tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305840857858959680.post6451857888451215247..comments2024-03-07T21:45:59.348-07:00Comments on Madness...Crossword and Otherwise: Thursday, March 27 - Joe KrozelLinda Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15816794362786044423noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305840857858959680.post-63796664870335705812008-03-27T16:21:00.000-06:002008-03-27T16:21:00.000-06:00Sean, I can understand your frustration with the t...Sean, I can understand your frustration with the theme. This actually follows a prototypical model that pops up in puzzledom from time to time. As I researched for this puzzle, I observed some of the following (in other puzzles): AUTHORLARDNER clued as "Ring", SINGERBOONE clued as "Pat", and on and on. So, heads up for the next time around!! I hope the trouble didn't spoil your fun too much.<BR/>-JoeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305840857858959680.post-82484751035615264092008-03-27T12:36:00.000-06:002008-03-27T12:36:00.000-06:00Plotz is Yiddish for faint or "have a cow"!Plotz is Yiddish for faint or "have a cow"!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14862167023153361267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305840857858959680.post-59888657124314081092008-03-27T12:25:00.000-06:002008-03-27T12:25:00.000-06:00The last theme answer I got was 36A.20A - Crane ca...The last theme answer I got was 36A.<BR/><BR/>20A - Crane can be "defined" as to stretch ones neck.<BR/><BR/>51A - Crane can be "defined" as a large wading bird.<BR/><BR/>To "define" the word crane as Novelist Stephen ??!<BR/><BR/>I kept fighting with the Down Clues/Answers to get something like "to hoist supplies" to fit in and "define" crane.<BR/><BR/>Of course, I could never construct a puzzle. They still amaze me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305840857858959680.post-24194161144650050762008-03-27T10:25:00.000-06:002008-03-27T10:25:00.000-06:00Linda, I'm sure that by now you've figured out tha...Linda, I'm sure that by now you've figured out that I steal <EM>all</EM> my best ideas from you. Why else do you think I was so anxious to see your blog return?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305840857858959680.post-74823851306142179382008-03-27T07:02:00.000-06:002008-03-27T07:02:00.000-06:00Joe, you and Will made a good call on CRANE...defi...Joe, you and Will made a good call on CRANE...definitely appropriate for a Thursday.<BR/><BR/>Jim, thanks for the excuse...and I see that you used the same Cary Grant pic, although mine didn't show it with the movie name.<BR/><BR/>KarmaSartre, I can't tell if you're kidding about Dora...but if you Google it, you'll laugh.<BR/><BR/>Wendy, thanks for sharing the law of predictions. Yes...very relevant to puzzles such as this.<BR/><BR/>Bob, I wondered when you'd wander back to Madness...I couldn't stay away ; )<BR/><BR/>Anonymous, I left Florida in 1980, moving slowly westward. In spite of hay fever, I love having a change of seasons...and I detest humidity. I've been back to visit many times since then...the last trip (and probably my last ever) was in 2002 when my father died. <BR/><BR/>But, hey! It was sunny and in the seventies yesterday here in western Colorado. Life is good!Linda Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15816794362786044423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305840857858959680.post-17176665962398292082008-03-27T06:26:00.000-06:002008-03-27T06:26:00.000-06:00HOW COME YOU LEFT FLORIDA---ITS GREAT GREAT GREAT ...HOW COME YOU LEFT FLORIDA---ITS GREAT GREAT GREAT HERE IN VERO BEACHAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305840857858959680.post-35311127169810300982008-03-27T05:56:00.000-06:002008-03-27T05:56:00.000-06:00Welcome back Linda...it has been a while since I c...Welcome back Linda...it has been a while since I checked you blog and it is nice to see you are back!...I have two issues with todays puzzle...Penn is an abreviation and should be noted as such and Ginnie Mae is an acronmy and further more Ginnie Mae's are not federally guaranteed securities. Ginnie Mae is a publicly traded company and not part of the US Government...sorry Joe bad clueAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305840857858959680.post-19062085778233008122008-03-27T05:13:00.000-06:002008-03-27T05:13:00.000-06:00“The only way of discovering the limits of the pos...“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.” That was one of the late Arthur C. Clarke's three laws of prediction, and I used it in something I was writing for work earlier this week. <BR/><BR/>It's relevant because just when I think I've bottomed out in my solving abilities, I nail something impossible like this with nary a google or peek here. <BR/><BR/>Last night I was cursing like a sailor; how in the hell did I know what these three long answers were supposed to be, with nothing to tie them together except that they were all defined by one five-letter word? Then this morning I kept hacking away at it, and suddenly it all comes into view. S-W-E-E-T!!!<BR/><BR/>Loved seeing Jay & the Americans in the puzzle too. CAMERA SHY, WAR BRIDE, PARABOLA, CASSINI and DATELINE are beautiful. PLOTZ is Yiddish, but I don't think of it as meaning to faint, closer to coming unglued, going to pieces, that sort of thing. <BR/><BR/>Thank you Joe! And thanks for your nice 'brief' post, Linda! ;) Keep 'em coming.wendyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06899889818724088564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305840857858959680.post-25256554870683273182008-03-26T23:48:00.000-06:002008-03-26T23:48:00.000-06:00After yesterday's puzzle, I wanted the 1-across "f...After yesterday's puzzle, I wanted the 1-across "fries" answer to be GLENN.<BR/><BR/>I had a couple of know-without-knowing-how-you-know moments: PARABOLA and HOPE. Parabola is also a very good magazine.<BR/><BR/>The War Bride movie thing is a joke, right? Mr. Krozel made it up, and you, Linda, photo-shopped the picture. It can't be real....<BR/><BR/>I know a dog-trainer who teaches the "Plotz" command, kind of a severe down/stay for when the dog is in immediate danger, e.g. from a car.<BR/><BR/>No idea what you mean about Dora Explorer. Four-dora explora? I'll google this one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305840857858959680.post-65703950398784030132008-03-26T23:31:00.000-06:002008-03-26T23:31:00.000-06:00Linda, you didn't get PARABOLA because the Across ...Linda, you didn't get PARABOLA because the Across Lite version doesn't show the superscripted 2 in ax SQUARED. Feel free to use that as your excuse. :)<BR/><BR/>Nice to hear from the constructor. And I agree; perfectly appropriate for a Thursday.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3305840857858959680.post-81572963497060708982008-03-26T23:19:00.000-06:002008-03-26T23:19:00.000-06:00By the way, I left it up to Will to decide whether...By the way, I left it up to Will to decide whether to clue the theme entries by way of 49-Down (CRANE). If that was too difficult for the typical solver, we were prepared to change that entry to CRONE and move "Crane" into the theme clues. I'm thinking the hidden clue was quite appropriate for a Thursday puzzle.<BR/>-JoeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com