Buenos dias, y feliz cinco de mayo, Cruciverbalists. Malodorous Manatee here at the 19th hole. That's a good place to be today as a cerveza or two would certainly help get through all the verbiage that follows. I have tried to pare it down but this was a puzzle that I found to be more easily solved than succinctly explained.
The Northeast quadrant sets the stage for today's outing with a single pair of intersecting clues/answers. Fore!
11 Down: With 16-Across, 9-, 37-, or 71-Across, for any given hole: GOLF, and
16 Across: See 11-Down: SCORE.
Apparently, as we fill in the squares, we will reveal themed answers, strewn about the puzzle, that riff on GOLF SCOREs . Let's see how this plays.
At three places within the grid our puzzle setter, Ashleigh Silveira (in what may be her LAT debut), has placed answers that are terms for taking either more, or fewer, strokes than par to complete a hole of golf. For the non-golfers among you, each hole in golf has a par determined by the course architect or by the golf course PGA pro. This is the number of strokes you are supposed to take to play the hole. This means that on a Par Four hole you are expected to hit a tee shot and then land your second shot on the putting green. Your are then given two putts to make your par. On a Par Three hole you are expected to land your tee shot on the green and then two-putt for your par.
Here are the three GOLF SCORE terms found within the puzzle:
9 Across: Term illustrated by the starts of 39- and 44-Across: BOGEY.
37 Across: Term illustrated by the starts of 17- and 20-Across: BIRDIE.
71 Across: Term illustrated by parts of 61- and 67-Across: EAGLE.
At three other places within the grid we find the definitions of the above terms. These definitions are given in a clever manner.
A BOGEY is the term, in golf, for taking one more stroke than par to complete the hole. At 39 and 44 Across we see that we have the word ONE positioned directly above (over) the word PAR.
Therefore, we have: ONE over PAR = BOGEY
A BIRDIE is the term for taking one less stroke than par. At 17 and 20 Across we see that we have the word ONE positioned directly below (under) the word PAR.
Therefore, we have ONE under PAR = BIRDIE
An EAGLE is the term for taking two less strokes than par. At 61 and 67 Across we see that we have the word TWO positioned directly below (under) the word PAR.
Et voila, we have TWO under PAR = EAGLE
As the saying goes, one picture is worth a thousand words so let's take a look at how all of this appears in the finished puzzle:
Across:
1. Ewes' guys: RAMS. An ovine reference. Ashleigh, or Patti, could have gone with a reference to the recent Super Bowl champions. As it is, the clue is a nice riff on gangster movie slang.
5. Jazz great James: ETTA. A frequent visitor.
14. Director Kazan: ELIA. A frequent visitor.
15. Some skinny jeans: LEES. LEVIS wouldn't quite fit.
17. __ paper: baking layer: PARCHMENT. Often used to prevent sticking and/or burning.
19. DuVernay film set in Alabama: SELMA.
Ava DuVernay
20. Diamond gems: ONE HITTERS. Misdirection. A baseball, not jewelry, reference.
22. Way, way off: AFAR. Or a Dickens line. It is a far far better thing . . .
23. Mood-stabilizing hormone: SEROTONIN. Also known as 5-Hydroxytryptamine but that wouldn't fit the allotted space.
25. Ante-: PRE. Both mean before/prior to when used as a PREfix.
28. Solidify: SET. Hand up for GEL as an initial guess.
A Three Minute (Not Three Hour) Tour
30. Place for a stay: INN. The worst motel I ever stayed at was called "The Fiddle". It was a vile INN.
33. Souvlaki meat: LAMB. Do the "folks" at 1 Across know about this?
35. Put away the groceries?: EAT. Colloquialism
39. Outwit: ONE UP. Colloquialism
41. Cybergiggle: LOL. Laugh Out Loud
43. Dirties: SOILS.
44. Package: PARCEL.
46. Director Anderson: WES. Among other films he directed: The Grand Budapest Hotel, Isle of Dogs, Rushmore and The Fantastic Mr. Fox.
48. Symbol on the Flash's chest: BOLT. Lightning BOLT. The Flash himself visited us last Friday.
49. Farm pen: STY.
50. Siete menos cinco: DOS. Today's second Spanish lesson. Seven minus five equals two.
52. Cable channel with a "superstar" wine club: TCM. Turner Classic Movies
54. Univ. aides: TAS. Teaching AssisstantS. Yet another pluralized abbreviation.
55. Initiates legal action: FILES SUIT.
58. Red outside, maybe: RIPE. See also 58 Down. Nice cluing.
61. Complex units: APARTMENTS. Rental units in an apartment complex.
65. Watchdog breed: AKITA.
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Not Much of a Deterrent
67. Cheaters: TWO TIMERS. To deceive or double cross. Usually used with reference to infidelity.
68. Kidney-related: RENAL.
69. "__ cost you!": IT'LL.
70. Bog fuel: PEAT. Sometimes PEAT smoke is used to stop the malting process. This makes for some very tasty whisky. Just ask my friend Shaun The Sheep.
72. Kenneth of fashion: COLE.
73. Dessert brand: EDY'S.
Down:
21. Slight: SNUB. Not as in "just a little bit". A brush off.
24. Mystery writer Johansen: IRIS. She has written many, many books.
31. Nabisco wafer brand: NILLA.
36. Haul: TOW.
38. Corddry of HBO's "Ballers": ROB. Not familiar with him. Thanks, perps.
40. Mani-__: PEDI.
The Kinks Top Ten Hits
57. ASU's home: TEMPE. TEMPE, Arizona
1. Default action, briefly: REPO. REPOsession. That's what happens when the demon returns after the initial exorcism.
2. "Einstein's Dreams" novelist Lightman: ALAN. Years ago I read a roadtrip book called Driving Einstein's Brain. The title is self-explanatory.
3. Swampy land: MIRE.
4. Goldman __: SACHS. Investment bankers.
5. Target of some bark beetles: ELM TREE.
6. Stay dry?: TEETOTAL. Dry as in no alcohol.
7. Core belief: TENET.
8. Team that lost the 2019 World Series to the Nationals: ASTROS. Another baseball reference. The team that won the 2017 World Series has been dubbed the Houston Asterisks.
9. Some coll. degrees: BSS. We also saw this answer exactly two weeks ago.
10. "Channel Orange" Grammy winner Frank: OCEAN.
Frank Ocean
12. Writer Bombeck: ERMA. I often forget if it's ERMA or EMMA. Or, IRMA.
13. 2022, e.g.: YEAR. Not EVEN?
18. Goes quickly: HIES.
21. Slight: SNUB. Not as in "just a little bit". A brush off.
24. Mystery writer Johansen: IRIS. She has written many, many books.
25. Falls heavily: PLOPS.
Plop Plop Fizz Fizz
26. Charged: RAN AT. One of those answers where you find yourself wondering, upon reviewing your work, what the heck is a RANAT?
27. __ board: EMERY. First thought of SKATE. PAROLE was too long.
30. "Canadian __": "Weird Al" parody of a Green Day song: IDIOT. A parody of the Green Day song "American Idiot".
(Some of) Weird Al's Greatest Hits
31. Nabisco wafer brand: NILLA.
32. Mouse pads?: NESTS. Misdirection. We were supposed to think of the computer peripherals. What kind of work does a mouse do? Mousework.
34. Tampa NFLer: BUC. The BUCcaneers of the National Football League
38. Corddry of HBO's "Ballers": ROB. Not familiar with him. Thanks, perps.
40. Mani-__: PEDI.
42. "Time to bounce": LETS ROLL. The Urban Dictionary tells us that BOUNCE can mean "to arrive at or leave a destination". New to this marine mammal.
45. 1970 Kinks hit: LOLA. LOLA can be found at the 2:33 mark below.
The Kinks Top Ten Hits
47. Sink on purpose: SCUTTLE.
Scuttle A Captured Enemy Ship - 1947
51. __ tank: SEPTIC. Today's let's-skip-the-visual-on-this-one moment.
53. "The Emancipation of __": Mariah Carey album: MIMI.
55. Prenatal: FETAL. Note the prefix.
56. Took care of: SAW TO.
58. Red inside, maybe: RARE. See also 58 Across. Nice.
59. SUNDVIK baby furniture retailer: IKEA. Never heard of SUNDVIK but what else could the answer be? Please pass the meatballs.
60. __-pong: PING. First thought of BEER
62. Requirement: NEED.
63. Highchair surface: TRAY.
64. Retired jets: SSTS. Airplanes often seen flying around in crossword puzzles. Yet another pluralized abbreviation (Four letters, three being S. Quite useful for a constructor).
66. Flagon fill: ALE.
A Flagon To Be Filled
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41 comments:
I'm not a golfer, but thanks to Tiger Woods, et.al. have some familiarity with the game. 9 across and 11 down puzzled me at first, but as soon as I sussed them out the rest of the puzzle became clear. FIR, so I'm happy.
Sorry. I meant 11 down and 16 across. I guess my comment makes more sense now, right?
Welcome Ashleigh, a fun and very doable Thursday.
I have read a few books by Mystery writer Johansen: IRIS using the Nero Wolfe rating system, I did not use a bookmark.
The theme is a CSO to many here as well as the ASU reference. I did not know the Album title or 0. "Channel Orange" Grammy winner Frank: OCEAN nor the Einstein novelist but the perps were fair.
Joseph, your write-up and comments show mw you are ready to construct a puzzle for Patti Varol...Vile Inn indeed.
Thank you both. Happy Cinco de Mayo
Good morning!
Was smugly proud of myself for finding BOGEY, BIRDIE and EAGLE as GOLF SCOREs. Then came here to find that I totally missed the over/under PARs. Cute RIPE/RARE pairing. Very cleverly done, Ashleigh, though I didn't care much for that self-referential NE corner. Impressive debut, Ashleigh. Thanx for showing me how much I'd missed, Mal-Man.
TCM: Is the guy in the logo supposed to be Dick Tracy?
ERMA/SEPTIC: ERMA Bombeck's best known book is The Grass Is Always Greener Over The SEPTIC Tank. From GoodReads: "It's the exposé to end all exposés--the truth about the suburbs: where they planted trees and crabgrass came up, where they planted the schools and taxes came up, where they died of old age trying to merge onto the freeway and where they finally got sex out of the schools and back into the gutters."
Good Morning:
This was a clever theme, nicely executed, but cross reference clues make my head spin. It’s a nice CSO, though, to all of our resident golfers. Additional CSOs were: DO, Anon T, Leo III, and TXsMs (Astros), Florida Contingent (Buc) California Contingent (Sur), and Lucina and Moe (ASU and Tempe), and Lucina (Pedi). The unknown proper names, as clued, were plentiful today and needed the helpful perps: Rob, Alan, Ocean, Iris, Lola, and Mimi. I did enjoy the mini creature theme of Rams, Lamb, Akita, Eagle, Birdie, and Sty.
Thanks, Ashleigh, and congrats on your LA Times debut and thanks, MalMan, for the chuckles and commentary. Your explanation of the theme was much appreciated because I didn’t have the patience to deconstruct it myself. 🤗 Vile Inn sailed right over my head until Lemony brought attention to it. Mousework made me laugh, though.
FLN
Anon T, congrats on your new home purchase. Hope the inspection goes well.
Have a great day.
FIR, but erased gel for SET and angels for ASTROS (I tried, -T and Leo). DNK Flash, superstar wine club, Lightman, OCEAN, IRIS, SUNDVIK (but IKEA was automatic, like "erie" and "oboe"), and bounce.
Like DO, I noticed ERMA and the SEPTIC tank.
Another GOLF-related fill was PING, a major golf equipment manufacturer. ASU's GOLF course in TEMPE is named the Karsten Course, named for Karsten Solheim, who founded PING.
GOLF PS - Ancient Scots spelled it "gowf".
GOLF PSS - I read somewhere that fewer than 10% of all GOLFers ever score better than birdie GOLF, or better than 90 on a typical par-72 course. (I've done it twice.)
Thanks to Ashleigh for the fun. I love names that are given to both boy and girl babies. I had a list of them that I used when I wrote project management exercises, but I used "AARON" for my a-name.) And thanks to our malman for the groans. The one about the lodging raised my ire almost to the point of violins.
I’ve made over 50 eagles including 7 hole in ones. 58 years of golf
FIR, and loved the theme. Nice challenging puzzle!
I got to the clubhouse today in 6:52.
I didn't know the proper names that Lemonade714 didn't know, and I don't know why I initially misspelled "peat" with two Es.
Interesting that there's "TEEtotal", in keeping with the golf theme, and "TENet" which would likely be near my score per hole.
I remember reading Erma bombeck's newspaper column for years. It was titled "At Wits End".
To sort of echo SubGenius:
I'm not a golfer, but I play one in video games...
(Anon-T, can you pls link Robin Williams explanation of golf for me.)
( I am all linked out and upset at what I learned on the blog today)
That ship, Empire lark, is one of many ticking time bombs that could go off at any minute!
If you don't believe me, read it for yourself...
Of all the stupid, idiotic things man has done. It just makes me mad enough to hit a ball into a hole with a stick multiple times...
Great write-up maloman. I'm such a stupid* I had tAS and IDIOi looked wrong but I never rechecked.
Upon my last fill I went exploring the GOLF theme and pretty much got it except as maloman pointed out ONE and TWO were over or under PAR for BOGEY,BIRDIE and EAGLE. Great work by ASHLEIGH
Yes I inked desks/NESTS for the mouse "pad". Who else?
Brady and his BUCS will Play in Germany this Fall
Hey MO, have you seen the
Curly Shuffle.
One of the Kinks songs matched the PING Pong playing pussies perfectly
For those few who watch: If there's NAE FLOPS there's NAE NBA
I almost broke PAR on a 9 Hole course but my caddie, Mr S, insisted that I use Driver on 9 despite water on my left.
WC
** Roberto DeFicenzo had won Masters but signed for an incorrect score.
My head is spinning with all the cleverness today in the puzzle, blog, and posts. And I got a FIR! Thanks, Ashleigh, and congratulations on your debut. Look forward to more puzzles from you. The theme was almost too clever for me as a non golfer, but prior puzzles and chat helped me get the GOLF references and I saw the over and under importance as I wondered about the PAR ONE and ONE PAR duo. Wow!
MalMan, you did an excellent job explaining the puzzle today. And I want to thank you for the Shaun the Sheep reference. I have a fun stuffed animal just like the one in your picture that was given to me by a friend who knew of my interest in the black-faced sheep in Zermatt. I didn't know its name was Shaun the Sheep or that it was in a British series. Learning moment for me.
It's Cinco de Mayo. Celebrate!
I don't often post here, but it seems appropriate today.
Had no trouble with the puzzle fills - which is rare for me on a Thursday, and had no trouble figuring out the birdie, eagle, bogey but had to come here to get the explanation on the one over/under par references. Very clever.
Crazy that I have my first tee time of the year booked this afternoon. I suspect bogey will be a good score today given I haven't played for 6 months. Just got new clubs too so looking forward to it. Such a miserable spring should be good times just to be out on the course.
Alt Granny, I am pleased to have made the introduction. I took that photograph of Shaun The Sheep. He was on loan from my sister who first got into the Aardman Aninmation works via Wallace and Gromit. You can find many highly amusing short cartoons (and full length movies) featuring Shaun on YouTube
WC - There's a book on that called "The Lost Masters".
CED, we also have an H-bomb lost at sea off the coast of Savannah. The B-47 pilot dropped it because he was afraid that it might fall out and blow up after a collision with an F-86. DOD gives the same advice that I give to my wife about bees - don't bother it and it won't bother you.
Thank you Ashleigh for today's HOLE IN ONE. Great puzzle!
And thanx MalMan for the GOLF TOUR. While I managed a FIR, the visual aspects of the theme sailed right over my head. I'd've never navigated all those HOLES without your CADDYING.
A few favs:
20A ONE HITTERS. If that hit was a homer and your team scored ZIP, it wouldn't be such a GEM.
23A SEROTONIN & 29A SUR. Golf is such a relaxing sport to watch. I especially loved the SEROTONIN rush from the Big SUR vid.
5D ELM TREE. ASH TREE would also have fit, and not only lengthwise. Our neighborhood lost every ASH on the road from EMERALD ASH BORERS. The trees were planted when the neighborhood was started 120 years ago, and like ELMS are great shade trees.
40D PEDI & 60D PING. Gearing up for June MM?
Cheers,
Bill
Musings
-What a fun trip around the course after the gimmick became obvious.
-The NE corner had only one way in and then had the core of the gimmick, IRMA/ERMA, EVEN/YEAR, BAS/BSS/MAS/MSS and a movie I have never seen about a well-known place. Whew!
-A relief pitcher who throws one pitch and the batter gets the game winning homerun still has a ONE-HITTER :-)
-An 1899 lawyer defended a prostitute calling her a SOILED Dove
-RIPE/RARE was fun
-The ASTROS became the 21st century Black Sox
-LET’S ROLL
-ELM trees of my yute all had these to try and stop Dutch Elm Disease
-Well done, MM! VILE INN? P.U.! I can’t wait to use it.
"Cyber giggle" for LOL when LOL means "laughing out loud" makes me groan out loud [GOL]. Why not go with "Cyber Guffaw"?
Hola!
To those who celebrate it, FELIZ CINCO DE MAYO. For me, it's a non-holiday.
I see that there are a slew of critters for Irish Miss to round up.
EMERY and PEDI remind me that I am way overdue for mine. I just didn't feel up to it yesterday. By design I ask for clear polish so that the overgrowth is not too obvious.
As most of you here might know I'm not a sports fan, least of all GOLF, but I did manage to SCORE well on this puzzle. They are just words to me and I excel in that.
As I've said before, TEMPE and therefore, ASU, is immediately south of Scottsdale.
Ava DuVERNAY was interviewed on PBS otherwise I likely would not know about her.
I love shoes by COLE Haan and sadly my sandals are almost worn out.
Reading ERMA Bombeck's daily column was a hoot which I have missed since she passed.
Thanks to Ashleigh and MalMan for a good start to my day!
Have a happy day, everyone!
So Wilbur, what were the other three letters of Mr. S's name?
I’m a golfer, so this was right up my alley. But overall the puzzle was a bit of a slog - seemed to be jumping all over the place to fill in the theme answers with no logical flow.
Our weather is finally taking a change for the better. The next 10 days are going to be spectacular for some Spring golf!
It looks like, currently, we have two "Anonymous" posters, but, Speedy Solver, I can always tell it's you because you always post your time (which, 90% of the time or more, is indeed speedy.)
-The kids just reminded me that today is not only Cinco de Mayo but also this day because May 5th is the day in 1961 when Alan Shepherd became the first American in space.
This is the perfect day for this puzzle! Rory Mcllroy will defend his title in the PGA Wells Fargo Tournement beginning today at the TPC Potomac at Avenel Farm course. My nephew is the GM of Avenel Farm.
In spite of my total ignorance of golf, I managed to finish this puzzle. I think it’s a testament to the to its clever construction. Kudos to Ashleigh.
Once I got used to being swamped in cross references, I grew to like this puzzle. Then I saw the ONE under PAR and the needle on my appreciation meter pinged to 10. Thanks, Ashleigh, and congratulations on your LA Times debut.
I do agree with Anthony Gael Moral about LOL. Laughing Out Loud is hardly a giggle.
Wilbur Charles, since I already had the N from INN, I got NESTS right away and avoided putting in DESKS.
I also liked the clues for RIPE and RARE.
Of course I immediately thought of Lucina at Mani-__: PEDI. Both of my grandchildren went to ASU so I knew TEMPE, which is where they and their parents lived for many years. There are some excellent restaurants in the TEMPE area. Cinco de Mayo is a non-holiday for my wife and me also, but the city of San Jose sure loves the extra revenue it gets from the heavy commercialization of the day. There's a lot of shooting of guns into the air; every year someone gets killed from a stray bullet.
Good wishes to you all.
Thank You Ashleigh Silveira for a charming Thursday puzzle, which I very much ejoyed and completed.
Thank you MalMan for your instructive review ,,, I had no problem detecting and understanding the Bogey / Eagle and Birdie part of the answers, but I was not aware of ... or rather I did npt get the significance of the OVER / UNDER ONE /TWO Par gimmickry.
During my convention meetings, I have stayed in some rather posh hotels which were on or near some golf courses, but we spent the afternoons just traversing the grounds, and collecting the fragrant Magnolia blossoms that had fallen from the majestic trees that line the course, especially the ones in Hilton Head golf course.
C E D .... THANK you ofr linking the article on the disposal of the sulfur methane poison gas canisters in dumping them in the middle of the ocean. Very Informative.
Have a nice day all, tomorras Friday !!
Enjoyed this clever GOLF SCORE construction. What little I know about GOLF comes from when I was in high school and my retired grandfather took up the sport.
Our neighborhood GOLF course was purchased by the University of California and it is being transformed into a wildlife refuge. Full of BIRDIEs like this one!
MalMan Thanks for the Picard "Make it so" graphic!
Learning moment about a WEIRD AL song I never heard of that is a parody of a song I never heard of. Goes with the over abundance of proper names others have griped about. I am guessing Ashleigh Silveira is not to blame for that.
I should add once again that EDYS is a brand I have only ever seen in these puzzles.
From Tuesday:
Jinx Thank you for the further explanation about your IC experience. Good to know you were being paid to deal with the absurdities.
Jinx and Lemonade Thanks for your comments on UConn and campus DAIRY COWs and DAIRY bars. Now I remember that it is Lemonade who is the UConn alum here.
By amazing coincidence, one of my good friends here in Santa Barbara just moved to our little COW town in Connecticut! Less than a mile from the tiny house we lived in out in the woods. What are the odds? I just emailed her to get to the UConn DAIRY ASAP!
AnonT Thanks for the NERDY humor!
Wilbur Charles Saving the best for last: Thank you for your wisdom on raising the fuel tax when we are facing a fuel shortage. As you wisely point out, raising the fuel tax does not change the price to consumers. It just allows some of that demand price to flow to the public instead of to corporate profits.
I made exactly the same point as your fuel tax comment about PETE BUTTIGIEG in this recent article.
A good Thursday PZL from Golf aficionada Ashleigh Silveira, well-officiated by our own MalMan.
I'm not a golfer, but these term are all generally known. I had more trouble with some of the proper names--though in the end I got 'em all.
Kazan's name comes up often in Xwds. He was a brilliant man, both as a theater & film director, and as a practical actor psychologist. He was a controversial figure because of his cooperation (although reluctant) with HUAC back in Hollywood's Blacklist days.
I met him one, when he returned to give a talk at his alma mater, Williams College, where I was teaching.
Ugly as sin.
Funny that he is often in crosswords as ELIA when he usually went by his nickname, "Gadg."
~ OMK
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DR: Three diagonals, near side.
The central diag almost yields an anagram Jackpot (but one letter shy, 14 of the 15).
This is what the choir master turns to when he discovers that his singers are having a rough time with the F-sharp harmonies.
He re-directs them to the much...
"EASIER CHORALE (in) E"!
Not a fan of cross referenced clues and this puzzle takes the cake. 🤯..DITTO Irish M. FIR finally, theme and all
Inkovers: theHITTERS/ONE, emory/EMERY, necco/NILLA, eagle/BOGEY (hey I'm too young to play golf 😄)
Anyone remember Captain Scuttlebutt from the Howdy Doody Show?
LOL: "laugh out loud" not exactly a "giggle" but yet not a "ROAR"
BIRDIE crossed with IRIS were WAGs. RIPE: don't pick a "red" blackberry..
"LOLA..Lo Lo Lo Lo LOLA".....La Bohême: :"Mi chiamano MIMI" one of the most beautiful arias ever written. OTOH, thought I knew all of Wierd Al's songs...guess not.
IKEA expects babies to put their furniture together? (Easy guess). **PING Pong, my 12 y o grandson Ollie usually (not always) beats me. 🏓
ERMA and the SEPTIC tank as per DO... Malman, Levi's would fit if you just buy the right size.
To whom the country girl will gift on Sunday....ERMA
What hallmark does commercially this Sunday....SELMA
Sum Earl Grey....TEETOTAL
To assure the cake is done use.... ____ TWOTIMERS
Happy Cinco de Mayo 🇲🇽...if you celebrate at SUBWAY don't overdo the mayo...lol (E-giggle?)
**But I beat the pants of him in Miniature GOLF
Subgenius, thank you, though I think we often have more anonymous posters than just me.
I do post my times, but I'm generally just happy to have finished it right - I know you can relate.
Anon (aka SS).
Not Sandpiper I hope!
Well, I’m happy. I got a FIR on a Thursday, and it didn’t take me all day. I’m just getting around to finishing up my comments, which I always start as I’m reading the expo (so I don’t forget), because I’ve spent the latter part of the afternoon running off on tangents with Mr. Google looking up further info on various puzzle-related subjects (so I don’t forget).
Had to do some other things today too.
Since I usually do the DOWNs first, I originally stuck in MOOR for 3D. ELIA fixed that one for me. Once I saw the golfing shtick (fairly early), I was able to put together the themers, which gave me enough info to fill in the rest of the blanks and unknowns.
Thanks for a very fine LAT debut puzzle, Ashleigh! Nice review, MalMan!
I spent quite a bit of time following the ELIA rabbit down the hole, in the wake of OMK’s comments. I have seen “On the Waterfront” once or twice, but had never exactly related it to the HUAC (I vaguely remember McCarthy stuff from way back in my ute.)
FLN --- You’re welcome. Lucina! I only remembered Lash LaRue because I had seen him in the early, early TV cowboy shows. His biography is kinda interesting, including that he apparently married at least 10 times. That's a whole bunch of alimony!
Lash LaRue
-T --- Congratulations!!! Please let me know if you need any help moving.
Teatime Thursday. Thanks for the fun, Ashleigh and MalMan.
Like others, I was a little delayed by all the cross-referenced clues, but I saw the golf theme and finally got that NE corner to fall.
Thanks for MalMan’s grid to show all the intricacies of this CW.
And like Anon@7:36am, I smiled at the Easter Egg of TEETOTAL smack-dab in the middle of the course!
I’m late to the party (oops, the game) after a busy day. WEES by now.
But I was happy to note that nobody gave me a CSO for Canadian IDIOT. LOL. I did not know that song. It really does pick up on all the usual Canadian stereotypes. Nobody will put that title on Mattea. She had to work hard for the 23rd win tonight. She has all of Canada rooting for her.
FLN- AnonT -congrats on snagging that house.
Wishing you all a good evening.
Hi Y'all! THrilled to do this puzzle which made it worth my watching golf all those Sunday afternoons that my kids thought were ridiculous. I got all the theme and other references LOLing all the way. Thanks, Ashleigh! Thanks, MalMan, for backing me up on thinking the PAR ONE OVER & UNDER were part of it all.
When I first saw all the back & forth clue references, I was too tired to mess with them. I went on and filled everything else I could. Then I went back and had enough perps to buzz through the game & SCORE. Yay me! I've struggled with so many of the puzzles lately, this renewed my faith in myself.
Had trouble spelling SACHS -- forgot the "H". DNK: ROB, MIMI.
CED: one of my mother's friend's husband came back from WWI with mustard gas poisoning that left him an invalid the rest of his life. I was not in school yet when I saw him for the first time & had nightmares thereafter. Zombie status.
Hi All!
Outstanding puzzle Ashleigh! Nicely constructed and playfully clued. Congrats on the debut.
MManatee, the expo was the icing on top. Thanks for putting it together.
//vile inn? Really? :-)
I figured out the theme when I spotted the ONE PAR rebuses.
WOs: Kenneth kOLE was fixed by SETPTIC
ESPs: ELIA | ALAN (argg - names xing...), OCEAN, IRIS, MIMI
Fav: I'll go with IDIOT 'cuz the clue mentioned Weird Al. Canadian IDIOT video [Hope it doesn’t offend C, Eh! too much :-)]
Picard - sorry you didn't like the c/a for IDIOT. I'm a fan of both Weird Al & Green Day (I have Green Day's Title CD w/ American Idiot on it).
Bonus themer: PING //Hi Jinx!
LOL DR, OMK.
Tony Express - Walking my bike up a hill near Carmel, I was at Wit's End.
IM - Thanks re: house. I'll actually see it tomorrow at 9a for the 1st time :-)
Cheers, -T
CED @ 8:29 -- The answer is to require that the water intake pipe be BELOW the outflow. In the case of neurotoxins, they must be chemically destroyed ... and then the boss and staff go into this room WITHOUT gas masks for 5 minutes. Problem solved, or maybe there is a new level of management?
I hope Ashleigh constructs more puzzles for us because I really enjoyed this one. I'm up for the challenge and I can tell you right now that way I am feeling (not well) I appreciate any distraction in front of me. It's the diabetes, you see.
Lucina, what did you eat/drink to flair up?
//That's what DW says every time my Rosacea presents itself (sorry, hon, I love spicy)
So.., here's something random to keep you entertained. John Mulaney.
Cheers, -T
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