WAH~!
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 Öyster 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
14. Districts: AREAS - I liked the movie "District 9"
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. . . .
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
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
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~?
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~!
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
18. Assistant: AIDE
22. __ suit: ZOOT
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"
27. Essential __: OILS
28. Small book with an eagle on its cover: US PASSPORT - Great fill
30. Debtor's note: I.O.U.
31. Dance like Savion Glover: TAP - a good WAG, but then again, three letters....name #7 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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~!"
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
56. "I did it!": "ta-DA~!"
57. Real hoot: RIOT
58. Isn't perfect: ERRS
61. Site for relaxation: SPA
11 comments:
I’ve never heard the expression “arm days” but that’s what the perps indicated. Other than that, I didn’t have too much trouble with this puzzle . FIR, so I’m happy.
Good morning!
ARM DAYS? Really? That's not what I'd call an in-the-language expression. What really slowed me down were West End/ELM and cAPletS/LAPTOPS. Everything came together, but it was a Wite-Out workout. Thanx, Jay and Splynter.
US PASSPORT -- Dw's has been AWOL for about 5 years. Needless to say, it isn't in any of the places where she's looked.
FIR without erasure or WAG.
We kinda bastardize "perquisite" to create the abbreviated PERK.
I liked Splynter's and would love to hear a Bluegrass cover, but to me this will always be the real Stormy Weather.
I've been nursing my dying LAPTOP for a while now, and my new one came in yesterday. Hopefully this is one of my last Corner posts on the old machine. (FedEX horror story regarding this acquisition, too.)
Don't know Freud's ORAL phase, but I've been in one, pretty much, since senior prom.
Thanks to Jay for a nice, easy Humpday puzzle. My favorite was "defensive excavation" for MOAT. And thanks to Splynter for another fine review, complete with lovely gams. BTW - Know what they call it when a blonde dyes her hair brown? Artificial Intelligence. (My naturally-blonde PhD sister hates that joke. Maybe she doesn't get it.)
Took 5:29 today to finish this unscrupulous puzzle.
I knew today's actress (Lucci).
I didn't know/remember Fran, Elm, or the oral phase (Jinx!).
FIR. Never heard of arm days, but that made no difference. I breezed through today's puzzle like it was Monday.
The theme was clever, and the answers helped get the reveal.
Overall, a very enjoyable puzzle.
Good Morning:
There was a lot to like about this offering: a clever theme and hidden reveal; some lively fill, i.e., Sleep In, US Passport, Late Tag, Pretty Much, etc. (Arm Days may be lively at the gym, but is 👎 in a crossword.); no dreck, minimal proper names and, as Splynter noted, only 10 TLWs. But, I have one nit to pick and it's one I've picked before. There were 6 fill-in-the-blank clues, only one of which that was perhaps necessary (Zoot Suit). The others, Our, Oils, Idea, Elm, and Oral are all common words that could be clued in a more challenging or more interesting way.
Thanks, Jay, for an enjoyable solve and thanks, Splynter, for a fun and informative review. You look pretty 1940's in your Zoot Suit! The comparison chart of Josh vs Tom was quite surprising to me but I'd say the bottom line was the most meaningful stat. Tom's 80-27 record vs Josh's 71-36.
Have a great day.
Musings
-A great puzzle for me has some real sass to it and this one fit the bill
-At least “throw hard” wasn’t YEET!
-LAPTOP – I never go to sub without mine
-Gotta run, I’m out the door on a 49F day to play golf
This was an enjoyable midweek puzzle in my estimation. Some features that stood out:
--Since the baseball playoffs are just starting, it was appropriate and timely to give baseball a nod today, with FOULTERRITORY, LATETAG, and even HURL (pitchers are often referred to as hurlers);
--The reveal highlighted four distinct meanings of "fair" (including the one from baseball);
--The clue for Argentine Lionel (Leo) Messi correctly identifies him as a footballer. The U.S. stands virtually alone in calling it soccer;
--I don't know Savion Glover. If the clue had given a different name, like Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, or Eleanor Powell, it would have been a slam dunk for me;
--I thought "darkhaired" pretty much defined a brunette. Are there brunettes who are not darkhaired?
--The source of OUR (7 Down)--and John Green's book title--is Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar": "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves...."
--And finally, congratulations to CanadianEh for the spelling of 54 Across (THEATRE)!
Thank you, Jay (and Patti) for a fair and interesting and enjoyable midweek puzzle. And to Splynter for the recap--as well as the picture of him toiling away at the National Cathedral!
I loved the theme. I did need the reveal. FIR w/o help in usual Wednesday time.
Interesting learning moments:
-origin of GAZETTE
-Arm days now makes sense. DO's brother and friends use it. So no nit. I enjoy coming across lingo from all walks of life,
-Zoot suits were popular in the 1940's. I didn't know they had a revival in the 1990's. I never saw one, except on TV. That photo must be from the revival, not the 1940's which were about 80 years ago.
I had an Amazon order which originated from a town five miles from here. It was sent out of state and then to several places in NJ. It took a week in transit.
If you were to count all proper nouns, not just names it equals 17. May have missed one or two. Seems like too many.
Perfectly fine Wed. I needed the revealer to suss the theme which is good and the themers were all solid.
I can't decide which version of STORMY WEATHER I like better: Lena Horne's or Ella's - both are great.
Kukla, FRAN & Ollie seems a tad *cough* dated...
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