January 16, 2011
Jonathan Black
[Note: This is the syndicated L.A. Times puzzle. It does not appear in the actual newspaper, but is available for free at cruciverb.com.]
Theme: "Put Me In, Coach" — The word "ME" is added to familiar phrases and words to create wacky entries.
Theme answers:
If I'm not mistaken, this is Jonathan Black's debut puzzle. Congratulations! Considering the title, I'll bet Mr. Black is John Fogerty fan:
Only 29 days until pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training!
Today's theme is straightforward, and the title describes it to a tee. HENRY THE FIRMEST, HOMELY MATRIMONY, and DIRTY LINEMEN are all excellent. But you might have noticed that the two shortest theme entries were more difficult to figure out: MEAT HEIST & CAMEL ZONE. In each case, ME is added to a word, and then that word is split to form two new words. "Atheist" becomes MEAT HEIST and a tasty "calzone" becomes CAMEL ZONE. (Technically, "midwestern" & "dreadlocks" are words too, but it's easier to see the splits in those two.) So what do you think? Do you like those short entries, or are they unfair? "Purloined sirloin?" is a pretty sweet clue, so I'm OK with the MEAT HEIST.
Bullets:
Be sure to come back on Monday. PuzzleGirl has a couple of big surprises in store for us next week, and you're going to love them. See ya next Sunday.
Crosswordese 101 Round-up:
Jonathan Black
[Note: This is the syndicated L.A. Times puzzle. It does not appear in the actual newspaper, but is available for free at cruciverb.com.]
Theme: "Put Me In, Coach" — The word "ME" is added to familiar phrases and words to create wacky entries.
Theme answers:
- 23A: King of workouts? (HENRY THE FIRMEST).
- 45A: Belittle Short? (DEMEAN MARTIN).
- 96A: Rogaine-induced reverie? (DREAMED LOCKS).
- 119A: Institution for Shrek and Fiona? (HOMELY MATRIMONY).
- 15D: Footballers who draw flags? (DIRTY LINEMEN).
- 48D: Purloined sirloin? (MEAT HEIST)?
- 51D: Zoo area for dromedaries? (CAMEL ZONE).
- 64D: Silent cowboy flick? (MIMED WESTERN).
If I'm not mistaken, this is Jonathan Black's debut puzzle. Congratulations! Considering the title, I'll bet Mr. Black is John Fogerty fan:
Only 29 days until pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training!
Bullets:
- 19A: Man of La Mancha (SENOR). I'll let imsdave provide the video for this one. He's our resident Broadway expert.
- 63A: Fragrant resin (ELEMI). This is a tough entry that shows up every now and then. I sometimes confuse it with another similar entry. I won't tell you what it is, because you'll get confused too.
- 94A: Hasenpfeffer, e.g. (STEW). Rabbit stew. I learned this word from Bugs Bunny cartoons.
- 125A: "-zoic" things (ERAS). We currently live in the Cenozoic Era.
- 8D: Churchill's "so few": Abbr. (RAF). Short for the Royal Air Force. "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" is a famous line delivered by Winston Churchill during the Battle of Britain.
- 32D: 1970s-'90s Toyota (TERCEL). They don't make Tercels anymore? I had no idea. I was born without the "car gene" that most guys have. I have no interest in cars, period. I barely know what kind of car I own.
- 74D: Beat (ROUTE). This one confused me at first, because I was thinking the verb "beat" and the answer ROUT. Then I figured out it was the noun "beat," like a cop on the beat.
- 80D: Saroyan's "My Name is ___" (ARAM). Hey, "a ram" is one of the zodiac symbols, and I'm sure most of you have heard that our familiar zodiac signs have all shifted. (How's that for a segue?) And there's a new 13th sign, right? Uh, I'm sure that's fascinating. I know a guy who used to write horoscopes for one of the major syndicated newspaper astrology columns. He turned them out in batches of 300. They'd tell him something like "give us 300 on relationships, 300 on jobs, and 300 on finances." And here's the part that might shock you: they were then assigned randomly to the zodiac signs. The good news is that they won't have to change their system to accommodate the new signs.
- 121D: "Are we there ___?" (YET).
Be sure to come back on Monday. PuzzleGirl has a couple of big surprises in store for us next week, and you're going to love them. See ya next Sunday.
Crosswordese 101 Round-up:
- 1A: Toward the ship's rear (ABAFT).
- 20A: Asian nurse (AMAH).
- 55A: Hip bones (ILIA).
- 62A: Commander in Arabic (EMIR).
- 126A: Cork's home (EIRE).
- 129A: Coastal raptors (ERNS).
- 9D: Key letter (PHI).
- 16D: O, in old radio lingo (OBOE).
- 18D: "... ___ he drove out of sight" (ERE).
- 112D: Brio (ELAN).
- 114D: Capone harasser (NESS).
- 120D: "Catch-22" pilot (ORR).
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