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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on August 15, 2010, 10:22:28 AM

Title: LAT Sun. 8/15 Gia Christian
Post by: magus on August 15, 2010, 10:22:28 AM
Knock ‘Em Dead
[clever title]

 :)
Cars over the road    ELS [railroad cars, that is]
Get to work again    FIX
From the heart?   AORTAL
OK and others    STS [OK is Oklahoma]
Bean measures?    EEGS
Jazz group?    SET
Speaks in slang?   SEZ [says written in slang]
Drink stand buy    ADE [lemonade stand]
Theme: The letter M [em] removed from a phrase yields a different phrase
What would trouble Trixie if the Kramdens moved away?    ABSENCEOFALICE
Parallel world?    OTHEREARTH
Mischievous long-eared critter?    ARCHHARE

 :(
JELLOOLD    [too much of a stretch for me]

Some foreign terms:
FESTA
HAE
CANEM
DHOTI

Other foreign terms but unacceptable:
ETE
ESO
For a discussion on foreign terms, click on “Forum” tab, look under “General Discussion” and select ZENOPHOBIA.