tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post6338801787455932649..comments2024-03-29T01:11:26.960-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Old RR watchdog / FRI 4-28-17 / Ollie's friend on old TV / Oenophile's pride / Communication service since 2004 / Literally highest city / Highway through Yukon / Hundu aphorismsRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-37218382915958739322017-10-11T04:44:46.839-04:002017-10-11T04:44:46.839-04:00Submit your website or blog now for appearing in G...Submit your website or blog now for appearing in Google and over 300 other search engines!<br /><br />Over 200,000 websites listed!<br /><br />SUBMIT TODAY using <b><a href="http://traffic.syntaxlinks.com/r/INeedHits" rel="nofollow">I Need Hits</a></b>!!!Bloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07287821785570247118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-48821555837991988132017-06-03T02:08:21.358-04:002017-06-03T02:08:21.358-04:00@leftcoastTAM - I believe you are correct about th...@leftcoastTAM - I believe you are correct about the designation, but when I traveled on that road, maybe 15 years ago, the signage said the Alcan highway. Whatever you call it, it is the same road. I actually wanted to put in Dempster Highway, but that one is quite different, and very hard on tires.rain forestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-37034038574055820562017-06-02T19:31:06.135-04:002017-06-02T19:31:06.135-04:00@rain forest--Any thoughts on the ALCAN/Alaska Hig...@rain forest--Any thoughts on the ALCAN/Alaska Highway question?leftcoastTAMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-63177862325294238082017-06-02T18:57:30.915-04:002017-06-02T18:57:30.915-04:00Well, @Rainy, I understand the confusion. However...Well, @Rainy, I understand the confusion. However, the rhyme is, "Patty cake, patty cake, baker's man. Bake me a cake as fast as you can." <br /><br />The only other pitterpat (pit-a-pat) I know of is the pitterpat of little feet, often said when inquiring if a couple is expecting (to hear same in the near future).<br /><br />Lady DiDiana,LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-2316644689168225172017-06-02T18:16:25.564-04:002017-06-02T18:16:25.564-04:00@Lady Di - Thanks for the pit-a-pat explanation. ...@Lady Di - Thanks for the pit-a-pat explanation. As you can imagine, I was thinking of my babysitting times with my grandson where "Pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, baker man...". I never race through that.rain forestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-82874741037557951892017-06-02T14:42:22.204-04:002017-06-02T14:42:22.204-04:00Only one write-over at areaMAP, so a pretty smooth...Only one write-over at areaMAP, so a pretty smooth Fri-puz. Disappointed that the clue wasn’t “stereotypical Trump supporter” for CRACKER.<br /><br />ESPNZONEs used to be located in your larger cities. I visited them in NY, Chicago, and L.A., and have the polo shirts from each to prove it. The last one I got was in L.A. in 2012 when they were already phasing out of business there and the only shirts AEG had out for sale were for the Kings, Lakers, etc. I asked the kid at the register about an ESPNZONE shirt, like all the restaurant staff were wearing. He went into the back room and came out with a nice black one in my size and said it would be $25. I handed him the money and he was “having trouble” getting a receipt. I quickly understood that the ESPNZONE shirts were no longer in inventory and told him to just bag it. I got my L.A. ESPNZONE shirt and he had $25 extra in his pocket for his day’s work. <br />Got my Chicago ESPNZONE shirt due to being on an Amtrak late arrival and missing my connection. They put us up in a hotel next to ESPNZONE, so it was just a coincidence being there. Got a baseball cap, too.<br />Got my NY ESPNZONE shirt one week before 9/11 when I went there for brunch instead of going down to the World Trade Center, figuring I could look at the buildings any other time in the future. Upside is that I had brunch at the same time, in the same room with Kenny G.<br />All my ESPNZONE gear has a story.<br /><br />Drive down 8 Mile Road in Detroit and you’ll see plenty of GENTLEMENSCLUBs. Ain’t no top hats and canes there, DAWG.<br /><br />Gotta put PALOMA Picasso in the yeah baby category. Talk about SEXYANDIKNOWIT.<br /><br />Always like a DS puz, probably ADDICTEDTO them.<br />rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-89809837572833791262017-06-02T14:38:59.900-04:002017-06-02T14:38:59.900-04:00Struggled with some of this: FENDI, TIC, XERO, PAL...Struggled with some of this: FENDI, TIC, XERO, PALOMA, and the LMFAO (never heard of them) SEXY song, but crosses came to the rescue.<br /><br />Long downs were fairly easy and helped a lot.<br /><br />Favorite entry: Bette Davis's classic delivery of "WHAT A DUMP!"<br /><br />ALCAN now mostly known as the Alaska Highway, though <br />our friends north of the border likely prefer the traditional name. (@rain forest?)<br /><br />One square dnf: AMoRYLLIS/CAIMoN crossing. Damn.<br /><br />Another good Steinberg offering.<br /><br />leftcoastTAMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-27143183892308357072017-06-02T14:00:24.260-04:002017-06-02T14:00:24.260-04:00A real stinker, infested with pissers. Rejected.A real stinker, infested with pissers. Rejected.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-50544021492083830692017-06-02T14:00:05.722-04:002017-06-02T14:00:05.722-04:00One of those "aha" filled Friday puzzles...One of those "aha" filled Friday puzzles - played at a leisurely pace. Even tho I had a 3-letter dnf in the middle (yes, the ZAK/ENTR/ESPN???? area), I had great fun sussing out the rest. <br /><br />Didn't see the DS designation until I came here. Since I met him at ACPT, I'm glad I didn't, as I'm now biased "for" him. So not knowing merely confirmed my admiration of his skills.<br /><br />If your heart's racing, @Rainy, it's going "pit-a-pat," which I always heard as pitterpat. Like what your heart does when watching "Felix, the wonderful cat." (You'll laugh so hard your sides will ache your heart...)<br /><br />Diana, Lady-in-Waiting for the Entre ActesDiana,LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-83557686602428072062017-06-02T13:40:40.655-04:002017-06-02T13:40:40.655-04:00Easy-medium here, but unfortunately the very same ...Easy-medium here, but unfortunately the very same DNF as @Spacey, and for the same reasons. I still think that gator cousin is spelled CAyMAN. Must look it up.<br /><br />I think I must be naive. The prevailing understanding of a GENTELMEN'S CLUB is not mine. I really thought of one of those elite places with overstuffed armchairs and brandy and cigars and self-important conversation.<br /><br />Steinberg's puzzles are always a treat, and even if I don't get the connection between RACED, and pit-a-pat, I liked this one a lot.rain forestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-55514498034496562722017-06-02T11:58:47.329-04:002017-06-02T11:58:47.329-04:00CRACKER SONINLAW
The ACROPOLIS has a gay GENTLEME...CRACKER SONINLAW<br /><br />The ACROPOLIS has a gay GENTLEMEN’SCLUB,<br />“WHATADUMP I’MIN”, said the PEABRAINED poet.<br />So this CLOD BOUNCES him OUT of that IONIC pub<br />and ECHOED, “You WON’T say IMSEXYANDIKNOWIT.”<br /><br />--- PALOMA AMARYLLIS FENDI<br />Burma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-65067936075198655482017-06-02T11:51:01.332-04:002017-06-02T11:51:01.332-04:00syndication-land piping in here. Is ENTR'ACTE...syndication-land piping in here. Is ENTR'ACTE English? I would have expected something indicating French. "Beginning of intermission in Ypres" eg.Joe in Newfoundlandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-60768001474288965122017-06-02T10:16:10.790-04:002017-06-02T10:16:10.790-04:00Argh, single-letter DNF. Misspelled CAyMAN, and di...Argh, single-letter DNF. Misspelled CAyMAN, and didn't know the artist LMFAO, let alone the song. I figured "SEXY AND Y'KNOW IT" worked. I did like it though. Man, they really cleaned up that GENTLEMENSCLUB clue, didn't they? I mean, they scrubbed it! Top hats and canes indeed. LMFAO!<br /><br />Where there were equal choices I just left the changeable squares blank till later, as in T__TERED and _O_IC.<br /><br />There's more short-fill junk than one might expect to find in a DS: SSN BRR AAA ICC MSS and the painful ENTR. Still, I would never call this a PEABRAINED effort. The kid is rapidly garnering a set of "immunities" for himself, I guess. Am I becoming ADDICTEDTO him?<br /><br />DOD is the sexy-voiced FRAN Drescher. Talk about tits in your puzzle! (Hey, I didn't say it first.) If allowed to give a score on a puz that I (technically) DNF, I'd put down a par. Clean up that short stuff, DAWG.spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-12494047681214723562017-04-29T20:19:58.156-04:002017-04-29T20:19:58.156-04:00Much of what the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commissi...Much of what the ICC (Interstate Commerce Commission) was taken over by the Department of Transportation (DOT). The company I own hydrotests pressure vessels, which were once spec'ed as "ICC cylinders" and are now "DOT cylinders." At a DOT facility, my company is reviewed every five years by an independent third-party agency, who then recommends us (or not) to the DOT to be re-issued our re-qualifiers I.D. #. Back in the 70's, the third party agencies were often associated with railroads. So this clue and answer was obvious to me.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-61128253972508278752017-04-29T13:23:32.929-04:002017-04-29T13:23:32.929-04:00@Leapfinger,
On the list of things that divide thi...<br />@Leapfinger,<br />On the list of things that divide this country, racism doesn't crack the top 10.<br />The single greatest divide in the country or the world for that matter is whether life is merely an act of randomness or part of an ordered universe The willful act of a prime mover.<br />For most of human history the proposition that life was telelogical was simply a given. The cleave between those that say it is and those that say it ain't is a very modern phenomenon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8958434061546572712017-04-29T11:55:04.409-04:002017-04-29T11:55:04.409-04:00The entr'acte is not an Intermission starter, ...The entr'acte is not an Intermission starter, it starts Act II.mmorganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18375430572178263265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-80441813899595699252017-04-29T07:52:17.984-04:002017-04-29T07:52:17.984-04:00So the real significance of the ICC is that it was...So the real significance of the ICC is that it was the first real attempt by the federal government to regulate a bloated and rapacious industry, the railroad, in the American Industrial Revolution. This happened around the time FDR was born. This is not to be confused with the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, which was used rather effectively by FDR and Congress to push through federal legislation in the Great Depression.Clintnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-19891139374431577502017-04-29T07:16:41.133-04:002017-04-29T07:16:41.133-04:00I had KathmAndu crossing with Stan, until I realiz...I had KathmAndu crossing with Stan, until I realized it had to be Alumna, so finally got Acropolis. Anonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16981136214791751405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-51533288596017232182017-04-29T05:55:15.828-04:002017-04-29T05:55:15.828-04:00@Anonymouth 12:31
The Divided States of America. ...@Anonymouth 12:31<br /><br />The Divided States of America. Not Obama's legacy. Racism's legacy.<br /><br />All yawl ought to be keel-hulled.Leapfingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14243620614139990887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-54016074040335885952017-04-28T21:34:18.874-04:002017-04-28T21:34:18.874-04:00@old timer, politics is in the air today because i...@old timer, politics is in the air today because it's in the puzz. Thanks Mr. Steinberg for a great 100th day celebration of IM IN, SONINLAW, ADDICTED TO THE POLLS, XXX, TMI, SEXYANDIKNIWIT,, and perhaps the best description of the current White House I've seen so far: PEABRAINED GENTLEMEN'S CLUB. Camp David even made it, for about 30 minutes ("what a dump"). Love love love the misdirect at 33A. Great puzzle.BarbieBarbienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-35856392899438934222017-04-28T20:48:44.237-04:002017-04-28T20:48:44.237-04:00Antifa=KKK. FIFYAntifa=KKK. FIFYAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-43057135730650435272017-04-28T20:28:47.209-04:002017-04-28T20:28:47.209-04:00Antifa = Alt-left=liberal hypocrisy.Antifa = Alt-left=liberal hypocrisy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-77639479124106507262017-04-28T18:56:55.672-04:002017-04-28T18:56:55.672-04:00And I sincerely regret the early extra "h&quo...And I sincerely regret the early extra "h" in "notwithstanding."Joe Dipintonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-32388834874525240832017-04-28T18:14:32.712-04:002017-04-28T18:14:32.712-04:00I enjoyed this puzzle, no coming-to-a-screeching-h...I enjoyed this puzzle, no coming-to-a-screeching-halt experiences while solving. Started in the Paloma/Asner region and just kept going (got Fendi and Sartre right away). A tad easy for a Friday, imo. What's with the Jared Kushner clue, though? I mean, he's a son-in-law but is that really "notable" in itself? Wouldn't "Kushner, to Trump" be a better (if easier) clue?<br /><br />Nothwithstanding what "gentlemen's club" eventually came to mean, the term always reminds me of a James Thurber story called "The Breaking Up of the Winships", wherein a married couple has a nonsensical disagreement that escalates into a full-blown standoff, with the husband eventually moving into his "club". It's truly hilarious.Joe Dipintonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-38490507630167055142017-04-28T18:13:53.140-04:002017-04-28T18:13:53.140-04:00@Timothy - ENTR is from the theatrical term Entr&#...@Timothy - ENTR is from the theatrical term Entr'acte which means literally between the acts, or intermission.Mohair Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16502840715719161565noreply@blogger.com