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@Nancy You need to see more movies. Also GOPMEN was the CATTY answer I was hoping for.
When I, a middle-aged WASP from the west have complained in the past about ethnic terms common in NY, but not common in my experience, I was told to get over it. So now it’s my turn. The only people who don’t see ELPHABA as a gimme have been living under a rock. A very popular book series turned into a smash Broadway musical, followed by a movie that won multiple Academy Awards (TM). Oy vey!
Neither P nor N are gears. Neutral is specifically the disengagement of the gears. In other words, it’s “taking it out of” gear. And park is the physical blocking of the gears from turning.
@RickTO Are you new to the NYT crossword? This was pretty standard use of a rebus and ‘trick’. But the trickwas a bit complicated with the answer starting in one section of the puzzle and finishing elsewhere, via the WORMHOLE. Overall a pretty good Sunday puzzle.
@Mean Old Lady - I think that Paul Giamatti, Frances McDormand, Sigourney Weaver, and Meryl Streep would all be quite chuffed if would start to link Yale with quality dramatic arts and artists.
@Seth. Exactly! A BMW auto is a Bimmer. A BMW motorcycle is a Beamer or Beemer.
I enjoyed this puzzle and the theme, but the fact that a rebus, such as L/-, was accepted was poor form.
A bit harder than a typical Monday, but within the typical range of difficulty. I got held up with FOLLOWTHELEAD. Had to check the crosses at the end, as all the across entries were filled, and I skip filled entries on the app. And then I was sure, at first pass that it was UKENGLISH, and then was sure it was BRITIDIOM.
@Virgil and @sbs - yep. I completely misread/misunderstood that clue/answer.
Re: 49A I realize we’re talking imaginary beasts, but there’s no such thing as a YEDI - it’s YETI. So while the puzzle theme is cutesy, the clue for this answer really doesn’t work.
@B - except BEEMER and BIMMER and BEAMER are all pronounced the same in English.
@Ron Bravenec The word is GROW, meaning to expand.
@Barry Ancona - If the constructor is driving, it’s a BIMMER. If they’re riding, not as a passenger but in control of the vehicle, it’s a BEEMER, or, alternatively a BEAMER. Different terms for BMW autos v. motorcycles.
Cassette players do not have SPOOLS. The cassettes have, while the players have spindles, onto which one places the spools.
It would appear that Ms. Steinberg nor Ms. Amlen have ever seen an actual EEG given the clueing and description as a “tricky clue”. It was certainly tricky given that are no images involved with an EEG. It’s a recording of electrical impulses produced by the cortex of the brain and displayed as lines on a page. Akin to an EKG which is t an image of the heart. Lots of ways to image the head/brain. EEG is not one of them.
Having been raised in Idaho, I know the potato has a long and illustrious history, and was “domesticated” sometime before 5000 BCE. I also know the INCA, as an empire, existed in the 15th and 16th centuries CE. I’m pretty sure there were civilizations in the region of what is now southern Peru that were cultivating potatoes in the six, or so, millennia before the INCA.
Anyone who thinks a Genius Bar worker is an IT GURU, has obviously never visited a Genius Bar.
One little nit to pick. A tendon is NEVER injured in a sprain. Sprains are injuries to ligaments by definition. A ligament is tissue that connect bone to bone. A tendon connects muscle to bone, and an injury to a tendon is a strain.
That should be “was NOT accepted”.
@Suzanne You must be new in these parts. You don’t know that Barry is never wrong.
Pastels are NOT bold colors. Words usually used to describe pastels are soft, pale, delicate.
@Ms. Billie M. Spaight - in the same way it blows anything up. With a bang!
@Ettagale - Deja vu is the sense you’ve done/experienced something before, even though you haven’t. Jamais vu is the sense you’ve not done/experienced something before (i.e. it’s new), even though you have. They’re essentially opposites.
@Jent So what’s the way? I can’t figure out how to get the app to accept anything I’ve tried.
@Deb Amlen Amlen is the Welsh word for envelope. Not a translation of the Welsh word.
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