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Oct 3, 2024

Thursday, October 3, 2024, Katherine Simonson

  

IT DEPENDS ON
HOW YOU SLICE IT
(see also 35D)

Today's constructor Katherine Simonson makes her LAT debut with 4 across theme clues identified only by trailing question marks.  The clues are all references to countries, but they don't make a whole lot of sense and the two word fills don't make any sense either -- but on closer inspection the second word can be combined with a word embedded at the end of the first fill to make an in the language phrase. Here are the themers ...

17. Warmup bands from Casablanca?: MOROCCAN OPENERS.  This one did make a bit of sense -- here's Ilsa and Sam warming up in Rick's Cafe in the movie Casablanca ...
As Time Goes By

23. Liquid from Munich?: TEUTONIC WATER

45. Faucet hardware from Stockholm?: SWEDISH WASHER.

53. Ice cream treats from Manila?: PHILIPPINE CONES.

I couldn't see any particular connection between the in the language part of these phrases.

Here's the grid ...


Here's the rest ...

Across:

 1. Rudimentary elements: ABCS.

5. Service station job: LUBE.

9. Automaker owned by Stellantis: FIAT

13. "Hot To Go!" singer Chappell: ROAN.  My granddaughter would define this fill as a particular color of a horse, but in this case it refers to Kayleigh Rose Amstutz (born February 19, 1998), known professionally as Chappell Roan, an American singer and songwriter.  Here's the clue song ...
A recent article reveals that MS. Amstutz is having some trouble adjusting to her meteoric rise to fame

14. Grand film format: IMAX.  The IMAX theater at the Maryland Science Center is on our short list of places to visit to see the film Deep Sky ...

15. Collector of synonyms: ROGET. The only synonym that thesaurus.plus  suggests for this fill is Peter Mark Roget, a British physician, natural theologian, lexicographer, and founding secretary of The Portico Library.
Peter Mark Roget
18 January 1779 – 12 September 1869
17. [Theme clue]

20. Olympic gymnast Strug who was part of the gold-winning American team in 1996: KERRI.  Kerri Allyson Strug (born November 19, 1977) is a retired American gymnast from Tucson, Arizona. She was a member of the Magnificent Seven, the victorious all-around women's gymnastics team that represented the United States at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Strug performed the vault that clinched the gold for the U.S. team despite having injured her ankle.
Kerri Strug
21. Play to __: A TIE.  Most games will have a sudden death playoff, one exception being chess which can result in a draw.  Hand up for any others?

22. Intel org.: NSA.  CIA fit, but didn't perp.  We pass by the NSA every time we go to Washington, but it's best not to talk about that. ๐Ÿ˜‘

23. [Theme clue]

26. Wag: CARD. One who is quick with BON MOTS.

27. Acid type produced during exercise: LACTIC.  Lactic acid is fuel for your cells during intense exercise. It’s created when your body breaks down glucose and other carbohydrates. It’s a common myth that muscle soreness you feel after exercise is caused by lactic acid trapped in your cells. Studies have found that’s not true. The temporary rise in lactic acid caused by intense physical activity isn’t dangerous and usually won’t cause any symptoms. 
28. Himalayan herd: YAKS.  Apparently the one thing these highly adaptable creatures haven't been able to adapt to is us. ...
Yaks, aka Muskoxen
29. That guy's: HIS.

30. Loose overcoat: ULSTER.  New to me.  The Ulster coat was a Victorian working daytime overcoat, with a cape and sleeves.  It has long since gone out of fashion, but is often mentioned in Victorian literature, e.g. in Dickens and in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  The name derives from a popular synonym for Northern Ireland, where the style originated.
Ulster coats
34. Tailless simian: APE.

35. Amazon Prime vehicle: VAN.

36. Not virtually, briefly: IRL.  The only Cornerite we've met IRL is inanehiker (Nina).  She, Teri, and I spent a wonderful day together exploring the National Museum of Art and getting lost in D.C. (pretty easy to do. ๐Ÿ˜€)

37. Kitchen gadget brand: OXO.

38. Broadway legend Ethel: MERMAN.  Ethel Merman (January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was an American actress and singer. Known for her distinctive, powerful voice, and her leading roles in musical theater, she has been called "the undisputed First Lady of the musical comedy stage."[ She performed on Broadway in Anything GoesAnnie Get Your GunGypsy, and Hello, Dolly!  Here she is singing There's No Business Like Show Business ...
40. Diner coffee: JOE.

41. Failed, as a fuse: BLEW.  These guys were so frustrated when they failed to get what they wanted that they threatened to BLOW a fifty amp fuse! ... 

42. Timeworn saying: OLD SAW.  They also make beautiful music.  Here's a CSO to Misty.

44. Standing on the street: CRED. "Standing" as in CREDIBILITY.

45. [Theme clue]

49. Afr. neighbor: EUR.  AFRICA is abbreviated and so EUROPE is abbreviated.

50. Bilateral: DUAL.

51. Fillable flatbreads: PITAS.

53. [Theme clue]

57. Understood implicitly: TACIT.

58. Irish New Age singer: ENYA.   Last week she gave us an instrumental, so this week we'll hear her sing May It Be ...

59. Elite Eight org.: NCAA.

60. Fleet: NAVY.  FAST fit but didn't perp.

61. Fawning parents: DEER.  A herd of fawning parents lives in our back yard and forced us to put an eight foot fence around our vegetable garden. ๐Ÿ˜ž

62. Dispatched: SENT.

Down:

 1. Branch: ARM.

2. Work that's bound to sell?: BOOK.  Clever clue.

3. Keeper: CARETAKER.

4. Nocturnal noisemakers: SNORERS.  I'd recommend a CPAP machine, but they're addictive.

5. Allowed: LICIT.

6. Actress Thurman: UMA.

7. Potassium-rich snacks: BANANAS.

8. Different in an alluring way: EXOTIC.  IMHO all of reality is EXOTIC!

9. Opposite of determinism: FREE WILL.  The question as to whether we have free will, or our actions are pre-determined by forces beyond our control is a question that goes back at least to the early Greek philosophers.  

10. Charged particle: ION.

11. Plant that's hard to find: AGENT.  A MOLE in spy speak.  Another clever clue.

12. Crisp: TERSE.

16. Russian monarch: TSAR.  The TSARS and TSARIST art and culture were an interest of the famous heiress, art collector and philanthropist Margorie Merriweather Post (March 15, 1887 – September 12, 1973).  Her collection of decorative art, fine art, and artifacts from this period are on display at her Hillwood Museum and Gardens in Northwest Washington, D.C.  Among the highlights are several fine paintings, a large collection of Fabergรฉ eggs, Russian liturgical vessels, and porcelain dinner services from all over the world.  Teri and I have visited Hillwood several times and definitely recommend this fascinating estate.
Hillwood Mansion
18. "Rats!": CRUD.

19. Imagine: PICTURE.  Here is large oil painting at the Hillwood Museum that helps us imagine what life was like in Tsarist Russia ...
A Boyar Wedding Feast
Konstantin Egorovich Makovskii
St. Petersburg, Russia 1883
24. Actor/director Ken: OLIN.  Ken Olin is perhaps best known for starring as Michael Steadman in Thirtysomething, which focuses on a group of baby boomers in their thirties who live in Philadelphia, and how they handle the lifestyle that dominated American culture during the 1980s given their involvement in the early 1970s counterculture as young adults.  Here is Olin in a scene from the pilot, with his wife Hope, played by actress Mel Harris ...

25. Summer systs.: ACS.  Air Conditioners, not Hurricanes.

26. Peninsular land formation: CAPE.  E.g.  Cape Cod, Mass.
Cape Cod
28. Thanksgiving staple: YAM.

29. Cry at the end of a cooking competition: HANDS UP.  Here's a cooking competition between fictional Chef Sir Lenny HenryCBE and real Chef Gordon RamseyOBE.  Guess who wins ...
I bet Henry had way too many Scotch Bonnets ๐ŸŒถ๐ŸŒถ๐ŸŒถin his dish. 

31. Capacity to endure: TOLERANCE. Assuming ENDURANCE as a one word synonym I asked the dinosaur if he thought this fill was a synonym -- nope .... 
... but then Roget's found it at the top of his list
 
32. Struck (out): EXED

33. Work out on an erg: ROW.  ERG is short for ERGOMETER, an indoor rowing machine that measures work units called ERGS.  This is not a new concept -- Chabrias, an Athenian admiral of the 4th century BC, introduced the first rowing machines as supplemental military training devices. To train inexperienced oarsmen, Chabrias built wooden rowing frames onshore where beginners could learn technique and timing before they went onboard ship.
Rowing Machines

35. Sound quality?: VALIDITY.  As in the soundness of an argument, i.e. its validity.  Another clever clue.

36. State where sliced bread was invented: IOWA.  Otto Frederick Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa, United States, invented the first single loaf bread-slicing machine making it convenient to package uniformly and eliminating the need for the consumer to cut it with a knife. It was first sold in 1928, advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped".  By 1933, around 80% of bread sold in the US was pre-sliced, leading to the popular idiom "the greatest thing since sliced bread". 
Sliced Bread
39. Quaintly stylish: MOD. Not quite CHIC?

40. Place for stubble: JAW LINE.

41. Natives of northwest France: BRETONS.  The Bretons are an ethnic group native to Brittany in north-western France. They trace their heritage to groups of Brittonic speakers who emigrated from southwestern Great Britain, particularly Cornwall and Devon, mostly during the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain. They migrated in waves from the 3rd to 9th century (most heavily from 450 to 600) into Armorica, which was subsequently named Brittany after them. Here's a Breton song called Imram an Enez
 
43. Sculpted: SHAPED.

44. Stylish: CHIC.

45. Huit minus un: SEPT.  Today's French lesson: "8 - 1 = 7".

46. Capital of China's Hubei Province: WUHAN.  With a population of over eleven million, Wuhan is the most populous city in Hubei and the ninth-most-populous city in China. It is also one of the nine national central cities.  Since early 2020, it is probably best known as the epi-center of the COVID-19 pandemic. As this article from the New England Journal of Medicine tells, the actual origins of SARS-CoV-2 are  somewhat controversial.

47. CNN national correspondent Hill: ERICA.  Erica Ruth Hill-Yount is an American journalist who works for CNN. She serves as a primary substitute anchor and as a correspondent. She co-anchored Weekend Today for NBC from 2012 to 2016, following prior work at CBS.
Erica Hill
48. Asparagus unit: SPEAR.

52. Son of John and Yoko: SEAN.  Sean Taro Ono Lennon (born 9 October 1975) is a British-American musician, songwriter, and producer. He is the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and half-brother to Julian Lennon. He has played in several bands over the years, including The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger formed by he and his partner, model Charlotte Kemp Muhl -- whom he found out only a year after he'd started dating her that she was also a musician!  He is also a composer and has released two solo albums: Into the Sun (1998) and Friendly Fire (2006).  Here's the song Midnight Sun that he cowrote with Kemp Muhl from the album The GOASTT  ...

 54. Actress Tyler : LIV.  Here she is as Arwen rescuing Frodo from the Nazgul in The Fellowship of the Ring in Peter Jackson's adaptation of the Lord of the Rings ... 

55. Emmy-winning TV scientist Bill: NYE.  Bill Nye is a former mechanical engineer who plays a scientist on TV.  And like Matt Smith and Bill Nighy he likes bow ties.
Bill Nye
Matt Smith and Bill Nighy
From a scene in Dr. Who -- Vincent and the Doctor --
click it, you'll love it!
56. Didn't play: SAT.

Cheers,
Bill

And as always, thanks to Teri for proof reading and for her constructive criticism.

waseeley



Oct 2, 2024

Wednesday, Oct 2nd, 2024~Jay Silverman

  WAH~!

Calvin & Hobbes

Yesterday we had UNFAIR for an answer, today it's a lot more.  I have not had the pleasure of blogging a Jay Silverman puzzle, who last appeared at the LA Times on 11 June this year.  No circles, a mere 10 TLWs, thirty-six four-letter words, and just a handful of proper names, most of which are "fairly" common, at least to us Cornerites, in crosswords.  Three things that are "not fair" for themers, as defined by the reveal at 60 Across;

17. Like some brunettes: DARK-HAIRED - most of my exes - perhaps it's time for a FAIR-haired girl

It could be I'm "Autumn-ing" for her. . . .

26. Location of on-deck circles: FOUL TERRITORY - FAIR ball~! - some baseball for C.C.


44. Rough conditions: STORMY WEATHER - Do you have any "fair-weather friends~?" Here's a song co-written by 'Buck Dharma', the guitarist from Blue ร–yster Cult on his 1982 solo album "Flat Out"

"Wind Weather and Storm"

60. Petulant cry, and what might be said about 17-, 26-, or 44-Across?: "IT'S NOT FAIR~!"

And Away We Go~!


ACROSS:

1. Authoritative doctrine: DOGMA

6. Crush, for one: SODA - Ah.  I do the Downs first; fooled me on the first pass

I loves me some orange soda

10. Large primates: APES

14. Districts: AREAS - I liked the movie "District 9"

The IMDb for those interested

15. Throw hard: HURL - also a clue yesterday

16. Say a novena, e.g.: PRAY

19. Benefit: PERK

20. Hit the snooze bar: SLEEP IN - I have done way too much of this lately - need to get some house projects finished

21. Publication whose name comes from an old Venetian coin: GAZETTE - The Wiki

23. "Good __!": IDEA

25. Promising words: OATHS

32. Gentle hills: RISES - "it's just over that rise there"

33. Defensive excavation: MOAT - seven syllables : one syllable = clue : answer

34. May honoree: MOM - & - 40A. Summer month: JUNE - & - 1D. 40-Across honorees: DADS

37. Canned brand: ALPO

38. Exasperated: FED UP - I thought this was the merger of FedEx and UPS. . . .

I'm still waiting for my first recliner to be delivered via FedEx. . . .

41. CIA relative: NSA - I can't tell you any more about this - it's a secret

42. Many a fundraising party: GALA - I had the first "A"

43. Soap star Susan: LUCCI - name #1, and I know this one

48. Map of Hawaii, often: INSET

A "variation" on the usual INSET

50. Splinter group: SECT - HEY~!  It's a self-proclaimed shout-out~!

51. Alternatives to tablets: LAPTOPS - I was issued one for work with the drafting software loaded for work in our second warehouse

54. London's Globe, for one: THEATRE - Learning moment for me


59. Hamper emanation: ODOR

62. iPhone helper: SIRI  - name(ish)

63. Largest of the Three Bears: PAPA

64. Extreme vigor: ARDOR

65. Body art, briefly: TATS - tattoos; I don't have any, don't really find them attractive

66. Social media platform with stories, colloquially: SNAP - I don't Snapchat, Facebook, or Instagram, and I have been "banned" from Pinterest.

67. They may butt heads: GOATS - How 'bout these "G.O.A.T.s~?

Josh Allen vs. Tom Brady

DOWN:

2. __ phase: ORAL - part of Freud's psychoanalysis - more here; I chew my fingernails, so. . . .

3. Richard of "Chicago": GERE - name #2, also one I know

4. Cobble together: MAKE

5. Barbecue receptacles: ASH PITS - I vacuumed out my fireplace ash pit last weekend - we are good to go for this winter~!

6. Black eye: SHINER

7. John Green's "The Fault in __ Stars": OUR - Here's the Wiki 

8. Leftover bit: DREG

9. "Same Time, Next Year" actor Alan: ALDA - name #3, I know, but not this movie - IMDb

10. Materialize: APPEAR

11. "Mostly, yes!": "PRETTY MUCH..." - and a fresh Xword fill, too

12. View from the moon: EARTH - one of the 20th century's greatest photographs

Earthrise, taken by Apollo 8 crew member Bill Anders on December 24, 1968

13. "I'ma Be Me" comedian Wanda: SYKES - name #4, and I know it

18. Assistant: AIDE

22. __ suit: ZOOT
I wonder if I can still fit in my Zoot Suit

24. Sessions that may involve curls and presses: ARM DAYS - my bother and his gym friends talk like this - Thursday is "Arm Day", Saturday is "Chest Day", Monday is "cardio"

26. Kukla and Ollie's partner: FRAN - vaguely familiar with this name, #5  - The Wiki

TV show, 1947 -1957

27. Essential __: OILS

28. Small book with an eagle on its cover: US PASSPORT - Great fill


29. Footballer Messi, to fans: LEO - name #6, becoming a crossword staple

30. Debtor's note: I.O.U.

31. Dance like Savion Glover: TAP - a good WAG, but then again, three letters....name #7 ¯\_(ใƒ„)_/¯

35. Starter of many a storybook: ONCE - ". . .upon a time. . . "

36. Golda who was a prime minister in the early 1970s: MEIR - name #8

38. Nowhere nearby: FAR

39. West __: high-end furniture retailer: ELM

name(ish)

40. Protrude: JUT

42. Usual choice: GO TO - when I get Chinese, it's always General Tso's Chicken

43. Reason for a safe call: LATE TAG - do you remember this Miller Lite commercial~?

Bob Ueker - "He missed the tag~!"

45. "From Russia With Fun!" arcade game: TETRIS

46. Barbecue wipe: WET NAP

47. Canyon sound: ECHO

48. Brief concession statement: "I LOST."

49. Gymnast Comaneci: NADIA - name #9, and one I know 

52. Gladys Knight's guys: PIPS - technically a name, but I know this one, as well~!

I heard it through the grapevine

53. Suffix on seven Asian country names: STAN - getting a break from the 21st century definition

Five of the Top 18 countries in Asia

55. Roundish hairstyle: AFRO

56. "I did it!": "ta-DA~!"

57. Real hoot: RIOT

58. Isn't perfect: ERRS

61. Site for relaxation: SPA

Here's the Washington National Cathedral site for their pipe organ & restoration

That's me, your Wednesday blogger Splynter, on the left



Oct 1, 2024

Tuesday October 1, 2024 Robbie Cottom

I Spy with My Little Eye.  Each theme answer is a two-word phrase and each word begins or Opens with the letter "I", hence each phrase is an "EYE" Opener.

17-Across. *  Scoop: INSIDE INFO.

23-Across. *  One in a chain west of mainland Greece: IONIAN ISLAND.


35-Across. *  "I like the way you think": INTERESTING IDEA.

50-Across. *  Medium for a junior coder: INVISIBLE INK.


And the unifier:

59-Acrpss. Startling revelations, or what the answers to the starred clues have, phonetically: EYE OPENERS.


Across:
1. Pop star Lady __: GAGA.  Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (b. Mar. 28, 1986), is said to have taken her stage name, Lady Gaga, from the Queen song Radio Ga Ga.  [Name # 1.]



5. Picture puzzle: REBUS.  A rebus is a puzzle device that combines the use of illustrated pictures with individual letters to depict words or phrases.


10. Ooze: SEEP.

14. Travel without a destination: ROAM.

15. Ivy in Philly: U PENN.  A brief history of the University of Pennsylvania.
16. 24/7 cash devices: ATMs.


19. Perlman who played Barbie's creator in 2023: RHEA.  Rhea Jo Perlman (b. Mar. 31, 1948) is probably best known for playing Carla Tortelli on the sit-com Cheers.  [Name # 2.]


20. "Loving" actress Ruth: NEGGA.  Ruth Negga (b. May 4, 1981) is an Irish-Ethiopian actress best known for her portrayal of Mildred Loving in the 2016 movie, Loving.  The movie was based on the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, who were the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court Case of Loving v. Virginia.   They had been criminally charged with an interracial marriage, which was illegal in Virginia.  Their surname was so appropriate for such a suit.  [Name # 3.]


21. Argentine aunt: TIA.  Today's Spanish lesson.

22. Meager: SCANT.

26. Alias indicator: AKA.  Also Known As.

28. Concert device: AMP.


29. Upcycles, say: REUSES.  Merriam-Webster defines Upcycles as: "to recycle (something) in such a way that the resulting product is of a higher value than the original item : to create an object of greater value from (a discarded object of lesser value)".

30. Gentle suggestion: HINT.



32. __ Beta Kappa: PHI.  The Phi Beta Kappa Society is the oldest academic honor society in the United States. It was founded at the College of William & Mary in Virginia, in December 1776.


34. Tonsils-checking doc: ENT.  Ear, Nose and Throat Doctor.


41. Sonny: LAD.

42. My Chemical Romance genre: EMO.  My Chemical Romance is a rock band.


43. Actor Weathers: CARL.  Carl Weathers (Jan. 14, 1948 ~ Feb. 2, 2024) is probably best known for his role as Apollo Creed in the Rocky franchise.  He died earlier this year.  [Name # 4.]


44. Transferred, as property: DEEDED.

47. Ga. capital: ATL.  Atlanta is the capital of Georgia.

49. Sewer scurrier: RAT.

53. Cookout spot: PATIO.


54. Third key in a reboot sequence: DEL.  //  And 40-Down. Second key in a reboot sequence: ALT.  When the combination of Ctrl+Alt+Del are pressed together, it is a computer keyboard command.  The function of the key combination generally interrupts or facilitates interrupting a function.  The choice of the three keys was deliberate, so it is not something that one would do accidentally.


55. Not exactly, casually: KINDA.

58. Yale students: ELIs.  This is becoming a crossword staple.

61. Zipped along: TORE.

62. Large water lily: LOTUS.


63. Morales of "NYPD Blue": ESAI.  Esai Manuel Morales (b. Oct. 1, 1962) makes frequent guest appearances in the puzzles.  Today is his 62nd birthday.  [Name # 5.]

64. Got wiser, hopefully: AGED.

65. Stubbornly old-fashioned: FUSTY.  And an Old-Fashioned word and one I will probably never use.

66. Retired fast fliers: Abbr.: SSTs.  As in SuperSonic Transport airliner.


Down:
1. Smile: GRIN.


2. First-class: A-ONE.

3. Planet largely composed of helium and hydrogen: GAS GIANT.  There four gas giants in our solar system: Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, and Jupiter. 

4. Chum: AMIGO.  More of today's Spanish lesson.

5. Edgar Allan Poe's "The Murders in the __ Morgue": RUE.  The Murders in the Rue Morgue is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe (Jan. 19, 1809 ~ Oct. 7, 1849) and was first published in 1841. The story is widely considered to be the first modern detective story.  The story takes place in Paris, France and is about C. Auguste Dupin who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women.


6. Finish lines?: EPITAPHS.  Cute clue.  Some famous or infamous last words.


7. Country formally known as Dahomey: BENIN.  Hand up if you recognized either of these country names.  Benin is a French-speaking in West Africa.  It is said to be the birthplace of the voodoo religion.  It was known as the Dahomey Kingdom from 1600–1900.


8. Biased: UNFAIR.

9. __-cone: SNO.


10. Cutting, as some remarks: SARCASTIC.

11. Odorless gas: ETHANE.  Ethane is structurally the simplest hydrocarbon that contains a single carbon–carbon bond.


12. Corrects: EMENDS.

13. Prep exam with a high score of 1520: PSAT.  A crossword staple.  Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test.

18. "SNL" alum Carvey: DANA.  Dana Thomas Carvey (b. June 2, 1955) was on Saturday Night Live from 1968 to 1993.  He created The Church Lady.  [Name # 6.]


22. Hurled: SLUNG.

24. Blocks: IMPEDES.

25. [More details below]: SEE NOTE.

26. Yellowfin tuna: AHI.  Yummers!


27. Kith and __: KIN.  This expression dates from the 1300s and originally meant “countrymen” ( kith meant “one's native land”) and “family members.” 

31. On the air: TELEVISED.


33. Suburban suffix: -ITE.  As in a Suburbanite, a person who lives in a city.

36. Music source in a car: RADIO.

37. "Just sold my last one": I'M ALL OUT!

38. Lack of light: DARKNESS.


39. Time period: ERA.


44. __ box: interactive window: DIALOG.

45. Complete: ENTIRE.

46. Skeptical question, perhaps: DID YOU?


48. Show appreciation, on Facebook: LIKE.
51. Borscht need: BEETS.  Borscht is a soup made with red beetroots as one of the main ingredients.  It's actually quite delicious.


52. Dressed to the __: NINES.  What is the origin of this expression?

53. Activist org. with a rabbit in its logo: PETA.  People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.


56. "Curses!": DRAT.

57. eBay caveat: AS IS.

59. Will Ferrell holiday film: ELF.  [Name # 7.]


60. Therapist's maj.: PSY.  As in Psychology.  Not to be confused with the singer Psy who appeared in the puzzle a couple of weeks ago.


Here's the Grid:



I hope that any of you who were impacted by Hurricane Helene are safe and didn't suffer a lot of damage.  That storm was much more damaging than originally anticipated.


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