But slowly, they started filling in and I had to smile:ġ5-Across. Ooof!! When I saw all the cross-references leading me to a Bible verse, I really thought my goose was cooked. Thank all for the good wishes after my wedding and have a great year. Well another year has begun with a challenging but doable Friday (only 74 words and 34 blocks, so we had to work hard). "A Book of Verses underneath the Bough" poet : OMAR.ĥ6. Old MacDonald would be proud of so many O words.ĥ3. Just watched the final of the Hobbit Trilogy. So many variations of the word creep, but I did not know this one.Ĥ8. Florida has no fault divorce and car insurance.ģ9. Is this still an initialism for Home Box Office?ģ8. Where is our newswoman? Do they still have these.ģ7. Nellie _, character in Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House" books : OLESON. I have quite a few cousins who got degrees there.Ĩ. Now if the next clue were Buckeye state, we would have quite a progression. So simple but I started out struggling in the NW corner.ģ. It is safe to say John likes to be misleading, as in another baseball clue 27D. Some baseball misdirection as the park is the ball park. Chances for a walk in the park? : AT BATS. The incomparable Teri Garr and her knockers.ġ. Usually associated with growing things.Ħ1. Hats off to John, who actually wears hats for getting this fill in the grid.ĥ2. Is this flower in both Spanish and Italian?Ĥ9. How lucky can I get, we just had this.ģ5. "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity" writer : POE. In this case the bounding main of the open seas.Ģ4. We have clients involved in a big project there.Ģ2. How odd that of all the Spanish speaking countries, JL picked Ecuador. Any great stories of broken romances? 35D. This took much longer than it should have, perhaps a product of growing up near Boston, though my first answer was CAVE.ġ6. A truly awesome place to visit with the mountains, the lake and the casinos.ġ5. Sierra Nevada tourist attraction : TAHOE. For some reason HALITOSIS popped into my head, even though HYPNOSIS, OSMOSIS and TUBERCULOSIS are clearly more common.ġ4. I found the clue/fill slowed me down big time.ġ0. The king of the cross-reference strikes again. This meaning for the word boob has long been supplanted by the slang word for female breast, which makes JL's intersecting 6D. An A word that is really used, and for a detective story lover, this was a great way to start.Ħ. Top cinematographer? : FILM LEADER. The TERM is also about movies but I did not know it.ġ. The other members of our group who were 20 feet away were wondering why I was photographing Doug's crotch. Them! This bee-mimic Robber Fly captured a beetle and landed on my friend Doug's pant leg. I don't pretend to be a FLY WHEEL myself, but I do enjoy photographing Include a "dramatic re-creation" of the events occurring on 'that night' I always get a laugh out of shows like "UFO files" that always Chemical relative : ISOMER - isoTOPE did not fit, and it took waaay too long to remember this word Business, informally : BEE'S WAX - As in the phrase "Mind your own -"ĥ8. LAX posting : ARRival - duped went with ETAĥ5. Weightlifting technique : SNATCH - clean and jerk did not fit I have to admit to a little "snicker" at this answer - such a DF mind.ĥ2. "Shame on thee!" : " FIE~!" - whoops, went with "TSK~!"Ĥ2. * Skyler's sister on "Breaking Bad" : MARIE - if you say so all perpsĤ1. Snicker follower : SNEE - snicker snee - a large knife unrelated to the next clueĢ3. Word with level or devil : SEA - I started with "SUB", which half workedĢ2. Made up : UNTRUE - ah, not UNITED - this is the pretend, 'fake' made up, not the end-of-a-tiff made upĢ0. Might have 'a' magic wand - but now it's changed to an adjective.)ġ8. I had the two "N"s, and that led to -NOUN, and from there it was anĮducated WAG you don't vacuum up "a" dust, or use "a" magic ( but you Word not usable with an indefinite article, such as "magic" or "dust" : MASS NOUN Want : DEARTH - "fail" - went with DESIRE - but was 28.5% correctġ7. * "Wuthering Heights" backdrop : THE MOORS - and then "fail" - went with "CIVIL WAR", since I have no clue when, where or what this book is aboutġ6. * Its construction created Lake Nasser : ASWAN DAM - nailed it always good to start off with the correct fill at 1a.~!ġ5.
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