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Tuning fork part crossword clue movie#

The role of Captain Ahab was played by Gregory Peck in the 1956 John Huston film adaptation.

59D NATE – His fivethirtyeight.Captain Ahab is the obsessed and far from friendly captain of the Pequod in Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick”.

48D LILITH – I think the lore has it this was Adam’s other wife or something.

31D BRUIN – Home of the Boston Bruins and the Boston Celtics!.

Tuning fork part crossword clue movie#

23D LOHAN – Is she still around? Believe it or not, the movie is from 2005! (I thought it was older!).

68A STATE SEAL – Yes, I tried STATE FLAG!.

Wikipedia has it as one word or hyphenated, not two words.

46A ARID – This is a desert in Turkmenistan.

43A XANADU – I am old, so I remember this movie.

34A SHERYL – Wasn’t fooled here either!.

30A A-BOMBS – I never know if we are talking A-BOMBS or H-BOMBS! I don’t think they’re called N-BOMBS, but we have N-TESTS!.

16A AOL-ER – Is AOL still a thing? I haven’t been on their site in YEARS!.

1A SHOE STORE – Great clue, but I wasn’t fooled for a second!.

Another smooth LAT challenger for this Saturday 4.4 stars for this one. Perhaps the planets were in perfect alignment! Regardless, I had fun with this one, as a smooth solve hits some sort of pleasure sensor with me, as I am sure you all have experienced at some point. Done in under 5 minutes! Perhaps I am getting better perhaps it is solving a lot of Peterson and Varol puzzles. I mentioned in my Newsday post that I have been in a solving groove of late, and this puzzle is a prime example. Time to ‘”ice” my sore gray cells after this one!ĭoug Peterson & Patti Varol’s LA Times crossword – Derek’s write-up

54D XOXO – Also slightly fooled by this one! Nicely done!Īnother Longo classic.

35D BERLINERS – This one made me think, which I like!.

32D RIGHTLY SO – No problems here, just mentioning a favorite entry! No NYT appearances ever!.13D DIECI – I figured “cento” was 100 had to look it up to verify this is all Italian!.58A LOG LOADER – This is the unfamiliar term, but Frank really fooled me here! We are talking about Caterpillar equipment!.This was one of them, because I remember these cars! My brother used to drool over them! 42A FIERO – As tough as this puzzle was, I filled in quite a few entries instantly.18A KOREA – This makes perfect sense, so why did I try KYOTO instead?.This one was REALLY hard, I think! But still 4.5 stars. I count 68 words, and except for one term that is unfamiliar to me, I see nothing objectionable in this puzzle. The lower left wasn’t too bad, but some real toughies in the lower right and all kinds of fits in the NE corner did me in. Then, in usual fashion for these Stumpers, the progress ground to a halt. I’ve been in a decent groove recently and the upper left of this puzzle was filled in almost instantly. I thought this would go smoothly after the first part of the puzzle went well. A solid Saturday morning offering.įrank Longo’s Newsday crossword, “Saturday Stumper” – Derek’s write-up ASTEROID/ SAIL INTO/ HOME TEAM, SIDEWALK/ ACADEMIA/ CELERITY. Nifty vertical triple eight stacks in the northwest and southeast corners.That’s Spanish for “the City of the Reyes”, you know. Ellipsis because the answer word is repeated later in the title. Said it before, and I’ll say it again: I prefer SHERD, and reserve SHARD for materials such as glass. Was immediately obvious that KRUMMHOLZ wouldn’t fit. (Keeping it short in an effort not to disturb the blog monster that’s been menacing us.) Nothing fancy going on in terms of placing the parts in their “proper” relative locations. For cohesion, all are clued via references to a named person.

Lee Taylor’s Wall Street Journal crossword, “Set the Table” - pannonica’s write-upĮntries containing, in part, elements of a dinner table setting. There’s an Italian vibe here, with Verdi’s ERNANI (which I know only from crosswords), ETTORE Bugatti (ditto), and DIALECTS clued as.Howell, while the women’s consensus was the Professor. Speaking of MAROONED, there was a discussion on Facebook today about which Gilligan’s Island character would have been best in the sack. We’ve got a subway series, with cluing both STOP and LINE.My favorite fill includes SNOCKERED (we would also accept SCHNOCKERED), LOUIS C.K., EXIT POLL (not … always accurate), the dated-but-still-amusing “ I’M TOO SEXY,” a SLEEPER HOLD, Hall & Oates’ “SHE’S GONE,” PARTY BUS (!), SCHNOZ, seasonal EBENEZER (bah, I say, and furthermore, humbug-and yes, I know the lovely clue is the unrelated ), KAUAI (seems like OAHU gets the bulk of the crossword love on the Hawaiian island front), and SKI LODGE. Surprisingly easy for a Saturday NYT, particularly since the Byron Walden byline cautions you, “Twisty clues ahead.” NY Times crossword solution, 12 10 16, no 1210