18A. Where to get cash : ATM MACHINE. No PIN(personal identification number), no moola.
26A. Where to see splits and strikes : BOWLING ALLEY. Shout out to Boomer.
47A. Where to keep needles and thread : SEWING BASKET. And lots of straight pins.
61A. Where to find valuables : JEWELRY BOX. Yesterday's brooch is a fancy safety pin.
69A. Things associated with 18-, 26-, 47- and 61-Across : PINS
Argyle here. Maybe. I blindly down loaded a Java update and acquired a malware named Vosteran. Now I can't get a connection to the internet. Cable was out!
You notice the whole entry is the the theme answer. Our constructor used the same device in the spring. Except for a couple of words, an easy Monday.
Across:
1. Cup of joe : JAVA. And 20. Foamy brew : BEER
5. Slow-moving critter : SNAIL
10. British sports cars, for short : JAGs. 68A. __ Martin: British sports car : ASTON
14. "Woe is me!" : "ALAS!"
15. Neigh sayer : HORSE
16. Clarinet cousin : OBOE
17. Flat-topped landform : MESA
21. Korean cars : KIAs
22. Put in a chip for a hand : ANTED
23. Turn topsy-turvy : UP-END
25. Meaner than a junkyard dog : ORNERY. Great fill for a 6-letter word.
30. Sci-fi subject : ALIEN
31. Replacement grass, perhaps : SOD
32. Dollop : GOB
35. Under the weather : ILL
36. Highlander's hat : TAM
39. Part of a journey : LEG
41. Id controller : EGO
42. Young man : LAD
43. See 38-Down : TAI. 38D. With 43-Across, umbrella drink : MAI
45. La Scala production : OPERA
51. Theater district : RIALTO
54. Like San Francisco's terrain : HILLY
55. On the ocean : AT SEA
56. Leslie Caron title role : GIGI
57. Cleft site : CHIN
63. Bring on board : HIRE
64. Latin 101 word : AMAT
65. Photographer's request : SMILE
66. Sci-fi subjects : UFOs
67. IRS IDs : SSNs
Down:
1. Doorframe part : JAMB
2. On the sheltered side : ALEE
3. Bouquet holder : VASE
4. More often than not : AS A RULE
5. How Bond likes martinis : SHAKEN
6. Making mention of : NOTING
7. Warship fleets : ARMADAs
8. Beliefs: Suff. : ISMs
9. Rural area : LEA
10. "Heeeere's __!": Carson intro : JOHNNY
11. Grab __: eat : A BITE
12. One beyond hope : GONER
13. Shabby : SEEDY
19. Give a hoot : CARE
24. 20-Across serving : PINT
25. Shoppe adjective : OLDE
26. Get-out-of-jail cash : BAIL
27. Earthenware pot : OLLA
28. Out of control : WILD
29. IM chuckle : LOL
32. __ Squad: Best Buy tech support : GEEK
33. Fairy tale baddie : OGRE
34. Gravy vessel : BOAT
37. Part of Lawrence Welk's cadence : A-TWO
40. Soccer score : GOAL
44. Repress : INHIBIT
46. Inspire with a pregame pep talk, say : PSYCH UP
47. Comes down as ice pellets : SLEETS
48. And others, briefly : ET AL.
49. Male escort : GIGOLO
50. Karen who wrote as Isak Dinesen : BLIXEN
51. Indian princes : RAJAs
52. Lines on a list : ITEMS
53. Dam on the Nile : ASWAN
56. Workout centers : GYMS
58. Old record player : HI-FI
59. Remove creases from : IRON
60. Storied loch : NESS
62. Cape Town's country: Abbr. : RSA
Argyle
55 comments:
Morning, all!
Pretty standard fair for a Monday, but BLIXEN was a real outlier. Got it via the perps easily enough, but still strange to see it on a Monday.
Had a few minor missteps here and there, such as mispelling GIGOLO as GIGALO and RIALTO as REALTO, and the cross-referenced cluesfor MAI/TAI and BEER/PINT slowed me down a skosh, but everything else was smooth sailing.
Good morning!
When I filled in the first answer, I thought the puzzle was going to be about RAS syndrome (Redundant Acronym Syndrome syndrome). So I looked for PIN Number, LCD display or PDF format. Nope, it wasn't to be.
I really liked how the theme PINS were all very different things, though. Except for BLIXEN, which Barry already noted, the fill was pretty Monday-friendly. So thanks for the nice start to the week!
ATM Machine literally is Automated Teller Machine Machine. Redundant answer.
Good morning!
Who could possibly be confused by today's theme? Moi. I started with PSYCHED which gave me DINS for the theme answer. Yeah, a BOWLING ALLEY (CSO to Boomer) is noisy, but the other three, not so much. Uh oh, EFOS wasn't making the cut. OK, I've got it now. Whew!
Hahtoolah, I think your auto-correct made a difficult switch.
Howdy everyone,
As previously noted, smooth Monday with only a minor slow down or two.
Hand up for needing perps to come up with BLIXEN. Rumors about pregame talks getting you PSYCHED UP are a lot of hooey! You're either ready to go or your not. At least we were "back in the day".
Hated seeing SLEET because that's what we are supposed to get on Wednesday this week which may mess up our Thursday travel plans. Oh well.
Enjoy your Monday.
Good Morning, Argyle and friends. Interesting puzzle.
I liked seeing the Alien and UFOs.
Interesting to have two very high-end British Car along with KIA at the other end of the spectrum.
I initially tried On End instead of UP END, which gave me As A Role instead of AS A RULE.
Karen Blixen wrote Out of Africa, which was made into a movie starring Meryl Streep.
QOD: If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past. ~ Baruch Spinoza (Nov. 24, 1632 ~ Feb. 21, 1677) [Thanks, D-O!]
Re: Vosteran and Java update
Beware of false update notices. When in doubt, go to the program's official site and update (i.e. download) from there.
Good morning all,
Smooth sailing until putting psychED,and had to rethink it to get pins. I had no idea that sleet needed an s to be plural.
I wonder if our kids even have a sewing basket. Most don't even have an iron.
Good morning, folks. Thank you, C. W. Stewart, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, Argyle, for a fine review.
Been a couple days since I have been here. Just been too busy to work the puzzles. I did do Sunday's and will report that after I am done here.
Started in the NE this time. Everything filled in easily. Had all the theme answers before I got to PINS.
I agree, BLIXEN took a few perps.
AMAT was easy. I had the T, just wrote in the rest.
I remember Id, EGO, and Superego.
Liked A TWO tied to Lawrence Welk. I used to work in his building in Santa Monica. GTE rented it out until they moved to Thousand Oaks. The story goes, the mayor of Santa Monica many years ago, a lady, was in the habit of bashing GTE. So, GTE promptly moved out of Santa Monica.
OK, see you tomorrow.
Abejo
(528)
Argyle, fixing one problem and another one shows up... You get that "Now what ?!"kind of feeling. I hate when that happens. I've been having some problems with connectivity as well.
I had to write (type) over SLOTH and A ONE (Lawrence Welk's cadence.)
I never saw BLIXEN.
Shout out to Boomer ! We have BOWLING ALLEY and UFO.
CC, this is for Boomer:
Bowling Robert Smith(USA) VS Cheng Chao Sheng(Taiwan) (Cranker, Stroker VS Spinner, UFO, Helicopter)
Chairman Moe, The Immaculate Reception will always be number 1 for me, but did you see this catch by the Giants' Odell Beckham ? Very reminiscent of Lynn Swann's Baryshnikov-like contortions in mid air.
Good morning everyone.
No muss; no fuss. Looked for a theme while filling in the long acrosses. Then, near the end, 69a, PINS coughed it up. No unknowns; but had to wait on the perps, to get a few where there were choices such as AMAT, BAIL, etc. Favorite clue was neigh sayer - HORSE.
Got BLIXON ok, but always get confused whether that or Dinesen was her pen name. She also wrote the story "Babette's Feast" which was made into a wonderful movie. (I recommend it as a Thanksgiving choice if you haven't seen it)
Hello Puzzlers -
What Spitzboov said. Exactly.
The puzzle was a little sticky in places...
ATM Pin?
Bowling pin?
Sewing pin?
Jewelry pin & its box...
Pin I am wearing today...
Sailed through this Monday puzzle with some different cluing, and smiled when I saw the theme.
Just a few hold-ups:
American SSNs instead of SINS (I know that one by now!),
22A PUT IN A CHIP is past tense, and JEWELRY just didn't look right because my Canadian spelling is Jewellry!
I wanted AND A at first for the Welk cadence.
What, not ESSE but AMAT today!
Knew BLIXEN from our time in Nairobi.
At least we are warmer here today and no SLEET.
TTP @ 8:37 - yes, I did see that catch, and it bears repeating and repeating and repeating. As Chris Collingsworth said, "it is perhaps the greatest catch I've ever seen". And as an LSU fan (in addition to the Steelers) I regularly saw OBJ make spectacular catches during his four years in Baton Rouge. This one vs Iowa in last year's bowl game was pretty close in style and difficulty to last night's.
BTW, it looks as though the AFC North will be a battleground over the next five weeks. Steelers play the Bengals twice, and the Bengals and Ravens each play the Browns. May come down to the last weekend to decide the Division winner and possibly a wild card team . . . or two.
"Puzzling thoughts":
No real problem today; not a total speed run but it did finish pretty quickly, with no ink blots/write-overs on the newspaper page. ORNERY was a good Monday word; WEES, BLIXEN was discovered via perps - BLIXEN, wasn't that one of Santa's reindeer??!! ;^)
No limerick, but a short poem to begin Thanksgiving week . . .
Over the river and through the woods,
To Grandmother's house we go;
Unless of course, dear Granny lives
Near Lake Erie, buried under 5 feet of snow!
Good Morning:
Easy breezy Monday with a cute theme; knew Blixen because of the movie. CSO to Boomer and to Steve and Tin with pint and beer! I like Mai Tai because a former neigh(bor) had two Shih Tzus, one named Mai Tai and the other named Ling Ling. (Our beloved Bichon Friese was appropriately, if unoriginally, named Fluffy.)
Temp of 63 today, then back into the 40's, then 30's. I hope everyone has decent weather for Thanksgiving Day travels.
Have a great day.
I never thought to look at the whole fill for this fun theme. Argyle’s summation works for me.
Musings
-In this beautiful refrain from 1776 (1:05) John Adams asks Abigail for more saltpeter and she asks for more of today’s theme
-Slow-moving critter – Congress
-We never see 6’10” Blake get into or out of the KIA (:34)
-Choosing SOD over seed is money well spent
-ILL – I retired with over 100 unused sick leave days. Some used them as vacation time
-Every cheap flight to Minneapolis from Omaha requires two legs and 10 – 24 hours because their many non-stops are always full
-At La Scala OPERA has three syllables. In the Ryman Auditorium it only has two
-To get “brought on board” you need skill, timing and/or connections
-Did Leo ask Mona for an enigmatic SMILE instead of this
-I’d give a vayse to my ant not a vahse to my ahnt
-The Husker season (and maybe its coach) is a GONER
-After two days and $200 to the GEEK Squad, my VAIO was still as fast as a SNAIL in molasses
-Zero G in space keeps body fluids from being trapped in the lower extremities and face creases disappear!
Greetings, friends! Nice going, Argyle.
Loved starting with JAVA today then sashayed right along. UPSET before UPEND slowed me a bit but I took up the stride quickly.
I liked neigh sayer, HORSE.
One of my literature courses included Karen BLIXEN, aka, Isak Dinesen. I agree, Babette's Feast is worth watching and appropriate for Thanksgiving.
Have a lovely Monday, everyone!
Was I the only one who penned 63A bring on board = lade?
My meanderings about dog names resulted in forgetting to thank C. W. for an enjoyable solve and Argyle for the expo. So, thank you both!
CED@10:25 - Hand up for LADE!
Chairman Moe @10:10 - LOL! at your limerick. Our Buffalo neighbours got hammered with snow and now they may get flooding. So I shouldn't laugh - but am grateful that we did not get it.
Argyle: Wonderful write-up.
I guess I'm lucky, the 2 LAT Crossword Puzzles I get to solve this week will be blogged by YOU!
I hope a whole lot of "First Timers" solve this puzzle today.
C.W. Stewart has provided them with the opportunity to see why WE are fanatics about our FUN crossword puzzles and this blog.
OK, I fell into the "SLOTH" before SNAIL write-over thingy ...
Since Out-of-Africa is one of my all-time favorite movies (just saw it again on TCM recently) BLIXEN was a gimmie.
My faves today ... Surprise! Surprise! ... were BEER & PINT ...
Hmm, that gives me an idea ...
BTW, Bond liking his Martini's SHAKEN, (not stirred) actually means he prefers weak, watered down drinks.
He should be sipping a Scotch ... NEAT ... JMHO
Tonight is my final Florida Sunset Toast to you ALL for November.
[I'm sure there will be six beautiful Sunset Toasts where I'm heading ... just not in Florida.]
Cheers!!!
I've never heard "ATM Machine" before -- just "ATM". Otherwise, smooth Monday puzzle, except I fell for sloth before snail, and need the crosses to get Blixen & Rialto.
JB in VA
WEES. I got hung up on Blixen and psych up. all else was smooth sailing.
Ya'll have a good day.
I love a speed run on a Monday morning, especially after the monster on Saturday. Many thanks, C.W., and you too, Argyle. This filled in so quickly I hardly had to do any of the downs because the acrosses took care of so many of them.
Loved the stroll down memory lane with JOHNNY Carson and Lawrence Welk. And thanks for the reminders about two wonderful movies based on Karen BLIXEN's works, Hahtoolah and Spitz. I loved both "Out of Africa" and "Babette's Feast." First time I've ever seen BLIXEN as a solution, though--it's usually ISAK we're asked for.
Have a great start to your week, everybody!
Tinbeni @ 10:44 - picking nits, I know, but I am more likely to have a PINT of ale (IPA, or Double IPA) than a PINT of beer. Beer for me is usually served in a mug, but like I said, I'm "picking nits" . . .
Enjoy your sunsets later this week; I know you'll be keeping your eyes on the "horizon"! ;^) I expect a "full report" . . .
CM
Tinbeni, you really said "wonderful writeup"? Do you ever read them? There was hardly anything at all due to Argyle's unfortunate virus encounter.
Hmmm, what's that term again?
Oh, that's right: PHONY.
Argyle, let me know if & how you fixed it.
My kids downloaded the same virus onto a laptop, I tried every fix on the internet, but there is a piece of code missing from the operating system that has to be replaced. Geek Squad wanted $300- I think it is cheaper to wipe the hard drive & buy a new version of Windows.
So let me know, because my laptop is now a doorstop...
Thank you Argyle and C.W. Stewart.
For awhile there I was desperately afraid that I would have a Monday DNF. How mortifying! SW and S central were the culprits.
My wife was likely trying to determine my odd disposition, during what for me is generally a serene activity.
This was a quick, fun start to my week. Thanks, C.W. Stewart and Argyle for getting things off on the right foot!
The only thing I didn't like was 47D Domes down as ice pellets/SLEETS. I would be very happy to have a winter with no SLEET. Saturday morning we had freezing rain which made thing icy for a few hours. Not fun.
Liked the Lawrence Welk memory.
Chairman Moe--cute poem.
Anon. T--if you'll send me your email address I'll be happy to share the sprout recipe.
Have a great week. I appreciate the puzzles and blog, and look forward to the comments/links/limericks. The Corner is great!
Pat
A pint glass is a form of drinkware made to hold either a British ("imperial") pint of 20 imperial fluid ounces (568 ml) or an American pint of 16 US fluid ounces (473 ml). These glasses are typically used to serve beer, and also often for cider.
When it comes to sales, support and service for ATM machines in Canada, Access Cash is the industry leader.
I didn't know what catch TTP and Chairman Moe were talking about until I perused the NY Times and found this very interesting article about how various still photographers captured the moment.
It's always nice to sail through an early-week puzzle compared to the hard late-week puzzles and the big grid on Sunday. The sailing was smooth until the water got rough at BLIXEN. I was sure it was sloth instead of SNAIL but oh well. Crossing letters got the job done. Thanks C.W. Stewart and Argyle.
I was discussing Alan Turing, Enigma, Bletchley Park and the Turing Test with Barbara and my bike-riding friend. Then, up pops Alan Turing as the feature article in Time magazine. I've also enjoyed the mini-series on PBS called The Bletchley Circle.
I posted this real-life cooking puzzle late yesterday. Here it is again in case you missed it. We found the answer counter-intuitive.
She wants to bake another pumpkin pie. The recipe calls for whole milk (4% fat content). She has 1% milk and half-and-half (5%). How much of each should she mix together to get two cups (16 fl. oz.) of whole milk?
Anon @11:53
Argyle has done over 500 LAT Crossword Corner Blog Write-Up.
Since he Blogs the Monday & Tuesday puzzles ... he has the easiest puzzles of the week to work with ... though, also, the least interesting subjects to comment about.
Since I read his entire write-up, I am well aware he was having computer problems this morning.
Yet, he "got-'er-done" nonetheless.
And that was WONDERFUL!!!
OTOH ... you "post" as an Anonymous ... which says "Im' a PHONY!" to me.
Hope everyone has a Wonderful Thanksgiving!
Cheers!
Bill G @ 3:10 - try 12 oz of the half and half and 4 oz of the 1%
So...
Anybody hear anything from OwenKL lately? I don't think he has posted here since early in the month. Hopefully he just got tired of us and nothing bad happened to him.
What am I, chopped liver?
Not at all, PK. Foi gras at a minimum.
per conventonal spelling: Foie Gras
unless in Colorado, Oregon and Wash St., then it's Foie Grass.
That's Conventional
Thank you Chuck Hagel, Barack Obama and Ferguson. MO. Maybe now we can move on passed me and my use of Lemmon714s.
On Bill G.'s Barbara's second pumpkin pie.
Although Milkman is absolutely correct, on the math, but, may I suggest -
Give Barb 12 oz. of super strong hard Beer, 12% alch, 24 proof,
and just go out, and buy another pumpkin pie, and she'll probably be just as happy.
Enjoyed the puzzle and write-up today. I did not, however, pick up that both words in the answer could be PINS. Duh!
Thank for the memories of Lawrence Welk (who was born and raised in ND!) and whose show we used to watch in our jammies after our Saturday evening baths!
AMAT was totally perps. Missed having to take Latin in school by just a few years.
I would give a vayse to my ahnt, Husker, but my DH would give one to his ant.
I knew about Karen Blixen; read "out of Africa" and found it a fascinating pick into a bygone time.
Greetings!
Fun puzzle, CW, and swell expo, Santa!
Took a moment to fill in B in BLIXEN. Other than that, zipped by.
Cheers!
My cable(T-W) started working around six tonight. I had finished my write-up this morning, without frills, but couldn't send it. So I configured a disc to act as a removable drive, loaded it up on that and proceeded to bother a friend who has satellite internet...at 6:00am.
I emailed C.C. about my problem and she was working on a draft even though she wasn't feeling well. I was pleasantly surprised I was able to retrieve the write-up off the disc and get it on the blog. Got it published a little bit late but got'er done.
Now to go back and make sure I got all of that Vosteran weeded out.
The fuse blew in my microwave a short while after my first post this AM. It's blown the internal fuse a number of times through the 25 + years we've owned it. Three times in the last week. Today was the last straw. Got dressed, went to the store and bought a new one. They just don't make stuff like they used to.
Chairman Moe @ 10:05, That too was a great catch. We don't get many LSU games up here. Do you think Les Miles will be leaving for Michigan ? Like most head coaches at that level, he's pretty good at not answering the question.
You're right. Pretty tight in the AFC North. I'll be watching the Ravens Saints game tonight.
Husker @ 10:17, I wasn't going to bring it up, but now that you mention it... I think Pelini has the skills, but he's not aging and mellowing like a fine wine. I was disappointed to see him chewing out the corner that lost contain on Melvin Gordon's 62 year gain early in the Nebraska Wisconsin game. Then again, when they came back from the commercial break, to see him yelling at the other DB that missed an assignment on that play. That kind of "leadership" is limiting, and I think it's often counter productive and hardly motivational.
Bill G @ 3:10, I run into that exact problem every time I make Yorkshire pudding. Need whole milk. I run down the road and pick up a quart !
Many in and around Ferguson, MO and the Country are on PINS and needles awaiting the announcement.
Godspeed Argyle. We want you on that hill ! We need you on that hill !
Hi All!
I did this earlier, but just found time to post. Thanks C.W. for a fun Monday puzzle and to Argyle for his (I'll second Tin) Wonderful write-up.
I had to WAG both "A"s in 53d. MIL said she knew RIALTO, but I've never heard it. I got and enjoyed the theme and sub-themes (10a/68a, etc.)
Anyone else think of Leroy Brown at 25a? Or The Shining @10d? Or UFO Phil sining about ALIENS and other WILD stuff.
Mom always said I was ORNERY.
Diamond Dave Just a GIGOLO.
pje - got it, thanks for the recipe!
Cheers, -T
TTP, ya got me! That's the easy solution. Otherwise, you 12/4 guys were spot on.
AnonT, I LOVED your Gigolo video!
I hope everything stays peaceful in the St. Louis area tonight...
ATM Machine = "Automatic Teller Machine Machine" I expect better, even for a super easy Monday puzzle.
TTP - not sure about Miles; I'm sure if LSU wants to keep him he'll stay there.
Anon@8:44 pm this evening. We caught 18a's redundancy twice. It is not tolerated. :-) C, -T
C, -T
How disappointed I am with Rachel Maddow and the rest of MSNBC to be so overtly incendiary as to the events of this evening. I am ashamed of their behavior as well as their words. Obviously many wanted a display of drama, but for a 'news organization' to encourage a story is disgraceful.
"Can you give us a sense of what is like down on the ground where buildings are on fire?"
'Well Jim...they're burning.'
Pulitzer.
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