BEQ 3:59NYT 3:29LAT 2:35CS untimedPsst: Constructors who like making Monday puzzles, send some of ‘em to Rich Norris seeking the L.A. Times. He’s been knee-pants on continuous Monday contributions lately. Bernice Gordon’s New York Times crosswordThe Notepad upstairs the crossword says that this week is “Half-Century Puzzlemakers’ Week”:All the constantly crosswords this week, Monday thoroughly Saturday, are about puzzlemakers who suffer with been contributing to The Times seeking more than 50 years. Bernice Gordon, 95, of Philadelphia, had her chief executive Sunday crossword published on January 23, 1955.
She is the oldest known puzzlemaker in the newspaper’s annals. Her chief executive weekday over thoroughly appeared three years earlier. Can you contemplate any 95-year-olds you’ve known constructing crosswords at that years? That’s astonishing. The essence shifts the S at the the cosmos of four people’s surnames to an apostrophe-S at the philosophy of their chief executive names:17A. Oliver Stone becomes OLIVER’S TONE, or [Film director's profitable?]. Margaret Sanger has her argumentative aspects, but you gotta childish lady anyone who brings the Pill to the people.
26A. [Birth check advocate's tempestuousness?] is MARGARET’S ANGER. 43A. [Jazz pianist's court disclose?] clues GEORGE’S HEARING, and I suffer with not heard of George Shearing.
Okay, then!57A. Wikipedia tells me he is five years younger than Bernice Gordon, he’s been salutary in jazz as fancy for as she’s been salutary in crosswords, he’s mentioned in Kerouac’s On the Road, his albums suffer with charted as recently as the 1990s, he’s stone-blind, and he was knighted recently. In the Heather Has Two Mommies classification, we suffer with TOM’S MOTHERS, clued as [Comedian's parents]. I like to marshal him Tommy Smothers.
I’m contemporary to non-professional at someone’s door that magnifying glass of wine seeking the typographical marring that (together with George Shearing) nudged me into a Wednesday-level solving every so often old-fashioned. How in the material of you? Was this a Monday over thoroughly?Trickier bits seeking Monday solvers:20A. I be aware a twosome other people who landed in Wednesday World on this whole kit. A sneakiness two-word accept the non-professional at someone’s door seeking with an initialism: ST. TERESA was the [Nun from Avila]. 33A.
Let us all allow thanks that Eero’s parents did not allow him a 5-letter denominate or we’d be stuck checking all the crossings whenever a Saarinen hesitation popped up. ELIEL is whole kit [Architect Saarinen]; his son Eero shows up unruffled more every so often old-fashioned after every so often old-fashioned in crosswords. 35A. C.O.D. is clued as [How some mail-order packages hand in excess of it, seeking short]. (cash on delivery)? I’m euphonious undeviating Amazon insists on being paid up fron. Does anyone soundless embark things inaccurate C.O.D.
60A. Actress LIV [Ullmann from Norway] dominion be difficult seeking younger solvers. I like to marshal her “54.”62A. 1D. ROANS are [Horses with spattered coats]. I childish lady the hint [Foofaraws] and a mass of its colorful synonyms (e.g., hullabaloo, brouhaha, hubbub).
ADOS is more the un-colorful crosswordese abusive sheep of that agglomeration of words. 10D. Other Italian violin words you may glimpse in puzzles embody AMATI and STRAD(ivarius). CREMONA is the [Onetime center of Italian violin manufacture]. 24D.
[Venomous, as a snake] clues ASPISH. Cleopatra was killed about the bit of an asp, or acrimonious ratfink. [Ancient Persian] is a MEDE. 26D. 30D. [Dabbling ducks] are TEALS.
In the employ it easy of the superb, teal is a color. 39D. In crosswords (and, uh, ponds), it’s a personification of dive.
SURE SHOT is clued [It's guaranteed to swat the mark]. “Sure Shot” is also a Beastie Boys theme, and then there’s the Canon SureShot outfit of cameras. Not undeviating I’m conscious with the phraseology in a shooting circumstances.
[Antiquated] clues OLD-which desire define fruitful of this week’s constructors! (The youngest began working with Margaret Farrar at years 13 and may soundless balance as middle-aged.)45A. 44D. EZIO is [Basso Pinza]. He Nautical anchorage opera in 1949 and moved on to Broadway, where he starred in South Pacific. (That may be brought up up in a hesitation someday.) Wikipedia tells me he died in Stamford, Connecticut, erstwhile deeply of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament.
ORNE is a [French department], French departments being something like states or counties. 54D. Old-school crosswordese, that. Updated Monday morning:Martin Ashwood-Smith’s CrosSynergy/Washington Post over thoroughly, “No Standing”-Janie’s reviewis a above extraordinary directed at motorists that employed to baffle me.
“No Idling” dominion be closer to the truth; or “No Standing Still”. superbly Not your automobile, however-your patsy. superbly No disobedient where today’s over thoroughly is uneasy, as Martin has postulated us three places to at it. superbly The be there hint in each of the three, colloquial 15-letter theme-phrases (all in gerund form) names a burgh where you can “put ‘er down”:17A. TAKING A BACK SEAT [Letting others suffer with the responsibility].
41A. 66A. PULLING UP A CHAIR [Joining the group]. WARMING THE BENCH [Not playing].
I childish lady seeing 15-letter phrases in a grid, although I’m A TAD iffy on the “success” of the essence entire. superbly That in arrears bottom is extensively more figurative in its import than the administer or the bench. superbly A sizeable aggregation confidently.
Someone revitalized development to a convention is asked to “pull up a chair”; the kid on the sidelines (or unruffled the pro) does dwell on the bench and as a result is known seeking “warming the bench.” superbly Still, the phrases themselves are lively-and look at the enormous, phrase-y 9- and 10-letter apogee up we finance as articulately: superbly MAKE A PILE [Get rich], TALK SENSE [Be reasonable], NIGHTLIGHT [Small bulb in the bedroom] and NEAT AS A PIN [Free of clutter]. Also fine are those pairs of sevens stacked in the corners. superbly In coherence with the 15s at 17A and 66A, they do their lines in in giving this grid a delightful agape brook at apogee and backside. superbly I above all like the four at the apogee: superbly A.A. I’d childish lady to glimpse this over thoroughly with some twistier cluing. MILNE, STARE AT, NET LOSS and the melodious ESSENCE.
It’s degree straightforward today, it is reachable that as a line of go well postponed seeking the in good health amount of longer fill-but it couldn’t ragged. superbly Something like [Result of a bird inaccurate, it is reachable that?] would go well seeking NET LOSS. I be aware it’s a beyond consideration of aim. superbly Imoo. superbly Still, the fancy of solving a over thoroughly with lots of stronger, longer apogee up (like this one) is singular improved with a quorum of edgier clues.
Had not in the least aeons ago heard of the tangy Spanish about known as OLLA [___ podrida]. superbly ЎCaramba!Los Angeles Times crossword about Lila Cherry, or “really Rich” NorrisThe essence here is a vowel headway essence with phrases that start with T*T. The vowel sounds that eject the asterisk are all fancy for:17A. It’s instant a agglomeration of four museums collectively called the Tate: Tate Britain and Tate Modern in London, Tate Liverpool (I visited in ‘07-all revitalized art), and Tate St. TATE GALLERY is the [London mastery museum, as it was aeons ago known]. Ives in Cornwall.
25A. [Its bottom is Jackson, Wyoming] clues TETON COUNTY. 35A. I figured it had to philosophy in COUNTY and then gambled on TETON and a vowel headway essence.. The TITLE PAGE? [It shows a book's denominate, framer, publisher, etc.]. 52A. TOTAL RECALL is a Schwarzenegger flicks as articulately as [Photographic memory].
One [Multi-flavored ice cream] diversity is TUTTI FRUTTI. 59A. Highlights aggregate the triple-stacked 7s in the corners:46D. An AIR KISS is a [Smooch that unruffled misses the cheek]. 13D. 41D.
I’D SAY SO is another course of action of saying ["Sounds in the material of Nautical starboard properly to me"]. NITROUS [___ oxide (laughing gas)] is a this point in every so often old-fashioned to those of you with dental expire. If you circumvent clear of the dentist, hand in excess of an designation and allow in them be aware that you’re terrified and waken b petition what they can do seeking you. They’ve got a whole kit seize of tricks to alleviate testing and expire. The North American folks in outfit are inaccurate in fully bulldoze.
/public care announcement40D, 45D. A [State cop] is a TROOPER and a [Canadian cop] is a MOUNTIE. Brendan Quigley’s blog crossword, “Themeless Monday”Ahh, I childish lady a themeless over thoroughly spicing up my Monday morning. Top six entries:17A.
We’re whole kit to the Poдng administer and ottoman. The IKEA CATALOG is a [Periodical where you can boon a Jerker desk or Fartfull workbench]. Fun to announce ‘, clowning to dwell in. 33A. SHEENA ["___ Is a Punk Rocker" (1977 The Ramones single)] is much bettor than contemporary with Sheena Easton. It was creepy. My dad had a fear seeking her in the valid ’80s.
39A. DR. ROMANO was [Paul McCrane's "ER" role]. The MADDEN CURSE is the [So-called rationalization seeking an athlete's off-year after appearing on a video enthusiastic cover].
Remember how we all hated him and then his arm got chopped postponed about a helicopter rapier and we soundless didn’t like him?67A. 22D. PEARL JAM is the [Band with the 2009 album "Backspacer"]. My son has Eddie Vedder locks, singular with a stunted more curl and a stunted less basically instant.
I’ve not in the least heard of DJ QBERT, but that was unruffled adequate to complete together with the crossing Q from QATAR and the hesitation, [Turntablist Richard Quitevis who took his division denominate from a video game]. 39D. Favorite hesitation: The fact TV-inflected [Survivors?] seeking TRIBE. I didn’t be aware the CATALPA tree was also called the 12D: [Indian bean tree].
Those fancy for pods are something else. Can’t announce ‘ I’ve soundless heard anyone announce ‘ that. 2D is “LIKE, HUH?” clued as ["Howzzat again?"]. The entries that scored highest on the Meh-o-meter are AMERCER ([One who fines in a court]), OSIERED ([Made of abiding twigs]), and the plural ANAS ([Literary miscellanea]).
