tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post1552721570289983006..comments2024-03-29T10:22:19.863-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Wild Duck dramatist / WED 3-4-15 / Bow-toter on seasonal cards / Title woman of 1957 #1 Paul Anka hit / Popular Japanese pizza topping / Walrus mustache featureRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-1220958968153565592015-04-09T19:39:58.483-04:002015-04-09T19:39:58.483-04:00First commentFirst commentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-16754652614680082662015-04-09T00:45:31.487-04:002015-04-09T00:45:31.487-04:00Harrison Ford was flying SOLO a couple of weeks ag...Harrison Ford was flying SOLO a couple of weeks ago when he crash landed on a golf course. Of course, no one will see this because I'm so late.Gingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07156872089175084024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8372680570259470832015-04-08T19:51:56.368-04:002015-04-08T19:51:56.368-04:00Another Wednesday - another puzzle. My only hold u...Another Wednesday - another puzzle. My only hold ups were deciding MANET/ MONET and wanting Ibid where IDEM was wanted. I guess the first merely means something like "in the same place", but it took a bit to remember - been something like 60 years since I wrote a term paper!<br />Off for a couple of days with the grandson, see you when I get back.<br />DMGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-59366610060946879732015-04-08T13:34:54.333-04:002015-04-08T13:34:54.333-04:00DACTYLS ODE
If you’re ANTI OMANI you may SKIP th...DACTYLS ODE<br /><br />If you’re ANTI OMANI you may SKIP this poem,<br />ORR DROOP INTER the LOIRE.<br />But in the ASPEN the SERIN RAN to its home<br />And the SERBS EEL SCATS ASYET more.<br /><br />--- DIANA DORY, DDT<br />This stream of unconscientiousness sponsored by CODA COLA<br />Burma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-73955086617620231522015-04-08T13:34:29.252-04:002015-04-08T13:34:29.252-04:00Clever, cute, medium, but not wonky.
The prince of...Clever, cute, medium, but not wonky.<br />The prince of anality strikes again, but I will not respond. He wouldn't read us syndies anyway. Write over: Ibid before IDEM. <br /><br />I semi-BINGE-watched Breaking Bad, if you can semi-binge-watch anything.<br /><br />Re captcha: I had the food thing a couple of months ago. Weird, yes, but much more fun than just getting a checkmark.<br /><br />rain forestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-84664532226331437622015-04-08T13:18:45.111-04:002015-04-08T13:18:45.111-04:00Sorry, OFL decries - blame my re-built left limb a...Sorry, OFL decries - blame my re-built left limb again.rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-55852895324848403812015-04-08T13:15:36.948-04:002015-04-08T13:15:36.948-04:00This puz was OK. Despite what OFL says about it, I...This puz was OK. Despite what OFL says about it, I have been seen PLAYINGSOLO if I have no partner at the golf course. So I'll buy it.<br /><br />Had sOdA at first, but it cleared up. Same with etudE for SCALE. <br /><br />Why turn a perfectly good word like ERAS into an acronym??<br /><br />My cousin's daughter DIANA was named after that song. So like OFL dfcroes of the fill, I guess I am also trending older. Can't be a kid forever Rex!!<br /><br />Good thing we have SERIN and not sarin, or we'd all be dead. BTW - SERIN was our favorite beer-cart girl at the course last year. Yeah baby.<br /><br />No complaints really. I thought this one fair.rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-25488394590526368382015-04-08T12:06:43.251-04:002015-04-08T12:06:43.251-04:00*flush* And now, back to the show.
Yo, if you wan...*flush* And now, back to the show.<br /><br />Yo, if you want Italian lessons I recommend a ROCKYSTART! I have to agree, the theme phrases aren't the tightest, but yeah, OFL's criticism does seem rather anal.<br /><br />Lazenby was a joke, the Edsel of Bonds. I don't mind PLAYINGSOLO so much, but that whole section was a bear. Thank goodness I remember "Oh, please, stay by me, DIANA," Anka's tribute to the cha-cha craze. SCATS, okay, but GITS? I know it; I just didn't think I'd ever see it in a xowrd grid. And ENBLOC is another rarely used saying. So I'm left with _IN_E-watch. Huh? Lemme tell ya, THAT took some alphabet-running. I did finally find BINGE, and luckily my memory was jogged by a single recent reference to an (in-)activity that makes no sense to me. You can bet your last nickel you'll never find me BINGE-watching ANYTHING. Absurd.<br /><br />Over in the SE corner was another near-natick. River names make my eyelids DROOP, and I never heard of "Novi Sod." Didn't know GSA either, but guessed that _ER_S, as natives of somewhere, might be SERBS, and so to the CODA.<br /><br />So, no BIKED? Have we turned the triathlon into a bi? No, that's a whole nother event, involving GATS and skis.<br /><br />I generally liked it, with the twin Italian entries ALDENTE and CHIANTI (cue the quivering lip of you-know-who). Easy-medium most of the way; S/SE turns it into a straight medium. B-.<br /><br />Now that was weird. The captcha presented nine photos of food, with the directive "Select all sushi below." I neither eat nor recognize sushi. Fortunately I was retriggered to a number, 325, the first in months. Uh-oh, and now I've been timed out; here goes. Wish me luck. 7300; still no good.spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-43155237637918069632015-04-05T14:00:13.862-04:002015-04-05T14:00:13.862-04:00Hello! Thank you for your article. I’d like to try...Hello! Thank you for your article. I’d like to try to compare it to my previous experience of learning easy Italian lessons through Skype on online classes for free. I did around 10 conversations over Skype with a native speaker from http://preply.com/en/italian-by-skype. And I was pretty satisfied with their Quality. I think they have a strong teaching quality.Following their course curriculum now I can speak Italian like a native,you don't need to go any school. but I Want to try another option.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08281935452466842830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-51466236145159291082015-03-13T04:38:24.108-04:002015-03-13T04:38:24.108-04:00Great and nice blog. your content is very informat...<br />Great and nice blog. your content is very informative and useful. thanks for sharing..<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://adblastnetwork.com/" rel="nofollow">Free advertising</a><br />Free advertisinghttp://adblastnetwork.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-11163858909013809812015-03-09T17:05:49.703-04:002015-03-09T17:05:49.703-04:00Hello everyone, I am proud to testify this testimo...Hello everyone, I am proud to testify this testimony. i saw a post on how a lady got her husband back and i decided to try the spell caster that helped her because my relationship was crashing. although i never believed in spell work i reluctantly tried him because i was desperate but to my greatest surprise the spell caster DR. SAVIOR helped me get my husband back after 5 month of divorce and my relationship is now perfect just as he promised my husband now treats me like a queen even when he had told me before he doesn't love me anymore. well, i cannot say much but if you are passing through difficulties in your relationship contact him on his email: address dr.savior02@gmail.com he is the only answer to relationship problems you can call his phone +2348028017156 <br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12032392796404847509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-65434520492651951642015-03-05T13:49:04.287-05:002015-03-05T13:49:04.287-05:00I had to drop the puzzle mid-solve to go study up ...I had to drop the puzzle mid-solve to go study up on fiasco! A hearty head-slap that led me to connect the fiasco-flask-flasche-flacon-flaggon dots...<br />And here http://blog.oup.com/2008/04/fiasco/ is someone's desperate attempt to explain how fiasco morphed to mean complete and disastrous failure.<br /><br />@Ludy...agree about the suitability of Mateus fiasci as candlesticks...and that's about all...a cheap wine for export...it and Lancer's gave Portuguese wines a bad name...<br />@mac... Lancer's is the one in the terra cotta fiasco.<br /><br />But wait...since it means "bottle", *any* Italian wine is *traditionally* sold in one.<br /><br />Anyhow, that one bit of fill spilled over into the rest of the puzzle, making it a total pleasure.Titahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16368251255494687496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-3758477818222490732015-03-05T13:47:14.251-05:002015-03-05T13:47:14.251-05:00I had to drop the puzzle mid-solve to go study up ...<br />I had to drop the puzzle mid-solve to go study up on fiasco! A hearty head-slap that led me to connect the fiasco-flask-flasche-flacon-flaggon dots...<br />And here http://blog.oup.com/2008/04/fiasco/ is someone's desperate attempt to explain how fiasco morphed to mean complete and disastrous failure.<br /><br />@Ludy...agree about the suitability of Mateus fiasci as candlesticks...and that's about all...a cheap wine for export...it and Lancer's gave Portuguese wines a bad name...<br />@mac... Lancer's is the one in the terra cotta fiasco.<br /><br />But wait...that means that *any* Italian wine is *traditionally* sold in one.<br /><br />Anyhow, that one bit of fill spilled over into the rest of the puzzle, making it a total pleasure.Titahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16368251255494687496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-31586299172475996232015-03-05T00:06:57.221-05:002015-03-05T00:06:57.221-05:00I was mostly liking this puzzle, until spent ten m...I was mostly liking this puzzle, until spent ten minutes banging my head against the wall trying to figure out ENBLOC/SCATS... mainly because I had MANET as the "father of Impressionism," just like I heard on NPR the other day. That's what I get for being so sure of myself.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13547158287931212062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-32089790050988957962015-03-04T22:47:15.032-05:002015-03-04T22:47:15.032-05:00Very easy but enjoyable.
DIANA was first song I ev...Very easy but enjoyable.<br />DIANA was first song I ever heard on my new 1957 transistor radio. WMCA 570 on your radio dial.<br />Liked all the movies.<br />Thought I would see the bike as the middle of triathlon.<br />Cy Young candidates present Low ERA-- a better clue.<br />Thanks JS.Charles Flasterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16588962898277593533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-37780629248395638452015-03-04T21:56:39.859-05:002015-03-04T21:56:39.859-05:00I think that a tiny glass of Matheus rose from a l...I think that a tiny glass of Matheus rose from a lovely terra cotta flask was my very first alcoholic drink. Christmas eve when I was about 12, served by my father. A beautiful memory.machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-7477359261157698882015-03-04T19:38:03.357-05:002015-03-04T19:38:03.357-05:00This apparently didn't go through when I tried...This apparently didn't go through when I tried posting this morning, so I'll give it another go.<br /><br />A Christmas 'villancico' by Esteban Salas (1725-1803), a native of CUBA who wrote in the style of the late Baroque as Europe was transitioning into the Classical era. (If you read Spanish [I don't] you can also learn something about him here. Wiki has a very brief but interesting article.) The group performing this is Cuban, and was apparently Cuba's first period instrument ensemble.<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc_Wy6HBh4Ubeatricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16162755764092888665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-35991453953773083492015-03-04T19:03:32.239-05:002015-03-04T19:03:32.239-05:00I'm definitely in the "like" camp fo...I'm definitely in the "like" camp for this puzzle. I don't have any problem with the PLAYING SOLO phrase - seems like something I could expect to hear from one of my musician friends. Two write-overs, had Gun for GAT and started to write in LAsso but changed it when I saw it was too short. <br /><br />I'm afraid I pick up all the bad speech habits. I've been policing myself to stop saying "like" but I find myself saying "whatever" and GOES all too often. But as with @Gill I, I can't stand to hear "It is what it is". Ick.<br /><br />@Roo, @Wreck, the fiasco of CHIANTI was way out of my price level in college so it was Ripple, Mad Dog, Boone's Farm. Anyone else hate T J Swan's crappy apple "wine"?<br /><br />Thanks, Jeff Stillman, pun out!Teedmnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12832353448839187816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-33985919772330204322015-03-04T18:55:51.361-05:002015-03-04T18:55:51.361-05:00Amazed at the reaction to "PLAYING SOLO"...Amazed at the reaction to "PLAYING SOLO"-it is a term used any time a musician is performing alone, or an actor/actress I believe. It out-googles the proposed "SINGING SOLO" by a factor of 2, and comes close to "FLYING SOLO".<br /><br />Thought it was a great fun and clever puzzle, like most here.David from CAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-26466724861847502612015-03-04T18:30:41.834-05:002015-03-04T18:30:41.834-05:00I got stuck with a BINGo/IBSoN cross that hid itse...I got stuck with a BINGo/IBSoN cross that hid itself for a long time. Only found it by Googling the presumed Google-able right answers until "The Wild Duck" showed me the light. DNF but can't complain. <br /><br />Really enjoyed the theme and I thought the fill was good. Hard to be really good with so many threes. We had GIT and GAT. Too bad with so many three-spaces we couldn't also have GET, GUT, and GOT for the cycle. Thomas808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-39663228728751469712015-03-04T15:17:42.522-05:002015-03-04T15:17:42.522-05:00I'm genuinely surprised by all the love evince...I'm genuinely surprised by all the love evinced for this puzzle, one whose only redeeming feature for me was that it was easy and passed quickly.<br /><br />I understand that this is a standard early week theme (find something you can contort with wordplay, and voilà you've got a puzzle). I don't know why it is, only that it is. Were I the MOTU, it wouldn't be such, but I'm not MOTU, nor do I want it to be. That is, unless as MOTU I can limit my involvement to eliminating petty things I don't like regardless of the tastes of the rest of humanity. With an additional nanosecond of thought, of course as MOTU I could certainly decree as my right. Digressions aside, back to the puzzle. If you're going to do this, it had better be spot on. Connery & Lazenby were only BOND TRADERS in the most tenuous of senses, they simply quit sequentially, and Connery was lured back with truckloads of cash. I get the joke, it just was horribly strained. Similarly, PLAYING SOLO isn't a thing in any portion of the time/space continuum I've seen. I've played a solo, played solitaire, played by myself, played with myself, but never played solo. <br /><br />All this being said, I will admit that my view of the puzzle may have been jaundiced, as I solved it immediately after spending an hour and a half in the rain trying to clear my driveway of 3 inches of snow topped by 1/2 inch of sleet. I did this to avoid having my driveway be completely covered in ice when I got up in the morning. I failed miserably.Zekenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-30671373181275887892015-03-04T14:30:33.161-05:002015-03-04T14:30:33.161-05:00@Steve J. -- I always thought when it turned out t...@Steve J. -- I always thought when it turned out to be OTRA instead of OTRO or OTRO instead of OTRA (wrong again, Nancy!) that it was just my bad memory, that I had remembered it wrong. Thanks for letting me know that the two words tend to be switched arbitrarily by crossword puzzle creators.Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16737377749030219974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-12388608046425637852015-03-04T14:11:01.814-05:002015-03-04T14:11:01.814-05:00@Leapster....On a good day, I would order up a Man...@Leapster....On a good day, I would order up a Maneschipple. That one always sounded sophisticated and expensive.<br />@Lewis....Lechon al mojo criollo con Moros y Cristianos, yuca y platanos verde....Once a month at my house we have Cuban and yes, you have to pile it all on! My adult children and their friends beg for it :>).... GILL I.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05605766053820226324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57122526789369941912015-03-04T13:52:55.052-05:002015-03-04T13:52:55.052-05:00Can you imagine Rex on a Downton abbey puzzle? The...Can you imagine Rex on a Downton abbey puzzle? The Countess would annilate that Yankee upstart!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04073334085750095286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-65658686860367718072015-03-04T13:17:22.287-05:002015-03-04T13:17:22.287-05:00Easy Wed. for me. My only serious hang up was con...Easy Wed. for me. My only serious hang up was confusing a sacred bird with an Alpine goat in SE. Fun theme, TRIPLE AXEL was my favorite, liked it.<br /><br />@Numinous, lms, Aketi...I'm not hearing GOES from my 16 yr. old granddaughter and her friends either, but I did hear it frequently from my daughter and her friends and when she was 16.jaehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03385568014046336373noreply@blogger.com