I finished the puzzle, but never got beyond the fact that asterisked words were missing the final E. It never occurred to me to make a UEY at the end of the words to complete the clue. I'm more of a Monday-through-Wednesday NY Times crossword puzzler!
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I thought this puzzle's theme was especially significant, since it appeared on the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah. On this day, our prayers invite us to "turn", i.e., to reflect on the past year and make better choices in the year to come. We turned on several clues in solving the puzzle...L'shana tova to Matt and all those who celebrate.
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I thought this one of the top Thursdays in terms of both novelty and pure enjoyment, but EUBIE the judge. The central double switchback (last themer to be closed in on) was especially delightful; reminded me of The Wigglies on the way up to Angel's Landing.
Good catch on the INSULTS_POTS Easter egg; I though perhaps 'Jeers at beerbellies'. Seems there's more such, if you're willing to look in different directions...
WEARY CAINE: Tired Michael (or Capt. Queeg)
GORE RATS: The former VEEP squeals [on climate deniers] -or-
...What rodent matador wannaBEEs end up as
WETS DA CONE BY ONE -and-
NOSE DINER, OH AL! could have some Weird Al Yankowich-style clue; very likely, a shaggy dog would have to be invoked.
As is the case with the best puzzles, there is A MUSE looking at the solvE LATEr on.
And wasn't it DorothyParker who would ask "What FLESH HELL is this?"
Thanks, MG!
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I managed to solve this, but unfortunately, still don’t get the “Head lines?” clue. :-(
Duh! As soon as I posted that comment, I got it! :-)
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Josephine, there's a certain SYNAPSE that won't fire until you've done something 'potentially' embarrassing to yourself. Then...boom!!
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I keep getting an error message when I try to do the Friday, Sept. 22 crossword on my ipad. Please fix your bugs!
Ever do that thing where you sort of read two clues together and mix them up? I did that on 57D -- not sure, in hindsight, what I confused it with -- and came away thinking that it was something to do with illegal gathering of evidence. And once I had TWOTIM, I thought it was going to be "E's DROP", a theory borne out by TATTL. But, obviously, that was too long for the answer. It also didn't help at 21A, which I was sure had to be SALARY CAPS, but that didn't fit either the space or my perceived theme.
Ironically, I also kept thinking a UEY would be a great twist and it was too bad that wasn't the theme. You can imagine how I kicked myself when I replaced DITZY with SPACY and suddenly saw the 21A answer I had been looking for.
Toughest Thursday for me in a long time.
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Loved this one. Any puzzle that makes me grin when I discover the theme is a winner in my book. The only thing that would have made it better is if the first part of the theme entries (TWOTIM, PRIVAT, SALAR, TATTLE, STRIK. . . ) had been actual words themselves. But that's probably too much to ask.
The double UEY in the center was nothing less than brilliant. And Iago's Credo to boot! Bravo!
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This was a killer! I got TWOTIM right off the bat and proceeded confidently to enter terms like TEA and DITSY and PIECRUST, and take them out again, and mumble to myself.
But in the end, I dragged myself off the floor and managed to hit the last few letters, for TEMPI. Phew!
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Michael O'Keefe has had a long career and he was in The Great Santini. But he will always be Danny Noonan to me.
Be the ball, Danny, be the ball.
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how did I do on this xwp ?
right in the lumberyard danny, right in the lumberyard.
It's nine hours since I finished the puzzle; it's been a busy nonstop day. I really liked the whole theme but like several others I only caught on to the right turn not the full uey. I thought the right turn was pretty clever and I felt pretty clever for having figured it out.
When I came to Martin's column and discovered they were full ueys, I went back and checked them out. Wow! And again, wow! This was a puzzle day to remember!
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Puzzle was easy to fill in but the theme was too clever for me. I had to come to Wordplay to get the explanation. My favorite opera villain is Scarpia, a baritone.
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I also had LOTS of TEA and took a while to fix it. Enjoyed the puzzle immensely. Small nit to pick: BEATS and TEMPI aren't synonymous. In music, the beat refers to the sequence of stresses; the tempo is the speed of the beat.
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I don't see a nit there, jg. "Beats" was not offered as a synonym, and you've explained quite nicely why it *is* a clue for TEMPI.
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Tempo in classical music is a complex of elements, with speed of beat being only one part and never independent of other elements such as general mood and interpretive quality (upbeat, dancing, lyrical, melancholy, dignified). Tempo is most definitely not the same thing as metronome marking except perhaps on a player piano with a tempo setter (=built-in metronome).
I beg to differ! Tempo is strictly a speed measure.
First off, people seem to have really liked this, which just makes my day. Thanks so much!
Now, the confession. People also seem to think that I'm some kind of savant for pulling this off. Not so!
The basic thing is to find a 12-letter word where the last 6 letters, reversed, are also a word. That's pretty easy given the big database I've got. So I collected all of those, and then "added" to my dictionary (say) PRIVAT1 and SENILE2. Then I just enlarged the grid a little, putting the 1 and 2 where I needed them to be, and autofill practically did the rest! (It's not quite this easy, because you need to make sure that you use PRIVAT with SENILE, as opposed to PRIVAT with RESOLE. But it's pretty simple to include extra characters at the end that force that to happen. So I could put in PRIVAT1 and SENILE2, along with TWOTIM3 and RESOLE4, with 12 being a 2-letter word along with 34.)
STRIKES A BALANCE was the only one I really had to do by hand. But there, you're looking for a 15-letter "word" where the middle 5 letters are also a word and the last five letters are a word when reversed. There weren't so many possibilities, so I grabbed one where the crossers seemed to work and then filled the rest of the puzzle around that. But note how the other four theme answers are all on the edge of the puzzle -- that's no accident, and was how I got the computer to do all the work for me.
I hope I haven't ruined the magic trick! Always easy when you're told how it's done. :)
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I think it is still quite a feat. You had to cobble it all together and devise clever clues. This is one of my favorite puzzles in a long time. Congratulations. Keep 'em coming!
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From "The Red-Headed League," Arthur Conan Doyle
"Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual
labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has
been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of
writing lately, I can deduce nothing else."
Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger
upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion.
"How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr.
Holmes?" he asked.
[...Holmes explains his reasoning....]
Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I
thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see
that there was nothing in it, after all."
"I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake
in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my
poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I
am so candid."
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I still say, "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you [do] all that, Mr. [Ginsberg]?" Credit for amassing the database, and devising the search methods, after all.
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Before I got to the point where I wanted to curse you out* I marveled at the terrific UEY clues and answers.
*But when I couldn't get past lots and tea and "leapstakes," which is a thing, I decided you were the meanest constructor ever. But then I did a desperation** search for words ending in -logical and it became clear that it had to be IDEO and, finally, I got to VEEPSTAKES, which pushed me to TONS and BEE.
Now I salute you, sir!
**Yes, I ABASE myself by using such a word at a time like this. My heart goes out to the people of Puerto Rico and Mexico.
Very interesting, innovative puzzle today. I had a heckuva time solving it with strange entries like TWO TIM and PRIVAT and lots of white squares. With plenty of tough clues as well. Had solved the revealer at 57D — without getting its significance — but then forgot all about it. Finally in desperation (at about twice my average Thursday time) did something I don't do often enough: stopped and considered what the theme might be. Aha! These truncated words actually continue boustrophedon on the next line. And in one case, even on the following line! That was _just_ enough information to enable completion of the puzzle. A perfectly calibrated challenge.
Enjoyed being inspired to learn a little about the Punjab.
(Was less than enthusiastic about VEEPSTAKES, a rather weird coinage that gets less than one-fifth of one percent of the number of Google hits that SWEEPSTAKES does.)
Amazing theme. I figured it out fairly early, and expected the puzzle to work itself out. Couldn't get the last bits. I found a few clues to be too obtuse. BEE, TEMPI, GIVEEAR, BASSI, all felt like stretches to me. I figured BASSI by cross and had to resist taking it out. ENIAC, ERLE, and NORA were all outside my remit, though I found them by cross too. In the end I relied on the solver out of frustration with those items listed.
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I caught on to the trick pretty quickly in the NW, spotting TWOTIMELOSER in relation to Adlai Stevenson. Top notch construction, especially with the astounding STRIKESABALANCE dead-center. The NE was last to fall--I didn't recall the Woody Allen quote, so had to work at it. Great stuff overall.
Avant-garde new wave group The Art Of Noise teamed with 80s cultural phenomenon Max Headroom for the 1986 single/video "PARANOIMIA" (what's a couple of extra letters between WPers?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6epzmRZk6UU
Avant-garde new wave group The Art Of Noise teamed with 80s cultural phenomenon Max Headroom for the 1986 single/video "PARANOIMIA" (what's a couple of extra letters between WPers?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6epzmRZk6UU
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Oh, the brutality. That blew my carefully honed Thursday average back out to big numbers. Loved it, though. Pure cleverness and I cannot imagine the difficulty of putting something like that together.
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A very fine puzzle IMO. It did give me some trouble, though, specifically because I did not know what the Scoville scale measures. I tried HARDEST, but thought that was really the Ohm scale...and eventually realized I meant Mohs scale! Neither of which were right anyway. Eventually I gave up and Googled it.
Interesting info: " Bell peppers are considered to have a Scoville rating of zero, that is, lacking any piquancy, whereas habanero peppers have a Scoville rating of 300,000. Pure capsaicin rates at 16 million Scoville units."
-- from http://www.nndb.com/people/218/000101912/
I'll be avoiding pure capsaicin meself...
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Oh my god! the UEY thing totally baffled me until reading these comments. For half hour after I had finished the puzzle I was totally confused how I had gotten it right.
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The reveal helped immeasurably but it took quite a while to make the double UEY mid-grid...The passing of Jake LaMotta Tuesday is in today's obits. Perhaps that's why I was thinking of the 'Sweet Science' when reading 49a's clue, perhaps NOT. Thankfully, before too long I came around to the canine nature of the clue, collaring 49a. That entire area was a mess, not knowing the Santini actor, the Punjab reference and erring with misdeal for the poker faux pas. Eventually, those problems came and WENT with the crosses and I had my Thursday solve in the bank...."IT'S TOO LATE To Turn Back NOW" made it all the way to #2 on Billboard's Pop Singles Chart in May of '72 by the trio Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10Dm5KNtUro
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YES! A perfect Thursday. As Martin said, a feat for the constructor and a joy to solve with a great aha moment. I had PIEcrust for too long and that delayed my UEY, but once I saw the SALAR, I knew what was happening and reversed course. Got the southern themers by using the theme and loved the double UEY. Good way to start the new year. Thank you MG for pulling out all the STOPS!
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Tricky is only fun for me if I read the WordPlay article first. Today I read it but I might still skip it . . .
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Iago as portrayed by Ettore is an archetype for many a villain: BASSI or Baritone.
VEEPSTAKES was the groaner of the epoch. Why Thursday is not the most disparaged day of the week in X-wordlandia I will never know.
Thanks Matt!
Excellent Thursday diversion. It had me coming and going for a while there until I figured out that was what I was supposed to do.
At the green chile stand last Saturday I noticed that there was a new variety. It's called Lumbre XX. I'm sure Martin's chili pepper is hotter but I'll stick to my Sandia Hot. It's just right.
According to Martin, "For me, this is a great constructor’s and solvers’ puzzle." Hand way up! And so reassuring that Matt Ginsberg has now demonstrated that it *is* possible for constructors to scratch their own creative itch while giving solvers lots to play with.
Got the theme early. Put TWO-TIM on hold when I first got it, but all I could think of at 21A was SALARY CAP, which made me take a second look at 1A, and the penny dropped. And this theme actually helped with the solve. I'm grateful for the asterisks, or I don't think I'd have seen it very quickly.
I failed to notice the double asterisk at 31A and kept trying to put in something about fence-sitting or straddling, but BASALT and DIRTBAG showed me some of my error. Since I wasn't expecting the double-turn, I got a bonus Aha! moment there, and then started looking for other tricks.
I stopped that after I got to UEY, a very good revealer for this puzzle. But I still really, really despise that term. It's descriptive, but it's ugly.
Speaking of which, surprised at the number of people who've never heard of VEEPSTAKES, given the way it (over)used by TV newscasters being cute and makes me cringe every time I hear it.
EUBIE was a gimme, as was NORA, but then I wanted TWIN for 35A. Tried to remember Mr. Helmer's name. Surely nothing ending with an I. Eventually remembered Torvald, and put NORA back in place.
Never heard of the racer, and the only ALAIN I know is Delon. (But I knew TRIS!)
Thanks, all!
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My first "aha" moment came near the end with PRIVATE LINES, and again at the very end with STRIKES A BALANCE - cleverly done and much admired, Mr. Ginsberg!
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This was a wow for me. I still can't believe it didn't make Chen's Puzzle of the Week -- something very good must be coming up in the next couple of days. This is one of those memorable ones, one of those special ones, with a brilliant theme, terrific feat (how did he come up with those theme answers?) executed beautifully, terrific grit from devilish and clever cluing, and payoff (two big AHAs, one from figuring out the theme, and the second from seeing UEY as the reveal, a word so many commenters here and elsewhere revile -- he must have put that in wth a smile). On top of all that, a min-theme of double-E's (7).
Yesterday, many were talking about constructor's feat vs. solver's experience. Today's puzzle is tops on both counts, IMO.
This is easily among my favorite puzzles of the year, one of those twinkling stars that stand out. Bravo, sir!
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And this is the answer to your question of yesterday about what makes a good puzzle. A bit like pornography, I can't define it, but I know it when I see it.
OMG! = O, Matt Ginsberg!
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Devilish and satisfying in the end. Got the theme quickly but still stumbled with the fill. GORE? COPSE? Loved the SOFTG. Took forever to get VEEPSTAKES/GIVEEAR/GOBS/BEE Fell into the trap of TEA/LOTS and took time to climb out.
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Wonderfult theme but I was thoroughly demolished by the puzzle in a couple of areas. Some of it was complete unknowns (I've never heard VEEPSTAKES before) but a lot of it was just not catching on to clues. And then there was completely misdirecting myself on the theme early on. I filled in TWOTIM and 1a and thought - ok, Adlai was a TWOTIMe presidential candidate, so we're missing an 'E' at the end? Then the same thing worked for TATTLe if you take 'snitch' as a verb. Of course that didn't work for the others, but it did contribute to me getting stuck on the other 3.
Then, when I finally worked out UEY (I already had a fail by that time), I saw the 'E' in the squares below and thought - that's not a UEY, that's just a right turn, and I was even more confused. Did manage to figure it out with SALARY CAPS and then saw the rest.
Seems like an appropriate time to link one of my favorite non-charting, non-hits of the 50's. I never completely understood this either. Rubber Biscuit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_D_mwTcsKk
If Jimbo has this in his collection, I'll be impressed.
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Rich, when the first Blues Brothers album shot to the top of the charts in 1979, their cover of "Rubber Biscuit" was issued as the second single. It just made the Top 40.
I figured the Chips original had to be in the Jimbo Archives someplace. Indeed, it's included on one of several CD comps of novelty songs compiled by Dr. Demento.
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Jimbo, I'd heard the Blues Brothers version. I thought they (well, Ackroyd in particular) did an impressive job on it.
And you can understand the spoken word interjections a lot better. I'll have a wish sandwich.
And you can understand the spoken word interjections a lot better. I'll have a wish sandwich.
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Brilliant puzzle. STRIKES A BALANCE starting at 31 is a complete tour de force.
Mr. Ginsberg shows a deep expertise with no need to resort to trickery. Bravo!
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We obviously have different definitions of "trickery" ;) !
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A good, but not perfect, start for my New Year. I was pleased to learn that I am not yet 63A. Don’t ask how long it took me.
I got on to the theme early, with IA/14A making it easier to decipher the other themers. Nevertheless, I needed a couple look-ups (EUBIE, ALAIN) and ended up carelessly with one wrong square: Tempo instead of TEMPI.
Initial bad guesses: LOTS before GOBS, ABASH before ABASE, AMUSE before ELATE, SPELL before FLESH, and PEPPERX before HOTTEST.
My favorite entry: SYNAPSE.
Still unknown (as clued): GORE,
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Yes, Amitai, I meant to ask about GORE.
"Saw" is a very gory horror film of some years ago (I think).
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The first "Saw" movie, released in 2004, has spawned 6 sequels, with the 7th due just in time for Halloween 2017.
I love supernatural horror movies, but the "Saw" genre, commonly called torture porn, sickens me. I've never seen any of them.
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This was as much fun as I can recall from a Thursday puzzle. The double UEY was an added bonus. 17A and 19A UEY into INSULTS POTS; any ideas for a cluing it.
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"Sneers at small poker stakes"?
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How kettle responds to schoolyard taunt.
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"How about Comedy Roasts, typically"
This lived up to my expectations for a Thursday, but it took a while. Like David and Wags, I only saw the E as a continuation of the theme answers. I was then confused by the Y from salary. The double ** really had me going. So when I got to UEY, it was a great AHA moment which then helped me with not only understanding the gimmick, but getting the last two that I hadn't solved, TATTLE TALE and STRIKE A BALANCE.
What fun!
Matt, Parisian woman would have been quite a tricky clue, but gettable with LAHORE I think.
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suejean, I am properly ashamed of myself, but my inner third-grader can't stop chuckling at your final paragraph.
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What RiA said, you scamp!
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Naturally I meant the the H from the Punjab capital would help to her Helen.
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A spicy, well-crafted Thursday puzzle. Interesting and tight theme. Several clever clues: I really liked the ones for FLEAS and SYNAPSE. ...And our constructor even threw in a double-UEY on the 31A answer. TEMPI stumped me for a while, but otherwise, what's not to like?
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Pretty tough to solve, but figured out the trick pretty quickly - mainly because the revealer was obviously UEY and I had _WOTIM for 1A and I knew Adlai Stevenson had lost twice. When I saw the E below the M in 6D, I thought of the puzzle a few months back that did the 90 degree bend and figured this was a 180. Clever.
Not only is it not probably not easy to construct, but the puzzle itself is quite good in crossings and cluing.
Liked the clue for 10D for SYNAPSE, clues for 7D (COPSE), 34D (GORE), 33A (EEGS) were ambiguously difficult without enough crossings. Liked both SYNAPSE and EEGS in the same puzzle too.
I never heard of VEEPSTAKES - interesting. Also never heard of EUBIE Blake.
43A...George I and V - I got it, but I didn't quite like it - FEELS like it is breaking some kind of convention.
There were some negative stuff that all seem a bit related - used in an imagined dialogue:
"I'm sorry about the TATTLE TALE, it wasn't PARANOIA on your part, but I guess it's TOO LATE NOW for you now, TWO TIME LOSER."
"What an INSULT, you...you...CAD! DIRTBAG! I'LL SUE! I'll MAKE SURE you know what the pain FEELS like on your FLESH like in that movie "Saw"
Very good puzzle for Thursday.
(sorry if this is a dupe post - previous attempt seemed like it failed)
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Pretty tough to solve, but figured out the trick pretty quickly - mainly because the revealer was obviously UEY and I had _WOTIM for 1A and I knew Adlai Stevenson had lost twice. When I saw the E below the M in 6D, I thought of the puzzle a few months back that did the 90 degree bend and figured this was a 180. Clever.
Not only is it not probably not easy to construct, but the puzzle itself is quite good in crossings and cluing.
Liked the clue for 10D for SYNAPSE, clues for 7D (COPSE), 34D (GORE), 33A (EEGS) were ambiguously difficult without enough crossings. Liked both SYNAPSE and EEGS in the same puzzle too.
I never heard of VEEPSTAKES - interesting. Also never heard of EUBIE Blake.
43A...George I and V - I got it, but I didn't quite like it - FEELS like it is breaking some kind of convention.
There were some negative stuff that all seem a bit related - used in an imagined dialogue:
"I'm sorry about the TATTLE TALE, it wasn't PARANOIA on your part, but I guess it's TOO LATE NOW for you now, TWO TIME LOSER."
"What an INSULT, you...you...CAD! DIRTBAG! I'LL SUE! I'll MAKE SURE you know what the pain FEELS like on your FLESH like in that movie "Saw"
Very good puzzle for Thursday.
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Eubie Blake:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMticx29SjE&index=24&list=PLc1Aq...
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I had the pleasure of seeing one of EUBIE Blake's last performances. It was in the very early 80s I think, and he was 90-something. IIRC, it was that year's Jazz Festival show put together by Bobby Short, featuring lots of old-time singers and musicians. I think it was at Lincoln Center, but it may have been in Carnegie Hall, and we were seated third row center. That meant that we could hear him talking to one of his friends from the old days who was seated in the first row center. He was apparently surprised and delighted to see the old friend, and asked him, "How old are you now?"
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https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yset_ff_syc_oracle&p=...
I might not have heard of Eubie Blake either, had I not attended a meeting in New Orleans as a student delegate, and chanced upon Preservation Hall on a day that Eubie was playing.
I was equally lucky another time when, passing an afternoon wandering Greenwich Village, I stopped for coffee in a corner place with Alberta Hunter (who?) on the bill.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yset_ff_syc_oracle&p=...
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"For me, this is a great constructor’s and solvers’ puzzle, the highest ideal."
I can't speak for constructors, but this solver had a great time!
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Arch-villains Don Giovanni, Scarpia, Iago, Alberich, Macbeth, Rigoletto, and Tonio are all baritones, and Pinkerton, Sportin’ Life, Otello, Robespierre, Monostatos, Canio, Mascagni’s Nero and Boito’s Mephistopheles are tenors. Basses Banquo, Il Commendatore, and Angelotti are the victims of villainous baritones (Macbeth, Don Giovanni, Scarpia). Canio and Don José are tenors, and both are murderers; Banquo is a basso, and he’s a murder victim. If voice were an attribute of character, you would think that two composers would write the same voice for the same role. But the villainous emperor Nerone (Nero) is a bass in Boito and a tenor in Mascagni. The non-villains Sir Walter Raleigh, Tomasso Becket and William Jennings Bryan are basses, as are Hans Sachs and half the cast of Die Meistersinger. Otello and I pagliacci have two villains each, a schemer who manipulates someone else into committing a murder, and the murderer himself; the first is a baritone and the other a tenor. The table of roles in Crowell’s handbook of world opera shows that male villains are about equally divided between tenors, baritones, and basses: each is a minority. Typical basses are those whose words sound as if they are graven in stone: emperors, kings, czars, high priests, top bureaucrats, mayors, cardinals, popes, Mohammed, the Bey of Algiers, and gods (Neptune, Mars, Mercury). An interesting subset: jailers and prison governors, who may be subordinates of villains but are not villains themselves.
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I guess Woody Allen was right.
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Excellent Thursday-worthy puzzle. Wasted 15 minutes filling in LOTS for 25d, leading to TEA, 36a and fouling up the whole section.
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Oooh, I did LOTS and TEA (and LOTS of TEA) too. But 25A was turning out to be rubbish so I redid it.
Same for me, except that I missed a letter when correcting and couldn't find it later. I had IDEA instead of IDEO. Dumb error as that made SOPH into SAPH. I couldn't find the error, so ran check to find it. Oh, well.
Thanks for a great theme and fun puzzle.
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Hand up for LOTS and TEA and the ensuing mess, and wanting LEAPsomething for 27D.
SW and that K saved me, albeit indirectly.
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I enjoyed the "aha" when it came on this one - it happened that the theme answers I had a line for all needed an "e" to come next, and so I had mistakenly thought that the theme involved dropping that one letter. It kept me from seeing the "e" and the string of letters to the left...until that "aha."
I really don't like "shame" as a clue for "abase." "Abash" and "abase" are two different words, and it's nice to remember that different words have different meanings. "Abash" is a synonym for "shame." "Abase" is not.
bassus
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Ditto for me on the aha moment. And I hung on to abash for longer than I want to admit. (It didn't help that I'd never heard of Michael OKEEFE.) .
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very clever. especially like the three line answer: STRIKES A BALANCE. Other themers were entertaining also. Too bad Adlai Stevenson never gained a foothold. He may have changed our history during the Cold War.
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