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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on July 24, 2011, 10:19:02 AM
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An Author Thing Coming :D
:)
Music box? CDCASE
Better part of a loaf? HALF
Theme: Names of authors in phrases
People who recite “Jabberwocky” door-to-door? CHRISTMASCARROLLERS
Fictional tornado shelter? BAUMSHELTER [particularly apt in The Wizard of Oz]
Periods when Harry Potter books are unavailable? ROWLINGBLACKOUTS
Not as hard to pronounce as some 17th-century poetry? EASIERSAIDTHANDONNE
::)
Crossing LEWIS and WILDE seems a bit unsporting since the clues are book titles.
???
Mystery writer John Dixon ___ CARR [Would “Today’s theme vehicle” work?]
Dashingly? ATARUN [Isn’t the idiom “on a/the run”?]
>:(
Excellent server ACER [Another constructor who just looks at lists of clues rather than thinking --- or reading this space]
:(
Stroked SWAM [though one strokes during the process of swimming, the two are not synonymous]
The theme was so good that it overcomes the flaws.
RATING: ;D ;D ;D Three grins = Excellent: Loved it; Two grins = Good: Enjoyed it; One grin = Satisfactory: A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Unsatisfying: No fun
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Thanks for the write-up.
Regarding ACER, I cringed when I found in an earlier post that there is a way in which that word should never be clued... and this puzzle was already on Rich's desk. :)