(Hey guys, this is C. C. Lots of you come to this blog entry today (May 31, 2008). What newspaper are you doing? Please leave a comment here or write me an email. I am curious to know. Thank you.)
Theme: Advice from BF
17A: With 63A, quotable U.S. money man: Benjamin
63A: See 17A: Franklin
23A: Start of advice from 17A: A Penny Saved
41A: More of advice: Is a
54A: End of advice: A Penny Earned
I like this puzzle. I admire the constructural balance of the themes entries. It looks simple and elegant to my untrained eyes.
I also enjoyed this author's "baseball movie" puzzle on Feb 4 and "snickers/candy bars" on Feb 8. His Chicago Bears HOF puzzle on Feb 17 was too tough for me.
But I still struggled mightily. It all started with 26D: Planet-finding grp (SETI). I filled in NASA. I did not know 5D: Siberian dog (SAMOYED), and I forgot the 36A: Sot's Shakes (DTS). So I was not able to get that very important letter "Y" for 23A, thus failed to catch the advice theme earlier.
I lingered too long over the left lower corner. Actually, all my effort was focused on 62A: Minimum attendance required (QUOTUM). Well, if you were Senator Dick Durbin the Whip, this was a gimme for you. It was _ _ orum for me for over 10 minutes. I felt stupid failing to get SQFT for 57D: Surface meas. Of course not knowing 58D: Vilolinist Leopold (AUER) certainly did not help.
I guess my brain was not thinking clearly this morning, I even tanked the 29A: Fashion magazine (GLAMOUR).
Here are the across entries:
1A: Sprinkle after a shower: TALC
5A: Wood cutter: SAW
8A: Lives: DWELLS
15A: Coach Parseghian: ARA. The Notre Dame football coach from 1964-1974.
16A: Antenna: AERIAL
20A: One in Central America: UNO
21A: Grew gloomier: DARKENED
27A: Fellows: MEN
29A: Fashion magazine: GLAMOUR. Conde Nast publication. They give out Glamour Women of the Year award annually. The lovely Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) was on their 2007's list.
34A: Roses' places: BEDS
36A: Sot's shakes: D.T.S (Delirium Tremens)
38A: Essential amino acid: LYSINE. Unknown to me.
39A: Lucas folk: EWOKS. Star Wars (George Lucas) character. I got it this time.
43A: Dish stewed in wine: SALMI. Here is the definition: a ragout of partially cooked game, as pheasant or woodcock, stewed in wine and butter. You could put a bit pineapple in I suppose.
46A: Brace amount: TWO. Nailed it this time. Have to thank reader Dennis and Joey again for the explanation.
48A: Fed. agent: TMAN (Treasury-Man)
49A: Harbor town: SEAPORT
51A: Tentacle: ARM
57A: California winter wind: SANTA ANA
61A: Actress Scala: GIA. I got her name from down clue. Never heard of her before. She died in 1972 of drug overdose.
62A: Minimum attendance required: QUORUM. OK, the wikipedia says that "when quorum is not met, a legislative body cannot hold a vote, and can not change the status quo.... If a significant number of voters choose not to be present for the vote, the vote will fail due to lack of quorum, and the status quo will remain".
If you want in-depth understanding of this term, I suggest you call Senator Robert Byrd (WV). Ha ha.
71A: Nervous vibration: TREMOR
72A: Latin lesson word: AMO. Amo (I love), Amas ( you love), Amat (she/he/it loves).
73A: Part of DOS: SYST. Disk Operating System.
Down entries:
2D: 100 square meters: ARE. Got it from across clue. Vaguely remembered this definition of "are".
3D: Writer Deighton: LEN
4D: Bayou cuisine: CAJUN. Emeril Lagasse. BAM! Kick it up a notch!
5D: Siberian dog: SAMOYED. Interesting name, past tense. Look at this one, isn't it cute?
6D: "Exodus" role: ARI. Never read any of Leon Uris' work.
7D: Sykes of "Clerks II": WANDA. I find her to be very overwhelmingly noisy.
8D: Waltrip of auto racing: DARRELL. He was in yesterday's puzzle.
10D: "Das lied von der __": ERDE. The Song of the Earth.
11D: Pride member: LION
12D: Narrow street: LANE
13D: Snow coaster: SLED
18D: Landers and Jillian: ANNS
22D: Part of GPA: AVG
23D: Fossil resins: AMBERS
24D: Dodger Reese: PEE WEE. Gimme gimme.
25D: Tabitha's TV grandmother: ENDORA. Unknown to me.
26D: Planet-finding grp.: SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.)
30D: Col.entrance exams: MSAT
31D: Wildcatter, e.g.: OILMAN. I did not know this before. So, Anna Nicole Smith's husband was a wildcatter.
32D: Destroyed: UNMADE
33D: Checked (horses): REINED
35D: Beehive: SKEP. I got this from the across clue. I did not know skep.
45D: Visionary: DREAMER
47D: Aromatic herb: OREGANO
50D: SPIKE formerly: TNN
52D: Primary: MAIN
55D: US-Mex.-Can. union: NAFTA. Poor Hillary. Look at what a mess Bill created for you!
56D: Does yard work: RAKES
57D: Surface meas.: SQFT (Square Foot). The wicked Q.
58D: Violinist Leopold: AUER. He died long long time ago.
59D: Iditarod goal: NOME. Iditarod is an annual dogsled race in Alaska (from Anchorage to Nome)
60D: Trolley car: TRAM
64D: "Monster" group: R.E.M. I lucked it out on this one. I got it from across clues. I did not know that Monster is a R. E. M.'s album. It can also be clued as "sleeping stage" (REM, Rapid Eye Movement).
65D: Set down: LAY
66D: NASA outpost: ISS (International Space Station)
67D: Trawling device: NET
A few more things:
1) Yesterday's Newspaper Count: We have 1 from Thailand, 1 from Canada, and 32 different newspapers within the US.
2) On Sunday Feb 24, the answer for 117D: Cold, in Chile is FRIA. One reader replied that it means "head cold."
3) On last Monday Feb 18 Stanley B Whitten puzzle, the clue for 55D is Hannibal's "Waterloo" (ZAMA). I questioned the quotation mark, and got a very interesting response from reader Hugh Brown. See here. I decided to contact with Stephen Wilbers, who writes a weekly business writing column on Star Tribune. Here is his reply: I agree -- no quotes are needed. The practice of placing clichés in quotation marks is sometimes called "winking," as we must "do our best."
Enjoy your Tuesday everyone.
C. C.
Theme: Advice from BF
17A: With 63A, quotable U.S. money man: Benjamin
63A: See 17A: Franklin
23A: Start of advice from 17A: A Penny Saved
41A: More of advice: Is a
54A: End of advice: A Penny Earned
I like this puzzle. I admire the constructural balance of the themes entries. It looks simple and elegant to my untrained eyes.
I also enjoyed this author's "baseball movie" puzzle on Feb 4 and "snickers/candy bars" on Feb 8. His Chicago Bears HOF puzzle on Feb 17 was too tough for me.
But I still struggled mightily. It all started with 26D: Planet-finding grp (SETI). I filled in NASA. I did not know 5D: Siberian dog (SAMOYED), and I forgot the 36A: Sot's Shakes (DTS). So I was not able to get that very important letter "Y" for 23A, thus failed to catch the advice theme earlier.
I lingered too long over the left lower corner. Actually, all my effort was focused on 62A: Minimum attendance required (QUOTUM). Well, if you were Senator Dick Durbin the Whip, this was a gimme for you. It was _ _ orum for me for over 10 minutes. I felt stupid failing to get SQFT for 57D: Surface meas. Of course not knowing 58D: Vilolinist Leopold (AUER) certainly did not help.
I guess my brain was not thinking clearly this morning, I even tanked the 29A: Fashion magazine (GLAMOUR).
Here are the across entries:
1A: Sprinkle after a shower: TALC
5A: Wood cutter: SAW
8A: Lives: DWELLS
15A: Coach Parseghian: ARA. The Notre Dame football coach from 1964-1974.
16A: Antenna: AERIAL
20A: One in Central America: UNO
21A: Grew gloomier: DARKENED
27A: Fellows: MEN
29A: Fashion magazine: GLAMOUR. Conde Nast publication. They give out Glamour Women of the Year award annually. The lovely Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) was on their 2007's list.
34A: Roses' places: BEDS
36A: Sot's shakes: D.T.S (Delirium Tremens)
38A: Essential amino acid: LYSINE. Unknown to me.
39A: Lucas folk: EWOKS. Star Wars (George Lucas) character. I got it this time.
43A: Dish stewed in wine: SALMI. Here is the definition: a ragout of partially cooked game, as pheasant or woodcock, stewed in wine and butter. You could put a bit pineapple in I suppose.
46A: Brace amount: TWO. Nailed it this time. Have to thank reader Dennis and Joey again for the explanation.
48A: Fed. agent: TMAN (Treasury-Man)
49A: Harbor town: SEAPORT
51A: Tentacle: ARM
57A: California winter wind: SANTA ANA
61A: Actress Scala: GIA. I got her name from down clue. Never heard of her before. She died in 1972 of drug overdose.
62A: Minimum attendance required: QUORUM. OK, the wikipedia says that "when quorum is not met, a legislative body cannot hold a vote, and can not change the status quo.... If a significant number of voters choose not to be present for the vote, the vote will fail due to lack of quorum, and the status quo will remain".
If you want in-depth understanding of this term, I suggest you call Senator Robert Byrd (WV). Ha ha.
71A: Nervous vibration: TREMOR
72A: Latin lesson word: AMO. Amo (I love), Amas ( you love), Amat (she/he/it loves).
73A: Part of DOS: SYST. Disk Operating System.
Down entries:
2D: 100 square meters: ARE. Got it from across clue. Vaguely remembered this definition of "are".
3D: Writer Deighton: LEN
4D: Bayou cuisine: CAJUN. Emeril Lagasse. BAM! Kick it up a notch!
5D: Siberian dog: SAMOYED. Interesting name, past tense. Look at this one, isn't it cute?
6D: "Exodus" role: ARI. Never read any of Leon Uris' work.
7D: Sykes of "Clerks II": WANDA. I find her to be very overwhelmingly noisy.
8D: Waltrip of auto racing: DARRELL. He was in yesterday's puzzle.
10D: "Das lied von der __": ERDE. The Song of the Earth.
11D: Pride member: LION
12D: Narrow street: LANE
13D: Snow coaster: SLED
18D: Landers and Jillian: ANNS
22D: Part of GPA: AVG
23D: Fossil resins: AMBERS
24D: Dodger Reese: PEE WEE. Gimme gimme.
25D: Tabitha's TV grandmother: ENDORA. Unknown to me.
26D: Planet-finding grp.: SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.)
30D: Col.entrance exams: MSAT
31D: Wildcatter, e.g.: OILMAN. I did not know this before. So, Anna Nicole Smith's husband was a wildcatter.
32D: Destroyed: UNMADE
33D: Checked (horses): REINED
35D: Beehive: SKEP. I got this from the across clue. I did not know skep.
45D: Visionary: DREAMER
47D: Aromatic herb: OREGANO
50D: SPIKE formerly: TNN
52D: Primary: MAIN
55D: US-Mex.-Can. union: NAFTA. Poor Hillary. Look at what a mess Bill created for you!
56D: Does yard work: RAKES
57D: Surface meas.: SQFT (Square Foot). The wicked Q.
58D: Violinist Leopold: AUER. He died long long time ago.
59D: Iditarod goal: NOME. Iditarod is an annual dogsled race in Alaska (from Anchorage to Nome)
60D: Trolley car: TRAM
64D: "Monster" group: R.E.M. I lucked it out on this one. I got it from across clues. I did not know that Monster is a R. E. M.'s album. It can also be clued as "sleeping stage" (REM, Rapid Eye Movement).
65D: Set down: LAY
66D: NASA outpost: ISS (International Space Station)
67D: Trawling device: NET
A few more things:
1) Yesterday's Newspaper Count: We have 1 from Thailand, 1 from Canada, and 32 different newspapers within the US.
2) On Sunday Feb 24, the answer for 117D: Cold, in Chile is FRIA. One reader replied that it means "head cold."
3) On last Monday Feb 18 Stanley B Whitten puzzle, the clue for 55D is Hannibal's "Waterloo" (ZAMA). I questioned the quotation mark, and got a very interesting response from reader Hugh Brown. See here. I decided to contact with Stephen Wilbers, who writes a weekly business writing column on Star Tribune. Here is his reply: I agree -- no quotes are needed. The practice of placing clichés in quotation marks is sometimes called "winking," as we must "do our best."
Enjoy your Tuesday everyone.
C. C.
