tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post7184172766548962664..comments2024-03-28T10:24:47.650-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Gudrun's victim in Norse myth / SAT 8-12-17 / Cambridge student informally / Applesauce topped nosh / Vintage military plane / Candle scent popular at Christmas / Some ancient Cretan statuesRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-67620756305692899842017-09-18T21:30:31.123-04:002017-09-18T21:30:31.123-04:00Love toponym? No, or shall we start cluing like a...Love toponym? No, or shall we start cluing like anyplace in the world. Like Brooklyn, like Korea, like Timbuctoo. No No spare me.Longbeachleehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10945278798020339134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-56713769936764872832017-09-18T12:52:28.172-04:002017-09-18T12:52:28.172-04:00And here I always thought a CANTAB was the thing y...And here I always thought a CANTAB was the thing you open a Dr. Pepper or a 7-Up with. You learn something new every day.Bananafishnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-21641490734983008022017-09-18T09:07:23.420-04:002017-09-18T09:07:23.420-04:00DNF for this one. Nothing was in my wheelhouse. Th...DNF for this one. Nothing was in my wheelhouse. That's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.thefogmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870509029973778266noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-20691570788802108912017-09-17T13:30:30.805-04:002017-09-17T13:30:30.805-04:00I don't put applesauce on anything, so once th...I don't put applesauce on anything, so once the food item BABKE came to mind it never wanted to leave. I ended up having to choose between BEE ARMOR (which kind of makes sense) and BED ARMOR (which maybe makes sense in a different sense). <br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8088397829127970092017-09-16T19:39:25.844-04:002017-09-16T19:39:25.844-04:00@Rainy - don't you hate it when you dnf by a s...@Rainy - don't you hate it when you dnf by a silliness? (A silly oversight)<br /><br />Lady DiDiana,LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-15555338074905001682017-09-16T17:07:54.289-04:002017-09-16T17:07:54.289-04:00Big oops. I guess I dnf today. LEG ARMOR. I act...Big oops. I guess I dnf today. LEG ARMOR. I actually realized that 'split' was WENT, but left the 'A' I had in there. Damn. I had a streak going there.rain forestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-27164508365228561922017-09-16T15:38:55.202-04:002017-09-16T15:38:55.202-04:00Replay of yesterday. Fine in the South, fatal in t...Replay of yesterday. Fine in the South, fatal in the North. Up there, got a few, but NODICE (yesterday).<br /><br />Main killers were COINSTAR, LOTUSEATER, THRILLA, and TOPONYM.<br /><br />ILLOMEN? Hope not.leftcoastTAMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-214077762009667162017-09-16T15:37:32.319-04:002017-09-16T15:37:32.319-04:00Where's an Eli when you need one? CANTAB, rig...Where's an Eli when you need one? CANTAB, right. Well, now I know it. Couldn't think of OLDS first name - R???? <br /><br />Got a lot, but not enuf. <br /><br />Started this post hours ago - got called to home health nursing duty. ANyway, two interesting puzzles in a row, dnf'd by PPP.<br /><br />Diana, Lady-in-Waiting for CrosswordsDiana,LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-82087277618291677542017-09-16T14:33:20.526-04:002017-09-16T14:33:20.526-04:00This was medium-challenging for me. 1A was a gimm...This was medium-challenging for me. 1A was a gimme, from a Len Deighton novel, I think, and I just plunked down ABORTED, and that made the NW relatively easy. Other entries with no crosses were DAMONE, LOTSA, RIPPER, and CELA. <br /><br />Even with those in place, and I was doubting a couple of them at times, I struggled hugely with the rest of the puzzle. BAYBERRY? Is it really popular at Christmas? What is it?<br /><br />Amazing actually that I was able to finish this without knowing TOPONYM, BARNEY'S, COINSTAR, and the unknowable LAGARMORE (I must Google that). I was aggrieved with that entry for quite a while.<br /><br />Anyway, it must be a decent puzzle because many answers came almost en passant, as it were. I did notice that SILLS was well-placed beside BANANA PIE, but I disliked both answers. BANANA PIE is hardly "fruity".rain forestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-54627482978861690032017-09-16T13:33:22.520-04:002017-09-16T13:33:22.520-04:00This was the perfect puzzle to break in my thrift ...This was the perfect puzzle to break in my thrift store find.<br />It's the 'Crossword Puzzle Name Finder' by Terry G. Falconer.<br />Names and Mythological gods have always been my bane. <br />It helped w/ 13D, 21D, 40D,and 36A. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-56150151106905536342017-09-16T12:56:16.559-04:002017-09-16T12:56:16.559-04:00This one gave me brain spasticity. Got going in t...This one gave me brain spasticity. Got going in the SE but nothing but MOC elsewhere. Two dnfs in a row have dented my psyche just when I was beginning to feel some puzzle swagger. <br />Fun to learn puzzles had an inventor and did not actually emerge from tic-tac-toe dreams of a better life.centralscrewtinizerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03404913280254786506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-11235461080520330352017-09-16T12:35:55.231-04:002017-09-16T12:35:55.231-04:00The door suddenly slammed shut on good puzzles wit...The door suddenly slammed shut on good puzzles with this pisser epidemic. Yuck.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-2173520381291854852017-09-16T12:27:54.782-04:002017-09-16T12:27:54.782-04:00He's done it again! Slapped down an easy-mediu...He's done it again! Slapped down an easy-medium when I felt like I'd been through WWIII. Not only challenging, but maybe the most ever. That I actually finished. Ending in the NW, of course, and ending where OFL began: square one. Though I've actually visited Cambridge (beautiful!), I knew nothing of the nickname, and it came down to the corner: was our dateable one a CATCH or a mATCH? Either is eminently possible. Know why I went with C? Because Cambridge starts with a C. That's it. I survived a square one Natick.<br /><br />I also survived without having the clues to 42 and 43 down; they simply were not printed. How I managed that is still a wonder. I don't know how a Klingon WARBIRD can be called "vintage," but it WENT (!) in on crosses. One writeover at teaBERRY before BAYBERRY. Ingrid as ILSA has had the sash before; how about the silvery-voiced Beverly SILLS for DOD? I like it. A little kultur. ICEPOPS over MADENICE gives us an ICE-ICE step. Watch your footing! You might break your LIMBS! Triumph factor a record-breaker; I'm going to give this one an eagle ONMERIT.spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-37245395004298700422017-09-16T11:14:27.308-04:002017-09-16T11:14:27.308-04:00ALOHA NORMS (WYNNE-WYNNE)
LILIAN MADENICE and SAY...ALOHA NORMS (WYNNE-WYNNE)<br /><br />LILIAN MADENICE and SAYS,"ME, I confess."<br />and ONMERIT IMPLIES that off WENT her DRESS.<br /><br />--- CURT COTY-CATTBurma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-83309186434381037872017-09-16T10:49:59.164-04:002017-09-16T10:49:59.164-04:00Not easy at all; this puz almost kicked me in TNUT...Not easy at all; this puz almost kicked me in TNUTS. I ABHOR CANTAB and ATLI and almost ABORTED the NW. Mixing Elvis and Peter Frampton got me ALive in the NE and that w/o hung around too long. South easier than north, at least from COINSTAR down.<br /><br />I did have some post-graduate study in LAW. One year was enough of that.<br /><br />ILLOMEN a bad answer, SAYSME.<br /><br />Yeah baby Ingrid as ILSA.<br /><br />LOTSA thanks to Vic DAMONE and ETSY, otherwise no chance up north. Plenty to like here, but wouldn't call it a THRILLA.rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-74334697960846901562017-08-13T14:35:35.954-04:002017-08-13T14:35:35.954-04:00@JC66 8:44
Oh snap! ;-)@JC66 8:44 <br /><br />Oh snap! ;-)Joe Dipintohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07922691457886440325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-35362429017637053382017-08-13T12:34:02.162-04:002017-08-13T12:34:02.162-04:00as a jew and american i can say that the food is a...as a jew and american i can say that the food is a potato pancake. as possessor of advanced degrees from major RESEARCH Univs, i can say that emory is not one altho its academics are strong. the thrilla is as famous as you say but only to fight fans. barneys is not barneys boys town the original mens store on 7tv av and 17th st, but i suppose it qualifies as a chain in its current constructRubehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16937106538342819008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-483532015130451262017-08-13T01:12:59.430-04:002017-08-13T01:12:59.430-04:00DNF. That is 2 Saturdays in a row. Guessed wrong ...DNF. That is 2 Saturdays in a row. Guessed wrong on atli-cantab, didn't remember ransom Olds, never heard of warbird. I missed 3 squares. I never thought of "went" for "split," which was a fine clue. That cost me the SE, and that's just bad solving. However, "Cantab" was not discernable, and Utli sounded good. (maybe I was thinking of Chase...)OISKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16808675378318214461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-45376949837755787222017-08-12T22:57:48.745-04:002017-08-12T22:57:48.745-04:00Oh, I don't know, @Anon 2:37. Calling a CATCH...Oh, I don't know, @Anon 2:37. Calling a CATCH "dateable" is to me like calling Beethoven's Ninth "listenable." Think about it, Anon 2:37: You're secretly listening at the door as a woman you want to go out with is describing you to her friend. Would you like to hear her say: "Yes, I'd call him dateable" or would you prefer to hear her say: "Boy, is he ever a CATCH." I rest my case.<br /><br />@Teedmn (11:52) -- After hearing your wool hat Prada story (the mind absolutely boggles), I'm beginning to think that BARNEYS' wool hat price was a real bargain. And I knew when I asked the price that I almost certainly couldn't afford it, but, curious, I asked anyway.<br /><br />@GILL (3:57) -- I knew someone back in high school who claims she used to walk into Tiffany's wearing jeans. (This was the late 1950s, and jeans were not worn everywhere and by everyone the way they are today.) She claimed she was treated like a queen. "They think you're an eccentric heiress." she said. "Or at least, they can't be <i>sure</i> you're not."<br /><br />Asking all blog cooks: Lemon Cream Pie is a thing, but so is Lemon Chiffon Pie. Is there such a thing as Banana Chiffon Pie as well as Banana Cream Pie? In which case, BANANA PIE could be justified as standing for different kinds of BANANA PIE.<br /><br />Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16737377749030219974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-87861924802778754302017-08-12T21:26:41.990-04:002017-08-12T21:26:41.990-04:00Yinglish?Yinglish?Dolgohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06881395438982320077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-49646411949580202672017-08-12T20:44:14.421-04:002017-08-12T20:44:14.421-04:00@Rube
Try again. Maybe nobody'll notice. 3r...@Rube<br /><br />Try again. Maybe nobody'll notice. 3rd time's a charm.<br /><br />JC66https://www.blogger.com/profile/05324615675333287919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-32639747732344546512017-08-12T17:57:43.630-04:002017-08-12T17:57:43.630-04:00Rube,
Barneys New York has 27 locations. Beltline ...Rube,<br />Barneys New York has 27 locations. Beltline is perfectly sensible. You're lack of familiarity with the terms is the problem here. Latke has long<br />been assimilated into the English language just as Champagne has. US News and World Report ranks Emory the 20th best university i the US. As for The Thrilla in Manilla goes, it was indeed of one of the most celebrated fights of the last 70 years. You're simply being petulant not to acknowledge the facts as they lay. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-2198729641347347052017-08-12T17:47:24.223-04:002017-08-12T17:47:24.223-04:00@Gil, makes me remember my visit to Saks with my r...@Gil, makes me remember my visit to Saks with my roommate. There we were, trying to look like actual Saks shoppers, when we wandered into Fine China and saw a lovely setting complete with wine and cheese. I surreptitiously poked the Brie to see it it was real and... It squeaked!! Really got the giggles and...BarbieBarbienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-38685193172863019322017-08-12T17:26:26.496-04:002017-08-12T17:26:26.496-04:00@anon 4:56. I think Rex sides with the Stalinists@anon 4:56. I think Rex sides with the StalinistsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-87088631135049781442017-08-12T17:13:27.640-04:002017-08-12T17:13:27.640-04:00barneys not a chain. emory not prestigious.beltlin...barneys not a chain. emory not prestigious.beltline makes no sense. waistline is the term. coinstar? what is that? thrilla in manilla is very esoteric in 2017.latke is yiddish not english..Rubehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16937106538342819008noreply@blogger.com