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Love that beautiful girl.Hemant Singhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00185646524377854969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-56076821084188971842013-08-28T17:35:06.783-04:002013-08-28T17:35:06.783-04:00What @Spacecraft and @ED said. This puzzle had no ...What @Spacecraft and @ED said. This puzzle had no pop.<br /><br />My generated name: Jose Enrique Clandestine. Si!<br /><br />capcha: ydance. Yup.Solving in Seattlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04249420848844874936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-91209578717645570642013-08-28T15:50:00.711-04:002013-08-28T15:50:00.711-04:00No puzzle that features proper names as the theme ...No puzzle that features proper names as the theme answers will ever be my favorite but at least there wan no mention of Miley Cyrus. SLIM LII CUKE and EVA ERIC EEL sound like names the generator-thingy might create.Dirigonzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03903353503511480168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-34792565565415370662013-08-28T15:28:16.494-04:002013-08-28T15:28:16.494-04:00@retired_chemist thanks for the link to '21 R...@retired_chemist thanks for the link to '21 Reasons', just gotta say I represent that.....<br /><br />@TachyJacky - thanks for the explanation (description) of PALATAL. I got it via crosses, but had no idea what it was. Also, good to see you back.<br /><br />@DMG - I hate rain delays, especially on days when I can watch in real time. How about Victoria Duval, only 17, sounds like 7, plays like 27!<br /><br />Enjoyed the puz, but I'm ready (I hope) for the crunch one gets later in the week.Gingernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-27259993180369636022013-08-28T14:06:20.981-04:002013-08-28T14:06:20.981-04:00For awhile my door said "enter". That a...For awhile my door said "enter". That and "I agree" slowed me a bit, but it all worked out. I even figured how to spell BIZKIT! Enjoyed the play on the names, but agree with the suggestion that the likes of BrowningBrowning would have been more fun. But I bet that type of wordplay wouldn't fit the limits of puzzle construction, which seem to elude me. I think it amazing enough that people can interlock words, let alone obey rules about length, number of words, etc. my hat's off to all the constructors! Now back to the tennis!DMGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-40380415536198609182013-08-28T13:14:39.500-04:002013-08-28T13:14:39.500-04:00When the best thing I can say about a puzzle is th...When the best thing I can say about a puzzle is the fun cross of the Latin NIHIL with some Caesar-linked Roman numerals, the end result is ... yawn. <br />AKA CARY IN BOULDER<br /><br />Yesterday was a whole lot more fun. Count me among those who think the theme answers could have been a bit trickier. Only flummox was in the SW, where for a long time IAGREE for "Same here!" kept me from seeing what should have been some easy answers. Also kept thinking that the epithet for Willie the Bard should have been something derogatory.<br /><br />Best (and only) new word of the day: PALATALJaime Troublenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-5082880864635473972013-08-28T10:25:48.015-04:002013-08-28T10:25:48.015-04:00Hmm. I see a lot of likes, including OFL's, bu...Hmm. I see a lot of likes, including OFL's, but for me, this JDLR. I mean, here you have a (n oversimplified) clue for the name; the entire second part of the clue is superfluous. Maybe if it were a bigger puzzle, and the answers were DAKOTAFANNINGFANNING, etc....uh, no, that wouldn't work, either. the whole thing is just dumb.<br /><br />Brilliant fill might save it, I guess, but this is not. I'll grant that both the clue and answer for our Romanumeral entry is on a road less traveled--but it still IS one. Agree about the LIMITED range of BIZKIT...Sorry, Erik, this just didn't do it for me. And that despite the presence of one of my principal heroes, Dr. STEPHENHAWKING.spacecraftnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-10499309531025060442013-07-27T13:55:54.690-04:002013-07-27T13:55:54.690-04:00No one will read this, but have to say that yes, l...No one will read this, but have to say that yes, liked the puzzle, and...<br />Thought that PETER clued not as a name was a bonus themer.<br />(Ret_Chem - great alt clue!)<br /><br />@Gill - I'm no LINGUIST, but I like to play one here in Rexville...(!)<br /><br />OK - I guess I will work back through time on this week's puzzles, since you all are raving about Tue.Titahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16368251255494687496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-73407162996215555492013-07-25T00:54:36.448-04:002013-07-25T00:54:36.448-04:00I would die to come up with a theme like this!
Bal...I would die to come up with a theme like this!<br />Balanced between high culture and pop culture, male and female, young and old...consistent, simple and there was a play on words in that the last names became a verb.<br /><br />Plus I malapopped LIE.<br />Loved it!<br />BIZKIT right amount of Scrabbledyness to transition back from Nationals to crosswords.<br /><br />Bravo, Erik!Avon Crafted Malinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-25878864122838581062013-07-25T00:28:19.094-04:002013-07-25T00:28:19.094-04:00This was a difficult Wed. for me. Luckily, I was a...This was a difficult Wed. for me. Luckily, I was able to get all of the theme answers and work from them. It was tough going, however.<br /><br />PALATAL still doesn't sit right with me. PALATAL refers to the place of articulation when the body of the tongue rises and comes into contact with the hard palate. While some languages have purely palatal consonants, the English language has only one approximate- the phoneme /j/ or the letter Y as most people would know it, as in the word Yesterday. <br /><br />@Gill.. So there are no PALATAL words, since words are made up of several phonemes, each of which have their own place of articulation. The consonant G as in your name starts with the phoneme /dz/ ( not technically correct, but my iPad hasn't the symbol I need), which is an Alveo-palatal phoneme.<br /><br />I know there are some languages that have palatal consonants, such as the ch in the German nicht, but I will leave that to the linguists in the group. TachyJackynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-59279500744789281742013-07-25T00:18:30.160-04:002013-07-25T00:18:30.160-04:00This was a difficult Wed. for me. Luckily, I was a...This was a difficult Wed. for me. Luckily, I was able to get all of the theme answers and work from them. It was tough going, however.<br /><br />PALATAL still doesn't sit right with me. PALATAL refers to the place of articulation when the body of the tongue rises and comes into contact with the hard palate. While some languages have purely palatal consonants, the English language has only one approximate- the phoneme /j/ or the letter Y as most people would know it, as in the word Yesterday. <br /><br />@Gill.. So there are no PALATAL words, since words are made up of several phonemes, each of which have their own place of articulation. The consonant G as in your name starts with the phoneme /dz/ ( not technically correct, but my iPad hasn't the symbol I need), which is an Alveo-palatal phoneme.<br /><br />I know there are some languages that have palatal consonants, such as the ch in the German nicht, but I will leave that to the linguists in the group. TachyJackynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-5848602414767051102013-07-24T22:55:20.626-04:002013-07-24T22:55:20.626-04:00@joho and @Milford - So far the number of male pol...@joho and @Milford - So far the number of male politicians embarrassing their spouses far outnumbers female politicians. I have confidence that as the glass ceiling is over come your gender will be better represented. Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16181544219511150272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-43226714785039943552013-07-24T22:26:14.953-04:002013-07-24T22:26:14.953-04:00This week's relative difficulty ratings. See m...This week's relative difficulty ratings. See my 8/1/2009 post for an explanation and my 10/15/2012 post for an explanation of a tweak I've made to my method. 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 5:21, 6:09, 0.87, 3%, Easy (6th lowest ratio of 188 Mondays)<br />Tue 9:05, 8:13, 1.10, 76%, Medium-Challenging<br />Wed 9:56, 9:43, 1.02, 60%, Medium<br /><br />Top 100 solvers<br /><br />Mon 3:18, 3:46, 0.88, 3%, Easy (5th lowest ratio of 188 Mondays)<br />Tue 5:25, 4:57, 1.09, 72%, Medium-Challenging<br />Wed 5:24, 5:36, 0.96, 41%, Mediumsanfranman59https://www.blogger.com/profile/15118732156312301425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-32009995098904108832013-07-24T22:25:58.322-04:002013-07-24T22:25:58.322-04:00I'm always late to the game, everything's ...I'm always late to the game, everything's been said. Except maybe:<br /><br />Clue: hot dog at a NYC politician's barbecue.<br /><br />Solution: <br /><br />Oh well, too obvious. Melodious Funknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-72706867677076620262013-07-24T20:00:10.268-04:002013-07-24T20:00:10.268-04:00Since Rex's comment about arthur godfrey firin...Since Rex's comment about arthur godfrey firing that singer for masturbating on air live, posters here have seemed to feel they have license to indulge their inner dirty minds. He should make some scatalogical reference tomorrow to raise the level of discussion a bit.jburgsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-52190183119643431642013-07-24T19:35:47.115-04:002013-07-24T19:35:47.115-04:00Ernesto Verboten, here, which I love - except like...Ernesto Verboten, here, which I love - except like @joho, I'm annoyed its a dude's name!<br /><br />@Carola - yes, indeed you do! We love having Kensington so close, we go there a lot. I wonder if it was an osprey in the photo - we have a nest of them in Kensington. Milfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04923019988243284636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-18037450347708996022013-07-24T19:05:46.132-04:002013-07-24T19:05:46.132-04:00I can't figure out why there's a picture o...I can't figure out why there's a picture of Mindy Kaling in the write-up. Can someone clue me in?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-25058848614487424782013-07-24T17:37:04.285-04:002013-07-24T17:37:04.285-04:00For the record, that NCIS: LA spinoff isn't ha...For the record, that NCIS: LA spinoff isn't happening. At least not this fall. And there aren't any longer chains of spinoffs.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11209543514266918480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-29477750050175332292013-07-24T17:17:14.588-04:002013-07-24T17:17:14.588-04:00What...no LINGUIST today???No PALATAL words???? ...What...no LINGUIST today???No PALATAL words???? Where is @Tita, Where is @Loren???<br />@Z: I'm a Benito Dynamite. You're damn right I am...;-)GILL I.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05605766053820226324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-49612799265076469282013-07-24T16:39:58.249-04:002013-07-24T16:39:58.249-04:00This was what I call a "learning" Wednes...This was what I call a "learning" Wednesday, i.e. I had to Google 10 times. Though, I must say there was a balance between classic stuff I know and sports/youth pop I don't.<br /><br />Thanx Wennstrom for no French. Sfingihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06903616949048940858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-47674686673469430432013-07-24T16:23:28.757-04:002013-07-24T16:23:28.757-04:00Proud alumna said...
"I wonder if the constru...Proud alumna said...<br />"I wonder if the constructor was aware that there's a mini-theme <br />of "Columbia Law School grads of the 1970's" in this puzzle."<br /><br />I noticed a couple of other mini-themes. We had two physicists (Hawking and Planck) and the nifty Roman cross of LII and NIHIL. <br /><br />To the person who put in USR instead of SSR: SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic) is a crossword standard for any Soviet Bloc nation. You'll see it pretty much at least once a week.Joe The Jugglerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08623445472297705053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-45983690022214875942013-07-24T16:21:26.213-04:002013-07-24T16:21:26.213-04:00Midday report of relative difficulty (see my 8/1/2...Midday report of relative difficulty (see my 8/1/2009 post for an explanation of my method and my 10/15/2012 post for an explanation of a tweak to my method):<br /><br />All solvers (median solve time, average for day of week, ratio, percentile, rating)<br /><br />Wed 9:58, 9:43, 1.02, 60%, Medium-Challenging<br /><br />Top 100 solvers<br /><br />Wed 5:36, 5:36, 1.00, 50%, Mediumsanfranman59https://www.blogger.com/profile/15118732156312301425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-41431960477211311732013-07-24T15:56:27.395-04:002013-07-24T15:56:27.395-04:00I put in Anthony Wiener and got some cool phone nu...I put in Anthony Wiener and got some cool phone numbers back. Thing needs more work. John Vhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557037910799243636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35115061.post-13754830647282099792013-07-24T15:43:11.262-04:002013-07-24T15:43:11.262-04:00No matter how many times I've done it I'm ...No matter how many times I've done it I'm Juan Smash which is really irritating as I'm not a man! (Sorry, 4 and out)johohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12708487230515532492noreply@blogger.com