Having Your Day in Court. The word Witness can follow the last word of each theme answer.
17-Across. * "In my uninformed opinion ... ": I'M NO EXPERT. Expert Witness. Well, I hope that the Expert Witness is an Expert!
23-Across. * Challenge to someone suspected of lying: LOOK ME IN THE EYE. Eye Witness.
50-Across. * Become a better person, say: BUILD CHARACTER. Character Witness.
62-Across. * Thoroughly refute: PROVE FALSE. False Witness.
And the unifier:
39-Across. Marvin Gaye classic, and a hint to the last words of the answers to
the starred clues: CAN I GET A WITNESS.
Across:
1. "High Voltage" band: ACϟDC.
5. Sprang: LEAPT.
10. Neaten (up): TIDY.
14. Cry out loud: WAIL.
15. Lauder of makeup: ESTÉE. Estée Lauder (née Josephine
Esther Mentzer; July 1, 1908 ~ Apr. 24, 2004) makes frequent guest appearances
in the crossword puzzles.
16. Inkling: IDEA.
19. Russian dynast: TSAR.
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| The last Russian Tsar and family. |
20. Not prohibited: LEGAL.
21. Biennial games gp.: IOC. As in the International Olympic Committee.
22. Word with fall or fill: LAND. Landfall or Landfill.
27. Western defense gp.: OAS. As in the Organization of American States.
28. "__ queen!": "Work it!": YAS. I am not familiar with
this expression.
29. Nowhere to be found: AWOL. As in Absent WithOut Leave.
33. Member of the fam: SIB. Not a Sister but
a Sibling.
35. Absorb with bread, as gravy: SOP UP.
43. Long-stemmed mushroom: ENOKI.
44. Director Lee: ANG. Lee Ann (b. Oct. 23, 1954) makes
frequent guest appearances in the puzzles. He directed such movies
as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Life of Pi.
45. Like gloomy skies: GRAY.
46. Monarch's reign, e.g.: ERA. The ERA of Elizabeth II,
Queen of the United Kingdom (b. Apr. 21, 1926), has been 70 years. She
ascended to the throne in February 1952. Her platinum jubilee is this
year.
48. Cellist's need: BOW.
58. __ jockey: DISC.
59. Satisfied sigh: AAH!
60. "You win": I LOSE.
61. On the ocean: ASEA. This has become a crossword staple.
65. Entry point: DOOR. When is a door not a door?
66. More loyal: TRUER.
67. Black-eyed __: PEAS.
68. Celebrity chef Burrell: ANNE. I don't watch cooking
shows, so am not familiar with Anne Burrell (b. Sept. 21, 1969).
69. Twilled fabric: SERGE. Everything you wanted to know
about Serge, but didn't know to ask.
70. Eyelid bump: STYE.
Down:
1. "Where there's __ ... ": A WILL. Where there's a will,
there's a way.
2. Typical Stan Lee role: CAMEO. Stan Lee (né Stanley Martin
Lieber; Dec. 28, 1922 ~ Nov. 12, 2018) was a comic book writer and creator of
numerous superheroes.
3. Wild dog of Australia: DINGO.
5. Supervillain Luthor: LEX.
6. Second sight, for short: ESP.
7. Dined at home: ATE IN.
8. 1990s presidential candidate: PEROT. H. Ross Perot (né
Henry Ross Perot; June 27, 1930 ~ July 9, 2019) ran for president in 1992 and
again in 1996. Just in case you weren't following the presidential races
in the last century, Perot's campaigns were unsuccessful.
9. Easy to set off: TETCHY. Don't think I have ever used
this word.
10. "Grease," for one: TITLE SONG.
11. "My take is ... ": I'D SAY.
12. "Reading in the Dark" Booker Prize nominee Seamus: DEANE.
I am not familiar with Seamus Deane (né Seamus Francis Dean; Feb. 9,
1940 ~ May 12, 2021). He is an Irish poet and novelist. Reading in the Dark was his first novel.
13. Three feet: YARD.
18. Baby-voiced red Muppet: ELMO.
24. Lack of difficulty: EASE.
25. "__ just me ... ?": IS IT. Is it just me, or is this a
Tuesday level puzzle?
26. Sunup direction: EAST.
29. Elastic bandage brand: ACE.
30. Looking sickly: WAN.
31. Artist Yoko: ONO. Yoko Ono (b. Feb. 18, 1933) makes
frequent guest appearances in the puzzles. She will be 90 years old next
year.
32. "Whatever!": LIKE I CARE.
34. Barnyard bleat: BAA.
36. Part of wpm: PER. As in Words Per Minute, which is a measure of one's typing skills.
37. Can. neighbor: USA. Hi, CanadianEh!
38. Future analyst's maj.: PSY.
40. Lass: GIRL.
41. Elena Delle Donne's org.: WNBA. Elena Delle Donne (b.
Sept. 9. 1989) is a professional basketball player. She plays for the
Washington Mystics.
42. Aviation pioneer Sikorsky: IGOR. I was not familiar with
Igor Sikorsky (May 25, 1889 ~ Oct. 26, 1972). He was born in what is
today known as Kyiv, Ukraine, but immigrated to the United States in 1919.
He is known for designing the first viable mass-produced American
helicopter.
47. Moves with the times: ADAPTS.
49. Forsaken child: WAIF.
50. American buffalo: BISON.
51. Apply to: USE ON.
52. Spy-fi great John le __: CARRÉ. John le Carré is the pen
name of David John Moore Cornwell (Oct. 19, 1931 ~ Dec. 12, 2020). He
wrote many, many espionage novels, but is probably best known for The Spy Who Came in From the Cold.
53. Go time, in military slang: H-HOUR.
54. Applauds: CLAPS.
55. Apartment window sign: TO LET.
56. Op-ed piece, e.g.: ESSAY.
57. Witherspoon of "Wild": REESE. Reese Witherspoon (née
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon; b. Mar. 22, 1976) has starred in many movies,
often rom-coms, but Wild was a 2014 biographical drama based on Cheryl Strayed's memoir of the same
name.
58. Tot's first word, maybe: DA DA. One word or two?
63. Act like a couch potato, with "out": VEG.
64. Poetic "before": ERE.
Here's the Grid:
חתולה
To the Houston contingency: If you haven't seen the Esher exhibit, go
directly to the Fine Arts Museum,! There are over 700 pieces in this
fabulous exhibit, including an optical illusion room!
FIRight. Tuesday is a simple ERA.
ReplyDeleteAdd-a-word theme. This was good, if you like that sort. But I almost never can get them. Today was no exception.
The TSAR had a neat IDEA
To make his LAND a panacea.
He'd TIDY up litter
The country would glitter,
And he'd mightily please Mother Gaea!
He kept an EXPERT EYE on the WITNESS
To judge his CHARACTER and fitness.
A FALSE testimony,
Full of bologna,
Could blow his case clear to Cygnus!
{B-, B.}
CAN I GET A WITNESS- I remember the Grand Funk Railroad refrain from "Some Kind of Wonderful" but not Marvin Gaye's. Very fast solve with a few unknowns.
ReplyDelete"28. "__ queen!": "Work it!": YAS. I am not familiar with this expression." Neither am I nor do I know of ANNE Burrell, Elena Donne (WNBA), or Seamus DEANE. Perps for those.
DISK or DISC- always have wait for the perps to get the last letter.
About halfway through the puzzle, I solved the reveal, and the gimmick became clear. There were a few words I didn't know, like "Yas" and Anne Burrell, but I'd say this puzzle was pretty much a walk in the park. FIR, so I'm happy.
ReplyDeleteGood morning!
ReplyDeleteWow, lotsa early birds today. Hand up for not being familiar with YAS Queen or TETCHY, but they perped in. Went sideways with SIs/SIB and AWay/AWOL. That's what Wite-Out's for. Finished in good time, while failing to read the reveal beyond "Marvin Gaye classic," and missing the theme entirely. Some things never change. Thanx, Julian and Hahtoolah. (Only a Mainer would appreciate "Baa Code.")
DISC Jockey: I'll take a CSO at that one. Tried that in my younger days, before I learned that working hours will be weird, pay will be low, and there'll be no such thing as a holiday. It's not a good career choice for a basically lazy person.
LEX and CAMEO: Made me think of Superman's nemesis Mr. Mxyzptlk. He wasn't evil, just a real pest. To make him disappear, you had to pronounce his name backward. Remember that?
Good Morning, Crossword friends. Glad I wasn't the only one unfamiliar with YAS Queen.
ReplyDeleteFunny, DO, about the Maine-BAA connection!
QOD: It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive, and you have the power to choose either. ~ Wayne Dyer (May 10, 1940 ~ Aug. 29, 2015), American motivational speaker
I have nothing to say beyond what was already said; it is impressive the puzzle was dissected so thoroughly this early in the day. Julian Lim used to be my puzzle nemesis.
ReplyDeleteAs far as YAS QUEEN apparently there is now CONTROVERSY .
Happy Woolworth's Day.
Thank you Susan and Julian.
Lemonade, is that Five and Dime (5/10)?
ReplyDeleteYou are a few months off, Lemonade. Woolworth's Day is February 22.
ReplyDeleteTETCHY is I assume just dialect for "touchy" though more commonly "Tetched in the haid" (touched in the head)
ReplyDeleteYes I'm too old for YAS queen.
FIR. But I really dislike "tetchy". Sounds like a caloquialism. . And what is "yas queen"? Are we just making things up now?
ReplyDeleteWhat does FIR mean
DeleteTuesday level but tricky.
ReplyDeleteSpelling Lee's first name was a challenge. The unknown YAS needed all perps.
I read 1890s and tried to remember the populist candidate that seemed to run every year.
Looks like they're making progress on the WNBAer arrested in Russia (Brittney?)
I would say Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; a great PBS series with Alec Guinness as Smiley. I liked the sequel "The Honorable Schoolboy " best.
No but I remember Joe Bltrsplk. We pronounced it Blittersplik
2/22 was Washington's bday and was a holiday and NE schools embedded it in their February vacation week
WC
FIR, but erased arose to LEAPT and dark for GRAY. DNK what others said, plus ENOKI, Deane, CARRE, HHOUR and Donne. I heard TETCHed (crazy) and TETCHY (on edge) a lot growing up, but I assumed it was hillbilly for "touched" and "touchy". Some also used "fit" as the past tense for "fight", among other amusing terms.
ReplyDeleteWaited for legit/LEGAL, and hand up for disk/DISC.
My mom would cook black eyed peas every New Year's Day. Maybe that's why I've long lusted for Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas. Don't know their music, though.
Thanks to Julian for the hard-for-Tuesday puzzle. And thanks to Ha2la for another fine visual treat. But I've heard that the only place you can find sheep in Maine is BAA Hahbah.
What does FIR mean
DeleteI believe it means finished it right
DeleteI finished this in 5:46, and that's a fact. (Fact witness?) (Anyone?) (Is this thing on?)
ReplyDelete"Tetchy" sure looked wrong, as did "yas". I also don't watch cooking shows (or food networks), so celebrity chefs are mostly unknown to me.
This ran smoothly - but started with a error - I put in "Where there's SMOKE..." instead of A WILL - but later corrected when there was no band SC/DC. Made me think of D-O.
ReplyDeleteI don't use the word TETCHY but I've certainly heard of it- maybe living just north of the Ozark mountains.
When CC made a wonderful crossword for my mom for her 90th birthday, YAS came up as a filler word - I ended up changing the clue to an abbrev for Young Adult fiction - known as YAs - because I knew she wouldn't know YAS in today's context.
Thanks Susan for the fun write-up and Julian on a Tuesday!
D-O that was my thought, and I had no idea there really was a Woolworth Day. I wonder what day is S.S. Kresge's? Burger Chef? Tetched and tetchy may be regional but they are in all the major dictionaries.
ReplyDeleteThe black-eyed peas TRADITION for for New Year's good luck is quite old. Eating Fergie sounds very DANGEROUS .
It's Tuesday so it didn't take so long to get a FIR. I wasn't familiar with the song so the theme puzzled me a little until I got the end word WITNESS. An enjoyable puzzle from Julian Lim. Thanks. I used to struggle with Julian's puzzles too, Lemonade.
ReplyDeleteYAS was a WAG but perps agreed on the spelling. My big slowdown was carelessly entering nAIF/WAIF which complicated seeing BOW, but that got straightened out about the time I thought of WNBA.
Quick as usual, DO, thinking of 5 and 10 for Woolworth's on May 10th! It should be their national day.
Don't be TETCHY (my favorite fill) today. We're going to have a pretty day here in Atlanta and I hope you do too.
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteThe theme was well hidden but the revealer placement diminished the surprise somewhat. I’d say there was some crunch for a Tuesday but that adds to the challenge. My only w/o was Lost/AWOL but I needed perps for Deane, Yas, and H Hour. No problem with Anne Burrell as I’ve seen her show many times. (It’s too bad that the Food Network has turned into the Foolish Network.)
Thanks, Julian, for a fun solve and thanks, Hahtoolah, for another gem of a write up. Many funny cartoons, as usual, but my favorite was the Neatnik Piglets. Will return to check out the visuals that didn’t visualize.
Have a great day.
Agree with most comments: didn't know yas, techy, Deane, Anne. But all in all doable.
ReplyDeleteBTW Elena's complete last name is "Delle Donne", two words like actress Jill St. John. She played basketball at Delaware before the WNBA
ReplyDeleteMy wife, whose grandfather was from Maine, used "het" as the past tense of "Heat" (so cold the car wasn't het up before I got to work)
Terrific Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, Julian and Hahtoolah.
ReplyDeleteI FIRed and got the WITNESS theme. Was LEGAL an Easter Egg?
Some areas with “older” style clues filled quickly; others with fill like YAS were slower to fill. We must ADAPT to the new ERA!
ANNE and DEANE perped. I have heard TETCHY, but not recently.
I thought of Free fall or fill before LAND perped.
My skies were Drear (wouldn’t fit) before GRAY. And of course, I wanted Grey, but that would have made USE neighbours instead of USA. (I am reminded of the picture book Between Friends/Entre Amis, published in 1976; the book was Canada's gift to the United States on its bicentennial.)
H HOUR was unfamiliar to me. What does the H stand for? I LIUed to discover that it is a “redundant acronym of hour”!?
We had ANG Lee and Stan Lee CAMEO, EASY and EAST.
I Smiled at TRUER under PROVE FALSE.
FLN, Ray-o- I looked at the trailer for that Mike Meyer’s series. LOL re the T-shirt!
unclefred- glad you got the meds and are recovering.
Wishing you all a great day.
What does FIR mean? It's been used in a few comments and I'm not familiar..
DeleteFinished it Right
DeleteDNK TETCHY, HHOUR, DEANE, YAS or ANNE, so took 21 to FIR. I even checked my online dictionary for "TETCHY" and sure enough there it was, so I guess it's a real word. Thanx JL for the fun, Tuesday level CW. Thanx Hahtoolah for your usual fun and entertaining write-up. As to the Covid, I'm feeling much better today, deep debilitating cough is gone. I test again tomorrow, as I'm testing every third day. The Paxlovid seems to be working. Just two more three-tablet doses. I need to look up how long to remain quarantined after testing negative. I think it's three additional days.
ReplyDeleteUnlike yesterday where Marie Kondo sparkedjoy in TIDYing up the puzzle, I nearly left a mess today till I WAGed the letter Y in TETCHY (WEES...one of those words only used as CW fill) and in YAS (double WEES: have NO idea what that is about) so a lucky FIR. Plus a clearly witless, sorry, I meant WITNESS theme. "Thou shalt not bear FALSE WITNESS against thy neighbour" but everyone else on the block is fair game? 😉
ReplyDeleteJust 5 individuals may soon decide what is LEGAL for the restivus. 😐
What a "Seamus" but I didn't know that authorus: needed a perpwalk. Elena Delle Donne (italian: "of the women"), needed perps but as a player in the WNBA has apparently the appropriate last name.
I see some cornerites like to beat their wPERm score. Witches' bouquet..a dozen "long stemmed mushrooms" 🍄
What our Chairman is known as in Castille...ELMO
Cellist's boyfriend...BOW
Back surgeon :____ jockey...DISC
John, looking sickly in Cancun....WAN
Knew it was H2LH from the first cartoon.😊
Did the puzzle on the back deck this morning: 70's and sun..🌞...off for a couple weeks.
Fun Monday puzzle to start our week--many thanks, Julian. And helpful and neat write-up, Susan, thanks for that too.
ReplyDeleteEverything fell easily into place except for that troublesome TETCHY and YAS crossing. Grumble.
But loved the theme and everything else worked just fine.
Have a great week coming up, everybody.
Hand up YAS QUEEN looked wrong. Especially crossed with sketchy TETCHY. Glad I was wrong to FIR. Enjoyed the theme because...
ReplyDeleteHere is my recent article "Can We Trust EYEWITNESS Testimony?"
The answer is way interesting and surprising. And important for our justice system.
Here I was with my DISC JOCKEY friend Darla Bea on Sunday.
Our dear friends Pali and Raven were getting married and it was a treat to have Darla Bea doing her professional DISC JOCKEY cool tunes!
IGOR SIKORSKY was one of my childhood heroes when I was into aviation. My cousin currently works for SIKORSKY Aircraft.
Thank you for your excellent discussion of current work on eyewitness testimony.
DeleteFrom Yesteday:
ReplyDeleteBill Seeley, Jinx, Subgenius Thank you for explaining HEAD to have that meaning.
Wilbur Charles Thank you for the "The Old Man in the Mountain" mention. Sadly, my first and only New Hampshire venture was a few years after he came down. Was this in reference to my non-BLUE COOKIE MONSTER? No one else mentioned it and it is quite a unique local feature!
Hola!
ReplyDeleteAn easy Julian Lim puzzle sounds like a contradiction! But it is only Tuesday so that explains it.
I LEAPT into action and finished it quickly with a CSO to my daughter who loves the movie, Grease!
SERGE was the material used for the nun's black habits back in the day. Eventually the western residents were allowed a GRAY orlon which was much cooler. But it took decades!
Now, of course, they wear modern clothes with one or two exceptions who still wear a complete habit.
Names like IGOR and ANG have become familiar crossword fill. I even recalled ACDC.
Thank you, Hahtoolah and Julian. Today started out with a bang for me.
Have a lovely day, everyone!
I'll check links later. I'm way behind packing and preparing for my upcoming trip. Old age is ______ (enter preferred term).
ReplyDeleteMr. Lim's PZL strikes me as well suited for a Tuesday. EZ, but also fun.
ReplyDeleteHahtoolah provides the perfect responses, starting with an old clip to prove there actually was a song, "CAN I GET A WITNESS."
(Those dancers! How did they avoid whiplash?)
I used to enjoy AC DC. I'm surprised to learn that despite death, dementia, &/or departures of most originals, Angus Young seems to be keeping a team going!
Whenever I see a photo of the last TSAR and his family, I feel a wave of sorrow.
What terror they must have felt in those last moments. Humanity is capable of such cruelty.
YAS QUEEN? I went with it. These days, Drag Culture is becoming mainstream, right?
~ OMK
____________
DR: Three diagonals in the shallow end (NW to SE).
The central diag is too vowel-heavy.
Turning to the bottom diag, we find a choice anagram (13 of 14 letters) that identifies a certain craftsperson who might provide hirsute support for a bald guy who's complaining loudly, even aggressively, of his condition.
I speak of...
"A YOB'S WIGMAKER"!
Anonymous@1:59 P.M. "FIR" means "finished it right" or, in other words, solved the puzzle "FIW" means "finished it wrong." For a complete list of abbreviations used at the site, please click on the blue "Comment Section Abbrs (abbreviations) under the "Leave your comment" section of this blog. FYI ("for your information").
ReplyDeleteEasy and fun early week puzzle. Thanks, Susan and Julian. Perps were solid. Theme was obvious.
ReplyDeleteMy typing is deteriorating fast, so my many errors bring down my WPM.
I see tetchy in novels quite often. Crossword puzzles often use nonstandard words, such as colloquialisms. No nit from me.
Yas, queen was new to me. Here is another point of view about cultural appropriation. From the beginning of time when cultures meet there has inevitably been mixing and sharing of practices, language and clothing. Except for some rare isolated aboriginal cultures all have been influenced by other groups. Most languages, including English, borrow and share words with each other, often changing them in the process.
OTOH
Puzzling thoughts:
ReplyDeleteFIW; my w/o was at 46-across: HRE/ERA
WEES - this was a solvable puzzle despite the intersection of TETCHY and YAS
It's interesting that in a few puzzles I submitted that were either rejected or sent back for revision, it was because of words I used that "are not in the language". I guess it all depends on whose language we're talking about! 😀
On a positive note, I doubt that words such as APSE, OTOE, ETUI, et al (oops, ETAL is still cool 😎) will be used in LA Times puzzles. As one of my crossword colleagues said, "ask your spouse or close friends if they've heard of this word, phrase, or acronym/abbr, or would use it in everyday conversation"
My one request to our new editors is that they try to avoid having new words intersect each other
Guess I'm being a little "TETCHY" today 😂
As IM pointed out, the reveal coming in the middle of the puzzle is anti-climactic, but Julian had no choice. No other place to use a 15- letter entry given the length of the other entries
Ray-O: EL MO! Love it
My "groaner" du jour: Are guys named SERGE subject to being profiled, and held as a material witness?
CMoe:
ReplyDeleteDouble groan! But clever.
Picard @12:52 ~
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed your essay on "EYEWITNESS Testimony."
I do wonder, though, if Wixsted's confidence in the first lineup takes into account the real possibility that the witness may already be "contaminated."
Surely, police procedures are not the only source of potential contamination. No one can say for sure whether or not a witness' life experiences have already predisposed him/her to mis-identify a suspect.
It would handicap our system too much to disallow eyewitness IDs, but I would hope additional evidence would be required, or that multiple unrelated eyewitnesses would be necessary for a conviction.
~ OMK
Normally,
ReplyDeleteI would not post if I could not add some silliness, or be informative...
(Not a Thumper, but lack of anything that would add, well, anything...)
But today, I am totally shocked!
OMG!
Yellowrocks used a hotlink!
In the ten years I have been here, I don't remember Yellowrocks using hotlinks.
Add8ng informat8ve grammar, yes...
(Dang I key slide=8, gotta fix that...)
In an essay on cultural appropriation,
Yellowrocks used a hotlink...
(My work here is done, )
(I can retire knowing I made a diffference...)
:)
I enjoyed this puzzle and had some of the same stumbles as some of you did. H HOUR is an expression that I am unfamiliar with. I learned something.
ReplyDeleteMusings
ReplyDelete-I wonder if TSAR Nicholas II had an inkling of what 1917/18 would hold for him
-I first saw YAS QUEEEN as fill when blogging a Chris Adams’ puzzle on the last Saturday in 2019
-Gary Lewis and the Playboys sang, “And if your baby's TRUER than my baby was to me. This diamond ring can mean something beautiful”
-More lyrics, “Rooms TO LET fifty cents”
-Resolved: PEROT’s 19% of the vote gave us Clinton in the ’92 election. Discuss…
-Someday I’m going to research how BISON became known as buffalo in America
Picard, I remember reading about an experiment done by a college prof, maybe in a law class. He staged a bunch of disruptive events to happen simultaneously. I remember that one event was having someone throwing a lot of coins around the classroom, but I don't remember the other events. He then interviewed the students separately, asking them to describe what occurred. The accounts were wildly inconsistent, and most descriptions were far from the actual event. The exercise was intended to demonstrate the limitations to eye witness recollections. I can't find a a link, but I think it was fairly well known.
ReplyDeleteHere's part of a lecture by a local law professor titled Never Talk to the Police. The version I remember was about 22 minutes, but this one is longer. I think it's worth a look.
FLN - It was too late to write a whole post when I got home. Here's all that was important: "Thanks DAB for the puzzle fit for Monday crossword FANs. Thank you Boomer for a delightful review; good luck this week. We'll all be thinking of you."
ReplyDeleteHi All!
Enjoyable puzzle, Julian; thanks. Wonderful review, Hahtoolah -- TRex 'clapper' cartoon was LOL. DW & I went to the Esher exhibit a few months ago. Folks in and around Houston - this is a once in a lifetime exhibit as the collector will be selling off pieces as this goes on - go see it.
WOs: dRAb -> GRAY, EASy -> EASE, CARRE, AAH->AAA->AAH [two H's in a row confused me]
ESPs: YAS, DEANE, ANNE (oh, her), SERGE
Fav: I trained Youngest to say DADA b/f MAMA just to make DW jealous :-)
{B+, A}
I had to Google 'Yob' to get the DR, OMK; cute.
LOL Material WITNESS, EL MO. //that was good Ray-O
BigE - Same here. Grand Funk Railroad played in my head when I filled 39a
Our house is in total disarray. We have out a handful of silverware but all of our appliances are lined up in front of the fireplace under plastic. And Eldest wanted a can opened... [it was H-HOUR]
Enter the trusty P38 Can Opener on my key-ring.
Cheers, -T
Hi Y'all! Thank you, Julian Lim, for the puzzle, the first of yours with which I didn't have to struggle! Mark my calendar. Enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteHahtoolah, thanks for another enjoyable expo.
I did not get the theme because I apparently never read the reveal clue. I remember doing all downs in that area and must have filled it that way. So Hahtoolah's statement of the theme was a surprise.
DNKs: WEES
I confidently put in "mama" before DADA because I think that is what most babies say first.
Lucinda: "Old age is HUMILIATING."
Record high 95 degrees here today. Turned on AC which brought the inside temperature down to a bearable cool 79*. I see the purchase of freon in my near future. Or possibly a new furnace/AC. Been having problems with both in the past year.
ReplyDeleteEven if you don't live near Houston, it's worth a trip there just to see the Escher exhibit.
ReplyDeleteThank you Julian Lim for a nice and crunchy Tuesday puzzle, that was very do-able abd I enjoyed it, very much.
Thank you Hah2lah ... your cartoons were a pleasure and a dead give away !
Not only do I learn something new, but it also tickles my funny bones ....
I was very familiar with Igor Sikorsky ... an immigrant who did good and succeeded ! Also proves that some foreigners, especially russians are great mathematicians and engineers... also I knew somebody who worked there and at United Technologies. I read a coupla biographies about him - Igor. The last name sounds kinda Polish or even jewish..
Not familiar with Yas Queen, which kinda perped by itself ... I figured it must be right.
I came to the blog to find out the reason ,,, but I have thank Lemonade for the answer ...
So, now we are supposed to be walking encyclopedias , and are expected to know LGBT language of POC ... people of colour (sic). What is next ... the complete lexicon in patois, polari, romani and the argot and lingo of Verlan ???
I remember reading the entire History of Thugs and Thugee in India - here, from Wiki and several pages of language words, only to discover several years later that the main concept was a concoction by british officials in the Raj, to justify their rule. also per Wiki article ....
I was going to add some MORE comments, but I got tied down with some work, and its too late now, so,
Have a nice day, you all, and the rest of the week
WEES!
ReplyDeleteI FIR, but I surely had to fight myself with YAS and TETCHY! I so much wanted to put in TOUCHY, but there was no way I could get there from here, so…. I had no problem with the theme and all the witnesses. Needed the usual perps for some of the names.
Thanks, Julian and Susan!
Susan, your Houston trip snuck up on me. If you are still in town, and if you are interested in some civilian/commercial aviation history, and if you have time, come visit the 1940 Air Terminal Museum. We are at Hobby Airport. I’m working tomorrow, Thursday and Friday. I’ve got a youth group coming in at 10AM Thursday (at least one of our volunteer pilots will be doing an “airshow” around 11AM), and a senior tour at 10AM Friday, but if you come by, we’ll take good care of you.
Hahtoolah - If you are into aviation or just fun history of early airlines (and the culture thereof), next time you're in Houston, hit-up LEO III.
ReplyDeleteLEO took BIL & me around 1940ATM and it was soooo cool. I even sent pic's to DW & BIL's aunt who was with PAN AM back in the day and she loved the trip down memory lane.
Honestly, I don't think I thank'd LEO enough for the tour.
Cheers, -T
PK:
ReplyDeleteRight now for me, old age is painful! I don't know why but anyone I have ever known who suffered from diabetes had problems with he right leg. Three people I know had that one amputated and I really, really do not want that. If anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate it.
Lucina, old age is painful for me and my brothers too. We have recently been discussing it at length. No, you certainly don't want amputation. I shudder to think of that for you. I had not heard of the right leg problems with diabetes. Prayers for you.
ReplyDeleteI will mention this because I had never heard of this type of pain management and someone may need to know about it. My daughter has suffered for years with severe fibromyalgia. She is now having injections deep into muscle nerve centers from a pain management specialist. Her whole outlook on life is much brighter.
PK
ReplyDeleteOne of my sisters and her daughter, too, suffer from fibromyalgia. Years ago when it started with my sister her doctor told her she was likely crazy! I would like to know more about that treatment so I can speak to her about it. Please e-mail me when you can.