Harry was an impressionist painter who eventually settled in New Hope, PA, but went to Woodstock in 1913 to continue his studies in landscape painting - the place was then (and still seems to be) a thriving art colony. His wife's memoirs describe "Tannery Brook House", the boarding house where many of the impoverished artists lived, and we were delighted to find the place still standing - not much changed in outward appearance, but renamed as The Old Forge House in honor of its once being a smithy.
We'd seen so many political yard signs on our drive today, that I suppose I should have anticipated an election puzzle. However, it took a long while to get the quotation and those long empty acrosses hampered my efforts to fill the grid. Similarly, Mario Cuomo was tough, although I had come across a Cuomo in a recent puzzle ... Andrew Cuomo, who Magdalen tells me is Mario's son.Magdalen, who lived in New York State for much of her life, says that Mario was a good governor of a "complicated state". One peculiarity he has, apparently, is a steadfast refusal to sit for an official portrait to hang in the State Capitol.
My favorite clue of the puzzle reminds us of a fascinating piece of trivia: the first movie to be copyrighted is of one of Thomas Edison's assistants, Fred Ott, taking a pinch of snuff and sneezing. Fred Ott's Sneeze (1894) lasts 5 seconds.
Solving time: 8 mins (solo, no solving aids)Solution
Clue of the puzz: 26a sneezed {What Fred Ott did in the first movie to be copyrighted}
Theme
A quotation for Election Day by 1a,73a Mario Cuomo {Former New York governor}.
20a,37a,60a You campaign in poetry, you govern in proseCrucimetrics
{A quote by 1-/73-Across}
| Compilers | Barry Boone / Will Shortz |
| Grid | 15x15 with 36 (16.0%) black squares |
| Answers | 78 (average length 4.85) |
| Theme squares | 45 (23.8%) |
| Scrabble points | 324 (average 1.71) |
| Letters used | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ |
Other Clues
6a barge {Enter unannounced, with "in"}; 11a KPs {Military mess workers, for short}; 14a amend {Improve}; 15a Ethel {Lucy's friend on "I Love Lucy"}; 16a WAC {W.W. II female}; 17a cacti {Gila woodpeckers nest in them}; 18a coats {Layers of paint}; 19a at a {___ crossroads}; 23a Pfc. {Rank below cpl.}; 25a mum {Not talking}; 26a sneezed {What Fred Ott did in the first movie to be copyrighted}; 27a de la {Crème ___ crème}; 29a zero g {Astronaut's work environment, for short}; 31a Lana {Actress Turner}; 32a quell {Put down, as an uprising}; 34a a dry {Not ___ eye in the house}; 36a Atl. {Brits call it "the pond": Abbr.}; 41a dat {"Gimme ___ ding!"}; 44a sloe {___ gin fizz}; 45a sacks {Fires}; 49a in re {Memo starter}; 51a sweep {Win the World Series in four games, say}; 54a Rhea {Perlman of "Cheers"}; 55a stencil {Sign painter's help}; 57a Xes {Crosses (out)}; 59a egg {___ McMuffin}; 63a uni- {Prefix with cycle or sex}; 64a Ionia {Ancient Aegean region}; 65a nurse {Surgeon's assistant}; 68a Sin {___ City (Las Vegas nickname)}; 69a erect {Standing at attention}; 70a Iliad {Trojan War epic}; 71a Tao {"___ Te Ching"}; 72a desks {Drawer holders}.
1d Mac {Start of many a Scottish family name}; 2d AMA {Flu fighters: Abbr.}; 3d recycle {One of the three green R's}; 4d into {Call ___ question}; 5d odium {Hatred}; 6d became {Turned out}; 7d atom {Basic building block}; 8d rhapsody {Gershwin composed one "in blue"}; 9d get angry {Blow one's top}; 10d Elsie {Elmer the Bull's mate}; 11d Kwanzaa {December celebration}; 12d patient {"Beware the fury of a ___ man": John Dryden}; 13d scandal {Iran-Contra, e.g.}; 21d cuz {Slangy response to "Why?"}; 22d gel {Hair goop}; 23d PDQ {Instantly, for short}; 24d feu {Fire: Fr.}; 28d alp {Matterhorn, e.g.}; 30d raree {___ show (carnival attraction)}; 33d Los {Part of U.C.L.A.}; 35d yos {Casual greetings}; 38d Elsinore {"Hamlet" setting}; 39d towlines {Water-skiers' holds}; 40d UAR {Former Mideast inits.}; 41d disgust {Emotion conveyed by wrinkling one's nose}; 42d Ántonia {Willa Cather's "My ___"}; 43d Trevino {Golfer Lee}; 46d cheerio {"Toodle-oo!"}; 47d keg {Unit of gunpowder}; 48d sag {Slump}; 50d ENE {Cincinnati-to-Pittsburgh dir.}; 52d expats {Ones living abroad}; 53d per {Each}; 56d cried {"I can't remember if I ___" ("American Pie" lyric)}; 58d Sonic {___ the Hedgehog (video game)}; 61d nick {Paper cut, e.g.}; 62d Sulu {Navigator on the Enterprise}; 66d Sam {Uncle ___}; 67d Edo {Old Tokyo}.
5 comments:
Ross and/or Magdalen,
Don't Americans say "pond" for "Atlantic" as much as Brits do? I can't count the number of Americans who, after being introduced to me, have quipped "So, you must be from across the pond."
Right, but I'm pretty sure Americans who say that *think* they're being all witty and cosmopolitan because they think Brits say "pond" for the Atlantic Ocean.
Putting that another way: We don't grow up thinking of the Atlantic Ocean as anything other than what's to the right of the US. Most Americans, after all, would have a hard time pointing Europe out on a map.
But for the better-educated sector of our population, there inevitable comes a period of cultural self-denigration. A trip abroad, maybe a semester in Paris or a summer bumming around Scandinavia, and we're convinced we're very cool and je ne sais quoi. Add someone somewhere saying something about "the Pond" and it's all over.
Seriously, Dan -- the number of really cringe-worthy, pretentious faux-English accents that come back after semesters abroad is embarrassing. The "rahther" effect fades, but some of the Brit-speak terms linger. (I personally still refer to the trolleys in the car park when we go grocery shopping...)
(Ross points out that I am a special case, and he's right. Married to two Brits gets a body pretty muddled as to whether I'm "carving up" or "cutting in front of" a "heavy-goods lorry" or a "tractor trailer" on the "highway" or -- okay, so I don't actually refer to a motorway here in the States. But you see where I'm going...)
LOL - Yes, quite. I do see, rather. You could be a scriptwriter, Magdalen! Or screenwriter, as you will.:-) It reminds me of when I first came over here and used terms like "doo-lally" and "naff" and American friends started picking them up. It was truly "cringe-worthy"! It all sounded so wrong. But I didn't know that about "pond." I suppose it's because I rarely use it, and Americans seem to do so all the time Thanks!
Sulu was the helmsman, I believe; Checkov was the Navigator
You seem to have spotted a rare lapse ... it's been so many years since I saw a Star Trek episode that I'd forgotten what the minor characters did. Star Trek, the characters and the actors come up alarmingly often in the NYT ... I recall Tyler Hinman would have benefited from knowing James Doohan in this year's ACPT.
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