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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on March 23, 2010, 07:44:22 AM

Title: LAT Tue. 3/23 Merle Baker
Post by: magus on March 23, 2010, 07:44:22 AM

GRAND Tour

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Heavy metal    IRON [I seem to remember a rock group called Iron Maiden.]
Base melody    TAPS

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Big finish, and what the first words of the answers to starred clues can be    GRANDFINALE [The word GRAND can be, but that's only part of the grid entry; GRANDFINALE cannot be, for example, a modifier of SLAM.  What the theme entry means to say is that the first word of this answer can be the first word of the answers to the starred clues: GRAND + SLAM, etc.]

Title: Re: LAT Tue. 3/23 Merle Baker
Post by: Eric Maddy on March 25, 2010, 11:09:19 PM

You're taking GRANDFINALE wayyyyy too literally.
The first words of the starred answers can be FINALEs to phrases starting with GRAND -- thus GRAND FINALE.