Theme: "Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone"?
[only because she (Lisa LOEB) showed up at 68-across this past Tuesday]
Puzzling thoughts:
I
will admit that after solving today's Zachary David Levy puzzle, I was a
bit perplexed. I kept looking and looking for some unifier that
brought this puzzle's reveal (64-across. Goldarn, or a hint to making
the starred clues match their answers: DOGGONE.) to an "aha"
moment. Maybe the reveal should be DOG GONE. And then, like the proverbial can of V8 Juice, it hit me: the
"key" is to look at each of the four starred clues, find the canine
(i.e., "dog"), get rid of the pooch, and then re-read the clue
Still stumped? Let's look at all four individually and see where the little dog has gone
3-down. *Jet setter: PITCH BLACK. In the clue, eliminate the word "setter" (a name of a dog breed) from "jet" and then match the phrase "pitch black" to the clue "jet". Best thing I could find that ties the word "jet" to Pitch Black is shown in the video below
7-down. *Puget sound: PHONE HOME.
In the clue, remove the letters "p.u.g." (pug, another dog breed) from the
word Puget, and you're left with the clue: "ET sound". And for those
who watched the eponymous movie, "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial", the "phone home" line is well-known. For those who haven't (or those who forgot) I've linked a short video clip below
Note:
for those who thought this clue and answer might refer to the body of
water in Washington state, the word "sound" in the clue is not
capitalized. Additionally, this clue/answer was the one that gave it
away for Chairman Moe. I kept thinking, "phone home" is an E.T.
catchphrase and sure enough ...
11-down. *Boxer brief: SHORT-LIVED. Once again, once the "dog word" boxer is gone from the word brief the clue/answer makes sense. Something that is "brief" is definitely short-lived.
53-across. *Labatt offerings: WIRELESS ROUTERS. Similar to 7-down, the dog that disappears is in the first word of the clue, Lab. And what is left behind is another abbreviation ATT, a communications company that also specializes in the sale of (offers) wireless routers
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The
grid symmetry is somewhat unusual. The blocks (black squares) in the
center of the grid almost appear to be a smiley face with its tongue
sticking out! Not sure if this was Zachary's intention, but the grid
pattern certainly allowed him to include all of the entries
Here are a couple of clues/entries that ended up in the editor's waste basket:
Clue: Rock hound: OUTCROPPING
Clue: Joe Cocker: CUP OF COFFEE
For what it's worth, I was kind of hoping for an Independence Day themed puzzle, but no
fireworks. So in lieu of none in the puzzle, I'll add this to the recap:
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One year shy of 250 ... |
I also thought about using "Who Let the Dogs Out" for
my theme title. For those who wanted that one instead, here is a brief
clip:
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The Grid |
Across:
1. "That's on me": OOPS. In the words of my Crossword Corner buddy, desper-otto, "have I ever told you how frustrating it is not to solve 1-across?" This remained unsolved until perps came to the rescue
5. Ready for bed, briefly: IN PJS. Not often seen (the answer, that is) in crossword puzzles but I like it. If I had to answer this personally, the answer would be IN MBS. TMI?? Wait until you see 43- and 44-across ...
10. Invitation abbreviation: RSVP. No RSVP needed to visit the Crossword Corner; just show up!
14. Ballet move: PLIE. I had so much trouble with the NW corner of this puzzle that I entered this word and erased it four times. Should've trusted my instincts
15. Like seven Nolan Ryan games: NO HIT. Ryan is #1 all-time in throwing the most no hitters
16. River that ends in Cairo: OHIO. A very clever and misdirecting clue. Cairo, IL is the general place where the OHIO river merges with the Mississippi River. You think this is false? Please don't be in denile [sic]
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| Technically, just south of Cairo |
17. Some FD members: EMTS. FD = Fire Department
18. Walk heavily: TROMP. I'm sure that some folks breathed a sigh of relief when they saw an "O" as the vowel in this word entry ...
19. Not all: MOST. SOME also fits
20. Latte order: DECAF. MOCHA was fitting this spot for way too long; hence my troubles in the NW corner
22. Demo letters: TNT. Demo as in "demolition"; but my puzzle grid was far from being blown up
23. "No one __": CARES. The phrase "Gives a $hit" had too many letters đ
24. Average joe: SCHMO. Average "Moe" would have given us Stooge đ
25. "Good one": HEH. "Hah" also fit
26. Unable to sit still: ANTSY. This describes me at times
27. Name that also means "son of" in Hebrew: BEN. I had to cheat to get this answer; my lack of Hebrew knowledge leaves me verklempt und verstumpft - does Yiddish count?
28. "Billions" network, for short: SHO. I tried HBO to no avail
29. Nada: NIL. "Zip" fit
30. Ga. capital: ATL. Also, the airport code for Hartsfield-Jackson Intl
32. Got ready for school?: TUTORED. This wasn't as hard to figure out as the clue might have suggested
35. Sort: ILK. Crossword-ese
38. Spot for rumination: LEA. A bit of a stretch, IMO but I get it. I don't know if I ever meditated in a LEA; maybe a wooded spot, though and certainly at the beach
39. Salon step: SHAMPOO. Speaking of shampoo ... why do some (fill in the blank) exhaust an entire bottle of it while showering? Because they take the directions on the bottle too literally. It reads: "lather, rinse, repeat ..."
40. Vehicle on the move?: VAN. Were you "moved" by this clue/answer??
41. Creatures that make Frodo's sword glow blue: ORCS. Thanks to Ms. Margaret (my partner) for helping me with this one
43. Liberates: FREES. The Naturist Society celebrates two International "naked" days: The first Saturday in May is World Naked Gardening Day; the 21st of June is Naked Hiking Day. Nothing FREES you like doing these activities in your birthday suit - but apply plenty of sunscreen and stay hydrated if you choose to participate in these events (next year)
[the links above do NOT show anyone naked; in case you were wondering ...]
44. Low-carb diet: KETO. After this past hiatus I took (and certainly after the one coming up in July and August) the Chairman will need to adopt this diet (or one similar) to shed a few unwanted #s - so I continue to look good in mbs
45. Some Polynesian carvings: TIKIS. This filled with perps and seemed appropriate
47. __ finger: INDEX. "Ring" was too short; "middle" was too long; PINKY, also fit
48. Rattle off: NAME. Great clue
51. Word on a cornerstone: ANNO. ESTD fit until it didn't
[theme entry]
60. Drink suffix: ADE. I also struggled a bit in the SW corner, but ADE was the logical answer. A CSO to our former Friday Sherpa LemonADE714
61. Figure on the red carpet: A-LISTER. Several hyphenated answers in today's puzzle
62. "This is the life": AAH. What I as a retired person says quite often
63. Serene: ZEN. The feeling after ruminating in a LEA perhaps?
[reveal / theme unifier]
65. Hydrotherapy spot: SPA. Doggone it! If you insert a letter "C" into this answer you'd have SPCA
66. Use up: EAT. This consumed more time (to solve) than necessary
67. Gregory Peck's co-star in "The Paradine Case": ANN TODD. A 1947 film with an actor most folks would not recall. This one definitely took a Google search to confirm
68. Atty.'s title: ESQ. Short for ESQuire
Down:
1. News stands?: OP-EDS. In the words of my Crossword Corner buddy, desper-otto, "have I ever told you how frustrating it is not to solve 1-down?"
2. Native of Tabasco: OLMEC. MAYAN fits, too, and that mistake made the NW corner nearly impossible to solve without a few "cheats"
[theme entry]
4. Word in a magical phrase: SESAME. PRESTO fit, too
5. QB mishap: INT. Short for "INTerception" - often thrown by QuarterBacks
6. Guiding principle, metaphorically: NORTH STAR. Another great clue
[theme entry]
8. First Native American to win Olympic gold: JIM THORPE. Now we know why Zachary used IN PJS for 5-across. Needed the "J" to begin Jim. BTW, I do like it when a constructor uses the full name of a person rather than just their first or last name
9. Gas additive brand: STP. Question: when was the last time anyone used STP as a gasoline additive? Not I. Not since the 1970's for me. Corner Quiz: Who was the spokesman for STP back in the day?
[theme entry]
12. Shop clamps: VISES. Using these when I was in shop class (woodworking) was one of my strengths; one of my devices I guess ...
13. Hopscotch, in New York slang: POTSY. Filled with perps. My knowledge of New York slang is slightly less than my knowledge of Hebrew. I guess that a clue that referred to a character on "Happy Days" would've been too easy for Friday
21. Text formatting array: FONTS. I think the default text FONT for the blog is Georgia
23. "Count on me": CAN DO. I tried "I AM IN" first
30. Tons: A LOT. This is not one of my favorite entries, but it seems to show up a lot in crossword puzzles
31. Actress Polo: TERI. Another word that filled with perps [from the Internet]: "Theresa Elizabeth Polo is an American actress. She starred as Pamela Martha Focker (nÊe Byrnes) in the Meet the Parents trilogy, Helen Santos in The West Wing, and played the role of police officer Stef Adams Foster in the Freeform series"
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Polo, c. 2012 |
33. Old TV dial letters: UHF. I tried VHF first - a coin toss for sure
34. Dawn goddess: EOS. Anyone ever wonder if there is a Palmolive goddess? Oh! There is!! Her name is Madge, and she's a manicurist
36. Past due: LATE. Term used for library books and expectant mothers
37. Fort south of Indianapolis: KNOX. Ft. KNOX is in Kentucky, but it is almost due south of Indianapolis if you check a map
42. Trig ratio: SINE. Moe-ku #1:
Used trigonometrics. They
Were called "Old Lange SINEs"
44. Tangle: KNOT.
46. Canadian tea brand: SALADA. I recall this tea brand, but it isn't a name I hear often; a mini CSO to Canadian Eh! And of course, worthy of another commercial from the archives:
46. Canadian tea brand: SALADA. I recall this tea brand, but it isn't a name I hear often; a mini CSO to Canadian Eh! And of course, worthy of another commercial from the archives:
47. Toughened: INURED. Did anyone else find this one too hard?
49. Noggin: MELON. I put BRAIN in first
50. Endorse remotely: E-SIGN. My e-signature looks nothing like my written one
51. Nickname in "Star Wars": AR-TOO. Cee Three Pee Oh didn't fit
52. Seemingly forever: NO END. Not today's blog; finished it in record time
53. Google Maps alternative: WAZE. Lots of tough entries today, including this one. Definitely a Friday puzzle, finally!! Lucina must be pleased! đ
54. Inkling: IDEA. What I had for less than 1/2 of the answers
55. Studio figure: RENT. Great clue - a "studio" is another name for an apartment for which one pays RENT
56. NCO rank: SSGT. No problem
57. Facility: EASE. No problem
58. Uses a gavel: RAPS. Moe-ku #2:
Musician Ice-T
Decides to become a judge;
He enjoys his RAPS (with his gavel)
59. Former NBAer known as "The Big Cactus": SHAQ. His nickname when he played for the Arizona Suns. Here are some of his other nicknames beginning with "The Big"
My "dogs" are tired. Please add your comments and thoughts in the section below ...
33 comments:
Well, I won’t say
this was the easiest puzzle in the world. For one thing, I’m unfamiliar with Ann Todd. For another, I had no idea about the Canadian tea brand. However, after staring at it for a few moments, the reveal started to make sense, and I could see what had been “added” and should be “taken away” for the clues to make sense.
FIR, so I’m happy.
I don’t think it was by accident that the grid was designed to resemble a dog’s face, ears up, tongue hanging out. I FIR w/out help in 28:20, but like C-Moe, the NW had me stymied for a bit. I wasn’t intuitive enough to suss the theme, but I knew it was canine related (not sure I even get it now đ¤ˇ♂️). I always appreciate a pangram, must be one of the more difficult puzzles to construct, as we don’t see them often. I knew SALADA, didn’t know it was a Canadian brand, thought it was long off the market. OLMEC, ANN TODD, and ROMANI were all perps. Thank you Zach for the clever and very challenging puzzle, and to C-Moe for your stellar analysis!
Good morning! And happy Fourth of July to all.
C-Moe, I don't object to a tough or obscure entry at 1a. I object to one where the obvious entry is incorrect -- especially when it'd work for both 1a and 1d. I believe Mark Twain told us in Huckleberry Finn that Cairo IL is pronounced kay'-ro. Wanted HOR or VER for those "Old TV dial letters." Nope. This one seemed difficult, but still took fewer than 15 minutes which is par for a Friday outing. Thanx, ZDL and C-Moe. (Methinks that "Spot for rumination" refers to the ruminants chewing their cuds in the LEA.)
We had a brief thunderstorm yesterday afternoon. When it was over our driveway was covered with tree litter -- including some heavy chunks. Makes me wonder if it was just wind, or perhaps that loblolly pine got hit by lightning. It stands almost 100 feet tall.
I saw the theme from PITCH BLACK, noticing that just [Jet] works as a clue there. WHO LET THE DOGS OUT was actually my revealer guess, and I typed it at 53A without looking at the clue, only to realize that it's one letter too short. I needed the actual revealer DOGGONE to unlock that area of the grid, which was the toughest section for me, with vague clues with multiple potential answers and the unknowns SALADA and ANN TODD.
IN PJS is the kind of ugly fill you get when you go for a forced pangram. Notice the SW and SE corners with that Z and Q.
I managed to complete all above WIRELESS ROUTERS (had WIRE & UTERS) but was stuck in the deep south. I even managed ESIGN and S. SGT but the Canadian tea, movie actress and movie were unknowns. Guessing 64A was impossible for two reasons. I couldn't determine if the clue was Goldam or Goldarn in the news paper and I'd never heard of either. Dang it! I was thinking of BEER for the Labatt offerings, not a dog.
WAZE (a Google product) is somehow linked to Google Maps in Android Auto. Last weekend when I was driving to and from Weeki Wachee, FL I was using Google maps and Waze alerts for police and stalled vehicles kept showing up on the screen.
Average joe? My first thought was BLACK coffee.
POTSY, TERI -all perps.
HAH became HEH to make PHONE HOME.
HBO or SHO- always a guess for those unknown shows.
Naked Hiking Day provides more exposed skin for bug bites. A sunburned butt would make sitting very uncomfortable.
JIN THORPE was a gimme. They took away his medals because he previously played in some pro football game.
I thought the gypsies called themselves ROM. ROMANI is new to me.
A DNF today.
Not a fan. The clues are in code? So we are doing a crossword puzzle where we are expected to decode the clues? Nope, not for me. Enjoy it if it is your cup of tea, because for taste there is no argument.
Completed the puzzle but never sussed the theme.
FIW, doing my rumination in the Loo, and my PITCH was clock instead of BLACK.
Cairo was important in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn because that was the demarcation between free and slave states.
VHF used to be TV channels 2-13, and UHF was anything above channel 13. Now the channel number is just a label and doesn't identify the frequency of the transmitter at all. Almost all stations are UHF these days, but there are still some using VHF frequencies (notably in Tampa.) Doesn't matter to most folks, but my RV antenna's VHF circuitry doesn't work. The good news is that I rarely get to that area any more.
Wasn't done.
1) IIRC, STP was hawked by racer Andy Granatelli (SP?) I think he might have been one of the owners.
2) I've never gardened in the buff.
Thanks to Zachary for the challenge, even though this one wasn't my cuppa. And thanks to our Chairman for the fine review, which was my cuppa.
Thanks, Zachary, for providing us a pangram--which for some reason has become a bit of a rarity lately in the LAT. The four least-used letters in English--J, Q, X, and Z--are for obvious reasons the most common roadblocks to constructing a pangram. And often in pangrams the grid answers containing those letters seem forced. That's not the case here; Zachary has come up with solid words containing the four rarities, such as INDEX, JIM THORPE, ZEN, SHAQ, and KNOX.
Well done, sir!
Chris thank you for the SO for my many years writing up all of the Friday puzzles. We didn't take breaks back in the day and did not have a stable of pinch hitters which would have been nice. Like Steve and some others, I blogged from airplanes, especially during the day long travel to Thailand.
SALADA created the first tea bag for commercial use, though LIPTON introduced the flow through bag. ANN TODD still rings no bells. SHAQ was traded by the MIAMI HEAT after he and DWAYNE WADE brought a basketball title to South Florida, in 2006. The LSU grad (hi Hahtoolah) was traded to the Phoenix Suns in 2008, before they brought in LeBron James and CHRIS BOSH to win two more titles.
Have a fun and safe 4th. Thanks Chris and Zachary.
Good Morning:
Part of the enjoyment in solving a crossword is that Aha moment when you figure out the theme and everything gets tied up in a neat bundle of satisfaction. Sorry to say, I missed this pleasure today as I was in the dark about the theme until reading Moe’s thorough expo. Props to the author, though, for a very clever theme and perfect execution.
Thanks, ZDL, and thanks, Moe, for explaining the complicated (to me) theme and making it all make sense. I enjoyed your entire review and subtle humor.
Happy Fourth everyone! đēđ¸ đŊ
Took 9:59 for me to get to the hot dog eating contest.
Never saw the theme, but could tell something was up.
Of the Actresses of the Day, I only knew Teri, not Ann Todd. Never heard of Potsy, other than Happy Days. And yes, I had "Nile" for a long time before giving way to Ohio.
I think they were going for the other definition of rumination - think cows breaking down food. Also, the Suns are in Phoenix, which is in Arizona.
FIR. I make no excuses for the fact that I dislike vertical puzzles, and this one is no exception. Then add to it obscure answers like potsy, Salada, and Ann Todd, and you have a freak show. I was born in NYC and I've never heard of potsy?
I had to come here to have the theme explained to me, and although I get the explanation, the theme seems a bridge too far. I realize it's Friday but still this puzzle seems seriously flawed. Just my opinion; your results may vary.
Overall this was not an enjoyable puzzle.
I'm headed to the liquor store to get a Labatt's wireless router. What a BS clue.
Thank you! I solved the puzzle but did not understand the theme. Google brought me here and resolved my consternation. I post my solves on YouTube so you can see my ruminations in real time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl6hXgIA_5U
(I don't know how you feel about posting links in the comments; if it's not allowed, please delete and accept my apologies.
Friday fumble. Thanks for the fun, Zachary and CMoe.
Officially a DNF as I was defeated by that NW corner.
But I did get the DOGGONE theme, and smiled broadly when I saw the Et sound/PHONE HOME themer.
When CMoe gave me OOPS, and Google reminded me of OLMEC, my iPaDS changed to OPEDS (groan), and that corner became clear.
Somehow I remembered JIM THORPE.
It took this Canadian a pause to get SALADA as I really wanted my choice of Canadian tea, Red Rose. The rest of you had American disadvantage for a change. (Please make the tea with boiling water in a teapot with a tea cozy!)
I agree with others that LEA was referring to the meadow where the cows were chewing their cud. YP beat me to mentioning the DOG ears, tongue, paws in the grid (which I hadn’t noticed until I read CMoe’s comment about the tongue). Hand up for noticing the pangram.
Wishing you all a happy Fourth of July.
Unfortunately, the puzzle was too hard to make me think. But the write up was very thought provoking. My first thought was that the clue "Puget sound" for phone home was too hard by having to surgically remove the dog from the word, when you didn't have to do that with other clues. But my second thought, was that I would have really enjoyed this puzzle more "if" I had gotten all the perps in phone home, just so I could match up the clue/answer. I had other theme clue/answers but they just did not elicit any V8 cans whistling in...
However,
There was a comic in todays paper, that I could not fathom at all,
until I tried to do todays puzzle...
Hmm, Loblolly, another Floridian curiosity...
Every time I look at one, I marvel at its bark coloring, and hope no one ever uses it in a crossword puzzle...
My least favorite type of gimmick. It didn't ruin the puzzle, since the head-scratching answers filled in easily with perps, but it definitely didn't make the puzzle any more enjoyable either.
Hopefully the constructor didn't pull a muscle patting himself on the back for his amazing display of cleverness.
"Links" not allowed? Perish the thought!
(It is up to the user if the want to click it or not...)
here is yours in hot link format, with the caveat that it is 19:14 long.
Also, "rumination,"
I dredged it up from somewhere,
but either way, it is not something that jellyfish do...
Okay, but jellyfish don't have brains to exercise. (Some folks say that I have that in common with them.) Like the late Jimmy Buffett sang:
"I'd like to be a jellyfish, 'cause jellyfish don't pay rent
They don't walk and they don't talk with some Euro-trash accent
They're just simple protoplasm, clear as cellophane
They ride the winds of fortune, life without a brain"
Trying to be a little too cute and coy
Thanks ZDL for a clever and challenging puzzle. And constructed solidly.
I saw the “dog - gone” theme but was looking for them in the answers and didn’t think to remove Dogs from the clues. Thanks for your thorough explanation Mo.
Lol I’ll never be able to enjoy a cold Labatts beer đē again without thinking of wireless routers.
Happy 4th Everyone đēđ¸
It took me nearly an hour to fill the grid. I never figured out the gimmick, even though it seemed to have something to do with dog breeds. I saw setters and boxers, though I didn’t pick up on pug or lab. I’m glad I didn’t bother. Incredibly lame!
The Pacific Northwest and Texas were trouble spots. Changing Mayan to OLMEC opened the NW, making SESAME and SCHMO more evident. But Texas was a morass of unfairness. SALADA was an unknown, ANN TODD was over the top, it took me too long to come up with MELON, and I had to get over the notion that Labatt was (only?) a beer company. But the real problem was NO END. Yech. And yecch.
I’ve never heard SHAQ called “The Big Cactus,” and the “NBAer” clue rankled me further. As usual, the paraphrases bordered on non-sequiturs, HEH and CAN DO being the worst.
My favorite misdirection was the Cairo clue. I wanted to like the NORTH STAR entry, but I would have clued it with “principal,” not “principle.” . . . The Happy Days solution for POTSY wouldn’t work. The character’s name was spelled Potsie.
Forgot to thank Chairman Moe for including a photo of my crush Lisa Loeb.
Musings
-That DOGGONE Zachary hid the gimmick in plain sight but with variations!
-I’m not sure but I think “att offerings” gave it to me
-OHIO not NILE took some time too
-Moving VANS and U-Hauls are very common in our hood these days. People half our age are moving in.
-The ROMANI gypsies occasionally camped in our fairgrounds
-Goldfinger did not want to rob Fort Knox, he just wanted to irradiate it with a dirty bomb which would greatly increase the value of his personal holdings
-Yes, YP, I see the dog outline now.
-Nice job, CM!
Golly! A lot of CW folks need to watch more Turner Classic Movies! Ann Todd was another blond Hitchcock heroine. Cinematic history is fun!
Ruminate in a lea refers to to cows chewing their cud, which is rumination in animal speak.
Happy Fourth of July to all! Some IDIOT decided midnight, the start of July 04, was a good time to set off fireworks in my hood, on the street just behind me. And not little fireworks, but huge professional type fireworks, set off from a mortar. Huge BANG, bang, bang, bang, sizzle, sizzle. Window rattling BANGs. One after the other. Until 2:00am. Grrr! Anyway, this CW was doable, but with a huge mess of W/Os: Nile/Ohio, some/most, HBO/SHO, estd/anno, vices/vises (DOH!), artwo/artoo. 18 names, DNK 10, contributing to the difficulty. Some mentioned struggling in the NW, for me the easiest part of the CW. As hard as I looked I never got the theme, probably because I was looking at the fill, not the CLUE, to remove a dog. Oy. As others already mentioned, rumination here refers to chewing the cud, not contemplation. I got that (Hooray, me). Overall, definitely a Friday level CW. I did FIR in 20, if I can give myself a mulligan on one cheat (Ann Todd). Thanx for the entertaining, if difficult, CW ZDL. It takes a lot of imagination to see a dog in the grid, never saw it. Terrific write-up, C-Moe, thanx for enlightening me to the theme. I do believe I would have discovered it had I looked at the CLUES instead of the FILL to find a dog to be gone. Dang. I've got a mango tree in my front yard. This year it's LOADED. I've eaten a lot of mangoes, cut open, scooped and frozen in quart zip-lock freezer bags many more until my freezer is full. I can't even give them away fast enough. There's still about 50 on the tree. These are big, beautiful, tasty mangoes, but can't the tree make five or six every month instead of 250 in June and July? Sheesh. If I don't pick 'em, they ripen on the tree, fall off and smash on my pavers, making a huge mess. Yesterday I was picking them when I noticed a thunderstorm brewing, with lightening. I decided standing on a metal ladder reaching up with a metal pole to get a mango was not the best idea. I may have heard my very last BANG! had I not quit. Again, Happy fourth of July!
Well, a puzzle that starts with an OOPS is going to predict some problems, but this was still a delightful one, so many thanks, Zachary. And thanks too for your always helpful commentary, Chairman Moe.
It looked as though the guy who said OOPS might have just woken up, IN PJS, as he TROMPED out to get himself some DECAF on this busy morning. Hope he'll get a SHAMPOO before he PHONES HOME later, although his family won't actually see him, will they? But he should still try to look good if he TUTORED some kids later on about the ROMANS and their culture. Well, I'd say he CAN DO it because he CARES, and he's actually pretty DOGGONE good at all of this. I gather his DOG agrees. Hope he has a good day.
And have a Happy Fourth of July, everybody.
Pretty much an ECHO of what COPY EDITOR had to say, but i did enjoy the recap. Thanks, C-MOE!
Hola! I limped to a Friday finish with many wite-outs. I knew JIM THORPE, however but not ANN TODD. She perped even without my knowing her.
I never drink DECAF so it took a couple of tries to get it. OLMEC cinched it.
SINE is the only thing I recall from my torturous time with trig and I mean that literally. I'm not sure exactly how but I managed to finish this puzzle from ZDL. WIRELESS ROUTERS was the last fill since I have no idea what LABATT is. One thing I can say for sure is that I learn so much that is usually outside my wheelhouse. And count me in for never having heard of Shaq being called "the big cactus". Of course, I'm not a sports fan but I listen to the newscasts.
Happy Independence Day, everyone!
Thanks!
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