This was an old school Friday puzzle. Hard but ultimately solvable. Kudos to the authors. I enjoyed it!
@Hoosier Funny, to me this was anything but old school. Far too many random little phrases, things one might happen to say but that are not real expressions (and could be expressed several different ways). I hugely appreciate the skills of crossword constructors but the standards are definitely different from what they used to be. Being away from the US for many years I can't complain about modern slang but I've never heard of STRESSEAT and can't imagine doing it. (At the other extreme, LYE is something from my grandmother's day.) Old school would consist of facts, general knowledge, history and of course clever, witty and amusing wordplay. I'm not complaining, this was just not my thing. Give me old school any day!
Never knew there was a plant called Russian Ivy. And guess what? There isn't!
"Make rent" was a ripping good pun!
@Dan I could not figure that one out for the life of me - I finished off the puzzle by cycling through vowels until one stuck, and I *still* didn't get it. I knew I'd find it somewhere in the comments, that was a good laugh when I finally understood!
"My friend's taking me to buy some new cookware." "Hope that pans out." ("I hear the prices are a steel.")
@Mike I hope your friend has some skillet at knowing where to buy a pan and where to buy pot. 🧑🍳🪴🧑🍳🪴🧑🍳🪴🧑🍳🪴🧑🍳🪴🧑🍳🪴 Do you, Emu?
I really wanted member of a historic trio to be Larry or Curly.
@Peter M For some reason I was heading towards Peter of Peter, Paul and Mary. The brain works in mysterious ways.
@Peter M A Stooge would have been Moe fun. 🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨🔨
@Peter M I was trying for Peter or James, but not John. Wasn't PINTA in a puzzle earlier this week?
It seemed more challenging than it turned out to be, which is always fun. Thanks, gents!
This puzzle took me back to my earliest experience of the NYT Saturdays. Very hard. Amazingly original. Educational. So much fun. Kudos and thanks to the Brilliant Constructors.
@Skeptical1 I readd that as KUDUs to the instructors, so I had the beguiling mental picture of the two culprits receiving African antelopes and having an immediate panic at the sigt of those horns! It was quite entertaining until I blinked and saw more clearly.... mere Kudos.
@Skeptical1 no this puzzle was a boring slog and the answers weren’t “creative” they were just obscure and stupid. One of the worst puzzles in a long long time. Absolutely joyless, and you should not have liked it.
Just the right amount of wordplay to keep me on my toes!
Back in 1987 or so, a grandma who played in my bell choir showed up wearing a neon green Thrasher T-shirt. I was a bit surprised by that fashion choice, so I asked her about it. “Oh, didn’t you know I shred?” she said. She went on with a description of her favorite skating moves and how she hung with the young sk8r dudes as just part of the gang. I was dumbstruck. Think Betty White in Golden Girls for this woman. Later on she came to let me off the hook. “My grandson gave me the shirt and he talks about skating so much I just absorbed all the lingo.”
@David Connell Hah! Great story! Grandma might not have been a skater, but she sure should have gone for being an actress!
Wow, I was very in sync with this puzzle. Love it when that happens.
@tautau same here! The top half was very intuitive for me, the bottom half less so. There was a mention of Adrian doing the top left, I wonder if he was responsible for the entire top half.
I found this was one of the Saturday puzzles that definitely seemed tough on first pass and led to me feeling "stuck" after finishing ~half the puzzle I took a few hours break, came back with fresh eyes and then it all fell into place. I feel like this happens to me pretty commonly on Saturdays - there's probably some fancy psychological term for it (which would appropriately show up in a Saturday puzzle, probably!)
Just like a Danish pastry, I found this to be a perfect mix of sticky and sweet. Some I knew, some were not so eclair, but with a lot of back-and-forth croissants, I made my way through. Is anyone else hungry?
@Heidi I see we have another tricksy Commenter on our hands.... I believe our Resident Punster has a cat, but no mate. In case you're in the market, you could probably use some floury phrases to introduce yourself; at yeast give it a go!
This puzzle was a hard one for me, yet very uplifting with the presence of BOSSA NOVA which runs through my veins, and Brazil beating Paraguay in today's Copa America game, 4×1, just as I was solving. One other thrill for me was seeing ALAN Parsons in the grid, one of my all-time favorites (amazing talent and very spiritual man,) and whose CD I happen to have in the player in my car as I write (great for highway driving when there's no traffic.) This is one of the ballads, with beautiful lyrics: <a href="https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=FDlDKvidYbk&feature=shared&feature=xapp_share" target="_blank">https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=FDlDKvidYbk&feature=shared&feature=xapp_share</a> I've noticed that I always hit a good stride with Rafa's puzzles, but not when it's a collaboration. Very strange. And so I wasn't entirely in the same wavelength, but the clueing is, no doubt about it, outstanding. Thank you, gentleman for a very fine puzzle!
@sotto voce *gentlemen* . . . . . . . Who needs auto-correct and emus?
@sotto voce Followed immediately (auto play) by Eye in the Sky. Also a beautiful song, but less, shall we say, charitable lyrics.
@sotto voce I thought I knew what song you linked, but apparently, I can't read your mind. (See what I did?) I confidently entered GRAM at first, but saw it wasn't working. !!!!
[Make rent] for RIP, was priceless. [Something seen in a demo] for TNT was close. Great clueing for two well used 3 letter words. Fun puzzle by two favorite constructors.
@Nancy J. Oooh wow. It wasn’t until I saw your first sentence with the clue and the answer next to each other than I finally got it. Brains are funny. That one was a forehead-slapper, no question. Clever. I’m bested, it’s true, but I don’t mind.
After 20 years on a skateboard and 4 doing the crossword daily, THRASHER was a fun (and surprising) mix of two of my favorite hobbies.
Love it when a couple toeholds allows you to get going and after a while, you're just about done but for one or two places. It's a sign of a well built puzzle when that happens. In the absence of Lewis (miss you, bro), l'll praise the hefty handful of semordnilaps: Nemo, pets, strap, orb, et al... not to forget TNT, pop and Ada. And nice going, getting away from Ayn Rand for a change of scenery. And Russian Spy, what a hoot, bound to offend somebody, very retro Cold War. Also admired the juxtaposition of Watson and Uneven Bars. There are just some things that only Simon Biles and her comrades can do, and the bots will just have to wait. A bit more unfortunately is the juxtaposition of Snow Angels with Eidal al'Adha, which falls on the 10th day of the twelfth and final month of Dhu al-Hijja, which is also the month when the Hajj (pilgrimage takes place), and unfortunately this year, those snow angels were rather noticably absent from the pilgrimage. And since one of the debaters employed the Gish Gallop (look it up) very effectively on Thursday it's appropriate to have a mini theme about fiction / lies / deceipt / misinformation. Web indeed. Related, it's neat how TRAIL AWAY contains (backwards) "Yaw a Liar!" like someone from the Bronx's equjivent of AIN'T SO. Makes me long for the days George Smiley was tracking down his nemesis, the Russian Spy "Karla." Really wanted AIR CANADA to be TIM HORTON; he played for a while in Pittsburgh.
@john ezra Leave it to the brilliant mind of JE to see "Yaw a Liar!" Just one question: were you trying to be subtle when you left out the T at the end? ;-)
@john ezra TIL that Tim Horton was a hockey player. I thought he only made donuts, of course.
@john ezra. Has anyone else ever used the word semordnilap in practice
“Something seen in a demo, for short” .... CPR OH WAIT, that can’t be right It’s “demo” as in demolition (Of course, having ONE SEC for “Hang on” didn’t help) “Play area” is such a brilliant clue for my favorite entry THEATER DISTRICT. Great puzzle, excellent wordplay. Thanks, Adrian and Rafael.
@Anita Hand up for ONE SEC As for 6D, I had THEATER in there early, but took forever to get the rest....STAGE? SEATING? DRESSING ROOMS? Ha ha I blame it on the BOSSA NOVA.
@Anita Hand up for CPR. I haven’t watched SNL in decades, and while I know the names of a lot of the more recent cast members, Aidy BRYANT is not one I remember ever hearing of.
The first pass left me with a nearly empty grid so I buckled down for a toughie and ended up with a time well below average! I find it so fun when other commenters share the same experience. This was a slow to start, smooth to fill puzzle for me and it seems like it was for others too! Enjoyable! Thanks!
@Katie I, for one, started off slow and then tapered off.
Not that you asked, but to give a small insight into the current state of my life's affairs: at 4A, "Goes as planned," I immediately thought "Nothing!" And it fit! I didn't actually write it in because I was pretty sure the crossword wasn't going to be that cynical. 😂 And don't worry, I really am laughing as I write that, but it really was my immediate before I got the actual answer. It's been true these last couple of years, but hey, that's life and there have been unplanned blessings too! And.... this is my first Saturday since I started in August that I completed without any lookups or helps! I was hoping I'd be able to do that before my one year crosswording birthday came up, so I'm very grateful! I'm also afraid it means I'm going to find a lot of "It was too easy" in the comments, but that's okay...I still did it and in under my average time, which includes helps and look ups. SE was the toughest for me especially because I had move on before READ ON, thinking more figuratively. And I didn't know the the proper nouns there, but THRASHER, while I've never heard of it, kind of made sense, and was somewhat intuitive when I had a few crosses. I've never flown AIR CANADA, but I figured it had to be something Canadian with Maple Leaf. I do, however, and unfortunately, know someone who was actually kicked off of an Air Canada flight. Like, how belligerent you have to be for that to happen!? Yikes!
@HeathieJ Congratulations on your first lookup-free Saturday! It’s a nice feeling, isn’t it? You’ll have many more days like today. I was a bit surprised to see AIR CANADA in the grid. I wasn’t sure they were still around. My cousin was a flight attendant for them way back when the only flight attendants were ‘“stewardesses.”
@HeathieJ Regarding "nothing" for "Goes as planned"... I frequently falter because I'm so much more cynical than the constructors. I think at this point I'm more cynical than Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., who claimed he was so cynical that as far as he could tell, none of the writers he coached at the Iowa Writers Workshop ever had children. I for one am dreading a flurry of "too easy" comments, because I struggled for way longer than I care to admit.
Lots of "Could it be....."s, and enough "Indeed it is!"s to make for a challenging and entertaining puzzle. It often came from easy clues with different slants, and every time I got one, it made for a satisfied smile and smug little feeling of being on the inside track. That is until I got to the SE corner and almost went mad with frustration. READ ON for [Turn the page, say] had to be right but I kept taking it out anyway. Last to fall was MCMANSION, and by the time I got there it was starting to look like Miss Havisham's digs. Thank you, Adrian and Rafael. The difficult times didn't really get me down. I had a ... ball!
This was afairly fitting end to a week of rather trying puzzles. I think I remember Rafael Musa... (not necessarily fondly, ha ha.) JUST kidding...ish. I got the upper half in good time before running aground and having quite the struggle. I put in...and then took out--several answers that eventually proved correct, so I imagine the two culprits over in the corner, snickering. A place in Hawaii, eh? In the margin I quickly scribbled OAHU MAUI KONA HILO as the most likely, but the letter rearrangements all looked terrible and unlikely. Does the AKON fall far from the tree? I got AIR CANADA and LYRICAL at once, but these proved less-than-helpful. And of course I had no clue about the "Rocky" and "Abbey Road" contributors... and the SNL person remains a mystery. If kids say MAA, why don't frogs say RIBTIP? Charlotte the Kitty shows her sleek white tummy and promises: I WON'T BITE. Sometimes it's even the truth. Would this puzzle be classified as JUNK ART? (Possible second career in case Xword Construction doesn't PAN OUT....)
I’m somewhat new to crosswords and really enjoying them, as well as reading the comments section after completion! This was a tricky one in some spots but a fun solve. But can someone explain today’s 48D for “making rent”. I cannot figure out what RIP means in that situation. Thanks!
@AllieW Rent is used as the past particle of “rend,” as in to “rend one’s garments,” which is to tear or RIP them. Extremely devious clue!!
@AllieW I had to look it up after completion, it was my last fill-in, by trial and error. Nice misdirection. Loved this puzzle.
@AllieW From Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary "rend implies very violent or ruthless severing or sundering. an angry mob rent the prisoner's clothes" Nuance: Seems a bit more violent than rip. "rip implies a pulling apart in one rapid uninterrupted motion often along a line or joint."
Either this was super easy or I should do more crosswords while I'm drunk, because I felt completely in the zone tonight. 17 minutes, no mistakes. Though having stripmall in Suburbia did trip me up for a while, as did atHAND
@Steven M. I used to think something similar when I would solve crosswords high on meth. But these days I’m inclined to believe there is no positive correlation between substance use and crossword performance. We owe our success to the skills we have cultivated from the work we put in
@Steven M. Same here! A little under 17 min, a third of my usual. And I got little sleep last night, so anticipated a struggle. "Operator of Maple Leaf Lounges" went from "I have no idea" to "of course!" in a flash. Several others fell in similar flashes.
@Steven M. One of my more sympathetic theories when seeing a "Just so easy" post is that the author must have been drunk...
This had the potential to be a new PR maker, I was scrambling to beat 9:00 but got a little lost at the bottom. Great clues and very satisfying puzzle. For anyone interested, in Senegal Eid al Adha is called Tabaski, while Eid al Fitr is called Korité. We recently celebrated Eid and had a nice time
@Albert Thanks for clarifying that. I’d only heard of Eid al Fitr, so was a little confused.
Difficult, but doable. This was a great puzzle, with some really cool cluing (cooling?)
What superb clueing this one demonstrated. I was primed for failure after getting MAA and nothing else until STRAP. A few downs fell into place and I was slowly able to chip away. It was made harder by the fact that the quadrants were relatively isolated and a breakthrough in one area didn’t give much help in another sector. A very nice Saturday challenge.
What a great crossword. I felt strong plugging in almost half, got stuck, went away from the app for a few hours. Coming back, I was able to think clues differently. I did not know the factoid for Finding NEMO. That does not surprise me, since I had that DVD growing up, and my family watched that movie the most.
As more data for the “puzzles are easier now” debate: Yesterday I also solved a Bob Klahn puzzle from December 2, 2006, that took me almost four times as long as today’s puzzle did. And that included checking some answers and revealing a few letters in an obscure (to me, anyway) name from a 1915 Ring Lardner story.
@Eric Hougland I find older puzzles more difficult too but for me at least a lot of it seems to be an age thing. A puzzle from 15 years ago will have lots of people and media I'm simply not familiar with because they haven't withstood the test of time enough. Eg I got AKON very easily today, but I'd never know the Akons of decades past. So it would be quite difficult to compare apples to apples here imo.
@Eric Hougland I just finished Saturday, 2/12/94, and needed Check Puzzle then Autocheck to finish in 4x today's time. (It's amazing how many correct answers occur to me once I turn it on.) For everyone who thinks there are too many foreign words or clues, this one had [Mexican packsaddle], [French composer Francis], [Capital of the Kazakh Soviet Republic], and [Capital of Veracruz]. Not only did I not know the answers, but they barely look like words. Oh, and also [Euphemistic oath of old] (with no punctuation hint), and [Letters in a 60's cigarette ad], which I still need to Google. But as they say: Your mileage may vary.
Kicked my backside again. Getting a bit sore and bruised. I really, really don't look forward to the gleeful "too easy" postings. I don't know how many times I built and tore down the SE corner. A dozen at least. Had I been doing it on paper, it would have been atomized. Nothing, and I mean nothing, clicked there. I had ONESEC for 38D, and was absolutely wedded to it. It finally broke when I came up with the correct answer. Another hard vs. easy factor--poisoned squares. 36A seems very cold warish. Russia abandoned their kleptocracy of the Soviet Union days for ... a different kleptocracy. Russians are "red" these days only in the sense that Republicans like Russians so much more than they like Democrats, their own countrymen. And TRAILAWAY for "What a speaker might do if no one is listening to them"? I was looking for something more aggressive. I kept trying to make something like CRACKHEADS work. I guess I was a professor for too long. 54A (Something seen in a demo, for short) was an especially nasty little demon.
@Francis It was tough to be sure. But little by little I figured out the twists and turns. Some fell into place more quickly, but it was a struggle. But no look ups, so generally enjoyable. I was wedded to onesec for a while.
@Francis Don't feel bad. Here, please have a laugh at my expense: For [What a speaker might do if no one is listening to them] my first thought was "shush up" as I filled in flAIL Arms! I'm sure a speaker somewhere has flailed their arms in exasperation. Only the crosses saved me from my own desperation.
This one flew by for a Saturday. Was fun though, no complaints here!
Challenging and rewarding, the best kind of Saturday xword! I had a great deal of fun doing this with my partner - we really had to work together on it, and it wasn't just one person getting all the clues as much as combining our shared knowledge. The bottom right corner had us stuck for ages, too. My favourite clue of the day was 'red plant?' which was just delightful - I did have 'SOVIET SPY' as the answer initially, which was close enough that the right answer came shortly after.
Really enjoyed this one. It was challenging but felt comfortable, like a new shirt that has a perfect fit. It took me a long time to understand the answer for 48 Down, but once it clicked for me the cleverness made me smile. Bravo!
Tough one for me, of course, and had to cheat a bit to get through it. More than a couple of things that were never going to dawn on me. That's all on me. Answer history search today involved wondering about repeating the same letter to imply another word - e.g. something like 'yyguys' to mean 'wise guys.' Anyway, stumbled across more than a couple of remarkable puzzles. One a Thursday from April 29, 2004. Some theme answers in that one: CCCTHEDAY AWORDTOTHEYYY UUUITORLOSEIT And then somehow stumbled across this one - a Sunday from September 12, 2004 with the title "Furnishing touches." Some theme answers: ROCKETLAWNCHAIRS CUPBOARDWAGONS WANTTOMAKEABED SOFASCHOICE ENJOYYOURSHELVES Here's the Xword Info link: <a href="https://www.xwordinfo.com/Crossword?date=9/12/2004&g=99&d=A" target="_blank">https://www.xwordinfo.com/Crossword?date=9/12/2004&g=99&d=A</a> I'll shut up now. ..
@Rich in Atlanta Well, actually.... one more late thought. Was planning to go to my favorite burger place tonight for dinner and another possibility for a tricky theme type dawned on me. Haven't found any evidence of it yet, but may try to come up with some other possibilities and keep on looking. Anyway - 15 letter answer (for a burger joint) that dawned on me: GUYGUYGUYGUYGUY I'm sure a few of you will get that one. ..
@Rich in Atlanta I liked that SNOW ANGEL showed up in this one today. I was asking about the frequency of it just the other day because I found it in the archives and you kindly answered. Made me smile to see it again today!
One of those Saturday puzzles that looked impossible at the start, but when my guesses hit the mark and I finished the northwest corner faster than I anticipated, well it was" hold my sweet tea "n while I finish this puppy. It's true that my long term memory is better than my short term which gave me an advantage today. Place laugh emoji here...My favorite clue was "music style that means new trend". The Bossa Nova is playing in my head right now. New ear worm. Once I had the two esses from the cross, I had it... the music first, then the name. Very enjoyable evening. Thank you Johnson, Mussa and NYT for a great puzzle.
For me, it was the easiest Saturdays ever, but only because some wild guesses turned out to be correct! Very enjoyable, though.
It helped that Eid-al-Adha has just passed, and that I had discussed its meaning with an Egyptian co-worker, and whether our HR manager had gotten the date right on her bulletin--she tends to get things wrong, like Canadian Thanksgiving and National Peach Cobbler Day. When I asked why we should serve pie in the cafeteria on Mar. 14, she responded "because my calendar told me so." She earns a higher salary than I. Arrrgh! But I digress. It still didn't help me remember the exact name of the Eid, tho.
There's no way to see THEATER DISTRICT when you have JUST FOR instead of JUST FYI at 33A.. But FYI means "for your interest" and the clue reads "In case it's of interest" -- so I cry foul over the repeat. What I then had at 6D was THEATER?RS????T and it was indecipherable. STRESS EAT made complete sense once it came in since I know many people eat when they're stressed, but I've never heard the term. When I'm stressed, btw, I lose my appetite completely. My worst problems were in the SE. I didn't know ALAN, didn't know BRYANT, and the completely "Huh?" THRASHER magazine sounds like a magazine that should be furtively hidden in a plain brown wrapper. I'm not quite sure how you TRAIL AWAY when you're speaking. I mean when you stop talking, you stop talking. And that's certainly what you should do if no one's listening. Why cast pearls before swine -- that's what I say. Favorite clues: RUSSIAN SPY; FAD; SNOW ANGEL. Favorite answers: PUSHOVER; I WON'T BITE; and MCMANSION.
@Nancy Just FYI, FYI means "for your information". And I lose my appetite when stressed as well. Do we stress fast?
@Nancy In my book, FYI means "For Your Information" and indicates something that doesn't require any action. THRASHER refers to the sk8er word for agressively riding.
@Nancy You are right that a THRASHER has a brown wrapper (sorta.)..it's a lovely bright brown, with a longish tail and a streaky breast: very handsome. Ha ha I know you didn't mean the bird, but that's what THRASHER means to me! (GA State Bird, JUST FYI.)
Could someone please explain how “make rent” solves to RIP?
@Morn "rent" as a synonym for "torn." You rip something to make it rent.
@Ian thank you. I was familiar with Rend but not Rent, which is why Rip was only solved by me getting all of its crosses. Is Rent archaic, or is there some professional or geographic subset of people that actually use the term Rent to mean ripped?
Just the type of late week themeless puzzle I like. I only had 3 across answers the first time through, but slowly and surely I got it all with no look ups. I didn’t know that was what BOSSA NOVA meant, so I guessed it would start with an n. Once I was down to nOSSANOVA it clicked. Plus ‘nOT’ didn’t make sense.
Bossa Nova? Here's the one you need to know: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-TKOh0zsvU" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-TKOh0zsvU</a> Dance a little, Emu, you'll like it—who needs to fly?
@dutchiris Absolutely with you on this! In the original, and with João Gilberto's mellifluous voice... A soothing gem!
Hah! Seemed tough. But then…wasn’t! About halfway through I challenged myself to finish without having to delete a single letter. Had to be careful, but I did it! The vibe of this puzzle had been kind in the top half, so I hoped for the bottom to be as merciful. And it was! An odd and enjoyable solve.
@CCNY I wanted to watch the end of the Mets game when the puzzle came up at 10:00, and since it was on Apple TV, I had to be in front of my big TV, rather than watching it at my desktop while solving (which I probably could have figured out, but I'd have missed an inning doing so). So I solved on my phone, not ideal for a Saturday, and got through three quarters with minimal trouble. Then the SE took me easily as long as the rest combined. All in all, due to watching the game and solving on the phone, it took me a little longer than my average. But the Mets won another!
My favorite part of this puzzle was the combination of 33A, 36A, and 41A which I'm reading as some kind of secret message to the CIA: JUST FYI on a RUSSIAN SPY, who happens to be ON HAND. (Apologies if this is a duplicate... tried posting this last night but it didn't go through, so giving it another go. Maybe with a little luck it will actually post!)
Should the Wordplay column be using a photo that solves one of the tricky clues? I know people who read the column expect spoilers, but not in the link that we see before we've done the puzzle.
@Phil i didn’t realize it was a spoiler until i saw your comment 😂
@Phil The clue wasn't very tricky, so Pfft. But I agree that it was a spoiler....however, I would think most of us never look at the app solution until we've finished the puzzle. I print from my PC, solve with my trusty pen and cuppa coffee, then fire up the iPad to visit The Comments. Works for me.
Eh, didn't like this one much at all. Except for stress eating it was largely lacking in cleverness. Just wanted a little more fun on a Saturday. Kind of a slog. (Not a long "solve" though.)
@B Are you kidding? TNT for "Something seen in a demo, for short" was brilliant.
I woke up this morning to find that I had paused the puzzle last night with slightly more than my Saturday average time (it was late, and I'd had a busy day), with all squares filled in, and knowing where the problem was but unable to fix it. PUSTFNI was clearly wrong, and even though I had already considered AYN, it took a rested brain to give up on PUNKART. It was an enjoyable grind (no sarcasm) getting through this one.
Even though this was a fast solve, absolutely fantastic words and clues! This was a delight.
Clever clues and some words and phrases not often seen in the puzzle. Fun!
Fun puzzle! Like others, I started slow. Lots of clever clues and aha moments! Loved the puzzle! Thanks!
I know that Girl From Ipanema is the song that usually comes to mind when BOSSA NOVA comes up (whether n Eglish or Portuguese), but here are some other classics for your listening pleasure: 1- "Por Onde Anda Você" Vinícius de Moraes and Toquinho (the first is also the lyricist for Girl From Ipanema, a renowned Brazilian poet.) <a href="https://youtu.be/Gb5sbORA62w?feature=shared" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/Gb5sbORA62w?feature=shared</a> 2- "Chega de Saudade" Tom Jobim <a href="https://youtu.be/JTp5PRDUBGQ?feature=shared" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/JTp5PRDUBGQ?feature=shared</a> 3- "How Insensitive" Sting and Tom Jobim <a href="https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=gL6cCNQzOKc&feature=shared&feature=xapp_share" target="_blank">https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=gL6cCNQzOKc&feature=shared&feature=xapp_share</a> 4- "Wave" Sinatra and Tom Jobim <a href="https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=FebPXqfHjHw&feature=shared&feature=xapp_share" target="_blank">https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=FebPXqfHjHw&feature=shared&feature=xapp_share</a>
Kudos to Caitlin for sneaking in a Grateful Dead reference (“scarlet begonia”)…at least I think that was her intent. Maybe it just occurred to me because I’m listening to the “Scarlet Begonias” episode of The Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-ol-grateful-deadcast/id1522914723" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-ol-grateful-deadcast/id1522914723</a>