Tuesday, July 9, 2024 Rebecca Goldstein and Beth Rubin
Body Double: The word Body can be placed before each of the two words in the theme answers to give a new concept. Body Double is also a 1984 Brian De Palma film about young actor's obsession with spying on a beautiful woman who lives nearby.
17-Across. Intimate conversation in bed: PILLOW TALK. Body Pillow / Body Talk. Pillow Talk is a 1959 movie starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day. A Body Pillow is usually a long, narrow pillow that you cradle while you sleep. The benefit of a body pillow is that it gives extra support to side sleepers, especially those suffering from back issues or sleep apnea. Body Talk, also known as Body Language, "is the means by which people convey information through physical behaviors rather than words."
25-Across. Laundry apparatus used as a percussion instrument: WASHBOARD. Body Wash / Body Board. Body Wash is a liquid soap. A Body Board is used in the sport of bodyboarding in which the surfer rides a bodyboard on the crest, face, and curl of a wave. A Washboard is frequently used in Zydeco music.
35-Across. Aerosolized popcorn condiment: SPRAY BUTTER. Body Spray / Body Butter. Body Spray is similar to perfume, however, body sprays have a lower level of concentrated oil and more alcohol, while perfume have a higher level of oil and less water or alcohol. Body Butter is similar to a body lotion, however, body butter is better for rougher skin and is thicker than a lotion.
48-Across. Timepiece innards: CLOCKWORK. Body Clock / Body Work. Your Body Clock defines your daily rhythms. I think of Body Work as something that your car might need after an accident.
And the unifier:
57-Across. Actor's stand-in, or a hint to what can precede both parts of 17-, 25-, 35-, and 48-Across: BODY DOUBLE. Everything you wanted to know about a Body Double but didn't think to ask.
Brad Pitt and his Body Double.
Across:
1. Gentle touches: PATS.
5. Raise, as morale: BOOST.
10. Harvest: REAP.
14. Baker's appliance: OVEN.
15. One of the Three Musketeers: ATHOS. The Three Musketeers is a French historical adventure novel written in 1844 by Alexandre Dumas (1802 ~ 1870). The novel takes place in the 1620s and recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan (a character based on Charles de Batz-Castelmore d'Artagnan) after he leaves home to travel to Paris He had hoped to join the Musketeers of the Guard, but was ineligible. He was, however, befriended by three musketeers: – Athos, Porthos and Aramis, "the three musketeers". [Name # 1, fictional.]
16. Penne __ vodka: ALLA. Yummers! Penne alla vodka is a pasta dish made with (Surprise!) vodka and penne. There are a few other ingredients as well, including heavy cream, crushed tomatoes or tomato sauce, onions. The alcohol is said to intensify and accentuate flavors in the dish.
19. "The Rabbit Hutch" National Book Award winner Gunty: TESS. The Rabbit Hutch is a Tess Gunty's first novel, that was published in 2022. It is about 4 teenager who recently aged out of the state foster-care system and are now living together in a run-down town in the mid-West. [Name # 2.]
20. Pizzeria owner in "Do the Right Thing": SAL. Do the Right Thing is a 1989 film by Spike Lee (b. 1957) about race relations in a Brooklyn. Salvatore "Sal" Fragione, portrayed by Danny Aiello (1933 ~ 2019), is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in the neighborhood. [Name # 3, fictional]
21. Prepare ahead of time: PLAN.
22. Make a quick policy change: PIVOT.
23. Coming in handy: UTILE.
28. Funnel-shaped flower: PETUNIA.
30. Apple platform: IOS. // Not to be confused with 41-Across: Bit of positivity?: ION.
31. Greek letter before upsilon: TAU.
32. Fellows: MEN.
33. CPR pro: EMT. An Emergency Medical Technician better be able to perform CardioPulmonary Resuscitation.
34. "Been there, __ that": DONE.
38. Yes votes: AYES.
40. Key __: car remote: FOB.
42. Bad review: PAN.
43. Poivre partner: SEL. Today's French lesson gives us Pepper and Salt.
44. Ideal: OPTIMUM.
51. Muscat resident: OMANI.
52. "NCIS" protagonist __ Jethro Gibbs: LEROY. Leroy Jethro Gibbs the main character in NCIS and is portrayed by Mark Harmon (b. 1951). [Name # 4, fictional.]
56. Actress Shawkat: ALIA. Alia Shawkat (b. 1989) makes occasional appearances in the puzzles. She portrayed Maeby Fünke on Arrested Development. [Name # 5]
60. Exams for srs.: SATs. The Scholastic Aptitude Tests make frequent appearances in the puzzles.
61. Foe: ENEMY.
62. Wax alternative: NAIR. Hair removal products.
63. Whack: SWAT.
64. Like grainy graphics: LO-RES. Oh, as in Low Resolution. I kept looking at LORES and wondered what that meant, then the light bulb went on.
65. Best Female Athlete, e.g.: ESPY.
Down:
1. Comes as a surprise, maybe: POPS UP.
2. Fly a plane: AVIATE.
3. "Preach!": TELL IT!
4. NBC sketch show, familiarly: SNL. As in Saturday Night Live.
The original Not-Ready-For-Primetime Players
5. Weep loudly: BAWL.
6. Capital of Canada: OTTAWA. Hi, CanadianEh!
7. Hawaiian word for "family": OHANA.
8. Pine-__: cleaning brand: SOL. It now comes in all sorts of flavors, er, scents.
9. Disapproving sound: TSK!
10. Math comparison: RATIO.
11. Stairs alternative: ELEVATOR.
12. Concession speech giver: ALSO RAN.
13. Late, as a library book: PAST DUE. My public library has done away with late fees.
18. First game of the season: OPENER.
22. "All Creatures Great and Small" airer: PBS. As in Public Broadcasting Service.
24. Sugar cubes: LUMPS.
26. "Atlas" actor Liu: SIMU. Simu Liu (b. 1989) is a Canadian actor. He was born in Harban, China, but his family moved to Canada when he was a small child. In 2022, he was named one of Time's 100 most influential people in the world. ([Name # 6.]
27. Good intel: HOT TIP.
29. Shortly: IN A FEW.
33. Flow out: EBB.
34. Jeans material: DENIM.
35. Miss, in Mexico: SENORITA. Today's Spanish lesson.
36. "Carpe diem" acronym: YOLO. You Only Live Once.
37. "My Neighbor __": 1988 Miyazaki film: TOTORO. This seems to be a bit obscure for a Tuesday. My Neighbor Totoro is a Japanese animated film that focuses on two young sisters their interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar rural Japan. I had not heard of this film, nor had I heard of its director Hayao Miyazaki (b. Jan. 5, 1941). [Name # 7.]
38. Sr.'s course for college credit: AP CLASS. As in Advanced Placement Class.
39. Sonia Sotomayor's alma mater: YALE LAW. Sonia Sotomayor (b. 1954) has served on the Supreme Court since August 2009. I wouldn't want her job. [Name # 8.]
43. Pie in the __: SKY.
44. "I'm cool with that": OK BY ME.
45. Deadly African snakes: MAMBAS. Everything you wanted to know about the Mamba but didn't know to ask.
46. Release, as a carabiner: UNCLIP.
47. "__ loves company": MISERY.
49. Seashore: COAST. Here I am at Diamond Beach, also known as Breiðamerkursandur. It is a beach located on the south coast of Iceland. Its name comes from the "diamond" pieces of ice from the nearby glacier. I didn't go swimming there.
50. More impolite: RUDER.
54. Dreyer's ice cream, east of the Rockies: EDY'S. This ice cream brand makes frequent guest appearances in the puzzles.
57. "The Fresh Prince of __-Air": BEL. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was a television show from the 1990s and starred Will Smith (b. 1968).
58. Artist Yoko: ONO. Yoko Ono (b. Feb. 18, 1933) makes frequent guest appearances in the puzzles. I can't believe she is 91 years old! [Name # 9.]
59. French article: UNE. More of today's French lesson.
Here's the Grid:
חתולה
Many thanks to Anonymous T who filled in for me while Hubby and I explored the Land of the Midnight Sun.
The caption reads: I'm sorry, sir, you're overdrawn.
Notes from C.C.:
1) Welcome back, Susan!
2) Happy
54th birthday to dear Tony (Anon-T), our faithful Tuesday guide the
past few weeks. Every time I need a blog sub, Tony is there. Thank you
so much for being so generous with your time and help, Tony!
Tony At Wit's End near Carmel on Father's Day 2017
After I got the reveal, I went back and saw all the “body” stuff. This puzzle was a typical Tuesday level puzzle, i.e., not very difficult at all. FIR, so I’m happy. And, by the way, welcome back, Hahtoolah!
As usual the DNKs consisted of mostly names, TESS, SAL, LEROY, ALIA, SIMU, TOTORO, plus the Hawaiian word OHANA. Somehow it all perped for a FIR in 9:45. I enjoy this type of theme but definitely needed the reveal to see it. Thank you Rebecca and Don for your creation.
Nice to have you back Hahtoolah! Cool photo from Iceland too. Tony did a fine job in your absence!
FIR, getting my WAG @ OHANA x ATHOS. My eraser got a well-deserved day off today.
I wanted the alternative to wax to be LASER, but it wouldn't fit. I'll have to remember NAIR the next time I need my bikini trim.
MISERY loves company? I always it was "Missouri loves company."
I hadn't heard of BODY TALK, 'cept of course in Olivia Newton-John's huge hit Physical: Let's get physical, physical I wanna get physical Let's get into physical Let me hear your body talk, your body talk Let me hear your body talk
Where the hell was BODY BUTTER when I was young and single?
Happy birthday to Bayou Tony. Reminds me of that old sitcom with Toody and Muldoon, Tee 54, Where Are You.
Thanks to Beth and Rebecca for the fun Tuesday puzzle, and to Ha2la for another fun review. Welcome back. I think you have a typo for ONO's DOB. Pro'ly should be 1933, not 1993. Give you a few days off and you hands have to be retrained.
Took 5:01 today for me to play paintball. (Body paint & body ball ?)
As usual, I didn't know today's actress (Alia), today's writer (Tess), or today's French lessons (sel and une). I also didn't know today's actor (Simu) or his show, nor the Hawaiian word.
Biological clock? Yes, but I've not heard of "body clock."
I thought this had more crunch than usual for a Tuesday due to several unknowns: Tess, Ohana, Totoro, and Simu, but the perps were fair, so all is well. The theme was certainly not evident until the reveal, always a plus factor in my book. The fill was fresh and lively, especially In A Few, Hot Tip, OK By Me, and the rarely seen, Señorita.
Thanks, Beth and Rebecca, and thanks, Hahtoolah, for the detailed and descriptive review and commentary. As usual, you provided many chuckles with the cute comics, particularly the Sheep-PR, the Canine "Investment Consultant, and the Bereft Birthday Twin. Any reference to one of my favorite shows, All Creatures Great and Small, gives me the warm fuzzies! Glad to have you back!
Happy Birthday, dear Tony. 🎂🎊🎈🎉 I hope your day is as special as you are! Thanks for pinch hitting for Hahtoolah and anyone else who needs a helping hand!
Wishing Tony a Happy Birthday. I hope he, and our other Houston contingent, are safe, sound and can find relief from the heat. Much of the area is without power from Beryl.
QOD: Why resist temptation? There will always be more. ~ Don Herold (July 9, 1889 ~ June 1, 1966), American humorist
A mostly fun and easy Tuesday and I too welcome Susan back to her blogging duties. The comments have already mentioned all my thoughts, though I did know SIMU from KIM'S CONVENIENCE . I also must add that CHEVY CHASE was one of the original cast members. https://www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/first-saturday-night-live-cast-snl-season-1#:~:text=For%20the%20first%20three%20seasons%2C%20the%20original%20cast,sports%20announcer%20Cosell%E2%80%99s%20stab%20at%20the%20comedy%20format.
This is my favorite types of themes - but one I usually don't get until the reveal
"My neighbor TOTORO" produced by Studio Ghibli and directed by Hayao Miyazaki is one of the first films in Anime (Japanese animated film) to be popular worldwide and to have the genre go mainstream. It is on many lists of the top films of all time. I knew it more from Sporcle quizzes - I think you can find the English language Dub on Amazon Prime and Apple+ He is sorta like the Walt Disney of Japan
Thanks Hatoolah for the fun blog and Rebecca & Don for the puzzle Happy birthday Tony - hope you and your family are well after Beryl - my friends who live there don't have power (using a generator) but are otherwise well
FIR. There were several unknowns for me, ohana, Simu, and Totoro, for example but we'll placed perps helped a lot. For what should be an easy Tuesday puzzle, I thought it had a bit of crunch to it. I somewhat get the theme, but some of the body items seem to be a bit of a stretch to me. Body talk? Body butter? But it's done so there's that.
Yes, the SNL cast picture includes Bill Murray, who replaced Chevy Chase in Season 2 when he left the show to get his movie career going. This SNL cast was for Seasons 2 through 5.
Almost as EZ as yesterday although I perp-waited on PATS not taps and BOOST needed a perp-aid boost as well
Theme: I get BODY PILLOW and DOUBLE TALK, DOUBLE BOARD (an MD with two specialties is “double boarded”) but BODY CLOCK? (Internal body clock maybe?) DOUBLE BUTTER? I’m cornfused 🥹
Are all Muskrats OMANI? NYS is east of the Rockies, we have both Dreyers and Edys ice cream. BTW the most majestic mountain range in the US and that’s the name they came up with “The Rocky Mountains”? Can you say “redundant and unimaginative”
A “whack”’is a bit more forceful than a SWAT (one LUMP or two 😮)
Did not know SIMU “Liu” (it’s usually “Lucy”). Ah LO-RES!
Started to fill waterboard but that’s reserved for extracting “good intel” 😳… liked the ION clue but more of a Saturday level brain twister. A “carabiner” ….what?
Was looking for a specific AP CLASS
Spanish version of “A Boy Named Sue” …. SEÑOR RITA Best Brit mother….OPTIMUM What the Hummel said to the customer who broke it: “OKBYME” Genre of small computer programs…. APCLASS
Happy birthday 🎁 Anon Tony Great toons as usual H2LH
Fun puzzle, Beth and Rebecca. Delightful, blog, Susan. Welcome home. Happy birthday, Tony. Hope you have a great day. Thanks for all you do for the corner. I like reading your posts daily and hearing about your family. One bad cell. Tsk, tsk. I misspelled Mamba with an O at the end and wondered why NOIR made no sense. Body butter is great for dry skin. I like shea butter for the roughest patches. Some people's body clocks have trouble with daylight saving time. Not I. Years ago when I was studying Japanese I watched "My Neighbor, Totoro" in Japanese with my half Japanese grandson. With my rudimentary language skills, great animations and easy plot I could follow it. Not today. I was too old when I studied Japanese. Funny, I remember more of my college German. Some of Miyazaki's movies have been translated to English. LORES? I left it in, Thanks for parsing it, Susan I love petunias. I planted some from our farm market. They must have had insect eggs on them. The plants failed and the bugs survived in the ground to return every year. I suppose hanging baskets would be a solution. I am floor leader here. We arranged a catered picnic this noon with 12 of our neighbors. What a fun, caring group! I am very happy here at the Oaks.
Good Morning! I wasn’t in the best of moods after this puzzle. The theme IMHO was a stretch of phrases NES (no-one ever says) body talk, body board. I’ll go with body language and boogie board. Body butter and body work are suspect, but I’ll give them that. More likely one would go to a body shop, but who says to have body work done? Perps for TESS, SAL, ALIA, (hand up) LORES SIMU, TOTORO. Big dilemma: was it “plot” crossing Ottowa and the unknown ohata or “plan” crossing Ottawa and the unknown ohana. Sorry CE, I was back & forth, tried both, but guessed wrong. Happy BD, Dash-T. Hope you & yours are well. Thoughts are with you after the storm. Thanks, Hah2lah, and welcome back. Loved your photo in Iceland.
We had Friday on Tuesday! At least that's what it felt like at times with TOTORO, SIMU and OHANA. Those are all unfamiliar to me but I see that others knew them. DOUBLE TALK made the most sense to me. And I've seen YOLO enough now that I can use it in the puzzle without cringing. BODY BUTTER is something I use. Here in the SW desert our skin dries out and needs something like that.
Welcome back, Susan; you were missed but Tony did a fine job in your absence.
I hope our Texas contingent is safe following Beryl's landing.
From Late Last Night: Monkey Thank you for the kind words. I thought others might be interested in the explanation for Sunday's theme after so much discussion of it.
Welcome back, Susan. I’m fairly new here, and after I posted a somewhat snide remark about cats a couple of weeks ago, I was advised I was lucky you were on vacation. Why would that be?
Rebecca here. Thanks for the lovely write-up. I'm not sure where the byline came from, but wanted to point out that my co-constructor for this puzzle was Beth Rubin, not Don Herold.
Musings -BODY CLOCK: I have not used an alarm clock for decades -Lily so trusts us, she will tolerate, even demand, PETS anywhere -Some flooded acres around here have come back and will do okay when REAPED/picked/combined, etc. The center PIVOTS have not had to turn yet. -Thomas Hardy’s cwd staple TESS yields to a uber obscure (esp. for a Tuesday) one. At least SIMU and TOTORO have no alternative. -Using the FOB to start my car from inside school on a very hot/cold day is great -Colleges have not completely abandoned SAT and ACT scores -Seeing my first computer image (Oregon Trail?), even though it was really LO RES, was amazing -Disney’s “ELEVATOR” in the Tower Of Terror” gives you two seconds of being weightless -Buon compleanno, Paisano!
Excellent explanations, Hahtoolah! Welcome back! I FIR this morning with only 4 personal names I Did Not Know.
The only BODY business that strikes me as odd is BODY TALK (as opposed to BODY language), but since other players object to other BODY expressions that seem fine to me, I'll assume this is a lack of experience on my part. The puzzle was well done.
Thanks to Beth and Rebecca for the fun, and to Hahtoolah for even more! Hope -T has a happy birthday.
PVX, yeah it was Car 54, where are you, but it's not funny that way. (Maybe it's not too funny the way I twisted it, either. But I thanked the right pair of constructors, so I got that goin' for me.)
Terrific Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, Beth and Rebecca, and Hahtoolah (welcome back). I FIRed in good time, and saw the BODY DOUBLEs..
One inkblot as HOTTIe changed to HOT TIP. Thanks for explaining LO RES. Hand up for not parsing. Perps were fair.
I’ll take a CSO for OTTAWA and SIMU. I have mentioned him before - you may know him from Kim’s Convenience (hi Lemonade). He also starred in Marvel movie as Shang-Chi. Rose- maybe this info will help you to remember the spelling of Ottawa. You can add it to other languages that we need for CWs. LOL, “Originally called Bytown, it became Ottawa in 1855, a name believed to come from an Algonquin-speaking First Nation, likely from the word “adawe,” meaning to trade. It’s apt because long before the Ottawa River teamed with the timber trade, it was a transportation and trade route for First Nations.”
Happy Birthday AnonT. Wishing you all a good evening.
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After I got the reveal, I went back and saw all the “body” stuff. This puzzle was a typical Tuesday level puzzle, i.e., not very difficult at all. FIR, so I’m happy.
And, by the way, welcome back, Hahtoolah!
As usual the DNKs consisted of mostly names, TESS, SAL, LEROY, ALIA, SIMU, TOTORO, plus the Hawaiian word OHANA. Somehow it all perped for a FIR in 9:45. I enjoy this type of theme but definitely needed the reveal to see it. Thank you Rebecca and Don for your creation.
Nice to have you back Hahtoolah! Cool photo from Iceland too. Tony did a fine job in your absence!
Welcome back, Hahtoolah!
Happy Birthday, Dash T!
FIR, getting my WAG @ OHANA x ATHOS. My eraser got a well-deserved day off today.
I wanted the alternative to wax to be LASER, but it wouldn't fit. I'll have to remember NAIR the next time I need my bikini trim.
MISERY loves company? I always it was "Missouri loves company."
I hadn't heard of BODY TALK, 'cept of course in Olivia Newton-John's huge hit Physical:
Let's get physical, physical
I wanna get physical
Let's get into physical
Let me hear your body talk, your body talk
Let me hear your body talk
Where the hell was BODY BUTTER when I was young and single?
Happy birthday to Bayou Tony. Reminds me of that old sitcom with Toody and Muldoon, Tee 54, Where Are You.
Thanks to Beth and Rebecca for the fun Tuesday puzzle, and to Ha2la for another fun review. Welcome back. I think you have a typo for ONO's DOB. Pro'ly should be 1933, not 1993. Give you a few days off and you hands have to be retrained.
Took 5:01 today for me to play paintball.
(Body paint & body ball ?)
As usual, I didn't know today's actress (Alia), today's writer (Tess), or today's French lessons (sel and une). I also didn't know today's actor (Simu) or his show, nor the Hawaiian word.
Biological clock? Yes, but I've not heard of "body clock."
Thanks for the fun recap.
Good Morning:
I thought this had more crunch than usual for a Tuesday due to several unknowns: Tess, Ohana, Totoro, and Simu, but the perps were fair, so all is well. The theme was certainly not evident until the reveal, always a plus factor in my book. The fill was fresh and lively, especially In A Few, Hot Tip, OK By Me, and the rarely seen, Señorita.
Thanks, Beth and Rebecca, and thanks, Hahtoolah, for the detailed and descriptive review and commentary. As usual, you provided many chuckles with the cute comics, particularly the Sheep-PR, the Canine "Investment Consultant, and the Bereft Birthday Twin. Any reference to one of my favorite shows, All Creatures Great and Small, gives me the warm fuzzies! Glad to have you back!
Happy Birthday, dear Tony. 🎂🎊🎈🎉 I hope your day is as special as you are! Thanks for pinch hitting for Hahtoolah and anyone else who needs a helping hand!
Have a great day.
Good Morning, Crossword friends.
Wishing Tony a Happy Birthday. I hope he, and our other Houston contingent, are safe, sound and can find relief from the heat. Much of the area is without power from Beryl.
QOD: Why resist temptation? There will always be more. ~ Don Herold (July 9, 1889 ~ June 1, 1966), American humorist
A mostly fun and easy Tuesday and I too welcome Susan back to her blogging duties. The comments have already mentioned all my thoughts, though I did know SIMU from KIM'S CONVENIENCE . I also must add that CHEVY CHASE was one of the original cast members. https://www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/first-saturday-night-live-cast-snl-season-1#:~:text=For%20the%20first%20three%20seasons%2C%20the%20original%20cast,sports%20announcer%20Cosell%E2%80%99s%20stab%20at%20the%20comedy%20format.
This is my favorite types of themes - but one I usually don't get until the reveal
"My neighbor TOTORO" produced by Studio Ghibli and directed by Hayao Miyazaki is one of the first films in Anime (Japanese animated film) to be popular worldwide and to have the genre go mainstream. It is on many lists of the top films of all time. I knew it more from Sporcle quizzes - I think you can find the English language Dub on Amazon Prime and Apple+
He is sorta like the Walt Disney of Japan
Thanks Hatoolah for the fun blog and Rebecca & Don for the puzzle
Happy birthday Tony - hope you and your family are well after Beryl - my friends who live there don't have power (using a generator) but are otherwise well
FIR. There were several unknowns for me, ohana, Simu, and Totoro, for example but we'll placed perps helped a lot.
For what should be an easy Tuesday puzzle, I thought it had a bit of crunch to it.
I somewhat get the theme, but some of the body items seem to be a bit of a stretch to me. Body talk? Body butter?
But it's done so there's that.
Definitely a Tuesday level puzzle this morning. Jut too many A&E unknowns filled by perps. TOTORO, TESS, SIMU, ALIA, LEROY, PBS
LORES- filled by perps and I didn't know either until I realized it was LO RES.
BOCY DOUBLE? Never noticed.
Yes, the SNL cast picture includes Bill Murray, who replaced Chevy Chase in Season 2 when he left the show to get his movie career going. This SNL cast was for Seasons 2 through 5.
Almost as EZ as yesterday although I perp-waited on PATS not taps and BOOST needed a perp-aid boost as well
Theme: I get BODY PILLOW and DOUBLE TALK, DOUBLE BOARD (an MD with two specialties is “double boarded”) but BODY CLOCK? (Internal body clock maybe?) DOUBLE BUTTER? I’m cornfused 🥹
Are all Muskrats OMANI? NYS is east of the Rockies, we have both Dreyers and Edys ice cream. BTW the most majestic mountain range in the US and that’s the name they came up with “The Rocky Mountains”? Can you say “redundant and unimaginative”
A “whack”’is a bit more forceful than a SWAT (one LUMP or two 😮)
Did not know SIMU “Liu” (it’s usually “Lucy”). Ah LO-RES!
Started to fill waterboard but that’s reserved for extracting “good intel” 😳… liked the ION clue but more of a Saturday level brain twister. A “carabiner” ….what?
Was looking for a specific AP CLASS
Spanish version of “A Boy Named Sue” …. SEÑOR RITA
Best Brit mother….OPTIMUM
What the Hummel said to the customer who broke it: “OKBYME”
Genre of small computer programs…. APCLASS
Happy birthday 🎁 Anon Tony
Great toons as usual H2LH
Fun puzzle, Beth and Rebecca. Delightful, blog, Susan. Welcome home.
Happy birthday, Tony. Hope you have a great day. Thanks for all you do for the corner. I like reading your posts daily and hearing about your family.
One bad cell. Tsk, tsk. I misspelled Mamba with an O at the end and wondered why NOIR made no sense.
Body butter is great for dry skin. I like shea butter for the roughest patches.
Some people's body clocks have trouble with daylight saving time. Not I.
Years ago when I was studying Japanese I watched "My Neighbor, Totoro" in Japanese with my half Japanese grandson. With my rudimentary language skills, great animations and easy plot I could follow it. Not today. I was too old when I studied Japanese. Funny, I remember more of my college German. Some of Miyazaki's movies have been translated to English.
LORES? I left it in, Thanks for parsing it, Susan
I love petunias. I planted some from our farm market. They must have had insect eggs on them. The plants failed and the bugs survived in the ground to return every year. I suppose hanging baskets would be a solution.
I am floor leader here. We arranged a catered picnic this noon with 12 of our neighbors. What a fun, caring group! I am very happy here at the Oaks.
Good Morning! I wasn’t in the best of moods after this puzzle.
The theme IMHO was a stretch of phrases NES (no-one ever says) body talk, body board. I’ll go with body language and boogie board. Body butter and body work are suspect, but I’ll give them that. More likely one would go to a body shop, but who says to have body work done?
Perps for TESS, SAL, ALIA, (hand up) LORES SIMU, TOTORO.
Big dilemma: was it “plot” crossing Ottowa and the unknown ohata or “plan” crossing Ottawa and the unknown ohana. Sorry CE, I was back & forth, tried both, but guessed wrong.
Happy BD, Dash-T. Hope you & yours are well. Thoughts are with you after the storm.
Thanks, Hah2lah, and welcome back. Loved your photo in Iceland.
I was not fond of the theme nor the many unknown names already listed. However, I FIR.
Welcome back Susan. Always enjoy your reviews.
Happy birthday Tony. Hope you’re able to celebrate with the power on in your house, or did you escape? 🎉🎂🎊🎁
Hola!
We had Friday on Tuesday! At least that's what it felt like at times with TOTORO, SIMU and OHANA. Those are all unfamiliar to me but I see that others knew them. DOUBLE TALK made the most sense to me. And I've seen YOLO enough now that I can use it in the puzzle without cringing. BODY BUTTER is something I use. Here in the SW desert our skin dries out and needs something like that.
Welcome back, Susan; you were missed but Tony did a fine job in your absence.
I hope our Texas contingent is safe following Beryl's landing.
Have a great day, everyone!
From Late Last Night:
Monkey Thank you for the kind words. I thought others might be interested in the explanation for Sunday's theme after so much discussion of it.
Jinx….wasn't that “Car 54”?
Welcome back, Susan. I’m fairly new here, and after I posted a somewhat snide remark about cats a couple of weeks ago, I was advised I was lucky you were on vacation. Why would that be?
Hi there,
Rebecca here. Thanks for the lovely write-up. I'm not sure where the byline came from, but wanted to point out that my co-constructor for this puzzle was Beth Rubin, not Don Herold.
Apologies to Beth Rubin. The byline has been corrected.
Musings
-BODY CLOCK: I have not used an alarm clock for decades
-Lily so trusts us, she will tolerate, even demand, PETS anywhere
-Some flooded acres around here have come back and will do okay when REAPED/picked/combined, etc. The center PIVOTS have not had to turn yet.
-Thomas Hardy’s cwd staple TESS yields to a uber obscure (esp. for a Tuesday) one. At least SIMU and TOTORO have no alternative.
-Using the FOB to start my car from inside school on a very hot/cold day is great
-Colleges have not completely abandoned SAT and ACT scores
-Seeing my first computer image (Oregon Trail?), even though it was really LO RES, was amazing
-Disney’s “ELEVATOR” in the Tower Of Terror” gives you two seconds of being weightless
-Buon compleanno, Paisano!
Excellent explanations, Hahtoolah! Welcome back! I FIR this morning with only 4 personal names I Did Not Know.
The only BODY business that strikes me as odd is BODY TALK (as opposed to BODY language), but since other players object to other BODY expressions that seem fine to me, I'll assume this is a lack of experience on my part. The puzzle was well done.
Thanks to Beth and Rebecca for the fun, and to Hahtoolah for even more! Hope -T has a happy birthday.
PVX, yeah it was Car 54, where are you, but it's not funny that way. (Maybe it's not too funny the way I twisted it, either. But I thanked the right pair of constructors, so I got that goin' for me.)
Puzzling thoughts:
HBTY Tony - Celebrate as best as you can given the circumstances of Beryl
FIR, with no mistakes, and in less than 10 minutes of solving time (which included a bathroom break - TMI)
Got to agree with RosE on her review of this one; too much green paint in the entries
The power outages and flooding in Houston must be affecting Desper-otto and Dash T.
Terrific Tuesday. Thanks for the fun, Beth and Rebecca, and Hahtoolah (welcome back).
I FIRed in good time, and saw the BODY DOUBLEs..
One inkblot as HOTTIe changed to HOT TIP.
Thanks for explaining LO RES. Hand up for not parsing.
Perps were fair.
I’ll take a CSO for OTTAWA and SIMU. I have mentioned him before - you may know him from Kim’s Convenience (hi Lemonade). He also starred in Marvel movie as Shang-Chi.
Rose- maybe this info will help you to remember the spelling of Ottawa. You can add it to other languages that we need for CWs. LOL, “Originally called Bytown, it became Ottawa in 1855, a name believed to come from an Algonquin-speaking First Nation, likely from the word “adawe,” meaning to trade. It’s apt because long before the Ottawa River teamed with the timber trade, it was a transportation and trade route for First Nations.”
Happy Birthday AnonT.
Wishing you all a good evening.
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