Theme: C O L D SPELL (60. Stretch of chilly weather, and what the first words of the answers to the starred clues amount to, phonetically?)
17. *Song sung by sailors: SEA SHANTY.
25. *"Huzzah!": OH HAPPY DAY.
36. *Yosemite monolith in the 2018 documentary "Free Solo": EL CAPITAN.
50. *Actress who played Elliott's mom in "E.T.": DEE WALLACE.
Boomer here again.
After the Vikings stole the game in Buffalo, they returned to Minnesota and were greeted with twelve seven straight days of below 33 temperatures. Monday also had two inches of snow and 566 accidents were reported by MN-DOT. Not sure if any were Bills fans smashing their cars into trees.
In any case Thanksgiving will be a chilly one. Hope yours will be happy and also Happy Festivus for the rest of us.
Across:
1. "Skedaddle!": SCRAM. Not last week.
6. CSI stuff: DNA.
9. Word before act or action: CLASS. Head of one.
14. Hockey venue: ARENA. A busy on at the University of MN.
15. "Am __ the right track?": I ON.
16. Underworld: HADES.
19. Feathers in a duvet: EIDER.
20. Consumed: HAD.
21. Desktop computer originally sold in Bondi Blue: IMAC.
22. Stuffs to the gills: SATES. Everyone will be SATED on Turkey Day.
23. "Vous __ ici": "You are here," in French: ETES.
28. World __ of Poker: SERIES. Baseball is more popular
30. Homophone of 31-Across: TOO. 31. Homophone of 30-Across: TWO. TOO and TWO are FORE.
11D. Expanded, as a collection: ADDED TO. Lots of baseball cards in my man cave.
32. Old fast fliers: Abbr.: SSTS. Super Sonic.
33. Fishing spot: PIER. Or a dock or ice house.
35. Not bad, not great: SO SO.
39. Quick swims: DIPS.
42. Auth. unknown: ANON. Anonymous.
43. Meadow bleats: BAAS. Sheep not asleep
46. Top pitcher: ACE. Verlander in the running.
47. Payable now: DUE.
48. __ Bros. Discovery: media conglomerate: WARNER. Movie time ??
54. Roof overhang: EAVE. We have one, keeps the drips away.
55. "I'll __ to that!": DRINK. Hic!
56. Computer giant: DELL.
58. Hustle, quaintly: HIE. Giddy up!
59. Bee's defense: STING. Ouch !
62. In the future: HENCE.
63. Mine lode: ORE. State below Wash.
64. Quick and nimble: AGILE.
65. Bright-eyed: EAGER.
66. Spider creation: WEB. Tangled.
67. Made docile: TAMED.
Down:
2. Makes from scratch: CREATES. Turkey stuffing.
3. Bookworms: READERS.
4. Reply to a ques.: ANS.
5. Half a menu fish: MAHI.
6. Blues singer Washington: DINAH. Ms. Shore also.
7. V-shaped slit: NOTCH. In your belt.
8. "__ news?": ANY. Not today.
9. Chintzy: CHEAPO.
10. Church attendees: LAITY.
12. Playground fixtures for two: SEESAWS. Teeter totters.
13. Outdated geopolitical letters: SSR. Super Senior -- ME
18. Singer-songwriter Tori: AMOS.
/https://www.thestar.com/content/dam/thestar/entertainment/music/2022/05/12/guided-by-her-fans-and-her-muses-tori-amos-reflects-on-a-40-plus-year-career/tori_amos_2.jpg)
22. Cricket or squash: SPORT. Or bowling and golf.
24. Web pages: SITES.
26. Enjoyed home cooking: ATE IN. Black Friday meal.
27. "__-hoo! Over here!": YOO.
29. Course for intl. students: ESL.
33. Comic strip unit: PANEL. Comics don't strip.
34. Wall St. launch: IPO. Not a good idea at this time.
35. Catch: SNARE.
37. Tub sealant: CAULK. Messy but it works,
38. Atty.'s group: ABA.
39. Pa: DAD. Nine is long gone.
40. Beverage that may be served with a lemon slice: ICED TEA. Delicious!
41. Looking (in): PEERING.
44. California home of the Angels and the Ducks: ANAHEIM. And Disneyland. Small World.
45. Rossini's "The Barber of __": SEVILLE. Figaro.
47. Warning sign word: DANGER.
48. Fuse using heat: WELD.
49. Walked unsteadily: REELED. Caught a fish.
51. Pained reaction: WINCE.
52. Crush on: ADORE. Your Black Friday Meal.
53. A-lister: CELEB.
57. Future atty.'s exam: LSAT.
59. "Murder, __ Wrote": SHE. Angela Lansbury
60. Dairy farm animal: COW. I never saw a purple one
61. Links org.: PGA. Home of the Masters.
Boomer
34 comments:
12 minutes to FIR. I love Monday CWs: at my level. DNKs: ETES, DEEWALLACE. W/Os SCOUTS:SASHES, ATE:HAD. Other than that no problems. And for once I DID see the theme: SEA, OH, EL, DEE = COLD. Whatdaya know, I get it! Thanx for the nice start to the week, DC. And wonderful to see your usual witty write-up, Boomer, thanx to you too. Especially when you’re not feeling well.
Good morning!
Started off with SCOUTS at 1d. Have I ever mentioned....? Still, everything came together for this Monday themeless. It was a nice walk in the park. Thanx, Dan (is this a debut?) and Boomer. (Around here it's due to warm up a little for Thanksgiving.)
DINAH Washington: One of her best. Those ladies of the fifties -- Dinah Washington, Esther Phillips, Della Reese, Shirley Bassey -- had really big voices.
EL CAPITAN: In my ute I had one of those little, golden 78RPM records of two Sousa marches. One side was El Capitan, which I in my infinite wisdom thought was misspelled. Semper Fideles was on the other side. Now why do I remember that?
Oops, forgot Timi Yuro.
FIR, but erased ate for HAD (hi Fred), pond for PIER, and alert for EAGER.
I see that "huzzah" is a real word. New to me.
Gotta take DW to her oncologist this morning, then we're off for our winter adventure. We'll have Thanksgiving in Raleigh on Wednesday, since my stepson needs to travel back to MD Thursday for work on Friday. He'll probably have very little traffic, which will be great.
Thanks for the fun eyeopener, Dan. And special thanks to Boomer for the chuckles. You are indeed a CLASS act. If I had half the CLASS as you, I would apologize for what my Cowboys did to your Vikings yesterday. Oh well.
Shouldn’t hear any complaints about the difficulty of this CW, about as easy as they come for the LAT, as it should be for a Monday, maybe attracting more solvers to the fold. Clever little hidden theme, WITH NO CIRCLES! (d-o ~ this isn’t a themeless). Thanks Dan for easing us into the week.
Nice to see you at the helm again Boomer, always enjoy your Monday commentary and your wit! Those Vikings sure took a thrashing yesterday, even the somewhat lowly Packers beat the Cowboys.
FIR, nice theme, easy Monday solve.
I completed this crossword/spelling bee in 4:16 today.
As YooperPhil said, "no circle!" Joyous it is.
Not a fan of foreign words in crosswords, but was still surprised to see some French on a Monday.
I didn't know Dee Wallace, or the French word. "Laity" struggled to appear.
El Capitan is beautiful. "Free Solo" was fascinating, and visually amazing.
Although generally quick and easy I stumbled at the ONSET with the aforementioned ate/GOT, scouts/SASHES inkovers
Isn't ABA a CSO to Boomer re. Amer Bowling Assoc? I never noticed PGA but enjoyed the Sport references yesterday, the Boomer touch
Another thing I didn't notice was the theme. I saw some writing at 60A but already perped COLD SPELL
WC
Good Morning:
A perfect Monday level for beginners, and for the seasoned solvers, it had a a cute theme with a spot on reveal. Before I got to the reveal, I was staring at the four themers, trying to see a connection, maybe a hidden anagram, and all of a sudden I spotted the first homophonic words and then read the reveal clue and readily plopped in Cold Spell. Very satisfying. I went astray at Scoot/Scram, Ate/Had, and Etre/Etes. (Etre was a reflex entry because of its frequent appearances, even though I know it doesn’t mean Are). SS (Anon) gets a second CSO.
Thanks, Dan, for a fun solve and thanks, Boomer, for the humor and commentary. You make the most mundane winter Mondays brighter and warmer. Sending lots of hugs and loving thoughts.
DO @ 5:36 ~ Somewhere along the way, I missed Timi Yuro and Esther Phillips. No wonder my pop music knowledge is almost non-existent, especially about today’s performers/music.
Bill, you and I were right about Charles, but I found the ending of Magpie Murders so convoluted that my head is still spinning. I did enjoy the series but I think things became a little too contrived in the last episode.
Sunny here but cold.
Have a great day.
A fast Monday until I wrote in DEE Williams instead of WALLACE.(Elliot's mom wasn't TERI GARR?.... oops ...wrong Sci-fi flick.)...then...I had teeter which didn't agree tense wise and screwed up the S E corner for awhile. . But the theme itself left me C O L D...🥶
Good thing I perpwaited the first ANS, almost put skoot. "Squash a cricket"?.. wha? Oooh, (never mind).... Today our TEA is ICED not just simply ICE.
You coulda ordered out and still ATEIN
"ORE" go-with ______ EIDER.
Sayings said by sailors....SEESAWS
Painful as it is: You ____ some, you lose some...WINCE
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner....STING
My niece in Northern Buffalo told us she got a few inches but Southern Buffalo got whalloped. Thank you Lake Erie.
I drove to north to Old Forge yesterday to lector at mass. Half way up ran into a blizzard. Asked Father Tom for a plenary indulgence for the effort. 😇..True to form the Adirondack LAITY still showed up in force.
Boomer thanks for the review. 🙂
Good Morning! Tricky start to today's CW.
Scouts to SASHES
Ate to HAD
Goers to LAITY
After that, pretty smooth sailing.
For as many times as I've read CAULK, I forgot the "L"
DNK WARNER. Got it from the perps.
Thanks, Dan for a fun start to a busy week. Thanks, Boomer for your witty review.
Cold spell?
another reason we need the return of OwenKL...
Only just got back to NJ for Thanksgiving with family, but,
only 6 more weeks till I head back to Florida!
IM @8:33 AM I agree. Teri and I plan to sit on it a bit and then binge the whole series again. It's a very complicated story and we're hoping it will all congeal in retrospect.
A Monday with basically no problems. I thought it would be spelling out something with "EL Capitan and DEE Wallace and I was right. FIR, so I'm happy.
Musings
-The only unknown was a name that completed the pattern and easily filled in
-CLASS ACTION – Is there anyone who doesn’t know about the Camp Lejeune situation? Members of the ABA are all over this and all over TV.
-SS_, N, R, S, T
-It was so great to see our baby-faced cousin, Alec Bohm, hit a home run of the old veteran Justin Verlander in the World SERIES
-Huskers have not been CHEAPOS in hiring FB coaches. They just can’t get kids to come her to a small market, cold weather school any more.
-The Buffalo Bills had to play in Detroit’s covered stadium yesterday due to the huge snowstorm but their plans for a new stadium do not include a roof. Huh?
d-o, Also Dakota Staton, Sarah Vaughn, Nancy Wilson, and Ella Fitzgerald. Great voices and each just singing the lyrics without vocal histrionics like many singers today. The scatting Ella did was a whole different thing.
Fun puzzle for a Monday and interesting commentary!
Good morning, all.
Thanks, Boomer for yesterday's puzzle and for today's recap. No snow here in SoCal. Temps in the high 40'w overnight but otherwise warmer than average. T'day may be in the low 80's!
Nice and smooth puzzle. I did not try hard enough to discover the spelling of COLD. But otherwise satisfied.
I see Boomer is a Seinfeld fan.
Speaking of ABA and LSAT. I read that in the near future the ABA will do away with the LSAT.
Good morning. Thank you, Dan and thank you, Boomer
Filled in COLD SPELL before reading the clue. Looked back at the answers with asterisks but could find a way to spell COLD. Then read the clue. Aha ! Phonetically !
Did not know either DINAH Washington or DEE WALLACE. Nor most of the names D-O and Parsan mentioned.
I learned that "Free Solo" was not a catchphrase from the Star Wars franchise.
Remember OH HAPPY DAY playing in this scene at the end of the movie ?
Husker, I think you are right. These highly touted athletes coming out of high school want exposure, but not the type that only occurs because of the elements.
Hola!
Thank you, Dan Caprera and Boomer! OH HAPPY DAY reminds me of Whoopi Goldberg in "Sister Act".
Lately I've been thinking of my DAD a lot. He died prematurely at age 35 and left us six children, ages 10 years (me) to 6 months. The youngest ones never got to know him. But being the oldest, I have many good memories of him.
I'll take that CSO at ESL.
CSO to Misty at yoo HOO.
My main chore today is writing thank you notes to my friends for their extraordinary generosity for my birthday.
Have a magnificent Monday, everyone!
Marvellous Monday. Thanks for the fun, Dan and Boomer.
I FIRed and saw the COLD theme. Yes we have a cold spell here and snow from the weekend storm (but not as much as Buffalo thankfully!). Grey Cup football game in Regina was cold too. Exciting game right down to the wire, with Toronto Argos beating Winnipeg Blue Bombers by one point.
I liked the TOO and TWO (LOL Boomer re Fore), and noted the clue for the crossing SEESAWS was “playground fixtures for TWO).
I had Acer before DELL.
I thought of Scouts but had some perps that gave SASHES.
I will beat Misty today (WooHoo) to a story (not a SEA SHANTY). But don’t expect one every day!
Someone’s in the kitchen with DINAH today.
Our cook CREATES (from scratch)
Perhaps starting with veggies and DIPS ,
and then using MAHI REELED in or SNAREd off the PIER.
Or Duck à l’orange (using SEVILLE oranges and saving the duck feathers for EIDER)
We will EAT IN and after we have HAD our wonderful meal and are SATEd
We can DRINK our ICE TEA.
Perhaps we can educate ourselves and become locavores -
Listening to those BAAS in the meadow,
Moos (not YOO- hoos) from the COWs
in the modern dairy with no spider WEBs,
Honey from the bees (not TAMED, watch for STINGs).
We just need a farmer in the DELL.
OH HAPPY DAY!
Thanks to Dan C. for his clever puzzle, so apt for a November morning!
Hand up for scouts before SASHES.
Has anyone seen the SEA SHANTY movie, "Fisherman's Friends" (2019)? It's a good one, based on a true story.
Thanks, Boomer, for the Monday smiles!
Hi Y'all! Great easy puzzle with a few STINGs, Dan, Thanks! Always a delight to hear from you, Boomer, Thanks.
I watched The Fonz (Henry Winkler) meet & receive a Chiefs T-Shirt from his favorite football star Patrick Mahomes at a game just before coming to the puzzle last night. OH HAPPY DAYS seemed to pop out as the "theme" to the star of that old TV show's current adventure.
Woo-Hoo, C-Eh! What a story.
Delightful Monday puzzle, many thanks, Dan. And always love seeing that you'll be doing the Monday commentary--thanks for that too, Boomer.
Thank you for the WOOHOOS, Lucina and CanadianEh!.
I'm not coming up with much of a story this morning, must be suffering a bit of a COLD SPELL on the WEB. Maybe put off a little by HADES, which is not an ARENA I'd care to visit in the beyond. I'd rather be someplace where I can wake up and shout OH HAPPY DAY! and get a nice DRINK of ICED TEA and feel EAGER and AGILE and ready to go to CLASS and read a SERIES of books that are perfect for READERS like me. I'd ARORE a life like that in the after-life, if there is life in the after-life. Think I'd better SCRAM at this point before I make everybody WINCE.
Have a great week coming up, everybody.
Thanks for the write-up, Boomer...funny and fun as always.
Nice puzzle, Dan. 'Course it did remind me of the COLD SPELL we're having here in Boston!
Boomer offers us Mr. Caprera's COLD T'giving week PZL...
An easy ride today. The only re-write was at 48D, mistaking "Fuse" as a noun at first--before changing WICK to WELD.
Seems most of the country--and in this XWD theme, too--must be dealing with low temps, snow and/or fierce winds.
We could almost feel guilty here in SoCal, basking in mid-70s to low 80s.
Almost.
~ OMK
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DR: Three on the far side.
The central diagonal has way too many vowels, but we can manage a short anagram (11 of 15 letters) that expresses a response to that overload; i.e., ...
"DISAPPOINT"!
We're having a COLD SPELL here in Atlanta, but the USA is hot at the World Cup just now with a goal in the first half, against Wales.
Thanks, Dan, for a Monday appropriate puzzle. Your debut here? The theme was explained by the reveal, though I first put COLD front and then tried to fit COLD Snap in COLD SPELL's spot. Perps finally prevailed.
Hand up for Scouts/SASHES.
Other WOs were sloppy entries: AMeS/AMOS and LAITs/LAITY. I knew both words but....
OH HAPPY DAY! After that fill, I listened to the gospel song and it's now the soundtrack for my afternoon. It was good to see your review again today, Boomer. Hope everyone is having a happy day!
-Oh Happy Day - Ya got to see this with my friend Fr. Dave Korth in Omaha!!
H-Gary @ 3:15. Your friend is a good dancer! Thanks for sharing the HAPPY music!
I liked this puzzle.
BTW, I was told Fr. Dave's demeanor at the altar got him transferred to an Omaha Indian Parish in Macy, NE. It seems the diocese said, "We are not amused."
Gosh, I wonder what they objected to in Fr. Dave's ecstatic moments...?
Seems some dioceses can't take a prayerful dance.
~ OMK
Husker, thank you for sharing the good Father's dance. Brought me to tears it was so moving. What a voice on that granny! Those Indians probably know how to worship with dance. Bet they'll love him.
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