Theme: YOUNG ADULTS
24A: Start of Cleveland Amory quip: THERE ARE
36A: Part 2 of quip: THREE TERRIBLE AGES
62A: Part 3 of quip: OF CHILDHOOD
68A: Part 4 of quip: ONE TO TEN, TEN
92A: Part 5 of quip: TO TWENTY, AND TWENTY
111A: End of quip: TO THIRTY
Oh dear, 22 QUIP/QUOTE puzzles later, only now do I realize that they all have distinctive theme titles.
Besides CHILDHOOD, there is also a BOYHOOD (87D: Green years). ELDEST (14A: Superlatively senior) is related to the theme as well, though tangentially.
Nothing exciting about this puzzle, or any of Olschwang's QUIP puzzles. Blah, blah, BLAHS (47D: Doldrums). Quite a few entertainment names, some of them are very obscure to me:
84A: Brown with a big band: LES
120A: Old-time actress Ada: REHAN. She died long long time ago (1916), who the heck has heard of her?
1D: Garr of "Tootsie": TERI. Know her. Had no idea that she was nominated for Oscar (Best Supporting Actress, 1982) for her role in "Tootsie" (Jessica Lange won it eventually).
19D: Actress Daly: TYNE. She is in "Judging Amy".
93D: "Bewitched" witch: ENDORA. I forgot. It's clued as "Tabitha's TV grandmother" on a TMS puzzle before. Played by Agnes Moorhead, an unfamiliar name to me also.
95D: Dan of "Peyton Place": DURYEA. Foreign to me. He appeared in many movies, so prolific a career.
97D: Actress Phoebe: CATES. Another new name to me. I've actually watched "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" before, but I can only remember Sean Penn & Jennifer Jason Leigh from the movie. Wikipedia says CATES is also known for her role in "Gremlins". Have you seen it?
109D: Singer Dee: KIKI. No, nope. Here is KIKI Dee's duet with Elton John “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”. Just learned this morning that there is a KIKI Cuyler in baseball's HOF.
I hope you enjoyed solving this puzzle. I did not. I did not have a good attitude to begin with. What a yawn-inducing QUIP! With this Wimbledon madness, you would think the editor could clue DEUCE (98A: Low card) as "Tennis tie".
ACROSS:
1A: Ancient Roman garb: TOGAS. The plural form can also be TOGAE.
21A: Windflowers: ANEMONES. Various colors. Dictionary explains the root of ANEMONES as Greek word anemos (wind), "perhaps because the petals are lost easily in wind".
22A: Capital of Niger: NIAMEY. They must have real good pearl millet couscous in the region.
25A: Viennese tongue: GERMAN. Wikipedia says Viennese GERMAN is "the city dialect spoken in Vienna" and "rather different from the Austrian form of Standard German as well as other dialects spoken in Austria". I suppose it's kind of like our Xi'An dialect, which is quite different from Mandarin Chinese.
28A: Salinger title character: ESME. Heroine from Salinger's "For ESME with Love and Squalor".
29A: Big wheel: MAGNATE
30A: Valletta's island: MALTA. I always confuse MALTA with YALTA. Didn't the big Three meet in both places?
47A: Like Mother Hubbard's cupboard: BARE. Or "like Lady Godiva".
54A: "St. ___ Fire": ELMOS . I am not familiar with this film, are you?
55A: November electees: INS. And 74D: Put in office: ELECT. A simple "Officeholders" clue should be just fine for INS.
57A: Converse competition: AVIA. Know AVIA (To fly, in Latin), not familiar with the Converse shoe brand.
58A: Shape up: SNAP TO. New phrase to me. Can you give me an example?
67A: Slayer of the Minotaur: THESEUS. Would not have got it without the perps. You can see this THESEUS Slaying the Minotaur bronze at Louvre. Minotaur is the "half-man, half-bull monster that lived in the Labyrinth".
73A: Type of theater comp. REP (Repertory). I am not familiar with theater stuff at all.
81A: Affix firmly: RIVET. Here is Rosie the RIVETer.
88A: K-12, in education: ELHI (Elementary & High school). I think this is a special American education term, isn't it?
97A: Chili pepper: CAYENNE. Hot!
99A: Atmospheric inhalations: BREATHS. Beautiful Baby's BREATHS.
105A: Eliminate: RULE OUT. And 110A: Was vanquished by: LOST TO. I like prepositions in answers.
115A: Birthplace of Elvis Presley: TUPELO (MS). New to me. I only know he was not born in Memphis.
116A: Loss/damage word: BREAKAGE
119A: Neighbor of Corsica: SARDINIA. I simply forgot. Here is the map again.
DOWN:
2D: Span of a cart: OXEN. Span or Brace is "a pair, usually used in reference to yoked animals pulling something." Learned this from Dennis long time ago.
5D: Hot under the collar: STEAMED And 90D: Suffer in the summer: SWELTER.
7D: Granite State sch.: UNH (University of New Hampshire). The Wildcats. And 96D: Fort Worth sch.: TCU (Texas Christian University). The Horned Frogs.
9D: Nary of Hungary: IMRE. I forgot. It appeared on TMS May 23 puzzle.
15D: Feudal lords: LIEGES
27D: Styron's Turner: NAT. Learned NAT Turner's name from doing Xword, but this is the first time I heard of William Styron, who wrote and won 1967 Pulitzer for "The Confessions of NAT Turner".
29D: Wizardry: MAGIC. Here is MAGIC.
31D: Used a car as a down payment: TRADED IN
41D: Field in Italian: CAMPO. Dictionary shows that it's also "field" in Spanish and Portuguese.
42D: First: pref.: PROTO. As in PROTOTYPE. And a PROTOTYPE TV tryouts (54D): PILOTS.
53D: Manly in Madrid: MACHO. In Madrid only? I thought MACHO is a well accepted English word now.
56D: Pantomime: ACT OUT
63D: Newspaper screamer: HEADLINE
69D: Nicker: NEIGH. I did not know that "nicker" also means "To NEIGH softly". Whinny. And 87A: Ewe's call: BAA
71D: Composition for nine: NONET. Raphael's Apollo and the Muses (9).
73D: Synthetic fabric: RAYON
82D: "Bellefleur" writer: OATES. Is "Bellefleur" the only book Joyce Carol OATES has written? Why keep cluing the same book again and again?
100D: Profligate: ROUE. It's him, Casanova, "the World's Greatest Lover".
106A: Sea bird: ERNE. And 109A: Sea bird: TERN. OK, this is a ERNE (the white-tailed sea eagle). This is a TERN (gull's cousin). Is she suffering from hangover?
108D: Eye part: UVEA. Would not have got the crossing TRAVE (114A: Crossbeam) without UVEA. Here are some crossbeams.
113A: Friday's lead-in?: TGI. The restaurant is part of the Carlson, a privately held company based here in MN. Lots of troubles are going on inside that Carlson house.
C.C.
24A: Start of Cleveland Amory quip: THERE ARE
36A: Part 2 of quip: THREE TERRIBLE AGES
62A: Part 3 of quip: OF CHILDHOOD
68A: Part 4 of quip: ONE TO TEN, TEN
92A: Part 5 of quip: TO TWENTY, AND TWENTY
111A: End of quip: TO THIRTY
Oh dear, 22 QUIP/QUOTE puzzles later, only now do I realize that they all have distinctive theme titles.
Besides CHILDHOOD, there is also a BOYHOOD (87D: Green years). ELDEST (14A: Superlatively senior) is related to the theme as well, though tangentially.
Nothing exciting about this puzzle, or any of Olschwang's QUIP puzzles. Blah, blah, BLAHS (47D: Doldrums). Quite a few entertainment names, some of them are very obscure to me:
84A: Brown with a big band: LES
120A: Old-time actress Ada: REHAN. She died long long time ago (1916), who the heck has heard of her?
1D: Garr of "Tootsie": TERI. Know her. Had no idea that she was nominated for Oscar (Best Supporting Actress, 1982) for her role in "Tootsie" (Jessica Lange won it eventually).
19D: Actress Daly: TYNE. She is in "Judging Amy".
93D: "Bewitched" witch: ENDORA. I forgot. It's clued as "Tabitha's TV grandmother" on a TMS puzzle before. Played by Agnes Moorhead, an unfamiliar name to me also.
95D: Dan of "Peyton Place": DURYEA. Foreign to me. He appeared in many movies, so prolific a career.
97D: Actress Phoebe: CATES. Another new name to me. I've actually watched "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" before, but I can only remember Sean Penn & Jennifer Jason Leigh from the movie. Wikipedia says CATES is also known for her role in "Gremlins". Have you seen it?
109D: Singer Dee: KIKI. No, nope. Here is KIKI Dee's duet with Elton John “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”. Just learned this morning that there is a KIKI Cuyler in baseball's HOF.
I hope you enjoyed solving this puzzle. I did not. I did not have a good attitude to begin with. What a yawn-inducing QUIP! With this Wimbledon madness, you would think the editor could clue DEUCE (98A: Low card) as "Tennis tie".
ACROSS:
1A: Ancient Roman garb: TOGAS. The plural form can also be TOGAE.
21A: Windflowers: ANEMONES. Various colors. Dictionary explains the root of ANEMONES as Greek word anemos (wind), "perhaps because the petals are lost easily in wind".
22A: Capital of Niger: NIAMEY. They must have real good pearl millet couscous in the region.
25A: Viennese tongue: GERMAN. Wikipedia says Viennese GERMAN is "the city dialect spoken in Vienna" and "rather different from the Austrian form of Standard German as well as other dialects spoken in Austria". I suppose it's kind of like our Xi'An dialect, which is quite different from Mandarin Chinese.
28A: Salinger title character: ESME. Heroine from Salinger's "For ESME with Love and Squalor".
29A: Big wheel: MAGNATE
30A: Valletta's island: MALTA. I always confuse MALTA with YALTA. Didn't the big Three meet in both places?
47A: Like Mother Hubbard's cupboard: BARE. Or "like Lady Godiva".
54A: "St. ___ Fire": ELMOS . I am not familiar with this film, are you?
55A: November electees: INS. And 74D: Put in office: ELECT. A simple "Officeholders" clue should be just fine for INS.
57A: Converse competition: AVIA. Know AVIA (To fly, in Latin), not familiar with the Converse shoe brand.
58A: Shape up: SNAP TO. New phrase to me. Can you give me an example?
67A: Slayer of the Minotaur: THESEUS. Would not have got it without the perps. You can see this THESEUS Slaying the Minotaur bronze at Louvre. Minotaur is the "half-man, half-bull monster that lived in the Labyrinth".
73A: Type of theater comp. REP (Repertory). I am not familiar with theater stuff at all.
81A: Affix firmly: RIVET. Here is Rosie the RIVETer.
88A: K-12, in education: ELHI (Elementary & High school). I think this is a special American education term, isn't it?
97A: Chili pepper: CAYENNE. Hot!
99A: Atmospheric inhalations: BREATHS. Beautiful Baby's BREATHS.
105A: Eliminate: RULE OUT. And 110A: Was vanquished by: LOST TO. I like prepositions in answers.
115A: Birthplace of Elvis Presley: TUPELO (MS). New to me. I only know he was not born in Memphis.
116A: Loss/damage word: BREAKAGE
119A: Neighbor of Corsica: SARDINIA. I simply forgot. Here is the map again.
DOWN:
2D: Span of a cart: OXEN. Span or Brace is "a pair, usually used in reference to yoked animals pulling something." Learned this from Dennis long time ago.
5D: Hot under the collar: STEAMED And 90D: Suffer in the summer: SWELTER.
7D: Granite State sch.: UNH (University of New Hampshire). The Wildcats. And 96D: Fort Worth sch.: TCU (Texas Christian University). The Horned Frogs.
9D: Nary of Hungary: IMRE. I forgot. It appeared on TMS May 23 puzzle.
15D: Feudal lords: LIEGES
27D: Styron's Turner: NAT. Learned NAT Turner's name from doing Xword, but this is the first time I heard of William Styron, who wrote and won 1967 Pulitzer for "The Confessions of NAT Turner".
29D: Wizardry: MAGIC. Here is MAGIC.
31D: Used a car as a down payment: TRADED IN
41D: Field in Italian: CAMPO. Dictionary shows that it's also "field" in Spanish and Portuguese.
42D: First: pref.: PROTO. As in PROTOTYPE. And a PROTOTYPE TV tryouts (54D): PILOTS.
53D: Manly in Madrid: MACHO. In Madrid only? I thought MACHO is a well accepted English word now.
56D: Pantomime: ACT OUT
63D: Newspaper screamer: HEADLINE
69D: Nicker: NEIGH. I did not know that "nicker" also means "To NEIGH softly". Whinny. And 87A: Ewe's call: BAA
71D: Composition for nine: NONET. Raphael's Apollo and the Muses (9).
73D: Synthetic fabric: RAYON
82D: "Bellefleur" writer: OATES. Is "Bellefleur" the only book Joyce Carol OATES has written? Why keep cluing the same book again and again?
100D: Profligate: ROUE. It's him, Casanova, "the World's Greatest Lover".
106A: Sea bird: ERNE. And 109A: Sea bird: TERN. OK, this is a ERNE (the white-tailed sea eagle). This is a TERN (gull's cousin). Is she suffering from hangover?
108D: Eye part: UVEA. Would not have got the crossing TRAVE (114A: Crossbeam) without UVEA. Here are some crossbeams.
113A: Friday's lead-in?: TGI. The restaurant is part of the Carlson, a privately held company based here in MN. Lots of troubles are going on inside that Carlson house.
C.C.
