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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on November 26, 2015, 09:20:05 AM
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THEME: first two words of a phrase are opposites [but it's covert and I suspect most will miss it]
GOOD ONES:
Cellar dweller? WINE [not the Orioles]
Class struggle? TEST [maybe in mathematics and science as arts classes are a laugh]
Short stop PAUSE [not Derek Jeter, shortstop for 20 years]
No more stars, to astronomers ANAGRAM ["no more stars" have the exact letters as "astronomers"; but the clue really should have "for" instead of "to"]
Lots and lots ACRES [true both ways: ACRES can mean "lots" and be comprised of "lots"]
"Uh-uh" and "Uh-huh!" clued by NOPE and YEP, respectuvely; and it fits the theme of opposites.
BTW:
Sign appealing to short people? ATM INSIDE [in the context of money, "short" suggests unable to pay; using an ATM does not mean one is unable to pay or that one uses an ATM because one is unable to pay.
Big bang cause TNT [many physicists believe the Big Bang caused the universe; as far as I know, they don't have a theory on what caused the Big Bang]
RATING: ;D ;D
Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Not much fun
The rating for a Thanksgiving Day puzzle would be ZERO. However, it is a desideratum of the Left to eschew American tradition, and in this the LAT is doing its "small" part.
Happy Thanksgiving
, anyway.
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Yes, the theme answers begin with opposite words: OLDNEWYORK, OUTINFORCE, OFFONATANGENT and LITTLEBIGTOWN (a country music quartet whose hits include Girl Crush, Pontoon, Day Drinking and Bring It On Home).
Those answers reminded me of a funny story. A linguistics professor told his students, "In English, a double negative forms a positive. An example of this is 'I don't have none.' But a double positive can never form a negative." A student in the back of the room said, "Yeah, right." :)