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Today’s Reveal Answer: Belt Buckle
Circled letters in the grid spell out types of BELT. Each of those BELTS “BUCKLE”, move from one row to the row below, and back up again. The BELTS are:
- CONVEYOR BELT
- ORION’S BELT
- MONEY BELT
- ASTEROID BELT
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Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies
Across
1. It can cause a bad trip : LSD
LSD (known colloquially as “acid”) is short for lysergic acid diethylamide. A Swiss chemist called Albert Hofmann first synthesized LSD in 1938 in a research project looking for medically efficacious ergot alkaloids. It wasn’t until some five years later when Hofmann ingested some of the drug accidentally that its psychedelic properties were discovered. Trippy, man …
8. Late-night host with an orange-blimp running gag : CONAN
The Conan blimp is a bright orange dirigible that TBS has used to promote “Conan”, Conan O’Brien’s late night chat show. The blimp was originally constructed to promote a Rolling Stones tour in 2002. It was rebranded in 2010, with the name “CONAN” emblazoned on the sides. O’Brien incorporated the blimp into several comedy sketches on the show, by using it for trivial purposes such as following actor Gary Busey around Los Angeles.
14. Some Pequod crewmen : HARPOONERS
In Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” the obsessed Captain Ahab manages with a final effort to lodge his harpoon in the whale’s flesh. He yells out “… to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee.” With that, the injured whale dives, and Captain Ahab is pulled under to his doom with a loop of the harpoon’s rope wrapped around his neck.
The Pequod is the ship that figures in Herman Melville’s classic novel “Moby Dick”. The ship is owned by a consortium of the citizens of Nantucket Island, including Captains Ahab, Bildad and Peleg.
17. Many Bach compositions : ORGAN MUSIC
Johann Sebastian Bach died when he was 65-years-old, in 1750. He was buried in Old St. John’s Cemetery in Leipzig, and his grave went unmarked until 1894. At that time his coffin was located, removed and buried in a vault within the church. The church was destroyed in an Allied bombing raid during WWII, and so after the war the remains had to be recovered and taken to the Church of St. Thomas in Leipzig.
18. Sources of “Family Feud” answers : SURVEYS
“Survey says!” is a phrase oft-heard in the show “Family Feud”.
“Family Feud” is an American game show that has been remade in countries all over the world. We even make a version in Ireland that we call “Family Fortunes”.
20. Soccer officials : REFS
Back in the early 17th century, a referee was someone who examined patent applications. We started using the same term for a person presiding over a sporting event in the 1820s. “Referee” is derivative of the verb “to refer”, and literally describes someone who has the authority to make a decision by “referring to” a book, archive etc.
22. Utah lily : SEGO
The sego lily is the state flower of Utah, and is a perennial plant found throughout the Western United States.
23. Hush-hush org. : NSA
National Security Agency (NSA)
33. Retailer with blue-and-yellow megastores : IKEA
The IKEA furniture stores use the colors blue and yellow for brand recognition. Blue and yellow are the national colors of Sweden, where IKEA was founded and is headquartered.
39. Eye layer : UVEA
The uvea is the middle of the three layers that make up the eyeball. The outer layer is called the fibrous tunic, and the inner layer is the retina.
42. Hops hot spot : OAST
An oast is a kiln used for drying hops as part of the brewing process. Such a structure might also be called an “oast house”. The term can also apply to a kiln used to dry tobacco.
44. “Things Are Fine in Mount __”: Charley Weaver book : IDY
Mount Idy is a fictional town featured in the TV show “Charley Weaver’s Hobby Lobby” starring Cliff Arquette in the title role. The show ran from September 1959 to March 1960.
46. Unborn : IN UTERO
“In utero” is a Latin term meaning “in the uterus”. The Latin “uterus” (plural “uteri”) translates as both “womb” and “belly”. The Latin word comes from the Greek “hystera” that also means “womb”, which gives us the words “hysterectomy”, and “hysterical”.
48. Scale members : RES
The sol-fa syllables are: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la & ti.
54. Switch partner : BAIT
The term “bait-and-switch” describes a kind of fraud engaged in by disingenuous retailers. Customers are drawn in (baited) by advertising products at an extremely attractive price. Once the customer visits the store in search of the deal, he or she discovers that the advertised goods aren’t in fact available. A deceptive salesperson then guides (switches) the customer to a similar and higher-priced item.
57. Electrical generator : ALTERNATOR
An electrical generator that creates direct current is a dynamo. A generator of alternating current is an alternator.
61. “The Matrix” actress Carrie-__ Moss : ANNE
Carrie-Anne Moss is an actress from Canada who is perhaps best known for playing the character Trinity in “The Matrix” trilogy of films.
The 1999 movie sensation “The Matrix” was meant to be set in a nondescript urban environment. It was actually shot in Australia, as one of the co-producers of the film was the Australian company, Village Roadshow Pictures. You can pick up all sorts of clues about the location when watching the film, including a view of Sydney Harbour Bridge in a background shot. Also, traffic drives along on the left and there are signs for the “lift” instead of an “elevator”.
64. Andean shrubs : COCAS
The coca plant is native to South America and is similar in appearance to a blackthorn bush. Coca leaves have been chewed by humans for centuries, perhaps even as far back as 3,000 years ago. Chewing the leaves apparently produces a pleasurable numb sensation in the mouth and a pleasant taste. The most famous alkaloid in the leaf is cocaine, but this wasn’t extracted in its pure form until the mid-1800s. The extracted cocaine was used in a medicines and tonics and other beverages.
66. Nero Wolfe creator Stout : REX
Rex Stout was an author who is mainly known for his detective fiction featuring his hero Nero Wolfe. One of Stout’s friends was the British author P. G. Wodehouse, who wrote the “Jeeves” series of books.
Nero Wolfe is a fictional detective and the hero of many stories published by author Rex Stout. There are 33 Nero Wolfe novels for us to read, and 39 short stories. There are also movie adaptations of two of the novels: “Meet Nero Wolfe” (1936) which features a young Rita Hayworth, and “The League of Frightened Men” (1937). One of Wolfe’s endearing traits is his love of good food and beer, so he is a pretty rotund character.
Down
2. Panels illustrating film scripts : STORYBOARDS
“Storyboarding” is a process in which quickly drawn images are arranged in sequence on say a wall in order to pre-visualize a movie or cartoon. The process was developed in the thirties at the Walt Disney Studio. It’s a great system, and one that I even used in business, for setting plans and preparing presentations.
3. High capital : DENVER
Denver, Colorado is nicknamed the “Mile-High City” because its official elevation is listed as exactly one mile. Denver City was founded in 1858 as a mining town. The name was chosen in honor of the Kansas Territorial Governor at the time, James W. Denver.
4. “Hey, sailor!” : AHOY!
“Ahoy!” is a nautical term used to signal a vessel. When the telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell, he suggested that “ahoy” be used as a standard greeting when answering a call. However, Thomas Edison came up with “hello”, and we’ve been using that ever since.
5. General concerns? : WARS
The military rank of general originated in the 1570s from the rank of “captain general”. A captain general was a captain with broader responsibilities and control.
6. Unit of work : ERG
An erg is a unit of mechanical work or energy. It is a small unit, with one joule comprising 10 million ergs. it has been suggested that an erg is about the amount of energy required for a mosquito to take off. The term comes from “ergon”, the Greek word for work.
10. Wii forerunner, briefly : NES
The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was sold in North America from 1985 to to 1995. The NES was the biggest selling gaming console of the era. Nintendo replaced the NES with Wii, which is also the biggest-selling game console in the world.
11. Onassis nickname : ARI
Aristotle “Ari” Onassis was born to a successful Greek shipping entrepreneur in Smyrna in modern-day Turkey. However, his family lost its fortune during WWI and so Aristotle worked with his father to build up a new business empire centered on the importation of tobacco. In 1957, Aristotle founded the Greek national airline, what is today called Olympic Air, and he also got into the business of shipping oil around the world. He married Athina Livanos in 1946, the daughter of a wealthy shipping magnate. They couple had two children together, with one being the famous Christina Onassis. Livanos divorced Onassis on discovering him in bed with the opera singer Maria Callas. Onassis ended his affair with Callas in order to marry Jackie Kennedy in 1968.
12. Foreign policy advisory gp. : NSC
The National Security Council (NSC) was created by President Harry S. Truman in 1947. The NSC is chaired by the sitting president and meets in the White House Situation Room.
13. Plastic choice : VISA
VISA doesn’t actually issue any credit or debit cards. VISA just sells the electronic systems and infrastructure to banks who then put the VISA logo on their own cards. Seeing the logo, both customer and merchant know to use the VISA system when making a transaction.
15. 100 sawbucks : ONE G
One G, one grand, one thousand dollars.
“Sawbuck” is slang for a ten dollar bill. The term was applied to the bill as the Roman numeral X (which used to appear on the bill) resembles the end of sawhorse.
19. Place for pins and needles : ETUI
An etui is an ornamental case used to hold small items, in particular sewing needles. We imported both the case design and the word “etui” from France. The French also have a modern usage of “etui”, using the term to depict a case for carrying CDs.
22. Salts, say : SEASONS
Our verb “to season”, meaning “to improve flavor by adding spices”, comes from the Old French word “assainoer” meaning “to ripen, season”. The original meaning embraced the idea of a fruit becoming more flavorful when wipe, when in season.
23. King’s philosophy : NONVIOLENCE
Martin Luther King, Jr’s father was born Michael King. On a trip to Germany in 1934, Michael came to admire Protestant leader Martin Luther and changed his name to Martin Luther King on his return the United States. Famously, he passed on his new name to his son, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr (MLK).
24. Jousting mount : STEED
“Jousting” and “tilting” are synonyms describing the medieval competition in which two horsemen yielding blunted lances attempt to unseat each other. Such an event has been referred to as “jousting” since the 1300s. At some point, the path of the two charging horsemen was separated by a cloth barrier known as a tilt (“tilt” meant “cloth covering”). The term “tilting” was applied to the sport in the 1500s, although by then the cloth barrier had been upgraded to a wooden fence.
27. Scottish isle : SKYE
The Isle of Skye is off the northwest coast of Scotland in the Inner Hebrides. It is the second largest island in the country, and has been linked to the mainland by a road bridge since 1995. I’ve never been there, but I hear the views are spectacular.
30. Letters for short people? : IOU
I owe you (IOU)
32. Sparkly stone : GEODE
A geode is a rock in which there is a cavity that is lined or filled with crystal formations.
36. Witty remark : MOT
“Bon mot” translates from French as “good word”. We use “bon mot” (and sometimes just “mot”) to mean “quip, witticism”.
38. __ de toilette : EAU
“Eau de toilette” (toilet water) is a diluted perfume. A French person when dressing is said to be attending to his or her “toilette”.
41. Strict diet restriction : NO CARBS
Perhaps most notably, the eating of relatively few carbohydrates is central to the diet proposed by Robert Atkins. Atkins first laid out the principles behind the Atkins diet in a research paper published in 1958 in the “Journal of the American Medical Association”. He popularized his diet starting in 1972 with his book “Dr. Atkins’ Diet Revolution”.
50. Japanese aborigine : AINU
The Ainu people are an indigenous race found primarily in Japan and parts of Russia close to Japan. The spoken Ainu language has nearly died out, with only a handful of native speakers alive today.
Even though the term “aborigine” is often associated with the indigenous peoples of Australia, in the widest sense “aboriginal” refers to any indigenous race. The Aborigines were a people in Roman mythology, the oldest inhabitants of central Italy.
53. Belgian river : YSER
The Yser river flows into the North Sea at Nieuwpoort in the Flemish province of West Flanders in Belgium.
54. Phi __ Kappa : BETA
Phi Beta Kappa was the first collegiate Greek fraternity in the US, founded in 1776 at the College of William and Mary. The organization served as a model for future collegiate fraternities and sororities, although in the 19th century Phi Beta Kappa distanced itself from the fraternal focus and transformed into the honor society that it is today, recognizing academic excellence. The initials Phi Beta Kappa stand for “philosophia biou kybernētēs”, which translates into “philosophy is the guide of life”. The symbol of the Phi Beta Kappa Society is a golden key.
56. Son of Zeus and Hera : ARES
The Greek god Ares is often referred to as the Olympian god of warfare, but originally he was regarded as the god of bloodlust and slaughter. Ares united with Aphrodite to create several gods, including Phobos (Fear), Deimos (Terror) and Eros (Desire). Ares was the son of Zeus and Hera, and the Roman equivalent to Ares was Mars.
57. TV network with much Shondaland programming : ABC
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is the world’s largest broadcaster in terms of revenues. ABC was formed in 1943, when it was created out of the former NBC Blue radio network.
Shonda Rhimes is the creator and head writer of the TV shows “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Scandal”. She also serves as executive producer for the crime shows “How to Get Away with Murder” and “The Catch”. Rhimes also runs her own production company called Shondaland.
58. Summer sign : LEO
The constellation named Leo can be said to resemble a lion. Others say that it resembles a bent coat hanger. “Leo” is the Latin for “lion”, but I’m not sure how to translate “coat hanger” into Latin …
59. Solace for a sad BFF : TLC
Tender loving care (TLC)
Best friend forever (BFF)
60. Ref’s ruling : TKO
Technical knockout (TKO)
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Complete List of Clues/Answers
Across
1. It can cause a bad trip : LSD
4. Renders speechless : AWES
8. Late-night host with an orange-blimp running gag : CONAN
13. Show of hands : VOTE
14. Some Pequod crewmen : HARPOONERS
16. Tapped pic : ICON
17. Many Bach compositions : ORGAN MUSIC
18. Sources of “Family Feud” answers : SURVEYS
20. Soccer officials : REFS
21. Till this moment : AS YET
22. Utah lily : SEGO
23. Hush-hush org. : NSA
26. Rebuffed, with “off” : BRUSHED
29. Mob scenes : RIOTS
31. In bygone days : AGO
33. Retailer with blue-and-yellow megastores : IKEA
34. Does penance (for) : ATONES
35. Clothing line : SEAM
37. Go-aheads : YESES
39. Eye layer : UVEA
40. Say : FOR ONE
42. Hops hot spot : OAST
44. “Things Are Fine in Mount __”: Charley Weaver book : IDY
45. Augment : ADD TO
46. Unborn : IN UTERO
48. Scale members : RES
49. Preserves, in a way : CANS
51. Baton-passing event : RELAY
54. Switch partner : BAIT
55. Makes moist : DAMPENS
57. Electrical generator : ALTERNATOR
61. “The Matrix” actress Carrie-__ Moss : ANNE
62. Clothing accessory, perhaps … or what you can see in each of four groups of circles? : BELT BUCKLE
63. Cupcake decorator : ICER
64. Andean shrubs : COCAS
65. Little piggies : TOES
66. Nero Wolfe creator Stout : REX
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1. Center of power : LOCUS
2. Panels illustrating film scripts : STORYBOARDS
3. High capital : DENVER
4. “Hey, sailor!” : AHOY!
5. General concerns? : WARS
6. Unit of work : ERG
7. Let off : SPARED
8. Solace : COMFORT
9. Responsibility : ONUS
10. Wii forerunner, briefly : NES
11. Onassis nickname : ARI
12. Foreign policy advisory gp. : NSC
13. Plastic choice : VISA
15. 100 sawbucks : ONE G
19. Place for pins and needles : ETUI
22. Salts, say : SEASONS
23. King’s philosophy : NONVIOLENCE
24. Jousting mount : STEED
25. Test for purity : ASSAY
27. Scottish isle : SKYE
28. Half a giggle : HEE
30. Letters for short people? : IOU
31. Equidistant : AS FAR
32. Sparkly stone : GEODE
34. Boss’ backup: Abbr. : ASST
36. Witty remark : MOT
38. __ de toilette : EAU
41. Strict diet restriction : NO CARBS
43. __ paper : TERM
46. Whole : INTACT
47. Get to work again : REPAIR
50. Japanese aborigine : AINU
52. Subsidiary structure : ANNEX
53. Belgian river : YSER
54. Phi __ Kappa : BETA
55. Dish (out) : DOLE
56. Son of Zeus and Hera : ARES
57. TV network with much Shondaland programming : ABC
58. Summer sign : LEO
59. Solace for a sad BFF : TLC
60. Ref’s ruling : TKO
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A personal shout out to a Mr. William Butler:
Originally I had intended on writing this Monday evening. My attendance at a conference this weekend through Tuesday worried me so I’m writing this a few days earlier than I had intended.
As many may or may not have read in the past, Bill wrote his introduction to his first blog page by mentioning the passing of his father. Bill dedicated the blog to his father as his father was the one who introduced him to crosswords. That intro to his first NYT blog was dated January 29, 2009. That means Tuesday will be Bill’s 10th anniversary of doing this (actually the NYT) blog. He began doing the LA Times in 2012. I did the math on that. As of Tuesday Bill will have written 3652 (2 leap years) NYT write ups and roughly 2500 LA Times write ups. That brings the entire number of write ups he’s done for all of us at approximately 6152…Six THOUSAND fifty two write ups!! Let that number sink in for a few seconds. Wow. If I had done ONE write up of one crossword and put it online, I’d show it off to friends and anyone else on the street as a prized accomplishment for untold years. But 6152?? That is incomprehensible to me. Through family hardships, travel, and just life exerting itself as it does to all of us, Bill’s write ups have become as dependable as the sunrise.
Bill will take heat if someone doesn’t like the puzzle of the day (nevermind he had nothing to do with its creation..), he’ll take heat if someone thinks he should have explained a particular clue/answer more thoroughly, he’ll take heat if, God forbid, he had some typo somewhere in his write up. But has anyone ever heard anything even approaching a cross word (pardon the pun) from our host? I never have. Bill’s forbearance in the face of such criticism has been as unyielding as has been his persistence in producing this product for us daily – now for 10 years.
So finally to Bill from all of us – Thank you more than you’ll ever know for how much we all appreciate your efforts. All of us are different ages, backgrounds, solving levels, circumstances, whatever. However, we all share the love of these crazy crossword puzzles, and you have given us the gift of this blog now for 10 amazing years. Everyone has a cross to bear, and everyone has their daily struggles via the normalcy of life in general. This blog gives us all a brief respite from that grind of daily life. It has been a consistent daily distraction of a few moments that have been a source of relaxation, learning, and pleasure that I’m not sure you comprehend. It has become a consequential part of our everyday lives.
A salute to your father is in order as his passing was a brief 10 years ago, and a salute goes out to you, Bill Butler, for 10 remarkable years of doing this blog. I’m safe in assuming I can speak for all of us by saying a large “Thank you” for everything you have given us. If I had a shot of bourbon in my hand (or for Bill perhaps a Guinness Draft bottle with a shot of Bushmills on the side) I’d toast to another 10+years of doing this blog. Thank you so much for your efforts.
Happy 10th anniversary….a few days early.
Best –
Well said, I didn’t know the history and that makes me more humble at the work Bill has done and I hope for many more years. John
Lovely tribute Jeff, and I enjoy Bill’s entire body of work every day.
@Bill
Thirded, fourthed? I know when I went through things for those time posts that it was a chore. Definitely much more for writing them in the first place! Thanks for all that you do!
Thanks, Bill. What a body of work! And thanks, Jeff for the reminder.
Amen and you wrote a wonderful summation, Jeff. I don’t know the system,
but I do know that Bill has a prominent part in it. Kudos, Bill, and I offer
you my sympathy for the passing of your father. I hope you see this.
We found today’s pretty hard, but were able to drag out 85% of it. No errors
on the ones we posted, but too many omissions to get in the 90’s. OK with it.
One word new to us was GEODE. I won’t remember that, in case it is in
tomorrow’s puzzle.
@Jeff, and many others.
Thank you so much for such wonderful words about the blog, and indeed the kind sentiments expressed about my Dad.
Writing up the blog posts each day has proven to be a great retirement hobby (albeit very frustrating these past couple of weeks!). I will share that ten years ago I was looking to start a blog of some description as a new hobby. As I was learning about the blogging process, I received a call from my brother that my Dad had passed. It was on the plane on the way back from the funeral that I got the idea to blog about crosswords. I had talked during the eulogy about the link that my Dad and I shared through crosswords for so many years, and I felt that a crossword blog would be a way to keep his memory very much alive. Dad’s photo pops up each night as I make my posts, and that has proven to be a great gift.
Jeff, I truly appreciate the amount of thought and effort that you put into your post. I get a great kick out of crosswords and blogging, and will readily admit that I’m here because it’s fun for me. That said, I doubt that I would have kept going for so long without the support given by so many blog readers over the years. Really, thank you all.
FYI the Wii was not the successor to the NES. The release order was NES, SNES (“super” NES), Nintendo 64, GameCube, then Wii.
Happy anniversary. Can’t start my day without you. Thank you.
48 A How are scale members res? Thank you
musical scales
NYT # 1220…….. 36 min. And no errors
LAT 31:28 and no errors although as usual I did get bogged down in one area but finally got through it.
Hats off and thank you Mr Bill for all you do.
BTW your biog is coming up much faster now.
LAT: 10:09, 1 dumb error. WSJ: 13:38, no errors. Newsday: 11:09, no errors. Incredibly weird one that I’m surprised got accepted. BEQ: 13:43, no errors. Kind of amazed, most of these were either softball compared to usual or I got somewhat better. I don’t know.
I didn’t know all of Bill’s history. So, yes, thank you Bill for all your work/effort to making our puzzle experiences good ones! Also, thanks to Jeff for his knowledge of the history of this blog and sharing it.
Wonderful tribute, Jeff. Bill, as always, thank you.
There was no explanation for 40A: say. The answer was “for one”.
I don’t understand that answer.
That was a very cynical clue, designed to trip you up by not reading it with the proper intonation. Say, especially with a comma following it, can be used as a synonym for, “For one”. In this sentence, say.
I *really* do not like it when setters or editors resort to this kind of misdirection and manufactured difficulty. I want to be challenged, sure, but not tricked.
Oh. OK.
15:31, no errors. Got stuck for long minutes centered around 41D and 49A. Not to mention 50 down and 64A. Who knows offhand about Andean shrubbery, or Japanese indigenous people???
Kudos to Bill, for his blogs, and to Jeff, for his tribute! Thank you both!
LAT: 8:38, no errors (and COCAS and AINU were gimmes!). Newsday: 10:56, no errors; a very odd grid and some difficult cluing. WSJ: 13:19, no errors. BEQ: 17:07, no errors (and surprisingly, not even one write-over!); but I have the feeling that there’s something about the theme that I still don’t get: I see that each theme answer contains a certain three-letter string, but is that all?
My day started with shoveling snow (twice), a thirty-mile trip on icy roads to have blood drawn for some tests (an up-coming health fair), and, as a result, nothing to eat until noon. So I’m going back to bed … 😜.
@Dave
Yep pretty much on the BEQ. XYR (or “Ten Year”) is added to a phrase to get what BEQ put in there. So “Kissing Booth” becomes “Kissing Boxy Roth”.
Thanks, Glenn! I now see what I was missing: I chose to look at the third theme entry and “WAIVER WIRE” meant nothing to me, so I neglected to look at the others, which would have meant something. I’m gonna blame this on my age and my exhausting morning … 😜.
Given that this comment section is a very well deserved tribute to Bill on his 10th anniversary of toiling away in the bowels of the Crossword factory, I’ll just say I’m going home tonight and raising up a glass in his honor as having a belt, given today’s theme, to Bill is very apropos.
And Bill I think you missed one of the hidden belts in the grid. 57 Across is another type of belt, if I’m not mistaken.
@Bill… I have read your blog almost daily since discovering it 5 or so years ago. More of a lurker than contributor, but really enjoy 😊 reading it. Thanks again for what you do. And a well done to Jeff for his tribute.
Thank you Bill, for the great blog, and Jeff, for the great tribute. I read all the entries every day, except Sundays, and if I ever mention a typo or correction, it is in the interest of improving your already fantastic database of answers.
Fairly easy Thursday for me; took about 30 minutes with no errors. Noodled around in the SW a bit and finally took a look at the theme and quickly finished things off.
For “High capital” they should have used Santa Fe, which is surprisingly to me, at 7,199 ft! Even Albuquerque is at 5,312 ft. I’m kinda into New Mexico at the moment while watching “Breaking Bad.”
Jeff! Thanks so much for the tribute to Bill, for doing the math, and in particular for pointing out Bill’s forbearance! Bill, I always notice your equanimity with commenters who make note of typos or inaccuracies (which occur so rarely, and I know I’ve pointed some out!) Yours is an admirable effort. For several years now it’s been a great part of my day– I love reading your blog!! ☺ Sincere thanks!
No errors on a rather challenging Thursday!! 🙀 Totally drew a blank on ALTERNATOR (I’m no gearhead!!!) so that SW region was tough.
Who’s ready for the one-two punch of Friday and Saturday?!! 😮
Be well ~~🤞