67A: "You lookin' _____? " Why am I talking about this story? The Opening, described by Robert Lowell as "a brackish reach of shoal off Madaket, " is the most ticklish fishing spot in Nantucket's capricious waters. Happy cry on a fishing boat crossword puzzle crosswords. Over the years, that philosophy had cost him a broken ankle, a broken arm, and several broken ribs, but gained him the devotion of such clients as George H. W. Bush, with whom he'd conspired to ditch a trailing Secret Service boat, and Jimmy Buffett, whom he'd raced in an impromptu contest—fishing boat against seaplane—and then rescued when Buffett's plane crashed. Speaking of non-specific clues, what's up with 22A: Poetic land (Erin)?
Tom's boat was reserved when she called, so the guys went out with Jason. Had to go down and approach it from below. 63A: Cockpit datum (air speed). As the guys drank up, with only Jason abstaining, the conversation skipped from fishing to lacrosse to friends in common, the easy lingua franca of young men from the prep-school dominion. I had no idea there were so many kinds of boats. What impressed me about this puzzle was me (I), in that I had many blind stabs that ended up being correct, despite feeling very shaky at first. He also liked buzzing along at thirty knots, skipping over the crests like a stone. Use the search functionality on the sidebar if the given answer does not match with your crossword clue. There was also too much of the puzzle talking about itself: - 40D: "_____ Believer" ("I'm a").
Already solved Recess and are looking for the other crossword clues from the daily puzzle? PIPETS in general gave me trouble, as I barely know the word. Once they arrived, at 1:45, Jason edged the boat toward a region he called the Shallow Spot, where a shoal lurked two feet down. Theme answers: - 18A: Romantic goings-on (love life) - this slowed me down, as I had the LOVE and couldn't figure out what followed, which kept me from flowing nicely into the NE. The only part that gave me trouble was the crossing of PIPETS (47D: Lab tubes) and PHIS (61A: Fraternity letters). And two different times of day. The bow soared up over the wave crest, then plunged down so hard that it knifed below the surface. Ice fishing) - first, clue = [gag]. That day, though, one of the Hawks was in Hyannis being painted, and Tom was out in the other.
As the guys cast into the white water, he would let the boat drift out with the current, powering back in every so often but staying on the safe side of the breakers. I live quite near UTICA (34A: Erie Canal city) - always nice to have a geographical edge. Like his father, Jason was "fishy": he had a nose for the slicks the bluefish left after vomiting up eels, that smell of new-mown grass. 43A: Early time to rise (six a. m. ). ERIN, EULER, and CAIRO, for instance, came instantly, which they would not have even one year ago, and that helped me sail through this puzzle relatively unscathed. This was definitely a puzzle where lots of prior puzzle experience paid off. After a late night that Friday, the guys woke up at the family summer house of their host, Andrew Curren. Then an eight-footer snapped over the bow, knocking down Joe Coveney and swamping the deck.
It was Joe's first visit to Nantucket, and he didn't want to be the guy who said, "We should go in"—but he wanted to go in. 6D: Sound of a leak (SSS) - pretty damned close. "The whole family was warm and welcoming, " she said, "and all his clients always told me Tom was the best. " 71A: When many stores open (at nine). The air temperature was fifty-three and dropping; the water temperature was fifty-two. Lastly, HUB (28D: Important airport) reminds me of a fantastic John Updike story called "The Christian Roommates, " which I just finished teaching in my Honors Seminar. This brand of charter fishing—casting with light tackle from a boat working the edge of the surf—was essentially Tom's invention: a four-hour, six-hundred-and-seventy-five-dollar, rough-and-tumble alternative to the "bluefish buses" that trolled placidly in Nantucket Harbor, some ten miles to the east of the Opening. Jason Mleczko (Muh-less-ko) was thirty-three and married, with infant twins, but his younger passengers warmed to him right away. Jason's father, Tom, insisted that his captains observe this precaution: always have the tide pushing you away from danger. After college, he had roomed in Washington, D. C., with Alex Cameron, a short, smilingly combative man, who'd driven all night from Virginia, where he was attending the business school at U. V. A. Jason looked at his phone, saw that it was 2:08, and suggested they take one last pass. So Jason had taken Jabb, a sporty twenty-three-foot Maritime Defiant. Lots of crosswordese (both high- and low-end), but no real challenges - only one word that was out of my comfort zone.
Jason would have taken Jabb even if the other Hawk had been available; it was his first trip of the season and he wanted the smaller boat's range, so that he could roam in search of stripers. Almost all of Nantucket's charter boats cancelled their trips. David Halberstam, a longtime Nantucket resident, wrote that Tom was "by consensus, our best fisherman. Alex at once caught a bluefish, and the guys cheered: they'd finally blooded themselves, even if it was only a seven-pounder. At the Opening, there were heavy storm clouds gathering in the south, and the combination of the incoming swell, the outgoing tide, and the twenty-five-mile-an-hour gusts of wind made for thick, unruly waves. You can visit LA Times Crossword September 24 2022 Answers. He explained that the tide sucking out over the bar, the "rip, " should stir up sand eels and spearing, which attract striped bass.