Come Out and Play: The word Play can proceed the first word in each theme answer to give us a common phrase.
17-Across. * Hunting-and-fishing official: GAME WARDEN. Play a Game, or maybe Well Played Game.
24-Across. * End a relationship: PART WAYS. Play a Part, or maybe Well Played Part.
35-Across. * Slouch: HUNCH OVER. Play a Hunch, or maybe Well Played Hunch. This phrase seems awkward to me, but it is legitimate idiom.
48-Across. * Adorn with lots of bling: TRICK OUT. Play a Trick, or maybe Well Played Trick.
And the unifier:
56-Across. "How clever of you!," and a hint to the first words of the answers to the starred clues: WELL PLAYED. I wasn't keen on today's theme. If you see some deeper meaning, please share. [Note: Thanks to Annie Kelly, the Unknown at 6:49 a.m., who helped with today's theme.]
Across:
1. Fail to interest: BORE.
5. Bundle of papers: SHEAF.
10. Needs no hemming, say: FITS.
14. "My life. My card" card co.: AMEX. American Express
credit card.
15. World Heritage Site in Jordan: PETRA. Petra is on my
bucket list. Maybe I will get there on my next trip to Israel this
Fall.
16. Law school newbie: ONE L. Also the title of the 1977
book by Scott Turow about his experience as a first year law student at
Harvard.
19. Just good enough: OKAY.
20. Sport that made its Olympic debut in 2021: KARATE.
Here is a fascinating history of Karate.
21. Personal histories: PASTS.
23. Supermarket conveniences: CARTS.
27. Poses a question: ASKS.
28. Tire filler: AIR.
30. Boot tip: TOE CAP.
31. Filmmaker Craven: WES. Wes Craven (né Wesley Earl
Craven; Aug. 2, 1939 ~ Aug. 30, 2015) was known for his slasher films.
He created the Nightmare on Elm Street films.
Sadly, he died of a brain tumor shortly after his 76th birthday.
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| Wes Craven, center. |
32. ATM key: ENTER.
34. Like voices after a loud party: RASPY.
37. Audition hopeful: ACTOR.
40. Lots and lots: HEAPS. // And 52. Lots and
lots: OODLES.
41. Mont. neighbor: IDA. Idaho is Montana's neighbor.
Hi, Montana!
44. Reacted to head scritches, maybe: PURRED. And yes, the word really is Scritches.
46. Most junk mail: ADs.
47. Amanda Gorman creation: POEM. Amanda Gorman (b. Mar.
7, 1998) was the first National Youth Poet Laureate. She delivered one
of her poems at the inauguration of President Biden in 2021.
50. "In what way?": HOW SO?
51. Pandemonium: CHAOS.
54. Start of a story: IDEA.
59. Like kids at a magic show: RAPT.
60. Luxury watch: OMEGA. I'm sure they are nice watches,
but I can think of better uses for my $10K.
61. Romance novelist Roberts who writes mysteries as J.D.
Robb: NORA. Nora Roberts (née Eleanor Marie Robertson; b.
Oct. 10, 1950), writes under several names, in addition the two cited in
this clue and answer. Some of her books are also published under Jill
March and Sarah Hardesty. I have never read any of her books.
62. "Let It Go" singer in "Frozen": ELSA. I saw a stage
production of Frozen just a few months ago.
63. Bicycle part: PEDAL.
64. Jury __: DUTY.
Down:
1. Duffel or tote: BAG.
2. Sushi experience curated by the chef: OMAKASE. Not a
Tuesday word. The word roughly translated means Chef's Choice. Everything you wanted to know about the Omakase experience, but didn't know to ask.
3. Comments: REMARKS.
4. Applies, as influence: EXERTS.
5. Petty quarrel: SPAT.
6. Attendance answer: HERE. Due to Covid, class size in my
yoga class is restricted, so we have to register in advance and attendance
is taken. Recently, the class just spontaneously began answering in
foreign languages.
7. Liftoff approx.: ETD. As in Estimated Time of Departure.
8. Tapas corncake: AREPA. Another non-Tuesday word.
Hi, Lucina!
9. Tribute pieces by devotees: FAN ART.
10. Shoes: FOOTWEAR.
11. Glands in squids and cuttlefish: INK SACS. Everything
you wanted to know about ink sacs in giant squids, but didn't know to ask.
12. Sweet __: TEA.
13. Crafty: SLY.
18. "Now, where __ I?": WAS.
22. Mall map units: STORES. Now, where was I?
23. Crow's call: CAW.
24. First word in many a baking recipe: PRE-HEAT.
25. Sharp bark: YAP.
26. "Harriet the __": kid-lit classic: SPY. Harriet the Spy, by Louise Fitzhugh was first published in 1964.
28. Novelist Patchett: ANN. Ann Patchett (b. Dec. 2, 1963)
has written many books. My favorite Ann Patchett book is Bel Canto, which was based on the Lima, Peru hostage crisis in 1996.
29. Symptom targeted by an oatmeal bath: ITCH.
32. "Mystery solved!": EUREKA. Do you think Archimedes was taking an oatmeal bath when he had his Eureka Moment?
33. Street: ROAD.
35. Cinnamon-y rice milk drink: HORCHATA. Definitely not a
Tuesday word. Hand up if you knew about Horchata.
36. Corp. execs: VPs. As in Vice Presidents.
37. Just right: APT.
38. Mean mutt: CUR.
39. Upper arm muscle: TRICEPS.
41. Words of gratitude: I OWE YOU.
42. Sweet course: DESSERT.
43. "Yo te __": AMO. Today's Spanish lesson. Hi,
again Lucina!
45. Some a cappella singing: DOO-WOP.
47. Central European country: POLAND.
49. "I'm here to help": USE ME.
50. "Good" cholesterol initials: HDL. As in High-Density Lipoprotein.
52. "Black Widow" actress Kurylenko: OLGA. Olga Kurylenko
(b. Nov. 14, 1979) is a Ukrainian-French actress. Black Widow was a 2021 movie based on a Marvel Comic superhero. We haven't
been following movie releases since Covid, so I wasn't aware of this movie.
53. Iridescent stone: OPAL. Everything you wanted to know
about opals, but
didn't know to ask.
54. Rage: IRE.
55. __ makhani: lentil dish: DAL. Looks tasty.
57. Acted as tour guide: LED.
58. Calendar square: DAY.
Here's the Grid:
חתולה
54 comments:
FIRight. Almost a DNF because I had no IdEa what DAL was, nor how HORCHATA was spelt, even tho I used to drink it.
The theme was inventive, but I didn't like it. And I even got part of it before the reveal (that it was something to do with play), tho I couldn't see how HUNCH fit in. Normally add-a-word themes are a single word, often as an affix. Today's needed a two word phrase, "PLAY A ____"
CSO to me at having the initials of my given names, OKAY, in the puzzle. Not sure if my doggerel would would qualify as real POEMS.
She wasn't very beautiful when she would HUNCH OVER
In fact, she WAS a witch, which that pose would cover.
An Adonis at the beach,
She swept right off his feet!
An hour was how long she made the HUNC HOVER!
WES WAS a terrible BORE.
He'd waste your time and more!
Only a KARATE chop
Could make his chatter stop!
When he woke he'd give an encore!
{A-, B+.}
I noticed the exact same "non-Tuesday" words as Hahtoolah. But the rest of the puzzle was easy enough. FIR, so I'm happy.
Good morning!
Is it really Tuesday? It took an alphabet run to get DAL, that gave me IDEA, and finally HORCHATA appeared. Whew! DNF avoided, but it was close. Thanx, Ella and Hahtoolah.
My thinking was using the whole answer to 56 across. Well played game, well played part, well played hunch and well played trick (as in Bridge). Annie Kelly
Good Morning, Crossword friends, and a special thanks to Annie Kelly who provided more insight into today's theme.
QOD: There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ~ Joseph Brodsky (né Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky; May 24, 1940 ~ Jan. 28, 1996), Russian-born recipient of the 1987 Nobel Prize in Literature
Took 7:16 for me to find this one not very well played.
Same comments for me as d-o (above). Dal? Horchata? Omakase?
I didn't know Ann or Olga either.
FIW, missing both Naticks PETsA x AsEPA and PURtED x HOtCHATA.
Never heard of "scritches". Who abbreviates Idaho "IDA"?
Sorry, I have to say my enjoyment factor with the LAT CWs has gone down significantly since Patti took the reins. I may have to expand my "no LAT" days from Friday through Sunday to Friday through Thursday. This puzzle had the makings of a very fun Tuesday grid, but a few entries degraded it into a "meh" experience.
Anyway, I like the J.D. Robb stories and used to listen to audio versions while traveling between Norfolk and Florida. Her heroine is Lt. Eve Dallas of the New York Public Service Department (NYPSD). Stories (titled "[Something] in Death") take place in the future, after the nation has recovered from the Urban Wars. DW can no longer follow the story thread, so we just listen to the radio these days.
Now that my 70th is in the rear view mirror, I am no longer required to perform jury DUTY in Virginia. Don't know about federal court, though.
My Michelins were filled by Costco not with AIR, but with nitrogen. Big deal. AIR is nearly 80% nitrogen anyway.
Thanks to Hahtoolah for the fun explanation of the puzzle.
Someone might have posted this one Sunday, but I since I was AWOL I thought I would post it.
Frank and Ernest on crosswords.
FIR, for a Thursday puzzle. Oh wait, it's Tuesday. So what are words like omakase, arepa, and horchata doing here? Is my calendar off by a few days?
Need the reveal answer to get this theme- I lean more towards OKL's interp of putting "play a ____" rather than the "WELL PLAYED ____" but either would work.
I had some switches in the beginning with slightly slowed things down REPLIES switched to REMARKS and Sweet PEA became TEA. PREHEAT was originally prepare, but all were switched by perps. My paper had a typo on 44A and had scritches instead of scratches that Susan had in her blog so it took me a second to think what that was
I like ANN Patchett as a writer - her most recent "The Dutch House" made for a lively discussion at book club. If any cornerites find themselves in Nashville - head to the bookstore she owns: Parnassus Books. It's in a very unassuming strip mall - but it is a book lovers' haven and the best donuts in Nashville are in the same location. She has many famous writers come to promote their books on book tours.
WEES about OMAKASE being a total unknown. I had heard of HORCHATA but need perps to have the correct spelling.
Thanks Susan and Ella- a second puzzle close to the other we solved by her!
My favorite quote from 28 down
“The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived.” Ann Patchett, writer b. 2Dec 1963
Good Morning:
Thumper and I are off to Petra to enjoy some Omakase Arepas and Dal washed down with Horchata.
OMAKASE and HORCHATA were all perps, new to me. ARAPA was all perps, but after seeing it, I realized I have seen it before. Tuesday level, except for these three words.
I know of DAL, but it, too needed all perps. V-8 can moment.
Like OKL and inanehiker, I figured that WELL didn't need to be part of the theme. What can be played? A game, a part, a hunch, a trick. Adding well to the theme makes it awkward.
Many people here hunch over their walkers. I realize that some cannot straighten up, but others stand too far back and so they need to hunch over. During my recovery I stood more forward and was conscious of keeping my shoulders over my hips and my chin up.
Sweet tea? No thanks. I'll have ice water.
PETRA is a sight to behold. I visited it twice.
Yikes! A silly mistake overlooked when I proofread gives me a FIW this Tuesday morning. I put sweet pEA and never looked again. My WOs were once/IDEA and TOEtiP/TOECAP. Perps fixed those. (I did wonder about tip when it was in the clue but dupes happen occasionally as we've seen.) There were some TRICKy clues and I needed the reveal to get the theme, but I enjoyed the effort to get this puzzle, Ella. Thanks.
Hahtoolah, thanks for your very helpful review. I learned a lot reading your links before writing my comment now. I had heard of OMEKASE, HORCHATA (was that on a puzzle recently?), and AREPA before so the words were somewhat familiar. The link on KARATE was interesting too as my grandsons studied different martial arts.
Hope you all have a sweet day and sip some TEA to stay cool!
Didn't know any of the 4 foreign words nor Scritches, in fact I had to capitalize the word to get my phone to print it in this comment.
Petra was also unknown.
IRISH MISS: I'll see your Thumper and raise you two Thumpers!!
Testing Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, Ella and Hahtoolah.
Officially a DNF because I hit a brick wall in the SE corner.
HORCHATA was totally unknown (at least the other unknowns, OMAKASE,, AREPA perped); I thought head scratches were what you do when puzzled, so that corner was in CHAOS.
But I did get the theme.
I knew DAL (but not that kind).
Break up was too short. PART WAYS FITS.
Mont.neighbor was not Sask. or Alta. but IDA. I should have known it was not a Canadian province by the missing U in neighbor!
Just right can’t be A OK because we already have OKAY. APT it is.
HEAPS and OODLES, CUR crossing PURRED were noted.
Canadians do not have the expression Sweet TEA. I have told you my Georgia sweet tea story before.
WELL PLAYED reminded me of a current AD for Rogers TV. “ Find Top Chef”. “ Well played.”
I can’t find a link right now.
Off to do some gardening.
Wishing you all a great day.
Sherry @8:47- I see that autocorrect changed my scritches to scratches too. Perhaps that is what happened to Hahtoolah.
Thank you Ella for a Tuesday toughie. There was some perplexing P&P precariously offset by some WELL PLAYED perps, so I managed a FIR.
And thank you Susan for another Hahtoolahian Hoot. Come June you're going to be a tough act to follow. I read the reveal as instructions to prefix the opening words in the thmers with "Play a" and the phrases seemed smooth enough.
32A ENTER. Nice piece of misdirection. Key anyone?
45A DOO WOP. Favorite clue. Here's a Billy Joel classic covered by a pickup group of DOO WOP singers.
62A ELSA. Everything I know about "Frozen" I learned from Cwds.
64A DUTY. Very cute clue. CSOs to Lucina, YR, and Misty? Did I miss anyone?
1D BAG. Best cartoon.
2D OMAKASE. Love sushi, but I didn't know this one and likely never will.
5D SPAT. Touché. Ouch!
28D ANN. In Patchett's novel Bel Canto about a real-life, terrorist hostage situation that took place in Peru in 1996. Diva Reneé Fleming was the inspiration for the main character, soprano Roxane Coss, a world-famous soprano. Here is an interview with Patchett and Fleming on NPR.
Cheers,
Bill
WEES..Seemed more like an end of the week puzzle, with HEAPS and OODLES of proper names not on the tip of my tongue: Patchet, Robb, Gorman, makhani, AREPA, OMAKASE ...Finally trying to cross "Cinnamon rice milk" with "scritches" not "scratches" (HORCHATA) 😠... I was stumped and DNF. Never worked out the theme. One Inkover: fanlit/FANART.
Only know ONEL from a puzzle months ago. Dogs "yip"..people "YAP" First words in many a recipe..."open the cake mix box"😁. Isn't POLAND an Eastern European country?🤔 TRICEPS: muscle with 3 heads, (BICEPS, 2 heads)
Make intuitive guesses about....HUNCHOVER
Bunny brew...KARATE
Sang popular rhyming music...RAPT.
H2LH ..Loved the carrion cartoon the best.😆😆😆
The word for 44-Across really is Scritches. Another non-Tuesday word.
This was a totally ego-crushing experience for me, with 8 complete unknowns, including the kid-lit and foreign food and beverage references. In general, I'm still trying to get back in the game, this one taking me over an hour to finish, including having come here to cheat on the last couple I simply couldn’t suss out.
Hoping to be better soon!
HORCHATA, OMAKASE, AREPA, FAN ART, TOE CAP? No EUREKA moment today. All new to me. A DNF on this puzzle before going to have surgery this morning to have a squamous cell tumor removed.
Amanda Gorman, Kurylenko, and Patchett were unknown but POEM, OLGA and ANN fit nicely.
OMEGA, ROLEX, ...etc. The more you pay, the less you get. I equate buying one of those with buying a mechanical adding machine and rotary phone.
Surprising Tuesday toughie, though I got a chunk without problems. So, thanks, Ella, and I liked all your pictures, Hahtoolah.
Hope that ACTOR gets HEAPS and OODLES of roles that he WELL-PLAYED.
NORA, ELSA, ANN, OLGA and IDA should get together for a TEA party, where they could eat DESSERT and recite a POEM or two from their SHEAF of papers.
(OKAY, I know IDAHO can't really join them).
Have a good day, everybody.
Aaarrggh. My apology for that miserable blank space at the end of my message.
Hand up I had no idea what to make of this theme. Hand up plenty of Saturday words on a Tuesday. Did not know: AREPE, OMAKASE, NORA, SPY, OLGA, ANN. I will consider the first two as learning moments.
HORCHATA I learned in a surprising way. We have a completely insane mass bicycle ride at the end of our annual Santa Barbara Fiesta. It involves drinking (not my thing) and passes through a wide variety of terrain for about a dozen miles or more. At one point, out in the middle of nowhere on a bike path to the University... a small stand with a family giving out free HORCHATA. It was apparently a gift from their little restaurant Del Pueblo Cafe.
Here I had my first taste of HORCHATA on this crazy Fiesta bike ride.
PETRA was one of the most memorably amazing places I have ever seen. I have shared a photo of us there before, but I will share it again for new people here.
Here is the most amazing photo of us at PETRA.
Hahtoolah I definitely recommend PETRA as a side trip from Israel. Only problem: We both had a lingering cough after our experience there. Not sure, but it may have been from the camels.
Hola!
Thank you, Ella and Susan for the entertaining experience today!
This took a tad longer to solve though I'm not sure why.
PETRA is certainly an unusual site to tour and I'm so glad I did it when I could still walk! These days I'm sure it would be a great challenge for me.
Though I've seen HORCHATA in STORES, I have never tried it. And I'm not sure about AREPA either. But thank you for the CSO, Susan.
IDAho is one state I've never visited and now I'm not sure I can complete all 50 which has been my long time goal. Those other northern states, Michigan and Wisconsin as well as Florida will remain unknown to me. Also the rest of Canada; I've been to the far east, New Foundland and west, BC and Vancouver Island, but not the center of that country.
I'll take another CSO at TRICKOUT because I really like bling!
Both ANN Patchett and NORA Roberts are among my favorite authors.
In AZ, age 75 is the cutoff for Jury DUTY.
Enjoy your day and be well, everyone!
From Yesterday:
Bill Seeley, ATLGranny, LEO III Thank you for the kind words about my video of the young ladies who CAN CAN CAN. To be clear, this was here in Santa Barbara, not France. I have another video of even younger ones!
ATLGranny, Jayce, Wilbur Charles, AnonT Thanks for the printing mess comments. Wilbur Charles may be onto something: If you are able to print OK, is it from the actual LA Times site or is it from another site?
To be clear: The problem has nothing to do with my printer. Changing margins or other printer settings is irrelevant. The problem happens in the print preview even before I select which printer to use. It seems to be a problem with the LA Times web site.
While visiting PETRA and afterwards, I had no lingering symptoms. It was, however, cold and I did not dress warmly enough. That was in March.
DNF, for the same reasons already mentioned, though I did get the theme right away. It is quite humbling to realize how out of touch I am with new foods and drinks. As consolation, I hope to get head scritches today. I see spell check doesn’t recognize that word.
Tricky little devil today. I may have FIW 'ed in the wilds of Natick (downtown Framingham?) C. Below. Let's read hahtoolah
There it is. I thought PLAYing Card Co. So AMEX was out. Duh, Credit card. And naturally O"M"AKASE was UNK. At least AREPA was perpable ( as was HORCHATA)
I just dreamt up a web site called WWHIST but now I can't remember the acronym. I bet others in here never needed to write things down. Now…???
Why did I come to this room?
10k. A $20 bet on Mito Perriera was looking like 10k until…
Hahtoolah, I love your write-ups and illustrations but the English Major Jury was LMAO(ntso the dogs water bowl)
Theme, including "PLAY a HUNCH was inventive IMHO
and I see Unknown groked the TRICK
Two W's + today, OKAY
Jinx, I loved F&E. Solution to pop-cul madness? Natick # FIW. FIR for me today.
Inane, no typo. It was "Scritches". Hahtoolah corrected late I see
Canada, tell us the Georgia Sweet TEA story again over at the J
WC
Amazing to say the least, Picard. Was your unicycle skill helpful on that camel?
Lucina Did you ride any camels at PETRA? We were there in July. Very hot and dusty. Could have been the dust, too.
Wilbur Charles Not sure if the unicycle skills helped much. I had very limited experience on other animals ranging from ponies and horses to elephants. I liked that the camel's long legs made for a smooth ride. DW has more experience riding animals.
Puzzling thoughts:
IM @ 8:29 and Token Creek @ 9:16: May I join you both, and Thumper today?
When I saw this was an Ella Dershowitz puzzle I knew there'd be some unusual and infrequently used words. Do you recall from a few Saturday's ago her trio of UPCYCLED, COG SCI, and STREET MEAT? Those are actually tame compared to OMAKASE, AREPA, PETRA, DAL, and HORCHATA
Jinx, I may have "jinxed" it for all of us when I erroneously commented yesterday that Monday puzzles have become harder than Tuesdays
I will say - out loud - that this coming Friday's puzzle won't be as difficult to solve as today's. So if anyone is reading this, please try the puzzle and stop back to comment. I don't know if the editors mistakenly switched the dates ...
Susan, you're the best! Great recap as always - your cartoons and images are superb
Musings
-Got in 18 holes on a cold drizzly day.
-HORCHATA, OMAKASE, DAL and obscure people from the arts? Patti seems to be on a misson.
-BORE – Our clergy can’t seem to “read the room” that is far from RAPT!
-PETRA emerged from my subconscious to get AREPA
-CHAOS Theory
-This list of 10 greatest DOO WOP songs works for me
Picard - (techies in the Corner please fact-check this)
If you are using Windows 10/11, you won't get a print preview unless you have a printer selected. You can CHANGE the destination printer in print preview, but there will be SOME type of printing device set, ether an actual printer or some kind of file like a pdf, when you see the preview. Windows doesn't know how to render a print preview unless it knows the destination printer's settings.
BTW, I have had trouble with old laser printers and complex drawings. If the printer doesn't have enough memory to capture the complete page it will print oddly, like a blank or partial page. This isn't a problem with ink jet printers. Drawings, including crossword puzzles, are much more memory intense, because instead of just getting ASCII characters the printer must handle graphics that are in vector or raster format. Can your printer handle full-page .bmp images?
A fine PZL from Ms. Dershowitz, with a good, detailed response (and the cleverest cartoons) from Hahtoolah!
Write-overs included TEA/PEA, YIP/YAP, and especially IDA/NDK/NEB!
And, yes, HORCHATA was new to me--and may be quickly forgotten.
~ OMK
____________
DR: Only two diagonals, one per side.
The near side has only two vowels, yet it yields a solid anagram (14 of 15 letters), a reference perhaps to so much of today's popular "music."
To my 20th century ear, so much of today's song is lacking in melody. It tends to pound on at length, in unvarying and...
"ABYSMAL RHYTHMS"!
Jinx Thank you for your print comment. Yes, but... No matter which device I pick for the print preview, it shows that same corrupted mess. I never print directly to my printer (which is a brand new HP M454dn). I always print first to a PDF.
The same problem appears no matter which of these print destinations I choose:
Save as PDF
Adobe PDF
HP M454dn
OneNote
Microsoft XPS Document Writer
Microsoft Print to PDF
FAX
Epson WF7840
That is why I am curious if anyone is able to successfully print from the actual LA Times page below?
https://www.latimes.com/games/daily-crossword
Picard, I cut and pasted the URL you gave. When the site came up, I chose today's puzzle.
When the puzzle came up, I chose print. TADA. My printer (WF3820) is always connected to my computer, so I can print directly. No other steps.
Moe @ 1:52 ~ Thumper and I would be delighted to have you and Token Creek join us! 🐇
Picard @2:53 PM I am able to print from the URL you posted over an Ethernet connection to my HP LJ PRO MFP M281.
When I click on the puzzle page's "Print" (located between "Check" and "Settings") I get the same large-squares/small-squares goof-up that you get, Picard. I also get the same goof-up when I use the browser's Print function. As in your case, it makes no difference which print destination, font size, etc. that I select. I do not know why. (Windows 10 version 21H1, HP 8600 Officejet Pro.)
As for the puzzle, I choked on AREPA and it appeared only via all 5 perps. Only after filling OMAKAZE from the perps did I realize that by shear serendipity I recognized it because we had just been out for sushi last weekend and that was one of the options on the menu. I also never heard of HORCHATA, which took all 8 perps to fill, and it is highly unlikely I will remember it.
In spite of that, I found the rest of the puzzle to be relatively neutral, i.e. I didn't particularly like it or dislike it.
I well remember Amanda Gorman from the outstanding reading of her POEM she gave at President Biden's inauguration.
A few random and meandering thoughts about KARATE:
It is the same as Chinese "Kung Fu," both terms translating to "empty hand." The Japanese word TE (hand) circles me back to the discussion of MAKI the other day, because another form of sushi is called TEMAKI, meaning "hand wrapped" (as opposed to wrapping it with a roller mat). These are the ones that are cone shaped.
Also from the other day, I learned that Michelle YEOH took that stage name from her mother's name, which was Janet Yeoh.
Good wishes to you all.
Re: Omakase ... the dietetic equivalent of Kamikaze?
HuskerG -- Thanks for the Doo-Wop list; knew the words for all 10.
Picard - Yes, I just verified that I can print by copying and pasting the url you listed. It reroutes me to https://cdn4.amuselabs.com/lat/crossword-pdf to do the actual printing, but most folks probably don't even notice that. I connect to my printer via WiFi from my laptop to an HP M203dw at home, and when I'm in the motorhome, via a USB cable on an HP M14 PCLmS. Both are monochrome laserjets.
Picard:
No, I did not ride camels when I was in PETRA. However, I did ride one on a previous occasion while visiting Morocco. If ever I learn to post photos I will do so as I have one from that time. Likely my granddaughter knows how so I shall ask her to teach me. She is traveling at this time so it will have to wait on her return.
Jayce said, "I get the same large-squares/small-squares goof-up that you get, Picard." Me, too, but eventually I tried ignoring it and carried on and it worked okay.
Hi Y'all! Okay puzzle, Ella, thanks. Great expo, thanks, Susan.
I PLAYED around with the theme until I got it.
I've read NORA Roberts & ANN Patchett, but not recently. I liked NORA's romance novels but not her other stuff.
DNK: OMAKASE, AREPA, FAN ART, HORCHATA, AMO, DOO WOP as clued, OLGA. If it doesn't come in Stouffer's frozen dinners, I probably haven't eaten it recently.
This is Tuesday???
Hi All!
Big Fat Fail. DNF - I had no IDEA that would 'start a story', DAL, nor the rice-milk. I also had the 'R' missing from PETRA | AREPA crossing.
Thanks for the puzzle Ella - cute theme. Thanks for the expo, Hahtoolah. You turned my DNF frown upside down with all the cartoons.
This is Ella's second puzzle - HG got the inside baseball May 7th.
WOs: obiTS -> PASTS, FOOTgEAR
ESPs: [see: DNF], OMAKASE, ANN, OLGA, POEM (as clued), NORA
Fav: OODLES is a fun word
{A-, A}
LOL DR, OMK.
FLN - Michael: you nailed it with the latter. He was very anti-war. I mean I'm a peace-nic too* but, com'on man.
Fun Frank & Earnest, thanks Jinx
Cool pic of PETRA Picard. Maybe I'll remember it now.
Re: Printing - I can't recall if you said you've tried different browsers. I always use Chrome when I need to print the puzzle.
When I was in Giza at the pyramids my buddy (from Cairo) said not to do the camel ride. "
It costs $5 to get on and $50 to have the handler get the camel to kneel so you can get off."
Cheers, -T
*that's why my MOS was 92B - medical lab tech. Figured, I'd never have to shoot anyone in the lab -- except with a vaccine :-)
FIR in 28 minutes! That took some time for a Tuesday, huh? I only knew HORCHATA and AREPA due to my lovely sister-in-law being Columbian.
Thank you for this interview about healing.
Wednesday was slow going for me. Finished in the early pm. Theme is helpful
As inanehiker said, ANN Patchett wrote The Dutch House. And YR, told us about Bel Canto somewhere in the distant past, and I read it too. Thanks for that interview link, waseeley.
Speaking of NORA Roberts, I had an ad today for her new release, Nightwork.
Picard-thanks for the photos. I’m glad somebody knew HORCHATA today. PETRA and camels would be quite an experience.
waseeley- 62A ELSA. Everything I know about "Frozen" I learned from my granddaughters
WC- Sweet TEA story is now on the Jumble site.
C, Eh! LOL wanting Hot TEA in the south [yes, I went to the J].
My first night in the South (I was 14yrs old) was having dinner with Pop & Bro at a Shoney's in Shreveport, LA.
The pies were huge, the TEA was sweet, and the waitresses even more so...
Cheers, -T
I remember Shoney's! They were in North Carolina, too. That and Hardee's!
Forgot to add that camels are smelly! Such a STENCH! If anyone recalls my story of how I almost got detained in Spain after riding camels you can understand why since I did not have time to clean myself up.
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