0:18:53 (F.W.O.E.)
I'm going to start with my error today, because it is so embarrassing. I will blame it on the Down "Early movie mogul Marcus" for which I guessed LOEb, and I will blame that guess on the Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge. Drama... movies... it made sense to me. Then later, when I had to make my best guess at the Mesoamerican language and the ESP cards, I put in a Z, but did not get the congratulation. Eventually, I saw bOMENS at 49A: ____ March (annual event since 2017) (WOMENS). Sigh. Frannie and I were at the first Womens' March in Boston, and I am fairly sure Colum was at one in New York. Again, sigh.
In the upper right, things were more straightforward. I knew MAGGIE shot Mr. Burns, but I tried "raisins" instead of CELERY for the "ants on a log" component, and I thought I was clever guessing Tipjar for "Collection of offers?" (THEMOB). The long Downs there were all good, and allowed quick correction.
And those downs slid right down into the lovely staggered center. ZAPOTECAN and ZENER are tough, but both rang faint bells. "Racket pros" (SCAMARTISTS) and "Flip" (GOBERSERK) were to fine non-QMCs, and only TRANK (Slangy sedative) was a bit of a downer, as it were. If I were to use that slangy term at all, I'd probably spell it with a Q. But then, what do I know of tranqs and/or tranks?
The toughest entry today is OTTAVA (Score marking to play higher or lower than written). I was in band and orchestra for years and I still didn't remember that term. I guessed "octavo," only later correcting it thanks to GOETHE and ASS (!).
So in the end, what do I say? I guess it was a good Saturday. I felt good about remembering that OSAGE orange is a thing... the QMC "Producers of sharp increases in height?" (STILETTOS) was amusing, I love looking at ELGRECOS, and BILGERATS was fun. I'll have "Come and Get Your Love" running through my head all day, but I suppose it could have been a worse song.
- Horace
p.s. Well, now that I've looked at the lyrics, I'm not sure anymore:
Come and Get Your Love
What's the matter with your head? Yeah
Hail (hail)
What's the matter with your mind
And your sign? And a, oh, oh, oh
Hail (hail)
Nothin' the matter with your head
Baby, find it, come on and find it
Hail, with it, baby
'Cause you're fine
And you're mine, and you look so divine
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
What's the matter with you? Feel right
Don't you feel right baby?
Hail, oh yeah
Get it from the main vine, all right
I said a find it, find it
Go on and love it if you like it, yeah
Hail (hail)
It's your business if you want some, take some
Get it together baby
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love, now
Come and get your love
Come and get your love, now
Come and get your love
Come and get your love, now
Come and get your love
Come and get your love, now
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
What's the matter with you? Feel right
Don't you feel right baby?
Hail, oh yeah
Get it from the main vine, all right
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
38:20 (FWOE)
ReplyDeleteMy error came at OTTAVA/ASS, embarrassingly. I originally entered OcTAVe, and when GOETHE made himself apparent, I changed the c to a T, but never even looked at the clue for 44D. Oh well. I tried agent instead of OSAGE at first, then burnt, but eventually corrected it. DCCOMICS was a nice one, and I was thinking along the raisins line instead of CELERY, also. And I, too, thought of RIPSAW as a noun, but dropped it in off the clue nonetheless. Finally, I was thinking of "mafia" where THEMOB belongs, so needed all of the crosses, including BYES, which I wasn't thinking of at all from the clue. Guessing a "Z" for the ZAPOTECAN/ZENER cross was somewhat educated, but with a little luck thrown in. Oh, and I tried esTore where DOTCOM belongs, so all of those missteps led to my long-ish time for a Saturday.