The Blair Puzzle Project

23A BRYCE CANYON (National Park with the Pink Cliffs) is a place I've been to. I would recommend it...its beautiful.



the rock formations that look like dribbled sand are called "hoodoos". Apparently there is a Native American name for the place ("unka-timpe-wa-wince-pock-ich") that translates to "Red rocks standing like men in a bowl shaped canyon".

I've also been to 43A VALLEY FORGE (Washington locale).



It was a solid, tough puzzle. The SW gave us the most grief, with 43D VOWEL (One of an au pair?) and 44D ASYLA (Shelters) and 57A ELENORE (Title girl in a 1968 Turtles hit) and 59A LARGOS (They don't move quickly)....and worst for me, 52A WYWIWYG (Acronym for a kind of PC video screen display). Should have had the last one. Here is one of my favorite largos, from Dvorak's new World Symphony:



I think I prefer that to the Turtles, but feel free to judge yourself...

Well, we began with high hopes, we ended with a much longer time than we had desired. Much like mine, 1D had "dreaded handout" for TEST PAPER. You SAT word of the day: STINTER at 16A is a spendthrift's antithesis. [BTW all words involved with this clue are good for the SAT].
It's Ac fact of the day:6D Pope opening statement is TO ERR as in: To err is human, to forgive divine.

You can stop calling your authoritarian barbaric friends Attila and start calling them Atli, the Mythical Hun King. You guess which of the following is the Mythical Atli and which one is an accountant in Toledo:

Ok, we needed 7:23 to break our week l record. We came close...well not so much.

Apparently, Bryce Canyon has the pink cliffs. Here they are.

They don't look pink to me, more the brown color of feces.