tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post6405692358612216725..comments2024-03-29T05:08:37.783-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Psychiatry writer R.D. / THU 4-9-15 / Brown-eared comics character / Against a thing legally / They say it in Spain in old Andrews Sisters hit / Part of FIOS / Tryptophan leucine / Tiny adjustment to atomic clock / Andean articleRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger148125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-65709716891282813372023-08-04T21:44:01.273-04:002023-08-04T21:44:01.273-04:00(It's meant to be read as the beginning of &qu...(It's meant to be read as the beginning of "I rest my case.")nobodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-74694545074041663522023-01-27T14:44:42.464-05:002023-01-27T14:44:42.464-05:00I loved the overlapping rebus, especially with thi...I loved the overlapping rebus, especially with this routine. This is my litmus test to convince a coworker: if you find this funny, then you're sufficiently fluent in English.<br /><br />I never had the problem with Capra, as RAD was a gimme. I skipped down for the low-hanging fruit I found there, got a few letters in the long 46A, and then found 52D, which gave me the "3rd" rebus. A moment later, I had TELL ME SOME___G[3rd], and the light bulb went on with a hearty chuckle.<br /><br />Yes, there are pain points: PETE ROUSE, LLOYD, LATTE (a Green Paint phrase); EASY TARGET is straightforward enough, but sopophoric for a long answer. BLUE PENCIL requires the solver to be familiar with professional jargon for an archaic process.<br /><br />Finally, "I REST" is not the <i>start</i> of the conclusion: it's the final phrase.Prunehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00224476641730508311noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57555744731980423452015-05-14T20:18:53.726-04:002015-05-14T20:18:53.726-04:00Tsk, tsk, tsk! The comments today are sounding li...Tsk, tsk, tsk! The comments today are sounding like an Arab, a Jew, a Christian, a Muslim and a Buddhist were all trapped in an elevator arguing religion.<br /><br />Anyway, I really liked the puzzle and found it challenging and tres clever.<br /><br />Burma Shave needs a good trim and Evil Doug could use some Holy Water. :)<br /><br />Ron Diego, Late in the dayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-43621810668962915222015-05-14T18:27:50.043-04:002015-05-14T18:27:50.043-04:00This puzzle spanned the generations, a thousand of...This puzzle spanned the generations, a thousand of them, as illustrated in many of the clues and answers. A real GEM of a puzzle.<br /><br />Lots of griping and sniping going on among the real-time posters. Glad it's all died down by the time it reaches us out here in Syndiland, but it still adds some entertainment value to the blog.leftcoastTAMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-1776134200380462452015-05-14T17:38:17.887-04:002015-05-14T17:38:17.887-04:00My Andean article was UNo wihich left me with BoSE...My Andean article was UNo wihich left me with BoSES as a revealer???! MAybe that's why I never caught on to the double rebus thing. solving (3rd) RAIL left me with the unfathomable TELLMESOMETHUNG(3rd). and so it went. So I ended with three circled squares which only made sense in one direction. I"ll try again tomorrow!<br /><br />156 not my day!DMGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-633156181102202015-05-14T16:47:24.584-04:002015-05-14T16:47:24.584-04:00After a bit of a struggle (and no help from Google...After a bit of a struggle (and no help from Google)I completed the puzzle correctly. But I totally missed the tie-in to Abbott and Costello, so the three horizontal answers didn't make sense-- the boy first cried wolf? Apparently I just skipped over the key clue in 63 across. Doh!D_Johnsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-77498378472265445012015-05-14T14:09:31.433-04:002015-05-14T14:09:31.433-04:00Well said, @Spacey. You described my solve exactl...Well said, @Spacey. You described my solve exactly including my first entry, Capra. I got the whole East, and intuited the "I don't know", and went from there. <br />Extremely challenging, but eventually do-able, unlike some other challenging puzs I can think of. <br />Loved watching the A&C bit, again. <br />And, I really liked this puzzle.<br /><br />rain forestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-68825444786162391522015-05-14T12:24:20.415-04:002015-05-14T12:24:20.415-04:00WonderfulWonderfulKGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09670419030723350599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-77800765601398110932015-05-14T11:58:00.849-04:002015-05-14T11:58:00.849-04:00Come on. Oscar winning director Frank and it's...Come on. Oscar winning director Frank and it's NOT Capra?? Who among us did NOT put this in as an out-and-out gimme? First word I entered. My "anchor."<br /><br />Let's just say, If OFL didn't rate this a full-out "challenging," I was gonna go to his house and punch him out. First of all, no way does this belong in a Thursday slot. It's a Saturday puzzle, period. The cluing was beyond brutal: it was mental waterboarding. Nevertheless, having said all this, I somehow navigated my way to a solve--littered with many a sloppy writeover, to be sure, but in the end correct, and with no help.<br /><br />Longer clues draw my attention, so I spotted the location of the revealing entry early on. Right away I suspected NIB/BASES. And folks, generation gap be damned. Did none of you see "Rain Man?" There's your A&C routine; they even play part of it on a TV screen! It wasn't long before I saw 46a, ending in IDK. So we had a rebus; little did I know then I had only half of it. Not knowing what Subway had to do with IDK, I left and went to the center, where I spotted GUESSWHAT. But an atomic clock adjustment ending in WHAT made no sense. Something about a second would make more...HAH! It's 2nd base!! And now we get 3rd RAIL. At last I could return to the north (abandoned because CAPRA wouldn't play nice with his neighbors) with a little more info. I had NOTHING up there. Searched for something ending in "FIRST," found it at 5d, and eventually was able to correct our director to LLOYD. Hmm, not Harold. This guy REALLY wanted to make it tough. Not Frank Capra, and not Harold LLOYD. No-o-o. Frank LLOYD. OK, Jacob, if you say so. Some time we should talk about the concept of fairness.<br /><br />Equally unfair is the clue "In" for CHIC. I have seen many fads that were "in," but were FAR from "CHIC." Is it "CHIC" to wear an outer pair of shorts so low that the waistband falls at mid-butt? I don't think so. But it is "in."<br /><br />I can't say the fill scintillates: RESELLERS? NEEDINESS?? and Mr. Obscurity PETEROUSE is ridiculous, but I have to give props to the theme and its execution--and to the fact that despite uber-toughness I finished it. B.<br /><br />197, almost as good as yesterday.spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-79128947381905813082015-05-14T11:33:06.575-04:002015-05-14T11:33:06.575-04:00ORAL ESSEX
That RAD CELEBRITY gal would THROW her...ORAL ESSEX<br /><br />That RAD CELEBRITY gal would THROW herself in the pool,<br />then I would LEAPSECOND, HAH! It was CHIC, it was cool.<br />I was such an EASYTARGET. GUESSWHAT? I was ready to burst<br />‘CAUSE the GAMES not only cannonballin’, I HOPE for HEADFIRST.<br /><br />--- “SWEET” CLEAT BLUEPENCIL<br />Burma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-58610919840829483812015-05-14T10:04:18.233-04:002015-05-14T10:04:18.233-04:00Wandered in the wilderness for a long time before ...Wandered in the wilderness for a long time before getting BASES, then figured the WHO in the fable which finally got me HEADFIRST. Two words in a square thing was gumming everything. So searched out the others and somehow finally finished. The whole east side was blankish forever until the aha moment and the LEVEE broke. Maye the longest Thursday solve ever? One of ‘em at least.<br /><br />Lots write-over ink spilled today. Wanted Capra for LLOYD , dowel for THROW, hone for WHET. All of them absolutely no help.<br /><br />EDNA St. Vincent Millay – Savage Beauty – jazz age yeah baby. NADIA Petrova not so. <br /><br />Shout out to WNBA Minnesota LYNX.<br /><br />There was no EASYTARGET in this puzzler of a puz.<br />rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-6580661383542440852015-04-12T09:20:35.533-04:002015-04-12T09:20:35.533-04:00
Hello everyone, My name is Morgan Jackson, a citi...<br />Hello everyone, My name is Morgan Jackson, a citizen of USA; am 42 years of age..we got married for more than 11 years and have gotten two kids. thing were going well with us and we are always happy. until one day my husband started to behave in a way i could not understand, i was very confused by the way he treat me and the kids. later that month he did not come home again and he called me that he want a divorce, i asked him what have i done wrong to deserve this from him, all he was saying is that he want a divorce that he hate me and do not want to see me again in his life, i was mad and also frustrated do not know what to do,i was sick for more than 2 weeks because of the divorce. i love him so much he was everything to me without him my life is incomplete. i told my sister and she told me to contact a spell caster, i never believe in all this spell casting of a thing. i just want to try if something will come out of it. i contacted Dr Brave for the return of my husband to me, they told me that my husband have been taken by another woman, that she cast a spell on him that is why he hate me and also want us to divorce. then they told me that they have to cast a spell on him that will make him return to me and the kids, they casted the spell and after 1 week my husband called me and he told me that i should forgive him, he started to apologize on phone and said that he still live me that he did not know what happen to him that he left me. it was the spell that he Dr Brave casted on him that make him come back to me today,me and my family are now happy again today. thank you Dr Brave for what you have done for me i would have been nothing today if not for your great spell. i want you my friends who are passing through all this kind of love problem of getting back their husband, wife , or ex boyfriend and girlfriend to contact Dr Brave ,if you need his help you can contact him through his private mail: bravespellcaster@gmail.com or you can contact him through his website http://enchantedscents.tripod.com/lovespell/ and you will see that your problem will be solved without any delay.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12248487868082359150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-68833862901862348572015-04-10T00:54:37.369-04:002015-04-10T00:54:37.369-04:00An excellent poem, agreed, and I'm vurry surpr...An excellent poem, agreed, and I'm vurry surprised it didn't invoke the wrath of the Eating Disorders-Contingent.<br /><br />Nice that someone stepped up,albeit Anonymously, with LLOYD George. The words of the song are a sly substitution for 'LLOYD George knew my <i>Mother</i>', since LG apparently cut quite a deep swath with the ladies.<br /><br />And speaking of 'sly'...Check out @Gill 4:52 -- i'ts a hootElephant's Childnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-39552506314955988502015-04-09T23:50:14.475-04:002015-04-09T23:50:14.475-04:00@aliasz's
poem is the best entry among today&...@aliasz's <br />poem is the best entry among today's comments IMHO.NYernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-16910194290300749912015-04-09T23:40:55.102-04:002015-04-09T23:40:55.102-04:00It must be satisfying for you to look in the mirro...It must be satisfying for you to look in the mirror every morning and know that there are very few people in the world who could claim to be a more pompous ass or pretentious than yourself as you complain about the pretentiousness of the writer of a blog that you read every day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-76821851460766606712015-04-09T22:40:50.224-04:002015-04-09T22:40:50.224-04:00Cheerio...agree. 100%!!Cheerio...agree. 100%!!Don McBrienhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07695623789694537538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-87058736908571127812015-04-09T22:23:36.843-04:002015-04-09T22:23:36.843-04:00Glad to see from the comments that this was as har...Glad to see from the comments that this was as hard as I thought it was. Without Pete Rouse (and I follow politics closely and had "ouse" and still had no clue) or Frank Lloyd this became joyless and pointless to continue. Hate to throw in the towel on a Thursday but since this was much more like a Saturday I can deal with it.anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04653839074645843721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-43667795609104015012015-04-09T21:57:17.067-04:002015-04-09T21:57:17.067-04:00@Leapfinger: I'll step up if no one else will...@Leapfinger: I'll step up if no one else will: "Lloyd George knew my father; Father knew Lloyd George." I don't remember why I know that, but it became an earworm.<br /><br />Meanwhile, here's evidence that the A&C routine is still relevant:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Jg7pvVzKk<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-59129752333678269492015-04-09T21:18:26.196-04:002015-04-09T21:18:26.196-04:00Gah, "B Movie" it is, @Z. Nice tie-in to...Gah, "B Movie" it is, @Z. Nice tie-in to the (Abbott and) Costello theme. And I agree that your hopes for our teams would be the best scenario.Teedmnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12832353448839187816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-81456974797698991882015-04-09T21:07:51.810-04:002015-04-09T21:07:51.810-04:00I loved this puzzle. My kids knew the routine by h...I loved this puzzle. My kids knew the routine by heart. There was even a board game created based on this routine. And we have a video of my kids reading from the script. It's a classic - and if that's considered dated, then so be it.<br />I had to Google some of the names, as others have done - but got the theme fairly soon. <br />Bravo on this one!Arlenehttp://www.listeningclosely.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57441344954741712112015-04-09T20:48:06.749-04:002015-04-09T20:48:06.749-04:00@Teedmn - B Movie, and I'd write the clue as &...@Teedmn - <i>B Movie</i>, and I'd write the clue as "Side 2." See what happens when you rush. Hey, congrats to your Twinkies getting a run AND setting the record for scoreless innings to open a season. For your sake and mine I hope that it was that the Tigers are just that good and not that the Twins are that bad. We suffered through 2003 and I wouldn't wish that kind of season on anyone (except the Yankees, natch).Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181544219511150272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-27520362957830357342015-04-09T20:19:48.925-04:002015-04-09T20:19:48.925-04:00@Z, trivia answer = Revolver
Trivial trivia answe...@Z, trivia answer = Revolver<br /><br />Trivial trivia answer, could it be "B Side"? Wouldn't pass muster in a crossword puzzle, with the answer being in the clue and all ;-)<br /><br />But good point on trivia.Teedmnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12832353448839187816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-21219177442166003412015-04-09T20:11:42.272-04:002015-04-09T20:11:42.272-04:00@Mohair Sam - You're right, but in the grand s...@Mohair Sam - You're right, but in the grand scheme of current events, Mr Rouse is trivial trivia*, so hardly a balance to the dated feel of the clueing. If you want to be a memorable as a chief of staff you either have to be fictional (Leo McGarry), really bad at the job (Rahm Emmanuel), or be involved in advocating and defending one of history's major screw-ups (Donald Rumsfeld). Being a quietly competent aide, while vital, doesn't make one crossworthy or an antidote to a bunch of clues from before color TV. <br /><br /><br />* Trivia = What album has <i>Taxman</i> on it.<br />Trivial Trivia = what is the fourth song on the B side of <i>Get Happy</i>.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181544219511150272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-4118792765074141602015-04-09T20:06:51.459-04:002015-04-09T20:06:51.459-04:00When our son was small we showed him lots of class...When our son was small we showed him lots of classic comedy: Abbot and Costello, the Marx Brothers, Preston Sturges movies, Charlie Chaplin. They're not OLD. They are, however, great.Wendy the Snowpersonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-1790859738882448102015-04-09T19:59:33.143-04:002015-04-09T19:59:33.143-04:00I also agreed with mohair Sam.I also agreed with mohair Sam.Cheeriohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04919455386774076690noreply@blogger.com