Theme: - "Reboots" - Each TV show is humorously rephrased.
23. Show about monks who form a rock group?: BAND OF BROTHERS.
25. Show about Alfred E. Neuman and company?: MADMEN.
37. Show about some St. Louis sluggers and their fixer-upper?: HOUSE OF CARDS. Cardinals.
55. Show about a mom-and-pop neckwear business?: FAMILY TIES.
70. Show about mug shot photography?: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT.
88. Show about a village and its mountain lion problem?: COUGAR TOWN.
102. Show about a red sock, a blue sock, and the love they found in the dryer?: THE ODD COUPLE.
120. Show about a school pep squad?: CHEERS.
121. Show about Quaker Oats, Mikey, and the partnership that changed cereal forever?: THE FACTS OF LIFE.
Such fun clues. The red sock and blue sock love story made me chuckle!
Rarely
do we see 6-letter theme entries on Sundays, but they're perfect for
this grid. Very clean 142-worder. Patti's grids are always
clean, and consistently so.
Across:
5. Latish lunch hr.: ONE PM. We have lunch at 11:00am.
10. Place for "me time": SPA.
13. Inflame with love: ENAMOR.
19. Atlanta Hawks arena until 1997: OMNI. Wikipedia says the Omni was closed and demolished in 1997. Replaced by State Farm Arena.
20. Cause of in-flight turbulence: AIR POCKET.
22. "__ Bovary": MADAME. Emma. Kind of like the lady in "The Necklace".
26. Start: ONSET.
27. Comedian Mandel: HOWIE.
28. Consecrate: ANOINT.
29. Charming person?: SORCERER. Great clue.
34. "Who here hath __ these two days buried": "Romeo and Juliet": LAIN.
36. "Queer Eye" grooming expert Jonathan Van __: NESS.
41. "Fiddlesticks!": NUTS.
43. Lhasa __: APSO.
44. Tea party attendee: DOLL.
45. Highway scofflaw: SPEEDER.
48. Old dietary std.: RDA. Recommended Dietary Allowances.
51. Physicist Nikola: TESLA. The electric car is named after him.
53. Delta deposit: SILT.
57. Sign up: ENROLL.
59. Ceremonial pile: PYRE.
61. Clog front: TOE.
62. Letters of urgency: ASAP. Sometimes Boomer's blood draw is marked as STAT.
63. Gal: LASS.
65. NBA Commissioner Silver: ADAM.
67. Muted colors: PASTELS.
75. Fitness coach: TRAINER.
76. City near Tahoe: RENO.
77. Foil kin: EPEE.
78. Cal's twin, in a Steinbeck novel: ARON. "East of Eden".
79. Ortiz of "Ugly Betty": ANA. Here with Betty, her sister in the series.
81. Storage tower: SILO.
83. Pats gently: DABS AT.
92. Actress Merrill: DINA.
94. Old-school: RETRO.
95. Hooting bird: OWL.
96. Tiny garden planting: SEEDLET. I simply use "seed", no matter how tiny the "seed" is.
98. Attic pests: MICE.
100. Exploit: FEAT.
101. Uneven do: SHAG.
105. One-word warning: DON'T. And 129. Declines: SAYS NO.
108. Black shade: COAL.
111. Loses enthusiasm: RUNS COLD.
112. "Ooh! There!": I SEE IT.
114. Zenith's opposite: NADIR.
116. Go off-script: AD LIB.
126. Sniggler's trap: EEL POT. Nothing beats freshly roasted eels.
127. Network announcement: STATION ID.
128. Facility: EASE.
130. Yang counterpart: YIN. Yin food for summer. Yang for winter.
131. Give some space: LET BE.
132. Deliver by parachute: DROP.
Down:
3. Writers Patchett and Brashares: ANNS.
4. Goes it alone: RIDES SOLO.
5. Dolt: OAF.
6. Tip for a writer: NIB. Pen tip.
7. Make a typo, say: ERR.
8. HMO alternative: PPO. Preferred Provider Organization.
9. May honoree: MOTHER.
10. Distort, as data: SKEW.
11. Danger: PERIL.
12. Utterly lost: AT SEA.
13. Name that means "God is with us": EMMANUEL. Hebrew meaning.
14. Flatbread served with tandoori chicken: NAAN.
15. Bells and whistles: ADD-ONS.
16. First lady after Bess: MAMIE.
17. Signs: OMENS.
18. Uses for a fee: RENTS.
21. Guitar Hero combinations: CHORDS.
24. Native Nebraskan: OTOE.
30. Baton: ROD.
31. Heads of cabbage, for short?: CFOS. Oh, cabbage can mean "money".
32. Celestial event: ECLIPSE.
33. Come from behind: RALLY.
35. The Shins' genre: INDIE POP. We also have 47. Punk offshoot: EMO. The Shins is from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
37. Not fancy: HATE. Verb "fancy".
38. Double-click, say: OPEN. As a link.
39. Cold War letters: USSR.
40. Beach bottle letters: SPF. Mostly 50 these days.
42. Attempt: TRY.
46. Wonderland cake message: EAT ME.
48. Ascended: RISEN.
49. Passed out: DEALT.
50. Nile vipers: ASPS.
52. __ wrench: ALLEN.
54. Sports page news: TRADE.
56. Name on four British art galleries: TATE. Tate Britain, Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool & Tate St Ives.
58. Use a surgical beam: LASE.
60. Idyllic spots: EDENS.
64. Battlefield board game: STRATEGO.
66. Elude: AVOID.
68. Copied: APED.
69. Makeup mishap: SMEAR.
70. Shape hidden in the FedEx logo: ARROW.
71. Fauvist painter Dufy: RAOUL. French for Ralph.
72. Key holder: RING.
73. Southern inflection: DRAWL.
74. November meteor shower: LEONIDS.
75. __ Tuesday: TACO.
80. Silent assent: NOD.
82. Spanish citrus fruit: LIMON.
84. Discombobulated: BEFUDDLED.
85. Fitbit unit: STEP.
86. Asian lake memorialized by UNESCO: ARAL. Fresh clue angle.
87. Pledge drive freebie: TOTE.
89. Volcanic debris: ASH.
90. Is affected by: REACTS TO. This new oral chemo Olaparib is very toxic. Poor Boomer is dealing with a few side effects.
91. Volleyball court divider: NET.
93. Electrically flexible: AC DC.
97. Economy: THRIFT.
99. Earth-friendly prefix: ECO.
101. Brews: STEEPS.
103. Continental travel pass: EURAIL.
104. Snowman in "Frozen": OLAF. Built by our crossword regular ELSA.
105. Chops up: DICES.
106. "Straight Outta Compton" actor __ Jackson Jr.: OSHEA. Son of Ice Cube, whose real name is O'Shea Jackson.
107. Bruins legend Cam: NEELY. Hockey Hall of Famer.
109. On edge: ANTSY.
110. "Chicago Hope" Emmy winner: LAHTI (Christine)
113. Wrinkle remover: IRON.
115. Faculty head: DEAN.
117. Perjurer: LIAR.
118. "In that case ... ": IF SO.
119. [The light's green!]: BEEP.
122. Cedar Rapids college: COE. Founded in 1851.
123. Blast letters: TNT.
124. Bro or sis: SIB.
125. Tribute in verse: ODE.
Boomer and I ventured out to Wisconsin last Monday and visited his childhood friend Carol, whom he had not seen for over 60 years. We enjoyed the breaded walleye strips and the Bang Bang Shrimp Tacos at The REC on the Yellow Lake.
The trip was tiring for Boomer, esp with the nausea issue. But he recovered quickly. He was so happy to be outside again. He had a minor fall on our stairs on Friday. I was able to get him up. Nothing was broken, so it's all good.
Have any of you visited Danbury, WI before? The Yellow Lake is so quiet and pretty, a little paradise in the middle of nowhere.
C.C.
36 comments:
Good morning!
Yay, d-o was able to find all of the old TV shows. Perps helped out here and there, but there were no major stumbling blocks. Nicely done Michael and C.C.
COE : I'll take a CSO for that one. Our radio station studios were on First Avenue, just up the street from the Coe campus.
Fun puzzle today. I really enjoyed the theme. Liked it alot. Thank you Mr. Schlossberg
FIR, but erased rats for NUTS, enlist for ENROLL, dana for DINA and eelpen for EELPOT. Pretty easy Sunday puzzle, except for the Newport to San Ysidro area, which finally fell.
I knew all the old showbiz stuff, but none of the new. Since we have Meryl Streep, do we really need any other actresses? She can play any part.
Waited for halt/DON'T, nader/NADIR, and isu/COE.
I knew PYRE without second thought, and it evoked memories of Leon Russel when he was flanked by life and the funeral PYRE.
Thanks to Michael for another fun puzzle, and to CC for the review and Boomer update.
Hi Y'all! Enjoyed the amusing and straightforward theme puzzle, Michael.
Thanks and hugs to C.C. & Boomer in the continuing struggle.
As usual I was BEFUDDLED about many names. DNK: NESS (whatever happened to using the Loch?), BOBO (no longer a clown), PPO, CFOS, INDIE POP, STRATEGO, RAOUL, O'SHEA, NEELY, LAHTI, COE.
Some very nice childhood memories watching Bobo Brazil, Killer Kowalski, Bruno Sammartino and so many other pro wrestlers while sitting with my grandfather in the 50s.
This was a nice bit of nostalgia all around and as usual a fun and learning experience with C.C.'s write-up.
Here comes August, be well all
Don't leave out Gorgeous George
Ditto for PK's comments and all the unknowns, except I knew COE.
I've never seen any off those shows but BAND OF BROTHERS book was by Steven Ambrose who taught at UNO. A section of interstate 10 in Mississippi is named for him. He started the D-Day Museum in NOLA which was renamed the WW-II Museum.
The only problem I had with this puzzle was “O’Shea” next to “Neely”. ( I believe that was what Jinx was talking about,too.) Other than that, pretty smooth sailing. FIR, so I’m happy.
Great fun! Only one snag held me up: I insisted on "euro id". As a former Midwesterner, I miss good walleye.
Easy and Fun puzzle! Thanks! Mikey liked it! (Only my name is Bob)
The only hangup at the end was I didn't know COE, so for a few seconds I thought the answer to Station Announcement was STAY TUNED! That would have been more satisfying than STATION ID.
Good Morning:
I was familiar with all of the shows, but the only ones I watched with an degree of regularity were Mad Men (several years after the original run), The Odd Couple, and Cheers. As usual, some of the proper names, as clued, needed perps: Ness, Ana, Bobo, and Raoul. I believe my only w/o was Miss/Lass, as the cluing and fill was pretty straightforward. I prefer puzzles with more wordplay but Sunday’s rarely provide any. Nevertheless, today’s solve was smooth as silk.
Thanks, Michael, for some nostalgic memories and thanks, CC, for the commentary and insight. Sorry to hear of Boomer’s unpleasant side effects but happy to hear that his fall wasn’t more serious. My lunch time ranges from 1:00 to 2:00, depending on my mood. Today, my overall mood will be very much enhanced by the fresh lobster meat my niece is bringing from Maine! 🦞
Last night, I watched two episodes of a Netflix series, Rebellion, which is about Dublin’s 1916 Easter Uprising against British rule. If factual, there were many women actively involved in the cause, which was surprising to me, considering the conventions of that era. I have three more installments to watch, each an hour long, but based on the first two, I recommend it highly.
Have a great day.
Musings
-An amusing, straight forward solve. OSHEA adjacent to NEELY befuddled temporarily.
-That NESS? Untouchable G-man stays on the bench.
-I’ll bet you know where the guy wound up who “Shot a man in RENO, just to watch him die”?
-After the utter failure of “the open concept” at our school, rooms had to be RETROfitted
-Laugh In’s Judy Carne popularized the SHAG haircut during her 15 minutes of fame
-SKEW – “There are lies, damned lies and statistics”
-Tandoor and Tandoori are starting to stick in “my little gray cells”
-My golf partner’s son’s RENTal business took a big hit when Covid ended weddings and grad gatherings
-Hey, I’m a native Nebraskan!
-Ring Of Fire and Wild Thing are two songs that only use three CHORDS
-You’ll need an Allen wrench for assembling most IKEA furniture
IM - Women may be small in numbers as active war fighters, but their impact has been substantial. A woman known only as Agent 355 served as one of George Washington's handful of spies during the American revolution, and she's responsible for us discovering Benedict Arnold's treachery. She's believed to have died aboard a prison ship in NY Harbor.
Sub - That's the spot! Probably would have been more accurate to say "Carlsbad" instead of "Newport".
Bob - Those of us have worked in broadcasting know the station ID is important. The FCC requires it to be done at least once per hour, as close to the top of the hour as practical, and must include - in order - the call letters, location, and frequency / channel.
Jinx, unless they've since changed the rules, in my day the minimum legal station ID consisted of just the call letters and city. "WGN, Chicago." Elegant in its simplicity.
Would you believe there actually was a rock band called The Monks?
Here is one of their album covers...
I'm all for Alfred E Newman.
Inside the St.Louis Sluggers Fixer-upper.
Cont...
Of course, the Mom & Pop tie business has a mascot...
Also, so does the mug shot photographer...
And no, the village does not have a mountain lion problem.
Cont...
And, love is not always found in the dryer...
And, even the obedience school has a pep squad...
And, why does everyone remember Mikey, but not this guy?
And finally, on the theme subject of "reboot."
Fun puzzle - which sped along with all the TV show names- very amusing. I've known a few Coe alums - not surprising as we're only 4 hours away, but it is a small college.
Sorry Boomer is dealing with the side effects - but glad that he felt well enough to make the trip to Danbury!
We are out in the PNW - so solving online for the next week or so.
Thanks CC and Michael!
Just trying the mountain lion one again...
it was supposed to be a moving GIF
Thank You Michael Schlossberg for a long and involved Sunday CW puzzle. I had a tough time, but finally completed it. The TV shows were vaguely familiar.
Thank you CC for your explanatory review. Glad to know Boomer is doing somewhat better .... despite all the debilitating side effects. Its very Brave of both of you.
I had a tough time with some of the simplest clues, but a lot of thinking later, was able to suss them out.
Im runing late at a meeting, so have a great day, and a great week ahead, you all.
DO - I LIU and you are right. It MAY, at the stations discretion, include channel/frequency. I'll take 30 lashes with a whip antenna. Remember when home and car radios had the little CONELRAD symbols at 640 and 1240 on the dial? THAT would be good Saturday clue/fill, but there probably aren't any constructor/editor duos who are old enough to know about that.
CED - funny stuff, but I'm calling the SPCA on the beagle's servants. The only reason the USA doesn't try that power off / reset is because America doesn't have a help desk, and no one has ever been smart enough to try that before calling the help desk (or so the 1st level of tech support believes).
Good, solid and fun puzzle today. For RETRO, I first had PASSE, then changed it to DATED and finally came up with the right answer. I too at first was befuddled by OSHEA and NELLY, two unknowns for me, next to each other, but the horizontals saved me.
So glad Boomer and CC had a good peaceful outing.
Delightful Sunday puzzle--thank you so much, Michael. And always enjoy your Sunday commentary, C.C., thank you for that too, and for taking such good care of Boomer. I'm looking forward to his addition tomorrow.
This puzzle evoked so many happy memories, beginning with MADAME Bovary.
Haven't thought of HOWIE Mandel for a long time, but it was a pleasure to see him.
Liked being reminded about CHEERS, one of my favorite shows back in the day.
But my favorite memory was THE ODD COUPLE. What fun to watch Felix Unger and Oscar Madison negotiating their conflicting personalities.
Also had to laugh at the reminder of that Wonderland cake message: EAT ME.
And, of course, always nice to have a puzzle end with an ODE.
Have a great Sunday, everybody.
Thank you Michael, and thank you, C.C.
Started this crossword puzzle while having breakfast. Could not come up with any answer to HBO alternative that started with a P. Went back to bed.
Finally got back to the puzzle. The clock says it took me 1 hour, 58 minutes, 30 seconds. It didn't take that much actual solve time.
I loved it. So funny. I enjoyed the re-imagined clues. Had 1 error. I had ADORNS for Bells and Whistles before I got the extra sleep. Oh yeah, and I found the answer to the clue that was not HBO alternative. :>)
C.C., I've never had roasted eel. But I'd be hard pressed to believe that it is as good as the T-Bone I'm going to grill this evening. I will try roasted eel someday if you say it is really good. I would never have had tried the curd bao until you said it was good.
I'm glad you two were able to make the drive and had a good time in Wisconsin.
The clues in this puzzle are amazing -- and the grid is as clean as a whistle. Thank you, Michael, for the fun and funny time...and thank you, C.C., for the exposition and of course, for the Boomer update.
I liked this puzzle. Interesting that C.C. said, "Patti's grids are always clean..."
Here's a thought experiment: 1000 people got Covid and recovered. They all tested (antigen test) negative for several days and then tested positive again. Of the 1000 people, 300 had taken Paxlovid and 700 did not. Medical experts look only at the 300 people who had taken Paxlovid, do not look at the other 700 people, and conclude that Paxlovid is the cause of "rebound" infection. Please write a 500-word essay on the logic, or lack thereof, of reaching this conclusion.
Good wishes to you all.
Hola!
Though I watch a lot of TV, the only shows from this puzzle that I've seen is THE FACTS OF LIFE and THE ODD COUPLE which has to be one of the all time funniest shows ever.
I read John Steinbeck's EAST OF EDEN then listened to it on audio. It's a great story and he was a masterful writer.
AD LIB reminds me of watching the play, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Whoopee Goldberg forgetting her lines, turning to the audience and telling us that.
Another one I never saw is, STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON, but perps generously filled OSHEA.
I'm getting sleepy so I'll come back after a nap.
I hope your Sunday is sensational, everyone!
Thanks Michael for a relatively easy Sunday FIR, except perhaps for the SW, which I did have to struggle with for a while. This was certainly easier than yesterday's slog (see FLN below). I loved the theme, which was a big help with the solution. The only themer that I've actually seen is CHEERS, but had heard of all the others.
And thank you C.C. for another enlightening review. The clue for THE ODD COUPLE was my favorite too. I wish all my socks had a happy ending. But alas there is a hidden SOCK PHAGE in our dryer awaiting any unaccompanied socks. IIRC Hahtoolah had a cartoon recently depicting a SOCK perched at the door of a dryer dressed in a top hat and wielding a wand with the caption "I'm now going to disappear!"
A few favs:
101 SHAG. This wouldn't pass the Sunday morning breakfast test in the UK. SNOG would though.
13D EMMANUEL. The name of a guest priest in our Parish, a Franciscan from Ghana. I can't understand a word of his homilies, but they're wonderful nonetheless. He communicates everything with SMILES.
31D CFOS. Clever clue.
39D USSR. Now I think of them as the good old days.
74D LEONIDS. Used to watch these as a kid. Now the light pollution is so bad, all I can see are 1st magnitude stars.
122D COE. DNK and started with UOI, but it didn't go anywhere.
FLN
Teri and I got back late from the re-union stuffed with CRABS, CORN, and ALE [just a little], so we never made it to the party.
With her help however we had managed a FIR before we left for the reunion, but it was a real bear. Nice challenge.
Thank you Kate.
Thank you Gary.
Cheers,
Bill
C.C. Please tell Boomer he is an inspiration for us all and we pray for him thrice daily.
Jayce: is your Paxlovid question a problem of making correlation equal causation?
For what it’s worth, a friend of mine came down with Covid a few weeks ago with cold-like symptoms. She had been vaccinated and boostered. Her doc didn’t prescribe Paxlovid. She got well and has been well since. (Spell-check doesn’t like the word “boostered”. I don’t blame it.)
Jayce, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. I actually had to buy a book for an MBA course called How to Lie With Statistics. Of course, the point was how to avoid misleading one's audience.
RIP, Uhura.
Tante - I heard a TV doc today questioning why a doc would prescribe Paxlovid for for a quad-jabbed patient. There may be something about the patient that isn't public knowledge?
Tante Nique et. al., yes, the issue of making correlation equal causation is part of it. Another part is how a molehill (taking into consideration only a tiny sampling, with no control group to compare against), is sensationalized to such an extent that the integrity of the medication and its manufacturer are called into question. Furthermore, calling it a "rebound infection" displays a gross misunderstanding of what the antigen test actually shows, which is no more nor less than that some antigens (not necessarily live virus) were detected in your pharyngonasal passage. The obvious question should be, how did they get there? The obvious answer is, from an external source such as from the exhalations of others in the same room with you, NOT from some heretofore unknown "side effect" of the antiviral medication. To frighten the public into believing taking Paxlovid will cause you to suffer a so-called "rebound" because the medication is suspect, is irresponsible journalism bordering on malpractice. And again, it ignores the perhaps thousands, if not millions, of others who were immunized and boosted and did not take the medication, who tested positive again after having repeatedly tested negative. Surely a medication they never took cannot be blamed for that. More likely, and more logically, they inhaled some viral particles from other people because they went around maskless and were in proximity to others who were exhaling viral particles (as our very own President Biden did. He participated in events maskless.)
I dwell on this because I see the "reporting" on this matter as a dangerous promulgation of faulty information by the mainstream media, which, unfortunately, most people who even read the news or hear it on the radio or TV, believe to be gospel. It is flat out sloppy and lazy journalism, a "dereliction of duty" by professional journalists who should know better than to simply regurgitate what came in "over the wires" without even seeing the glaring fallacies in the "information" they are presenting.
Thanks for reading this rant.
And I won't say more about what is being cavalierly referred to as "inflation," than to say even Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari says the high price of goods is not inflation.
And have you seen the chyrons that blare "Recession fears!"? Sheesh. Why, oh why, dear news media, do you keep harping on this?
I promise I really will shut up now :)
Never expected a treatise on medication here!? Pretty fast fill today. Stumbled ("peeked") in SE corner once before completion. Clever theme upon which I stumbled upon early on help me have a smooth run today!
DW picked up Covid at daughter#2s wedding late May, and then gave it to me. ( we share everything...)
She had cold symptoms and a sore throat for a week and then was fine. I was a day or two behind her, had no cold symptoms, but had the worst sore throat of my life. When it got to then point that I could not swallow I called my Doctor, who put me on Paxlovid and a steroid. Once I tested negative, I never tested again as I had no symptoms. I could have been positive with no symptoms and not known it, but after all, I am not the president and have to get tested everyday...
I asked my doctor why I had to take paxlovid when DW did not, and he replied, "you don't have the same immune system as your wife!"
I also take Humira for psoriasis, which is supposed to lower your immune system, and that may have been a factor.
Of note:
I received the following email today:
"Dave:
I’m a Crossword Corner lurker and saw the picture you posted of the LOUISVILLE SLUGGER bat staircase. But you said it was the St Louis Slugger .
I think we Louisvillians and baseball fans in general deserve a correction!
Thanks , Susan
Sent from my iPhone"
Dear Susan,
Pls accept my sincerest apologies, and pass them on to all your fellow (Louisvillains?)
I would not know anything about baseball bats even if I were hit in the head with one.
I was just happy that I managed to find 10 (count 'em, ten!) silly theme links...
XxxxxxxxxBefore reading the write-up… Enjoyably fast Sunday with humorous, witty themes
Let's see what the gang has to say…
Well, I FIW on STRATEGy/O. With the Y I inked CyAn for the color. LAHTI of course was UNK. So much fill I let CC find my mistake
There were a couple of O'SHEAs in the NHL none as famous as NEELY
I never saw the CHEERS Clue as I tend to solve the Downs. I get links to CHEERS every time I click a link from here. Funny show which I obviously missed 90%.
WC
C-Ed -- Once again, the ace of the day, batting 10 for 10!
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