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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on April 11, 2009, 03:38:58 PM
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I never made a puzzle with so few blocks, so I'm impressed by this effort, but today I have some nits to pick and a pet peeve to stroke. Forgive me.
"Jobs for teens" is the clue for SITTERS, but sitters is not the job; they are the teens. The clue might better be "Teens at work, sometimes."
"Like Friday or June" for SIXTH is a bit farfetched, and I might have gone with "____ sense" or "Kind of sense."
"ONERS" is a word I encounter only in Xwords. It should be banned.
I just don't get "Brown, but not white?" for IVY.
I always thought Fala was a Scottish terrier. Perhaps ABERDEEN is like using Alsatian for German Shepherd. But I don't recall having heard of an Aberdeen despite watching the Westminster dog show every year. Live and learn.
I liked "Seinfeld's apartment, maybe" for SET. :)
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I think the SIXTH clue was appropriately tricky for Saturday.
And Brown refers to Brown University, an Ivy League school.
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I thought that, but I don't get "white." There are brown and white pelicans, but not brown and white schools. And, ivy is a plant; ivy league refers to to schools.
I didn't find SIXTH unduely difficult, just not terribly good. :)