

Does anyone else call macaroni “magarone” ever since Sopranos? Checking … yep, bacalao is also salted cod. I’m guessing this is related to the baccala (salted cod) I learned about from The Sopranos.
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Mismatch between last name in clue and full name in answer. (Note: Do not ever call “/” a “forward slash.” That’s just a slash, honey.) CAPITOL/SPACE SHOT, ELBOW ROOM/SALLIE MAE/SHE-DEVILS, TEAM PHOTO, good stuff. BACKSLASH and a WINDOW BOX of herbs, CARBONARA/U.S. Really tough puzzle, but not tear-your-hair-out hard. Newsday crossword solution, 10 11 14, “Saturday Stumper”

Tom Heilman’s Los Angeles Times crossword-Andy’s review The language looks so bizarre to me (e.g., Maltese for Gozo is Għawdex).
#PETRIFY CROSSWORD PLUS#
Wikipedia tells me there are three main islands plus some smaller ones the Maltese language is Semitic and the island was first settled over 7,000 years ago. And here I thought all of Malta was just the one island. Markedly less famous than his cousin Scott Baio, and far less prominent in show biz since 1981 than Phillips. Someone who wasn’t among the five leading characters on a 1979-’86 show really has no business being clued this way. Say what? I watched Benson for years and this doesn’t right the slightest bell. Not really iffy, I grant you-just quite uncommon. Saturday-level vocabulary, no? I don’t recognize the word. This one did trick me into trying NOVA first. Usually my favorite clues did manage to dupe me. I bet the constructor had it clued that way. I liked this one because it’s also the name of a restaurant reservation website, OpenTable. Lots of crisp fill in this one, though I might’ve liked a more Saturday-tough level of cluing. Before last week's referendum, there were widespread fears about how the votes would be counted.Ī hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition.NY Times crossword solution, 10 11 14, no. His opinion on Ergenekon changed as he researched, signaling perhaps that government pressure can no longer be used as a way to petrify opinions, that cool analysis of evidence could tip the scales of the debate.īelarus now looks doomed to petrify in its sad, regressive state, unless Russia can be persuaded to do something about it. Potassium silicate paints whose principal quality is that once applied they petrify with the substrate, i.e. It will never learn that without risk-taking there is no opportunity and no hope. Painting Communism as universally and thoroughly evil is part of an ongoing ideological battle to petrify the historiography of the cold war. Wood can petrify after it died and becomes buried by sand or mud or the ash of a volcano so that air can't reach it. Legend has it that the holy man, hidden not far from there, took advantage of this opportunity to petrify them. Here in the Prairies, it's the hand of nature that can parch the land with drought, beat it with hailstones, petrify it with cold. Our practice and our thought recognize infanticide in the archetypal mother, its desire to smother, dissolve, mourn, bewitch, poison, and petrify.Īn ostrich egg, mysteriously abandoned on a mud flat, seems destined to petrify in the light of a distant sunset. She had the gift of finding beauty in a wasteland, and her eye tends to petrify what it looks at. Shrewdly anticipating the volcanic cloud that was shortly to petrify Europe, we took the Eurostar. The chemical components used to artificially petrify wood can be found in natural settings around volcanoes and within sedimentary strata. He could feel the light crisping his skin, in but a few moments he would petrify like aged wood and splinter across the floor.
