Theme: Colorful Songs
17. Colorful Top 10 Beatles hit: YELLOW SUBMARINE.
21. Colorful Top 10 Prince hit: PURPLE RAIN.
37. Colorful Top 10 Lemon Pipers hit: GREEN TAMBOURINE.
46. Colorful Top 10 Rolling Stones hit: BROWN SUGAR.
54. Colorful Top 10 Santana hit: BLACK MAGIC WOMAN.
Boomer here.
Looks
like a rainbow of colors in the puzzle. "Why are there so many songs
about rainbows, and what's on the other side?" (Kermit).
Across:
1. Time gone by: PAST.
While traffic is lighter than normal, Many cars are flying PAST,
driving recklessly and we had over 12 fatal accident in Minnesota last
week. Almost as many Covid-19 deaths.
5. Wedding VIPs with playlists: DJS. DJS DJS, why not just invite me to sing.
8. Shot of liquor: JIGGER. I thought a Jigger was 1-1/2 shot. But I gave up liquor in favor of chemo pills.
14. Do recon at, as an enemy camp: SCOUT OUT.
16. Collection of beehives: APIARY.
19. Apple mobile platform: IOS.
20. "When is a door not a door?," e.g.: RIDDLE. Duh, when it's ajar.
26. GPS suggestions: RTES. These days people just ask Siri on their phone.
27. Bad picnic omen: ANT. It still amazes me how they build their houses in the middle of our driveway.
28. Treasure container: CHEST. Mine contains my rib cage.
33. Vienna's land: Abbr.: AUS. Austria.
34. Delhi dress: SARI. Sounds like the voice in the phone.
36. Hamm's "Mad Men" role: DRAPER.
I am confused. Hamm's is a St. Paul beer. They sponsored a very
famous bowling team in Minneapolis. The team won a national all events
title in 1965, and two 5 man team ABC championships in 1970 and 1972.
The last surviving member of that team and a good friend of mine, Bob
Hanson passed away last month. He was 93.
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| Bob and his son Gregg |
40. Open, as a present: UNWRAP.
41. "Jeopardy!" first name: ALEX.
I watch two episodes nearly every day. Remember I am stuck in the
basement with a TV set and nowhere to go. Alex is a bit boring, but I
absolutely admire him for hanging in there with pancreatic cancer.
42. Moon lander, for short: LEM. Short for Lunar Excursion Module. I think Apollo 11 left it on the moon, but I cannot see it from here.
43. English county on the North Sea: ESSEX.
44. Absorbed, as a cost: ATE. Or finished, like a hamburger.
45. A bit, in music: POCO.
49. __ of Liberty: STATUE.
It bothers me when the Statue appears in Liberty Mutual commercials.
("Give me your tired, your poor. Your huddled masses yearning to breath
free.)
53. Granola kernel: OAT. "Mares eat oats, and does eat oats, but little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat ivy too, wouldn't you ?"
60. Portable HP, say: LAPTOP. Where I put my bowling ball when I'm changing shoes.
61. All tangled up: IN A SNARL.
62. Dwell constantly (on): OBSESS.
63. Home of MLB's Cardinals: STL.
Also home of a river we send them called the Mississippi. There is a
power plant dam on the Mississippi about a mile from our home. C.C. and
I have walked across it many times. It's a little less than a mile
across up here. I've been to St. Louis and it's about 4 miles across
there. Must be even wider as it heads to Louisiana.
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| Boomer, August 2, 2019 |
64. A few: SOME.
Down:
1. College maj. for a future therapist: PSY.
2. Trick taker, usually: ACE.
ACE hardware stores were designated essential up here and are open
during our stay at home order. We did not need any hardware.
3. Note after fa: SOL.
"SOL a needle pulling thread, La, a note that follows SOL. TI, a drink
with jam and bread ! That will bring us back to DOE. The hills are
alive, with the Sound of Music.
4. Dutch floral export: TULIPS. We are receiving temps in the 30s this week. Too early to tiptoe through the TULIPS. Tiny Tim.
5. Search for water: DOWSE.
6. Gravy, on menus: JUS. I thought Au Jus was just juice before you add the flour.
7. Guy's name spelled with an alphabet sequence: STU.
8. Pack very tightly: JAM IN. Anyone JAMMING IN for a party these days is asking to be a statistic.
9. Apple tablet: IPAD.
10. Encircle with a belt: GIRD. I have a Copper Fit one, But do not call it a girdle.
11. O'Grady of "NYPD Blue": GAIL.
I think I have seen every episode twice. I think Gail hooked up with
Greg Medavoy. Andy Sipowitz called his medical problem "Prostrate
Cancer".
12. Sea eagle: ERNE.
13. Corned beef on __: RYE. Seems like forever since St. Patrick's Day when our governor locked us down. No sauerkraut sandwich for me.
15. Home Depot purchase: TOOL. I guess Home Depot and Lowe's are still open here.
18. Petrol pumper: BRIT.
21. Czech Republic capital: PRAGUE. We have a "New PRAGUE" in Minnesota. I suppose it may have been settled by Czech immigrants at one time.
22. About-faces: U-TURNS.
No U-Turns, but C.C. and I get out for a walk now and then when our
thermometer hits 50, and we see a lot of traffic, and I don't think they
are going to a grocery store, post office or bank. Maybe they are
going to Home Depot or Lowe's.
23. Adjusts, as a hem: RESEWS.
24. __ avis: RARA. RA RA RA for SKY U MAH
25. Lively, in music: ANIMATO.
28. Central idea: CRUX.
29. Kramden laugh syllable: HAR. HAR, HAR, HARDY HAR, HAR
30. Literary wrap-up: EPILOG.
31. Five Nations tribe: SENECA. Settled near Lake Ontario.
32. Aftershock: TREMOR.
In 1968, I lived through one of these at Fort Campbell, KY. The next
day we learned that it was felt in a number of states. Anybody remember
this ?
34. Munchies, in adspeak: SNAX.
35. Novak Djokovic's org.: ATP.
36. Anonymous John: DOE. A deer, a female deer, Re a drop of golden sun, Mi, a name I call myself, Fa a long long way to run See 3 Down.
38. Before, old-style: ERE.
39. Huffed and puffed: BLEW. Who's afraid of the big bad wolf ??
44. Length times width, for a rectangle: AREA. More geometry for the weak.
45. Hoaxes: PUT-ONS.
46. Dirt road irregularities: BUMPS. We have plenty of these in MN. I guess they cannot fill the damage with tar until the weather warms up.
47. Diet-friendly: NO-CAL. I am stuck on Diet Pepsi.
48. Carpentry tools: SAWS.
49. Concrete section: SLAB.
50. Lights-out music: TAPS. This was traditional on an army base. Stop what you are doing, face a flag and salute.
51. Part of un drame: ACTE.
52. Bout enders, briefly: TKOS. Back in the days of Clay and Foreman, there were some vicious TKOs.
54. Rain-__ gum: BLO.
Never heard of this. We had Fleer and Double Bubble, but we preferred
Topps baseball card gum. This was in the 60s and 70s. I don't think
Fleer printed cards until the 80s. except they printed a small set in
1963, but no one cared much.
55. PX patrons: GIS.
We had a huge one at Fort Campbell. When I got to Hardheim Germany, the
PX was just a small room where you could buy cigarettes and aspirin.
56. Bad result for a QB: INT.
57. Cultural Revolution chairman: MAO.
58. Branch: ARM. I have two. I never knew they were called branches.
59. Phillies' div.: NLE.
I wonder if there will be a season this year. A Major League baseball
stadium is not a place where spectators can hover six feet apart with a
mask on.
Boomer
