![]() ![]() HON – what I call my husband, mainly because my son has the same name. I imagine some will call green paint on BREAK OUT IN A RASH. And in that spirit, I had "tee" before INA for the concert closing. ![]() Put in TMI first then erased it for "ick" rationalizing that "camp" could be used as an adjective describing the Scream movies. So I abandoned that idea for "system operators." And the crosses weren't helping because my wrong thought – the very first thought – for those techies was "system analysts" – system singular. But it took me quite a while to see RAISE THE TITANIC. I can't count how many Clive Cussler novels I've read, read as I studiously avoided Austen, Brontë, the IRONISTS, and oh! Henry James, of course. Then GO SOLO crossing "one star," feeling bad for Alan because of the "hot star" clue. Then the incorrect "double or nothing" yielded OTT. My entrée was a quick SBARRO/LIBRARY and then that was about it for a while. I did a "spread"-themed puzzle recently, so after I guessed OLEO and it was clearly wrong, PATÉ slid right in. Brayden thought was OLEO and Lena is mocking his failure but I told him it was a reasonable guess. Lena will go *off* on the history of sherry and the sherry-making process. Last night we had Pimm's Cup and a whiskey smash and a 50/50 w/ "good" vermouth and pink gin and other stuff. ![]() Boston can hear you." Now she's calling John Mellencamp "John Menstrual Cramp." Also Lena is an ex-bartender and is distressed never to have had a Brompton cocktail, even after finding out what's in it ( it's not something you'd consume for pleasure. "Splash a little rosewater on your neck." Me: "Why would you put Guinness on your neck?" Brayden: "Have you *been* to Boston?" Lena: "Shhh. Then hypothesized that BO RO might stand for something. It rang some bell located in some horrible crosswordese experience in times of yore. So when I ran the alphabet and hit "M" it felt right. Also, I figured (prayed) that no one would go for so obscure a clue for ALICE. I had to run the alphabet to get the "M" because "alb" is the extent of my priestly garment vocabulary, and that word was in the clue for AMICE. Brayden sews and he has never heard of ETAMINE. Here's what I remember about this puzzle. They're playing half-crappy music real loud in here. What do we have to say about it? I don't know. "What was the stupid novel, again?" was a question that was just asked as we were trying to remember this puzzle we just did. I solved part of it this morning and then the rest of it sitting here with Lena and her boyfriend Brayden and my wife. We were out late-or I was out late and she was out later-drinking at a place in the Bowery. I am in a Madison Avenue Starbucks that my companion Lena called "the saddest Starbucks ever" but I think that's a mild exaggeration. ![]()
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