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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on May 08, 2015, 09:13:51 AM
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THEME: foreign breads lead phrases in a "punny" way
GOOD ONES:
Ability to laugh at deli bread {& theme} RYE SENSE OF HUMOR
Good feelings during Jewish bread celebrations? CHALLAH DAY CHEER [pronounced /(c)halla/ hence "holiday cheer"] (My friends in Brooklyn called it "holly bread" --- don't know why)
Cautionary tale about Greek bread? PITA AND THE WOLF
BTW:
It's used in rounds AMMO [ammo is rounds]
ERDE is not used in English.
RATING: ;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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Bread-related puns: a clever theme for the puzzle-solving members of the upper crust. :)
Today's NEA crossword is similar to all the previous NEA crosswords: No theme, no long words, no unusual words. There were five foreign words (ADIOS, ESTA, LOS, NUNC, SRA) and seven of the over-used words that appear in several crosswords each week: APE, EPEE, ETNA, OAT, ODE, OLEO and OPAL.
The Universal crossword included three 15-letter answers, LITTLEORNOTHING, MEDIUMDUTYTRUCK and BIGGERANDBETTER.
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I thought the same thing about AMMO.
I did not like using TIBIA for "Calf neighbor." Calf neighbors could be ankle, shin or thigh.
Tibia neighbors would be bones like fibula or femur.
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But bones and muscles can be neighbors --- just not Arabs and Jews.