish Miss.
Hello Cornerites! Since the paper doesn't provide the LA Times puzzle anymore I've been doing it online. I don't like that I can't see the entire grid all the time so I miss seeing the themes. I'll have to try to get my printer to connect to the internet so I can have a dead tree copy.
Thanks for the easy exercise today, Jerry E! I don't remember any issues with it. Thanks for filling in for Hahtoolah, Boomer. Your usual fun write-up!
Fav #1 15A Home of the NFL's Ssints, informally NOLA NOLA
Fav #2: 61A: Musical conductor BAND LEADER Leader of the band by Dan Fogelberg.
Happy Birthday, IM! I hope it's a great day!
It's going to be a wet week but, at least we don't have to shovel rain!
Thank you Picard for the video on your music playing skills, you are truly an eclectic person with many, many interests. I noticed you are the only man - male in the whole group...
Thank you C E D for your wonderful pictures and todays Irish Cake with the beautiful green marzipan sculpture. Also I very much enjoyed your Welsh Puppies at play ... unfortunately they become terrors when they grown up, unless firmly controlled and disciplined...
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Husker Gary, although Radishes is also one of my favorite vegetables - to buy at the supermarket, not I have ever grown them ...
Have you ever let a few of your planted radish plants stay in the ground and let them BOLT, that is, flower, ... go to seed ?
Then, they flower and produce long small thin seed pods like pea pods ... which are very crispy, ... and have a sharp radish taste and can be eaten like vegetables, and even cooked, as required.
BTW, in the indian and some chinese stores, they are sold at $ 4.99 per pound.
Onto Wednesday, tomorrow.
Thanks for pinch hitting, Boomer. One note: At 61 Down, IIRC Bam Bam was the neighbors' (Barney and Betty Rubble) adopted child.
That, and $5, will get you a cup of coffee.
Happy Birthday, Irish Miss!
Puzzling thoughts:
HBTY Irish Miss! Hope I'm not too late to wish you a pleasant birth day
FIR
Thanks Boomer for pinch-hitting
Jinx - Thanks. I'm still not sure I'd drop a fiver on the table but I think I get it.
//until my money goes 'poof! :-)
Vidwan & HG - Eldest & I put in radishes & carrots too. RHUBARB is right out.
Want a story?
When my buddies & I were in 6th grade we dried rhubarb leaves & then crushed them to smoke in a corn-cob pipe.
No,
Really,
We were that stupid.
CED - you're the Cake Man! I hope IM was just as pleased as I re: your dessert.
//Do you know the muffin man?
Another story:
Youngest, at the bagel shop when she was 3yrs of age,
"!Yes!, I know the muffin man - he's right there."
Cheers, -T
FIR in pretty good time, and I only needed a couple of perps. I also had no problem with the theme or reveal.
HBD, Agnes!
Thanks, Jerry and Boomer!
I certainly imagine having to listen to the radio before TV was ubiquitous made George Meany a gimme for me. He was always in the news back then.
As YR mentioned, baseball players were always getting into RHUBARBS, according to the old-time radio announcers. I guess TV pretty much led to the term’s being more or less put out to pasture: On TV, we could all see that there USUALLY wasn’t too much to baseball rhubarbs, the Nolan Ryan/Robin Ventura rhubarb a notable exception:
Nolan Ryan/Robin Ventura
I can't match CED's 'cake-o-nometry', so on your birthday, IM, the wish, or better, prayer is ...
STO LAT! (POLISH -- may you have another) HUNDRED YEARS!
MNOGAYA LETA! (RUSSIAN -- less precisely) MANY [more[ YEARS!
KHRONIA POLLA! (GREEK -- same as Russian)
Misty, glad someone picked up on that ALTAR/altered pun.
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