Is There an Echo in Here?
Today's constructor is Adam Simpson who has appeared in the New York Times, and here on Saturday November 5, 2022, reviewed by Husker Gary. His simple theme answers today sound the same at the beginning and the end ...
20A. Arm of the North Atlantic Ocean: CARIBBEAN SEA. I'm sorry I couldn't find an up-to-date version of this map.😀
28A Chakra associated with higher consciousness: INNER EYE. Chakra is a Sanskrit term denoting one of the various focal points used in a variety of ancient Hindu or Buddhist meditation practices. The INNER EYE is also called the "Mind's eye" or the "Third eye". Here's a Western-oriented beginner's guide from Healthline.
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| The Seven Chakras |
36A Perfect for no one else: UNIQUELY YOU. This might have been clued as "Bespoke"
48A Crude nickname: TEXAS TEA. "Crude" as in crude oil. It may also refer to a cocktail made from tequila, bourbon whiskey, gin, rum, vodka, and flavorings -- here's a recipe. WARNING: it is highly recommended that you refrain from horseback riding for at least one hour after imbibing ...
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| Texas Tea ... and in this case 3 hours! |
Here's the grid ...
Across:
1. Green blob on a taco, familiarly: GUAC. Short for guacamole. Here's a recipe.
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| Guacamole |
9. They're opened at bars: TABS. CAPS and TAPS fit but didn't perp.
13. Not behind: ANTI.
14. English horn kin: OBOE. Here's the first movement of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Oboe Concerto 1- Rondo Pastorale performed by oboist Zully Casallas ...
15. Natives of the Central Plains: OTOES. The Otoe (Chiwere: Jiwére) are a Native American people of the Midwestern United States. The Otoe language, Chiwere, is part of the Siouan family and closely related to that of the related Iowa, Missouria, and Ho-Chunk tribes.
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| Members of the modern Otoe-Missouria Tribe |
17. Attendee: GOER. Meh.
18. Airport transport, for some: UBER. I wouldn't depend on this service unless I had a lot of wait time at the airport after check-in.
19. Singer/actress Mandy: MOORE. Amanda Leigh Moore (born April 10, 1984) is an American actress, singer and songwriter. She rose to fame with her 1999 debut single Candy, which peaked at number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100. Her debut studio album, So Real (1999), received platinum certification. Here's the title track from her reissue of So Real, I Wanna Be With You (2000), which became Moore's first top 40 single, peaking at 24 on the chart ...20. [Theme clue]
23. Like some rebates: MAIL IN.
26. As of now: YET.
27. Blast letters: TNT. Cue Wile E. Coyote ...
28. [Theme clue]
31. Bumps in the night, e.g.: NOISES.
33. Preserve, in a way: CAN. The original preservation method used glass jars, a method still used today in home canning. The process for canning was invented by a Frenchman named Nicolas Appert (17 November 1749 – 1 June 1841), a French confectioner and inventor who, in the early 19th century, invented airtight food preservation on commission from the French government which was looking for a way to supply the military with food during the Winter months.
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| Appert canning jar |
36. [Theme clue]
41. Brand of dryer sheets: BOUNCE. The first dryer sheers were invented in the late 1960s, by Conrad Gaiser and his wife Audrey, who called the brand Tumble Puff. They sold their invention to Proctor and Gamble, whose marketing mavens changed the name to Bounce ...
42. MoMA locale: NYC. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is in New York City. According to the Internet sage, this is the most popular work of art on display there ...
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| The Starry Night Vincent van Gogh. Saint Rémy, June 1889 |
48. [Theme clue]
52. "Memories of John Lennon" editor: ONO. Yoko Ono turned 93 this past February 18.
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| Amazon link |
53. Resting place: BED.
55. Confront aggressively: ACCOST.
56. [Theme reveal].
60. Caterpillar, for one: LARVA. A great place to go larva watching is the Butterfly House in the Ladew Topiary Gardens in Monkton Maryland. But don't go now, as they're asleep in their pupae for the winter.
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| Larva watcher Butterfly house Ladew Topiary Gardens |
62. "You had the right __!": IDEA.
66. Alicia Keys album with the hit "No One": AS I AM. This lady has a remarkable bio -- Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), known professionally as Alicia Keys, is an American singer and songwriter. A classically trained pianist, Keys began composing songs at the age of 12 , was signed by Columbia Records at 15, and later signed with J Records to release her debut studio album, Songs in A Minor (2001). The album met with critical acclaim and commercial success, selling over 12 million copies worldwide and winning five awards at the 44th Annual Grammy Awards. Here's the clue song, No One ...
67. Like most items at a yard sale: USED. And they're sold AS IS, which is USED often in crosswords.
68. [Keep scritching my head]: PURR. My last fill -- I finally realized that [the imperative] is coming from a cat!
69. Tips: ENDS. Like aglets for shoe laces or telomeres for chromosomes. They basically have the same function -- to keep the ends from unraveling.
70. Drive-__: THRU.
71. Kings or Wizards: TEAM. NBA teams to be exact. The Sacramento Kings are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference and the Washington Wizards are members of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference
Down:
1. Funny bit: GAG.
2. Game with Reverse cards: UNO. Or NO U in reverse -- what do Uno reverse cards mean and how are they being used IRL?
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| UNO reverse card |
4. Ring: CIRCLE.
5. Damon role: BOURNE. The Bourne franchise consists of action-thriller installments based on the character Jason Bourne, created by author Robert Ludlum. The franchise includes five films and a spin-off television series. The overall plot centers around Jason Bourne, a CIA assassin suffering from dissociative amnesia, portrayed by Matt Damon. Here's a fan trailer ...
6. Comedian Jacobson: ABBI. Abbi Jacobson (born 1984) is an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and illustrator. She co-created and co-starred in the Comedy Central series Broad City (2014–2019) with Ilana Glazer, based on the web series of the same name. This is the story of how Abbi met Ilana ...
7. "Stay" singer Lisa: LOEB. Lisa Anne Loeb (born March 11, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author and actress. She started her career with Stay (I Missed You) from the film Reality Bites, the first Billboard number one single for an artist without a recording contract. Here's the clue song ...
8. Bowler: DERBY. The Kirwood DERBY was used as a long running 1D in the greatest cartoon series of all time -- Rocky and Bullwinkle ...
9. Like marinara: TOMATOEY. SAUCY wasn't filling enough.
10. Lots and lots: A TON.
11. Promotes: BOOSTS.
12. Calm and collected: SERENE. If you're not calm and collected try re-reading the link in 28A -- it might help you become more SERENE.
16. Ushers to a table: SEATS. An improvement over the verb USH that we saw last week.
21. Run on TV: AIR.
22. Itty-bitty: EENSY.
23. MC's aid: MIC. Master of Ceremonies is abbreviated, so Microphone is abbreviated.
24. De Armas of "Knives Out": ANA. In this scene, Marta (played by Ana) "accidentally" gives Harlan (played by Christopher Plummer) an overdose of morphine. But like just about everything else in this movie, that's not what actually happened ...
25. Indigenous people of Labrador: INNU. The Innu and their territory.
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| Mary Jane Nuna and Annie Michel Sheshatshiu Innu Federal Reserve, 1963 |
29. "Beef" Emmy winner Steven: YEUN. Beef is an American comedy-drama television anthology series created by Lee Sung Jin for Netflix. It stars Steven Yeun and Ali Wong as Danny Cho and Amy Lau, respectively; two strangers whose involvement in a road rage incident escalates into a prolonged feud. 30. Construct: ERECT.
32. Binding words: I DO.
35. Not aweather: ALEE.
37. Org. for Kings and Wizards: NBA. For details on these TEAMS, see clue 71A.
38. Rays made of charged particles: ION BEAMS. An ion beam is a stream of charged particles. Ion beams have many uses in electronics manufacturing (principally ion implantation) and other industries. There are many ion beam sources, some derived from the mercury vapor thrusters developed by NASA in the 1960s. The most widely used ion beams are of singly-charged ions.
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| Ion beam rocket |
39. "__ Eye": makeover series on Netflix: QUEER.
40. "Once more __ the breach": UNTO. From Shakespeare's history play Henry V. The full quote is
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;Or close the wall up with our English dead -- Act 3 Scene 1.
The play recounts the Battle of Agincourt in the Hundred Years War, where the British won the day, despite being outnumbered by the French by at least two to one. There have been several adaptations of this play, including the 1989 film directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh ... 43. "Absolutely!": YES.
44. Curtain climber, maybe: CAT.
45. Slangy "I'd like to hear from you!": HOLLA. DNK this slang -- sounds as if it must be yelled to be heard ...
46. Discomfort: UNEASE.
47. Ibuprofen brand: MOTRIN. Here's everything you need to know about Ibuprofen.
49. Musical film featuring a roller-skating Olivia Newton-John: XANADU. Xanadu is a 1980 American musical fantasy film starring Olivia Newton-John, Michael Beck, and Gene Kelly in his final film role. It features music by Newton-John, Electric Light Orchestra, Cliff Richard and the Tubes. The title is a reference to the nightclub in the film, which takes its name from Xanadu, the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty in China. The city appears in the 1816 poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge quoted in the film. Here's the Magic scene with Newton-John and Beck ...
50. Blackjack card: ACE. Blackjack is a casino banking game. It is the most widely played casino banking game in the world. It uses decks of 52 cards and descends from a global family of casino banking games known as "twenty-one". Here are the rules.
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| Ace of Spades |
54. Dunkin' treat: DONUT.
57. Spot on the air: TV AD.
58. One of the Spice Girls: POSH. The Spice Girls are an English girl group formed in 1994, consisting of Mel B ("Scary Spice"); Melanie C ("Sporty Spice"); Emma Bunton ("Baby Spice"); Geri Halliwell ("Ginger Spice"); and Victoria Beckham ("Posh Spice").
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| Victoria Beckham "Posh Spice" |
63. Scheduled: DUE.
64. Period piece: ERA. A period piece is a drama that transports us to a past era and can be thought of as synonymous with that ERA. E.g. Teri and I recently watched a period piece called Doctor Thorne, a 2016 four-part television drama series adaptation of the 1858 Anthony Trollope novel of the same name, scripted by Julian Fellowes and intended to transport us to Victorian England. Here's a trailer ...
65. Upper limb: ARM. AKA the humerus, not to be confused with the "funny bone", which is just below it in the upper end of the ULNA in the lower arm.😀
Cheers,
Bill
And as always, thanks to Teri for proofreading and for her constructive criticism.
waseeley
53 comments:
Too many obscure names and obscure terms for my taste. And the reveal was meh. As you can see, not my favorite puzzle by any means. In spite of that, FIR, so I’m happy.
Theme was fine. TOMATOEY, not so much. I tried TOMATOED first (that sounds even more ridiculous) and I couldn't make sense of 36A with that wrong D.
[Run on TV] AIR + [Spot on the air] TVAD is a pretty noticeable editing oversight.
Good morning!
ASIA_ led to ASIAN, but d-o looked askance at ION BEANS. Parsed it in the end. Thought Kings and Wizards were probably NHL teams. D'oh. Had d-o known ANA, INNU, and YEUN, that INNER EYE might have appeared -- but it didn't. Bzzzzzzt. Thanx, Adam, waseeley, and Teri. (The theme totally whizzed over my head. I needed your expert explication to see it.)
That annual physical found a different way to go wrong. I'd made my appt. for 3/7, but Scheduling changed it to 3/5, because the doctor would be out on 3/7. After driving 25 miles, parking six blocks away, signing in, and waiting 30 minutes, I was called to the counter to be informed that my last physical was exactly one year ago. Medicare won't pay unless it's been at least one year plus one day ago. I had to make a new appt and go home. "Fasted" for nothing. Rats.
FIR, but "aol me" gave way to the equally unknown "HOLLA."
The only Alicia Keys title I know is Girl on Fire. Wonderful pipes on that lady.
Caterpillar had to be LARVA, because "backhoe" wouldn't fit.
Thanks to Adam for the puzzle that was a bit more enjoyable than yesterday's publication. My favorite was "un-locked" for BALD. And thanks to Bill 'n' Teri for another fine review. My absolute favorite thing about today's outing was the Boris Badenov clip. Any ideas as to how "ravel" and "unravel" became synonyms?
Another nomination for worst clue, “Chakra associated with higher consciousness”. My knowledge of Sanskrit is really lacking 🤷♂️. Lots of other DNKs today, of course ABBI, ANA, INNU, and YEUN were unknowns along with ION BEAMS and HOLLA? (Not to be confused with Lucina’s “Hola”). Not only did this puzzle have ⭕️’s, but had CIRCLE as fill, a double whammy for SS. Somehow I managed a FIR in 13:19, so like SubG, I’m happy. Thank you Adam for today’s CW, and to Bill and Teri for the elucidation.
FLN ~ sumdaze and C Eh! - glad to hear your DHs are on the mend, I’m sure they much appreciate your TLC.
FIR. Circles and obscure proper names, oh boy, what fun! (NOT)
I can't say that I'm fond of tomatoey, even spell check dislikes it, and it looks contrived in the puzzle.
It took a giant WAG to finish this with my putting in inner eye. What? And crossing with Ana, Innu, and Yeun. Wow!
Overall a most unenjoyable puzzle.
Agree on tomatoey - bunch of hooey if you ask me. And anti doesn't mean before as far as I'm aware. I'm against its use that way.
In this context of “behind” it is not the opposite of before, anti means “against”, or not backing.
GOER and TOMATOEY really are awful. HOLLA however is a fairly popular made up word, sounding like HA-LAH. JULIAN FELLOWES referenced by Bill was the creator of the very successful DOWNTON ABBEY franchise. Alicia Keyes is a remarkable talent.
Wow, two straight days consisting of a storm of obscure names. This could get discouraging to solvers if it becomes a habit.
And today's puzzle reflected a lack of a final edit, because many of the obscurities were jammed together, creating several Naticks. Examples: ANA and INNU side-by-side; ditto for ABBI and LOEB; and the most flagrant, in the SW, with ASIAM, ENDS (as clued), HOLLA, and IONBEAMS.
I did appreciate Adam's misdirections, like "Unlocked" (BALD), "Bowler" (DERBY), and clever ones like "[Keep scritching my head]" (PURR). And it was amusing that Adam managed for 4D (CIRCLE) to literally contain a circle.
I hope I never see GOER again.
Thanks, Adam, for your efforts in providing us a challenging Thursday diversion; and Bill and Teri, for your useful and colorful review.
Good Morning:
Sorry to be redundant but the juice was not worth the squeeze, IMO. The theme was meh, as was the convoluted reveal. My unknowns were exactly the same as YP’s but, unlike YP and Subgenius, I wasn’t happy with completing the solve. No joy in Mudville today.
Thanks, Bill, for another fact-filled and entertaining review. I found the movie “Beef” so disturbing that I stopped watching it after about 20-30 minutes. That photo of a young Mandy Moore looks nothing like Rebecca from This Is Us. Thanks, also, to Teri, for her continued assistance and participation.
Have a great day.
Why Google keeps losing our screen names is a mystery. The 8:29 post is mine. ☘️
Took 6:59 today to say, "golly gee."
I agree with the prior comments, mainly: obscure names (SubG), worst clue candidate (YooperPhil); and, the juice not being worth the squeeze (Ms. Irish Miss).
I knew some of today's actresses (Ana and Moore), but not Abbi (I guess I'll need to find and watch whatever "Broad City" is). "Innu" was new.
Oh joy, circles!
Yikes is it Saturday already? Was ready to TITT but suddenly my INNEREYE opened, the mid north was the last to fall: ABBI? What 4 letter instrument starts with O and ends with E? (Prolly has never shown up in any CW I’ll bet!😡) Since his name is built into the title of all 5 movie iterations how could I forget Jason BOURNE. (LIU another one a-comin’ this year) Arm of the N Atlantic that ends in the letter A, wait … not the Gulf of ______ a? (So is it “Ca-RIB-be-in”, “Car-rib-BE-in” or “Cara-BEEN) 🙋♂️for open but BALD is clever
Odd but workable theme
MOORE: Many will remember “ This is Us” (now called “This WAS Us” in reruns)
GOER, a tad clunky. EENSY: 😖 HOLLA? Thought it was into the breach for some reason. “Marinara” first consideration was meatless Ash Wednesday and Fridays in Lent. We had it with pasta last night
“And up from the ground come a-bubblin’ crude. Oil that is. Black/b> gold, ” TEXAS TEA.
Canada Eh, if it’s “New Brunswick” why isn’t it “New Scotland” rathour than NOVA “Scotia”
I preserve because I __ …. CAN
So many sequels, it’s starting to get really ___ … BOURNE
____ an what army?… YEUN
Adam, you related to that famous TV family?
😀
Did I FIR? Yes.
Did I catch the LETTER OPENER and rhyming last word? No.
Have I heard of YEUN or "Beef", ABBI, AS I AM (do they still try to sell albums?), the INNU, Chakra or INNER EYE? No.
I guess people from Boston say HOLLA for holler and HOLLA for hollow.
PURR- cats don't move and purr at the same time
Did anybody on this blog watch the Oscars, and if they did, had they ever heard of the winners? I read about it in the paper and saw that nobody had gone to see those shows.
My slowest fill was TOMATOEY because I misread the clue as manana and kept thinking tomorrow. Duh! I guess my eyes might finally need something other than 1.25 reading glasses.
Meh. That's about all I can say today, except I thought native tribal names shouldn't be pluralized. The Otoe are a nation. Otoe live in the Central Plains, etc.
Big Easy at 9:16 AM wrote: "PURR- cats don't move and purr at the same time." I think [Keep scritching my head] was meant to be a cat's thought as he PURRs. And of course, I kept scritching MY head, working my way through unknown trivia, and having to reach the reveal to see a pattern in the very unhelpful circles.
At least I didn't have to go through everything Desper-otto (5:42 AM) did yesterday to waste precious time!
FIR. Usually makes me happy. Today, not so much. But Bill and Teri always come through for us!
Well, my CW skills must be rusty because I DNF. The SW did me in. Anyway, I’m back and will do better tomorrow , maybe. LOL.
Thanks Waseely. Great write up.
Nah. DNF, couldn't suss the southwest corner. Thought this was a little better than yesterday's offering, but still too many unknown names and music for my taste. As I have noted before, my musical tastes were set in concrete by the early 80's, and everything since is just annoying random noise. You would think that I would have at least grokked the ECHO gimmick, but alas, no
Tomatoey didn't bother me, but holla was a nose wrinkle. I was bothered by Naticks at first, but the perps were sussable. And I was saved from a letter run to finish by noticing "inner" was missing a "y". So in the end, doable, but I was meh about the theme. Thanks for the write up or I would have completely missed the phonetics which made this quite clever. Un-locked indeed!
Can't seem to find anything silly today for the theme, but it did remind me of Bilbo's sword, Sting, which saved the Dwarves many times.
here is Elrond identifying the names of the swords they found...
UNIQUELY YOU? TOMATOEY? SCRITCH? Am I going to learn that Shakespeare used “scritch” hundreds of times?
I got around several annoyances and a few unknowns for my FIR. INNU, YEUN, AS I AM, and ABBI Jacobson were unknowns. I agree with those who felt GOER was awful. Before EENSY perped, I had already considered several variations, not all of them five letters, including itty/itsy, bitsy/bitty, teeny/teensy. All of them are icky-poo, nauseating every time they appear in a crossword. At least no one referred to the Kings and Wizards as “NBAers.”
If you pronounce the vowels in Caribbean with the ah-eh-ee-oh-oo sounds that Latinate languages use, you get Cah-REE-bay-ahn. The accent would HAVE to be on the second syllable, or maybe the fourth. But I’ve been saying “Care-uh-BEE-un” so long that I usually say it that way, even though it’s wrong.
Either way, CARIBBEAN SEA moved me along in the solve, as did the ever-adorable Lisa LOEB, and Mandy MOORE, whom I remember mostly as one of Vincent Chase’s more fetching love interests on “Entourage.” XANADU and TEXAS TEA helped too. HOLLA took me a while.
I also liked QUEER Eye, although I didn’t know it moved from Bravo to Netflix and would have sussed it more easily without the Netflix clue, and INNER EYE, which I presumed is similar to “third eye.” The late, great comedian Bill Hicks claimed he used drugs to “squeegee my third eye.”
I’m really unhappy with these “Who’s Who?” offerings.
Hola! I've never heard "HOLLA". Thank you, Adam Simpson, for today's challenge and parts of it were, especially TOMATOEY (ugh). However, I liked seeing XANADU in the puzzle. BOUNCE did not immediately come to mind because my dryer has an ANTI-static feature and I don't use those.
My gr-grandson likes to ERECT structures with Legos.
Big Easy, my friend and I saw "Conclave" but that's the only one I've seen and I would not mind seeing it again. I had not even heard of some of them. However, I'm planning to see "Anora" because it sounds interesting.
Favorite clue is for BALD, un-locked!
ION BEAMS was the last to complete because I did not know Alicia's album. I hope you are all enjoying your day. It's bright and sunny today but we are expecting rain tomorrow and it will be welcomed.
This one resulted in some head scratching with the proper-nouns-of-choice (necessity ?) and stuff like TOMATOEY, Still, slogged on through for a FIR. Thanks Bill (and Teri)for 'splainin the theme, which went completed over my head, and for the first-class write-up.
Meh 🫤
However I disagree with Bills comment about Uber.
I find it an excellent service to the airport. You can pre-book the service thru their app. They send you the drivers name, phone number, and make/model of car.
And you get a text when they are on the way to pick you up and you can follow the car in “real time” on the app.
Ah, So it’s “Pirates of the CaribBAYan” the movies and Disney ride. I’ve also been sayin’ it wrong, ☹️
Not too bad. I enjoyed it somewhat. My favorites: "Un-locked" and "Not behind". "Tomatoey" and "Holla", meh. Thanks for the recap Bill.
Everyone from Eastern Kentucky knows that "hollow" is a homonym of "HOLLer."
I will attempt to rescue Crossword Corner from endless Bold.
Did that work?
You are welcome. As long as I am here... I was grateful for the learning moment about XANADU and ROLLER SKATING. On February 23 I shared my video of my Solstice friend Val ROLLER SKATING and noted her shop is called XANADU. Now I know the connection.
I was intrigued by the theme today. Came up with a few more:
Busy BEE
John JAY
You know WHY
Still hard to think about puzzles these days.
I think Big Easy must not have been serious about cats not purring and moving at the same time. Cats are professional purrers, doing it while walking, grooming, playing, or, yes, while getting petted or having their head scratched.
I've cats for my entire lifetime and the only time I've heard them purr is when they sit down, marking me with their cheek glands or crawl into my lap. I'm not about to try to crawl next to a walking cat to see if it purrs.
Oboes are woodwinds with reeds and french horns are brass. Different sections of the orchestra
I was reading that one of those Oscar winners was about a stripper-hooker. If I wanted to see that kind of trashy movie, I would drive about 5-6 miles and visit Bourbon Street and see it live or subscribe to one of those Adult Channels that all the streaming networks have. Not my cup of tea.
Oy. Another namefest: 19, 10 DNKs. Almost didn't bother with this CW, but in the end I took it on, and got 'er done, FIR in 16, which is far better than I expected. Musta miss-timed myself. Everyone knows I'm not a fan of an overload of names, especially when they clump together like today: 5D, 6D, 7D; 24D, 25D, 26D. Really? Names right next to each other? REALLY? Other comments have already been made by others. Thanx Bill for the great write-up. That poor coyote just can't win.
Plus we had “Arm of the North Atlantic/Caribbean Sea” and “upper limb/ARM”
But the clue was “English horn kin”, which is a double-reed woodwind in the oboe family.
LOL Ray-o- you made me LIU. Apparently Novia Scotia kept its name as written in its original Latin charter. New Brunswick was separated later from Nova Scotia, and named after King George III’s ancestral home city in Germany. (We are lucky it did not keep the German “Braunschweig”)
English horns, my friend (aka Cor anglais), not French horn; it’s a reed:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cor_anglais
====> Darren
INNEREYE was tough enough but the down clues that would help were even worse…INNU? YEUN? UGH.
You’d think there’d be an editor that would….oh, wait…..never mind.
Didn’t grok the angle on those circled letters until I read Bill’s reveal…doh!! But FIR in spite of all the oddities in Adam’s work (abetted by Ms. Varol, I suspect) and it was fun to do, so 😎👍🏽
Yeah, GOER, TOMATOEY, EENSY…not sterling words in my book, either. INNEREYE not so much, too; hand up for having “thirdeye” until the perps said it ain’t so. Even the charts call it third eye, fer Pete’s sake. Oh well, it’s what’s there…
@Big Easy, next time your cat is standing around purring, give it some pets and feel the purr as it walks around asking for more!
Another enjoyable review from the Waseeley duo. Loved the TEXASTEA gag — “ Don’t Drink and Ride” 🤣 (it’s a looong way down to the ground!). And no worries about the map (it’s still the Gulf of Mexico, despite some egomaniacal attempt to rewrite world history).
And @Ray-O, I heard exactly the same TV theme song as you!
====> Darren / L.A.
TOMATOEY (meh) Thursday. Thanks for the workout, Adam, and waseeley and Teri. I did see the letter theme early in the solve.
This required a Google visit for LOEB and ABBI, and there were plenty of inkblots.
Even this Canadian had forgotten INNU (Inuit is a larger Indigenous group). But I did get CSOs for CANada with NOVA Scotia and those Labrador people.
Limo changed to UBER.
Hand up for going through all the possible synonyms before reaching EENSY (as opposed to A TON).
I noted CAT and PURR, UNO and INO.
Hand up for BALD clue as favourite, TOMATOEY and GOER were the least favourite.
12D would not be how you might describe my fellow-compatriots right now. 46D would be more appropriate.
Wishing you all a good day.
Musings
-Two obscure names, good options for other fill (AJAR, OPEN, TRAM) and inability to see the North Atlantic Ocean isn’t north of America. I thought I had the RIGHT IDEA. :-)
-INNU and YEUN took went passively.
-Flatt and Scruggs sang how the Clampetts had found “Oil that is, black gold, TEXAS TEA.”
Anonymous @12:06 AM. I have to confess to only limited experience with UBER. We were attending a wedding in New York years ago and as the traffic in NY is notoriously congested, the arrival times for Uber rides were unpredictable and we often found it more expedient to just walk. I wasn't aware that you could reserve trips in advance, etc. We did have much more luck using LYFT in D.C., but then the traffic there is much less than in NY. I sit corrected! 🙃
What you all said.
Hi, Lucina at 11:52 AM and Big Easy at 1:53 PM! A word of caution about the Oscar winning film, Anora. The first three quarters or so of the film are very sleazy! Only later do we see some small hint that there's any sort of decent humanity involved -- but it's not uplifting!
Jayce, Christine is still in my prayers.
Thanks, NaomiZ. I'll put it on my list when it becomes available to stream.
The best sleazy movie I've seen was Striptease with Demi Moore, Rumer Willis and Burt Reynolds, among others. But read Carl Hiaasen's book by the same name first. The cast plays the characters in an over-the-top fashion, but that's exactly how Hiaasen writes his characters. For some reason, no Oscars were won by that production.
It would appear that we need to study Hollywood and Broadway in order to complete the puzzles recently
Yes, but did you remember that Flatt and Scruggs made cameo appearances in The Beverly Hillbillys?
Thank you, Lucina. She’s in mine too.
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Thanks to Adam and waseeley! I did not see the theme until reading waseeley's thorough review. Learning moment that scritching is a word.
I'm surprised by the EYE, AIR, and ARM dupes.
D-O @5:42. Sorry to hear about your appt. Sounds frustrating.
Welcome back, Monkey!
Picard@1:24. Good ones! There's also "Penelope".
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