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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on December 13, 2015, 09:57:57 AM

Title: Sun., 12/13 Matt McKinley
Post by: magus on December 13, 2015, 09:57:57 AM
THEME:   intrusive AM
   
GOOD ONES:    
Unprincipled operator?   (AM)ORAL SURGEON   
Really large items thrown overboard?   JUMBO JETS(AM)   
Harsh criticism of a Pontiac?   GRAND (AM) SLAM   
Done like Donne   POETIC   
It it's orange, it's black   PEKOE   
Egg holder   NEST   
Bust measurements?   KILOS [bust=arrest --- narcotics are weighed in kilos]   
   
BTW:   
For some reason I dislike "veal PARM," but I enjoy the meal.   
   
ESA no es englais.   
   
Don Knotts denial   NOOP [before he played Barney Fife, Knotts was a comedian on Steve Allen's shows where he was very nervous and answered NOOP when interviewed ]   
   
"Sure, I get it"   AH SO [once before AH SO was mis-clued; it is an expression used humorously to connote one's coming to understand]   
   
Went off the deep end   DOVE [when I grew up dived was the only acceptable past tense --- but language is always changing]   
   
   
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