Saturday Themeless by Adam Aaronson
There are lots of ways to struggle with a crossword and today I decided to enter what I thought was a solid/clever fill that turned out to be wrong. At 46. Upper class, often: SEMINAR, I thought SENIORS compose most upper classes and stuck with it. When I saw that I should have had SEMINAR that part of the puzzle opened up very quickly. I do have to take one bad cell at S(H)EIN/(H)EARTH but I did enjoy the struggle.Here is a wonderful story about Adam's start in the construction game at 19 years old.
Across:
1. Genre embraced by Miles Davis in the late 1960s: JAZZ FUSION.
11. Intel on a political rival: OPPO - What they dig up in OPPOsition research makes you wonder how you could vote for anybody.
15. Speaker of the house?: AMAZON ECHO.
16. Einsteinhaus city: BERN - Where Albert lived from 1902 - 1909 and developed his theory of relativity
17. Bottom of a pie: PIZZA CRUST 😀
18. Quantity of strontium in an award-winning 2018 photograph: ATOM.
19. Professor's domain: EDU.
20. Throng: MOB.
21. Insect that collaborates through stigmergy: TERMITE - Stigmergy is the method in which social organisms communicate indirectly by sensing and shaping what’s around them without following a plan. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
23. "__ de Funk": Horace Silver composition: OPUS ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
24. Postop prescription: OPIATE.
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| A common one |
25. Narrow channel: STRAIT - The one that leaps to my mind
28. __ musubi: meat-and-rice snack: SPAM - I knew SPAM was popular in Hawaii
29. "__ Mubarak": EID.
31. Hestia's domain: HEARTH - Greek goddess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
32. Didn't divulge: HID.
33. "Dumb Money" star Paul: DANO.
34. Extremities: EDGES.
35. Check: VET - You try to VET anyone before you hire or appoint them
36. Stallone role: RAMBO - Turns out Rocky works too
37. Checked at the door: IDED.
38. Cap: LID.
39. Decidedly non-vegan kid-lit character: SAM I AM - Sam keeps offering...
40. Airport code that encompasses EWR, JFK, and LGA: NYC.
41. Boatloads: TONS.
42. "The Twelve Days of Christmas" musicians: PIPERS.
43. Dress part: BODICE.
45. Some Barbieland residents: KENS.
47. Unite: WED.
48. York mother: MUM.
51. Placed, as bets: LAID - If you lay a bet, you are betting an event does not occur. It is the opposite of a backing bet.
52. Made a solo arrangement?: LIVED ALONE 😀
55. Rainbow forms: ARCS.
56. Bright green cocktails: APPLETINIS.
57. Furtive summons: PSST.
58. Walkway created by foot traffic: DESIRE PATH - I've never heard of the term but it makes good sense
Down:
1. Zinger: JAPE.
2. During: AMID - The start of one of my favorite poems
3. Bird voiced by John Oliver in "The Lion King": ZAZU.
4. "Bo-o-oring!": ZZZ.
5. Spots for soft landings: FOAM PITS.
6. Crude: UNCOUTH.
7. Jokic and Jovic of the NBA, e.g.: SERBS - +1
7. Jokic and Jovic of the NBA, e.g.: SERBS - +1
8. Hosp. area: ICU.
9. "You're too much!": OH STOP IT.
10. Tablet: NOTE PAD - Oh, one you don't plug in!
11. "Becoming" memoirist: OBAMA.
12. French girlfriend: PETITE AMIE.
13. Energy consumption unit?: PROTEIN BAR. 😀
14. "Your money's no good here!": ON ME.
22. Perimeter: RIM.
23. Spent time on the lake, say: OARED.
25. Fast-fashion giant based in Singapore: SHEIN ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
26. Loveable sorts: TEDDY BEARS.
27. Crudely drawn cartoons expressing frustration: RAGE COMICS.
28. Shakes: SHEDS.
30. Makes toast?: DOOMS.
33. Makes wet: DAMPS.
35. Like some tomatoes: VINE RIPE.
36. Outdoor concert contingency: RAIN DATE.
38. Yard sale sign, essentially: LOCAL AD.
39. Likely ticket holder?: SPEEDER.
41. __ ear: TIN.
44. Performed in a Shakespeare play?: DIDST.
45. Talib who rapped "My name is in the middle of equality": KWELI.
46. Smack: SLAP.
48. First name in art: MONA.
49. Military group: UNIT.
50. Material for a scrimmage pinny: MESH.
53. CEO's direct reports: VPS.
54. Sass: LIP.
4 comments:
Well, how about that! I finally got a Saturday puzzle 100 per cent right! Was it easier than the usual Saturday puzzle, or was I just “on my game” today? I await your verdict, good friends, but “Yippie!” FIR, so I’m happy, and not just happy, but over the moon!
As I've found in my life, I did great in the South and struggled in the North. Lots of fill with no errors in the lower half, but almost nothing up top. Overall, filled 42, 38 correctly.
Missed with gram instead of ATOM (is ATOM a quantity? One ATOM would be.) Also had rowed instead of OARED, and Rocky instead of RAMBO. edGE COMICS was my other flaw.
OK all you pilots and frequent fliers in the Corner - in what context is NYC an airport code? I'm thinking that it might be the name of a regional ATC center, but would Patti know that? That's pretty specialized knowledge. (I knew EWR, JFK and LGA which are KEWR, KJFK and KLGA in pilot speak.)
Congrats to those who finished this one, and thanks to H. Gary for the tour.
Airport codes are monitored by the International Airport Transit Association (IATA) and New York City's IATA code is NYC. It represents the New York City area, including flights to John F Kennedy International Airport (IATA: JFK), Newark Liberty International Airport (IATA: EWR), and LaGuardia Airport (IATA: LGA). As Subgenius said this seemed easy for a Saturday though I had another fail as I never heard of DESIRED PATH and didn't look carefully at RAIN DATE . Thanks Adam and Gary; go Nebraska, Indiana, Illinois and Navy. Great first game of the World Series with Marlin discards featured
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