tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post4700454633244073205..comments2024-03-28T04:40:27.172-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: 1949 novel set in Wyoming Territory / SAT 6-20-20 / Sicilian town that lost bell to Fascists in literature / 1960 Miles Davis album inspired in part by flamenco music / Broadway character who sings God loves Nubia / Bird that lent its name to Toledo's Triple-A team / Danity girl group with self-titled 2006 #1 album Rex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-23154723029656974762020-07-25T15:19:25.692-04:002020-07-25T15:19:25.692-04:00Excellent puzzle by a remarkable constructor. Stel...Excellent puzzle by a remarkable constructor. Stella Zawistowski can lift 325 pounds and has a webpage called Tough as Nails with puzzles and more:<br /><br />https://toughasnails.net/thefogmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870509029973778266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-22708414997565962732020-07-25T13:01:27.906-04:002020-07-25T13:01:27.906-04:00Started out with a lot of nothing. I mean a LOT.
...Started out with a lot of nothing. I mean a LOT.<br /><br />Then - phrases came to my mind. Couldn't believe I was right, but the crosses worked, and then...had OFSPAIN, and Mr. W knew SKETCHES. Opened the middle right up. Thought this would be an ALLNIGHTER and I'd get OUTPLAYed, or at least have a SENIOR'S moment, but here I am, done way before noon. <br /><br />Let's all go play in a beautiful day!<br /><br />Diana, Lady-in-Waiting for CrosswordsDiana, LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-51185524679830596402020-07-25T12:24:42.104-04:002020-07-25T12:24:42.104-04:00ADULTS INAGROOVE
SOME SENIORS may INDICATE
that t...ADULTS INAGROOVE<br /><br />SOME SENIORS may INDICATE<br />that their HAPPYPLACE SEEMS dandy:<br />that ALLNIGHTER OTT not wait,<br />go OUT,PLAY with SOME EYECANDY.<br /><br />--- KAYE KANEBurma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-6176539944272784942020-07-25T11:37:50.783-04:002020-07-25T11:37:50.783-04:00I liked this one, and I had a feeling OFC would to...I liked this one, and I had a feeling OFC would too. After all, the constructor does have the old XX chromosome. But 'twas more than that. After a METEORIC roaring out of the NW (for a change!), I thought I'd eat it alive; such was not the case. No ALLNIGHTER here, but the going went slower. In the NE, it helped that el nino and LANINA had N's at the same place, so I could work with them and get ADANO and SCAN. Eventually the gender of 19a came to light. It's You Go Girl day!<br /><br />MANEATER crossing EYECANDY next to KANE? Sounds like a DOD to me! Honorable mention to the hilarious Wanda SYKES. The only entry that even slightly furrowed my brow was ENLACE. Stella, you're forgiven. Eagle. spacecrafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09125304293611865503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-20218119834731205832020-07-24T22:45:18.947-04:002020-07-24T22:45:18.947-04:00@ Susie - Calling former lovers on the phone. I m...@ Susie - Calling former lovers on the phone. I may have done so in my youthful drunken past but I'm too old to remember. And I may have been called before but can't really remember for the same reason.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-90949162459092442132020-06-21T22:39:45.657-04:002020-06-21T22:39:45.657-04:00What is drunk dial???What is drunk dial???Susiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02345046337104409037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-7116323679657047102020-06-21T00:09:28.325-04:002020-06-21T00:09:28.325-04:00@Z 1120pm šš
@JC66 821pm I know I should get ...@Z 1120pm šš<br /><br />@JC66 821pm I know I should get your meaning, but must confess ignorance. š¤Frantic Slothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02614296873700797321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-35960310329267711022020-06-20T23:20:43.585-04:002020-06-20T23:20:43.585-04:00Jazz is dead? Huh. I missed that memo.*
*Seriousl...<a href="https://youtu.be/VMnjF1O4eH0" rel="nofollow">Jazz is dead?</a> Huh. <a href="https://youtu.be/HgzGwKwLmgM" rel="nofollow">I missed that memo.</a>*<br /><br />*Seriously, Iāve read some pretty inane things here but that has to be Top 5 Inane of all-time. Iām not even a jazz fan and own 20 odd jazz albums, <a href="https://youtu.be/DoLJSSMBuTY" rel="nofollow">including this one</a> which points to the fact that jazz infuses modern music from rock to rap to musical theater to bluegrass. Just wow. <br /><br />@LL - To be clear, my earlier comment wasnāt to disagree with you, only to point out that I hadnāt thought if it that way. <br /><br />@Anons - When somebody points out that a term is demeaning there are two basic responses. One might say something like, āI didnāt know that. Iāll stop using it because I donāt intend to be offensive.ā The other response is called āIām an AssHole Signaling.ā You choose.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181544219511150272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-31533929184251723082020-06-20T22:22:34.122-04:002020-06-20T22:22:34.122-04:00Jazz is dead. Long live Polka!
RooMonster 50% Pol...Jazz is dead. Long live Polka!<br /><br />RooMonster 50% Polish GuyRooMonsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14103892151115549684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-54600195939774176852020-06-20T20:45:39.087-04:002020-06-20T20:45:39.087-04:00Mea culpa Blanche. It's Ms Devereau that some...Mea culpa Blanche. It's Ms De<b>v</b>ereau that sometimes seems to devour men.Anoa Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16185183023273883700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-83993330849867920682020-06-20T20:21:04.358-04:002020-06-20T20:21:04.358-04:00@Frantic
May I suggest that you change your antip...@Frantic<br /><br />May I suggest that you change your antiperspirant. šJC66https://www.blogger.com/profile/05324615675333287919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-28063495050719381522020-06-20T19:22:18.253-04:002020-06-20T19:22:18.253-04:00@Anonymous 616pm I didnāt mention you. Either you...@Anonymous 616pm I didnāt mention you. Either youāve got a guilty conscience or an over developed ego. Maybe both.<br />But thanks for gratuitous complaint.Frantic Slothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02614296873700797321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-30711031374666032862020-06-20T18:45:38.587-04:002020-06-20T18:45:38.587-04:00This puzzle crossed the plate way outside and low ...This puzzle crossed the plate way outside and low for me (too many names) but I still found some things to like. One of places I tended bar long ago had a weekend band that played MAN EATER and they did a great job of it. One of the drawbacks of bartending during grad school was that I got home many a morning just as the sun came up. Not conducive to a productive day of scholarly activities.<br /><br />I got MIAMI right away because I watched some of the original Golden Girls episodes---very edgy for the times---and still will watch a re-run now and then. I always thought that Blanche Derereau's last name was a play on the sound of "devour" and that she was a bit of a MAN EATER.<br /><br />A couple of posts have mentioned xwordinfo.com as a way to look into past puzzles and constructors. There's a wealth of information there. I think for only twenty bucks or so, you get complete access, except the word lists. Those cost more $s. ("Just pay a separate fee. Call now!")<br /><br />If you have a NYTXW account, you can get an unfilled version of every puzzle published during the Shorts era (93-now) and can solve it just as with today's puzz. If you are looking for a specific constructor, you have to know the date of the puzzle(s).Anoa Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16185183023273883700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-72338155453091342572020-06-20T17:47:31.384-04:002020-06-20T17:47:31.384-04:00Agree with everything said here.Agree with everything said here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-1091261208580992872020-06-20T17:22:32.459-04:002020-06-20T17:22:32.459-04:00Anon 4:17/ Joe Dipinto,
You canāt be serious? Rea...Anon 4:17/ Joe Dipinto,<br />You canāt be serious? Really, the sea are your arguments?<br /> Jazzis dead. Has been for decades. Look at it sales in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and itās downloads today. Itās dead.<br />In insurance thereās a term: losses incurred not yet reported.Jazz is a sad, decaying corpse. Radio stations, Satelite radio and the public canāt avoid it far enough.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-19620174026409030992020-06-20T17:18:13.368-04:002020-06-20T17:18:13.368-04:00MUD HENS is excellent, venerable, ballclub moniker...MUD HENS is excellent, venerable, ballclub moniker. Others, though more recent, are Biscuits, Shuckers, Jumbo Shrimp and Trash Pandas.Crimson Devilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03665174292516725433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-34401099125787622742020-06-20T16:56:42.979-04:002020-06-20T16:56:42.979-04:00@Lorelei Lee Lord knows I'm no bastion of sel...@Lorelei Lee Lord knows I'm no bastion of self-control, but remember this: feeding the misogynistic, alt-right trolls "logic food" is just a waste of time and effort. <br />Frantic Slothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02614296873700797321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-46502358441841229652020-06-20T16:54:43.840-04:002020-06-20T16:54:43.840-04:00@Richardf8 11:47am
Well I should have meant Klinge...@Richardf8 11:47am<br />Well I should have meant Klinger, that's for sure.<br />Thanks.albatross shellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04076278220407657633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-78891613960222815922020-06-20T16:17:55.586-04:002020-06-20T16:17:55.586-04:00@Joe, @anon/11:34
well. BB came out 1970, a peri...@Joe, @anon/11:34<br /><br />well. BB came out 1970, a period of atonal music, not just in jazz but also 'classical'. Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme' was 1964. since then we've gotten Winton Marsalis, vilified for taking jazz back to the 1940s. can't win for losing. OTOH, Jarrett and others have brought melody, albeit twisted but still recognizable, back to jazz.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-79727840235013905592020-06-20T15:45:23.840-04:002020-06-20T15:45:23.840-04:00@Nancy 9:53 I agree with your comments about oper...@Nancy 9:53 I agree with your comments about opera singers, but I do make an exception for the talented Audra Macdonald. A few years ago I was at one of her concerts, and she told of the time she asked her pre-school daughter what she thought of her mother's singing. The child replied, "Mommy, your singing makes my ears cry. "<br />syracusesolverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10782467743252387466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-58109016380644489192020-06-20T15:41:07.074-04:002020-06-20T15:41:07.074-04:00@Anon 11:34 ā Thereās a reason Jazz is dying. And ...@Anon 11:34 ā <i>Thereās a reason Jazz is dying. And the Be-boppers and their descendants go a long way in explaining its death knell. </i><br /><br />Let's see: the be-boppers came along in the early 1940's. So if jazz <b>is</b> (present tense) dying thanks to them, it's taking an awfully long time to croak. Joe Dipintohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07922691457886440325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-28301857928500800312020-06-20T15:09:47.254-04:002020-06-20T15:09:47.254-04:00Well, Iām glad most everyone had such a lovely tim...Well, Iām glad most everyone had such a lovely time. This puzzle kicked my butt! I simply couldnāt finish without āhelp.ā I didnāt know a lot of the PPP and it really hung me up. The KANE/KAYE area was made worse by the unknown SKETCHES OF SPAIN and the Uno SKIP card. But I also didnāt know OTTO Octavius, OUTPLAY in āThe Survivorā motto, Wanda SYKES, TRALEE or who the heck Emmitt Smith is, so the SE was very tough. In the SW, MANEATER, TRES leches and ADA also gave me trouble. And because I made mistakes with this stuff, I messed up a number of the easier answers along the way. In general, the northern half was more accessible than the southern. But all that being said, *I liked the puzzle*. I feel itās been a long time since I encountered a NYTXW this difficult and I enjoyed the challenge, despite all the loud and necessary moaning, groaning and teeth-gnashing.<br /><br />One thing I knew right off was MUD HEN, due my husbandās owning a ball cap. Itās a prized possession. We used to have a Triple-A team here and they played the MUD HENs regularly. My husband was extremely delighted to get the chance to purchase a MUD HEN memento due to his fondness for Klinger. At this point, the cap has seen better days but it gets worn a lot.<br /><br />The appearance of BUGLER reminded me that my street has acquired its own PIPER. Yes, Bagpiper! In the past couple of weeks, from time to time, a guy has appeared in full regalia and serenaded us. I dinna ken what tae say: a whiff of the auld country to stir the blood. He says heās doing this because most of the events at which he usually plays have been cancelled and he needs the practice. But wisely, he knows that the dulcet tones of the pipes arenāt everyoneās cup of tea, so he moves around a lot and doesnāt play more than one tune at each stop. But at least around here, he always gathers quite a large, interested, socially distanced crowd.<br /><br />I went lOOny the other day because the puzzle had 17 Os and 13 answers that ended with the letter O or the sound O. Todayās had only 10 Os and 2 answers that ended in O. O-Drought!<br />Barbara S.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-6705455792056540732020-06-20T15:02:18.002-04:002020-06-20T15:02:18.002-04:00So disappointed. Initially had hot "to trot&q...So disappointed. Initially had hot "to trot" which seemed kind of sophomoric and archaic at the same time, then realized it was the sillier "tamale," and crossed with "Maneater." Add in the winky nudge toward "Bitches Brew," the pecs and tds and reams and baseball and armpits and that the only actual persons mentioned are all male, and I was happily looking forward to another one of Rex's "guy puzzle" rants. Needless to say, I've never made the jump to actually checking the name of the constructor beforehand (or after usually, actually) and didn't know it until logging on here. Ah well, another day.<br /><br />After breezing through the northwest, had a ton of difficulty, most of it self-inflicted where I had put placeholder answers and then forgotten how unsure i was of them. Liked catalysts a lot and happy place and paranoia, which I would have liked better if I hadn't left parallax crossing with golem there so long to confuse me. a good hard Saturday, even without the rant. Dave Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12186065163092602289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-24332492222206394802020-06-20T14:55:36.911-04:002020-06-20T14:55:36.911-04:00Loewli
Yah I know. Itās a typo. Smith retired in, ...Loewli<br />Yah I know. Itās a typo. Smith retired in, what. 06? Or o4? Anyway, fewer than two decades ago. Not exactly ancient history.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-9765866547347275582020-06-20T14:53:44.913-04:002020-06-20T14:53:44.913-04:00Lorelei,
Maneater isnāt the term we use for pushy ...Lorelei,<br />Maneater isnāt the term we use for pushy broads in the workplace.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com