Saturday, April 1, 2023 by Annemarie Brethauer & Katie Hale
Annemarie worked for twenty years at a local government access channel as a writer/director/producer and was also used to being strictly behind the camera (Documentaries like "Know Your Zoning Code."). She is now retired and freelancing as a puzzle creator.
Katie Hale, originally from Houston, is now a stay-at-home mom in London and Patti's assistant editor for the LA Times puzzles. We have seen her in a collaborative role quite often.
Hey, you're shoe is united! 😙
1. In stitches?: CLAD - SEWN was a perfect wrong start.
5. Luxury purse trade-in app: REBAG - 26. Mail order?: FREE SHIPPING. They do offer FREE SHIPPING on any bag over $500. 😉
10. Cut that may need stitches: GASH.
14. Tops: A-ONE.
15. 19-Down flavor: ANISE and 19. Pastis drink: PERNOD - Pernod is an anise-flavored liqueur from France that is lightly sweetened. New to this solver but it went quietly.
14. Tops: A-ONE.
15. 19-Down flavor: ANISE and 19. Pastis drink: PERNOD - Pernod is an anise-flavored liqueur from France that is lightly sweetened. New to this solver but it went quietly.
16. Just made: EKED.
17. "You're rambling": STICK TO THE POINT.
20. Hard wear?: ARMOR.
21. Congratulatory cry: MAZELTOV.
22. Wikipedia battle: EDIT WAR - An EDIT WAR occurs when editors who disagree about the content of a page repeatedly override each other's contributions.
25. Some zoo ballyhoo: ROARS.
29. Florida team: RAYS.
30. Montgomery of jazz: WES.
31. Vehicle for kids: TOY CAR.
35. "Hail, Caesar": AVE.
36. Bar: BAN.
37. Boater, for one: LID - Yeah, I was the only one who put "hat"
38. "So that's your game!": OHO - Be on the lookout today!
42. Degrees from Duke's Fuqua Sch., e.g.: MBAS.
43. Halfway decent: NOT TOO SHABBY.
46. Petit déjeuner time: MATIN - My granddaughter loves to use her French degree and told me, "Petit dejeuner" is another word for breakfast (small meal) and MATIN is morning,
49. Some cricket dismissals: RUN OUTS - I don't know anyone who speaks "cricket" but here is what I found: Each batter is out by a “run out” if, while the ball is in play, his wicket is broken while he is out of his ground (that is, he does not have at least his bat in the crease). 😳
50. Impressive structures: EDIFICES.
52. Inventive types?: LIARS.
55. Doodad: WHATCHAMACALLIT - It always seems to be buried in a junk drawer
58. Only: LONE.
59. Pitfall! platform: ATARI - A 1982 video game
60. See: DATE - My 80-yr-old golf partner has been "seeing" a lovely woman for three years now
61. "The Lion King" voice role for Chiwetel Ejiofor: SCAR.
62. Goes together: SYNCS.
63. "The Orphan Master's Son" Pulitzer winner Johnson: ADAM.
Down:
1. Spanish address: CASA - Mi CASA esta en Fremont, Nebraska (My house is in Fremont, NEBRASKA) and 12. Spanish address: SENOR.
2. Middle-earth trilogy, to fans: LOTR.
4. Solves, as a cryptogram: DECODES.
5. __ race: RAT.
6. "Ambient 1: Music for Airports" artist: ENO.
7. GIF alternatives: BITMAPS - I have fond memories of my old BITMAP games
8. Part of the B major scale: A-SHARP.
10. Stratigraphy discipline: GEOLOGY - Layers
11. Japanese breed: AKITA.
13. Sharp objects?: HDTVS.
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| 65" Sharp Aquos HDTV |
18. Aquino known as the Philippine "Queen of All Media": KRIS - April Fool! She's still alive.
23. Frustrate: THWART.
24. Capital of Österreich: WIEN - Easy enough for even me to figure out this is Vienna, Austria
27. Wild party: RAVE.
28. Overly correct "You are correct": IT IS SO - Uh, yes or no would have been enough for me, pal.
32. Greens dish named for the owner of the Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant: COBB SALAD.
33. Quaker captain of literature: AHAB - Gregory Peck as AHAB in a Quaker hat.
34. Flushed: ROSY.
36. Like classic TV's Jaime Sommers: BIONIC.
37. "Coming Home" singer Bridges: LEON.
40. Pear-shaped glass: SNIFTER.
41. "A Shropshire Lad" poet: HOUSMAN.
42. Title role for child star Mara Wilson: MATILDA.
44. Compact: TREATY.
45. Dance style for Moana: HULA and 48. "The Princess and the Frog" princess: TIANA - Here they are side-by-side
46. Whimpers: MEWLS.
47. Specialized, in a way: AD HOC - Latin "For This". I swear to you my school once appointed an AD HOC committee to discuss gum-chewing.
51. Chuck alternative: CHAS.
53. Actress Hayworth: RITA.
56. Story __: ARC.
57. Gender prefix: CIS - It's only recently that I discovered this was my gender prefix.
57. Gender prefix: CIS - It's only recently that I discovered this was my gender prefix.
44 comments:
Rabbit rabbit.
STICK TO THE POINT of your presentation
To get NOT TOO SHABBY approbation.
A ROSY reception
May be a reflection
Of success at -- WHATCHAMACALLIT? -- education!
Inigo Jones, the architect,
Designed structures, way perfect!
Impressive churches
For London worships.
Made an EDIFICE complex!
{B+, B+.}
Hi Y'all! Groan! I don't live in these constructors' world. Filled it but with many red-letters flashing especially on the top half. The long phrases came fairly easily, but not much else. Almost nothing went in and turned black on the first try. Made me feel like a real April Fool. Oh well!
Thank you, Gary! Such dedication is much appreciated.
Good morning!
Yup, SEWN went in at 1a...then came out. (Have I ever mentioned...?) Fell into that HAT/LID trap, too. It took alphabet runs to give me LEON, HOUSMAN, and RUNOUTS in Tennessee, but d-o got 'er done. Yay. Thanx, Annemarie, Katie, and Husker. [I never would've guessed you were gender conflicted. :)]
I can echo D-O for falling in the “sewn” and “hat/lid” traps at first. Also “Sharp object” took me a long time to suss but I finally got it (clever misdirection !) Anyway, I eventually managed to FIR, so I’m happy.
DNF, as Saturday usual. Hand up for erasing sewn, but wasn't smart enough to eat my hat. Couldn't believe that I pulled COBB SALAD out of the ether, but Jamie Summers is etched into my brain. EDIFICES was easy, because I spent some time in Edificio CANTV, the tall building housing the offices of the Venezuela phone company.
Filled 32 of 'em, 29 correctly. In addition to hat, I missed men.
On to Sunday!
Good Morning:
I struggled mightily under the weight of so many unknowns: REBAG, Edit War, Run Outs, Adam, Anime Eyes, Kris, Leon, Wien, Tiana, and Bit Maps. But, slowly but surely, a little chip here and another there, and I was almost to the finish line. However, it took awhile to crack open that NW corner. I didn’t fall into the Sewn or Hat trap, but I did go astray at Aha/Oho, Men/Hes, and Sole/Lone. Despite these obstacles, I still finished w/o help in 25:40 which was a satisfying Saturday time. Props to the authors for some very lively fill and the scant number (10) of three letter words.
Thanks, Annemarie and Katie, for a very challenging but ultimately doable Saturday and thanks, HG, for adding another layer of enjoyment with your cheerful commentary and colorful visuals.
Have a great day.
FIR, but it was a struggle for sure. Lots of proper names I didn't know, and phrases I'd never heard of.
The cricket explanation, by the way, leaves me as much in the dark as I was before. I suppose baseball must confuse the British the same way.
Wow, I am feeling pretty smug to struggle through this puzzle today and FIR without help! It was daunting and slow at first for sure. Thanks Annemarie and Katie for a brain teaser.
Just like other early birds, I put hat/LID and considered sewn but waited for perps for a change. I did try baWLS/MEWLS and aHa/OHO. HES was almost a Natick for me since I didn't know LEON and HOUSMAN was slow to come to mind. But all's well. Thanks Husker Gary for your extra helpful review today.
Hope everyone has a good day and isn't an April Fool!
Good Morning! Truly Saturday-worthy puzzle. Thanks Annemarie and Katie.
I had a few WAGs and a few look-ups. The South came together quicker than the top.
UNK foreign words: WIEN and MATIN
UNK names: HOUSMAN, LEON, KRIS, WES, ADAM, MATILDA and TIANA, or I could simplify and say all of them….
Thanks, Husker Gary, for clearing the fog, well, except for RUNOUTS… still have no idea what you said. 🤣.
Third time's the charm...lol
From a sea of white to just a hole in the middle: Bridges, chaps, cricket, and the "Shropshire lad" finally kinda perped each other for a last minute Saturn's Day finish. 😅
Never hoid of an EDIT WAR or ANIME EYES. Like DO, Satuday puzzles are alphabet-run day.
Inkovers: sole/LONE, hands up for sewn/CLAD, Not sure how CLAD relates to "in stitches"
(thought maybe a laughter thing?). During training I worked with an always "spiffley" dressed surgeon named Caldwell. We called him Dr. Clad-well. ☺
Figured it hadda be REBAG for "purse"
Gary, who sent you that picture of one of my many junk drawers?..😄
When we were first married we took a train thru the incredible alpine Brenner (Brennero) Pass from Italy to Austria and spent a few days in Vienna. On the way back DW asked me what all the WIEN signs meant.
Fr: "jeûner" is to fast, "déjeûner": break the fast voilà : "breakfast"
More insanity and a week before Easter, Hope this turns out to be an April Fools joke
😲
What a deliciously difficult CW that I FR. I must have been in the right mood or wave length but I was able to guess at the many unknowns successfully.
I too started with sewn. Then how to spell WATCHAMACALLIT.
Pastis is a wonderful summer drink. When my father came from work on warm days, he would fix himself a little pastis over ice.
I was so pleased to see wonderful ADAM Johnson’s name in this puzzle.. Adam got his MFA in creative writing degree from McNeese State university where I taught for 40 years and I had the pleasure to have Adam in three of my graduate classes. He now teaches at Stanford and writes great novels and short stories. I highly recommend “The Orphan Master’s Son”. It’s a difficult novel, but worth the effort.
Happy April fool day.
Wow....tough Saturday, but somehow managed not to get fooled. Had to walk away a couple of times and reprogram my brain. Had HAT/CAP/TAM before LID. Do French crosswords depend on English clues and answers? FIR, with a little red letter help. I guess if it was easy it wouldn't be Saturday. HG's cricket explanation reminded me of the old Bob Newhart bit with Abner Doubleday trying to explain baseball on the telephone. Hilarious!
Google and I filled every cell correctly.....eventually. Long fills filled easily with WAGs, but far too many unknowns to finish this CW W/O resorting to Google. Or, I could have done it online and filled the screen with red letters and alphabet runs. Anyway, a very challenging Saturday, AB&KH. Thanx Husker for your excellent write-up.
Unlike 'unclefred' I never use Google, red letter help, or any reference to complete a puzzle. I like the challenge and will cry UNCLE when the puzzle defeats me and it did so today. A WAG is okay but an ABC run for the cross of two unknown words from unknown clues- I don't consider that a FIR.
DNF.
A French clue for breakfast crossed a princess of an unknown movie. MA__IN & __IANA was my fill. DIANA would have made sense but not TIANA. The spanners were easy after a few perps. LEON, HOUSMAN, FEBAG, PERNOD, EDIT WAR, SCAR, ADAM, ANIME EYES, KRIS- unknowns filled by perps.
Changed HAT to LID and MEN to HES (a sorry word for a plural - IMHO).
I know my sharps and flats but had to wait and guess rebag to get B-SHARP.
Thanks for a Saturday challenge Annemarie and Katie. A quick scan of Husker's grid reveals that you DIDN'T FOOL ME today
Thanks Husker for another informative and well-illustrated review.
15A ANISE and 19D PERNOD. This liquor is delicious in small quantities, but it is a bit sweet. It's cousin ABSINTHE (the black sheep in ANISE the family) can be FATALE, like the FEMME on that PERNOD label!
17A STICK TO THE POINT. Usually a struggle for me. Loved the Trudeau comic Gary.
29A EDIT WAR. These are real. While I don't adhere to all of their views, I do follow the Intelligent Design movement, promoted by the Seattle based Discovery Insitute. One of their laments is that you will find NO, ZIP, NADA articles on the Wikipedia in support of their ideas. Their opponents actually have BOTS that troll the Wikipedia for any pro-ID changes to any evolution-related pages and then quickly remove them. It is reasonable to ask "What are these people so afraid of?"
49A RUN OUTS. Impressive explanation Gary. Despite being an Anglophile I find Cricket as inscrutable as Contract Bridge. What little I know about it I learned by watching old Dr. Who episodes.
4D DECODES. I wonder how BARD would do with that cryptogram?
27D RAVE. Yesterday it was RAGER: an "Epic bash".
41D HOUSMAN. A.E. Housman's "A Shropshire Lad" was the inspiration for this short tone poemcomposed by George Butterworth, whose genius was sadly cut short by WWI.
51D CHAS. A CSO to a former colleague I worked with at the Patent and Trade Office named CHAS Hopkins, although I'm certain he'll never read this. He was a crackerjack Windows sysadmin and an Eagle Scout.
57D CIS. ... and TRANS are siblings in a family of isomers (molecules with the same chemical composition, but with the atoms arranged in a different configuration).
Cheers,
Bill
Ray - O @10:12 AM SHEESH. A new generation of ICONOCLAST Yahoos are taking over the world! The image of the Dolorous Virgin has been with us for centuries. She knew exactly what was in store for her son.
Tough and so much fun! FIR in 25 minutes too. Thank you Annemarie and Katie!
Hi All:
Like Jinx, just another FIW Saturday but I enjoyed the noodling b/f taking Youngest to the airport [Model UN in NYC this week].
Thanks Annamarie & Katie for the fun. Thanks HG for filling-in the blanks and correcting my errors (hat, STICK TO THE story) for some extra-play.
So, Patis is sparkling water with ANISE? Or a liquor? Either way, I need to try this.
I did know LOTR, DECODE, BITMAPS, EDIT WAR, [bucs or RAYS - ANIME EYES settled that], RUN OUTS [I've lots of friends from India*], SCAR, and ATARI out of the gate, so I got that going for me.
Ray-O: In light of The David hubballo in FL, I took your article at "face" value ;-) //The school's name is "Tallahassee Classical School" WTF?!? *smh* [What The Frog?!? *shaking my head*]
Tante Nique - wonderful story and connection to ADAM [you're not pulling our leg, eh?]
Charlie Echo - with all the new rule changes... Bob is apropos.
Cheers, -T
*and, um no, I still don't understand Cricket.
Puzzling thoughts:
Nope; not today. I TITT. Too much HFS (help from Siri). It got to a point where Siri, instead of saying "uh huh?", said "c'mon Moe, give up!" And I did
Tante @10:54 AM ADAM is standing on the shoulders of giants.
-T @1:40 PM LOL! It would be interesting to hear Bob's take on the new rules.
Fun, if a bit tough, Saturday puzzle, but many thanks, Annemarie and Katie. And, Gary, many thanks for your commentary. I was especially delighted to see your map of Oesterreich. I grew up in a village called Hoersching near the city of Linz and it was nice to see it there in the northern part of Upper Austria. Happy memories.
Many fun items and clues in the puzzle. My favorite was EDIT WAR, which made me laugh. Then another ED word with EDIFICES. WHATCHAMACALLIT made me laugh too--if you don't know it, don't ask. Lots of politeness with SENOR and YES SIR--so, all around, this puzzle was certainly NOT TOO SHABBY--even clever and delightful. Many thanks, again, Annemarie and Katie.
Have a great weekend, everybody.
A-T. @1:40.No pulling of legs. Adam was the most brilliant student I ever had, and I’ve had some great ones.
Waseely, @2:16. Now you’re pulling my leg. 😜
Unable to solve this puzzle without going to Google approximately 15 times.
Ah Saturday puzzles...
One thing I don't understand is peoples confusion with Cricket.
it's quite simple you know...
The most important thing to remember, is that the the pitcher needs to keep a shine on the ball during the wind up.
here is an example...
For Anon-T (Et Al) just in case you have never seen it...
However, after this link, I may have to make myself disappear...
Oh, my gosh, CED@3:26 that’s a hilarious bit, and to see John Cleese so young. Thanks for the link. Are you still there?
Baa-aa!
CED @3:52 PM Funny, I didn't know who Marty Feldman was. But now I do.
Husker Gary takes us through this Brethauer/Hale PZL...
A tough Saturday slog--paying off in some quaint long-ish expressions. My fave being NOT TOO SHABBY.
MATILDA reminds me of a Belafonte number.
Anybody else recalling this?
"�� Ma-TIL-dah! ��Ma-TIL-dah,
Ma-TIL-dah--she take me money
'n run Ven-e-ZUEL-ah!��"
Dang! Could not--for the life of me--remember HOUSMAN. What good was high school?!
~ OMK
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DR: 8x8!
No diagonals today.
Those were musical notes. They work on other sites.
~ OMK
In 1961 there was fighting in the Brenner Pass. Soldiers in camoflage among the trees! Very scary drive!
Funny stuff!
Waseeley - Songs? I was thinking more along the lines of The Guess Who [These Eyes - mine cry with laughter at Feldman's stuff]
Tante Nique - DW, (PhD English) is most impressed. I shared what you said and she was, like, OMG! //apparently, she's read ADAM's work.
FLN: Misty - did I miss you commenting on TSE? I always look forward to that when Eliot is in the grid. [obligatory Crash Test Dummies]
I forgot: {B+, A+}
Nice to see you back in form, OKL.
CED - We gave the British the Blues and they turned it into Rock & Roll.
I don't know where their comedy came from but I know the Python's where huge fans of The Goonies and "At Last the 1948 Show" which featured Feldman. This brand of comedy cannot be traced to the Borscht-belt scene; my guess, it came from the gallows' humour that comes from years of being bombed. (er, war not gin).
Anyway, thanks for the links. I think I understand Cricket now* (oh, and that chessboard looks incorrect :-))
Cheers, -T
*April Fool! - I still don't get it [Cricket] and our Jr. Analyst has tried to explain it to me more than one. I'd ask her again but she's on Maternity Leave for another month.
OMK @4:42 PM I found out the hard way that you cannot preview emojis in Blogger. You have to add them just before you post 📯
MOE @2:06 PM What if she just hears you muttering under your breath and volunteers an answer?
waseeley @ 6:04, I'd still have to say "Hey Siri" before she'd respond! 😀
I’m totally with you, B.E., on these crossed oddities; proper names are alway the bane of me, along with foreign words (has my one EVER done a major cw puzzle without using any of both??). HATS off to the constructors for yet another obfuscatory Saturday offering.
btw, it’s A sharp in the B major scale…😎
====> Darren / L.A.
-T @4:58 PM Guess Who was a trip down memory lane. And a CSO to CanadianEh!. We haven't heard from her today.
Bloody good, Sir! Hilarious
Thanks for the tip, waseeley.
Testing testing : ♬
~ OMK
FIW with a little trouble in the SW. NOT TOO SHABBY (I can hear Adam Sandler performing The Chanukah Song in my head).
The long fills were fun. Also, I liked that there were a few answers I did not know but they were well-clued. Ex: REBAG.
Thanks, H-Gary, for your helpful explanations ... well, I mean except for the Cricket one. No worries, though, CED was no help either. Thanks for the entertainment, gentlemen!
Misty@2:45. I did not know that about your childhood. How old were you when you moved to the States?
Sumdaze's reference: Chanukah Song.
Can you believe they gave Adam Sandler the Mark Twain Award [acceptance speech] for that? :-)
Cheers, -T
Misty @2:45 PM As you know, there is a symphony by Mozart named for the city of Linz. Here's the first movement.
Bitmaps are NOT a GIF alternative. Annemarie & Katie have me in shambles. 😡
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