Tough, but ultimately solved. My last section to fill was where I had started -- the NW. CORPSEPOSE eluded me for way too long. I was imagining some Hindi term.
The final sticking point was 34A, where I had OWLETMITES. (ASPISH doesn't seem that much better than ASPISE!)
Loved the clue for PRIDEPARADE, btw!
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We are getting some excellent product placement here!! First, we have MAY1718 on May 17/18, then we have 'My name is Friday. I'M A COP' on a Friday. I can hardly wait, cuz Everybody loves Saturday night!
Love a puzzle where thinking makes it SOLVEABLE. I wanted to break a TIE before the LAW. Like LizB, parsing 22A didn't come easy, and my final letter was going to be L for LOUSE, because INSALA sounded almost right. WINEMAKers before WINEMAKING, and I don't remember another write-over. Am starting to accept ENHALO, but didn't care for ASPISH sans opening W. Otherwise most entertaining, and enjoyed how every word entered sparked a light on something else.
Seeing WARSTORIES with NAM makes you stop and think -- Made me stop and think. It's taken many vets I know 40 years to open up with any kind of WAR STORIES, to outsiders, anyway.
Ryan McC, your RARE JEWELS have many facets. Glad you sent them MY WAY.
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I won't even tell you about my problems. They were all in the NE. Once again, sports did me in. The college flag, the hockey team. Too much for me. A massive fail . I'll see you all tomorrow. Although I did have a question about cryptics that I'm trying to learn to solve. See you all tomorrow .
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Found a major error in 43D: mathematically, an inflection point of a graphed curve indicates where the curvature of the graph changes sign or polarity, going from positive to negtive or vice versa. It is a smooth transition. One can see an example of that in the letter S where the curvature of the upper half is opposite that of the lower half, so the inflection point occurs right in the middle of the letter. A cusp occurs when two curves meet in a sharp point, as one sees in the middle of the number 3. An inflection point is not a cusp.
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I would agree that the primary definition of cusp does not match the mathematical definition of inflection point. For other definitions of cusp and for non-math definitions of inflection point, the clue and entry seem fine.
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Oh, my word!
I'd never even heard of an "inflection point" until we all got computers and word-processing programs and the term was used to position the little vertical line that told us where we were doing something.
I thought I'd learned something when I saw that it was a CUSP. Now it's not.
Oy.,
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Speaking as one who has had his share of mathematics courses in college, I agree with Dr. W.
I found this puzzle nearly unSOLVABLE because of some of my own assumptions. Oink rather than MINE kept me baffled in the northeast along with flop rather than LIMP. ESPOSA worked out. HOt rather than HOV kept me messed up in the southwest. There were many others, unfortunately.
It took quite awhile to get myself straightened out and delete things I was “sure” of (like oink).
Ah well, it wasn’t pretty but it’s solved.
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Time to add to the list of words that spelling bee doesn't recognize.
Hath ... as in the Times hath no good dictionary
Groat ... you ain't gonna be eating buckwheat groats at my house
Argot ... as in you don't speak my argot
I could go on ... or you could use a better word list.
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Maybe the editors watched My Cousin Vinny yesterday and remembered the part about "what's a grit?" so they think you can't have a groat.
This kasha-eater considered that singular issue, Marjorie, but a groat is also a medieval coin.
If you click on the score ranges, an email address is provides, so I sent them my list of missings, which also had a number of ___GRAPH words. No paradigm shift.
Terrific puzzle. Loved the gaping maw, and all its entries.
Department of great minds:
From Deb: "CORPSE POSE (my best pose in yoga, because it essentially requires nothing more than lying on the floor and taking a nap)"
From Jeff Chen: "CORPSE POSE was always my favorite part of yoga, basically lying on the ground and falling asleep."
Maybe we should get them some coffee. Or a futon.
Major problems in NE: I had ESPOSA and NHL, but I also had OINK. For 10D I tried FLOP and SLIP and maybe a couple of other things. I kept looking askance at OINK, though, and went back to the clue and noticed the ? So my little piggy cried all the way home while I stared at a bunch of blank squares. ORAN? IRAQ? OMAN? IRAN? IRAN! LIMP (there's that ? again)! Had to take a chance on LOBO, leading to another chance on ORIONetc. And I was able to wrap up that segment and the puzzle, pleasing Mr. Pencil enormously.
Don't know who Ron INSANA is, but with I????A somehow his name came to me. He must do something else somewhere else, because I never watch CNBC.
SHUT UP at 34D, then OH SNAP, before SPACEK corrected me. I remember TABU perfume as being very popular among pre-teens when I was one. It was inexpensive and sold in the dime store.
This was a whole lotta fun. I hope you stick with this wide-open look, Ryan. Thanks to all.
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This refers to the new "Spelling Bee".
So far, it has rejected the following: ARGOT, GROAT, GRAPPA, AROAR (!), among others. Can someone tell me what dictionary it is using?
Thanks
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I know right? If a word that is not a proper noun and has its own Wikipedia entry - GRAPPA - is not allowed, I'm out.
The lists for the Sunday Spelling Bee were always deficient of good law-abiding words, so I'm not surprised this continues in the digital version. But they should provide us a place to write in our rejected words just for our own satisfaction.
The other day I was sitting on foliform, filiform, ciliform, coliform, all kinds of goodies that didn't get approved. I entered all of the same words you listed this morning, and was especially surprised that argot and aroar, which feature regularly in the crosswords, were rejected.
And yet PHAT and HORA were allowed. I would think both of them would be less likely than all the ones Nice Cuppa mentioned. Certainly if a word is legal for a crossword it ought to be legal for Spelling Bee.
A terrific Friday puzzle from Mr. McCarty. For too long, I was convinced that the answer to 10D was "reup" (as in military reenlistment).
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Oof, killed my average, even had to put it down for a while because much of the NE wasn’t clicking for me. More of the same on Saturday, please!
Loved most of it, but the NE was too tough for me
Enjoyed it IMMENSELY, Mr. McCarty! Had a tough time getting going, and for a while I wondered if it was a rare themed Friday with some sort of twist.
Toughest puzzle we've had in some time, I'd say, but full of pleasures.
WELL DONE!
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8A. Law not broken? Hmm, maybe in a democracy where no-one thinks himself above it. Can't think of (m)any of those.
24D. Aspish? A tad nonce-ish.
31D. The clue evokes a beautiful scene, but the answer refers to the mundane use of rustle (chiefly N. Amer.) in the same sense as hustle and bustle. The rustle of leaves is the sound made by their movement.
30A. I enjoyed the clue, but is it crucikosherish in a pun to use a compound word that is a verb to clue a noun?
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I thought that the question mark in 30A gave us the liberty to play around with the compound verb. By separating it into an adjective plus noun, it becomes a rather clever clue.
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NO USE complaining! (LOUSY at first?)
A very smooth and satisfying solve for a (Sgt. Joe) Friday puzzle.
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I thought we were in for a somewhat dark-themed puzzle between CORPSE POSE, CREMATE, "And now the end is near", Autumn leaves, etc. Maybe it's just me today though.
Everything was going swimmingly until the very end. I had OWLET MiTeS which gave me ADDS iN and ASPISe. Quite reasonable I thought. And 49D just had to be TMz didn't it? So I never thought of a Canyon being a vehicle. I know that there is a Grand Am that often appears in puzzles. I wonder if they make a Grand Canyon as well?
Nice shout out to my Ottawa Senators today, the team that went from "oh so close" champions to basement dwellers in one short season. Enough to drive a sports fan INSANA!
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I had the same thing: OWLETMITES being wrong. Finding that solved it for me
Morning got off to a bad start when I discovered my paper hadn't been delivered, and none of the 3 stores in the vicinity of my train station had the Times in stock. Something must've gone wrong with the paper's shipping today. Had to wait until I reached Penn Station, but still managed to complete about half the puzzle on the subway to the office, and wrap it up once I arrived. So, eminently SOLVABLE, but a good Friday challenge.
I agree than CORPSEPOSE and CREMATE come off a bid morbid. I had WINEMAKERS for too long, making a small mess of the lower central. A case of putting the CART before the horse? NE didn't slow me down, thanks to ESPOSA, NHL, and BANSHEE.
Latino rockers LOS LOBOs took their cover of "La Bamba" all the way to #1 in 1987, recorded for the Ritchie Valens biopic of the same name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLAWPrCUQQ0
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I forgot that I had WINEMAKERS as well, which didn't help my Canyon, TMz area. And I thought that 48D was an acronym for sure. 'NAM just never entered my mind. For the Gaelic spirit in the NE, I had also decided on WELSH__, (mixing up Celts and Gaels I think), just to add to my difficulties.
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Poor Jimbo.
TV news says that the NYT's had some sort of malfunction in its printing facility. It's fixed, and we are told that the in-city subscribers' papers are on their way, but out-of-town subscribers won't get their papers until tomorrow.
Think of all the bad news you missed today!
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My paper arrived sometime during the day, was waiting when I got home this evening.
Now I can set a new personal record for completing a Friday puzzle!
I rely on my wife, a former dancer, for help on all ballet clues. She tells me that a ballerina does not have to be en pointe to perform bourée. Do any others have insight on that?
Other than that, great puzzle! Very 32D, as they say.
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But you could be en pointe--I wondered about this clue, too, but decided it was a Friday/Saturday clue rather than definition. And maybe ON TOE is supposed to mean something slightly different than en pointe?
A SOLVABLE Friday. Which means I've extended my streak to six days.* I'm quite sure I've never done that before.
Some complete unknowns but just enough gimmes, starting with IMACOP, to get me going in most of the sections. As others have mentioned, NE corner was the last to fall and it just took a lot of patience and considering crosses both ways. Had OMAN initially and it took a long time before IRAN even crossed my mind. Finally thinking of NHL was actually the key, as that finally let me see BANSHEES. Still some work after that.
*Unofficial streak - I solve in Across Lite. My rules are no failed checks and no googling.
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NHL was, amazingly, my first entry in NE. I credit Wordplay, because it was here that I first (and last) heard of those other Senators.
You can count your streak any way you want, RiA. I'm an AL solver too.
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This broke my streak
What an impressive well rounded construction! Well crafted long stacked entries, original fills, funny clues and misdirections.
We had OWLETMITES before OWLETMOTHS, NOISE ( a la Nate Silver’s the Noise and the Signal ) before NOUSE (some time before realizing it was NO USE), manny different Irish whiskeys before BANSHEE.
Quite a few great clueing: outmarch, hog’s squeal, inurnment ( related to inure!), Gaelic spirit, the ones for WINEMAKING, NAM, NHL. Delicious.
PRIDEPARADE: reminded me of the film PRIDE, a fictionalized version of real events in the early 80s when a group of lesbians and gay men decided to support the miners who were striking to save their jobs. The two group meet. “The events that unfolded said a lot about what it means to be empathetic, to overcome dissent and face common enemies: Thatcher, the tabloids, the police. They told a story about solidarity.” Worth watching, in my view.
”https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3169706/
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Thatcher and Reagan - ah those were the days...
Brassed Off - lovely underappreciated film
Billy Elliott - got a much bigger audience, but the backdrop is essentially the same.
I was at many Pride events in various places around the country but never understood the full impact of Pride parades until I marched with N.C. Pride Band in the parade in Columbia S.C. The number of participants in the parade being x, the number of people gathered to cheer us along the parade route were about 1/2 of x; the number of people with horrible, horrific, inhuman, inhumane placards and posters along the parade route was approximately 6 times x.
Our band had bylaws (not required by law, self-imposed) that kept the 17-year-old children of our own band members from rehearsing, playing or marching with us. The sign-holder-uppers? They had their poor 4-year-old children holding up their placards to let us know all about hell.
New Yorkers - Los Angelenos - Bostonians - Minneapolitans - GO MARCH at Pride in the places where you get eggs thrown at you. Do it. It changes your life. Even in the world of DJT, it might change somebody else's life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CImGTTuEMEI
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I liked "PRIDE" quite a bit. Charming cast, and you can't go wrong casting Bill Nighy in a movie.
Plus, all that great 80s pop/new wave music on the soundtrack.
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Thanks for the clip of the trailer for "PRIDE," Laura. It looks like a wonderful movie, and I've never heard of it.
You make a very good point, D.C. In my more ambulatory youth, I participated in many civil rights and antiwar marches where we were not only taunted but had bricks and things dropped on us from construction sites, club-wielding cops and civilians charge us, etc. I'm more used to the PRIDE PARADE being a joyous celebration of, well, PRIDE. (Not entirely joyous, of course, especially in the darkest days of the AIDS epidemic, but that was because of the situation, not the spectators.)
The celebration we see in NYC every year is important too, but I agree with the need -- the continued and continuing need -- to speak to the haters too.
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Yes, this one was SOLVABLE, but not all that easy.
The clue for 36D made me think of that TV commercial: "Who glows? Just say 'Badabook, Badaboom.'"
And nice to see PRIDEPARADE. In spite of our current difficulties, we have come a long way.
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Oh, the cluing was simply lovely, with much wit. Fine clues for LAW ("It's not damaged by being broken"), WAR STORIES ("Things traded by veterans"), and ATE ("Bolted down"). And divine clues for MINE ("Hog's squeal?"), PRIDE PARADE ("Outmarch?") and WINEMAKING ("Industry filled with press releases"). To me, this was a clinic on how to clue a weekend puzzle, bringing me pleasure after pleasure.
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Goodness, is this ever a scary array of clues...SPACEK was my STARTER, but then I had to move on to MENLO Park. I kept thinking "JEEZ" but continued winkling out the answers.
I was hoping for a picture of an OWLET MOTH; ho hum. At least it wasn't a photo of the CORPSE POSE.
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CORPSE POSE does not sound like something you'd suggest to a yoga beginner. Sort of like starting swim lessons with the dead man float.
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Yes, it was so solvable but only after two cusps, er cups, of coffee. How I ever thought there was such a thing as a tweet moth owl never know.
Fun puzzle and thanks to McCarty-Shortz I got a good morning start.
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"Oh," I thought. "What an enjoyable Friday puzzle!" -- until I got it all filled except for that pesky NE corner. I had ESPOSA right off the bat but OINK, ORAN, IRAN, IRAQ, LIMP; none of them helped. Even after I looked up LOBO, I was still in a quandary. It wasn't Deb who gave me the final fill, but a combination of a number of you fellow commenters. Thanks all.
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It all seems fairly obvious in retrospect, but I had a lot of trouble in the NE, too.
Tough but pretty fair. As Liz B observed, SOLVABLE. And pretty enjoyable. Really liked the fresh longer entries - all of the ones that Deb mentioned.
A little less impressed with RARE JEWELS. It is gems that are usually described as rare. Not that jewels couldn't be rare, of course.
OWLET MOTHS was a pleasant surprise. I also liked very much the clue for WINEMAKING.
I didn't understand MINE or ARCH until I came here and read the comments. MINE I should have gotten, but ARCH was new to me.
Nearly 20 years ago, I used to work at World Financial Center and watched the little yellow WATER TAXIS ferry (haha) people two and fro between the opposite sides of the Hudson there (i.e. Jersey City and Lower Manhattan). It was entertaining to watch since they were fast and maneuverable, they would go around bigger boats. But, not a whole lot of work got done while watching the water traffic around there.
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A fun puzzle. I had problems in the NW since I don't watch CNBC, but I did recognize the name once I looked it up.
I especially enjoyed seeing WATER TAXIS, which reminded me of a trip to Moose Factory, Ontario, years ago. We parked the car in Cochrane, took the 'Polar Bear Express' train to Moosonee, and then the water taxi (aka river taxi) over to Moose Factory Island where we stayed at the Cree Eco Lodge.
Sadly, no moose there, and the Factory refers to the former Hudson Bay Company factor (as opposed to the former Revillon outpost at Moosonee).
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May I assume the clue at 1A was saved for this particular day of the week?! It all just came together nicely, albeit in discrete sections. Never knew that MENLO Park was the home of Facebook -- to me it will always be the home of TAE. As for WINEMAKING, I am afraid that always makes me think of Lucy and Ethel stomping on grapes.
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Different Menlo Park! It's in Silicon Valley, just north of Palo Alto. Fun fact: Menlo Park NJ where Edison's lab was located was named after the California town, which in turn was named after a village in Ireland.
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Ditto on Lucy and Ethel, but WINEMAKING also makes me think of what German winemakers say at the end of the day:
Our feet are stained!
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GROAN!
(I tested DHubby with that clue, but No.)
I don’t follow commentators so there was no help for me on 22A which, early on I’d been certain was “inane”. Well the crosses messed up that so what to do. I mean really, how many 5 letter words can possibly end in _OUSE? (house, louse, mouse, rouse, souse). Clearly playing the alphabet game was pointless and of no use. What, wait, huh? NO USE! Ah, God’s in His heaven, all’s right with the world.
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Imagine if there really were a heaven. There would be crosswords. They wouldn't be easy. In fact, only Thursdays. But after not too long a time (not sure that would be measurable in heaven...), we would each and everyone of us solve them and have incredible feelings of satisfaction. Every day. Forever.
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I can only imagine. I believe in a heaven where everything being perfect doesn’t mean we automatically know everything. I look forward to ever more difficult solves with a cup of perfect coffee in the morning before heading out for a day what else? Space Camp of course!
When I moved to LA I lived in Los Feliz. Frank Faylen (Dobie Gillis, Its a Wonderful Life, etc.) lived across the street next to Jack Webb's old house and at the end of the block were some bungalows where Bette Davis once lived.
Area is close to Gower Gulch where "real cowboys" would await bit parts in Oaters. The there are the Raymond Chandler novels.... sorry wool gathering.
Happy Pencil is gloating. An errant A appeared at the end of 15D. I think Happy is BANSHEE.
hllyof, If I were a greedy pig and you reached for my M and Ms, I would pull back exclaiming: MINE.
Thank you Ryan.
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Ernie!
CS, can you 'splain?
Liz, Frank Faylen played Ernie (the cab driver) in It's A Wonderful Life who always hung around with Bert the cop. I have long thought that the Sesame Street characters were named for this Bert and Ernie, but apparently Mr. Henson denied it.
How do you get Mine from Hog’s Squeal?
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If you "hog" something, you're likely to holler "MINE!" when someone reaches for it.
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Did your mother ever say “Hilyhof, don’t make a pig of yourself!”
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Got it! Thanks!
and Elke
Decided to tackle this puzzle MY WAY, i.e. start in the SE.
SAY WHEN and ENHALO and INTERWEAVE got me to the J of some kind of -JEWELS and into the wide open middle.Then I got CREMATE and CORPSE POSE and the BANSHEE wail , a rather morbid --MIX--.
My mood cheered at remembering Sgt. Friday, right next to LAW and on Friday to boot.
This was SOLVABLE, and am glad it was not TOSSEd ASIDE.
TIL- HYSONS teas and their role in the Boston Tea Party .
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Spiders are not insects! Spiders are arachnids.
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Oops answer is not owl spider but owlet moth. Ok, clue is correct.
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Even after years in NM, I had trouble with the NE since I couldn't bring myself to call LOBO Louie and LOBO Lucy symbols rather than a mascots. It's Friday, after all, so there had to be a trick.
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Yeah I threw in the towel at last on the NE. Didn't know LOBO or ONEALS or ORIONIDS or ESPOSA. Wouldn't have ever got them maybe.
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We of a certain age can't help remembering Joe Friday's "I'M A COP." I was waiting to hear "Just the facts ma'am." Excellent puzzle with lots of crunchy long answers. Good for Friday!
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Couldn't get NOT1IOTA to fit....a day late and 1dollar short...
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That's because it's 8:00pm, NOT 1:10,,,TAda!!
And I'll add another ONE to your 10 recos.
Well-earned!
I found this easier than usual for a Friday. None of the clues misdirected me, much.
Was baffled for a spell by the odd clue for ARCH, and only had to look up the UNM mascot for the rest of the grid.
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Arch cost me a gold star. Still don't understand how that's a valid answer for Mischievious. Can someone enlighten me?
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As an adjective, it means, 'deliberately or affectedly playful and teasing.'
“I could but I don’t think I will” she replied ARCHly.
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Helpful?
Solvers of a certain age will automatically fill in "The Real MCCOYS" and that's that. Couldn't possibly be anything else. But...nooooooo!
Didn't help that I had OINK before WINE, and thought LOOP and ORAN reasonable answers. (Okay, not really reasonable, but they seemed okay at the time.)
Last fix: HOV, not MOV. (We don't have them around here, at least not where I drive, so I didn't recall the standard usage.) That changed "OM...STOP" to "OH, STOP" and rang the success chime.
Good puzzle. Just enough crunch for Friday, IMHO.
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And then I obviously had WINE before MINE, since LIWP isn't a word, not one I know anyway.
Went down similar rabbit holes. Was certain MCCOYS would securely anchor the NE sector.
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The Real O'Neals only ran for a year on TV (two seasons). It was a product of Dan Savage's imagination, and I was a fan of the reality after having been quite skeptical about the concept. One of the rare television shows, particularly on regular TV, to include actual gay characters, i.e., not mass-culture stereotypes. (Don't get me started about Will of Will and Grace...eeek). That's not to say that the show didn't enjoy stereotypical adventures, especially in great escapist scenes like this one, where Kenny "finally has a boyfriend"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfxQN736sUY
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I’ve seen discussions recently about missing green checks, which prompts me to ask, “What does a green check mark signify?”
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There used to be a way to get confirmed or certified, or something, so that your Comments sped through without the Emu treatment, but it was discontinued.
What MOL said, except that I would add "allegedly" before "sped."
The green checks never did what they were advertised to do, but they engendered resentment toward those of us who had them by those who didn't. We got blamed for other people's comments being delayed.
I'm glad they're gone. Now if someone would just address the more pressing problems with the Comments section!
Amusing that you say they’re gone since you have one - at least when viewing comments via link from iPhone app. ;-)
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I always have a nice tin of young hyson for when it's right. When it's right, there's no substitute for it - but that's true of every good tea.
Here's a Chinese folksong (provenance: Taiwan), arranged by Chen Yi, depicting workers on their way up the mountainside on a little train, watching idly out the windows as the tea-picking girls are working in the fields of tea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdhBE86xPw0
The law doesn't break from being broken, but it does break when people are allowed to get away with breaking it. Its very heart breaks in twain, not least when the law-breaker has caused ruin in the world.
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A canyon producer of the non-? type is probably a river or glacier, not a meteorite, I would think.
Any scientists want to weigh in?
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It's the capital C that renders the ? unnecessary.
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Yeah, that would be a crater.
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Three letters, had to be ice.
I’m happy to report that this puzzle was indeed 32D.
My last problem area was the NE corner. Just the 4x4 corner. I already had NHL and the gaping maw in the middle. Then I got ESPOSA. I had BANSHEE pretty early but had guessed GEMINIDS which slowed me down a bit as I didn’t want to Google meteor showers.
I wouldn’t say that a meteorite would create a Canyon, though, and figured it was probably the name of a vehicle but I’d never heard of it.
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October for Gemini? Hardly. I was helped by my June birth month.
Not meaning to offend MOL - she's formidable! - but the signs of the Zodiac are named for the house of the sun - Gemini is where the sun is aligned with Gemini (theoretically and out-of-sync with reality) - while the meteor showers are named for where they seem to come from while they can be espied at night (i.e., where the sun ain't)...so there's that.
Well, thanks for clarifying my misconception, David. (In fact, I did wonder about ORION--who is certainly not a Sign--) The other thing, though: "When the MOON is in the 7th House...the Age of Aquarius" ...where does that fit in?
I've never seen any of the meteor showers; it's dark, one is lying in the CORPSE POSE, possibly under a warm quilt...perfect recipe for instant sleep. (I have also fallen asleep in community theater performances; worse, we were in the front row.) In summer I wake up at first light, which was hell when I lived in Northern Europe.
Tough, but yes, it was SOLVABLE. Although I had my doubts at first. I don't know Ron INSANA, and had _OUSE at 22A, so I ran the alphabet, pointlessly, as no one-syllable OUSE word made sense. It was only later that I saw NO USE.
Liked the clue for WINEMAKING. I'm glad I knew MY WAY, since that's what got me into the SE corner and made it solvable. WATER TAXIS always seem like such a neat thing, even if they're really just boats that take you places.
Enjoyed the challenge.
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Holy cow Liz B, I just read this remark from 8 hours ago. Had I seen it earlier I would not have made my similar remark only minutes ago.
You clearly are possessed of a great mind as well as being a superior human being.
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LOL, Babs!
Other folks would just say I have way too much time on my hands.
Aren't ground TAXIS just cars that take you places?
Anyway, terrific entry. And terrific comment, Liz.
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Amazing how many letters SOUND MIXERS and STUDIO EXECS share.
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Yep. Got me for a while, too...
So much misdirection and original clueing. Had I been doing this puzzle the old fashioned analog way in pen, my grid would eventually have been a garbled, unworkable mess. Nice job.
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That's why I use the old fashioned analog way in pencil (or plumbago, as I learned on Jeopardy! Thursday evening). :)
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Get a FriXion pen (made by Pilot) and enjoy the eraser; the pen marks also disappear with heat, so many of us quilters are using them for marking.
Sounds much too technical for me, MOL. I’d rather use my iPad.
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