The intent is well summarized below the sign shown here and like many, I am better at dispensing this advice than taking it. We occasionally get a naysayer here at the blog (Oh really, Gary?) and perhaps they could follow this course of action. Even critical submissions can be couched in diplomatic terms free of negativity.
If you linked to my CARPOOL KARAOKE video two weeks ago where Paul McCartney told said that he came up with the song Let It Be when his mother told him to let his anger go and everything will work itself out. This is very similar.
C.C.'s puzzle today challenged me to the max but, as always, I had a very satisfying experience after IDNO, EDER and ONE-K gave up the ghost via perps (I got over it!!). Listing blind alleys I traversed early on wouldn't really help all that much.
This week someone linked us to a C.C. puzzle in USA Today and I solved her light and breezy puzzle. However I noticed as the constructor she was listed as Zhouqin Burnikel and not C.C. I wrote and asked her why that was so and she replied all the other sites require her legal name. She further told me "I use C.C. in real life. Zhouqin is just so tricky and hard to pronounce and write. Most people just add an U after the Q."
Let's see what C.C. (aka Zhouqin) has for us today.
Across:
1. Sign words suggesting a bad shortcut?: ROAD ENDS - There was no sign but the ROAD definitely did END for the two women in their eponymous movie.
9. Mental grasp: UP TAKE - When I started at this, I'm sure C.C. thought I was slow on the UPTAKE 😕
15. See to the door: USHER OUT - When done with great force, it might be called "The Bum Rush"
16. Cruise woe: NAUSEA - Cruises are having many woes these day besides NAUSEA
17. "Let's get started!": THAT'S A GO.
18. Take shelter, with "down": HUNKER - Did anyone else do a HUNKER DOWN exercise in school?
19. "¿Quién __?": SABE.
20. Green card fig.: ID NO - Latika's is 0018-5978
23. What unGlue helps parents and kids manage: SCREEN TIME - An app that allows parents to 26. Decide one will: OPT TO to let their kids use their phone but budget their time there and not use a 66. Big group: PASSEL of hours
29. Linda of Broadway: EDER - Her info
30. Film lioness: ELSA - Born Free is the story of orphaned ELSA and her new "Mom" Joy Adamson
33. Course standard: PAR
34. Deal with, in a way, as ads: ZAP - I've seen enough of that dang Gecko!
36. Nebraska's official soft drink: KOOL-AID - KOOL-AID was invented here in Hastings, NE
38. Lifts up: ELATES - Hmmm... if you put EV after the L...
40. Slightly touched: PATTED.
41. Small stingers: RED ANTS - Yikes!
43. Adoptee, maybe: PET - We had International Cat Rescue Day last Saturday
44. Second person?: EVE - Made from one of Adam's ribs so the story goes
45. Mideast port: ADEN - Aden, Yemen is not on our vacation list
46. "The Moor already changes with my poison" speaker: IAGO - The Moor’s mind has already become infected with my poisonous suggestions.
48. Texted the wrong person, say: ERRED - "OMG, I sent that to my mom, not my girlfriend"
50. Sign of confusion: BLANK STARE - is what you might get from Simon Cowell if you are 65. Unable to hit a pitch: TONE DEAF
53. Part of a case: STAIR - Does your yacht have a spiral (edit) STAIRCASE like this one does?
55. Figure (out): SUSS - We've got some pretty good SUSSERS here
56. Copper: CENT - After 1982 pennies were over 97% zinc
60. Home of Tumnus, in fiction: NARNIA - Here 'ya go!
62. Angry overstatement, usually: I HATE YOU - "Hey, be cool! Today is LET IT GO Day!"
64. Ideally: AT BEST.
67. Visited overnight: STAYED AT - We STAYED AT lovely hotels on our Pacific Coast Highway Tour from Seattle to San Francisco except the one in Gold Beach, OR. Yikes!
Down:
1. Sticking points?: RUTS - Not Shakespearean RUBS (Ah there's the RUB) it turns out
2. Org. with a QuickTakes online newsletter: OSHA - I'm sure it's a real electronic page turner
3. Model for Hook: AHAB - J.M. Barrie modeled Peter Pan's Captain HOOK after Herman Melville's Captain AHAB in Moby Dick
4. Not fancy at all: DETEST - In the U.K. you could get dumped by someone who doesn't FANCY you and will probably tell you 54. Word on the way out: TATA
5. Med. show locales: ERS
6. Outer space feature: NO AIR - Richard Branson's rocket will launch very soon and it can go over 3,000 mph because it will fly in space where there is NO AIR resistance
7. Found inner strength: DUG DEEP - I think I can, I think I can...
8. High: STONED - The synonym de jour for "under the influence"
9. The Wildcats of the America East Conf.: UNH - There it is in Durham, NH, just below our cwd friend, the Black Bears in Orono, ME
10. Physics Nobelist Wolfgang __: PAULI - At one time I halfway understood his Pauli Exclusion Principle
11. Hot lunch order: TUNA MELT.
12. "Not now": ASK ME LATER.
14. All __: EARS
21. RAM unit: ONE-K - ONE KB is 1,024 bytes
24. Cheat: COZEN - In your vocabulary?
25. Irony, say: TROPE - This trope occurred in High Noon when Gary Cooper's life is saved by his non-violent Quaker wife who shoots the man that was going to kill him
26. Play with music: OPERA - I'll take Jesus Christ Superstar
27. Showed fear, perhaps: PALED.
28. Spar: TRADE BARBS - Ever watched senate hearings where they take verbal 43. Bit of sparring: POTSHOTS at each other?
31. It won't hold water: SIEVE.
32. Topped with, say: ADDED.
35. Sean of "Rudy": ASTIN - Here he is with his mom Patty Duke. He was adopted by Patty's husband John Astin
37. Film on the range: OATER - These cowboy movies used to be Sunday Morning TV fare for me
39. Tropical vacation souvenirs: TAN LINES.
42. Barneys rival: SAKS - I first thought of Rowland MACY and BARNEY Pressman
47. Gear for some test pilots: G-SUITS - These pilots wear these tight suits to keep blood from piling up in their boots on steep climbs
49. Move away: RECEDE - The less said about my hairline...
51. Spring up: ARISE
52. Mountain Pose is a standing one: ASANA - A yoga pose
53. Piece of cake: SNAP - or "Easy as pie"
57. Observed: EYED.
58. Weather-tracking org.: NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
59. Thread cluster: TUFT
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| A TUFT of woolen thread |
61. Icel. surrounder: ATL - Yeah, I suppose the ATLantic Ocean does surround ICELand
63. "Miss Pym Disposes" author: TEY - Josephine TEY was a pseudonym for Elizabeth MacKintosh
Now take a deep breath and in the spirit of Let It Go Day feel free to make some constructive comments:
