The reveal: 37-Across. "Peace!," and a hint to how the answers to the starred clues were formed: I'M OUT.
17-Across. *Blazer to wear to Cub Scout meetings?: DEN JACKET. When you add the "IM" into DEN JACKET you get "DENIM JACKET"
23-Across. *Music for couch potatoes?: SEDENTARY ROCK. Place the "IM" into SEDENTARY and you get "SEDIMENTARY ROCK"
45-Across. *Professional who helps name timeline segments?: AGE CONSULTANT. In this case, the IM goes in front of AGE to provide "IMAGE CONSULTANT"
54-Across. *Stance taken by a Marvel character, perhaps?: SUPER POSE. And last but not least, when you add an IM to this entry, you get "SUPERIMPOSE"
Puzzling thoughts:
Hi, folks. C-Moe here providing you with today's blog. Sorry I've been OUT for awhile. Packing for the big move has taken most of my free time, and then - to add my stress - I contracted gOUT a couple weeks ago, and since it settled into my right thumb joint, I've not been able to do a lot of typing or solving puzzles on a computer. But through rest and the proper medication, my abilities returned, so here I am.
Taylor Johnson provides us with some interesting word play today. The puzzle was OK, but didn't make me smile or laugh. It wasn't difficult to see how the reveal fit into the entries; wished it (the reveal) was clued differently, as "Peace!" for "I'M OUT" wasn't that clever. I usually think of "I'm out" to mean "I'm leaving". And the only entry I thought clever was the SEDENTARY ROCK, which also had the "IM" well-hidden. But the editor(s) may have felt otherwise.
Actually, this puzzle could just be a CSO to our own Irish Miss!!
The puzzle DID have a couple of clever/fresh entries in SOFT PRETZEL and PANTOMIMIST, but ER DOC and RE-INK seemed weak for a Friday offering, as did the twenty-one 3-letter entries (one of Irish Miss' pet peeves) and all of the easy clues. So here's the grid, and then off to the rest of the clues/entries
Across:
1. "More or less": SORTA. This was SORTA a good puzzle, and then I saw this at 8-Down. (Much, casually:) LOTSA. I think only one entry ending in -A should be acceptable
6. Communication syst. used in the film "CODA": ASL. American Sign Language. The clue and reference did not make this any tougher as the perps came to my rescue
9. Start to cut?: UPPER. This? [CAUTION: LOTS OF PUGILISTIC UPPER CUTS]
14. Flawless: IDEAL.
15. __-mo: SLO.
16. Withering look: GLARE.
19. Language that gives us "pajamas" and "shampoo": HINDI. URDU wouldn't fit
20. Most arid: DRIEST. ARIZONA wouldn't fit
22. __ collar: ETON. Hello? ETON collar? Another trite clue/entry, IMO
26. Pad sharer: ROOMIE. Margaret and I are technically ROOMIEs, but I know we are much more than that
28. Quaint affirmative: YES'M. Contraction for YES, MA'AM
29. "Sounds like a good time": OH FUN. This puzzle? Your comments are welcomed ...
30. Acute anxiety: ANGST. Even though it took me a "normal" Friday time to solve, I had no ANGST solving today's puzzle
33. Bus. letters: INC. Abbr for INCorporated
36. Convenes: SITS. The thesaurussaurus doesn't agree ... but I'M pretty certain it fits
38. Clooney Foundation for Justice co-founder: AMAL. Was he a night visitor?
39. Absorb, with "up": SOP. Does a SOT SOP up booze?
40. Etching supply: ACIDS. Another easy Friday clue
41. Curly-tailed dog: AKITA. Never "met" one of these dogs ... Japanese, I believe ... they drink AKIRA beer I hear
42. Malek of "Mr. Robot": RAMI. This was my lone error in today's puzzle (look at the grid I posted above). It formed my lone Natick, too, with (43-Down. Musical introduction?): ACT ONE.
44. Synchronicity: UNISON. This is what I thought of with Synchronicity, and POLICE did fit!
50. Golf stroke that can be practiced in a hallway: PUTT. I've been known to do this. HG? Boomer? TTP?
51. Charitable: GIVING. Over my adult life I have been quite GIVING/charitable, but I tend to support/GIVE to those organizations that use my donation at or above 90% toward the cure/purpose
52. Stubble remover: RAZOR. Did Occum have stubble to remove?
59. Happening: EVENT. What someone who says "I'M OUT" may be attending?
60. Undefeated boxer Laila: ALI. We rarely see Muhammad anymore as the clue for this, and he is her dad
61. Put two and two together?: ADDED. Really? For a Friday? Meh
62. Pitching area: SALES. MOUND fits, too, but in this case it's for a SALES pitch
63. Fellow: LAD.
64. Cross with: MAD AT. I will occasionally get MAD AT someone or something but it doesn't last
Down:
1. PBS "Science Kid": SID. This:
2. Literary homage: ODE.
3. "The Villain in Black" rapper MC __: REN. But what I want to know is, does he have a partner, MC STIMPY? This rapper was a complete unknown to me. And please note, the embedded video has lots of expletives, but I couldn't find any examples of MC REN's work that wasn't rife with cuss words ... I'm SORTA surprised that our new editor would accept a reference to this person in her puzzles ... [DO NOT CLICK ON THIS UNLESS YOU WANT TO HEAR A TON OF "S-BOMBS" & "F-BOMBS"]
4. __ Mahal: TAJ. "Crown worn by an Indian prince of high rank" would've been a more appropriate Friday clue, IMO
5. "A Whole New World" film: ALADDIN. Disney love song
6. Invite to enter: ASK IN. Easy clue
7. Freezing rain: SLEET. Easy clue
9. Annoyed sound: UGH. Easy clue
10. Toolbox item: PLIERS. WRENCH fits, too
11. Specialist in body language?: PANTOMIMIST. Fresh fill and a fresh clue. Kudos
12. Triage M.D.: ER DOC. I already said what I thought of this in my intro
13. Freshen, as a stamp pad: RE-INK. Ditto, 12-Down
18. First Nations people of Canada: CREE. CSO to CanadianEh!
21. Rendezvous best not posted on Facebook: TRYST. Use Snapchat, instead ...
23. Ballpark snack: SOFT PRETZEL. Fresh fill, and the clue was OK
24. Outback flock: EMUS. Again, too easy for a Friday
25. "Although ... ": YET. See my response above
26. "Dress for Less" clothing chain: ROSS. If you add a G to the front of this, you have my real last name
27. River connecting Pittsburgh to the Mississippi: OHIO. "Where the Allegheny meets the O HI O, in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh ..."
This is the more modern version of the intro to the fight song, "Hail to Pitt". As a University of Pittsburgh grad, this one was a cinch. The Pitt Panthers are the reigning ACC Football Champs. Hail to Pitt!
Here are the lyrics, and here is the song:
30. "What __ missing?": AM I. zzzzzzz
31. Drift off: NOD. Oh, sorry; I just NODded off there for a second ...
32. Mercury Seven astronaut Grissom: GUS. Does anyone name their male child GUS anymore??
34. Brussels-based gp.: NATO. Easy
35. Family group: CLAN. Easy
37. Pastry bag filler: ICING. Easy
38. Related: AKIN. Easy
40. Word in a Spanish love poem: AMO. CSO to Lucinda
41. Cried for cider?: ANAGRAM. Good clue. When you re-arrange the letters in the word "cried" you get "cider"
44. "Cure Ignorance" online anthology: UTNE. This answer filled with perps when I solved, but I had heard of this. [Wikipedia] "UTNE Reader (also known as Utne) (/ˈʌtni/ UT-nee) is a digital digest that collects and reprints articles on politics, culture, and the environment, generally from alternative media sources including journals, newsletters, weeklies, zines, music, and DVDs"
45. __-ski: APRES. Throwback clue and fill - the French are all about celebrating the "APRES" (or "after") when it came to skiing, and I don't think it meant having a cup of cocoa
46. Preserves fruit: GUAVA. You won't find GUAVA preserves in C-Moe's fridge; PEACH (which fits) maybe, but not GUAVA
47. Rope fiber: SISAL. Easy
48. Soft palate part: UVULA. This word seemed funny in my pre-pubescent years. Anatomy Academy (a sister show to Science Kids) gives us the full report:
49. Fatty compound: LIPID. [Wikipedia] "Although the term "LIPID" is sometimes used as a synonym for fats, fats are a subgroup of lipids called triglycerides"
53. ACLU concern: RTS. Abbr for RIGHTS
55. Kissing on the kiss cam, say: PDA. Public Display of Affection at a sporting event
56. Peculiar: ODD. This puzzle?
57. Kraken's home: SEA. Or in my bar; it makes a pretty tasty Dark and Stormy
58. NYC summer hrs.: EDT. Five straight three-letter "down" words, and another easy one to end on
Hey, sorry that this puzzle didn't tickle my funny bone, and you got a bit of "Curmudgeon Moe" today. But speaking of funny bone, I thought I'd end on a haiku (OMK)/Moe-ku (WC):
Learned the funny bone
Is not a bone. Which I found
Rather humerus
I'M OUT ...
Hi Y'all! Thank you, Taylor, for a doable puzzle. Thanks, CMoe for the great expo.
ReplyDeleteI understood the IM OUT with DENIM, but couldn't place it in the other long ones. Too early in the morning. Need to NOD back off.
Didn't know any of the movies. Just perped along until it all filled. No ANGST today. 33:42 time seemed a bit much.
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteStarted right off with ABOUT at 1a. Have I ever mentioned... Also threw a wrench into the works with AGE MANAGEMENT. Had __TONE, which made it tough to visualize ACT ONE. But all those fox passes worked themselves out. D-o got the theme, and even finished in good Friday time. No complaints here. Thanx, Taylor and C-Moe.
FIR with no erasures, which felt pretty good after yesterday's bailout. DNK AMAL, RAMI, REN, ALADDIN, and Cure Ignorance. Can't fool me with tricky ASL clues any more. It has become stock fill, like "erie", "oboe" and "oreo".
ReplyDeleteCSO to my Zoe (nee Jugni) @ HINDI.
SOP mainly means "Standard Operating Procedure" to me.
Every NHL fan knows that the home of the Kraken is Seattle. Pro hockey "spring training" started yesterday!!!
Better PUTTing fueled the USA team to a 4 to 1 trouncing of the Internationals in yesterday's opening day of the President's Cup, and I watched every one of them.
Thanks to Taylor for the fun, and to C-Moe for the tour. How much does one have to drink to get gout in one's thumb?
FIR, with no problems. Clever theme, nice unifier. A few unknowns for me, but the perps took care of them.
ReplyDeleteGood Morning:
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to the challenging Friday puzzles in the vein of Jeffrey Wechsler? As Moe pointed out, much of the cluing was Tuesday level, at best, and the theme was not of late-week caliber, either, IMO. Throw in a bunch of three letter words and add some unknown pop culture references and you have an unsatisfactory and uninspiring solve.
Thanks for your efforts, Taylor, and thanks, Moe, for a fair and honest critique and your always welcome puns and humor, not to mention the big CSO. Good luck with your ongoing moving chores. It’ll be worth all the hassle when you’re settled in your new home.
FLN
Bill G, it was so very nice to hear from you! Hard to believe Jordan’s of driving age. Please drop by more often.
Aaron Judge almost tied the record in the bottom of the ninth last night but was just a bit short, but they won in the bottom of the tenth, so I was happy. Tonight’s game is on Apple TV only, as far as I know, and that’s not sitting well with Yankee fans.
Have a great day.
After a SORTA slow start in the NW I picked up speed and went back and finished after I noticed the missing IM in SUPER POSE. (I purposely didn't read the clue for 37A), A nice puzzle with fair clues. DEN JACKET was the last fill with the three A&E clues for unknowns SID, REN, & ALADDIN. ASL. RAMI, AMAL was also filled by perps.
ReplyDeleteI didn't understand the 'Cried for cider' clue until ANAGRAM was almost filled.
GUAVA was all perps.
UTNE- seen it before in puzzles but don't you love it when supposedly superior (in their minds) hi-brow publications try to tell you what they think you should know. But they have a hard task if they want to "Cure Ignorance" because there's LOTSA ignorance out there, especially among elected officials.
If IM OUT, shouldn't PANTOMimIST have been tossed, or the northeast reworked?
ReplyDeleteFinished in 9:05, and like the other poster here, I was not overly (im)pressed.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Ms. Irish Miss's comments, D-O and I shared the "__tone" quandary, and just like Big E I was briefly confounded by "Cried for cider."
I didn't know the rapper "Ren" and I often forget "sisal." I liked seeing "pantomimist" and the clue for "anagram."
CSO- An entire puzzle dedicated to IM. Hi there.
ReplyDeleteSolved this in Wednesday time. Names were easily perped in. I quickly solved the theme answers only to discover with the reveal that IM could be added to them.
Wouldn't the Akita prefer a Japanese beer, Kirin or Asahi? I believe Akira is an American IPA made by Monkey Beer.
I think that in the 1970's PEACE had many meaning including good-bye or I'm outta here.
I loved getting soft hot pretzels from the side walk vendor in my youth. Either I have changed or the recipe has changed. Now I only mildly appreciate an occasional soft pretzel. I prefer hard pretzels.
Cried for cider was my favorite today.
On September 10, Taylor was good enough to tell us: I’m a 32-year old crossword constructor living in Minneapolis, MN. By day I work for a food co-op, and by night, (and really all the time), I hang out with a couple of small humans that call me dad.
ReplyDeleteFinicky Friday. Thanks for the fun, Taylor and CMoe (glad the gout is clearing).
ReplyDeleteI found this to be a workout, but finished and saw the IM OUT theme (it took a while to see IM AGE). I agree that Im out is a weak match for Peace. Peace out, maybe.
And then we had the IM included in 11D PANTOMIMIST, which wasn’t a themer, but was a long fill.
But I arrived here to discover that I FIWed. I had issues in the NE corner, because my “annoyed sound” was Tsk. That made my “withering look” a Stare (which I thought was not very withering). HINDI finally forced me to GLARE, but I had a Paper cut instead of UPPER. The resulting Psh sound and Aliers tools made no sense, but I packed it in at that point.
How many more rappers do I need to know?
CODA was in a Jeopardy clue last night; I got ASL immediately today.
Kraken was unknown. Perps filled it. (I see it is also a Bitcoin platform, as well as a mythical sea monster).
I didn’t know UTNE from that clue. Again perps.
We had AKIN and CLAN.
Favourite was the ANAGRAM clue.
I had to rethink “preserves” as a noun, not a verb, because cans was too short. GUAVA is not in my fruit cellar.
But a DENIM JACKET(part of a Canadian Tuxedo) is in my closet!
FLN- good to hear from you BillG.
Jayce- glad the MRI is over. Hope the results are good, useful, worth the procedure.
Wishing you all a great day.
Not a bad challenge for a Friday but the theme flew right over my head like the Canada geese whose honking woke me up this morning as they head south. 😴
ReplyDeleteInkovers: panic/ANGST, under/UPPER, sneer/GLARE...rather than "peace" IM OUT ..I thought the expression was "peace out"
Lettering on Noah's Ark: "APRÈS moi, le deluge" ..."CODA" Oscar for best picure and Troy Kotsur who is deaf, best supporting actor.
LOTSA is "much casually" so too is SORTA "more or less" casually. Is a DENJACKET a thing? Buy one at a ROSS (?) clothing store? SUPERPOSE? I suppose. 😒. (UTNE was perped but I think we've has this before.)
GUAVA? huh? , oh, "preserves" is a noun (so why not strawberries, peaches, etc, prolly cuz it's Friday not Monday. Agree with Canada Eh..could we wrap it up with the rappers for a while? I'd rather listen to The "Happening"
Hurry up, (with "get") ____ KRAKEN
AMAL's hubby is ____ to Rosemary, part of the Clooney ___ ..AKIN CLAN
In a Spanish love poem the srta says, "I ___ my French ____ ".. AMO AMI
"... and Cain went out to the Land of ___," where everyone was ..dozing....NOD.
Temp in CNY has plunged to 40's but there'll be a Native American summer (I hope) in October.
FLN,
ReplyDeleteGhy ft @ 11:37 introduced an interesting learning moment, in that the famous sonic boom picture of a speeding jet did not capture a sonic boom. what you see, and what you hear, are two separate phenomena that happen to occur near the same time...
IM
(Irish Miss,)
I hear you. It does seem a bit easy for a Friday. But there were a couple of head scratchers...
(Convene=sit, yeah, I guess so... but was this an earlier week puzzle reclued for the occasion?)
Billocohoes@8:16 brings up an interesting point...
I personally think with the "IM" in, it is not a themer, but it is definitely a nit...
And with that thought...
I agree this puzzle didn’t cause me any angst for a Friday. Although I was a little baffled by the PEACE clue, it showed up correctly. I enjoyed the theme and got it right away. CRIED FOR CIDER is a clever clue, maybe I think that because I’m proud of myself for getting the answer right away.
ReplyDeletePEACE!
C-Moe. Sorry about your travails. Not only moving but gout! Hang in there.
ReplyDeleteC-Moe, are you taking indecin? It knocked the gout out pretty quickly but it's a strong NSaid. Allopurinol I took to PREVENT gout. But…
ReplyDeleteStaying away from red meat, shellfish and losing weight allowed me to dispense with allopurinol. Obviously, no alcohol is another key
Mine is a special case because of IGA Nephropathy
SedIMentary went over my head. I confused lucid with lucent at our sister (J)blog
If you have an AKITA keep the cats away
If I was to get nitty the clue should have said Pitch type?
Celtics coach had a TRYST. Unfortunately it was with a Celtic employee and he's suspended for the season. Never should have hired a human being to coach
My niece is a Panther as was Dan Marino
I tend to get acronyms and ANAGRAMS mixed up
WC
Ps, C-Moe, I forwarded your humerus Moe-ku to my friend's 6th grader.
DeleteHe just starred in a HS production of Big. He was little Big
Sounds like someone got up on the wrong side of the bed! I'm happy to finish any puzzle, and my hat's off to the clever folks who create them.
ReplyDeleteMusings
ReplyDelete-101F on Tuesday. Today it is 60F with a strong east wind. Hello jeans and jacket!
-SI_ and RE_ were staring at me before the beautiful gimmick emerged!
-I accepted PANTOMIME as a noun and moved on which caused two lazy bad cells
-A Mike Tyson UPPERCUT would have removed my head, UVULA and all
-My first college ROOMIE was a chain-smoking cowboy from the Sandhills
-PUTT – Those little strokes can negate some of the good big strokes
-GUS’s Mercury capsule filled with water and sunk when the hatch blew prematurely. Gus was accused of messing up or “screwing the pooch” but was later exonerated after he died in the horrible Apollo 1 fire.
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteNope - I fell flat in the SW corner. sISAL, Rts (as an abbreviation for rights? c'mon), and who puts-up (cans / preserves) Guava? Lucina?
Anyway, I had fun playing with my pen on the newsprint while sitting on the Group W bench. Thanks Taylor.
C. Moe - gout? Sorry to hear that LAD. Thanks for the fun expo though.
WOs: Nap->NOD, ADD-up->ADDED, PRETZ... I went back and forth between EL & LE
ESPs: DNF
Fav: Cried for cider was really cute.
Nit: is UNISON really Synchronicity? [The Police] I'M thinking no. //Funny we both thought that C. Moe. Silly minds think alike :-)
Anyone else really hold themselves back inking an N at Clooney's foundation A_AL?
I was watching Hunter (did you know Fred Dryer played in the NFL? Giant's, WC) last night (great mindless TV when you're not feeling great) and the perp drove right past a ROSS Dress For Less sign. I thought, "If that's product placement, shouldn't it be the good-guys in the scene?"
Our office has block-long hallways. One Friday afternoon we played who can PUTT* w/o hitting the wall. Then we played who can roll a poker-chip the farthest.
UTNE used to be a real in-print magazine. I had a subscription in college; I thought I was so Happening.
C, Eh! - LOL Canadian Tuxedo.
CED - Ah, now I see what Ghy ft was saying re: Sonic Boom. It was about the picture not the actual phenomenon.
Peace, Love, & Understanding, -T
*an executive left his practice putting-green when he left the company. Guy from the help-desk helped himself and fun ensued.
FIW See 62A.
ReplyDeleteAnother rapper. UGH!
FAVs: SEDENTARY, SUPERPOSE, and cried for cider
CSO ROSS was my middle brother's name. Bringing him to mind this morning feels good.
Thanks for the puzzle, Taylor, and thanks for the tour, C-Moe. It could be that the stress of your move is affecting your health. Hope you can take a little time to focus on inner PEACE.
Hola!
ReplyDeleteThis puzzle was SORTA good but for a Friday I expected more puzzling clues. However, it's always nice to finish one.
Sorry, I don't like PRETZELS, soft or hard and don't understand the attraction.
I remember having a GUAVA hedge at our school from which we periodically harvested the fruit and the kitchen staff made jam. It was yummy.
What is kraken? I guess I'll have to look that up.
Great clue for ANAGRAM, I thought.
AMAL and the Night Visitors was an entertaining TV movie. OTOH, ALADDIN is seared into my memory after watching it umpteen times. Both my daughter and granddaughter loved it.
No SLEET here but we did have a bit of rain yesterday. We welcome even a few drops.
CMoe, thank you for your entertaining narrative and I'm sorry about the gout. I know it's painful. Good luck with the move. Are you staying here or moving out of state? You may have said and I missed it.
Anon-T:
ReplyDeleteRight on, re: GUAVA jam. It's really quite good but they are so small it takes A LOT of them to make it.
Anonymous@11:13
ReplyDeleteSigh,
Your right,,
I must have got up out of the wrong side of the bed at least 5 times last night...
end of rant...
Maybe I've missed his comments but has anyone heard from Vid?
ReplyDeleteStruggled to a FIR in 30. Several W/Os, several DNKs made for the struggle. I agree w/ CMOE that “peace: I’m out” is pretty lame. I did see the “im out” theme with the very first theme clue, but somehow that didn’t seem to help with the rest of the CW. Thanx TJ for your time and effort to create this CW for my entertainment. And thanx CMOE for your terrific write-up. I hope you are not having the same frustrations with the American medical system that I am! I am FUMING at the unbelievable inefficiency of our entire medical system!! The ACA was passed, what, ten years ago? Twelve years ago? Part of it was requiring medical records from that time forward to be computerized so they could, with the patient’s permission, be shared between medical offices. After 10 or 12 years, medical offices are STILL not doing it. I got referred to a gastroenterologist for a colonoscopy. They gave me an 11 page form to fill out!! EVERYTHING on that form is already in the computer at my primary care doctor’s office! But they said they couldn’t just have me sign a form to transfer the file! “This is the way we do it! You need to fill out the form!” Which I did, with everything I needed to look up, I spent about 1/2 hour on it. Then watched one of their employees dutifully type everything from the paper form into their computer!! They referred me to an outpatient surgical center, which EMAILED ME A THIRTY PAGE FORM TO FILL OUT!! ALL of which my internist already has….and the GI doc now has….but no, I had to spend almost an hour once again providing the SAME INFORMATION YET AGAIN!! No wonder American health care is the most expensive….AND far from the best….on the planet. And no wonder I have high blood pressure!!! Why can’t these offices work together????
ReplyDeleteLucina @ 12:01 --> we are moving about 9 miles SE of where we are now. Just into Pinal County
ReplyDeleteWC @ 11:11 --> Indomethicin. Took it for just a few days and the minimum doses. But it helped for sure. Glad you liked the ku
Jinx @ 6:31 --> I've been watching the Prez Cup matches, too. The greens are running pretty fast so PUTTing is the key stroke for the players. As for how much to drink to get gout in my thumb? Apparently too many 😀
To all others, regarding the move, thanks for the well wishes. I haven't bought a brand new house since 1993. It'll be fun to recall the "challenges" of getting all the "things" in their new settings
billocohoes --> good catch on the PANTOMimIST
ReplyDeleteA-T: I too many years ago I had a subscription to The Utne Reader, as it was known. It contained many fascinating articles by great writers, then something happened, it became preachy and didactic, so I gave it up.
ReplyDeleteStar Trek's "Peace y'all I'm out" answers that nit well. Though the puzzle was unusually easy for a Friday, did it deserve all the tetchy nits? I was happy with it.
ReplyDeleteChairman Moe, moving and buying and/or selling a house, especially the closing, are nerve wracking. I hope you soon can settle in and feel some peace. And good luck with the gout.
C. Moe - Moving sucks. DW & I bought a new house in June and the garage is... well, I can't even find my WD-40 and I had to buy more electrical tape last Sunday.
ReplyDeleteDon't get me started on finding my nice work shoes. Boxes still abound.
Good luck, eFriend.
Lucina: Where can I find guava preserves? You make them sound delicious. Is it tart or sweet? It's new to me.
YR - Did I use farther right? Or was it further? You and PK have a knack for that.
TanteN - Yeah... After you read a slant for a while and get the gist. And it seems repetitive. I do remember some great writers though and the articles made you think.
//Things that make you go Hmmmm.
Speaking of which - we had Beto O'Rouke in the puzzle earlier this week (yes, I loved P.J. too). Did you know he (Beto) was Pshycaleic Warlord? Beto gets a +1 in my book.
//I got 5 of the CDC (Cult of the Dead Cow) guys to sign book at DefCon!
UncleFred - I feel you Bro (not 63a). Why do we have to fill-out the same paperwork we gave them the last time.
You think it's just to kill time / rest for a minute in between patients?
HG - I can always count on you to detail NASA's missions.
//for the record, I ink'd GUS w/o hesitation. I also had the privilege of consulting for JSC for 6 months (! me, a prairie boy from Illinois! (That rhymes if folks would pronounce the state right :-))
JSC was so cool. Mission Control is a nerd's dream.
Cheers, -T
A Johnson PZL, adminstered by Chrmn Moe--and concluding with his brilliant haiku!
ReplyDeleteI missed the "IM" theme altogether. Sorry! It's kinda funny. SORTA.
Finally got 'em all. But I was hung up in the center right sector for the longest time, with TREE in the slot reserved for the CLAN fill.
~ OMK
____________
DR: One diagonal, far side.
Its anagram (12 of 15) speaks for itself, a "Sleepy Truth."
"SNOOZY VERITY"!
(I leave it to Cornerites to choose how to apply it.)
Enjoyable Friday puzzle--many thanks, Taylor. And I always appreciate your commentary, so thanks for that too, Moe.
ReplyDeleteWell, with all of his UPPER class IDEAS, I figured the protagonist of this puzzle was a college LAD, maybe one attending ETON, where he might have worked together in UNISON with his ROOMIE.
Bet they had a lot of OH FUN together on the weekends, wearing their DEN JACKETS and going to movies and plays and eating SOFT PRETZELS, and dip with GUAVA, and cakes with ICING on them, while watching ACT ONE.
Hope their supervisor didn't get MAD AT them and GLARE at them, and ended up GIVING them a hard time if they came back to the dorm late. He'd better watch out that the guys don't write a nasty ODE on him in the college paper. That could end up GIVING him some ANGST.
Have a fun weekend coming up, everybody.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Taylor, for what I think is a really entertaining and well constructed puzzle. The theme entries are great as is the reveal. And thanks to the Chairman for a fun write-up!
Jinx @ 6:31 (again) I just re-read the clue "Kracken" and saw that SEA could also be the abbr for SEAttle, home of the NHL Kraken. I used to be a bigger hockey fan but I don't watch it as much nowadays
ReplyDeleteWC (again) Glad to know your niece is a fellow Pitt Panther. Was happy to see Dan Marino at the ACC Championship game last year supporting the boys. I'm sure he was pleased to have Kenny Pickett break several of his records, as Pickett is a cool dude. Odds are that he'll be starting for the Steelers before the end of the NFL season, but personally I'd rather them wait until after getting/drafting a better group of OL
I zipped through this puzzle pretty quickly. The IM OUT reveal in the center made it easier to solve the answers with the missing IMs, except for that SEDENTARY ROCK which I didn't want to accept at first because IMSEDENTARY ROCK, SEDENTARYIM ROCK, SEDENTARY IMROCK, and SEDENTARY ROCKIM didn't make sense to me. I failed to see the SEDENTARY to SEDIMENTARY connection.
ReplyDeleteAs for the rest of the puzzle, mostly SORTA kinda MEH, filled with LOTSA drek such as REN, ERDOC, INC, SID, UGH, and AMI, to name a few. But, as the Chairman pointed out, the puzzle did have a couple of clever/fresh entries in SOFT PRETZEL and PANTOMIMIST, to which I would add ANAGRAM.
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Unclefred, I totally empathize and agree with you about health care, especially since personally witnessing/experiencing practices that are dictated by "policy" or "protocol" rather than by what the patient needs, prefers, is okay with, is not okay with, and so on. Similarly to you, yesterday I not only filled out and signed forms, I also was asked and I orally answered many of the same questions to (I counted them) four people: a receptionist, a nurse, a technician, and a doctor. Oh, and speaking of policy, I learned it is policy (at least in the radiology department) to literally "document a failure"! When I asked what that means, I was told it means they are not allowed to perform procedure X (which best meets the needs of the patient) until they first try procedure Y and it fails (such as trying to fit a fat person into a 60 cm opening when you already know, through simple math of by actual measurement, that the patient's rotund body simply won't fit.) Stupid stupid stupid. So, is the "true" explanation found by following the money? Does the for-profit hospital make more money by doing the procedure twice by deliberately choosing that the first try will, by definition, fail so they have to do it again in a different way that won't fail?
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Here's wishing you success and lower stress on your move, Chairman Moe, and quick success on treating that gout.
Good wishes to you all.
ReplyDeleteI'm stoked. Just replaced my laptop keyboard for the third time in the last three weeks, and this one works just as it should ! Doing anything on this computer has been a real pain.
Super busy today, and I've only read the blog at this point. Will have to get caught up a little later.
Chairman, yes, you are correct. I have practiced putting on the hallway carpet more than once. Not sure that putting on Berber has helped my game.
Back later.
I agree about all the redundancy in medical forms. It always rankles to repeat in writing and orally every detail. I did have one provider that let me mark "no changes." Aah! Very rare.
ReplyDeleteAlan's group home is big on following every rule to the very letter, instead of being logical. Alan had pink eye which the doctor said was likely to infect the other eye soon, so he prescribed drops for both eyes. Good. But he absent mindedly recommended warm compresses for the original eye and didn't mention the other eye. When that eye healed the group home continued the compresses on the good eye and would not use them on the bad eye because they had no doctor's orders. It is only water, so when Alan came for the weekend I treated the second eye with compresses, too. Over the years I have always done what was reasonable and the doctor's have trusted me and even applauded me.
C-Moe - I didn't SEA SEAttle either. My last brand new house was circa 1990 in Phoenix. During a meeting of the Arizona Yacht Club (yes, there is such a thing) a few of us were chatting about our places. When I mentioned that I lived in a new house, one of the guys said "Jinx, I think you mean that you SLEEP in your new house. You LIVE in Home Depot." He was nearly right.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is that malpractice insurance requirements drive a lot of the duplication. And that the minimalist-first approach comes from government over regulation. I remember that the new coding requirements that came with the ACA drove the docs crazy and led to a lot of incorrect billing. I know for a fact that you have to draw the clock as part of every physical because Medicare requires it. No waiver, even for my already-diagnosed-with-Alzheimer's wife. Cruel.
AnonT:
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure. I haven't had GUAVA jam since I left San Luis Rey in 1969. However, I'll make an effort to look for it. Ironically, a place that sells homemade jam (they specify it) is ACE Hardware. They have a shelf of it behind the cash register so I'll check next time I go there. They also have some really great greeting cards. Trader Joe's might have it too. Time for a quest. I'll let you know.
Today while on my way to shop for a dress I got a flat tire. What an ordeal! First, waiting for AAA at high noon. Remember, it gets to the 100s here. Finally, it came and I drove to Pep Boys where I waited another hour or more. Finally I got my tire but no dress.
The reason I went shopping is that I like to wear dresses to church and I have, um, outgrown much of my clothes. Time for dieting, methinks.
Lucina, I’m glad you got a new tire. You gotta stop driving on nails :)
ReplyDeleteI am happy (well, sort of) to see the Cornerites' long-suffering opinions about the medical record system.
ReplyDeleteAn alternative system is run by Kaiser Permanente. One data entry, which is accessible to EVERY Kaiser doctor, PA, RN, lab tech. usually within one day. I lived inside it for close to 40 years, and now that I have been forced out of it by CalPERS, I have experienced the utter chaos that you all lament.
It is like a collection of medieval fiefdoms, some larger, some small -- NONE of which talk to each other. Even something simple like a routine CBC, doesn't always get resulted to my PCP, nor to the oncologist or urologist or to anyone on the outside. We won't mention X-rays, MRIs, colonoscopies, which seem to be marked 'TOP SECRET ROENGEN -- NO FORN -- EYES ONLY.' I just grab all the medical info I can, put it in a file, and ask my PCP, "Oh, did you see this" Often he says, "No."
Jayce:
ReplyDeleteLOL! I'll try to avoid them.
Better that the tire blew now instead of next week when I will be on the road headed for the coast. Next weekend is when the annual Believe Walk takes place to raise funds for breast cancer of which my late niece died. I can no longer walk the 3.2 miles but I'll be there for moral support and the handouts. The local grocery chain sponsors the Walk and provides some nice souvenirs in the form of fruit, candy, drinks and other food. Also practical items like shopping bags (cloth), etc. Every year they surprise us.