Saturday, April 14, 2012

Saturday, April 14, 2012 - Breakfast Around the World

Introduction

In today's puzzle from Cox and Rathvon, we get to sample an international menu of breakfast foods. Many thanks to Matt Mitchell for stepping in to assist by providing the solution to the puzzle which can be found in his comment below.

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  1. Matt MitchellApril 14, 2012 at 11:59 PM

    Here's your help, Falcon (explanations to follow):

    Breakfast Around the World

    Across (* = theme)
    *1: Canadian bacon
    8: Seven-up
    9: Mutated
    *11: Swiss Cheese
    14: Harangue
    15: Swamps
    17: Rankle
    19: Lambaste
    *22 French toast
    25: Stamina
    26: Averred
    *27: English Muffin

    Down
    1: Cash
    2: Nova
    3: Dinesen
    4: Applique
    5: Bemuse
    6: Cat chow
    7: Nethermost
    10: Dresser
    12: Sheriffs
    13: Grande dame
    16: Calabash
    18: Lacking
    20: Batteau (container spread across four words!)
    21: Strati
    23: Prof
    24: Aden

    --Matt Mitchell

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  2. AnonymousApril 15, 2012 at 8:19 PM

    10 down is 8 letters, so I'm not sure what goes there

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  3. Matt MitchellApril 15, 2012 at 8:49 PM

    Hi, everyone, it’s Matt Mitchell again. Brew up a pot of ITALIAN ROAST or CEYLON TEA or grab a glass of FLORIDA OJ and solve this week’s puzzle over breakfast.

    Themework: Breakfast foods came easily: I wondered for a second how SWISS CHEESE fit in, but then got the geographic bit. I would have liked to see a couple more theme entries, though SWEDISH PANCAKES would have barely fit the grid (but they’re so tiny...)

    Difficulty (by standards of the Nat Post weekly): Average. I found the bottom was an easier starting point than the top.


    Legend: "*" anagram; "~" sounds like; "<" letters reversed
    "( )" letters inserted; "_" letters deleted; "†" explicit in the clue
    “@” theme answer

    Across

    @1a CAN|A D({IAN BAC}*)ON – CAN (fire) + A DON (a teacher) containing (outside) anagram (pitching) of CABIN (†)
    8a S(EVEN)-UP – SUP (banquet) containing (interrupting) EVEN (tied).
    Never heard of Seven-Up: it’s a card game akin to Euchre, according to Hoyle.
    9a MU(TATE)D – TATE (London gallery) contained by (covered with) MUD (wet plaster)
    You’ll also hear builders refer to the joint compound they use when putting up drywall as “mud.”
    @11a {SWISS CHEESE}* – anagram (chopped) of SEE, SIS CHEWS
    14a H|AR(AN)GUE – H (hot) + ARGUE (debate) containing (about) AN (one)
    15a SWAM|PS – SWAM (paddled) + PS (by the way)
    17a R|ANKLE – R (right) + ANKLE (talus)
    19a LA(MBAS)TE – MBAS (business grads) contained in (coming in) LATE (after the appointed hour
    @22 F({RENCH TO}*)AST – anagram (processed) of THE CORN contained in (in) FAST (quick)
    25a ST(A|M|IN)A – STA (station) containing (covering) A (†) + M (male) + IN (†)
    26a A|V|ERRED – A (†) + V (victory) + ERRED (was wrong)
    @27a {ENGLISH MUFFIN}* – anagram (prepared) of FLEMISH FIG NUN

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  4. Matt MitchellApril 15, 2012 at 8:50 PM

    DOWN
    1d CASH – double definition
    Country and western singer Johnny Cash was nicknamed “The Man in Black” because of his black on-stage attire, which fit the characters he sang of well (see “Folsom Prison Blues” and “A Boy Named Sue”
    2d NOVA< – Reversal of AVON (river [current] in William Shakespeare’s home town of Stratford Upon Avon.
    Stratford is in the English Midlands, southeast of Birmingham. The Avon begins at Naseby in Northamptonshire, and flows 85 miles southwest through Warwick and Stratford to join the Severn in Tewkesbury. It is navigable up to Avon thanks to a series of 17th and 18th century locks.
    3d DINE|SEN – DINE (eat) + SEN (Senator)
    Karen von Blixen-Finecke (17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962), née Karen Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen. Blixen is best known for Out of Africa, her account of living in Kenya, and one of her stories, Babette's Feast. (thanks, Wikipedia: I’m not a literary scholar. --MDM)
    4d A|P(PL)IQUE – A (†) + PIQUE (vexed feeling) containing (about) PL (place)
    5d B(EMUS)E – BE (lie as in be placed at, typical Hex use of an alternate definition here) containing (about) EMUS (big birds)
    6d CAT CH|OW – CATCH (bag, the verb, not the noun: Hex again) + OW (“that hurts!”)
    7d NE(THERMOS)T – NET (mesh) containing (wrapping) THERMOS (flask)
    10d DRESS(L)ER – DRESSER (wardrobe assistant in a theatre) containing (girdling) L (large)
    Marie Dressler was a Canadian (obligatory Canadian content) film actress of the early 20th century, who won an Academy Award in 1930 for “Min and Bill.” Quotable: “You’re only as good as your last picture.” (thanks, Wikipedia: I’m not a film scholar either. --MDM)
    12d SHE|RIFFS – SHE (the woman) + RIFFS (repeated [musical] phrases).
    Want a good example of a riff? How about the guitar lines in Rose Royce’s “Car Wash” or anything by Nile Rogers?
    13d {GRANDE DAME}* – anagram (made) GARDEN FREE
    16d CAL|(A)|BASH – CAL (California) + BASH (party) containing (including) A (†)
    The ‘bottle gourd’ is used as a water pipe by Rastafarians. You can guess what they smoke with it.
    18d LA(C) KING – LA KING (NHL team for which Wayne Gretzky played from 1988 to 1996) containing (capturing) C (cup).
    Great hockey reference here--the clue works on multiple levels but Hex must not be big hockey fans or they would have capitalized “Cup.”
    20d _B|AT|TEA|U_ – hidden in (holding) daB AT TEA Urn
    21d S(TRA)TI< – reversal (in retrospect) of ITS (It’s) containing (about) ART (painting)
    Stratus clouds are low sheet-like clouds typically covering the whole sky: overcast clouds as often seen in my old home town of Syracuse, New York.
    23d PRO|F – PRO (in favour of) + F (failing)
    24d A|DEN – A (†) + DEN (place of vice).

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