Hello Cornerites!
sumdaze here. Today we are treated to a puzzle by constructor John Michael Currie.
Our theme is:
Tricks for a Treat!
JMC has packed into this grid 5 in-the-language phrases that start with a command often taught to dogs.
They are:
17 Across. Sound that may accompany a salute: HEEL CLICK.
Guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (3:14 min.)
Heel Click @ 1:39
23 Across. Inexpensive way to spend time off: STAYCATION.
39 Across. "Mention you, and there you are!": SPEAK OF THE DEVIL.
"Speak of the devil is a phrase used when someone appears who has just been the subject of conversation. The term is a shortened version of the phrase, Speak of the Devil and he will appear." (grammarist.com)
Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada (2006) (1:06 min.)
47 Across. Ride shotgun: SIT UP FRONT.
a bear riding shotgun in a motorcycle car in Russia
(Notice he gets TREATs for waiving.)
61 Across. "Come again?": BEG PARDON. "Come again?" is shortened, so is "I BEG your PARDON", a polite (or ironic) way of saying, "I'm sorry" or "Could you repeat what you just said?"
And the unifier:
66 Across. Reward for a pup who obeys the commands at the starts of 17-, 23-, 39-, 47-, and 61-Across: TREAT.
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| I love this face! |
Now that we've had our TREAT, let's zoom off to the other clues.
1. Throw with effort: HEAVE.
6. Like some moody punk music: EMO. EMO MasterClass
9. Hold responsible: BLAME.
14. Own up to: ADMIT. It is fitting that 14A follows 9A because some people ONLY own up to their mistakes after they have been held responsible.
15. Slip on: DON. As in, "DON we now our gay apparel". ♪♪♪
16. Complete: TOTAL. Adjectives. You can substitute "TOTAL" for "complete" in the sentence, "The teenager's room was a complete mess."
19. Meager: SCANT.
20. Novelist Tyler: ANNE.
"Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is the author of more than twenty novels. Her twentieth novel, A Spool of Blue Thread, was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2015. Her eleventh novel, Breathing Lessons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1988." (Amazon.com)
21. Dull pain: ACHE.
22. Golden Fleece ship: ARGO.
21. Dull pain: ACHE.
22. Golden Fleece ship: ARGO.
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| Jacapo di Arcangelo Italian ca. 1465 At the left, Jason is charged by King Pelias to retrieve the Golden Fleece. Jason's ship, the Argo, is in the distance. |
26. Escorted to the door: LED OUT.
31. Freezer cubes: ICE.
32. Appropriate inappropriately: USURP. Clever wording! "Appropriate" is a verb here (rhymes with "create").
33. Moisten while cooking: BASTE. like a Thanksgiving turkey
36. Pixie: ELF.
42. "Inside the NBA" airer: TNT. and 27Down. "NBA Today" airer: ESPN.
43. Make joyful: ELATE.
44. "Goodnight, __": Lead Belly song: IRENE. about Lead Belly
45. Grazing field: LEA.
46. Gawked: STARED.
53. Smack hard: WHOP.
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| Ron Howard & Ron Howard |
55. At one's __ and call: BECK.
I will take this opportunity to note the passing of guitarist Jeff Beck on Jan. 10, 2023 at age 78. He has been called, "Your favorite guitar player's favorite guitar player."
Jeff BECK Brush with the Blues (1999)
63. Says goodbye: PARTS.
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| PARTing words |
64. Mined resource: ORE.
65. PayPal alternative: VENMO. Best Money Transfer Apps for 2023
67. Roofing goo: TAR.
68. Change to fit: ADAPT.
Down:
1. "Good joke!": HA HA.
Minions laughing (Contagious!)
2. Genesis garden: EDEN.
3. Prayer ending: AMEN.
4. Despicable: VILE.
5. And so on: Abbr.: ETC.
6. Formal decree: EDICT.
7. Coffee-and-chocolate flavor: MOCHA.
8. Perfectly pitched: ON KEY.
9. "Butter" K-pop band: BTS. BTS is a 7-member, S. Korean "boy band". They have #1 singles in 100+ countries and 46 million followers on Twitter. BTS is in the news again this week because Jin, the oldest member (30 yrs!), just completed Basic Training for military service in S. Korea.
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| Jin ready for duty |
10. Pinpoint: LOCATE.
11. Game company since 1972: ATARI.
12. Snapple's __ Madness: MANGO.
13. John who sings "Cold Heart" with Dua Lipa: ELTON. Oh, "John" is the singer's last name! Gets me every time. Same with "Paul on guitar."
Elton John & Dua Lipa - Cold Heart (PNAU Remix) (2021)
18. Final: LAST. not "teST"
24. Quote as a source: CITE.
25. Crushed the test: ACED IT.
26. Romance novel emotion: LUST.
24. Quote as a source: CITE.
25. Crushed the test: ACED IT.
26. Romance novel emotion: LUST.
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss won Album of the Year for Raising Sand at the 2009 Grammys.
This is Killing the Blues, off that album. Beautiful harmony!
29. "You for Me" singer Rita: ORA.
30. Property manager's responsibility: UPKEEP. the process of keeping something in good condition
33. Painter's deg.: BFA. Bachelor of Fine Arts
34. QB stat: ATT. ATTempts.
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| Rita married New Zealand filmmaker Taika Waititi last year. |
30. Property manager's responsibility: UPKEEP. the process of keeping something in good condition
33. Painter's deg.: BFA. Bachelor of Fine Arts
34. QB stat: ATT. ATTempts.
As of this writing, the NFL QB with the most passing ATTs this season is Patrick Mahomes of the KC Chiefs at 648.
35. "Nevertheless, __ persisted": SHE.
36. At any point: EVER.
37. Queue: LINE. In British English, to "cut in LINE" is to "jump the queue".
38. Ran away: FLED.
40. "Frozen" snowman: OLAF.
35. "Nevertheless, __ persisted": SHE.
36. At any point: EVER.
37. Queue: LINE. In British English, to "cut in LINE" is to "jump the queue".
38. Ran away: FLED.
40. "Frozen" snowman: OLAF.
Olaf (voiced by Josh Gad) sings In Summer (Frozen 2013)
41. Stretch of history: ERA.
45. Nyong'o of "Black Panther": LUPITA.
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| Ms. Nyong'o won an Oscar for her role in 12 Years a Slave (2013). |
46. Ladder rung: STEP.
48. "Word on the street is ... ": I HEAR. The verb in the clue is present tense, so is the answer.
49. MLB exec Joe who was the Yankees' manager for 12 seasons: TORRE. (1996 to 2007)
Clued in yesterday's puzzle as 116A. Yankee manager before Girardi.
50. Automaton: ROBOT. If this one felt a bit wonky to you, see Definition #2.
51. Word with space or soap: OPERA. I like these types of clues because they double my chances.
50. Automaton: ROBOT. If this one felt a bit wonky to you, see Definition #2.
51. Word with space or soap: OPERA. I like these types of clues because they double my chances.
Space Opera explained
52. Landlocked nation in West Africa: NIGER.
52. Landlocked nation in West Africa: NIGER.
55. Raised, as farm animals: BRED. In the true spirit of CW puzzles, here is a link to Aldermere Farm, one place where Belted Galloways (a.k.a. Oreo cows) are BRED.
56. Poet __ St. Vincent Millay: EDNA. about this poet
57. Give for free: COMP. informal for "COMPlimentary"
58. Hardwood flaw: KNOT. Is it a "flaw" or is it just beautiful?
60. Approximate fig.: EST. "Figure is abbreviated, so is "ESTimate".
62. Principal on ABC's "Abbott Elementary": AVA.
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| Principal AVA Colemen, played by Janelle James |
Here's the grid:
That's all for today. I look forward to reading your thoughts!
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteD-o SWEPT to victory on this one. OK, missed the theme, but who's counting? Once again, the proper names were appropriately perped, so no foul. I enjoyed it, JMC. (Debut?) Also enjoyed your tour, Sumdaze.
BEG PARDON: I find myself doing that more often lately. I also find myself turning to the closed captioning on TV. The epitaph on Dorothy Parker's gravesite reads, "Pardon my dust."
TREAT: Stanley is a German shepherd on my Thursday M-o-W route. He loves treats, but won't let any human approach him. He must've been mistreated (no pun intended) at some point.
DUET: I recently added that Plant/Krauss collaboration to my album collection, also their follow-up.
I wasn’t familiar with Ms. Lupita. Other than that, it was the usual Monday walk in the park. FIR, so I’m happy.
ReplyDeleteFIRE, but erased cede for COMP.
ReplyDeleteI think that the last time I used WHOP was just before I found me some shoes, stuffed a few shirts and dainties into my burlap bag, and hitchhiked off to the big city to attend kollege.
I have always heard that queuing people were in LINE. But the folks I know from NY/NJ say they are on LINE. And I thought that was computerspeak.
FLN: Michael, I loved enNaticked. Just wish my memory was good enough to steal it.
Thanks to John (not ELTON) for the fun, mostly easy Monday grid. My favorite was "appropriate inappropriately" for USURP. And thanks to Sumdaze for another interesting and informative review.
FIR. The theme was simple but I found the puzzle a little crunchy for a Monday effort.
ReplyDeleteTook 4 minutes flat for me to fetch this one today.
ReplyDeleteMissed the theme as I was going solving, which isn't a surprise here either.
I didn't know today's female author (Anne), but I knew today's actress (Lupita).
Otherwise, yep, it's Monday.
Didn't know Ora, Ava, Bts, , or Lupita.
ReplyDeleteIt's Monday, I got a FIR, and sumdaze is on duty today to explain and confirm our fill as well as entertain us. Thanks, sumdaze. And thanks to our (new?) constructor, John Michael. Good job! The theme was hidden from me until the reveal because I was having so much fun I didn't slow down and ponder what the connection of the themers was.
ReplyDeleteHad the usual WOs due to not checking the perps before writing. Remembered TORRE from yesterday's puzzle and BTS from earlier ones. I saw the group on TV once but only remember BTS by thinking of "Boys That Sing."
FLN, Gnarly Oldster, I am one of the oldsters on the corner with serious deficits in knowledge of current TV programs, sports, and music celebrities. But I agree with Michael's comment. A puzzle that I can fill easily with my first thought, entering letters like a robot, is boring to me. I appreciate some cleverness in cluing and having to look carefully at the tense, other meanings of the clue, and possible trickiness. Then I feel challenged and try to learn. Perps help a lot but sometimes I too am enNaticked (Hi, Jinx)!
Anon @ 7:56 AM you are always fetching to us. Good comment!
I am happy to be reminded of Anne Tyler and plan to read some of her later books. (An advantage of doing crossword puzzles.)
Everyone, have a great start to the week!
ATLGranny - John had LAT debut Tuesday, March 15, 2022. Work BECKons, play later; Cheers, -T
ReplyDeleteGood morning! Thanks, John for a Monday puzzle with just a little bite, and for the fun theme. Filled but didn't get USURP until I read your recap, sumdaze. Thanks, and for the links, especially the chocolate lab with the bone - of course I did!! Mine was a joy.
ReplyDeleteAll perps for LUPITA, NIGER, AVA and VENMO.
UPKEEP gave me pause. I had LEA in, then out, then back in.
Altogether a good start to the week.
Hola!
ReplyDeleteNice job, John Michael Currie, thank you. If this is a debut, it's a good one.
It filled nicely and flowed though I didn't notice the theme until the end and then not until reading the review from sumdaze did I get the whole thing.
I had STAYATHOME then STAYCATION emerged.
Yesterday I had no time to finish the puzzle. In fact, not Saturday's either. It was a social weekend for me. Book club on Saturday and lunch with friends for a birthday on Sunday.
Now I have to go for my volunteer gig at church. Read you all later! Have a great Monday.
FLN,
ReplyDeleteRe: the state of todays crosswords...
Things really haven't changed much...
Whether jokes, or crosswords, I think Grouch Marx summed it up best... (0:04)
I think todays xword was just fine!
And todays write up was a visual, learning momentum, tour de force, in Sumdaze inimitable style.
(Thank you!)
(But, you didn't leave me much to play with...)
Lessee, all I got is,
Whop! (Hmm, unfortunate piece of fill.)
Aptly saved by the clue, "slap hard."
( I would have clued it, "a sound never heard on Batman...")
Anywho, Onward!
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteA typical Monday stroll through the park but with some canine companions today, at least in spirit. I saw the commands early on and was expecting a more detailed reveal, but Treat works just fine. I went astray at Saw Out/Led Out, Steal/Usurp, and Love/Lust, which was a silly mistake, knowing Romance novels are often referred to as Bodice Rippers. 🫢 This would be a nice introductory puzzle for a newbie, especially because of the simplicity of the theme.
Thanks, John Michael, for a pleasant start to the week and thanks, Sumdaze, for an exceptionally enjoyable review. You had me at the opening pooch-balancing exercise (poise is so important in puppy world!) Also chuckled at the motorcycle-riding bear and the Oreo cows. It’s a toss up between Ava (Janelle James) from Abbott Elementary and Miranda (Meryl Streep) from The Devil Wears Prada as a boss anyone could bear working for. Thanks for the explanation of Space Opera, which was a new concept to me and thanks, most of all, for showing us a glimpse of the background and rituals of the sentinels of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers.
Last night’s episode of All Creatures Great and Small was particularly poignant in conveying the duties and responsibilities we have in the care and treatment of animals. There were some light-hearted moments, but the overriding message was serious and somber. Next week’s episode welcomes back Tricki Woo, the pampered Pekingese, so there should be some more levity.
Outside is a winter wonderland with the snow still falling. Pretty to look at but I’m glad I’m warm and comfy in my cozy den. 😉
Have a great day.
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteThe puzzle made me think of Pop's Tinker. [waiting on breakfast bacon TREAT]
Thanks John for the grid - a fun diversion from IPS [Intrusion Prevention System] testing.
Happy very-belated birthday sumdaze! Wonderful expo - love me some Jeff BECK.
WOs: mFA -> BFA and 'What thought was Love must'a been LUST' [Winning - Santana]
ESPs: ANNE, ORA, IRENE
Fav: I'll go with BECK as CITE'd by sumdaze
Cute: xing clechos at 27d & 42a
ALTGranny - D-O mentioned debut first but a quick search showed this is John's second LAT. Sorry to call just you on that.
Jinx - I don't know where I picked up non-computer 'on-line' in my vernacular (too much Seinfeld?) but I use it to DW's chagrin.
OMK - you have one diagonal, today on the flip-side.
I've got baseball field-hands agreeing to working together for rain-delay: A TARP PACT :-)
Y'all have a great day.
Cheers, -T
ATLGranny: I’m glad you replied to Gnarly Oldster FLN as you did. I totally agree with you.
ReplyDeleteNeat puzzle this morning. It was a TREAT. A few unknowns, but nothing TO SPEAK OF.
Musings
ReplyDelete-ADMIT it, before automatic ICE makers, you took some cubes out of the tray and didn’t refill it
-Watch an NBA game or a game featuring my high school’s terrible team? I'm choosing the latter
-I remember hearing Good Night Irene growing up but not that version
-Ronnie Howard’s brother Clint was in 17 of Ronnie’s movies including Apollo 13. NOT a space OPERA!
-Just when I thought I was keeping up on things, my daughter asked to pay me with VENMO.
-The only word in our church said more insipidly than AMEN is alleluia
-We’ve seen BTS a lot in the last few months. I got them on YouTube and found out they sing in Korean but include an occasional phrase in English.
-Mahomes may have a record number of ATT’s this weekend as he is playing on a bad ankle
-Your cell phone can help relieve the tedium in a Disney QUEUE
-My friend in Arlington, Nebraska BREEDS these animals
-Nice job, Renee.
-T, it was OK with me. You didn't have to make a correction...
ReplyDeleteThank you John Michael for a Monday TREAT and for not trying to TRICK us too much. After a DNF yesterday and an FIW on Saturday I was glad I ACED IT.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks sumdaze for another dazzling review. Whoever trained the Border Collie in your intro gif was a master of behavior modification. These dogs are a bundle of energy and getting one to walk a plank while balancing a ball, balanced on a board was quite a FEET. And thanks for that incredible BECK send off!
My favorite (of course) was
51D OPERA. SPACE OPERAS are sometime referred to as SPACE WESTERNS, with the "good guys" as the cowboys and the "bad guys" as the Indians. Anticipating these genera, Giacomo Puccini combined the two to create another of his masterpieces "La Fanciulla del West"" (the "Girl of the West"). Here "bad guy" Dick Johnson is saved from hanging by Minnie, the heroine. He's PARDONED and the two them head off to California to start a new life. Sniff. Sniff.
Cheers,
Bill
HG,
ReplyDeleteOk, I ADMIT IT!
back in the day, I would take two ice cubes and put the tray back without filling it. But heck, it was just me and my Dad, so waiting til it was 1/2 empty to refill it wasn't going to upset anyones ice tea...
besides, there was plenty more where that came from!
SPACE OPERA:
ReplyDeleteit ain't over til the fat lady (swings?)
Hi Y'all! Doggone great TREATS today from JMC & Sumdaze. Thanks. Had a troublesome spot in the NE corner but mostly went easily.
ReplyDeleteDNK: BTS, MANGO, LUPITA, ORA, AVA, TORRE (didn't know we had that yesterday. Duh!)
I Remember bellowing out "GOODNIGHT IRENE" riding in the car as a kid. On the other hand, I couldn't tell you what I had for lunch yesterday. Memory is so fickle.
My internet has gone off three times while I have been trying to do the puzzle & write this. Probably because all the branches & wires up in the air are iced over and just now starting to shed. Air is still frigid but much of the snow is melted off the warmer ground. Haven't seen that happen before.
Thanks John for throwing us a bone today, a fairly easy stroll, about par by Monday difficulty standards. Managed a FIR in a little over 8 minutes, but forgot to look for the themers even though I saw the reveal (and there were no circles which makes someone happy!)
ReplyDeleteSumdaze ~ I really enjoy your Monday reviews, you do Boomer proud with your writing, always humorous and entertaining! I don’t think of a knot as a flaw, (maybe in flooring 🤷♂️), but as paneling knotty pine is quite nice, we have a lots of walls covered in it in our house. Just don’t try to nail through a knot.
Marvellous Monday. Thanks for the fun, John and sumdaze.
ReplyDeleteI FIRed and got the doggie TREAT theme. Cute, and a good Monday level.
I had a few inkblots.
Hand up for Live before LUST. Another hand up for wanting Let OUT, but I already had DUET.
I don’t know my Snapples, and WAGge good Canadian Maple before MANGO.
Lightbulb moment when USURP filled. Ah, the verb!
We had Dua Lipa’s Levitating yesterday. (and TORRE). (And I’ll collect my CSO from yesterday for O CANADA, although I didn’t get time to post.)
That possible Natick cross of ESPN and TNT was cruel for this Canadian, but I got it (although I see that some of you Americans had trouble with it too). I was semi-familiar with ESPN, but I LIUed just now to learn that TNT was formerly Turner Network Television. We have TSN (The Sports Network) and Sportsnet.
CSO to Tinbeni with ICE. (I noted the cross of ICE and ACED IT.)
Belated Happy Birthday sumdaze.
Another belated Happy Birthday to this blog.
Wishing you all a great day.
Hi, I've seen ESP used in the Comments, but I don't know what it means. I've checked the Abbrs link and online for text speak, but I'm still not sure. (Probably not ExtraSensory Perception!) Please enlighten me! Thanks.
ReplyDeleteRosE @2:42 PM. It's sort of pun on the paranormal abbrev: an acronym for Every Single Pero
DeleteFun Monday puzzle, many thanks, John. And always enjoy your commentary, Sumdaze--especially the sweet picture of OPIE today--thanks for that too.
ReplyDeleteWell, this puzzle today began a bit negative and depressing, starting with the word BLAME, followed by ADMIT--not a good sign. It started to give me a bit of ACHE, which even the ICE didn't help much. When I saw SPEAK OF THE DEVIL, things got even worse and I felt like I probably couldn't help much except do my best to ADAPT and BEG PARDON.
But, hey, you can't stay depressed forever, and when I went back and looked at the puzzle again from the beginning, I saw EDEN and AMEN, and that began to give me faith that there was also a good side--and sure enough, I quickly got a cup of MOCHA. No, I'm not interesting in LUST, but I'd love to HEAR a DUET or even an OPERA--that would be a real TREAT and would totally ELATE me. It would be especially fun to attend a wedding and see some friends tie THE KNOT. Yep, let's look forward to some good PARTS ahead.
Have a great week coming up, everybody.
RosE - Every Single Perp. When you have no idea what the fill could be, but friendly perpendicular fills spell it out for you.
ReplyDeleteGreat comments, everyone! I liked the dog theme, too.
ReplyDeleteATLGranny @ 9:43. I will try to remember your BTS memory trick!
RosE @ 9:58. Thank you for saying my explanation of USURP helped you. It took me a while to figure out what was happening there and I wondered if perhaps others needed to pronounce it differently in their heads, too.
AnonT @ 10:28 & C-Eh! @ 12:47. Thank you for the b-day wishes! I'm happy to celebrate all week!
H-Gary @ 10:59. ICE cubes. You reminded me of something I had not thought about in a long time. Before the plastic trays that were before the automatic ICE makers, my family had the 2-part metal trays where you fill the bottom with water then add the metal section thingy with the handle that you had to pull to break apart the cubes. Remember those? Well, we had a double-size tray. I used to toss out the cubes and re-freeze it without the section thing piece to make an ice skating rink for my Barbie. Other family members were not happy to find the huge block of ice that then needed to be thawed before new cubes could be made.
YooperPhil @ 12:47. Thank you!! That means a lot to me.
Fashionably late to the party.... Crazy day and will be a crazy week based on the schedule.
ReplyDeleteFirst to ADMIT, an easy quick Monday puzzle. The computer was set to "low" today but pre-programmed to incrementally increase hardness throughout the week. The theme eluded me. Happens when fill is rapid , I'm not paying attention and the theme isn't required to help with answers (good excuse as any 😏)
ARGO, this time the ship and not the movie
HEELCLICK reminds me of Colonel Klink
NIGER .."NYE-ger" or "nee-ZHAIR" ...the people are Nigerien: nee-JAIR-yen (not Nigerian).
STAYCATION (qualifies as a "poured-man-toe" 😄). A result of the pandemic. Then there's Wendy's Ad: "PARTS is PARTS"
Famous French chanteuse and rice dish ____ EDICT PILAF.
He didn't steal the "Snapple", let the ____ MANGO
Start moving, get the ____... LEDOUT
After an electric shock to its prey the ____ the fish...ELATE.
Woke up to a Winter Wonderland
Have a nice week.
LUPITA Nyong'o is making good. I'm proud of her; she is a fellow alum, with an MFA from my grad school.
ReplyDeleteA good Monday PZL from Mr. Currie, shepherded for us by sumdaze.
~ OMK
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DR: One diagonal, far side.
It tells us, in anagram form (12 of 15) to be cautious about making too much noise in certain regions of the building. Such signs may appear, possibly in hospitals, to keep the level of ambient sound within tolerable limits.
We are advised to walk lightly and briskly.
We may be alerted to such...
"PITAPAT AREAS"!
Wow! The colors! Everything so bright! Eye surgery went very well today. 90% answering questions and just waiting. 10% the surgery itself. What an almost psychedelic light show it was! Tomorrow I go in for a follow-up visit with the surgeon.
ReplyDeleteDidn't do the puzzle today nor read any of your comments; can't quite see clearly enough to do that yet.
Good wishes to you all.
I've been squeezing in time for the puzzles the last few days but no time to comment as I'm up in the PNW visiting grandson and his family- had his dedication yesterday at church (our denomination's equivalent to baptism)
ReplyDeleteFun romp today - belated HBD to sumdaze!
Thanks for the blog and John Michael for the puzzle
IM - I've been enjoying the new season of "All creatures...." too
Jinx @ 7:01 -- You could also try "beNaticked," as in 'beset' or -- appropriately -- 'bewildered.'
ReplyDeleteFIW. AdA/dENMO. I knew VENMO DNK LUPITA nor AVA
ReplyDeleteI inked STAY at home but it wasn't perp friendly
FLN, my Boston accent did me in as I had MAsSALA just as we'd pronounce it. Wasn't sure of OREOvs OLEO. Also, I never dreamed that they were ALL song titles
Hbd Sumdaze you've been a great replacement for the irreplaceable one
CC a broken heart can be made whole again; NO heart is the real tragedy
WC
Speaking of … Anybody see the clip of Dog Flutie(from NATICK, Ma) recreating the famous 80s Hail Mary pass?
ReplyDeleteWC
The miracle
DeleteFor Mr. Gnarly FLN: As a further example of this blog's worth, I offer Waseely's 'Girl of the West' at 12:01, above.
ReplyDeleteI would never, ever, listen to anything operatic -- it just wasn't done in Pasadena in the 1950s-- but Waseely's clip made sense, and I watched the whole thing, and so spread my horizons, perhaps only a femtometer, but, still, spread.
Jayce - welcome back. Glad to read all went well with your eyes.
ReplyDeleteCED - as always, mate! Fun links.
For the kids out there that don't know Metal Ice Trays (with lever) [now they're 'Retro!']
For those with Netflix, I recommend the first few episodes (all I've seen so far) of Eternally Confused and Eager for Love. It's pretty cute; the inner-monologue is LOL.
Overture of the best Rock OPERA ever!
Cheers, -T
-T @9:43 PM Not just rock OPERAS, ANY OPERA.
ReplyDelete-T @ 9:43. Yes! Haha! Those are the ice trays. I do not recommend anyone go back to that style. The reviewer that gave them 2 stars nailed it: "Very difficult to pull lever to release ice. Returning item."
ReplyDeleteJayce @ 5:54. Thanks for letting us know your eye surgery went well. I was wondering about that but didn't expect to hear from you so soon. Happy surprise.
Thank you for the b-day wishes, inanehiker & Wilbur Charles! Gratefully received!