Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Features of deerstalker hats / TUE 5-7-24 / Victor Hugo character who works at Notre Dame / Micronesian nation made up of hundreds of islands / Deep-fried Mexican snack / Door-to-door salesman in a classic Arthur Miller play / Nobelist who conditioned dogs to salivate / Lee Republican political strategist of the 1980s

Constructor: Justin Werfel

Relative difficulty: Medium (normal Tuesday)


THEME: RINGS A BELL (57A: Sounds familiar ... or performs an action associated with 16-, 23-, 35- and 47-Across?) — people (real and fictional) who ring bells:

Theme answers:
  • WILLY LOMAN (16A: Door-to-door salesman in a classic Arthur Miller play)
  • SANTA CLAUS (23A: Whom a Salvation Army volunteer might dress as)
  • QUASIMODO (35A: Victor Hugo character who works at Notre Dame)
  • IVAN PAVLOV (47A: Nobelist who conditioned dogs to salivate)
Word of the Day: LUSAKA (17D: Capital of Zambia) —
Lusaka
 (/lˈsɑːkə/loo-SAH-kə) is the capital and largest city of Zambia. It is one of the fastest-developing cities in southern Africa. Lusaka is in the southern part of the central plateau at an elevation of about 1,279 metres (4,196 ft). As of 2019, the city's population was about 3.3 million, while the urban population is estimated at 2.5 million in 2018. Lusaka is the centre of both commerce and government in Zambia and connects to the country's four main highways heading northsoutheast, and west. English is the official language of the city administration, while BembaTongaLenjeSoliLozi, and Nyanja are the commonly spoken street languages. // The earliest evidence of settlement in the area dates to the 6th century AD, with the first known settlement in the 11th century. It was then home to the Lenje and Soli peoples from the 17th or 18th century. The founding of the modern city occurred in 1905 when it lay in the British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia, which was controlled by the British South African Company (BSAC). The BSAC built a railway linking their mines in the Copperbelt to Cape Town and Lusaka was designated as a water stop on that line, named after a local Lenje chief called Lusaaka. (wikipedia)
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Quick write-up today, as I have to give a final exam at the ridiculous (for them) hour of 8am. I wake up before 4am every day, so no problem here, but our class meeting time is normally 11:40am, so 8am (a time assigned randomly, as far as I know) feels cruel. Like an added layer of difficulty. Anyway, though I'm awake, I am in a bit of a morning time crunch. So, quickly: I spent most of the solve grimacing and wincing at the fill, both genuinely ugly stuff like ALTI- and (and!?) API- and ISA and AGERS, and stuff that's just particularly unappealing to me, like race-baiting creep Lee ATWATER (why are you still putting him in puzzles? I mean besides the fact his name is full of common letters?) to MENSA (the one ultracommon xword answer I'd love to never see again, IQ-based orgs. be gone!) to the THE in THE ALAMO (arbitrary THE inclusion, not my fav) to EARLAPS (man that word wants an "F"), to WAVED HI (again, the past tense makes it awk), to HAUL UP ("UP!?" I had "IN" because that's what you do to a perp, or so TV has taught me). I also half-failed the geography quiz (big ???? on LUSAKA)—that's not the puzzle's fault, and it's good that I can now place Zambia on a map, but doubling down on the geography quiz element with PALAU (even though I knew it, after getting the "U") felt like overkill (44A: Micronesian nation made up of hundreds of islands). The theme revealer, once I got there, did salvage things somewhat. More of an "Oh, OK" than a true AHA, but I actually think the theme is just fine. But the road to theme comprehension was a rocky and largely unpleasant one.


I never saw the PEALE clue, but that is a pretty way to clue a fairly obscure proper noun, tying it to the (bell) theme like that (54A: Charles Wilson ___, George Washington portraitist whose name is apt for this puzzle's theme). I also really like the word QUANDARY (how could you not?), and while neither HAPPY nor "I'M SAD" does much for me on its own, when you put them one atop the other, they make a funny contrasting mood pair. Actually, they might make one mood: "HAPPY I'M SAD" does get at a certain kind of paradoxical feeling inherent in wistfulness and nostalgia. Anyway, thumbs up to those two. Also, I always love a New Zealand shout-out (42D: Like New Zealand vis-à-vis New Jersey, by population = SMALLER—and by a lot, 5.1 million vs. 9.3). My mother-in-law arrived in NYC from Dunedin, NZ (via Auckland) last night, and my wife's going down to spend time with her (and our daughter Ella) in the city tomorrow and then bringing her mom back here on Sunday, where Penelope (my wife) will spend several days taking her mother to places where she is most likely to see ___ [fill in the blank with any number of North American birds that are ordinary to us but will be exotic to her—bald eagles, maybe!]. 


I completely blanked on QUASIMODO ... or, rather, when confronted with Victor Hugo, my brain leapt to and would not leap away from Les Misérables, and when the answer wasn't Jean Valjean, I was like "how many damn characters from Les Mis do they really expect me to know, yeesh!" Also, was really looking for a full name (i.e. first and last), not a one-named figure. Speaking of first and last names, I did not know PAVLOV's first name. You could've told me it was OLGA and I'd ... OK, no, I wouldn't have believed you, but IGOR, maybe, yes. I'm gonna leave you to contemplate the VEINY LANCE juxtaposition on your own. See you next time.

Signed, Rex Parker, King of CrossWorld

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  2. Stuar5:54 AM

    A normal, perfectly fine Tuesday. (I don’t go looking for nits to pick, like some people do.) Ivan Pavlov’s name and Quasimodo were gimmies, as were the other names. I especially liked PEALE as the theme answer because clue wasn’t “Norman Vincent ____.”

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  3. I haven't seen DOAS for some time, but I don't think that WILLY was the kind of salesman who would ring doorbells. Didn't he sell to department stores? I seem to remember that he had lingerie or stockings in his sample case.

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    1. Anonymous5:33 PM

      I have taught this play for years. We never learn what he sells (he does, however, spend his meager earnings on stockings that he gives to a mistress instead of his wife), but all the references to selling imply he travels to buyers at larger companies and businesses. So…no, not ringing bells of any kind. Not a single reference to a doorbell in the entire work.

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    2. Anonymous8:33 AM

      Willy is NOT a door-to-door salesman! He would be shocked at all this! He is well-liked by all the buyers and get gets sent right in! Door to door? Come on!

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  4. Oddball-type theme but interesting enough and simply filled. I’m with the big guy - EARLAPS is screaming for an F. Liked CHALUPA and HERALDS. The grid creates too many choppy shorts. Whiffed on PAVLOV’s first name.

    May she will stay

    The PEALE over BELL and HAPPY over I’M SAD combo works for me.

    Pleasant Tuesday morning solve. Happy birding to Mrs. Rex!

    You in the SKY

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  5. Anonymous6:25 AM

    Actually, I think Savation Army volunteers take care to avoid looking like Santa Claus.

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  6. I never heard anyone say EARLAPS before, but enjoyed it - it just sounds like a funny, cute, sad puppy dog kind of a word. Like the F just ran away and abandoned it and now it feels so awkward and all alone. Well, EARLAPS, worry not - I will be your friend.

    This was a bit of an unusual grid for me because I actually enjoyed the theme for a change, but agree that there was some really ugly stuff going on with the fill today.

    I like the way they worked Santa Claus into the theme with the Salvation Army (bell) connection. Pretty clever.

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  7. Rex you probably already have this on your list but the Montezuma Wildlife Refuge has a great driving loop through the marshes and the eagles have been pretty active this spring. Close to there is also the Montezuma Audobon Center. And Sapsucker Woods in Ithaca. But don't get me started....

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  8. Anonymous6:47 AM

    Hunchback and Quasimodo have the same number of letters. That messed me up for a bit

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  9. Rand M.6:59 AM

    Of the five independent countries in Micronesia, three of them comprise hundreds of islands, and of those three, two of them comprise more islands than Palau.

    So while the clue for 44A is correct, it is not much different from asking "US State made up of billions of trees."

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  11. Andy Freude7:11 AM

    A good Tuesday, solvable downs-mostly. (Needed some crosses for EARLAPS, for sure. Or fo shizzle, Mr. Riprock.) Fun to see the themers fall into place. Thumbs up!

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  12. Anonymous7:12 AM

    Crossing WILLYLOMAN with LUSAKA will likely trip a lot of people up. To me that feels like a true Natick, where maybe C, D, L, N, R, S, and T could at least be somewhat reasonable options.

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    1. Anonymous11:04 AM

      this!

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    2. Anonymous4:15 PM

      @Anon 7:12am i agree. if i had solved on paper i would have just guessed a random letter. would it have been the L? i don't know, i can't say. since i solve online, i just ran the alphabet until the happy music played, but doing that...on a tuesday? seems a bit rough. never heard of either.

      -stephanie.

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    3. Anonymous5:31 PM

      Death of a Salesman is a very famous play and he is the main character.
      Rex made up the word natick for 2 obscure names. Willy Loman is simply too well known to be a natick.
      I have run into so many words and names in the Times crosswords a lot of people know that I don’t have a clue about. Just because I don’t know them doesn’t mean I call them crossing a natick.

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  13. Arthur M.7:17 AM

    16A is a stretch - and, IMO, a stretch too far.

    Willy Loman was a traveling salesman who sold women's undergarments to retail stores. While it seems that, in addition to visiting repeat customers, he did a number of face-to-face cold-calls to retail buyers in their office , the notion that he was out ringing doorbells, like a Fuller Brush man or vacuum cleaner salesman, is not at all reflective of his work.

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    1. Anonymous9:02 AM

      YES!!! Bad bad clue

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    2. Anonymous5:49 PM

      Thank you!!!

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    3. Anonymous5:36 PM

      THIS! (Except that he doesn’t sell women’s undergarments - we never learn what he sells. He does buy a pair of stockings for his wife, Linda, which he then gives to a mistress instead…but not what he sells.)

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  14. Would have really rung my bell if fit Hector Salamanca instead of Willy Loman.

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    1. Anonymous9:43 AM

      Oooh! Yes, that would have been great.

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  15. Bob Mills7:20 AM

    Nice puzzle, even though the theme wasn't evident until after I had finished. I found it easier than Rex Parker did, because of mostly straightforward cluing. The few difficult answers, like LUSAKA and EARFLAPS, were crossed by routine fill.

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  16. Surely should have run on a Monday, and fairly easy even for Monday. Did WILLY LOMAN ring bells? The Avon lady, she rang bells. I don't think we know what or how Loman sells.

    Your five-letter Micronesian nations are Palau and Nauru. Sharing two letters, I think they qualify for kealoa status (although only Palau fits today's clue).

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  17. Tuesday-easy; I liked it more than OFL did. Good luck to your students on their finals, BTW.

    Only overwrite was at 38D, where I had to decide between WAVED at or WAVED to, only to discover (thanks to CHER at 59A) that it was WAVED HI.

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  18. Thanks for the Blossom Dearie, Rex. Always a treat!!

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  19. Anonymous8:07 AM

    Definite older age leaner here.
    No rappers or references to social media etc.

    Good job with “happy” directly above “I’m sad”also
    Nicely done….

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  20. Easy Tuesday, with the exception of LUSAKA. and the revealer was a surprise. Tried to do a Connections thing with all the names and failed. Agree with @mathgent that I do not think of WILLYLOMAN as a bell ringer. He's no QUASIMODO.

    I'm with OFL on both WAVEDAT and HAULEDIN, which are correct, unless you need an alternative for a crossword.

    Speaking of OFL, he missed the nice shout out to his daughter ELLA. Not the sort of thing that @Roo or I would overlook.

    Nice enough Tuesdecito, JW. Just Wish you had found a stronger example of a bell ringer than poor WILLY, but thanks for a fair amount of fun.

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  21. I thought EARTHA AKITA Day (celebrating the singer who told off LBJ) was three weeks ago (on the 20th of the “Cruellest” Month).

    Thought this was a fun Tuesday - even moreso knowing ATWATER would set off Rex in a PAVLOVian manner. What would you prefer, “_____’s edge (near the shoreline)?”

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  22. Judah8:42 AM

    Major problem. Willy Loman was not a door-to-door salesman
    He didn't ring bells. He made appointments with buyers. Wow.

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  23. Hey All !
    Not gonna lead off with the trope "This puz RINGS A BELL...". Nope, not gonna do it.

    Had to look up the capital of Zambia. Not knowing the Arthur Miller character (not reading books strikes again!) crossed with both PPP LUSAKA and ATWATER was just mean. The reason for the Zambia look up, was no Happy Music. So after putting in the L, still no Happy Music. Hmm, says I.Thinking it might be WaLLY, not WILLY, tried it, but CHaLEAN isn't anything. Went searching for the error, to find I spelled QUASIMOtO as such. Was wondering what CHItES was. Put in the D, finally Happy Music. Yes, I was HAPPY.

    Pretty good TuesPuz. Is this a debut? Will have to read the comments to see as such.

    Happy Tuesday.

    One F
    RooMonster
    DarrinV

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  24. I thought the theme was cute. They all ring bells. I had Esmeralda before Quasimodo, then I had Quasimoto, and fixed that at the end.

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  25. Happy Sad!!!!

    I immediately though of this and thought Rex would too, Happy on top of sad is "Happy Sad" from the movie Sing Street, used to describe angsty 80's music, like the Cure. One of my favorite descriptors because it is so accurate.

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  26. Literally every single cross on LUSAKA was another proper name.
    On a Tuesday.
    Can we get Shortz back, please?

    I hate puzzles full of proper names, even if I know them (SANTA CLAUS, QUASIMODO) or half-know them (? PAVLOV) but come on... it felt like half the whole puzzle was proper names.

    Hated this one.

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  27. And when the bell rings, VEINY and ECHOEY will walk hand in hand into the sunset...

    VEINY notwithstanding, I quite liked this puzzle. A cute theme I didn't guess and even after I had the revealer, a beat or two went by before I "got" WILLY LOMAN. Now if you had given me any of the Elders from "Book of Mormon", I would have remembered that wonderful opening doorbell-ringing song.

    I imagine a real "Eureka" moment for the constructor when he realizes that 1) he's found themers that all work very differently and that 2) they're, Yay!!!!, symmetrical! A very nice Tuesday.

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  28. Medium Tuesday. AHA, the old joke: Does the name IVANPAVLOV ring a bell? HAHA.

    I wouldn't expect anyone to know LUSAKA, unless they're a nerd like me. Just kidding. (I'm not a nerd... nerds are smart.) Country capitals are good trivia fodder, though. A plow in gorilla mud = Ngerulmud, Palau. My dumb mnemonic for LUSAKA, Zambia is the mental image of a loose sock on a hockey stick and a Zamboni machine. (I have dumberer ones.)

    Clever theme. Nice debut from Justin Werfel. Congrats!

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  29. Anonymous10:28 AM

    Frontline did an episode on Lee Atwater called Boogie-Man. Highly recommend.
    Waaaaay to much PPP in the puzzle

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  30. I know Willy Loman is in Death of a Salesman. I know nothing else about the drama. Maybe I should? There's a bell?

    I'm on team HAUL IN not HAUL UP. LUSAKA required all six crosses. EARLAPS... where is your effin' F!

    VEINY: Like grandma.

    When Taco Bell first introduced their CHALUPA, I was still in my unexamined pro-cow murder lifestyle (deathstyle for the factory processed bovine), and they had a nacho cheese version of the fast food delicacy, and it was as close to heaven as I will ever get. It made me believe in QUASIMODO.

    Propers: 11
    Places: 4
    Products: 1
    Partials: 5
    Foreignisms: 2
    --
    Gary's Grid Gunk Gauge: 23 (32%)

    Uniclues:

    1 The stretched out ones.
    2 And who doesn't?
    3 Highlander saw Cher from a distance.
    4 Revealing tops for Icelanders.
    5 Last hat worn by Davy Crockett.
    6 What nobody in Mexico wants.

    1 SANTA CLAUS TEES (~)
    2 INCA HATED CHER (~)
    3 CHILEAN WAVED HI
    4 FLANNEL HALTERS (~)
    5 THE ALAMO ICE BAG
    6 SMALLER CHALUPA (~)

    My Fascinating Crossword Uniclue Keepsake from Last Year: This puzzle. SLOW MOTION SLOP BUCKET.

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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  31. Thanks for that bit of "Guys and Dolls" to start the morning.

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  32. I like my hats with EARLAPS and my gloves with ingers. M-W has a one word definition for EARLAP ...... earflap. Welp, I better get my comment finished cuz Mrs. Egs has a mess of lapjacks waiting on the table, and when that happens ISITME down and eats.

    I don't, however, eat APPLE pies anymore, but when I think back to my favorites, I remember THEALAMOde.

    Hey @Rex! I think Lee ATWATER would be ok as a stand-alone. Problem is, he was part of AVAST right wing conspiracy. Also, you say you initially completely blanked on QUASIMODO. I guess he didn't ring a bell.

    Thanks for a fun Tuesday, Justin Werfel.



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  33. I felt a little QUASI here and there because I was wondering about WILLY and his ringing a BELL. Doesn't everybody do that? I guess some knock. I always know when Jehovah's Witnesses come ringing or maybe the Latter-Day Saints because they ring only once and they are very polite. I always open the door and smile and nod and take their little pamphlet and then I feel better for some reason.

    I liked seeing HAPPY IM SAD. IS IT ME? Then I see EDNA RINGS A BELL...HA HA...CHALUPA OLIVES. That would make my pups salivate....maybe even the AKITA sitting on top of an APPLE.... Mind wanders...as usual

    I'm not so sure about staring at HAPPY, I'M SAD and HATED. But then we have SANTA CLAUS and things end well...

    Interesting puzzle. ALTI and API liked it as well.



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  34. Anonymous11:16 AM

    HAPPY I’M SAD reminds me of something a college buddy said to me well before my depression was diagnosed: “You’re not happy unless you’re sad.“

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  35. Extremely easy.
    Nice to see a NYTXW without little circles, shaded squares, etc. That made up for some ughs like ALTI and ATWATER.

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  36. EasyEd11:45 AM

    Found this puzzle very easy, locked in WILLYLOMAN immediately. Then came here and found my impression of his job was a total misconception apparently shared by many. Anyway, neat theme even if the clue was more than a tad off the mark. As an oldie, grew up with Avon types ringing the bell—actually one of my basketball coaches/organizers was a part-time Fuller Brush salesman.

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  37. I sort of thought WILLY LOMAN wasn't a door-to-door kind of salesman, and am happy to be confirmed by more knowledgeable commenters here. But at least the incorrect clue let's us know why he's in the grid, along with the more authentic bell-ringers.

    I had the P in PALAU before I saw the clue, so that was no problem. My only difficulty was mixing up ages and ERAS; and then in a near malapop, we got AGERS at the very end.

    OK, back to grading exams.

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  38. Easy. LUKASA was my only WOE and WAVE to before HI was it for erasures. Breezy with a fun/cute theme, liked it.

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  39. Late again today.
    The puzzle today took a backseat to reading the NYT coverage of the DJT trial & Stormy Daniels testimony. Luckily this was easy - solved as a themeless.
    I agree with those who said Willy Loman didn't ring doorbells.
    Thanks, Justin :)

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  40. I have a double objection to EARLAPS... yes it needs an F, but also the clue is a bit off. "Features of some deerstalker hats"... all I could think of was TWO BRIMS which didn't fit. If you google Deerstalker, about 92% of the images do NOT have ear flaps. A fairer clue would be "Features of some deerstalker hats".

    Also FATTY before VEINY.

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  41. Oops, there's no "some" in the printed clue: "Features of deerstalker hats". Thinking too far ahead while typing.

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  42. When I saw the RINGS A BELL reveal, I literally groaned and lamented "Oh no! The New York Times crossword has perpetuated one of the biggest myths in psychology." IVAN PAVLOV didn't use a BELL when he conditioned dogs to salivate. He said that a RINGing BELL was aversive to their sensitive hearing and would upset the dogs and interfere with his studies. He most often used the audible click of a metronome as the stimulus to be associated with food being put into the dogs mouth.

    The erroneous belief that it was a BELL has been attributed to a misunderstanding or misinterpretation of PAVLOV's writing. Daniel P. Todes' definitive biography Ivan Pavlov: A Russian Life in Science, winner of the 2015 Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society, opens with this sentence: "Contrary to legend, Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) never trained a dog to salivate to the sound of a bell."

    So WILLY and IVAN can go sit in the other corner.

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  43. Anonymous2:35 PM

    This write up was particularly enjoyable, IMO.
    I have come across "haul up" to court, but only in the context of medieval lord of the manor type courts, not anything modern.

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  44. So glad I'm not the only person with the kneejerk "Willy Loman wasn't a door-to-door salesman!!" reaction. What a theatre nerd.

    Not being also a psychology nerd, I didn't know that about Pavlov, but it's interesting that two of the noted bell-ringers in the puzzle did not, in fact, ring bells.

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  45. Anonymous4:08 PM

    The perp is HAULED IN to the station, but HAULED UP before the judge.

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  46. Daniel4:13 PM

    I didn’t know WILLY LOMAN or ATWATER or LUSAKA so I was annoyed. It was AWFUL

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  47. Anonymous4:14 PM

    Yay New Zealand!!!

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  48. I'm kinda real late, today. Didn't get to finish the solvequest until recently.
    They called in a ringer, for today's TuesPuz.

    Pretty smoooth solvequest, except for nanoseconds burned on LUSAKA & PEALE. Oh … and like @Roo, started out splatzin in a QUASIMOTO quasi-spellin.

    staff weeject pick: ISA. Its funny clue put it over the top.

    Some faves: CHALUPA. QUANDARY. PEALE clue.

    Thanx, Mr. Werfel dude. Nice debut.

    Masked & Anonymo5Us


    **gruntz**

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  49. Anonymous6:45 PM

    I agree with anoymous at 4:08. One is hauled into (not in) court but hauled up before a judge.

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  50. HAPPY is a character in "Death of a Salesman" -- WILLY LOMAN'S younger son.

    How it makes me quiver...

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  51. SharonAk7:07 PM

    @egs for Thanx for the laughs. fingers and flapjacks, good ones

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  52. @Joe D

    Welcome back. You were missed.

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  53. Anonymous10:40 PM

    Why is lye the answer to “very basic stuff?”

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  54. So, HAUL UP is absolutely fair, but when employed, lands mostly in the criminal realm. It may be heard more in the UK where being “HAULed UP before the magistrate” is very common. In the US, during initial appearance dockets, judges might facetiously ask an accused who, in the court’s opinion isn’t taking things seriously enough, “do you think you were HAULed UP here by accident?” (Or something similar). It’s less common in the US these days, but I certainly dropped it in instantly.

    The puzzle and theme were more Monday than Monday, and yesterday’s Monday was a tough act to follow. The breadth of items that make up today’s theme certainly demonstrates Justin Werfel’s creativity. I look forward to seeing what’s next and hope it’s for a “crunchier” day.

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  55. Anonymous5:47 AM

    It's not that the Willy Loman clue was a bad clue. It's much worse than that. He didn't ring bells. He doesn't belong in the puzzle. I honestly think it's the worst NYT XWP mistake I've ever seen.

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  56. The WILLY LOMAN and IVAN PAVLOV myths persist. Play it again, Sam. Plus, though I suppose you could say that SANTA CLAUS rings (jingles) the bells on his sleigh, he's not really a bellringer either, only by association with the clue people. And they wear SA uniforms while soliciting. That leaves only QUASIMODO as the true bellringer today. Hang in there, Quaz!

    Familiarly, though, this theme works fine, and jells well with the revealer, an all-too-common phrase. The grid is free-flowing, in sharp (!) contrast to yesterday's. 7-stacks are impressive, even if heavily PPP-laden.

    @anon 10:40: LYE is at the "basic" (read "base") end of the acid/base scale.

    Who shall be DOD, EARTHA or ELLA? Answer: CHER and CHER alike.

    Learned: Zambia's capital. As one of the VEINY AGERS, I give it a birdie.

    Wordle par.

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  57. Anonymous12:35 PM

    Challenging for a Tuesday. More like a Wednesday or even a Thursday - at least for me. Decent theme. A bit of junk fill in spots but not bad for a debut.

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  58. Instead of having WILLYLOMAN (who never rings a doorbell in Death of a Salesman) 16D could have been THEPOSTMAN who as we all know always rings twice.

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  59. Burma Shave2:18 PM

    THE TEES

    QUASIMODO, meet EDNA LOMAN,
    AWFUL HAPPY when things END well.
    ISITME who HAS hands ROMAN?
    THANK ME when I RING THE BELL.

    --- EDNA LOMAN

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  60. Anonymous5:14 PM

    And to think this whole time, I thought Willy Loman was a Fuller Brush salesman!!!
    No wonder I got an F on that book test.

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  61. Anonymous5:28 PM

    The only thing that dogs do when they hear a bell is bark!
    Like mad!!!

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  62. Diana, LIW8:21 PM

    Good old WILLYLOMAN - A name I know for once.

    Lady Di

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  63. Anonymous3:30 PM

    There is another error in this puzzle. In 21 across, the clue says “ Opposite of none” , and we are expected to write “all.”Whereas in math and logic, the opposite of none is “some” or “at least one.”

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