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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on August 16, 2009, 09:47:20 AM
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GOOD ONES!
Hole in the head SINUS
Queen's neighbor BISHOP [in chess]
Visa user DEBTOR [I use Visa but never thought of myself that way]
"C'est magnifique" OOLALA ["C'est magnifique" is a song with the lyric, "Ooolala c'est magnifique."]
Less good was "What spies often lead" for DOUBLELIFE, which should be singular to agree with LIFE ["What a spy often leads].
I counted 7 baseball references, an increasingly popular subject these days, but it is "to pile OSSA [Mike's word] on Pelion" to include 9 French entries:
Toulouse evening for SOIR
"Le Roi d'Ys" composer for LALO
BAGUETTE
ILEDE France
Spirit in le ciel for ANGE
Marseilles crowd for TROIS
POILU
Romain de Tirtoff, famously for ERTE
"C'est magnifique" for OOLALA
:)