Theme: Where Are You Headed?
18. Route to church?: SERVICE ROAD.
24. Route to the navy yard?: FLEET STREET.
37. Route to a showing of "Jaws"?: GREAT WHITE WAY.
53. Route to basketball camp?: PASSING LANE.
60. Route to the liquor store?: FIFTH AVENUE.
Melissa here. Each theme answer describes a location - or where you might be if you followed the route in the clue. This appears to be Lempel's debut at the corner - congratulations! Except for the theme answers, the grid is filled with mostly short words. Made for a pretty quick solve - but I did need perps for some of the southeast.
Across:
1. "Sheer Driving Pleasure" automaker: BMW.
4. "A Little Bit Stronger" singer Sara: EVANS. Country.
9. Carmen Sandiego's crime: THEFT. Things only adults notice in Carmen Sandiego.
14. Fish eggs: ROE.
15. Mature on the vine: RIPEN. Verb.
16. Aerie nester: EAGLE.
17. "Science Friday" host Flatow: IRA. Looking for a new podcast?
20. No-sweat class: EASY A.
22. Prof's URL ender: EDU. Academia - websites and email domains typically end with .edu.
23. CPR pro: EMT.
28. Chowed down: ATE.
30. Bubbly bar supply: SELTZER. Fizzy water sure has gotten popular in the past 5+ years. So many brands and flavors. I remember when Perrier in the green glass bottle was the only choice.
31. Oscar winner Poitier: SIDNEY. Just passed away in January of 2022 at the age of 94.
33. Mama of folk rock: CASS.
36. River noted for its châteaux: LOIRE. A château (plural châteaux) is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor or a country house of nobility or gentry. Loire Valley Castles: The Best French Châteaux You Mustn't Miss. Check it out, a châteaux ROUTE does exist!
42. Experts who deal with stress?: POETS. Angela Gibson is one of my favorites.
43. Fallon's predecessor: LENO. Jimmy Fallon, Jay Leno - The Tonight Show.
44. Discarded stuff: JETSAM. One of those words I've only seen in crosswords and books.
46. Lay in store for: AWAITED. Sounds ominous.
52. Pre-1991 atlas initials: SSR. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1922–91.
56. Brit's washroom: LOO. Gimme.
58. Scoundrel: RAT. Alan Watts called it “The Element of Irreducible Rascality.”
59. Hold the throne: REIGN.
64. Many a dad joke: PUN. Groan.
65. Musical set in Argentina: EVITA.
66. Conjure up: EVOKE.
67. Yalie: ELI.
68. Back at the track: BET ON. Nice clue - back as in sponsor or support.
69. Worked with thread: SEWED.
70. Uncertainties: IFS.
Down:
1. Legal filings: BRIEFS.
2. Group's level of enthusiasm: MORALE.
3. Untrustworthy type: WEASEL.
4. Like a poor copy: ERSATZ. Just like 44a, only seen in books and crosswords.
5. Fight (for): VIE.
6. Busy time for the IRS: APR. The deadline to file your federal tax returns is the fourth month after your fiscal year ends, day 15, so usually April 15. If day 15 falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, the due date is delayed until the next business day. Your return is considered filed on time if your envelope is properly addressed, postmarked and deposited in the mail by the due date.
7. "When pigs fly!": NEVER. I heard Flo's voice (from Alice) in my head but that was donkeys.
8. Derisive: SNIDE.
9. Top typically paired with jeans: TEE.
10. Fabled procrastinator: HARE. From The Tortoise and The Hare.
11. Narcissist's attribute: EGOMANIA. I can't think of one example.
12. Excessive praise: FLATTERY.
13. Brother of pols Jack and Bobby: TED. Kennedy.
19. Stage signals: CUES.
21. However: YET.
25. Nonorthodox religious group: SECT.
26. Fishing net: TRAWL. A buoyed line used in sea fishing, having numerous short lines with baited hooks attached at intervals.
27. Carpet alternative: TILE.
29. Iris locale: EYE. Eyeball.
32. Big name in chemicals: DOW.
34. Cow or sow: SHE.
35. Africa-to-Asia land bridge: SINAI.
37. Starts streaming, say: GOES LIVE.
38. Equip with new parts: RETROFIT. To install, fit, or adapt (a device or system) for use with something older: to retrofit solar heating to a poorly insulated house.
39. Arrivals in "Arrival": ETS.
40. "Quickly" letters: ASAP. As soon as possible.
41. Word with hall or house: TOWN.
42. Comfy attire: PJS. Pajamas.
45. Rooney of "Carol": MARA. Carol is a 2015 movie starring Cate Blanchett. Rooney won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her role as aspiring photographer Therese Belivet.
47. Consented: AGREED.
48. __-de-France: Paris's region: ILE. Île-de-France is a region in north-central France. It surrounds
the nation’s famed capital, Paris, an international center for culture
and cuisine with chic cafes and formal gardens.
49. Asian capital with a Chiang Kai-shek memorial: TAIPEI. Kai-shek was the head of the Nationalist government in China from 1928 to 1949 and subsequently head of the Chinese Nationalist government in exile on Taiwan. National Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall is a popular tourist attraction.
50. Swallow up: ENGULF.
51. "The Unit" actor Haysbert: DENNIS.
54. Reliever's successes: SAVES. Baseball. A save is awarded to the relief pitcher who finishes a game for the winning team, under certain circumstances.
55. Martin of "Only Murders in the Building": STEVE. Anyone watching this?
57. "Beetle Bailey" dog: OTTO. Sgt. Snorkel's anthropomorphic, look-alike bulldog whom Sarge dresses up the same as himself, in an army uniform.
60. Black History mo.: FEB.
61. "To All the Boys" series creator Jenny: HAN. Did not know this.
62. Currently: NOW.
63. Guitar kin, informally: UKE. Ukelele.
46 comments:
Tony, you gave one of my l'icks a ? yesterday, and rightly so! I had two ideas in mind, but tried to stuff them both into the same poem that didn't work. Here are the two as separate tries:
The coach called out, "WHOA THERE!
You need to take in some air!
It's a homecoming game
But that team's pretty lame,
And we're the visitor, that's WHO, AT HERE!
Max decided the day had come
To make sure his cat wouldn't be a mum.
But at the threat of a SPAY
Missy made a clone of CLAY,
That fooled the vet and everyone!
{B, B+.}
A stubborn young girl from TAIPEI
Was determined to have her own way!
She studied famous POETS
(With me being lowest)
Expecting an EASY A!
People think this POET'S an EGOMANIAC
But that public persona is ERSATZ
I'm really a nice guy,
Sometimes even shy.
I can't help it that I'm a brainiac!
{B+, B+.}
This puzzle struck me as perfectly appropriate for a Wednesday; not too difficult, but not too easy, either. One thing: I had forgotten that the word “Sinai” can refer to a peninsula as well as a mountain, but it gradually became clear. Other than that, I don’t have too much to say about this puzzle. FIR, so I’m happy.
Easiest CW of the week, for me at least. DNK several of the names, or who Carmen Sandiego is, but perps were kind enough. I really liked the theme, possibly because I got it immediately. The clue, “Experts who deal with stress” is a real stretch for POETS; it, too, was all perps. All-in-all, a nice start to a Wednesday morning, thanx LL. Melissa Bee another fine write-up, thanx.
Good morning!
I doubt that this is Lynne Lempel's LAT debut -- she's been creating crosswords foe-evuh. Managed to suss all the locales and drove on to victory Wite-Out-free. I agree with unclefred as to the difficulty of this one. Thanx, Lynne and Melissa Bee. (I could provide an example.)
DENNIS Haysbert: You can hear his distinctive voice on Allstate commercials as well as in the opening of Meet The Press.
Somehow I managed to ink in flotsam /JETSOM(The two words commonly go together like various and sundry)
WEASEL today, Wiesel a few days ago
Did Chappaquidik(sic) save TED from assassination? Or was it his blandness
MARA was the offspring of the Giants(MARAs) and Steelers(Rooneys) ownership producing a marriage
BETON was my last and strangest fill until I realized it was two words not a misspelling of a relay race transfer stick
Re. "stress" and POET(ry). It's in the recitation. Perhaps our (hardly lowly) house POET cares to OPINE
Ah, DENNIS adds a "distinctive voice" to the morass of Insurance Commercials "peopled" by lizards,birds and FLO(and a few others(NBAers fe.)
WC
FIR, but erased imp, then cad, for RAT, and mica for MARA (when I doubted PiSSING LANE.) After all the time and money "invested" at the track since I was a pre-teen, BET ON was the last to fall.
The Norfolk Navy Shipyard is in Portsmouth, VA. There is a Portsmouth Navy Shipyard. Following Navy logic perfectly, it is located in Kittery, Maine. Virginia DOES have a FLEET STREET, but it is in Woodbridge, just a little south of Mount Vernon.
SIDNEY Poitier will always be "Sir" to me.
FIFTH AVENUE may be confusing to younger solvers, if there are any. That iconic unit of booze was one of the first victims of the attempt to force the USA onto the metric system. Good clue/fill for today, which is National Bourbon Day. Guess I picked a bad century to give up booze.
Did the Covid-19 era make it OK to wear PJS anywhere? Can't say I like it, but I've seen worse.
FLN - Lucina, sorry for the assumption. Maybe this is more appropriate.
Thanks to Lynn for the fun romp, and to melissa for another excellent tour.
Took 6:46 today for me to complete my route.
I agree that this Wednesday puzzle was a Wednesday-level puzzle.
Several unknowns: Han & her series, Ira somebody with some science program; "Carol"; the region of France; and, Great White Way.
Too many 3-letter words for me, and likely also for a certain Miss of Irish descent.
FIR. I found this to he easy for a Wednesday puzzle. Clever theme and good cluing. Very enjoyable.
Yes, a swift Wednesday puzzle for us today! A FIR for me, but no pristine grid like D-Otto. Some hasty fill without checking perps required changes. Sigh....
Clever theme with known street names.I didn't know (or forgot) that the GREAT WHITE WAY referred to Broadway, starting back with the use of electric lights on the theater marquees and billboard signs.
Favorite words today are ERSATZ, JETSAM, and SELTZER. I wasn't expecting POETS for the clue "Experts who deal with stress" but understood why it was the needed fill. Speaking of poetry, thanks OwenKL for the examples today. Good work!
Thanks Lynn and Melissa B for today's satisfying solve and grand tour. Have a wonderful Wednesday, everyone!
Easy romp for a Wednesday.
The names unknown to me had solid perps, Carmen, Evans, Dennis, Mara.
We studied stress in poetry in college. LIU. I thought this clue was very clever.
Types of Poetic Meter
Iambs (unstressed-stressed)
Trochees (stressed-unstressed)
Spondees (stressed-stressed)
Dactyls (stressed-unstressed-unstressed)
Anapests (unstressed-unstressed-stressed)
A Jeopardy answer yesterday was the Sinai Peninsula.
Old joke: Wherever three or four Episcopalians gather, there is always a fifth among them. I am an Episcopalian, we joke about this among ourselves.
Lay in store/awaited can be good or bad.
Back at the track had me pondering until I thought of this meaning of back.
FIR. Didn't see any issues in the SE as allude Don't to by Melissa. Enjoyed the theme. Liked the inclusion of ERSATZ. Evidently it comes from German "ersatsen" meaning replacement.
Don't see how WC@6:50AM could fit flotsam in the space for JETSAM, too many letters. Another nice inclusion, jetsam.
GREAT WHITE WAY is a take off on Melville 's GW Whale
Jinx , I should buy me a suction soap dish. Of course, when I saw Jinx and "suction" I was worried for A SEC
Lee, re. Fitting FLOTSAM into 6 squares. I dropped the T and with the inky mess and my bad eyes it took awhile. GOES… led the way out
WC
Nice CW, and neat MB write up make for a good start to the day.
FLN Lucina I’m glad you came CLEAN on the SOAP operas. Jinx has a solution for you.
Good Morning! Today’s puzzle was a grinder for me, but perps were kind and WAGs were right. At the start the West was pretty much blank but then I circled around, and it all filed in.
ESP: EVANS, THEFT (Carmen Santiago??), IRA and HAN.
Loved the theme, Thanks, Lynn.
Thanks, Melissa. You made it all seem so easy.
Favorite word: JETSAM
Best diversion: POETS
DENNIS Haysbert: I remember him as the President in “24”.
Another EZ humpday with any unknowns perped along "the way"
Inkovers: Daniel,Dannie,Dennie/DENNIS (Yikes what an inky mess).. lav/LOO...when we were in Niagara Falls Ontario last summer our special daughter needed to find the ladies room. She can read signs for "restroom," "ladies room" etc. but came back confused. Seems our friends to the North label it a wash room.
Agree with Yellowrocks about poetic "stress" ..(BTW, when we mispronounced a religious term our priest would joke. "You speak Latin like an Episcopalian")
Looking forward to the next season of "Only Murders in the Building" Steve Martin and Martin Short :saw them perform together at our local Oneida Indian casino (the Turning Stone). Hilarious show. "two wild and karazy guys"
Liked "back at the track" : BETON
Military or tennis route...SERVICE ROAD
1 cent toll turnpike...PENNYLANE
Belief that the earth is not a sphere....FLATTERY
Oktoberfest shout....MORALE!
Get back into old clothes after weight loss....RETROFIT.
Have a great Odin's Day / Wodan's Day / Wednesday.
🙂
Musings
-This is one of those themes that really tickled my fancy! It was on EASY STREET for me.
-Required undergrad P.E. courses were EASY A’s for athletes who never bothered to attend
-The sad story of CASS’s life and death
-YR, thanks for the thorough explanation of STRESS in poetry! I wondered about it too.
-Will we ever know the people who knew what fate AWAITED TED’s older brother in Dallas?
-Our neighbor had a foreign exchange student from the former SSR of Albania this year. At the end of the school year, she secretly left town and is now with her uncle in Florida, not wanting to leave America.
-Joann bought an ERSATZ “Gucci” purse in Florence, Italy.
-Most golf courses require a “collared shirt” and will turn players away who wear a TEE shirt
-Retrofitting guns into garden tools
Good Morning:
HG and I must have similar fancies as I absolutely loved this theme. A fun, clever theme practically guarantees a satisfying and thoroughly enjoyable solve and this one certainly produced those reactions from me, in spite of the excess (27) three letter words (Hi, SS) and the saturation of proper names/nouns. The theme was a tight as a drum and the themers were perfect, especially Great White Way, my favorite. I needed perps for Evans, Theft, as clued, and Han, but they fell into place quickly. I liked seeing Egomania and Flattery side by side, as well as the relating duos of Rat/Weasel and Apr/Feb. The E string rows were also eye-catching with:
Easy A Edu EMT
Evita Evoke Eli
Thanks, Lynn, for a wonderful Wednesday offering and thanks, Melissa, for a terrific review with so many learning moments, e.g. the poet, Andrea Gibson and the rascally Alan Watts. I’m not sure if this is Lynn Lempel’s LA Times debut, but I’m quite familiar with her work appearing in that other paper. In fact, she is known over there as the Queen of Monday puzzles, racking up 72 Monday appearances out of 100 total publications.
Have a great day!
This was a smooth and easy solve for a Wednesday
Carmen Sandiego was a favorite show of my kids when they were in elementary- they learned so much about geography, history, and art while having fun.
They could probably still sing the theme song by Rockapella
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9aDMuBjR7Q
Flotsam and JETSAM are also the names of the eels in "The Little Mermaid" who were the Sea Witch, Ursula'S minions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ahskvuGlg8
Thanks Melissa and Lynn for a fun morning break!
This was clever and funny, thanks Lynn and Melissa Bee. Pool hall and house before TiOWN, seine before TRAWL, cad - RAT. I didn’t know HAN, IRA, and DENNIS but they were evident with other fill. SIDNEY Poitier appeared in “Paris Blues”, also starring Paul Newman .
Jinx from yesterday - Small world! My first professional job was at WSAZ - Huntington/Charleston. When I worked there we had the tallest antenna in North America, second in height to the Empire State Building. It was a very progressive company with color TV cameras long before many stations. Also taught at Marshall University (then, college).
Ned Cooney had a morning TV show in Cincinnati and my late husband made guest appearances on it several times.
CED - salt risen (rising, rising bread) probably originated in the18th century in Appalachia when yeast was unavailable. There are many different recipes but all develop a started that causes the bread to rise and can be stored for the the next batch. I must warn you if you plan to make it, it smells AWFUL when it is baking but tastes great, It is best toasted and served only with butter.
Happy day, all
Wikipedia "This area of Manhattan is often called the Theater District or the Great White Way, a nickname originating in the headline "Found on the Great White Way" in the February 3, 1902, edition of the New York Evening Telegram. The journalistic nickname was inspired by the millions of lights on theater marquees and billboard advertisements that illuminate the area."
TTYL going now to get squished for my mammo.
WEES!
I dunno about roads, but todays puzzle and write up sure sent me down a lot of rabbit holes!
(Very enjoyable!)
I thought the puzzle a delight! And fun to do. (Cad b/4 rat etc...) but that last beton crossing Han really had me going. The "N" had me doing alphabet runs in both across and down, and I was not going to cede a puzzle with only one letter left! I was crying "NATICK!" But I have to admit, it was an unknown name crossing a very clever clue/answer.
Loved the chateaux!
And that "google how to stop crying", I had to watch it several times to really understand what she was saying. I texted it to all three daughters.... (aw nuts, I just realized I forgot to actually google "how to stop crying...")
Oh, and a silly link to honor this great puzzle!
Almost forgot! Fabled procrastinator, four letters, I penned in "Dave" (meaning me!) and it turned out 2 of 4 letters actually fit, (so I was half right!)
Wonderful Wednesday. Thanks for the fun, Lynn and melissa bee.
I FIRed and saw the Routes (nice EASY STREET HG,).
One inkblot to change Wager to BET ON (but I was on the right track - groan, PUN,).
Several unknown names (as mentioned already by others), but perps were fair.
Irish Miss beat me to the duos.(I did wonder if “Chowed down==ATE” and “Swallow up” were going to be duos, but ENGULF can refer to more than food.)
I noted ELI and ILE.
Thanks YR for expanding stress and POETS explanation.
Yes Ray-o - washroom is commonly used here in Canada for the LOO. And especially in a tourist area like Niagara Falls, symbols
will be used. But women rarely wear a dress any more!
Wishing you all a great day.
Thank you Lynn for a pleasant Wednesday stroll in the puzzle park. I liked the helpful theme -- after the first long fill it was pretty clear where we were headed.
And thank you Melissa for an informative and insightful review. One nit - by my count this is Lynn's 8th puzzle in the LA Times.
A few favs:
42A POETS. Great clue. I see that YR has already explicated it. It's comments like that that make me wish Blogger had a "Share" button, so I could just mail it to myself.
58A RAT. Loved your illustration MB. Alan Watts is one of my favorite philosophers. Years ago his Psychotherapy East and West resulted in a complete shift of my World view. When I glance to my right I can see a copy on my office bookshelf.
68A BET ON. Another clever clue.
3D WEASEL. See 58A.
11D EGO MANIA. Also see 58A. Alan Watts' book shows why this makes no sense at all.
Cheers,
Bill
Husker @9:45 Thanks for the second link. Isaiah really was prophetic when he wrote in 2:4 that "They shall beat their swords into plowshares". Well it's a start anyway.
No adverse issues on this one. Basically, WEES, a pleasant mid-week jaunt. FLOTSAM & JETSOM: Flotsam is what's left FLOATing on the water after your boat sinks. Jetsam is what you threw off (JETTISONED) from your boat. (Maybe to keep it from sinking!)
To Parsan
(And/or anyone else who might be interested)
Regulars here know I'm nuts about bread, ever since 10+ years ago when I posted how to make pizza in the woods when camping.
I am also prediabetic, and never really thought much of it until January, when my doctor advised me that based in my blood work I should go on diabetes meds. I was in Florida at the time, and said I couldn't visit him in New Jersey for several months. He reluctantly agreed "if" I changed diet, and excercised.
I knew my diet was terrible, and my blood work was over the Xmas/New Years food fest. At the time I was experimenting with home made no knead bread recipes in a new air fryer toaster oven. (Fresh bread in ten minutes "if" you let the dough self ferment in the fridge for 5 days - video recipe available on request) anywho, I was probably eating a loaf of bread a day!
So I went on a sort of Keto diet, and excercised, and went on walks after meals, and biked, for the past 6 months. (No bread!) drank a tablespoon in a glass of water of apple cider vinegar, (Braggs, with "the mother") lost 22 pounds, and just got my blood work back today. My A1c is now "almost" below the prediabetic stage. ( more weight to lose...) which is really a drag, because todays paper printed an awesome biscuit recipe I want to try, but can't!
Can one of you guys make these biscuits and tell me how they come out using heavy cream for the liquid?
Canadian Eh @ 11:13 reminded me of a video I saw last week, that contains 8-12 minutes of silliness caused by vandalism.
pls direct your attention to the bathroom sign at 7:40
Note: with a sharpie, you too can alter the world!
Parsan, the world gets even smaller. After I got my FCC 1st Class Radiotelephone license, I left my dead-end job in Lexington and moved to Kenova to work at Marshall's WMUL-TV. One of WSAZ's engineers (maybe the chief) was a friend of my dad's. Don't remember his last name, but his first was Benny. That connection gave me a leg up for the open engineer position, since Benny was a friend of WMUL-TV's chief engineer, George Parnitza (sp?)
BTW, WSAZ should be famous for figuring out how to switch camera feeds between distant locations. Huntington and Charleston were the big cities then, and Channel 3 knew they needed to have studios in both for their evening newscasts. They figured it out and shared the method with NBC for the Huntley-Brinkley report, who reported from studios in New York and Washington.
(Geek stuff: Switching between cameras in a studio just requires frequency synchronization, because the distances between devices is so small. The challenge of switching cameras in different cities was to achieve phase synchronization, especially in those days of vacuum tube technology. If the signals were out of phase, the broadcast picture would "break up" after the switch, with viewers' TV picture rolling for a few milliseconds before returning to normal. Not good.)
Jinx@7:10
Thank you for that idea. I'm not sure it would fit in my shower stall as the soap shelf is really small. I'm thinking more of SOAP ON A ROPE. What do you think? Also liquid soap but I hate to use more bottles which ultimately end up in the landfill.
you are all so amusing to read!
I don't know if I even mentioned how much I enjoyed the puzzle and filling the WAYS. It's also fun to see words like ERSTAZ, ENGULF, EGOMANIA, FLATTERY, and RETROFIT in spite of the many three letter fill. I believe SELTZER was my favorite today.
Thank you, Lynn Lempel and melissa bee for the great fun!
FIFTH AVENUE evokes the good times I've had visiting New York. Speaking of that, my friend and world traveler who just returned from Ecuador and boating on the Amazon River, plans to visit here next month. She and her beau are so much fun.
Waseeley,I think you can send a copy to yourself. Hold your finger on the passage & run your finger along it to hi-light. A bar will come up with a SHARE option. Hope it helps.
Super puzzle, which is to be expected from a Lynn Lempel. (She's had about 50 puzzles in the LAT, btw.)
Thanks, Lynn, for a fun solve, and Melissa for great review!
From my post from yesterday:
In the last year I am very unhappy with WORD and with typing on the blog. Sometimes when I try to highlight something to move or copy it, it disappears. Sometimes almost the whole article erases.
Also, sometimes part of a line splits and jumps down to the next line.
It used to be when I highlighted something the program waited for me to click to indicate, delete, copy, or move.
Is there any way to get this old method back? Thank you.
Any thoughts? I detest this newish feature. It has erased whole paragraphs.
Fun Wednesday puzzle, many thanks, Lynn. And always enjoy your commentary, Melissa, thanks for that too.
Well, the theme sure made this a TRAVEL puzzle, which took us on a lot of different ROADs, and STREETs, and LANESs and AVENUEs, if not to a whole lot of different countries. Well, we did get to visit the SINAI, and had a stop in TAIPEI, and took a dip in the LOIRE. And we got to meet lots of interesting folks along way, like SIDNEY Poitier, and Mama CASS, and STEVE Martin. Hey, maybe we could get them all to join us to watch a production of EVITA? That would be fun. Well, if they don't want to do that we'll just hang out with some POETS.
Have a good day, everybody!
I don't need this space--thanks.
Yellowrocks,
It sounds like you may have accidentally activated a "cut" feature...
I am not sure, as I am in the dark about apple products also, I just discovered the the audible click when you take a camera picture was missing because I accidentally activated "live" mode. (I didn't even know there WAS a "live" mode...)
Before we can troubleshoot, we need to know,
Is this iPhone? iPad, android? Or other system.
What version is your device, and what operation system update are you running at.
Dave, thanks for that YouTube video. I laughed a lot.
RoseE @1:43 PM Thanks for that tip. It works on a desktop too with a mouse. The pop-up I get lists other options as well, e.g. Inspect (Q), which lets you look at the source code that generated the highlighted stuff. Might be useful for something ...
What a fun Wednesday-worthy puzzle! Thanks to Lynn and to Melissa for her interesting write-up. By posting the Angela Gibson clip, you are "helping it ripple".
55D could have been STEVE Martin or Martin SHORT. I had the latter at first. Good clue!
CED@11:45. Congrats on your health changes!
Hi All!
Nice theme and fun puzzle, Lynn. Thanks!
Thanks for the wonderful tour, mb. I'll share: one of my favorite poets is Billy Collins [The Country].
I'll be honest, I didn't know these were all names of real passages. I just thought they were apt rhyming or alliterative thoroughfares.
WOs: SIndEY #dyslexia!
ESPs: EVANS, ILE, HAN
Fav: POETS' clue.
{FLN - thanks for clarifying, A, B+}
IRA Flatow - I've listened to SciFri for years (since '95(?)). The "podcast" is an NPR show broadcast every Friday (locally 1-3p) AND, annually, they air the annual Ig Nobel awards.
Make your own SELTZER with a SodaStream. Add a mounding-tsp of baking soda and a pinch+ of salt (screw cap back on in a hurry!) and boom!, ClubSoda. You can also buy concentrated minerals for mineral water or use drink enhancement "sqirties" from the likes of Klass or Mio. //I never use SodaStreams "syrups" -- they're Pepsi Co, so super sweet.
Sumdaze - I'm glad I thought of STEVE and not SHORT.
CED - I owe my boss 8min; LOL vandal video.
Cheers, -T
Lucina, I've tried the soap-on-a-rope in my RV and it doesn't work for me. I use a liquid body wash there, but I only go through a bottle every year and a half or so. If you are so inclined you might want to Google recipes for make-your-own liquid soap. Too much work for me though.
I liked this puzzle and was also tickled by the theme. Pretty much WEES. Good stuff.
Good wishes to you all.
A PZL by Lynn Lempel, presented by Melissa bee...
A very enjoyable XWD, fun to re-interpret familiar street names.
Still miss Mama CASS. Loved her clear tones.
The heart of 37A GREAT WHITE WAY is 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues. And I sincerely hope it does not lead to today's clue!
~ OMK
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DR: Today we have two diagonals, one on each side.
The near diag's anagram (13 of 15 letters) speaks to the dancing style favored by some of my '50s' classmates.
Many of us tended to go up & down in our interpretation of the REIGNing dance fad, while others preferred to...
"BOP LENGTHWAYS"!
Anon-T,
Only 8 minutes?!?!
I thought you would be baking biscuits for me by now!
@##&*
I note we have 3 specific streets
Fleet Street
Great White Way
Fifth Avenue.
One famous in London, two famous in New York, and two generic entries
service road
passing lane.
Jinx
Whaaaat? Make my own soap? When I was a child I watched my grandmother make her own soap. It is a lot of hard work! I keep a chunk of that homemade soap as a souvenir of something I NEVER want to do!
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