I'd Put a SPELL on You if only I could find my BOOK.
16-Across. * "Please don't get hurt!": BE CAREFUL!
22-Across. * Have to pay back extra: OWE INTEREST.
34-Across. * "Seriously!?": OH, BROTHER!
51-Across. * Mall store with engagement rings: KAY JEWELERS.
And the unifier:
59-Across. Wizard's reference, and what the first words of the answers to
the starred clues do: SPELL BOOK. BeOweOhKay.
Across:
1. Tappable screen symbols: ICONS.
6. Spanish "Bravo!": ¡OLÉ! Today's Spanish lesson. Hi,
Lucina!
9. Canine cries: ARFs. // And 45-Down. Sharp
barks: YIPs.
13. "Water Lilies" painter Claude: MONET. Once when we were
in France, we went to Giverny where Monet painted the Water Lilies. We
checked into this little hotel where we had to pay upfront. The hotel
manager said to us: Giff me the Monet! So we paid him.
14. Nemesis: FOE.
15. Chicken structure: COOP.
18. Banks of fashion: TYRA. Tyra Lynne Banks (b. Dec. 4,
1973) was also the host of America's Next Top Model.
19. Listening device: WIRE TAP.
20. "Wake Up With Al" weather anchor: ROKER. It seems like
Al Roker (né Albert Lincoln Roker; b. Aug. 20, 1954) has been doing the
weather forever!
21. "The Bachelorette" TV network: ABC.
26. Movie roll: REEL. Are these still used?
28. Transitioned: SEGUED.
29. Cultural funding org.: NEA. As in the National Endowment for the Arts.
30. Early PC platform: MS-DOS. As in MicroSoft-Disk Operating System.
32. "Well played": NICE!
33. Countdown start: TEN.
38. Quick blow: JAB.
41. Many a Middle Easterner: ARAB.
42. Like a post-rain hike: MUDDY.
46. Poetic tribute: ODE.
47. To a greater extent: MORE SO.
50. Garr of "Tootsie": TERI. Tootsie was a
rom-com that came out in 1982!
54. Skybox guest: VIP.
55. Discontinued Apple music devices: iPODS. I am so sorry
to see the discontinuation of the iPod. I use mine nearly every day.
56. Preambles: LEAD INS.
58. Italian volcano: ETNA. Here's the live cam on the
volcano. No volcanic action today, but you can see some birds fly by.
62. Faction: SECT.
63. Bowler's asset: AIM. Hi, Boomer!
64. Anti-frizz hair product: SERUM.
65. Christmas __: TREE.
66. Zodiac sign between Cancer and Virgo: LEO. Hi, LeoIII!
67. Remove: ERASE.
Down:
1. Knocks back a few: IMBIBES.
2. Strong-armed: COERCED.
3. __ in a blue moon: ONCE.
4. "How cool": NEAT-O.
5. Juice box inserts: STRAWS.
6. Like sour milk: OFF.
7. Baseball Hall of Famer Brock: LOU. // Not to be
confused with 27-Down. WC: LOO. Louis Clark Brock (June 18,
1939 ~ Sept. 6, 2020) played for 19 years in the major league. He is
best known for stealing bases.
8. Long wriggly fish: EEL. Where do EELS come from?
9. Audition hopeful: ACTOR.
10. Gruff footballer played by Brett Goldstein on "Ted Lasso": ROY KENT. I have not seen Ted Lasso, but it has gotten great
reviews. Brett Goldstein (b. July 17, 1980) is a British comedian and
actor.
11. Know in advance: FORESEE.
12. Like a no-frills hotel room: SPARTAN.
17. Fencing sword: EPÉE. // Not to be confused
with 53-Down. Curved sword: SABER.
19. Like shorts weather: WARM. Hi again, Lucina!
20. Turn in for cash: REDEEM.
23. Satiric science prize for "research that makes people laugh, then
think": IG-NOBEL. While not as prestigious as the Nobel
Prize, the Ig Nobel Prize has been awarded since 1991 to celebrate unusual or
trivial achievements in scientific research. The Ig Nobel Prizes this
year will be awarded in September. Here is a list and explanation
of last year's prizes.
24. Night in Paris: NUIT. Today's French lesson. Do
you know the difference between Nuit and Soir?
25. Virginia __: TECH. I first tried Virginia Dare, then Virginia Reel, before letting the perps have their way.
31. Disgraces: SHAMES.
35. Tweezing target: BROW.
36. Hard to find: RARE.
37. Boring routine: RUT.
38. Least serious: JOKIEST. Seems a bit awkward.
39. Travel kit plug: ADAPTER.
40. Most nominated woman in Grammy history: BEYONCÉ. Beyoncé
(née Beyoncé Giselle Knowles; b. Sept. 4, 1981) has been nominated almost 80 times, and has been awarded nearly 30 Grammys.
43. Conniving: DEVIOUS. Did anyone watch Devious Maids? It ran on Lifetime for about 4 years.
44. Message on a Wonderland potion: DRINK ME. Did Alice
IMBIBE?
48. List on Facebook Marketplace, say: SELL.
49. Warning words: OR ELSE.
52. Matchmaking site available in Hebrew: JDATE.
57. Cartoon explorer with a talking backpack: DORA. I knew
that Dora was an Explorer, but I didn't know her backpack talked.
59. "Blueberries for __": Caldecott Honor Book by Robert
McCloskey: SAL. Blueberries for Sal was first published in
1948. It takes place in Maine and is about a little girl named Sal who
is out picking blue berries at the same time a bear cub is searching for
berries.
60. Diner slice: PIE.
61. Moody genre: EMO.
Here's the Grid:
חתולה
Stay cool, folks!
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58 comments:
Rabbit, rabbit.
FIRight. A little crunchy for a Tuesday, but not excessively so.
I give myself half credit for the theme. i saw the letters, but wasn't sure if I had them all when I hit the reveal, so didn't spell them together.
Sorry I haven't been around for a few days. Had some outside problems to attend to, physical but mainly mental. My l'icks today should indicate how well I've recovered.
In New York, pet shops no longer resound
With YIPS and ARFS and suchlike sound.
Puppy farms
Caused alarms,
So adoptees are only found at the pound!
A WORD OF WARNING never hurt.
"BE CAREFUL" is always safe to blurt!
So no mischance
Will harm the dance
As long as dancers stay alert!
{A-, B+.}
I once had a REEL to REEL tape deck
I always thought the French pronunciation was Say goo. YouTube tells me it's Suggy
Segway sounds much better
Blew it again with ROpER and the unknown ROY KENT. Never saw Ted Lasso. FIW
WC
Even though we already had “reel” in the puzzle, I, too, tried “Virginia Reel” at first -and I, like Jinx,actually live in Virginia! (Richmond). Also, I tried “suir” before “nuit.” But I eventually straightened everything out. FIR, so I’m happy.
By the way, today’s my birthday. I’m 68 years old today. I certainly don’t feel that old! For one thing, I can walk circles around my girlfriend, Brenda, who is about half my age (38). As the saying goes,”Age is just a number!”
Good morning!
JOKIEST? Gimme a break. It's amazing, the lengths constructors sometimes have to go to. Wasn't aware of the IG-NOBEL prize, but it makes sense...kinda like the Darwin Awards. Thanx, Ella and Hahtoolah. (That "Or Else" cartoon hits awfully close to home.)
IPOD: Planned obsolescence. I received a notification from one of my email providers (Soddenlink, if you must know) that effective today they're changing their name...and their web domain. Now I get to figure out at which sites I've listed that now-defunct email address. Fun, fun, fun. Why do they do that?
FIR, but erased ABASES FOR shames and noir for NUIT, which looks like a 3 Stooges exclamation.
I thought only medicos used SERUM on their hair.
I'll yell at Ellen because C-Eh! is too nice to do it: It's spelled SABRE!
JOKIEST reminded me of an old TV sitcom - Gimme a Break!
OKL - I'd say you're back, fit as a fiddle.
WC - Hand up for once being a proud owner of a reel-to-reel tape deck. I also had a cassette tape changer, which would automatically sequence through a stack of about 6 cassettes.
Sub - There's an old saying: "A woman is only as old as she feels. A man is only as old as the woman he feels."
FLN
Lucina, why not go to San Diego like all the other Zonies? Nice weather along the coast.
OMK, VERY funny MOOPS.
T-, the IIe was more advanced. But I added a (110 bps) modem to my II, just to be able to log in to our minicomputer in our data center. I boxed it up and bought a true-blue IBM PC with DOS 3.0 when our departmental login required an underscore, and the II didn't have a shift-key.
Thanks to Ella for the fun grid, and to Ha2la for the usual visual treat.
Good Morning, Crossword friends. JOKIEST was very awkward and probably not a word I would use.
I was flying home last night from NYC. My plane was nearly 2 hours late leaving LaGuardia, which gave me only 20 minutes to my connecting flight. I had get from the end of one gate to the end of another gate. At one point, I saw a sign saying it was a 13 minute walk to the next gate, and my plane was scheduled to leave in 15 minutes. I made it with just seconds to spare. I am still recovering from that run. I was the last passenger on the plane, but at least I made it home and didn't have to stay in some airport overnight.
QOD: Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. ~ Marjorie Barstow (1899 ~ 1995), author
Hi Y'all! Thank you, Ella, for a fast & easy puzzle -- except where it wasn't like with JOKIEST, ROY KENT (who?), COERCED, SPARTAN, BEYONCE, JDATE, IGNOBEL. Eventually got them all with perps plus the theme.
Hand up for thinking NOIR before NUIT. Didn't type it in tho.
Hahtoolah, thanks for a great expo with lots of chuckles. Especially liked the toe action on Fred Flintstone & the melted ice cream truck.
Happy Birthday, Subgenius! (cradle robber!)
I booked this one in 5:28 today.
Fortunately, I didn't see the "Nuit" clue/answer. Wanted "old" instead of "off" for sour milk, and I'll join in the chorus booing "jokiest." [Spellcheck doesn't like it either.]
Ted Lasso is a great show.
"He's here, he's there, he's every-f@#%ing-where, Roy Kent!"
Happy Birthday, SubG.
HBD SubG! Someone mentioned Darwin. In South Florida we have the Brightline fast train, which is also called the Darwin Train, as it is killing off the least intelligent, those who try to beat the train at a crossing, thereby raising the collective I.Q. in the population. It is by far the deadliest train in the country. See jalopnik.com for a run-down. This CW did not seem like a Tuesday, more like a Thursday. FIR but took me a disgraceful 25 minutes. Did not see the theme until the reveal, but then got it. Clever. Thanx ED for your efforts. And thanx too to Hahtoolah for the fine, and as always entertaining, write-up.
Good Morning:
Trying to see the connection between the theme answers had me baffled until filling in the reveal and, then, I smiled in appreciation. Nicely played, Ella! Serum, as clued, was unknown, as was Roy Kent, never having seen Ted Lasso. Jokiest got the side eye, but no other nits.
Thanks, Ella, for a fun Tuesday and thanks, Hahtoolah, for another eye-popping review. As I, and others, have said, you have a singular knack for always finding the perfect cartoons and informative and interesting links on sometimes mundane subjects. Congrats on your successful mini marathon at LGA.
Subgenius @ 4:47 ~ Have a very Happy Birthday! 🎂🎊🎁🎈🎉 As you said, “Age is just a number” and, as the lady in the TV commercial wisely adds, “And mine is unlisted!” 🤭 Glad you and your iPhone are getting along so well! 🤗
Have a great day.
Ella on a Tuesday? Pretty much a speed-run with a few bumps in the road but perps were helpful Jinx fln: That Lupron is a testosterone blocker to my thingies. So I asked the onc nurse if my boobs would get bigger. She TITtered. (^:)))
Hi All!
The 'whoosh' you head was the theme passing by - I never looked for it after finally inking the NE corner. Thanks Ella for your second Tuesday LAT.
Hahtoolah - you're too much! Loved the comics and the Monet quip and your QOD.
WO: MaNET
ESP: ROY KENT, NUIT, SAL
Fav: WIRE TAP - so much easier when everything wasn't digital. #BeigeBox
WEES re: JOKIEST. Ok, so I'm never really serious but no one has called me that. Like, ever.
{A, B+}
Happy Birthday SubG.
Speaking of genius - Miss Sweetie Poo at the IG-NOBELs is introduced to stop boring speeches.
//I watch the IG-NOBELs every year - it's also played on NPR's Science Friday annually.
D-O: Studies of Whale Snot [IG-NOBEL winner in 2010] and whatnot is important work.
LOL Darwin Train 'raising the collective IQ', Unclefred.
TITtered? NICE, TokenC.
BEYONCE - One of the Destiny's Child members* lived in our old neighborhood and DW would oft see her on the jogging trails.
Mom's #3 was a musician - I was fascinated by his REEL-to-REEL rig.
Meeting in 2min. Gotta run. Cheers, -T
*Don't ask me - I can never recognize A STAR [not 9d] IRL. Once, I sat behind De Niro at our kids' Christening for over an hour. BIL had to tell me that was him (De Niro just looked like one of my uncles :-)).
9 proper names knew 6. Not to shabby.
Anon-T, gotta ask, what was De Niro doing at your kid's Christening?
Puzzle was a fun run - but the blog was more fun - thanks for all the cartoons Susan!
Enjoying the Oregon Coast - high of 68 and low of 58 - after the heat everywhere else!
HBD Subgenius!
There was only one unheard of answer. Just a perp or two suggested the others. A misspelling did me in. I know TYRA and its spelling very well and said it as I wrote TARA. I have seen TYRA often on TV. The cross was unknown, ROY KENT.I just accepted ROAKENT as a strange last name. Coulda, woulda, shoulda.
Happy birthday, Subgenius. I am glad you have joined our family of regulars.
Giverny was on my bucket list for years and now the list has kicked the bucket. I am a big Monet fan.
As a primary grade teacher, I am very familiar with McCloskey and Blueberries for Sal.
I have been walking for 45 minutes every morning before breakfast five days a week and using the stairs instead of the elevator to get to my second floor apartment. My legs and core feel stronger already after just one week. It seems to help my balance, too,
Terrific Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, Ella and Hahtoolah (glad you made your plane!).
Officially a FIW today because of my personal Naticks (and for others here too I see) in that NE corner.
This Canadian has never heard of ROY KENT or ROKER (although I vaguely recall that I might have heard the latter’s name here previously). I WAGged Roger. Plus I should have known TYRA but entered Tara. The resultant Roagent sounds more like a chemistry prof than a football player!
But I did get the SPELL BOOK theme.
I’ll join IM’s side eye at JOKIEST. C.C. calls this “gluey fill”.
Thanks Jinx re Sabre. But you forgot “It’s spelled Jewellers”. (I’m not that nice . . . and we don’t have KAYs in Canada.)
Hand up with Anon@7:58 (speedy solver?) for Old before OFF.
DRINK ME today, not Eat Me.
I had the _IM , and was thinking of a bowler hat with a Rim. Oh, we are at the bowling lanes and need to AIM.
Happy Birthday subgenius.
We had thunder storms last night and are not so WARM today. It is refreshing on the patio.
Wishing you all a great day.
I see that YR and I were on the same (wrong) wavelength with Tara today. But at least she had ROKER.
Fun puzzle. I just discovered that I had Tara instead of TYRA. Didn’t know Roy Kent.
Hatoolah: thanks for the Ig-Nobel link.
DO: I too have Suddenlink which is now Optimum. In the email I got from them they assured subscribers that their email would not change, so take heart.
Happy Birthday Subgenius.
A tad easier than yesterday. 'cept for the O's in BOOK...someone cast a "dummy" spell on me.
Inkover: old/OFF, Dare/TECH, arm/AIM (frustrated bowler brought an arm to the alley and took AIM at the pins still standing),
One of yesterday's crossword SECTS broke away and joined today's puzzle as a new SECT. (So much SECTS!!) ...SERUM used as a hair product...wha?...and not crazy about JOKIEST
They still use movie REELs? 📽 (H2LH)....Our Adirondack theater was headed for closure unless it switched to "digital" so the we got together, held some events and raised enough for the conversion. Now 5 first run films, great diversion on a rainy day. Ironically the owner has a collection of antique reel to reel projectors in the lobby.
Step in bread making....NEATO
Harvey Korman, The Count de _____ MONET.
New musical households chain: "Bed, Bath, & _____ "BEYONCÉ
One who is COERCED....FORESEE
Still doing the puzzle on my cellphone...thumbs are plum tuckered out.
Happy B day Subg!...(oh to be 60 again 😏)
Good morning. Thank you Ella, and thank you, Hahtoolah. Glad you made your connection.
Cute theme. I liked it.
I got a kick out of the cartoon for ICONS. 3D model. Funny. Same could be done with a handset as it still represents a phone. Nostalgia.
Wasn't familiar with the IG-NOBLE awards. I read about the 2021 winners and will read some of the previous years results later.
Happy Birthday, Subgenius.
Dash T - De Niro - Just watched Midnight Run again. Great movie if you haven't seen it. Charles Grodin was at his best in that movie.
FLN, Wilbur Charles, you saw that scoop / quart comment and thought Wordle ? I'm on a long winning streak on Wordle. I haven't lost since Feb 5th. 98.96 % all time.
Quordle is a different story. I'm at 50 %, and it's an OK game when I have the time. My problem with Quordle is that there are too many times the answer is really a three or four letter word that is five letters only because of a prefix or a suffix. e.g. FIT becomes REFIT. Or a four letter word becomes a five letter adjective form because of an added R or added Y. Stuff like that.
Clever SPELL BOOK theme!
A few days ago DW and I encountered this WIZARD playing chess downtown after our hike.
Hand up TARA/ROAKENT. TED LASSO utterly unknown. Proper name crossings should be "Punishable By Death" as DW says about things she doesn't like.
Learning moment about SERUM for hair. Hand up Virginia REEL before TECH. The IGNOBEL Prize has changed. It used to be for useless research, but some of these were quite useful.
Subgenius Happy Birthday!
Hahtoolah Thank you for the amusing cartoon about the floppy disk, the WIRE TAP and Fred Flintstone's bowling trick! I didn't get the one about the CHRISTMAS TREEs playing cards.
JOKIEST is not funny.
Thanks for all your good wishes. I was kinda hoping CrossEyedDave would come by and "make me a cake" but I guess you can't have everything. Anyway, I've been having a good time on my birthday, particularly because my girlfriend, Brenda, is with me today and, yes, PK, I'll admit to being a "cradle robber" if the "baby girl" in question is 38 years old. But she IS a "cutie"!
Thank you Ella for a fun Tuesday puzzle, which I managed to SPELL correctly. I think it's going to be downhill from here the rest of the week.
And thank you Hahtoolah for another illustrious review. Loved the BOOMER GIF.
A few favs:
1A ICONS. The SAVE icon is the fossilized exoskeleton of an old digital medium, embedded in the digital strata of contemporary computer apps. When we're gone, who will explain the meaning of these strange RUNES to younger generations?
13A MONET. CAT, you bin hangin' around MOE too long.
19A WIRETAP. I think it's obvious that not only SIRI and ALEXA (neither of which I use), but our phones as well, are constantly listening to us. E.g. lately Teri and I have been talking a lot about buying a new car, and within mintes car ads start popping up on our phones.
20A ROKER. Today's French lesson - "To stream digital media".
22A OWE INTEREST. I think the last time I had to pay interest was when I made my last mortgage payment 20 years back.
34A OH BROTHER WHERE ART THOU? - my favorite Coen Brothers' film.
55A IPODS. I have two, both permanently set to WBJC FM. They're really great for listening to the Saturday afternoon Metropolitan Operas from NY, when I'm out in my garden weeding vegetables.
58A ETNA. Sounded kind of windy when I tuned in.
Cheers,
Bill
Thank you Ella Dershowitz, for a surprising complex Tuesday. I completed it, despite some unusual clues and words. I remember the last puzzle you made, which was a real challenge.
Thank You Hahtoolah for all your charming and appropriate cartoons, which always bring a smile.
BUt I'm most grateful at your information links ... That eels don't ( presumably?) lay eggs (??) and grow up as larvae and then a metamorphosis, .... and the IgNobel awards, which I was aware of ... some 'prize winners' actually attend the ceremony, in person. After all, its held at Harvard. !@!
Thanks for the funny/punny Monet story of the hotel manager, .... were you "shabbily dressed" that he felt fearful that you may run away without settling the hotel bill ? In the US, the credit card, in advance, solves those problems...
Actually, I have seen an original Monet on Water Liliies in the pond ... he made many, many paintings in that genre. But this art was in the house of a pediatric nuero- surgeon, in Cleveland ! But, he left soon after, to go back to Brigham and Women's (sic) in Boston. Part of Harv Med School.
SERUM, is what I thought the Brit sailors exclaimed when they reached Jamaica bay ...
I did not know that this was used in anti-frizz hair products, but then I wouldnt know or haven't had to worry about hair, on my head, anyway.
JDATE :::: I have watched a bunch of Youtube videos on how Hassidic Jews date, in Israel. Quite an eye opening excersize... Its a very formal and public procedure.
Have a nice day, you all.
PICard - cool Wizard in the park PIC. I thought I was good at Chess but there's one cyber-player that's kicking my butt.
//Defcon 3 years ago I played against a kid that had 4 games going simultaneously -- little sh** beat me 2x.
Y'all made me look up Virginia REEL. Ah, I assume YR knows.
D-O: I want to say it was 2003 (so I will) that we went to St. John of the Divine (maybe?) Cathedral in NYC to get the Girls Baptized where DW was made Holy. De Niro was getting his kid Baptized too and it was all I could do to keep Youngest (9mo old?) from grabbing his TUFT.
We probably have pictures (somewhere) from then but I'm not as good as Picard at keeping track of photos.
Cheers, -T
Happy Birthday, Sub Genius ... and may there be many, many more.
If Age is Only a Number ... as you, on this CW should be aware of, ... is it also an Anesthetic ? ;-o)
C E D will probably be here, presently, or anon ... give him some time to search for an appropriate cake for you ....
Lots of book learning in todays puzzle/write up.
I had no idea about the mystery of eels, thank you for the link.
here is the tail wrapped up as an image, but you really need to read the whole article to make sense of it.
Another learning moment was The Ig Nobel Prize!
I must do more research, and come up with more meaningful funny stuff.
(Maybe I can qualify?)
A PSA from "the spellbook of life."
Happy Birthday SubGenius!
Sorry I'm late, but the above was my interpretation of "SubGenius." I am not familiar with the word, and did some research. I am not sure if i should be looking for a cake with an image of J.R. bob Dobbs on it...
Please tell us more about yourself! Based on your Avatar, are you an ex-Aussie like me?
P.s.
I'm always late,
So as not to offend the breakfast crowd...
WAS - When I was in high school I volunteered as a board operator at the local college radio station. Seems like I was always on duty for the Texaco Metropolitan Opera Radio Network's live broadcast. I was more into Steppenwolf, a hot rock band at the time. Guess I was just Born to be Wild.
C-Eh! - DNK "jewellers". Thanks, I enjoy learning about foreign languages. In the US, their tag line is "every kiss begins with Kay."
My favorite De Nero flick is "Meet the Parents." Yours?
Picard: View the Christmas Trees playing poker by thinking of "strip poker."
Anon @ 7:58.
My Dad was a mailman. Often was given items that people on his route no longer needed because they had upgraded to whatever was new. That's how we got a HiFi record player when someone upgraded to a "stereo".
One person gave him a Wollensak reel to reel tape recorder when they upgraded to the new cassette style recorder. Besides blank reels it came with an "album" by Nat King Cole. Apparently you could buy reel to reel music albums at one time.
He was also given a 16mm movie camera with the huge blinding "light bar" for indoor filming if anyone remembers those..😎
Oh, another clue I didn't know and didn't understand even after I perped it. SERUM for hair frizz. Frizz is not one of my problems. I did suppose it was a kind of hair product.
I read JOKEY quite often. No nit. JOKIEST not so often. "The editorial had an offensively jokey tone for such an important subject." I am surprised no one else has come across this word.
Did someone mention obsolete. Test strips for my glucose meter were no longer made, so Medicare bought me a new meter, test strips and lancets. Just fewer than two years later, test strips and lancets were no longer made for that meter. Medicare again bought me the whole kit and caboodle. Planned obsolescence, I am sure.
I have done many Virginia reels, especially when entertaining non square dancers. It is very easy to pick up on the spot. Always fun.
You did great, CED! But, no, I'm not an "ex-Aussie." I can see how you might get that idea, but actually, I don't have a home computer, so I just picked a generic image that seemed the most interesting to me, for a variety of reasons. As to the "Subgenius" part, perhaps a little "false modesty" on my part. I like the irony of it. Also, I am familiar with the "Church of the Sub-Genius" from reading the works of Robert Anton Wilson (my favorite philosopher/novelist of all time) but am not actually affiliated with it, so like I said, you did great! Thanks so much. In fact, thanks everybody for all your good wishes!
Hola!
OLE! OLE! Happy birthday, Subgenius! I hope you are doing something special.
Easy grid by Ella today, thank you. More like Monday than Tuesday. I, too, missed out on my bucket list and failed to visit MONET'S home in France.
My only wite-out was changing to Virginia TECH from DARE.
I've never heard of SERUM for frizzy hair but maybe my daughter and granddaughter have. They both have frizzy hair and spend many hours straightening it. They got it from my late DH, of course.
Hand up for never having heard of the IGNOBEL prize. Or ROY KENT.
Me too. I love the movie, OH, BROTHER, Where Art Thou?
Thank you, Hahtoolah, for the CSO. I'm glad you made your plane on time. Believe me, I can relate. A few times I've had to run across an entire airport to catch a plane. However, I could not do it now. I'm usually in a wheel chair.
And I'm more familiar with a SPELLING BOOK than a SPELL one.
One time I accidentally forgot to plug in the ADAPTER and blew up my curling iron. It was not a pretty sight. Neither was my hair!
Have a wonderful day, everyone!
Musings
-A fun puzzle coupled with Susan’s always fun write-up.
-WARM – 103F is too much for nine more holes after league today
-Replacing an ADAPTER at an appliance store in Siena, Italy with a non-English speaking proprietor was great fun
-Happy Birthday, Sub!
-We’re out the door for prep for MIL's 100th on Saturday.
Picard: Studying the Wizard's board...
If White to play: Take G5 Bishop w/ H6 pawn.
If Black to play: retreat Bishop to C2 and say your prayers -- them knights is nasty.
Any better ideas?
Back to work. C, -T
Subgenius @4:47 AM I completely forgot to wish you HBD! So HBD! 68? With all the wisdom you impart to the Corner I had you down for much older, not a dodderer like me who recently passed the halfway mark to 80. 🎂🎂🎂
Delightful Tuesday puzzle, Ella--lots of fun--many thanks. And your commentary is always a pleasure, Hahtoolah, thanks for that too.
OH BROTHER, I bet that ACTOR would rather play a VIP than a FOE. And would he rather play a LEADING role or go out with a LEADING lady?
I bet when that SPARTAN dieter was offered some wine, he probably felt COERCED when they offered him a bottle with some STRAWS and joked, saying DRINK ME.
In response he probably said "stop being the JOKIEST, LEO, you DEVIOUS JABber.
He then picked up his dog, who was making ARFS AND YIPS, and picked up his EEL, and went out, to sit under a TREE. He just wanted to ERASE his memory of that rotten lunch.
Meanwhile, have a great birthday, Subgenius.
And have a fun day, too, everybody.
I liked this puzzle. I didn't notice, until reading Hahtoolah's recap, that the B O O K letters are phonetically the whole first word. NEATO!
I enjoyed reading all your comments. Good wishes to you all.
Oooh, oooh, Anon-T!
Chess game via blog! Awesome!
(We may have to start a new blog though,)
Imho,
(Text shorthand I have never used in my life....)
I seriously doubt that it is whites move, as black would never put their bishop in such a position on purpose
And if it is blacks move,
Bishop to 1E,
Checkmate, game over,
Ergo the look on the wizards face...
Ah, nuts!
I miscalculated.
White could still move his king to G8 or E8.
But the game is afoot!
Your move!
Ack!
I double miscalculated!
I forgot about whites knight!
I change my move,
(It's legal, you didn't see me remove my hand from the bishop did you...)
However, I would move blacks bishop to C1.
Sheesh!
Chess in 5 posts or less...
(This is a game for Mensa...)
Note, typo in 1st move post
It should read blacks bishop to E7
Not 1E
(I read the board upside down.)
Back from Victoria, B.C. We had a fairly typical travel experience. The first flight was delayed for an hour due to a mechanically disabled airplane on the south runway at LAX so all traffic had to use the north runway. The delay caused us to miss our connection in Vancouver where we cooled our heels for five hours until the 11 p.m. flight to Victoria departed so we missed dinner with the friends visiting who was the purpose of the trip. Coming back, the first flight was delayed but so was the second so at least we made our connection. When we arrived at LAX we found that no one was being allowed to leave the terminal due to a bomb threat. Finally arrived home some time between one and two in the morning. As I said, fairly typical these days.
Sheesh, MM, that sounds like quite a delay-ridden series of flights. Glad you got home finally, but sad you missed hooking up with your friends.
Geez Louise, MM, what a rotten flying experience. I believe my flying days are behind me. I don’t have the patience for those delays anymore.
Fortunately, the visit with friends extended for a couple of additional days. Although we missed dinner the first night we did not miss out on the other impromptu and more "formal" get togethers. The entire weekend was planned around our friends' 50th wedding anniversary. I was at their wedding and was happy that we were all able to assemble a half-century later.
MalMan, just remember that it is much better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air, than being in the air wishing you were on the ground.
MM, I'd guess American Airlines, but that's only because they have worked so hard to earn the award for worst air carrier.
TTP: I was flying American yesterday and can whole-heartedly agree that they earned their award. The flight attendant basically laughed in my face when I expressed concern as to whether or not I would make my connecting flight.
This time it was WestJet. We got the same reaction, Hahtoolah, when we made in-flight inquiries. That is sage advice, Jinx.
CED - told you those knights were nasty ;-)
MManatee - all's well that ends what you make of it. Cool beans you got to hook-up with your pals 50 years later.
Ah, flying... There's someone here at The Corner (*cough* LEOIII) who can show us the Glory Days of air travel.
LOL, Jinx.
Cheers, -T
I haven't the right service for Ted Lasso. Does anyone ever comment on Roy Clark (of Hee Haw fame) / Clark Kent?
Picard: looks like my costume when I played Zoroaster.
Virginia DARE for me.
SERUM?!
Xmas trees, note the treetop stars, and guess who's winning!
JOKIEST would be okay for stand-up comedian ... or Dad.
Subgenius, not sure how it connects, but here's what I got from Mr.G on Subgenius Cake. (I see CED showed up, but this is too good to throw away!)
Vid--number anesthetic? Oooch!
R.I.P., legendary Dodgers broadcaster, Vin Scully. The instantly recognizable voice that brought excitement to even the most mundane plays.
I headbutted the corner of a soffit in the garage two different times while installing a ceiling fan. The second time broke skin. They are tender, tender now. Owie !
Hahtoolah, a couple of days ago I asked my sis about her visit out to San Jose. I asked her if she flew American and if she still had AA miles. They flew Southwest and she said it was uneventful and pleasant, and unlike American, the flight attendants were friendly and smiled.
She said she won't fly American anymore unless there are no other options. She said not after the recent(?) news about an unaccompanied 10 year old that got stranded and left all alone for hours in a connecting airport. Something about the AA person assigned to meet the child to escort him/her to the connecting flight didn't show up. I don't know the whole story, but you would think there would be some failsafes built in to ensure that kind of thing couldn't happen.
A fine Gelfand XWD, moderated for us by Boomer.
Ah, LITTLE WOMEN, that old favorite!
In high school, our drama club (majority female) voted to have this as our term play. It won over my proposal of Julius Caesar.
Our teacher/director cast me as John Brook, a role I considered to be super-sappy. I remember only that I married MEG. I wanted to be paired with the pretty girl who played JO, but of course we could not re-write a classic.
Oh, yes, MEG & I had twins! There is a photo in our year book of me carrying two bundled dolls--and looked quite harried.
I swear, every time I see the name EERO, I think it highly unlikely that anybody would willingly sport a name so close to "Eerie."
~ OMK
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DR: Just one diagonal, NW to SE, on the "Near Side."
It offers a timely anagram (12 of 15 letters), rather perfect for today, when my dear wife has gone to Anaheim, to re-visit its most fabulous "amusement park" ("Ho, ho, ho!") after all the pandemic fuss n' bother.
She has an annual pass (although the rules for those are in flux) and is a great fan of Uncle Walt and his works--and has spent much time in the past in both D-Land and D-World.
I am less attracted to the Mouse & Duck & Dog operations but respect them as successful exploitations of our Capitalist culture.
So, bravo! my hat is off to the great...
"DISNEY SYSTEM"!
Oops. I neglected to single out 6D, Horace's ARS Poetica for special mention.
The old document, ca. 20 BC, played a not-inconsiderable role in my years of guiding grad tutorials. We always devoted a term to "Classicism" in theater, and we would often start off with Horace. He was writing primarily about poetry, of course, but what he had to say offered much for student theater directors to absorb.
Chief among his guiding principles is the concept of "Utile et Dulce," the useful and the sweet, or, as he put it, "Poets wish either to profit or to delight; or to deliver at once both the pleasures and the necessaries of life."
~ OMK
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