Satisfying My Sweet Tooth

Today's puzzle by Fred Piscop was nice and easy and was called "Sweet Breaks." It was enough to satisfy my sugar cravings without the calories. The theme answers, please:

20A: Child's Sweet Break (MILK AND COOKIES). I'm a cookie fanatic; my favorite flavor is chocolate chip.  There is a store called the Milk & Cookies bakery (http://www.milkandcookiesbakery.com/site/) down in the West Village that is screaming my name. Why I didn't know about it until I did a cyber search is beyond me. They offer ice cream sandwiches, pastries, and brownies. OMG, they even have dog bones! You can decorate your own cookies and even try baking one of their creations at home with their mixes. I'll have to make a trip there soon! My all-time cookie character is the Keebler elf (sorry, Nabisco).

37A: Commuter's Sweet Tooth (COFFEE AND DANISH): I'm not a big fan of most Danishes, especially cheese. Overall, I find them too sweet. I'd much rather have a bagel, a muffin, or a croissant. For coffee, give me Dunkin Donuts over Starbucks any day!

51A: Brit's sweet break (TEA AND CRUMPETS). Every afternoon at about 4:00, the British enjoy their afternoon tea. I never know exactly what a crumpet looked like, so I found a picture. Funny, they look just like English muffins with all the nooks and crannies. For more information on this treat, check out http://www.teaandcrumpets.co.uk.

And now it's time for today's cryptoquote:

"I don't know what you would say about a day in
which you've seen four beautiful sunsets."--John Glenn

John Glenn (1921-  ) was the first American in orbit the earth and the third American in space. Glenn is one of the last survivors of the Mercury Seven (the other is M. Scott Carpenter). He also is a former Sentaor from Ohio and served from 1974 to 1999.

The Mercury Seven was a group that flew on all the classes of NASA's space program. At age 77, Glenn flew on the STS-95 space shuttle mission (RIP to the end of the space shuttle program and thousands of lost jobs at NASA). NASA, however, offers an excellent retrospective of Glenn's career. See  (http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/about/bios/john_glenn.html.

Tonight is the final night of the Woody Allen film festival at the Jewish Heritage Museum. We're seeing Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex. . . . I haven't seen that movie in years and I'm looking forward to it. Lots of famous people were in this movie, including Vanessa Redgrave, John Carradine, Burt Reynolds, Gene Wilder, and the first Mrs. Woody Allen, Louise Lasser.

That's all for today.

Signing off,
The Puzzlechick