This is Barbara Lin's second visit to the LA Times. Her first was published
on
Tuesday, May 5, 2020 and was blogged by the little lady, whose big shoes I'm trying to fill
today. At last count Barbara has also had seven puzzles
published in the
New York Times, including one on a Sunday.
We often have fill for individual parts of the body's visual system, but today Barbara treats us to a comprehensive
EYE EXAM
This puzzle was actually quite easy to solve, but it was a bit of a camera obscura when it came to the theme: no stars, no circles,
no explicit reveal, and only a peppering of question marks in a
couple of short Down clues: a real
AnonymousDNLC delight.
However following the rule
that themers are generally the longest fill in the puzzle, we discover
the five following words and phrases, which have literal meanings, but
also a trailing word that is a component of the EYE. These are highlighted below in RED:
17A. Spring flower painted by van Gogh: PURPLE IRIS.
Vincent van Gogh
made several paintings of purple irises. This one, called simply
Irises, hangs in the Getty Museum in Los Angeles:
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| Les Iris |
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| Iris |
25A. A-plus student: STAR PUPIL. You know, the smartest kid in the room. She knew all the answers. And I'll bet she's having a great time in Europe! The PUPIL is a black hole located in the center of the iris that allows light to strike the retina at the back of the eye, the gateway to the brain.
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| Pupil |
34A. Hard-to-open cap: CHILD PROOF LID. I'm convinced that packaging engineers consider themselves a failure if you can actually open their product. If you have this problem, try this product. It has made a world of difference for us.
An EYELID is a thin fold of skin that covers and protects an eye. Also the location of this common crossword puzzle disease.
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| Eyelid |
48. Coffee order similar to a latte: FLAT WHITE. A barista often uses cream to create a swirly design on top:
"You wish".
The Sclera is commonly referred to as the WHITE of the eye, as in "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes":
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| Sclera |
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| I'm clean! I'm clean! |
An eyelash (also called LASH) (Latin: Cilia) is one of the hairs that grows at the edge of the eyelids. It's principle function is to protect the eyes from dust and other debris:
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| Eyelash |
As a part of her review of this review, Teri suggested that 64A Cry: WEEP, be considered a themer, as tears are a function of the eyes' tear glands, a.k.a. the lacrimal glands:
Here's the grid:
Before proceeding to the rest of the clues, you need to complete this test:
1. Peruvian people who cultivated potato varietals: INCA. The real word on Incan potatoes. Also a clecho to all the theme clues:
10. Puzzle that may have dead ends: MAZE.
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Hahtoolah and her hahtoolah |
14. More than a snack: MEAL.
15. Words to live by: CREDO. Today's Latin lesson: "I believe". Living by those words is a lot harder than merely believing them.
16. Emotional request: PLEA. I'll bet Hahtoolah has heard a lot of pleas in her time.
19. Feminine pronoun: HERS.
20. Like one's back during cat pose: ARCHED.
21. Throw shade at: DIS.
23. Finger food at luaus: POI.
24. "Mossy, bossy" Seuss character: LORAX.
There really was a LORAX you know. Also did you know that
the Lorax was actually banned in California in 1989?
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28. Amtrak sta. times: ETAS. The operative word here is "estimated".
29. Slot in a cash drawer: ONES.
30. Twisted humor: IRONY.
31. Female sib: SIS. I have four, plus Teri, whom the others consider the fifth sister.
32. "East of Eden" director Kazan: ELIA. Elia Kazan, born Elias Kazantzoglou (Greek: Ηλίας Καζαντζόγλου); September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was an American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history". Plus 3 out of 4 letters in his first name are vowels!
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39. Air gun shot: BBS. So what is a BB? Since Hahtoolah isn't here to explain the legal issues, here are the go to guys.
40. Jazz singer Anita: O'DAY. Oh goodie, music! Anita Belle Colton (October 18, 1919[1] – November 23, 2006), known professionally as Anita O'Day, was an American jazz singer and self proclaimed “song stylist” widely admired for her sense of rhythm and dynamics, and her early big band appearances that shattered the traditional image of the "girl singer". Here she's singing "Honeysuckle Rose" by Fats Waller (Lyrics):
41. Op. __: footnote abbr.: CIT. More Latin.
43. Diet based on the eating habits of early humans: PALEO. The ultimate in retro:
47. Mexican coin: PESO.
50. Not quite foggy: MISTY. A CSO to our Misty.
51. Post-op area: ICU. Intensive Care Unit. I had a minor operation recently, after which I was cared for in the PAU, "Post Anesthesia Unit".
52. __ card: smartphone need: SIM. The subscriber identification module.
53. Lively dances: POLKAS. The polka is originally a Czech dance and a genre of dance music familiar throughout all of Europe and the Americas. This one originated in Scranton, PA, about an hour and half from Teri's home town of Shamokin.
54. Novelist __ Neale Hurston: ZORA. Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays. For a woman who died in 1960, it is unusual to have to have her own Facebook page and an active website, clearly evidence of a dedicated following. Her last novel, Barracoon, was published in 2018.
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60. Gabrielle of "Being Mary Jane": UNION. Being Mary Jane is an American drama television series starring Gabrielle Union, that debuted January 7, 2014 on BET. The series followed the professional and personal life of successful TV news anchor Mary Jane Paul, who lived in Atlanta, Georgia and New York City. The series concluded on April 23, 2019.
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Gabrielle Union |
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Otto Preminger |
* we hear this 3 or 4 times a week. I've got it memorized.
63. Trivial, as a complaint: PETTY.
Down:
1. Sticks a stake in, as a vampire: IMPALES.
3. Dramatic end of a cinematic chase scene: CAR CRASH.
4. Socially dominant figures: ALPHAS.
6. __ Lanka: SRI. Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia. It's also a stand-in for the film locale of the series The Good Karma Hospital, supposedly set in India. Season 5 can't get here soon enough for us. Here's the trailer for the first season:
7. A pop: PER. EACH.
8. Athletic brand with a three-stripe logo: ADIDAS.
9. Deferential denial: NO SIR.
10. Dashboard abbr.: MPH. Miles Per Hour.
11. Pepper named for a Syrian city: ALEPPO. The Aleppo pepper is a variety of Capsicum annuum used as a spice, particularly in Turkish, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisine.
12. Focus (on): ZERO IN.
13. With very little effort: EASILY. This puzzle was solved EASILY.
18. Luthor of the comics: LEX. Everything you want to now about Lex.
22. Looking swell: SPIFFY. The Oscar and Felix of the toon world.
25. Short cut?: SNIP. The Windows clan of the blogger team uses Snip and Sketch for screen grabs. The Apple clan probably uses something similar.
26. Save, as a newspaper article: TEAR OUT.
27. Eurasia's __ Mountains: URAL.
29. Alero automaker, informally: OLDS. Years ago I had a gig working in Normal, Ill (imagine that) and I always got stuck with the last car on the rental lot (reserved especially for me I'm sure), a purple Alero, which I took to calling BARNEY. Looks like it's still there:
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32. Macaroni often used in cold salads: ELBOWS.
33. Zoo trench: MOAT. Not the Crossword Gary Larson:
35. "Yeah, sure": I BET.
36. Dog that licks Garfield: ODIE. Couldn't find one of ODIE actually licking Garfield, but this one was close:
38. Aversion: DISTASTE.
42. Place to buy gifts for kids: TOY SHOP. Teri can tell you all about this.
43. Vaccine manufacturer: PFIZER. So yesterday. Here's the latest on the new Novavax vaccine.
44. Tucked-away recess: ALCOVE.
45. Bay leaf source: LAUREL. Here is some Mountain Laurel growing in the woods behind my son's home:
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| Mountain Laurel |
46. Gymnast Biles who won four gold medals in Rio: SIMONE. Simone Arianne Biles (born March 14, 1997) is an American artistic gymnast. Her seven Olympic medals tie Shannon Miller for the most Olympic medals won by an American gymnast. She is considered one of the greatest and most dominant gymnasts of all time:
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49. Ask for a donation: HIT UP. My favorite radio station HITS UP its listeners for donations two or three times a year. During their on-air fund drives, you can remain anonymous when they announce your contribution. They literally get donations from all over the world. In fact you can donate any time by clicking on this link: www.wbjc.com (tell them Bill sent you).
50. "Calvin and Hobbes" bully: MOE. Not our Chairman! But this troll:
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| Not our MOE |
55. "__ takers?": ANY. "C'mon, gimme your best shot!"
57. Trivial complaint: NIT.
58. Received: GOT. Hand up from anyone who GOT any other 3 letter fill for "Received"?
That just about wraps it up ...
וויליאם א סילי
It seems that it's difficult to translate proper names into Hebrew. If you
take the trouble to translate that back into English you'll find an
adjective that people have been calling me for years, but it's certainly not the
worst.
waseeley
And as always special thanks to Teri for proof-reading and for constructive
suggestions.
Cheers,
Bill
Note from C.C.:
Boomer and I made today's Universal crossword, edited by David Steinberg. You can click here to solve on line.
I have to admit, until I got to this blog, I had no idea what the theme was. That said, the puzzle itself was not a difficult solve. FIR, so I'm happy.
ReplyDeleteI'm an early bird this morning because I was tired and retired too early last night, and of course was awake at 3:30 am. Mondays are busy for me, so I rarely get the CW done. As a result, I did both it and today's this morning. I still had to cheat a bit checking the blog for a couple on yesterday's but for today’s, I managed on my own. A first for me since I started puzzling again. I still have a lot to catch up on, but I'll get there. I can't remember how long it took me back in 2008 when I first discovered CC's wonderful blog!
ReplyDeleteSubgenius,
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry if I missed your reply to my earlier query, but I can't help wondering about your koala logo. Are you an Aussie like me? I've lived here since 1974, but still my radar goes up whenever I see reminders of home.
No, Kazie, I'm not. Not having a computer of my own, I had limited choices when it came to picking an avatar. The koala seemed the best of those choices to me, for a variety of reasons. Sorry if I mislead you!
ReplyDeleteFIRight. Close to a traditional Tuesday difficulty.
ReplyDeleteWe have a mole. I don't know who this B.Lin person is, but she stuffed SO's (not CSO's) to at least 4 cornerites: CCed, MISTY, MOE, OTTO. And without naming names, we have a few NEUROTICs. Did I miss anyone?
The theme was an EYE opener! Bland, but well executed. Good!
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteOnly needed my trusty Wite-Out to change Zoom to ZERO. Enjoyed the romp, noticed the eye parts, so d-o actually got the theme. Didn't notice the reveal, though. Thanx, Barbara and Waseeley. (Couldn't translate your Hebrew -- the definition came back in Hebrew.)
ETAS: One thing I still recall from a 1969 visit to Japan was that the trains all ran on time -- right to the minute. Impressive.
CHILD-PROOF LID: My M-o-W clients often ask for my assistance getting something down from a closet, changing a light bulb, or opening a jar.
Aha, found a Hebrew/English translator, and it came back as William A. Seeley.
ReplyDeleteD-O @6:00 AM Your translator is smarter than Google's. What's the URL?
ReplyDeleteBill
Bill, found it here: https://www.translate.com/hebrew-english Another translator gave me William A. Silly.
ReplyDeleteD-O @6:36 AM Silly Google. 🙄
DeleteFIR, but erased motto for CREDO and carchase for CARCRASH. (Read the danged clue, Jinx!)
ReplyDeleteI used to have a 1967 Mustang fastback that looked like the one in the Steve McQueen classic "Bullitt", except his was a 1968 model (e/w side reflectors).
I used to buy two or three suits every year. Now I haven't gotten a new one in about a quarter century. I should probably get fitted for what my dad called "a weddin' and funeral suit" soon.
The Bolts will ICE SKATE tomorrow in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals, against some team from the west.
Which ad character is most irritating:
- The Geico Gecko
- The Liberty Mutual Emu
- The My PILLOW Guy
I didn't remember Calvin's nemesis MOE, but I did remember his alter ego Spaceman SPIFF.
Like OKL, I noticed the maybe not-so-c CSOs to Cornerites. I'll add NIT pickers, and yes, I am looking in the mirror.
Bill, thanks for the entertaini9ng review. If they slapped me in the PAU, I would be convinced that it was the "Pain in the Ass Unit". Nurses everywhere would no doubt agree. And thanks to Barbara Lin for the fun Tuesday romp.
FIR. I love themes without unifiers. I find it more challenging. Great puzzle!
ReplyDeleteTook 6:09 for me set my eyes on the prize today.
ReplyDeletewaseely: I appreciate the shout-out. And, yes, I do appreciate the lack of circles.
Laurel crossing Zora was the trickiest spot for me today.
Nice fun run through the puzzle today. I have heard of a TONGUE LASHing - but never with just the LASH- but given it was later in the theme clues it was not hard to just stop.
ReplyDeleteHad to smile with the clue "Post-op areas" - as that is what we've always called it "Post-op", but ICUS wasn't hard to perp out - it is where anyone with a major surgery goes like heart by-pass or brain surgery after they are out of post-op when they will need super close monitoring in the first night after surgery. Some just go directly to ICU if the med staff already know they will need to go there.
Bill & Teri - enjoyed the blog which you modeled after Hatoolah's with prolific cartoons and cats.
and Thanks to Barbara for the puzzle!
Enjoyed Boomer and CC's puzzle in Universal- thanks for the link
Subgenius, thanks for the reply. No problem, I was just curious. Koalas are cute, after all.
ReplyDeleteTerrific Tuesday. Thanks for the fun,Barb and waseeley (and Teri - great catch on the WEEP Easter Egg).
ReplyDeleteOfficially a FIW today. I had HIT On instead of HIT UP, and was going meh over the cross of NIT and the resultant Nitty. I changed the I to E with SIMONE but missed fixing Onion to UNION, Netty to PETTY.
Ah well, but I got the Parts of the Eye theme.
And I did see all the CSOs as mentioned already.
Some American bias today, but I knew them all. CSPAN, MPH (we have kilometres), ONES in the till (we have Loonies).
I noted DIS and DISTASTE.
Wishing you a great day.
This was a typical Tuesday in difficulty, which I managed to FIR in 18, so quicker than yesterday, which was a “Friday come on a Monday” CW. Only W/O today was CREED:CREDO. My eyes did not see the eye theme until Bill ‘splained it. Very clever! Thanx for the fun Tuesday level and witty CW, BL. And thanx for the excellent write-up, Bill. My only complaint is you made it so interesting it was a half hour to get through all the great links you put in there. One reminded me of growing up in Milwaukee, largely German and Polish demographic, where polka was very popular. Here’s one you won’t hear on the radio today, too politically incorrect: the Too Fat Polka. I tried to insert a link but for some reason the link failed, so you’ll hafta go to YouTube.
ReplyDeleteHi All!
ReplyDeleteA little crunch in my breakfast puzzle but I like it. Thanks Barbara.
Thanks for the post-game, waseeley - you's got your comics game goin' on -- LOL plants throwin' shade.
I see your Frank Yankovic and raise you a Weird Al [no relation - CITe*]
C.C. - Thanks for the heads-up on Tool Around. Boomer now has a family road and his name in puzzledom.
WOs: N/A
ESPs: I'd forgotten O'DAY; ELIA, ZORA, UNION as clued
Fav: SPIFFY That's just a fun throw-back word - like swell [@3:34]
Docent? I know a lion who can show you around the history of Hobby Airport.
//where you been LeoIII? BTW, I may take SIS there sometime this week.
{LOL CSOs, OKL. Add Calvin & Hobbes for BillG & Jordan}
D-O@6:36 - a better translation for Silly Billy? ;-)
Lovely to see you returning to The Corner on a regular basis Kazie.
C,Eh! re: Loonies... My fav of y'all's currency is the Toonie just 'cuz it's funny [ha-ha/brilliant use of language].
That's all I GOT for now.
Cheers, -T
* but here's some POLKA fun with Frank & Al.
I mentioned the "Too Fat Polka" and how the link dropped. Let's try again:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez_hQdWN4Rg
What a delightful Tuesday puzzle, many thanks, Barbara. And thank you especially for putting MISTY in--a special treat for me, as you can imagine.
ReplyDeleteAnd how exciting that C.C. and Boomer had a puzzle published today! Woohoo! Congratulations to you both. What a great way to start the week, with C.C. posting on Sunday, Boomer, on Monday, and both of them publishing a puzzle in another paper today. Woohoo!
Lots of ALPHAs in today's puzzle:ELIA Kazan, ZORA Neale Hurston, SIMONE Biles, and Gabrielle UNION.
Loved seeing a picture of Van Gogh's PURPLE IRIS.
Have a great day, everybody.
Although the puzzle had great optics 👁 forgot to parse the theme. 🙄 oops.
ReplyDeleteLucky WAG... figured it had to be SIMON crossing UION, altbough both unknowns, leading to a FIR.
Inkovers: dislike/DISTASTE, dim/DIS (c'mon how many made the same error?).
Learnt to POLKA from DW's Polish 🇵🇱family.
A CSO to MISTY who is never "foggy"
ALEPPO pepper? A CHILDPROOFLID lid is often adult proof in my hands 😟. FLATWHITE the color I think we painted our bedroom.
Goblin brewskis....IMPALES
Joint prosthesis?... IRONY
What you do with high grass....MOAT
Antivaxer potentially...Measly
State Univeristy at Plattsburgh?..PUNY
On to humpday. 🐪
Hi Y'all! Great fun puzzle, Barbara Lin. Quickest solve in weeks. Thanks. Great expo, Bill.
ReplyDeleteDid not see a theme until coming here. Duh! Liked the theme. To expand the theme further: You use your EYES to ZERO IN ON things. Then there was C(see)SPAN...
Only unknowns: ALEPPO, CIT.
Just finished re-reading ZORA's "Their Eyes Were Watching God". Still captivating.
Used to love to polka. Best I could do now is tap my toe to the beat.
Ray-O...
ReplyDelete2) LOL Ray-O-prapisims
A) SIMONE is a 'native' of Spring, TX which is where I move in a month or so. She's f'n' amazing.
Cheers, -T
Hola!
ReplyDeleteFun puzzle by Barbara Lin and nothing PETTY about it! Loved seeing INCA right away and if anyone wants to pursue that era, I highly recommend INDIAN GIVERS, a book about all the gifts Natives have given us. It's fascinating!
ZORA Neale Hurston's book is hard reading in dialect.
It's amazing to watch SIMONE Biles EASILY swing around on that gym bar.
Seeing PURPLE IRIS and other art works in person is a treat for the EYES.
I hope you are all enjoying a fine Tuesday! I'm looking forward to solving CC's and Boomer's puzzle!
I forgot to say what fun to see MISTY, OTTO and CC in the puzzle!
ReplyDeleteJust finished doing C.C.'s & Boomer's enjoyable but challenging puzzle. Thanks, guys. Collaborating on a puzzle sounds like a good diversion from the other things going on in your life. Would enjoy seeing more of them. Bless you both.
ReplyDeleteTrying to adjust my schedule to the hot days, I did the puzzle early with my breakfast, but waited to read the blog and comments after doing some chores. Then I learned from waseeley that I had a FIR for today, enjoying his write up and many cartoons in the process. Thanks! Very Hahtoolah-like!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the puzzle, Barbara. I did not catch the theme, though I looked long at PUR..., PUP..., and PRO... trying to find something there. Learning moment for me was FLAT WHITE.
It's been nice to see regular posts again from kazie, PK, Montana, and others. When are we going to see your poems again, OwenKL?
Stay cool, everyone!
-T @10:12 AM Thanks for the Weird Al YT, and the bonus seque into Colbert's riff on the 1/6 Show.
ReplyDeleteMusings
ReplyDelete-The first two long fills gave me the theme. I thought there might be an unnecessary reveal.
-I play POLKAS for MIL at the home and her 99-yr-old toes start tapping
-UNION continues Patti’s pattern of obscure cluing for common fill
-Sometimes if there is a great show on PBS, I know they are trying to HIT me UP for a donation
-I hated tootnoting and making bibliographies. Word processors take out some of the sting.
I have temporarily solved my GMail problem by forwarding my mailboxes to one of my cox.net accounts. For outgoing email when none of my cox.net accounts will do, I'll just have to log on to Google Mail.
ReplyDelete-T: Have I talked myself into a false sense of security? My Outlook 2019 POP3 mail accounts have the following settings:
"Use the following type of encryption connection:" (SSL/TLS)
and
"Require logon using Secure Password Authentication (SPA)" (selected)
Cox.net, my main email host, requires both settings. Seems like these should protect both the actual emails and the logon process.
Hello Cornerites! I hope everyone is doing well and, if in the affected areas, staying cool. We're not enjoying 95* with 60% humidity.
ReplyDeleteSince the Cincinnati paper has stopped printing the LA Times crossword puzzle I've been doing it online. I'm getting the hang of it and don't hit the wrong key as often as I used to. That said, I miss doing it in ink on paper. If my printer worked I'd probably print it out every day.
mSnbc/CSPAN, ADdids/ADIDAS
53A Lively dances POLKAS At wedding receptions for DH's family I've seen many couples dancing to the Too Fat Polka.
Fav:17A Spring flower painted by van Gogh PURPLE IRIS I changed my avatar to my PURPLE IRIS and Wood Hyacinths.
I missed a few clues because the answers were filled in by perps already. Nice Tuesday puzzle. Thank you, Barbara and Bill, for the entertainment!
Neat Tuesday PZL from Ms. Lin, managed for the Corner by waseeley.
ReplyDeleteA theme for this ostensibly themeless XWD is thoroughly examined for us.
Nice to see ELIA Kazan's name again. I believe his book On Directing is the most brilliant work on the subject.
In my decades of teaching the subject, I never required a book for my classes. But in my later years, after reading Kazan's, I often recommended it to my graduate students.
48A? I never heard of FLAT WHITE. But then I never ordered a Latte either.
~ OMK
____________
DR: ONE diagonal, near end.
It yields an ambiguous anagram (13 of 15 letters), a two word phrase describing a drab lepidopteran either pictured on a hi-res screen, OR--
possessed by Little Folk.
I mean a...
"PIXILATED MOTH"!
I just did CC and Boomer's puzzle and took a bit less time than today’s LAT to finish. Of course, there were few names, and I took the easier path of regular rather than expert, and my only real problem was the different navigation system from here, which I kept getting tripped up on.
ReplyDeleteBoy, David Steinberg has come a long way since he started! I remember when he published his first ever LAT puzzle.
Back to easy early week Fln, -T Yes "Who " never gets old, I was LMAO for the umpteenth time. HU is clever too.
ReplyDeleteRe. "Banned". Start with Bambi. Horrendous violence
FIR with some real messy inkovers: msnbc/CSPAN; alist/ALPHA…
The Misty CSO literally shouted out to me.
Of all the clues for UNION… But since it perped smoothly it became informative
I'm an Irish spaghetti guy so ELBOWS,tomato sauce, salt&pepper 'em back
Enjoyed the creative write-up and posts today. Didn't get to all of them
WC
ReplyDeleteJinx, https://pragmaticparanoia.com/why-is-pop3-insecure/
Also, you may be getting the 2FA message because you are configured for it. Two Factor Authentication (you used 2FA) is an option for your Google Account. The underlying Google Apps (Gmail, Blogger, YouTube etc) use the settings from your Google Account. Click on your avatar, click Manage your Google Account, click Security, scroll down to Signing in to Google, and change the option for "2-Step Verification". Same thing, diff name. You can turn it off there. Maybe that will help, and you'll no longer get that message, and be able to use IMAP when away.
ReplyDeleteMontana, your inability to use your Blogger profile isn't anything you did. It's your browser protecting your privacy, AND Blogger's mobile commenting interface. It appears different users have different beta versions, so different problems, and no single answer for all the problems.
If you have an Android device, try using the native Chrome browser. Find the Google icon, search "Crossword Corner Blogspot . Com", select the blog, scroll to comments and you should be able to see your profile, select it and use it from the drop down. If you use a different browser on your phone, such as Firefox, or you phone brand's browser (e.g. my Samsung phone has it's own browser called Samsung Internet), you will probably have issues trying to use your Blogger profile.
If you have an iPhone, again, your browser is protecting your privacy. You could change some settings so that you can use your ios browser, but I personally wouldn't recommend it. A better choice might be to go to the Apple Play Store and download the Chrome browser. Then pull up the blog in the Chrome browser, and you should be able to use your Blogger profile. If it doesn't work for you, just delete the Chrome browser.
Overall, it's my best guesstimate that some mobile users are having different symptoms based on their browsers (and browser versions), and perhaps with Blogger's new mobile commenting interface beta (beta's ?) that appear to be rolling out.
FLAT WHITE sounds more like a type of paint which I've used many times in the past.
ReplyDeleteLucina - we had a beautiful home until real-estate lady said do it all in Dover White. Sadness.
ReplyDeleteJinx - what TTP said.
Am I still watching POLKA references?
Yes I am.
My favourite band who never took themselves too seriously. Don't be RASH [Neil, Alex, & Geddy]. //C, Eh! Thanks for sending your boys South. -T
I liked this puzzle and I enjoyed reading all your comments.
ReplyDeleteTTP - Thanks for addressing my questions. First, everything was workable until a month or so ago, when I got messages from Google saying they were ending "less secure access", meaning they were going to start requiring 2FA, starting May 30. For a few days following that date, Outlook/POP3 worked intermittently. Now it doesn't at all, thus my workaround.
ReplyDeleteI don't have a lot of confidence in the article you linked. Mischa lost me with the categorization of "difficult to access your emails across devices" as a security issue. It appears to me that Mischa doesn't like POP3 w/TLS/SSA because 1) it's old and b) doesn't share easily (my apologies to the Tappet Brothers). But the argument is more persuasive when aligned under the mantle of security. It is the local processing that Mischa abhors that is the attractive part of POP3 for me. What does one do with IMAP when you are somewhere without internet access, and you need access to your emails to get a reservation confirmation number at a remote campground? No problem with POP3 - Internet, schnternet, I got your confirmation right here, pal. And I have archived emails dating back to the last century. I don't very often need anything older than a few years, but occasionally something comes up that makes them handy.
Enjoyed Mr. & Mrs. Burnikel's puzzle too.
ReplyDeleteI also enjoyed solving the Burnikels' puzzle and found most of the tools, I think. Does anyone know exactly how many there are?
ReplyDeleteLucina @ 6:15
ReplyDelete5 tools, I think
ReplyDeleteThank You Barbara Lin for a nice and easy Tuesday puzzle, which I enoyed. I did not get the theme though, since I was too much in a hurry for some urgent business meeting ....the other 2 parties were over an hour late. Talk about etiquette.... and they were not even doctors ;-xx)
D-Otto thans for translating the Hebrew code ... I was wondering if Waseely had some other secret avatar...
Waseely, thank you for a charming review of the puzzle and the toons on the blog. Made my day.
I've seen the irises at the Getty museum, .... one of the docents told me that room with impressionistic art, has the most expensive inventory in the place, and has 3 times the normal security. ( I can't see why - poor Mr. Van Gogh never sold a painting in his lifetime .... ;-o) )
I remember telling my opthalmologist that Mr. Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle - whose biography I was then, reading, about 20 yrs ago - took up the sub-speciality of Opthamology, from Switz. and Austria, .... because the U.K. fees were a shilling more than a general practice exam...and my doc said, that is not so in the modern days of medical insurance...
BTW, the pupil actually works as an aperture of the camera lens, and controls the amount of light passing through.
Which leads to the famous question, a prof asked in class, was, ... What is the organ in humans that increases to 16 times its normal size, when excited ?
That got a young lady, who answered the question, .... who had missed the earlier class, into a bit of trouble. ( She's probably gonna be disappointed, in reality ....)
Have a nice day folks
ReplyDeleteJinx, yes, I think Mischa stressed the old part, but the main point would be that POP, in any form, is inherently insecure. If your workaround works and you are happy with it, then go for it. Another thought is that you might pose your question on stackexchange or quora.