BE the BRIDGE
This is P.S. Bhat's fourth LA Times contribution - and my first time working one of his constructions. The last one was on a Friday in 2021; the one prior to that was in 2018, blogged by Santa ( Argyle ) on the editor' s (then) assistant Patti's B-day, and my anniversary, Jan 8th. Yes, we have the circles again, outlining scrambled, or "troubled" bodies of water. A handful of names, one of which I was totally "huh~?" about ( I am looking at you, 37D.), a mere 14 3LWs, a 'balance' of 22 4-letter and 20 5-letter words, and two of the four theme answers unique to crosswords. The themers and reveal;
19. Equanimity between nations: BALANCE OF POWER - OCEAN - my step-daughter's name, too
The acronym "PICNIC"
44. "Get Out" and "Nope" star: DANIEL KALUUYA - LAKE - no clue, and not who I envisioned; I figured his was more of a "Hawaiian" name - see 23A. His IMDb
More on the statue here
Simon & Garfunkel - Paul explains his influences for the song here
ACROSS:
1. Nonspeaking Marx brother: HARPO - not a tough name, but #1
6. Respectful title in India: SRI
9. Meaty pasta sauce: RAGU
13. Enhance, in a way: ADORN
14. Sn, to a chemist: TIN - from the Latin stannum, "alloy" of silver & lead; the Wiki
15. Adjusts the strings on a guitar, e.g.: TUNES - this one takes a while....
My Epiphone SG-1275 6- & 12-string - inverted for Lefty
16. Surgical tool: LASER - hey guys, "Laser Bird" is back - I have uploaded a short here; what species of bird is making that "pew-pew" sound~?
17. Weird: ODD
18. Warning signs: OMENS
23. Island host of the annual Spam Jam festival: OAHU - filled via perps - just missed the 2025 one
29. MC battle genre: RAP
30. Elitist: SNOB
31. Moralist's teaching: TENET
33. Get ready to cook: PREP
35. Kisses, in Kensington: SNOGS - British buss - not a British bus
Kiss on a bus
38. Guacamole and queso: DIPS
39. "The Sound of Music" role: MARIA - name #2
41. Lena of "The Reader": OLIN - seen frequently in crosswords, name #3
43. Thanks for waiting?: TIP - Cute.
48. Indigenous people of Canada: CREE - name(ish)
49. TiVo products: DVRs - Digital Video Recorders
56. Texter's "All good?": HOW R U - AND - 22A. Tepid reply to 56-Across: "I'M OK."
57. Card game for two: WAR
58. Heep of "David Copperfield": URIAH - name #4
60. German autos: OPELS - my mom had one, waaay back ( and name(ish) )
A 1960s model 1900 Sport Wagon
61. Brownie __ mode: Á LA - I have been making a "truffle" dessert from a recipe on the box of a Betty Crocker mix
62. Part of a wash cycle: RINSE
63. Ruby and rose: REDS
64. "Totally!": "YEP~!"
65. Barely beats, with "out": EDGES - better than last week's hairS
DOWN:
1. Sci-fi AI villain: HAL - "Im sorry, Dave." ( name~? )
Oh, we are on our way, aren't we~?
2. Small amount, as of hair gel: A DAB - Meh. I don't care for the floating "A"
3. Civil rights icon Parks: ROSA - name #6
4. Early match, for short: PRELIMinary, a game of a tournament, not this Chinese invention
5. Merging sites: ON-RAMPS
6. California gold rush town: STOCKTON - No clue, filled via perps - I am sure our West Coast crowd nailed this one -the Wiki if you are interested
7. Fair attraction: RIDE - I have done all sorts of rides in the past, even at the big amusement parks, but I am no fan of them; by the time I graduated high school I had developed vertigo
8. Not alfresco: INDOOR - Ah. Now that I think about it, that would be the "antonym"; fresco is Itlalian "fresh"
9. Alleged (to be), to a Brit: RUMOURED - That's Brisitsh behaviour for you
10. From the top: ANEW
11. Heredity unit: GENE - at least is was not clued as "Simmons" of Kiss
Kiss on a bus - get it ~?
12. Letters in a Beatles classic: USSR - I started with HELP!, but that's sung, not spelled
15. First search result in a browser: TOP HIT
20. Basic grammar topic: NOUNS - Dah~! I figured this was what the clue meant, but I didn't account for it being plural; clever
21. Most preferred, casually: FAVorite
24. Driving spot?: CAR AD - Har-har
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The Porsche is nice, too
25. Gig for a tenor: OPERA - uh, well, I guess you'd call it a "gig"; "Hey, bro, where you performin' tonight~?" - "Some place called La Scala."
26. Paperless read: eBOOK - I ready every night before bed, fiction and non-fiction, and Kindle keeps track, but it can't tell when I've switched to an actual printed book
27. Teamwork trait: UNITY - Ah; so there IS an "I" in teamwork . . . .
28. Vintage photo tone: SEPIA - saw this yesterday, too
29. Speed fig.: RPM - Meh. Yes, it's the "speed" of the engine, in revolutions, but still, meh.
32. Vanilla extract amt.: TSP - when I'm making my brownies, I pronounce this as a "TiSP" - the larger measurement is a "TiBbleSpiP"
36. Brand of plastic film: GLAD WRAP - HuskerG's go-to "cling" wrap, per his past Saturday
37. Luiz Inácio Lula da __: Brazilian president: SILVA - Geez. A lot of clue for a non-theme answer
40. Helicopter giant based in France: AIRBUS - Ah. I knew this was an airplane manufacturer, didn't know they did helicopters, too
We landed the helicopter PAD on Monday
42. Take under one's wing: NURTURE
45. Electric creature: EEL
46. Room to maneuver: LEEWAY
47. Password preceder: USER ID
50. Role for Chris Hemsworth: THOR - name #8
51. Clothesline, perhaps: ROPE
52. Was in the red: OWED
53. Valley: DALE
54. Wedding band: RING - there was the possibility that might be "TRIO"; that kind of band
55. Business letter encl.: SASE - Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope
59. "For __ a jolly good fellow": HE'S
Splynter
56 comments:
If you say this puzzle
was easy for you, you’re a better solver than I am! It took me almost an hour to get through what I considered to be a quite challenging puzzle, and that actor with two “u’s” in his last name didn’t help much either!
Anyway, after all is said and done, FIR, so I’m happy.
FIW, missing my WAG @ MoRIA x CAR oD. Had the clue been "West Side Story role" I would have nailed it. (I was kinda demoralized by that awful RPM clue, and was ready to just be done with this one by the time I got to MARIA.)
For once, I got the anagrams. 'Cept that the first one I got was "leak," making me think the rest would be other water troubles like "drip" and "clog." OCEAN and RIVER caused me to reconsider.
I was gonna link Bridge Over Troubled Waters, my favorite song of my freshman year of college. No need for details in this family-friendly forum. So instead, how about URIAH Heep's Easy Living?
FLN - Bayou Tony, I love Pop's porch. In better days, DW and I used to spend late afternoons on our front porch, drinking wine coolers, playing cribbage, and chatting with passing neighbors and their dogs. I think that modern houses are designed with an emphasis on back yard living, which cheats the occupants out of that social interaction.
Thanks to Splynter for another fine review. I loves me some 12-string guitar music, but I've never seen that dual instrument before. Must be a booger to learn to play.
Good morning!
I came here to complain that CANOE is not a body of water. D'oh. RPM = speed: think 33's, 45's and 78's. Needed my trusty Wite-Out to correct Audis/OPELS and usage/NOUNS. That 2-U guy was a mystery (and will probably continue to be). Thanx, PSB and Splynter.
I think I'll just call him "W" (double-u.)
Interestingly, my wife rearranged the letters to make "leak", not "lake", because a leak is, in one sense, "troubled waters". She then spent a good deal of time looking for similar words (i.e., drip) in the other long answers!
FIR. Once again I ignored the circles, especially since they were of no help. When I got the reveal I tried to understand how a canoe was a body of water, and didn't get ocean until I got here.
The totally off the wall actor with two "u"s at the end of his name was cruel, especially given the crossing with Silva. Major YUK.
Circles and proper names make for a very poorly constructed puzzle. One which I definitely did NOT enjoy!
brylcream a little dab will do you commercial
Took 6:53 today to fILL Right along.
I loved the move "Get Out" and Daniel K's acting in it, but that didn't help me know how to spell the surname.
What Porsche?
So, the bodies of water are "troubled" because they are jumbled?
Oh joy, circles!
Just a tad more crunchy than the usual Wednesday puzzle. relatively quick solve due to many gimmes and good perps. HARPO was the first gimme.
Spam signaled Hawaii, four letter fill, OAHU. Kindle Prime free library has so many books by British, Canadian and Aussie authors so I knew SNOG. RPM was easy. "RPM, which stands for Revolutions Per Minute, is a unit of measurement for rotational speed, It's commonly used to describe the speed of engines, hard drives, and other rotating machinery."
Who could forget the unctuous, annoying URIAH?
This oenophile immediately thought of REDS,
In the 50's we made pin curls before rollers became more popular. Do you remember teens going out in pin curls or rollers covered by a scarf to be ready for an evening date?
CARAD fit perfectly, so i stewed over it, but left it in. Oh, CAR AD. Clever.
DANIEL KALUUYA was Every Single Perp. I wagged the L in Silva.
I enjoyed this puzzle,
Did you know Rosa Parks was not the first Black to refuse to give up her seat on a bus?
"Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her bus seat nine months before Rosa Parks, was not as famous as Parks due to a combination of factors, including her age (15), social status, and a perception of her not being an ideal symbol for the movement. Civil rights leaders at the time felt that Colvin's younger age, and the fact that she became pregnant, would make her an unsuitable figure to lead a boycott or legal challenge. Parks, as a well-respected NAACP secretary, was seen as a more credible and relatable figure to the public."
"While Colvin's story was initially overshadowed, her role in the Montgomery bus boycott is now being recognized. She was a key plaintiff in the lawsuit that led to the desegregation of buses in Montgomery, and her defiance paved the way for Parks' more prominent role."
Sorry for the copying which was easer than linking.
Don't think I'd want to take my canoe in the ocean.
Question:
Is silva crossing Olin crossing Kaluuya a triple Natick, or just a double?
and the moral of the story...
Musings
-I too unscrambled CANOE instead of OCEAN and LEAK instead of LAKE at first but all’s well that ends well
-I will probably never know how Parikshit found beyond-obscure DANIEL KALUUYA.
-Daniel’s name doubles the number of words I now know with two consecutive “U’s”
-A terrible OMEN seen 50 years ago yesterday in Omaha before the most destructive weather event in the city’s history
-My grandma OPAL drove a Chevy II
-Was HAL an OMEN in 1968 of what AI might have in store for us?
-Perusing the crew operating Fair RIDES gives one pause about riding
Good Morning:
Hand up for parsing Canoe instead of Ocean and being bewildered until coming to the blog. I, too, fell into the MPH/RPM trap, but Maria quickly sorted that out. Also had Fab before Fav and Uno before War. Definitely needed perps for the unknown Daniel K and President Silva. I really don’t care for the partial-type entries, such as A Dab, On Ramps, Car Ad, Top Hit, etc., but, overall, the solve was Wednesday level difficulty and had a nice Aha reveal.
Thanks, PSB, and thanks, Splynter, for the detailed synopsis.
Have a great day.
TROUBLEDWATERS. Great song but kinda off as the revealer. The circled bodies of water are scrambled or churned (shaken, not stirred!), but not really TROUBLED. I’d like Turbulent WATERS, or something.
Love the Marx brothers! I used to quote Groucho in high school to the delight(?) of my friends. I'm always amazed at how good Chico and HARPO were as musicians. They started as a musical vaudeville act before branching out into comedy.
TIN (Sn) is an element, an indivisible substance. But the Latin word for an associated alloy is the one that stuck. Those silly Romans!
Don't really get the RAP clue. MC Hammer is a forefather of RAP, but he never battled on stage. Off stage with detractors, maybe.
"I just met a girl named MARIA..." I went to a sing-along of this movie where fans brought props ala “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” except family friendly.
Noice 1275 Splynter! I haven't seen one with tiger stripes. Can you play "Stairway to Heaven"? LOL
This otherwise presentable puzzle was flawed for me due to some editing shortcomings.
"Equanimity between nations" is not at all synonymous with a BALANCE OF POWER. The Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union (and then Russia) is an example of a balance of power. The Cold War has not been characterized by any sense of equanimity between the two nations. We have each possessed nuclear stockpiles that were capable of pretty much destroying the planet. Both countries have thus been deterred from rash action against the other by MAD--Mutually Assured Destruction--not by any form of equanimity or calm or warm fuzzy feelings toward each other.
Another lapse in editing to me was in the cluing for STOCKTON. I have lived near Stockton for many decades of my life, and its being a gold rush town is not exactly the first thing that springs to mind. How about instead a clue that is unquestionably accurate, such as "the home of the University of the Pacific, the oldest college in California"? Or a clue of "John ______ of the Utah Jazz, one of the greatest guards in the history of basketball"?
And like others, I am puzzled by the inference that OCEAN, RIVER, and LAKE are troubled. Why? Because their letters are scrambled?! That's a bit of a stretch.
These bewildering lapses notwithstanding, I enjoyed solving today's puzzle, and again I maintain that circles--like today--are appropriate and helpful. And thanks, Splynter, for your usual fun recap.
The list of "uu" words would indeed be short. I thought of vacuum and continuum. Is equus a word? And is muumuu spelled that way? It just looks wrong.
Confused by the theme, ✋ I thought it was “CANOE” too
Inkovers: inside/INDOOR, peel/PREP, mph/RPM
It was RUMORED, it was not correct without U. Then I put cliff cuz I thought it said “diving” spot. 🙄.
Hadda be an L from SILVA to Natick with the unknown long actors name (sheesh and I saw both films)
Struggled to figure out what a CARAD was, actually quite clever. Figured it was a golf thing“ Thar’s gold in them thar STOCKTON hills”
TIN in modern Rome “stagno” (stahn’ yo)
Yikes Ladies, those PIN CURLS look like alotta work, 😓
AIRBUS, Kiss a stewardess?
(There are “Giant” helicopters in France?). “Clothesline”: Old Navy wouldn’t fit
Three heavy rainy days in a row if any one needs water.
The center of this CW took á long time to fill because of the DK actor whose name i didn’t know. Since I saw the RIVER quickly, OCEAN appeared in my mind, therefore LAKE was á gimme.
Otherwise this CW didn’t give me too much TROUBLE.
Thank you Splynter for á nice review. All good.
I don't know how, but I ended in error with IMOp and STOCpTON.
Thank you, Parikshit, and thank you, Splynter.
RUMOURED - "That's Brisitsh behaviour for you" Noice!
I recently solved a crossword (a Matthew Luter, I believe) that had a clue of People, places, things for answer NOUNS.
Nerd Alert - First search result in a browser: On the origin of Google PageRank is what made Google the most used search engine. I used AltaVista before Google search came along, and it was very good, but Google was far superior. I value their search operators.
Splynter, that still sounds to me like one of the sounds of a Cardinal. They make many. Or, perhaps it is the "clear" call of a Northern Flicker. I've listened to about an hours worth of bird calls on YouTube, and that's the best I got for you.
SubG, perhaps you just had an off day, crossword solving wise.
Others have echoed my complaints, including the knock on scrambled letters being “troubled” and canoe instead of ocean.
The reason Stockton should not have been clued in connection with the gold rush is that Stockton is in the San Joaquin Valley portion of the Central Valley, not the foothills of Gold Country. Stockton, like gold-rush San Francisco, is a port, but still, if you ask Californians to name 10 gold rush towns, few would name Stockton.
Other complaints: Why clue “EDGES” as a verb? Adding the word “out” to the clue made it worse. “Cleveland edges Cincinnati” suffices without the “out” for any sports section I’ve ever edited.
RUMOURED is not as strong as “alleged” as accusations go. . . .”FAV” may fly in text-speak, but in print the word has always been “fave.”
Wednesday (Wrapids). Thanks for the fun, Parikshit and Splynter.
Officially a DNF since I had to resort to two Google searches to wrap up the SE seaboard.
I got the TROUBLED WATERS reveal, but my Word Jumble solves gave me CANOE, RIVER and LEAK. I was scratching my head thinking of the CANOE tipping (famous Pierre Breton line about Canadians doing more than SNOGging in a canoe) ), and the LEAK being troublesome plumbing.
OCEAN and LAKE make more sense.
I had no idea about the 44A name, but had the two U’s (more head scratching).
I wanted some kind of Perm, not PINs for making waves. 34D would be an Easter Egg (troubled waters) if we were making the other kind of waves.
We were merging yesterday at ON RAMPS, and had to watch our Blind Spot.
This Canadian loved having RUMOURED (we had Humour yesterday). I thought of Adele’s “Rumour Has It”. We don’t used SNOG.
CSO to AnonT with COMPUTER VIRUS.
Wishing you all a great day.
A couple of friends had recurring summer jobs as ride operators at CEDAR Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, OH. They called the riders "the animals." One of the tales they told was that animals would throw stuff at the ride operators from the Ferris wheel, including open pen knives they gave away as prizes at the games. They kept going back because the pay was good, and they very much liked their coworkers.
I guess if your grandma spelled her name OPEL she would have had to drive a "Chavy" II.
I call it a DNF - I didn't get the I in OLIN nor the L in SILVA.
Not too hard for a Wednesday, but I still don't see the Troubled connection. Roiled? Mixed? Stirred? Some of the other clues were also A DAB off, but it could be the editor or the author. Impossible to know. Nice recap, Splynter! I had to go back and reread, and yes! There IS a porsche!
A clever puzzle with a few obscure names. I enjoyed it but fell into the “canoe/ocean”
Can anyone explain 29A please.
I FIR but don’t understand the answer.
So you skip SNOG and head str8 to shag 🤭
Jinx ~ DW and I play cribbage often, with a Bloody Mary and a Harp on the side. I bet you cherish those memories with your DW.
ILU ~ MC battle is a certain kind of rap (music) performance, MC is Master of Ceremonies, I thought it was a reference to MC Hammer 🤷♂️.
MC is a shortening of Master of Ceremonies - it is an abbreviation in many RAP artists names e.g. MC Hammer ; A RAP battle is where two MCs go back and forth performing and trying to one up each other in their RAPs
Friday came on Wednesday this week. A real struggle. I did get the theme with the second theme clue, but that was little help since there was only one theme clue left, and the letters could be scrambled any which way. Fortunately, I did not fall into the "canoe" "drip" trap. Some don't like circles; I don't like names. 15 in this CW, 6 DNKs. 15 to FIR, which I am happy with, considering the difficulty of this CW and the number of names. Especially the guy with 2 "U"s in his name. Come on, no fair! I needed perps for HAL, my brain just didn't reach back that far in time. But, yes, thinking of the movie, it should be a warning for AI: Hal's #1 objective was the mission of reaching the destination, and Hal came to view the human's as a hindrance to that mission. Anyway, a tough but doable CW, thanx PSB. 43A = clever clue. Thanx too to Splynter for the almost terrific write-up: where are the shapely legs?
How do you get 15 names?
Hola! Not too hard for a Wednesday, thank you, Mr. Bhat. Of course, i was pleased when DANIEL KALUUYA perped! And SNOGS and GLAD WRAP aided and abetted on that. Hand up for UNO before WAR which I've never played and a CSO to me at DALE.
I really like Lena OLIN whom I first saw in "Chocolat", one of my favorite all time movies.
CSO to Canadian Eh? at RUMOURED.
I hope your day is going well, everyone!
Well it took three WAGs at the end to get __ANIEL KA__UUYA, and OL__N (I can never remember if it’s Olen or OLIN), but I managed a FIR in 13:38. Like others, I thought canoe and river went together, it took LAKE and the reveal to make me go back to decipher ocean. HOW R U rates right up there with “kewl”. CARAD initially made no sense. I drove my older sister’s yellow OPEL Kadett for my road test to get my first driver’s license, manual 4 on the floor. My dad worked for Buick, and OPEL was somewhat of a German subsidiary. Thank you Parikshit for the puzzle and Splynter for the review. I especially liked Paul Simon’s interview with Dick Cavett.
This puzzle solved quickly for a Wednesday for me. Like C-Eh - I thought the WATER troubles was LEAK instead of LAKE - an actual water trouble rather than jumbled letters to give us the Lake.
I was thinking of other gold rush towns before perps headed me towards STOCKTON
HG - I'm going to pull a Yellow Rocks comment on Daniel Kaluuya - he does have a difficult name to spell ( his parents were from Uganda but he was born and raised in London) but he is not obscure - at the young age of 36 he has already won an Academy Award, BAFTAs, and a Golden Globe.
I remember my mom putting in pin curls and those pink foam rollers before we would go to bed on Saturday night so we'd be all spiffed up to go to church on Sunday - so uncomfortable - glad that went out of favor
AI - "During the California Gold Rush, Stockton, California, served as a major gateway to the gold-mining areas, especially the southern mines. It became a key supply and transportation hub." I tutored a student who wrote a paper about the gold rush and the side businesses it supported.
The value of a balance of power in international relations lies in its potential to promote stability and deter aggression. Equanimity means level headedness. When there is a balance of power nations tend not to impulsively go off half cocked and so they are more likely to have stability.
Sure do. Also, stepson and DIL are cribbage sharks, which was great for the handful of times we got together each year.
Thanks to Parikshit for today's challenge! I had a DNF in Central California, which is ironic because I had no problem with the Central Californian town STOCKTON. Wondering if those who objected to its clue would have liked this clue referencing the 1960s TV show: "Big Valley" town
SILVA was in the punchbowl but I do not know why.
FAV was the TIP clue
Noticed "Was in the red" crossing REDS
Thanks to Splynter for all the fun! Like you, I had not pondered al fresco's antonym. Loved, loved, loved the Sparky comic!
LOL Ray-o.
I think of Equanimity as the dictionary definition of calmness under stress. That immediately made me think of our Prime Minister, Mark Carney and the meetings yesterday at the White House. The closest he got to losing his equanimity was “Never, never, never, never”.
Weren’t the legs at 24D shapely enough for you, or was the photo too small?
I love that last sentence.
Interesting Wednesday puzzle, many thanks, Mr. Bhat. And thanks too for your helpful commentary, Splynter.
Well, it was a bit of fun to imagine a woman saying I'M OK in this puzzle, after we worried that it was RUMOURED that she might have been infected by a COMPUTER VIRUS. She then went back to working on her PRE LIM, while her friends NURTURED her by buying her a SASH and a RING, and by taking her to an OPERA. In return, she rewarded them by getting them all a ride on an AIR BUS. Pretty good friendship all around, wouldn't you say?
Have a cheerful and pleasant day, everybody.
@C,Eh! - Unclefred must have been looking at the Porsche :-)
Good reading all your comments.
Thanks 😊
Glad to learn of Daniel. I am afraid I will never remember him until I Iearn how to spell and pronounce his last name. He seems worthy of notice. At least some of you have heard of him. All perps and one wag for that. I am happy.
Worst Clue Award goes to 24D: ”Driving spot.”
A lot of CANOErs here today. Me too.
I like your reasoning.
It was a walk in the park today. until I hit CAR AD and PINCURLS crossing the unknown DANIEL KALUUYA, "Get Out" and "Nope". My mind was thinking of a one-word CARA_ , something other than a car AD. This bald head was thinking PIC or PIK for curls. Anyway, I left it because I had to go get a basal cell tumor cut out of my forehead. And it wasn't cut by a LASER either. The rest was easy to fill. A DN.
I think the texters' response to HOW R U leaves out the "O" and is just K. LAZY is what I see.
INDOOR was all perps; does alfresco mean OUT door?
MPH, KPH, or RPM? Write P and wait for the perps.
Lula SILVA follows the Latin American tradition of trying to imprison your predecessor.
If it's a major gateway to the areas, does that mean it is not one of those areas?
Doesn't the value espoused in the balance of power presuppose that those with the balance are pleased with the balance?
Off topic, but a couple of thoughts on CW clues. First, I think David Alfred Bywaters (DAB) is the world’s top clue writer. Second, I just discovered the Miriam-Webster crosswords while i was poking around on the Puzzle Me site. Most of their.clues are direct quotes from the dictionary definitions. They remind me of the good old days when Xwords were based on words, not pop culture. Check em out.
I name my computers HAL. My current desktop is HAL4. 1,2, & 3? I took out the hard drives and took the rest to Best Buy. They recycle electronics.
HAL4 has SSD, not a hard drive.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/missing-letter
The link to the M-W puzzles I mentioned above.
Love Bywaters' puzzles. And they are free
Wasn't a fan of singular "indoor" as I think that if I'm not outside, I'm indoorS. And, SASEs are not in any letters I receive. However, I just checked my life history, and I've never created a crossword puzzle, so who am I to complain (especially when I post as Anon)?
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