Not a Tuesday puzzle.
Oh, wait, if I say great, clever, cute, wonderful puzzle I will be accepted here.
Finished fairly quickly, but no happy music. Racked my brain to find the error, but no luck until I asked my wife how to spell the last name of 10D. I had BUNYuN, which gave ABuSE for 44A -- a perfectly reasonable entry. Aaarrgh! At least I didn't give up!
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Hit my 500 day streak today.
(Why that is any more important than a 499 day streak, I really don’t know,)
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@Mr. Mark There is just something about certain numbers that tickles our pleasure center. My car odometer just turned over to 222222 and I took a video of it and made my colleagues watch it.
Good for you on the streak, btw.
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This was a fun and easy puzzle. Once I solved Annie Oakley, the others fell into place. Santa Claus made me laugh since the clue had me thinking "Stormy Daniels" which wouldn't fit anyway. Very clever!
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LETTER BOXED
M_S(11),S_G(4)
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Hi All - Any insight as to way BETEL (betel leaf) is not included in the Spelling Bee? We get Yiddish, Hindi, etc. This is a scientific anglicization that is in regular circulation and not a proper noun...
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@Sarah *apologies for the typo* WHY not WAY.
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Sarah,
Go to the Spelling Bee thread.
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I LOVED the 41A clue, and felt so clever when I keyed in "ford." I was disappointed that the answer was the more generic and (to me, at least) less satisfying AUTO.
I really hoped that "Pole star?" would somehow be a Chopin clue, as his music is my favorite to play on the piano.
My druthers aside, this was a fun puzzle! Fitting for a Tuesday and an enjoyable theme. Great work!
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Oooh, that AUTO clue really fooled me! Otherwise a smooth solve for me. Thanks for a great puzzle! It's interesting to hear how the puzzle idea came to be.
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Have not seen "Hustlers", but based on the latest Oscar nominations, I expected 'Pole star' to be JLO.
SANTACLAUS probably won that gig by being on location, as even Mrs C probably doubts he's all that SEXY. POSITively no PARIAH CAREy.
For the rest, it was a bit unusual to find the KNEE REFLEX associated with a BUNYAN, but that's just one reason why this was not a BOAR. Lynn Lempel, as always the brightest Star in her firm ament. Great to see her on a Tuesday.
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very cute theme!
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Thanks Lynn Lempel. That was a nice smooth Tuesday puzzle with just the right amount of challenge. 😀 Can’t for the life of me understand how some folks always manage to find nits to pick.
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Was I the only one who had PLUTO for Disney dog? I stayed with it even though none of the crossings were working. Finally saw the light with AL RUKER.
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@Mark
I had the same originally too. Which, of course, hints at the horrors of the Disney universe, as GOOFY is clothed, bipedal, and speaks, and Pluto, of the same species, is naked, walks on all-fours, and is silent.
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Pluto is the dog. Goofy is a cow!
The answer to 26A (Bit of landscaping greenery) brought to mind Molly Ivins' nickname for George W. Bush.
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@RichardZ
I take solace in the fact that Marvelous Molly will be present for The Last Trump.
'In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.(Corinthians One 15:52)
@Leapfinger - "Corinthians One" is even outréer than the last Trump himself!
It's amazing (and amazingly frustrating) how your mind sometimes absolutely refuses to accept that an answer has to be wrong. I stared at the filled in crossing of A LOOKER and BOATS for the longest time. Neither one made any sense for their respective clues, but they are both real words. I kind of knew that BOATS was wrong, but became fixated on changing the first letter, not the second. Not surprisingly, GOATS didn't work either. Finally had to come here for help. Why do our brains get locked into such an error in the first place, and then double-down on it?
None of this detracts from Lynn Lempel's very smooth and impressive puzzle.
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@DYT, my fave comment on this idea was from maybe 9 months ago, (and sorry, commenter, I don’t recall who you are). The clue was something like “Brand that owns CoolWhip”, the correct answer was KRAFT, and the commenter shared how they had - - RA -, and their brain just refused to let go of DRANO. That was the day I knew I had to keep reading Wordplay!
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You can literally stick a loooooong string of bright, shiny gold stars at the top of any -- and every -- Lynn Lempel crossword creation.
Shine on, Lynn, shine on!⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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I was stuck for a few moments, wondering what TREX bicycles had to do with the Field... but then filled in SUE, and got it! A nice puzzle all around; loved the long clues and easygoing Tuesday clues. To those bemoaning the lack of "bite," remember, your easy is someone else's difficult, and Wednesday is coming.
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For a number of years I lived in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Walking up Main Street one gorgeous summer day, we saw a wedding party and guests stream from the Unitarian Church. A woman emerged from the shop across the street, delighted, pointing and shouting. “Look! Look! We have sari right here in Peterborough!”
This happened within the last twenty years.
Counting saris in Peterborough, the number of Uighur restaurants one has patronized, or the number of black people named in a crossword puzzle strikes me as unseemly.
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@ADeNA - I've spent several hours pondering the meaning you meant, and still don't think I've fathomed it.
These are the recorded stats for Peterborough, New Hampshire:
"As of the census of 2010, there were 6,284 people, 2,713 households, and 1,629 families residing in the town. The population density was 167.0 people per square mile (64.3/km²). There were 2,956 housing units at an average density of 78.4 per square mile (30.3/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 96.1% White, 1.8% Asian, 0.7% Black or African American, 0.2% Native American, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.4% some other race, and 0.8% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.4% of the population.[16]
I'm sure (based on a charitable disposition) that you didn't mean "I wish that 96.1% were 100%" - yet it's hard for me to see how someone appreciating, noticing, or enjoying a rarity of 1 in 100 is unseemly.
Please help me understand your meaning, especially your use of the word "unseemly."
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I appreciated that my actions matched 26D as I was solving the puzzle in the tub.
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Saturday nitters nitted about FUNK RAP (“who’s ever heard of #@%$ that?!”)
Monday nitters nitted about “Give A RAP” (“who’s ever heard of #@%$ that?!”)
The thing about crosswords is that they keep coming at you and really don’t give A RAP about nitters. Don’t like FUNK RAP? Don’t like A RAP? Have some FUNK.
Chaka Khan “I Feel For You”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX9E44mClKs
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A shimmering constellation of stars, all of whom are names that bring a smile. Darth Vader of the Death Star would be a PARIAH in this group.
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Loved seeing SIMONE BILES as an answer, as she appears to be an impressive person as well as an impressive athlete. OMIT/EMIT in the same puzzle was neat, and as a native Illinoisan (that recently shared my childhood love of SUE with my brother’s kids) I also appreciated seeing the Field and our special TREX mentioned.
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I liked the level of difficulty of the puzzle, appropriate for a Tuesday, but felt that the mix of "star" names was not consistent, having both real and fictitious people.
I would also like to correct the loose use of the term "meteorologist". Although Al Roker is a true "morning star", he is not a meteorologist by training. He serves as a "weatherman" or "weather reporter". His college degree, if I am not mistaken, is in communications, not meteorology. He is a member of a group of people who report the weather, but lack true credentials in the field.
These include many who fell into the field, often by default. Many were actors or in related fields, but are not trained meteorologists. Even David Letterman was a weather reporter early in his career and he used to joke about it.
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@Ken s
And there's George Carlin's Hippy Dippy Weatherman.
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@Ken s
As the mother-in-law of an atmospheric scientist, I thank you for this distinction. It is often frustrating to hear "The meteorologists got it wrong again!" Those folks don't MAKE weather, they report what the models show them, as reported by weather services. But even that is not "making weather," and the blame is as useful as blaming the fish for not being attracted to the worm.
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Star light, star bright,
Wish I may, wish I might
Get a puzzle with some bite
Get a puzzle with some fight.
Tomorrow's Wednesday. Will my wish be granted?
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For me a nice early AHA moment with ANNIE OAKLEY. Much longer to get 10D. I was thinking of the film Giant, and as I had PAUL, wondered if Paul Newman had been in it. Lucky that didn’t last long with a couple more crosses. Great fun to figure out the rest; the only one I didn’t know was AL ROKER.
I’m glad Lynn came across her “shooting star” again and came up with this fine Tuesday puzzle.
Not sure I like the nickname for T REX!
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@suejean - The woman who unearthed it was named Sue, so the skeleton is named for a woman in the sciences.
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During “Women in Crosswords” week!
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Thanks, David, good to know.
When I go to NYTimes.com, there is a box at the top of the screen that says, "Play the Crossword." Until about six weeks ago, if I clicked that box, what do you suppose happened? I was taken right to the crossword, that's what. But for the last six weeks or so, when I click on the box, it takes me to a page demanding that I subscribe to the crossword (something that I have obviously already done). One cannot escape from this page without closing the browser. The only way for me to get to the puzzle is to scroll to the bottom of the homepage, wait while the page reloads and sends me back up to the middle, scroll down again, wait while it sends me back up to the middle, scroll down, wait while it sends me back up to the middle, scroll down and click on the "Crossword" link. It is shocking to me that The New York Times, which just raised my all-access fee by $4, is so utterly technologically incompetent.
Chris,
I hope that in addition to your rant here you've emailed the tech people who should be able to help you.
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@Chris Atkins
Maybe you could bookmark the puzzle page?
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@Chris Atkins Did you try it in a different browser on the same computer? I would also try it in Private Mode to see if it’s an issue with the cookies. It sounds to me like it’s a cache problem with your browser. Have you upgraded or installed virus software lately?
The likelihood that the IT staff of The NY Times is utterly incompetent strikes as being rather improbable.
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Does anyone else notice words in "yesterday's list" that were not accepted when you tried them?
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@Todd I assume you are talking about the Spelling Bee. And yes; I don't keep track of the words I try but quite often I see one in 'Yesterday's Answers' that I am certain was rejected when I tried it. Course it could just be that I'm getting older and memory isn't what it used to be.
@Todd No I was able to get to the full Queen Bee yesterday so no words were rejected. I have, however, several times found that I thought I had submitted a word but had either misspelled it or hadn’t pressed submit. Sometimes am just clicking too fast.
@Todd I get that feeling a lot, but then I chalk it up to thinking I probably entered it a few days before and just forgot to repeat it the following day.
Also noticed that GLUG didn't work on Sunday but is valid as of Monday. Had not confirmed an evolving word list until that point, but they definitely didn't add GLUG to acceptable words for Sunday's list while adding it.
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Hmmph!! A “Completion” - - and on a Tuesday yet?!?!
GO GO DANCER fit so nicely at 29D - - and that made a mess to clean up!
There were several generational conflicts in this one. I can imagine many younger solvers having no clue about ANNIE OAKLEY and/or PAUL BUNYAN and I - being of a “certain age” had none about MILA and GWEN. I guess SIMONE was somewhere in the middle - but I find it difficult to think of Mr. ROKER as a “star”. (Aren’t weather persons on TV sort of obsolete these days anyway? I mean, with all the available APP’s for smart phones - - which are much more convenient and a lot more accurate?)
I “get it” - - but I found the pairing of “Suggest” and GET AT to be rather grating somehow. Better clues inclue “Annoy”, “Pester”, “Irritate”, “Bother”, etc. - and these seem more “Tuesdayish” to me.
Other than that - and the short names of people I’ve never heard of, the puzzle was a lark.
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@PeterW I actually find Paul Bunyan as a “star” to be the biggest stretch, UM-MSU football notwithstanding.
Go Blue!
@PeterW
I’m not sure what you are getting at concerning GET AT.
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Andrew,
It just got to him.
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So 48a I spelled VISE with a c, chortled Tom criminally.
Nice one Lynn
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I remember that my father once announced he had a new vise. I went to look at his workbench, a returned, puzzled, to find him doing a crossword.
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@Helen Miller
He could do worse.
This was a Super Tuesday! Thank you, Lynn Lempel!
I totally mental blocked what a Focus on the road could be. Der.
(Luckily I don't give a rap about my stats any more!)
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My brain was playing tricks on me this morning so instead of BONFIRE, I had FANFARE (guess I mashed up CELEBRATORY and CELEBRITY), which left me stumped for the crosses, but I finally figured it out.
I saw the famous Sue and a lot of that great museum when in a Chicago to see a night of the GD Fare Thee Well event a few years ago, and since Sue is in fact DEAD, the museum/concert promoters managed to tie it all together for marketing purposes!
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I thought it was just too early, as I, too, saw “celebrity” in that clue. _ ONFIRE had me scratching my head for a while before I reread the clue.
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Definitely a five STAR puzzle. Just a very enjoyable solve all around and always a bonus to have absolutely no idea what the theme clues are going for until you manage to work out one or two from the crosses.
Side note: TRIPOLI had not been an answer in the puzzle for over 6 years, but now it's been in two Tuesdays in a row.
Music link today is inspired by a combination of our local weather, 48a and this week's constructor focus. You can just change "#12 and 35" to "#1 and 2" in the title.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm-po_FUmvM
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Rich,
Side note on your side notes...
After considering both TRIPOLI and musical selection, I found that MONTEZUMA has appeared only once in the Shortz era, more than 15 years ago.
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As always with LL -- and what I look forward to -- we have a clever theme, wordplay, and a puzzle that I leave with a smile in my heart.
And nice touches, like the clue for SEWED, [Put in stitches], right by the clue for TEASE, [Needle mischievously]. Also, the cross of BOAR and BRATS (as in bratwurst), and ETNA near LAVA.
No rising star you, Lynn, but a rock star among constructors, and I'm ever grateful for your lighthearted uplifting puzzles. Thank you!
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Can one who is on pot (48 across) be a “stoner” and one who put in stitches (32 down) be a “sewer” and not be “stoned” nor had “sewed”? It took me time to figure that I was in the past.
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@Bruce Tanzer
In American English, the word "sewer" usually refers to storm drains (storm sewers) and the piping that connects soil pipes from houses to the processing/decontamination facilities. It's not generally used for people who sew.
A "stoner" would be considered a person who uses frequently and consistently; but only when under the influence would be considered "stoned".
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@JayTee
The words SEWER, SHOWER, FLOWER and the like have frequently been clued to misdirect: one who sews, shows, flows.
Good Tuesday - fun theme, nothing too obscure, although I looked up Sue after I got it from the crossings. I learned a little about Annie Oakley this morning.
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OVAL crossing TRAVESTY a coincidence? I think not.
Not trying to STIRUP a BONFIRE OVERHERE so for anyone who CARES or GOES NUTS, it was just a REFLEX from the GASLIT. Don't YELLAT this PARIAH.
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@AudreyLM
Yeah man! And did you notice that if you start with the O in oval, the letters in the other nickname for the Crimson Tide are "scattered" throughout the puzzle. O-Bama, scattered, get it?
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My favorite part of these comments every day is people pretending/bragging that they don't know who famous people are.
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@Stylus Happenstance LOL! Well look at who you're dealing with here--older, white, highly educated liberals who haven't watched TV news since McNeil/Lehrer went off the air, get their international news from 'Foreign Affairs', and couldn't spell "Twitter" if you spotted them the 'T'. I kid, of course (stereotyping is fun!).
Certain pop culture seeps into people's consciousness differently. Four weeks ago I could not have told you who Billie Eilish was--wouldn't have known her if she were standing right next to me. Now I know who she is, how old she is, have heard a song or two of hers (not my bag but not the worst of the current lot), and have solved an entire puzzle on these august pages devoted to her.
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@Michael Brothers
Not to mention those who had never heard of SIMONE BILES--they must be hiding in a cave since 2016!
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SPELLING BEE GRID
T A B E G L V
WORDS: 48, POINTS: 231, PANGRAMS: 1, BINGO
First character frequency:
A x 5
B x 15
E x 4
G x 4
L x 3
T x 12
V x 5
Word length frequency:
4L: 15
5L: 11
6L: 11
7L: 4
8L: 4
9L: 2
10L: 1
Grid:
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 TOT
A: 1 3 1 - - - - 5
B: 6 3 4 - 1 1 - 15
E: - 1 1 2 - - - 4
G: 2 - - 1 1 - - 4
L: 1 1 1 - - - - 3
T: 5 2 3 - 1 - 1 12
V: - 1 1 1 1 1 - 5
TOT:15 11 11 4 4 2 1 48
Two letter list:
AB-3 AG-2
BA-4 BE-9 BL-2
EA-2 EL-2
GA-2 GE-2
LA-2 LE-1
TA-7 TE-5
VA-1 VE-4
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@Doug, thanks. Enjoying some fun words today, but Oy! No GEVALT!
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“Bloody Mary’s chewing betel nuts!” Dum, dum, dum, dum....”and ain’t that too darn bad!”
South Pacific, perhaps my all time favorite musical (and source for me of a word that should’ve been allowed).
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@Doug
Somehow, B9 churned up from the lower reaches of my brain. I had no idea how to spell it, but I got it on the third try. Worse, I thought it was a type of cigar. Haha. Such a big word for such a little thing!
I have just a few minutes to do the Bee this morning and only have a dozen words so far. But it looks like more fun ahead later today, and I can hope for more old stogies!
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**S P E L L I N G B E E H I N T S**
48 words, 231 points, 1 pangram.
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Hint:
Four –ABLE endings, 1 from today’s word set, 1 related to words in today’s set.
Other hints:
Become less intense (a storm, e.g.)
Help a criminal
Remove surgically, or gradually by other means
Toy marble or ornamental stone
End of a shoelace
Trivial thing, or a ball game (French)
Dancing on tips of toes
Angry mood, or a hawk flapping their wings
Can be defeated
Biblically procreate, past & present
Delay, usually an adj.
Make a goat sound
Goat sound
Young of the national bird
Fit to be consumed
Make someone really happy
Raise up
Savory potato or buckwheat pancake
Yiddish slang for money
An easy word or clue, adj.
Espresso & steamed milk
Governor of a Roman province
Indian drum, or Spanish for what you eat on
What the 10 Commandments are written on
To report another’s wrongs, & the one who does it (2 words)
Sachet of leaves steeped in water for a drink
Revealing something, adj., compound
Someone who dresses you or parks your car
Plants you eat, noun, adj., & verb (3 words)
Soft downy skin on antlers
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My last word (delay synonym) was one I've never seen used that way previously. It's a word in this set with a 2-letter prefix added. As an adjective with a D ending, it's usually a card, greeting, or wish you don't send or give on time.
The "fit to be consumed" word usually has a D as its 2nd letter instead of today's ATA.
The pangram is the plant you eat, noun.
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@Kevin Davis
The 'trivial thing' I knew only in a musical context. This classical guitarist provides beautiful performances of five (spoiler): https://youtu.be/LRVa1vJ2hwE
Missing: betel
Not missing: telebabble (what is said), telebabe (who says it), telebabel (where it is said). All too common on cable 'news' stations during election season. :-)
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A famed geologist is a rock star.
(But don't take that for granite.)
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@Mike
Gneiss!
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Mike,
GRANITE was so yesterday (38A).
I'd LAVA nother one.
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@Mike
I'm going topaz on this.
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Fairly new to this wonderful world of Crosswords. Loved today’s puzzle — my first without any looks ups. *happy dance*
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@Rads Welcome to the asylum!
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@Rads Woo hoo!
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@Puzzledog Excited and petrified, in equal measures, to be considered a fellow inmate. Squeeeeeee!
One always relishes a puzzle that brings one a good SHRUBbery before one has the time to say, ”Ecky-ecky-ecky-ecky-pikang-zoop-boing-goodem-zu-owly-zhiv.”
Ni.
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Thank you for this! Ni!
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@Sam Lyons
The puzzle also had my favourite colour. Red - No, blue! Ahh...
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@Andrew I have to admit that when I had FU_K for 23D and looked at the clue (Blue state?) I did wonder for a second or two where the constructor was going with this.
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Two letters to go to complete my fastest time ever for a Tuesday and then woke up a half an hour later from a cat nap to finish well over my average time.
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and Elke (not ELKS)
My suggestion to shift the balance :
besides ANNIE O, AL R , SIMONE B, PAUL B, and SANTA C
how about
L ava
Y aw
et N a
to N
for se X y
e C ol
ya W
ras P STAR ?
Lynn Lempel hit another one out of the universe ( I'm not STONED, just having FUN ).
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One square to go and MILA doesn't seem like a person's name, but then ALROKER I might have heard of before, so try the A. I never watch TV in the morning (9-11 and a recent false missile report in Hawaii the only exceptions), but maybe he does morning news?
@kilaueabart Mila Kunis is a fine young actress. Friends With Benefits, The Book of Eli, Black Swan.
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AL ROKER is an NBC weatherman who appears on the Today Show. He also shows up on the NBC Nightly News occasionally whenever there’s a big weather event, usually with some huge estimate of millions of people at dire risk of snow or rain or whatever. I’ve often found these segments to be a bit sensationalist, especially since local news usually has much better coverage of the weather.
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FWIW - Mila is the slavic female form of my own "David" - "beloved" is the meaning of the name. Not a strange name after all.
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I'm wondering if anyone will get caught up by the 2019 conspiracy theory that Goofy is actually a cow. It was apparently taken seriously enough that Snopes addressed it: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/goofy-cow-or-dog/.
Also,I hope I'm not the only one who first thought of "blue word/language" rather than "blue state" upon seeing FU_K...
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From 'Stand By Me' https://youtu.be/gV69pYdTHSg
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@Jen Yes I made the same comment (re blue) before I saw your post.
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Goofy was confirmed a dog in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
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Thank you to the Commenter from a few days ago who mentioned the T Rex in Chicago had a name. You never know what you can learn from Wordplay.
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Apparently I need to read the captions... I didn't understand this clue until I saw your post!
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PAUL BUNYAN was looking to be a sports hero until he took a KNEE. The rest of the fill was pretty much as expected. This puzzle was done in spurts for me while doing dinner. TIL that Lynn Lempel is a lady. That collar had me fooled when I first saw her pic.
@Kiki Rijkstra, I remember that, Kiki.
I was aghast when you said she looked like Harpo. Ten years, maybe, and I still shudder.
What a nice change that for once I knew all the "star" names! I needed crosses to determine some of them but they were all familiar. Quel treat.
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Slight delay at 40D until SWAMP got SWEEP(sic)ed away.....
@BK
Another delay while 40D was edited to 48D...
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Emu’d at the starting blocks. Too much FUNK perhaps.
Prince feat. Chaka Khan, with some “Sweet Thing” FUNK:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz0K49M1PFk
Smooth Tuesday with lovely theme/themers.
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Psst, OVER HERE
Life SWEEPs us along,
LOSing TIME,
Mired in ASHY LAVA;
Who CARES —
It’s all a TRAVESTY.
And yet, ART
Emerges like a long-buried T-REX,
SEXY GOOFY GEEKY ART,
A poem, a song, a painting,
Psst, it whispers, OVER HERE,
And the LAYERS of FUNK lift,
The STONEs, the AIR, the stars
Shine again.
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@Puzzlemucker: oh, that made me smile; thank you.
And also a fun puzzle today!
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How delighted this wordplay word play made me!
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Today I learned that a pocketbook in the US is a BAG rather than a pocket-sized book. I went with a mag, like Reader's Digest, resulting in a very plausible Simone Miles and a delayed jingle.
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@Aarglefarg
In the US a pocketbook (the carryall, not the book) might also be called a purse as well as a BAG. What is this item called in Australia?
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@Millie New Yorkers say pocketbook for purse. Southerners don't say pocketbook, they think it's funny. I think it is a New York and States in that atea usage, and somewhat old fashioned as well. Purse and handbag or bag are used all over US.
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@Millie We would call it a handbag.
Also (it goes deeper!), we would probably reserve the word 'purse' for a feminine wallet.
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GUNFIRE instead of BONFIRE. Otherwise as smooth and effortless as a routine by SIMONEBILES
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@RAH
When you put it that way, I think I suddenly know who she is! I would never have got the B though if anything else could come in front of AG.
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Fun breezy puzzle.
I think the star themed count was 3 guys to 2 girls.
In the spirit of this week, was hoping it was 5 ladies.
I’m a fan of ms. Lempel. Thanks the puzzle!
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@Newbie
Of course, in addition to the "stars", we also had Lucy LIU, AVA DuVernay, GWEN Stefani, and, a sort-of, SUE.
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@JayTee
Don't forget that besides the TREX, there's also a boy named SUE.
..
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@Rich in Atlanta - scientists figure there's more than a 50-50 chance that the T Rex named Sue (after the scientist who unearthed the fossilized bones) was male. So there's your boy named Sue in the photo today!
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I kept wondering what kind of TREX decking would be in Chicago. Doh!
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@danny
Thanks for that. I took another look and caught on at last.
Didn't LOSE TIME here! Step by Step -- it's in the BAG!
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