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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on December 21, 2013, 08:59:17 AM

Title: Sat., 12/21 Marti DuGuay-Carpenter
Post by: magus on December 21, 2013, 08:59:17 AM
THEME:   centennial anniversary of the crossword puzzle: two 15-letter entries crossing each other at midpoint
   
GOOD ONES:     
Raises ones spirits?   TOASTS   
Reasons for seeing double?   BIFOCALS [without them you would not see the word double]   
Whistler, at times?   KETTLE   
Didn't recover from a trip?   FELL   
Routine fare?   ONE LINERS [in comedy routines]   
Crops of the pick?   ORES [pick axe]   
   
BTW:   
TES is not used in our language.   
   
"For here ___ go?"   OR TO [would've liked a reference to Hamlet's "To Be…" soliloquy]   
   
RATING: ;D ;D ;D   
Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Not much fun