I've never seen You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, but I suppose a vague memory of Lucy and Charlie was enough. The first was SPACE CAMP, which I did not know happens in Huntsville, Ala., but what else could it have been? The second was THE DOCTOR IS IN. It's always satisfying when a hunch turns out correctly, and I had two of them today. You have to understand that this is a viable, functioning language, and once you get the hang of it, it’s effortless to both speak it and understand – I know, right? YOU NAILED IT re today’s news. If I was on the kitchen phone talking to Barbara W and Mom walked in, I could switch to Gibberish, and Mom had no idea that I was recounting my awful spin-the-bottle experience with Michael C. In middle school, my friends and I used Gibberish all time. Someone from some Spanish-speaking country taught me one, where you add po to every syllable, soĪnd there’s one for Japanese (Okinawa, maybe?) where you repeat each vowel, but first add a b sound, kinda. Secret child languages (aka ludlings or cryptolects) aren’t limited to English. Maybe AMSCRAY is pretty much just a spoken command and hence doesn’t appear in print enough? I’m guessing that the lexicographers found enough edited, printed occurrences of ixnay to warrant its inclusion. Funny that ixnay has earned a spot in Merriam Webster, but AMSCRAY has not. Man that ACME clue totally got me – bought it hook, line, and sinker and was vaguely wondering if I was too old to give one a go.Ī BEAR is never a problem while camping so long as your co-camper runs slower than you do. Returned to Grisham and Baldacci and have never looked back.Ĭurl Up and DYE is good, but the most inspired business name I’ve seen was for a security company: Surelock Homes. I’m reminded of when my newfie, Beverly Ann, annihilated my copy of Anna Karenina one summer, rescuing me from my resolution to become more erudite and fancy. I kept going back to make sure it didn’t fit.Īnthony Hopkins would appreciate FAVA crossing VIN.
But it took a bit to let go of “routine”” for RITUAL. Malaika, I agree that all of them are terrific. I’ll take those black corners that afford the six entries for the stacks. Although in this hot weather, a Celsius TEEN feels pretty refreshing (50 to 66 F). (Walk highlight: teen girls skip rope class on the tennis court, in uniform.) Then do the xword, as I am in PDT and the puzzle is online at 7pm latest.Īnd speaking of temp(erature)s, "Some frigid temps" are not usually TEENS here, since we use Celsius. And Malaika, like you, for 12 across "taking a shower and solving a crossword" are EVENING RITUALs!, at least in the hot weather (96F here today), since I have no AC, I shower after my post dinner walk. There were a couple of typeovers, eg SPRAY TAN before FAKE TAN. This seems like maybe a record low number of acrosses. THE DOG ATE (MY HOMEWORK=IT), YOU NAILED IT, perfect examples. It was just: read the clue, type in the answer. Wow Malaika, this was hard for you? Quite fast for me, 11 minutes more or less, and I'm not a fast solver. Did y'all put "Lego" first? (I had the X from above which made it easy.) I had tons of these as a kid. My favorite changes, but right now it's Russell's- a classic. A gimme! I guess my nit is that I would have said "programmer" instead of "computer scientist." The clue for MORNING RITUAL slowed me down a lot because I shower and solve the crossword at night! I love to be clean when I get into bed, and my curls do better drying overnight.Have you ever had falafel made from FAVA beans? I've only had the chickpea variety.Oh, I guess I should say " ACED IT and YOU NAILED IT have IT crossing at the I" so there we go. Low parts for me were MARSALIS (a name I'm unfamiliar with) and AMSCRAYS and ECT. Other high parts were LIVE TWEET (*chef's kiss*) and I WONT ASK, which I literally said tonight at dinner, and FAKE TAN and BESTIES (.
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