crisp

Eight attendees and several Times staffers gathered at the Elysian Park West Loop trailhead on a crisp but glorious morning.

It can transform soggy, limp leftovers into crisp, crunchy delights, cook excellent wings, salmon, steaks and chicken breasts, and even make "hard-boiled" eggs.

But that crisp play did not carry over against the Cornhuskers.

Dressed in a crisp, dark monochrome coat and slacks, Gaines makes his way to a small office in the back of the gallery and takes a seat next to me.

She has the crisp, deliberate speech of a longtime educator.