Words: 72 (missing F,J,Q,X,Z)
Blocks: 29
Today marks Victor's Saturday themeless debut - as far as I can tell -
for the LAT. I just dove right in, not having had any experience with
this constructor on the weekend; his last LAT contribution was almost a
year ago - Nov 20th, a Wednesday. Got to talking to the
waitress about her costume, with the cat ears and the tail...WHERE WAS
I~? - Oh, yes - Nothing terribly obscure, a few witty
clues, and alas, one bad cell, so no "Ta-DA~!" Two triple 9-letter corners, a pair of 9-letter downs,
and two 8-letter acrosses intersecting a pair of 8-letter downs;
3d. Blue wall decorations : EROTIC ART - Hmmm, let me see if I can find any - I really like the implication in this piece - sort of M.C. Escher
32d. Salad ingredients : SCALLIONS
- I like to read about how friends here at the blog trade food advice
and recipes - just not in the place to try them myself - yet
O-rabbit N-rabbit W-rabbit ARD~!
ACROSS:
1. End of a digression : "WHERE WAS I~?" - as I was saying....
10. Christmas flier : COMET - Ah....SLED and SLEIGH did not fit; then the V-8 can flew....and then a clecho, to boot; 42d. Christmas flier : DASHER - Reindeer~! This Christmas season is a 'short' one at UPS; just 3 weeks, 3 days between Thanksgiving and Dec. 25th - I already know I am working a full 8hrs on Black Friday - at triple time. Nice~!
15. Like Gene Kelly's dancing : ACROBATIC
16. Ski resort north of Mount Snow : OKEMO
10. Christmas flier : COMET - Ah....SLED and SLEIGH did not fit; then the V-8 can flew....and then a clecho, to boot; 42d. Christmas flier : DASHER - Reindeer~! This Christmas season is a 'short' one at UPS; just 3 weeks, 3 days between Thanksgiving and Dec. 25th - I already know I am working a full 8hrs on Black Friday - at triple time. Nice~!
15. Like Gene Kelly's dancing : ACROBATIC
16. Ski resort north of Mount Snow : OKEMO
17. Pollster's challenge : CLOSE RACE
18. Stand in for : ACT AS
19. Wear out : TIRE - FLAG, FAIL, WANE
20. Haywire : KABLOOIE - Odd spelling, but the "word" is common enough
22. Circus prop : STILT - because tent pole was too long ( get it~?)
24. Lyra's brightest star : VEGA - Nailed it - but I am a big fan of astronomy
25. Rosencrantz or Guildenstern : ROLE - DANE anyone~?
26. Netlike : LACY - I threw in "HOLY", but I knew it should have been HOLEY
27. Cabs may be lined up at one : WINE BAR - HAR-HAR~!!! Cabernets - but then again, I would hope to see taxis, too....
29. After : A LA - "in style of", "modeled after"
30. Soaks (up) : SOPS
31. Like some bread : YEASTY
35. Reasons for some low scores : BIRDIES - Ah, golf; I was thinking FICO scores ( I am having an issue with mine right now ), and then SAT/school test scores
37. Handy thing to have when you need a break? : POOL CUE - Har-har~!! I have two pool cues; a Sneaky Pete for playing, and another for the break - usually puts a lot of stress on the stick
38. Zen awakening : SATORI
39. Arabian checker : REIN - Clever misdirection; I was thinking of some type of Middle Eastern game piece - but we're looking for the Arabian, as in the horse, and the check-er
40. Turkish honorific : AGA
41. Expose a card, say : MIS-DEAL
43. Narrow strip : SLAT
44. Cuisine with a condiment called nam pla : THAI - WAG
47. Body __ : MASS
48. Attacks, as with snowballs : PELTS
49. Campaign fund : WARCHEST
51. Vier minus eins : DREI - German, 4 minus 1
52. Sundance showing : INDIE - I tried MOVIE, knew it was too simple for Saturday; still, I was 40% right, right?
53. It's usually an eagle : HOLE IN ONE - Here I was on the golf wavelength, but I couldn't s-t-r-e-t-c-h TWO UNDER to fit; on a par-3, a two-under would be a "one"
57. "A Confederacy of Dunces" author : TOOLE - learning moment for me; published after the author's suicide
58. Clinton had a big role in its construction : ERIE CANAL - ah, that Clinton - a little history
59. Begat : SIRED
60. Held in : REPRESSED - I will refrain from my favorite Monty Python movie....um, no, I won't....see it @2:00
DOWN:
1. WWII female : WAC - Women's Army Corps
2. Digestive aid, to chemists : HCl - Hydrochloric Acid
4. How a pollyanna sees the world : ROSILY
5. "I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie" author : EBERT - Roger's take on the movie "North", and how it went on to become more
6. Hard or soft finish? : WARE - HardWARE, SoftWARE
7. __ loss : AT A
8. Nauseates : SICKENS
9. Glaciation period : ICE AGE
10. Combustible rock : COAL
11. 1881 trouble spot : O.K. CORRAL
12. "I'm with you" : "ME TOO~!" - also the name of Luke Skywalker's other, self-centered, R2 unit
13. Outlook service : E-MAIL
14. "__ a world in a grain of sand": Blake : TO SEE - I could not parse this in the 'down', and having it cross OKEMO did not help
21. Nursery bottle contents : BABY OIL
22. Hunks : SLABS
23. Shire in films : TALIA
24. Limo riders : VIPs
27. "Alack!" : "WOE IS ME~!"
28. Many millennia : AEON - I had EONS first
30. iPhone speaker : SIRI - I have an Android phone and tablet; did you hear that Apple is working on a vacuum to compete with the Dyson? It's called the "i-Suck"
33. Try to dislodge, perhaps : TUG AT
34. "Leda and the Swan" poet : YEATS
36. Home : DOMICILE
37. Pod occupants : PEAS
39. Make whole again : RESTORE
43. Perceived to be : SEEN AS
44. Ridicules : TWITS - I do not know why I went with twiPs, and Poole, especially with POOL CUE in the puzzle and my mother's favorite insult for the Rangers when they're losing ( "those twits" ) - but I did....
45. Asian capital : HANOI
46. Zeal : ARDOR
48. Haggler's target : PRICE
50. Mind : HEED
51. Roebuck, but not Sears : DEER - nyuck-nyuck-nyuck
54. Word with stick or service : LIP - Lipstick, Lip Service; the smell of some lipsticks is very erotic; see 3d.
55. "Auld Scotland wants __ skinking ware": Burns : NAE
56. Days of yore, in days of yore : ELD
Splynter
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