Sundance sweetie crossword clue code#

The hammer and chisel didn't work so well, but tying a geode inside a sock and dropping it from the second-floor balcony provided a satisfying shattering. We bought two and my husband and son took 'em out back to break them open. The same rock store sold break-your-own geodes for $6.50 a pound. I love the blue/green iridescence, and this rock would've been a childhood favorite (c'mon, everyone has a childhood favorite semiprecious stone, don't they?) if I'd seen it then. Speaking of minerals, last weekend I bought a polished chunk of labradorite from Madagascar. Mica is familiar enough, but phlogopite? Phlogopite is an olive-green mica. I've never heard that one-have you? The last name of is ISSEL, and dang, that name sounds like an obscure Belgian river. There were some tough words lurking in the midst.

Sundance sweetie crossword clue code#

Wells/ Time Machine clue for ELOI, ( Eloi is French for Eligius) for PATROL, as in a cop or security guard's beat for ENERGETIC for FLA (the Florida Keys) for theme entry TAKE IT OUT for GETS BY for AMTRAK for medical INTERNS for the no-S plural, HOPI for UTERI for CODE for TIED and for CHUG. Favorite clues and fill: for THROAT NEPHEWS linked to NIECE, in turn linked to AUNTIE Mame for HOPES (not COACHES, not PITCHERS, not LINEMEN.) a non–H.G. I wish I'd filled in that AEIOU sooner, because it would've added an extra fillip of mental action to working out each theme entry. Yes, I just tipped my son off the other day to the AEIOU sequence, but that doesn't mean I'm going to notice them splayed out in a phrase like GAME MISCONDUCT or (an especially nice one) GATHERING CLOUDS (). The Sunday New York Times puzzle by Kelsey Blakley, 'Five-String,' had one of those themes I didn't pick up on until I hit on the giveaway answer at 17-Down-which just so happened to be in the very last corner I solved. What goes better with ribs and jalapeno cornbread than English beer?

Why, just last night, we both had Newcastle Brown Ale.at a barbecue joint. Other pluses: Instead of Mao getting a fill-in-the-blank clue for an outmoded transliteration of his name (TSE in so many crosswords), MAOISM is nice string of vowels in that word, no? (And crossing MAUI, too.) My husband likes Guinness STOUT, while I prefer ALE () we don't keep lager in the house. Curtis classes up his Monday puzzle with six longer (8 to 10 letters) entries. If a woman is beautiful in the forest, does she fail to exist unless there's a man nearby to see her? Putting aside the gender politics, I liked the X, Z, Ks, and J in this grid.Ĭurtis Yee's LA Times puzzle compiles three 'too _ to _' phrases from our language-a clean and simple Monday theme. And besides, who says 'gals' any more? C'mon, CrosSynergy team-get with the century! Then there's OGLE, clued as -the word (and act) OGLE is so steeped in male privilege, and the clue reduces womankind to no more than 'an eyeful,' a mere object to be beheld by another. Then GUYS is clued as -except when the guys are dates for other guys. The clue specifies, but in Massachusetts, Canada, and Europe, a gay man could easily say the same (if he were disposed to making quasi-'Lockhorns' remarks).

I dunno about the gender politics in this one. RIGHT / I CAN NEVER GET HIM / TO ADMIT HE'S WRONG. Patrick Jordan's CrosSynergy crossword, 'Correction Rejection,' offers this quip: I MARRIED MR. There's also a double hit of A.A.- MILNE followed by for AKRON. This is the stage where Salmonid becomes physiologically adapted to saltwater and begins its trek to its salt water environment.') and PALS clued slangily as. (I did not bungle this crossword while solving.) A little bit of supra-Monday stuff, too- XIAN, home of the terra cotta warriors in China called SMOLT ('A smolt is a juvenile fish. Plenty of longish (6 to 8 letters) Monday fill, including limey slang RIGHTO, ELIXIR and EXHALE with X action, and BUNGLE. Here, the FLORIDA KEYS, PIGPENS, TICKER TAPE, and THIRD STRING have all been cluttering up that drawer.ĭominick Talvacchio's New York Sun puzzle skates into the National Hockey League's preseason with 'The Icemen Have Arrived.' The trio of theme entries end with singular hockey players from the New York metro area: THE LONE RANGER (NY Rangers), a PACIFIC ISLANDER (NY Islanders), and OH GOD, YOU DEVIL (New Jersey Devils). I like this twist on the standard 'one word in each theme answer is related to the others' theme-it's more fun to link those components based on what they are rather than on what other word they might follow or precede. Allan Parrish's New York Times crossword clears out the JUNK DRAWER. Another week, another Monday puzzle I liked.