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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on June 13, 2015, 08:50:15 AM
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THEME: none, but crossed fifteens at center
GOOD ONES:
Kennel pick up area NAPE [ clue is good and hard: bitches pick up their pups by the back of the neck]
Challenging pitch HIGH C [I thought baseball]
One hanging out in a coll. office? PHD [is that the person or the degree hanging on the wall?]
BTW:
Reaction to excessive attention to detail BUT WHO'S COUNTING [tin earism: "but who's counting" is an ironic statement wherein the speaker is noticing the number --- there is no suggestion of excess and is spoken less often as a reaction than as a comment engendered by the speaker himself]
Like Zitronen SAUER [this entry is a lemon --- and German]
RATING: ;D ;D
Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Not much fun
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I, too, though "Challenging pitch" would refer to a type of pitch thrown in a baseball game. I know very little about music. I'm much like comedian Junior Simples, who once said, "The only stringed instrument I can play is a yo-yo." But the "challenging pitch" was HIGHC. High C, also known as Top C, Soprano C and C6, is a musical note. In music, is a pitch the same as a note?
I thought that ZITRONEN, which is "sauer," might be a brand of bitter-tasting German liquor. It isn't. The word is the plural of "Zitrone," which means "lemon." Here is an explanation of why nouns in the German language are capitalized:
http://german.about.com/library/weekly/aa020919a.htm
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I believe note and pitch are different to musicians (connotation) but not to lexicographers (denotation).