CRUCIVERB.COM
Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on October 17, 2015, 10:27:56 AM
-
THEME: none, but six 16-ers in an irregular grid: 15x16
GOOD ONES:
Ruler's domain? ROOST ["rule the roost"]
Pickup spots? SCRUFFS [of cats]
Baguette surfaces FACETS [diamonds, not food, as I thought]
Ways to get high EXTENSION LADDERS
Real page-turner? AVID READER
Zookeepers main squeeze? BOA
Locks in a paddock MANE [horse's hair, not a metal piece or verb "to lock"]
Depressed area? DENT
BTW:
Nice time for toasting ETE [not English; but if French is going to be used, I'd say l'hevir is better for being toasty by a fire]
Square, in 50's slang… L SEVEN [new one to me --- guessing that the thumbs and forefingers create an L and a 7 when joined with right hand on top]
Spanakopita dough FILO [Greek dish, with distasteful (to me) feta cheese, wrapped in very tasteful filo dough, flaky pastry]
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
-
You are correct about "L7." In 1959, a "Kookie Dictionary" was published as a promotion for 77 Sunset Strip, ABC-TV's 1958-64 detective drama starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and Roger Smith. Edd Byrnes co-starred as Kookie, a nightclub parking lot attendant and "hipster" who aspired to be a detective. The dictionary listed all his "Kookie-isms." Among them: "L7" was a "square," "piling up the Z's" meant sleeping, "the ginchiest" meant the best or greatest, and "a dark seven" was a depressing week. Many of the Kookie-isms were featured in Kookie Kookie Lend Me Your Comb, a 1959 hit by Edd Byrnes and Connie Stevens. (Byrnes' real name is Edward Breitenberger.)