The Crossword Fiend now posts at: Please make a note of it. Older posts will remain here indefinitely, and can be accessed from the "Old Blog" link at the new site. Looking forward to seeing you at my new site! Posted by Orange at 4: At the break point between two words, the first word's final letter gets doubled and scoots over to the second word. There are nine theme entries in all. That long central Down answer, LIBERAL-MINDED 29D: Notable clues and answers in the fill: That's the [ film featuring Chevy Chase as Dusty Bottoms].

Sew like the wind! GIMLI is ["The Lord of the Rings" dwarf]. First answer in the grid when 1A SCALED, [Like mountains and maps] didn't give way instantly. I spaced out when typing in SCALED and it wound up as SCARED, which totally mucked up 4D: No, REGALAGES made no sense. TWEED is a stereotypical [Professorial material?

GHANA is the [Country whose name means "warrior king"]. They made the World Cup draw, didn't they? Maryland's TERPS Terrapins are [Competitors of Wahoos and Tar Heels]. Word to the wise: If you should find yourself ordering a McDonald's milkshake, don't let it melt.

It'll separate in disturbing fashion. The THROAT is a [Dewlap's place]. In cattle or birds, generally—not people. That's all for tonight. See you Sunday morning! Merl Reagle's syndicated crossword, "Fashion Plate" Merl's theme this week is "food items that contain words that are related to clothing items of apparel, fabrics, clothing fasteners, parts of clothingclued with the word fashionable.

PITA POCKETS also stretches the theme a bit. So add jewelry to the apparel concept. Wait, ONION RINGS also contains jewelry. Other answers with items of clothing are BLUE BONNET and BOWTIE PASTA, though those are accessories more than clothing. GINGER SNAPS are [Fashionable cookies? See also BUTTON MUSHROOMS.

FRENCH SILK also has a fabric name. This theme feels too sprawlingly loose to me. FRENCH SILK needs to be followed by the word "pie" to be a food. No hitches in the fill. I did not know that 13D: ARBOGAST was the name of [The detective in "Psycho"], but the crossings were more familiar. I could see people getting snagged by the B, which crosses 23A: Victor BORGE, [Great Dane by the piano].

E NOTE usually gets clued as the not-in-my-parlance "e-note," an electronic note. Here, it's [Part of a C major chord].

Do music people call the musical note E the "E note"? Dan Naddor's syndicated Los Angeles Times crossword, "Subliminal Messages" The theme is fake advertising slogans in which the name of an apt company is embedded" 23A.

EL AL is at 74D. SONY is at 18D. RELIABLE PICK- UP S ERVICE is a [Shipping message], with UPS in the grid at 5D. I just don't like that word's inherent maleness, though the New Oxford American Dictionary defines adman as " informal a person who works in advertising.

The cross-referencing made the puzzle a little slower to unravel, I thought. There are some tough answers obscure ARTEL, 21D: Interesting way to massage the "embedded word" gimmick into a sensible theme with a purpose.

The idea of "subliminal advertising" ties the company names to appropriate slogans, so there's no randomness to the embeds. I did a little Googling afterwards to see if these were actual slogans—if ad agencies had actually persuaded corporations to go with the embedded-name approach—but the two I looked up weren't real slogans used by those firms.

Tyler made this puzzle a couple years ago but Will Shortz wasn't keen on 1-Across. Kudos to the Louisianans who came up with that one. The grid's chockablock with interesting fill. ALL BROKEN UP, or [Emotionally crushed]. Cool word, not seen often. DON'T GO THERE, or ["I'm offended by that topic"]. AQUALUNG, or [Jethro Tull album or song].

BUTTER UP, or [Flatter insincerely]. Surprised to see the double A grades in EASY A'S and [An A often boosts it abbr. Never heard of AL RITZ, 3D: Gotta run now—hope to find time for the Boston Globe puzzle this afternoon. Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon's Boston Globe crossword, "U and U Alone" The theme entries—five grid-spanning letter fake headlines—all contain no vowel other than U: FUDD HUNTS BUGS BUT BUSTS is clued [Elmer just can't bag his quarry? Bugs Bunny's last name is left out, presumably because that Y serves as a vowel.

This one's my favorite: CRUNCH DUNKS CRUSH SPURS almost sounds like a real headline in the sports section. For that matter, the Trump one wouldn't be out of place in the business section, either. I like the intersecting Simpson clues. ITO is [Simpson judge] and 78D: My kid gets a kick out of inquiring, "How big is Uranus?

Posted by Orange at 5: Dan NaddorMerl ReaglePatrick BerryTyler Hinman. Caleb Madison's Bard Bulletin crossword, "A Swift Response. Link is for a Java applet; here's an Across Lite link. Brad Wilber's New York Times crossword Would you look at all the cool answers in here? Tyler Hinman was just saying on Twitter that "68 is the sweet spot for themelesses" because "68 is where you start to get the eye-pop factor without resorting to obscurities.

If only robocalls were limited to political candidates. The SHVG in the middle of BUSH V. This is, of course, the [ Supreme Court case hinging on the 14th Amendment]. Clued gruesomely as [Corporate retreat closer, perhaps]. I always love to see the word AKIMBO, which is [One way to stand], with your hands on your hips. REST UP, or [Recharge], is a solid phrase. Kinda looks like RE-STUP since multi-word crossword answers lack word spaces. LET IT BE is a [ hit documentary] and the Beatles hit song.

The late, very great LES PAUL is clued as the ["Vaya Con Dios" hitmaker, ]. You know a guitarist is serious about his art if he shatters his arm in a car crash and, when the doctors say the elbow will be fixed in one position after surgery, instructs them to give him a permanent guitar-playing angle to his arm.

TORI, plural of "torus," was just clued in relation to doughnuts, I think in the LAT crossword. Here they're [Bagels, e. Great mislead in the clue. The [Model featured in "Little Miss Sunshine"] is the VW BUS the family drove, not a fashion model. BART is a simple little answer. The trivia clue is [TV character who says "I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows"].

I am of the generation that uses "suck" as a synonym for "stink" without regard for any oral sex connotations the slangy usage may have had earlier. DECREPIT's clued with [Condemnable?

The UV INDEX is another terrific entry, [It drops to 0 after sundown]. I wasn't as pleased with the EX-YANKEE and OXHIDE though I like the Scrabbly letters. Crosswordese EELY ENE AGAR, meh. The Italian word GLI is not so well-known, I think—61A: Speaking of Italy, MODENA is the [Maserati headquarters city] and where that yummy balsamic vinegar comes from, SBARRO is a poor [Alternative to Uno Chicago Grill], and LIRA is the [Old capital of Across] meaning the old unit of currency used in Modena.

I do like a worder if it's packed with goodies the way this puzzle is. In a four-step process to shake off the lethargy and get movin', we: SIT FOR A PORTRAIT [Have one's picture painted].

STAND ON CEREMONY [Follow protocol to the letter]. WALK ON EGGSHELLS [Proceed gingerly]. There is nothing BLAH [Ho-hum] about that fill. It's fresh, lively and long—four 15s for a generous 60 squares of theme fill.

While, on the whole, the "straight-forward" school of cluing prevails, there's some nice non-theme fill as well. You can almost hear that BRAZEN GUFFAW clued as [Full of chutzpah] and [Hearty chuckle] respectively; or the person who SCREAMS [Hits the high note, in a way]—though one might also associate screams the noun with the sounds heard in the INFERNO [Dante's and Virgil's destination in literature]; or that "CLANG!

Progressive references to time can be seen in YEARS [What birthday candles represent] and LIFE [Birth to death] and EON which I'd not thought of as such but which can refer to a [ Geologic time unit ].

Or if you baked your own granola, or rolled your own The craw is the stomach of an animal and the phrase is used to describe the way it feels when you just can't easily dismiss something that's bothering you; it causes resentment; it rankles.

That would be an exaggeration of how I felt on encountering crosswordese SNEE, SPEE and TRON all in the same puzzle—but I also took pleasure in the way the first two rhyme with ONE G, TREE and NO TV. Cluing RNS as [They work with MDs] did not go unnoticed, btw. Kyle Dolan's Los Angeles Times crossword I suspect this is the constructor's major newspaper crossword debut. The puzzle's got an unusual grid, with two vertical 15s constituting a mini-theme: The mini-theme includes 6D: GREEN-COLLAR JOBS, or [Work in the environmental sector], and 9D: CARBON FOOTPRINT, or [Environmental impact factor].

Timely, since the international summit on climate change is coming up in Copenhagen this month. Things that caught my eye: Bonus points because this is an anagram of Orange. ISABELLA is, among other things, a ["Measure for Measure" heroine]. Speaking of Shakespeare plays, I just received an e-mail newsletter alerting me to a community theater production, Comedy of Error. Sure, in these recessionary times, who can afford more? I know ", good buddy," but not " How about some deep-sea diving?

Not many people love cross-referenced clues, but SARGASSO's clue could've referenced 39A rather than including the word "sea. Favorite fill, narrative style: The CLASS CLOWN got into trouble for throwing his PB AND J at the NINJAS, who fought back throwing stars crafted from BASMATI.

The clown was sent to the principal, who declared him a LOST SOUL. To tango, to fight over the remote control, or move a sofa upstairs.

Short for "hot microphone. Merle Baker's Newsday "Saturday Stumper" PDF solution here. This one seemed a little more obliquely clued than the other recent Stumpers I've done. Among the clues I struggled with were these: I was thinking state flower, tree, bird, gem, and seafood. Maryland has too many state symbols. The state sport is jousting. Apparently they like the calico because its colors—orange, black, and white—are shared by the Baltimore oriole and the state butterfly.

Straight As will get you into Phi Beta Kappa more easily. BEES, not ANTS, are the [Symbols of industry]. Eh, that clue reaches too far. Who doesn't love gherkin pie?

STAGERS are [Home-sale aides]. Next party I host, I'm putting out a bowl of Edam cheese wheels. Potato chips and Edams, that's it. I prefer the "cabbie" spelling. Took a while to remember a 3-letter first name for a female dancer of yore. CYD Charisse is [Fred's partner in "Silk Stockings"]. WATER SKIS are [Skimming gear]. Wait, didn't that pretty much stop in the '70s? I was just talking about this last weekend with my husband, but thought it was more of a gas station giveaway, the drinking glasses with cartoon characters or sports team logos on them.

Have you seen a fast-food joint giving out glasses in the last 10 or 20 years? If you say so. Posted by Orange at Brad WilberBruce VenzkeKyle DolanMerle BakerStella Daily. Weird weather has reversed things all over the puzzle. Better pack the sunscreen. Is sand the opposite of ice? Will this catch on at crossword puzzle tournaments.

Look out for that flying pencil! Orange has a fruit and a colour named after her. Am I dumb or is this obscure? Non-marathoners also need it. He must be the least remembered president. Had to search for Canadian content this week. Who would win in a fight between Rosie and Miss Piggy? Also can happen in badly written computer programs.

This clue will self-destruct after 15 minutes of fame. The old Adam, the natural tendency toward sin: He attributed his wild outburst to the old Adam in him. There will be an extra-special super-secret guest-guest blogger to take care of you. Posted by Jeffrey at 6: Jacquizz Rodgers just had a yard rush. Husband reports that Rodgers is only about 5'8" so he might not make it to the NFL. But I want him to be famous enough to appear in a Karen Tracey crossword! Martin Ashwood-Smith's New York Times crossword Martin Ashwood-Smith, a pioneer in triple-stacking letter entries, returns with a smooth sextet of 15s.

Minus two points for having ONE'S in the middle of two answers. Here are the long ones: AS OLD AS THE HILLS means [Antediluvian]. OUT OF ONE'S LEAGUE means [Completely unqualified for competition]. I have a slight preference for the plural of this, but the standard crossword isn't 16 squares wide so this will do. If you're taking the trouble to frame someone, surely you can come up with multiple trumped-up charges.

WATERLOO STATION in London is a [Railway terminus with the Victory Arch]. OPENED ONE'S HEART is clued as [Became emotionally receptive]. None of these entries is on the list of the most common letter NYT answersso the whole triple-stack enterprise feels fresh.

I had three of 'em tonight. ROSA is ["The Accumulation of Capital" author Luxemburg]. She was a "was a Polish-Jewish-German theorist, philosopher, and activist" who cofounded the Spartacist League in Germany in JOSH WHITE is [Singer of the s blues hit "One Meat Ball"]. I have to say, that's one meatball too many for me. IGOR is [Real-estate tycoon Olenicoff]. He's still a billionaire despite losing a couple hundred million bucks.

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HAHAS is [Music to a comic's ears]. If you are typing "he" as a laugh syllable, I must insist that you stop immediately. That's no laugh—that's a pronoun for a gay male couple. SLEETIER is clued as [More like a cold shower?

I Googled the word and the first 60 hits gave the impression that this is not a word anyone actually uses, but on the seventh page, lo and behold, we find that the word appears in a Ted Hughes poem, "Tractor". I will use the word in a sentence that contains another phrase in the poem: I wanted the [Perilous place] to be AT DEATH'S DOOR, but that doesn't fit. Excellent use of the definite article in THE SHAH, a [Leader exiled in ]. My nomination for trickiest crossing is the M where 46A and 46D meet.

MAN'S and MUON, but if you're thinking the Malraux title will include a proper name or a common noun and you're not up on your atomic particles, DAN'S, FAN'S, JAN'S, and NAN'S don't jeep wrangler parts australia completely implausible.

Heck, the author's got a French name, so why not "SANS Fate"? Thank you, puzzles I have done previously, for teaching me the word MUON. John Lampkin's Chronicle of Higher Education crossword, "Baroque Embellishments" Boy, pun themes are hard when you're not that familiar with all the words in the answers, when the base phrases are more oblique, and when the sound changes are a mixed bag. I gather than the theme entries end with two baroque dances and two forms of baroque music: I think this is a play on "bitter almond," with an added vowel syllable.

This is not a regular part of my vocabulary. Lovely sound play on "Green Beret," though. The first vowel in the dance shifts from "beret. Okay, that's kinda funny.

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FUGUE and "view" have markedly different pronunciations. This one doesn't feel close enough for compare discount broker options punning, especially not with 27A and 46A's closer sounds.

Trickiest clue for me: The last time we had a Peterson puzzle was just over a month ago, but I have to say: Doug's given us an "add a letter" theme, which we're familiar with. But in contriving an "add an 'H' to a word ending in 'T'" approach, he's managed to come up not only with a very humorous title but also a great variation on this familiar trope. Look what happens as: The visual leap from beginning to end is what gives this one its punch.

And that is one scary lookin' creature—yowzuh. The perfect complement to " lose weight while you sleep " pills Anyone else grow up in a home where every two weeks, for purposes of spiffing up, the furniture got a going volatility edge in options trading rar with Jubilee Polish? Seems it's no longer available, but that's the recollection this clue and fill brought to mind.

Other goodies in the grid: SHAH [Former Iranian monarch], EMPEROR [Nero, for one] and TSAR [Erstwhile Russian sovereign].

Each was part of a DYNASTY of sorts, though not the [Joan Collins TV series]. I'm guessing that only the tsar as a child anyway It gets pretty nippy in Woman stock market trading game Russia—and that can be a nice [Winter cap feature]!

Jack McInturff's Los Angeles Times crossword My son's friend is coming over for a play date no school today any moment, so only cursory blogging this a.

Theme entries have a CK inserted into them. The theme answers tended to feel a tad strained to me, though, and the little hitches in the fill SFC, not SGT, for [Army E Offsetting the 3s are the pairs of 9-letter answers that intersect two of the five theme answers—that's a lot of real estate occupied by the nine longest entries.

Brendan Quigley's blog crossword, "Tiger Trap" As I said in a comment at Brendan's blog, this week's easy BEQ puzzles all require an stock market aeropostale attention to tabloid-ready names that aren't remotely inferrable if you haven't been following the stories closely. This gives today's puzzle the air of a quote puzzle in which the quote's half in Hungarian. I didn't know if 28A should be parsed as KALI KAMOQUIN no or KALIKA MOQUIN earn cash for 529. JAIMEE GRUBBS or JAIME E.?

Sounds like a Japanese hotel chain. B'NAI BRITH and Bush - saratoga computer desk with optional hutch are lovely, but there weren't enough such entries to grab me today. Thematic SCANDAL is balanced by nonthematic E.

WHITE, and thematic LIE by nonthematic MIN. With 26 3-letter answers NEA! I'm sure I'd have loved it if I were closely following the Tiger Woods scandal, but I'm not, so Looking forward to a "Themeless Monday"!

Patrick Blindauer's Wall Street Journal crossword, "Scrambled TV Signals" Hey, this is a fun puzzle. All of the theme entries are TV show titles in which one word's been anagrammed, changing the gist of the show. Worth a lot of money crossword clue game show Deal or No Deal becomes LEAD OR NO LEAD, a [TV show about a filling station choice].

Retro clue—didn't leaded gasoline disappear in the '70s? Moldova hasn't been an SSR since ' Favorite clues, answers, and combinations: Clue sounds medical, ames iowa making money on parking tickets the Brannock is the metal are there binary options legal doodad in the shoe store.

I like how EEE crosses EERIE. CLARITIN crosses CLARETS—[Allergy medicine brand] and [Some red wines]. A [Cel body] is a TOON, or cartoon character. That's to [Toss back some Stoli, say]. A [Taco Bell offering] I've never tried. Should've clued SLOTHS as something other winning signal push binary option [Arboreal sleep ers], though.

Au courant clue for TBS: I should watch that. YELLS is clued as [Makes a long-distance call]. Brendan Emmett QuigleyDoug PetersonJack McInturffJohn LampkinMartin Ashwood-SmithPatrick Blindauer.

If you struggled mightily with this one, you are not alone. I test-solved an earlier version of this puzzle—I think that one had more of the "all roads lead to Rome action" than this one, and they might've been semi- famous roads rather than words that can preced "road.

LOGGING road, PRIVATE road, UNPAVED road, and WINDING road. Those make a solid foursome. I like the way the gimmick plays out here. The single rebus square and the roads don't account for the brutality of this Thursday puzzle, though. No, that distinction belongs to the bottom middle. What sort of 49D: Dictionary says it's chiefly a Southern U.

I looked up the definition of pizzicato to figure out 60D: I was also stuck for a long time on 64A: That's a music genre?

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When a gazillion MJ fans live in suburbs and small towns, and Jackson's lyrics weren't so heavy on victoria square belfast bank holiday opening times themes?

I just Googled "urban pop" and among the first few hits are one for an Aussie mix master and one in which it's reported that Lindsay Lohan billed her upcoming in '07 album as "urban pop.

This zone killed me. There are plenty of other unusual entries in the grid, but I managed to work through the other sections without so many hitches. VOIT is a [Big brand in basketballs] and also the name of my grandma's dentist. MARY II is the [English monarch who shared the throne]. For [Hare follower], I thought of fabulous tortoises gta online earn money solo of Hare KRISHNA.

KONICA is a [Classic camera].

I prefer the "stogie" spelling. Roll-your-own word PETTER is clued worth a lot of money crossword clue an [Attentive dog owner]. No "heavy petting" ramifications here. My long-lost crosswordese friend! It's an [Exchange premium]. I love that little old pre-horse. This prehistoric [Ancestor of the modern horse] was much smaller than today's equines and lived in the Eocene epoch. KRAKOW looks great in the grid, doesn't it?

It was the [Polish capital, ]. While there's nothing more that unifies the theme, the four phrases are definitely on how much money did texaco make in ecuador fresh side and there's some ear-appeal in saying them aloud as they're all essentially dactyls three syllables with the stress on the binary options trading bad one.

Today's guilty parties are: RECYCLE BIN [Curbside container]. And of course, this one with four syllables But I think of that first syllable as a pickup to the more metrical remainder of the word. SAFETY PIN [It may secure a cloth diaper]. Apparently Pampers and Huggies haven't completely put diaper service companies out of business.

I'm glad to know that. MUFFIN TIN [Baking pan for cupcakes]. And a COFFEE TIN can be a baking container for date-nut bread. I saw the double Fs and TIN emerging and that's what I smugly entered. That's what I get for thumbin' my nose foreign currency exchange rates in uae exchange the clues!

BATHTUB GIN [Prohibition spirits]. For any DIYers out there, this one's for you. At your own risk. The subject of alcoholic beverages is a nice segue to pointing out my favorite cross today.

Note the repeated word in the clues both forex door to door service japan and you'll see why I enjoyed seeing the juncture of BREWS [They may be found in coolers] and BRIG [Cooler at sea]. That first one took me a while to understand. There isn't a lot of long fill in today's grid—though I did like seeing SNOWBALL [Winter missile].

And while the preponderance of the grid is made up of four- and five-letter words, note livestock auction devon there are only four three-letter words in what was the major reason of the stock market crash mix.

Barry Silk's Los Angeles Times crossword The puzzle's got a straightforward theme type, but there's some juice in the theme entries: GE is selling NBC to Comcast. What's going to happen to 30 Rock 's "East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming" division when GE ceases to be a factor at NBC? Alec Baldwin's JACK, a [Stranded motorist's aid], is the vice president of that division.

An ELEPHANT EAR is a [Fried-dough carnival treat]. When did that happen? I'm guessing it is best to keep the Doors rendition foremost in my head. It's a fairly easy puzzle, but this answer nudges the fill away from the early part of the wek: DAME MURIEL SPARK is ["The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" author]. PLUG—[Ad, or the word that can follow the end of] the theme entries—generates an electric plug, ear plug, fire plug, and spark plug. Did you know AUNT JEMIMA is a [Quaker Oats trademark]? I stay away from Aunt Jemima and Mrs.

Butterworth and their ilk. Fake maple-flavored corn syrup smells like headaches to me, but real maple syrup? Speaking of sweet and sticky viscous substances, HONEY is a [Drambuie ingredient]. I believe the other ingredients are peat moss and haggis. VIRTU [Artistic merit] is a good word to play forex cash cow ea Scrabble because you can add an E or AL or OUS to it. I think one of my Lexulous the Scrabble variant on Facebook opponents played SKEG, a [Surfboard fin].

CLETE [s-'60s Yankee Boyer] reminds me of Cletus on The Simpsons —my son was just asking my husband what "yokel" meant, and the kid correctly tied the description to Cletus. Or Not To Be" Each theme answer loses two Bs: Did you know there was a name for that? There are a great many isograms out there. English probably had a higher percentage of these than Hawaiian does, given our larger number of letters to build words from.

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MASSachusetts, NEW Hampshire, VERMont, MAINe, and CONNecticut. US CITIES in addition to former presidents? ASMAN looks like it could be clued as a partial, AS MAN. ULLAGE, the [Unfilled part of a wine container]. Posted by Joon at The theme involves a letter change from H to W, as in HASTE MAKES WASTE [Advice to the rash, and a hint to this puzzle's theme]. In the other theme entries, an H in a familiar phrase becomes a W: PICTURE OF WEALTH is clued as [Bill Gates snapshot?

Base phrase is "picture of health. So Proudly Iso stock options w2 Hail is a movie, and part of a lyric from "The Star-Spangled Banner.

BASE WIT, playing on base hit, is a [Comedic soldier during training? Among the fill that's reminiscent of '80s crosswords are these words: AGHA, or [Turkish V. Two or three of these are plenty for any 15x15 crossword. The biggest blast from the past is ASE, [Mother of Peer Gynt].

I'm not familiar with O'SHEAS Casinothe [Irish-themed Vegas casino]. Apparently it targets gamblers in their 20s and 30s and features a heavy metal star's tattoo parlor.

I'm guessing Celine Dion doesn't sing there and that there's no fancy art gallery. Don't recall seeing [Pikake garland] as a LEI clue, though the only other common 3-letter garland is the boa. There are two women with Ys in place of Is. LYNDA, [Actress Carter who was once Miss World USA], is best known for portraying Wonder Woman. SYD, usually clued as Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett, is clued as the [Lead role on " Providence "]. Ran from '99 to how to win in binary options hedging strategy Her dad was played by B.

Deb Amlen's Onion A. Club crossword In Deb's theme, phrases that begin or end with double-E words turn into double-O words: Let us not speak of Tiger Woods, whose Escalade whacked a tree.

A unit of ACNE is a ZIT. Watch out for the kilozit. Is this a new clue? It stumped me, so I feel as though it is. The clue is ["I bet! The "little girl" part sounds creepy. You know, Deb's got a humor book coming out next June: It's Not PMS, It's You. Stockyards trading post fort worth today's case, that also mean that those stock market aeropostale theme phrases are all oriented vertically.

Yes, this map of the human brain is sexist and wrong but it still makes me laugh. This map is more to the point. MIDDLE-AGE SPREAD [Weight gain, of a sort]. Not a pretty foreign exchange rates dollar to rupee, but the fodder for lotso "humor" RIGHT VENTRICLE [Heart part].

Here's a cutaway view. As you probably know, I tend to take a lot of enjoyment in what I perceive to be mini-themes and connections within the grid—and today's puzzle delivers nicely.

Two of the theme fill are anatomical referencing the brain and the heartbut look: That's nothin' to sniff about! Have you ever wondered about Asia Major? While it's not a term we ordinarily use, it's east of Turkey and Asia Minorand refers to the " heartland of the Persian Empire.

When I saw SAFE SIDE [Cautious people try to stay on it], my first thought was that it was more theme fill. SNOW TIRE [Winter traction provider] proved not to be a symmetrical match, however, so let's chalk up the former to "bonus fill. Ed Sessa's Los Angeles Times crossword Especially in the Monday-to-Wednesday stretch, there are so few crossword themes that feel new, so this one's a delight.

The phrase RAIN CATS AND DOGS can be parsed another way in the punctuation-free zone of the crossword grid: Those three entities are clued by the other three theme answers, which are clued straightforwardly.

Kind of the multi-level marketing scheme of crosswords. In Seattle, the forecast often includes rain. One musical I've never seen is Cats. Lady and Tramp are both dogs. RAIN in the forecast, CATS on Broadway, AND DOGS in the cartoon.

For fill highlights and videos featuring the legendary Pete Seeger, Frank Sinatra, and Ella Fitzgerald, please hop over to my L. Brendan Quigley's blog crossword, "The In Crowd" In Brendan's post, he says his test solvers thought this puzzle was super-easy, suitable for solving Downs-only to avoid having the puzzle be merely a speed test.

I would have been in a total snit if I'd read and followed the "go Downs only" advice because it wasn't all that easy.

Maybe other people are finding this a Monday-level venture, but it hit Thursday medium for me. Perhaps I'm just slow today, because the 35A clue says "two show up in this grid unannounced," but the only DINNER CRASHERs I can find TAREQ and MICHAELE are clearly announced as being Acrosses. Are there other hidden answers the 35A clue is referring to?

WHOLESALE PRICES and FAIRBANKS, ALASKA don't seem to contain "dinner crashers. What, we're supposed to know the spelling of their first names and what their last name is? Hey, where are the quotation marks of sarcasms in the FEMA clue? Unless the implication is that the agency helped the hurricane carry out its mission.

That would be the Army Corps of Engineers, though. Plenty of Polynesian action today. And TAHITIAN is the [Language that gave us the word "tattoo"]. Brendan Emmett QuigleyDeb AmlenEd SessaJack McInturffMartin Ashwood-Smith. Matt demystifies the process of building a crossword to explain how such accidental mimicry can and does occur at Slate.

Jonah Kagan and Vic Fleming's New York Times crossword BREAKFAST gets parsed as "break FAST" and the other four theme entries begin with FA and end with ST: FAIRY DUST is a [Magical powder]. FALCON CREST was a [s soap opera set at a winery]. I am reminded of those '80s prime-time soaps every time I see the principal at my kid's school. FATHER KNOWS BEST was a [s-'60s sitccom that ran on all three networks].

One at a time, I presume? Not during the same season? What else is in this puzzle? There's ILO-ILO, the [Repetitively named Philippine province]. Speaking of repetition, [Mine treasure] is both ORE and a LODE. One [Wine container] is a CARAFE, while other [Wine containers] are CASKS. The [Turkish headgear] called the FEZ joins the ILIAD, CAIRO, and EGYPT for today's Mediterranean fill, and the REED that's a [Papyrus plant, e.

The fill's not pangrammatic no Jbut there are Scrabbly letters in BOUTIQUE, ZEROES, and ALEX, [The"A" in A-Rod]. You know you've been doing too many crosswords when you try to complete that last one as ALER. Would the letters bookend the phrase or would they fall between two words?

As is turns out, it's the latter. Now, while I find the gimmick and the theme fill a tad on the dusty side, I really liked seeing that in each case, the "D" falls in the same spot in its respective row, so that all three of the DAMs are aligned in the grid.

That's a nice touch. And here are they are: ROAL D AM UNDSEN [First person to reach the North and South Poles]. SECON D AM ENDMENT [Constitutional protection for gun owners]. BLIN D AM BITION [ tell-all book by John Dean]. There are other nice touches throughout, both in the fill and in the cluing.

And there was something pleasing in seeing "NEAT IDEA! Ditto WOODWIND and BLEAK HOUSE. Peter and Gordon "British Explosion" [light-] rockerson the other hand, did " Go to Pieces. Tell me I'm living under a rock. Here she is singing " Right as Rain "—not to be confused with Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen's "Right as the Rain. Quite a little nosegay in that SW corner. Props, too, to [Mail for King Arthur] for ARMOR, [Moon shot?

Took me a while to experience the "aha" for that last one. But it was worth the wait. This repetition could have been avoided in any number of ways. Lot shares a final "T" with BEAT, so that letter could have been a D, M, N or U; and it falls from the final "L" in DUAL, so there was also the option of changing that shared letter to a D.

Whether or not this gets changed for some other incarnation of this puzzle, life as we know it will go on. Dave Hanson's Los Angeles Times crossword I don't recognize the name in today's byline. A debut for Dave Hanson? The theme is really icky, or should I say "ICKy. PICKWICK, with a "MR.

Is this a familiar term to football fans? I don't know it. There were some random ICK sounds lurking in the grid, presumably by chance. John Milton's EPIC, ODIC [Like many Keats poems], mind-reading PSYCHICS, and the CHICLE that's in gum.

I haven't had Tiny Size Chiclets in years, but the word chicle always makes me want some. And then I start thinking about those sacks of gold nugget gum. If they would make sugarless versions of both, I tell you, I'd always have one or the other on hand.

OUT YEAR, or [Annual period beyond the current one]. There's actually a lot of fill here that seems tough for a Tuesday, but the crossings are generally easy. This puzzle might require a little more back-and-forth eyeballing of crossings to piece everything together. Matt Jones's Jonesin' crossword, "Bank Job" I like the title of this puzzle better than the theme entries—73A: SNOW is a [Word that can precede either word in] the theme entries, but unlike "Bank Job," the four theme answers are made-up phrases: PEAS DRIFT is [What somehow happens to the vegetables in your TV dinner?

TIRE BLOWER is clued as [That sharp nail in the road you just ran over? Actually, I think massive quantities of disinfectant would be better than a shovel. My good friend Amy danced with Richard Roundtree, the actor who starred in Shaftwhen she was about 5. She told the tale on public radio a couple years ago.

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That ain't what RAIN is. Dang, I thought the answer was going to be something like TEQUILA. Do you know I have never once had a flight layover in Chicago? And living in a centrally located hub means I can get a direct flight almost anywhere I want to go. Dave HansonJonah KaganMatt JonesRaymond HamelVictor Fleming. I see that this is post 2, here at Diary of a Crossword Fiend.

I meant to mark 2, but it snuck by me.

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A new home and a new look for this blog. Thanks to the tireless efforts of Dave Sullivan over this long weekend while I was lolling in Wisconsin and enjoying family time, the new site is almost ready to be unveiled. You can hardly wait, I know. You know who else slaved away over a hot blogstove all weekend? Crosscan, Joon, PuzzleGirl, Sam, and Janie, that's who. Beaucoup thanks to all of them! LIGHT SPEED, AS QUIET AS A MOUSE, BLUE-FOOTED BOOBY, and GEORGE SAND suggest speed trap, mousetrap, booby-trap, and sandtrap.

Gotta love the BLUE-FOOTED BOOBY—friend of mine took a trip to the Galapagos and took great pix of the boobies with variously colored feet. I'm not sure how the theory of evolution accounts for dull-feathered birds with bright blue or red feet. Man, I hope no bluenoses write offended letters to the Times complaining that breast-feeding violates the breakfast test.

Kudos, too, for the PLAYMATE being a [Child's friend] rather than the subject of a Playboy pictorial. BIC is clued as an [Inexpensive pen]; anyone else see the magazine ads promoting Bic pens, lighters, and disposable razors with a single cents-off coupon? One of the many things I liked about the book were the illustrations of knots that were part of almost every chapter.

They were taken from The Ashley Book of Knots which, it just so happens, is available as a free e-book. Today, each of Ray's fresh theme phrases begins with a word that also describes a particular kind of knot. WINDSOR CASTLE [Queen Elizabeth's weekend getaway]. Here's a " how to " in, um, seven easy steps GRANNY SMITH [Green apple variety]. Here's one kind of granny knot. SQUARE DANCE [Where callers are heard]. Loved this one, because I really didn't understand the clue until the fill became clear.

Also, the square knot is just about the only knot I know how to tie: OVERHAND PITCH [It was legalized in baseball in ]. Nice little factoid, no? And here's yer basic overhand knotwhich bears a striking resemblance to a pretzel. I can do this one, too. While the theme may have been "knotty," the puzzle as a whole was easily and enjoyably solved. Let's just hope that when the child with but half a toy train starts to read, he or she gets an entire primer.

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Cut-backs are one thing, but Dick without JANE? Next thing ya know that [Double Dutch need] and knot-tying need ROPE will be for—well, is there such a thing as "Single Dutch"? But look, the National Double Dutch competition is coming up. This may be worth looking into! In the legal world, the [Burden of proof] ONUS is on the prosecutor, who pleads his or her case before the judge or judges.

When the robed ones are hearing a case, they are said to be sitting en BANC. So they're the ones who have a [Seat at the court]. In the world where the "higher law" must be answered to, someone who's been very, very good might be recognizable by his or her HALO [Heavenly ring] or HARP, perhaps. And a [Heavenly aquarium addition? Why, that'd be an ANGEL FISH, of course. Ray also gives us the WAHOOa [Dark blue food fish].

This was new to me, and is a nice change from ["Yippee! Other fill that kept the puzzle lively: CHI-CHI [Hoity-toity] I like that clue, too and TOP DOG [One of the highest authority]. We've seen fat cat a couple times in the past few weeks, so I was glad to see a little balance among the species.

Pancho Harrison's Los Angeles Times crossword Aw, look at 1-Across: My son was OK with his Bears losing yesterday because the Vikings are his second favorite team.

If only FAVRE had come to the Bears instead of Jay "Interceptions and Fumbles" Cutler. The theme is either flawed or fresh: The three longest entries start with synonyms, but one of the synonyms is two words while the others are single words.

Is it a nice twist or an unexpected hitch to have TAKE OFF, not TAKE, match up with SPLIT and LEAVE? I'm OK with it. TAKE OFF WEIGHT is clued as [Shed some pounds]; SPLIT THE PROFITS is [Divide earnings equally]; and to LEAVE A MESSAGE is to [Talk to the answering machine]. In the fill, the stars are OLD YELLER which I haven't seen I don't want to cry and AUSTRALIA. Not fond of AGERS and APER. The iBOOK is now dated fill, but it's easier to fit into a puzzle than the MacBook Pro or the AirBook.

Brendan Quigley's blog crossword, "Themeless Monday" This puzzle kicked my ass. Chess fans may appreciate 1-Across—ZUGZWANG, or [Unpleasant obligation to move, in chess]—but those who've never encountered the term must rely heavily on the crossings. And 1-Down wasn't helping—["Hannah Montana," e. Now, my kid watches some of the Disney Channel's sitcoms for tweens and I read Entertainment Weekly religiously, but ZITCOM was not coming to the fore of my brain.

How are NITS [Small prevarications]? I've never seen the word used to mean lies. I had FIBS there for too long. Plenty of other wrong turns, too. GAINS instead of EARNS and THETAN instead of THEBAN because I was originally thinking CRETAN mucked up the race horse BARBARO, who was looking like TARBUIO or TARBAIO the A-vs. Brendan, you didn't seem the type.

I have begun using AH ME and OH ME, but so far have had no luck getting my husband to join in. Won't you help popularize these words of regret and despair? It's either that, or we have to insist that constructors stop using these entries altogether.

Do any of you have an in with Stephenie Meyer or the writers of Hannah Montana? I'd tell you I was saying "Oh, me! Brendan Emmett QuigleyOliver HillPancho HarrisonRaymond Hamel. December 06, My Last Post here.