Theme: ALL HEART 💛💜🧡💙💚
19. *Particularly memorable event: ONE FOR THE AGES.
32. *Party topper: PAPER HAT.
43. *1990 theft at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, e.g.: ART HEIST.
53. Attitude shift, and the shift found in five letters in the answer to each starred clue: CHANGE OF HEART.
Melissa here. Each theme answer contains an anagram of HEART.
Across:
1. Lots of bucks: DEER. DEER is both singular and plural. Some are for other animals - fish, moose, sheep, swine, buffalo. Here are 101 Words That are Both Plural and Singular.
5. Bird's crop: CRAW. "Craw" is an obsolete term for
"crop," and this is still seen in the saying "it sticks in my craw,"
meaning "I can't [metaphorically] swallow it," that is, a situation
is unacceptable, or at any rate annoying. Wikipedia: A crop is a thin-walled expanded portion of the alimentary tract used for the storage of food prior to digestion. This anatomical structure is found in a wide variety of animals. It has been found in birds, and in invertebrate animals including gastropods, earthworms, leeches, and insects.
9. Small amounts: DABS. Remember this?
13. Folklore brute: OGRE. A hideous giant represented in fairy tales and folklore as feeding on human beings. Ogres have appeared in many works, including Tom Thumb; Hansel and Gretel, where the witch is a type of ogre because she intends to eat the children; and Little Red Riding Hood, where the wolf resembles an ogre.
14. Fissile rock: SHALE. Easily split.
15. Some cold drafts: ALES.
16. "This week has gone on long enough!" letters: TGIF. Thank God/Goodness It's Friday.
17. Estate home: MANOR. A large country house with lands
18. Jedi Master voiced by Frank Oz: YODA. "Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.”
23. Reindeer reins holder: SANTA.
24. Beats, as an incumbent: UNSEATS.
28. Stand: STOMACH. Ohh, verb. To bear without overt reaction or resentment : put up with.
34. Lighthearted: MERRY.
35. One-named "Chandelier" singer: SIA.
36. Moles, maybe: SPIES. In espionage jargon, a mole (also called a "penetration agent," "deep cover agent," "illegal" or "sleeper agent") is a long-term spy (espionage agent) who is recruited before having access to secret intelligence, subsequently managing to get into the target organization. However, it is popularly used to mean any long-term clandestine spy or informant within an organization (government or private).
39. English cuppa: TEA.
40. Send packing: EVICT. Nice clue.
46. Sinews: TENDONS. A tendon or sinew is a tough, high-tensile-strength band of dense fibrous connective tissue that connects muscle to bone. Ligaments connect bone to bone.
49. Most miserly: MEANEST.
50. Barbecue briquettes: COALS.
52. Pipe plastic: PVC. Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is one type of thermoplastic polymer that is currently penetrating many aspects of life through its wide use, and has become a universal polymer.
58. Disdainful chorus: BOOS. I have a cat named Boo, after the character in To Kill A Mockingbird, played by a very young Robert Duvall. Scout utters the words "Hey, Boo," a child's gesture of understanding kindness that leads To Kill a Mockingbird to its unforgettable conclusion.
59. Fiction or nonfiction: GENRE.
60. Prom attire: GOWN.
62. Besides: ELSE.
63. Fiji alternative: EVIAN. Bottled water brands.
64. Menu heading often next to File: EDIT. On your computer.
65. Ink spots?: TATS. Nice. Remember this group?
66. Leader with a .edu address: DEAN. Academia.
67. "A Suitable Boy" novelist Vikram: SETH. Also a a BBC television drama miniseries.
Down:
1. Small point: DOT.
2. French Toaster Sticks brand: EGGO.
3. "Blue Bloods" daughter played by Bridget Moynahan: ERIN.
4. Judo official: REFEREE. An unarmed modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.
5. Arctic trout: CHAR. What’s The Difference Between Trout And Char?
6. Diatribes: RANTS.
7. Warm welcomes: ALOHAS. Aloha actually comes from two Hawaiian words: Alo – which means the front of a person, the part of our bodies that we share and take in people. And Ha, which is our breath. When we are in each other's presence with the front of our bodies, we are exchanging the breath of life. That's aloha.
8. "If you __ you, then we'd all be a bit less we": wisdom from Piglet: WEREN'T.
9. Afternoon sports event: DAY GAME.
10. Household succulent: ALOE.
11. Garden areas: BEDS. It's almost time!
12. Fed. benefits provider: SSA. Social Security Administration.
14. Irons (out): SMOOTHS.
20. Phobia: FEAR.
21. Bit with neutrinos: ATOM. I am not going to pretend I have any idea what this means.
24. Beat, as a favored incumbent: UPSET.
25. Unsophisticated: NAIVE.
26. Much of Iberia: SPAIN. The Iberian peninsula is located in the West of Europe where modern-day Spain and Portugal are.
27. Plant juice: SAP.
29. Kevin McHale's "Glee" role: ARTIE. Kevin McHale, who plays all singing, all dancing, wheelchair using geek Artie Abrams, is not disabled himself.
30. Peppery salad green: CRESS. A fast-growing, edible herb.
31. Omni rival: HYATT. Hotel resorts.
33. Spanish aunt: TIA.
37. Sound of hesitation: ERM. I see this in books, but don't think I've ever actually heard someone make that sound.
38. Colbert of late-night: STEPHEN. I recently saw this clip of Colbert telling this charming story of how he met his wife Edie. Look how rapt the band is.
41. Jewel boxes: CD CASES.
42. Multiple-cel creature?: TOON. Animation. A cell is a transparent sheet of celluloid or similar film material, which can be drawn on and used in the production of cartoons.
44. Give birth to: HAVE.
45. Confines, as a pet bird: ENCAGES.
47. Kept bothering: NAGGED.
48. LP cover: SLEEVE.
51. Justice Sotomayor: SONIA.
53. Cuba libre mixer: COLA. Rum and Coke, or the Cuba libre, is a highball cocktail consisting of cola, rum, and in many recipes lime juice on ice.
54. Large number: HOST.
55. Hall of Fame quarterback Tarkenton: FRAN.
56. Needled: RODE. Tricky clue. Needled is to annoy someone, especially by repeated criticism: His mother was always needling him about getting a job. To ride is to harass persistently.
57. Silly goose: TWIT.
58. "After Happily Ever After" cable channel: BET. Did not know about this show. Hosted by Bow Wow, seven former couples live under the same roof as one person plays matchmaker for their ex and tries to find the perfect new person to date.
61. To the __ degree: NTH.
EVIAN is a water, in bottle
ReplyDeleteNAIVE poseurs to besottle.
Despite the hype
It tastes alright.
Was it used for bathing by Aristotle?
Does Oxford have both DEANS and dons?
Do rowing crews build up their TENDONS?
Do they ensure
Worthy tenure
By the consensus of TEN DONS?
I was going to say that “erm” seemed very sketchy, but Melissa claims to “have seen it in books “ so I guess that gives it some credence. Other than that, I didn’t have too much trouble with this puzzle, and it seemed rather easy for a Wednesday. FIR, so I’m happy.
ReplyDeleteHi Y'all! Thanks, Michael, for an easy Wednesday. Thanks, Melissa, for a great expo.
ReplyDeleteFilled this faster than last two days. With this theme, it should have appeared on Valentines Day. Easily understood with reveal.
DNK: SIA, SETH, ERIN, CHAR, ARTIE, ERM. All perped in easily. Never heard ERM or saw it in print.
Must be spring. My yardman showed up & spent three hours removing leaves and doing the first mowing on mine and two adjacent properties. I had more big sycamore leaves in my yard than the neighbor where the tree grows, so glad to see hers cleaned too.
ONE FOR THE BOOKS came to mind before AGES but it didn't fit. Still the best answer in the grid by far, surprisingly there isn't much in terms of bonus fill considering there are only 4 theme answers including two 8s.
ReplyDeleteCHAR is a normal word. BET too. I'm not a fan of cluing perfectly reasonable 3-letter words as acronyms. See also OWN when it's clued as the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteZipped right through this one. Thought Kevin McHale was some sort of athlete -- apparently not. After finishing, d-o went looking for a reveal. Aha, then the broken hearts appeared. Good one, Michael and Melissa Bee. (Interesting treatise on trout/char.)
ESPs: SHALE/SlAtE; UNSEATS/defEATS;DOT/niT
ReplyDeleteI believe LeCarre invented the term, MOLE, in Tinker,Tailer,Soldier,Spy. It was based roughly on Kim Philby who penetrated British Secret Service and indirectly American.
D-Otto, The Celtics had an all-star, Kevin McHale, during the 80s. I first saw him at 1979 NIT
P&P were perpable, clueing clever. Enjoyed, went fast as noted. FIR
WC
FIR in reasonable time, did see the theme but only after the reveal, so no help in the fill. ERM? Never heard it, never have seen it. “MEANEST” is also not a good descriptor of “most miserly”. CHEAPEST is more like it. Other than those nuts, a nice CW, thanx, MAM. Thanx too to Melissa Bee for the write-up.
ReplyDeleteI didn't get this clue/answer:
ReplyDeleteJewel boxes: CD CASES
WC
Uuh? Wha? The singer from the Doobie Bros., Michael McDonald (Mac Here) must have had a CHANGE OF HEART and changed ERG or ERE to come up with ERM. Never heard that before. It could have been ELS because either MEANEST or LEANEST would suffice for 'Most miserly". But he protected both AN LP and CDs with SLEEVE and CD CASES.
ReplyDeleteAnd a CSO to the Boston Celtics' forward Kevin McHale. ARTIE was all perps- unknown. So were ERIN, SETH and BBC.
My granddaughter just went to two proms in two cities. Did she wear the same GOWN to both? You gotta be kidding. My granddaughters are spendthrifts; their brothers are misers.
This one took 5:37 for me to finish, but don't be a HATER.
ReplyDeleteErm?
I didn't know "Erin" or "Artie".
I, too, thought of Celtics' Hall of Famer Kevin McHale. And, I still will next time.
WC: Compact discs came in little boxes, which were sometimes called "jewel boxes."
That 1990 art heist is a fascinating story - very brazen and still unsolved.
FIR, but erased ers for ERM and avian for EVIAN (I don't buy water). Narrowed my WAG to ERl, ERM or ERw, and guessed right.
ReplyDeleteI think I can finally remember SIA. Thanks, Crosswords.
A clue for ALOE that isn't trite? Will wonders never cease?
FRAN, except to Howard Cosell (and maybe his mom,) who called him FRANcis.
Players call them DAY GAMEs, but the PR guys call them "businessman's specials." Baseball players hate playing a DAY GAME the day after a night GAME. Doesn't happen much anymore. But a lot of teams play a DAY GAME when they have to travel for a night game the next day.
Melissa, I think "Penetration Agent" would be a great name for a band. BTW, thanks for the fun tour through this interesting puzzle.
FIR, but I take issue with the crossing of erm and meanest. This seems a tad contrived. I've never heard anyone use erm in every day speech. But the theme was nice, but I had to get to the unifier to see it.
ReplyDeleteMusings
ReplyDelete-ERM is right? SETH was about as obscure as it could be but filled itself. Oh my, the obscurity doubles down, SETH is a surname.
-RANTS – Congressional speeches where no one on the other side listens
-World Series DAY GAMES are an artifact of my misspent youth.
-I play golf with Dave Heineman who UPSET legendary Husker coach Tom Osborne for governor
-Me too, Uncle Fred, miserly/MEANEST didn’t ring true to me
-Some prom GOWNS have precious little material for a corsage.
-Beautiful, young, petite females with guns is now a TV trope.
-NAGGED and RODE, 1957 Doo Wop style:
Lord, and when I get the paper I read it through and throu-ough,
I, my girl never fail to see if there is any work for me...
I better go back to the house, hear that woman's mouth
Preachin' and a cryin', tell me that I'm lyin' about a job
That I never could find
Thank you Michael for a HEARTY Wednesday puzzle. I expected it to be a bit tougher following the Monday/Tuesday gimmes, but who am I too complain.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks Melissa for another fine Wednesday expo. I do have one NIT, but with the editor, not you (see 21D below).
Some favs:
All of the themers and the reveal. I've been encountering a lot of what I call "scrambled word" themes in my reviews, and finding phrases with rearranged combos of the letters in HEART probably wasn't as easy as it might seem.
1A DEER. Quickly sussed with 1D DOT.
14A SHALE. Tried SLATE, which is also a fissile rock, but it didn't perp.
24A UNSEATS. Our last incumbent was UNSEATED, but it wasn't an UPSET.
21D ATOM. Melissa, there is no way that you could have had "any idea what this means", because this clue/fill is wrong. ATOMS are composed of ELECTRONS, PROTONS, and NEUTRONS not NEUTRINOS. The clue was either a spelling error or simply a mistake. ATOMS do NOT actually contain NEUTRINOS. NEUTRINOS can be emitted from an ATOM as the product of various NUCLEAR reactions, but they are NOT actually components of ATOMS. They do not exist in the atom prior to these reactions, but are created at the time of the reaction. This link and this link explain this in more detail. And here's Melissa's link, which lists some of these reaction types.
I'm really surprised that Patti didn't catch this (just kidding! 😀)
Cheers,
Bill
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteThis is one of the very few scrambled letters gimmick that didn’t telegraph the theme, at least not to me. The Hearts were well hidden and, thankfully, no circles were present to unnecessarily aid and abet with the solve. I went astray at Beak/Craw and Manse/Manor and I needed perps for Seth and Artie. I believe Erm is more often seen in English novels and is equivalent to our Ers or Ums. I also don’t equate Miserly with Meanest. To me, miserly means being cheap and meanest denotes unkindness. As always, the scant number (10) of three letter word is always a bonus. The highlight of the fill for me was seeing Scramblin’ Fran Tarkenton, one of my favorite players when I first became a football fan.
Thanks, Michael, for a fitting Wednesday challenge and thanks, Melissa, for the detailed and informative analysis. I liked all of the visuals but the Pooh and Piglet one was serendipitous as I sent a similar version to my niece this morning for my daily wellness check-in! I try to send something cute, funny, or meaningful to give her a cheerful start to her always hectic and demanding workday.
My A/C serviceman is due between 12:00-4:00 today for the Spring tune up. Shouldn’t be any problems as the unit is only 4 or 5 years old.
Have a great day.
WC
ReplyDeleteGary, that's the 50s hit that gave birth to "Sha na na"*
IM, good to see you have a close relationship with your niece. I'm the only one whom my niece speaks to in her extended family
WC
*"The group's[Sha Na Na] name was taken from a series of nonsense syllables ("sha na na na, sha na na na na") in the song "Get a Job", originally recorded by the Silhouettes.[(Wikipedia)
I (HEART) this puzzle, Michael. Thanks for another FIR! I needed a break to think of the final words in the SW corner that were slow to come to me: BOOS, BET, and HOST.
ReplyDeleteI had COLA (what, not COKE?! I'm in ATL, after all) and CD CASES early but four squares remained empty. Then, they filled too. After the reveal, I quickly found the CHANGE OF HEART with no problem.
Thanks, Melissa B, for explaining thoroughly today in your review. I filled the M in ERM with the perp and never noticed until your review. It was new to me also. Plus, it never occurred to me that MEANEST was a problem. I googled it and see miserly is listed as a similar word in British usage for not generous or not sharing. OK.
Time to get busy in the kitchen. Hope your day is sunny, everyone!
I should do more puzzles with a slight fever...ran ragged top to bottom in record time. Must be the neurons were in overdrive...or...'twas just an easy Wednesday..I saw the word "heart" jumbled unless there's more to the theme that just that
ReplyDeleteInkovers: Shad/CHAR, defeats/UNSEATS, HAL(Halmark)/BET,
Once again Shrek and Fiona decry the blatant OGRE shaming...
"Judo official".. was expecting an Asian term. And anticipated an edible "household succulent"
'Member the joke that starts "at the Christmas party we were all feeling MERRY"....😃
I notice ERM is usually the closed caption term when an English actor says "um" (agree with IM)......kyna like arse/ass since our British buds don't pronounce "R's" after a vowel... hardly evuh
"Multiple cel creature" cool clue
Pranks by "pantsing"...UNSEATS
Chapeau rental agency...PAPERHAT
Wear proper attire if you're ____ to the Prom...GOWN
A decemvirate of capi...TENDONS
Cuba Libre main ingredient ....BOOS
Spring flowers finally opening, a glad site to see..🌷
WC @ 10:09 ~ I’m very close to this particular niece and because of this relationship and the fact that she is a paralegal, I asked her a few years ago if she would be my Executor and handle my Will, Power of Attorney, Health Proxy, etc. Her unhesitant reply was “I’d be honored.” I consider myself very fortunate. 😉
ReplyDeleteLots of neat and fresh clues in this puzzle, so I was kept on my toes. But it’s the heart I discovered quickly since I started this puzzle from the bottom.
ReplyDeleteMelissa, I loved the children’s notes. If they’re real, they are precious.
The Thesaurus lists “miserly” as a synonym for MEAN.
I too wanted one for the books and ERM reluctantly showed up.
All in all fun CW and entertaining recap.
Right on unclefreds frequency for the second day in a row. What he said. ERM, no. Anyone who watched WGN TV in the bygone days of yore knows that it's HARDROCK who drives the sleigh, while Santa checks his list!
ReplyDeleteBill Seeley Thank you for pointing out that the NEUTRINO/ATOM clue/answer is just wrong. It would be like "Drinking vessel with shards" for "Wine glass".
ReplyDeleteHand up MEANEST is just wrong for "Most miserly". As noted by others, one who is miserly is not MEAN, just obsessed with not spending money. On themselves or on others.
Crossed with weird ERM it was my last reluctant fill to WAG it right. Learning moment that ERM is a thing.
Learning moment that FRAN could be a man's name. Another reluctant fill.
Picard, Mr Tarkenton's given name is Francis Asbury Tarkenton.
DeleteGood Morning! Started off with an oops!: herd to DEER, but altogether a very doable puzzle. Thanks, Michael. North filled smoothly but slowed down in the South.
ReplyDeleteSW was the last to fill. Wavered between Coke and COLA.
WO: ExIT -> EDIT
DNK: SETH or BET
Whew! Yoda imposes a very high standard……..
Mole/SPIES. What immediately comes to mind for me is Kevin Costner’s movie, No Way Out.
Saw the theme after I filled the reveal. I do the Jumble puzzle most every day, so it was easy to see once I knew what to look for.
Enjoyed your recap. Pooh and Piglet are so huggably sweet. Thanks, Melissa!
Hola!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Michael and Melissa! This was a SMOOTH solve and very quick, too.
CSO to my nephew ARTIE.
I've always chuckled at seeing EVIAN spelled backward as NAIVE.
MEANEST is often used in books, usually British, to mean miserly.
All of my TIAs are now gone.
ERM just seems forced.
OGRE crossing REFEREE seems ironic.
Enjoy your day, everyone! ALOHA!
Um maybe, Er maybe, ERM...No Otherwise nice puzzle. GC
ReplyDeleteReally liked "Multiple-cel creature?" clue!
ReplyDeleteI came back to read the comments and discovered the misnamed "Autocorrect" had changed "nit" to "nut" in my previous comment. I don't call it "Autocorrect", I call it "Autof__up", as it more often messes up something than fixes something.
ReplyDeleteCambridge Dictionary says that MEAN means "not willing to give or share things."
ReplyDelete"He's too mean to buy her a ring."
"My landlord's very mean with the heating - it's only on for two hours each day."
Oh yeah, I say those things every day. (Actually, I mostly think it as one of the averages: MEAN, mode and median.)
Ain't we got us a humdinger of a language?
Picard @10:56 AM Thanks for that Robert. That's a perfect analogy.
ReplyDeleteLucina @11:36 AM Yes, Scrooge is the classic miser and a mean one at that. But he is redeemed in the end.
unclefred @1:34 PM Google needs to plug BARD (its chatBOT) into its editors to DWIM ("Do What I Mean" (you IDIOT!))
Puzzling thoughts:
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Michael MacDonald thought about using HIDE YOUR HEART as the reveal instead of CHANGE OF HEART? Both fit, actually ...
FIR with a couple of k/o's - I was surprised at seeing CD CASES for jewel boxes, but it makes sense
NAIVE = EVIAN spelled backwards ... thanks Lucinda! I never knew that!!
Happy Hump Day
ReplyDeleteERM….ugh. Enough said.
melissa bee presents a Macdonald PZL...
ReplyDeleteA neat job today, offering clues that might be filled by several answers, requiring perps to narrow the selections.
9A and 15A re examples.
Fave fill? EVIAN, in response to a clearly misleading clue (63A).
~ OMK
___________
DR: Three diagonals, near side.
The center diag delivers an anagram (12 of 15) of an American soldier, perhaps worked into a patriotic frenzy by a military band playing Souza marches!
I speak of an...
"OVERHEATED G.I."!
Ol' Man Keith @2:51 PM Could you possibly email me at the address in my profile? I need some expert advice on interpreting a scene from Romeo and Juliet. I've a tried contacting you via Facebook in the past, but to no avail.
ReplyDeleteHi All!
ReplyDeleteUm, er, ERM is normal enough, no?
Thanks Michael for a CHANGE OF pace this morning. Thank you mb for a most delightful review - Colbert is not only brilliant but seemingly a really nice guy.
WOs: CHAd, COke->COLA, aLso -> ELSE
ESPs: ARTIE, FRAN, SETH
Fav: Hard today: UPSET clecho with UNSEATS was cute as was MERRY SANTA and the Piglet clue.
{B+, A}
Nice Diag, OMK.
I put all my CD jewel CASES in the attic placed them (CDs) in little plastic SLEEVES in a ROLODEX looking thing. That was before I ripped 'em all to .mp3s and I now have a small 64G USB stick for all my music. Yes, REO Speedwagon [Ridin' the Storm Out] is on it.
Glad to read I wasn't totally off-base with NEUTRINOS' clue's wrongness, Waseeley & Picard.
NAÏVE - folks that buy bottled water. #EVIAN. Lucina beat me to it :-)
//Note: Even in a hurricane you have 3 day's warning to fill the freezer with bags of water and the tub for flushing toilets.
Enjoyed reading y'all!
Cheers, -T
I liked this puzzle, especially the clues for TOON and EVICT.
ReplyDeleteThe only place I've seen ERM is in the closed captioning of British TV shows, when in fact the actor is actually saying "Um."
Melissa, thanks for the interesting information about CRAW, REO, SPIES, and especially ALOHA(S).
Thanks to waseeley for explaining neutrinos and to Picard for providing an analogy.
Good wishes to you all.
A fun puzzle Michael and think you MB fur showing the HEARTs which I forgot to look for. The ART HEIST at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston was truly sad, but a visit to the museum is worth anyone’s time who enjoys art. It is like stepping into a mansion of a long gone era. She was quite a character and a very modern woman in a time of rigid social behavior and conformity. Years ago when I was there, If you visited the museum wearing a Red Sox hat you got a discount, and if your name was Isabella you got in free; her rules that probably exist today.
ReplyDeleteTATS, Ink Spots. — they were terrific!
iM @9:20 - Remembering the time FRAN Tarkenton broke his leg. Ohhhh!
We once had a French foreign exchange student, and to make her feel welcome we bought bottles of Perrier water. Her comment, “No one in France drinks Perrier! We drink EVIAN”. Is that like Coke/Pepsi?
How about “Nickname for humorist Bombeck?” ERM. No, I guess not!
Picard, "Frank" was the nickname for the Francis's of the world in the city (Boston)
ReplyDeleteLo and behold in 1954 I moved to the burbs and encountered male kids called Frannie. One used a nickname* the other was the son of a Frank
C-Moe, your link took me to the Traveling Wilburys- not that that's a bad thing
OMK, we just had EVIAN clued in the past week(Sat?)
And…
What waseeley is asking is "Wherefore art thou, Keith?"
RayO, your last one was lol- ie. A chuckle and a grin
WC
* Strangely it was Heinzie. I think nicknames are attached early and stick. My brother let it be known he had a vocation to the priesthood and was called "Father"(Frank)
And... I have a grand niece named Frankie
DeleteHere's that Saturday vlue
Delete"10D. "Water the way nature intended" water: EVIAN
WC @5:01 PM. It's a surprise. ... 😄
Delete"Cel" - one "l". That's how I knew it was a "TOON" and not an organism. "Fiji" made me think of apples and islands. Didn't think of bottled water. Besides the theme answers, there were a lot of "EA" words today. A great mid-week offering.
ReplyDeleteCan't look at a puzzle by Michael MacDonald without thinking of What a Fool Believes by Michael McDonald.
ReplyDeleteHahahahahaha. I told a friend I'm "On My Own" with this puzzle.
DeleteI enjoyed today's quick solve with a few sideways definitions, MelissaB's helpful write-up, and everyone's comments.
ReplyDeleteLoved Stephen Colbert's story. It is worth the watch!
I agree with IM@9:20 et. al. that MEANEST just didn't feel right for miserly.
ALTGranny@10:11. COLA/ COke. LOL!
No probs with ERM because I use (read as "need") the CC feature when watching British whodoneit TV.
OMK@2:51. Dad raised me on JP Souza. Dad's dad's side gig was a musician who met(?)/modeled his own marching band after(?) Souza. He was a hero in our family.
Hello Reg@5:45!
Anyone who thinks MEANEST isn't a good term for miserly has never lived with a miser. One can be the meanest humanoid going.
ReplyDeleteSo.... In order to successfully complete this puzzle, I would have had to watch British TV with the captions on....got it.
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