'Break Your Heart' also received single and video treatment. Whilst Merchant was on tour with Lilith Fair. 'Kind & Generous' was the most successful single of the album, reaching the Top 20 in the U. Ophelia is the title of a 1998 album, film, and song by Natalie Merchant.Then I came home and had a nap. This included drinking most of a beer. I spent the better part of the afternoon in the hot sun at the ballpark.Never heard of DIPLOMACY and never heard of *either* of the games in ACQUIRE TICKET TO RIDE—so glad I got the "Q" early and also know Beatles' songs. I do think the theme was Very easy to uncover and understand, though some of these games, yeesh. So it's very possible that this puzzle was very easy and I was slow but I can't tell because my time was normal. But then I finished in 10:33, which is fully normal. This is all to say I was woozy and fully expected to put a big Asterisk next to my solving time (which I do when solving conditions are very out of the ordinary, including when I am, er, impaired).
Where is the zany? Grid is so very choppy that there's not really a lot of room for longer themers to grow. A synonym of "connect," a synonym of "four," and a synonym of "checkers," all in order. MEMORY TROUBLE is a real thing that doesn't lend itself to wackiness. Or maybe I mean the answers wackier and the clues funnier. I managed to mostly remember the Mars moon this time ( PHOBOS), but embarrassingly blanked on what sort of BERNIE there was in "Ocean's Eleven." I never saw the movie, but still, if you give me comic BERNIE. Not too many major trouble spots. 13 on the Billboard 200 album chart and was certified five-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2001.Fill started out so rough in the NW ( ABEAM, ATRA, MOL) that I was a little worried, but once I got (the hell) out of there, things mellowed out a bit. I've walked these streets A virtual stage It seemed to me Make up on their faces Actors took their places next to me I've walked these streTigerlily is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant, released on June 20, 1995, following her departure from the alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs.Tigerlily peaked at No. But then again, just being adequate makes this puzzle easily superior to most NYT Sunday puzzles, so I'm gonna have to come down on the thumbs-up side, ultimately.Natalie Merchant - Carnival Lyrics. Overall grid was pretty ordinary. ![]() BLINI = "pancakes made from buckwheat flour and served with sour cream" (google). Like, I don't know, fish or sheep or whatever. BLINIS?! With a freakin' S?!?! I thought BLINI was its own plural. I could see other responses meeting the true intent from Natalie Merchants pespective.I had major trouble in and around the SW region, mainly around the entryways to the region. ![]() Natalie Merchant Lyrics How To Say ThingsNesting is a whole different behavior, but species roost in nests. "Let's play Twister, let's play Risk."Most birds seek a safe place to ROOST for the night, and caged birds eschew the ground. Really? I had heard of many of the themed games, but certainly not all. The theme intimidated me because someone I follow on Twitter just published his list of the Top 100 Board games of the year. I refuse to recognize WHOO! I assume it is said by people who don't know how to say things, such as the fellow who is excited to be served buckwheat pancakes and exclaims, " WHOO! BLINIS!"One of those Sundays reminiscent of painting a battleship with a toothbrush. Cs go espToday, I smelled like apple pie and grilled filet mignon.It's late and I'm worn out, but I heard once that TICKET TO RIDE was originally TICKET TO Rye, a euphemism for being pregnant and off to shameful seclusion. Look around! Yet, let me take off my advocate hat for one moment and confess: the smell of mothballs might figuratively typify something that was OLD. History will tell.Hey, I get riled up when folks use the term "old" to imply that age is as debilitating as youth. And I say this because I just think I know him very well in a creepy stalker kind of way. So work CLUELESS into the grid. Recognize that you didn’t need to use CLUE. Choose ones whose words are fairly common. Make a list of easy-to-work-with board game names. I kept looking at the title, and finally the light bulb went off. I think I had maybe four or five themers in place before I got it. All of you are reporting that you saw the trick early on. After I got 68D, I kept repeating “teaching positions” both ways ( teaching positions and teaching po sitions) and marveling at the difference in meaning and Brendan’s harnessing that ambiguity.This. Things are going very well - she’s lovely, and I’m pretty sure she’s deeply impressed that we use such high-end (!) toilet – - good ones! How ‘bout.*Go Uncle Wiggly – like, he’s drunk and dancing to Led Zepplin*Mousetrap Sequence – Espy, sniff, investigate. Like, he put down “Yam” for a Y-initial ice cream flavor and then brought up evidence from the internet that it is a thing. My son beat us both, spit-balling lots of answers and hoping for the best. We played Scattergories last night (with The Girl Friend). Who wouldn’t?As board games go, I guess my favorite is TABOO. Or that it’s “famous” renowned, prominent,” blah blah), I had S_ITTY and had to run the alphabet. Outraged that TCM buff Rex didn't link us to the Sinatra/Crosby "Well Did You EVAH?" duet from "High Society".Played DIPLOMACY a lot in the '70s - games would take weeks because our group was scattered from Watertown, NY to Phoenix, AZ. Even though BLINI is apparently correct, I'm still gonna say BLINIS (however, I don't think I've ever said the word). The games we didn't know were ACQUIRE and MEMORY.Where were Scrabble and Balderdash? Nobody's sneaking up on me anymore with a Mayo misdirect, it was a gimme today. We got the theme right away with BATTLESHIPRISK, that helped a lot as we filled most themers off a just a few crosses. We gotta catch up sometime.Urban Dictionary: means curses or, yes, f*ck in a polite way back in the middle ages.Fie, fie, how wayward is this foolish love The Two Gentlemen of VeronaFie, fie, how franticly I square my talk, Titus AndronicusFie, fie, fie! cuckold! cuckold! cuckold! Merry Wives of WindsorFie, fie, unreverend tongue! to call her bad, The Two Gentlemen of VeronaFie, fie, thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit Romeo and JulietFie, fie, my brother! Toilus and Cressida: II, iiFie, fie, master ford! are you not ashamed? what Merry Wives of WindsorFie, fie, gratiano! where are all the rest? Merchant of VeniceFie, fie, fie, fie! Timon of Athens: II, iiFie, fie upon her! she's able to freeze the god Pericles, Prince of TyreFie, fie!you counterfeit, you puppet, you! A Midsummer Night's DreamFie, fie! what, are you mad? Romeo and JulietFie, fie! unknit that threatening unkind brow, The Taming of the ShrewFie, fie! they are not to be named, my lord, Much Ado About NothingFie, fie! pah, pah! give me an ounce of civet, King LearFie, fie! no thought of him: The Winter's TaleFast and fun. I got a word that seemed impossible to define given the forbidden words. Playing a family game of TABOO a few years back his mother (Lady M.) and I were teamed. Henry Kissinger was a regular in the Kennedy group, when he first learned that Jack played the game Henry is quoted as saying "My God, I hope he always wins."Our middle son Kevin has a marvelous sense of humor, is the life of any party, and absolutely adores the spotlight. JFK was a huge fan of the game and it was often played in his White House. ![]() Of course, language doesn’t devolve logically.
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