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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on September 07, 2012, 09:23:38 AM
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Possible Title: Y Is This Here?
Theme: The letter Y added (or substituting for an E) between two words of a phrase [but that’s the problem; two different approaches: see next]
Good Ones:
Inferior swim? CHEESYDIP [cheese+dip: E cut then Y added]
Burly Green Bay gridder? MEATYPACKER [meat packer: Y added]
Grand decade CNOTES [took me awhile to get it: 10 cnotes = a grand]
New gnu CALF [Isn’t he a Republican, Sir NuNu?]
Some Nits to Pick:
OSA is Spanish
Old congregating locale STOA [stoa was a promenade while agora was a large market area]
AIRACE [not buying it as a real word]
ALLCASH [ditto]
RATING: :-\ Hard to rate since there are good entries and some tough ones, which I enjoy, but the theme doesn’t measure up and there are two very dubious words and a misdefined term.
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But can't one meet on a stoa?
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Yes, and on an airplane, but an airplane is not a meeting place anymore than a stoa was.