tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post7895253854421881530..comments2024-03-28T08:24:32.790-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Indian water holder — FRIDAY, Dec. 18 2009 — Outfielder Chavez / Peninsula south of Gulf of Trieste / Opera quickieRex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-13223486665557031082017-11-28T02:07:52.309-05:002017-11-28T02:07:52.309-05:00Teasing little brother hidden under the car runnin...Teasing little brother hidden under the car running 80 km.<br /> <a href="https://www.hiso-casino.com/" rel="nofollow">คาสิโนออนไลน์</a> Play Fun Games Online Games that give you a chance to enter new activities. Games that give you every opportunity. The path of playing online casino games with us. Choose a casino game on mobile. Meet all needs are perfect. I bet every day, not a holiday with me. Can receive news The children's news reported that the child disappeared on November 23 until the same evening at another bus station. Photos published online Both of them were dusty and muddy from the wheels. "The baby is very thin, it makes it easy to hide," said security staff.<br /><br /> Another story. I do not want to answer when asked how to do it, but gradually I asked to know that I want to find the missing parents. From working in the city. This is deeply touching people. And there are Chinese people overwhelmingly commented. Mostly written about feelings of compassion and compassion for children.<br /><br /> Reflections on Chinese social problems at family collapse Parents must separate from the child. And the kids were left behind in society. It is the condition of many rural families. And some people to the policy of China's Dream of the leaders. This is a bitter dream. Another online gambling operator. There are so many games available for all of you to join an interactive mobile bet. Fast operation Online gaming services are becoming more and more interesting. Fun is easy. Betting services that provide a good website experience. <a href="https://www.hiso-casino.com/" rel="nofollow">คาสิโนออนไลน์</a>คาสิโนออนไลน์ Gclub sbobethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17778159157555939498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-56238848325302909102010-01-23T13:44:56.687-05:002010-01-23T13:44:56.687-05:00This was actually easy for a Friday for me. Altho...This was actually easy for a Friday for me. Although I would have liked to have seen DESEXED clued as "Like some husbands"... :) Well, okay, maybe "Like an R-Rated movie on ABC" would be more appropriate.Mike in STLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-87252162005885750522010-01-22T22:18:33.908-05:002010-01-22T22:18:33.908-05:00Bon Jovi = Hard Rock???Bon Jovi = Hard Rock???impjbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03311105934112373190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-4954992515731161692010-01-22T11:33:23.106-05:002010-01-22T11:33:23.106-05:00oner
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...oner<br /> <br /> <br />on·er [ wúnnər ] (plural on·ers)<br /><br /><br />noun <br />Definition:<br /> <br />somebody or something extraordinary: a unique or extraordinary person or thing ( informal )MSN encartanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-2290226530390486962010-01-22T11:08:30.426-05:002010-01-22T11:08:30.426-05:00What's an oner??What's an oner??Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00960536453124500715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-87381690278048353172009-12-20T08:37:17.657-05:002009-12-20T08:37:17.657-05:00Didn't get the Beatles 65 reference. But than...Didn't get the Beatles 65 reference. But thanks for the Westerberg plug!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-18390064276032465852009-12-19T19:10:31.726-05:002009-12-19T19:10:31.726-05:00@Crosscan - That was the year Tony Gwynn hit .402...@Crosscan - That was the year Tony Gwynn hit .402.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04754156636762779545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-44490495239925121122009-12-19T08:39:44.395-05:002009-12-19T08:39:44.395-05:00andrea jew michaels: Indeed I did!!!!andrea jew michaels: Indeed I did!!!!slypetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537129206516720012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-54337539551148054222009-12-19T07:37:29.105-05:002009-12-19T07:37:29.105-05:00@mac, 11:14 PM -
If you read my comment directed ...@mac, 11:14 PM -<br /><br />If you read my comment directed to Misunderstood THE, you will see that Brendan put The Beatles in the clue without the The because the name of the album was "Beatles '65" (sic, no "the").An, an Indefinite Articlenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-6199362888531492212009-12-19T02:44:01.545-05:002009-12-19T02:44:01.545-05:00I have a serious dislike for this puzzle.
Toe___,...I have a serious dislike for this puzzle.<br /><br />Toe___, which is in the Beatles ouvre (and I hate hate hate the Beatles) is a sickening word. Unless you're talking about kicking a rock- this word has no reason to exist. Why do we have to look at it, front and center, in the daily crossword which we love?<br /><br />Plus, it's wrongly clued. Detritus is fall-away material a toe-nail clipping , for example... where toe___ is an accumulating, putrifying excrescence- something else entirely.<br /><br />And what is it doing in the puzzle?<br /><br />Sorry, but this really bugs me.<br /><br /><br />From the cover of darkness so say IAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-39335974552115368722009-12-19T01:32:50.305-05:002009-12-19T01:32:50.305-05:00@darkman
don't you mean toejam on your toest?@darkman<br />don't you mean toejam on your toest?andrea jew michaelsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-80616464313329647152009-12-19T00:43:32.834-05:002009-12-19T00:43:32.834-05:00@mac, I've been traveling a bit, so while I...@mac, I've been traveling a bit, so while I've kept up reasonably well with the puzzles and RP's commentary, I haven't been as diligent on the comments. I've been trying to catch up, but generally too late to add much to the discussion (which is usually the case anyway...).HudsonHawkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16119485923243014649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-50591338192436477472009-12-18T23:16:13.535-05:002009-12-18T23:16:13.535-05:00This week's relative difficulty ratings. See m...This week's relative difficulty ratings. See my <a href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=35115061&postID=3588389571383499624&isPopup=true" rel="nofollow">7/30/2009 post</a> for an explanation. In a nutshell, the higher the ratio, the higher this week's median solve time is relative to the average for the corresponding day of the week.<br /><br />All solvers (this week's median solve time, average for day of week, ratio, percentile, rating)<br /><br />Mon 6:38, 6:56, 0.96, 40%, Easy-Medium<br />Tue 9:39, 8:39, 1.12, 79%, Medium-Challenging<br />Wed 13:21, 11:53, 1.12, 80%, Challenging<br />Thu 18:59, 19:01, 1.00, 53%, Medium<br />Fri 29:37, 26:00, 1.14, 86%, Challenging<br /><br />Top 100 solvers<br /><br />Mon 3:28, 3:41, 0.94, 39%, Easy-Medium<br />Tue 4:51, 4:26, 1.09, 80%, Challenging<br />Wed 6:01, 5:50, 1.03, 65%, Medium-Challenging<br />Thu 9:33, 9:08, 1.05, 71%, Medium-Challenging<br />Fri 13:39, 12:23, 1.10, 81%, Challengingsanfranman59https://www.blogger.com/profile/15118732156312301425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-58819787959525592142009-12-18T23:14:57.377-05:002009-12-18T23:14:57.377-05:00This was a medium-challenging for me, but I felt g...This was a medium-challenging for me, but I felt good about finishing it almost. I certainly need to do three BEQs a week from now on to prep for the tournament.<br /><br />I loved this puzzle. I'm sure Will toned it down a bit, and I had to do the same! Had spit for rant, for instance. 59D roe: I started out with blank o(ver) e(asy). What do I know? <br /><br />Loved toejam, so unexpected, and hate "fat cat". Nasty thing to say. May feel strongly because a former friend (ha) called my husband that.<br /><br />Think Brendan put the Beatles in the clue without the The on purpose?? <br /><br />@HudsonHawk: have you been away?<br />@SethG: Quinine saved that corner for me as well.<br />@Greene: thank you once again for all the great theater info you give us almost daily. I love it.<br /><br />Sorry about the late entry. Too much going on. Can't wait for January....machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06794371617847975218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-31901552533935780112009-12-18T21:08:01.550-05:002009-12-18T21:08:01.550-05:00I like @Elaine's 1:30AM Club as that it is whe...I like @Elaine's 1:30AM Club as that it is when I am usually doing the puzzle, particularly the Friday and Saturday variety. Is there a fee to join?<br /><br />I like the way there was a cross section of cultures represented here. Shall we refer to this one as a multi-cultural affair? I find Mr. Quigley to be truly quirky and I like his penchant for multiple word answers. In the olden days they used to identify thoses clues as "2 word" or "3 word" and I liked that. Was that Will Wang?Bill from NJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10103923612595508277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-54664302804704288652009-12-18T21:00:03.398-05:002009-12-18T21:00:03.398-05:00I do BEQ's fabulous puzzles every M/W/F. He g...I do BEQ's fabulous puzzles every M/W/F. He got me last week with "heat that's high and outside" (sun) after slogging through every baseball term I could think of. Hah! Didn't get me today with 44D. Non-spoiler alert - BEQ's puzzles are better than the NYT and they're free. Check them out!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17133775500915256214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-81587008275897764522009-12-18T20:32:20.575-05:002009-12-18T20:32:20.575-05:00Robert Coote was my first entry as my penfriend in...Robert Coote was my first entry as my penfriend in the US sent me an original cast album of My Fair Lady when it was first produced on Broadway. I got stuck in the northeast corner. Got The Wire not because of BEQ's predilection for it but because it was the only thing that fitted after getting "The".<br /><br />I too saw the Big Red MAchine and my son has one of those pennants with the signatures of the '75 Reds players.<br /><br />Personally liked culls and got La Jolla simply from the first letter. Sort of pleased I got as far as I did. Considered it challenging.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-3411006137603635002009-12-18T20:16:11.063-05:002009-12-18T20:16:11.063-05:00Despite a crash-and-burn in the SW, I finished thi...Despite a crash-and-burn in the SW, I finished this without the loving, capacious arms of Auntie Google.<br /><br />Despite some undeniably clever clues/answers, I found today's puzzle unpleasant--even though I, too, enjoy a bit of TOEJAM on my toast.slypetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05537129206516720012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-12755333222399268242009-12-18T20:13:18.261-05:002009-12-18T20:13:18.261-05:00@SethG: True dat@SethG: True datH. L. Menckennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-49656487948950250582009-12-18T19:47:45.412-05:002009-12-18T19:47:45.412-05:00Definitely challenging for me, but I freely confes...Definitely challenging for me, but I freely confess that BEQ and I are rarely on the same page. What can I say other that I"M A LOSER (love that entry!). At least I've done enough BEQ to get THE WIRE immediately. Hand up for ARIETTA initially, but RECESSES took care of that error. On the whole I would say this was an extremely fair puzzle, appropriately pitched to Friday level difficulty, and quite fun to boot. As BEQ would say: "Approved."<br /><br />I was very surprised to find Robert COOTE in the puzzle. Given my background, he was an obvious gimmie and one of my first entries in the grid, but I certainly didn't expect anybody else to know his name. "Cooter" made a career of playing stuffy English aristocrats and infusing those performances with an element of knowing mockery. He appeared in many films, but is most famous for originating the role of Colonel Pickering in <i>My Fair Lady</i> (1956) on Broadway, a role he reprised in the original London production as well as the 1976 Broadway revival (which is where I finally caught up with him). I was delighted to find him an expert comedienne and the possessor of a fine character singing voice, although he didn't have much to sing in <i>Fair Lady</i>, just a bit of "The Rain in Spain" and the Act 2 opener "You Did It." He also played King Pellinore in the original Broadway production of <i>Camelot</i> (1960) which was just slightly before my theatre going days began.<br /><br />You can still catch him in the the Orson Welles movie production of <i>Othello</i> where he plays Roderigo. The best video clip I can find on You Tube is from his last film, <i>Theatre of Blood</i> where he plays a critic who gets murdered by Vincent Price. It's not how I like to remember him, so I'm going to pass on posting a link.Greenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10412634072650228847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-73877860092234755172009-12-18T19:06:21.816-05:002009-12-18T19:06:21.816-05:00I liked the puzzle, but like others had "ario...I liked the puzzle, but like others had "arioste" and started out with laser and only fixed it at the very end.<br /><br /> I know Endy Chavez, but this strikes me as an arcane answer. Not exactly "Ott" or "Alou".michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-50238651827443725952009-12-18T18:38:26.964-05:002009-12-18T18:38:26.964-05:00@Crosscan ... wait, as I recall, the Expos played ...@Crosscan ... wait, as I recall, the Expos played the Indians in that 1994 World Series and the Tribe won their first championship in 46 years when Albert "Don't Call me Joey" Belle hit a Game 7 walk-off homer (with a corked bat, of course). Now, we Indians die-hards are waiting for 2040 to come around for our next title.sanfranman59https://www.blogger.com/profile/15118732156312301425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-78404559831218465392009-12-18T18:02:13.677-05:002009-12-18T18:02:13.677-05:00Hand up for HELL YES, which I really liked. I thou...Hand up for HELL YES, which I really liked. I thought maybe Will was loosening up his standards a bit.<br /><br />BEQ's puzzles are just crazy! I love them! I especially like finding words you would NEVER see in a "standard" puzzle. Resistance is not futile.<br /><br />Had to Google. Well, sometimes you just have to. <br /><br />Endy Chavez has a brother named "Ender". Wonder what the parents were thinking about....the apocalypse?Meghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17964374453128401532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-3424621468261649942009-12-18T18:01:17.801-05:002009-12-18T18:01:17.801-05:00If I understand correctly what it is, the most fam...If I understand correctly what it is, the most famous AIR WALK is probably at the Petronas Towers. Except...they call it a <a href="http://www.petronas.com.my/internet/pett/pettweb.nsf/frm_skybridge_hi?OpenFrameset" rel="nofollow">skybridge</a>.<br /><br />Knowing BEQ, as I do not, I'm guessing the original clue referenced the <a href="http://www.airwalk.com/" rel="nofollow">company</a>.SethGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13753036404140901368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-5729176625232689552009-12-18T17:37:07.646-05:002009-12-18T17:37:07.646-05:00@27A...myopia = nearsighted...never heard it calle...@27A...myopia = nearsighted...never heard it called shortsighted, but Professor Google insists that is correct.Live and learn.<br /><br />Never heard of toe jam either, except as someone pointed out I have indeed heard it a million times (Beatles; Come Together), without having a clue what was being said. Live and learn.PIXnoreply@blogger.com