Theme: "PARTING COMPANY" - Each theme answers is a farewell phrase paired with an animal, with the phrases rhyming to the animal names.
22. Response to "See ya later, alligator": AFTER A WHILE, CROCODILE.
38. 22-Across variation in a flower garden?: BYE BYE, BUTTERFLY.
57. 22-Across variation in a desert?: IN A SHAKE, RATTLESNAKE.
82. 22-Across variation in a forest?: TAKE CARE, GRIZZLY BEAR.
102. 22-Across variation in a birdcage?: BE SWEET, PARAKEET.
118. 22-Across variation in Ontario?: HANG LOOSE, CANADA GOOSE.
Cute idea. Each answer follows the same pattern. I'm not famliar with "in a shake" as a goodbye phrase. When I lived in Guangzhou, there was a German lady who sometimes hiked with us. She always said "Stay sweet!"
Congrats to Kaye Brown on her LAT debut!
Across:
1. Starts using, as an accent: ADOPTS. My English has an Xi'an accent.
7. Accumulate: AMASS.
12. Challenging bio course: AP CLASS.
19. Like a network used in machine learning: NEURAL.
20. Finish, as a crossword, e.g.: SOLVE.
21. Evergreen seed: PINE NUT.
25. Anxiety from social media scrolling, for short: FOMO. Fear of Missing Out. The opposite is JOMO, the Joy of Missing Out.
26. Voices above tenors: ALTOS.
27. Used in beta: TESTED.
29. Part of the hook in a 2007 Rihanna hit: ELLA. Her song "Umbrella".
32. "The Pitt" figs.: MDS.
35. Amble (along): TOOTLE.
37. Cautionary __: TALE.
42. Studio Ghibli film about a magical goldfish: PONYO. She became a human in the end.
43. Member of the fam: BRO.
44. Sketch comedy series starring Odenkirk and Cross: MR SHOW. Bob Odenkirk. David Cross.
45. City in western Germany: ESSEN.
47. Iroquois nation: SENECA.
49. Clarinetist's supply: REEDS.
53. Above, poetically: OER.
54. Orb weaver's creation: WEB.
62. "Pull up __": A SEAT.
63. Soprano solo: ARIA.
64. Spoke like a cat: MEOWED.
65. Garden bed planting: BULB. I want more peonies.
68. Peter's adversary in a Prokofiev composition: WOLF. "Peter and the Wolf".
71. "Clueless" source novel: EMMA.
73. Some recital attendees: DADS.
74. Like characters that lean one way?: ITALIC.
77. Require: NEED.
79. Likeness: IMAGE.
87. Part of a pronoun pair: SHE.
88. "Origin" director DuVernay: AVA.
93. Rough it in comfort: GLAMP. Anon-T was vacating in our Boundary Waters region a few weeks ago. Tough guy.
95. "The Phantom Tollbooth" author Juster: NORTON.
98. The NCAA's Tigers: LSU.
99. Broken wagon part in Oregon Trail: WHEEL.
107. Supplant: OUST.
108. __ fin: DORSAL.
109. Bichon frise bark: YIP.
110. Brontë's Jane: EYRE.
111. Wife, in 101-Down: ESPOSA. And
101. Francia's neighbor: ESPANA. Francia is Spanish for France.
113. Film without a major studio: INDIE.
115. 106-Down portrayer McGregor: EWAN. 106. Skywalker mentor: KENOBI.
125. Acrobat's attire: UNITARD.
126. "The Dark Knight __": RISES.
127. Set of grading criteria: RUBRIC. Not a word I use.
128. Scapegoats: PATSIES.
129. Porterhouse, e.g.: STEAK.
130. Averred: SAID SO.
Down:
1. Santa __ winds: ANA.
2. Pt. of HDTV: DEF.
3. Not in the closet: OUT.
4. Assembled on-site: PREFAB.
5. Poi source: TARO. Love taro. Never had poi before.
6. __ poetry: SLAM.
7. Volcanic fallout: ASH.
8. "You're accusing me!?": MOI.
9. Pesto __ Genovese: ALLA. Pesto originated in Genoa.
10. Lithe: SVELTE.
11. Subdivision: SECTOR.
12. Biblical disciple: APOSTLE.
13. Insta grid item: PIC.
14. Benjamin: C NOTE.
15. Graf below a headline: LEDE.
16. Jennifer of "Murder Mystery": ANISTON. So happy to see her in love again.
17. "Aladdin" title: SULTAN.
18. Icy, as a glare: STEELY.
23. Ovens for buns, but not loaves: WOMBS. Also love this clue: 34. Certain delivery worker?: STORK.
24. Satellite dish spot: ROOF.
28. "Gloria in Excelsis __": DEO.
29. Recedes: EBBS.
30. Ancient harp: LYRE.
31. Téa of "Death of a Unicorn": LEONI.
33. "Oh, of course!": DUH.
36. Disinfectant brand: LYSOL.
39. Some fitness orgs.: YMCAS.
40. Wipe away: ERASE.
41. Cutesy: TWEE.
42. In and of itself: PER SE.
46. Appear: SEEM.
48. Activate: ENABLE.
50. Segment of a Taylor Swift show: ERA.
51. Truth or __: DARE.
52. Perform repetitive movements to self-soothe, say: STIM. Like shaking your legs while sitting?
54. East Coast mini-mart: WAWA. I just learned Daiso opened a store in MN in April.
55. Barely achieved, with "out": EKED.
56. Items of varying comfort for Goldilocks: BEDS.
58. "Yee-__!": HAW.
59. Make up (for): ATONE.
60. Language from which "curry" is derived: TAMIL.
61. "I'll keep opening briefcases, Howie!": NO DEAL.
65. Twitch currency: BITS. Not famliar with this.
66. Four Corners state: UTAH.
67. Tahoe or Huron: LAKE.
69. Millipede's multitude: LEGS.
70. Common houseplant: FERN.
72. Actress Poehler: AMY.
75. Poker proclamation: I CALL.
76. Catalan sparkling wine: CAVA.
78. One-seventh of una semana: DIA.
80. Loathe: ABHOR.
81. Davis of "The Fly": GEENA.
83. Stallone franchise: RAMBO.
84. Low-budget pub: ZINE. Publication/Magazine.
85. Polish currency: ZLOTY.
86. "Inside Out" kid: RILEY.
91. The "U" in EULA: USER. EULA stands for End-User License Agreement.
92. Silencing button: MUTE.
93. "Start already!": GET ON IT.
94. Dots: PERIODS.
96. Troy tech univ.: RPI. Hi there Agnes!
97. Playable on a VCR: TAPED.
99. Misery: WOE.
100. Sweep under the rug: HUSH UP.
103. Tax doc IDs: SSNS.
104. Thigh-high waterproof boots: WADERS.
105. Inspire: ELICIT.
108. __ Lama: DALAI.
112. Cpls.' superiors: SGTS.
114. Lighten (up): EASE.
116. Edit __: battles on Wikipedia: WARS.
117. Piscina filler: AGUA. Piscina is Spanish for "pool".
119. Mined resource: ORE.
120. Principals' org.: NEA.
121. Query: ASK.
122. Chicago airport code: ORD.
123. Member of the fam: SIS.
124. Friendly prefix: ECO.
C.C.
Well, the themed phrases
ReplyDeletewere fun, and not too difficult to figure out. There were a few obscurities (Ponyo, anyone?) but on the whole this was a fair puzzle. FIR, so I’m happy.
Good morning!
ReplyDeleteNot familiar with MR SHOW (d-o parsed it as MRS HOW). Other mysteries were PONYO and BITS (as clued). Had the right idea with DOULA, but needed Wite-Out to morph it into STORK. Interesting theme, well executed. Congrats on your debut, Kaye. Thanx for the expo, C.C.
Took me 35:07 to say toodle-loo kangaroo to this one. Lots of unknowns solved by perps, PONYO, MR SHOW, RILEY, STIM, FOMO, RUBRIC, and a few more. Had to change leotard to UNITARD. Spanish lesson with the ESPOSA/ESPANA cross. DNK pub was an abb for publication, ZINE was my last fill which also gave me the unfamiliar NORTON. I liked the clue for ITALIC. WAWA is the Ojibwe word for (CANADA) GOOSE, and there’s a city in Ontario by that name with a huge statue of a GOOSE, and it’s also in the logo of the WAWA gas station/convenience stores which have expanded south all the way to Florida. I enjoyed the puzzle from Kaye, congrats on your LAT debut! And to C.C., thanks for explaining it all.
ReplyDeleteThe low-budget pub(s) I’ve been to I refer to as dives.
DeletePhil - I like it!
DeleteI like this: “toodle-loo kangaroo”
DeleteHaven't been in Florida for about a year and a half, but I remember that 7-11 was giving WAWA a run for their money in the extra-large convenience store / gas station sector. We have WAWAs here in the Tidewater area, and they are building a new Sheetz. Same idea, but better food, IMO. They are also opening a new Buc-ee's about half way between Norfolk and Richmond. There will be bedlam when that one opens.
DeleteDitto on dive for pub
DeleteYP- I have photos of my kids in front of that GOOSE at WAWA nearly every year. It is interesting to see their growth against the goose.
DeleteThe drive between Sault Ste. Marie and Wawa is one of the most beautiful in Canada on a beautiful day (but can be dangerous in storms or winter weather).
Could SHAKE be from “two shakes of a lamb’s tail?” as metaphor for a very short time?
ReplyDeleteWaWa has come to Florida with all guns blazing, going after all the old line gas station/convenience store combos. Yooper did a good job explaining why I found this harder than most Sundays but it was a well done debut. Thank you Kaye (hmm, male, female ??) come introduce your self. C.C. my father had the best peonies in our garden, featuring Korean doubles. They are a lovely flower.
ReplyDeleteFIR. I thought this was going to be an easy Sunday solve when I threw down "after a while crocodile", but boy was i wrong. From there on things were anything but easy. Ponyo, Mr.Show, zloty, to name a few, oh my such obscurities.
ReplyDeleteThe theme was the only fun part of this solve, and were it not for that this solver would not have finished at all.
Overall not an enjoyable puzzle.
Good Morning:
ReplyDeleteThis was a fun, delightful solve! The theme was very clever and, in my case, smile inducing for the playfulness and evocative humor. There was also enough of a challenge to satisfy the solver’s efforts, an achievement not always realized in Sunday grids. The various unknowns, i,e., Ella, Ponyo, Mr. Show, Snail, Norton, Riley, etc. were overcome by the abundant neighboring perps. My favorite themer was Take care, Grizzly Bear and my favorite crossing was Yip/RPI, both CSOs (Bichon Frisé sound/Hometown Troy).
Many thanks, Kaye, for a very enjoyable solve and a very impressive debut, and thanks, CC, for the review and commentary. Thanks, also, for the CSO!
Have a great day.
FIW, missing my guess at ArA x CArA. Far too much show biz / A&E for my enjoyment today.
ReplyDeleteWikipedia says that there are 66 four-year colleges with Tigers as their mascot. In the Southeastern Conference, Auburn and Missouri Tigers compete with LSU.
The late Jimmy Buffett played crowd-favorite FINs at every concert. Original lyrics say
"They hang out in the local bars
And they feed right after dark,"
but Jimmy customized it to the concert geography, in the case "the local bars" become Fort Morgan Town to suit his Gulf Shores (AL) crowd.
Truth or DARE becomes more fun in direct proportion to the amount of alcohol consumed by the participants.
Thanks to Kaye for the Sunday offering. I liked the theme of made-up departure lines, which reminded me of Paul Simon's 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover. But I would have enjoyed it more with less showbiz. And thanks to CC for another fun review.
Delightful theme. We've taken longer to finish some weekday puzzles. Thanks Kaye,
ReplyDeleteFIW. Done in by crossing of PONYI with DEO (don’t know my Latin noun variants and never heard of PONYI) and GLAMP and CAVA (GLAMP!?!?!). Somehow managed MRSHOW and TWEE (TWEE!?!?!?!). As far as I’m concerned, this was certainly not a TOOTLE in the park (TOOTLE!?!?!?!). Today’s puzzle was twee but not fun. I’ll HUSHUP now before I try to be come up with something to say about UNITARD.
ReplyDeleteMusings
ReplyDelete-I have never heard or said the word “A” before “WHILE CROCODILE”. Conversely, Neil Armstrong is thought to have omitted “A” before “man” by saying “One small step for man.”
-C.C., did your German fellow hiker say “Be Sweet” in German, English or Mandarin? :-)
-I have no idea on Rhianna or The PITT, PONYO, STIM, ZLOTY or CAVA but they took care of themselves
-Did you learn the instruments of the orchestra, like I did, by listening to this in elementary music class?
-Would Ralph’s Kramden’s friend Ed NORTON be too obscure?
-As a teacher, I generated many a RUBRIC so kids had a good framework to complete work. Did you ever take a class where you had no real idea where the prof was going or what was going to be on any exam?
-A firm here in town has a huge business building PREFAB walls and rafters they haul to jobsites.
-Pols tailor their stump speeches to fit the SECTOR of voters where they are AVERING
-My guilty pleasure of watching NCIS features people intimidated by Gibb’s STEELY stare
-Many irrigators around here run their center pivots to activate/ENABLE the chemicals they put on their crops. Those pivots have not been used for much else this summer.
-He turned down the $416,000 and became the biggest loser on Deal Or No Deal
I had an instructor who said "we'll cover everything in the syllabus in this course. Some topics will be covered in class; others will be covered in the tests." (Somewhat in jest, but the point was that he didn't have enough class time to cover everything, and we couldn't just pay attention in class and study our notes.)
DeleteDUH, I missed DUH because i didn’t know MR SHOW.
ReplyDeleteI too loved the theme. I had fun coming up with the parting phrases. But I TOOTLEd into á lot of unknowns like ELLA, PONYO, EMMA, as clued, CAVA, RILEY, and what does EULA stand for?
No WAWAs down here, yet. I did think of Irish Miss ☘️ at bichon frisé, and CanadianEh! at CANADA GOOSE. And I’ll take á CSO for the tigers of LSU.
Thank you CC for the recap and introducing me to JOMO. I’ll start using it. I’m at an age when it is more appropriate for me than FOMO.
Hola! I finished even with all the local references unknown by me, but I loved all the themed farewells! And though I visited Poland aver 25 years ago, I recall ZLOTYs. Also, hand up for LEOTARD before UNITARD.
ReplyDeleteNice to see ESPANA crossing ESPOSA. I had not heard of MR SHOW, RILEY, WAWA, EULA or STIM but thankfully I managed to work out the solve with good perpage and good guessing.
Adios, super solvers!
I got a few nice chuckles while solving this puzzle today.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you call it when someone lures you in, being nice, and then turns vicious? Kaye Brown was a WOLF in sheep's clothing today. I did not mind the inventive parting words, but I did mind the many unknowns: the Rihanna lyric, "The Pitt" (TV show?), the goldfish film, the sketch comedy series, "The Phantom Tollbooth" author (although I loved that book as a child), the NCAA's Tigers, the self-soothing movement, the East Coast mini mart, the Polish currency, the "Inside Out" kid, EULA, and Troy tech U. That's a lot! Too much, I think.
ReplyDeleteI had NewTON for the author, which gave me ZLeTY and wPI going down, for three wrong words. Bzzzt!
Congrats to Kaye on her debut, and to C.C. for another fine review. Patti, I'm usually in your corner, but today I think you could have helped Kaye with the drek I listed above. Just sayin'.
Sign on the lifeguard’s stand : “Do not _________ the pool!” Piscina (With apology to Ray-O.)
ReplyDeleteI dunno,,,
ReplyDeleteIt started out innocent enough, might have even been fun. But I put it down to take neighbors on a promised hike today, and when I got back, stuff like
Perse/ponyo. ( p.s.- auto correct hates this more than I do...)
Twee/mr.show? (Wtf? Are you trying to make me miserable?)
Norton/rpi. (What can I say about this? Oh, of course, Thumper...)
Stim/Emma (um, stim? Emma? This is the first puzzle I've seen that needs a crossing guard...)
Well, thanks for sucking all the fun out of my day...
I guess I'll go watch the news for dessert...
Sheesh...
Sorry, maybe I'm just grouchy from aching all over from too much crap today. But did I see this was a debut? If so, I apologize. But please please start with something easier... I mean, these things are supposed to be fun...
ReplyDeleteThanks and congrats on your debut, Kaye! This was a fun idea! I had a FIW with NewTON instead of NORTON.
ReplyDeleteI read Odenkirk's book a few years ago so it took several perps before I could retrieve MR SHOW from the punchbowl. I think it has a cult following.
Thanks to C.C. for all the help!
Later days, blue jays!
I’m late to the party, but will say thanks to Kaye (congrats on your debut) and C.C.
ReplyDeleteWEES by now, but I will take a CSO at HANG LOOSE CANADA GOOSE (although I am not familiar with the expression).
I entered “In” A WHILE CROCODILE but it was too short. AFTER fit, but is not how I remember the expression.