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What did you do to the phone app?! Now I can’t go between the column and the puzzle! This is NOT an improvement!
Non NYer here having to look up Tappan Zee and delighted to find a lovely painting, a Washington Irving story, and who the Tappan people were, as well as explaining why it’s spelled Zee instead of Sea. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tappan_Zee" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tappan_Zee</a>
That was fun! Thanks first time guy! Happy to have you here! Meow to the cats 😻
Panama’s park - know it or you don’t - I beg to differ. I guessed that “silent upon a peak in Darien” might be in Panama - and I was right!
Wow! Best Sunday puzzle ever! Loved the double cross entries!
@Andrzej friend of Dorothy was a [cough] discreet way of saying or asking if a man was gay, back when in the US there was no gay marriage, no anti-discrimination laws, and plenty of reasons to be “in the closet” - another phrase that might be unfamiliar now. Dorothy Gale in Wizard of Oz —> Judy Garland —> beloved icon of gay men in the 1950s and 1960s. (Why, I don’t know - before my time).
@Cat Lady Margaret awesome!!!
Odd, I tried to put the obvious name into 11 down, but it didn’t fit.
Extremely cute Tuesday puzzle!
Oh Evan, your comment takes me back! I learned to love the Sunday crossword in the 1970s from my friend Marylou, who had worked on the Hyde Park Herald, and who, with her husband Tom, was instrumental in saving a Louis Sullivan door which was donated to the Art Institute in Chicago.
Excellent theme and so clever!
Yay Mason! Great puzzle and fun theme! Looking forward to more of your work.
Nice job and I liked jinks crossing Jethro!
@Andrzej. The Juniors section of a department store contains clothes mostly for teenage girls, after they have outgrown the children's department. Misses sections are usually the largest in a department store, with scores of designer collections to account for. This sizing caters to mature women with developed figures and more curves than those of Juniors. Garments in Women's sizing are made for those with a larger, taller build and a desire for clothing that is comfortable and loose as to not restrict movement. This is all US lingo.
@john ezra the conflict was with the Babylonians. The Persians were the good guys. All the way up to 1979.
LOVE your Jalali calendar clue! Had to research it and now I know something about Nizam Al-Mulk I didn’t know before!
Film character trapped in a dentist’s office — thought this must be a rebus for Marathon Man starring Dustin Hoffman.
Wow! Nice job Casey! Very enjoyable!
Awesome puzzle Kareem! Thanks!
@Justin Kalm I was hoping for puff pastry.
@Andrzej a Raisinet is a type of candy typically sold in theaters in the US. I had to look at the answer myself because I had no idea what it was.
The exclamation point is also called a “screamer” in the world of printing. Took me a little while to decide between screamer and bang.
Thanks Kevin! Nice job! I liked the American history clues. Then I got confused by the football player when I was expecting … I don’t know… maybe Charlie Parker? Walt Disney? Walter Cronkite? Count Basie? The Harvey Girls? Congratulations on your debut!
Nice work on the Z’s, Ryan! Especially happy (Sp) crossing the peel!
@Jason - yes - I have yet to see anyone clue it with “water denizens resident around Canterbury Cathedral”
The mosque of Babur has been all cleaned up and looked really nice in 2014. His tomb was also very lovely.
@Joe - like Mark Knopfler sang - “Oh, my name's not Crock, it's Kroc with a K, Like crocodile but not spelt that way” <a href="https://youtu.be/0sYK2RwH5E8?si=gOp27f-_NQTy7Btn" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/0sYK2RwH5E8?si=gOp27f-_NQTy7Btn</a>
@John ENNEAD is in spelling bee constantly. Of all the hard clues in this puzzle, that one I figured out once I got a couple of crosses.
Very, very nice puzzle! Just a bit more difficult than Sundays usually are and very fun theme and rebus. Good job!
TIL that the Cambodian currency gets its name from the Spanish / Portuguese real, just like the Iranian currency. 😊
@Lisa Marshall’s just figured out it is Amendment 1 - first amendment.
At 113 D I went down a rabbit hole. Thought it was a curl-it-around answer I put PAR and 114D was AMO and winding up with PARAMOR. It all made sense (although I couldn’t figure out what it had to do with the theme). Kinda sorry I was wrong, it was a nice diversion.
That was fun! Thanks Stacey!
@Andrzej oh please let your revenge be to submit a puzzle with Polish history answers and let the rest of us broaden our knowledge!
Great job! Looking forward to a crossword with baba ghanoush, ash reshteh, muhammara, tahdig, etc. 😊
Nice puzzle! I wonder if this is the first appearance of Ashraf? If you do more puzzles, could you work in more Afghanistan references? Maybe something on Nasir Khusrow (of Badakhshan)? NYT I think you missed an opportunity to have little clock faces appear at the solve.
Kelvin, so happy you are excited to get the IRS involved! For all those who need to talk to a live person to solve their problem, or have a live person process a return that can’t be efiled, or who want to discuss a comment letter with the service, and those who have spent their careers making the tax law better, this destructive shutdown is particularly painful.
Nice job Dario! Fun Wednesday puzzle!
@Andrzej: in 2011 I was on a private tour in Iran. Eating dinner in hotel in Tehran, eavesdropping on diners next to me, I was listening to a German corporate employee organizing lunch to go for next days’ outing with Iranian and German teams. “What kinds of cheese do you have,” she asked. “We have panir,” said the waiter. “Ok what else?” “We have panir.” “Only panir?” “We have panir.” Order concludes finally, waiter leaves, and she says to her companion, “what kind of country is this, only one kind of cheese!!?”
@Nat K signifying Christmas!!!
@Maverator and since the 15th century?! Wow.
@Jacqui J or, you could have booked a roomette on the Sunset Limited, left at 10 pm and woken up in Maricopa at 6:30 am ready to do the crossword!
@Nick the column explained it as “canal locks”.
Love the animation! Thanks! Fun Sunday puzzle!
@William Schrader that’s only on the East Coast short routes. The California Zephyr and the train from DC to Chicago have nice meals.
@Andrzej these preschools were originally started in Germany, and when the US started them in the 19th century they just took over the name.
@Andrzej hear, hear! May that family and the word A-S never again darken our crossword. @Ezersky are you listening?
@DYT we are all being Ayn Randed now. Bring that song back!