LAT3:20 (Stella)Newsday14:36 (pannonica)NYT6:22 (Amy)Universaltk (Matthew) USA Todaytk (Matthew)WSJuntimed (pannonica)Rich Norris’s New York Times crossword—Amy’s recapNY Times crossword solution, 8/3/24 – no. 0803Maybe a bit on the hard side for a Saturday and right in line with yesterday’s NYT.Fave fill: “CARE TO ELABORATE?” (which I had as CAN YOU … for too long because instead of CAREY for [Drew with many lines?], I tried NANCY), ST TROPEZ (sing it with me, Gen Xers: “Bain de Soleil for the St. Tropez tan”), the fog ON LITTLE CAT FEET (in one of Carl Sandburg’s Chicago poems; I know that lakefront fog well), TWIX bars, NO POINT, and IN A STUPOR (the stupor comes on little cat feet too).A few things:Trivia I didn’t know: 51d. [Drinks mistakenly invented by a Dairy Queen owner in 1958], ICEES. Had the fridge too cold, I expect.33d. [Clothing misnomer more aptly replaced by “three-quart”], TEN GALLON. So the ten gallon hat holds 0.75 gallons?53a. [Last syllable of a word], ULTIMA. In...
