Theme: "Hesitations" - ER is added to each theme entry.
25. Milwaukee slugger who keeps striking out?: COLD BREWER. Cold brew.
27. Put an album up for auction?: OFFER. THE RECORD. Off the record.
52. Animal hospital amenity?: DOG AND PONY SHOWER. Dog and pony show.
66. Robbery involving a diamond?: BASEBALL CAPER. Baseball cap.
85. C-suite member who shreds on the half-pipe?: EXECUTIVE BOARDER. Executive board.
109. Rooster?: CHICKEN BROTHER. chicken broth.
115. Selfie taken by a financial professional?: BANKER SHOT. Bank shot.
Looks like a Sunday debut for Jill Rafaloff & Michelle Sontarp. Congratulations! Maybe Gary can find more information about them.
Five of the ERs are added to the last word, two are added to the first one. So no odd-man out.
Across:
6. Quick inhalation: GASP.
10. Stitched loosely: BASTED. I bought a Jennie-O turkey breast this year. So easy to prepare.
16. Morsel: BIT.
19. Short digression: ASIDE.
20. Layered snack: OREO.
21. Slide subject: AMOEBA.
22. Written tribute: ODE.
23. Sail (through): COAST.
24. Connections: TIES.
30. Actor Neeson: LIAM.
31. Vuitton of fashion: LOUIS. And 100. Fashion monogram: YSL.
32. Start of the Common Era: ONE AD.
34. Senses: FEELS.
35. Fuel additive brand: STP. Scientifically Treated Petroleum. Owned by Energizer.
38. Bus. letters: INC.
39. "¿Qué pasa?": SUP.
41. Reception problem: STATIC.
43. Manage, as an art exhibit: CURATE.
45. Home of BTS: KOREA. South Korea. "Butter"!
47. Put back: RESTORE.
51. Sitting upon: ATOP.
56. Relocated: MOVED. Boomer can't move by himself now. His legs
are just numb. Quite a challenge for me to change the bed sheet, bed
pads and the diapers. My arms do get stronger!
58. Venomous snake: ASP.
59. Iridescent gem: OPAL.
60. Super Bowl XLIV MVP Drew: BREES.
61. Part of GDP: PRODUCT.
63. Cardiff's country: WALES.
65. Scuffle: TUSSLE.
74. See 13-Down: LASSO. 13. With 74-Across, 2021 and 2022 Emmy winner for Outstanding Comedy Series: TED.
75. Guts: INNARDS.
80. Prefix meaning "sun": HELIO.
81. Michael who plays Luis in the "Ant-Man" movies: PENA.
82. Geological span: EON.
84. Supply with gear: EQUIP.
90. Tropical tangelo: UGLI. Tried once. Pretty juicy.
91. Accumulates, as debt: RACKS UP. Scary.
92. Trojan War epic: ILIAD.
93. Functional: USABLE.
95. Maine-based retailer since 1912: L.L. BEAN. They have a store in Mall of America.
98. "The Marvelous __ Maisel": MRS.
99. Bioengineered food source, briefly: GMO.
101. First name of boy detective Encyclopedia Brown: LEROY.
104. Night noise: SNORE. For me, it's the air mattress noise from the hospital bed.
106. Garlicky mayo: AIOLI. So vowel-y.
108. Apple variety: IMAC.
119. Early spring flower: IRIS. And 7. Many an April birth: ARIES.
120. Fast Amtrak train: ACELA.
121. Oil field sight: RIG.
122. Scandinavia locale: EUROPE.
123. Motorcade vehicle: LIMO.
124. Gorge: CHASM.
125. Draft selection?: ALE. Good old clue.
126. Gawks: STARES.
127. What "T" stands for, in video game ratings: TEEN.
128. Sorts: TYPES.
Down:
2. Beginning with: AS OF.
3. "La Vie en Rose" singer Édith: PIAF. Marion Cotillard on the left.
4. Short-lived Ford model: EDSEL.
5. Largest city on the border between the U.S. and Canada: DETROIT.
6. Like "Dracula" and "Frankenstein": GOTHIC. Gothic novels.
8. Oracle: SEER.
9. Model: POSE.
10. BLT part: BACON.
11. Collection of love poems by Ovid: AMORES.
12. Were bought for: SOLD AT.
14. Wane: EBB.
15. __ es Salaam: DAR. Tanzania.
16. "Modern Love" singer David: BOWIE.
17. Utopian: IDEAL.
18. School sessions: TERMS.
26. Certain college members: ELECTORS.
28. Pitched well?: TUNED. Nice clue.
29. Managed somehow: COPED.
33. Hannah of "Roxanne": DARYL. Married to Neil Young.
34. Laurence who played Pops on "Black-ish": FISHBURNE.
35. Scalawag: SCAMP.
36. Teach privately: TUTOR.
37. Home of Brigham Young University: PROVO.
39. Caress, e.g.: SOAP.
40. Banquet coffeepot: URN.
42. QB targets: TES. Tight Ends.
44. Mimicked: APED.
45. Metric wts.: KGS.
46. Twin of Artemis: APOLLO.
48. Sees red?: OWES.
49. Stagger: REEL.
50. Irish Gaelic: ERSE.
53. Muffin grains: OATS.
54. Crude cartel: OPEC.
55. Mars rover org.: NASA.
57. With skepticism: DUBIOUSLY.
62. Food drive donation, often: CAN.
63. Sashimi condiment: WASABI. My favorite brand. So good.
64. Singer Green and politician Gore: ALS.
65. Decimal base: TEN.
67. Mtn. stat: ELEV.
68. Downfall: BANE.
69. Christmas candle scent: PINE.
70. "Moonstruck" Oscar winner: CHER.
71. Half dodeca-: HEXA. Dodeca is prefix for 12.
72. Smart __: ALEC.
73. Burglar: PICK LOCK.
76. Water color: AQUA.
77. Sport with an oval ball: RUGBY.
78. Some pickles: DILLS. Best brand.
79. Sales pitch: SPIEL.
81. Singing voice, informally: PIPES.
82. Historical spans: ERAS.
83. Not even: ODD.
86. Sudsy spot: TUB. Thankfully our tub works great. The sink faucet is another matter.
87. Early Mesoamerican: OLMEC.
88. Ventilate: AIR.
89. "__ has it ... ": RUMOR.
94. Typical open mic performance: SOLO ACT.
96. Last runner in a relay race: ANCHOR.
97. Zero chance: NO HOPE.
99. Martini with an onion: GIBSON.
101. Heavenly scales: LIBRA.
102. Inbox message: EMAIL.
103. Scope: RANGE.
105. Custom-made things?: RITES. Ritual "custom".
106. "Spirited Away" genre: ANIME.
107. Like a mosquito bite: ITCHY.
110. Bagpiper's skirt: KILT.
111. Lake near the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: ERIE.
112. Pile: HEAP.
113. Otherwise: ELSE.
114. Los Angeles team: RAMS.
116. Some Caltech grads: EES.
117. Boring routine: RUT.
118. Sp. address: SRA.
To borrow a line from Marc Maron, Boomer Lives!
He did develop a few issues last week. Itchy eyes bother him the most. One of his pressure sores also got worse. Hopefully more rounds of barrier & Mepilex will ease the pain. We also hope to get the thickening powder Dr. Nina recommended soon so Boomer won't choke on water.
The good news is that Father Charlie Lachowitzer (Twin Cities' vicar general) visited us on Thursday. He spent quite a bit of time at our home and gave Boomer a special blessing. He said before he left that "Now I know why everyone likes to visit you".
C.C.
31 comments:
I got the gimmick from the first themed fill, which made the puzzle easier to solve. And I must give the constructor kudos for making sure that all the proper names were well known ones. FIR, so I’m happy.
Good morning!
Guess who didn't understand OFFER THE CORD until C.C. 'splained it. Oops, picked the wrong ER. D'oh. It all came down to _UP/_OAP. D-o was pretty sure "Caress" wasn't a soap, so he left that spot blank. Was looking for a Spanish word; SUP never occurred. D'oh. Still not sure if it's a bath soap or a TV serial. Not my finest hour. Interesting debut, Jill and Michelle. Thanx for the expo, C.C. (Good to hear that Boomer is still keepin' on keepin' on.)
Took 15:36 for me to filler this in....
I agree with what SubG said about this puzzle.
Olmec was unknown.
I hope things get better for Boomer, and C.C.
I don’t usually do Sunday CWs: I do them on paper in pen and the Sunday CWs are bigger (19x21 today) and print up so small I have trouble reading the clues and also the numbers on the CW. Also, I really don’t wanna spend this much time on it. But today I gave it a go and managed to FIR in 1 hour and 3 minutes. Like SG, I got the gimmick with the first theme clue, which helped. And the clues were clever yet fair. So….thanx for the entertainment, PV&JNL. And thanx also for the fine write-up, c.c. Thanx too for keeping us up-to-date on Boomer.
ER? Did somebody say something? I had very few hesitations FIR today. Saw the ER at COLD BREW. It was an easy NW to SE fill with a few unknowns solved by perps and WAGS.
DOG AND PONY SHOWER- that's what Congress should get for all those Dog And Pony Shows those committees stage.
Unknowns- MRS Maisel, LEROY Brown (everybody know's Jim Croce's Big Bad Leroy), PICK LOCK. ANIME was a wag for the cartoon.
PICK LOCK- I'd never heard the term but two years ago one of my grandsons wanted a lock picking set for Christmas. He was always learning how to do one thing well and once he gets it he moves on to the next thing. Rubik's cube- we watched videos and after he was able to do it in less than a minute, that was it. He moved on to the next thing.
Hang on Boomer. We're all pulling for you.
FIW. My error started when I filled fishbourn, then "fixed" it with fishborne. Didn't catch it with ToSSLE. Bad spelars of the world, UNTIE!
I knew TED LASSO only from doing crosswords.
Haven't heard of C-suite, but I guess it's what we called "mahogany row."
Hard to believe, but I heard that Steely Dan's classic FM (No STATIC At All) wasn't deemed good enough for their fabulous album (and former crossword puzzle favorite) Aja. It was considered just a side job for the movie FM.
Sidling reference to constructor's favorite Adele at Rumor has it.
I've never understood why the last (and usually the best) runner is the ANCHOR. Seems an ANCHOR is for preventing movement.
DARYL Hanna, Sandra Oh and Jennifer Tilly were especially fetching in the dark movie Dancing at the Blue Iguana.
Aside to WC - The Marion County flea market is actually on 441, toward Leesburg. There is a small flea market at an old drive-in movie site just before you get to the real thing. The big one has a large yellow sign. If you get to Camping World, you have gone about 1/2 mile too far if you are driving south.
Thanks to Jill and Michelle for the fun Sunday workout. My favorite was BACON, because, well, it's BACON! And thanks to CC for the fun review, and the not-so-fun Boomer update.
FIR, and got the theme early. Bane was the last to fall because I couldn't remember Pena or Lasso, then suddenly the light bulb lit up.
I liked the theme answers, and got it when I reached the DogandPonyShower.
May favorite answer was SUP, although I had no idea Caress was a Soap.
I thought RITES for Custom-made things? was a stretch. But I guess since you can design your own vows?
I thought for sure Cat Stevens was the one who sang Cats in the Cradel so that threw me for a bit too since I'd never heard of PICKLOCK. Then when I put in Chapin I thought, "Harry Chapin Carpenter!" (Sorry Mary. LOL, at least I got it!
Basted was a stitch technique? I only know the word from cooking. Learning moment.
Musings
- My first efforts to find info on these ladies was, ER, fruitless.
- Reducing STATIC was a common radio tuning issue in my yute
- CURATE – It’s what our venerable constructor Jeffery Wechsler did in N.J.
- BTS was part of a one-cell Natick for me recently
- My favorite Harry song Taxi, tells of how “you never know” how classmates will turn out
- Yup, BE, the first LEROY Brown that came to my mind was “meaner than a junk yard dog”
- In 2016, seven Washington state ELECTORS were “faithless” and voted for candidates to whom they were pledged. Two abandoned Trump and five abandoned Clinton. It mattered not.
- A few of us were surprised recently when we learned which U.S. capital has the highest ELEV.
- In 2005 the NFL made pushing a ball carrier forward like is done in RUGBY legal
-The best ANCHOR ever with the baton in hand
- Thanks for the update on Boomer, C.C.
I'm sure you have all seen that T-Shirt with the periodic table element of hesitation, so I won't bore you with it again.
Instead I will just remind you to close the dang fridge!
You're air conditioning the kitchen!
One thing you won't find in the fridge, is, Hot Tuna!
Anon-T, TTP, help me out...
Ever since the "mooning" incident the other day,
I have been reminded of a performance where at least a dozen men where lined up, and sang some kind of operatic aria.
I think John Cleese was there, possibly Eric Idle, but not all members of Monty Python.
It was possibly some kind of royal performance, as the crowd looked very rich and stuffy.
Anywho,
I seem to remember that they were all wearing long handlebar moustaches,
Some kind of colorful shirt,
Which was covered by a long white apron, making them look like some kind of Italian bakers or something.
When they finished their aria, the crowd applauded, and the performers all bowed in unison to the audience.
Then in professional curtesy, the6 all turned and bowed to the orchestra behind them,
Revealing that behind the apron, the were not wearing pants or underwear!
(The crowd was shocked, but amused...)
I have been looking on YouTube, and internet everywhere for this clip, and cannot find it.
It was not a Monty Python performance specifically, so I don't know what it might have been called.
Does anyone remember this?
FIW because I thought it was FISHBoRNE. Nevertheless, a fun solve. Thank you, Jill and Michelle! I liked the EON/ERAS crossing. "Slide subject" had me for a while because it looked like Algebra might fit and there was a time when people used slide rules to do Algebra.
Thank you, C.C., for a pic of what UGLI fruits look like on the inside. I think I've only seen their outsides.
Bob Lee @ 9:41. In sewing, a basting stitch is when you sew something temporarily using long stitches, usually to hold the fabric pieces together so you can next sew it with a machine and not have pins in the way. After sewing on a machine, you can easily pull out the basting thread. A contrasting colored thread is usually used so it doesn't get forgotten.
Hi Y'all! Enjoyed the theme & fill, thanks, Jill & Michelle. Challenge, but doable.
C.C., thank you for the expo & sad update on Boomer. Still praying for you.
DNK: BTS, CHAPIN, TED, HEXA, LASSO, but they perped in easily. GOTHIC took all perps because I didn't consider those two to be that.
Tried GImlet before GIBSON.
INNARDS: don't remember ever seeing this in a puzzle. Wish mine would settle down. Noises woke me up recently thinking someone was in the house. It was my INNARDS talking.
Thank you, Jill and Michelle, and thank you, C.C.
BASEBALL CAPER came first because I started in the middle, followed by DOG AND PONY SHOWER, and then COLD BREWER. I was anticipating that some of the hesitations sounds might be ums, so I didn't assume I knew the gimmick after the first one.
BACON - I read that Costco's Kirkland labeled BACON was a "must try", along with their Kirkland branded maple syrup. So I did. This morning I made French Toast (for the first time ever !), served with warm maple syrup, a half pound of bacon, and a couple sausage patties. Then she didn't want to eat anything, so I ate it all. No lunch for me.
GIBSON - No idea. Never had one. But I had the GI---- so I thought it might be GImlet. Never had one of those either.
Bob Lee, I remember my sis pinning (Simplicity?) patterns to bolts of cloth in her sewing room. Then cutting the material and basting pieces together before test fitting and chalking, before final sewing. There are two programs on PBS that are guaranteed to make me sleepy when I need a nap. One is "Bob Ross - The Joy of Painting" and the other is "Sewing With Nancy." Apparently she is to sewing as Tommy Silva or Norm Abram are to home construction.
Cross Eyed Dave, what mooning incident the other day ? I don't think I know of the mooning you are describing. There's some place out west, in SoCal, Nevada or Arizona, where the patrons of a bar have a tradition of mooning the Amtrack passenger train. They leave their barstools, go outside and then line up shoulder to shoulder with their backs to the tracks. When they hear the scheduled Amtrak train coming, they drop trou and moon it. I think I heard of that here.
FLN Dash T, I linked the commercial at the end of yesterday's blog comments.
Pergormance at the Hollywood Bowl?
Thank you Jill and Michelle and congratulations on your debuts. Thanks to the title generously provided by the Sun ("Hesitations"), I knew the theme even before I started the puzzle and found it very helpful and FIRfully funny.
And thank you C.C. for confirming my suspicions.
Some favs:
All the phunny themers.
10A BASTED. Not only turkeys are BASTED, but also clothes in the making. I often heard the term used by my Mother as she was tutoring my sisters in the essentials of dressmaking. IIRC BASTING stitches are longer than regular stitches, and she would use them to rapidly create what I'd call BETA versions of dresses: she'd make them with patterns on cheap material, have the customer try the trial dress on, mark it with tailor's chalk to show where they'd need to be altered, and then use the altered patterns to create the finished dress with finer material. Thus the patterns were not "one size fits all", but were "tailored" to fit the customer's body.
44A CURATE. Also a member of the clergy, e.g. an assistant pastor.
53A WALES. A beautiful country that produces wonderful musicians (e.g. Bryn Terfel), poets (e.g. Dylan Thomas) and actors (e.g. Richard Burton).
70A CHAPIN. Cat's in the Cradle. This song reminds me to give thanks for my Son, who stopped by today while we were at Church and cleaned all the leaves out of our rain gutters.
101A LEROY. Encyclopedia was the Good Leroy. This guy was the Bad Leroy.
3D PIAF. La Vie on Rose (French lesson #1). Those were the days my friends, we thought they'd never end.
12D SOLDAT. "Soldier" - French lesson #2.
79D SPIEL "Game" - today's German lesson.
Cheers,
Bill
And God Bless you C.C. for all that do do for our beloved Boomer.
Sunday Lurk say...
C.C. - Thank you for an update on Boomer. My heart goes out to both of you. I hope you get some help soon.
FLN / two days ago: Jinx - I'm not really looking for crossword ideas just how to push the limits of the machine. There are a few folks on Twitter that have been able to defeat it's 'do no harm' feature - one guy pushed it to "hypothetically" make a Molotov Cocktail but in poetic form. It was funny.
BTW, Jinx, Ted Lasso is LOL. If you were looking for a reason to get Apple+, that's a good one. Also, Slow Horses (pronounced slough house) [trailer] is really good (and darkly funny).
BigE - some of us do "lock sport" which is picking locks for giggles & beer. It's not to be evil but to learn which locks are best if we need real security instead of an illusion. //Not that bolt-cutters wouldn't solve that problem :-)
Here's Eldest with her beginner lock-pick set.
Chapin's major one-hit was a dang good one. Cat's in the Cradle is only one of two songs that make me well-up. (Cash's Grandfather's Clock* is the other)
HG - Croce could write 'em too, eh?
Sumdaze - thanks for explaining basting stich as I too was thinking of twining the bird before actually basting it. Thanks waseeley for expounding on it.
CED - I know the exact sketch you're alluding to. I thought it was at Live at Hollywood Bowl, but I couldn't find it (yet).
Nap time.
Cheers, -T
*I know, not what you expected from this rock-n-roller ;-)
I liked this puzzle.
Thank you all so much for your feedback and support for our debut puzzle! It has been such an exciting day for us - thank you again!
Thank you Anon-T,
Hollywood bowl....
that gets me a little closer,
But we are not quite there yet...
Close, but no cigar...
Okay,
Getting closer
someth8ng about Royal Albert Hall tribute re: concert for George Harrison
CED - One more of those and DW will pour her coke over your head... :-)
//Based on a true story: we were dating, bowling with buddies, and I started singing that Python song. She was having none of it.
BTW - I also missed @2:42 mentioned Hollywood Bowl. Apparently, there's more Moonies fans.
Jill & Michelle - thanks for swinging by The Corner. If you stay, you'll find there are fun folks and even some part-time constructors.
TTP - I missed your post but apparently you knew basting too. Inre: Mooning the Alaska Amtrak. I'm not sure I should be proud, but Mom did that.
Cheers, -T
Jill and Michelle, thank you for stopping in. Read the solver's comments here daily, and you'll get an idea of what most of us like and don't like. Chime in, too !
No worries, Dash T. I've been partially distracted by NFL football and mostly distracted by woodworking videos all day. Don't let Bob Lee know that there will be a pop quiz tomorrow about basting. Mum's the word.
Good on your mom for having some fun. Was it the Alaska Amtrak ? I thought it was somewhere in the desert southwest. If I ever mooned someone, I don't remember it.
TTP - yes. Alaska [she's not in this video]. Apparently it's a 4th of July tradition that she participated in while up there working her claim. //as crazy at it sounds, she has a claim on a gold-mine up there. Her and her husband got it about 10 years ago.
Cheers, -T
Finally a FIR on Sunday! This time I did the top half during the morning, then took a long break before finishing it this evening. Not being in a hurry worked best for this longer puzzle to be error free. Thanks Jill & Michelle for an excellent debut puzzle for us. Come by again soon.
Catching onto the theme did help the solve, along with the usual published title of the theme for Sunday giving us a heads up.
I am familiar with the soap CARESS and I have occasionally BASTED while sewing. Not knowing much about sports, cars, or internet technology, I felt this puzzle was aimed more to my interests.
I too tried GImlet/GIBSON as well as Adonis/APOLLO but perps straightened them out. Other areas filled smoothly.
Thanks C.C. for explaining the puzzle today. I know it's sad for you to see Boomer's discomfort. It's hard work but you are taking good care of him. How nice to have Father Lachowitzer visit and compliment you two! Treasure the time you have now. My thoughts stay with you all.
Dash T, I had no idea the Amtrak mooning occurs in other states as well. I wonder if booze is involved ? Probably.
Hola
Today was our tamale making day so, of course, I'm late to the party. I started the puzzle early this morning, took it with me, left it on the table to work on during down time and don't you know, some tidy person took it and disposed of it. I was irate! I was nearly finished, too. Grrr.
We made 27 dozen tamales with red chile and 11 dozen with green chile. They will be frozen until our Christmas festivities begin.
I hope you have all had an enjoyable day. C.C., thank you for the update on Boomer, heartbreaking as it is.
Another very late start. One problem for this super senior is needing perps for what I am very familiar with: CHAPIN,LL BEAN, GIBSON.
My recall is terrible. People I see all the time I can't remember their name
I was wondering when the NFL allowed pushing. 2005? I thought it was much more recent. Reason ? Too hard to enforce?
I see BTS is a Korean Rock Group(Bangtan Boys). Sounds familiar, as in, I saw it here before.
I'd love to see that link that couldn't be posted in here after "that gets me a little closer"(Python,Sit,Moon etc)
FIR on a perfect Sunday especially after the rigorous Saturday xword
WC
We got MOONED once by a kid on shore while we were sitting on deck of a paddlewheel excursion boat on the Columbia River. We were watching the sailboarders flitting around the river when this kid let out a yell & showed rump. Too far to see much but got a good laugh from those of us on deck.
WC -- that's nice to know I guess) about the BTS, but can anyone tell what the connection with 'butter' is?
Wilbur Charles, BTS is a pop band, not a rock band by any stretch.
Michael, Button is the name of one of their songs.
Was it The Full Monty?
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