Wasn't doing great on Crosswords this week, couldn't get through the Tuesday or even Monday puzzles without repeatedly using the checker, and yet somehow this was my easiest Wednsday solve yet (anlthough Iv'e only started taking on the Wednsday puzzle in the last month & a half or so), with no resorting to the checker or any other sort of cheating needed. I got the theme revealer right away, before I'd gotten anywhere on any of the actual theme examples, simply because it made such obvious sense: Mixed doubles as in the solutions would have lots of double letters that the puzzle would screw around with in some way.
Alka seltzer is a combination of aspirin and bicarbonate of soda. When you dissolve it in water it effervesces. So the bicarbonate is the "Alka" (alkaline), and the seltzer is the effervescence. It's marketed for headache and indigestion, and I think is commonly used for hangover.
"Pop, pop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is." was the line on the TV commercial. Settles your stomach, and, yes, go-to hangover remedy. I don't remember purchasing it ever, but maybe tried it when I was a kid. I can't remember.
No, she’s a witch. She cooked porridge in one pot and doled it out at three different temperatures. Also, papa bear is a jerk. His baby’s porridge is the correct temperature, and instead of blowing on his own porridge he forces the entire family to take walk.
I’m pretty sure the point of that fable is that mama bear fed the husband and baby before herself, so there was less leftover and hers was cold because she ate it after tending to her family lol
I think it's supposed to be that the Mama Bear's porridge had cooled down too much, but Papa Bear's larger porrage bowl hadn't yet cooled down enough, which still doesn't make thermodynamic sense because by that logic the smallest bowl (Baby Bear's) should be even colder than Mama Bear's, not "Just right".
14m is impressive 👏👏👏……… I did NOT get the theme while solving but got the answers thru blind guesswork via the other X-clues and answers, except for 51A-Mixed Doubles, which I got due to the tennis angle. 43A-Arab and 25D-ConeyIsland were TOTAL GK handouts, as was 35A-Iberia. I blindly guessed 29D-Tsai as a best fit, have no clue or GK about him - good for him I guess …….the most famous name I know from Taiwan is, as many others might also, Chiang Kai-Shek, the (more successful) Trotsky to Mao’s Lenin……… but…… as part of looking history of Taiwan up later for some more GK, I came across the mind-blowing fact that ……… in the pre-nuclear weapons era, across all of history, mainland China has fought four wars with the island of Taiwan and were routed ( 33D-Drub?) in all four, go figure !!!!! Did some more R&D and learnt that actually, given the natural geographical features of the Taiwanese island etc it is EXTREMELY difficult for a landing force to defeat a well-entrenched expert island army which made the difference in each case. Of course I am talking about pre-modern era before drones, atomic and digital weaponry ……but then I am not sure in today’s world, if you also add the awesome impact of social media tech. as well, the result is - no war is winnable unless one cares for nothing except total destruction of all parties to the war, especially economic and human ruin of both parties….. Which brings me back to the awesome allure of a great crossword that elegantly ties together history, geography, culture, literature into some great wordplay…….. so onto the Thu X-word tomorrow…..👍👍👍
Wasn't doing great on Crosswords this week, couldn't get through the Tuesday or even Monday puzzles without repeatedly using the checker, and yet somehow this was my easiest Wednsday solve yet (anlthough Iv'e only started taking on the Wednsday puzzle in the last month & a half or so), with no resorting to the checker or any other sort of cheating needed. I got the theme revealer right away, before I'd gotten anywhere on any of the actual theme examples, simply because it made such obvious sense: Mixed doubles as in the solutions would have lots of double letters that the puzzle would screw around with in some way.
Alka seltzer is a combination of aspirin and bicarbonate of soda. When you dissolve it in water it effervesces. So the bicarbonate is the "Alka" (alkaline), and the seltzer is the effervescence. It's marketed for headache and indigestion, and I think is commonly used for hangover.
To add it's basic and your stomach content is acidic. So if your ph is off in your stomach it help
"Pop, pop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is." was the line on the TV commercial. Settles your stomach, and, yes, go-to hangover remedy. I don't remember purchasing it ever, but maybe tried it when I was a kid. I can't remember.
Mama bear didn't like cold porridge! She had the smallest bowl so it retained its heat shorter than the other bowls due to the laws of thermodynamics!
Tellings very. I definitely have heard it as "too hot".
No, she’s a witch. She cooked porridge in one pot and doled it out at three different temperatures. Also, papa bear is a jerk. His baby’s porridge is the correct temperature, and instead of blowing on his own porridge he forces the entire family to take walk.
I’m pretty sure the point of that fable is that mama bear fed the husband and baby before herself, so there was less leftover and hers was cold because she ate it after tending to her family lol
@@daven1223 yes
I think it's supposed to be that the Mama Bear's porridge had cooled down too much, but Papa Bear's larger porrage bowl hadn't yet cooled down enough, which still doesn't make thermodynamic sense because by that logic the smallest bowl (Baby Bear's) should be even colder than Mama Bear's, not "Just right".
7:40 Chris resisting saying “double D’s” 🤣
!!! Didn't notice that.
Yes, in mixed doubles you have M/F pairs playing each other as compared to regular doubles, which is M/M or F/F.
I was the opposite, got the revealer straight away but took me ages to figure out the other themed clues
14m is impressive 👏👏👏……… I did NOT get the theme while solving but got the answers thru blind guesswork via the other X-clues and answers, except for 51A-Mixed Doubles, which I got due to the tennis angle.
43A-Arab and 25D-ConeyIsland were TOTAL GK handouts, as was 35A-Iberia.
I blindly guessed 29D-Tsai as a best fit, have no clue or GK about him - good for him I guess …….the most famous name I know from Taiwan is, as many others might also, Chiang Kai-Shek, the (more successful) Trotsky to Mao’s Lenin……… but……
as part of looking history of Taiwan up later for some more GK, I came across the mind-blowing fact that ……… in the pre-nuclear weapons era, across all of history, mainland China has fought four wars with the island of Taiwan and were routed ( 33D-Drub?) in all four, go figure !!!!! Did some more R&D and learnt that actually, given the natural geographical features of the Taiwanese island etc it is EXTREMELY difficult for a landing force to defeat a well-entrenched expert island army which made the difference in each case.
Of course I am talking about pre-modern era before drones, atomic and digital weaponry ……but then I am not sure in today’s world, if you also add the awesome impact of social media tech. as well, the result is - no war is winnable unless one cares for nothing except total destruction of all parties to the war, especially economic and human ruin of both parties…..
Which brings me back to the awesome allure of a great crossword that elegantly ties together history, geography, culture, literature into some great wordplay…….. so onto the Thu X-word tomorrow…..👍👍👍
Also - did not know that cutting and keeping a piece of the net as a souvenir is ACTUALLY a real basketball tradition!!!!!!!
This seemed easier for me on a Wednesday, but I missed 24A and NUDGE, and it took me a couple go arounds to realize it!
Very clever. Great to watch 👍🏻
those things are called party bikes here in the US
I’ve heard them called Pedal Bars, huge in Nashville TN on Music Row
Had the wrong side of the conflict in the Americans. Had that top left corner a barren wasteland for ages.
Nice solve as always. Be careful not to doxx yourself though. The internet is a scary place.