Theme: "Financial Literacy" - Each financial term is rephrased.
22A. Sleep journal?: RETIREMENT ACCOUNT.
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like this type of rephrase type of theme. You don't need to be
knowledgeable in finance, or baseball, or fashion, and you can still
solve the puzzle.
Only 7 theme entries. But most of them are very long. Total 99 theme squares. Perfect for a Sunday.
Across:
5. Compadre: AMIGO.
10. "__-Dick; or, The Whale": MOBY.
14. Audible sighs: AHS.
17. "Can you __ a secret?": KEEP.
18. Form-al starting place?: LINE A. Fun "-al" addition.
19. Weasel relatives: SABLES.
21. "I don't wanna": NAW.
25. "Science Guy" Bill: NYE.
26. College app data: AP SCORES. App indicates a shortened answer.
27. Blasts: BLARES.
28. Luxurious Honda: ACURA.
30. Refined fellow: GENT.
31. First-class: PRIMO.
32. Winter coiffure risk: HAT HAIR. Beanie hair for me. My hair froze one morning when I left the pool.
34. Fake: FRAUD.
36. "So sad": ALAS.
37. Novelist Deighton: LEN.
38. "M*A*S*H" star: ALDA.
44. Worry: FRET.
45. Cedar Rapids college: COE. 57. About half of 45-Across attendees: IOWANS.
46. "Whose __ are you on?": SIDE.
47. Whole lot: SLEW.
48. SETI search subject: LIFE.
50. Johnson and Jonson: POETS. Samuel Johnson. Ben Jonson.
52. "LOTR" collection, maybe: DVD SET.
54. President pro __: TEM.
60. Capital on the Tamsui River: TAIPEI. Tamsui means "fresh water".
64. Expungement: ERASURE.
66. Frodo's home, with "the": SHIRE.
69. Turkish coins: LIRAS.
70. TV advertiser's purchase: AIR TIME.
72. __ heel: KITTEN.
73. Team briefly known as the Gothams: GIANTS. New York/San Francisco Giants. Did not know this trivia.
74. Sadness: WOE.
75. Disney duck: DONALD.
77. "Vamoose!": SCRAM.
79. Way to ski uphill: T-BAR.
81. Explorer Erikson: LEIF. Son of Erik the Red.
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83. Skylight piece: PANE.
84. State of matter: GAS.
87. Apple pie prep step: PARE. Just got some SweeTango last week. So good.
94. Bibliography abbr.: ET AL.
95. Play's sign of success, for short: SRO.
96. "Frog and __ Are Friends": classic children's book: TOAD.
97. Before sunrise: EARLY.
98. Bit of camping gear: TENT PEG.
100. Blockheads: DOLTS.
102. Plus: ALSO.
103. German author Hermann: HESSE. He wrote "Siddhartha" and "Steppenwolf".
104. Thin mushrooms: ENOKIS. Soooo pricey these days.
106. Discrepancy: VARIANCE.
110. Org. that targets illicit liquor: ATF.
114. Golf ball holder: TEE.
115. "__ Tunes": LOONEY.
116. Hayao Miyazaki genre: ANIME. He founded Studio Ghibli.
117. Disclaimer letters: IMHO.
118. Do wrong: ERR.
119. Change for a five: ONES.
120. Long locks: MANES.
121. Lots: TONS.
Down:
2. Uriah __: Dickens villain: HEEP. In "David Copperfield".
3. Event at Citi Field: METS GAME.
4. Make more exciting: SPICE UP.
5. Like a guard on duty: ALERT.
6. Expert in body language?: MIME. Another creative clue.
7. Bridal gown designer Di Santo: INES. Unknown to me.
8. X, Y, or Z intro: GEN.
9. Gluten-free muffin ingredient: OAT BRAN.
10. Spreadsheet shortcut: MACRO.
11. Instrument that represents the duck in "Peter and the Wolf": OBOE.
12. Looks embarrassed: BLUSHES.
13. Hankering: YEN. I dream of shrimp cheung fun often. Cheap street food in Guangzhou.
15. Harvest celebration activity: HAYRIDE.
16. Curse out: SWEAR AT.
19. Pyramid scheme: SCAM.
20. Datum for a sports podcast: STAT. John the Master timed me: 30 seconds for 25 meters.
23. Concerto movement: RONDO.
24. First choices: A-LISTS.
29. Grain husks: CHAFF. Left, mostly.
31. Beginner's ballet move: PLIE.
33. Buck's weapon: ANTLER.
34. TV regulator: FCC.
35. Little friend of Pooh: ROO.
36. Augments: ADDS TO.
37. Lascivious: LEWD.
40. Tool's selling points: USES.
41. Small complaint: NIT.
42. Like Prince William or Malia Obama: ELDEST. Me too.
43. Look to improve: REVISE.
49. Milano locale: ITALIA.
50. AutoZone purchase: PART.
51. People in the Iroquois Confederacy: ONEIDA. And 84. Apache leader: GERONIMO.
53. Understand: SEE.
55. Quod __ demonstrandum: ERAT.
56. Private meal spot?: MESS. Good, old clue.
57. Second part of a Caesarean boast: I SAW.
58. Home of Cuyahoga Valley National Park: OHIO.
61. They're just over two feet: ANKLES. Not length.
62. Proud words: I DID IT.
63. Conductor's place: PIT.
65. "The King and I" setting: SIAM. Tai is one of the 56 ethic groups in China. Many of them left China in 6th century and settled in Southeast Asia. Tai = Thai.
67. Obi-Wan's alias: BEN.
68. Implicit: UNSAID.
71. Gloomy: MOROSE.
73. Actor Kinnear: GREG.
76. Voice above tenor: ALTO.
78. Dana Bash's channel: CNN. She was married to John King for a while.
80. Sings with passion: BELTS.
82. Injury from a fistfight: FAT LIP.
83. PalmPilots, e.g.: Abbr.: PDAS.
85. Knee surgery target, for short: ACL.
86. Wild blue yonder: SKY.
87. Little annoyance, to a Brit: PET HATE. Learning moment also.
88. Off balance, quaintly: ATEETER.
90. Encourages: URGES ON.
91. Email designation: NOT SPAM.
92. Salsa singer Cruz: CELIA.
93. Takes up the challenge: HAS AT IT.
99. Bell sound: PEAL.
100. Loves (on): DOTES.
101. " ... Fine.": OKAY.
102. Taurus preceder: ARIES.
105. Hawaiian waterfowl: NENE.
106. Blood vessel: VEIN.
107. Mountaineer's goal: ACME.
108. Political analyst Nate: COHN. Did not know him. Wikipedia says he's the "chief political analyst for "The Upshot" at The New York Times."
109. Genesis grandson: ENOS.
112. Broadway star Phillipa: SOO.
113. Messenger molecule: RNA.
C.C.
33 comments:
It wasn’t long before I realized what the theme was, and that helped me solve this long, but not too challenging, puzzle . Other than that, I don’t have too much to say about it. FIR, so I’m happy.
Good morning!
Up EARLY this morning for no good reason, with a bed head rather than HAT HAIR. Never heard of a KITTEN HEEL; what is it? It took 20 minutes to put this one to bed. That N in LINE A was my final entry. AHA. Thanx, Jill and C.C. (Interesting fact about Thai.)
OHMS: My multimeter is handy for checking if a circuit is dead (volts), and for testing continuity in wiring (ohms). I've never found a reason to test current (amps).
COE: I've mentioned before that this is a gimme. COE College was just up 1st Avenue from our radio studios.
Took 17:04 today for me to bank on it.
Good puzzle. Clever/punny theme.
I didn't know the bridal gown designer, the German author, and a few others.
Tent peg sounds off to me. "Tent stakes" sounds right to me.
It's nice to see the Cuyahoga Valley National Park get some love today in the puzzle. It's often one of the most visited parks in the US. It's not comparable in breath-taking views to many of the other US National Parks, but it has a great history, including how it was revived/reclaimed.
d-otto- I was also up early, not that I wanted; just woke up. No HAT HAIR for this baldie.
I caught the financial angle immediately. By the time I got to the bottom I filled ASSET APPREATION without seeing the clue. I'm glad because I have no idea what "reason for swiping right?' means.
I managed to FIR, having to guess the N at the cross of INES and LINE-A . Even with C.C.'s help I still don't get it. Other than that the puzzle was easy with the usual amount of unknowns filled by perps.
KITTEN, TAIPEI, ANIME, PET HATE, COHN- it took perps for those
Political analyst- everybody is a political analyst
ASSET APPRECIATION- farmers live poor and die rich when the IRS decides their property is worth millions and decides to send a big tax bill to the descendants.
A kitten heel is a kind of heel on a shoe. Like a short high heel if that makes sense.
FIR, but I have never heard of kitten heel. Or for that matter some of the proper names in this puzzle. Also there seemed to be a lot of answers ending in two letters, like on, up, it, etc.
But the theme was clever. I got it early on and that helped a lot. For some reason bond issue took a while, mostly because I spelled morose with an a in error and failed to see my mistake. That made Donald hard to see.
But overall this was a fun puzzle and I enjoyed it quite a lot.
Daisy, Hewey, Dewy, & Lewie (Louie) were only 5 letters. It only left DONALD as a possibility. DAFFY was in 115A- LOONEY Tunes.
FIR. Hand up for not knowing kitten heel, but I guess it was a thing at some point in history. Not too bad for a Sunday with most unknowns being reasonably perped, but the clue for asset appreciation turned out to be one of those recurring inane social media incursions. Had to look it up and don't feel that my realm of knowledge is lacking for not knowing it.
Good Morning:
I liked this theme very much and thought the execution was perfect. The title and the first entry, my favorite, signaled the theme, but some thought was still required to suss out the themers themselves. Unlike most Sundays, there were only a few unknowns (Ines, Pet Hate, and Cohn) and only a few w/os (Nah/Naw, Oatmeal/Oat Bran, and Esau/Enos. The low count (24) of TLWs for a Sunday grid is impressive, but the 9 fill-in-the-blank clues ruffled my feathers a bit. This practice is sometimes necessary but, more often than not, it's an annoying and unnecessary distraction.
Thanks, Jill, for an enjoyable solve and thanks, CC, for the professional overview and summary. Congrats on your swimming prowess and achievements. You look mighty strong in the pool!
Have a great day.
DNF, because I stubbornly held on to vidi instead of I SAW, so that little corner was a mess. Otherwise I caught on to the theme right away and had fun with it.
Several unknowns: COHN, KITTEN heel, COE, CELIA, SOO.
The POETS clue was cute as was ELDEST.
Thanks CC for the review.
Managed to get this one done right. Hands up for "vidi" instead of ISAW. Yes, knowing that the theme answers were financially related made most easy to fill after a few perps appeared. Also tried NOTSent instead of NOTSPAM. Wanted boxSET, but ELDEST and LEWD convinced me otherwise.
Young girls often have low rise "high" heel shoes for their first dress shoes, ergo "kitten heels". Don't make me explain the references.
Army pup tents have both poles (stakes) and pegs. The poles are long and hold up the canvas and the pegs go into the ground and are short so they don't stick up.
Attention to orders: C.C. and Jill; Well Done!!
Goosey Goosey Gander never met Little BoPeep
Swing.
Veni, vidi, vici this one in 25:54, like C.C. stated, just about a perfect CW for a Sunday, the only day we get a titled puzzle which today served as the reveal. Needed perps for PET HATE, SHIRE, KITTEN and the unknown names CELIA, COHN and INES (I doubt that many of us are familiar with any bridal gown designers). ANIME and OBOE were derived from the Ektorp clues. Back in my skiing days I saw many people take a tumble trying to mount the T-BAR, which have pretty much been replaced by chairlifts except on maybe smaller municipal hills. Like SS, I’ve always called them tent stakes and not TENT PEGs. Uriah HEEP was a British band from the 70’s, pioneers in the heavy metal genre, ‘Easy Livin’ being one of their bigger hits.
Jill ~ very much enjoyed your CW, cool theme and mostly straightforward cluing! C.C. ~ thanks for explaining it all!
FIR. The clever theme answers helped.
Google says," A tent stake, also known as a tent peg or tent pin, is a spike that holds a tent to the ground. Three synonyms. I loved tent camping. I never heard the poles referred to as stakes ??? At age 80 I had to give up tent camping because my knees did not allow me to hammer in the tent stakes. I also have heard the stakes called pegs.
I like kitten heels. I think they are dressy. Wikipedia says, "A kitten heel is a short stiletto heel less than 5cm (2 inches) in height, with a slight curve setting the heel in from the back edge of the shoe. They are not just shorter heels. IMO they need that cute curve. When I had to give up high heels I wore kitten heels. Now I wear only flats.
Why the -al? Just form setting would be okay. A form to fill in might begin with line A.
I was able to finish in the morning today because I don't have Alan here this weekend. So now I am going for brunch with my friends.
Musings
-After yesterday’s revelation that my newspaper and so many others have abandoned the LA Times Cwd, I had to do this online and it was just fine and even had some advantages because I didn't have to search for clues in small, cluttered print.
-An easy puzzle whose gimmicks were straight forward phrases with fun clues
-KITTEN heel: Didn’t know/had to be
-What some coaches think of STATS
-We feed our birds and squirrels shelled sunflower seeds and have to clean up the CHAFF they leave
-Song BELTERS – Gotta go with Ethel Merman. There’s no business like show business…
This was a straightforward and enjoyable Sunday puzzle, and I'll bet Jill had some fun constructing it. She did include a few answers that were obscure to me, like INES, ENOKIS, COHN, KITTEN (heel), and NENE, but they were for the most part spread out, so we avoided any Natick issues.
Many of the theme entries showed why English must be a tough language to learn. For instance, a non-native speaker thinks he or she knows the word "outstanding," as something really good, but then sees OUTSTANDINGCHECK, and all of a sudden it's not something to be desired. Similar with "appreciation," which in its financial usage specifically points to an increase in monetary value. Similar confusion with "interest" and "return."
Jill, your cleverness and humor, combined with a solidly constructed grid, made for a fun exercise today. I look forward to your next challenge.
Hand up enjoyed the clever and well-constructed FINANCIAL LITERACY theme. Hand up mystified by KITTEN HEEL. I seem to be the only one stuck with CORE before PARE. And GET before SEE. We love ENOKI mushrooms. Happy to see MULTIMETER, which is always close at hand for me. FIR.
Here we went on a HAY RIDE during COVID at our local pumpkin patch. Tis the season again, soon.
From Yesterday:
NaomiZ Thank you for the good thoughts for Merlie. It is a social challenge for her to be able to go out for now. Tomorrow we visit our dentist for him to make some "adjustments". She is terrified of more pain.
Enjoyable and helpful theme. Only two PET HATEs. That, and the adjacent entry.
Shouldn’t the clue for #42 Down contain examples with three or more people? Prince William is the “elder” of two sons as Malia is the “elder” of two sisters. The ending -est implies more than two. Or am I wrong about this?
Super Sunday. Thanks for the fun, Jill and C.C.
I FIRed online and saw the Financial themes. (I remembered that Americans have CHECKS spelled like the hockey checks, while Canadians have Cheques.)
This Canadian knew LEIF from history classes in public school. “ Leif Eriksson was the first European to explore what is now eastern Canada, from the Arctic to New Brunswick, around 1000 CE. He made these voyages nearly five hundred years before Christopher Columbus's journey across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492.” (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
But I didn’t know COE, IOWANS or OHIO. Perps were fair.
ATF and FCC always pose a problem too.
Canadians get HAT HAIR under their toques!
And our change for a five is Loonies (or two Toonies and a Looney.)
My apple instructions were Peel before PARE.
Caesar said Vidi (English is I SAW). Oldest changed to ELDEST.
I noted SCAM and NOT SPAM, and SLEW and TONS.
Learning moment that PET HATE is a British NIT.
Some constructor could turn 64A around for a Saturday clue/fill. Expungement: ERASURE
Favourites today were FAT LIP, ANKLES , ATEETER.
Wishing you all a great day.
Yes, I’m with you on VIDI,
Very interesting and clever Sunday puzzle, many thanks, Jill. And your Sunday commentaries are always a helpful pleasure, C.C.--thanks for those too.
Well, when I saw AMIGO I was hoping for a social theme of some sort, but I'm afraid my friend wasn't into financial stuff at all so there was little for him to work with. He did enjoy meeting that GENT, and was happy to see Alan ALDA as a figure in the puzzle. And he got excited when he ran into some POETS, who were happy to see Hermann HESSE there, but, ALAS, not much else that was helpful to them. So they decided to head off to ITALIA and to SIAM for a little vacation, and I hope they had a good trip.
Have a happy and pleasant Sunday, everybody. And thanks again for a fun puzzle, Jill and C.C.
What does FIR mean?
Anonymous at 2:48 PM: "FIR" means Finished It Right. You can find a list of abbreviations used in our comments section on the home page:
https://crosswordcorner.blogspot.com/
Just page down to the "Olio" heading on the right side of the page, and you'll find a link to "Comments Section Abbrs."
I *need* to do the puzzle in the morning, just like I need to eat breakfast ... but sometimes I have to wait until later in the day to read the Crossword Corner and learn whether I FIR or FIW. Today I was pretty sure I had a bad square, and I did! I thought "I don't wanna" was NAh, and was stumped by ShEAR AT for "curse out." I couldn't understand it, and never came up with the W, so I FIW. Now, there's a W I don't like to see!
This was a marvelous puzzle. The long theme entries were clever. One of you nice people expressed puzzlement over "swiping right." My stepdaughter (now 33) used to spend a lot of time on dating apps on her smartphone. She would look at the profile of a would-be suitor, looking at their portrait and a few words about themselves, and "swipe right" if she was interested in making a connection, or "swipe left" if uninterested. It is the commodification of human relationships! In this case, the joke is that you appreciate the "assets" that you see in the profile.
Kitten heels are very well known by the ladies. They are skinny heels, just like stilettos, but short. In other words, you are just as unstable as in stilettos, but with less pressure on the front of your foot, and a shorter distance to fall. They are *very* much in style right now. I am replacing all my heels with flats.
Jill, thanks for an interesting and challenging Sunday treat, and C.C., thanks for the blog post! You are showing great form in your swimming. In another weird English expression, one could say that "things are going swimmingly" for you.
Edward in Los Angeles:
veni, VIDI, vici
I enjoyed solving this puzzle.
A multimeter was one of my most used tools when I was working. I still occasionally use mine for certain household tests.
SABLES were a "MacGuffin" in the book Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith, which I very much enjoyed reading. It was also made into a movie.
I'm getting awfully tired of seeing/hearing the word FRAUD.
I once walked almost the entire length of the Tamsui River when I lived in TAIPEI.
I think too many network news shows give far too much AIR TIME to certain people.
Frankly, I don't care much for ENOKI mushrooms.
When I see the word MOROSE I reflexively think of the composer Jerome MOROSS.
Good reading you all.
Thanks to Jill for this "Financial Literacy" puzzle! I had a FIR with my last fill being the very center square. I liked ATEETER, noticed DOLTS crossing DOTES, and thought FRAUD an Easter egg.
Hand up for having a girl advantage in knowing KITTEN heel -- but it was not immediately obvious to me.
Thanks to C.C. for the tour and for sharing her insight! I am so impressed with your swimming!
Great Easter Egg catch with FRAUD. Or it could have gone with SCAM and (NOT) SPAM
Anonymous @1:47 In IMHO You’re correct in your definition of elder and ELDEST.
T Ken @ 11:51. I know what you mean about the meaning of words. This afternoon my 10year old grand nephew asked me if I knew what plasma is and when I answered it’s a component of our blood, he told me I was wrong and he babbled on about physics and matter.
Jayce, what a feat to have walked the length of the Tamsui river.
Belters? Kate Smith was one who sang so loud so people would not notice she was off key.
Sorry I misled. I didn’t walk the entire length of the Tamsui River from its source to where it flows into the Pacific Ocean. I walked only the length of it within the limits of the city of Taipei. At that time Taipei was much smaller than it is now.
You are really doing well swimming. Even a flip turn. Congrats. I agree with the clever theme answers, they helped to solve things quickly. I also liked "eldest" and the the "poets". Enjoyable puzzle.
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