Theme: "Stretches Across" - Time units are orderly hidden inside each theme entry.
26. *Terms for tenants: LEASE CONDITIONS.
45. *Question in a famous balcony scene: WHEREFORE ART THOU ROMEO.
68. *Southeastern evergreen that sounds like a college: FLORIDA YEW.
73. *"Tennessee Waltz" composer: PEE WEE KING.
95. *"Leave this to me": I'M ON THE CASE.
112. *Financial report section: QUARTERLY EARNINGS.
Reveal:
91. Schedule component, and what the answers to the starred clues literally contain: TIME SLOT.
A rare Sunday with left/right symmetry. Notice how most of the theme entries are odd-numbered?
I made this puzzle
for the Universal a while ago and I fully appreciate how difficult it
was for Roland to come up with those hidden time units. And in second to
year order. Just amazing!
Across:
1. Lake skimmer: JETSKI. Sparkly start.
7. Bitterly harsh: ACERBIC.
14. In flames: ABLAZE.
20. Free bakery treats?: AROMAS. Sometimes I open the fridge door
at the Asian grocery store just to smell durian. Ah, the hot summer
days in Guangzhou. Durian, lychee, fish in banana leaf.
21. "Orphan Black" star Maslany: TATIANA.
22. Prim partner: PROPER.
23. Uses a salamander, perhaps: BROILS. Not familiar with the salamander broiler.
24. Hand sanitizer ingredient: ETHANOL.
25. Glossy fabric: SATEEN.
29. "Great" detective of kid-lit: NATE.
32. QBs and DHs: ATHS. Athletes. Quarterbacks and Designated Hitters.
33. Winter coaster: SLED.
34. Kerfuffles: ADOS.
38. Prefix with tourism: ECO.
39. Back up: SAVE.
41. Refer to: CITE.
44. Stop dithering: OPT.
53. Emission from radioactive decay: BETA RAY.
54. Wrestling legend Ric: FLAIR.
55. NYC film festival locale: TRIBECA.
56. Actor Epps: OMAR.
57. Ocelot, e.g.: WILDCAT.
59. Harmon series: NCIS. Mark Harmon.
60. __-O-Honey candy: BIT.
62. Bud: PAL.
63. "Mudbound" director Rees: DEE. From Wikipedia: Her
achievements include being the first Black woman nominated for an Oscar
for adapted screenplay. We also have 94. "Queen Sugar" creator DuVernay:
AVA.
65. Bag-screening org.: TSA.
77. Run-down theaters: FLEA PITS.
78. Be a little shy?: OWE. Gimme for regulars.
80. Admit defeat: SAY UNCLE.
81. Fury: RAGE.
82. Test run: TRIAL.
84. Fictional sleuth Wolfe: NERO.
85. Well-known: FAMED.
88. Device that may display awkward moments on the jumbotron: KISS CAM.
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90. Abalone eater: OTTER.
99. Quick qualifier: IMO.
100. Court dividers: NETS.
102. Wear a long face: MOPE.
103. Not good at all: EVIL.
104. Radiate: EMIT.
105. Lugs around: SCHLEPS. Consonant-rich.
107. Sandwich letters: BLT.
110. Motorless aircraft: GLIDERS.
117. "The Night Watchman" Pulitzer winner Erdrich: LOUISE.
119. Marshmallow-filled treat: MOON PIE.
120. Bible book with 150 poems: PSALMS.
123. "__ Restaurant": classic Guthrie song: ALICE'S.
124. Quarterback who was MVP of Super Bowls XLII and XLVI: MANNING. Eli.
125. Pabst brand: STROH'.
126. Smartphone screen borders: BEZELS.
127. Supplemented: ADDED TO.
128. "For Your Eyes Only" singer Sheena: EASTON.
Down:
1. Snarky remark: JAB.
2. Drop the ball: ERR.
3. Excessively: TOO.
4. Graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier about a girl with braces: SMILE. This clue is very Patti. Even if you don't know the novel, the clue is helpful and you learn something.
5. Iron-rich leafy vegetable: KALE.
6. Rae of "The Lovebirds": ISSA.
7. Unsteady, quaintly: ATEETER.
8. "Coming at you!": CATCH.
9. Cultural values: ETHOS.
10. "Knives Out" writer/director Johnson: RIAN. Friendly letter combo. Just remember him.
11. Rock groups: BANDS.
12. How sun-dried tomatoes may be packed: IN OIL.
13. Pasadena engineering sch.: CAL TECH.
14. Lhasa __: APSO.
15. Breakfast cereal fiber: BRAN.
16. Much, informally: LOTSA.
17. Big monkey: APE.
18. Snooze symbol: ZEE.
19. East end?: ERN. Eastern.
27. London luxury hotel that opened in 1889: SAVOY.
28. __-proof: IDIOT.
29. Rookie, casually: NEWB.
30. Tooth trouble: ACHE.
31. Duking it out: TOE TO TOE.
35. Not imported: DOMESTIC.
36. Gp. with reserves: OPEC.
37. Ancient portico: STOA. Like this.
39. "Buona __": Italian greeting: SERA.
40. Over yonder: AFAR.
42. Go bad: TURN.
43. "Heart & Soul" country singer Church: ERIC.
46. Male sheep: RAM.
47. IRS convenience: E-FILE. Thank God for D-Otto.
48. The works: ALL.
49. "Gnarly, dude!": RAD.
50. __-tac-toe: TIC.
51. Swap: TRADE.
52. Kimono sash: OBI. Stunning.
57. Styles: WAYS.
58. Concert mementos: TEES.
60. Fave bud: BFF.
61. "__ be darned!": I'LL.
62. Hors d'oeuvres spread: PATE.
64. "Fargo" actor McGregor: EWAN. Scottish actor.
66. Weekly NBC show with a musical guest: SNL.
67. Go gray, maybe: AGE. I've been having white hairs in my eyebrows the past two years. I plucked them, but they grow back white again.
69. Burger order: RARE.
70. Apple TV+ device: IPAD.
71. "Comprende?": DIG.
72. Razzie Award adjective: WORST.
73. Nobel category: PEACE.
74. Needle hole: EYE.
75. Tip of the Alps?: EURO. Nice clue.
76. Macramé unit: KNOT.
79. Coin-in-a-fountain thought: WISH.
82. Sticking point: TINE. Fork.
83. Frilly trim: LACE.
85. Autograph hounds: FANS. Gary's son-in-law Brendon is an avid baseball fan.
86. "Sans" opposite: AVEC.
87. Test for solvers: MATH QUIZ.
88. Keystone figure: KOP.
89. Big D hoopster: MAV. The Dallas Mavericks.
92. Abu Dhabi ruler: EMIR.
93. Goes bad: ROTS.
95. Wow: IMPRESS.
96. Part of MVP: MOST.
97. Talk with one's hands: SIGN.
98. Orbital circuit shape: ELLIPSE.
101. Water channel: SLUICE.
104. Literary awards named for a Baltimore writer: EDGARS.
106. "The Joy of Painting" prop: EASEL.
107. Fair, in a way: BLOND.
108. Jeff of the Traveling Wilburys: LYNNE.
109. Lukewarm: TEPID.
111. Prefix with gram or cart: INSTA.
113. "Room" novelist Donoghue: EMMA. Wikipedia says "Room" is a finalist for the Man Booker Prize. Brie Larson won an Oscar for her "Room" role.
114. Map line: ROAD.
115. "It __ over till it's over": AIN'T.
116. __ Park: Queens area: REGO. Learned from doing crosswords.
117. Forensic facility: LAB.
118. World Cup chant: OLE.
121. Old conductance unit: MHO. Ohm spelled backwards.
122. ID with two hyphens: SSN.
Boomer had a full-body bone scan at the North Memorial on Friday. The result is not promising. Bad cells are widely scattered.
Tomorrow
morning we start our 5 sessions of daily radiation on his left shoulder
at the VA hospital in Minneapolis. Then we have one more CT scan on
Wednesday afternoon. We meet with his oncologist again on Friday and
Boomer receives his bone strengthener infusion afterwards.
The
good news is that Boomer's left shoulder gets better. He started to
type with his left hand again, though not for long, but it's a start. His PT lady is really good. We'll see an OT next Thursday.
C.C.
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteWas feeling pretty good about this one until coming here and learning Minnesota was a mess. I had TATYANA/RYAN. Bzzzzzt! D-o had even read the puzzle title and figured out the theme, though not 'til after finishing. Missed the reveal again, natch. The only Wite-Out moment was alcohOL/ETHANOL, also up in Minnesota. Thanx for the outing, Roland, and for the expo, C.C. (Good to hear that Boomer's shoulder is improving. The bone scan doesn't sound helpful. Best wishes to both of you as this adventure unfolds.)
DNF. Had two clusters, one in top center around RAIN/TATIANA, the other near the middle around DEE/EWAN/PEEWEE.
ReplyDeleteThanks to the title, I was able to catch the theme without much difficulty, but not soon enough to give me any help.
That TSA. You've got to hand it to them -- otherwise they won't let you on the plane!
FIW. The crossing of 2 proper names did me in, which i still hold is a no-no in puzzles. Had Ryan and Tatyana, Y for an I, because Rian looked so wrong. Didn't know either, among many unknowns in today's workout!
ReplyDeleteToday was smooth sailing from top to bottom, even finding the clever theme stretchers after the reveal's help. BUT, like DO and OwenKL, I had a FIW. C.C.'s review pointed out my errors: the RIAN and TATIANA crossing as well as the MANNING, LYNNE, and REGO combination. I should have gotten LYNNE (not Lynde) since we had the Traveling Wilburys video lately!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Roland and C.C., for today's puzzling activity. I enjoyed it.
Sorry to hear about Boomer's bone scan results. Hope his shoulder keeps improving and the new treatments help him. Best wishes.
FLN: As I mentioned before, I don't Google answers as I solve, but rather make my best guess and then read our excellent bloggers to see the answers. Careless mistakes not found during proofreading bother me more than not knowing proper names, etc.
Looks like a cooler week is coming. Much appreciated! Stay well and enjoy the end of June.
A FIR and it came down to a guess for the cross of two unknowns- TATIANA Maslany & RIAN Johnson- didn't think Tatyana was correct. As for the TIME SLOTs, I never noticed them.
ReplyDeleted-otto, Owen, & KS- my neighbor's sister(not brother) is named RIAN so I guessed I instead of Y.
BROILS- glad the perps were solid; salamander broiler was an unknown.
Great NATE, DEE Rees, PEEWEE KING, LOUISE Erdrich, SMILE, Jeff LYNNE, EMMA Donoghue, REGO Park, other unknowns perped.
FLEA PITS- never heard that term
MANNING- there's another QB besides Archie, Peyton, & Eli. Cooper's son ARCH just announced Friday he will go to Texas and be a longhorn.
DNF. After taking a couple of breaks and still being stumped, I looked up the complete Juliet line - I hadn't heard whereFORTH until today, at least I think I hadn't. That cleared up mistakes (areelin for ATEETER and thar for AFAR), I finished without error. I really didn't want to troll with a salamander, but BROIL seems worse. Oh, it's a device? Thanks, CC. Also erased act for OPT, noob for NEWB (aw c'mon - I just learned "noob" from recent puzzles), fighting for TOE TO TOE, and see for DIG.
ReplyDeleteThe WILDCAT that is the Kentucky mascot is the Lynx Rufus.
Gormet dining in Kentucky - An RC Cola and a MOON PIE.
When something is made IDIOT proof, they will just make better idiots. — Stephen Hawking
"Fave bud" has a different meaning in states that have legalized recreational pot use, and among the BFFs I used to hang out with before we knew we were BFFs.
ROTS in telco talk means "rotary outgoing trunk secondary". Obsolete now, like moi.
Thanks to Richard for another enjoyable Sunday workout. Some fresh cluing in that thar grid. And thanks to CC for explaining it, and for the Boomer update. Extra prayers to conquer the bad cells.
Sorry,
ReplyDeleteGot up late, just read last nites late comments and just had to add:
there was one time, when a really difficult puzzle saved the day...
Agree on NooB for NEWB, RIAN looks odd but TATIANA looks better with the I.
ReplyDeleteMack Sennett's Keystone police were actually spelled cOPS, but 100 years later KOPS is usually the learned spelling.
Tried FLEAbagS first but those are usually cheap hotels.
I guess I'm the site curmudgeon but:
ReplyDelete1. "Snooze symbol" is more than one zee. Why not "London zed" or "Zuider ___"?
2. ATHS is not an abbreviation for "athletes." It is for other words, mainly military.
Before I head to town (maybe) to get today's paper and attempt its old NYT puzzle (maybe)
ReplyDeleteMy unsolicited tuppence: 😐
As I read the bios and see the pictures of many of the youthful contructors. I understand the growing disconnect between them and many of us puzzle "doers" age and experience reflected in the clues
Plus I'm sure that when many of today's constructor back themselves into a corner with an answer like, I don't know, "NFSD"..all they need do is Google it and find some obscure matching clue. I Googled that and found National Field Service Desk so their clue would likely be "AT&T contact". How many of us would know that? Perp that with another similar obscurity and we end up with a disappointing FIW / DNF... and frustration.
In the Old Days a constructor would more likely realize NFSD is an unfair answer and would take the time and concentration to rework that whole section of the puzzle and replace it. (No data bases or Google available)
IMHO one of the justifications for editors is to see that the second and not the first option applies.
OK, that was more like thruppence😉
(ATEETER? Seriously) 🙄
It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...🌄
WHEREFOREARTTHOU, "MINUTE"? Conspicuously absent from the TIMESLOT progression.
ReplyDeleteGood one!
DeleteThought this was a pleasant and fair Sunday puzzle. Once I got going, the theme became obvious, and thanks for no circles to make it too easy!
ReplyDeleteFinished without grasping the theme. Last guess was whether is was gong to be an I or a Y at RIAN/TATIANA. Thanks for the update on Boomer. Please pass along our best wishes.
ReplyDeleteA nice Sunday puzzle which I managed a FIR in 34 minutes. WEES, I was tripped up for a bit on the TATIANA/RIAN crossing. I saw the puzzle title but forgot to look for the theme which I may not have gotten anyway without the dreaded circles. After seeing a Q and a Z in the same answer I checked for a pangram, but an X was not to be found. Thanx Roland for today’s construction.
ReplyDeleteC.C. ~~ thank you for your nice review and the update on Boomer. Was hoping for a better prognosis on the bone scan but will continue to keep him in my prayers.
Musings
ReplyDelete-The sequential gimmick jumped out at me and then helped on QUARTERLY EARNINGS.
-Unkown names resolved themselves. Pretty sure BEE BEE (B.B.) KING did not write that waltz. :-)
-I’d would have had a better chance with this U.S. Marine and spokesperson TATIANA
-Into each constructor’s life an “ATHS” must fall. No big deal.
-I remember my H.S. English teacher telling us that WHEREFORE is really a synonym for “why” and not “where”
-The hapless Washington Senators in Damn Yankess sang, “You’ve gotta have hope, Mustn’t sit around and MOPE”
-The “T’s” of our BLT’s are still green but getting bigger by the day
-I’m happy to learn BEZELS are part of my iPhone as well as my Apple Watch
-Many regretted going TOE-TO-TOE with Mike Tyson, especially early in his career
-My first principal told me, “I don’t like your teaching style/WAYS but doggone it kids learn science in your room”
Addendum
ReplyDelete-I had the most wonderful, albeit belated, Father’s Day last night. We met our daughters, their spouses (baseball fan Brendon was one of them) and our grandkids for a Lincoln Saltdogs baseball game in Lincoln. The weather was perfect and we had some great conversations and junk food while I think there was a baseball game in progress.
-I requested no gifts but my architect son-in-law knows the president of Nebraska Wesleyan University, Dr. Fred Ohles, and had Fred make up a personal crossword for me which I will tackle this afternoon.
I'm not sure if this comment will be published because there is something wrong with my phone, but I'll try anyway. I figured " Tatiana" would be more likely spelled with an "I" than a "y," so I avoided that mistake. And after I went back and looked at the puzzle, I saw the progression from "second" to "year." A clever theme. FIR, so I'm happy.
DeleteHusker "-Into each constructor’s life an “ATHS” must fall. No big deal." One must be careful not to fall on one's ATHS.
ReplyDeleteFun solvable puzzle. What I didn’t know, filled in with perps.
ReplyDeleteWhile I enjoyed the theme very much,
ReplyDelete(And had a good time)
I did get a nose wrinkle at "Aths."
Rather than say something negative, or take a thumper, I thought the best thing would be to rewrite that section, removing ateeter, names I never heard of, and change "aths" to something, anything, that was better...
(I couldn't)
(This is why I don't construct xwords....)
(Also, in looking for silly "aths" links, I found out it is "a thing.")
So, in trying to remain positive,
I must thank our constructor and editor for mentioning the Albanian Travel and Hospitality Service...
Sorry I could not be more positive,
but I have been in a foul mood lately, and posting silliness cheers me up...
CC and Boomer I am very sorry to hear the results of the bone scan. "It AIN'T over till it's over" is very appropriate. I am in awe of your positive attitude and we are all rooting for you.
ReplyDeleteTheme today was indeed clever and a brilliant construction.
Cross of two utterly unknowable names where one of them is a mis-spelling of a real name? Utterly infuriating. Had TATYANA and RYAN which seemed just a coin toss away from TATIANA and RIAN. Women are more likely to use "creative" spellings than men. This is why I have mostly stopped posting.
From Yesterday:
unclefred I actually did FIR yesterday with no help. But it was non-stop grumbling with all of the Natick clusters so it was not really a great feeling to FIR. Very sad.
Jayce summarized my feelings perfectly.
To end on a happier note, here I was unicycling in our Summer Solstice Parade yesterday!
This was the first time in three years and I was more than a bit nervous. It is the single biggest event of the year in Santa Barbara.
Here I posed before the parade with my DW and the artistic genius Pali who created our ensemble!
Very happy that all went well and the crowd was happy and energetic.
I had no problem with the Tatiana spelling since I know a young Ukrainian woman by that name and that is how she spells it.
ReplyDeleteCC. I wish I had just one white hair to pull out.😝
I hope you and Boomer continue fighting the good fight. You’re both an inspiration.
Have a good day.
Hi Y'all! Thanks, Roland, for a challenging but doable puzzle. Lots of unknown names, but they perped in mostly. I was doing a lot of downs to get the acrosses. I got the theme when I filled TIME, but had to wait for SLOT to become obvious. Enjoyed this one.
ReplyDelete1a wasn't Mayfly or kayaks but JETSKI.
Did MACRAME many years ago when I was pregnant with my 4th child. Husband said I was a "knotty girl" then. Never had time for knotting afterward.
Picard, got a chuckle seeing your pictures. Thanks for posting.
C.C. thanks for your expo. Still praying for you both. I know a couple people who had cancer in the bones then the bone rejuvenated and filled back in. We'll pray that happens for Boomer.
Hi everybody.
ReplyDeleteI have just read an extremely well written scholarly article about Originalism in which the author discusses the fact that, in order to interpret the Constitution strictly as "the founders intended," one must know what the founders intended. This requires a knowledge of history and of those times.
As I said, the article is very well written and I strongly encourage all of you who have an interest in jurisprudence and/or history (the article is not political) to read it. I have linked it here for your convenience.
Now I'll do the puzzle and seeya later.
The original link to ATHS might be a bit obscure.
ReplyDeletejust to prove I wasn't making it up...
Thank you Roland for a Sunday toil and struggle, but one over WHICH I ultimately triumphed, WHICH is more than I can say about yesterday's puzzle, WHICH I don't wanna talk about. The P&P was adequately perped and some was even crosswordese, so I was able to extend my streak to 1!.
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you C.C. for explaining the theme, which I didn't have TIME to figure out. And I couldn't find a place to fill it in anyway.
And thank you for the news about Boomer. He is one of the most courageous men I've ever known, and he is fortunate to have an equally courageous wife. As ever, you are both in our daily prayers.
Some favorites:
23A BROILS. Thinking that somebody was using "salamanders" for BAIT I had TRAWLS for fish for awhile Ultimately nothing in the NW worked with that. Teri had never heard of that BROILER either.
32A ATHS. Struggled with this, but then "DOH, QBs and DHs are abbrs dummy!"
52A BETA RAY and 104A EMIT. Were CSOs to Ray - O.
120A PSALMS. PALMS down they are they most widely read books in the Bible.
7D ATEETER & 40D AFAR. Struggled with 7D until I remembered that constructors are licensed to make any verb into an adjective by prefixing it with an "A". Some solvers would like to see that license revoked.
28D IDIOT. If a piece of software can be broken, this IDIOT will stumble upon a way.
52D OBI C.C.'s image reminds me of the last scene in Puccini's Madama Butterfly, just before "she dies with honor". No clip for that one as I'd end up bawling before I ever got it linked.
104D EDGAR. EAP was actually born in Boston (Hi WC!), but he is buried in the graveyard of the Westminster Church in downtown Baltimore, not far from UMAB where I used to work. For years a mysterious person would leave a bottle of Cognac and a single rose on his grave stone sometime around midnight.
76D KNOT. Here is a hanging planter I'm currently MACRAMEing. I've got it clamped upside down in a device I invented called a "macrame wheel" (analogous to a "potter's wheel"). The KNOTS that connect to the planter are called "larks head knots" and the rest are "square knots". This tool allows working WITH gravity, instead of AGAINST it, enables easy rotation of the work, and gives the knotter much greater control. The device facilitates the knotting of not just planters, but the construction of large clay and fiber sculptures.
107D BLOND. I have 4 sisters, and I'm the only natural BLOND in the family.
Cheers,
Bill
CED @9:02 AM Thanks for today's Yiddish lesson!
ReplyDeleteI rather enjoyed this puzzle even though I didn't see the TIME SLOT gimmick. Hand up for changing RYAN/TATYANA to RIAN/TATIANA. I'm not a fan of having unusually spelled names as answers, nor of having proper names cross each other. In this particular case, even though I did not know RIAN Johnson or TATIANA Maslany, at least the possible options for that crossing letter boiled down to just two, either I or Y. No alphabet run needed, just a coin toss.
ReplyDeleteMy other hand up for entering ALCOHOL at first and having to change it to ETHANOL. If I had three hands I'd put the third one up for also not knowing what a salamander is, but BROIL perped in. Wondering why "salamander" was not capitalized, as I expected a brand name would be, I looked it up and found most sites refer to it as a Salamander (capitalized) broiler. Other sites refer to it as a salamander broiler, in the sense of it being a type of broiler, not a brand name. Like convection oven or induction range. There are electric salamanders and gas-fueled salamanders. This is a true learning experience for me. I'll remember what a salamander broiler is, whereas I will very likely not remember, nor care to remember, how to spell RIAN Johnson's name, even though C.C. enjoins us to "Just remember him." Okay, maybe I will. But will I remember Ric FLAIR? Probably not.
Well, I have blathered enough. Good wishes to you all.
"Wherefore art thou Romeo", Juliet is askng why is he Romeo not where he is. As Romeo Montague (Montecchi, Mon-TECK- key) , he is a member of a feuding family opposed to the Capulets (Cappelletti). So... they got trouble, trouble in Verona city 🎵
ReplyDeleteThe 18th century founders intended muskets, slavery and no votes for women.
Well, my goodness, I managed to FIR this huge CW with 17 proper names W/O resorting to cheating or red letters. (I did it pen-on-paper). Took me 43 minutes, but I took longer yesterday to CHEAT my way to a finish. Picard, my hat is truly off to you for finishing yesterday's CW W/O cheating or red letters. I can't even imagine me doing that, even if I spent all day staring at it. Nice going, Picard! On today's CW, I did know about half the proper names called for. I have never heard the term "FLEAPITS"; FLEABAGS, yes. I did not see the theme today, but I think I would have, had I taken the time to look. Anyway, a nice feeling of accomplishment to get a FIR today. Thanx RH for the clever CW. And thanx C.C. for the terrific write-up. And thanx too for the update on Boomer. The bonescan does indeed sound problematic. I'm sure you know we are all of us on Boomer's cheerleading team.
ReplyDeleteFor us "old-timers" (i.e.solve in the newspaper using a magnifying glass) puzzles like today's are a drag, rather than a challenge. Juliet 's query "Stretches Across" ...WHAT??.Started with my breakfast coffee, skipped lunch and have to toss it so I can fix dinner. As I have suggested here before : Your editors are aiming at an ever-shrinking cadre of solving pros and, if they want to continue being employed, need to widen their world-view to include those who puzzle-solve to increase their vocabulary, not their knowledge of pop-culture. WAIT! Give me time to don my armor before you take your pot-shits at me!!
ReplyDeleteNeeded a nap before finishing the puzzle, but enjoyed it even though the long answers were real toughies and required help. But still a great Sunday, many thanks, Roland. (I almost spelled it Rowland, my sweet late husband's name). And thank you for giving us an update on Boomer's coming week. C.C. So glad his shoulder is getting better, and will continue to keep you both in my prayers with hope for good outcomes to the various difficult treatments coming up this week.
ReplyDeleteAROMAS was a cute answer for those 'free bakery treats.'
Another funny clue was that 'southeastern evergreen that sounds like a college': was it FLORIDA U? I think I got my undergraduate degree there.
Prim and PROPER was an easy match.
Isn't EVIL much worse than 'not good at all'?
But I'm glad we got a Bible book with PSALMS near the end.
Have a great week coming up, everybody.
Husker G @ 11:16 -- They sure don't make Marines like they used to. (Actually much better than those groady old gunnies.)
ReplyDeleteC-ed @ 2:13: Thanks for the infoATHSion. Now I know who to call when I go to Gjirokaster!
ReplyDeleteI changed the I in TATIANA to a Y to accommodate RyAN Johnson. FIW, one box. I see I'm not alone
ReplyDeleteJust right for an easy Sunday stroll with easy themes filling beaucoup boxes. I had MONTANA for the repeat MVP until I deciphered the Roman Numerals. Jeff LYNNE was known to me so Montana had to go. As a Pats fan Eli is a painful memory. I got to know his coach, Tom Coughlin, on Cape Cod in 67. Nickname was Ed
So now we know OTTERS sleep on kelp and eat abalone
Picard, great outfit, great time had by all but methinks that unicycle may be a tad uncomfortable, GONAD-wise
Boomer and CC sorry to hear the cancer has spread. My MRI showed benign although that word wasn't used. Prayer is best course of action.
WC