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Heavily edit with beauty filters, as a photo, in modern lingo / TUE 10-14-25 / Savory South Asian rice cake / Apples, pears and quinces, botanically / Skewered dish served with peanut sauce
Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Constructor: Stella Zawistowski
Relative difficulty: Medium
Theme answers:
- SUMMER, LOVE (17A: "In what season are the Olympics during leap years, sweetie?" "___")
- ALFALFA, HONEY (26A: "Which 'Little Rascals' character has a cowlick, sugar?" ("___")
- MEDIA, DARLING (42A: "What are oils and watercolors examples of, dear?" "___")
- BEANIE, BABY (56A: "What do you call a close-fitting hat, doll? "___")
Idli or idly (/ˈɪdliː/; plural: idlis) is a type of savoury rice cake, originating from South India, popular as a breakfast food in India and in Sri Lanka. The cakes are made by steaming a batter consisting of fermented de-husked black lentils and rice. The fermentation process breaks down the starches so that they are more readily metabolised by the body.
Idli has several variations, including rava idli, which is made from semolina. (wikipedia)
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| ["CLOCHE, BABY!"] |
The two words that are most likely to throw people today are YASSIFY (23A: Heavily edit with beauty filters, as a photo, in modern lingo) and IDLI. The latter has appeared in the puzzle twice before, but never this early in the week, and the former is (unsurprisingly) a debut. I know the term YASSIFY (though I'm not sure I could've told you *precisely* what it meant), but it didn't matter much if I knew it because I had its first and last letters already in place before I ever looked at the clue, so it just sort of wrote itself in. Nothing else it could've been. From Merriam Webster dot com:
Yassify is likely a combination of yass, an interjection (used to [express] great excitement or enthusiasm for a thing) that arose in New York City’s Ballroom scene, a Black and Latino LGBTQ+ subculture, and the suffix ify, “make or form into.”As for IDLI ... remembering it was probably my biggest triumph of the day. I feel like I'm constantly trying to remember short food names that have come into (my) crossword consciousness only recently, and they keep falling out of my brain. I mean, ask me how to spell BIRYANI? Is that right? Hey, it is! Wow, I'm on a roll (which is not how you eat BIRYANI) (is it? no, pretty sure it's not). I think the puzzle did give me the initial "I" as a head start, but I got IDLI from there and I feel pretty good about it. I had less luck in the west, where I whiffed on far more ordinary (to me) things. The big error du jour was EDUCATION for ERUDITION (32D: Quality of a scholar). This led me to imagine (briefly) that an updo exposed your ENDS (?) (like the ends ... of your hair?). I also had SEEDS and not RINDS at 46A: Watermelon leftovers, a much more understandable error, and that helped gunk things up for a bit. LORD before LADY Bridgerton (40D: Noble title on TV's "Bridgerton"). I also needed help getting from [Moral justification] to RIGHTNESS, which just seems like another word for "correctness." Had not thought of the word as having a moral component. "Righteous," sure. But RIGHTNESS was slightly unexpected.
OK, that's it. See you next time. Oh, and happy birthday to my (manuka) honey :) We're always asking each other (cryptic) crossword clues, so I hope this birthday puzzle resonates for her, at least a little (my questions aren't this dumb, though, are they, honey? ... are they!?)
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74 comments:
Easy-Medium, about what I expect on a Tuesday.
Overwrites:
sped before TORE for the 6A mad driving
@Rex Lord before LADY for the noble title at 40D
WOEs:
YASSIFY at 23A
IDLI at 45D
I had 31D in place, but before I read the clue I was trying to make sense of it as CAME RASHY (something poison ivy-related, perhaps?)
Yeah, I thought the theme was cute too. But the clue questions are a little... anyway, they're just coded clues to get you to the cute answers! They kind of don't have to be realistic. Needed every cross for IDLI, that's for sure. And YASSIFY. 8:20 for me which I guess is medium for Tuesday for me. Thanks, Stella, for a cute and sunshiny theme for this murky Tuesday morning! : )
ETSY shows 4 retired Beanie Babies worth $15,000! (Somebody’s heard of them.) I’m sure you’ll do great in class, Rex. Relax!😌
Well alright - Stella got her groove back today. I usually love her Stumpers but she doesn’t disappoint on this stormy Tuesday morning. Fun but nuanced theme - dense with no revealer and well filled overall. ALFALFA HONEY is top notch.
TORE Down a la Rimbaud
Adult-level fill all around. RIGHTNESS, CAMERA SHY, ERUDITION etc are all wonderful. Rex discusses YASSIFY which will be the bitching point today - although ESSAY is a gimme for the cross. The RABIN - EGYPT pair is certainly timely. IDLI and dosa are cousins but I prefer the crispy dosa.
Kraftwerk
Highly enjoyable Tuesday morning solve.
Chet Baker
Mostly easy, but I don't know why oils and watercolors are examples of "media," and I filled in YASSIFY at the very end without expecting the music to sound. Got IDLI from the crosses. A quick solve, partly due to luck.
IMHO, the clue for 60A is incorrect. An "order from the doc's office" is, slangly, a "script," as in this from CVS's website: "Get your scripts on your time." "Scrip" is quasi currency or a scrap of writing, the latter arguably in the ballpark for a note from a prescription pad, but I vote no on that being a proper clue.
Oils and watercolors are used by mediums to contact deceased people in the underworld.
Whenever Rex says "super short write-up today!" it isn't. :)
Good puzzle, fun theme. I disagree with Rex's need to pick apart the plausibility of the theme answers, critiquing whether people would "forget" the word BEANIE. That's... not the point of the puzzle. They're fun little word-play answers, with endearing terms embedded in them! Enjoy! Not everything has to be REAL WORLD ACCURATE in a puzzle!
ALFALFA HONEY certainly exists, but if you gave me ___ honey as a clue, 'alfalfa' would not be one of the top 20 guesses. 'Creamed' honey would have fit in that spot, and maybe let you get rid of YASSIFY and TOLD YA.
No objection to IDLI or YASSIFY appearing in a puzzle, but I don't think either one belongs on a Tuesday. Puzzle would have been just right on Wednesday.
Hey All !
Glancing sideways at RIGHTNESS. Is that, um, right?
Nice little puz, the Themer questions seem like couples who still use pet names. I suppose after a while, they tail off.
YASSIFY, related to YAS QUEEN I'm guessing.
Good F use in the puz. 😁
Easy, but indeed tougher than YesterPuz. Normal time here. Had oNeSEC in until the end. When the crossers weren't working, was able to see INASEC. A new KeaLoa, that. Along with NODS/NOMS.
Welp, have a great Tuesday!
Five F's
RooMonster
DarrinV
How can you not adore a puzzle radiating love in clue and answer?
Such an original and fun theme from a pro who’s had spark-filled puzzles in the Times for 21 years.
Speaking of love, I loved uncovering those beautiful side-by-side nines CAMERA SHY and ERUDITION, not to mention unknown-to-me YASSIFY, whose playfulness energetically pressed my happy button.
That word, by the way, is serendipitously emphasized by having its YASS crossing a backward YASS (of ESSAY), and having its end echoed by FIE.
The word BEAN has just been ordinary to me, like “desk” or “sock”, but has started taking on a sweet cuteness vibe after last week’s TOE BEANS and today’s BEANIE BABIES.
Your puzzle, Stella, was a mood lifter of the first order – thank you!
[What was that Russian autocrat Peter’s nickname, angel?]
THEGREATPUMPKIN
I thought this was a very nice Tuesday puzzle and enjoyable. Alas, a nit. Be it NOTED that a penalty call in soccer is not necessarily a CARD (red or yellow). It is simply a foul committed in the penalty area by the defense.
About the best I can muster up for this one is an unenthusiastic “It’s ok”. I got the theme right away with SUMMER LOVE - which wasn’t so much of an AHA as it was an OH, NO. The clues on the theme entries seem too contrived for my taste, which set the tone for the rest of the solve.
I also couldn’t get very excited about the fill. I just don’t get jazzed staring at things like YASSIFY, IDLI and even RIGHTNESS looks less than thrilled to be with us today.
The puzzle is fine, and checks all of the necessary boxes, so I’m sure others will be more enthusiastic. I just didn’t feel any energy with this one.
If you ever watched the Little Rascals (for those of us over aged 50 anyway), there is no way you're forgetting Alfalfa.
Hi Bob. If you go into an art museum and look at the little placards next to a work of art, it may say oil on canvas”, oil on wood, watercolor on paper, etc., and there can be “mixed media,” like combos of digital photography AND paint. I’m sure an actual artist like Les can explain it much better than me!
She's my SUMMERLOVE in the spring, fall, and winter
She can make happy, any man alive
Excellent!
When will Shortz realize that the Heckelphone is *not* a member of the oboe family. It is related to the bassoon and generally played by bassoonists. The only thing they have in common is a double reed, so you might as well say that bagpipes are related to the oboe (they are not!).
Good one Lewis!
As with everyone else...WOEs were IDLI and YASSIFY. Never heard of either of them. But it was a fun puzzle.
The point of the question about the olympics is that Summer Olympics occur in leap years, and the Winter Olympics occur in non-leap years, and the asker couldn't remember which was which. A more plausible question: "Which Olympics occur in leap years?"
A more plausible question for media might have been "What is that term we use for newspapters, magazines, radio, and TV?"
Crossword themers from the Bickersons:
What's that holiday where everyone eats too much, skag?
THANKSGIVINGTURKEY
When's your birthday, pea brain?
APRILFOOL
What are you thinking we'll do in bed tonight, dodo?
CRASHDUMMY.
If I'd say I'd had IDLI IDLIe
This was a real fun theme. I don't buy into @Rex's complaint that this isn't how conversations go in the real world. It is funny precisely because of the absurdity. Thanks for the chuckles, Stella Zawistowski.
Fun puzzle….as always!
As I am a west coast, not super early solver, I rarely comment…..but I’m in Nova Scotia just now so….voila!
I’ve been wanting to ask where you do Cryptics…and it seems an appropriate day given @Rex’s final comment 🙂.
I learned via Colin Dexter’s book and got pretty good with The New Yorker (probably the “USA Today of cryptics…) but would like to get better.
So whatchya got cryptic-ers? @joe dipinto, @Carola, @Bocamp, @Mathgent, @Liveprof
Nice hat tip for Robert Hunter!
That was a fun Tuesday, one of the best I’ve done in a while. Snappy, modern fill and the theme didn’t make me retch.
I would expect no less from Stella Zawistowski - for those that don’t know, she’s the Cryptics editor for AVCX. If you like cryptics, check them out!
Today I learned YASSIFY. I won't remember it and I'll never use it, but I found it the most puzzling and interesting word in the puzzle. I had to figure out the derivation, I just HAD to!
I thought and thought. I tried to come up with both wordplay and acronyms, but nothing worked. There had to be an explanation for such a strange word. I finally gave up and Googled.
Well, if you don't know that YASS is a brand-new slang word for excitement, you're not going to figure it out. When did YASS sneak into the English language? Do I need to know more 25-year-olds? 14-year-olds? And is this a word that Scrabble would accept? I haven't played Scrabble in decades and it's probably just as well.
Oh, the rest of the puzzle? It gave me more of a mental workout than any Tuesday puzzle in a long time. The theme was cute, the clues were interesting (EGYPT; EARS) , the fill was sophisticated (CAMERA SHY; ERUDITION) and there was no crosswordese at all. I liked it a lot. Should I call this a really YASS puzzle?
Pretty much what OFL said, right down to wanting CLOCHE before BEANIE. Caught on right away with SUMMERLOVE, which seemed like a common phrase, but then was momentarily derailed by ALFALFAHONEY, which didn't. The other themers were more in the language, so fine.
TIL SASSIFY, which is a delightful word but a process with which I am unfamiliar. But my favorite thing today was both the clue --Savory South Asian rice cake--and the answer-- IDLI, which took me back to my early solving days when clues for things I had never heard of led to unlikely combinations of letters. Those were the days.
Nice Tuesday, SZ. Sorta Zoomed through most of it and learned some stuff. Thanks for all the fun.
When OFL says it’s a short write-up or he purports to be flustered I read the blog out loud as quickly as I can and sometimes even try to do it in one breath (yes, I realize I need a new hobby). It gives the post an air of drama.
Also not a huge fan of this. I am, however, a fan of football/soccer and the clue to 25 Down is flat out wrong. A penalty is awarded for a foul in the 18-yard-box and is indicated by the referee raising their arm and pointing to the spot 12 yards from the goal where the penalty shot will be taken. It does not require that either a yellow or red card be shown to the offender. Those are reserved for egregious and/or endangering fouls committed anywhere on the pitch.
For some reason this one came to me much easier than most Tuesdays, even tho I didn’t know dIDLI. Or YASSIFY. It’s full of fun word-play and no PPP or crosswordese (that I can recall). Every Tuesday should be this loveable! Also love @egsforbreakfast’s suggested themers.
Shortening "triceps" to "tris" is something no one has ever done. Stick with baseball HOF member Speaker.
Good Grateful Dead reference, Cho. Like it!
The constructor is a serious weight-lifter, I'm guessing they are called TRIS in that niche.
I used to frequent a now-shuttered blog called the National Post Cryptic Crossword Forum, which published cryptics by the ace team of Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon - known for short as "Hex." These cryptics are still available in the blog archive. Here's a sample page: click on the highlighted phrase "This puzzle from Cox and Rathvon" under Introduction to bring up the puzzle. In the list of blog posts on the right of the screen you'll see two more Hex puzzles. As you'll see, the archive goes back quite a while - have fun mining it!
I also used to do the occasional Saturday cryptic in the Washington Post but am not sure if they're still being offered. I hope @mathgent can help out here.
I loved the theme, loved learning YASSIFY, loved the CAMERA-SHY person crossing the MEDIA DARLING, the TORE, REVS, RIDES affinity group, and SCENT and SCENE waving at each other across the grid.
YAkS before YAPS, but I fortunately checked the crosses before puttin in eArl for the noble title.
I agree with @Beezer, art people talk all the time about what medium they work in; and while I don't eat much honey, I've certainly seen the alfalfa vaRIETY.
My father was a pharmacist and he called them "prescriptions," but the language has evolved since he retired 35 years ago.
Cute and lighthearted, fun to solve. BEANIE, BABY! was my favorite, mostly because of the witty creativity in coming up with it, but also because it was the only one I got without crosses. A previous puzzle's "YASS Queen" helped a lot today!
The Wall Street Journal had one on Sept. 20. I'd guess they have one a month. As I recall (from long ago when I used to do them), they usually have a little extra (fiendish) twist to them. Good luck!
Do either of these dresses make me look fat, Hon?
THE BLUE, ANGEL
Thanks, Beezer. I don't frequent art galleries. I think the clue is too specific to the art "medium" (???).
I disagree. It's fingered like an oboe and to my ear it sounds more like an english horn or oboe than a bassoon. It's a weird hybrid
Easy. Me too for Lord before LADY but that was it for costly erasures…
and yes, I did not know YASSIFY. The rest was cake as I had none of the other missteps that @Rex had.
Something I recently learned from another puzzle - IDLI
Amusing theme, not much junk, fun Tuesday, liked it.
Thanks Anon 9:59; you made me LOL.
I'm surprised Rex thinks the theme clues need to be questions that would actually be posed by one's beau. I'm thinking Stella wanted wackiness to ensure and it pretty much did for me.
I did go way over my usual Tuesday time for several reasons. I figured 23A would be YASSIFY but was momentarily blank on the comic SANS font. I assume YASSIFY is related to the weird YASS Queen crossword answer we've seen before (possibly as YAZ?).
The big hold-up was NOmS for 36D. Now that I re-read the clue, I see that "nominations" precludes NOmS as the answer. In any case, trying to find a term of endearment that was mARL_N_ , especially crossing the unknown IDLI, took up more time than usual.
I always enjoy Stella Zawistowski puzzles and am especially glad when I see her name as constructor or editor of the AVCX Cryptics. Thanks, Stella!
This is a good example of how knowing a lot about a subject isn’t always helpful. I’ve never played soccer and have watched very few games, but I had the R and CARD immediately popped into my head.
I almost wish I had not chosen to solve this downs-only because, as some of the themers came into view, I was intrigued and then, as I began to get the theme, amused. And I had yet to see the goofy, but clever, across clues. Might have been more fun solved traditionally. Either way, a nice Tuesday.
As is normal for a D-O solve, the toughest parts were the longer downs, especially those in the NE and SW. I must boast, though that, while CAMERA SHY took a while, I did drop in ERUDITION with no crosses. I don’t know why. It just happened. Sometimes you get lucky.
It’s 10:50 pm Pacific time and, of course , Rex hasn’t posted yet but I’m going to guess that he’s going to have issues with SUMMER LOVE. He’ll say it’s not a thing, that it should be summer OF love, referring to some late sixties period that he never actually experienced. But SUMMER LOVE is a thing. Like when, in junior high, I was madly in love with Rose Tom for three months, and then I wasn’t. Pissed her parents off royally and I was suddenly persona non grata in their little corner store and had to get my friends to go in and buy my cigarettes for me. Rose understood, but her parents thought we would get married. Sheesh. Tough on me, almost certainly a lot tougher on her.
As a painter, MEDIA DARLING was particularly amusing. Nice work Stella.
¿En serio? Deberías haberme escuchado.
What's that ass in the puzzle, hon? It's a MULE DEER.
Low gunk and a weird sorta-(un?)funny theme.
There is honey that comes in a bear, and honey that does not come in a bear. That's everything I feel is knowable about honey.
YASSIFY, amirite? You serve it on IDLI with a heapin' helpin' of FIE.
@SharonAK (yesterday)
If I was going to dump tea in Boston harbor, I would want to do it with you. 😉
❤️ OOHS AND AAHS. A pox on thee!
People: 4
Places: 2
Products: 4
Partials: 6
Foreignisms: 0
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Gary's Grid Gunk Gauge: 16 of 76 (21%)
Funny Factor: 1 🤨
Uniclues:
1 Liberty Mutual cuts its advertising budget.
2 Soiled member of a late 90s craze.
3 Applesplaining.
4 Bathing beauty.
5 A family-sized box of Cheerios, or a romantic goal.
1 EMU LORE EASES
2 AS IS BEANIE BABY
3 POMES ERUDITION
4 STERILE LADY
5 ENDLESS OOHS (~)
My Fascinating Crossword Uniclue Keepsake from Last Year: In other news, the anti-pirate parent's league of Seton Hall have successfully lobbied to have all shoulder-based birds banned from athletic activities. NCAA MACAW DQED.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Great stuff, @egs!
I subscribe to the AVCX puzzles, which include mini crosswords, full size crosswords, occasional trivia or variety puzzles and twice-monthly Cryptics. Twice a month is right for me - two weeks is about how long it takes me to solve them (or give up.)
All the Cox & Rathvon cryptics, 1977-2023, can be found at https://coxrathvon.com. Since they retired, the Wall Street Journal has cryptics by other people every 4th Saturday. The next one will be Sat. 10/18/25.
Extremely easy. Sure, there are a couple of WTFs, but YASSIFY and IDLI solve themselves with the crosses.
And nothing to complain about.
"Whose apple is that, kitten?"
"Teacher's, pet."
I was afraid Rex would complain that a very similar theme (broader terms of address, not this more specific terms of endearment) had already been done back in May this year (https://rexwordpuzzle.blogspot.com/2025/05/mythological-instruments-of-vengeance.html), so I was surprised to hear him call it original. But I liked the theme both times (liked it the first time to remember it this second go-round), so I was happy enough for the repeat. HONEY was in both, though the last one was WILD HONEY, which is much more familiar. The theme answers to the last one were:
"CHEESE, DOG!" (17A: "Smile for the photo, dude!")
"DELIVERY, MAN!" (24A: "Work on your enunciation, bro!")
"TWISTED, SISTER!" (33A: "That is messed up, girl!")
"BLOCK, BUSTER!" (49A: "Protect the quarterback, buddy!")
"WILD, HONEY!" (57A: "That's unbelievable, love!")
I think the set from May was probably cleaner in the way Rex is critiquing here—the phrases do sound more like things one might say in the reimagined form. There was also a greater breadth of scenarios being imagined whereas the ones today were all factual questions. But today’s set has a tighter constraint in all being terms of endearment. I liked them both.
Honey Bunny is Amanda Plummer's character in Pulp Fiction. And you know what is her boyfriend's name? Pumpkin, of course!
A bit of SATAY-IDLI YASSIFYIN, in this here love-puppy. Fun solvequest.
staff weeject picks of only 10 choices: BCC & BFF. The B-team.
other fave stuff: SKULL & FANG [gearin up for Halloween].
other good stuff: INRESERVE. CAMERASHY. TOLDYA.
Thanx for the fun, Ms. Zawistowski darlin. Also, luv yer Vulture website almost-runtpuzs, btw.
Masked & Anonymo4Us
... if U don't blink, you'll miss somethin, here ...
"Fill in the Blinks" - 7x7 12 min. nearly themed runt puzzle:
**gruntz**
M&A
Idli, Vada, Dosa. The holy trinity of south India
@Anonymous 7:36 am, not all penalties are cards, but a CARD is a penalty indicator. It's a clue!
I do all the weekday puzzles, so I must have done the one Dr Random cites. But even after reading the clever entries, I can't recall it. I suppose that's what's called selective memory.
@Dr Random, thanks! I missed that puzzle somehow. I'll save it for later when I've totally forgotten your list of answers.
Oops... once again I started out doing it down clues only, and then forgot and looked at several across clues. Oh well, okay theme for Tuesday. Today I learned YASSIFY. If I say it over and over I may remember it; probably not so for IDLI.
Rita ORA again! But where's my TINE?
I have a comment responding to Rex, (tho I know he’s busy today): For the answer to 42D Rex says ”The only sane response to that question [“What are oils and watercolors examples of, dear?" “___"] is "PAINTS, DARLING.” But “media” (today’s correct response) can be made to work as a less obvious answer. (For example if someone had just said “TV and Radio are examples of media, so are books and newspapers? Can you think of any other examples, dear?”).
The word “media” makes 42D a bit of a mini-riddle, mini-curveball or minor challenge —within a fun world of mini-riddles and minor challenges. To insist on only obvious answers seems out of tune.
Alfalfa is a character in Our Gang, honey was in response to the question ending in ‘honey’ a term of endearment.
Sadly, Joe Dipinto passed away over a year ago. Something the other day made me think back fondly of his comments, knowledge and wisdom.
+1, beat my Monday time. Just in our wheelhouses, I guess
Good grief! I made every initial error as OFL. Education for ERUDITION, Ends for EARS, seeds for RINDS and lady for LORD. Corrections slowed me down but not hideously. I was today years old when I first saw YASSIFY, and have used IDLI in ouzzles maybe twic
@Gary."There is honey that comes in a bear, and honey that does not come in a bear. That's everything I feel is knowable about honey."
I strongly suspect you are trying to be funny, and you are, but I must point out that a lot of those honeys in adorable little squeeze bottles often contain honey from various places around the world, many of which have no regulations regarding pesticide use. Check the label. I avoid honey that has Indian or Chinese content. This is easy for me to do because I live in a rural area and am often able to purchase directly from local apiarists. There must be some in your neighbourhood but, even if you can't locate them, their products may show up in the smaller, independent grocery stores. You'll definitely find them at farmers' markets. My faves: those varieties made by bees whose hives have been situated in blueberry fields or cranberry bogs. Yes, they do taste different.
Oops—I didn’t think of the spoiler dynamic. Sorry to take away the chance to do that puzzle right away—it was a delight.
Stella's puzzles are usually tough on Vulture.com (she alternates with Malaika) but those puzzles prepared me for seeing YASSIFY today.
Very easy, but fun one to do. Would be a good intro to puzzling, I think.
That’s the only way I refer to them in my MWF weights and abs routine.
Thanks @Beezer, for throwing me under the bus. I might be able to explain a few things but I might just make things fuzzier. Let's try. At the most obvious level my medium is paint. I have friends whose media are sculpture, collage, video, performance, etc., but I mostly paint. It is my medium, my way of getting my message out (though I don't consider myself a "message" kind of guy; I'm more inclined to ask questions, challenge assumptions).
Subsection A: Oil is the medium for my paint. I paint in acrylics also, but we are going to ignore that for the moment. I'm shit at watercolour so we're gonna ignore that forever. Oil is the base into which the colours (pigments) I need to use are added. Oil is the conveyor of the colours just like a medium (or the media) is a conveyor of information.
Subsection B: When I'm mixing oils on my painting table (a 2 x 6 foot glass topped monster that I've been using for at least 30 years) and the consistency is not right, I can mix in some painting medium. Linseed oil is my favoured medium for this and there are various thicknesses available. For watercolours (about which I said we'd not speak but, what the hell, here we are) water is your medium. Hence, oil and water are media.
Please keep in mind that I have been using these terms for more than 50 years without questioning them so trying to break them down this morning may be as confusing to me as it is to you ... but it was kind of fun to try.
I have a bone to pick with 15 across - “These are visible when you sport an updo.” There are many updos that hide the ears. I should know. I wore such a style for my wedding (to my now ex-husband).
- Big Ears Beckster.
@Dr Random, no criticism intended by me. It is a puzzle from 5 months ago after all!
Dang, @egs. I want your brain power! Great stuff today.
Roo
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