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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on August 21, 2011, 09:34:12 AM
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Scrambled Signals
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Popular tank fillers TETRAS
Xing people? PEDS
This and that THESE
Dress with a flare ALINE [not flair]
Theme: anagrams in phrases clued by other words in the grid --- seems amazingly difficult to construct since for each theme phrase Pamela had to include an appropriate anagram.
CHANGEOFHEART clued by EARTH [and all the others were as good]
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HOLA, ETES, and ENEROS are foreign words with no particular English usage; but TEAMO was clued not with, say, “Pepe’s cooing” but by the cigar brand’s competitor, White Owl, both once very popular. [Amazingly I still have my grandfather’s cigar boxes of both brands.]
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