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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on November 06, 2011, 09:11:17 AM

Title: LAT Sun. 11/6 Peter Koetters
Post by: magus on November 06, 2011, 09:11:17 AM

Do or Dye

 :)
Make a string of purls   KNIT [not pearls]
Grade-school operator   PLUSSIGN
Sticks in the mud   EMBEDS
Sun. delivery   SER

Theme:  First words of random phrases that can follow the word HAIR

 :D All 26 letters used

 :-\ Glosses over   OMITS [really suggests purposeful avoidance more than omission]

 :( RIEN

Rather pedestrian for a Sunday
RATING:   ;D Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = No fun

Title: Re: LAT Sun. 11/6 Peter Koetters
Post by: DrewE on November 07, 2011, 10:29:03 PM

"DIALO" as an old way to place a collect call didn't settle well with me.  A zero isn't the same as an oh; and what's worse, they're dialed differently:  consider the (more recently devised) 1-800-COLLECT calls.

Title: Re: LAT Sun. 11/6 Peter Koetters
Post by: magus on November 08, 2011, 08:36:58 AM

Drew---

I think I went to school with a kid named Dialo, but that's a different story.
In Xwords we find I and 1 used interchangeably.  So it is with O and 0; hence, "100" is printed I-O-O --- as we print in caps.