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Nov 2, 2014

Sunday, November 2, 2014 Ed Sessa

 Theme:  "Follow the Money" - Cash can precede the last word in each theme entry.

23A. *Unpredictable influence : WILD CARD. Cash card.

97A. *Abundant yield : BUMPER CROP. Cash crop.

32A. *"No idea" : DOESN'T REGISTER. Cash register.

41A. *Where words may be mangled : KARAOKE BAR. Cash bar.

73A. *Home Depot competitor : TRUE VALUE. Cash value.

109A. *Novel about a world traveler? : THE TIME MACHINE. Cash machine.

16D. *Hold answerable : CALL TO ACCOUNT. Cash account.

57D. *Bend under pressure : GO WITH THE FLOW. Cash flow.

Reveal entry:

 123. Rebate, and, literally, what the end of each answer to a starred clue can be : CASHBACK

I like that the CARD in the theme entries has different meaning than the CARD in the resulting "Cash *" phrase.

Great grid design also. Noticed how 2 pairs of long theme entries intersect each other? This often eases up the filling, but it takes skill and luck to make intersection happen.

Across:     

1. Young boy : LAD

4. Dallas quarterback Tony : ROMO

8. Binding piece : STRAP. I was thinking of contract.

13. Olympics spinner : DISCUS

19. __ pro nobis : ORA

20. Nastase of tennis : ILIE

21. It may be put on a dog : CHILI. I tried ONION first. At least, I was in the right direction.

22. Sci-fi psychic : EMPATH

25. Go around : ORBIT

26. Baseball Hall of Famer Fingers : ROLLIE. Known for  his handlebar mustache.


27. Take over for : RELIEVE. Rollie Fingers was a reliever.

28. Luxury hotel facility : SPA

29. Velvety sweater fabric : CHENILLE. No idea. Googled and found lots of caterpillar images. Turns out it's French for "caterpillar".

31. Turner autobiography : I, TINA


35. Fr. holy woman : STE

36. Regal regalia : ROBES

39. Trail user : HIKER

40. "As __ to breathe were life!": Tennyson : THO'
 
44. Intimidated : COWED

46. Pub quaff : ALE

49. Tranfusion quantity : UNIT

50. Eat in style : DINE. Marti just asked me about Dim sum. Guangzhou is truly a food heaven. Everything is so fresh and cheap. That's why retired folks can afford the afternoon tea every day. Click on the picture, PK, do you see the green pieces on the shrimp rice? Those are scallions (green onions), ubiquitous in Chinese cooking.


52. Comforted : SOLACED

55. __ bag : DOGGIE. I have a question: "Goodie bag" or "Goody bag", which spelling do you prefer?

58. Sources of energy : CARBS

61. YouTube video source : WEBCAM

62. Eclectic musician Brian : ENO

63. Greeted, with "to" : SAID HI

67. Clodhopper : OAF

69. Pilotless plane : DRONE

70. Mimicked a mouser, maybe : MEWED

75. Pan-fry : SAUTE. I "stir-fry" all the time and I don't use a wok.

76. Crème de la crème : ELITE

77. Cap seen on a brae : TAM

78. Venues for French courses : ECOLES

80. SSA IDs : NOs

81. Percussion instrument : RATTLE

83. Nastiness : SPITE

85. Fly over Africa? : TSETSE. Noun Fly.

88. Without much forethought : IN HASTE

90. Muppet with a unibrow : BERT

92. Lego buys : KITS

93. New Year in Hanoi : TET. Same day as Chinese Spring Festival. Feb 19, 2015.

94. Pertinent, in legalese : AD REM
 
102. Really selling : HOT

105. Shows astonishment : GASPS

107. Martini's partner : ROSSI

108. Antipollution gp. : EPA. I don't remember a clear morning day in Beijing. Always foggy.

113. Verbal attention-grabbers : PSSTs

115. Work on, in a way, as furniture : RE-FINISH

116. TV spots : ADS

117. Reaffirming response : YES IT IS

119. Doles out : ALLOTS

120. Present one's view : OPINE

124. It may be lined with cedar : CLOSET. Not STREET.

125. Cowl wearers : MONKS

126. Plus : ALSO

127. Menlo Park monogram : TAE. Thomas Alva Edison.

128. Spire sites : TOWERS

129. Dadaist Max : ERNST

130. "That smarts!" : YEOW

131. Jack __, lead singer for the Kingsmen in "Louie Louie" : ELY. I only know Ron.

Down:

1. With little at stake : LOW RISK

2. Diva's encore : ARIETTA. Diminutive of Aria.

3. Slowpoke : DALLIER

4. Brand made with vermicelli : RICE-A-RONI. So many flavors. By the way, has any of you tried boiled green peanuts?  So tasty.

5. Norwegian saint : OLAV

6. Slimy soil : MIRE

7. Wordsmith's ref. : OED

8. Accessory for a marksman : SCOPE

9. Defeat badly : THRASH

10. Eve's genesis : RIB. Easy in retrospect.

11. Baba or a boxer : ALI

12. Re-tiring workforce? : PIT CREW. Great clue/fill.

13. Removal of restrictions, informally : DE-REG

14. "Let me take care of this!" : I'M ON IT

15. "__ Splash": Bobby Darin hit : SPLISH
 
17. Serving a purpose : UTILE

18. See-through : SHEER

24. Unpleasant noise : DIN. This sounds extreme, but can you imagine being disturbed 5 times a day?

28. "What a shame" : SO SAD

30. Start of an Ed McMahon intro : HERE'S (Johnny)

32. Belle of the ball : DEB

33. More kindly : NICER

34. Ring result, briefly : TKO. Boxing.

37. Steinbeck migrants : OKIES

38. Parlay, e.g. : BET

42. Summer mo. : AUG

43. Nouveau __ : RICHE

45. Wall St. Journal concern, with "the" : DOW. You can find the Wall Street Journal in almost all hotels in Hong Kong. Not always the case with the NY Times. Hong Kong is very business-oriented.

47. Basic shelters : LEAN-TOS

48. '80s attorney general : ED MEESE

51. Ingénue quality : NAIVETE

53. Watch displays, for short : LEDs

54. Incantation start : ABRA

55. Misconduct mark : DEMERIT

56. Like some country bridges : ONE LANE
 
59. Scout's neckwear : BOLO

60. Author Bellow : SAUL

64. One pressing a suit: Abbr. : ATT

65. Nest eggs for srs. : IRAS

66. Run-down joint : DUMP

68. Charge : FEE

71. Kett of old funnies : ETTA

72. Convention goers: Abbr. : DELS (Delegates)

74. Acid-tongued : ACERB. Same root as "Acid". Should have used another clue.
 
79. Pigpens : STIES

82. Two after epsilon : ETA

84. Longtime high-tech compatibility standard : IBM PC. So good to have you back, TTP.

86. Burlesque feature : STRIP SHOW

87. Corner key : ESC

89. Jigsaw puzzle starters : EDGES

91. Goes bad : TURNS

92. Some mil. mess duties : KPS

95. Make in a big way, as a point : RAM HOME

96. That: Sp. : ESA

98. One of a pie-throwing trio : MOE. I'd better pay attention to what Chairman Moe says when Masters approaches next year.

99. Say again : RE-STATE

100. Kind of illusion : OPTICAL

101. Hotel housekeeping need : PASS KEY

103. Idle : OTIOSE. Not a word I use, Yellowrocks.

104. Salon specialist : TINTER. Never been a TINTEE. Never heard of this specialist.

106. Ossobuco cuts : SHANKS

109. Stretch of land : TRACT

110. Greeting word : HELLO

111. Seaside phenomena : MISTS

112. Latin clarification : ID EST

114. One of a quint's four : SIB. Oh, quintuples. The little girl on the left has 4 siblings.


117. Harvard rival : YALE

118. Red-letters-in-a-blue-oval gas logo : ESSO


121. Spanish preposition : POR

122. Comfort __ : INN

123. Little island : CAY


Here are these pictures of JD's adorable grandsons and their mom in Halloween costumes.

 Cameron
 Dylan

Dylan and Mom Shelby

C.C.

54 comments:

HeartRx said...

Good morning C.C. and friends!

Hand up for onions on my hot dog before CHILI, C.C.. I prefer “doggy” bag and “goody” bag. To me, the other spellings would be used with the plural (“DOGGIEs” and “goodies.”) But I guess either is acceptable.

Oh, and last night I SAUTEed Brussels sprouts, after first steaming them. I added butter and just a pinch of sugar to the sauté pan. By flipping them constantly, they achieved a nice even caramelization. Yum!

Fun puzzle, but I have to admit that ROLLIE was all perps. Someday, I will sit down and memorize every baseball Hall-of-Famer, position, and stats so that I can confidently fill in baseball clues….(NOT!)

Cute pics of the children, JD. Cameron is getting so big – he’ll be off to college before you know it.

Have a relaxing day, everyone!

Barry G. said...

Morning, all!

I found this one to be, on the whole, so straightforward to the point of actually being a bit on the boring side. I had no idea what was going on with the theme until I got to the theme reveal, since all the theme answers were perfectly normal phrases in their own right. When I did get to the theme reveal, I briefly though that the theme answers all ended with a type of money spelled backwards (OSEP for PESO, for example), but it was not to be.

I think ROLLIE was the only unknown, and it was nice to see OTIOSE in the grid, but that was about it for anything memorable. I did struggle a little bit in the West due to wanting DOGGY instead of DOGGIE and MEOWED instead of MEWED, but that was all.

I did like the clue for PIT CREW.

Dennis said...

Good morning, gang, from sunny, cold south Florida. Well, I guess fifty isn't cold, but maybe the blood thins out a bit down here after a while. I have parts of me that've retracted like the landing gear on a plane.

Very much a fun puzzle today, as Sundays normally are. Clever theme, which I didn't see until the reveal, although the theme should've told me. Ed always has clever clues, and today's puzzle was no exception; 'Re-tiring workforce?' was my favorite. Only mistake was ESO instead of ESA, because I can never remember the right one. DOGGIE gave me pause as it did Marti, 'cause in my mind, I see DOGGY when I hear the term 'doggy bag'.

Great to see Marine Sgt. Tahmooressi finally released from Mexican jail; long, long overdue. The word OTIOSE comes to mind when I think about the efforts here to release him...

Hope it's a great day and a great week for everyone; nice to be back home after a couple fun road trips to see friends (including two from the Corner!).

Al Cyone said...

The Week in Review:

M 5:54 T 8:49 W 6:20 T 12:14 F 13:24 S 12:33 S 23:13

Well, going just by the numbers, it looks like Tuesday's puzzle might have been a little tougher than usual and Saturday's a little easier.

By the way, I also do the USA Today puzzle. I think they're mostly all on a Monday or Tuesday level but yesterday's theme nearly stumped me. You can check it out here.

As for "goody bag" vs. "goodie bag", I'd probably go with the former. On the other hand, the "ie" ending seems like a diminutive (so, little dog, little "goods"?). Well, there's always Google Fight.

See y'all next weekend.

Tinbeni said...

C.C. Wonderful write-up & links.

Well it is Officially Florida Freezing ... yup, it is 46 degrees (but will warm up to 66 later).
As such, I decided to actually do a Sunday LAT Crossword.
Ed: Thank you for a FUN Sunday puzzle and theme.

Liked the CSO to our Chairman MOE.

I enjoy auto racing. I'll be planted in front of a TV today to watch the American F-1 race.
PIT CREW was my fave, in F-1 it takes them less than 3 seconds to change 4 tires.

Hope everyone's favorite team wins today.
Cheers!!!

desper-otto said...

Good morning!

Ah, I fell back without discomfort or injury. Let's hear it for CST! Chilly today. Can't believe we had to crank up the furnace on November 2nd.

C.C., that looks like quite a spread for afternoon tea. Is that typical? BTW, I couldn't see your Sib photo.

When I was a scout, back in the day, we wore a kerchief. Do they wear BOLOs now?

We adopted three feral cats a few years back and named them MOE, Curly and Shemp. MOE is the only one still around.

TTP said...

Good morning all.

Thank you Ed Sessa and thank you CC. And thank you for the welcome back. Too much work these last six months. I'm sure I've missed many great comments and topics of discussion. Hopefully that will change going forward.

A fine puzzle to start the day. No areas of great difficulty. Steady fill and solid perps paved the way to the solve.

OTIOSE is a new word for me. Idle seems to be the archaic def, while the current definition seems to be the antonym of 73A TRUE VALUE.

My internal clock failed to fall back. How about you ?

We had snow Friday morning, and windstorms throughout the day. We might have had 40 kids. Down substantially from normal Halloweens.

Time to make coffee. See all y'all later.

Tinbeni said...

Husker & Avg.Joe
YES ... I watched your Nebraska-v-Purdue football game yesterday.
I was wearing the NEBRASKA shirt and cheering on "Big-Red!"
The other patrons at the Pub thought I was from your beautiful state.

Cheers!

Avg Joe said...

Good morning everyone, and welcome to Daylight Wasting Time.

Pretty much worked this in blocks going clockwise. Got bogged down some in the S, especially the SW, but it all ended well. Rollie and Otiose were all perps, but they worked. Maybe a tad too easy, but still a fun solve. Yup! The pit crew clue was great!

Glad to hear we were represented, if only by proxy, Tin. I'm also glad we have a week off to let Abdula heal. Next up are those stinkin' Badgers. :-)

Yellowrocks said...

Easy for a Sunday, but still fun.
I have a CHENILLE sweater, soft and cozy. The caterpillar origin kinda turns me off.
I was hoping to put relish on my dog, but had to settle for CHILI. Near my college there was a hot dog and shake place with dozens of varieties of each. Very popular.
My mom always called heavy work boots, especially well worn ones, CLODHOPPERS. I see that this is another valid definition. Mom read many novels and was a crossword addict. She used the words she learned that way quite naturally in her everyday speech. On this blog, I am learning that many words that I believe to be common are words I heard from her and/or later saw in books.
OTIOSE is one of those words you see mostly in writing and in crosswords.
I thought the alternative to Home Depot should be Lowes.

Irish Miss said...

Good Morning:

This was a fun solve but I had many write-overs before perps corrected them.. My dog had a leash before chili, I got it before I'm on it, tiara before robes, Dems before dels, LCDS before LEDS, Olaf before Olav, etc. Needed the reveal to get the theme.

Thanks, Ed Sessa, for a Sunday treat and thanks, CC, for your cheery expo.

It is very chilly here today with blustery winds; a good day to curl up in front of the fireplace with a good book.

Have a great day.

Husker Gary said...

No fuss, no muss on a nice Sunday puzzle.

Musings
-CASH CROP? See graph.
-Do you say CASH register or cash REGister
-CASH VALUE gap
-The DISCUS goes farther into the wind rather than with
-I know a woman who has this HIKE on her bucket list
-TWIT as a verb yesterday and now SOLACED
-I call it the “too damned expensive to leave it here” BAG
-Very interesting SSN
-Recent HOT sellers
-My friend shoots prairie dogs for ranchers and with his SCOPE can hit them from hundreds of yards
-DEREGulating the airline industry has made flying cheaper but…
-NFL PARLAY betting odds
-LEAN TO or a carport?
-Welcome to the Go Big Red fraternity/sorority Tinman! Wearing Husker gear in Miami for the 1972 Orange Bowl got us hassled.
-Great pix, Judy!
-Do you remember the very evil cowl-wearing MONK Silas?
-Complete - When I was just a LAD of ten, my father said to me…

HeartRx said...

...Come here and take a lesson from the lovely lemon tree.

Lucina said...

Hello, friends.

This was much like following a trail of crumbs and then finding home after a few recognizable cells filled. But its TRUE VALUE came when the theme was revealed. Thank you, C.C. as I didn't take time for that. Doggy is my preference.

I also liked the clue for PIT CREW and thought YESITIS was a new word. Oh, YES IT IS!

Great pics, JD.

Have a delightful Sunday, everyone!

Steve said...

Onions and mustard on my dogs - and I think I prefer "goody" for no good reason!

Thanks for the write-up and all the FOOD! references, C.C! Marti - I roast my brussels drizzled with a little olive oil and sprinkled with sea salt - they take about 40 minutes and I toss them once halfway through. They caramelize nicely.

I ignored the clock change this morning and got up at my usual time with the result I was hiking up to the Hollywood Sign in the pitch dark. Nice to be so completely alone in a city of so many millions. I'm glad the mountain lion that hunts up there at night didn't appear to be hungry for Englishman though!

desper-otto said...

Emphasis on the CASH, Husker.

I only know PARLAY from the old westerns where the frontiersman would PARLAY with the Indian Chief.

Anybody else turning the 65d into a ROTH? I try to convert just enough to fill up the current tax bracket without spilling over into the next one. I won't be able to do that once the MRD's kick in, but the conversions will make the MRD's smaller than they'd otherwise be.

PK said...

Hi Y'all! Great puzzle, Ed! Got the theme with reveal and had no red-letter runs, so was very satisfying.
Great expo, C.C.

Otiose and Rollie were unknowns. The former sounds more like an Indian tribe than "idle".

After being stuck shut for two days (Halloween & All Saint's Day), my front door locks are working just fine today. Given the date, very spooky!

Cold (50*) & windy here too. Gee, we're having Florida weather half a continent away?

Gee, Dennis, you say you saw Corner friends but don't say who? Now we wonder...

JD said...

Good morning C.C., et al,

Hope you all turned your clocks back.At our age, I don't think we get an extra hour's sleep, but it will be nice to see morning when we wake up.

Had a few sticky places that took WAGs to complete: adrem/ram home, and call to account, but otherwise a fun exercise . Empath and otiose are words I've never used, but probably have seen.

Favorite was chili.. certainly was on the wrong dog there. I think growing up , chenille bedspreads were "the thing," although I never had one.

Our True Value was taken over by ACE in 1999 when their stock plummeted . It looks exactly the same, as they both purchase much of their merchandise from the same supplier.

Enjoy your Sunday, and thanks for the write up, C.C.

Spitzboov said...

Good morning everyone.

I agree with:
Barry G about the straightforwardness.
Dennis about the fun.
Desper-otto about neckerchief
TTP about OTIOSE
and Tinbeni about Florida freezing. Too bad he doesn't like ice :-)
MONKS - I recently read a good book about a Benedictine monk on the Isle of Wight. "Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul" by Tony Hendra., a comic writer. (Recommended to me by my barber.) Tony is a Brit who worked most of his professional career in NYC

Good intro as always, C.C. I've had Dim Sum in Toronto. Quite a treat.

Bill G. said...

Happy Sunday! I enjoyed that puzzle. The theme was just OK by me but I was very fond of "One of a quints four" >> SIB. I guess I'm easy to please.

I just finished a favorite breakfast. I'll bet you wouldn't guess it. Give up? I had soft-boiled eggs, a small sausage patty, half an English Muffin, coffee and V-8 juice. Very pleasing.

Yellowrocks said...

I dread having it get dark before 5:00 this afternoon and before 4:30 at the end of December. It's dark when I get up now and the sun will rise later and later over the next months with daylight time or standard time. But in the AM, at least, I know the light will be dawning soon. I don't like the long dark late afternoons.

Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

Argyle said...

Al Cyone said...@6:58 AM

"By the way, I also do the USA Today puzzle. I think they're mostly all on a Monday or Tuesday level but yesterday's theme nearly stumped me. You can check it out here."

Well done puzzle for anyplace I thought. I don't want to give out the theme but you can email me.

Tinbeni said...

Husker & Avg.Joe
As you can imagine, the "main game" being watched at the 50 Craft Beers "On-Tap" Pub was that Florida-v-Georgia contest.

Therefore I was vastly in the minority paying attention to the Purdue-v-Nebraska game.

Glad to see that your running back's injury is minor and he should be OK for the Wisconsin game in 2 weeks.

Cheers!


PS Don't forget, Hondo and I are both from that certain Miami school, lol ...

HeartRx said...

Steve, I love to roast them, too. But when I am short on time, I do them the other way. It only takes about 15 minutes.

YR, loved the RL Stevenson poem. So true!

Al Cyone said...

Argyle@12:41: Thanks for the offer. I eventually got the theme but, atypically, the theme answers were the very last fills. I think it would have definitely qualified as a Friday LAT puzzle.

Argyle said...

Al, the hang-up might be the grid spanners didn't make any sense as a stand alone answer; close but no cigar. But in a way, that made it clearer what the constructor was looking for.

maripro said...

Nice puzzle, nice write-up, C. C.
My dictionary approves of "doggy" and "goody." A singular "doggie" is also approved, but not a singular "goodie."
I was also a chilled Floridian, but the thermometer is now reading 67F,so no complaints.

Lemonade714 said...

JD the pics are great; thanks.

Is everyone roasting their Brussels Sprouts these days? I do exactly what Steve does.

Thai cooks love scallions as well and I grew up eating them from the garden.

If you watched the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, you would recall parlay...

The puzzle was fun, Ed always delivers.

Avg Joe said...

That was a pretty good puzzle from McPaper. At least the theme was clever. Some of the fill was blah, but that might have been necessary to make it possible to figure out the theme grid spanners.

Lucina said...

Brussels sprouts must be an acquired taste. My NC sister bought me some to grill; I brushed them with olive oil but I found the taste completely bland. Is there a secret sauce I should know?

This morning felt like fall had arrived. When I went out for the newspaper, it was actually chilly. And in AZ we don't change to daylight savings time and just recalling the one year when we did, I'm glad the clocks all stay without having to change them.

Bill G. said...

I've been following this story since it was on 'Sunday Morning' a week or two ago. It's about a girl with an inoperable brain tumor who wanted to stick with her dream of getting to play college basketball. The video of the beginning of the game is about halfway down the story. Lauren Hill's basketball game

Jayce said...

Hello everybody.
Random statements about this and that:
I hate having to change all the clocks twice a year.
I love dim sum.
C.C., would you happen to have a Kent Tekulve (Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher) baseball card?
I would go with goodie bag and doggie bag.
Fun puzzle. Enjoyed it.
Bill G., the guy in the Symbicort add who is reading to his grandson about the wolf trying to huff and puff and blow the house down sure looks like you! Actually, it's the actor Cliff Bemis.
Best wishes to you all.

Ergo said...



Thank you C.C. and Ed.

Tinbeni -- A gentle reminder that we have 3 Huskers on this board. I live in the same town as AvgJoe, and grew up in the same town that Husker Gary teaches in (Although I didn't take any of his classes).

Didn't fill the puzzle in its entirety, but I still get a charge when I come here and discover that one of the seasoned experts did not know a specific answer, but that I did.

You take the victories when and where you can get them.

Big Easy said...

Running late today. I also have never heard of a TINTER, along with EMPATH, AD REM, Jack ELY, and ARIETTA. The perps took care on CHANILLE, ORA, CHENNILLE, and believe it or not, STRIP SHOW. I filled the crosses and hever even read the clue for 86D. I burned many CARBS today on a 50 mile bike ride and tried to GO WITH THE FLOW with some of the faster riders but couldn't keep up wi them. OTIOSE was strictly a guess after a couple of crosses.

CrossEyedDave said...

This is a test, I am tinkering with a way to link just a specific part of a YouTube video so you don't have to watch the whole thing, or fast forward.

So far this particular tinkering leads you to a full page version of your clip & requires you press the start arrow.

To see if it works, here is a favorite John Wayne quote I clipped from a 10 minute video...

I would be interested to know how this worked for you using PC, Ipad & or phone to view, as I am sure it is not going to work in every venue.

K-Dub said...

Hey, Avg Joe! Stinkin' Badgers?? Or just a reference to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre "We don't need no stinkin' Badgers"? Either way, it'll be a good game on the 15th. I'll be in Section U, Row 26. Could decide who represents the West in the Big 10 Championship Game.

Avg Joe said...

Hey Kay.

Yes and yes. It's mostly just a jab in the ribs of D Otto, but is certainly a nod to "Treasure of the Sierra Madre".

Looking forward to the game.

Jayce said...

CrossEyedDave, your clip worked fine on my Windows7 computer.

Irish Miss said...

CED - Doesn't work on iPad.

Bill G. said...

CED, I got, "You want some bacon on a biscuit? Let's go. We're burnin' daylight." Is that what you intended? I'm on an older iMac.

Bill G. said...

Jayce, yes, I see the resemblance. He's a little heavier than I used to be but I'm catching up.

CED TTTester said...


CED the shortened youtube video works fine on my new Dell PC.

I am surprised nobody commented on Dennis' note on the marine who was released from the Mexican jail. He was convicted of multiple firearm charges and taking 3 guns and plenty of ammo into Mexico. ( Read it elsewhere).

Well, if nobody else would like to comment, neither will I. Let the matter fizzle out.

CrossEyedDave said...

Re: shortened video clips

I guess it will not be of much use to the Blog because it only works when viewed on PCs. Ipads give you the whole video for some strange reason.

If anyone is interested, all you have to do is alter the URL like this:

youtube.com/v/ID#&start=SECONDS&end=SECONDS

ID# = the video ID# from YouTube
SECONDS= actual seconds of the start & end times. (Minutes do not work.)

You may have to edit the URL a little because the V in brackets /v/ makes it full screen, so you have to remove any other v= indicators to avoid confusion. you also need to drop any extra thingies like "watch?" in the URL.

I will continue to tinker with it, as it may be useful to be able to link directly to a full page HD video instead of that little screen. Also, (I am not sure yet) I think it bypassed the advertisements...

Chairman Moe said...

Thanks for the shout outs. A bit late to the party as the first day of the time change usually throws me for a loop! :-)

"Puzzling thoughts":

There were any number of clues that didn't make sense to me but after a few cheats/look ups, I finished it

CC: just because I'm two for two on predictions (Ryder Cup and World Series) doesn't mean I know who'll win the Masters! But come next April I'll give it a shot ... Fortunately yesterday I was able to "predict" a couple of winners in the Breeders Cup horse races and took home a few more dollars than I took to the track

To all the other Floridians here ... it's always easy to spot a snow bird on days like we've had this weekend; they're still wearing shorts while we are in jeans and a jacket!

PK said...

CED: The clip worked on my iMac.

TTTester: I'm curious what your thoughts are on the Marine with gun charges in Mexico. I skimmed some of the articles on that, but have no idea why he went down there or took guns. I drove into Mexico 15 years ago with a former military man who sat with a pistol in the seat by him & informed me of another under the seat if I needed it. My friend said he would never go to Mexico unarmed because he knew two couples who were hi-jacked and robbed down there. More danger there now. I'm glad we didn't get jailed on gun charges. Sure had fun that day.

inanehiker said...

Very slow and steady, but finally finished the puzzle. Possibly slower because I drove to St. Louis to see this and just got back a few hours ago: http://3acts2dancers1radiohost.com/
which was fun if you like the "This American Life" radio program with Ira Glass.

When I think of chenille, I always think of bathrobes and bedspreads back in the '60s. I think my grandma and one of my aunts had them. http://www.touchofclass.com/kingston-chenille-bedspread/p/W022-001/

CrossEyedDave said...

Cashback?

Still tinkering, I just want to see if it skips the ads.

(for you Ipad users, the original clip is only 13 seconds longer anyway...)

Lucina said...

CED:
The link worked fine on my PC.
Did you know that Maureen O'Hara is 94?

Re: The Marine just released from a Mexico jail. All the reports here claim that he wandered into Mexico by mistake when he took a wrong turn. Since he didn't commit any criminal act, 7 months seems like an inordinate time to stay in jail.

Yellowrocks said...

In the novel I am reading today another word that is usually a noun is used as a verb. They asked John to "minute" the proceedings. It means take minutes on. The nice thing about these words in reading and in crosswords is that the noun and verb meanings are so similar they are easy to guess.

Argyle said...

Re: The Marine just released from a Mexico jail. All the reports here claim that he wandered into Mexico by mistake when he took a wrong turn. Since he didn't commit any criminal act, 7 months seems like an inordinate time to stay in jail.

Look up Shaneen Allen who wandered into NJ and what they wanted to do to her.

Blue Iris said...

HG, thinking of your friend killing prairie dogs reminds me of "Wack-A-Mole." LOL

The boy scouts still wear the kerchief. The BOLO is the medal clasp that hold it on. When my husband was in boy scouts, they would make homemade BOLOs out of hollowed out fat twigs,beads,etc.

RE: I'm sure glad for the marine and his mother that he made it home. Hope his health and PTSD can be treated now. Sad consequences for an honest mistake. God Bless the USA and the United States Marines.

Zhouqin (C.C.) Burnikel said...

D-Otto,
I fixed the photo. Yes, that spread is quite typical. It's for 4 to 8 people. You sip tea, then you yak and yak, then you nibble on your Dim sum, then you yak and yak and yak. You don't want to eat so much that you can't enjoy the soup your wife has been preparing for hours. Cantonese have soup with their dinner every day.

Jayce,
I'll check our commons boxes and email you.

Abejo said...

Good Monday morning, folks. Thank you, Ed Sessa, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, C.C., for a fine review.

Got started late on this last night and never finished until Monday morning. Enjoyed the puzzle. A little tougher than most, for me.

Took me a while to get the theme as i did not get CASH BACK until late in the game. Liked it all.

Been a while since I have been over a ONE LANE bridge. Of course, during construction many are one-laned.

Haven't seen OPINE in a while. I like that word.

Believe it or not, I actually got ECOLES right out of the chute.

DRONE, common word nowadays. Our local high school football team is using one during the games and practices, with a camera attached. Cost the school about $1500. A student flies it.

Since no one will probably read this since I am a day late, I will say adios until Tuesday.

Abejo

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Nucleii said...

Has no one else ever used the term DOGGIE as in a lost calf ie. Get along little. That was my curve. I only know Doggy, Since we're talking about the canine species dog it could only be DOGGY for me. Possibly Ed is unaware of this use of DOGGIE from the song.