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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on August 29, 2010, 09:54:52 AM

Title: LAT Sun. 8/29 Doug Peterson
Post by: magus on August 29, 2010, 09:54:52 AM
El Week
[Don’t get the title: I’d go with the edgier “Get the L Out!”

 :)
It’s a gas    NEON
City with many pits    RENO [pits are gaming stations]
Say “What?”   ASK
Adder’s target    SUM [I of course thought snake]
Duck call?    FORE [not the animal, the warning]
Theme: intrusive L
Automatic whipper?    F(L)OGMACHINE
Some food fighters?    CHICKENF(L)INGERS
Line in an admiral’s pep talk?    F(L)EETDONTFAILMENOW
Where legendary firefighters are honored?    HALLOFF(L)AME
Quartet of couch potatoes?    THEF(L)ABFOUR [The Beatles]

 :(
NFLER isn’t really used anywhere but in Xwords.