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Filtered food for whales / MON 4-20-26 / Move in a hurry, old-style / "I need to use the bathroom" / Sweetie, to Brits / Bathroom, informally / What coins are exchanged for at an arcade / "Sauer" hot dog topping
Monday, April 20, 2026
Constructor: Freddie Cheng
Relative difficulty: Easy (even though I failed my Downs-only solve)
Theme answers:
- TWO OF HEARTS (16A: Low red card in a deck) (dog!)
- CHOO-CHOO TRAINS (21A: Locomotives, to kids) (owl!)
- "THIS SUCKS" (28: "The worst!") (snake!)
- METRO AREA (38A: City and its surroundings) (lion!)
- "NO TROUBLE AT ALL" (43A: "Don't mention it — it was easy") (sheep! wait, goat?)
Krill (Euphausiids) (sg.: krill) are small and exclusively marine crustaceans of the order Euphausiacea, found in all of the world's oceans. The name "krill" comes from the Norwegian word krill, meaning "small fry of fish", which is also often attributed to species of fish.Krill are considered an important trophic level connection near the bottom of the food chain. They feed on phytoplankton and, to a lesser extent, zooplankton, and are also the main source of food for many larger animals. In the Southern Ocean, one species, the Antarctic krill, makes up an estimated biomass of around 379 million tonnes (418 million tons), making it among the species with the largest total biomass. Over half of this biomass is eaten by whales, seals, penguins, seabirds, squid, and fish each year. Most krill species display large daily vertical migrations, providing food for predators near the surface at night and in deeper waters during the day.
Krill are fished commercially in the Southern Ocean and in the waters around Japan. The total global harvest amounts to 150,000 to 200,000 tonnes (170,000 to 220,000 tons) annually, mostly from the Scotia Sea. Most krill catch is used for aquaculture and aquarium feeds, as bait in sport fishing, or in the pharmaceutical industry. Krill are also used for human consumption in several countries. They are known as okiami (ăȘăăąă) in Japan and as camarones in Spain and the Philippines. In the Philippines, they are also called alamang and are used to make a salty paste called bagoong.
Krill are also the main food for baleen whales, including the blue whale. (wikipedia)
TORO was on my mind because I had a whole TORO bullet point yesterday. I would've gotten TORO anyway, but the coincidence of having it appear again the day after I discussed it gave me a little jolt of "hey! there it is again!" Yesterday we got the fatty tuna type of TORO. Today, we get a decidedly more Monday TORO. There were no really tough parts of the Downs-only solve for me today (beyond the Morse Code disaster). I did not (at all) like PLAYS as the answer for 12D: What coins are exchanged for at an arcade. Coins buy PLAYS, if that's what you want to call them, but "exchanged?" That's an awkward, unnatural way to put it. I really wanted some equivalent of TOKENS here. I had no idea what the last word of ["Sometimes you just gotta ___"] was gonna be. DANCE? PAUSE? SAY 'F*** IT'? Needed a bunch of crosses to get "LAUGH," but they weren't hard to come by. I also screwed up and wrote in SEGA instead of SONY (33D: PlayStation maker) and KRULL instead of KRILL (32D: Filtered food for whales). Why? I blame being an adolescent boy when this movie came out:
I think that'll do for today. See you next time.
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94 comments:
Seriously? I mean, ... --- ... is common knowledge--even my kids know it and I'm only a few years older than @Rex. It was more medium difficulty for me (I was just over my average time for Monday), but I enjoyed it more than OFL.
“Seriously?” đ congrats on your knowledge of totally useless information (I, a dummy like Rex, needed crosses for the Morse answer)
I’m about ten years younger than Rex, but my decidedly Boomer parents made sure to teach me the Morse code for SOS. I think the wisdom was that I might need it if I were stranded at sea or something, the same reason swimming lessons started with the dead man’s float, neither of which I will likely ever need.
…until today! Had that sucker of a Morse code answer right at my fingertips!
We recently watched some of Krull (my husband loved it as an adolescent) and man oh man. It is outrageously and hilariously terrible.
I mean Morse code is hardly the only useless information that fills up many crossword puzzles. I also think the answer is common knowledge, I’m also around Rex’s age — difference is that my father was a ham radio operator so I’ve got both Morse code and NATO alphabet embedded in my brain.
Well, before I got out of the NW, I needed crosses for TEMPT and AWARE, I needed memory plunges for PRO BOWL, and PRADO, not to mention for the spelling of PENH. And boom! I was involved.
As opposed to feeling robotic, mindlessly filling a Monday.
This is how Mondays should be – easy but involving. Newer solvers are as smart as veterans. They can handle no-knows and tougher clues like [Specialty] if there are easier crosses. And there are today.
All the better if there is beauty sprinkled throughout the grid, such as NICHE, KRILL, TRAIPSE, and EARWIG.
A lovely touch is that none of the animal sounds are embedded within words; each connects a pair of words, such as ROAR connecting METRO AREA. That is a step up in constructing elegance.
Your stellar puzzle, Freddy, left me anything but disGRUNTled. Thank you for a splendid outing!
Like a lot of oldsters, I know one thing and one thing only in Morse code, and that’s SOS. So no problem there. My difficulties, such as they were, came in the SW, where my FORTE was giving the wrong answer for [Specialty]. It took a moment to get that untangled. By what an I say? I yam what I yam. And sometimes you just gotta BE YOU. (Also a big slowdown today.)
Speaking of cats, they do act as if they are the hoMEOWners at times, don’t they?
Hey All !
Chalk me up as an inner 8 yo, as I got a chuckle out of the Revealer. Neat idea to have NATURE CALLS as Themers to double up on the meaning. We all use the bathroom, can't we laugh about it?
44 Blockers, high count today. Normal max is 38. The extra 6 are all Cheater Squares. Well, there's actually 2 Blockers that are at the beginning and end of the 14 long Themers, so technically they aren't Cheaters.
Anyway, thought puz was good, liked SAVVY in SE corner. Fill good. Correct toughness/easiness for a MonPuz. Nice one, Freddie.
Hope y'all have a great Monday!
Two F's
RooMonster
DarrinV
I don’t know Morse code but I know any Morse code a puzzle expects me to know will probably be SOS
I enjoyed the cute little theme and at least got a grin out of the reveal. I had the tiniest of speed bumps trying to put together that LAV, LUV combo and finally settling on SAVVY.
Other than that, the only difficulty for me was remembering what an EARWIG is and figuring out how to spell NIAGARA.
Beautiful as a crossword entry, I'll give you, but to me EARWIGs are more EWW!
The Anti Bowl is much more fun that the PRO BOWL. It features the worst players in the league. You know, most of the Jets.
I chuckled at 28 and 34 across. The Times keeps proving that she sure ain’t staid anymore. A bit hard for a Monday but enjoyed the solve.đđđđ
I spent a lot of time wondering if kids still call them CHOO-CHOO TRAINS, now that virtually all trains are either electric or diesel, and don't make that characteristic sound. Although come to think of it we once took a train in Italy--I think from Assisi to Siena--that did have a steam engine. I do have a 10-year old grandson, maybe I'll ask my daughter what he called them when he was 4.
I did have to learn Morse code in Boy Scouts, but I never saw that entry in the puzzle.
OK, gotta run, the car needs a new clutch.
Hated the puzzle, but loved the Argentina mention from Rex!
Greetings from Buenos Aires
Monday morning is not a bad time for bathroom chuckles - this was cute enough and an overall well filled early week puzzle. CHOO CHOO TRAINS is solid.
HEM
Funny Morse code discussion. Liked HOIST, NICHE and SAVVY. C CELL is unfortunate.
Enjoyable enough Monday morning solve.
TWO HEARTS
Growing up, whenever we used a bad word we had to throw 25 cents into a jar. The cOIN Kitty got pretty big pretty fast.
Easy-Medium, or so, agreed.
NATURE CALLS. Hm. Yeah, this EWW aspect of the revealer that we are supposed to find humorous on some level. I feel already a little worn down by the barrage of juvenile sensibility which has become typical, so I'm afraid my own reaction to this was more of a shoulder shrug than THIS SUCKS ASS. Just like I feel worn down by the daily doses of insanity coming from the administration, where sad shakes of my head are now neck and neck with screams at my screen, where there's only so much outrage I can sustain, the ten-year-olds at the NYTXW have worn me down with all their stupid tee-hees. (I seem to have missed @Gary these past few days.) So I do not feel, today, the same level of annoyance as Rex at toilet euphemisms; maybe tomorrow it would be different. Moving on...
Funny how one can hear a word all one's life and never quite know its precise meaning. Yes, I'm talking about me; the "one" is a device for blunting my embarrassment over the fact that I thought TRAIPSE meant walking with some sort of tip-toeing delicacy, as through the tulips, not slogging along thuddingly. Learn something new every day!
SOS. Yeah, I don't know the Morse alphabet or anything, but some things you just know because... somewhere you've picked it up just living life. It's pretty well-known I think, for people my age and older, which is a little older than Rex. Not outlandish for a Monday.
I'd better get a move-on. I'll check back later.
My downs-only solve failed on PLAYS, not SOS. I got the Y of OBEY, but AS-, LI-, and IR- each could have been lots of letters, and - as Rex mentions - PLAYS is an odd answer there. Tried running the alphabet on AS- to see if a first letter would help me see something but P—YS didn’t help at all. Oh well. Didn’t mind the bathroom humor.
Morse Code is probably one of those ham radio type hobbies where modern people actually do know it. But that’s not why almost everyone is aware of SOS = …- - -… it’s just one of those osmotic pieces of trivia that you have for some reason.
I didn’t even make the association of NATURE CALLS with a bathroom euphemism. If I have to use the bathroom, I just go do it. Usually people ask “where were you?” And I tell them that I had to use the bathroom and they decide that letting their curiosity get the better of them doesn’t always pay.
Also, I’m still somewhat new to crosswords. This was the 480th in my streak. So I’m happy to announce my Monday personal best of 5:02! And that’s after spending the weekend in the hospital. I’m home and recovering now.
Roo, chalked up your inner 8 yo and await further reaction to the theme from Gary. Seeing my 6 yo grandkid today who would likely also be amused. Ha!
Impressive way to put the animal sounds in random phrases, then tie everything together with a (human) bathroom reference. All in all a bit silly.
Ditto to anonymous 7:29: I don’t know anything at all about Morse Code, but I filled in SOS without thinking. It was one of those lucky crosswordese guesses - useless, mindless info lodged somewhere in my brain from decades of crossword puzzles.
@jberg, agreed. The only thing more EWW than an EARWIG is imaging such a thing as a noseWIG… :)
@tht…I might have been an itsy bit closer to the meaning of TRAIPSE than you, but not much. I tend to inject a “tramping,” tromping,” or “trampling” such that any tulips involved would be smashed to the ground…but now I know “weariness” is involved.
100% downs only success!! Yeah, baby!!
A perfectly serviceable Monday offering that didn’t really ring any chimes for me. Hmmm. Yep, I just toggled back to look at the grid and not much to say except, given what we no know about PFAs/PFOAs…does TEFLON still exist? (I’ll look) Also, like @Southside Johnny…I always start out depriving the falls and river of the second A…because I’m sure I must not “hear” it, and I know I don’t stick in the “guhra” when I say it.
King Charles' kids, nieces, nephews et al are kicking up so much of a stir that they're known as the ROIL Family.
When Melania learned that there is a shortage of Teaching Assistants she started a new program: BETAS.
I don't know Morse Code, but I do know two examples. One is, of course, SOS. The other is from Oh Dear (Miss Morse) by Pearls Before Swine, the chorus of which consists of a catchy melodic rendition of a nasty word in Morse Code. This may strike you oddly, but this was 1967 when you didn't just go and use the F word on albums. In case you need to use it, it goes:
Dit Dit Dah Dit
Dit Dit Dah
Dah Dit Dah Dit
Dah Dit Dah
I've heard of a Barred Owl and a Great Horned Owl, but a Probowl is new to me.
I did finish the D.O. solve. Thanks for a good Monday puzzle, Freddie Cheng.
Had enough fun with this Monday to give it a thumbs up. I (who just announced new grandfaterhood) have not yet graduated from appreciating bathroom humor so I for one *did* chuckle at the revealer. When I saw it crossed with LAV, rather than say EWW, I was more like, "Oh neat!" Don't judge me.
I thought all the themers, though maybe not marquee, were solid long entries.
Thanks Freddie, I like this.
On to Monday's Hugh's Haikus:
Be AWARE of CLOWNs
They TEMPT you with SILLY LAUGHs
NATURE CALLS, see ya!
Just for the record, the wheelchair marathoners are in Natick right now1 As for the puzzle, I wonder who thinks TRAIPSE means 'walk wearily? I thought it was like gad about.
...---... is (was?) also part of the SOS scouring pads commercials. You could hear the nine tones in it. Like so many others, 1) it's the only thing I know in Morse code, and 2) it should be your default answer for any 3-letter Morse Code clue.
Lots of common knowledge is generally useless information. Looking at the comments so far, SOS in Morse Code is pretty common knowledge.
It's just also funny because Rex frequently knows, say, 16th century Italian poets because he teaches them. But then a more banal answer like SOS or Rick Steves stumps him.
They still keep some around for a dollop of quaintness. Are kids still watching Thomas the Tank Engine? They still have Thomas-themed parks with Choo-choo trains. And they still use a steam locomotive that runs up the Cog Railway on Mount Washington. There must be many more.
Maybe you can find it on YouTube, but NFL Films once did a piece (maybe a whole show?) they called it the Repus Bowl which featured the two worst teams in the league, Repus is of course Super backward.
Also, the opposite of Pro— in this context- is amateur.
One of these days I’ll work up my nerve to try a downs only solve…but today I already had S—S in place so SOS was even more of a lock than usual as the go-to Morse Code answer. Rex’s sharing of his frustration was refreshing! And always enjoy @RooMonster’s crossword tech-talk and construction reveals. TRAIPSE was a word my grandmother used to describe a wandering or meandering walk, nothing heavy-duty like a trudge. Dictionary definitions seem to vary and would be interesting to learn how many of us recall the heavy-duty implication.
I guess we know who won't be coming to save us when we send out our SOS.
sorry, Maybe I am a bit of an old-fashioned traditionalist but I have a problem with "THIS SUCKS". it is a phrase I would never say to my parents. But I guess when you have a POTUS who often uses the F-word this type of language is acceptable.
I loved the clever change of CALLS from a verb - NATURE CALLing one to the LAV - to a noun, so that the new NATURE CALLS have nothing to do with bathrooms, just those sounds you hear out in NATURE. For me, the only off-putting thing in the puzzle was the EARWIG - yes, a part of NATURE, as its placement in the grid underlines, but....
Maybe in the 1950's grade-schoolers were taught the Morse code for SOS; it seems like I've always known it.
I didn't understand the ATM answer. Woulnd't a fully operational ATM also give "AMT" ("amount") information?
Easy. No WOEs and no erasures.
SOS was a gimme thanks to the Boy Scouts.
Smooth grid, colorful theme and a wee bit of colorful fill, liked it.
Croce Solvers. - Croce’s Freestyle #1106 was medium-tough for me mostly because I held on to wrong answer in the SW for way too long. Good luck!
Gotta say: this puztheme was a HOOT, among other things.
Always left wonderin, tho: Why shaded squares instead of The Circles? Reckon it's one of them tomaeto/tomahto dealies.
fave thing was the puz debut of THISSUCKS. Which HISS goes with, quite aptly.
staff weeject pick: AMT. LUVed its ATM clue, a rare MonPuz ?-marker one.
Primo universal weeject stacks: NW, NE, SW, SE, and puzgrid-central, btw.
fave moo-cow eazy-E MonPuz clue: {Comic figure at a circus} = CLOWN. But honrable mention, in @RP's re:Morse-less honor, of: {...---... in Morse} = SOS.
LAV LUV. Crossin NATURECALLS. har
Thanx for the fun, Mr. Cheng dude. But, what -- no MOO?!? On a Moonday?!?
Masked & Anonymo4Us
p.s.
LIL Runt puzzle:
**gruntz**
M&A
I know what you mean. The only thing I can think of is when the ATM “works” but is out of 10s so it might show that you can only get an AMT in $20 increments? (Like, you can’t get $50, but you can choose $40 or $60) Other than that…I’m clueless.
Swing and a miss. You need to split the words.
For example, the Superb Owl is an old ( and extremely tired) way to mock the Super Bowl.
AMT is "out of order" per the clue. In correct order it's ATM.
Given the revealer, SOS could have been clued as a reference to "Sh*t On a Shingle". Although 3 letters + Morse code is SOS without thinking to me.
Rex's remark about 8 year olds and knowing what LAV is took me down memory lane. At my Parochial grade school, the nuns always led us to the LAVatory. Perhaps bathroom was too much for their sensibilities, and toilet would be even more so. So I would have gotten the joke at age 8.
I thought the choo-choo of a train was its horn. While today's train honk is decidedly more than a mere choo-choo, I think the onomatopoeic quality is still discernible, maybe?
Freddie Cheng, thanks for an entertaining Monday puzzle.
“Out of order ATM?” ?=trick answer. ATM letters, when out of order = AMT (or TAM, or …..)
When fights erupt in our family on whether to have the salad on a plate or in a bowl, I am usually PRO BOWL.
Low red card is the two of diamonds. It was no problem figuring they meant hearts, but the clue was wrong. You'd only notice this if you did the across clues...
@GFR etc. I'm with you. I like to TRAIPSE around the countryside.
I thought this puzzle was a bit harder than a normal Monday. I liked the theme, I thought it was cute. I love animals though, so I'll like any theme having to do with animals (unless it's something sad like hunting them).
I didn't even see the Morse code clue because I solve acrosses before downs, and that down filled itself in with acrosses.
out of order atm. shift the order
Anonymous 6:25 am
SOS
The Morse code dots & dashes were completely irrelevant to me as with most of the responders. Especially on a Monday 3 letters had to be SOS. Anyway I think most people know that the Titanic telegraph operator desperately sent a constant S.O.S. signal in a futile effort to get help before the ship sank.It’s iconic still.
Lewis, jberg & Beezer
I remember earwigs from my childhood. When seen, something to be killed. But somehow, this was one of the few words I needed crosses for. (Maybe because I hadn’t thought about them for years) I did not have a EWW reaction though. They do not gross me out. Cockroaches on the other hand……..
This is an example of what I call themer bloat; 5 theme entries plus a reveal and an ominous dark cloud of black squares to make it all work. Not much room left for interesting fill to balance things out.
The 13 letter CHOO CHOO TRAIN doesn't match its symmetrically placed 14 letter NO TROUBLE AT ALL. Resorting to the POC (plural of convenience) was an easy solution but by lowering the degree of difficulty of finding matching letter count theme entries, the overall score for the puzzle is also lowered in my book.
Andy Freude
Your answer forte makes perfect sense. Fortunately, I didn’t think of it!
Beezer and tht
TRAIPSE I am almost 74 and had absolutely no idea of this meaning of the word. I do learn from crosswords!
I almost succeeded at down clues only, but there were just too many wrong guesses. ENAMEL before TEFLON, TOKEN before LIVES before PLAYS, BULL before TORO, LOO before LAV.
And some bizarre clues: "Sometimes you gotta ___" is LAUGH?... not my first or even my tenth guess from the clue alone. Only the L and the U from the theme answers helped me get that.
I really liked @Lewis's suggestion: "cats, they do act as if they are the hoMEOWners at times". Nice!
Hmmm. I very much doubt you were taught by nuns. Sisters? Yeah. But not nuns. The terms are not synonymous. Nor is bathroom and lavatory. Catholic women in religious communities which work out in the world, i.e., sisters, aren’t shrinking violets. They do some of the hardest and least desirable jobs on Earth. Saying the word toilet wouldn’t trouble them at all.
But of course mocking their sensibilities is fun and fashionable. Besides, nuns and sisters are perfect targets—-they don’t fight back.
A cute but easy D-O Monday. Not a lot of sparkle outside the theme. Three of the five themers and the revealer were nice. METRO AREA and TWO OF HEARTS were just OK.
Nothing really exciting in the downs. Only a few of them longer than five letters. Actually four of them - two at 6 and two at 7 - and they didn’t actually get my heart rate up.
Nice enough for Monday. Fairly tight, just not exciting.
Unlike morse code, the dead man's float is not completely useless, if you are stranded in a large body water you can use it to rest as you swim to shore (ineffective though in rough waters).
Morse code for SOS appeared in Nancy Drew books, so I knew that one!
Yes Beezer, they still make Teflon (PTFE) frying pans.I'm trying to phase them out of my kitchen, replacing them with ceramic coated ones. But there are other options available. At the moment I have 7 frying pans - 1 cast iron, 1 ceramic-coated, one carbon steel (my fave), 2 stainless steel, 1 PTFE Teflon, and one that I'm not sure about. It's an All-Clad, gifted to me by my son the chef gifted it to me. It looks like Teflon but I think it's PFOA-free. It had better be considering the price. The straight out Teflon one (11") is certainly handy, but I'm worried about toxicity. It might have to go.
Going to the bathroom is not funny, it can be many things but it has never made me laugh. The "humor" in bathroom humor comes from people being embarrassed about a natural function resulting nervous laughter to cover the embarrassment (of being bare assed perhaps).
Oh, I forgot my enamelled one, a 12" Staub that I use to make risotto, as well as chicken cacciatore and similar dishes.
There’s only one low red card?!
Your use of roil was laugh out loud funny. Pearls Before Swine was a favorite comic of mine back in the dead tree newspaper era.
All Nuns are Sisters but not all Sisters are Nuns, so a little confusion is expected. Agree that Sisters are wonderful (Sister Mother Teresa)
Nothing was said about the deck being used for bridge…?
@anon 2:02p I detected no mocking that you speak of and “back in the day” the teachers were referred to as nuns and dressed in full habit, addressed as Sister, and while some were “feared” and many were beloved. Things have changed a LOT since (I’ll say the ‘60s), and great it is. Good grief…even in public school (back then) a teacher didn’t say “do you need to go to the toilet?…it was “go to the restroom.”
Teedmn…as for “choo choo”…haha…I always thought that was from the “ch-ch-ch-choo” noise of the…gah…mechanics when rolling? (To be distinguished from the “whistle” like “woo-woo.” Debate can ensue…
Really enjoyed this sweet Monday puzzle with its cute and clever revealer. Did not attempt downs only, because for me at least it spoils the fun. SOS in Morse code is absolutely common knowledge! Dit dit dit dah dah dah dit dit dit :-)
Well I knew SOS which is one thing I remember from my Boy Scout days, but I bet most people know another letter in Morse Code, which is the beginning of Beethoven's Fifth, dot dot dot dash, or dit dit dit dah, as I learned it, which is the letter V, which I always heard as V for Victory. So there's that.
Nice easy Mondecito, and that's all from here, as we're in Maine for some school vacation time with the grandkids, courtesy of their parents as some remuneration for the hours of childcare we donate. Much appreciated, but a round the world cruise would be slightly more appropriate.
Omg. I am SO stoopie!
I agree with @dgd. Seems like I already had the C….so maybe you worked “downs only” @Andy?
Haha…I think a lot of us might not have known exactly what it means…but most didn’t think “wearily” was involved.
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This was much better than @Rex rated it. @Lewis nailed it. I loved the theme.
Esto apesta.
Aw, toilet humor. So wonderful. The painfully regular offering added onto your Times subscription for free. Our editors are like Benefiber. They keep it regular.
Do you ROIL water? I ROIL the weekend Anonymoti sometimes when I'm bored, but ROILING seems people focused in my mind and water is less ROILISH or ROILABLE or ready for ROILING.
The Complete German crossword dictionary over the last three-ish years: ACH, ACHT, BAHN, BITTE, BLAU, DAS, DER, EIN(E), GESUNDHEIT, HERR, ICH, NEIN, PROSIT, SIE, STADT, VERBOTEN. Tell me you love foreignisms after that stellar list.
Ever since I reduced the amount of murder in my diet the only thing I still crave is a sauerkraut dog with brown mustard. I keep trying different veggie dogs, but it's just not the same thing. Someone must die.
I saw a movie once about Teflon called Dark Waters. Spoiler alert, Dupont is involved (and they might also be involved in editing the Wikipedia page about Teflon), so using it as a cookware coating is maybe, well, I'll scrub a cast iron skillet instead.
I love the idea of a befuddled ATM machine.
I love đŠ getting worked up over Morse code.
❤️ SAVVY is on my favorite word list between LUGUBRIOUS and ALIAS.
People: 4
Places: 4
Products: 6
Partials: 8
Foreignisms: 2
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Gary's Grid Gunk Gauge: 24 of 76 (32%)
Funny Factor: 3 đ
Tee-Hee: ASS. NATURE CALLS.
Uniclues:
1 Offer Egyptian snake the gavel at a school gathering.
2 Sound made when one thinks you're scary.
3 The Rex Parker blog URL.
4 When eating the worm isn't pinchy enough.
5 Specialty of artist who can fit Hello Kitty anywhere.
1 TEMPT PTAS ASP
2 CLOWN OOH
3 SILLY.ORG (~)
4 I TRY EARWIG
5 TAT CRAM NICHE
My Fascinating Crossword Uniclue Keepsake from Last Year: How much does a stamp cost? POST-POSTAGE-AGE RIDDLE.
¯\_(ă)_/¯
Used by Nancy when Joe Hardy got a little frisky
I never got to first class as a Boy Scout in the late 1950s. I couldn't memorize the Morse code. But I did know how to treat a sna I e bite with my pocket knife. Not many rattles in Brooklyn.
I find the phrase to be utterly vulgar. I don't like seeing it. But I don't object to it appearing in the puzzle. For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like. And who am I to judge? Vulgarians are people, too.
Beezer
You’ve utterly misunderstood my comment.
Teedman referred to his elementary school teachers as nuns. Then proceeded to accuse them of being prudish for not saying bathroom or toilet. Setting aside the unfounded accusation of their sensibilities as the reason of their using the correct term -lavatory- it misunderstands teachers.
Nuns are cloistered, they live a contemplative life. Sisters on the other hand devote themselves to the world, replete with imbeciles and those not perceptive —-or honest enough — to acknowledge reality.
Weird, since this was rhe easiest Downs Only I ever did
I’m guessing that lots of us of the Boomer age group will at least know SOS, either from the Titanic history (just as we all know that the ship’s orchestra played “Nearer My God to Thee.” I learned some basic Morse code in Girl Scouts working on my Emergency Preparedness badge. We all thought we were ready for nuclear war. I think being naive was good for us.
@DAVinHOP 8:54 AM,Gary will give it a TeeHee for sure!
@ega, thanks for a real blast from my past! Now I can’t get OH dear (Miss Morse) out of my head. Musical EARWIG, and funny!
There are very few card games where hearts rank lower than diamonds, most uncommon
Glad I wasn’t the only one
Teed MN, she/her.
Very late
Bud Anonymous 7:34 PM deserves a response. I am guessing he (my impression) may be the same as an earlier Anonymous who called commenters who liked the revealer vulgarians and also claimed he wasn’t judging! Obviously he loves to judge.
The last reply about nuns v sister is equally nasty. Super Catholics as I call very conservative anti pope Catholics (see Vance) love to lecture and condescend to people who are not true Christians like them. He should perhaps visit England where to this day the term of address for registered religious or not nurses is Sister Super Catholics fortunately have no control how people speak or write in this country. Sister is used by such groups as the Sisters of Mercy and as a form of address and affection. Clearly there is a difference between nun and sister among many Catholics but people in general refer to nuns and sisters as nuns.as a general rule. So the puzzle made no mistake. Super Catholics can lecture and condescend all they want but the English language belongs to everyone and the general public is not required to learn the minutiae of a. specialized language.
I read it to say, “A low red card”, not “THE lowEST red card.”
McCafe is McDonald's premium coffee line in the US. It's on the menu everywhere. In some other locations - NZ for instance- it is the name of standalone stores.
Yes, ham radio operators still use Morse code. The original distress call was CBD. It was changed to SOS by 1920 (Titanic operators sent CBD). KX1W
Hearts rank higher than diamonds in poker and most other games I’ve played.
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