Theme "Get Cooking" - Cooking phrases are rephrased as non-cooking.
22. Instruction for the host of a comedic takedown?: ROAST UNTIL TENDER.
37. Meditate ahead of a big tennis match?: CHILL BEFORE SERVING.
56. An icy winter?: SEASON WITH SALT.
65. Open a joint savings account?: MIX THE DOUGH.
77. Toss and turn all night?: STIR FREQUENTLY.
96. Defect to the prosecution midtrial?: FLIP HALFWAY THROUGH.
115. What the best mystery writers know how to do?: FINISH WITH A TWIST.
I like that the FINISH entry is the last of the set. Super consistent, all verb phrases, though 56A is re-phrased as a noun.
I just checked our blog Labels, this is the third collaboration from Katy and Rich.
Across:
1. Secret repository: CACHE.
6. Speed-of-sound ratio: MACH. Named after physicist Ernst Mach.
10. Overactors: HAMS.
14. More than a stone's throw: AFAR.
18. Buenos __: AIRES.
19. Nueve menos uno: OCHO. 113. Roman 19-Across: VIII.
20. Tyler Perry character: MADEA. Nice tweed jacket.
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21. Wolfe of "Three at Wolfe's Door": NERO.
25. "Gimme a break!": C'MON.
26. 1980s sitcom ET: ALF.
27. __ board: SOUNDING.
28. Whole-grain cereal brand: KASHI. Boomer had to have Grape-Nuts on Monday mornings.
30. Andes lake: TITICACA.
33. Ballet __: FLAT.
35. Ford Field team: LIONS.
42. Washington's "Lilac City": SPOKANE.
45. Singers Green and Yankovic: ALS.
46. "I'm off": BYE.
47. "Leaping lizards!": I SAY.
48. Head, as a meeting: CHAIR.
49. Prestreaming devices, for short: DVRS.
51. __ House: "Jane Eyre" setting: MOOR.
53. Take effect: SET IN.
54. Gory, perhaps: RATED R.
59. Applies: USES.
60. Reuters peer: UPI. United Press International. Feels like it has faded away.
62. Sweltering: HOT.
63. Opposing vote: NAY.
64. The "B" of BFF: BEST.
69. Elemental unit: ATOM.
73. "Am __ the right track?": I ON.
74. Perch output: ROE.
75. Antidiscrimination inits.: EEO.
76. Used a snowboard: RODE.
84. Pleases no end: ELATES.
86. Furniture designer Charles: EAMES. The chair man.
87. Took legal action: SUED.
88. NBA star Westbrook, to fans: RUSS.
90. Australian mine finds: OPALS. 1. Measure for 90-Across: CARAT.
91. Singer Dua __: LIPA.
92. Feathery accessory: BOA.
94. One way to analyze music: TONALLY.
101. Petal support: SEPAL.
102. Twain character: FINN.
103. Not mandatory: OPTIONAL.
107. Terrycloth wrap: TOWEL.
109. Compliment on the green: NICE PUTT. I love watching those pitch-ins from a greenside bunker.
112. "Sorry, it's __ from me": A NO.
119. Grace period?: AMEN.
120. East Coast rd.: US ONE.
121. Not on land: ASEA.
122. Barn nestling: OWLET.
123. Confused: LOST.
125. Condé __: NAST.
126. Cybertruck maker: TESLA.
Down:
2. Garlicky emulsion: AIOLI.
3. Make paper bag puppets, perhaps: CRAFT. So cute.
4. Toms and drakes: HES.
5. Parts and labor fig.: EST.
6. Like Mr. Peanut: MONOCLED.
7. Honest-to-goodness: ACTUAL.
8. Facial feature unique to humans: CHIN. Really? Other animals don't have chins?
9. Callback alternative: HOLD.
10. Building with wings?: HANGAR. 29. Title of a medieval tale?: SIR. Great clues.
11. Join together: ADD.
12. Spineless: MEEK.
13. Big name in baked goods: SARA LEE.
14. Divisive pizza topping: ANCHOVIES. If you don't like anchovies, then you won't like fish sauce, then you won't like green papaya salad. Too bad.
15. Advocate para las mujeres: FEMINISTA. Spanish for "feminist".
16. One not into amorous love, briefly: ARO. Aromantic.
17. "Parks and Rec" character Swanson: RON.
20. __ Park: Meta site: MENLO.
23. Olympian Bolt: USAIN.
24. Small disputes: TIFFS.
31. Most foul: ICKIEST.
32. Leafy green also known as silver beet: CHARD. I never had chard before. Does it have edible root?
34. 2007 Heisman winner Tim: TEBOW.
36. Slug cousin: SNAIL.
38. Uncover: BARE.
39. Disney queen who says, "You can't marry a man you just met": ELSA. "You can if it's true love."
40. Vaccine tool: SYRINGE.
41. Ibsen's "Peer __": GYNT.
42. Go after grime: SCRUB.
43. Developmental period: PHASE.
44. Musical Hall partner: OATES.
50. Powerful engine: V SIX.
51. "I can relate," online: MOOD. What do you think this song is about?
52. Not bamboozled by: ONTO.
53. Prone to shrinking?: SHY. Shrinking violet.
55. A bit of tea, in a way: RUMOR.
57. Gloss: SHEEN.
58. Sierra Nevada lake: TAHOE.
61. Clorox brand: PINE-SOL.
66. HBO's "__ Detective: Night Country": TRUE.
67. Got into the weeds?: HOED. Garden weeds.
68. Turnarounds: UEYS.
69. Great Plains people: ARAPAHO.
70. Come to: TOTAL.
71. NFL star __ Beckham Jr.: ODELL. Dating Kim Kardashian now.
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72. Like a toddler with finger paints: MESSY.
73. Uncertainties: IFS.
77. "Solitude is the richness of __": May Sarton: SELF.
78. Formal affair wear: TAILS.
79. Blasphemy and sacrilege: IMPIETIES.
80. Tap again, in a way: RE-APPOINT.
81. Big drink: QUAFF.
82. Dressage pace: TROT.
83. Like much of Hawaii: LUSH.
85. Sound heard twice in a lifetime?: LONG I. The sound in lifetime.
89. "Cut it out!": STOP THAT.
92. Sinister: BALEFUL.I did not know this meaning. Looks like baleful of hay to me.
93. Harmonize: SYNCH.
95. "I'm __ here": OUTTA.
97. Follower of hee and yee: HAW.
98. Schmoozing by boozing: WINING.
99. Ouzo flavor: ANISE.
100. Ways to go: ROUTES.
104. Aces: NAILS. Verb. Like I nailed it.
105. "Moon and Half Dome" photographer Adams: ANSEL.
106. Whole host o': LOTTA.
108. "Lady Tan's Circle of Women" novelist See: LISA.
110. Actor McGregor: EWAN.
111. Tuscan setting for novelty photos: PISA.
113. Actor Kilmer: VAL.
114. "FWIW" kin: IMO.
116. Part of enby: NON. Enby (NB) = Non-Binary.
117. Tater __: TOT.
118. Org. that maintains kayfabe during shows: WWE. OK, here's the definition of kayfabe: the fact or convention of presenting staged performances as genuine or authentic.
C.C.
23 comments:
One bad cell: “Poor house” instead of “Moor house.” The perp was of absolutely no help. (And what a strange and convoluted way to clue the simple word, “mood”!) Oh well, I guess you can’t win the all! I’m not happy about that, but I am happy to be here, and see how the rest of you did!
Good morning!
ARO came back for an encore, and soon enough that d-o hadn't already forgotten it. We had both OUTTA and LOTTA this morning; some might think d-o came up with the word list. "Enby" was unfamiliar; thanx for 'splainin', C.C. Can't relate to MOOD, as used. Need a 'splain for that, too. The Urban Dictionary describes says it's use is "confusing [to] the older generations." I liked this one, and as a bonus, it came in well ahead of my self-imposed time limit. Thanx, Katy, Rich, and C.C. (Was that you, dancing in the video?)
FIW, being another member of the confused older generation with pOOD x pOOR. Ick on a stick to me. But I got my WAG at EAMES x IMPIETIES, so I got THAT goin' for me.
SOS isn't an abbreviation, just an easy-to-remember Morse code string - dit-dit-dit-dah-dah-dah-dit-dit-dit, without pause between letters. According to Mental Floss, society has added backronym phrases “save our souls” or “save our ship.” Methinks that "backronym" will come to a puzzle near us soon.
I developed a taste for ANCHOVIES while moonlighting at a Pizza Hut. We were allowed to make a pizza for the back room for staff to eat. Problem was that I would make one, and by the time I had time to have a bite it was all gone. I started putting ANCHOVIES on half, and I always had something to snack on. I now love them, and will send back any dish with puttanesca sauce that doesn't have them. (Did you know that "puttanesca" is Italian for “in the style of the prostitute”?)
I thought CHARD was slang for a variety of wine I once abused. Back then I was a LUSH, even when I wasn't in Hawaii.
FLN: Michael, the reason I asked is that I bought a boat from the estate of a Ventura dentist. I'll have to look through my paperwork to see if I can find his name. You may have been starting up about the time he was, well, going out.
DNF. Lisa and impieties just wouldn't come to me. Also I'm not sure sepal is clued accurately as I can't see how that would "support" a petal?
I got the theme early on and had no trouble except with "flip halfway through". I had skip and leap as options for a while.
But overall, despite not finishing, this was an enjoyable puzzle. So there's that.
FIW. After mucking through an inordinate number of proper names and clues in complete foreign sentences, finally done in by Eames and Lipa crossing with impieties. In a just world, ueys and all its variants would be banned. And in what world is a V-six a powerful engine? Granted you won’t find any on today’s clown cars, but c’mom! So in the vein of social media lingo and forced PC culture (mood, enby, aro, etc), WTH? (Not my first choice.) On the plus side, theme was clever and reasonably helpful.
Yeah, Moor/Mood got me too. A MUCH better clue would have been Muslims who were kicked out of Spain. (But than again, any Seinfeld watchers? Always think of them as The Moops!)
Otherwise a fun puzzle.
FIR and enjoyed it! I spent the most time on MOOR/MOOD, where I was pretty convinced of the former (I loved "Jane Eyre"), but never encountered the latter as clued.
C.C., I like to saute chard or throw it into soups. It is milder in flavor than kale or spinach, softer than kale and firmer than spinach. Apparently the root is like a beet, and edible, but I never find the root for sale. Farmers cut the stalks and the root keeps producing.
KS, the petals of a flower do indeed rest inside the sepals.
Wonderful Sunday puzzle, Kate and Rich! The theme was clever and contributed to solving. Thanks to Patti for editing and to C.C. for blogging.
FIR w/o help in 31:54, credit to perps which got me the unknowns MADEA, IMPIETIES and LISA (most obscure name of the day, to me anyway). Last fill was a WAG for the M in moor/mood. Never quite sure at first if it’s CACHE or stash 🤷♂️. First thought for a powerful engine was “hemi” or “Vten”, as JohnM27 stated, a V-SIX is not THAT powerful. Lifetime may contain two long i’s but I pronounce LIFE and TIME differently. As d-o noted, ARO just appeared the other day and I also recalled it. This may be by design as I’ve noticed a pattern with editor Patti - she submits a puzzle introducing a word that may be unfamiliar to most, then a few days later the same word appears hoping that we will remember it. All in all a clever theme and enjoyable solve, thank you Katie and Rich.
C.C. ~ thanks for the expo, nice that the cereal reference elicited a memory of Boomer ❤️
Took a while today but I FIR. A couple of lucky guesses fixed me right up.
Sussing the theme helped fill in some of the crosses. Scratched my head on 19A and 113A until Mr Kilmer made his appearance. Perps were the best way to lead you in the right direction.
Yes, C.C., as NaomiZ indicates, you can eat the root of Swiss chard.
Mr Peanut was always famous for his monocle and his cane.
Since it looks to be a hot summer, hit is appropriate that we had reference to two .lakes today, TAHOE and TITICACA. USONE is notable because it stretches from Fort Kent,, Maine to Key West, Florida.
A generous bow to Kate and Rich for their shining effort and to C.C. for her rich review.
Happy Father's Day to all men with offspring.
A hammock and ice cold lemonade cannot be beaten.
Salaam.
Musings
-What a lovely puzzle cooked up for us on this Father’s Day
-To get and stay in orbit, rockets have to travel at MACH 23 (~4 miles/second)
-Captain Hastings had a penchant for saying, “I SAY” when Poirot showed him something
-As clued, MOOR and MOOD gave me pause
-Just when I learned ACE for asexual we get ARO
-Tim Tebow heads the list for Heisman winning QB’s who failed in the NFL
-I had to SCRUB out SCOUR
-I was ONTO a phone scam recently but let it play out as long as I could
-Get down, C.C.! Wonderful dancing!
Valerie and I worked our way through it and ended up with a FIR. Impieties was the last to fall which is a "shame on me" considering that I can recite Tom Lehrer's "Poisoning Pigeons In The Park" verbatim.
Learning moment.
Hand up about POOR vs MOOR. I wrote down both and did a FLIP and guessed wrong. Learning moment. Add MOOD to a growing list of annoying new terms like BAE. Good to know. LAVA became LUSH.
Overall I enjoyed the COOKING theme. I love EAMES furniture designs. Very hard to find such modern designs anymore.
CC Thanks for the video of you dancing. Hot moves! I Googled the Chinese characters. The song seems to be about waiting a thousand years for something you care about. Perhaps you can say more.
These beautiful, colorful Uru people posed with me on their LAKE TITICACA floating island.
So much violent conflict centers on struggles over land. These peaceful, gentle people have avoided such conflict by living on floating rafts.
Well, this one took a lot of time and patience, and a number of corrections including a WAG or two, but in an embarrassingly long time, I did finally FIR. Tried to fill HUSAIN Bolt, but when that didn't fit, dug around in the remnants of my brain and V-8 canned USAIN. DVDS/DVRS. TOTALLY/TONALLY. That one took a lot of staring at, because although TOTGI didn't make sense, I failed to parse LONGI for a bit. LOTSA/LOTTA. WEES, POOR/MOOR, MOOD/POOD. "I can relate," online is MOOD?? Hmmmm. DNK that, but after waffling, finally stuck with M instead of P because MOOD, even though I was unfamiliar with it, seemed more likely than POOD. As I said, this CW was a loooong time filling. Thanx PV for the entertainment. Thanx C.C. for the fun and informative write-up. Nice dance moves! For some reason, I want a pizza now, with anchovies. Thin and crispy crust: mushrooms, onions, green olives, green bell peppers, and anchovies. Yum!
Happy Father's Day!
I felt some satisfaction solving this puzzle. I had to look up May Sarton and that HBO detective show. Took a while to accept VSIX. I like the fill TITICACA, OPTIONAL, NICE PUTT, MONOCLED, ANCHOVIES, SYRINGE, ARAPAHO, and IMPIETIES. I did not much care for HES, ARO, UEYS, NON, and WWE.
Good wishes to you all.
Thanks to Katy and Rich for their cooking-themed puzzle! My favorite themer was SEASON WITH SALT.
Today was a lot like yesterday, for me. It took me several passes to fill the grid. In the end I was grateful to have filled it even though I had a few errors.
Thanks to C.C. for her expert analysis of the theme set! You are also an excellent dancer! Nice to see you in such a good MOOD!
Did Mr. Peanut wear spats?
Thank you Katy and Rich for a delicious puzzle and fun Sunday FIR.
And thank you C.C. for explaining all the dishes and ingredients.
Busy day at Chez Seeley, so only a few favs:
42A SPOKANE. One of my grandsons is studying at Wyoming Catholic College and is dating a young lady there from SPOKANE.
73A I ON. No I don't think you're on the right track -- you appear to have lost an electron! 😀
93A SOS. The "backronym" assignment of specific meanings to this phrase is similar to the RETCONS that abound in the Dr. Whoniverse -- retroactive continuity between new events and those in the past.
32D. CHARD. It doesn't have an edible root, but it produces my absolutely favorite greens.
41D GYNT. Here's Anitra's Dance from Edvard Grieg's instrumental accompaniment to the Ibsen play.
Gotta go. See y'all tomorrow.
Cheers,
Bill
Hola!
Happy Fathers' Day to all the fathers on the Blog! I hope you were feted properly today.
I almost missed the party! Most of Sunday afternoon I spend watching "Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley" so that consumes most of my time. It's really too hot to do anything outside.
I enjoyed sussing the long themes. Misspelled MADEA as MEDEA.
Have a wonderful evening, everyone!
waseeley
I love Peer Gynt! I have the CD and used to play it often. Lately I haven't played any CDs but it's something I need to get back to.
I intend to say this MEEKly, but MEEK does not always mean "spineless". That may be the crossword authors' personal belief on what it means, but the OED starts with words like, "Gentle, courteous, kind, not proud or self-willed; piously humble; patient and unresentful under injury or reproach." Granted, it also lists "easily cowed" and "timid" later, but I'd argue that it actually takes backbone to not fly off the handle and instead treat others the way you want to be treated. IMHO, a crossword author should avoid controversial answers, just like people here are asked to not discuss politics or religion.
Gotta say, I really liked this one from Katy and Rich — the theme answers were cleverly amusing (my favourite was CHILL BEFORE SERVING) and there was a nice collection of equally amusing clues, like the ones for HANGAR and HOED. All in all, a nice Sunday cruise that wasn’t a brain-buster. Only a couple of ICKs: that bit on MOOD is waaay too obscure (I’m online all the time with millennials and have never seen that one), and VSIX would’ve been better clued as a “semi-powerful engine” in my book. Not even as smooth as an in-line 6 (drive an older BMW some day and you’ll see what I mean).
You dance pretty darned well, C.C. ! And all that swimming is obviously keeping you in great shape — you go, girl! (I’m a white guy, so I can’t dance for beans…🤣).
Happy Fodder’s Day to all — go out and eat some hay to celebrate… (sorry, I’ll see myself out).
====> Darren / L.A.
Apparently, MOOD is the new WORD. Meanwhile, I don't know why anyone would write ENBY instead of just NB.
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