Theme: Go, Sow Your Wild Oats
17A: Show: FINISH THIRD
60A: Slow: REDUCE SPEED
11D: Snow: WINTER WHITE
24D: Stow: PACK TIGHTLY
If you have a better theme title, please come to the Comments section. I first wrote down "Go with the Flow" as all the theme clues rhyme with "Flow", but they are quite strict, all starting with letter S and ending with OW.
WINTER WHITE sounds strained to me. Besides, it's clued as a noun while the other three are all verb phrases. I dispute the clue for YEASTY (49D: Like bad bread). It's simply not true. Or should I say "a lie" given the lively blog discussions on TRUER yesterday.
This puzzle is a Hydra monster to me. I struggled hard.
Barry Silk has constructed a special puzzle for us. Click on iPaper and then print it out. Argyle will blog this puzzle on Sunday Feb 22. I hope you save it and solve it only on Saturday evening or Sunday morning.
Across:
6A: Jazz pianist Jankowski: HORST. Stumper immediately. Have never heard of this German pianist.
15A: City southeast of Rome: UTICA. No idea. Here is a map. I can't find UTICA. (Addendum: This is the correct map. It's in NY State. I was thinking of Italy.)
19A: Born in Boulogne: NEE. Another alliteration, the same with "Born in Bordeaux".
20A: Bishop's district: DIOCESE. ARCHDIOCESE is the district of Archbishop, who reports directly to the cardinal, right?
22A: Angel dust, abbr.: PCP. I forgot. It's still an illegal drug, isn't it?
25A: Willie Wonka's creator: DAHL(Roald). His name simply escaped me. Have you watched the Johnny Depp movie?
30A: Hope/Crosby co-star: LAMOUR (Dorothy). Here they are, "Road to Bali". I have never seen any of their "Road to ... " film.
32A: Athletic org.: YMCA. Penned in NCAA first. Can't seem to associate YMCA with "Athletic org.". My friend Linda goes to Y for workout sometimes.
40A: Game bird: WOODHEN. New bird to me. It's a flightless bird of the rail family. They look very dumb. So, the male of WOODHEN should be woodcock then. Oh, no, woodcock is a different bird of wading species. WOW (11A: Holy cow!), What do you call female woodcock then?
48A: __ Beach, S.C.: MYRTLE. I love the golf courses there. And the seafood.
50A: Cartwright or Down: ANGELA. Easy guess. I know neither of them. Who is ANGELA Down?
56A: Jellyfish: MEDUSAS. Nope. Here is a red MEDUSA. Named after the ugly Gorgon MEDUSA I suppose. Don't look at her too long, you don't want to be turned into a stone.
59A: U.S. dance grp.: ABT (American Ballet Theatre). First encounter with this abbreviation.
64A: __ Paese cheese: BEL. This cheese appeared on a Sunday TMS puzzle before. I like the package. So green. Poor dairy cows. So many of them have been turned into hamburgers.
65A: Pipe material: BRIAR. Thought that's how we got BRIAR Pipe. It turns out that I was wrong.
66A: Roofing material: TERNE. No idea. This roofing is TERNE metal coated.
68A: Cordage fibers: ISTLE. This word just looks so wrong. I tried to associate it with thISTLE and whISTLE when it appeared in our puzzle last time. But obviously it did not work. I forgot the damned word completely.
69A: Streisand movie: YENTL
Down:
2D: Fauna starter?: AVI. Prefix for bird.
5D: Football kick: ONSIDE. Not familiar with this football term. Only know PAT value is ONE.
6D: Rabbit residence: HUTCH. Good to know. Could only think of the briar patch.
7D: The Moor of Venice: OTHELLO. IAGO was clued as "Othello conniver" yesterday.
8D: Journalist Jacob August: RIIS. Googled this journalist. Very strange surname. He wrote a biography on TR, the 4th greatest American president, according to the latest C-span survey.
10D: Abe Lioncoln's boy: TAD. Nice trivia.
21A: Quito's country: ECUADOR. Their monetary unit is SUCRE, which was clued as "One of Bolivia's capitals" yesterday.
22D: "The Silver Streak" co-star: PRYOR. Got the answer from intersecting clues.
23D: Comet heads: COMAE. Plural of COMA. Brutal clue. I've never heard of Comet COMA before.
31D: Element fig: AT WT. Always want AT NO.
34D: __ majesty: LESE. High treason. Learned from doing Xword. What is the French root word for LESE?
41D: Pass through a membrane: OSMOSE
44D: Occurring in small stages: GRADUAL. I don't get this one.
47D: Dubbers: NAMERS. Annoy ERS repetition.
53D: Ill-gotten profit: LUCRES. I wanted LOOTS. Definitely need a "filthy" hint for LUCRES.
63D: Dolores __ Rio: DEL. Oh dear, I thought it's river. Have never heard of this Mexican actress. She looks so beautiful. I would say 999 millihelens, enough to launch 999 ships.
C.C.
17A: Show: FINISH THIRD
60A: Slow: REDUCE SPEED
11D: Snow: WINTER WHITE
24D: Stow: PACK TIGHTLY
If you have a better theme title, please come to the Comments section. I first wrote down "Go with the Flow" as all the theme clues rhyme with "Flow", but they are quite strict, all starting with letter S and ending with OW.
WINTER WHITE sounds strained to me. Besides, it's clued as a noun while the other three are all verb phrases. I dispute the clue for YEASTY (49D: Like bad bread). It's simply not true. Or should I say "a lie" given the lively blog discussions on TRUER yesterday.
This puzzle is a Hydra monster to me. I struggled hard.
Barry Silk has constructed a special puzzle for us. Click on iPaper and then print it out. Argyle will blog this puzzle on Sunday Feb 22. I hope you save it and solve it only on Saturday evening or Sunday morning.
Across:
6A: Jazz pianist Jankowski: HORST. Stumper immediately. Have never heard of this German pianist.
15A: City southeast of Rome: UTICA. No idea. Here is a map. I can't find UTICA. (Addendum: This is the correct map. It's in NY State. I was thinking of Italy.)
19A: Born in Boulogne: NEE. Another alliteration, the same with "Born in Bordeaux".
20A: Bishop's district: DIOCESE. ARCHDIOCESE is the district of Archbishop, who reports directly to the cardinal, right?
22A: Angel dust, abbr.: PCP. I forgot. It's still an illegal drug, isn't it?
25A: Willie Wonka's creator: DAHL(Roald). His name simply escaped me. Have you watched the Johnny Depp movie?
30A: Hope/Crosby co-star: LAMOUR (Dorothy). Here they are, "Road to Bali". I have never seen any of their "Road to ... " film.
32A: Athletic org.: YMCA. Penned in NCAA first. Can't seem to associate YMCA with "Athletic org.". My friend Linda goes to Y for workout sometimes.
40A: Game bird: WOODHEN. New bird to me. It's a flightless bird of the rail family. They look very dumb. So, the male of WOODHEN should be woodcock then. Oh, no, woodcock is a different bird of wading species. WOW (11A: Holy cow!), What do you call female woodcock then?
48A: __ Beach, S.C.: MYRTLE. I love the golf courses there. And the seafood.
50A: Cartwright or Down: ANGELA. Easy guess. I know neither of them. Who is ANGELA Down?
56A: Jellyfish: MEDUSAS. Nope. Here is a red MEDUSA. Named after the ugly Gorgon MEDUSA I suppose. Don't look at her too long, you don't want to be turned into a stone.
59A: U.S. dance grp.: ABT (American Ballet Theatre). First encounter with this abbreviation.
64A: __ Paese cheese: BEL. This cheese appeared on a Sunday TMS puzzle before. I like the package. So green. Poor dairy cows. So many of them have been turned into hamburgers.
65A: Pipe material: BRIAR. Thought that's how we got BRIAR Pipe. It turns out that I was wrong.
66A: Roofing material: TERNE. No idea. This roofing is TERNE metal coated.
68A: Cordage fibers: ISTLE. This word just looks so wrong. I tried to associate it with thISTLE and whISTLE when it appeared in our puzzle last time. But obviously it did not work. I forgot the damned word completely.
69A: Streisand movie: YENTL
Down:
2D: Fauna starter?: AVI. Prefix for bird.
5D: Football kick: ONSIDE. Not familiar with this football term. Only know PAT value is ONE.
6D: Rabbit residence: HUTCH. Good to know. Could only think of the briar patch.
7D: The Moor of Venice: OTHELLO. IAGO was clued as "Othello conniver" yesterday.
8D: Journalist Jacob August: RIIS. Googled this journalist. Very strange surname. He wrote a biography on TR, the 4th greatest American president, according to the latest C-span survey.
10D: Abe Lioncoln's boy: TAD. Nice trivia.
21A: Quito's country: ECUADOR. Their monetary unit is SUCRE, which was clued as "One of Bolivia's capitals" yesterday.
22D: "The Silver Streak" co-star: PRYOR. Got the answer from intersecting clues.
23D: Comet heads: COMAE. Plural of COMA. Brutal clue. I've never heard of Comet COMA before.
31D: Element fig: AT WT. Always want AT NO.
34D: __ majesty: LESE. High treason. Learned from doing Xword. What is the French root word for LESE?
41D: Pass through a membrane: OSMOSE
44D: Occurring in small stages: GRADUAL. I don't get this one.
47D: Dubbers: NAMERS. Annoy ERS repetition.
53D: Ill-gotten profit: LUCRES. I wanted LOOTS. Definitely need a "filthy" hint for LUCRES.
63D: Dolores __ Rio: DEL. Oh dear, I thought it's river. Have never heard of this Mexican actress. She looks so beautiful. I would say 999 millihelens, enough to launch 999 ships.
C.C.
