tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post4189852233479898532..comments2024-03-28T07:22:58.337-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Sight-singing technique / SAT 7-12-14 / Banker/philanthropist Solomon / 1950s-'70s defense acronym / Middle of Aeschylus tragedy with / Saint who is one of Fourteen Holy Helpers / Army equivalent of leading seaman / Onetime center for distribution of oranges / Rex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-6003652496390212202016-03-13T18:39:16.367-04:002016-03-13T18:39:16.367-04:00@Explico
That does not help at all, cuz I have ne...@Explico<br /><br />That does not help at all, cuz I have never in my life heard the phrase "shade of a chance" (and if you google that phrase, you will see that pretty much noone else in the world has either).Bananafishnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-49414041475514226372014-08-17T18:24:44.594-04:002014-08-17T18:24:44.594-04:00@banansfish, think "ghost of a chance" a...@banansfish, think "ghost of a chance" and "shade of a chance". Yer welcome, BRO.Expliconoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-70968960467049786652014-08-17T16:16:56.951-04:002014-08-17T16:16:56.951-04:00With SPANG being an answer, I think the clue "...With SPANG being an answer, I think the clue "Shade" for GHOST is way too obscure. I personally have never used the term "Shade" for a ghost and do not know anyone that ever has either.<br /><br />I ended up with entering SPANK/KHOST, on the idea that SPANK was the answer for "Squarely, informall", a la "brand SPANKing new" and hoping that KHOST was some kind of Asian shade tree or the like. I considered SPANG/GHOST and rejected it because SPANG was clearly not a word.<br /><br />I also entered DEGRADE instead of REGRADE. Still not sure why BRO is a "Man on the street?", but I was hoping a BDO was some kind of reference to a Wall Street broker.<br /><br />Not bad other than those spots.Bananafishnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-16081911499280472922014-08-17T00:16:45.783-04:002014-08-17T00:16:45.783-04:00Very late to the party tonight but thought this in...Very late to the party tonight but thought this indeed was quite easy though enjoyable Saturday fare. Shared similar reluctance as others to entering SCOWLED at 4A but guess it references the "look angry or sullen" meaning of lower for which I bet most people would actually employ glower. <br /><br />BODEGAS means zilch to me so the NE corner was very slow to emerge. OTOH, found all the 15-letter entries other than LIBATIONBEARERS to be quite straight-forward solves. <br /><br />Learnt SPANG - hope the opportunity to use it arises.<br /><br />192 - ewe!Waxy in Montrealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04395751487137805245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-59302749730024726032014-08-16T19:36:19.478-04:002014-08-16T19:36:19.478-04:00Snore and snort!
Tanked on this and don't give...Snore and snort!<br />Tanked on this and don't give a whit! Suckerooney!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-1836605746914172842014-08-16T15:45:55.073-04:002014-08-16T15:45:55.073-04:00DNF. I could not believe that a synonym for lower...DNF. I could not believe that a synonym for lowered was SCOWLED, and so the banker guy was Torb Solomon, and thus I had SCOWtED, which I didn't believe either, but I like the name Torb. I also didn't know the name of the bridge, but I knew it was a bridge. <br /><br />The rest came in brief flashes: entered EARTHSHATTERING with no crosses, and ARIZONA CARDINAL after considering St. Louis. <br /><br />Give me another shot at it so I can say I RULE! CAN I, please?<br /><br />135 Show me the money.rain forestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-48749420864812697192014-08-16T14:06:49.331-04:002014-08-16T14:06:49.331-04:00That last post was me! Clearly not adept at unders...That last post was me! Clearly not adept at understanding this computer age stuff. On the other hand, my repeat visit got me <br /><br />522!DMGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-50160425284449766042014-08-16T14:03:55.057-04:002014-08-16T14:03:55.057-04:00It's a good thing I got yesterday's puzzle...It's a good thing I got yesterday's puzzle, because this one left me gasping for air! My plain "vanilla" told me that "pvt" was right - HAH. Got that there was some BRIDGE, put the CARDINALS in the wrong city. Knew ARRAS from old puzzle days but that wasn't much help with the crosses. Same with a hesitant guess on ORZO, which I never eat with a spoon. Off to do the LAT! <br /><br />Going away for a couple of days to take grandson to Knott's Berry Farm. So see you later next week.<br /><br />A mere 753!Aanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-31551973706348847682014-08-16T13:46:20.271-04:002014-08-16T13:46:20.271-04:00Liked the puzz but it WAS a challenge until I goog...Liked the puzz but it WAS a challenge until I googled Arizona Cardinals. That cleared everything up and I learned something.<br />Even though scowled is remotely correct, it's a far reach and probably hasn't been used by anyone in a thousand years.<br />I guessed at solfa and now I'm going to look it up, along with spang.<br /><br />Yours truly, Ron DiegoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-55956507539947486362014-08-16T12:59:49.475-04:002014-08-16T12:59:49.475-04:00DNF. Started at the bottom with KERRI Strug, IMO p...DNF. Started at the bottom with KERRI Strug, IMO possibly the greatest athletic hero (ine) of our time. To land on a BROKEN foot--and STICK it (!) is the epitome of sheer guts.<br /><br />Even there I had initial problems, thanks to my faulty memory about Ohio amusement parks. It's CEDAR Point and King's Island, but my foggy brain mixed the two and came up with Kings Point. For a while I wondered if Ferguson really speled his first name with a K.<br /><br />Once the Oh-yeah hit, things got better. The red & white guy was obviiously a CARDINAL--but which? Jim NANTZ cemented that. Bottom and center soon followed.<br /><br />Then the north. A fatal error in the NE was a major derailer: my homophonic was foR (fore, four). I thought the last part of 17a had to be BRIDGE--but that left _FD____ for the corner shop. Were they going for a chain name??<br /><br />Now as I look at the solution, I have to ask: how does "Lowered" get to be SCOWLED? Lessee, I SCOWLED the hammock so the kids could get in. The spatial-relations section really SCOWLED my test score. When Daddy got home, he SCOWLED the boom. Nah, that's a flag.<br /><br />Plus, "Request often followed by 'please'" makes no sense. If you're polite, EVERY request is so followed. That clue is ridiculous, and it gets another flag.<br /><br />The TAPPANZEEBRIDGE. Okay, I bet a dollar to a donut that this is somewhere near New York. You guys are getting more provincial by the day. Soon you'll have nothing in your grids but insider jokes that no one beyond a 20-mile radius of Manhattan would ever understand. Bah!<br /><br />Then there's PATTI. Either you watch that show or you don't. I don't, so that was just one more obscurity for me. And REGRADE, realy? I'd REGRADE this baby, but to tell ya the truth, IDONTFEELLIKEIT.<br /><br />1919; I don't RULE here, either.spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8703274973068044562014-07-13T19:11:19.551-04:002014-07-13T19:11:19.551-04:00Saturdays Comments Section
83 Comments (discounti...Saturdays Comments Section<br /><br />83 Comments (discounting scams).<br />23 Exclusively PPP related. (28%)<br /><br />244 Actually lines of text.<br />110 Exclusively PPP related. (45%)<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-84737416273022078742014-07-13T06:53:30.947-04:002014-07-13T06:53:30.947-04:00Well I really do not know where to start from,but ...Well I really do not know where to start from,but I will be as brief<br />as I can in my testifying about what God did for me through dr<br />Aigbehi. I had a little misunderstand with my husband and he moved out<br />for over 7 month now,leaving the kids and I behind,and move in with<br />another woman. I was disturb and confuse cause I did not know what to<br />do. Until I came across this testimony of this dr Aigbehi online about<br />her he brought back some one ex's back,and I decided to give it a try<br />and I contact this spell caster on draigbehi1@gmail.com and I told him<br />my problem. He say to me that I should not be worried and that I have<br />to be calm that my husband will return to me and I thought it was a<br />joke. U won't believe what happen to me,my husband came back to me and<br />was begging me to take him back and that his his sorry and promise<br />never to leave again. Now am happy and you cam be happy too. Contact<br />dr Aigbehi through his e-mail on draigbehi1@gmail.com on any problem<br />you have and see the power of God at work. Once again thank you dr<br />Aigbehi and God bless you richly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-19323003110575565242014-07-13T01:24:16.566-04:002014-07-13T01:24:16.566-04:00@retired chemist - yes, wreck spotted "ani&q...@retired chemist - yes, wreck spotted "ani"; I missed it, so good on wreck. I was explaining how I calculated 11, which wreck seems to have understood.Joe Dipintonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-68315775406009211352014-07-12T23:22:22.594-04:002014-07-12T23:22:22.594-04:00I can tell none of you are Staten Islanders! I gr...I can tell none of you are Staten Islanders! I grew up there in the '50s and early '60s, and the popular refrain was "someday there will be a bridge to Brooklyn". So 1955 way too early for the Narrows Bridge ( as it was called before it was built).Carole Shmurakhttp://carole-books.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-52422388715167608212014-07-12T22:32:56.265-04:002014-07-12T22:32:56.265-04:00I saw the Verrazano Br being built, and being fini...I saw the Verrazano Br being built, and being finished - in 1964. Knew immed it was Tappan Zee because it's being replaced, and the 1955 date has been mentioned many times.dm3000https://www.blogger.com/profile/12053238727094376741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-42330398379834071222014-07-12T22:10:56.888-04:002014-07-12T22:10:56.888-04:00Did this puzzle at the beach today.
In the You-...Did this puzzle at the beach today. <br /><br /> In the You-Can-Tell-I-Was-At-The-Beach department: Had 9 D as ELBA before ELBE.Bob Kerfufflehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02615811802419025933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-14681026625042030462014-07-12T21:04:54.408-04:002014-07-12T21:04:54.408-04:00@wreck
Not trying to 'carp', Ha!
You get ...@wreck<br />Not trying to 'carp', Ha!<br /><br />You get a kudu for ANI, and I can't believe I missed EEL. (facepalm)<br /><br />Griderati is good, r.alph!Leapfingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14243620614139990887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-28278797306127354972014-07-12T20:28:54.458-04:002014-07-12T20:28:54.458-04:00I got some of this - like the TAPPENZEEBRIDGE - bu...I got some of this - like the TAPPENZEEBRIDGE - but had to Google for the songs, names and teams. That's par for the course for a Saturday. I liked the 15ers - nice touch!Arlenehttp://www.listeningclosely.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-89997153762883860012014-07-12T19:45:25.100-04:002014-07-12T19:45:25.100-04:00@r.alphbunker - "like"@r.alphbunker - "like"Dirigonzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03903353503511480168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-47387436501680225212014-07-12T19:43:37.098-04:002014-07-12T19:43:37.098-04:00@retiredchemist
I feel really bad ... I was in no ...@retiredchemist<br />I feel really bad ... I was in no way was trying to brag or carp. I was just curious of what he may have got.wreckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08797908615185213756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-3302452199633133052014-07-12T19:28:37.692-04:002014-07-12T19:28:37.692-04:00griderrati?griderrati?r.alphbunkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00657275501845781384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-39843905632703168342014-07-12T19:21:02.347-04:002014-07-12T19:21:02.347-04:00@ Joe D -
ANI (5D) makes 12 - don't forget i...@ Joe D - <br /><br />ANI (5D) makes 12 - don't forget it. High crosswordese.<br /><br />Is there a name for a collection of crossword geeks?retired_chemisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13181126754941899228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-59980846311252842972014-07-12T19:18:32.819-04:002014-07-12T19:18:32.819-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.retired_chemisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13181126754941899228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-76233570595068841942014-07-12T19:00:04.655-04:002014-07-12T19:00:04.655-04:00@wreck- I was counting answers, not animals, so I ...@wreck- I was counting answers, not animals, so I counted RAT twice since it was in two answers:<br /><br />Across:<br />COW<br />OWL<br />BAT<br />BEAR<br />RAT<br />EEL<br />CARDINAL (which I first overlooked)<br />EWE<br /><br />Down:<br />HEN<br />RAT<br />ANT<br />for a total of 11.Joe Dipintonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-20504884577549979472014-07-12T18:47:22.229-04:002014-07-12T18:47:22.229-04:00@Dirigonzo We will see the moon tonight@Dirigonzo We will see the moon tonightchefbeahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15195945085405126511noreply@blogger.com