Theme: All This Time
1A: Former: ONE-TIME
29A: Football break: HALFTIME SHOW
37A: Strikeout victim: THREE-TIME LOSER
52A: Freelance work: PART-TIME JOB
67A: Classic Ken Kesey novel: SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION
86A: Cash incentive: OVERTIME PAY
99A: Guinness concerns: ALL-TIME RECORDS
107A: A need for speed: NO TIME TO LOSE
128A: Whenever: ANYTIME
I had a very hard TIME solving this puzzle. Without the theme hint, I doubt I could finish it. Lots of pauses and write-overs. Strange to see 1A as a theme answer.
I am still not sure about STP (57A: potent hallucinogen). Do you have the same answer? I wrote down LSD first. STP is always "The Racer's Edge".
Nice to see ATONEMENT (79D: Ian McEwan novel) gets some recognition. Unfortunately, IAN (5D: Singer Janis) is an answer in the grid. So ATONEMENT has to be reworded. A plain "Reparation" would work.
Scroll down the page to see Argyle's blog on Stan Newman's Newsday "Baloney Sandwich" puzzle.
Across:
15A: Mature insect: IMAGO. Larva, pupa & IMAGO.
20A: Attack by bombers: AIR RAID. I was thinking of AIR STRIKE.
21A: Awakening: AROUSAL
22A: Hurler Ryan: NOLAN. The strikeout king, steroid free. HOFer. Very conservative political leaning.
23A: Philosopher Langer: SUSANNE. Guessed. Have never heard of this American philosopher. She wrote "Philosophy in a New Key".
25A: Oar holder: THOLE. Th' Hole.
33A: Hydroxyl compound: ENOL. "Hydroxyl" means nothing to me. The answer is always ENOL for a 4-letter compound clue: "Organic compound", "Carbon compound", whatever.
47A: Pirate in "Peter Pan": SMEE. Captain Hook's cohort.
49A: Assn.: SOC. Society?
50A: Feeling no need for apology: UNASHAMED. UNABASHED has the same amount of letters.
61A: Forthcoming: INSTORE
62A: CD alternative: DAT (Digital Audiotape)
63A: Founder of Stoicism: ZENO. ZENO of Citium. Different from ZENO of Elea.
66A: Latin handle: ANSA. Plural is ANSAE.
74A: Karras of "Webster": ALEX. The big guy. Total stranger to me.
75A: Years, to Yves: ANS. Le Nouvel AN (New Year's Day). ANS is more often clued as a shortened form for "Answers".
78A: Plant similar to verbena: LANTANA. Here some LANTANA. And verbena.
81A: Friend on the Left Bank: AMI. Ennui! Partial clue is more interesting here. But who AM I to argue?
89A: Mid-range golf club: SEVEN IRON. My first round of golf was played with SEVEN IRON and putter only.
92A: Winter Games grp.: IOC. "Summer Games grp." as well.
93A: Patriotic org.: DAR. "Patriotic women's org." to be exact.
95A: Nymph of mythology: OREAD. The mountain nymph. Like poor Echo.
96A: Feinstein or Wiest: DIANNE. Sounds like DIANNE Feinstein is going to run for Governor of California governor in 2010. I like DIANNE Wiest in "Hannah and Her Sisters". Can't stand her in "Law & Order".
103A: Annapolis grad.: ENS. Ensign. Does "swabbie" apply to commissioned officer also? Does ENS have to attend boot camp and read Blue Jacket Manuel as well?
114A: Thompson of "Family": SADA. Which one? I wrote down EMMA. Liked her a lot in "Sense and Sensibility".
118A: NH compound: IMINE. No idea. Dictionary explains IMINE (or AMINE) as "a compound derived from ammonia and containing the bivalent NH group combined with a bivalent nonacid group." What is NH?
123A: Brief look-see: RECON. I always wonder which military division usually conducts those RECON missions. Air Force?
125A: Transfers some power: DEPUTES
126A: Praying figure: ORANT. I forgot. Here is an early Christian painting of Noah in ORANT gesture. I had this image of Noah being an old, thinly-built man. Maybe I confuse him with Moses.
127A: Parliament of Israel: KNESSET. Interesting, the "Parliament of Japan" is called Diet.
Down:
1D: Tobacco kiln: OAST
2D: New Zealand island territory: NIUE. No idea. Sounds like a randomly made-up word. Look at the map on the right. It's pretty far away from New Zealand. I wonder what NIUE means in native language.
3D: Old Gaelic: ERSE. This is another bothersome word. Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic and Celtic confused the hell out of me.
4D: Layered nets: TRAMMELS. Ah me. No sir, have never heard of TRAMMEL net.
6D: Manhattan buyer: MINUIT. He bought Manhattan for only at 60 guiders, appoximately $1,000 in today's money. I knew this crazy deal. Did not know this guy's name. Go Dutch! Have you heard of Dutch courage & Dutch uncle?
8D: Go, in Glasgow: GAE. Pronounced like GAY.
9D: One end of a sleeve: ARMHOLE
10D: Snook: ROBALO. Got the answer from across fill. Did not know "Snook" is a kind of fish.
14D: Havelock or Perry: ELLIS. Havelock ELLIS was a British psychologist who wrote "Studies in the Psychology of Sex". And Perry ELLIS was an American ashion designer. I got it from across fills as well.
15D: Office speakers: INTERCOMS
16D: Scale of minerals: MOHS. MOHS scale. It measure the hardness of minerals. 1 for TALC, 10 for diamond. Perfect!
28D: "Philadelphia" director: DEMME (Jonathan). Saw the movie. Did not pay attention to who directed it. DEMME won Oscar for "The Silence of the Lambs".
30D: Commonest protein in muscle: MYOSIN. No. Beyond my ken. "Myo" is a prefix for "muscle".
37D: Wyomia of track: TYUS. "Ah me" again. I had TYU? forever. She is the first woman athlete ever to successfully defend her sprint title in a subsequent Olympics.
45D: Film material: ACETATE. I should have known, but I don't. I actually use these sheets to protect my collectible magazines.
51D: Spumante source: ASTI. Wine region.
52D: Offspring: PROGENY
60D: Literary bits: ANA. Sometimes it's clued as "Santa ___ winds".
62D: Gum substitute: DEXTRIN. Impossible for me. Sounds so toxic. Dextr(o) is a prefix for "to the right", but I don't think it applies here.
64D: Awe-inspiring: FEARSOME. Like this puzzle. But it inspires no "awe" from me.
65D: Nice water?: EAU. Plural is EAUX. "Nice" has lost all its playfulness to me. Try "Sand water?" next.
67D: Pasonlini movie: SALO. Forgot. The movie is based on Marquis de Sade's "The 120 Days of Sodom". Looks very sadistic.
69D: Writing-on-the-wall word: MENE. Total mess here. I definitely googled this word before. I think I saw the "writing-on-the-wall" of Tribune Media Service (TMS). It looks bleak.
71D: Mandela's nat.: RSA (Republic of South Africa). Mandela was born in UMTATA, which was clued as "Capital of Transkei" in yesterday's puzzle.
73D: Venezuelan river: ORINOCO. See this map. I only know Enya's "ORINONCO Flow".
80D: Christian creed: NICENE. I probably need to see this word 3 more times to remember it.
83D: Fox's title: BR'ER. Uncle Remus tales. BR'ER Rabbit appears in our puzzle more often.
85D: Added stipulations: ANDS
90D: Ecole student: ELEVE
91D: Resolves, as a disagreement: IRONS OUT
96D: "Casino" star: DE NIRO. Is "De" a sign of his Italian root? Too many F words in "Casino". I did not like it.
97D: Atom with a variable nucleus: ISOMER
98D: New York prison: ATTICA. Sing Sing is also in NY.
100D: Magnetic flux density units: TESLAS
113D: "The Ring of the Nibelung" role: ERDA. First time I heard of "The Ring of the Nibelung", a "cycle of four epic music drama by Wagner".
115D: Graph starter?: ALTI. Have never heard of Altigraph. It's "an altimeter equipped with a device for recording its measurements on a graph". I am too frustrated to check the meaning of "altimeter". Simply hated this clue. Why not "Prefix for high"?
117D: African fox: ASSE. Also called Cape Fox. Hey, buddy, nice to see you again!
C.C.
1A: Former: ONE-TIME
29A: Football break: HALFTIME SHOW
37A: Strikeout victim: THREE-TIME LOSER
52A: Freelance work: PART-TIME JOB
67A: Classic Ken Kesey novel: SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION
86A: Cash incentive: OVERTIME PAY
99A: Guinness concerns: ALL-TIME RECORDS
107A: A need for speed: NO TIME TO LOSE
128A: Whenever: ANYTIME
I had a very hard TIME solving this puzzle. Without the theme hint, I doubt I could finish it. Lots of pauses and write-overs. Strange to see 1A as a theme answer.
I am still not sure about STP (57A: potent hallucinogen). Do you have the same answer? I wrote down LSD first. STP is always "The Racer's Edge".
Nice to see ATONEMENT (79D: Ian McEwan novel) gets some recognition. Unfortunately, IAN (5D: Singer Janis) is an answer in the grid. So ATONEMENT has to be reworded. A plain "Reparation" would work.
Scroll down the page to see Argyle's blog on Stan Newman's Newsday "Baloney Sandwich" puzzle.
Across:
15A: Mature insect: IMAGO. Larva, pupa & IMAGO.
20A: Attack by bombers: AIR RAID. I was thinking of AIR STRIKE.
21A: Awakening: AROUSAL
22A: Hurler Ryan: NOLAN. The strikeout king, steroid free. HOFer. Very conservative political leaning.
23A: Philosopher Langer: SUSANNE. Guessed. Have never heard of this American philosopher. She wrote "Philosophy in a New Key".
25A: Oar holder: THOLE. Th' Hole.
33A: Hydroxyl compound: ENOL. "Hydroxyl" means nothing to me. The answer is always ENOL for a 4-letter compound clue: "Organic compound", "Carbon compound", whatever.
47A: Pirate in "Peter Pan": SMEE. Captain Hook's cohort.
49A: Assn.: SOC. Society?
50A: Feeling no need for apology: UNASHAMED. UNABASHED has the same amount of letters.
61A: Forthcoming: INSTORE
62A: CD alternative: DAT (Digital Audiotape)
63A: Founder of Stoicism: ZENO. ZENO of Citium. Different from ZENO of Elea.
66A: Latin handle: ANSA. Plural is ANSAE.
74A: Karras of "Webster": ALEX. The big guy. Total stranger to me.
75A: Years, to Yves: ANS. Le Nouvel AN (New Year's Day). ANS is more often clued as a shortened form for "Answers".
78A: Plant similar to verbena: LANTANA. Here some LANTANA. And verbena.
81A: Friend on the Left Bank: AMI. Ennui! Partial clue is more interesting here. But who AM I to argue?
89A: Mid-range golf club: SEVEN IRON. My first round of golf was played with SEVEN IRON and putter only.
92A: Winter Games grp.: IOC. "Summer Games grp." as well.
93A: Patriotic org.: DAR. "Patriotic women's org." to be exact.
95A: Nymph of mythology: OREAD. The mountain nymph. Like poor Echo.
96A: Feinstein or Wiest: DIANNE. Sounds like DIANNE Feinstein is going to run for Governor of California governor in 2010. I like DIANNE Wiest in "Hannah and Her Sisters". Can't stand her in "Law & Order".
103A: Annapolis grad.: ENS. Ensign. Does "swabbie" apply to commissioned officer also? Does ENS have to attend boot camp and read Blue Jacket Manuel as well?
114A: Thompson of "Family": SADA. Which one? I wrote down EMMA. Liked her a lot in "Sense and Sensibility".
118A: NH compound: IMINE. No idea. Dictionary explains IMINE (or AMINE) as "a compound derived from ammonia and containing the bivalent NH group combined with a bivalent nonacid group." What is NH?
123A: Brief look-see: RECON. I always wonder which military division usually conducts those RECON missions. Air Force?
125A: Transfers some power: DEPUTES
126A: Praying figure: ORANT. I forgot. Here is an early Christian painting of Noah in ORANT gesture. I had this image of Noah being an old, thinly-built man. Maybe I confuse him with Moses.
127A: Parliament of Israel: KNESSET. Interesting, the "Parliament of Japan" is called Diet.
Down:
1D: Tobacco kiln: OAST
2D: New Zealand island territory: NIUE. No idea. Sounds like a randomly made-up word. Look at the map on the right. It's pretty far away from New Zealand. I wonder what NIUE means in native language.
3D: Old Gaelic: ERSE. This is another bothersome word. Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic and Celtic confused the hell out of me.
4D: Layered nets: TRAMMELS. Ah me. No sir, have never heard of TRAMMEL net.
6D: Manhattan buyer: MINUIT. He bought Manhattan for only at 60 guiders, appoximately $1,000 in today's money. I knew this crazy deal. Did not know this guy's name. Go Dutch! Have you heard of Dutch courage & Dutch uncle?
8D: Go, in Glasgow: GAE. Pronounced like GAY.
9D: One end of a sleeve: ARMHOLE
10D: Snook: ROBALO. Got the answer from across fill. Did not know "Snook" is a kind of fish.
14D: Havelock or Perry: ELLIS. Havelock ELLIS was a British psychologist who wrote "Studies in the Psychology of Sex". And Perry ELLIS was an American ashion designer. I got it from across fills as well.
15D: Office speakers: INTERCOMS
16D: Scale of minerals: MOHS. MOHS scale. It measure the hardness of minerals. 1 for TALC, 10 for diamond. Perfect!
28D: "Philadelphia" director: DEMME (Jonathan). Saw the movie. Did not pay attention to who directed it. DEMME won Oscar for "The Silence of the Lambs".
30D: Commonest protein in muscle: MYOSIN. No. Beyond my ken. "Myo" is a prefix for "muscle".
37D: Wyomia of track: TYUS. "Ah me" again. I had TYU? forever. She is the first woman athlete ever to successfully defend her sprint title in a subsequent Olympics.
45D: Film material: ACETATE. I should have known, but I don't. I actually use these sheets to protect my collectible magazines.
51D: Spumante source: ASTI. Wine region.
52D: Offspring: PROGENY
60D: Literary bits: ANA. Sometimes it's clued as "Santa ___ winds".
62D: Gum substitute: DEXTRIN. Impossible for me. Sounds so toxic. Dextr(o) is a prefix for "to the right", but I don't think it applies here.
64D: Awe-inspiring: FEARSOME. Like this puzzle. But it inspires no "awe" from me.
65D: Nice water?: EAU. Plural is EAUX. "Nice" has lost all its playfulness to me. Try "Sand water?" next.
67D: Pasonlini movie: SALO. Forgot. The movie is based on Marquis de Sade's "The 120 Days of Sodom". Looks very sadistic.
69D: Writing-on-the-wall word: MENE. Total mess here. I definitely googled this word before. I think I saw the "writing-on-the-wall" of Tribune Media Service (TMS). It looks bleak.
71D: Mandela's nat.: RSA (Republic of South Africa). Mandela was born in UMTATA, which was clued as "Capital of Transkei" in yesterday's puzzle.
73D: Venezuelan river: ORINOCO. See this map. I only know Enya's "ORINONCO Flow".
80D: Christian creed: NICENE. I probably need to see this word 3 more times to remember it.
83D: Fox's title: BR'ER. Uncle Remus tales. BR'ER Rabbit appears in our puzzle more often.
85D: Added stipulations: ANDS
90D: Ecole student: ELEVE
91D: Resolves, as a disagreement: IRONS OUT
96D: "Casino" star: DE NIRO. Is "De" a sign of his Italian root? Too many F words in "Casino". I did not like it.
97D: Atom with a variable nucleus: ISOMER
98D: New York prison: ATTICA. Sing Sing is also in NY.
100D: Magnetic flux density units: TESLAS
113D: "The Ring of the Nibelung" role: ERDA. First time I heard of "The Ring of the Nibelung", a "cycle of four epic music drama by Wagner".
115D: Graph starter?: ALTI. Have never heard of Altigraph. It's "an altimeter equipped with a device for recording its measurements on a graph". I am too frustrated to check the meaning of "altimeter". Simply hated this clue. Why not "Prefix for high"?
117D: African fox: ASSE. Also called Cape Fox. Hey, buddy, nice to see you again!
C.C.
