Mid 6s. He's the Crossword Hollywood It Boy. A massively popular example of the genre. Seems like it needs a qualifier, if only an appended "at times. Short Stuff You Just Know. Save And Share :. When your single entry in your first pass through the puzzle is FOOT for League Division you know you're in for either a very long, or very short, solve.
I don't know what kind of whimpy half-assed apocolypse every one expects, but to my way of thinking there really can't be a post-apocolyptic novel. Needed this one after yesterdays fiasco. Didnt know the actors or writer but this think was so smooth it didnt matter. The long ones were easier than the short fill for me. Who punches a stapler? Never heard that one. Easy-medium for me. West mid week easy, east Fri.
So a solid but easy Fri. I would have preferred "Roz on Frasier" for 46d. Went with T so a DNF on an otherwise easy puzzle. Pretty easy here. Thought the fill was mostly fresh and smile-producing. Thanks, Mr. Quite a solid puzzle with lots of fresh and interesting phrases. You can theoretically get back home following a star or more accurately, stars , if you're lost at sea and have no compass or map.
I'm also going to proclaim the brilliance for the clue at 7-Down, the answer to which I didn't even understand until after I solved the puzzle. I kept trying to imagine which five-letter body part was the human body's biggest secret: The brain because it's a still poorly understood organ and no one can read your mind? The heart because know one Some five-letter word that rhymes with Venus because Or because you can't see a GLAND on someone's exterior when you're looking at him or her in front of you, but it works inside that person anyway?
Then I got hit by the "Ohhhhh, it means secretion! It's always cool to have an a-ha moment even if said a-ha moment is long delayed. So much more fun than yesterday. He is also a singer, hope he gets my sledge hammer hints. Hand up for ice cap. Rex, you are truly King of Crosswords. An asterisk is star-shaped, but, it's Latin roots notwithstanding, it is not a star. And you don't follow it anywhere. It just prompts you to look at the bottom of the page.
Correction on my last comment: "because NO one Sigh, this is the week that was not for me. Our moment in the sun was playing for one of the side parties for Yoko Ono's opening at the Everson. We had a female lead singer and 3 14 year old lads as backup singers for whom we had to beg their mothers to let them perform Sat.
Alas Yoko and John did not make it and we all got home early. Both sounded on the sunny slope of memory great with Sue singing lead backed up by the 3 wrens.
Happily they all tolerated my obscure selection of covers. While we were not so great we had fun. Take Andrea there when you are town. Rex can you fix this robot test, I keep expecting "Prepare to be assimilated.
Resistance is futile! We are the Borg. I'm pop-culture deficient, but usually the crosses save me - but not here. Thought the Mariners were the Seattle variety, etc. Now must go lick my wounds. I rarely motor through a Friday or Saturday puzzle. I generally have to put the paper down, distract myself with Imus, reconsider answers that I've fallen in love with, and reengage.
Today I motored. I'm rarely happy when I motor through a Friday or Saturday puzzle. But today's was smooth and well-lubricated, not mindless. Wanted beech for betel. My dad chewed Beechnut peppermint gumonly a half stick at a time, since he was frugality personified. Sounds like we all wanted ice cap. Good to see "cockpit" as a clue; in recent years, it's fallen out of favor and often replaced with "flight deck". But I'm not getting into the 'offensive' discussion today Thanks, Ian!
Easy to med for me. Enjoyed a lot of the clues and answers including space cadet, gland, footnote, babe magnet and false start. Hand up for ice cap and seed before feed. Struggled with two before charlie, thinking two words in four spaces, all I could come up with was "Et tu, Charlie? And alfa just seems to me should be alpha.
After yesterday's brutality, it was fun to solve an excellent puzzle this morning. I had the Friday satisfaction I always get from a late-week Patrick Berry puzzle.
Although Andy Garcia fit, it was immediately clear that supporting crosses weren't coming, and then I remembered the strange Wallach character, and threw that in with no crosses EWE quickly confirmed it to be the right move. Nice one Mr. I just read Amy Reynaldo's blog, in which she has a link to the e. I loved this puzzle for its construction and elegant cluing. And then everything magically opened up.
Plenty of aha moments on all four corners. Just the right kind of puzzle for a Friday for someone like me. Impossible at first but with a few google and voila! Thank you Mr. Can't remember a Friday this easy. I did this with a pen in the newspaper in 20 minutes, absolutely unheard of for me. Made me chuckle. By the way, wouldn't the clue have been better with a lowercase "c"? Constructors must love it when two unrelated terms ending in the same letter can be clued identically. All in all, I am really impressed that Mr.
Very well done. Along with RIGEL meaning foot or appendage, this can be added to the factoids at the intersection of astronomy, Arabic and crosswordese. Some tricky cluing. Nice solid Friday. But now their secret is out, with their recipe book a recent donation to Special Collections of Addlestone Library at the College of Charleston.
Try a recipe for the Lady Baltimore cake. Skip to main content. The City Magazine Since Search form. WHen very light add three-fourths of a cupful of cold water and two cupfuls of flour. Beat well and stir in half the beaten whites of four eggs. Bake in a moderate oven fifty minutes. Eight eggs, whites only, one pound flour, one pound sugar, one-half pound butter, one-half pint milk, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, two teaspoonfuls almond extract.
Cream butter and sugar, add milk very slowly with flour to keep smooth, seasoning then. Beat the whites of eggs very light, bake in jelly pans, three layers. Icing: Three cups sugar, whites of four eggs, one gill of boiling water, one-half teaspoonful tartaric acid, pour water in sugar and boil for ten minutes or until it ropes from spoon. Have your whites thoroughly beaten and add acid.
Pour hot syrup while beating, season with vanilla. Add two cups of walnuts and two cups chopped raisins. Pour between cakes. Fisher Unwin Pg. Beat the whites of six eggs. Take a cup and a half of granulated sugar, a cup of milk, nearly a cup of butter, three cups of flour and two teaspoonfuls of good baking powder. Sift the flour and baking powder together into the other ingredients, adding the eggs last of all.
Bake in two buttered pans for fifteen or twenty minutes. For the frosting: Two cups of granulated sugar and a cup and a half of water. Boil until stringy, about five minutes usually does it. Beat the whites of two eggs very light, and pour the boiling sugar slowly into it, mixing well.
Take out of this enough for the top and sides of the cake, and stir into the remainder, for the filling between the two layers, one cup of finely chopped raisins and a cup of chopped nuts. This is delicious when properly baked. When planning to use this recipe one must also plan for the use of the whites of the egg. Cream one-half cupful of butter and add gradually, while beating constantly, one cupful of sugar; then add the yolks of eight eggs, beaten until thick.
Mix and sift one and three-fourths cupfuls of bread-flour with three teaspoonfuls of baking-powder. Add to first mixture alternately with one-half cupful of sweet milk. Flavor with two teaspoonfuls of vanilla and beat two minutes.
Turn into three buttered and floured seven-inch-square tins and bake in a moderate oven. Put between layers Lord baltimore Filling. For the filling add to a boiled frosting when ready to spread one half a cupful of macaroon powder macaroons dried in the oven and rolled or pounded , one-fourth of a cupful of blanched and chopped almonds, one-fourth of a cupful of chopped pecans, twelve candied cherries cut in small pieces, two teaspoonfuls of lemon-juice, one and one-half teaspoonfuls of vanilla and one teaspoonful of orange-extract.
Now cover top as well as sides with boiled frosting flavored with vanilla and garnish with a border of halves of cherries and diamond-shaped pieces of angelica, alternating the two. Mix and sift baking powder and flour and add alternately with milk to first mixture; then add flavoring and cut and fold in whites of eggs, beaten until stiff and dry.
Turn into three buttered and floured seven-inch square tins and bake in a moderate oven.
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