tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post2524102091124432004..comments2024-03-29T10:07:18.537-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Maude's cousin on 1970s TV / SAT 5-23-15 / to the stars autobiographer / Mork's supervisor on Mork & Mindy / Led Zeppelin's final studio album appropriately / County of Lewis Carroll's birth / Hollowed out comedic prop / It's not for me to say crooner / Form of xeriscaping Rex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-31435324939806915072017-02-11T21:25:04.063-05:002017-02-11T21:25:04.063-05:00I'm Mellisa Thomas; My husband just came back ...I'm Mellisa Thomas; My husband just came back home after leaving me for so long. I can't explain this but I just have to share my joy and happiness with the world I don't know how Dr Ihunde helped me in bringing back my husband. I have been frustrated for the past 6 years with my 3 kids in a marriage of 19 years after my husband had left me for no reason, all i did every day was to cry. One faithful day a friend of mine came visiting and I told her about the situation i have been for years now, she then told me about a very powerful man called Dr Ihunde Spell Temple. that he is a very powerful man, at first I never wanted to believe her because I have spent a lot going to different places but she convinced me, so I had no choice because I really need my husband back. So we contacted Dr Ihunde who told me all I needed to do and i give him a trial. But the greatest joy in me today is that Dr Ihunde was able to bring my husband back to me after years of not even taken my calls. and now we are living happily as never before. Thanks to Dr Ihunde. If you have problems of any kind I will advise you to contact him via his email: (ihundespelltemple@gmail.com) or call him +2349055637784. Mellisa Thomasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-34354503487985112362015-06-27T18:29:04.604-04:002015-06-27T18:29:04.604-04:00Got tangled up in this one, as I had to transition...Got tangled up in this one, as I had to transition my "golfcaddy. Into an OFFICEBOY, and my "ambulance" into an EXITRAMP.' <br />No easy task! Finally got it down to not knowing enough crosses to get YEAHIMSURE- T?kei, E?O, and thinking Mork's boss was maybe OlSON were more than I could conquer.<br /><br />Johnny MATHIS is the only true celebrity I've actually been introduced to, It was backstage at the SFState talent show where he gave what must have been his last amateur performance before flying off to NY the next day to become a star! Learned from @math guy that we all grew up in the Richmond-small world!<br />DMGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-50063117921976465172015-06-27T17:28:47.616-04:002015-06-27T17:28:47.616-04:00Rondo, as I see it you DID Mathis while in school....Rondo, as I see it you DID Mathis while in school. Well, I wouldn't kiss and tell like that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-63776397312505862002015-06-27T15:05:17.696-04:002015-06-27T15:05:17.696-04:00Just the right amount of complexity for a Sat-ouz,...Just the right amount of complexity for a Sat-ouz, IMHO.But I may never have gotten going without TSKS and ORSON of all things.<br /><br />Big shout out to the Swedish KRONOR and the correct plural ending as it is in their language. For a while I was afraid it might be Americanized, so I only put in KRON for starters.<br /><br />Didn't remember EDITH and Maude as cousins as I rarely watched either show.<br /><br />New word to me in xeriscaping, was afraid it might have something to do with a copy machine.<br /><br /><br />MATHIS a subject that I did well in school.<br /><br />THECURE and CODA were easy for this music fan.<br /><br />Even without a yeah baby this was a nice puz.rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-52940673570272566652015-06-27T14:42:47.987-04:002015-06-27T14:42:47.987-04:00Couldn't complete this one, just in one sectio...Couldn't complete this one, just in one section. I had Fast Lane and then Left Lane but never got Exit Lane. And I never heard or saw Stem Fields so that didn't help. Oh well, I'll start again next Wednesday. I'm giving myself a C for trying hard.<br /><br />Ron Diego La Mesa, CA :(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-19939539095155885892015-06-27T14:19:48.782-04:002015-06-27T14:19:48.782-04:00I think this was/is about the perfect Saturday puz...I think this was/is about the perfect Saturday puzzle. Challenging (for me) but doable, a couple of entries which came only from crosses (STEM, ETSY), a guess which worked (CHESHIRE), and some good wordplay with little in the way of weak fill. I liked it.<br /><br />Regarding the FLOODLIGHT answer, @Spacey, it reminds me of a joke, for some reason:<br /><br />A priest, a doctor and a mathematician are on a train going from Glasgow to Edinburgh when they espy a black sheep. The priest says, "I guess Scottish sheep are black". The doctor says, "Well, some of the sheep in Scotland are black". The mathematician says, "In Scotland there exists at least one sheep, one side of which is black". <br /><br />So for a night game, you need at least one floodlight, but it had better be a big one.<br /><br />My last square was the second "O" in KRONOR, after trying all other possibilities. Still looked unusual.rain forestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-13990145679865453492015-06-27T13:05:05.267-04:002015-06-27T13:05:05.267-04:00EGOTRIP
YEAHIMSURE that YUOLIEabout that CHILEAN ...EGOTRIP<br /><br />YEAHIMSURE that YUOLIEabout that CHILEAN miss,<br />Did you get APIECE, or just an ESKIMOKISS?<br /><br />--- ORSON LERNER<br />Burma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-64361277886292365782015-06-27T11:51:26.178-04:002015-06-27T11:51:26.178-04:00Don't thank ME, Elizabeth. The only thing I re...Don't thank ME, Elizabeth. The only thing I read on your post is "Thanks for reading," and even that was only by accident. Have you not yet figured out that precisely ZERO responses are coming to your spellcaster testimonials from this site? Zero. Now and forever. Please, please, GIVE IT UP!!<br /><br />I, however, owe thanks to all who wished me a happy b-day yesterday. My friend once told me "Don't get old." Well, at 75, it's (a) too late, and (b) a sight better than the alternative.<br /><br />Today I finished despite a passel of WOEs.ETSY, STEM fields, RENU...and, do they really call it a SCENESHOP? My dad, a la Harrison Ford, was a set builder for our community theater; as far as I know it was called a set shop.<br /><br />SNAGs included soloCLIMB--I guess I was thinking more about human assistance than equipment--and the slightly less dangerous EcOLi.<br /><br />Head-scratcher: so, just a single FLOODLIGHT? Don't you need, like, a bank of them for a night game? Just wonderin.'<br /><br />Medium Saturday for me. ESKIMOKISS was a pleasant kick-start, the twin gimmes MATHIS and LERNER, which led to CHESHIRE (not actually known, but inferred on account of that strange cat), also helped. Was stuck in NE for quite a while before abandoning "solo" in favor of FREE. Once again it seems that OFL puts some of his loudest RANTS on the back burner for...well, my paper has a different constructor listed: ASHISH VENGSARKAR. As dear old dad used to say, "If you do, you'll clean it up." Whoever it is, I'll give him aB.spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-3411347539676220432015-05-26T04:46:07.263-04:002015-05-26T04:46:07.263-04:00@paulsfo,
In this case, SANDPAPERS = verb, not no...@paulsfo,<br /><br />In this case, SANDPAPERS = verb, not noun. So SANDPAPERS = 'takes the edge off', in a punny sense.<br /><br />I hope this adds to your list of AHAS. (I hope you're keeping one.)Elephant's Childnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-70367672975878306062015-05-24T15:56:56.968-04:002015-05-24T15:56:56.968-04:00@weingolb : I agree that cluing ONEHR as a "...@weingolb : I agree that cluing ONEHR as a "time" is simply wrong. In the same vein, SANDPAPERS can't "takes" the edge off anything; it would have to be "*take* the edge off." Finally, "AHAS" are exclamations or adverbs; I don't think it can be a noun.<br /><br />Also, SNARF's *main* definition is eating, in my experience, so it must be an age thing if someone didn't know this.paulsfohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07721639286466422944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-10651303045363070022015-05-24T09:17:03.578-04:002015-05-24T09:17:03.578-04:00@weingolb,
I would have been pleased to recommend...@weingolb,<br /><br />I would have been pleased to recommend your Cori-Collio-Friulano diatribe, were I a FB/Twittterer.<br /><br />Friuli appreciated the 'waxy nose' after several years' familiarity intime with the Kacenpij varietals.<br /><br />ps. I thought that neon color would make it Weingelb, no?P. Katznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-27770141143797762352015-05-24T08:53:41.865-04:002015-05-24T08:53:41.865-04:00'... not long ago around may 2015 my husband s...'... not long ago <b>around may 2015</b> my husband started to behave in a way i could not understand...'<br /><br />Umm. Considering today's date, I'm a little perturbed about Melissa Lopez' (<i>or is it Melissa Jefferson?</i>) concept of exactly how Time works, and her orientation to Time, Place and Person, in general. All things considered, it's probably wise that Ms Melissa steer clear of the banking industry, at least for the present.<br /><br />Agreed?Unanimousenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-31580510718896802112015-05-24T00:10:06.513-04:002015-05-24T00:10:06.513-04:00@Dean and scotch eggs.
Sorryto make this entry so...@Dean and scotch eggs.<br /><br />Sorryto make this entry so late, been out since early am.<br /><br />Dean, you must be very young. Scotch eggs were a pub staple when there were still a lounge and a bar, clearly delineated by class. <br /><br />When a pint and a pie were lunch. When a Ploughman's was a real snack with plenty of Branston's. <br /><br />In fin, when a pub was a pub with beer, booze (Afore ye go), and no fear of breatholator road tests by the patrons. And you could stand the publican a round.<br /><br />Now the two sides are gone and pub food has been upgraded into haute because alcohol profits are gone and the pubs need the old bar/lounge to make room for dining tables.<br /><br />So long to scotch eggs, now sitting chilled under cello-wrap at Tescos!dick swarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15674856192774908651noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-19018066775832754142015-05-23T22:08:41.856-04:002015-05-23T22:08:41.856-04:00co·da
ˈkōdə/
noun Music
noun: coda; plural noun: c...co·da<br />ˈkōdə/<br />noun Music<br />noun: coda; plural noun: codas<br /><br /> the concluding passage of a piece or movement, typically forming an addition to the basic structure.<br /> the concluding section of a dance, especially of a pas de deux, or the finale of a ballet in which the dancers parade before the audience.<br /> <b>a concluding event, remark, or section.</b><br /> "his new novel is a kind of coda to his previous books"Googlenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57373779459775511142015-05-23T20:32:32.896-04:002015-05-23T20:32:32.896-04:00If you read this blog carefully, you can't hel...If you read this blog carefully, you can't help but pick up fascinating things about the solvers here. And today I learned something about @Leapfinger that will remain indelibly on my mind forever.<br /><br />She FREE CLIMBS. Meaning that, "with the right boots", she is able to "stand firmly with only her toes on a 1" ledge of rock." And I once thought that @Leapfinger was a woman not so different from me. I now think: not so much. ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR BLEEPING MIND, @LEAPFINGER? Just thinking about standing with only my toes able to be accommodated on a 1" ledge of rock gives me vicarious vertigo and makes me break into hives. DON'T DO IT, @LEAPFINGER!! We've come to love you; we don't want to lose you! Put your faith and trust in terra firma (as I have done my whole life.) Terra firma will never let you down!Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16737377749030219974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-69494887424567517892015-05-23T19:58:46.012-04:002015-05-23T19:58:46.012-04:00Johnny Mathis--Not my favorite KRONOR. Johnny Mathis--Not my favorite KRONOR. Mel Tormenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-2975487655251989552015-05-23T19:57:30.639-04:002015-05-23T19:57:30.639-04:00Billy C: Way to repeat the clue and the answer. ...Billy C: Way to repeat the clue and the answer. That really clears things up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-82463707528834667852015-05-23T19:30:12.819-04:002015-05-23T19:30:12.819-04:00
@Anon6:53 --
See:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...<br />@Anon6:53 --<br /><br />See:<br /><br />http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coda_(album)Billy Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-79028895168184404632015-05-23T18:53:50.413-04:002015-05-23T18:53:50.413-04:00@ Billy C
still not seeing it - is there somethin...@ Billy C<br /><br />still not seeing it - is there something about CODA, that relates to Zeppelin? or I guess last album?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-39311137310288388372015-05-23T18:43:29.145-04:002015-05-23T18:43:29.145-04:00@anon5:20 --
Coda is LedZep's last (appropria...<br />@anon5:20 --<br /><br />Coda is LedZep's last (appropriately named) album.<br /><br />Billy Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-9083547908652780222015-05-23T18:37:41.963-04:002015-05-23T18:37:41.963-04:00Yow.
Is a 'STEM field' what's left af...Yow.<br /><br />Is a 'STEM field' what's left after a reaper has grimly threshed off all the grain heads? Thought that one a bit of an OINKer, though that's neither here here nor there there. As an offset, I liked my start with ESKIMOKISS, esp after yesterday's SWAK and my recent brush with a Butterfly KISS. I now notice that MATH IS the M in STEM, but if that's a hint, it's a subtle one... <br /><br />I'm with @MoHairSam for no way I wouldn't know LERNER, Hel-loewe!! But I only lerned today why Lewis Carroll's grinning cat wasn't a LeicesterSHIRE Cat, f'rinstance.<br /><br />SHOO OOF LIE and A PIECE of PIE don't bother me.<br /><br />@r.alph, thanks for RTFC. Where were you when I dropped the 'not' from 'together' to come up with UNISON? Add that to whElp-akElA-HYENA, avid-AGOG, KRONeR crossing nicely with EIGHT (the usual show-time, both on and off-Broadway), and assorted others. Was dead sure sets were built BACKSTAGE; that SCENESHOP just sounds like a place Drama Queens go to for some inspiration.<br /><br />Bits I liked:<br />FREECLIMB, because I have, in the Canadian Rockies. Way cool to discover that, with the right boots, it's possible to stand firmly with only the toes of your feet on a 1" ledge of rock. Not as cool should you happen to freeze up, cuz then you're on your own till it passes and you can move again.<br /><br />Some good advice: If you LIE ON your WRIST all night, you'll wake with a numb hand, and might end up with Carpal Tunnel.<br /><br />Remembering that, years ago, a friend who had lived in Thailand for several years told me the women are beautiful, but they're old at 35. Now, I've recently come to know a woman from Thailand who is just gorgeous; I thought that she might be 40 at the most, and was flummoxed, hornswoggled and a few other things to find out her age is 67. Her name? RENU.... So. Ask me what's in a name.<br /><br />Now I have to find out why those fried thingies aren't SCOTtish EGGS. I thought only the liquor was SCOTCH.<br /><br />Enough with all de TOX. From Wentz cameth a pretty fun solve; I'll say it sure took a bit of PROWess.Leapfingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14243620614139990887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-79944324419015098662015-05-23T17:51:28.908-04:002015-05-23T17:51:28.908-04:00I think this was an excellent Saturday with the ri...I think this was an excellent Saturday with the right level of difficulty. It helped that etsy and stem were easy for me (for reasons not worth going into). The only problem for me was the renu/the cure cross, but I was able to guess it.michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-39993821352106871932015-05-23T17:45:48.136-04:002015-05-23T17:45:48.136-04:00Loved the long ones, but had a kind of awful time ...Loved the long ones, but had a kind of awful time with this one (as Saturdays often go for me). DNFed badly with four wrong in the bottom center.<br /><br />Started with a confident nAstyrumOr in at 1A. Wound up erasing it pretty quickly, but I found enough wrong answers for the early downs to make my NW a real struggle (TutS for TSKS, forCE for JUICE, rEnTBY(?) for BEST BY - didn't realize how close I was when I considered nemoy for TAKEI, but remembered his autobios are (wonderfully titled) <i>I am not Spock</i> and (twenty years later) <i>I am Spock</i>). I finally got a foothold with SNAG/KRONOR/TUNA and finding the SE opaque moved up through the center to the NE.<br /><br />Per @Mohair: CODA and THECURE were fine (as was ETSY, if we're going to be generational about it), but I'd never heard of EDITH, MATHIS or LERNER. LERNER, in fact, wound up with two wrong squares thanks to ScARFS (SNARF just isn't a word) and ?EoON for 50d. Kept trying to make the drone <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drone_(music)" rel="nofollow">musical</a> and finally figured it was time to throw in the towel. Wanted something to listen to on that ROofGARDEN.<br /><br />Didn't like the cluing for STEM. Had <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfield_(astronomy)" rel="nofollow">STar [fields]</a> for most of my solve, and not knowing EDITH and MATHIS almost left it at that. With EGOT??? I wondered if 44d could be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EGOT" rel="nofollow">EGOTing</a> before realizing that that didn't make any sense.<br /><br />Like many others, fave clue was OINKmike253https://www.blogger.com/profile/03359356638289633525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-69393575205794833552015-05-23T17:39:13.710-04:002015-05-23T17:39:13.710-04:00HAdtHEclap for "Reputation ruiner" ... w...HAdtHEclap for "Reputation ruiner" ... what, no one? <br /><br />Well, I know you all were thinking it, if not penciling it in.<br /><br />And I was surprised that "Words before a date" was only six letters. Your place or mine is 15.<br /><br />Maybe it was just my mood because I also was certain through most of the solve that "You might move over for them on the highway" was seaTmAtES.<br /><br />Still, I don't think you can get gonorrhea from that. <br /><br />Then I realized that this good puzzle was made less good when I had inadvertently created better fill for it. Not really... good job Peter Wentz.<br /><br />If it is deemed cleaner fill than most, is it also slightly greener? YEAHIMSURE, YOULIE and BESTBY all seemed like stand-ins. Yeah I bet, or I'm so sure; you liar; best before, or sell by... aren't these what people say? And I can't remember the last time anyone said FLOODLIGHT rather than FLOODLIGHTs during sporting activities.<br /><br />But the process of solving it was the greatest thing because it knew it was playing with you, and it was mostly playing fair. The peso trick, the dent thing, I had sUIts before JUICE to represent power.<br /><br />Liked the mirroring of APIECE and ENBLOC. Liked EBOLA getting in there with a topical science clue. The "Lead-in to a Chef's name" was pretty brilliant, I thought. <br /><br />I hope SNARF leaves the dictionary as quickly as it entered in the 1960/70s. It's devoid of meaning other than what SCARF already conveys. But that's not this puzzle's problem.<br /><br />But...<br /><br />STEM being a initialism is just as bad as bad fill... the fact that it's cluing doesn't make it elegant. And equally inelegant is the clue for ONEHR — as if the fill wasn't bad enough — misusing the word time when it meant length!<br /><br />@demit Good question. I've asked it. Crossword construction is already a dark art and I think it gets darker and darker as you go deeper into the week.weingolbhttps://medium.com/@weingolbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-26911960306266143892015-05-23T17:20:08.442-04:002015-05-23T17:20:08.442-04:00ok, HELP, why is CODA "appropriate" for ...ok, HELP, why is CODA "appropriate" for Zeppelin?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com