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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on January 15, 2012, 10:35:08 AM

Title: LAT Sun. 1/15 Peter A. Collins
Post by: magus on January 15, 2012, 10:35:08 AM
Stout and Thin

 :)
Rite site   ALTAR
Shooter’s setting   FSTOP
Gator tail?   ADE
Made a jumper, maybe   SEWED [not a basketball shot]
What Nixon and Kennedy have in common?   ENS
No voter   ANTI
Buck passer, briefly   ATM
Theme: subtract an S and add an H to a word in a phrase
Compliment to a young genius?   WHYYOULITTLETHINKER [stinker]
Nonsense talk from an inner city?   GHETTOBLATHER [blaster]

 :o Stout and Thin   Aside from “stout” and “thin” having the S-T-H of the theme, the title’s cleverness eludes me.  Would "state and think" work?

Who knew?
SPICA is a star in Virgo
BADBOY is a Diddy label, or that Diddy had a label

RATING:   ;D ;D Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Not much fun