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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on August 17, 2012, 08:57:28 AM
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Possible Title: Bothersome Spasms
Theme: TIC added to random phrases yielding other phrases
Good Ones:
Berserk flutterer? LUNATICMOTH
Trans-Alaska pipeline repairer? ARCTICWELDER
Like one afflicted with {theme} NERVOUS
Place with pint-size servings? PUB
Pen name BIC
By the Way:
Skewed AWRY [In statistics, a skewed graph varies from the normal. The heights of men in the world would create a normal curve, but a graph of Danish men would skew the graph to the taller side. When awry indicates a twist to one side, skew would be a correct clue; when awry means something amiss (which it usually does), the clue would be wrong.]
Not sure SLIDECASE is a word found in most dictionaries; maybe it should.
Who knew?:
APU owns a Kwik-E-Mart. [I sound like a cultural snob, but I don't like references to cartoons. I knew APU from the continual Xword references to The Simpsons, which I have never seen. But I got to TV late in my childhood and never read the funnies, so ...]
Didn't know Rapa NUI either, so my geography is also lacking.
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