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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on August 05, 2015, 08:57:36 AM
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THEME: phrases containing the chemical symbol AU
GOOD ONES:
Kind nature {& theme} HEART OF GOLD
Stock quote? MOO [cattle = stock]
Where to find a horse with no legs? SEA [as in seahorse --- glue factory didn't fit (sorry)]
Promise from a shy person? IOU [shy in the sense of owing money]
Modern art? ARE ["Wherefore art thou Romeo?"]
Like no news? GOOD ["no news is good news": certainly true on TV]
Bean sprout? IDEA [bean = head]
BTW:
Life altering words I DO [come to think of it, there are zillion words and phrases that fit that definition, from "YES" and "NO" to "I'LL TRY IT" to "LET'S GO SWIMMING"]
Spanish 101 verb ESTA [and engripador is a noun --- so what?]
Of all the ways to clue TIS, why quote John Donne I wonder. Raise your hand the last time you read anything by John Donne --- or even seen his name in print. If you're a fan of Old English kenning, you may enjoy "Lucy."
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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Mister magus, I appreciate you quoting the line ""Wherefore art thou Romeo?" Juliet was asking why he was named Romeo. Almost everyone thinks there is a comma after "thou" and nearly everyone thinks "wherefore" means "where." It does not. It means "Why." I often hear people on tv shows engage in such dialogue as: "Wherefore art thou, Romeo?" "I'm over here." That drives me crazy! Bobby Sherman and Gordon Lightfoot are among the artists who have recorded a song titled Wherefore & Why. That title, too, drives me crazy.
Today's crossword included IDEA and NOIDEA. I think that idea-lly no word should appear twice in a puzzle unless it is part of a theme. (See what I did there?)
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Yes, I saw what you did there, and it was ideal. Less ideal is your failure to use the possessive case before a gerund ("... I appreciate you quoting..."). Now you've already been told about this --- don't make me tell you again!
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I considered using "your" instead of "you" but I decided that my appreciation was directed more toward you than toward your act of quoting and to me that justified the use of the word "you." Remember, I learned grammar from a book titled How To Speak English Good. :).