![]() ![]() ![]() The Havis Amanda statue symbolizes the rebirth of the city of Helsinki, capital of Finland. The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen is an icon of that city as well as of Denmark. Some of these mermaid statues have become icons of their city or country, and have become major tourist attractions in themselves. Countries with public art mermaid sculptures include Russia, Finland, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Denmark, Norway, England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Greece, Turkey, India, China, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, Guam, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, Cayman Islands, Mexico, Saudi Arabia (Jeddah), the United States (including Hawaii and Virgin Islands) and Canada. Sculptures and statues of mermaids can be found in many countries and cultures, with over 130 public art mermaid statues across the world. Interesting comments about mermaids, and here's Wikipedia's take on the statues (and if you look these up, yes they are typically nude): I have not done the daily puzzles but recently have been reading the blog and comments, for the company. Speaking of CAGE, I’m not sure the hamster is in one, but this is worth a look. Kyle – loved THREAD and BIRDSONG and their clues. I guess this is a sniper skill, right? They bate their breath in the moments before taking the shot? We can hence say that snipers are master hiders, master aimers, and, as regards their breath, master… well, you do the math. ![]() So if I’m waiting with bated breath, I’m effectively lessening the force and intensity of my breath. It’s transitive and means to lessen the force and intensity of. Isn’t any item on a to-do list an ACTION ITEM? I’m not really a to-do list person, and when I do decide to make one, I put stuff on there that makes me feel productive. My nephew is a senior, and I feel so bad for him right now.ĪT ONE. If you forget and commandeer someone else’s bread plate, pray that you’re not seated near any public grammar shamers, who I’m certain moonlight as public table manner shamers. Little trick to remember your bread plate is the one to the left. Right before our shut down, I walked into the room where he was working and over the jazz he had playing, I said, acting delighted, Is that Stan Getz? No, it wasn’t, but I think I made another inroad by cleverly tricking him into thinking we share a love of jazz.īMW – Bread Meal Water. whatever it takes for him to move my work order from the bottom of his to-do list and make it an ACTION ITEM. I’ve brought him cookies, several Frito pie lunches. The IT guy at our school is one tough cookie, and I’m shameless in my attempts to court his favor. So of course I didn’t know SUN RA, as a mythological god or as a jazz great. (Rex – enjoyed your mental mermaid meandering.) There is so so much I don’t know about fancy stuff that I was vaguely thinking some mythological goddesses might be mermaids, and they always bum around in groups of nine. Other wrong thoughts: “sable pelt” for CAMEL HAIR and “nonet” for NUDES. Well, I confidently entered “snots” at 1A, and that mucked things up there for a while. If you mean "pure water" just say "pure water." Who is saying this in Latin? Here is the least helpful dictionary note in history (thanks, Collins!): But surely it has some specialty meaning. What is this, even? "pure water"!? Well I know it means that. 32D: Aqua _ ( PURA) - oof, left this off the "bad" list.Anyway, I needed a few crosses to get this one. Runs like a trolley, shaped like a bus? (ah, they're the buses that "draw power from dual overhead wires" per wikipedia. 24D: Transportation option in Philadelphia and Seattle ( TROLLEY BUS) - I have ridden a trolley.ATONE > AT space ONE every single day of the week. 6D: When "S.N.L." ends on the East Coast ( AT ONE) - I will never understand cluing an perfectly good English word in way that turns it into a dumb phrase.I also had trouble with this answer because of having SNITS for SNIPS (1A: Saucy ones) and then TIP for PUP (4D: Little pointer). And smaller than the ginormous seasonal stores I see around town. well, the ones I've been to have been food-related. 13A: Seller of Halloween costumes, perhaps ( POP-UP STORE) - I wrote in PARTY STORE.
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