Sunday, June 7, 2014, C.C. Burnikel

Puzzle title: "Computer Glossary".

The computer age has not only added some ODD new words to our language like "unsend, reboot, byte, etc.", it has appropriated some existing words to be used in our Brave New Digital World. In C.C.'s lovely Sunday puzzle she reclaims the former meanings to some hijacked tech words we now find so common.

I flipped a mental coin to decide whether to post pix of the new or old use and I think you can see what I chose. Hmmm... Can I unchoose? No? Okay, let's "boot up" this bad boy!

23A. HOT SPOT : TRENDY BAR - Elaine's in NYC in in the 60's (closed in 2011) or a place to get online

25A. CACHE : HIDDEN TROVE - Where Blackbeard hid his loot or intermediate computer data storage that speeds up computer activity 

38A. SPAM : CANNED MEAT - Hormel meat product made here in Fremont, NE or letters from a Nigerian prince

59A. VIRUS : FLU CAUSE - Germs for humans or a bug for your CPU

74A. HACKER : AMATEUR GOLFER - Me on the golf course or computer thief 

91A. TWEET : BIRD CALL - Tweety getting a hold of Daffy or (speaking of daffy)

103A. TABLET : SCRATCH PAD - My old Big Chief from grade school or one of these

123A. STREAM : FISHING SPOT - Down by the Old Mill or watching granddaughter doing poetry live on our computer

126A. MOUSE : LAB ANIMAL - Testees in the lab or these (oldest to newest)

Across       

1. Glacier Bay phenomenon : BERG

5. Bullets, in Vegas : ACES - here's four of 'em

9. Cake often laced with rum : BABKA

14. Short space-saver : ET AL - and those other guys too

18. Wet'n'Wild Hawaii locale : OAHU- Which is NOT where you find 48 A. Kapalua Airport site : MAUI

19. Winter runner : NOSE - C'mon, that's really cute!

20. To no __ : AVAIL

21. Muslim mystics : SUFIS - Here today, gone tomorrow

27. Outer area? : SPACE - My specialty 

28. Two-time Masters champ Watson : BUBBA Watson - a champion and true gentleman

30. "Gotcha!" : I SEE

31. Christmas delivery : NOEL - Nix on BABY, GIFT and GOLD. Or CHIA pet ;-) 

32. Time-tested : OLD

34. 24-part epic : ILIAD - First verse

36. Eur. landmark under which Zeus trapped Typhon : MT ETNA

43. "All Is Lost" star : REDFORD - I just watched his forgettable Indecent Proposal on Netflix

46. Oodles : A LOT - A LOT just north of me costs, uh, A LOT (6 figures)

47. "'__ Death": 2000s Fox sitcom : TIL

49. In the box : AT BAT

53. Kosher food brand : SABRA - Supplies Mediterranean food for Kosher consumers

55. Has coming : MERITS

61. __ message : ERROR - It took me an hour to clear a "Paper Jam" ERROR message on my HP printer

62. Like lambs : OVINE - Of, relating to or resmbling  sheep according to Merriam-Webster

63. Follower : FAN - A little over the top? Waddaya think?

64. Little devils : IMPS

65. Butch Cassidy or the Sundance Kid : ALIAS -Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Longabaugh just didn't cut it

67. Altercation : SCRAPE

70. Preacher's perch : PULPIT

72. ''Just __ suspected!'' : AS I - You've already forgotten the name of those Muslim mystics!

77. Winning threesome? : ENS - Just count 'em - W I N N I N G

78. View from Alaska's Wonder Lake : DENALI - Talk about your views! Wow!

80. Its prime minister historically visited Cyprus in 2012 : ISRAEL - Dimitri and Bibi

81. High dudgeon : ANGER

83. Start : OPEN - With those 4 bullets in 5 A, I'd OPEN for A LOT

84. Stand-up standard : GAG - Deadpan comic Steven Wright memorizes 360 of them for an hour set

86. Fishing basket : CREEL

88. Run the show : EMCEE - Do you remember the show he EMCEED for 20 years before this?

93. 182 Skylane maker : CESSNA - Dudley, ever taken one up?

94. Regrettable : SORRY - You just can't say SORRY, you have to fix it!

95. Unchallenging course : EASY A 

96. Tiny amount : IOTA

98. Disney doe : ENA

100. Apple, for one : POME - A type of fruit produced by flowering plants in the sub tribe Malinae of the family Rosceae. Not Poe's The Raven!

101. Exasperated query : WHAT NOW

106. LP Field team : TITANS - This is what the Cumberland River did to LP Stadium in Nashville the year before we visited

109. "Gotcha!" : PSYCH

111. One of football's Mannings : ELI

112. Google Groups regular : USER

113. Uno y dos y tres : SEIS -  matemáticas en español

116. "Take __!" : A HIKE

119. Unapproachable : ALOOF - Don't be ALOOF, the world already has too many LOOFS!

128. Hawk's weapon : TALON

129. Float : GLIDE - These GLIDERS dropped paratroopers in the early morning hours of D-Day

130. Savings choices, briefly : IRAS

131. Major road : PIKE

132. Game division : HALF

133. Fires off, say : SENDS - Maybe Paris should have thought before hitting SEND on that TWEET above. Hmmm.... Paris Hilton/Think, isn't that oxymoronic

134. States : SAYS

135. Locale in Dante's fifth circle of Hell : STYX

 Down

1. Web crawlers, e.g. : BOTS - Software apps that perform repetitive tasks faster than we mere mortals

2. Tombstone legend : EARP - We visited the EARP residence in Pella, Iowa

3. Bird hunted by gauchos : RHEA

4. Controversial public safety issue : GUN CONTROL

5. "__ news?" : ANY

6. 1936 Cooperstown inductee : COBB - Perhaps the most hated man to play the game

7. Isaac's older son : ESAU - The family tree. Hmmm... 

8. Hungary neighbor : SERBIA - If WWI hadn't started by a SERBIAN shooting the Archduke Ferdinand, it would surely have started somewhere else

9. Faith with a 19-month calendar : BAHAI - 19 instead of our 12 divisions 

10. Prefix with fauna : AVI - Birds of a certain region, habitat or geological period

11. "I wouldn't advise it!" : BAD IDEA - Butch thought Sundance's idea of jumping off the cliff as a BAD IDEA

12. Rides : KIDS - Kidding can turn to the unpleasant act of riding someone 

13. Downwind : ALEE

14. Fla. setting : EST - Clocks in Pensacola, FL match mine in Fremont, NE

15. Beat a hasty retreat : TURNED TAIL

16. In progress : AFOOT - "Come Watson!", Holmes cried, "The game is AFOOT!"

17. Spice (up) : LIVEN 

22. Ward of "The Fugitive" : SELA 

24. Take out : DELE - Is this word ever spoken?

26. Captain who said, "I have done with society entirely" : NEMO - Also...

29. Crunchy sandwich : BLT My fav!

33. "Silent Spring" subj. : DDT and 39. Banned orchard spray : ALAR are so close together

35. Pitchers, to a manager : ARMS - Most teams have 11 - 12 arms on the roster

37. __ II razor : TRAC

38. Legal work : CASE - Crossword stalwart, Erle, wrote a lot of them such as

40. Obvious choices : NO BRAINERS - C.C.: "Gary will you blog my puzzle?" Gary: "That's a NO BRAINER!"

41. Mid-morning drink : MIMOSA

42. K2's 28,251 ft. : ELEV - Only 306 people have summited K2 while over 5,000 have conquered Everest

44. __ bag : DUFFEL - From the town of Duffel, Belgium where this heavy, woolen cloth was originally made

45. Reebok competitor : FILA

50. Farm abundance : BUMPER CROP - It'd better warm up and dry up around here to get one of these

51. Defense secretary after Cheney : ASPIN

52. Battery components : TESTS - As Tom Wolfe wrote in The Right Stuff, the Mercury 7 astronauts hated the battery of TESTS they had to endure. Most proved to be worthless.

54. Sans serif typeface : ARIAL - The difference:

56. Heads for the top : RISES

57. Provoke : INCUR

58. Barbecue spot : TERRACE 

60. Let out, as hogs : UNPEN - Okay

66. Guadalajara gal pal : AMIGA

68. Teen follower? : AGERS

69. Flag bearers : POLES - Here is a Pole with his flag on a, uh, POLE

71. They're hard to ignore : URGES - Get those potato chips away from me!

72. Sun-dried brick : ADOBE

73. Cuttlefish pigment : SEPIA

75. Jungle hybrid : TIGLON - Some swingin' goin' on in the jungle!

76. Lola of "The Liberation of L.B. Jones" : FALANA

79. Interview magazine co-founder : ANDY WARHOL - If he can make a soup can art...

82. Falsetto-voiced comedian : EMO PHILIPS - This weird little duck was in another blog I did

85. Came down : ALIT

87. Dept. whose initials spell an animal name : ENER - D.O.E. such as 98 A - ENA

89. Humorous Bombeck : ERMA - The Grass Is Always Greener Over The Septic Tank

90. Checked out : EYED - Will Ferrell in the act

92. "Oh, the weather outside is frightful" lyricist : CAHN - Sammy CAHN

93. Sounds heard by the ears? : CAWS - Ears of corn hearing the crows. Fun! (From C.C.: Rich's clever clue.)

97. English in tennis : TOPSPIN

99. Downed : ATE - Put away the groceries

102. NRA member?: Abbr. : ASSN

103. NYU or MIT : SCH

104. "I want my baby back" chain : CHILIS - I want my baby back, baby back, baby back ribs...

105. Tartan-clad group : CLAN

106. Hair clump : TUFT

107. NBA great Thomas : ISIAH - This fabulous player has been a train wreck as a coach and front office man

108. Car at Supercharger stations : TESLA - The dashboard of this all electric car

110. David who directed the last four Harry Potter films : YATES

114. Fried rice ingredients : EGGS - These have shot up to $4.67/dozen around here with the avian flu crisis

115. Emerald __ : ISLE  - Erin Go Bragh!

117. Former "Idol" judge DioGuardi : KARA - no clue/interest

118. StubHub owner : EBAY - They can get you a court side seat for the June 9, Cavaliers/Warrior game in Cleveland for $4,682.25

120. Hold, as the mayo : OMIT

121. Like some cabs : OAKY - Cabernet wines are aged in oak casks (in Marti's basement cave) ;-) 

122. Show off, Mr. Universe-style : FLEX - These guys can really be an 127. Long-eared carrier : ASS

124. Like Beethoven's Sixth : IN F - Can't you tell just by looking?

125. Unexpected : ODD

A lovely Sunday exercise by our beloved leader that showcases her amazing talent and the equally amazing utility of our language. What new words/uses lie in our future?

p.s. Do you still remember those Muslim mystics? Yeah, right! ;-) 

Husker Gary

Note from C.C.:

The fourth Minnesota Crossword Tournament will be held on June 14th, 2015 Saturday. Please click here for more details. Don G and I teamed up again this year. Hope to see some of you there.

Saturday, Jun 6th, 2015, Pawel Fludzinski

Theme: None

Words: 72 (missing Q,X,Z)

Blocks: 32

  I was about to throw in the towel on this one, as the north refused to turn any color other than white....so I cheated; I changed to red-letter and discovered I had the wrong "Arabic word".  Figures.  But it at least gave me a chance to rethink the NE, and then it was a matter of Wild-Ass Guessing to get the NW to cooperate.  All in all, I thought the puzzle was a good challenge, though the proper names did throw a bit of a fun sponge into the mix.  I finished at exactly my personal allotted time, too.  Paired 9- and 10-letter corners, and two 11-letter spanners;

33. Quadrennial winter event since 1976 : PARALYMPICS - made me change some DOWN answers when "-LYMPICS" seemed more logical; more from the Wiki

40. Metaphorical target of a fruitless pursuit : SHINY OBJECT - the more I looked, the more it seems this is less of a "pursuit" and more of distraction; the reference is more like the phrase "curiosity killed the cat"; see the psychology here

o-n-
       Ooooh~!  Shiny~!

ACROSS:

1. "... and hid his face __ a crowd of stars": Yeats : AMID - starting off with a relatively vague quotation seems cruel and unusual

5. Farrier's tool : RASP - I know what a farrier does, but anvil and hammer didn't fit; SNIP did, tho

9. Word derived from the Aramaic for "my father" : ABBOT - dah~!  I figured it might be RABBI - and the "BB"s were right, but only one in the correct location - what is that, 20% or 40%, D-Otto~?

14. Whirl : PIROUETTE - thankfully, the letters the perps filled in made the spelling of this easier - I had --R-UE--E

16. Place, as cloth before surgery : DRAPE - I did consider this at first, but this is a really round-about clue for a 5-letter word

17. Talk big : BLOW SMOKE

18. Zealand natives : DANES - I tried MAORI

19. "Candy-colored clown" in Roy Orbison's "In Dreams," with "the" : SANDMAN

20. Butler, e.g. : SERVANT - the household position - not the character from Gone With The Wind

22. Cézanne's "Boy in __ Vest" : A RED - um, sure, OK

24. Isn't quite neutral : LEANS - different from yesterday's definition

25. Business : AFFAIR

29. Manchego sources : EWES - I was 100% positive about "WIRY", so this made for a sensible WAG

31. Copacetic : A-OK

35. "Piano is not my forte," e.g. : PUN - har-har

36. Orgs. with class issues? : PTAs

37. Command ender : EER - commandeer

38. Meter starter : PERI - I had PEDO-, and that was definitely 50% right; perimeter

39. Wi-Fi relative : LAN

44. Wapiti : ELK - knew this from doing crosswords

45. Dick Grayson, to Bruce Wayne : WARD - I grew up with the 60's campy version, but I did like the re-makes with Christian Bale; well, the first two

46. Sites of some runners : AISLES - I did consider SLEIGHS, but it didn't fit

47. Goaded, with "on" : EGGED - had it, changed it to URged, changed it back

49. '60s-'70s Japanese leader : SATO - perps

51. Prepare for baking : PRE-HEAT

53. Jeopardize : IMPERIL

58. Nirvana attainer : ARHAT - straight up definition; new word to me

59. Ace : HOLE-IN-ONE

61. Blue books? : PORNO - if this is the case, I like my entertainment to be "navy"

62. Opening numbers? : AREA CODES - very good; should have figured it out sooner

63. Indo-__ languages : ARYAN

64. Pastoral poem : IDYL

65. Indianapolis-to-Springfield direction : WEST - were you shocked to see FOUR letters in the answer~?  Narrowed down the choices, tho

DOWN:       

1. They may include yrs. and models : APBs - took too long to make the connection, but I was thinking about cars.  An "All Points Bulletin" - although I think a "BOLO" is more appropriate - "Be On the Look Out for a 2000 Dodge Status, license plate XYZ-1234~!"

2. "__ 18": Uris novel : MILA - I have seen this before, but my head was stuck on "Stalag 17" - both are stories of people and their Nazi Germany foes

3. Food Network's "__ Chef America" : IRON

4. Columnist Maureen : DOWD - 50% perps, 50% WAG

5. Emulate Liz Taylor ... regularly : REMARRY - Ironic that DIVORCE fit, too

6. Square things : ATONE - ah, the verb, not the adjective

7. NASDAQ unit : STK - meh.

8. Pepper trio? : PEES - PePPer

9. Deal with : ADDRESS

10. Price support? : BRAVA - the only thing that makes sense is this person; "BRAVO~!" for females

11. Stereotypical slipper? : BANANA PEEL

12. Like some software : OPEN SOURCE

13. Measuring device : TEST

15. FedEx competitor : US MAIL - OK, I did a UPS shout-out last week

21. What a conductor may conduct: Abbr. : ELECtricity - I wanted "ORCH"

23. "We'll see" : DEPENDS

25. Brandy flavor : APPLE

26. A virus may cause one : FATAL ERROR - in the world of computers

27. Walt Disney Concert Hall architect : FRANK GEHRY - I am familiar with this name, so the spelling did not bother me

28. Small power sources : AAs - batteries

30. Like an Irish wolfhound's coat : WIRY

32. Furrows : KNITS - think eyebrows

34. Israel's Iron Lady : MEIR

38. Retirement outfit? : PJs - good clue; I was in "IRA" mode

40. Smitten with : SWEET ON - I am still smitten by the blue-eyed girl; some day....

41. Words with baby or bad day : HAD A - I regularly have the "bad day" version - hopefully the "baby" part is in my future

42. Breakfast choice : OATMEAL

43. "Ed Wood," e.g. : BIOPIC

48. Kofi Annan's birthplace : GHANA

50. 1976 Spingarn Medal recipient : AILEY - never heard of this award, nor this person

51. Literary sobriquet : PAPA - that author dude, uh, what's his name, Ernest

52. Golden Triangle native : THAI

54. "There are liars ... __ to beat the honest men": "Macbeth" : ENOW - poetic "enough"

55. Tormented : RODE

56. Supermodel Sastre : INÉS - hey, two birds with one stone - her image and her legs - or is that one bird with two stones~?

Inés Sastre

ooh~! shiny~!

57. "__ we forget" : LEST

60. Chicago airport code : ORD - O'Hare, which was originally Orchard Field Airport; now I can see where they get code

Splynter