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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on September 06, 2009, 09:17:27 AM
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Good Ones!
Tuscan red CHIANTI [I was thinking color, not wine]
They hang together PALS [I was thinking execution]
I never realized that Kazan directed films of so many literary pieces.
What do the following entries have in common?
Mine, in Marseille AMOI
Cold, to Carlos FRIO
Un + deux TROIS
Some, in Seville UNAS
Orly lander AVION
Suisse range ALPES
Sp. title SRA
:)
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These are great IF you know several other languages other than the one the puzzle is written in. Too hard! ???
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I thought they have Euros in common. :D
I'm not sure these entries are too hard for Sunday solvers; my feeling is more aesthetic: how many unrelated foreign terms, in this case seven, should a solver expect to see in a puzzle? Some might argue that many foreign terms in a puzzle is to be expected as the world shrinks and we become more multicultural. Others may feel that using foreign terms adds to a constructor's lexicon and so makes puzzles both easier to make and more enjoyable to solve. As stated here before, only common, well-used foreign terms and expressions should be used in English Xwords. :)