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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 😻
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!!!
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!
Nice job and I liked jinks crossing Jethro!
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!
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.
@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!
@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!
@Erik P you are right. We need more puzzles with qawwali, qanat. qintar, faqir, qadi, qaid, etc.
@john ezra who throws out foil any more? Wash and reuse till it’s full of holes and then put it in the recycling bin.
Hold on… isn’t that CAESAREAN? First A is missing? But otherwise great puzzle!!
Congratulations future CPA! You have a great future ahead of you as you construct financial statements or tax returns!
Ooh fun Tuesday puzzle Julia! Thanks!
@Andrzej don’t worry, sometimes I just go do something else and come back to the puzzle. Sunday, yes? So hopefully you have extra time.
@Dave also: “I am” for “yes”. Brilliantly done here: <a href="https://youtu.be/lEjEGbAFzJU?si=0UiVTfKkHOTjlkr4" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/lEjEGbAFzJU?si=0UiVTfKkHOTjlkr4</a>
@john ezra. Wikipedia gives etymology كَبَاب kabāb from Arabic. Since the first vowel is short you can use either a or e to transliterate it. The second vowel in Arabic is a long a, that is: baab — but since that sounds just like the name “Bob” in English it would seem that creative minds came up with “Bob” for that part. Anyway, delicious!
Could not figure out why editors would be concerned about STELES.
@john ezra Pittsburgh you rock! Thanks for the poem! And I’m partial to BRIGANDS myself. ❤️
@Bird maybe a terrier? Try a Jack Russell.
@Amy you got mud on your face you’re a big disgrace kicking your can all over the place
@Linda Jo I also got the new booster jab in September and had only a slightly sore arm for one day. It’s much easier than those first jabs back in 2021.