Theme: Parting Words
1A: With 132A: parting words to a hermit: FAREWELL,
132A: See 1A: MY LONELY ("Farewell, My Lovely")
27A: Parting words from a gambler: GOODBYE, MY CHIPS ("Goodbye, Mr. Chips")
36A: Parting words extended with a look: ALOHA STARE (Aloha State)
58A: With 61A: parting words to a swamp daddy: SEE YA PATER,
61A: See 58A: ALLIGATOR (See ya later, alligator)
70A: With 83A & 86A, parting words from Douglas Adams to a gossip: SO LONG, AND
83A: See 70A: THANKS FOR
86A: See 70A: ALL THE DISH ("So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish")
102A: Parting words in person: BYE BYE LIVE ("Bye Bye Love")
113A: Parting words when going to meet Mr. Reed: I'LL BE SEEING LOU ("I'll be Seeing You")
I only know "BYE BYE LOVE" , ALOHA STATE & "I'LL BE SEEING YOU". But it's not difficult to figure out what names the constructor was playing.
I still don't quite get why "a swamp daddy" is PATER. Also, the clue for RABIN (109D: Itzshak of Israel) is missing one letter Y. Or are Yitzshak and Itzshak the same?
Quite a few misstarts today. Wrote down EATS instead of AILS for 72D: Has something. And penned in PATSY instead of SOFTY for 70D: Easy mark. I don't know. After more than a year of solving Mr. Williams' puzzles, I still struggle mightily. Hard to read his mind.
Got a bit emotional solving this grid. Whatever you do, whereever you go, Mr. Williams, I wish you all the best. Thanks for the fun and frustrations.
I also want to take this opportunity to thank Philip J. Anderson, Diane C Baldwin, Matthew Higgins, Annabel Michaels, Alan P. Olschwang, Allan E. Parrish, Doug Peterson, Tom Pruce, Barry Silk, Norma Steinberg, Verna Suit, John Underwood, Ed Voile, Michael T. Williams, Stan B. Whitten, Robert H. Wolfe and other TMS Daily contributors. Thank you so much for the great puzzles. I look forward to seeing your byline in LA Times.
Across:
9A: Host of "Scientific American Frontiers": ALDA (Alan). I was unaware of this PBS program.
20A: Formal written defense: APOLOGIA. No problem this time.
22A: New version: REVISAL. New word to me.
25A: Outbreeding: EXOGAMY. Opposite of endogamy. Exo is prefix for "outer", and "endo" is prefix for "within". Both unknown to me.
26A: Classic TV sitcom equine: MR. ED
35A: Marketing starter?: TELE. Telemarketing.
50A: Arquette of "Desperately Seeing Susan": ROSANNA. Googled her name. Very unusual surname, Arquette.
53A: Hoover Dam's lake: MEAD. Have never been here before.
64A: Verdi classic: AIDA. Can you believe it debuted in Cairo in 1871?
69A: Tahleuah, OK school: NSU (Northeastern State University). Easy guess. I don't know where Tahleuash, OK is.
93A: Evening in Montmartre: SOIR. Lingered in Montmartre for a long time trying to feel Monet & van Gogh. Also went to Sacré-Cœur. My first time ever in a church.
99A: Little lion of stars: LEO MINOR. Here is a diagram.
104A: Cat's-paw: DUPE. "Cat's-paw" is a new word to me.
120A: Utah ski resort: ALTA. Thought of Liam Neeson's wife. She was actually alright immediately after the skiing fall and she refused the medical help.
121A: Sibyl: DIVINER. Cassandra is one, though no one would ever believe what she divined.
123A: Man from Windhoek: NAMIBIAN. Windhoek is the capital of Namibia. New to me. The letter W is pronounced like V, strange.
1129A: Like raw footage: UNEDITED
130A: Heads side of a coin: OBVERSE. Vs. REVERSE.
Down:
1D: Granges: FARMS. I used to confuse "Grange" with "Grunge".
7D: Half of CIV: LII. Roman 52. The number of weeks for Caesar. Did they have Sunday off at that time?
8D: Pioneer director: LANG. Have never heard of Fritz LANG. "Pioneer" for what?
9D: If all goes wrong: AT WORST
10D: Navigation guide (var.): LOADSTAR. Variant of lodestar. Neither is a familiar word to me.
14D: Compound radical: HEXYL. The last 2 letters "yl" is a suffix used in the names of radicals, like "ethyl". Dictionary defines HEXYL as "the hydrocarbon radical", whatever that is.
15D: Shorebirds with upturned beaks: AVOCETS. Forgot. They belong to the same wading family as stilts. OK, her beak does seem to turn upward.
33D: Book after Daniel: HOSEA. Before Joel.
37D: Preliminary race: HEAT. Why is it called HEAT? Because the competitions are heated?
39D: Barrett or Jaffe: RONA. RONA Barrett is the gossip columnist. And RONA Jaffe was a novelist. Learned their name from doing Xwords.
41D: Vishnu incarnation: RAMA. No idea. RAMA is a she?
42D: First ceremony: INITIATION
43D: Nightmarish Belgian artist: ENSOR (James). Unknown to me. It does look nightmarish. I was thinking of Edvard Munch and his "The Scream", but he was from Norway.
44D: Pelvic bones: SACRA. Singular is sacrum. Unknown to me. I don't know its Chinese equivalent either. I definitely don't know my body. Such strange sacr-prefix, what's so sacred about that bone?
47D: Actress Frances: STERNHAGEN. Googled her name. I like the way she looks.
48D: Legumes with oily seeds: SOYAS. I've never called them as SOYAS, always soybeans.
59D: Wild way to run?: AMUCK. Need a "Var." mark.
62D: "Beau __": GESTE. Saw this clue a few times when I first started solving TMS puzzle in 2008. Is the movie good?
76D: "Chico and the Man" co-star: CHARO. Holy cow! Look at her original long name, and look at her body. Are they real? I would never have gotten the answer without across fills.
80D: Tuesday before Ash Wednesday: SHROVE. No idea. I only know Fat Tuesday.
81D: Analogy phrase: IS TO
85D: Mcllroy of golf: RORY. Uh-uh, no, can't recall his name. He looks like Tony Blaire. I used to follow European Tour when Adam Scott was playing.
88D: Promo link: TIE-IN. Should be the full term "Promotional link", as the answer is not abbreviated.
92D: "12 Angry Men": ED BEGLEY. Maybe Chris in LA knows. I can only remember Henry Fonda.
96D: Horizontal expander: WIDENER. So the "Vertical expander" would be DEEPENER? Made-up words.
98D: "__ in Gaza": EYELESS. Here is the book cover, written by Aldous Huxley.
103D: "Do Ya" grp.: ELO. Every crossword constructor's three letter go-to music grp due to its unique letter combination. See the clip.
106D: Intrinsically: PER SE
111D: Madame de __: STAEL. Got her name from crossing fills. Had a quick google afterward, then realized I had searched for her before. Her life sounded very complicated.
112D: Actress Jessica: TANDY. Unknown to me. She won an Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy". She was also a Tony winner for her Blanche DuBois role in "A Streetcar Named Desire". I watched Vivien Leigh's movie. Very heavy. Not my type.
115D: Ukrainian city: LVOV. Also LVIV. On the upper left corner. Wikipedia says part of "Schindler's List" was shot here. My answer was KIEV.
116D: Fast food: BITE. Okey-dokey, I suppose "Grab a BITE" means "Eat it fast".
C.C.
1A: With 132A: parting words to a hermit: FAREWELL,
132A: See 1A: MY LONELY ("Farewell, My Lovely")
27A: Parting words from a gambler: GOODBYE, MY CHIPS ("Goodbye, Mr. Chips")
36A: Parting words extended with a look: ALOHA STARE (Aloha State)
58A: With 61A: parting words to a swamp daddy: SEE YA PATER,
61A: See 58A: ALLIGATOR (See ya later, alligator)
70A: With 83A & 86A, parting words from Douglas Adams to a gossip: SO LONG, AND
83A: See 70A: THANKS FOR
86A: See 70A: ALL THE DISH ("So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish")
102A: Parting words in person: BYE BYE LIVE ("Bye Bye Love")
113A: Parting words when going to meet Mr. Reed: I'LL BE SEEING LOU ("I'll be Seeing You")
I only know "BYE BYE LOVE" , ALOHA STATE & "I'LL BE SEEING YOU". But it's not difficult to figure out what names the constructor was playing.
I still don't quite get why "a swamp daddy" is PATER. Also, the clue for RABIN (109D: Itzshak of Israel) is missing one letter Y. Or are Yitzshak and Itzshak the same?
Quite a few misstarts today. Wrote down EATS instead of AILS for 72D: Has something. And penned in PATSY instead of SOFTY for 70D: Easy mark. I don't know. After more than a year of solving Mr. Williams' puzzles, I still struggle mightily. Hard to read his mind.
Got a bit emotional solving this grid. Whatever you do, whereever you go, Mr. Williams, I wish you all the best. Thanks for the fun and frustrations.
I also want to take this opportunity to thank Philip J. Anderson, Diane C Baldwin, Matthew Higgins, Annabel Michaels, Alan P. Olschwang, Allan E. Parrish, Doug Peterson, Tom Pruce, Barry Silk, Norma Steinberg, Verna Suit, John Underwood, Ed Voile, Michael T. Williams, Stan B. Whitten, Robert H. Wolfe and other TMS Daily contributors. Thank you so much for the great puzzles. I look forward to seeing your byline in LA Times.
Across:
9A: Host of "Scientific American Frontiers": ALDA (Alan). I was unaware of this PBS program.
20A: Formal written defense: APOLOGIA. No problem this time.
22A: New version: REVISAL. New word to me.
25A: Outbreeding: EXOGAMY. Opposite of endogamy. Exo is prefix for "outer", and "endo" is prefix for "within". Both unknown to me.
26A: Classic TV sitcom equine: MR. ED
35A: Marketing starter?: TELE. Telemarketing.
50A: Arquette of "Desperately Seeing Susan": ROSANNA. Googled her name. Very unusual surname, Arquette.
53A: Hoover Dam's lake: MEAD. Have never been here before.
64A: Verdi classic: AIDA. Can you believe it debuted in Cairo in 1871?
69A: Tahleuah, OK school: NSU (Northeastern State University). Easy guess. I don't know where Tahleuash, OK is.
93A: Evening in Montmartre: SOIR. Lingered in Montmartre for a long time trying to feel Monet & van Gogh. Also went to Sacré-Cœur. My first time ever in a church.
99A: Little lion of stars: LEO MINOR. Here is a diagram.
104A: Cat's-paw: DUPE. "Cat's-paw" is a new word to me.
120A: Utah ski resort: ALTA. Thought of Liam Neeson's wife. She was actually alright immediately after the skiing fall and she refused the medical help.
121A: Sibyl: DIVINER. Cassandra is one, though no one would ever believe what she divined.
123A: Man from Windhoek: NAMIBIAN. Windhoek is the capital of Namibia. New to me. The letter W is pronounced like V, strange.
1129A: Like raw footage: UNEDITED
130A: Heads side of a coin: OBVERSE. Vs. REVERSE.
Down:
1D: Granges: FARMS. I used to confuse "Grange" with "Grunge".
7D: Half of CIV: LII. Roman 52. The number of weeks for Caesar. Did they have Sunday off at that time?
8D: Pioneer director: LANG. Have never heard of Fritz LANG. "Pioneer" for what?
9D: If all goes wrong: AT WORST
10D: Navigation guide (var.): LOADSTAR. Variant of lodestar. Neither is a familiar word to me.
14D: Compound radical: HEXYL. The last 2 letters "yl" is a suffix used in the names of radicals, like "ethyl". Dictionary defines HEXYL as "the hydrocarbon radical", whatever that is.
15D: Shorebirds with upturned beaks: AVOCETS. Forgot. They belong to the same wading family as stilts. OK, her beak does seem to turn upward.
33D: Book after Daniel: HOSEA. Before Joel.
37D: Preliminary race: HEAT. Why is it called HEAT? Because the competitions are heated?
39D: Barrett or Jaffe: RONA. RONA Barrett is the gossip columnist. And RONA Jaffe was a novelist. Learned their name from doing Xwords.
41D: Vishnu incarnation: RAMA. No idea. RAMA is a she?
42D: First ceremony: INITIATION
43D: Nightmarish Belgian artist: ENSOR (James). Unknown to me. It does look nightmarish. I was thinking of Edvard Munch and his "The Scream", but he was from Norway.
44D: Pelvic bones: SACRA. Singular is sacrum. Unknown to me. I don't know its Chinese equivalent either. I definitely don't know my body. Such strange sacr-prefix, what's so sacred about that bone?
47D: Actress Frances: STERNHAGEN. Googled her name. I like the way she looks.
48D: Legumes with oily seeds: SOYAS. I've never called them as SOYAS, always soybeans.
59D: Wild way to run?: AMUCK. Need a "Var." mark.
62D: "Beau __": GESTE. Saw this clue a few times when I first started solving TMS puzzle in 2008. Is the movie good?
76D: "Chico and the Man" co-star: CHARO. Holy cow! Look at her original long name, and look at her body. Are they real? I would never have gotten the answer without across fills.
80D: Tuesday before Ash Wednesday: SHROVE. No idea. I only know Fat Tuesday.
81D: Analogy phrase: IS TO
85D: Mcllroy of golf: RORY. Uh-uh, no, can't recall his name. He looks like Tony Blaire. I used to follow European Tour when Adam Scott was playing.
88D: Promo link: TIE-IN. Should be the full term "Promotional link", as the answer is not abbreviated.
92D: "12 Angry Men": ED BEGLEY. Maybe Chris in LA knows. I can only remember Henry Fonda.
96D: Horizontal expander: WIDENER. So the "Vertical expander" would be DEEPENER? Made-up words.
98D: "__ in Gaza": EYELESS. Here is the book cover, written by Aldous Huxley.
103D: "Do Ya" grp.: ELO. Every crossword constructor's three letter go-to music grp due to its unique letter combination. See the clip.
106D: Intrinsically: PER SE
111D: Madame de __: STAEL. Got her name from crossing fills. Had a quick google afterward, then realized I had searched for her before. Her life sounded very complicated.
112D: Actress Jessica: TANDY. Unknown to me. She won an Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy". She was also a Tony winner for her Blanche DuBois role in "A Streetcar Named Desire". I watched Vivien Leigh's movie. Very heavy. Not my type.
115D: Ukrainian city: LVOV. Also LVIV. On the upper left corner. Wikipedia says part of "Schindler's List" was shot here. My answer was KIEV.
116D: Fast food: BITE. Okey-dokey, I suppose "Grab a BITE" means "Eat it fast".
C.C.
