Hallie Robbins
NY NY
Thanks for highlighting DO (Osteopathic physicians) instead of MD (Allopathic physicians)! Both DO and MD applicants take MCAT entry exams to get into medical schools. We are colleagues who often train and work side by side in all medical specialties and settings If someone reading this comment wants to learn more, look up www.osteopathic.org Be Well!
What a fun portrayal of a wonderful painting. I remember seeing it come to life years ago, with Bernadette Peters and Mandy Patinkin. He sang with a Staten Island school kids choir at NYC Mayor Mamdani’s inauguration recently.
During Organic Chemistry labs, my partner Stan and I exchanged shoulder rubs. We both became osteopathic doctors to continue such care for others. Decades later when I had Covid in early 2020, he was one of my supports. I am so sorry for your loss and the untimely passing of your friend, Arjun. Your puzzle was marvelous. A+
@Michael Any penguins selling US goods?
9D Martín Espada reading his poem, "___ to the Soccer Ball Sailing Over a Barbed Wire Fence" is a marvelous poem, new to me, read by the poet in 2019: <a href="https://youtu.be/HCIkFVlrSJA?si=67vebVQa15M4jMwC" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/HCIkFVlrSJA?si=67vebVQa15M4jMwC</a> ⚽️🌎🌍🌏⚽️🗽🌺💗
35D - Bajo = LOW, Alto = HIGH as in altitude Not a musical reference
Elegant, classy and sassy — spin class results!
ZAGAT guides were long thin books pre-Yelp of one-page reviews of restaurants. Instead of Michelin stars, ZAGAT used numbers (to 30) to rate food, service, decor and cost, with recommendations for settings such as a meeting or date. Displaying “ZAGAT RATED” at the entry beckoned diners to enter and enjoy. Guides were available for different cities and cuisines. ZAGAT migrated online, predating Yelp and similar sites. Btw, Michelin guides started in 1910 when the tire company wanted to give roadsters a reason to drive distances to star-worthy restaurants.
@HeathieJ IRRegular items aka factory seconds are often sold as is at a discount
Happy Birthday, Kevin! Happy Birthingday, Jocelyn!
@Deb Amlen Scintillating wit and wisdom in your intro today! Thanks, as always, for your cheerful encouragement. THANKS for years of wordplay. You leave large columns to fill.
Deb, Thanks for all the years of TIL clues, joining us in the discovery of a new word or meaning. It made building vocabulary and cruciverbal skills a shared joy. TIL — 30 — — XOX — to you
This puzzle prompts me to write a personal statement in Comments for the first time. THANKS to all in our Games Community for all your inspiring letters, clues to savor if not use for solving, and beautiful poems and photographs. ❤️🐝 🤔 🎯 😀 Despite the questionable “Pah” (to which I say Feh), today’s puzzle was enjoyably laced with nonthematically paired clues. Let’s hear it for Ben Stiller’s wonderful, witty mother! Her husband introduced Seinfeldians to Festivus. Some frabjous fun was increased by the apt pairing of echolocating mammals up top (flyer above) and a game pair playing down low. I learned about fascinating fauna: <a href="https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/the-weird-world-of-tenrecs.html" target="_blank">https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/the-weird-world-of-tenrecs.html</a> I became enlightened about an essayist, his sister and friends. <a href="https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/charles-lamb" target="_blank">https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/charles-lamb</a> I’d grown up with Charles and Mary Lamb’s books, collected by my psychiatrist dad, without knowing about their familial mental illness. Now I want to read their works all the more. Going through family books is bittersweet after Dad passed away earlier this year. In his last days, we recited poems about Sir Beelzebub and My Last Dutchess.
@Sam Corbin 32D. PILAR is an interesting word…. Kinda makes your hairs stand on end! And that’s what is meant by the hairy prefix in the word “PILOERECTION” (Btw, PILAR is pronounced in English with a long I & accented on the first syllable, while in Spanish it’s Pilar with a shorter I and accented on the second syllable. In both languages across the ATLANTIC OCEAN, it signifies an upright pillar.)
@Andrzej ZAGAT guides were/are long thin books of one-page reviews of restaurants. Instead of Michelin stars, ZAGAT used numbers (to 30) to rate food, service, decor and cost, with recommendations for settings such as a meeting or date. Displaying “ZAGAT rated” at the entry beckoned diners to enter and enjoy. Guides were available for different cities and cuisines. ZAGAT migrated online, predating Yelp and similar sites. Btw, Michelin guides started in 1910 when the tire company wanted to give roadsters a reason to drive distances to star-worthy restaurants.
@Michael D A track MEET includes Heats
When I joined a medical team, there was already someone else with a similar last name. How to know whom to page? “2 B’s or not 2 B’s, that is the Robbins.” Fun puzzle!
Also- Icelandic hot spots aren’t Finnish saunas. Family vacation decades ago included visits to Iceland. The municipal pools and hot spas got water cooled from abundant natural hydrothermal geyser sources. Swimming laps was delightful, steam rising from uplifted arms. Glaciers and Volcanos and Arctic winds midst the Gulf Stream are dynamic forces in contrast to the historically constant Icelandic language, which sometimes is likened to Chaucerian Norwegian. The Scandinavian PR job called it verdant-edged Iceland, spinning icy Greenland / Vinland to encourage explorers and settlers. Iceland’s forests went to ships, with trees never fully replaced due to the winds. No wonder I lived in Utah for so long. Check out the natural mountain springs from Lava Hot Springs, ID, to Crystal Hot Springs in Honeyville, UT (world’s highest natural lithium waters), to Mystic in Monroe, UT.
All rise — court is in session! Fun opening statement puzzle, Attorney Maddy! MEET as in track/swim heats to winnow the field of competitors YOM as in day (e.g., Yom Kippur) HORA is a circle dance, highlighted by raising the honoree(s) such as a (skittish) bride and groom up and down in chairs while the newlyweds hold a kerchief and keep their balance Easy Saturday, Rebus Wednesday, Reverse Mini, and other switcheroos this week were enjoyable diversions.
@Deb Amlen Thanks for all the fun through 15 years of puzzling columns. Since you’re not a words person (!), the answer is 42… and bring a towel. All the best to you.
@Regine Many physicians (MD and DO) still take orals for part 2 of their medical specialty board certification exams.
@Sarah GATE is the word for tickets sold/seats filled
@Andrzej Welcome back from three weeks vacation! Have fun with your puppy. A MODEL wears fashions, and the person is sometimes called a fashion plate
Yada Yada Yada Fun and clever! Thanks!
@Max Interesting point. When distinguishing between object or descriptor, however, we often substitute nouns for attributive adjectives. Nouns can be more specific, more categorical, or more inclusively broad when modified; when alone, nouns are a statement of fact. “In the tone of” is a way to get to a noun’s source, much like « à la mode » for styles, attributions, or inspiration. Dior’s New Look summarizes a time and place, fashion in post-WW2 historic context. Abbreviating with noun substitution is quick “Peach Melba” says it all. We still enjoy the classic dessert without having to say “in the style of.” What’s in a name? Influence and Publicity! In the 1890s people named things after the Taylor Swift of their time: Australian opera singer, influencer and diva, Dame Nellie Melba. Fans of Melba toast for their diets also enjoyed Peach Melba. Chef Escoffier created his signature dessert in celebration of Melba when her world tour reached London in 1893. We still drop “in the style of” 142 years later.
TALLER [41D] connotes firstborns who are growing children older than their siblings, not adults at the peak of their height.
@Louise “The football player hucked the ball to the end zone” What is a huckleberry in Southern slang? Monday: Huckleberry above the Persimmon (1849 Dictionary of Americanisms) — just a bit beyond, or more than (a Southern phrase). “I'm your huckleberry” means “I'm the right person for the job.”Jan 10, 2014 "I'm your Huckleberry." The Growing Mythology of the American Old West
As Mr. Bond might say: “Ingenious, and useful too.” Well played, Mr. Connery. Well done, Mr. Rooney. Solved while the musical theme ran through my head, smooth as sultry silk, I enjoyed seeing Hodges slung from the sensual belt nipped at the puzzle’s waist: COULD I HAVE A SHIP. This puzzle is a diamond forever.
@HeathieJ Sincerely we are all affected by the losses that you in MInnesota experienced today. In NYC, No Kings participants walked down Fifth Avenue peaceably and purposefully. May we all find ways to interact and grow better together than at odds or in grief.
@Michael Hendler Go to Archive puzzles to find the unfinished ones and increase your total and % #s
@Weak YOM is Hebrew for Day… as in Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement Yom Tov is a holy (good, significant) day
@AJ Topical for the puzzle… but That’ll not Do for courtesy
NAVEL ORANGE POMEGRANATE Same number of letters, both fruits with belly buttons (Offered up for a future puzzle theme)
@Michael D Thanks — same to you and our gamer community!
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