![]() ![]() ![]() One-line review for hose in a thurry: Rome Hun from Merl!!! 84A/90A. – HANG YOUR BED AGAINST THE WALL ( Bang your head against the wall) – 4 Ha’s.Look, down in the basement…It’s a rat…It’s a ping-pong table…no, it’s PLASTER MAN!!! – PLASTER MAN (Master plan) – 5 Ha’s – I so want this comic book. – SHIRKING THE WEIGHT LIFT (Working the late shift) – 4 Ha’s. You know they answer this: “What’s up, Doc?” ![]() – MOE JILLIONAIRE (Joe Millionaire) – 1 Ha – I COULD BITE A ROOK (I could write a book) – 4 Ha’s ( Amy says: And not a Spoon River Anthology.) Theme: A spoonerism is a…deliberate play on words in which corresponding consonants…are switched. Merl Reagle crossword answers "Spoonerism Anthology" Merl Reagle’s syndicated/Philadelphia Inquirer crossword, “Spoonerism Anthology”-Jeffrey’s review clues ASSAM, which is far more familiar to me than its capital. Know Questel from crosswords, but not Murray. The Dakotas have the Black Hills and the Badlands, which are not Blacklands. Who the heck includes the word melon when they say cantaloupe? clues OBLIGEE, my nominee for dullest word in the puzzle. Usually scows are clued as garbage haulers but they’re also used in dredging. Did you go for NOSHING or GRAZING or SUPPING first? ![]() He wore drag for his Geraldine character. is comedian Flip WILSON, whose heyday was in the ’70s. clues CHAS Addams, creator of The Addams Family. Not the first sense of “tore into” I thought of. Again, lots of ILIA in other puzzles, rarely if ever his full name. DIFF’RENT STROKES was the , Arnold and Willis, played by Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges. Lots of ARI in the puzzle, not the full(ish) name. MIATA gets into the grid a lot the full make and model, not so much. Hey, anyone know if Patrick Berry relies heavily on computing power to craft his marvels, as Frank does, or if he belongs to the guild of Those Who Make Puzzles by Hand? (We learned in Matt Gaffney’s book Gridlock that Matt and Byron Walden are notable by-hand constructors, while Frank and Peter Gordon are masters of database massage.)Īnyway, no matter which approach you prefer, you can’t dispute that Frank gets good results with his method. Washington Post crossword solution 1/16/11 Frank Longoįrank Longo’s famous for his Word List of Magnificence, which generates all sorts of interesting possibilities for fill when he’s making a puzzle. Overall, big thumbs up for Joon’s puzzle.įrank Longo’s Washington Post crossword, “Post Puzzler No. I speak here of OSIER, IPSE, ENO, STOL, NOHO, ORLE, EWER, OMOO, RIAS, and that horrible Phantom of the Opera name, Christine DAAE. I’ve done a zillion crosswords so I’ve encountered these all before, but they vexed me the first time I saw them in a puzzle. Yeah, there are shorter answers that are likely to be less familiar to a lot of solvers. “ WE MADE IT!” Would be even better as the final answer in the grid. “At the ACPT, Tyler Hinman rocks his trademark Trogdor t-shirt.” “I am rocking these shearling slippers.” Who doesn’t like HOGWARTS? Well, maybe not a farmer’s veterinarian. Vivid, no? Much more visual and auditory than “yes-man.” Aha! who stands you up on a date is a NO-SHOW. My snarfing is in the downward direction. isn’t a car, it’s a person: HARRISON Ford. The chocolate, the double chocolate, the mint, the fruit/chocolate-they’re all good. Had a few Milanos on vacation have been yearning for them ever since. Highlights in the fill and clues include: The original phrase is “You can’t go home again,” right? And YUKON sounds more like “you can.” Like the Neva, the Yalu is a river I learned from crosswords. The James Bond title Tomorrow Never Dies turns into TOMORROW, NEVA DIES. That should totally be the Missouri tourism board’s slogan! (Misery.) Each theme entry sounds sort of like a familiar phrase, but a river name has been substituted for another word: Not to mention that many of us probably know some of the rivers in question because they’ve appeared in so many crosswords-so the puzzle’s a little reward for long-time solvers. Super-tight batch of puns, and they’re unified by geography nerddom so I like ’em. NY Times crossword solution 1/16/11 Joon Pahk ![]()
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