Plastic Jones
East Texas
"Kirk to Enterprise. Intelligent life found after all."
"Place to retire" made me think of F1 racing, where drivers sometimes have to retire their cars in the pit.
Fun puzzle. Good work, Rena!
Now my head won't work in the real world after this one. :)
I had a good time solving this while I made hashweh - hey, there's a good crossword answer. Any way, I don't complain about much. I'm well-fed, and I live a life where I have luxuries such as fun and games.
"Did you say, 'Ute'?" - Judge Haller
It helps if you know who Kim, Khloé and Kourtney are. (not I)
I live a better life without that blasted timer pestering me while I work the Puzzle.
I had to laugh when I read the 74A clue, because winters in Texas are 99% warm. Warm-weather winter gear is shorts and t-shirt.
@Tradcarp It's undertsandable. There are more people alive today in the US who were born after her death in 1986. Median age is 38.5 years.
So clever! Cue the theme music.
"Yalie" still stumps me, even though I completed the puzzle. Having never been to Connecticut I had to rely on the cross answers to resolve it. Have mercy on us Southwestern folk.
I clearly need to brush up on rap.
I honestly thought "body building" was "womb", you know, like building a body, a person. But I wasn't considering a building for housing bodies, like corpses. Okay, yeah. You got me.
Great Caesar's ghost, can we agree on spelling?
Perhaps 25A should have included "for short" or "abbrev."
@Ollie It's the 3rd person present tense verb "wander".
Jaywalking? I had to look it up. I'd heard of if, but I wasn't familiar.
Whew! I thought I was seeing double. And I was!
4D - I think the word you were looking for was "momentum", where an object tends to remain in motion due to its mass and any force applied to it.
I was seeing red endeavoring to find the right word.
@Jeff Being someone who write code, I didn't catch the "making java" clue, because we use Java to create. It was weirdly worded.
Whew! That was tricky. Nice one.
@B However, the clue reads "it keeps things going," which is not inertia.
84A - number for a letter - had me stumped. Even correctly completing the puzzle, I had to research what that could possibly have meant. In my part of the world apartments are not "lettered". We use only numbers for addresses.
I suppose I will have to just watch the "International Man of Mystery" movies at some point.
I abandoned the Sunday puzzle in protest because of 72D.
@Lynn True, yes. But when I read the clue it did not occur to me that the correct answer would be "inertia."
@JRinMA I looked up "dabbing" on image search and saw a lot of smoking, among other things.
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