Good Morning, Cruciverbalists. Malodorous Manatee here with today's recap of a puzzle by Jess Shulman and Shannon Rapp.
Let us begin with the reveal:
57 Across: Business retreat, and an apt title for this puzzle?: COMPANY OUTING.
OUTING is used here as a stand-in for take out. No, not like in take-out food but as in to remove something. The removal is employed at three places within the grid where our puzzle setters delete the abbreviation for COMPANY (CO) from recognizable names and phrases.
20 Across: Melt down in response to some trash talk?: PANIC AT THE DIS. Before the "outing" PANIC AT THE DISCO. DIS as in to criticize. Panic at the Disco was an American pop rock band.
36 Across: Talent for sliding into someone's DMs?: PING SKILLS. DM is contemporary talk for Direct Messaging. Before the "outing" COPING SKILLS. PING is a network utility used to test reachability of a host. Alternatively, PING me."
43 Across: Little cat with a beachy vibe?: CALI KITTEN. CALI as in California. I wish they all could be California cats, I suppose. Before the "outing" CALICO KITTEN.
Here is how this looks in the completed grid. It proved impossible to highlight the letters that were not there:
The remaining clues and answers are:
1. History: PAST.
5. Dreamcast maker: SEGA. A home video game console.
9. Blessing preceder: ACHOO. Gezuntheit.
14. "__, Brute?": ET TU. A Shakespearean reference.
15. God attended by Valkyries: ODIN.
16. Intact: WHOLE.
17. Instagram video: REEL. A contemporary usage of the word REEL.
18. Compact __: DISC. They replaced LPs
19. Like some seals: EARED. Most often fur seals and sea lions.
23. Refill: TOP UP. As in a cocktail or fuel tank. Do we TOP UP electric vehicles?
24. Costa del __: SOL.
25. AED pro: EMT. Automated External Defibrillator was new to this solver but the perps quickly led to Emergency Medical Technician because EMTs appear here frequently.
28. Copy cats?: MEOW. Not exactly copycats as in persons who imitate. Literally, copy a cat.
30. Noisy bird: MAGPIE. See also 33 Down.
33. Colorado's __ Verde National Park: MESA. Cliff dwellings.
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39. Haim of "Licorice Pizza": ALANA. Unknown to this solver. As the puzzles get more contemporary I find myself becoming less enthusiastic about some of them. I also know that time marches on and a puzzle full of references to prior generations of entertainers won't do either.
41. Zodiac lion: LEO.
42. __-garde: AVANT.
46. Peepers: EYES. If one goes looking online for the old song one is "rewarded" with many references to the horror movies. The phrase predates both. Louis Armstrong sang it to an eponymous horse.
Jeepers Creepers
47. Connect: ATTACH. What can you ATTACH to a ball, a cart or a harp to make it something completely different. OON.
48. "Star Wars" family name of Han and Ben: SOLO.
50. Bentley of "Yellowstone": WES.
51. Substance that lacks refinement?: ORE. Nice word play. No, not the French city.
54. Benchmarks: NORMS. If Weird Al Yankovic wasn't weird he'd be called NORM Al.
62. Language of Iran: FARSI. . . . and portions of Los Angeles.
64. Exam with a max score of 180: LSAT. The law school aptitude test.
65. Sunburn salve: ALOE. Often applied in crossword puzzles.
66. __ beverage: ADULT. Alcohol.
67. Entice: LURE.
68. Mario __: game with a Rainbow Road: KART.
69. Captcha target: ROBOT. A contrived acronym for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart". It is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human.
70. Itches: YENS. As in desires not allergic reactios.
71. Docs who insert tympanostomy tubes: ENTS. Our second medical reference with an abbreviated clue (Docs) and answer. Ear Nose and Throat specialistS
Down:
1. BOLO target: PERP. Be On The Alert. PERPetrator not a crossing word in a puzzle.
2. Patronized, as a restaurant: ATE AT.
3. Shorthand pro: STENO. A somewhat obsolete profession.
4. Dutch market craze of the late 1630s: TULIP MANIA. Perhaps not what we have been led to believe,
5. Soft drink: SODA POP.
6. Address plot holes, perhaps: EDIT.
7. General ideas: GISTS. What do biologists, archaeologists and meteorologists all have in common? They all get the GIST of their fields.
8. Dried poblano: ANCHO.
9. Amazed: AWED. A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus crashed yesterday losing its entire load. Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, mixed up, surprised, awed, dumbfounded, nonplussed, flabbergasted, astounded, amazed, confounded, astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed, speechless, and perplexed.
11. Tomfoolery: HORSEPLAY.
12. La Liga cheer: OLE. A soccer reference.
13. Ref. work that once employed J.R.R. Tolkien: OED. Oxford English Dictionary. Tolkien was an English author best known for the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
21. Snooker stick: CUE.
22. Long-lived trees: ELMS. Neither Sequoias nor Bristle Cone Pines would fit.
26. Eeyore creator: MILNE. A Winnie The Pooh reference.
27. Challenges: TESTS. Both can be used as nouns or verbs so that wasn't at issue.
29. Go limp: WILT.
31. Pseudonym indicator: AKA. Also Known As
29. Go limp: WILT.
31. Pseudonym indicator: AKA. Also Known As
32. "Ish": GIVE OR TAKE.
33. Noisy bird: MACAW. The second noisy bird today.
34. Thrill: ELATE.
35. Element of a margarita pedicure: SALT SCRUB. Margarita pedicures are not within my ken. SALT, however, was not surprising as part of the answer.
37. Aquarium scoop: NET.
38. "So It __ ... ": song on Taylor Swift's "Reputation": GOES. Is Taylor Swift now channeling Kurt Vonnegut?
40. "For the love of all things dog" org.: AKC.
40. "For the love of all things dog" org.: AKC.
45. "Don't change a thing": NO NOTES.
49. "Mambo No. 5" singer Bega: LOU.
52. Comeback: RALLY.
53. Follow: ENSUE.
56. Stifled laugh: SNORT.
58. Norse city name that can be translated as "meadow of the gods": OSLO. Frequently visited in our puzzles.
59. Fly catcher?: MITT. A baseball reference.
"I Got It"
60. Crocheter's supply: YARN.
61. Understands: GETS. Can you dig it?
62. Way off: FAR.
63. Fuss: ADO.
61. Understands: GETS. Can you dig it?
62. Way off: FAR.
63. Fuss: ADO.
Well, coworkers, that will wrap things up for today. For those of you entertaining guests this weekend, enjoy your COMPANY.
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56 comments:
One thing I can say about this puzzle is that the theme was evident from the get-go, so that helped with solving it. But one thing I don’t get is how “Don’t change a thing “ is equivalent to “No notes.” I’m sure some kind Cornerite will explain that to me. On the whole, this puzzle was not as difficult as I was expecting (dreading?) a Friday puzzle to be. FIR, so I’m happy.
Baby, I'da love to kiss you,
But first I'ma gonna need a tissue!
From a kiss would ENSUE
You'd get the flu, too.
So all I can say to you is ACHOO!
Don't let the haters DIS
When you spin that vinyl DISC
At the DISCO,
The AWESOME Disco!
You're the D. J. with the hits,
You can make those records hiss
At the Disco,
The awesome disco!
{A-, A-.}
Good morning!
This theme made that familiar whooshing sound as it flew over my head. Sensed that it should'a been a CALIco KITTEN, but DISco and coPING were not on d-o's radar. Still, got 'er done without understanding why. I agree with Subgenius about NO NOTES. Wha? Thanx, Jess, Shannon, and Mal-Man. (Norm Al? Gists? [groan])
"And so it goes" -- This was the signature sign-off of long-time NBC correspondent Linda Ellerbee. Maybe still is.
DISC -- Sad tale of woe. Yesterday my music server failed to find a song I wanted to play. A look at its hard-drive contents showed one empty folder and a total size of 280 MB. The hard-drive is actually 2 TB (2000 GB) and contained more than 12,000 selections. I contacted the mfr: "It's out of warranty, and nobody repairs 'em. Why don't you just buy a new one?" It may come to that. But on a long shot, I've purchased a replacement 2 TB drive for $30. IF I can replace the drive, and IF I can reassemble the unit, and IF I can get the unit to recognize the new drive, and IF I can successfully format the new drive, then I could replace the contents from my recent backup. I figure risking $30 is worth it, considering the $1400 cost of a new unit. Stay tuned.
In regards to "no notes" I'll presume this is in regards to turning a paper in to a professor, editor etc... If they were to suggest edits to your paper they would note it so "no notes" implies they are suggesting no changes to what you submitted. Cheers!
Hello again! Thanks so much for another kind review and thanks to everyone for solving. Please find more of my work, including a new themed midi today at my own crossword site, https://www.norahsharpe.com/
52d. Had reply, 64a had PSAT, so I had company vs company. Finally saw the error and finished. Easy Friday.
Could somebody please explain 45 down? The clue is "Don't change a thing". Answer was "no notes". ???
Took 6:22 today for me to find company.
"No notes", to me, means when a screenwriter submits a script to a producer/network, and they don't have any changes to make. Otherwise, if the network wanted changes, the network would say, "well, we have some notes."
"Note" that is not based on any actual first-hand experience of mine.
I didn't know today's actress (Alana) or today's novelist (Milan).
Fun Friday puzzle, though easier than the old standard Fridays.
"I wish they all could be California cats..." is funny.
Good Morning:
Kudos to Subgenius for spotting the theme from the get-go but I’m in DO’s camp. I finally did get it (I guess) but I spent an inordinate time trying to come up with a company name, i.e., Panic At The Dis(cover). (Discover Card) This line of thinking had me bogged down for ages and that confusion, combined with the numerous unknowns, led to a slow, frustrating solve. The margarita salt scrub entry was the latest reference that reinforces the depth of my ignorance of pop culture’s latest trends. Despite Ty Reed’s helpful 6:43 comment, No Notes is about as green-paintish as Ireland’s landscape, IMVHO. Props for the 14 three letter words and Flops to the 8 fill-in-the-blanks clues.
DO @ 5:56 ~ Good luck with your project. Stay tuned was the only thing you said that I understood, that and the difference between $30.00 and $1400.00. 🤣
Thanks, Jess and Shannon, and thanks MalMan, for the much-needed comic relief. Your Amazed=Awed expo struck my funny bone, as did your many other Dad jokes. I love your humor and today it served as a welcome antidote to my puzzle-solving pique!
I rewatched The Green Book last night and was mesmerized, once again, by the unforgettable performances by Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali. What a powerful movie!
Have a great day.
FIR. Never got the theme till I got here, but that didn't stop me from a smooth finish today.
Nice Friday puzzle. Very enjoyable.
Ty Reed @6:43 AM I agree -- an implicit STET.
IM - Would you mind going over what “green paint” means, again? I’m afraid I have forgotten your original explanation.
Apologies for not explaining the NO NOTES answer. Others, above, have covered the topic and I have nothing to add (or, no notes).
FIR, but erased palo for MESA, corey for ALANA, mali kitten for CALI KITTEN, mynah for MACAW, and reply for RALLY. Hand up for not catching the theme.
Don't know why corey Haim isn't as obscure as ALANA to me. Can't name a single thing either has been in. Maybe I remember that corey died young.
DO, just curious why you have a purpose-built music server. That's what computers that can't go to Win 11 are for.
Thanks to Jess and Shannon for the stretch objective. And thanks to our MalMan for the punny fun. Just one request - can't you use another word for thesaurus?
This is about the right difficulty for a Friday CW. I got the theme of dropping letters with the first theme fill (20A) but it didn’t help, and when I managed to FIR in an excruciatingly slow 35 minutes, I looked back and the dropped letters made no sense to me. Probably because I thought they would differ from one theme answer to another and fit together into a word, but no. W/Os = BULBS:MANIA, REPLY:RALLY. DNK DM as clued, or AED; EMT via perps. I notice the picture of IHOP posted has two “in” doors and no “out” door. So, we finally know where Soylent Green comes from! Anyway, thanx for the Friday CW, JS&SR, well done. And thanx too to MalMan for all the time and effort. Valkyries look interesting, I’m gonna have a look at what that’s all about. And Google Costa del Sol to be reminded of what/where it is. The older I get, the more I discover has leaked out of my brain. Have a good weekend, everyone.
LOL! I shall search my lexicon and see what I can find.
This was way over my head. I never got the theme until MM so nicely explained it. I had to look up a few names, not MILAN Kundera however since he’s been a favorite of mine since his famous The Unbearable Lightness of Being. But unknowns were SEGA, Haim, Bentley, the Taylor Swift song, although I was able to guess that one, Bega.
Subgenius is really a super genius to have gotten the theme right off. And in retrospect I think I should have figured it out.
I’m with others about NO NOTES. Not clear. I liked the clue for MITT, tu I didn’t like GISTS in the plural.
If you hear someone say SODA POP around here you know they’re not from around here.
Correction. Not tu, but but.
Licorice Pizza- how to ruin two things
Oil/ORE;spC/AKC;sALLY/RALLY
We called it tonic in my Boston 'ute
I tried mynah then minah then finally examined the CO theme and MACAW fell. And, at first I thought it was some kind of RUB.
The theme saved me as NOTED.
WC
FIR
Came sooo close to a FIR but knew I had FIW with compeny crossed with reply and psat instead of LSAT...plus the neo references are way past my bedtime. PANIC AT THE DISco? Sheesh. I did see "Licorice Pizza" but don't remeber the cast? C'mon.
Shouldn't be referred to as "Pop" culture since old Pops like me don't get it.
Inkovers: oil/ORE, sees/GETS, Palo/MESA, Rey/SOL, Les/WES, NoVotes/NONOTES, (anonymous answered his/her own question? Or two separate anonymi? 😊)
Ha... I needed a perp for PERP...😆
ELMS, many of ours saw Lincoln's funeral train pass thru town... until 1960s when Dutch Elm disease killed hundreds of our huge sidewalk sentinels, essentially wiped them out.
Why would potholes need addresses? Oooh "plotholes" Thought "Tomfoolery" was "nonsense" not "roughhousing".
Equine stage production....HORSEPLAY
He needed a CPAP machine cuz he ___... SNORT
Pride of an AKC litter....TOPUP
TGIF
Subgenius at 8:44 ~ It’s easier to give an example of what I mean by green paint.
Prized Possession = Signed First Edition
Prized Possession = Grandma’s Brooch
Both answers make sense but the first is specific, the latter is generic.
Re No Notes, based on several comments above and some research, the phrase appears to be show-biz specific, so I guess it isn’t truly green paint, but I don’t believe it is a well-known in-the-language term, either. I apologize for my error. 🫢
I figured out the missing CO (commanding officer?) but only understood the CALI KITTEN. PING SKILLS was 100% perps before I filled COMP_NY OUTING- had no idea about DM so 'coping' wasn't a thought. PANIC AT THE DIS was also all perps; never heard of that band. It was a DNF for me as I'd filled PSAT for the test and wouldn't let go of REPLY. I knew it had to be COMPANY but my brain didn't RALLY for 'Comeback'.
MAGPIE- I never knew that it was a real bird until my teen years. People would call noisy gossipy women magpies.
TOP UP- It was an easy fill but I've only heard people say TOP OFF the gas tank, glass, ...etc.
MILAN, ALANA, SALT SCRUB, GOES and the rest of her songs, NO NOTES- perps for those unknowns. As far as 'no notes' will the AI ChatBots make up their own notes?
WILT for 'Go limp'- I see and hear commercials to cure that condition. I was up early watching the British Open and a couple of ads for different cures came on.
FLN
DO...The last two full service hospitals in Utica will close the final week of October when the newly constructed hospital will open. My group is contracted to provide services. No plans to retire. DW says we would probable kill each other. So in one way or another I'd end up in the new hospital anyway 😁
Waz.. inside the MRI magnet bore the patient's hydrogen atoms align north-south along the bore. That orientation is then distorted intermittently by radiowaves.... The radio signals then emitted by the hydrogen atoms returning to north south in different tissues at different frequencies are recorded as images. Or something like that 🤔
Yeah, AOS, the "A" in company was the last cell to fill. I, too, had REPLY and PSAT, bur knew COMPENT had to be COMPANY....then it took a lot of smoke billowing out of my ears before being squelched by a can of V-8 when RALLY finally occurred to me.
Best wishes everyone.
company outing?
Desper-Otto,
I'm no expert, and just curious...
If the drive is garbage anyway, and you have a backup, what would happen if you just formatted it and reloaded your files?
Musings
-I am enjoying a beautiful, cool summer morning on the deck before the 100+ temps hit this week
-(CO)PING SKILLS finally gobsmacked me in this clever puzzle! I resist the reveal until I can find the gimmick.
-We had a teacher’s meeting about using an AED. A week later I couldn’t recall much.
-ALANA, LOU, MILAN and WES were unknown but filled without ADO
-Students who don’t fit the NORMS can be a blessing or a pain
-When I was 9, everyone in Nebraska was on the outlook for this PERP
-Interesting reading about “TULIP MANIA”. I thought of this during the bitcoin mania.
-The kids snickered when reading The Outsiders, that had characters named SODA POP and Ponyboy
-ELMS of my yute lost their lives by the thousands
-Our noisy grackles have left our feeders
-NO NOTES: Some people can read from the teleprompter better than others
-MITT: Outfielders try to catch the ball as nonchalantly as possible
This one struck me as a combination of clever and banal, but I slowly managed to FIR. I'll Echo IM & DO on the theme. If not for Mal Man, I' d still be in the dark searching for it.
-Like all writers, Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David had to submit scripts to the network and producers to get permission to proceed. If there were issues there would be NOTES ATTACHED, a standard term in that world, about what didn’t meet their criteria. NO NOTES was a carte blanche to go ahead. They had some real problems with this episode
Thank you Jess and Shannon for an almost FIR, i.e. an FIW. I was still stuck in the 11th grade when I filled 64A with PSAT, which worked fine with REPLY for 52D, which din't work fine with 57A COMPANY OUTING. Anywho ...
Thank you MalMan for explaining the theme, which went MPLETELY over my head. I thought it had something to do with cats. And thanks for the usual funny stuff.
Some things I did get:
13D ODIN. AKA WOTAN in Wagner's Ring Cycle. Here's the music made famous by his posse of Valkyries.
38D MEOW. Cleverest clue.
30A MAGPIE. I think IM agrees with me that, while Magpie Murders was a really good mystery series, it was still MISSING something ...
36A PING SKILLS. I think -T and Jynx would agree that the Packet InterNet Groper utility is one of most useful tools in the network troubleshooter's arsenal.
69A ROBOT. This article discusses several tools you can use to unmask them as inhuman.
71A ENTS. The most famous of whom was of course Treebeard.
45D NO NOTES. I said this earlier, but this is an implicit STET for an entire document.
52D RALLY. I was not able to RALLY from filling REPLY in this slot.
Cheers,
Bill
Thanks Jess and Shannon for a clever and well balanced puzzle of contemporary pop culture and classic crossword cluing. I didn’t know Alana Haim of Licorice Pizza but I enjoy learning new trends and fads; but I still enjoy seeing older generational fads included. A fun Friday solve. …kkFlorida
Jinx, I like the features and ease of use of the dedicated server. The proprietary software can locate any song/artist/composer in a flash and play it, complete with album artwork. It rips CDs to no-loss FLAC files. It's easy to play albums or create playlists. It can stream on-line radio stations. I can control it via software on my desktop, laptop, or phone. And its internal DACs provide superior sound to a typical PC's soundcard. It's also quite compact -- only 7X8X4. CED, it might be possible to resurrect the old hard-drive, but even if I could, I wouldn't trust it. I plan to partition/format the new drive and then restore my backup files to it.
Greetings! I was LURED into wondering if it was really Friday when the North smoothly came together, but I knew there would be bumps ahead….
Thanks, Jess and Shannon, for a clever puzzle even though I didn’t connect the theme until I read the recap. Thanks, MalMan.
RE: your 39A commentary, MalMan. I don’t mind contemporary info inclusion in the CWs, but too often it is not mainstream. Obscure people/shows/music/etc. in either the clue or the fill should be taboo. I know, I know, obscure to who? This old fogie!!! 🤣
BOLO again today, this time as a clue, not a tie. 😄
Hand up for reading 6D as POTholes. I held off on putting “pave” in.
WO: melt -> WILT, sees -> GETS
Lots of WAGs in the Mid-West: ALANA, CALI, WES
Alas, I DNF. The SE got me. I had to google NORMS and KART before the remaining empty boxes filled.
Pretty easy for Friday but I messed myself up. I was SURE 62D was REPLY and 64A was PSAT, but company has no E. Couldn't figure it out. Never would have thought of RALLY, just wasn't on that wave length. Nice puzzle though. Thanks Manatee GC
Hola!
Oh, how I hated leaving cool California! It was a treat to sleep under bed covers! But here I am in 97 degrees (so far) at 9:33 A.M. and headed for the hundreds this afternoon.
However, I'm pleased to solve a puzzle for the first time this week! This was not HORSE PLAY!
WES, ALANA and MILAN are unknown to me but they emerged nicely.
Though I often have pedicures, I've never had a SALT SCRUB.
I have fond memories of the COSTA DEL SOL which was my very first stop in Spain after landing in Madrid.
NO NOTES was the rule when being tested during ORAL exams.
I just heard that Tony Bennet died. R.I.P. to a great voice that greatly entertained us.
Have a wonderful day, everyone! Though it's hot, it's good to be home. Ole! Ole!
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Neat Friday puzzle, many thanks, Jess and Shannon. And always enjoy your fun commentary, Mal Man, always a treat.
Well, if this puzzle had a party setting, it really AWED me with its TULIP MANIA under those lovely ELM trees. There wasn't any food, but at least we got some SODA POP, and the fun part was that there were many critters running around, so we got to hear some KITTENS MEOW, and saw some HORSE PLAY, and heard a MACAW making fun sounds. A treat all around--OLE!
Have a great weekend coming up, everybody!
My mom used to use Coca Cola, except that she would slur it into "cocola." I remember her telling about trying to get a restaurant server in Boston to understand what she wanted to drink. Finally, (s)he got it and said "oh, a soda!"
Ray-O, like the wife said, "Well, I would have half as much income and twice as much husband. Why would I want that?"
Big E - Gotta watch the dosage on that stuff. At least if you accidentally overdose, the cure is simple - just walk around a bit with a rock in your shoe. Makes you limp every time.
Gary, wasn't it "Say Hey" Willie Mays whose trademark was making basket catches?
OKL - Cute.
After a performance, a director delivers “notes,” or suggested changes to the actor or to the writer.
A MalMan operation, leading us through the clever clues & fills of this Shulman/Rapp PZL.
I am with waseeley and others in missing out on today's theme.
When I read MalMan's explications, I found the logic consistent but barely amusing. Sometimes the end result of adding or (in this case) subtracting of letters requires explanations that are too private or obscure.
PING = "sliding into ...DMs"?
CALI = California = "beachy vibe"?
~ OMK
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DR: Three diagonals. near side.
The center diag's anagram --a JACKPOT!--(15 of 15!!) refers to the nervous social moves made by the brand new second lieutenant as he tries desperately to gain the respect of his seasoned NCOs and cocky adolescent troops.
Yes, these are the embarrassingly comic...
"LOOIE PIROUETTES"!
Hi All!
Your TL;DR - same hiccups in the grid as the rest of y'all.
Thanks Jess & Shannon for the puzzle (and for stopping in, Shannon). I never really understood the theme until MManatee explained.
And explain MManatee did. Fun expo!
//um, BOLO == Be On the Look Out
WOs: AKa -> AKC when AKA showed up, RepLY -> RALLY, cart->KART
ESPs: names I know not.
Fav: TUILIP MANIA just 'cuz I'm reading Easy Money right now [yes, I pre-ordered it -- #nerd].
{A+, A-}
Big-E - we had Panic at the Disco 9/22/22 clued as "Pray for the Wicked band__." (I think that's their album, not a song). I'm not that into them but I Write Sins Not Tragedies is fun as is High Hopes (the latter is a little too auto-tuned for me).
Ping is ICMP (protocol 1) type 8. The echo response is type 0. ICMP is NOT to be confused with protocol 4 (TCP) or 17 (UDP). //I hope I got that right - been a while ;-)
D-O: That you have a full backup, I'm not going to offer my recovery services. //I can read a platter at 20 paces* :-)
NO NOTEs has become slang for "I've got nothing to add."
Lucina - Tony Bennet's passing was the first thing I heard on the radio this AM. Pop and I (nearly) always listened to him and/or Frankie when we built spaghetti dinners. Tony was a class-act.
Talking MAGPIEs (tell me this Heckle & Jeckle link works, CED ;-))
Cheers, -T
*seriously - I've recovered more "broken" disks than I can count. Once, I recovered a SCSI RAID 5 with two (2!) bad HDs (and was handsomely paid for it).
Didn't refresh b/f posting say...
Jinx - Mom says "sodi-pop." I think it's a northern Kentucky or southern IL thing. When I moved south all non-Adult fizzies were "Coke." As in,
"You want a Coke?"
"Sure, I'll have a Dr. Pepper."
OMK, that DR has Monty Python written all over it. //I was an impressionable kid.
C, -T
Bayou Tony - In my part of the south it was "Wanna coke?" "Sure, an RC Cola if you have one. Ya got a Moon Pie to go with it?" Two things I miss from my old haunts are (deep) fried Danish (Rowan County) and grilled (on a flattop) Honey Buns (Fayette County.)
Edward in LA CA: this cat feels like it’s a Monday
Somewhere between Rochester and Buffalo NY (an hour by car on the Thuway) they stop saying "soda" and start saying "pop"
-T @1:46 PM Your explanation of ping rings a 🔔.
I liked the puzzle and the nice theme, which I sussed. FIW with two look ups. I still enjoyed the challenge. My look ups were all V-8 can type. Duh!
As a teacher I believe no notes could mean don't change a thing. Your paper is just right. But this is highly unlikely to occur. Only the most unfeeling teacher would give no praise or comment on such an outstanding paper. They make comments, such as good points, excellent job, interesting. I always praise where possible, even when I need to give suggestions for improvement. Personally, I have never received no comment on any piece of writing, good or bad. Even A+ ones get comments. No notes is the sign of a lazy teacher. Do they even read through all the papers?
I have read several historical novels on tulip mania. Fascinating.
I had to look up a lot of stuff to solve this puzzle. So, the constructors and editor know a lot of things that I don't know at all. That's fine, but it also made this puzzle more like a trivial pursuit challenge than a crossword puzzle, filling in answers to factoids, which you either know or you don't, than using reasoning the come to the answers.
I did like the clues for MEOW, ORE, MITT, and NET. I liked the entries HORSEPLAY, GIVE OR TAKE, and SNORT. Fun words and phrases.
As for Green Paint, one of my puzzles was rejected, in part, because my entry FAMILY SEDAN was considered to be Green Paint. In other words, "Nobody really says that. People say 'family car.' You just made it up solely to fill puzzle space or to make your theme work."
Good wishes to you all.
I am really getting more and more annoyed with the ads that are intruding more and more into this website. I give you an example: Just now I went to the https://crosswordcorner.blogspot.com/ site as the first step in coming to this website. At the bottom of that page is a link to nn comments, which is what I have, for years, clicked on to come to this web page. For the last several days, however, instead of bringing me to this page, clicking on that link popped up a FULL SCREEN ad that covered up everything. When I then clicked the X to close the ad, I was STILL ON the crosswordcorner.blogspot.com page. It didn't bring me here. I had to click on the nn comments link AGAIN to get here.
More examples: For several months there have been FULL WIDTH ads intruding on the blogger page. Today, for example, while reading Malodorous Manatee's excellent write-up, his comments were cut into pieces by ads that intruded upon and bisected his comments. I could simply scroll past the ad, but then it, or another ad, would reappear further down the page. It's like you can't make them go away. They'll just pop up again as you scroll down, polluting this great blog with crass and extremely ugly junk.
I have also noticed an increase in ads on the Chicago Tribune website where I go to solve the LAT puzzles. For quite a while I would have to watch an ad before the puzzle loaded. I could then solve the puzzle uninterrupted. Lately, though, ads arise in the midst of the solve. This is in addition to the pre-puzzle ad.
I tried to respond yesterday re MRI comfort. It is possible to get an "Open MRI" for added comfort and to avoid meds for claustrophobia.
MM @7:00 PM Another reason to solve on paper.
Fabulous Friday. Thanks for the fun, Jess and Shannon, and MalMan.
Plenty of inkblots today, and one trip to Mr. Google to help this Canadian remember the Colorado National Park, and open up that mid-west coastal area,. I was thinking of Alte before MESA.
But I did get the missing CO theme - eventually.
Until I reached the reveal, I thought we had a Cat theme going. There is a CAT in 20A, MEOW, LEO, KITTEN, with some YARN to chase. There is also a mini Dog theme with PUP in 23A, AKC, as well as birds with MAGPIE and MACAW.
I noted FARSI crossing FAR, and DISC above THE DIS(CO).
I’m NW of Buffalo (I see that the world ends at the border), and we call it Pop.
Wishing you all a good evening.
Thank you, Jess and Shannon for your puzzle and also Shannon's post on The Corner. I solved it without seeing the theme but stared at it until I found it before coming here.
FAVs:
GIVE OR TAKE
MAGPIE (such clever birds!)
Fly Catcher (made me think of Irish Miss this week)
PERP (would love to see it clued in crosswordese)
Good thing I did not think of RepLY. I would have hung my hat on that one.
ALANA Haim and her 2 sisters have a band. They are a very talented family. She was a guest on WWDTM a couple of years ago. Licorice Pizza is a reference to LP records.
Excellent tourn, MalMan! Thanks for the fun, e.g. ALOE is "often applied" LOL! Your NOTES on AWED left me wonderstruck. I also enjoyed learning about TULIPMANIA being over exaggerated. (BTW, TULIPbulbs also fit.)
Anon-T @ 1:46 : "cart->KART" ... Ah. I'm in good company!
Jayce @ 6:54 -- You might try using an 'ad blocker.' Using one for several years, there have been few of the furshlugginer nuisances.
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