Theme: "The Old Switcheroo" - Pro and Con exchange places.
23A *Truly unappetizing French dish?: GROSS CONFIT. Gross profit.
25A. *In favor of monetary penalties?: PRO FINING. Confining.
48A. *Proposed bill?: A WORK IN CONGRESS. A work in progress.
67A. *Source of talent for a major-league franchise?: PRO STABLE. Constable.
71A. *Opposed to medical treatment?: CON CURING. Procuring.
92A. *Stall selling souvenirs on graduation day?: PROCESSION STAND. Concession stand.
114A. *Appeal from a jailhouse lawyer?: CON FILING. Profiling.
Reveal:
117. Both sides of an argument, and what have been switched to create the answers to the starred clues: PROS AND CONS.
I'm picturing how Chairman Mao would react to this puzzle. He probably find the first one very appealing. Nothing GROSS!
Four of the original phrases are one-word entries, Gary and Amy probably did not have many candidates to choose from.
Across:
5. Got to laugh: AMUSED.
11. Big galoots: APES.
15. Feathery scarves: BOAS.
19. Diva's delivery: ARIA.
20. Albania neighbor: KOSOVO. Its capital is Pristina.
21. Office note: MEMO.
22. Luxury hotel chain: OMNI.
27. Ruhr Valley city: ESSEN.
28. On: ATOP.
30. Lhasa native: TIBETAN. You'll find tsampa in any Tibetan restaurant. Made of barley flour.
31. "The Optimist's Daughter" Pulitzer winner Welty: EUDORA.
35. Group in the minors: AA TEAM. The next is Triple-A.
38. Snoopy adversary: RED BARON.
42. Down source: EIDER.
43. Quaked: SHOOK.
51. Dull pain: ACHE.
52. __ fide: in bad faith: MALA.
53. Honeycomb figures: HEXAGONS.
54. Actor Sheen: MARTIN.
56. Left hanging: IN LIMBO.
59. "Time __ the essence": IS OF.
60. Animated short: CARTOON.
61. Lentil dish: DAL.
62. Cynthia Nixon's role on "The Gilded Age": ADA.
63. Some tribute pieces: FAN ART.
66. Salary: PAY.
73. __ Claire, Wisconsin: EAU. Minnesota is solid blue, but our neighbors are all red.
74. Platitude: TRUISM.
76. Bovine chew: CUD.
77. Load from a lode: ORE.
78. Moving right along: AT SPEED.
80. Violinist Leopold: AUER. Learned from doing xwords.
82. Anka song with a Spanish title: ESO BESO.
86. Slowing down, musically: Abbr.: RITARD.
87. Cowardly Lion portrayer: BERT LAHR. Fun to see his full name.
90. Eurasian range: URAL.
91. Last name of both "Fargo" writers: COEN.
95. Fizzled out: ENDED.
97. German pronoun: EINES.
98. QB-to-receiver successes: TD PASSES.
99. Wife, in Spanish: ESPOSA. Boomer just calls me "Lao Po" (Old Wife).
101. Declare: ASSERT.
103. Nissan models: ALTIMAS.
107. Great Salt Lake state: UTAH.
109. First name in skin care: ESTEE. Here's their best seller. The Advance Night Repair.
121. "__ on First": book about comedian Costello: LOU'S.
122. Antioxidant berry: ACAI.
123. Czech currency: KORUNA. I thought they use Euro.
124. Aardvark meal: ANTS.
125. As many as: UP TO.
126. "Gin and Juice" rapper Snoop __: DOGG.
127. Verve: ENERGY.
128. Sushi bar soup: MISO. Miso alone is just the paste, which I use every day.
Down:
2. Commits a faux pas: ERRS.
3. Life stories: BIOS.
4. Military outpost: BASE.
5. Pedigree org.: AKC. The American Kennel Club.
6. Holstein sound: MOO.
7. Admiral's org.: USN.
8. As yet: SO FAR.
9. "A New Argentina" musical: EVITA.
10. Inflict on: DO TO.
11. Concert device: AMP.
12. Pay-__-view: PER.
13. Hams: EMOTERS. Spellcheck does not like this word.
14. "Modern Family" actress Vergara: SOFIA. Bill G likes her a lot. How are you doing, Bill?
15. Ecru kin: BONE.
16. Drop: OMIT.
17. Chlumsky of "Veep": ANNA.
18. Omen: SIGN.
24. Move stealthily: SNEAK.
26. Some early PCs: IBMS.
29. Form couples: PAIR OFF.
32. New England sch.: URI.
33. "Tiny Bubbles" singer: DON HO.
34. First word of "The Raven": ONCE.
36. Yemeni port: ADEN.
37. "Rizzoli & Isles" crime series novelist Gerritsen: TESS. I remember she was so excited when Rich used her as a clue for TESS a while ago.
38. "Bohemian Rhapsody" Oscar winner Malek: RAMI.
39. Actor McGregor: EWAN.
40. American Girl product: DOLL.
41. Intertwines: BRAIDS.
42. Frozen waffle brand: EGGO.
44. Sabrina portrayer Melissa Joan __: HART.
45. Squid relatives: OCTOPI.
46. Resident of Lima, Lisbon, or Athens: OHIOAN. Great clue angle.
47. Big name in smooth jazz: KENNY G.
49. Lime and rust: OXIDES.
50. Astronaut's insignia: NASA.
54. Bongbong of the Philippines: MARCOS. Current president. Son of the Imelda Marcos.
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55. Conductor Toscanini: ARTURO.
57. Be relevant: MATTER.
58. Sounded loudly: BLARED.
60. Recycle bin item: CAN.
62. Boxer Muhammad: ALI.
64. Honda luxury cars: ACURAS.
65. Doze: NOD.
67. Guy of "Memento": PEARCE.
68. Allocate: RATION.
69. Got rid of: OUSTED.
70. Pal: BUD.
72. Counters: REBUTS.
75. Mime Marcel: MARCEAU. We see his BIP from time to time.
76. Collectible frames: CELS.
79. Glazier's item: PANE.
81. Sport-__: versatile vehicles: UTES.
82. Lose ground?: ERODE.
83. Noted times: ERAS.
84. All there: SANE.
85. Auto pioneer: OLDS.
87. Verve: BRIO.
88. A dog's age: EONS.
89. Chart toppers: HITS.
92. Soft drink giant: PEPSICO.
93. Scott Simon's network: NPR.
94. Filled: SATED.
96. "Sorry Not Sorry" singer Lovato: DEMI.
100. Bowl of greens: SALAD.
101. Composer Copland: AARON.
102. Land by the sea: SHORE.
103. Anti-censorship org.: ACLU.
104. Belt holder: LOOP.
105. Fastener with flanges: T NUT.
106. "Should that be the case ... ": IF SO.
108. Toll rd.: TPKE.
110. Bogus offer: SCAM.
111. "Beloved" novelist Morrison: TONI.
112. Sinus docs: ENTS.
113. Exxon's original brand name: ESSO.
115. Badger: NAG.
116. Band booking: GIG.
118. __ La Table: kitchenware retailer: SUR. My sister-in-law Connie sent us a nice kitchen towel from them. Too pretty to use.
119. Director Lee: ANG. Spelled as "An" in mainland China. Ange Lee is from Taiwan.
120. Anti vote: NAY.
Boomer completed his shoulder PT last Tuesday. He'll continue the OT for the next few weeks. He still can't type with his left hand, but he is able to put his left hand on the walker or the railing for stability now. Baby steps.
C.C.
Welcome to the new day of the week! Sumoday has been suggested for it, but I prefer Varolday, after the person responsible for it.
ReplyDeleteFIRight, no overwhelming problems (how could there be with an elementary-school level puzzle?).
Noticed the prevalence of words starting with PRO, then CON. Thanks to the title, I sussed the theme well before the reveal, but I think I would have anyway, just a bit more slowly. Good theme, I liked it!
Not fair showing a bunch of people without identifying them:
ReplyDelete5000 Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850–1937) was a Czechoslovak politician, statesman, sociologist, and philosopher.
2000 Emmy Destinn (1878–1930) was a Czech operatic soprano.
1000 František Palacký (1798–1876) was a Czech historian and politician, called "Father of the Nation".
500 Božena Němcová (1820-1862) was a Czech writer.
200 John Amos Comenius(1592–1670) was a Czech philosopher, pedagogue and theologian.
100 Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1316–1378).
All pre-WWII, so no fussing about politics.
Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. (b.1957), commonly referred to as Bongbong Marcos is the second child and only son of former president Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and former first lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos.
Thanks for the update on Boomer!
ReplyDeleteMajor League Baseball also has Minors.
ReplyDeleteThey are the PRO STABLE, wannabe climbers.
The top is the AA-TEAM,
Next the triple-A's beam,
If it goes any lower, they'd be miners!
CONGRESS is known as the opposite of PROGRESS,
Bills that go there often seem to regress.
Measures to be enacted
Are amended and redacted,
Until they're as meaningful as wilted watercress!
{B-, B.}
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteTook a few themers before I sussed what was going on. It was smooth sailing after that. Only needed my Wite-Out once -- to change PIKE to TPKE. Thanx, Gary, Amy, and C.C. (Chairman Mao?)
KORUNA: Several European currencies were called Crowns -- Krone, Kroner, Koruna.
EAU Claire: The University of Wisconsin is now a merged system. In the '70s the legislature did away with the nine Wisconsin State Universities. Those state teacher colleges became branch campuses of U-W. The Eau Claire campus was one of the nine.
The title of this puzzle should’ve been what is my name there were 22 proper names..did not finish
ReplyDeleteFIW, missing my WAG @ KORoNA x SoR. Fourteen other unknowns, but my only erasures were who's for LOU'S and roared for BLARED.
ReplyDeleteOKL, you're being assessed points on your poetic license. The top minor league is AAA, the lowest is A. Hope your insurance rates don't go up.
I'd better post this link for American Girl before -T does.
Most of what I know about Wisconsin and Minnesota, including EAU Claire, is from reading John Sanford.
PEPSICO wisely spun off its restaurant business line. Coke used as a selling point that PEPSICO restaurants (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell et al) were direct competitors. No more.
Thanks to Gary Larson for the fun Sunday challenge, which I was one guess away from mastering. And thanks to CC for the Boomer update, and for explaining the finer points of the grid.
Sunday Lurk say...
ReplyDeleteUp early so we could empty the attic (for the big-move) before temps got over 100F.
Good news about Boomer's shoulder, C.C.. Thanks for keeping us abreast.
FLN - sorry for misplacing you, Michael - didn't even get the right NW state, me.
TXMs - yeah, J.Verlander is putting up Oswalt / Dierker (dare I say Ryan? :-)) numbers.
{cute but um, poetic license only goes so far with me re: Baseball [leagues]* :-), A+}
Jinx - Petty's American Girl is much better than the $100 DOLLS we gave the girls one Christmas. And that's back when $100 was real money!
Back to bed - Will Shortz should be on NPR's puzzle Sunday soon. Y'all have a wonderful morning.
Cheers, -T
*BIL played some college (LSU-S), coastal, & Sr. league and met a few guys in A-ball. He said, those guys were "definitely a tier higher than me - now think about the dudes in the Majors."
Jinx, thanks for keeping me honest, and Tony, thanks for the link!
ReplyDelete"As of 2018, the Minor League Baseball hierarchy is separated into the classes of AAA, AA, High-A, A, Short-Season A, Rookie-Advanced and Rookie. Most major league teams have teams in at least six of these seven levels."
Major League Baseball also has Minors.
They are the PRO STABLE, wannabe climbers.
At top, the triple-A's beam,
Next comes the AA-TEAM,
As it goes lower, those are the miners!
May I have at least some of those points back now?
Musings
ReplyDelete-Sometimes obvious gimmicks like this don’t use a reveal but this one was fun too
-I had never heard of a CONFIT or DAL
-EUDORA was my first e-mail provider
-Our National Anthem famously has a RITARD at the end
-NASA hopes to soon be walking on the red Iron OXIDES of Mars
-Gotta run.
The gimmick was pretty easy to diss, and that led to a very doable puzzle. The only natick I really saw was “ koruna” crossing “sur” but I took a WAG and got it right. Other than that, I didn’t have too much trouble with this puzzle. FIR, so I’m happy.
ReplyDeleteThat should “suss” Stupid autocorrect strikes again!
ReplyDeleteOKL, the last time I got a speeding ticket (maybe 10 years ago), I went to a one-day traffic school and the judge dismissed the fine and points. Looks like you went to school on the minors as well. The least I can do is pay it forward; points rescinded.
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ReplyDeleteGood morning. Thank you, Gary and Amy, and thank you, C.C. Baby steps, Boomer. Keep on trucking.
Up early, made breakfast, sat down with a hot cup of coffee and loaded today's crossword. Then boom ! A nearby lightning strike tripped the breaker on the utility pole. ComEd had power restored within the hour (they rock), but it wasn't the best way to start the day. The good thing is getting the consecutive days of heavy rain. So glad I mowed the lawn Friday night.
As for the crossword, well nuts ! I didn't read the clue "Bovine chew" and later entered NAP instead of NOD. So despite the theme and the obvious swaps of PROs and CONs, I ended with CUp, Nap and CaNCURING.
For the first time in forever, I tried starting at 1A and doing all of the across clues, entering the first reasonable answer based on letter count only and nothing else. Then ditto for the down answers. It was an odd way to solve a puzzle that led to some glaring errors as I started the downs. Turned out to be fast, but not as enjoyable. Won't do that again.
No problem with SUR La Table kitcheware, but I sure overthought "Animated short" for CARTOON. I went to Sur La Table to buy a marble rolling pin as a gift for DW one year. Expensive place with snooty sales people. At least the one I went to. First and last time.
K and T were up early to empty out an attic. But he was hanging around the Corner lurking while she must have been doing the work. Just funning. I know what it means to have to get work done in the attic before the sun starts beating down on the roof.
In another "well, nuts!" moment, there's an incredibly small defect in the coating of one lens in one of my new pairs of glasses. Took forever to find it, and now that pair is going to be returned. In certain lighting conditions, an enlarged reflection of the defect flashes across the vision of my right eye. The first time it happened I jerked my head and ducked to avoid the large insect or bee about to fly into me. Going to wear the old pair on the drive over. No way I'm going to drive with those on.
See all y'all later n'at.
Hola!
ReplyDeleteGreetings to you all. Yesterday I was not home so of course did not solve the puzzle. The drive north was uneventful and my granddaughter did a great job of driving. I had not been in those parts for many years and forgot how beautiful our forests are. The funeral went as expected with my cousins there, all but one. They had been estranged for years.
My uncle established a cemetery on his property years ago and his ashes were interred along with his wife's, his sister and brother-in-law. So far those are the ones buried there. I have no desire to be buried there. In fact, I hope never to return. It's a long, arduous drive and I won't inflict that on my family.
Nice puzzle. Like all Sunday puzzles it is a slog only because of its length but easy enough to fill. EUDORA Welty is a blast from the past for me. Her short stories were on the list of great American authors in a course I took.
There were plenty of names for those who 1) list them, and 2) for those who dislike them.
My former Nissan car was not an ALTIMA but a Maxima. I loved it.
Must go. Later. Have a wonderful Sunday, everyone! What's this about changing the name?
Just lurking , reviewing the reveal clues 'n' answers.
ReplyDeleteOne glaring error
34 Down. First word of "The Ravin" ...is not Once, it's THE.
😄
Well,
ReplyDeleteNo one can accuse me of the old switcheroo.
can they?...
In my 1st attempt at a PSA:
you can get decals for your switch plates on Amazon.
Aaand,,,,,
my second attempt at a PSA.....
When I saw Gary Larsen’s name I rejoiced. This CW however, gave me some trouble because I did not pay attention to the theme. My excuse is lots of interruptions while working on the puzzle. For MARCOS, I put NARCOS; silly me thought Bongbong referred to drugs. Now that I look back on the puzzle, I really like it. Thank you to CC for the comments and explanations. Also, happy about Boomer’s baby steps of progress.
ReplyDeleteLucina: I too, several years ago had a Nissan Maxima and loved it.
Delightful Sunday puzzle, Gary and Amy, many thanks. Gary, you've been doing puzzles for a very long time, if I'm remembering correctly. Wonderful! And thanks for the great write-up, C.C. and the update on Boomer. So glad he's making progress.
ReplyDeleteLoved the PRO and CON theme--lots of fun.
Nice to see EUDORA Welty, in the puzzle. Also MARTIN Sheen and BERT LAHR. Brought back fond memories of "The Wizard of Oz".
Well, puzzle took a bit of BRIO on this Sunday, but very enjoyable.
Have a great week coming up, everybody.
FIW but figured out the theme with "procession stand" and that helped me to get it mostly correct.
ReplyDeleteI liked the Lima/Lisbon/Athens clue, too.
Years ago my great aunt Nini worked at the restaurant inside the Dream Inn in Santa Cruz, CA. Bert Lahr dined there one day. Aunt Nini saved the receipt he signed and gave it to me. My first (and only) autograph. I want to say Jack Lemmon was with him and also signed it, but I cannot remember for sure. I was only excited about the Cowardly Lion and did not know "that other guy". This memory helps me get "Lahr" when it occasionally pops up in Xwords.
A clever theme and a fun Sunday. Too many proper names IMHO.
ReplyDeleteAs has become the norm, Valerie solved the puzzle with me acting as a consultant to "translate" some of the clues and provide the occasional letter or three. The mid-east was the last to go mostly due to never having previously heard of anything called FAN ART. Thanks for the update on Boomer, C.C. I second the "keep on truckin'" sentiment previously expressed.
ReplyDeleteThank you Gary and Amy for a pleasant Sunday afternoon, PROcessing thru LA puzzleland. The SWITCHEROO didn't pull any wool over these eyes and I came to the Corner CONfident that I'd bagged a FIR.
ReplyDeleteThank you C.C. for not leaving us IN LIMBO re all the FILL and for the update on Boomer. Didn't know you were a cradle robber. And here I thought HE was older than YOU! 😀
Some favs:
1A WEBB. Timely fill, what with all of postmortem publicity he's been getting, courtesy of NASA. Was 50D a co-incidence?
31A EUDORA. I knew Ms WELTY from a job I had in Jr High shelving books at the local library books. Tucked away somewhere in the recesses of my memory are the names and authors of hundreds and hundreds of books which I've never read and never will.
80A AUER. All of the extant recordings of LEOPOLD AUER are of poor quality. I did find this trailer of his life giving us some idea of his importance to musical history. One take away was that Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D Major was written for Auer.
5%D ARTURO. Arturo Toscanini was a perfectionist who breathed soul into every score he conducted and who is considered by many to be the greatest conductor of the 20th Century. Among his many achievements, he premiered the Puccini operas La Bohème, La Fanciulla del West and Turandot. The latter was uncompleted at his death and was finished by others. At the premiere Toscanini is said to have laid down his baton when he reached the last notes that Puccini had written, turned to the audience and said "Here the opera ends, because at this point the maestro died". Those same words were inscribed on Toscanini's tombstone.
101D AARON. Here is probably Copeland's best known work, the Fanfare for the Common Man.
Cheers,
Bill
Of course!
ReplyDeleteI walked away from the puzzle for several hours,
and, of course, a completely different way to sillily
(Sillily, is that a word?)
A completely different way to sillily approach this puzzle came to mind...
I give you my latest thoughts on the subject...
A Sunday FIR, completed over the day with many interruptions. Getting the theme early helped with later fill. Unknowns were perpable so thanks , Gary and Amy, for an interesting puzzle today.
ReplyDeleteThanks, C.C., for reviewing so well and for the Boomer update. Good to hear.
Best wishes to all the puzzlers. Have a good week!
Ray-o-sunshine -- The Ravin
ReplyDeleteI tapped on your Lin, Owen, but I didn’t come up with Poe’s “The Raven” But, as a matter of fact, it starts: “ONCE upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered weak and weary…” as I’m sure you know, seeing as you are the premier poet of this blog.
ReplyDeleteThe link (once you close the unnecessary sign-in screen) is Goodreads review of a book titled "The Riven", which Ray referenced (A typo for Raven?) Either way, the title which starts it is "THE ..."!
ReplyDeleteTrivia: Thomas Jefferson may have indirectly inspired The Raven. He was president of the University of Virginia during the time Poe was a student there, and Tom had a talking mynah bird as a pet.
ReplyDeleteI liked this puzzle although I didn't understand the gimmick until reading C.C.'s writeup. Fun stuff in hindsight.
ReplyDeleteLike Lucina I didn't do the puzzle yesterday, but for a different reason. LW and I drove up to visit our son and his fiancée in their new house and spent a very pleasant day with them. We re-learned how bad it is to drive through the city of San Francisco (the only way to get to Marin County from here unless you have a boat), not made any easier by the extended various road repairs that closed some lanes in a number of different places, plus a fog so thick and wet we had to turn on our headlights and windshield wipers in mid-day. The terrific hospitality we enjoyed at their place made it all more than worthwhile, though. Thank goodness for having a navigation system that guided us through the narrow, winding, very hilly roads in Mill Valley; without it we would never have been able to find their house.
I enjoyed reading all your comments and learned some very interesting facts from you.
Good wishes to you all.
Hi everybody,
ReplyDeleteI appreciate hearing from you guys making an effort to encourage me to stay in touch. I'm still around but less outgoing than I used to be; a bit lonely and depressed from time to time. I hope the news from CC and Boomer continues to be positive.
I have been spared the misery of most of the broiling weather. The cold Pacific is about a mile west of here and it's a big help; plus the central AC we put in a few years back might have something to do with it too. :-)
I've been enjoying the track and field competition on TV. Also, I love Ken Burns' documentary on baseball. He's just brilliant...
~ In the words of Detective Inspector Thursday, "Mind how you go..."
Subgenius @ 9:30: Autocorrect, brought to us by "Ain't Proofing Fun?" (Between eyesight decline and deficient typing, autodefect is making them big bucks from me!)
ReplyDeleteRe Lisbon, Lima, and Athens, in South Carolina there is a cluster of towns named Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland.
ReplyDeleteHi Y'all! Enjoyed this puzzle with a clever theme, thanks, Gary & Amy. Thanks, C.C., for the expo & update.
ReplyDeleteKnew most of the names, but did not know KORUNA, RAMI, MARCOS (guess Bongbong wasn't drums), PEARCE, NPR, SUR, ADA, AUER.
We're getting some much needed rain as I write. Just read a piece from a friend who said cattle sale barns are moving record numbers through because of heat & drought -- not enough grass, feed crops, & water to keep them alive. So pray for rain! Steak will become even more RARE after they can't breed & keep more.
ReplyDeleteHelllo everyone, long time, no see...
I missed posting for a couple of days ....
Thank you Gary Larson and Amy Ensz, for a vey nice and relatively easier puzzle, that I enjoyed very much. I just filled in the long answers and kept on going, never thought about the theme until the last long across answer made the theme apparent.... very clever.
Thank you CC for your enjoyable review. So glad to hear that Boomer is doing better, as well as can be imagined. Hopefully, he will continue to improve, and his trials will soon be behind him, and you. Best wishes and prayers.
In addition to the towns listed in Ohio are:
From Italy: ROME, (2), VERONA, MANTUA, SYRACUSE ( Take that NY State, and Ray-O-Sunshine ;-o) ) .... GENOA, PARMA ( Home of the Drew Carey show - which is probably why the show flopped - ) , MILAN Etc.,
We also have a MOSCOW (Oooh !) and a TOLEDO, Oxford, Dublin, and ....
Ceylon ( old name for Sri Lanka ). Bogart and Lauren Bacall famously honeymooned there ... and since then, anyone mooning from a car window is committing a state crime .... Ohio tolerates no wanna-be-s ....
We also have lots of british names - Kent ( infamous shootings ) Norwalk, Dover etc.
We also have a Medina, Ohio 4 miles SSE of Cleveland, and a Mecca OH - where the Amish outnumber everyone else, 50 to one ....
Have a great week ahead, you all.
Bill G @5:37 PM If you are a Roger Allam fan (Fred Thursday), I'm sure you'd like Murder in Provence, where he plays Antoine Verlaque, a French "judge". The latter is like a detective on steroids, in that he investigates crimes but then hands his findings over to a magistrate to handle the trial. His romantic co-star is Nancy Carroll (Lady Felicia in Father Brown). Here's the first season trailer.
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Bill
Michael @5:55 PM "Autodefect". LOL!!!
ReplyDeleteLate again, got started about 7pm after finding a tbtimes. Mostly easy but my FIW was nITARD/RITARD. The R in PEARCE should have been obvious
ReplyDeleteI see Jinx jumped right on the AA/AAA switch. Here's some more baseball from my Jumble archive
I have fond memories of Thanksgiving back when I was a child
Uncle Lefty, Sprockett that is, would come to the house for lunch
Dad told me, "Lefty was not only brash but equally was wild"
When he uncorked a beauty his coach"d say, "Thanks a bunch!"
"He'd hitched on with a team inland from Bangor
Everywhere he pitched the result was anguish and rancor
Did he indeed get a cup of coffee in the Bigs? Boston perchance
But brash and wild are not ingredients for success in the Big Dance"
WC
I had to use Jumble words: Brash,Hitch,Uncork,Inland;
DeleteThanks a bunch
Hence a little awkardness
Uncork made me think of ol' Lefty
OKL - You get points back for re-work :-)
ReplyDeleteTTP - Oy! You do pay attn - got both our initials right :-)
Bill G. - Sorry, to hear you get down on occasion - I feel you.
Buddy, you've got an outlet here at The Corner and so much to teach us with your maths puzzles. Please shed your shell & play more oft.
Cheers, -T
Bill G
ReplyDeleteIt's always good to see you here. Please come more often.
Wasn’t gonna do the CW, as it is too large, and also has a seemingly endless number or proper names. But, here it is Monday morning, I can’t sleep, so decided to do it after all. FIR in 44, amazingly, with all the proper names, some naticks. It was a huge help that I saw the pros and cons of this CW immediately. Everybody has already said everything else. Thanx for the CW to do while my insomnia has me, GL&AE. And thanx for the write-up, C.C. As always, best wishes for you and Boomer.
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ReplyDeleteVidwan, a few other internationally named places in Ohio: London, Amsterdam, Versailles, Berlin, Cadiz, Bethlehem, Hebron, Damascus, Cairo, and both Toronto and Ottawa.
Not only is there a Moscow, Ohio there is also a Russia, Oh. Pronounced ROO she.
Dash T, same as ours, so easy to remember. :>)