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Today's Puzzles / Thu., 3/28 Hayson & Barocas
« Last post by magus on March 28, 2013, 08:17:19 AM »
THEME:   words & phrases which can contain a "float" of some type
   
GOOD ONES:    
What one might see in {theme}   FLOAT [and it's that last entry of the puzzle]   
Run in the heat?   MELT   
   
BTW:   
CINQ is not used in English   
   
Are in the past?   WERE [actually, it makes sense with or without the ?]   
   
RATING:    ;D ;D
Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Not much fun   
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Today's Puzzles / Re: Wed., 3/27 C.C. Burnikel
« Last post by rbe on March 27, 2013, 10:50:12 AM »
and AOLER is in the same category as ACER.
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Today's Puzzles / Wed., 3/27 C.C. Burnikel
« Last post by magus on March 27, 2013, 08:26:07 AM »
THEME:   words which precede DAY in names of holidays and which are abutting in this grid, making them "double days."
   
GOOD ONES:    
Big name in publishing {and theme}   DOUBLEDAYS   
Some spring rolls?   SOD   
Summers in China?   ABACI [summer = adder]   
Hoover rival   [ORECK]   
   
   
   
BTW:   
Obviously the editors pay no attention to this space:   
   ACER is a computer company, not a tennis player, except in crosswords edited by those who should know better.
   
   ENERO is not used in our language, ever.
   
   
RATING:    ;D ;D
Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Not much fun   
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Today's Puzzles / Tue., 3/26 Grabowski & Venzke
« Last post by magus on March 26, 2013, 08:14:37 AM »
THEME:   first words of phrases are synonyms for ammo
   
GOOD ONES:     
Armory supply {and theme}   AMMO   
   
RATING:    ;D
Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Not much fun   
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Today's Puzzles / Mon., 3/25 David Steinberg
« Last post by magus on March 25, 2013, 06:26:45 AM »
THEME:   reversal of words comprised of two words
   
GOOD ONES:    
REDBEEAT, TEAROSE, MILKCHOCOLATE, MAPLESUGUR   
   
   
BTW:   
Flippered fish eaters   SEALS [English has a problem when certain nouns can be one or two words, either of which can be modified by the same adjective.  To fix this one: "Flippered eaters of fish" or "Eaters of flippered fish."]   
   
The theme was so clever that it compensates for the pedestrian cluing.   
   
   
RATING:    ;D ;D
Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Not much fun   
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Today's Puzzles / Sun., 3/24 Blake & Callum
« Last post by magus on March 24, 2013, 09:02:14 AM »
THEME:   Knocking one's I out
   
GOOD ONES:    
Winnebago-driving elder?   OLDMANRVER ["Old Man River"]   
Prison?   CONCOLLECTOR [coin]   
What the team's goat mascot did?   SWALLOWEDTHEBAT [bait]   
Pavarotti's trio   TRE   
Down in the dumps, say   IDIOM   
   
   
BTW:   
Some 6-Downs (CANDYBARS)   CLARK [loved them as a boy but they changed their recipe.  Wonder how many under 50 ever heard of them]   
   
Rare shoe width   EEE [hardly rare; I have little trouble finding them]   
   
More high strung   TAUTER [yes, but "tenser" is for "high-strung" while "tauter" is for "more tightly strung"]   
   
Odd that NEMO was clued as the name of a storm that never really materialized and was a bit of a misnomer.  "Mason role" may have been better.   
   
ETAGE as French for "floor" is, well, French and not used in English.  It is possible to find bel etage (main floor) in our dictionary.   
   
I particularly like the title because it is clever but also because it was our wedding song in 1965, just about when Clark bars changed.   
   
RATING:    ;D ;D ;D
Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Not much fun   
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Today's Puzzles / Sat. 3/23 Joe DiPietro
« Last post by magus on March 23, 2013, 09:29:25 AM »
THEME:   none, yet 32 blocks which is above par for Saturday
   
GOOD ONES:     
Sports figures   STATS   
   
BTW:   
Contests with no ultimate winner, hopefully   ARMSRACE [that depends on one's political opinion.  If one is a John Lennon "one world" dreamer, perhaps.  If one is an American, no.  In any event, arms races do have winners: who has the best weapons wins and is least likely to be attacked.]   
   
Inclined to believe   OFTHENOTION [I am of the notion that this clue and the last clue are weak; I am not "inclined," which suggests some tentativity.]   
   
Don't know why ELIOT was clued by Spitzer, a disgraced politician, when there are so many better clues available involving T.S. Eliot.   
   
RATING:     :'(
Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Not much fun   
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Today's Puzzles / Fri., 3/22 David Poole
« Last post by magus on March 22, 2013, 08:22:40 AM »
THEME:   reversing the syllables of the second word of a phrase yields a new phrase
   
GOOD ONES:     
Seasonal shade of pink?   ACHRISTMASCORAL   
Setting for Columbus   EST [Ohio's Eastern time]   
Stick around a pool hall?   CUE
...and a number of other interesting clues   
   
BTW:   
Circa   AROUND [ "Circa" connotes an approximate time.  "Around" is not properly used to suggest "approximate"; about does.]   
   
ELLAS and ESTO are not used in English, but ELLAS could have been clued "Fitzgerald and namesakes" or "Fitzgerald and Grasso."   
   
RATING:  ;D ;D   
Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Not much fun   
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Today's Puzzles / Thu., 3/21 Alex Bajcz
« Last post by magus on March 21, 2013, 08:15:09 AM »
THEME:   COP found in random phrases
   
GOOD ONES:     
Stinger? {and theme}   UNDERCOVERCOP   
   
BTW:   
While there were no particular "good ones," the cluing throughout was interesting.   
   
I live in NC which was NCAR once, on envelopes.   
   
RATING:    ;D  ;D
Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Not much fun   
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Today's Puzzles / Wed., 3/20 Amy Johnson
« Last post by magus on March 20, 2013, 08:27:25 AM »
THEME:   govt. agent ploys starting random phrases
   
GOOD ONES:     
Agts. who might use {theme}   GMEN   
Ne or Na   ELEM [they look like words from some Pacific Rim nation]   
   
BTW:   
Full-figured   ZAFTIG [what I like about English is that it is not averse to adopting words from other languages]

STINGLIKEABEE: was that Ali or Clay?   
   
RATING:    ;D
Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Not much fun   
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