Theme: VICTORY (40A: Sign found in 18A, 24A, 50A and 61A)
19A: "Guitar Town" singer: STEVE EARLE
24A: Carry out: GIVE EFFECT TO
50A: Certain lineman: DEFENSIVE END
61A: Renewable power source: WAVE ENERGY
This puzzle brought to my mind Churchill's VICTORY quote: "Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
It's an OK puzzle, not very exciting but much better than a lazy Quip. I liked the position of VICTORY in the grid. Lots of 4-letter words. I suppose it's mainly due to the length of the theme answers.
Other **VEE** words I've got are: VEEP, LEVEE, VEER, HUMVEE, the French word ELEVEE and the song "I Only Have Eyes for You". What other words can you think of?
Across:
5A: Woven net: MESH. Mariah Carey looks gorgeous in this MESH tank top.
16A: Nora's pooch: ASTA. From "The Thin Man".
22A: Colorful mount: ROAN. We need to have a discussion today about what exactly colors a ROAN horse exhibits.
28A: MacDonald's refrain: EIEIO. Inaccurate. It should be "Old MacDonald" refrain.
33A: Dweeb: NERD. Remember TWIRP/TWERP the other day?
35A: Wear away: FRAY. What's the difference between "Become raveled" and "Become unraveled"?
43A: Astronomer Tycho: BRAHE. I got his name from down fills. Yipes, look at his mustache.
59A: "Painting" painter: MIRO. I don't like this clue at all. "Painting" is not that well-known. This is his "Dog Barking at the Moon".
60A: Follow logically: ENSUE. Hmm, looks like our editor lacked the courage to clue ENSUE as "Come next" again. Martin sure had fun last time. Here is Beatles' "Come Together", for you.
70A: Mountain lake: TARN. I can never remember this word. WP says TARN is "derived from Old Norse word tjörn, meaning pond". This is TARN Hows in England.
Down:
1D: Scrawny one: SCRAG. Know SCRAGGY. Have heard of SCRAG.
2D: Maiden in Koranic paradise: HOURI. Their "virginity is renewable at pleasure", what a dream! It's so hard for me to picture HOURI & PERI (Persian fallen angels) as the same level as other beautiful creatures like Venus, Aphrodite, Apollo & Adonis.
3D: Bogey: ONE OVER PAR. I wonder why Humphrey Bogart was called "Bogey/Bogie". Did he play lots of golf?
4D: Famous meteor shower member: PERSEID. New to me. Have barely heard of constellation Perseus. PERSEID is defined as " one of a shower of meteors that appears to originate in the vicinity of the constellation Perseus during the second week of August."
7D: Cubic meter: STERE. I only learned this morning that STERE is from Greek "stereós" meaning solid.
8D: Total confusion: HAVOC
9D: Distinct personality: IDENTITY. Are they really synonymous? I thought of INDIVIDUALITY for "Distinct personality".
12D: Place for cargo: HOLD. CARGO was clued as "Hold contents" yesterday.
25D: Stereotypical poodle: FIFI. How come it's never clued as the annual FiFi Award?
30D: Magical command: OPEN SESAME
33D: Mount of Moses: NEBO. This is where Moses died I suppose. And 2 more Biblical mounts: SINAI ("Ten Commandments") & ARARAT (Noah's Ark).
40D: Impassioned: VEHEMENT
46D: Lettering aid: STENCIL
49D: "___ Got You Under My Skin": I'VE. Not a familiar song to me. I just heard it and I liked it. Beautiful song. Frank Sinatra had such an colorful life, so involved in American politics, JFK & Reagan adm. in particular.
51D: Half a tenner: FIN. Or "Half a sawbuck".
53D: Water wheel: NORIA. Unknown to me. It's "a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the Orient for raising water". See this picture.
54D: Techno-rock artist Gary: NUMAN. Pieced his name together from the across fills. Katherine, do you know this Gary?
63D: Long-snouted fish: GAR. Huge GAR. Is it edible?
64D: Over there, briefly: YON. I don't understand this Robert Burns' "O Were My Love YON Lilac Fair. But it looks beautiful, with "purple blossom" and "red rose". What does "I'd feast on beauty a' the night" mean?
C.C.
19A: "Guitar Town" singer: STEVE EARLE
24A: Carry out: GIVE EFFECT TO
50A: Certain lineman: DEFENSIVE END
61A: Renewable power source: WAVE ENERGY
This puzzle brought to my mind Churchill's VICTORY quote: "Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
It's an OK puzzle, not very exciting but much better than a lazy Quip. I liked the position of VICTORY in the grid. Lots of 4-letter words. I suppose it's mainly due to the length of the theme answers.
Other **VEE** words I've got are: VEEP, LEVEE, VEER, HUMVEE, the French word ELEVEE and the song "I Only Have Eyes for You". What other words can you think of?
Across:
5A: Woven net: MESH. Mariah Carey looks gorgeous in this MESH tank top.
16A: Nora's pooch: ASTA. From "The Thin Man".
22A: Colorful mount: ROAN. We need to have a discussion today about what exactly colors a ROAN horse exhibits.
28A: MacDonald's refrain: EIEIO. Inaccurate. It should be "Old MacDonald" refrain.
33A: Dweeb: NERD. Remember TWIRP/TWERP the other day?
35A: Wear away: FRAY. What's the difference between "Become raveled" and "Become unraveled"?
43A: Astronomer Tycho: BRAHE. I got his name from down fills. Yipes, look at his mustache.
59A: "Painting" painter: MIRO. I don't like this clue at all. "Painting" is not that well-known. This is his "Dog Barking at the Moon".
60A: Follow logically: ENSUE. Hmm, looks like our editor lacked the courage to clue ENSUE as "Come next" again. Martin sure had fun last time. Here is Beatles' "Come Together", for you.
70A: Mountain lake: TARN. I can never remember this word. WP says TARN is "derived from Old Norse word tjörn, meaning pond". This is TARN Hows in England.
Down:
1D: Scrawny one: SCRAG. Know SCRAGGY. Have heard of SCRAG.
2D: Maiden in Koranic paradise: HOURI. Their "virginity is renewable at pleasure", what a dream! It's so hard for me to picture HOURI & PERI (Persian fallen angels) as the same level as other beautiful creatures like Venus, Aphrodite, Apollo & Adonis.
3D: Bogey: ONE OVER PAR. I wonder why Humphrey Bogart was called "Bogey/Bogie". Did he play lots of golf?
4D: Famous meteor shower member: PERSEID. New to me. Have barely heard of constellation Perseus. PERSEID is defined as " one of a shower of meteors that appears to originate in the vicinity of the constellation Perseus during the second week of August."
7D: Cubic meter: STERE. I only learned this morning that STERE is from Greek "stereós" meaning solid.
8D: Total confusion: HAVOC
9D: Distinct personality: IDENTITY. Are they really synonymous? I thought of INDIVIDUALITY for "Distinct personality".
12D: Place for cargo: HOLD. CARGO was clued as "Hold contents" yesterday.
25D: Stereotypical poodle: FIFI. How come it's never clued as the annual FiFi Award?
30D: Magical command: OPEN SESAME
33D: Mount of Moses: NEBO. This is where Moses died I suppose. And 2 more Biblical mounts: SINAI ("Ten Commandments") & ARARAT (Noah's Ark).
40D: Impassioned: VEHEMENT
46D: Lettering aid: STENCIL
49D: "___ Got You Under My Skin": I'VE. Not a familiar song to me. I just heard it and I liked it. Beautiful song. Frank Sinatra had such an colorful life, so involved in American politics, JFK & Reagan adm. in particular.
51D: Half a tenner: FIN. Or "Half a sawbuck".
53D: Water wheel: NORIA. Unknown to me. It's "a device consisting of a series of buckets on a wheel, used in Spain and the Orient for raising water". See this picture.
54D: Techno-rock artist Gary: NUMAN. Pieced his name together from the across fills. Katherine, do you know this Gary?
63D: Long-snouted fish: GAR. Huge GAR. Is it edible?
64D: Over there, briefly: YON. I don't understand this Robert Burns' "O Were My Love YON Lilac Fair. But it looks beautiful, with "purple blossom" and "red rose". What does "I'd feast on beauty a' the night" mean?
C.C.
