Happy Halloween!
19-Across. Restaurant that operates within another restaurant: GHOST KITCHEN. Hand up if you knew of Ghost Kitchens.
27-Across. With 32-Across, embarrassing secret: SKELETON. //
And 32. See 27-Across: IN THE CLOSET. Together, this
gives us a SKELETON IN THE CLOSET.
42-Across. Emmy-nominated TV series based on a Hilary Mantel novel: WOLF HALL. That's Dame Hilary Mantel (July 6, 1952 ~ Sept. 22, 2022) to you.
She was best known for her historical fiction. She wrote a trilogy
about Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII, King of
England. Wolf Hall was the first book in the series,
followed by Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light. [Name # 1.]
And the unifier:
48-Across. Halloween attraction, or what 19-, 27-/32-, and 42-Across all might be a part of?: HAUNTED HOUSE.
And, what you might hear in a Haunted House:
36-Down. Evil laugh: MWA HA HA!
Across:
1. Hip-hop duo __ & Rakim: ERIC B. I am not familiar
with this duo of Eric B. (né Eric Barrier; b. Nov. 8, 1963) and Rakim (né
William Michael Griffin, Jr.; b. Jan. 28, 1968). The group was big in
the late 1980s and early 1990s. [Names # 2 and 3.]
6. Landlocked West African nation: MALI. The United States
Department of State currently lists Mali on its Do Not Travel list due to crime, kidnapping and terrorism.
10. Product prefix that evokes winter: SNO.
13. Gambling hub near Hong Kong: MACAU. Everything you
wanted to know about Macau but didn't know to ask.
14. Opinion piece: OP-ED. Opposite the Editorial Page.
15. Cloverleaf feature: LOOP.
16. Eggs (on): SPURS.
17. Gem from Australia or Ethiopia: OPAL. Hi, Kazie!
Is it bad luck to wear an Opal if it's not your birth stone?
18. Eclectic online digest: UTNE. Its full name is
the Utne Reader. It was first published in 1984 and is named after its
founder, Eric Utne.
22. Large cupboard: ARMOIRE.
25. Black belt discipline: KARATE.
26. Tosses: HEAVES.
29. Circle dances: HORAs.
30. "Finish the job!": DO IT.
31. Grass in a roll: SOD.
36. GI grub: MRE. We had the Meals Ready to Eat last Tuesday.
38. Flair: ELAN.
39. Campfire residue: ASHES.
45. Texas border city: EL PASO. The city and county of El
Paso, Texas is in the Mountain Time Zone, where as most of the rest of Texas
is in the Central Time Zone.
46. Glass raiser's opening: A TOAST.
47. Brother of Ophelia: LAERTES. A reference to Willie the
Shakes' play Hamlet. I'll let our Shakespeare scholar
expound on these characters. [Names # 4 and 5.]
51. Fighting: AT IT.
52. Christian of fashion: DIOR. Christian Ernest Dior (Jan.
21, 1905 ~ Oct. 24, 1957) was a French fashion designer. He is best
known for A-Line collection which made its debut in 1955. [Name # 6.]
53. TV channel with election night coverage: MSNBC. It's
short for Microsoft and the National Broadcasting Corporation.
57. "For __ jolly ... ": HE'S A.
58. Not new: USED.
59. Like more than 4 billion people: ASIAN.
60. Fruit juice suffix: -ADE. We miss you LemonADE!
61. Degs. for many profs: Ph.Ds. Today's Latin lesson.
The abbreviation for Doctor of Philosophy, or in the original Latin:
Philosophiae Doctor.
62. "Oppenheimer" director Christopher: NOLAN. J. Robert
Oppenheimer (né Julius Robert Oppenheimer; Apr. 22, 1904 ~ Feb. 18, 1967) was
an American theoretical physicist and director of the Manhattan Project's Los
Angeles lab. He is sometime called the Father of the Atomic bomb.
Christopher Nolan (né Christopher Edward Nolan; b. July 30, 1970) is a
British-born filmmaker who directed this past summer's blockbuster film about
Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb. [Names # 7 and 8.]
Down:
1. Ambulance gp.: EMs. Emergency Medicine. //
And 3-Down: Hosp. recovery area: ICU. Intensive
Care Unit. // And 20-Down. Surgery ctrs.: ORs.
Operating Rooms.
2. Knock sharply: RAP.
4. Moving day rental: CARGO VAN.
5. Most overgrown, say: BUSHIEST.
6. __ Tracks ice cream: MOOSE. Vanilla ice cream with peanut butter cups and chocolate fudge. Apparently the name
was inspired by a mini golf course.
7. Spot on a sked: APPT. An appointment is a spot on a
schedule.
8. Plumbing problem: LEAK.
9. "That sounds tempting": I'D LIKE TO.
10. Phrase of finality: SO THAT'S THAT.
11. Far from: NONE TOO. Meh!
12. Allowing for modification, as a mortgage: OPEN END.
15. Loot: LUCRE.
21. "She's So High" singer Bachman: TAL. Tal Bachman (né
Talmage Charles Robert Backman; b. Aug. 13, 1968) is a Canadian
singer-songwriter who is best known for She's So High. [Name
# 9.]
22. Sound at a spa: AHH!
23. __ Speedwagon: REO. The band, which was formed in the
late 1960s, was named after the REO Speed Wagon truck that first produced in 1915 by Ransom Eli Olds (June 3, 1864 ~ 1950) of
Oldsmobile fame. [Name # 9]
24. Duchess of Parma who was Napoleon's second wife: MARIE LOUISE.
Archduchess Marie Louise (Dec. 12, 1791 ~ Dec. 17, 1847) was the Duchess
of Parma in her own right. She reigned as the Duchess of Parma, Piacenza
and Guastalla from April 1814 until her death 33 years later. In 1810,
she married Napoleon (Aug. 15mm 1769 ~ May 5, 1821). He was her first
husband. After his death, she married twice more. [Names # 10 and
11.]
27. L.A.'s region: SO-CAL. Southern California.
28. Pottery oven: KILN.
30. Big name in crossword puzzle magazines: DELL. [Name
adjacent.]
33. Warmed, as leftovers: HEATED UP.
34. Arthur Miller's "Death of a __": SALESMAN. Arthur Asher
Miller (Oct. 17, 1915 ~ Feb. 10, 2005) wrote many, many plays, but is probably
best known for his short marriage to Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 ~ Aug. 4,
1962). She was the second of his three wives. [Name # 12.]
35. Strong coffee in a tiny cup: ESPRESSO. Yummers!
37. Went round and round: ROTATED.
40. WNW's opposite: ESE.
41. Emergency letters: SOS. This is becoming a crossword
staple.
43. Fruit soda brand: FANTA. [Name Adjacent.]
44. Pres. after FDR: HST. Harry S Truman (May 8, 1884 ~ Dec.
26, 1972) was Vice-President until the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(Jan. 30, 1882 ~ Apr. 12, 1945). Roosevelt president to be elected for a
4th term. Truman was his 3rd Vice-President. His first
Vice-President was John Nance (Nov. 22, 1868 ~ Nov. 7, 1967). Nance
served from 1933 until 1941, Roosevelt's first two terms. Henry A
Wallace (Oct. 7, 1888 ~ Mpv. 18, 1965) was Roosevelt second Vice-President.
He served from 1941 until 1945. [Names # 13 and 14.]
45. __ de toilette: EAU. Today's French lesson.
Everything you wanted to know about Water of the Toilette but didn't know to ask.
47. Some Parliament members: LORDS.
49. Dinner plate: DISH.
50. Did a garden chore: HOED.
54. Zero, in soccer: NIL.
55. Sheep call: BAA.
56. TV channel with election night coverage: CNN. Cable News Network.
Here's the Grid:
חתולה
Has Friday moved to Tuesday? I appreciated the topicality of this puzzle, but it was also a very tough one. The very first clue, one across, seemed almost unsolvable, and it didn’t get much better from there. Anyway, through P&P I managed to solve this very challenging puzzle. FIR, so I’m not only happy, I’m relieved!
ReplyDeleteGood morning!
ReplyDeleteWOLF HALL? ERICB? (I assumed the B was silent.) This one was not a walk in the park, at least no park in my neighborhood. ARMOIRE, because chifferobe was too long. That cloverleaf had a LOOP, not a ramp. Got 'er done, but there was plenty of perpage involved. Thanx, Vu, Jessica, and Hahtoolah. (Took me some time to figure out that it was a plate and not a toilet seat in that "Fork in the road" cartoon.)
Brrrr. Temps have dropped below my age. Not a good thing in SE Texas.
Good Morning, Crossword friends. I don't know if this puzzle was harder than the usual Tuesday, but I was just glad to see that we had an appropriate theme for Halloween.
ReplyDeleteQOD: Americans will put up with anything as long as it doesn’t block traffic. ~ Dan Rather (né Dan Irvin Rather, Jr.; b. Oct. 31, 1931), American journalist and news anchor
Apropos, since today is Dan's 93rd birthday
Delete92nd😇
DeleteNot only did the LA Times crossword puzzle have a Halloween theme today, but so did:
ReplyDelete- The NY Times
- The Wall Street Journal
- The Universal
- The USA Today
- Crossword Nation
- Newsday (kinda sorta ish)
FIW. Never heard of the hip-hop duo, and probably wouldn't since I'm not a fan of the genre. Had Eric L instead of Eric B. Lushiest just seemed appropriate given this Friday fare on a Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteAlso what is Wolf Hall? Guess I need to watch more TV, although don't count on it.
And "none too" for "far from"? The LA Times editors need to wake up.
ERIC B and UTNE did me in. “Note too” was not the answer; neither was “poshiest”
ReplyDeleteFIW, missing ERIC l x lUSHIEST. Kinda ran out of fun and just threw in the first thing that kinda made sense. Erased gueST KITCHEN and nastIEST.
ReplyDeleteToday is:
Halloween (gonna be rainy, cold and windy tonight in Norfolk)
NATIONAL CARAMEL APPLE DAY (no, no one put razor blades in your friend’s-friend’s-kid’s apple)
NATIONAL DOORBELL DAY (important for those who don’t have knockers)
NATIONAL KNOCK KNOCK JOKE DAY (remember the WWIII one? I’ll start it: KNOCK KNOCK You: WHO’S THERE? Me:.....................)
GIRL SCOUT FOUNDER'S DAY (nee Girl Guides)
NATIONAL MAGIC DAY (my current read is a Lincoln Rhyme who-done-it about a deranged but brilliant magician)
REFORMATION DAY (the rise of the Protestants)
MOOSE Tracks are my second-favorite ice cream, right after Pecan Praline 'N Cream.
I'd just like to say that I really enjoyed this puzzle. However, my momma taught me not to lie. But I did enjoy Ha2la's write-up.
Fun to have a Halloween theme which helped moved the solve along
ReplyDeleteHST - Harry S Truman had to jump into the role of being President just a few months after being VP with FDR's death. V-E day came shortly after but WWII was still going on with Japan.
He had to quickly be brought up to speed with all that was going on with the atomic bomb testing. His presidential library in Independence, MO (a Kansas City suburb)is very interesting if you are traveling across the country on I-70
He did run for re-election in 1948, and narrowly won the election - generating one of the most known photos of journalism https://www.life.com/history/dewey-defeats-truman-the-story-behind-a-classic-political-photo/
Thanks Susan for the fun blog and Hoang-Kim &Jessica for the timely puzzle!
KS, I had to think long and hard about NONE TOO as well. Then the V8 hit me squarely in the head - and NONE TOO soon. Could also have been "far from too soon." The clue could have been less clunky, but there you go.
ReplyDeleteTook 7:32 today, not exactly like a bat out of hell....
ReplyDeleteDefinitely seemed tougher than an early-week puzzle.
I didn't know the Duchess of Parma, Tal or his/her song, "moose tracks", the wolf show or today's novelist, or Dell. I had a heck of time parsing cargovan. Lucre crossing Utne wasn't nice.
I'd heard of Eric B. & Rakim, but my initial thought was "that's awfully obscure."
Good Morning! Thanks, Hah2lah for your recap that is always an entertaining reveal.
ReplyDeleteThat’s the only good thing about today’s offering.
Most of the (unknown to me) names were all perps, and I am not a fan of written sounds, especially when they have alternative spelling (AAH v. AHH), and MWAHAHA was ridiculous. Added to the acceptable alternative spelling of MACAO & MACAU. Patti’s up to her tricks today in the placement of this puzzle on a Tuesday. How apt….
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteIt was a cute and timely theme but, when you think of a haunted house, does a wolf come to mind? Ghosts, skeletons, bats, rattling chains, moaning, creaking doors do, but not a wolf. I guess it's close enough if you conjure up werewolves but, even then, it's a stretch, I think. As I mentioned yesterday, I believe the previous standards for a specific day's degree of difficulty have been modified to an "anything goes if the perps are fair" dictum, not always, but often enough to be obvious. For example, normally, a Tuesday puzzle is incrementally more challenging than an easy-peasy Monday, but still very solver friendly. Today's offering was closer to a Friday than a Monday, IMO, with at least 10 non-Tuesday entries. But, Patti's fair perp requirement was satisfied, so there ya go! Not a complaint or criticism, just a personal opinion.
Thanks, Hoang-Kim and Jessica, for a Halloween treat and thanks, Hahtoolah, for your usual fun, facts, and bag of tricks on this bewitching day! Favorite cartoons were the Karate Cat and the Snow Globe dwellers, plus the very apropos theme-related depictions. Hand up for knowing about Ghost Kitchens as we have a few in our area, the most well known being that of Guy Fieri. I've heard nothing about any of their products or popularity.
Ray O, did the move go smoothly or are you all tearing your hair out? 🤣
FLN
Lucina, speaking only for myself, I have no problems with circles in early week puzzles because I know and accept that their purpose is to help new and inexperienced solvers see the theme and aid the solve. I do object to circles in late week puzzles because they, IMO, lessen the challenge of the solve. To be fair, there are late week puzzles that require circles to visually illustrate the theme and, therefore, I always defend this as a necessary practice. 😉
Have a great day.
Hola!
ReplyDeleteWhile it was nice to have a HALLOWEEN theme today, it also started with obscurities, for me, anyway, since I don't know of ERICA B and have no idea about GHOST KITCHEN. And I vaguely recall WOLF HALL on PBS but I didn't watch it.
I believe I've mentioned before that my dad had two first cousins, sisters, named Thelma and LOUISE.
I see HEATED UP next to DISH.
And it's NONE TOO SOON to end this commentary and return to bed. Till later.
Have a spooky day, everyone!
Sometimes a puzzle is so easy that you can't finish it. I'd never heard of GHOST KITCHEN or WOLF HALL but being Halloween they were easy. But for unknown ERIC B, it took a while because I had to change MACAO to MACAU to get BUSHIEST. The NE got me. A DNF today. I'd filled LUCRE and UTNE, my brain was stuck on either RAMP or EXIT and with L__P staring at me I couldn't finish LOOP or SNO.
ReplyDeleteThe HAUNTED HOUSE fills were to be expected today.
MWA HA HA- did somebody go out of their way to make that up?
MSNBC & CNN- could have been ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX and many others; will the last person watching CNN turn off their lights. They've been cleaning house at that place due to low ratings.
TAL- all perps
MARIE LOUISE- didn't know of her, only his wife "don't wash JOSEPHINE"
ARMOIRE- I have TWO idiotic, massive ones built for televisions that DW insisted we must have to put the TV's in. Those were the CRT versions and now that flat screens have replaced the older one they make less sense. One of the drawers has cassette tapes and another has old DVDs. They just take up room.
Musings
ReplyDelete-I declined to go through a Universal Studios HAUNTED HOUSE one Halloween. I could only imagine what real pros could do.
-If you go from “Here to Timbuktu”, you’d be in MALI
-EL PASO evokes memories of Marty Robbins for me
-Yesterday I had an APPT. with my dentist, the cable company, my respiratory supply person, my Arlo camera people and my barber.
-A person I respect called Death Of A Salesman the best American play ever written
-What Irish said.
El Paso evokes Fort Bliss for me. Basic training 1967.
DeleteNice holiday theme. FIW, missed ERICk/kUSHIEST and CBS for CNN (didn't check perps).
ReplyDeleteThank you Vu and Jessica for your haunting efforts and Hantoolah for the informative review.
Birds of a feather, can crossdress.
BOO!!
Yes, a cute and apt theme, but too many unknowns for me, many of which have already pointed out, though WOLF HALL was not since I both read the book and saw the terrific TV series on PBS, I think it was.
ReplyDeleteMaybe because a Canadian cold front, looking at you CanadianEh!, sneaked in during the night, I could not warm up to this CW.
Hoping for sunshine tomorrow and a more successful solve.
Hahtoolah’s recap was super. I liked that QOD.
I should have said “have already BEEN pointed out” and “WOLF HALL was not ONE”.
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteFIW: bWAHAHAH. 😳
Know UTNE only from CWs. You’ll end up with a cobwebbed unused GHOST KITCHEN if all you eat is take out?
Inkovers: circled/ROTATED, aged/USED
Sked for schedule? Not familiar so needed apt perps for APPT. EMS not EMT? CARGO pants but never heard of a CARGOVAN but it makes sense. Didn’t know ERICB or TAL …but REO, yup a CW band fav.
Farm sounds made by MACAU….MOOSE
Her GHOST wheels her barrow: Malone….MALI
Second in line after our Sister Lucina….NONE TOO
POTUS years 1989-93 & 2001-09…BUSHIEST.
In the 60’s we’d watch a Saturday TV kiddy show from Syracuse (the only other channel we could get outside of Utica) that showed old spooky movies. The host Baron Daemon was a fellow dressed as a vampire with hokey makeup. Since it was live goofy things would alway seem to happen
H2LH: some laugh-out-loud toons thanks 🤣
👻Happy All Hallows Eve 🎃
Irish M @ 8:59
ReplyDeleteSome minor glitches to be expected but there’s still hair on this old gray head. It has that new hospital smell. Thanks for asking.
Big Easy @ 9:47
We also have a massive entertainment center collecting dust and taking up space in our garage no body wants designed to fit our “huge” 36” CRT TV we bought when furnishing our new home in 1994. 😳
Canada Eh: Remembered our discussion of the interview when Matthew Perry claimed he beat up your PM in school.
Thank you Vu and Jessica. You didn't scare me a bit. What scares me is that we already ate all the Halloween candy and I have to go out and buy some more.
ReplyDeleteThank you Hahtoolah. Great revue. Great toons. Great tunes. Great epilogue!
A few favs:
22A ARMOIRE. An ARMOIRE is featured prominently in C.S. Lewis's children's story The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, the first book in his trilogy The Narnia Chronicles.
36A MRE. Yeah, at least half of our meals are left overs too. They're always better the second day!
24D MARIE LOUISE. I did not know MARIE LOUISE.
28D KILN. I just installed a new "user friendly" front panel on my electric KILN. I'm hoping it makes it easier for my grandchildren to fire it.
30D DELL. Now we know where Patti gets all this stuff!
41D SOS. That's why puzzles are so CLEAN.
44D HST. I haven't seen Christopher NOLAN's movie. Does it have a scene where they tell HST about the BOMB?
Cheers,
Bill
EricB, Utne, Lucre, EMs instead of EMTs, all I can say is MWAHAHA!
ReplyDeleteWhen 1 across is a hip-hop duo, I know trouble lies ahead. Rapidly lost interest in this crossNAME puzzle, TITT, did not pass go, and went directly to Ha2lah for some Tuesday entertainment. Loved the 'toons, especially the snow globe! -Wanted MOST for election night stations, but didn't fit.
ReplyDeleteI liked the Halloween theme. I didn’t like the number of unknowns: ERICB, WOLFHALL, LAERTES among them. I cannot recall ever having anyone rent or hire a “cargo van” when they move; I have always heard a “moving van”. W/Os = MACAO:MACAU, RAMP:LOOP. Somehow I did manage to FIR and was very surprised when I looked at my time of 18 minutes. It felt like a half hour struggle. WMOS, this felt like Friday came on a Tuesday this week. Quite the challenge, thanx, H-KV&JZ. Thanx too to Hahtoolah for the as always terrific write-up.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how much the redesign of CNN's logo cost, considering it looks virtually identical to the 1984-2004 version.
ReplyDeleteTerrific Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, Hoang-Kim and Jessica, and Hahtoolah.
ReplyDelete(Thanks for making this Canadian laugh heartily at that Canadian view of Mt Rushmore.). (Maybe that’s why we sent the cold snap, Tante Nique.)
I FIRed in good time and saw the Halloween theme. I agree that WOLF is not particularly “Halloweeny”. The loot clue reminded me if those full Halloween bags. But HE’S A was a Christmas outlier.
I’d love to changed to LIKE.
Hand up for Ramp before LOOP.
No LORDS in our Canadian Parliament.
My nose wrinkled at NONE TOO , but I see it used - ie. the outing went far from well (NONE TOO well).
Yes Ray-o- our PM has been commenting on his school days with Perry.
Wishing you all a great day.
Glad others agreed this was difficult. Notably, crossed proper names WOLF HALL, MARIE LOUISE, DELL, FANTA. I am writing this on a DELL. Never heard of the other kind. Yes, ERICB seemed wrong. So did MOOSE. Wrong. FIR.
ReplyDeleteI subscribed to UTNE Reader for decades until they stopped publishing. Valuable learning moment they exist now online.
Here is my article on our ASIAN American Neighborhood Festival that took place two weeks ago.
From Yesterday:
Lucina, Jayce, Anon @3:50PM Thank you for answering my question about hiking at PINNACLES National Park and for the kind words about my photos.
Both the West and East sides have caves. But only the East side has a cave you go through on the way to the rest of the PINNACLES. That side is less visited because it is a long detour from Highway 1. If you went to Hollister, you indeed almost certainly went to the East side. The photo of us at the reservoir pool is on the East side near that cave.
Even if you can't hike, you can view the PINNACLES from the parking lot on the West side. The second photo is close to that parking lot. The appearance dramatically changes depending on the lighting. The lighting was not so good in that photo.
Picard@2:49. I too subscribed to what I called The Utne Reader for many years. It was a unique magazine. Nice to know it has a presence online.
ReplyDeleteI wrote in Guest Kitchen even though in the deep recesses of my brain I knew it was 👻 Ghost Kitchen… sigh… I managed to FIR but my white-out got used way too much today.
ReplyDeleteThanks Hoang-Kim and Jessica for a Halloween fun 🏃♂️. Thanks for a spectacular recap Hatoolah….. kkFlorida
Today’s Crypoquip solution: What do you call a lady specter who entertains guests at an apparitions party? The ghostess.
ReplyDeletewaseeley @11:22 AM I want to amend my kudos to Hahtoolah to "Great revue. Great toons. Great tunes. Great moons!
ReplyDeleteThat’s funny.
DeleteLOL Prof M!
ReplyDeletePicard- great article, great photos, great shirt (as always)!
CSO to waseeley with KILN.
I came back because I forgot to post about TAL Bachman. He comes from a musical family, as his dad is Randy Bachman and his uncle is Robbie Bachman of The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive. .
waseeley posted as I was posting - more LOLs!
ReplyDeleteSeeing 1-across almost made me set this puzzle aside and not bother doing it. Almost. But do it I did and it turns out I enjoyed most of it. Like Hahtoolah, I thought "Meh!" at NONE TOO. Perps determined whether it was MACAO or MACAU, AAH or AHH. CARGO VAN seems especially green-painty; does anybody call a moving van a cargo van?
ReplyDeleteThe only names I did not know were ERIC B and TAL.
As usual, I loved Hahtoolah's write-up.
Happy Halloween greetings to you all.
My take, since the clue for 1D said gp.(group) not individual, the EMS fill stood for Emergency Medical Service.
ReplyDeleteAnybody??
Hahtoolah leads us through this Vu/Zetzman XWD.
ReplyDeleteDNF, even though it's only a Tuesday PZL. Because of the GHOST KITCHEN.
I had no idea of such a thing (but am grateful to learn) and got little help from the perp (ERIC B) of BUSHIEST at 1A.
(For the latter, my WAG was MOSSIEST.)
~ OMK
____________
DR: Four diagonals, with three on the far side.
Warning: VULGARITY ahead...
The near diagonal gives us an anagram (13 of 15) which can serve as the rough label after a "bloody bastard" has been taken to task.
Euphemistically, we may call him a ...
"CAD ENSANGUINE"!
OMG was Halloween fun tonight! And it was in spite of the awful weather.
ReplyDeleteSome of the children were just oh so much too funny. So many developing personalities. I love it. Blessed are the children.
Hahtoolah, thank you for the Shout Out. I am still out here doing puzzle when I can/ I am still dealing with health issues and more but it was nice to visit the Corner. The editorial choice to use little known people or facts such as ERIC B is till not my cup of Earl Grey (I personally never thought of BASTARD as a vulgarity, but that is me. Good to see all of you and clearly doing puzzles extends human life.
ReplyDeleteBest
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ReplyDeleteThank You Hoang-Kim Vu and Jessica Zetzman for an appropriate Halloween puzzle. I had a tough time at a few spots, but its all in the game ...
.... I can only post now, ..now that most of the candy has been handed out, and the kids have all disappeared - thanks to the 54o weather !!! Brrrrh !!!
Thank You Hahtoolah, for your very interesting and oh so lovely cartoons, and other magic assortments. I have always enjoyed your blog and its always a delight, even tho' its quite late in the game , in the day ,,, here.
Picard, I enjoyed your beautiful album of the Asian American festival very much.
It ws so long, I will have to watch it again, some other time ....
We, in North east Ohio, have some degree and representation of Asians ... here, .... but ... I notice the asian american kids in your part of the country are more cutting EDGE, and far more daring, experimental and sophisticated (?). Maybe, that is the essence of California...
My first choice of KILN was OAST ... I have yet to find out the difference...
I read somewhere, that FANTA was invented by the Germans, ( pro-NAZIs ?) to adjust for the fact that the American Coca Cola Company, and the US Govt policy restricted the exports of the CocaCola concentrates to their own subsidiaries, ... in Germany, because of and due to - the WW II. Hence FANTA ws invented or concocted, as a substitute... This theory actually does hold water, and makes sense...
Finally, the Lords in the British House of Lords, have had their powers serverely curtailed for the last 15 (?) years. Only a few Lords are actually allowed to attend the House OF L, and the powers of those who become Lords, by hereditary means is very restricted, and does not automatically give you the right to a seat in the House of L. Its all very complicated .... but in my humble opinion, this was long called for ...
Have a great rest of this wonderful week, all you folks...
ReplyDeleteLeamonade !!!! ... Twin of a different mother !!!@!!!
I was about to ask the question of when you disappeared from the blog, that you were soo much a part of .... !@!!! But, I was very much afraid of what might have happened ...
But, I thought, maybe, ths happened in most of- the year of 2022, when I was laid up courtsey of the US Healthcare system, in a hospital(s) .. and my life hanging by a thread...
You cannot imagine how tremendously glad I am to read your simple posting ... Take care, God Bless ... and it has given me so much pleasure and happiness. .. I am going to sleep very soundly tonight.
Best regards and deep respects to you, OO and your lovely descendents and grandchildren !!
Lemonade
ReplyDeleteYes! It is wonderful to hear from you. I am sorry that you have experienced health problems and I hope they have been or are being resolved.
Picard
As always, it is a pleasure to view your photos. What a vibrant community you live in!
Our community is quite dark and enclosed so we don't have anyone coming for tricks or treats. The LB (i.e. my gr. grandson is Spiderman tonight).
Happy Halloween to all! Tomorrow is the feast of All Saints.