document.write("<script language=\"javascript1.2\" type=\"text/javascript\">function emo_pop() {window.open('http://www.haloscan.com/commenthelp.php','Help','width=200,height=360,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes');}</script><table width=\"97%\" align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" class=\"MainTable\">  <tr>    <td>    <div align=\"center\">    </div>    </td>  </tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"293020\"></a>        <p>Good thing Kevin Der's puzzle on Friday helped me learn MOIRE. It appeared today with a similar clue. yay for actually retaining some information!<br><br>Jonathon<br /><span class=\"byline\">           jmbrow29 | 07.05.09 - 9:52 pm | <a href=\"#293020\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"293021\"></a>        <p>OMG, I love \"Wok around the Block\"!!! What a shame Will changed it! thank you for the background information and a wonderful Sunday puzzle!<br><br>This is a remarkably easy Monday NYT puzzle! I had EMPLOYEE BENEFIT to start with but knew it needed to be plural, and of course did not work. Also AVOID instead of AVERT. These were my only missteps. <br>I like MOTTLE ( along with Dapple).<br /><span class=\"byline\">           foodie | 07.05.09 - 10:48 pm | <a href=\"#293021\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"293022\"></a>        <p>\"Wok around the block\" is delicious!  <br><br>But, by-and-large, I have to agree with Will's tweaks.  He made a fun puzzle even more funner.<br /><span class=\"byline\">           Tuning Spork | <a href=\"http://blatherreview.mu.nu\" title=\"http://blatherreview.mu.nu\">Homepage</a> | 07.05.09 - 11:01 pm | <a href=\"#293022\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"293029\"></a>        <p>Only got (the out-loud part of) Sunday's title with the link to Wordplay, so sorry for calling it ho-hum (slaps head)<br><br>Sweet solid Monday, but I was fighting with the NYT and LAT applets this morning (the LAT is down on cruciverb, but you can get it at game.latimes.com). I was dead sure SETTEE was something posh you only got in America and that here we have COUCHES... Guess I was dead wrong.<br /><span class=\"byline\">           Gareth | 07.06.09 - 5:13 am | <a href=\"#293029\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"293032\"></a>        <p>Went to the Bronx Zoo yesterday and saw baby giraffes *and* baby monkeys. I thought the monkeys were waaaaay cuter!<br><br>Thank you for the background! That pan-the-neighborhood clue was my least favorite.<br><br>btw, Merrell CLOGs are not hard to run in!<br /><span class=\"byline\">           Sara | 07.06.09 - 6:32 am | <a href=\"#293032\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"293041\"></a>        <p>Gonna wok<br>Gonna wok<br>All around the block<br>Tonight<br /><span class=\"byline\">           Bill Haley | 07.06.09 - 9:21 am | <a href=\"#293041\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"293055\"></a>        <p>hey folks. if your monday could use a harder puzzle (other than the BEQ themeless), i <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://www.crosswordfiend.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&p=6337\">posted one over at the crosswordfiend forum</a> that was rejected by the various outlets. it's a reasonably well-made puzzle but some of the theme answers are a little obscure. you might like it anyway; you might not. but it's there.<br><br>easier-than-usual LAT and NYT made up for today by klahn in the CS and especially the BEQ, which was just plain tough. amy, i think you have yours truly to thank for that roman numeral clue, which was originally not quite so straightforward (and produced what i thought was an impossible guess at the crossing with SFAX).<br /><span class=\"byline\">           joon | 07.06.09 - 1:18 pm | <a href=\"#293055\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"293057\"></a>        <p>Cool puzzle, Joon. I hadn't heard of the one at 20A.<br /><span class=\"byline\">           Will Nediger | 07.06.09 - 1:46 pm | <a href=\"#293057\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr><td class=\"MessageCell\">    <a name=\"293061\"></a>        <p>Great CS which took me more then ten minutes easy. Once I saw Kahn, I knew it was going to be more of a Friday type of workout. Had never heard of SHIVAREE and the ? clues were truly that.<br><br>Halfway done with BEQ which is even harder, sigh. I thought it was Monday?<br /><span class=\"byline\">           *David* | 07.06.09 - 3:33 pm | <a href=\"#293061\" title=\"Link to this comment\">#</a></span></p><hr /></td></tr><tr>    <td class=\"InputCell\">                  <div id=\"newcomment\"></div><form method=\"post\" name=\"addComment\" action=\"http://www.haloscan.com/comments/orangexw/2154342388238865214/\" target=\"_self\">        <p>    Name: <br />          <input name=\"name\" type=\"text\" size=\"38\" value=\"\" /><br />          Email:<br />          <input name=\"email\" type=\"text\" size=\"38\" value=\"\" /><br />          URL: <br />          <input name=\"url\" type=\"text\" size=\"38\" value=\"\" /><br />          Comment:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"javascript:emo_pop()\" title=\"Smiley and tag help\" target=\"_self\">?</a>&nbsp;<br />          <textarea name=\"addMessage\" rows=\"12\" cols=\"38\"></textarea><br /><input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"subscribe\" id=\"subscribe\" value=\"1\" /><label for=\"subscribe\">Notify me of followup comments via email</label>        </p>        <p class=\"PSubmit\"><input name=\"submit\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Publish\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"SubmitButton\" />&nbsp;<input name=\"previewMessage\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Preview\" class=\"SubmitButton\" />        </p>      <input type='hidden' name='user' value='orangexw' /><input type='hidden' name='comment' value='2154342388238865214' /></form>    </td></tr>  <tr>    <td><p align=\"center\">        Commenting by <a href=\"http://www.haloscan.com/\" target=\"_blank\">HaloScan</a></p>      </td>  </tr></table><img src=\"http://c5.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=561713&amp;java=0&amp;security=01eeff58\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" /></body>");