Theme: ANIMAL RIGHTS (56. Anti-cruelty movement, and what the
answers to the starred clues literally have) - The right side of each
theme entry is an animal.
20. *Clickable device with a light sensor: OPTICAL MOUSE.
35. *One who's easily frightened: SCAREDY CAT.
42. *Simple riding toy: HOBBY HORSE.
Boomer here.
When I was a kid, the only animal we had was a pet dog. Speaking of that era, C.C. and I journeyed to northern Wisconsin to meet up with a friend of my youth who I have not seen for about 60 years. We exchanged stories of our lives and had a great meal at a restaurant on Yellow Lake near Danbury.
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| Boomer and Carol, Danbury, WI, 7/25/2025 |
Across:
6. Chesapeake Bay crustacean: CRAB. Yes you are!!
10. Lavish party: FETE.
14. Stand-up performer: COMIC. Some of us can do it sitting down.
15. Top-quality: A ONE. There are a lot of A ONE puzzle solvers on this blog.
16. Iraq's eastern neighbor: IRAN. You would probably RUN too if you lived there.
17. Muscat native: OMANI.
18. Grazing grounds: RANGELAND. Sounds like Texas to me.
22. __ Beta Kappa: PHI.
23. Chemical in oven cleaners: LYE. Our oven never gets dirty enough to use that stuff.
24. "How unfortunate": IT'S SAD. Miguel Sano is back on the Twins roster. His batting average is .089 !
28. "Comprende?": SEE.
29. Lavish party: GALA. We had a GALA party of four at Yellow Lake.
31. "Wheels down" stat, for short: ETA.
32. Confined, with "up": PENT. Maybe in a PENT house.
38. Merit badge earner: SCOUT. I was a cub scout but never made it to the next level.
40. Tolkien monster: ORC.
41. Bizarre: OUTRE.
45. Clearance rack caveat: AS IS.
46. Craft brewer's brew: ALE. My favorite is Canada Dry ginger ALE.
47. Snail-paced: POKY. Hurry up!
48. R&B's Boyz II __: MEN.
50. Bruce of the "Die Hard" films: WILLIS.
52. Auction offer: BID. We have spent a lot of time buying and selling on eBbay.
53. Director's shout: CUT. Also a barber's shout.
60. Citrus drink: ORANGEADE.
63. Big name in water filters: BRITA. Our water does not need a filter. City water is pretty clean.
64. Bookish sort: NERD. Lots of NERD movies back in the eighties ?
65. GPS suggestions: RTES. We just Google a map if we don't know where we're going.
66. Prying tool: LEVER.
67. "To a ... " poems: ODES. "Ode to Billie Joe" It was the third of June....
68. Cravings: YENS.
69. Decorative jugs: EWERS.
Down:
2. Get-up-and-go: OOMPH. Got up and went!
3. Violin master who taught Stradivari: AMATI. Sounds like a name of a car model.
4. __ Cooper: small car made by BMW: MINI. And this is a car model. Too small for me.
5. Spiky winter hanger: ICICLE. Back on our home in a few months. Brrr
6. Kid-lit writer/illustrator Eric: CARLE.
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7. Knock about: ROAM. We ROAMed north to Danbury WI.
8. __ Domini: ANNO. Year of our Lord.
9. Enchant: BEGUILE.
10. Contents of a backup drive: FILES. C.C. keeps them on the computer.
11. Chapter in history: ERA. Also a pitcher's stat.
12. Light brown color: TAN. I have a bit on the arms. It'll be gone by fall.
13. See 51-Down: END. 51. With 13-Down, clothing retailer that began as a mail-order yachting supply company: LANDS.
19. Chihuahua or Sonora, por ejemplo: ESTADO. Is it fair to put non English fill with non English clue in a Monday puzzle?
21. "The __ have it": "Motion carries": AYES. Ah Yes!
25. Religious splinter groups: SECTS.
26. Video game pioneer: ATARI. Spent many hours on mine.
27. Goes out with: DATES. I dated my bowling ball for years.
28. Bang, as one's toe: STUB. Receipt for a ticket.
29. Actor Shandling: GARRY. Never thought much of him.
30. Curved sections: ARCS. The really BIG one is in St, Louis!
32. "Oh, nonsense!": PSHAW.
33. Bacteria that may trigger a food recall: E COLI. Nasty stuff.
34. Prestigious prize with six categories: NOBEL.
36. Downton Abbey's Mrs. Patmore, for one: COOK. I was one years ago. The pay was a bit low but it was fun.
37. Chinese currency: YUAN.
39. Skill measured in wpm: TYPING. Still using only one hand. My WPM is about 5.
43. Stockings: HOSIERY. I call them socks.
44. Mideast leader: EMIR.
49. Safe to consume: EDIBLE. The C.C. garden beans are very EDIBLE.
52. "God __ America": BLESS. "From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans white with foam "
53. Onion kin: CHIVE.
54. Say out loud: UTTER. Better say it louder.
55. Bygone Russian rulers: TSARS. I think Vladimir is wearing the badge now.
57. Life partner: MATE. Your King is trapped in chess.
58. Yemen coastal city: ADEN.
59. Increased in size: GREW. My money did not grow in Danbury, WI.
60. Peace activist Yoko: ONO.
61. Crimson: RED.
62. "__ you sure?": ARE. I am never sure.
Boomer
46 comments:
This was the usual Monday “walk in the park.”
However, erased “ditto “ for so am I”and “gala “ for “fete” then put “gala “ back in later on.Other than that, smooth sailing.FIR,so I’m happy
Correction - Twins Miguel Sano (after 0 for 6 with 4 strikeouts) got an owie on his knee and is back on the IL.
Good morning!
Hand up for DITTO. Have I ever mentioned that I hate it when I screw up 1a? Also fell into the GALA/FETE trap. Still, the train came into the station well before the 10-minute mark, so life is good. Thanx, Paul and Boomer. (Looks like you had a fine reunion in Danbury.)
FIR, but erased orangeaid for ORANGEADE, omani for AMATI, and grow for GREW. Blame for all three fell on 1) Monday, and B) Decaf. DNK CARLE, or that Shandling can't spell Gary.
You know that Boyz II MEN must be old R&B, because even I knew them.
"Wheels up" was popular among employees flying on our corporate jets. Never heard "wheels down," though. "Wheels up" was a way of saying "I'm not flying commercial" without actually saying it. My buddy used to fly to Venezuela on one of ours, and didn't like it. He said the bathroom was too small, and separated from the cabin with just a curtain.
(Thinking of how datacom has changed everything, we used to fly jets across Texas every night to collect punched paper tape toll call records. Then we flew the collected tapes to Tampa for processing.)
Thanks to PC for another fun puzzle. My favorite was "decorative jugs", but I can't put my finger on why.
Hi Y'all! Nice & easy landing on a fun puzzle, thanks, Paul. Glad you were able to make the Wisconsin trip and still entertain us here, Boomer. Good one.
LANDS END: I have at least a half dozen knit pants & cardigans from that company. Wear the pants most days year around for comfort.
DNK: GARRY (with any spelling), COOK, CARLE, couldn't remember PSHAW or YUAN.
Thought I was done but found 3 empty squares: "P" at PENT/PSHAW & "O" at ORC/COOK crosses.
Had BE_U & wanted BEfUddle again. Oops! BEwitch? Nope. BEGUILE.
Is OPTICLE MOUSE a real thing? Or a cw put-together?
Thanks, Boomer. This one started out a Sunday grid. Some that didn't make the cut were BUMSTEER, ROCKHOUND, GOINGSTAG, and GOLDSEAL. I'm a big believer in Animal Rights. So the idea occurred to me that phrases placing animals on the right that had non-animal meanings would make a good theme. Coincidentally, today's NYT also has a theme emphasizing placement on the right, with the revealer THEPRICEISRIGHT, and theme phrases ending in rate, fare, & fee as parts of other words. It's amazing how often these coincidences happen in the crossworld.
PK, the OPTICAL mouse is real. Early mice (mouses?) had a little rubber ball on the bottom that would roll around when the user moved the mouse. They didn't work very well on smooth office desks, so they usually were packaged with a padded, textured square called a mouse pad. Every year or so users had to remove the ball from the bottom of their mouse, clean it, and reinstall it. You can imagine the sophomoric office humor that ensued.
I bought my first computer before the mouse was invented. I had two levers to move the pointer, one each for the X and Y axes, and were as easy to use as an Etch-A-Sketch.
This puzzle took me 5:19 to get my animal to the right.
Didn't know/remember Carle and Garry, and I don't care for foreign words in crossword puzzles on any day of the week.
Kudos to Mr. Coulter for promoting animal rights.
PS. "Rabbit, Rabbit" in keeping with the animal theme.
Anon @ 7:44 a.m.
Good Morning:
It seems quite a while since we’ve seen Paul’s byline, so this was a pleasant surprise and a nice tribute to our furry friends. I, too, fell into the Fete/Gala and Ditto/So Am I traps. I thought the difficulty level (Carle, Estado, Oomph, Pshaw, etc.), was a tad higher than the usual Monday, which might challenge some newbies, but, perhaps, in a good way. I was surprised to see Land’s End and Range Land, but perhaps some of the traditional “rules” are becoming more flexible. Lest I be considered a Chesapeake Bay Crustacean, I’ll refrain from harping on the Proper Noun cluing proliferation.
Thanks, Paul, for a cute/serious start to another month and thanks, Boomer for the facts and fun. You sound in fine fettle, as usual, despite all you’re dealing with. Maybe CC’s green beans are helping you just like Popeye’s spinach helps him, and I’m sure your visit with Carol was just what the doctor ordered!
Where has Ray O disappeared to, may I ask?
Another scorching hot week ahead. The Dog Days of Summer, so they say.
Have a great day.
Easy puzzle. One hang up. I put Iraq for Iraq's eastern neighbor. Duh! It took a while to see my error. Otherwise no problem. Chihuahua and Sonora are the names of the Mexican states in English, too. Likewise, Le Havre in France means the harbor, but in English we don't say that. We say Le Havre.
I don't remember Eric Carle, but I have read his very popular, "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," to children many times.
In earlier movies and TV, nerds were always depicted as kind of weird asocial creeps. Being called nerd these days can be positive.
My kids took little interest in hobby horses. They loved a horse on springs. They sat on it and bounced up and down and rocked back and forth.
I remember those mouses or mice. (Both are correct.) You always had to clean the little ball. My least favorite mouse is the touch pad. I disabled it and use a wireless mouse.
Stub one's toe " . . . also invokes the sense of “shortening” one's toe by jamming it lengthwise into an object. It's that “lengthwise” smashing that distinguishes “stubbing” one's toe from simply “banging” one's elbow or knee."
Have a good day.
Marvellous Monday. Thanks for the fun, Paul and Boomer. (Glad you had a nice reunion.)
I FIRed in good time and saw the animals on the right theme.
At first, I thought LANDS END was the reveal. (There’s an idea for constructors!)
Add Bash to the FETE, GALA trap here.
This non- Maritimer had Clam before CRAB.
It took a minute to get HOSIERY spelled properly (left out the I).
Civic Holiday here today.
Company coming - gotta run.
Wishing you all a great day.
Good morning. Thank you Paul, and thank you, Boomer.
Made this one a bit more difficult by entering ranch land rather than RANGE land, and by misspelling SCAREDY. I get those, but what I don't understand is why I pit in ole for "Director's cut". Not paying much attention, I 'spose. I did get the theme, so there's that.
Seeing HOBBY HORSE made me think of those coin operated horse and car rides that were on the sidewalks by the entrance and exit doors of some department stores back in the strip mall days of the 60s.
Boomer said, "I need more than one SCOOP!" Then your answer to "Ice cream serving" could have been quart, but you may just need to find a bigger scoop.
Thank You Paul Coulter for a nice N easy Monday puzzle, that I enjoyed. I was wondering which animal's rights were we protecting ... Ok, some crosswordese. But, its all good.
Thanks for chiming in, your comments are always welcome.
Thank you Boomer, your pithy and punny comments are a delight. So glad to know you're doing well enough. and your ongoing meds have not affected your taste or sense of smell.
They have affected mine, and I keep losing weight because of lack of appetite - yet one more way to lose weight with no cravings. BTW, next week I'm going to meet a school friend, after close to 60 years ... better late than never. Absence makes a mind grow fonder.
Iraq borders on 6 or 7 countries, but only one with 4 letters...
We use elbow grease to clean our oven, it takes longer but no smells to dispel.
I also don't use water filters, .... someone once told us, 'If you're worried about E Coli in the drinking water .... just be sure to take a stiff drink, neat, and it'll be all good, in the stomach ... '
... I did'nt know that E Coli might just thrive on alchohol, too .... after all, they're living things, too.
Have a nice Monday, and a great week ahead, you all.
I'm not a robot robot robot robot
Musings
-Elements of the gimmick were obvious and the actual reveal was clever
-No DITTO for me, I erred with ME TOO
-Our SCAREDY CAT did fine during the fireworks last month
-Neil and Buzz’s ETA at the Sea of Tranquility on July 29, 1969 was 4:17 EDT
-Rodgers and Hart from Pal Joey: I'm wild again, BEGUILED again, A simpering, whimpering child again, Bewitched, bothered, and bewildered am
-TYPING – I am terrible when I look at the words as I type them but am better when I look away
-This Gary has been asked if I used one or two r’s
-I never liked Chipotle’s food and their E COLI outbreak guaranteed my aversion
-I have my annual visit with my GI doctor today. We have a nice half-hour talk about golf, NASA, Disney and other topics and five minutes on my guts
Did anyone else notice that 18a "rangELAND also ends with a animal on the right?
I've run out of steam complaining about foreign languages in English xwords, so instead try to look at the positives.
I learned how to say states in a foreign language...
Yellowrocks interestingly pointed out that the two words ARE English words, and the clue does reveal that the answer is in Spanish.
(Por ejemplo, so I guess the clue is fair...)
And, the answer "annoying little dog" will not fit in the boxes provided...
And while we champion animal rights, please do not forget to prevent animal wrongs!
And lastly,
Jinx provided the best fodder for research as to why "decorative jugs" is an interesting clue...
Jinx: Could the "decrative jugs" possibly be "falsies"???
Lovely puzzle. I knew I would like it when I saw PC’s name. Loved the theme.
Good catch Bluehen on the ELAND clue.
I wonder if Boomer is a time traveler. Am I mistaken, or did his photo show it was taken in 2025?
If you look up 47A “POKY” in a dictionary there should be a picture of me. I took 20 minutes to FIR. Oy. I didn’t fall for the DITTO or FETE/GALA confusion, as I have finally learned to look at the perps before writing in my first thought. However, several W/Os slowed me down: AMANI:AMATI, RANCHLAND:RANGELAND, ESTADA:ESTADO, NOBLE:NOBEL. All these dopey misses took time to figure out. I bet EDIBLE started out as EATABLE, then got slurred down to EDIBLE. But why did the “A” become an “I”? In spite of my missteps, and slow Monday solve time, I did enjoy this CW. Very nice CW, thanx, PC. Thanx too to Boomer for his cheerful, informative write-up. And done with one hand! Good for you, Boomer. It looks like your shoulder is coming along, as I see you holding the Walker with both hands! Keep us in the loop with your progress. We’re all rooting for you!
Paul @ 7:14 a.m. - Thanks so much for dropping in, Paul. It's always a treat when a constructor joins us, and we get to see some of the "bricks and mortar" the puzzle was composed of. You're always welcome to join us anytime!
Doing the puzzle at the water park "Water Safari" in Old Forge. Mobbed on a great day Forgot my bathing suit helping everyone else get ready. So just laying out activating some Vitamin D thumbing my way through clues.
Puzzle was a bit crunchy for a Monday but FIR, str8forward theme... Inkover: gala/FÊTE (didn't make the opposite mistake further down).
Does anyone actually say PSHAW?
I hadda think Clam is a mollusk, it's the CRAB that's a crustacean. At first "wheels down" stat I thought meant STAT (immediatley) "oh no did we run out of jet fuel?"
RANGELAND makes sense for the clue but never heard that term (pastureland). Not sure why SEE needed a Spanish clue. As a toddler I had a HOBBYHORSE: just a seat on a piece of bent metal that you bounced on to move forward on little wheels. So primitive for the early 50's can't even find it on google. 🐴
Punched in the gut sound.....OOMPH
Keep your ____ on the prize...AYES
Just direct your ____ to the GALA...FÊTE
It's all here, everything ____ YUAN.
.....PENT
Climate change is fake! An ___ ! ..ECOLI
Empty steeple....NOBEL
Boomer ..Thanks for the Single-handed review.😁. Thank you Mr. Coulter for stopping by.
Irish M mentioned last week we had a colleague (severe case of shingles, sound familiar?) out, so no real breaks for puzzle time. This week grandkids here.
👪
Hola!
It's a rare Monday when I'm not scheduled in my volunteer role. So finishing this puzzle was a treat. Thank you, Paul, for checking in with us. You are one of the constructors who does that and I, for one, appreciate it.
In my working days I had many drawers filled with HOSIERY which I wore every day with high heels.
My students and I loved ERIC Carle's books!
Somewhere I might have one or two YUANs left over from our trip to China.
I remember buying an ATARI for my daughter back when they were first issued and were hard to find.
Of course, I don't mind Spanish in a puzzle since it is my first language.
ADEN, OMANI, EMIR and TSARS provide a Mideastern flair to the puzzle. Also TAN.
In an interview I heard Mrs. Patmore say that she had never actually cooked a meal.
Canadian Eh, why is today a holiday?
Have a glorious Monday, everyone!
Fun Monday puzzle, Paul--many thanks for getting our week off to a good start. And, Boomer, it's always wonderful to see you here on Monday, after C.C. doing Sunday's puzzle. What a great team you two are for us.
I'm an ANIMAL lover so I loved getting all those critters this morning, that MOUSE, luckily separated from the CAT, and then that HORSE that enjoys its hobbies.
Oh yes, and we got a CRAB too.
Nice to get COMIC early in a puzzle, giving us good cheer before learning that IT'S SAD.
Do NERDS enjoy ODES? Well, why not? Raises a good question: is Yoko ONO a nerd who enjoys ODES? We should ask her.
Have a great week coming up, everybody.
Token: No, but "moobs" might be falsies. You, know, the nice rack on some fat guys.
CED: You are on to something. Every year we have the "Bra-Ha-Ha", which is centered around a bra decorating contest in support of breast health. There are some pretty creative folks in these here parts.
Thanks Paul for a smooth and easy Monday FIR. My only question is how'd ya keep that CAT from getting that MOUSE? Don't mind me, I'm just HORSIN' around.
And thanks Boomer for your usual GROANWORTHY review. You were really ROAMin today!
6A CRAB. I stuffed myself with these "Beautiful Swimmers" at my DIL's family reunion on Saturday. One of her brothers is an entrepreneur, and among his many skills is the ability to procure large quantities of the best available CRABS in Maryland. He also runs the brewery that the supplied a potent ALE known as "Dundalk Calling".
24A IT'S SAD. Ahem, Have I told you about the Orioles lately. Seems that my cardiologist was RIGHT about their chances this year (he's their ticker checker in the pre-season).
53A CUT. The last thing Sweeney Todd's customers heard before they were baked into a pie.
3D AMATI. A car none of us could afford. We can afford other models, if we could just find someone to sell us one. We're going for our third interview tomorrow. I hope we get the job.
9D BEGUILE. BEWITCH didn't perp.
51D END. 51D LANDS. Teri got this one right away. I guess they got the name from the region at the extreme SW tip of Cornwall England.
Cheers,
Bill
Lynx @6:31 AM Yes, I agree that the cluing for 69A was especially 41A.
PK @6:55 AM I am composing this very comment with an OPTICAL MOUSE.
Paul Coulter @7:14 AM I think the reference to George Bernard Pshaw was particularly apropos, as he was a vegetarian.
Bluehen @10:10 AM LOL! Are they the antelopes who live in Madagascar?
I recently purchased a Land’s End, swimsuit at Kohls, pricey, but they are durable.
My married daughter is in the hospital from a black widow spider bite on her foot. Some people are slightly affected, but others have a severe response. Drop for drop the black widow venom is 15 times more deadly than rattlesnake venom. Hopefully, she will be released this afternoon. Puzzle was just right for a Monday. Yellowrocks, I put Iraq instead of Iran.
Thank you guys for all the spider lore; another thing to worry more about. I have never seen a black widow bite, but I have seen the result of the brown recluse and it is horrible. The puzzle and write-up however were both A-1 so there is balance.
Happy August, thank you Paul (always PC) and Boomer (not quite always).
I liked this puzzle. Hand up for changing DITTO to SOAMI, but I changed it to METOO (hi, Gary) at first. Also, like PK, I had to change BEWITCH to BEGUILE; at least I was not bothered or bewildered. Nor was there any need to Begin the Beguine.
Boomer and C.C., I'm glad you had a good time in Danbury.
Good wishes to you all.
RABBIT RABBIT
A solid Monday PZL, a fine offering for an August morning from Mr. Coulter, as interpreted by our Boomer. A good way to start us off!
How did a CRAB, a lowly crustacean, manage to worm its way among a HORSE, CAT & MOUSE?
Ah, well, diversity is the favored model these days. We even make room for a POKY Snail.
~ OMK
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DR: Two diagonals, one on the right and one on the left (or is that too political?)
The near-side diagonal offers an anagram (12 of 15 letters) to acknowledge the paraphernalia of some holy rites.
Not the religious core itself, but the extras, such as emblems, incense, statues, etc.
We might calls these the...
"SACRED GISMOS"!
A mostly easy Monday offering from Paul C. Thank you! Enjoyed the expo, Boomer, thanks for that!
Hand up for ditto/SOAMI. Got lucky with FETE before GALA which had it's own home later in the grid.
Of course I liked the ANIMAL RIGHTS theme.
It's the beginning of August. That means cooler temps will be coming in a month or so. I'm looking forward to the end of the 90* temps with 60%+ humidity.
Have a great week. Hope everyone is healthy.
Ditto for DITTO. Slow start but all downhill from there.
Boomer, Twins are in first place. What did Mantle card sell for?
Jinx I converted paper tape for MA Bell in 71-73
Lemony's favorite, Nero, gets a CSO with FAVORITE,,
TTP, you've got wordle on the brain re. Ice-cream and SCOOP
Waseeley, your Orioles are doing much better than last few years Btw I also inked clams
WC
Hi All!
MOUSE, CAT? This going to be Tom & Jerry?... HORSE? Ah, just mamANIMALs on the RIGHT. Thanks for the fun and stopping by The Corner, Paul.
Even at 5 WPM, you entertain. Thanks for the post-puzzle play.
WOs: ClAm, assado [asada? Oh, it's not food? ;-)]
ESP: ESTADO
Fav: GARRY Shandling. [wikiP]
LOL DR, OMK.
Is it just a coincidence that POK[e]Y is under HORSE?
The Girls had HOBBY Unicorns. When it came time to throw them away, I CUT off the sticks for future use ("hey, it's good wood," as Pop would say). I made a paper-towel holder for the garage with a bit of one.
Every 18 months or so, I call LANDS END and tell them to send me five more of these shirts
Yuman - BLESSings to your daughter - those are nasty but treatable.
PK - to add to Jinx: MOUSE Types [wikiP]
Jinx - um, the mouse was invented in '46 ;-) What was your computer with the LEVERs?
Waseley - you're TYPING with the MOUSE? ;-)
Gotta run. Cheers, -T
When I was a kid, I had a dog, a mutt named Crackers.
We rented a flat on Union Street in San Francisco. One fateful day, Crackers got into the basement garbage cans. The mess was bad enough that our landlord said we could no longer keep Crackers, or any dog.
I cried and cried. Crackers was crying too. He was sorry.
While I was at school, my dad took Crackers to a "farm, where he'll always be happy."
After that, we had a series of CATs. One non-memorable feline after another. They were OK, but....
Once I could settle into my own home as an adult, I went back to dogs.
They're in honor of Crackers.
~ OMK
9D Enchant BEGUILED makes me think of artist Charley Harper and his book Beguiled by the Wild. His interpretation of figures is very simple yet amusing. He would have been 100 years old this week if still alive.
-T, the levers were on my Apple II. They actually called them "paddles" (PDL0 and PDL1 in basic, IIRC). Some A-IIs shipped with rotary dials instead of paddle devices, but they coded the same and still worked like an Etch-A-Sketch.
Jinx: Hand up for MOOBS. After 4 injections of Lupron, a testoterone (sic) blocker for prostate cancer, they are about a B-Cup. :^)
Token, sounds HOT! kinda like a DIY kit. (Actually I had them too, but I lost 85 pounds and they have pretty much gone away.) Sorry to read about your prostate cancer, but sounds like you've got it in check.
TokenCreek & Jinx ~ Heheh. Not to be confused with MOOPS, the African tribes that invaded Spain in the early 8th C.
This, according to George Costanza, at least.
It was an amusing Seinfeld episode, in which George kept correcting the guy who answered "Moors" to a Trivial Pursuit question. The answer sheet had "MOOPS," a mis-print, so George insisted on re-writing history.
~ OMK
Paul C ~ Thanks for dropping by. (I was surprised to discover that the other puzzle you mentioned was a debut by a rising high school senior.)
Ray O @ 11:47 ~ Sorry, forgot that you were going to be busier than usual. Glad, though, that all is well and you’re enjoying the grandkids.
Yuman @ 2:17 ~ Best wishes to your daughter for a speedy recovery.
Once, I had a Black ( Widow ...? ) climb up my forearm, whilst I was cleaning our perennially filthy garage ... She was black, had an hour glass figure ,,, or that type of logo on her upper- rear torso etc.,
But, then, .... when she flashed her engagement ring, at me .... I relaxed .... she was not a Black Widow, but a mere wanna-be .... or perhaps a male, of the trans variety ... or a black widower in an identity crisis.
One can never be too careful ....
Ray-o- yes, I knew something was wrong with my Clam entry. I don’t live close enough to the coast!
Bluehen - yes I saw that ELAND. I wanted Grass LAND at first.
Yuman - hope your daughter recovers quickly from that nasty bite.
Lucina - “Why is today a holiday?” The short answer: because summer is too short in Canada and we need a long weekend in July, August and September! It is not a statutory federal holiday but can be declared by the provinces and municipalities. We know it here as Civic Holiday. Manitoba calls it Terry Fox Day; some of the other provinces call it by their name ie. British Columbia Day.
OMK - My childhood mutt-pup was Macduff (yes, named for the Thane). In avengence (word?), he bit a kid picking on my little Sis and had to be sent upstate.
Sinbad (black lab) was softer in the nipping if the need arose.
C, Eh! - My work calendar still has holidays for CA from our company's days in Calgary.
I see BC Day, Civic Day, Heritage Day (Alberta), Natal Day (Nova Scotia), and New Brunswick Day (um, duh - New Brunswick). It's also a 'August Bank Holiday' in the UK.
Spiders: ~10 years ago, Pop picked up an arm-full of firewood from his 1/2 cord and a Brown Recluse pop'd him though his flannel. Nasty ensued - he described it as a bulls-eye getting bigger and bigger of rot on his chest. #TMI?
Jinx - same type of knobby paddles that they used for Pong?
The Apple ][e I first played with didn't have any x-y input (other than arrow-keys) for playing games. Buddy's ][e did have a 300bps modem that we'd use reach out and touch someone for fun and [Shall we play?] games [War Games clip]
//we hacked into everything in our telco prefix - we didn't know about the MCI 'free' LD calling and didn't want to run-up our parents' telco bills AND get caught ;-)
Cheers, -T
Canadian Eh
Thank you for your response. How nice that you get a holiday in August which for us here in the USA, it's a long, hot slog especially in Arizona where the average temperature is well over 110 degrees through most of the month. I'm thinking of taking a trip to somewhere cool.
Thanks, guys, for the mouse info. Wish you were here to set up my new Kindle. That has stalled out.
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