END OW!
A protest against pain or, when parsed properly,73. Furnish with funds, and when parsed differently, a double feature of the answers to 18-, 26-, 41-, 53-, and 65-Across: ENDOW.
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| Anti-Construction protest sign seen on the freeway //I'm down with the struggle ;-) |
18. Symbol on some traffic lights: YELLOW ARROW.
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| There's one of these at an intersection on my way to work |
26. Cheap shot: LOW BLOW.
41. Winter road clearer: SNOW PLOW.
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| Hand up - this has happened to you(?) |
53. Expertise: KNOW HOW.
65. Small cushion: THROW PILLOW.
Across:
1. Radar images: BLIPS.
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| Bogies at 3 o'clock |
6. Just waking up: ASTIR. Just enough to hit snooze.
11. Helpful hints: TIPS. ProTip: don't leave hints in the tip jar.
15. Greek storyteller: AESOP. I loved reading AESOP's fables in 2nd grade.
16. Radiated: SHONE.
17. Radiate: EMIT. Nice clecho.
18. [See: Theme]
20. Practice boxing: SPAR.
21. Business in a dyeing industry?: SALON. Cute.
22. Pasta suffix: INI. Types of Pasta.
23. Sushi fish: TUNA.
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| Ahi (Tuna) Sushi |
24. Country singer Keith: URBAN. Country musician.
26. [See: Theme]
29. Baseball ploy to advance a runner: BUNT.
Sac BUNT in the bottom of the 9th
32. __-Seltzer: ALKA. Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz...
34. Ewes and does: SHES. Not does as in did but female deer - mammals.
They Might Be Giants - Mammals
35. Slim woodwind: OBOE.
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| Oboe |
37. Meals with matzo: SEDERS.
40. Track transaction: BET. Going to the track is something I've never done. There's Sam Houston Race Track just 20 minutes down the road so maybe one day I'll put money down...
41. [See: Theme]
44. Student carrier: BUS. 99 bottle of beer OR The wheels on the BUS go...
45. "Respect" singer Franklin: ARETHA.
Nothing but Respect
47. Boxer Muhammad: ALI.
48. Tim of "Making the Cut": GUNN. An American author, academic, and television personality. He served on the faculty of Parsons School of Design from 1982 to 2007 and was chair of fashion design at the school from August 2000 to March 2007, after which he joined Liz Claiborne as its chief creative officer. [WikiP]
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| Tim Gunn |
49. "Easier said __ done": THAN. Saturday grids, amirite?
50. Dining review site: YELP.
52. Marbled loaves: RYES.
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| I prefer seeded for ham & Swiss |
53. [See: Theme]
56. Bucket O Soldiers leader in "Toy Story": SARGE.
Toy Story scene with Sarge
58. Civil rights icon Parks: ROSA. We know where SHE sat on the BUS.
59. Appropriate: APT.
61. Horror film loc.: ELM ST. Gives one Nightmares. Fortunately, I live on Oak Lane.
64. __ error: USER. PEBKAC - Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair.
65. [See: Theme]
68. Go from solid to liquid: MELT. Think ice.
69. "This Is Us" star Mandy: MOORE.
70. Intake guidelines: DIETS. "Diet is die with a T" -Garfield (the cat and maybe the President(?))
71. Files that can be e-signed: PDFS. Portable Document FormatS.
72. Cleaning powder brand: COMET.
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| Good for cleaning the tub. |
73. [See: Theme]
Down:
1. Boston's Back __: BAY. An area in Boston known for for its rows of Victorian Brownstone homes—considered one of the best-preserved examples of 19th-century urban design in the United States—as well as numerous architecturally significant individual buildings, and cultural institutions such as the Boston Public Library.
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| Nice |
2. Denim brand: LEES. Silly me entered Levi.
3. Cozumel, por ejemplo: ISLA. Spanish.
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| Cozumel is there |
4. Contaminate: POLLUTE. Give a Hoot
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| Woodsy Owl |
5. Animal trail: SPOOR. n The track or scent of an animal. v follow the track or scent of an animal or person.
6. Butterfield of "Sex Education": ASA. Nothing to do with a book from Sexual Revolution era but a show on Netflix.
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| Asa Butterfield |
7. Draw back in fear: SHRINK AWAY.
8. Having trouble deciding: TORN.
9. How artichoke hearts may be packed: IN OIL.
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| These are good |
10. Opposite of FF: REW. Fast Forward; REWind.
11. Platform for software trial runs: TESTBED. I call a computer box. pl. Boxen. So, I entered TEST Box.
12. Many a checkout line purchase: IMPULSE BUY. I treat myself with a snack-bag of Doritos after grocery shopping.
13. Upright __: PIANO. As opposed to a Grand one. A neighbor gave Eldest an upright - we moved it ourselves...
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| Me acting normal when cars approached |
14. Target of some plastic bans: STRAW. Anyone use the paper straws? They're OK if you sip quickly.
19. Minnesota Lynx org.: WNBA.
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| Their Logo |
25. Midrange voice: ALTO. Eldest is a soprano.
27. __ buco: OSSO.
28. "Just made it!": WHEW. As you wipe your brow.
29. Tea with tapioca: BOBA. First time I had it, I didn't realize the little tapioca balls would come up the straw - nearly choked on 'em, I did.
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| Boba Tea |
30. Ridesharing app: UBER. I prefer Lyft.
31. Personal reminder: NOTE TO SELF.
33. Genius Bar locale: APPLE STORE. 1) Make an appointment before you go. 2) How it Works
38. Mystical old letter: RUNE.
39. Tax form IDs: SSNS. Social Security NumberS.
41. Former Iranian ruler: SHAH.
42. Wee iPod: NANO.
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| Apple Nano |
43. "Zorba the Greek" actress Kedrova: LILA. Yelizaveta Nikolaevna Kedrova, known as Lila Kedrova, was a Russian-born French actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Zorba the Greek, and the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for the same role in the musical version of the film. [WikiP]
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| LILA Kedrova |
46. Foils: THWARTS. Those meddling kids and their dog in the Mystery Machine would THWART evil plans.
48. Creature in a 1984 horror film: GREMLIN.
Mogwais turn nasty when eating after midnight
[Time Zones were never explained - midnight in China or Kingston Falls, PA?]
51. Meal __: PREP. What the sous-chef does.
53. Dance style featuring stomps and chest pops: KRUMP. Krumping is a style of street dance popularized in the United States, characterized by free, expressive, exaggerated, and highly energetic movement. Dancers who started krumping saw the dance as a means for them to escape gang life and "to express raw emotions in a powerful but non-violent way." [WikiP]
54. Pried (into): NOSED. MYOB //Mind Your Own Business
55. Celebratory cry: WAHOO. Woot! kin.
57. Fly without effort: GLIDE.
60. Year-end dance: PROM. Not New Years but school's year.
62. Toboggan, e.g.: SLED.
63. Dog in Oz: TOTO. Dog from Kansas - not part of Scooby's gang.
65. SHO subsidiary: TMC. Showtime; The Movie Channel.
66. Like a fresh coat of paint: WET.
67. ENE's opposite: WSW. Right and up v. left and down on a map.
The Grid:
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| The Grid |
That was a fun Tuesday-worthy puzzle. Thanks Katie & Brian.
WOs: Levi->LEES, TEST Box -> BED
ESPs: SPOOR, ASA, LILA, GUNN, KRUMP, MOORE
Fav: Looking up all the stuff I really didn't know and sharing with y'all. 21a was cute too.
Don't forget to beware tomorrow.
Cheers, -T
Glad to see that I wasn't the only one who started with LEVI (which is actually LEVI'S)... which works with the gimme AESOP, too. After a slow NW (for a Tuesday) everything went smoothly. Favorite entries: LOW BLOW, KNOW HOW, THROW PILLOW, NOTE TO SELF, and IMPULSE BUY.
ReplyDeleteThe correct brand name is LEE not LEEs
DeleteGood morning!
ReplyDeleteFor once d-o didn't fail to read the end of the reveal clue. Nope. He failed to read the entire clue, because ENDOW was already filled in. Still, he sensed the theme, and that should count for something. Right? A WAG changed my LILI to LILA (SIRGE/SARGE). This one came in well under 10 minutes, and the Wite-Out got a well-needed rest. (It's easy to change I to A without Wite-Out.) Thanx, Katie, Brian, and Dash-T. Well done, all around.
Other than confusing the channel “TLC” with the channel “TMC” I didn’t have too much trouble with this puzzle. FIR, so I’m happy.
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ReplyDeleteThank you, Katie Hale & Brian Callahan, and thank you, Anonymous T
It wasn't difficult to pick up on the repeating OW. I was beginning to wonder if there was a reveal or what it might be and then BAM!, there it was. Perfectly placed at the END. Nice. Fun puzzle, with a good early week test of broad-based knowledge, and a couple of new things/names thrown in to add to the pleasure.
Funny "Saturday grids, amirite?" comment, but my mind went elsewhere (see link below). PEBKAC also made me laugh. Never heard of KRUMP(ing).
"Go from solid to liquid: MELT. Think ice." - I was just reading about the metal cesium. It melts at 83.3F, and it can spontaneously ignite in air. It's explosive when in contact with water. It has only one stable isotope out of the forty that are known, and that one stable isotope (133) is used for the SI unit measurement of time (the Second). Who knew ? Not me. I had no interest in chemistry.
The "Tip Jar" cartoon commentary made me reflect back to a few years ago at the beginning of the pandemic. My breakfast bill game to a grand total of just over $10. I handed my server a $20, and she asked if I wanted any change back. I guess I looked like a fatherly figure to her. :>)
TEST BED - I wanted sandbox for software beta testing, but the clue was software trial runs. My niece-in-law used to work in the human factors research department of a large software developer. They would use cameras from multiple angles to monitor user interactions with application software. I'll bet that she had to discount the PEBKAC factors when assessing software trials :>)
Easier Said Than Done - The Essex (1963) I knew the song, but did not know they were active duty members of the US Marines when they recorded it.
Nice job on the review, Dash T.
FIW. Put down TLC for the movie channel and didn't catch the error for Mandy Moore. Had I noticed I would have seen Loore made no sense. Never heard of krump, but perps saw me through. Got the theme early.
ReplyDeleteFIR without erasure. Even when Rich was at the helm, I always thought the average Tuesday was easier than the average Monday. That tradition continues.
ReplyDeleteWay back when I was in love with MLB, teams would often put their fastest player in the leadoff spot. If the third baseman played deep, the leadoff hitter would often bunt for a base hit. Even if he missed or fouled the pitch off, it would draw the third baseman in even with the bag, making it easier to hit the ball by the fielder. Best was to get a bunt single, steal second, sac bunt to third, then score on a sac fly.
USER error? We used to say "There's a nut loose behind the keyboard."
Telco switch manufacturers had lab switches they called TEST BEDs. They could simulate normal USER traffic, and observe how the switch would react when vastly overloaded (where I worked that was most likely to happen right after an earthquake.)
"THROW" PILLOW? I call them "company's comin'" PILLOW. Every day DW must pile on an additional 5 pillows (for a total of nine) on the freshly-made bed. Every night I have to pile up the extras along the wall to make room for us.
The real horror GREMLIN was made by AMC. GTE bought a bunch of them because they were cheap and gas-efficient. After a year or so they couldn't get up the ramps in our underground garage (in the Lawrence Welk building in Santa Monica) until the engine had warmed up. So we let them idle in our under-ventilated parking spot, as if SoCal air wasn't unhealthy enough to breathe.
Thanks to -T for the fine, interesting tour.
Took 6:38 today for the dog to say bow wow.
ReplyDelete[Yeah, that's a bad one alright.]
A new streak is started: didn't know today's actress (Lila).
Not only didn't I know "spoor", but I resisted it too. Testbed seems odd - haven't heard that before.
Seemed like a Thursday level puzzle to me.
Any comment I thought of making has already been made. Thanx KH&BC for the CW challenge. Thanx Anon-T for the write-up.
ReplyDeleteAnother easy Tuesday. Difficulty level was switched with Monday sometime during Mt 10 year stint at CC
ReplyDeleteAnon-T has a nice write-up (I forgot yesterday's heads up
I lived on Newbury St in Boston's Back Bay in 67 while teaching* . The area was filled in during late 19th century
WC
* Frawnche if you can believe it
Lived on Mt. Vernon St across from Louisburg Square in 1962.
DeleteTed Kennedy lived there with his first wife.
DeleteThank you Katie and Brian. My first FIR fer the week. Albeit a bit crunchy, this one didn't cause too many OWies.
ReplyDeleteLoved your review Tony. Makes me wish we had an eight day week.
18A YELLOW ARROW. Not seen around the Chesapeake Bay. But does Texas have Jug Handles? The state's probably not congested enough, YET.
23A TUNA. Uh, that's salmon Tony.
34A SHES. Great video. I just emailed a copy to my son. Next to youngest grandson, is really into animals, particularly mammals. Do you watch Wild Kratts?
35A OBOE. Listen for a slimmer one in a week or so.
41A SNOW PLOW. 🤚
37A SEDERS. Our Jewish friends will be partaking in about 3 weeks.
53A KNOW HOW. The collective expertise of this community is amazing.
64A USER. Call the Electrify Keyboard intrinsic.
11A TEST BED. We used to call it a SANDBOX. The Corner is a "sandbox" for cruciverbalists.
Cheers,
Bill
FLN: Sandy @8:39 PM Please stay. I can see where inconsistent use of the term could be confusing. I plan to qualify my usage with the word "personal" from here on out and I think we seem to be seeing more and more crossings of pop culture P&P with a very limited fan base that could be termed true NATICKS.
Today's puzzle was a good Tuesday one. Thanks, Katie and Brian. FIR with only a couple of missteps. YAHOO/WAHOO (Don't we say woohoo on the blog?) and Althea/ARETHA (Where did that come from? Brain blip!) Surprising number of themers. Good work!
ReplyDeleteAnonT, you warned us you would be on the job today so no surprise there. As expected, you explained and illustrated the puzzle well in your review. Thanks! Sounds like you're safer snacking on Doritos than BOBA tea. Just saying....
We have SNOWPLOWS here but they are seldom used. Hope you all have a great day!
A little crunchy for a Tuesday puzzle, as I'd never seen any of those shows (plus TMC). GUNN, SARGE, MOORE, ASA, and LILA were filled by perps. KRUMP- never heard of it.
ReplyDeleteAs for END OW, it was 10 long 'O' and 2 'OW' sounds.
With LE in place LEVI was a natural fill. Oops, it was LEES.
TESTBED- Haven't previously heard that term used for testing software, just BETA version.
IMPULSE BUY on the checkout line? I know the mfgs. pay extra for placement and I don't do it. Big profit margin for them in that area.
IN OIL- I get artichokes in WATER.
Opposite of FF (fortissimo) I started with pp for pianissimo until I realized it wasn't about music but for REWind. My PIANO is a SPINET, shorter than an upright.
APPLE STORE- APPL is worth trillions because those who work at a 'Genius Bar' are not that smart and don't get paid that much. If they really knew anything about computers they would be making the big bucks working somewhere else like our own reviewer ANON T.
Musings
ReplyDelete-Lincoln and Omaha now have blinking left turn YELLOW ARROWS. “You’re on your own!!”
-Radar was brand new and those two guys at Opana Point did not know what those BLIPS were on 12/7/41
-I gave a girl at the KFC drive-thru at $2 TIP last night and she was taken aback
-You are not allowed to BUNT in slow-pitch softball
-A girl where I sub totaled her car by running into the back of a BUS and walked away from it.
-MELT – Ice skating season on lakes here is over
-I record old Law And Order episodes on Sundance TV. It takes 16 seconds to FF through the commercials.
-WHEW is the comment you get when you solve a Wordle on your last attempt
-Andy Taylor dated Opie’s teacher Helen CRUMP (var.) in Mayberry
-Wahoo is halfway between here and Lincoln
-Nice job, Tony.
-We hope to hear from you again, Sandyanon!
Anon T, good job. Saw the OWs. Needed the reveal to parse the theme.
ReplyDeleteI though TEST BED must be wrong, but it fit and I left it in. Learning moment.
Miss KRUMP was the Opie's teacher on Andy Griffith. Never heard it use for dancing.
Jinx, maybe that's why we call them throw pillows. LOL. I like my throw pillows on the couch because I am short. I put one behind me so that my feet reach the floor.
The artichoke/crab dip I made for the dance last night was scarfed right up to the last smidgen.
I can sympathize. I lived on a corner and every time a plow passed on either street the bottom of my driveway was covered with heavy snow clods for two or three feet.
Wasseley, that's the way I use Natick, my personal Natick, often with two names I do not know.
Jinx, I, too, thought of the AMC Gremlin, which was appropriately named.It must have had a gremlin inside.
The snOWplOWs have been working overtime here in the mountains but today appears to be a day with at least some sunshine.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the great recap -T.
Happy Pi day, everyone.
Neat puzzle. A little crunchy, but FIR. I was hoping for a MELLOW YELLOW, that 60s Donovan song. I always liked that phrase. The various ending OWs were not all pronounced alike.
ReplyDeleteA-T. Fun recap, especially that SNOW PLOW cartoon. Emblematic of how government works.
Jug handles??? Waseely, I hope I never encounter one of those. I got a headache reading about them.
OW! OW! 🥺... stop, that hurts... OK, now let's talk about the puzzle, actually easier than yesterday.
ReplyDeleteKRUMP? The CW computer musta dug deep into its database for that one.
"Siri/Alexa, what's a clue for an answer that's spelt K-R-U-M-P?"
Inkovers: impulsive/IMPULSERBUY, slink/SHRINKAWAY (in both cases impulsive fill without first checking letter count 🙄), plan/PREP,
FF: fortissimo? 🎼🎵.. (Opposite would be PP, pianissimo) still WW (very wrong)
Tim, Peter GUNN'S grandson? 😄 (who can forget that great theme)
Former Secretary of State & breadmaker, Condoleezza....RYES
Not in any sense what ever....KNOWHOW
Try-out model in a mattress store...TESTBED
DC comics Oliver Queen's chicken cousin: YELLOW ARROW
Went from ....
My cousin's front yard in Phoenix (Peoria) last Friday
To
My front yard right now
And it's still comin' down 🌨
Well,
ReplyDeleteThis puzzle hurt my brain. Not by doing it, but researching all the silly link possibilities!
Um, For instance...
And, I am still trying to puzzle this one out...
A quick FIR today. Almost didn't need the downs. KRUMP was ESP. LYNX hmmm...not NHL, MLB, NBA, or NFL...aha! Gotta be WNBA! Jinx-nobody plays small ball anymore. It's swing for the fences or strike out. WAHOO could been clued as "famous WWII submarine".
ReplyDeleteGood Morning:
ReplyDeleteLate posting due to several hours power outage, but very happy it wasn’t any longer. My first thought seeing the double OWs was a reveal referring to OWIES, as in the oft-seen child’s injury. Oh well, yesterday’s misread Pretzels became today’s miscue, Owie! Clever use of the reveal word, Endow and End Ow. Test Bed and Krump were unknown but no w/os. Some lively fill and a modest number, 12, of three letter words added to the enjoyment of the solve.
Thanks, Katie and Brian, for Tuesday treat and thanks, Anon T, for a healthy dose of facts and fun. Loved the Mammal video, especially the cute, live Koala ala Subgenius’s avatar. My text-scam saga continues: yesterday, a notice that my Venmo account is locked (I don’t have a Venmo account) and then a call from Shanghai (I don’t speak Chinese).
Have a great day.
BE @ 9:36 AM A TEST BED (aka SANDBOX) is a separate computer environment set aside for BETA testing.
ReplyDeleteCE @10:25 AM Sounds more like a Hooters sign.
Ray-O @10:21. Beautiful as your front yard looks, I’d rather be at your cousin’s which is also beautiful, and sunny and warm looking.
ReplyDeleteTerrific Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, Katie and Brian, and AnonT (PEBKAC is hilarious).
ReplyDeleteI had a sea of white in the NE to start with only AESOP and an ISLA in the water. But things improved and I FURed and saw the END OW theme.
Perps were friendly for KRUMP, GREMLIN, GUNN, MOORE, TESTBED.
Hand up for Levi before LEES. I had. Meal Plan before PREP.
REW was all perps and then there was the Aha moment.
I am not familiar with those YELLOW ARRIWs here.
WAHOO, not Woohoo for Misty.
FLN- yes Sandy, I call them personal Naticks, sometimes caused by Canadian disadvantage for me.
Wishing you all a great day.
Greetings! I liked today's puzzle with the right mix of new words, WAGs and a Natick. Thanks, Katie & Brian.
ReplyDeleteI, too, fell for LEvi -> LEES.
What I know of Boston's Back BAY is from reading Robert B. Parker's Spenser. Great fiction!
My Natick was LILi -> LILA and SiRGE -> SARGE. Both unknown.
My new word is SPOOR. Will try to remember it.
FF/REW took me back to our first Mitsubishi VCR in the early '80s. We loved the convenience of it, and eventually went from there to TiVo. Never got into DVRs. Too clumsy and restrictive.
Thanks, Anon-T for a fun recap. Loved the Mammals clip.
Ach! I can’t type on my phone!
ReplyDeleteI didn’t create a new blog abbreviation- it’s FIRed. Delete the period before meal Plan. And those are ARROWS.
NOTE TO SELF- review before posting!
Hola!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Brian, Katie and Tony! Nice job all around.
The different sounds of OW present a nightmare for foreign students of English.
I was genuinely surprised when we passed the town of NATICK in Mass.
IMPULSE BUY: I am often guilty of that.
I've never heard of KRUMP as a dance style and in fact, the word is unfamiliar to me.
Hand up for LEVI before LEES of which I have many. Just this past Sunday I bought some new LEE shorts and it will soon be time to wear them. Yes, it was an IMPULSE BUY but here in the desert one cannot have too many shorts. I wear them from April until October.
In Denver our convent was located on ELM STREET.
I often write a NOTE TO SELF but then forget to read it.
Have a terrific Tuesday, everyone!
ReplyDeleteYesterday, Yuman mentioned the dwindling water supply, and last night the PBS News Hour had a segment with a bit about Yuma and what is happening there, and on a rural town in Arizona that is running dry. The mayor of Scottsdale was interviewed about making the tough decision to quit supplying water to remote towns and developments that have already begun to run dry. Sad.
So this morning I've been reading various assessments on whether the "atmospheric river" will have any substantial effect on Lake Mead, Lake Powell and the larger Colorado River basin. Apparently not as much as would be hoped for.
Pie in the sky, it's too bad that all of that rain in California can't be somehow collected and diverted into Nevada and Arizona, instead of just being drained back out to the Pacific. Obviously the elevations and mountains are keeping the rain mostly to their west, and they would be a major obstacle in getting water to Nevada and Arizona, but the straight line distances at various points would be less distance than the length of the Erie Canal.
ReplyDeleteRay-O, quite the change of scenery! Were there flushing restrictions or guidelines there ? The water conservation reminder rhyme I read somewhere was, "If it's pee, let it be. If it's brown, flush it down." I was in Tucson years ago, and even then they had signs in the hotel rooms about voluntarily forgoing the daily sheets and towel swaps to help conserve water. Yet the golf courses were being kept green.
I think I read/heard that Central NY is also above average in snowfall this season. The official measurement location for Chicago metro is at O'Hare, and there we are about 50% of what we normally would have by now.
Bill, sometimes it is funny how we use the same terms to mean highly specific things. So when I speak or write of a sandbox, I mean this:Sandbox: Software Development.
Whereas Dash T probably uses the term sandbox in this sense:Sandbox: Computer Security
I mainly know the term TEST BED in the horticultural sense.
Time for me to get productive. See all y'all later n'at !
TTP, stay with the theme. "If it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown put it down" FOUR OWs.
DeleteNeat puzzle, many thanks, Katie and Brian. And always enjoy your commentary, Anon T, thanks for that too.
ReplyDeleteNot much of a WAHOO (Hi, CE!) for me this morning, until I heard that PIANO and that OBOE and that lovely song from ARETHA to cheer me up. Always start looking for DIETS in these puzzles and was happy to find some TUNA (not IN OIL, I hope) to go with some RYE bread. Never tried a BOBA tea with a STRAW, but that might make a better drink than water from the TAP. In any case, don't think I'll need any ALKA-Seltzer today. Think I'll go back to my THROW PILLOW, and take a little nap.
Have a fun day, everybody.
Correction: Should have keyed DVD, not DVR. My DVR is TiVo.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Tx, MalMan, for the Pi greeting. A good reason to celebrate! Make mine cherry or blueberry ;-)
ReplyDeleteWhen I get a 6 it’s a “PHEW” not a “WHEW”….didn’t know it varied.
TTP@ 12:20 PM
ReplyDeleteOur conferences are usually held at uppity venues (like this one at the Waldorf Phoenix Biltmore) a place I would never otherwise consider staying except for the special conference room rate. There was no suggestion to limit laundry to "save water" (which IMO is just a ploy for the hotel to save money) or "flushing" recommendations. The grounds were filled with water avid plants and flowers and green lawns. If that part of the country is worried about drought why the unbridled construction everywhere?
Create water pipelines to distribute from areas with too much to areas in need?
The Romans had this all figured out with aqueducts, reservoir cisterns, siphons etc..
Our average total seasonal snowfall is 95
inches..not counting today, we are at 90.
A Hale/Callahan construction, pitched by Anonymous T...
ReplyDeleteTougher than expected for a Tuesday, replete with Naticks (the personal [& maybe a cuppla impersonal] kind).
1A was a reminder of a former sweet Yorkie that my wife named "Radar" because of her alert ears, and that I nicknamed BLIP on account of her size.
ALI was ranked by many leaders in other sports as the one true G.O.A.T. of the last century. A great many champions--GOATs in their respective fields--were willing to defer to him.
Our president has a bust of ROSA Parks in the Oval Office.
~ OMK
____________
DR: Another asymmetrical grid. 16-A x 15-D.
When major floods occur in the Midwest I often wonder if there could be a way to divert that water westward. Yes, it would be a great expense but wouldn't it be worth it especially if it were to alleviate the damage caused by those floods?
ReplyDeleteHappy Pi Day!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed this puzzle with its fair perps, solid reveal, and interesting long fills. FAVs: NOTE TO SELF, THWARTS, IMPULSE BUY, TIM GUNN (redefined "dressed to a T").
Speaking of "T", terrific recap, -T! FAVS: TMBG video & SARGE scene.
See you all tomorrOW!
Hi Y'all! Really wowed by this puzzle, thanks, Katie & Brian! Few clues were OWIEs as others have noted, but overall fun. And AnonT is always more fun. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe that I know KRUMP when no one else seems to. I learned it watching "So You Think You Can Dance". Some of the moves those guys make seem impossible with a normal human body. Definitely impossible with mine. I think "Twitch" (Ellen Degeneres' sidekick) who recently died did KRUMP.
Grocery delivery day today. Now am taking iron supplement. Also took 4 hour nap after putting everything away.
Hi All!
ReplyDeleteGlad y'all enjoyed PEBKAC; I guess "End Construction" as a protest sign fell flat.
RosE - you corrected TiVo ≠ DVR statement. My buddy was a developer at TiVo and he'd argue it was the first and Scientific Atlanta stole their ideas.
//Buddy helped design and code the interface.
TTP - Yes, a sandbox (cybersecurity) is what we use everyday to analyze potential malware / evil websites. It's a specialized Virtual Machine (VM) that spins-up, detonates the (maybe) badness and does a play-book of analysis. We use a cloud-based provider 'cuz the old-school way (rolling/maintaining your own) is a 1/2FTE (Full Time Equivalent) and CyberSec folks are NOT cheap.
Fun stuff CED! I got my laugh for the day. I got extra giggles visiting Larson's Far Side site.
Water pipelines: I used to think, "Why not?, we have oil pipelines." Then I thought about the economics of it and we pay pennies a gallon for water and $4/gal for petrol.
Unless this is national public-works project (tax everyone), the economics don't work out for someone ($2/gal for water?). And I doubt congress would vote for that project rolling out the slogan "Well, don't live in a desert."
//BTW, I'd be for it - if we could have gotten Harvey's water pumped to AZ & Nevada instead of sitting in my front yard for for three days... :-)
Cheers, -T
is any of this true?
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ReplyDeleteWaseeley: You got me, that is salmon. I saw the image and thought fatty tuna (toh-roh - but that's not a xword regular so I went w/ Ahi). You got me warts and all :-)
sumdaze? Another TMBG fan? My first album was Flood, but I quickly went back in time and got everything they had. John & John are brilliantly funny.
Cheers, -T