tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post1624282493928677766..comments2024-03-28T14:17:57.793-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Drink for Hercule Poirot / SUN 1-17-16 / 1856 antislavery novel / Castle-breaching explosive / Nickname for only man to play in World Series Super Bowl / Actor Robert of Licence to Kill Goonies / Family name of old TVRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger122125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-43526188978741273192016-02-24T23:41:25.761-05:002016-02-24T23:41:25.761-05:00I learned it as the Coriolis FORCE years ago. I h...I learned it as the Coriolis FORCE years ago. I have a 30+ year-old meteorology textbook that refers to it as such. Google may come up with "effect" first, but Wikipedia actually redirects "Coriolis Effect" to "Coriolis Force". While it is true that it is only an apparent force, not a real one, like centrifugal force (Wikipedia calls it a pseudo force), the word "effect" is a vague term that could apply to just about anything, while "force" has a specific meaning in physics.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-85651981448041231512016-01-31T15:43:52.298-05:002016-01-31T15:43:52.298-05:00Tough one. One mistake: Had Desi and Sanhmi instea...Tough one. One mistake: Had Desi and Sanhmi instead of Debi and Banhmi. Never heard of Coriolis. Agree with Rex that Has the limelight just doesn't seem right.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05964501472593587070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-61359411082478094622016-01-31T15:40:03.300-05:002016-01-31T15:40:03.300-05:00Tough one. Never heard of Coriolis, or much else f...Tough one. Never heard of Coriolis, or much else for that matter. Had one mistake: Desi instead of Debi - never heard of Banhmi so that didn't help.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05964501472593587070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-32626595248958983522016-01-24T23:50:49.448-05:002016-01-24T23:50:49.448-05:00Absolutely brilliant. Best puzzle in ages. I wil...Absolutely brilliant. Best puzzle in ages. I will admit, however, that I hated it until I caught on; but then I loved it. More like this, please!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-90322653053574468312016-01-24T19:31:38.768-05:002016-01-24T19:31:38.768-05:00I had never seen NYS so I was thinking that, while...I had never seen NYS so I was thinking that, while correct, it was obscure.<br /><br />However, google gets 1.7 Billion hits on NYS (that's really a lot, even for google) and the scattering of hits that I looked at were *all* using NYS to mean New York State, so it's legitimate.paulsfohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07721639286466422944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-68195688931657635352016-01-24T17:00:27.822-05:002016-01-24T17:00:27.822-05:00"Where you from?"
"New York"
&..."Where you from?"<br />"New York"<br />"State or city?"<br />That's why you can add the "S" to NY to indicate it's the state and not the city. AnonymousPVXhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10078186298428497941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-26147690166570497472016-01-24T16:05:15.913-05:002016-01-24T16:05:15.913-05:00Challenging, yes. Brilliant? Absolutely. Loved ...Challenging, yes. Brilliant? Absolutely. Loved this puzzle from start to finish. <br /><br />Of course CORIOLIS FORCE is correct. Take a powder, @Rex. Also a wonderful revealer of the incredibly clever "eddies" in the theme answers. <br /><br />The only entry I didn't like was LOANING, where I think the correct term is LendING, but I know lots of people who use the incorrect term all the time.<br /><br />This took a long time, but it never felt like a slog. It just felt like fun.rain forestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-81986267633700464952016-01-24T14:35:45.200-05:002016-01-24T14:35:45.200-05:00Fine puz, I could wrap my head around and around t...Fine puz, I could wrap my head around and around this one. No write-overs, but almost filled in “effect” where FORCE is, until I saw that it wouldn’t fit. And bojacksON would have fit and I was thinking it was the correct answer, but fortunately held off.<br /><br />Big shout out to STPAULMN and its METRO area. I don’t live there, but I do work there, and the STPAULMN Pioneer Press has been my newspaper of choice since forever. Mpls StarTribune only in an emergency.<br /><br />The late TEENA Marie, a 1980s yeah baby songstress. DEBI Thomas, a 1980s skating yeah baby, think I saw something about her being destitute and living in a trailer somewhere?<br /><br />YGOR? Really? Huh.<br /><br />I knew the BANHMI right off since the cafeteria in my office building has it as a frequent lunch special.<br /><br />Really liked the swirling going the correct directions in each HEMisphere of this puz. I spent a lot of time on this puz, but that was OK in today’s case. And I liked that it started with DAWNS and ended with EVES.<br /><br />@Diana,LIW – I’d be there on HANDSANDKNEES for that ball.<br />rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-91746641210374082872016-01-24T13:35:32.185-05:002016-01-24T13:35:32.185-05:00SATAN’S REASONING ENTEREDIN
ONHANDSANDKNEES, what...SATAN’S REASONING ENTEREDIN<br /><br />ONHANDSANDKNEES, what the BLEEP’S that gal doin’?<br />If she HASTHELIMELIGHT, I DRED she’ll GOTORUIN.<br />With no MALFEASANCE, EVE’S WINTERSPORT suit is gone,<br />and ERRING, she FRETS of her G-string, “ISTHISTHINGON?”<br />ISAID, “This DRAMATIZATION is not for DALEY viewin’.”<br /><br />--- YGOR TROILUS ADDAMS<br /><br /><br />@D,LIW - I believe the anniversary will be Feb 9, which was 5 weeks after (syndi time) the first Monday puzzle in January (real time) was published. If that makes sense. I was not an every Sunday solver before then, just the other 6 days. So it looks like in 2 weeks it will be a complete year.Burma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-41098289071551136402016-01-24T12:22:16.992-05:002016-01-24T12:22:16.992-05:00[tap tap] ISTHISTHINGON?
This entry is later than...[tap tap] ISTHISTHINGON?<br /><br />This entry is later than usual; here's why: searching for a gimme, I found it in SB/WS athlete Sanders' nickname: PRIMETIME!<br /><br />Uh, no. Despite the fact that he was called Primetime far more often than NEONDEION, I was wr...wr...(spit it out, Fonzie!) So, as Col. Nicholson said to Col. Saito, "We have already experienced delays for which I was not to blame."<br /><br />Toiling there in the SW and trying to figure out what was going on with those marks around black squares, I first thought BATT was enough for the plus or minus thing, though the absence of an "abbr." bothered me. But then what of 99-down, one of several "-'s" in the clue list. Eventually that cute Klondike POLARBEAR forced me to abandon the wrong nickname and started me on the correct path. Soon after, I saw the pattern: wow, another Jeff Chen tour de FORCE. Or effect. We should coin a new term : Jeffect.<br /><br />And yes, belatedly realized by me, the northern ones DO swirl the other way! This thing took me almost two hours, so I concur with the challenging rating, but I did it! My anticipatory time is wondering what MALFEASANCE Jeff will come up with next! Sure, there are some frownies in the fill; how could there not be? But I still liked it; it was entertaining, an adjective not often enough applicable to the day-in, day-out fare set before us. Plus, of course, again the triumph factor was most satisfying. A-.spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-42959355386817660282016-01-23T10:31:06.046-05:002016-01-23T10:31:06.046-05:00@PeterThomas -
dinner-pail
Definition
from The ...@PeterThomas - <br /><br />dinner-pail<br /><br />Definition<br />from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia<br /><br /> n. A tin pail, with a cover, in which working-men carry, or are supposed to carry, their ‘dinner’ or midday meal to their work. “A full dinner-pail” for the working-man figures in party rhetoric.<br /><br />Google Knows Everythingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-19576305845451589462016-01-23T10:02:00.340-05:002016-01-23T10:02:00.340-05:00could someone tell me what a "dinner pail&quo...could someone tell me what a "dinner pail" is? PeterThomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04830709669823593966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-87943288710474190182016-01-23T09:55:14.244-05:002016-01-23T09:55:14.244-05:00I knew that Tao was a fit but Tao is not a Confuci...I knew that Tao was a fit but Tao is not a Confucian doctrine. PeterThomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04830709669823593966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-55372236494125627242016-01-22T17:12:11.158-05:002016-01-22T17:12:11.158-05:00I see some indirect commenting on "Googling&q...I see some indirect commenting on "Googling". Doing these puzzles on the App on IPad lends itself to googling. I allow myself to Google NAMES. Names of Hollywood, TV, Sports figures are reasonable to google. Crossword solving is not primarily a task demanding the same skill set as Jeopardy. (IMHO)attilashrugshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07967678716845560326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-27370363994525635342016-01-22T17:07:34.148-05:002016-01-22T17:07:34.148-05:00This was one of those that I solved yet did not un...This was one of those that I solved yet did not understand. The eight twisted down words baffled me, and though filled all squares my I-Pad version did not spew forth the musical equivalent of "success", alas. <br />Finally, Malfeasance was with the S, amd not the C. Then IRS made sense. <br />Toughie.attilashrugshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07967678716845560326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-14296157360821345762016-01-20T09:54:33.753-05:002016-01-20T09:54:33.753-05:00I agree with those who say that FORCE does accurat...I agree with those who say that FORCE does accurately clue the _cause_ as it is described in ordinary language. "Effect" is the only term found in my Mac's Oxford American Dictionary, but it says "an effect whereby a mass moving in a rotating system experiences a force (the Coriolis force) "<br /><br />Google ngrams gives an interesting view into the prevalence of the terms; it shows the frequencies in books, which are published and presumably edited. FORCE > EFFECT, even by a lot some years. <br /><br />https://goo.gl/mqXiPd<br />Danchallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12461596028979618714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-14097494678865500252016-01-19T12:20:01.168-05:002016-01-19T12:20:01.168-05:00I never quite got the LIMELIGHT one, because after...I never quite got the LIMELIGHT one, because after getting the NW themer right quick I went to work in the south (almost literal this time), and upon getting back to the top continued to try to read the answer in a clockwise fashion (MILEMIG??) in spite of the arrows quite clearly placed there by the local printer. Pure genius.<br /><br />Anyways, am I missing something, or is it indeed odd that Rex, with his attention to consistency within theme, didn't point out that while the construction was swell, it'd have been purer/"better" if the answers in the south read "upside down?"...pooternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-26948572353990587542016-01-19T09:57:58.601-05:002016-01-19T09:57:58.601-05:00I'm an Organic Chemist and the way the clue wa...I'm an Organic Chemist and the way the clue was worded "Benzene Derivative, for one" was so misleading that it took me almost to the end of my solving to figure out it was Aryl. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06437266539449269784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-27989164033140829092016-01-19T08:43:04.355-05:002016-01-19T08:43:04.355-05:00FYI, Poirot "detests le the".FYI, Poirot "detests le the".Darbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06067230075285888764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-2339251261155032202016-01-18T17:14:47.480-05:002016-01-18T17:14:47.480-05:00I'm late to this, but must add to the chorus o...I'm late to this, but must add to the chorus of huzzahs for this Sunday-worthy puzzle - thank you, Jeff! Having solved his Thursday effort just last night, I have nothing but admiration forJeff's talent at clever cluing and construction. I also didn't get the Neon Deion/NSA cross, but seeing all the other squares filled in, albeit with a number of erasures, is just so damn satisfying. Let's have more Sundays like this one!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-74642392082505105452016-01-18T15:52:52.311-05:002016-01-18T15:52:52.311-05:00The Deion Sanders clue is entirely misleading and ...The Deion Sanders clue is entirely misleading and ruined the puzzle - no one ever thinks "Neon Deion" much less says it. The clue needed to be rewritten inserting the words "Obscure, seldom-used...." in front of the clue.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00636425162823493490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-79191156727577205262016-01-18T14:47:21.332-05:002016-01-18T14:47:21.332-05:00@Anon10:50 pm - I don't think you picked the b...@Anon10:50 pm - I don't think you picked the best example to make your point. As an example, if you follow any of the Ted Cruz birther nonsense and end up reading even a little bit about the meaning of "natural born citizen" you will soon find yourself reading about British Common Law. Right to bear arms research will take a little longer, but you'll find yourself mired in the same muck, et cetera et cetera. I suggest that American Republicanism is firmly rooted in British political doctrine. I would have picked Islam and Judaism to make your point. Both religions claim the God of Abraham as their God, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone saying they are the same doctrine. <br /><br />P. S. While I take gleeful, wipe the tears from my eyes I'm laughing so hard, schadenfreude in RWNJs hectoring the beyond contemptible Cruz about his Canadian birth, there is no reasonable doubt that he is eligible to be elected president of the US.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181544219511150272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-39669757788171243332016-01-18T13:54:09.257-05:002016-01-18T13:54:09.257-05:00It was fun! But wrong, Will, Shane on you. I strug...It was fun! But wrong, Will, Shane on you. I struggled and struggled with Coriolis force because it is not a force. It's an effect. I learned it when in high school they showed the Bell Labs science series about the human body, weather, and...I forget the third. But the Coriolis effect was illustrated by having two people sit on either side of a merry-go-round and attempt to throw a ball to each other. The ball when aimed directly at the other person was way behind them by the time it reached the other side. Thus the effect on weather over the spinning earth!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05212199832789833072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-53218753047148118982016-01-18T10:12:30.009-05:002016-01-18T10:12:30.009-05:00That's right!That's right!Meg Greerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17936445520620485538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-2143429512472209612016-01-18T10:11:31.467-05:002016-01-18T10:11:31.467-05:00I couldn't finish this one. What really messed...I couldn't finish this one. What really messed me up was I didn't get the coriolis effect in the puzzle itself. Once I figured out Isthisthingon and cremedementhe, I didn't see that the Southern Hemisphere of the theme clues ROTATED THE OTHER WAY! Too late. Had to come here unsolved. Meg Greerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17936445520620485538noreply@blogger.com