Erstwhile blogger Jeff Chen teams up with Jeanne Breen on this RECIPEFOR DISASTER themed puzzle. Three mixed drinks named for destructive natural phenomena - or are they just referring to the effects of the mixed drinks themselves? - make up the theme material:
MUDSLIDE - Vodka + coffee liqueur + Irish cream + heavy cream
HURRICANE - Light rum + dark rum + orange juice + passion fruit syrup
FLAMING VOLCANO - Rum + brandy + pineapple juice + orange juice + orgeat syrup + fire
Orgeat syrup, by the way, is made from almonds and sugar, with a little rosewater or orange flower water. Originally, it included barley too, and it is from this now absent ingredient that it gets its name, as orge means "barley" in French.
SMOLDER (Do a slow burn), MEASLY (Skimpy), SLEUTH (Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot), and COPSE (Small group of trees) are all nice entries. "Hard knocks?" was cute for RAPS, and I thought "I can't think with all this racket!" was an interesting way to clue QUIET.
Overall, an enjoyable solve.
- Horace
Nice theme finds, good fill, fun clues...solid puzzle. And thanks for the picture. I remember when she and the Professor were left out of the theme song! ("...the Movie Star, and the rest...") :-)
ReplyDeleteI remember that too! I remember the season when they replaced "..and the rest" with "...the professor and Mary Ann" (kinda jamming the syllables in there). I also remember the year they changed "Colonel Sanders and his boys, make it finger-licking good" to "Colonel Sanders' boys and girls..."
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