ONTHESLY is an anagram of HONESTLY. Perhaps an echo of HONEST, 43-Down?

I was a little confused by SATHOME. Shouldn't it be SAT_AT_HOME?
nicholasc | 06.29.09 - 12:01 am | #

"E-Type" was the UK designation for the beautiful Jaguar sports car marketed in the US as the XK-E. This might have been borderline unfair on a Monday.
Martin | 06.29.09 - 12:05 am | #

Orange, very sorry to hear you SAT HOME with a migraine! Not easy to LOLL around and keep things LOW KEY, or RETire and get a GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP, much less shake OLD HABITS, come up with a SMILE and say NOT BAD while in quest of a BETTER MOUSETRAP.

NO BUTS about it, HONEST! Paula G has her GENIUSES going through STAR TURNS with ART at the heart of them and right on top of their BEST-KEPT SECRETS...

@ nicholasc -- thanks for noting the anagram with ON THE SLY, more icing on the cake!
ArtLvr | 06.29.09 - 6:44 am | #

Well played, ArtLvr!

Nicholas, "sat home waiting for the phone to ring" sounds OK to me. And I see there's a website called sithomeandrot, and a song with a "sit home and rot" chorus.
Orange | Homepage | 06.29.09 - 7:46 am | #

Janie,

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."
Codebreaker | 06.29.09 - 9:44 am | #

There's an error in the CSyn puzzle...actor Jason's last name is PRIESTLEY, not PRIESTLY. Luckily PRIESTLY is a word, so no grid changes have to be made.
Jangler NPL | 06.29.09 - 10:12 am | #

Shoot - guess that explains why it's never been clued that way.

Mea culpa.
pauer | 06.29.09 - 10:39 am | #

oh, wow. now that i see it spelled out, of course. good catch, jangler. can you maybe give us a cryptic-style clue that alludes to jason's last name minus the "e"? (good luck [and congrats!] with your wonderfully bad ANE opus, too!)

and codebreaker: danke!! love that XENA=over.

;-)
janie | 06.29.09 - 11:50 am | #

I bring it up every time "Samantha Wine" publishes a puzzle, but ... can anyone confirm that it's really Rich Norris in drag?
Alex | Homepage | 06.29.09 - 3:16 pm | #

@Alex - "Samantha Wine" anagrams to "What's in a name," so I'm 99% sure it's one of Rich's pseudonyms.
Doug P. | 06.29.09 - 3:47 pm | #

"All the Young Dudes" is Mott the Hoople's signature tune, written by David Bowie BTW. No times today did them on paper on the plane in to Port Elizabeth for 2 wks...
Gareth | 06.29.09 - 3:56 pm | #

Jason Priestley. Ouch.
Wonder how that one got by eagle-eyed Amy!
Spell Czech | 06.29.09 - 4:26 pm | #

Well, Spell Czech, there are two things. First, I didn't blog about this puzzle. And second, I offered my eagle-eye services to the CrosSynergy team but they weren't keen on spending the money.
Orange | Homepage | 06.29.09 - 4:50 pm | #

Geez Priestley is a pretty big miss for a major puzzle. At least it could be clued differently without changing the fill. Maybe they'll think twice about not spending the $$$ for your services Orange. By the way, I thought your NYT puzzle debut was supposed to be yesterday, or did I miss something?
Wow | 06.29.09 - 7:34 pm | #

"___ is human" (5)

To borrow a phrase: Being a Crossword Constructor Is Sometimes Having to Apologize. But Not Too Often.
pauer | 06.29.09 - 7:57 pm | #

Patrick that's why the editors are supposed to be getting the big bucks. To catch the mistakes of us mere mortals =)
Wow | 06.29.09 - 11:09 pm | #

Well, that's not how it works at CS. Plus, even editors make mistakes. We're all human, you know.

Now take your stones and go back to your glass house, would'ya?
pauer | 06.30.09 - 1:54 am | #

The CS cryptogram works out to a well-known pangrammatic sentence, I believe.
Tyler | Homepage | 06.30.09 - 10:23 am | #

bingo, tyler!

;-)
janie | 06.30.09 - 8:10 pm | #