tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post9033834523156126890..comments2024-03-29T01:22:33.864-04:00Comments on Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle: Superman's birth name / MON 4-3-17 / __ Philippe (Swiss watchmaker) / __-CIO / "That sounds good - NOT!" / Cheri formerly of S.N.L.Rex Parkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16145707733877505087noreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-9373942909902589782017-05-08T16:27:11.472-04:002017-05-08T16:27:11.472-04:00Very nice review by Annabel, and I agree with her ...Very nice review by Annabel, and I agree with her that this one was Monday hard, mainly because of one tough cluster:<br /><br />SCRAG/OHFUN/RHEAS and the spelling of RACHAELRAY, all bunched together near the NE corner. Fortunately was able to untangle VIA mutually revealing crosses.<br /><br />Too close to a rare Monday dnf.leftcoastTAMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-24347870602311404372017-05-08T14:58:15.646-04:002017-05-08T14:58:15.646-04:00Forgot this one - my former dentist, when examinin...Forgot this one - my former dentist, when examining your gums, would tell you, "There's the three kinds of RHEAS - pia-, dia-, and gono-. Guess which one you have?" Dentist humor. OHFUN!rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-50385981961143025982017-05-08T14:18:25.295-04:002017-05-08T14:18:25.295-04:00BTW that's Wolfgang PUCKBTW that's Wolfgang PUCKBS2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-39616045663585920932017-05-08T13:10:05.474-04:002017-05-08T13:10:05.474-04:00Something about RACHAEL RAY make her the yeah BAE ...Something about RACHAEL RAY make her the yeah BAE today.<br /><br />Monday. Easy. Amazing, though, that someone thought that baseball had no coaches. My Little League, and Babe Ruth teams had only coaches - no managers. Also, as @Spacey pointed out, 1st base, 3rd base, pitching, batting, and water cooler coaches.<br /><br />As a teenager, I heard the word SCRAG used often, and not in the best of senses. <br /><br />Fun fact: instant coffee should be considered a separate hot beverage. You got coffee, tea, and instant coffee, which should be avoided unless desperate.<br /><br />Not so fun fact: yesterday I was in a charity golf tournament - Texas scramble format on a course that was so muddy, windy, cold, and with terrible greens that I would normally have refused to play, but hey, it was for charity. So, I didn't solve Sunday's puzzle last night. Thought it wasn't so bad as others seemed to think. <br /><br />Today's? Just fine for a Monday.rain forestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-66168108568758504072017-05-08T12:54:37.103-04:002017-05-08T12:54:37.103-04:00Agree - easy but for the SCRAG/RHEAS crossing - no...Agree - easy but for the SCRAG/RHEAS crossing - not on a Monday! Especially after the last 2 days of puzzles I didn't even care to finish. Now that I'm done with Sunday - wow. Those mythtery people and the dopey New England Chodder sayings. Usually I'd like a theme like that, but yesterday's just didn't do it for me. So I was glad to see Monday coming.<br /><br />And I have the world's largest blister on my right foot's sole. And the (finisher) t-shirt to brag about.<br /><br />Diana, Lady-in-Waiting for Crosswords, not Mythtery Names<br /><br />(Had to laugh at the post that the "not a robot" quiz was more fun from yesterday.)Diana,LIWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-39669609630125497032017-05-08T11:43:05.265-04:002017-05-08T11:43:05.265-04:00Finished easily but thought I had made some sort o...Finished easily but thought I had made some sort of mistake since I had nonsense sequences like BAE and SCRAG among my answers.Uke Xensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14925310033193507314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-5922226047813340692017-05-08T11:32:09.131-04:002017-05-08T11:32:09.131-04:00After that April Fool’s debacle it occurred to me,...After that April Fool’s debacle it occurred to me, after seeing BATTER, that this puz was from the beginning of the MLB season, so knew the themers would have to do with baseball. Much appreciated.<br /><br />This week our softball season begins, where for some of the players we could say, “Have another BEER,BATTER.”<br /><br />I actually own one of the books by fully spelled out and ever so spunky yeah baby RACHAELRAY.<br /><br />Nice baseball puz that I buzzed through without a SNAG.<br />rondonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-53439134661791395252017-05-08T10:48:28.858-04:002017-05-08T10:48:28.858-04:00Not only "the guys behind first and third,&qu...Not only "the guys behind first and third," but also pitching and hitting COACHes--the latter usually remaining in the dugout. On occasion, a pitching coach will emerge and go to the mound if he sees a flaw in the current hurler's delivery. Such trips are severely limited by rule, thanks be.<br /><br />I am with @Rug Crazy, though, about that shell where Peter kept his wife very well. And, if you think about the thousands of peanut shells--to say nothing of the sunflower seed shells that the players CONSTANTLY spit out, that word works perfectly with the theme!<br /><br />I liked this tribute to America's favorite pastime. Hand up for thumbs down on BAE and OHFUN, but the rest was fine. DOD, besides the co-constructors, is a gal who's been in many grids but had yet to don the sash: Cheri OTERI. I love a girl with a sense of humor. Easy-medium because of that pumpkin glitch (I was so confident that I wrote it in, so the NE looks like a tornado hit it). Par.spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-13101491655834957672017-05-08T10:03:00.694-04:002017-05-08T10:03:00.694-04:00PUCK’S EGOS
I ITCH and LONG for RACHAELRAY, IMEAN...PUCK’S EGOS<br /><br />I ITCH and LONG for RACHAELRAY, IMEAN I GREW to really dig her,<br />and I’LLBETHERE to call her BAE, and check out her BALLPARKFIGURE.<br /><br />--- ART PATEK-KALEL<br />Burma Shavenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-29887777390041069562017-04-05T09:29:56.204-04:002017-04-05T09:29:56.204-04:00Have Trump voters started doing The NY Times cross...Have Trump voters started doing The NY Times crossword? Much to easy even for a Monday.bellotahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00116506577028197467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-26179243633960181812017-04-04T00:44:37.789-04:002017-04-04T00:44:37.789-04:00I killed this puzz. I put the pu**y on the chain w...I killed this puzz. I put the pu**y on the chain wax.Oldflappyfrommississappynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-32624315194025216572017-04-04T00:36:26.137-04:002017-04-04T00:36:26.137-04:00As a tea drinker, I am almost bored to tears with ...As a tea drinker, I am almost bored to tears with all the coffee comments. Surely, there must be a forum somewhere to discuss coffee?? Bae is part of the new crosswordese we must learn. I think this is the third or fourth time I have seen it now. Scrag seemed odd. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-39691610233918614752017-04-03T22:55:21.155-04:002017-04-03T22:55:21.155-04:00@Z0722, new words arise when they fill an unmet ne...@Z0722, new words arise when they fill an unmet need; BABE leaves no obvious unmet need for BAE to fill.Wilma Shakespearenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-61077376593831762742017-04-03T22:51:36.877-04:002017-04-03T22:51:36.877-04:00@Nancy....Can I adopt you?@Nancy....Can I adopt you?GILL I.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05605766053820226324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-88042716663956689192017-04-03T22:21:11.494-04:002017-04-03T22:21:11.494-04:00Phil Phil: Not 'born' to his adopted paren...Phil Phil: Not 'born' to his adopted parents, per se, ha ha.<br /><br />His parents are adoptive, not adopted. They are his adoptive parents. He is their adopted son. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-60717238555217499972017-04-03T21:49:12.359-04:002017-04-03T21:49:12.359-04:00I chuckled over GILL's (6:08 p.m.) and Andrew ...I chuckled over GILL's (6:08 p.m.) and Andrew Heinegg's (8:16 p.m.) instant coffee comments and have been thinking to myself: <i>When you next play hostess, Nancy, make sure to stick to the wine and the liquor and stay the bleep away from serving anyone -- anyone at all -- coffee.</i> Except there truly is a part of me that thinks: If I go to the kitchen and I don't let you watch me; if I make you my very special instant Folger's "latte" with its heaping teaspoon of Folger's, a minimum of boiling water and a generous supply of hot (but not scalded) milk, and I present it to you in the kind of beautiful bone china cup you seldom see anymore, and I smile sweetly and say, with an absolutely straight face: "I hope you enjoy my coffee; I made it especially for you," that you would drink it and think it quite delicious. (Because, in its own plebeian way, it really <i>is</i> delicious.) I can say this: I have over a lifetime drunk some absolutely vile swill in some very forgettable restaurants -- brewed coffee that managed to be both weak and unpleasantly acidic at the same time -- and that didn't hold a candle to my instant Folger's concoction. There's a lot of bad *brewed* coffee out there!Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16737377749030219974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-32181322900457451602017-04-03T20:54:04.059-04:002017-04-03T20:54:04.059-04:00I found this harder than usual for a Monday, too, ...I found this harder than usual for a Monday, too, Annabelle. Particularly, the RHEAS, OHFUN, SCRAG crossing. None of them struck me as terms I'd run across in ordinary English. So a little less fun for me.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08316379159031860155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-43310633630534215862017-04-03T20:16:17.412-04:002017-04-03T20:16:17.412-04:00I'm trying to figure out how Nancy can be so u...I'm trying to figure out how Nancy can be so unpretentious so as to pen the words/phrase: 'best instant coffee', an absolute oxymoron in food snobs language.<br /><br />As for Anon. at 7:33, uh, baseball has many, many coaches as in pitching coach, first base coach, etc. Baseball is different in that the boss who is called the head coach in other sports is called the manager in baseball.<br /><br />The puzzle, a tribute to what used to be the opening day of the season, is okay in that the theme answers do not require knowledge of the underlier to the theme but which, all in all, are a little, to use the 50¢ crossword word, ennui inducing. <br /><br />It is Monday and you do have to allow for some ease of solving. The ones I didn't know, bae and Kalel were fairly simple from the crosses. <br /><br />The highlight of the day besides Annabel's usual refreshing take was LMS knowing Kalel because of Nicholas Cage naming his son that. Can you cue the 'what were they thinking?' response. It makes me think of other stars names for their child:<br /><br />Grace Slick -God<br />Kanye West and whichever Kardashian he is married to- Saint West -son, North West- daughter<br /><br />Michael Jackson- Prince Michael and Prince Michael II. My Comcast blank screen tells me that the older son just got a big tattoo of his father put on his leg. To prove to doubters who he really is?<br /><br />Penn Jillette and wife Emily - daughter Moxie Crimefighter. <br /><br />Others?Andrew Heinegghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18101651673327984167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-57768795335195824802017-04-03T20:15:49.741-04:002017-04-03T20:15:49.741-04:00Who are those guys behind 1st & 3rd?Who are those guys behind 1st & 3rd?JC66https://www.blogger.com/profile/05324615675333287919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-62510312017409001122017-04-03T19:33:19.314-04:002017-04-03T19:33:19.314-04:00Baseball has managers not coaches, so "pumpki...Baseball has managers not coaches, so "pumpkin coach" doesn't really workAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-33996955637776051842017-04-03T19:14:56.918-04:002017-04-03T19:14:56.918-04:00Z calling someone insufferable. LOL.
Oh, he was se...Z calling someone insufferable. LOL.<br />Oh, he was serious. Let me laugh louder!!!!!<br /><br />Hey Mohair, I'm in a 2 story house. Is it bigger or smaller than a 1 story house? Hint v 6 sixes are not necessarily bigger or more powerful than 4 bangers.<br /><br />AND wtf? Do you really think I mistook cubic centimeters for cubic inches? Twit.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-19389035204165552232017-04-03T18:45:52.847-04:002017-04-03T18:45:52.847-04:00My problem with it is PUMPKIN COACH, isn't a t...My problem with it is PUMPKIN COACH, isn't a thing, except in Cinderella. Had PUMKIN SHELL to start, until the revealer. Ho-HumRug Crazyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12283894657220231200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-11627917216617997572017-04-03T18:08:49.045-04:002017-04-03T18:08:49.045-04:00@Nancy...Instant coffee is like boxed warm white w...@Nancy...Instant coffee is like boxed warm white wine. It should be stored in your bomb cellar just in case the big one goes off and you have to hide for several years. The only time I've bought instant coffee was for my chocolate cheese cake crust recipe. Nescafe.<br />@wordstorn: I have a 30 year old Bioletti espresso maker and Bustelo is my go to coffee. That's my Cuban bean. I didn't know they ruined it with an "instant."<br />@jberg. Happy trails. I need an Italian fix some time soon.... GILL I.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05605766053820226324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-8924441073632121942017-04-03T17:47:10.145-04:002017-04-03T17:47:10.145-04:00If BAE was clued "_____ Systems, (defense con...If BAE was clued "_____ Systems, (defense contractor)" would people here get it? I know it 'cause they have a facility near me. Just curious if this would be appropriate on a Monday. Will probably wouldn't want a defense contractor in the puz anyway.Bill L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08886581691063755810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-72604102888008962162017-04-03T17:23:00.937-04:002017-04-03T17:23:00.937-04:00About halfway through the puzzle I realized it was...About halfway through the puzzle I realized it was the first Monday of the month, so Annabelle. Yay!Edac2dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05406242564285237476noreply@blogger.com