![]() The town of Vail, Colorado was established four years later in 1966, and now has a population of about 5,000. It was given the name Vail after Vail Pass which runs by the mountain (now also called Vail Mountain). The resort was opened in 1962, basically in the middle of nowhere. The Vail Ski Resort in Colorado is the largest single-mountain ski resort in the whole country. It became the most-played pop song in a single week in the history of American radio. Shakira’s 2006 song “Hips Don’t Lie” broke a record soon after it was released. Since then, Sega has focused on producing video games as opposed to hardware. It was to become the company’s last game console. The Dreamcast is a video game console released by Sega in the late nineties. 22 Maker of the old Dreamcast game console : SEGA The line of toys comprises 3-inch tall human figures along with a range of accessories. Playmobil is a brand of toy made in Germany. ![]() 21 Toy brand with plastic figures : PLAYMOBIL Richard Carpenter saw the commercial in 1970, and made arrangements for the Carpenters to record a complete version of “We’ve Only Just Begun” later that year. The Carpenters hit “We’ve Only Just Begun” started out life as music for a wedding-themed TV commercial for a bank. Apparently Ono relented when Lennon paid her an imaginary five shillings to hammer an imaginary nail into the wood. Lennon wanted to hammer in the first nail, but Ono stopped him as the exhibition had not yet opened. Visitors were encouraged to hammer in a nail into a wooden board, creating the artwork. Ono actually met her future husband John Lennon for the first time while she was preparing her conceptual art exhibit called “Hammer a Nail”. 16 Yoko whose work is sometimes described as 17-Across : ONO “Krazy Kat” is a successful comic strip that ran from 1913-1944 and was drawn by George Herriman. The initialism “KP” is US military slang that stands for either “kitchen police” or “kitchen patrol”. 7 Peeling potatoes as punishment, maybe : ON KP Best New Artist, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Album of the Year. She has won several awards, and is the youngest person to have won all four major Grammy categories in the same year, i.e. ![]() Let's talk about the word SPANKing, Jeff.Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Acrossġ Award notably won in each of the “big four” categories by this puzzle’s honoree : GRAMMYīillie Eilish is a singer-songwriter from Los Angeles. Still, I enjoyed the triple-stack novelty, the variety welcome, and the marquee entries were excellent. Along with some blebs commonly needed to make a triple-stack work, like ON RED, TO SEE, ITE, SO I, it wasn't the smoothest of solves. I'm not going to strive to use SKYPER, for instance (I can hear the kids telling me, OK ZOOMER). I don't remember the last time a themeless debuted so many entries, but I wasn't wowed by all of them. ![]() The opposite corner had similar issues, with IN ONE DAY neutral at best, a verboten long partial at worst. I debated if GREEN CAR is an in-the-language phrase, and LATE NEWS is a reasonable but not standout entry. Check out the NE corner, where GLOBAL and SCENIC fix so much into place. Those long crossing entries did force a lot of constraints on the grid. It's hard enough to get any long entries to work, period, but when you can weave in CRY FOR ATTENTION, GLOBAL ECONOMY, SCENIC PANORAMAS, that makes the grid skeleton something special. I also scratched my head as I deliberated if the saying was more commonly "put a name to a face." Merriam Webster also seems to think this grid entry is reversed, but it's hard to tell which is more in use.Įven more impressive was the set of long answers that ran through the central stack. Like Chuck, I did wonder if there are more SPACE TELESCOPES than the Hubble, but there clearly are. I enjoyed the marquee trio, SPACE TELESCOPES / PUT A FACE TO A NAME / ARTISTIC LICENSE, the last one my favorite. ![]()
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