Theme: "Moving In" - On is switched into ING, changing spelling as needed.
24. Task for the caregivers of a Trojan War hero?: ACHILLES TENDING. Achilles tendon.
36. Method of preserving souvenir tops?: T-SHIRT CANNING. T-shirt cannon.
51. Activity in a Toronto pastry shop?: CANADIAN BAKING. Canadian bacon.
65. Tall tales about one's climbing experience?: MOUNTAIN LYING. Mountain lion.
84. Greeting that may come with barks and licks?: WELCOME WAGGING. Welcome wagon.
95. Rodent who's really angry he missed the migration?: BITTER LEMMING. Bitter lemon.
114. Good-natured fun leading up to an election?: CAMPAIGN RIBBING. Campaign ribbon.
I don't quite get the title. When I first read the title, I thought IN in the first word is moved into the second word.
In case you missed, here's an interview of today's constructor Pam Klawitter, who also makes puzzles for the Daily POP Crosswords, edited by Patti also.
Across:
5. "One Kiss" singer __ Lipa: DUA. Meaning "love" in Albanian.
8. Southwestern building block: ADOBE.
13. Buzzing cloud: SWARM.
18. Sans-__: font style: SERIF.
20. Liberty Mutual's industry: Abbr.: INS. Due to the puzzle title, this is clued as insurance-related.
21. Toyota's luxury division: LEXUS.
22. Common newspaper name: TIMES. China's English newspaper Global Times is controlled by the government.
23. Saudi neighbor: OMANI.
27. __ optics: FIBER.
28. Tolkien saga, briefly: LOTR. The Lord of the Rings.
29. Forbes rival: INC.
30. Vitamin C source: CITRUS. These are called yuzu. I have a tiny tube of hand cream with yuzu in. Smells amazing.
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31. Chicago business district: THE LOOP.
34. Bootleg booze: HOOCH.
42. March on Washington fig.: MLK.
43. Split __ soup: PEA.
46. Most candid: OPENEST.
47. Iris covering: CORNEA.
49. Bring in: EARN.
50. Lead: GUIDE.
55. Ethiopian capital: ADDIS ABABA. Means "new flower" in Amharic, the official Ethiopian language. We also have 101. Horn of Africa nation: SOMALIA.
58. Aliens, for short: ETS.
59. Certain lamp resident: GENIE.
60. "Breathe Me" singer: SIA.
61. Fuel-efficient bikes: MOPEDS.
63. Bertie played by Hugh Laurie: WOOSTER.
69. Many an episode of "This Is Us," e.g.: SOB FEST.
73. Kir __: French cocktail: ROYALE.
74. Naughty: BAD.
77. To no __: in vain: AVAIL.
78. Tallahassee sch.: FSU.
81. "Some Like It Hot" co-star: TONY CURTIS. I think Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world. Don't you agree?
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88. Dry Italian wine: SOAVE.
89. __ Major: URSA.
90. "Let's go, amigos!": ANDALE.
91. Concession speech deliverer: ALSO-RAN.
93. School org.: PTA.
94. __ drop: MIC.
99. Rizzo of "Midnight Cowboy": RATSO.
102. Tubman of Judy Blume's "Fudge" series: SHEILA.
105. SUV stat: MPG.
108. Taylor Swift's "Look What You __ Me Do": MADE.
109. Genius Bar tablets: IPADS.
117. Gymnast Comaneci: NADIA.
118. On, as an alarm: ARMED.
119. Garlicky mayonnaise: AIOLI. Never had this.
120. "Da 5 Bloods" director Spike: LEE.
121. Serengeti grazer: ELAND.
122. John Irving's "A Prayer for Owen __": MEANY.
123. Painter Picasso: PABLO.
124. AARP folks: SRS.
125. Hook's sidekick: SMEE.
Down:
2. __-glace: rich sauce: DEMI. Steve would have told you more about this.
3. Dull: DRAB.
4. Trigonometry function: SINE.
5. Cockney, e.g.: DIALECT.
6. 7UP nickname, with "the": UNCOLA.
7. Kutcher of "Jobs": ASHTON.
8. Tide alternative: ALL.
9. Sub station?: DELI. 25. Pressing need?: IRON. Good old clues.
10. Team members: OXEN.
11. Anheuser-__: BUSCH.
12. Abbr. on some cornerstones: EST.
13. Christmas Eve visitor, familiarly: ST NICK.
14. Shoe measurement: WIDTH.
15. Boy in "The Kite Runner": AMIR.
16. Eye care brand: RENU.
17. Inbox fillers: Abbr.: MSGS. Messages.
19. Some evergreens: FIR TREES.
26. Big name in water purification: ECOLAB.
32. Growth chart nos.: HTS. Heights.
33. Printing measure: PICA.
35. Portent: OMEN.
36. Wardrobe item on HBO's "Rome": TOGA.
37. Taters: SPUDS.
38. Klum of "Making the Cut": HEIDI.
39. Setting of the 2022 film "RRR": INDIA. I love this clue angle. "RRR" is a huge hit. Most expensive Indian film ever made.
40. Lymph __: NODE.
41. Fortitude: GRIT.
43. Smock stain: PAINT.
44. Bert's BFF: ERNIE.
45. Tick off: ANGER.
48. "Illmatic" rapper: NAS.
49. Just scrapes (by): EKES.
51. Crunch's rank: CAP'N.
52. Disable the security system for, say: ABET.
53. Zilch: NADA.
54. Eagerly expectant: AGOG.
56. "Famous" cookie-maker: AMOS.
57. Ring match: BOUT. Boxing ring.
62. Polite address: SIR.
63. Artful: WILY.
64. Two Grants: ONE C.
65. Ten-time NBA All-Star Anthony, to fans: MELO. Now with the Lakers.
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66. "Me? Never!": NOT I.
67. Fourvière locale: LYON. Known for this basilica.
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68. Yin counterpart: YANG. Lesley just had Ba Huo Guan (cupping)
two days ago. See below. She told me she had too much "Yin" inside her.
Cupping is quite popular now. Even Gwyneth Paltrow tried it.
69. Escorted to the penthouse, say: SAW UP.
70. For all to see: OVERT.
71. Light wood: BALSA.
72. Pay stub abbr.: FICA.
74. Witch craft?: BROOM. Love this clue.
75. Arcade pioneer: ATARI.
76. Lounge piece: DIVAN.
78. Subject line abbr.: FWD.
79. Old car from Sweden: SAAB.
80. Fruit that's not so cute: UGLI. Do you guys like cranberry walnut bread? Sometimes they put orange peels inside. Ruins the whole thing for me.
82. Ship sunk in Havana Harbor in 1898: USS MAINE.
83. Hong Kong's Hang __ Index: SENG. Often abbreviated as HSI, like our DOW.
85. Tiki bar drink: MAI TAI.
86. RSVP cards, often: ENCS.
87. Sees: GETS.
91. Asserts without proof: ALLEGES.
92. Plumeria garland: LEI.
94. Illness: MALADY.
96. "Lara Croft: __ Raider": TOMB.
97. Inbox fillers: EMAILS.
98. Original "SNL" cast member Gilda: RADNER.
99. Turn red, say: RIPEN.
100. __ vincit amor: OMNIA. Reads like "everything conquers love".
102. Car warranty call, usually: SCAM.
103. Fabled loser: HARE.
104. Watson of "Little Women": EMMA.
106. "No __": "Piece of cake": PROB.
107. Fish organ: GILL. I finally tried Caribbean jerk salmon yesterday. It's not bad. I still prefer soy sauce/honey combo.
110. BFFs: PALS.
111. Singer Lambert: ADAM.
112. Have a meal: DINE.
113. "Soldier of Love" singer: SADE.
115. Space: GAP.
116. "About Me" info: BIO.
Malcolm, a regular blog reader and friend of Fermatprime (Lorraine), sent me below picture and note. Lorraine used to comment on our blog regularly. She does not solve LAT crosswords these days. Malcolm said she plays Word Solitaire every day and almost always gets the max possible score.
This is from the Techer, a Caltech Alumni Magazine, Spring 2023. A FULL-page photo. It sits by itself but seems to be associated with an article called Groundbreakers which is about the first women to earn bachelor’s degrees at Caltech.
C.C.
37 comments:
Good morning!
I usually find Sundays to be a slog, but Pam's offering was fun, and as a bonus, Wite-Out-free. Even this blind squirrel was able to find the acorns. I think "Moving ON" would've been a better title. Thanx for the tour, C.C. (Nice blurb about Fermatprime. And, yes, that Latin phrase does seem backwards.)
ECOLAB: Took me a moment to get this one, but it's the brand of water filter for our fridge. We buy 'em in 3-packs.
A fun puzzle and, like D-O said, not too tough. I think my only W/O was “had up” instead with “saw up,” but that was quickly corrected. FIR, so I’m happy.
“instead of” not “instead with.” Funny, how these little mistakes creep in.
INS shouldn't be clued like that EVER, in my opinion. Maaaaaybe on a Saturday it could fly. Just because IN is part of the title (that doesn't really make sense, as others have said?)
Also, maybe this is just a "me" thing, but I wouldn't clue a normal word (ALL) as a brand in an already brand/name heavy tiny section (LEXUS, BUSCH).
I got 36A and then my first thought for 24A was ACHILLES HEALING! Which fits the clue, but not the ON -> ING pattern. T-SHIRT CANNING was my favorite themer hands down, the base phrase is great, and I love the idea of "preserving" shirts... in cans? I don't like my clothes pickled, thanks.
Goat's fight-or-flight response? - PANIC BUTTING
FIR, but erased orange for CITRUS, guts for GRIT, and blush for RIPEN.
Oh boy, C-Eh got a CSO @ CANADIAN BAKING, but Pam threw it away when she misspeled fibre. UNTIE!
CC - I wish I had thought of "cupping" when I was a teen. On the rare occasion when things got out of control (I was going to write "out of hand", but that wouldn't be accurate) on a date. "Tell your parents that thing on your neck is cupping, and is becoming all the rage."
Thanks to Pam for the fun Sunday escape, and to CC for another excellent tour.
FLN:
Big Easy, kerning drives me crazy too. I have sometimes gone so far as to copy and paste the text into a Word document so I can read it "unkerned." I don't understand why Blogger requires it. Maybe a holdover from when phone and tablet screens were small?
-T, you have been working too hard. Rush is a pretty good band, but c'mon - better than Cream and Derek and the Dominoes, for example? Better ask Pop. (BTW, can you tell us how the bad guys got around MFA, without giving the bad guys any ideas?
Thank you, Pam Klawitter, and thank you, C.C.
A typo stops the streak ! (I had MAO TAI). Oh well. Still super easy. What a week !
Moving In ? Moving On ? Either way works for me. The second word of each two word phrase has an ON spelling that is pronounced like IN. Phonetically, the title can be parsed as if it were Move Ing In.
Also, many speakers drop the G sound when saying ING words, so each of the ING theme answers can sound like IN.
I'll be bakin' bacon for breakfast this mornin', so I gotta scoot.
See all y'all later n'at!
FIR. Found this to be relatively easy for a Sunday. The theme was good, but personally I found too many brand names in the CW, and many in one section, All, Busch, Lexus for example.
Took 11:40 today to move-in.
I think the title is move-"ing" in. As in, you need to move "ing" in the word.
I hated the crossing of Soave and Seng. That "e" was my last fill, and a lucky guess. I also didn't like the French cocktail crossing Fourviere locale. "Wooster" was all perps.
The clue for broom was good.
I don't think Carmelo still plays for the Lakers.
Good Morning:
I solve Sunday puzzles out of habit with not much anticipation of enjoyment and, most Sundays, that’s the case. Not so with Pam’s offerings which I thoroughly enjoy. She has a knack for giving us clever themes but, also, avoiding the usual fill-in the-blank, no-brain-power-necessary fill. There were the usual pesky unknown proper names, e.g., ECOLAB, Sheila, Seng, Omnia, Amir, and India, as clued, but perps were fair, so no complaints from me. I did have a bit of a nose wrinkle at Openest, however, but Welcome Wagging brought a smile. I think my only w/o was Accuses before Alleges. It was fun seeing Tony Curtis because Some Like It Hot was on TMC yesterday afternoon.
Thanks, Pam, for another Sunday satisfying solve and thanks, CC, for the insider’s point of view, as usual. I always enjoy your mouth-watering food photos. As ar as beautiful women, my vote would go to Deborah Kerr, Grace Kelly, and Elizabeth Taylor. And I needn’t say who the most handsome, charming, suave, debonair man is, IMO. 🤭
FLN
Picard, your photos are amazing but the ones like yesterday’s make my stomach do flip flops. To me, those heights are dizzying and terrifying but you both look as though you were totally relaxed. I missed seeing the couple on the bridge until Tony pointed them out and seeing their precarious perch really added to the queasiness. 🫢
Have a great day.
Hola!
Finished this Sunday slog just in time. Thank you Pam and C.C. The solve brought forth some nice memories, reading Cutting for Stone, e.g. It takes place in ADDIS ABABA and is a great story. Also, The Kite Runner boy, AMIR, also a great story. Both were read for our Book Club.
Kir ROYALE recalls wonderful memories of Paris where I first drank it in a restaurant there. MAI TAI was the first drink I had in Hawaii on our first trip there.
When ATARI first came out my daughter wanted it and of course I bought it for her. How I wish we had saved it. As the original, it would be precious now.
I think BITTER LEMMING was my favorite pun though all were clever.
RATSO Rizzo always makes me smile. What a fantastic movie, Midnight Cowboy.
I've never made AIOLI but have encountered it in many puzzles.
Pam gave us many familiar names: PABLO Picasso, SMEE, NADIA, TONY CURTIS. I've never seen The Office but WOOSTER emerged.
Time to go. This was a fabulous puzzle. Again, thank you, Pam and C.C.
Have a sensational Sunday, everyone!
Enjoyed the puzzle but still don't get the title.
If we're moving 'in' then where did the 'g' come from?
And, where did the original 'on' go if we're moving rather than substituting?
Thoroughly enjoyable puzzle, like a Sunday should be, though I might have called it “Moving On”
FIR. WOS, easy and pleasant stroll for a sunny Sunday. No too many proper names, anyway, I knew several. I knew Hang SENG index because I listen to NPR Market report in the morning.
I hate to seem unaware, but I don’t understand T-SHIRT cannon. Like Irish Miss, I didn’t care for OPENEST.
All in all, fun puzzle and I too like CC’s pictures.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder goes the cliché. MM is not my idea of a beautiful woman. When I was a teenager, I thought Kim Novak was so beautiful and I wished I could look like her. I also admired Elizabeth’s Taylor’s looks, and Grace Kelly’s. Why can’t I come with a contemporary beauty? I bet thé guys on this blog can come up with one or more.
I wish everyone a lazy, pleasant Sunday.
Tante Nique, at political and sporting events you'll see T-Shirt Cannons -- compressed air devices that "shoot" scrunched up T-Shirts into the crowd.
As noted in C.C.'s introduction, "IN" is removed and replaced with "ON".
I, too, thought Elizabeth Taylor was the most beautiful woman in the world. I think Halle Berry is a close second.
A nice Sunday treat. Words in the language, fair perps, and old fogie -friendly pop culture. The first Atari game I ever played was Pong at the NCO club in Ft Irwin, CA. In1973. Such a simple concept, and guys lined up ten deep in line to have a shot at it!
Hand up got the ON->ING theme, but didn't quite get how that worked with the title. Hand up not so happy about some of those crosses like SOAVE/SENG and that mess with SHEILA/EMMA/MEANY. Oh, and the other proper name block with NADIA/ADAM/SADE/SMEE/USSMAINE. Pleased to FIR. Clever theme, well constructed.
CC I find many types of women very beautiful. My father adored Marilyn Monroe, but I never really got that. As you might guess, I am partial to Asian women.
From Yesterday and Today:
AnonT and Irish Miss Thank you for taking a peek at my photo of us at the famous Bixby Bridge overlook at BIG SUR. Good eyes to notice those people in a very precarious place, indeed.
Here is a closer shot I took of those precariously perched people on the Bixby Bridge at BIG SUR.
That one guy standing on the edge is outside of my comfort zone. I should note that I did manage to FIR yesterday and agree it was at the limit of my comfort zone. Could have been a DNF. EDEN->ETSY was the big breakthrough. I had A KISS before YEARS. No one else?
Musings
-Brilliant, fun and so clever. Every themer was a hoot but MOUNTAIN LYING, wow!
-Better title: Substituting?
-I looked up DUA’s lyrics. She should cover the Shirelles’, “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?”
-OPENEST is not the BESTEST fill I could imagine but, “any port in a storm”. :-)
-Does anyone remember Marla HOOCH from A League Of Their Own?
-I watched a clip from Jeeves and Wooster
, it is quite high on the “silly scale”!
-El. Ed. teachers are much more likely to use the adjective “naughty”
-SHEILA – I’ll take this one every time!
-A wonderful example of Cockney
-Today I learned about cupping, which the best swimmer of all time Michael Phelps tried. I heard the word quackery associated with it in many places.
-What a great picture and partial BIO of Lorraine!
Hardest part of this puzzle was figuring out the title, I thought i read "move in", but CC says it was "moving in."
(Really should have been "move-ing in.")
Hmm, if you stare at the word "move" long enough, it makes about as much sense as the theme...
Anywho, I powered thru it...
Talking about early Atari games,
right after "pong," I found a driving game at the pinball arcade, that I have been searching the internet for about two years to show you. I found it only today!
(I was beginning to think I imagined it...)
Trivia: did you know that around prohibition, pinball games were outlawed as gambling devices?
Another flight sim game I (dis) remember, was on the Atari 2600, consisting of a square b&w playing field seen from an elevated angle, with sawtooth mountain range rear, with another range intersecting from right, simulating 3D. The biplanes were little cross shapes, and you had dogfights with enemy biplanes across the river (wavy white line) and dropped bombs on their hangers. I cannot find this ancient relic anywhere, does anyone remember it? (Maybe it was and old DOS game on a floppy disk?)
Thank you Pam for the Sunday scroll, which I FIW due to a FTPR. Loved the theme. Very clever.
And thank you C.C. for the colorful and illuminating review.
Some favs:
5A DUA. New crosswordese. I've blogged her twice.
28A FIBER. In a former life I designed F/O networks.
24A ACHILLES TENDING. Fav themer. Got it right away and knew what to look for. I love themes that actually help you solve the puzzle, rather than those that are puzzles in themselves.
64A WOOSTER. I'm a fan of Hugh Laurie (well anything English actually), but did not know Jeeves and Bertie, Jeeves being played by Stephen Fry. (I think they compressed the entire 4 seasons into 6 min. but you'll get the idea in a minute or so.
81A TONY CURTIS. To answer your question C.C. (and Tante Nique) I think it's a toss up between Marilyn and Ana de Armas, who played her in Blonde.
94A MIC. Crosswordese these days, but my Achilles Heel needed TENDING for this one. Had I proofread and corrected ENN to ENC I would have won the war.
119A AIOLI. We use The Stonewall Kitchen's Sriracha Aioli on [almost] everything, but as the price has sky rocketed recently, we're considering making it ourselves, 'frinstance.
5D DIALECT. One of hundreds in the British Isles. We don't watch English shows without subtitles.
Cheers,
Bill
Please explain 64 down. One C for Two Grants?
D-O. Thank you for the T-SHIRT CANNON explanation. What a quaint custom. Obviously I need to get out more, I’m missing out on a lot of fun.😜
Forgotten from the above post...
Cupping?
Since when has fake hickies become a fad?
HG? Cockney?
A blast from the past, anyone remember this game?
ONE C would be a hundred dollars and a Grant is $50 so TWO GRANTS = ONE C, 50+50 = 100
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Also, I wanted to comment on how beautiful Lorraine looks. Wow! Beauty and brains!
Donna, Grant is on the $50 bill. A C-note is $100.
Thanks for your puzzle, Pam, and thanks for your fun write-up, C.C.! I had to do some WAGing but still could not see why ALSORAN was correct until coming to the Corner.
FAV: WELCOME WAGGING
Cupping was (is?) an important practise in China. I was always afraid to try it.
Hitchcock was known for his beautiful women tho usually blondes - Tippi Hendron, Grace Kelly, Kim Novak, Ingrid Bergman. Casted one brunette - Theresa Wright.
FIR today and caught the theme phrase change, although the title was a bit puzzling, I agree. The themers were fun and helpful, Pam. Thanks for a nice Sunday morning exercise which went smoothly as I circled back up to the NW corner.
Thanks for the puzzle review today, C.C. You always add interesting comments and food pictures! I'd vote for Audrey Hepburn as most beautiful. And cupping is not for me!
Enjoy your evening, everyone!
I liked this puzzle. Pam is another master of construction. I smiled big time at WELCOME WAGGING and its clue.
Thank you, it just came to me a couple of minutes ago. Puzzled me for several hours.
Thank you. I finally realized it about 20 minutes ago. It really puzzled me at first.
Sunday Lurk Say...
Thanks for the pic of FermatPrime, C.C.
Jinx - Push-to-auth MFA is vulnerable to "Notification Exhaustion." Push-to-auth is once I enter my UID & PWD, the system sends my phone a prompt to tap the green button or put my thumb on the reader for bio-metric authentication.
If an attacker has my password, he can login over and over until I get so annoyed at my phone, I hit the green-button to make it go away.
Another attack against MFA is to call the target's helpdesk and say you got a new phone. The attacker registers his phone and then every time you try to login the attacker hits the green button for you.
If MFA uses SMS (we don't but your bank probably still does), Stingray (police & .gov) will intercept between the cell and tower. There's also SMS Peeper that will do it on-line. I've not tried the latter so I don't know if it really works.
We still don't know exactly how the attacker bypassed MFA but I did notice a phone registered on a date the target doesn't recall doing the setup. The syslogs are spotty so It's still a mystery.
Back to work. Cheers, -T
Fun Sunday puzzle--many thanks, Pam. And C.C., it's always great to have you do the Sunday commentary with neat pictures and helpful and clever explanations. Thank you so much.
Well, it was really funny to see a clue for the TIMES as a 'common newspaper name' just when you're reading the LOS ANGELES TIMES. Made me laugh. But then a number of the puzzle items had to do with print and seeing and writing, like SERIF and FIBER optics and CORNEA and I PADS and E-MAILS and DIALECT. But we also did get a little bit of food on this Sunday--wish we could all go to that CANADIAN BAKING shop to DINE a bit and order a cake flavored with some CITRUS, and a salad with some AIOLI along with a great drink of MAI TAI. Yep, it all makes for a good Sunday.
Have a great week coming up, everybody.
Does anyone else agree: the "theme" is ABSOLUTELY ASSININE???
GG @8:15 PM That's good right? 👍
Fln, TTP, I didn't recognize RB* exactly but my response and BigE's addressed it. RB is all over the place especially in regard to former events seen by current standards
I always liked Romy Schneider(The Cardinal)
Close to FIW in SW as I was thinking thinking one of the little women was Irma and that thing about I before E never seems to apply*(SHieLA)
Bertie WOOSTER is a PG Wodehouse character with a valet named Jeeves. I don't get "The Office" mention. I see others found some WOOSTER links
Thanks Lucina, that one stumped me, too
Nice to FIR on a Sunday (45 minutes, I timed it)
WC
*Recency Bias
** Except one Saturday when I spelled the river DNEIPER
Three weeks in a row I've spent over twelve hours each Sunday on LAT crosswords puzzles - the same ones I've been solving for over 50 years. I'm the one who never cheats by looking for help in on-line "solver help. I do look up info in reference books but I refuse to use on-line "helpers". I realize that my teaching history in elementary and Middle School and at the College and University levels "doesn't count", but the silliness shown in these puzzles are an affront to my intelligence. Your editors are simply not applying adequate oversight with the definitions. They seem more interested in inserting quirky silliness rather than challenging our word knowledge or our knowledge of history, science, geography ...in.other words, if you don't know silly pop culture, you don't need to even try. But, try I will, though begrudgingly. However, I will continue to freely express my disdain over your obvious disdain for word knowledge.
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