Dale M

@The X-Phile Thanks, X, for taking me down that interesting hole with you.

@Karl M Now I feel nostalgic.

@Valerie They might not get SAY IT/SPRAY IT because they are so rarely in the same room with each other any more.

@Bill The counselor was Troi I first thought. 68A

@Susan E It has to do with spoken English and the free flow of air through the lungs. Whoa!

@SBK I see an obvious need for a rebus (though I kindly offer to agree to differ).

@lucky13 It's a natural proclivity exacerbated by the automobile. The Tongva had a word for LA's San Gabriel valley, "yongna", often interpreted as "place of the hazes" or "valley of smokes".

@The X-Phile Please don't include me in "the rest of us." Thank you, I prefer to speak for myself.

@ad absurdum Humorous!

@Lucia I came here to say just that! Now I'll start from the oldest comments and probably see it 30 times. I won't pull out my cockeyed locks.

@Andrew Huh! I usually say igpay atinlay. My grandmother and great aunt amazed me with their fluent pig Latin conversations way back in the 1960's. They learned as children in the nineteen-tens. Ankthay for the ucklechay!

@Andrew oops, "anksthay"

@Times Rita For me, if writing I would include the "a" with the "an". While speaking, I wouldn't.

@John Carson Here's John!

@Julia GAH!

@SBK Aren't you the crab?

@Charles Nelson Reilly I think a retri. (P.S. Loved you in "The Music Man" outdoors at the San Diego Zoo circa 1972)

@SBK In regards to otro vs. otra, I've often thought that the noun in the clue should be a match in gender to the answer in the grid. Instead of Octavio's otra, perhaps use a feminine palabra.

@Mike "Tube or not tube ..."

@Jim A STOP sign means Slight Tap On Peddle.

@Andrzej George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, and Willie Shakespeare? I find Americans have a wide variety of things they find vulgar. It's hard to get 350,000,000 people to agree on anything.

@Dawn Thanks, Dawn, for my first out-loud chuckle of the day.

@Ed Or Attorneys General.

@Francis Check out the article on Saturn's rings seemingly disappearing this weekend, if you like.

@Andrzej Oh, I enjoy a twist or two (even the interesting ones). Like Asher, I'm not a fan of the rebus. I try not to be a snob about it.

@SBK Funny! Thank you.

@sonnel We heard "Candy is dandy but sex won't rot your teeth."

@Andrzej I don't time myself either. If I do it right even a Monday puzzle could last me an hour or more on a sunny morning.

It's all Greek to me. Pardon me.

@Adam G You remembered your phrasing.

@Jill

@Francis I used to label scorecards for table games as we/they. That is what I thought of until it didn't work any longer.

@Rich in Atlanta Thanks! I can remember doing this puzzle, untimed and in pen. Has it really been 29 years? Some things have changed.

@Mean Old Lady Ask Circe.

@Jerod Clue and answer work for me. Take it or make it one's money is on the line.

@Jerry Clever! A+ in Sects Ed.

@D I'll toss my cookies.

@SBK I don't know. The Padres are kind of a minor team. (And the one I root for.)

@Demoiselle With a soft g maybe? Funjai?

@Dvd As in less equal?

@dutchiris It's about a goat butting. Nothing to do with Pan's below the waist.

@dutchiris Oops, you are correct. I reacted too fast. Sorry. I read the I in pa(I)n.

Right arm! Take it slow ...

@Jill Exactly my thinking!

Thank you. I once made a yard sale purchase a typewriter with a qwertz keyboard and thought about workarounds for many diacritical marks but never took it as far as I am about to.

@Elbridge Gerry Yes!

@Jane Wheelaghan Mud definitely used! I was a bricklayer.

@Barry Ancona Nice!