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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on January 13, 2012, 08:46:16 AM
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Y-So
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Rock bands? ORES
One of Us? CELEB [note capital U for the magazine --- I wonder if they are]
Help hold up ABET
Plus some interesting cluing, unusual but apt, e.g., “Range of understanding” = REACH
Theme: The letter Y inserted between words of two-word phrases
Peevish audience TESTYGROUP
…and three others as good
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NLERS
AVOIR
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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Hi magus,
just wondering why you're not happy with NLER(S) as an entry. Do you also feel RVER(S) is a poor entry?
Marya
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Hi, Marya---
NLERS seems a crosswords invention. As a rabid baseball fan I never see the term used. RVERS is used in the real world, however.
It is, I suppose, a pet peeve, of which I have a few. ACER is one, when it is used to describe a tennis player --- sports writers don't use the term. And as you have probably gleaned, I don't like most foreign words, though TETE in today's puzzle is fine since we use the term in English (tete a tete).
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Interesting; I also don't really like NLER(S), but I'm fine with RVER(S).
OTOH I'm also fine with the occasional foreign term; I like learning new foreign words, as long as they aren't too obscure. I first learned the French word for summer (ETE) when solving a NY Times puzzle.
Marya