Archived 'Dromes

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02/20/2019

Food

Clue

When the brothers Tate tried opening a shop serving iced treats made from fruit juice, it gave everyone the runs.

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Click here for February 20's solution

02/19/2019

World Geo

Clue

Let that Brazilian girl expert in her country's jazz influenced samba-like dance in on the fact that that I long for more classical dance fringed with western themes wherein the performers wield riatas.

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Click here for February 19's solution

02/18/2019

World Geo

Clue

A man laughs at the suggestion by his friend with a Biblical name, that while he was losing control of the car he was fantasizing about the Playboy centerfolds on his wall.

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Click here for February 18's solution

02/15/2019

World Geo

Clue

A strong reaction upon getting a whiff of this Russian woman's body odor and being told the reason: she was raised by her County Cork parents to shun bathing.

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Click here for February 15's solution

02/14/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

An engineering executive at Panasonic tells an employee how the sticky tape he had showed her would improve their top of the line picture quality. ( I can't quite see how this would work, myself.)

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Click here for February 14's solution

02/13/2019

Arts/World Geo

Clue

A private detective sent by the Dalai Lama to recover stolen art noticed that the painting he had traced to a delicatessen about mid morning was titled after Nathaniel who had been bitten by a snake and was done by by a French painter who led the charge from Realism into Impressionism.

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Click here for February 13's solution

02/12/2019

Language

Clue

For heavens sake, Peter never contemplated naming something after his dog or cat.

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Click here for February 12's solution

02/11/2019

World/USA Geo

Clue

One of the Little Rascals, an idiot, with little to say even as his fellow citizens react with sudden fear at a delicatessen in Central Florida, thrashed about violently with a bathing sponge.

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Click here for February 11's solution

02/08/2019

World/USA Geo

Clue

A Mideast potentate is lobbied by his aide not to have Mabel, young mother from Tuscaloosa who was breastfeeding and exposing a good deal of flesh, arrested by the decency police.

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Click here for February 08's solution

02/07/2019

Language/History

Clue

A Quaker judge passes sentence on a man accused of sexual assault who had asked for probation.

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Click here for February 07's solution

02/06/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

A young woman laments to her friend Deborah that her boss Edward had gotten a little too close for comfort and that it was weighing heavily on her.

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Click here for February 06's solution

02/05/2019

Entertainment

Clue

Punny exclamation to Jan about when the Star Wars warrior turned minister, out for a a ride on his motorcycle, gunned the motor and collided with Fido.

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Click here for February 05's solution

02/04/2019

History

Clue

Staring at the canvas, a Roman emperor speculates about the young woman who he had just painted, figuring that she would have some reaction, yet curious that he had shocked and overwhelmed her.

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Click here for February 04's solution

02/01/2019

Entertainment

Clue

Loni is told about an early, very 'B" movie, about aging vermin on an island overrun by mushrooms, that this actor had the lead in before "Everybody Loves Raymond" became popular.

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Click here for Febrary 01's solution

01/31/2019

World Geo/Arts

Clue

When Mozart played a concert in Bombay, the church, claiming it was under the Pope's jurisdiction, went after his fee.

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Click here for January 31's solution

01/30/2019

World Geo

Clue

Silly Gina ( no) and Nina (yes) have a difference of opinion on how to welcome soldiers to their Inuit fortress, namely over whether to have sex with them.

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Click here for January 30's solution

01/29/2019

Arts

Clue

A woman's male companion is exasperated, feeling he's been made a captive, and cannot bear to sit through "Swan Lake" after she took him to "Giselle" the previous might, and he swears "Never again!"

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Click here for January 29's solution

01/28/2019

Languages

Clue

An archeological team member identifies to its knighted leader the ancient Germanic character representing a bear's erection, found on a stone in their dig.

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Click here for January 28's solution

01/25/2019

Art/Science

Clue

After a field trip into a remote area crewmen of the Nautilus tell the captain that they have encountered and placated 7 simians whom they felt were almost godlike and hearkened back to the dawn of our species.

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Click here for January 25's solution

01/24/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

A government policy nerd remarks to his boss that just arrived for shelter, is a sunburned member of a religious order under relentless attack. a hazard to them all that he is willing to take.

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Click here for January 24's solution

01/23/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Weak and limp, I yell out to a newborn cow whose height is impressive and which is having gastric stomach problems.

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Click here for January 23's solution

01/22/2019

Sport/World Geo/Language

Clue

So listen, dude, are you saying that I should not tell the authorities some of the wrestlers have hidden leather straps to flog their opponents?

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Click here for January 22's solution

01/21/2019

Geo

Clue

The Health Commissioner in Boca Raton, Florida is asked whether Rosemary, one of his enforcers, had closed down a filthy bar/Mexican food place he noticed recently.

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Click here for January 21's solution

01/18/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

Not one of the military academy students, recognizing their potential victim, a dormitory peer leader and coordinator, as unlikely to fall for it, participated on the scam, saving their efforts for an easier target.

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Click here for January 18's solution

01/17/2019

USA Geography/Arts

Clue

What you can do at a swap meet organized by female painters and sculptors on the campus of the University of Central Florida.

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Click here for January 17's solution

01/16/2019

Sports

Clue

Thus, a New York Yankee superstar reliever, vexed at times, put an end to the real time snark of suave ladies man Amos.

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Click here for January 16's solution

01/15/2019

World Languages /Geo

Clue

Floride, Dakota du Sud, or Georgie.

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Click here for January 15's solution

01/14/2019

History

Clue

Mrs. Peron's Russian history teacher tells her that a terrible tsar's sense of foreboding again caused his bad temperament resulting in extreme verbal abuse to those around him.

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Click here for January 14's solution

01/11/2019

#MeToo

Clue

Reply from a young woman with Edward's unwanted advances weighing heavily on her mind, to her friend who had asked of she was OK.

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Click here for January 11's solution

01/10/2019

Tech

Clue

A small meat market which uses Macs, Mac Books, accepts Apple Pay, uses Homepod, etc. etc., is particularly good at this kind of deli meat.

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Click here for January 10's solution

01/09/2019

World Geo

Clue

Is it not true that the ill conceived, ill thought out journey by a group of inexperienced women explorers to a serpentine ridge of gravelly and sandy drift left by glacial ice will be perceived as a severe departure from the norm?

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Click here for January 09's solution

01/08/2019

World Geo

Clue

Mother inflicted injuries on an overweight woman whose heritage includes Native Americans and people from Jakarta on this Indonesian isle, and who runs a house of ill repute out of her small grocery/liquor store in a Puerto Rican neighborhood in NYC.

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Click here for January 08's solution

01/07/2019

Government/Entertainment/USA Geo

Clue

A Mafia branch head, who is also a lawyer and has risen through the ranks in their professional organization, is not a fan of the New York night club often frequented my members of the family.

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Click here for January 07's solution

01/04/2019

Sports/Entertainment/Science

Clue

A prominent race car drive, or actress, doing an advertisement for a Vitamin B3 supplement in the room of a klutzy, dorky, foolish college student.

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Click here for January 04's solution

01/03/2019

US Government/Geo

Clue

Lament from one University of Alabama Democrat living in Auburn, AL to another on the thin attendance at their get togethers in 2009-2016.

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Click here for January 03's solution

01/02/2019

US Government/Geo

Clue

Exultation of a prominent member of an Indiana family which produced Democratic senators and governors when a member of their family was accepted into a world class engineering school in Boston.

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Click here for January 02's solution

01/01/2019

Miscellaneous

Clue

A girl tells her father that she noted that the vintage rotating fan from the delicatessen that he had been looking for, made in the mid 1930s, was in a cabinet usually used to store documents.

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Click here for January 01's solution

12/31/2018

Entertainment/Food&Drink

Clue

A detective to his partner Eve, explaining that the suspect, actress Campbell's, genetic material had not bee found on the remains of a highball featuring Seagram''s and 7-UP that had been found at the crime scene,

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Click here for December 31's solution

12/28/2018

World Geo

Clue

Order at the groundbreaking ceremony for building on land that had degenerated into dull, boring furrows of wagon tracks, as it had not ever been annexed by this thriving city in Belgium, but now finally was.

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Click here for December 28's solution

12/27/2018

Sports

Clue

Did you say that I assisted famed Romanian gymnast Comaneci who died as we were committing the crime?

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Click here for December 27's solution

12/26/2018

Food&Drink/ Languages/Entertainment

Clue

When a crazy beer maker came to the delicatessen which was planning to make its own beer, he was quite taken aback that they had no nice equipment, likes vats, etc, and they showed him the bath tub they were planning on using instead, at which point he quit the project.

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Click here for December 26's solution

12/25/2018

Food&Drink/ Languages/Entertainment

Clue

Comment, using a French expletive, by Andy's partner to his mother regarding a sometimes slimy Cajun vegetable,that he finds disgusting.

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Click here for December 25's solution

12/24/2018

History/Geo

Clue

Bill Clinton's attorney General leaves a note for a friend describing how calm ans stress free it is to be sipping beer in Brighton at a seaside resort.

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Click here for December 24's solution

12/21/2018

US Government/Geo

Clue

When he had a drinking problem this Israeli premier and Nobel Prize winner agreed to go dry out in old colonial Massachusetts. His heart not really being in it, however, the city wasn't able to help him thanks to that little fridge in the hotel room.

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Click here for December 21's solution

12/20/2018

US Government/Geo

Clue

Comment from a good friend to Supreme Court Justice Scalia that he doesn't have to worry for a while about his stalker Edward , a sad sack from Nevada because he is now on an Alaskan cruise.

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Click here for December 20's solution

12/19/2018

Food and Drink

Clue

A judge at a wine tasting event tells a vintner that he cannot give any of his premium Bordeaux reds, as they currently stand, its top rating because of the hints of pork present.

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Click here for December 19's solution

12/18/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A casino mogul describes how the tyrannical draw poker player par excellence he brought on board playing for the house now is regularly beating the casino's nemesis. a TV psychic who he thought had been taking them for a ride.

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Click here for December 18's solution

12/17/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A man tells his wife that the dateless tree men he met at a party, then robbed, did not make fun of pictures of the couple's unborn child.

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Click here for December 17's solution

12/14/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A man who has accidentally swallowed some Grey Poupon laced with poison yells out to anyone within shouting distance to continuously help him activate his gag reflex as his throat and stomach are burning fiercely.

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Click here for December 14's solution

12/13/2018

Entertainment/World Geo

Clue

A Chinese woman relates how actor Patel ( "Slumdog Millionaire") was a great admirer of the very elevated Chinese life force that had been bred into her. which had affected her overall intelligence.

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Click here for December 13's solution

12/12/2018

Arts/World Geo

Clue

After music class TA Ron had asked who submitted an unsigned composition evoking The Koran and non-human mammals, with component pitches A,B,C,D,E,F,G. The author speaks up and claims it.

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Click here for December 12's solution

12/11/2018

Food/Entertainment/World Geo

Clue

A celebrity chef and her sons do a makeover of the mushrooms they obtained from alien spaceships which are necessary for Jewish Passover meals.

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Click here for December 11's solution

12/10/2018

Food

Clue

The bottom line on steamed soybean pods? Well, they make for a good cleanse.

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Click here for December 10's solution

12/07/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A young woman, very destitute, had dates every night for several weeks and always wanted to go out to eat with her date to save money on food, but she admits here that it really got tiring after a while.

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Click here for December 07's solution

12/06/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

British teenager tells his Mother who has scored some weed for him and placed it on the other of the twin beds in his room that it could have been of higher quality.

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Click here for December 06's solution

12/05/2018

Tech/Business

Clue

Developers at a Japanese car company have come up with an idea that the car morph into a canoe in case it goes into the water. But is is all manual, no hardware or software to perform the function. The boss suggests that those responsible be berated mercilessly for such a stupid idea.

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Click here for December 05's solution

12/04/2018

Entertainment/Sports

Clue

It is my understanding that the best marksman for Star Trek TNG's second officer who I am employing also helps out a little in the Enterprise's bowling alley when the automatic pinspotter is down for maintenance.

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Click here for December 04's solution

12/03/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Angry and all agitated at the presence of Sam, a famous competitor [ who I thought would not be allowed in the race], I am very surprised that I emerged victorious.

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Click here for December 03's solution

11/30/2018

Arts/World Geo

Clue

When I did the painting of Neil, a California drunkard, I portrayed him as a sunburned dork, unlike anyone Salvador could imagine.

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Click here for November 30's solution

11/29/2018

Arts/World Geo

Clue

Speaking in the 3rd person, Verne's submarine captain questions his North African contractor about the roofing material being used on the roof above his bedroom by the members of the plain living, antiwar sect that he had hired.

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Click here for November 29's solution

11/28/2018

USA History

Clue

Frustrated Joseph McCarthy declaring himself smarter than witness Del at HUAC hearings in the 1950s describing what he said to Del who seemed not to be giving him the information he wanted.

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Click here for November 28's solution

11/27/2018

Entertainment

Clue

Brief lines of dialogue in a new play detailing when Yoko met this actor who played The Joker on Batman on TV in the 1960s. She asks him whether he is sorry for what he had done and he dismisses the idea.

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Click here for November 27's solution

11/26/2018

Entertainment/Tech

Clue

Edward is told how a famous actor's ( The Godfather) girlfriend Ana, a snarky sort, shopping in a bog box store for TVs dismissed any suggestion that she consider a Japanese model using electrically charged ionized particles.

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Click here for November 26's solution

11/23/2018

Business

Clue

Terse text to a biblical patriarch from his insurance company that his plans when they rains came were hasty and ill thought out.

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Click here for November 23's solution

11/22/2018

Miscealleneous

Clue

After the minister has gone missing, continuously eluding them, one member of the search party tells another that their subject is ex- military.

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Click here for November 22's solution

11/21/2018

Miscealleneous

Clue

A museum director reacts in irritation when he notes that a painting of, and titled to suggest, two men in homoerotic love which everyone pretty much hated had been sent for display and that it would HAVE to be shown since an influential Hollywood personality on the board demanded it.

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Click here for November 21's solution

11/20/2018

USA Geo

Clue

Ida is told that young women from Des Moines, looking for kinky sex involving pain and cruelty with roughnecks, guesstimate that they have found what they were looking for, considering the contraption they see off in the field.

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Click here for November 20's solution

11/19/2018

Business

Clue

My discussion with Lewis who had been looking for a certain sum to be invested in his business. I had offered it to him for 20 % of the company but he said he was reluctant to give us equity, so I revised my offer as a loan.

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Click here for November 19's solution

11/16/2018

Business

Clue

Response to Levi who had been asked what kind of life his Coke executive/opera singer friend lived: her destiny was for it to be a crazy one.

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Click here for November 16's solution

11/15/2018

Business

Clue

Bret, agog at actually being in the famed restaurant of celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson in Harlem, is reminded by his agog,excited companion of where they are for the first time and to concentrate and select what what he wants to eat.

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Click here for November 15's solution

11/14/2018

Sports

Clue

Text from an infamous Heisman Trophy winner to a friend, a former Celtic and Celtic coach in the Bill Russell era, who had asked aboutwhat items of athletic undergarment he now sells on his new job.

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Click here for November 14's solution

11/13/2018

Business

Clue

A cop tell his partner to write a ticket for the people at this Hasbro research facility for just being too darned active and frenzied as they pummel each other with foam-based weaponry.

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Click here for November 13's solution

11/12/2018

USA Geo/Entertainment

Clue

Astonished reactions to Fiona and her green ogre friend at a screening at a religious high school for United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, a Christian sect known for its simple living, architecture, and furniture.

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Click here for November 12's solution

11/09/2018

World Geo

Clue

Aristotle Onassis speculates to his butler Ira, in charge of hiring staff, why all the potential domestics that have been interviewed from the largest of the Greek islands are so rotund and whether being so is not a disqualifying consideration in the screening process.

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Click here for November 09's solution

11/08/2018

World Geo/Science

Clue

A member of a religious order is told that this Swedish fellow who works in public relations for scientists searching for extra terrestrial life made a big mistake in not including media centers on Australia to announce their results.

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Click here for November 08's solution

11/07/2018

Science

Clue

Order from the lab director to demagnetize a fantastic new hire he had made, whom, fortunately he had been able to calm down after he had been subjected to an excessive magnetic field.

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Click here for November 07's solution

11/06/2018

Arts

Clue

In a line of dialogue from a play, Dias it told by Eli that he absolutely hates an opera by an Italian composer, set in Egypt and featuring a well know Triumphal March.

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Click here for November 06's solution

11/05/2018

World Geo/Food

Clue

One FRIDAY morning Pat gets this frantic call that there is about to be a serious moral transgression that is causing quite a stink, as the Pope is planning to serve a traditional, small Italian sandwich filled with ,MEAT, cheese, grilled vegetables at a luncheon.

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Click here for November 05's solution

11/02/2018

Cildren's Lit

Clue

What one of three men in a tub says to his pal, when he gets way to much sun and asks to get relief with a salve.

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Click here for November 02's solution

11/01/2018

History/World Geo

Clue

Ruler of a rival of the large state that controlled much of Southeastern Europe, the Mediterranean, North Africa, and Western Asia in in the 14th - 20th centuries given his troops a maxim to live by, saying that the enemy will be destroyed.

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Click here for November 01's solution

10/31/2018

World geo

Clue

The "desert taxi" on a rd. through the Middle east between Egypt and Israel is a two humper.

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Click here for October 31's solution

10/30/2018

Arts

Clue

Comments from a church alderman denying that the minister had been found consorting with and turning on erotic author Anais , as it was a dastardly act he would not ever do.

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Click here for October 30's solution

10/29/2018

Science

Clue

Punny comment from "good" partner of cop Mott, replying in the negative, after they had switched roles in questioning a suspect, after Mott had wondered if he should continue to play Mr. Nice Guy or go back to the role that, on average he had played all these years, "bad" cop.

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Click here for October 29's solution

10/27/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Middling decent wood for making bug proof chests, closets, etc.

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Click here for October 27's solution

10/26/2018

History/US Geo/Food

Clue

The mother of Paul Tibbets, Hiroshima pilot, for whom he named his plane, is offered classic Texas brew and sausage, gratis.

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Click here for October 26's solution

10/25/2018

World History/Geo

Clue

The female suicide bombers for a prominent terrorist organization don't need to have their hair done now, I suppose, as the beauty shops are empty.

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Click here for October 25's solution

10/24/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

My drunken words of amazement to a woman I know about how our friend Derek, a leather worker had no plans whatsoever to make billfolds.

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Click here for October 24's solution

10/23/2018

Arts/USA Geo/Science

Clue

Choir members performing at a South Carolina arts festival are told by the proprietor of the hotel where they are staying that their concerns over germs found there at a convention of food scientists are being taken of. He says he's on the job.

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Click here for October 23's solution

10/22/2018

Food

Clue

Soldiers sent on a mission to buy noodles, stop for lunch at sad sack Rosemary's cafe, and having eaten her almost gone bad dessert which contained no citrus or cantaloupe as advertised, got angry and took it out on her.

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Click here for October 22's solution

10/19/2018

Entertainment/World Geo/Sports

Clue

In "Midnight Cowboy" Joe Buck" asks a stylishly decked out Rizzo, resplendent in bright bell-bottoms and boots if his lady friend Luanne really had to attack the famous Japanese wrestler they had met.

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Click here for October 19's solution

10/18/2018

Arts

Clue

A Polish city, at certain layers of society involving pretentiously showy painting and music, was crude and unrefined.

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Click here for October 18's solution

10/17/2018

Arts

Clue

When Zubin the NY Philharmonic Director saw that the delicatessen had put out a giant spread of leftovers for the reception, he cried out in anguish.

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Click here for October 17's solution

10/16/2018

Tech

Clue

Noisy quarrels over employee logons at a major Dallas semiconductor company insidiously weaken its computer systems department.

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Click here for October 16's solution

10/15/2018

history/World Geo

Clue

When Chinese forces invading a Greek city-state offered an elaborate curved roof temple as a gift, and departed, an elder warns them of the fate that befell Troy and insists that they send out a warning signal.

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Click here for October 15's solution

10/12/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A young woman curses to her mother, feeling that her life is going to pot comtemplating her impecunious state from student loans.

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Click here for October 12's solution

10/11/2018

Arts/Entertainment

Clue

I question Lee who claims that the era of children's books with 3-D photo effects illustrating various works by Puccini, Verdi, etc. is over, while I still feel that they are cool and desirable.

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Click here for October 11's solution

10/10/2018

Entertainment/US Government

Clue

A CPA who has just opened his own consulting firm to help clients with their income tax problems calls a music streaming service to have them set his office up for it.

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Click here for October 10's solution

10/09/2018

Entertainment/World Geo

Clue

Samuel, son of a James Bond nemesis, finds climbing the tallest peak in Antarctica a religious experience, almost like reading the Bible in more modern English.

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Click here for October 09's solution

10/08/2018

Food and Drink

Clue

An up and coming young actress is excessively excited, indeed crazed, yet pale with apprehension as she closely follows and provokes in social media postings about the hysterics surrounding the infestation of a Dutch beer factory by vermin.

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Click here for October 08's solution

10/05/2018

World Geo/Sports

Clue

A hugely embarrassing mistake at The Tour of Italy bicycle race wherein riders crashed into a specially outfitted tractor trailer where spectators could get married while enjoying the race.

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Click here for October 05's solution

10/04/2018

Food

Clue

A woman chides her boyfriend for complaining about the faint hint of this spongy bulb that remains on her breath from the Italian food she had eaten earlier.

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Click here for October 04's solution

10/03/2018

Finance

Clue

I sarcastically, angrily let Edward know that he should demand of his staff they they do not trade any options to sell, as I have buried that idea.

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Click here for October 03's solution

10/02/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

An order from the major to the seargent to put an end to the platoon members going down into the wet, spongy area nearby to smoke dope.

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Click here for October 02's solution

10/01/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Instruction given to mimic the sound of a machine gun at lower speed of fire.

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Click here for October 01's solution

09/28/2018

Arts/World Geo/Entertainment

Clue

The first officer on The Nautilus reports to the captain that the ill behaved son a hip-hop mogul visiting from Bangkok is despised and an outcast to the crew.

----, ---- --- ---- ----'- ------ -- ---.

Click here for September 28's solution

09/27/2018

Entertainment

Clue

Wondering if actor Richard's poetry is sufficiently pious.

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Click here for September 27's solution

09/26/2018

History/Science

Clue

What you might call tricks played on his students by a ancient Eleatic philosopher when he told them that they could never ever finish their shaved ice treats because first they would have to eat half of it, then half of the remaining, or 1/4 of it..,then half of the remaining or 1/8, etc., there always being SOME remaining to be eaten.

--- ---- ---- ----.

Click here for September 26's solution

09/25/2018

Food/World Geo

Clue

Anthropologist Upton is told that the fact that a large community with common customs developed several different varieties on this Spanish dish prepared by simmering together chicken, seafood, rice, vegetables, and saffron and other seasonings, was not a factor in its abrupt advance forward.

------ ------, -----, --- --- ---- ------ ----.

Click here for September 25's solution

09/24/2018

Arts

Clue

How do the beaches due East of Ho Chi Minh city feel about "clothing optional?" Not sure, guy.

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Click here for September 24's solution

09/21/2018

Arts

Clue

Little Eleanor, a great great great great great granddaughter of an Italian opera master blew the morning bugle call at camp.

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Click here for September 21's solution

09/20/2018

World Geo

Clue

When Lewis asks a man how he liked his vacation, the man replies that, for instance, considering Putin and all, it certainly was no barrel of laughs.

----, --- --- ------ -- ---- -- ----, ----.

Click here for September 20's solution

09/19/2018

Arts

Clue

I tell my Mexican friend who was running my garage sale for a while that if I were he, I would go and try to get back the cool rare, cutting edge compact disk of an early Yo-Yo Ma which is now gone because it was accidentally sold.

"----, -'- -------, ----, - --- ----- --," - ----.

Click here for September 19's solution

09/18/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

This melancholy, wicked man went through life working at a throwback job, carrying baggage at various railroad stations as he roamed aimlessly from place to place.

-----, - --- ---- ----- ------, ----- -- - -----.

Click here for September 18's solution

09/17/2018

World Geography

Clue

A University of Texas grad, who just got back from the beach and is putting on a concert in his now home town in Sweden, put the kibosh on a foray into baroque classical music by a groundbreaking British punk rock band.

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Click here for September 17's solution

09/14/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A man's fatalistic assessment of his mother's life spent being and doing evil, a mistake of creation, hated just as he has been.

-- -- - -----, -----, ------- -- - --.

Click here for September 14's solution

09/13/2018

Entertainment

Clue

Make your preparations within the protective compartment housing Star Wars warrior sharpshooters.

-- ---- ------ ---- ------ ---.

Click here for September 13's solution

09/12/2018

Government/Entertainment

Clue

A lawyer for a Miami-based serial killer, hearing that he is still in jail, is surprised, wondering if the habeas corpus petitions have not been granted.

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Click here for September 12's solution

09/11/2018

World Geo

Clue

North Africans make improvements in the place in the hotel where a man absolutely transfixed on robbing people at the parade was staying.

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Click here for September 11's solution

09/10/2018

World Geo

Clue

Not caring at all what kind of TV or newspaper coverage she got, this woman had an absolutely tormenting obsession with tiny Japanese trees.

-- ----- ----, --- --- - ------ -----.

Click here for September 10's solution

09/07/2018

Entertainment

Clue

A prudish veterinarian at the zoological park in a fictionalized Connecticut town of zombie-like submissive wives, orders that certain animals producing copious amounts of fluid cannot be seen having sex.

--. -- ---- ----- ---- --- --- -- --------.

Click here for September 07's solution

09/06/2018

World Geo

Clue

Viscerally irritated at Mr. Dias, I curtly but politely told him that I had consulted my phone on several occasions and each time I got the same message, that there were no plans afoot to sign the ballplayer I had asked about to a contract.

"---- ---," - ----, " -- -------
-- -- ---, ----'- ----."

Click here for September 06's solution

09/05/2018

World Geo

Clue

The goal of a woman from Dublin is to raise a family using the sperm of her friend and neighbor, an only child gone missing in the war and presumed dead, so that the family's long line will go unbroken.

---'- ----- ----- -------'- ----' ---.

Click here for September 05's solution

09/04/2018

World Geo/Business

Clue

Teaser headline sourced from Soviet New Agency regarding a sudden breakout of overwhelming fear in a Volkswagen sedan.

----: - ----- -- - ------!

Click here for September 04's solution

09/03/2018

World Geo/Languages

Clue

Insensitive, negative reply to a mother when she asked if her ( not very bright ) son was finding learning Latin easy.

--, ----- ----- ----- - -----.

Click here for September 03's solution

08/31/2018

World Geo

Clue

A man angrily tells his wife Ana, to pay attention, that the cabinetry she has chosen for the kitchen is THE WORST, and that he is in favor of cool mahogany hued ones like those he misplaced after buying them when they visited Spain.

- -----, ---- --! --, ------, - ----
--- ---- -------- - ---- -- ------, ---.

Click here for August 31's solution

08/30/2018

World Geo/History

Clue

The recently enacted statute that discourteous, insensitive Valerie had pushed in an ancient Sumerian city, severely restricting the times when a vast majority of the population could drink ale, made it feel like bondage to them.

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------ --- -------- --.

Click here for August 30's solution

08/29/2018

Food

Clue

I tell Kay that I have some inside information about the "signature" Japanese sauce advertised by the delicatessen to be unique to their food. I actually sell it at my burger joint.

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---, - -------- -- - ------ ---.

Click here for August 29's solution

08/28/2018

World Geo/Arts

Clue

Irate while attending a discussion group at Tehran University on impressionist images of ballerinas, I sent a text to this friend.

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----, - -------- -- ----.

Click here for August 28's solution

08/27/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A prisoner about to be hanged indicates that he would like dessert for his final meal.

-----? - ------ --- ----.

Click here for August 27's solution

08/24/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A group of ailing centenarians in a nursing home contemplating what is likely to be their final presidential election in November, 2012 raise a toast to their common role of voting Republican.

-- ---- ---- -- ----: ----- - ---!

Click here for August 24's solution

08/23/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A manager is told by the CEO that her employee, a woman named Ott, was fired because her frequent marijuana use.

---, -- -- --. --- --- "--- -- ----- ----."

Click here for August 23's solution

08/22/2018

Sports/Food/USA Geo

Clue

This is what a famed Oakland A's pitcher of the early 1970s told Food Network southern chef Deen before he headed back to California, describing to her his hankering for some of their shared heritage of Southern candy like he used to eat in his native Louisiana.

----, - -------- --- -, ----, ----.

Click here for August 22's solution

08/21/2018

Sports/ World History/Geo

Clue

I noticed that crazy Edward, our groundskeeper for the Masters, decided to use a special fertilizer made of bat dung from an island in the Taiwan Straits, strategic during the Cold War, just as I had told him to.

-- ------- --- -- ----- - ---, -- - --------, - ----- -----.

Click here for August 21's solution

08/20/2018

USA Geo

Clue

The artwork produced by my sister while she was imprisoned on "The Rock" was first rate.

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Click here for August 20's solution

08/17/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

What you might say happened when a West Pointer and the cat which had been adopted by the dorm in which he he lived each suffered a grievous catastrophic loss yet found emotional support and connection that got them each through.

--- ----- - -----, - ----.

Click here for August 17's solution

08/16/2018

USA Geo

Clue

The stoner from Hawaii who I am planning to employ is Alvin, an idealistic social reformer.

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Click here for August 16's solution

08/15/2018

Entertainment

Clue

A guy leaving, who admits he's what people would call clueless and out of touch, says he can find nothing good to say about hip-hop.

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Click here for August 15's solution

08/14/2018

Entertainment/Food

Clue

Closed caption contents in an episode of "The Avengers," when Steed's sidekick gives her profane assessment, as suitably modified by the censors of chef Bret's dish made of fine shellfish, lunch meat and tropical fruit.

----: ----'- ------- ------ -------? (-----!)

Click here for August 14's solution

08/13/2018

Business

Clue

After a big corporate battle over sneakers, the new CEO of Adidas suggests to aid Margaret that the best thing they can do is communicate a peace offering to their rival, and to do it old school.

-----, ---'- ---- ---- ----
---- --------: --------.

Click here for August 13's solution

08/10/2018

Food

Clue

A report back on the first of a series of food trades with a friend, namely a container of very sweet spaghetti sauce for a hot pepper.

---, ---, - --- -- ------ ----'- --- - --------.

Click here for August 10's solution

08/08/2018

History/Science

Clue

The bottom line is ( oh my God! ) that unfortunately a satanic terrapin was able to channel deep seated facts about my life when I was a boy living in girls' bodies.

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----- - ----- -- - ---, --- ---.

Click here for August 09's solution

08/08/2018

History/Science

Clue

When "Lawrence of Arabia" has been snooping around someone points out that one of his seargents would not prevaricate in a conversation he had with the Cosmos star and head of the Hayden Planetarium.

---- --'- -----'- --- ---
-- ---- -------- -----.

Click here for August 08's solution

08/07/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

That crazy, ridiculous, weird moon was not a harbinger, as was pointed out by Nina.

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Click here for August 07's solution

08/06/2018

World Geo/Languages

Clue

Angered at at the District Attorney after a hard fought case,an Australian lawyer friend of mine cheering as he went had an audience in India with a sovereign princess.

-- - ---, - ---- --- -- - -- --- - --------.

Click here for August 06's solution

08/03/2018

The Bible

Clue

Words from Jesus to Judas, telling him he wants to have a chat after Judas had offered his famous question.

"---. '-- -- -?' -- --. -- --."

Click here for August 03's solution

08/02/2018

History

Clue

I point out that in not too long 9 additional assistants to a Roman emperor who, probably legendarily, fiddled while Rome burned, will be hanged.

----- -- ---- ---- ---- --- - ---- ----.

Click here for August 02's solution

08/01/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

This guy is the editor of a magazine about alien visitations.

---- -- --- ----.

Click here for August 01's solution

07/31/2018

USA Geo/Food and Drink

Clue

A frat guy tells his buds that in the large estate they live in at the College of Central Florida, the man who delivers the Mexican beer is even more than royalty.

----, -- - ----- -----, ------ --- -- ---.

Click here for July 31's solution

07/30/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A father tries to convince his daughter Diana that she does not want to develop any feelings for the guy she is seeing, a spoiled son of a movie star who also is an LSD druggie.

--, ---- ---. ---- ----. ------( ----.)

Click here for July 30's solution

07/27/2018

USA Geo

Clue

A campus police officer in New Haven reports to his superior that a male student had been found in a planter on on of these:

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Click here for July 27's solution

07/26/2018

USA Geo

Clue

Using Morse code, Anita asks whether Red, having been expectorated on after ordering in an Oklahoma City restaurant, shook if off and just carried on as if everything was all right.

"---- -- -- -- --- -----, ---
--- ---- --?" ----- ----.

Click here for July 26's solution

07/25/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Nola, who was intoxicated, certainly gave no thought whatsoever to the careful examination of the proposal for the office to switch to decaffeinated coffee.

-----, ---- ---- -------- --
------- -- -----.

Click here for July 25's solution

07/24/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A minister is told that a group of 9 dock workers treated a group of veterans poorly by persistently ridiculing and harassing them in a poetic jam.

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Click here for July 24's solution

07/23/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A soldier tells his CO how he did his normal duty and took his horse and visited 9 additional former members of his troop who had distinguished themselves in battle in order to give them their medals, but then backtracked and admits maybe he also visited his girlfriend instead.

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--- - -----.... -- ----.

Click here for July 23's solution

07/20/2018

History&Government

Clue

After leaving office, Bill Clinton's VP befriended my mother who admired him immensely, and he happily came for a visit where he took her to lunch where she eats a grinder, as kind of a pun on how she felt about him, and he eats pork loin.. This palindrome sums it up.

-- --- - ----. ---- -- ---- --- - ---.

Click here for July 20's solution

07/19/2018

History&Government

Clue

A budding Syrian terrorist whose mom has just written a novel asks her if the main was modeled after the country' president, who has the same character as he: tough, powerful, intimidating. A budding Syrian terrorist whose mom has just written a novel asks her if the main character was modeled after the country' president, who is like him: tough, powerful, intimidating.

--, -- ----- - -----, - ------ -- - --?

Click here for July 19's solution

07/18/2018

Entertainment

Clue

An unsigned memo from Bud to his boss in"Wall Street" disparaging the US's most prominent medical society, indicating that they make him want to throw up.

-- --:
---: --- - ------!

Click here for July 18's solution

07/17/2018

World Geo/Languages/History

Clue

Characterization by a Mexican waiter of the big nothing of a soiree Trump threw to celebrate the Islamic Holy Month, [clearly a fantasy event which would never happen.]

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Click here for July 17's solution

07/16/2018

World Geo

Clue

I detest it when I have to modify the military installation on the eastern end of the largest island in French Polynesia for other use because of a mistake.

-. ------ ---- ----- -------- - ----.

Click here for July 16's solution

07/13/2018

Arts/Entertainment/Business

Clue

Moonlighting as a salesman at the auto dealership while he wasn't studying, young medical resident Howser refused to allow Arthur to use this NOW classic 50s Ford in making a deal on a new vehicle because he thought the car was an absolute lemon.

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-----~--, -----, -- -- ----.

Click here for July 13's solution

07/12/2018

Arts/Entertainment

Clue

A chocolate factory boy, confused about why people kept making jokes that ended with "Damn it, Janet," is schooled on its origin.

-----, ---, - ---- ------, -- ----?

Click here for July 12's solution

07/11/2018

Arts/USA Geo

Clue

Comment regarding a very senior citizen returning to college in Los Angeles to get his theatre degree, but whose attention to detail re his lines is obsessive to the point of annoyance to others unless he can be broken of this habit, as he always calls "line" even for the smallest correction,

------ ----- -- -- -- ----: --- -----.

Click here for July 11's solution

07/10/2018

Entertainment/Nature

Clue

Comment from a "psychic and spiritual advisor) to a client who had asked him to evaluate his relationship with Sue, where she says she must get up and go get her cards.

-- ---- ---, ---, - ----, --- -----.

Click here for July 10's solution

07/09/2018

Entertainment/Nature

Clue

Right up until my retirement from SPECTRE, I insisted over and over again to the agent often assigned to dispose of James Bond, that I did not want him putting contracts out on large South American snakes.

-- ---- - --- -- --- --------- ---- - ---.

Click here for July 09's solution

07/06/2018

Entertainment

Clue

I reveal that when they were making the movie and needed close ups of an actress who was supposed to be very lithe, supple, and flexible, they brought in an English supermodel prominent in Calvin Klein ads as a double.

---- ------- ----- --- ---- ----, - --- --.

Click here for July 06's solution

07/05/2018

World History/Geo/Food

Clue

Daughter-in-law to the wife of an Egyptian president tells her who she is going to get to do the food at an upcoming event, a man who has a hyphenated nickname using two Mexican food favorites both beginning with the letter T.

-- -----, -- -- ----- - ---- "----~-------" ---.

Click here for July 05's solution

07/04/2018

Arts

Clue

Complaint from a customer to a dealer that the painting he sold, in chalky, soft subdued shades he has for sale, one purportedly done by AA Milne of one of his characters is a fake, and that he got conned.

"------'-" - ------ ---.

Click here for July 04's solution

07/03/2018

Arts/World Geo/Languages

Clue

British man informs his mother that circumstances could be better for her now that the passenger add on to her motorcycle had been found by the cops, but that they had found marijuana in it.

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--- ------, -- --- -------.

Click here for July 03's solution

07/02/2018

Arts/World Geo

Clue

A huge Japanese wrestler turned PI tracked down the green auto's ownership to a man of Middle eastern descent.

- --- ---- ------ - ---- --- -- -------.

Click here for July 02's solution

06/29/2018

Arts/World Geo

Clue

The final thing JK Rowling said to her Italian publisher Salvador, trying to convince him to distribute in Italy because Harry's main antagonist would go over very well there.

----, ----'- ---- ---------, ---.

Click here for June 29's solution

06/28/2018

Arts/World Geo

Clue

Upset, a Brit somewhat rudely admonishes a tourist from California not to disparage a historic public area near Charing Cross Station in London.

---, -- ----, --- -- ---------.

Click here for June 28's solution

06/27/2018

Arts/USA Geo

Clue

A "house mother" who runs an inn catering to artists at a famed South Carolina arts festival has strict rules against late night carousing, dirtiness, booze, and hooking up at her establishment.

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---, --- -- - ----- ---.

Click here for June 27's solution

06/26/2018

USA History

Clue

When William Dawes and friend had dinner on April 17, 1775, and the friend said he felt bad because he was eating deer meat, Dawes tells him that at no time did he consider it a moral failing.

-- --- ---- ---- ---, - ---, ------, -------.

Click here for June 26's solution

06/25/2018

Sports

Clue

An assistant's comment to Clemson's head football coach who had questioned the signing a player because of his drug use, arguing that, well it could be worse, considering all the conditions and concessions the hotshot has asked for.

----, ------ ---- --- --- -- ---.

Click here for June 25's solution

06/23/2018

USA Geo

Clue

A man relates how a large number of the persistently tormenting obsessions he has are actually first-rate, showing serious self control just like the serious, hardworking people in his Alaska hometown.

-- ---- ------ --- ----, --
----- -- ---- -------.

Click here for June 23's solution

06/22/2018

Tech

Clue

A young man relates how he has broken a confidence. telling everyone that the skinny braggart at the delicatessen who claimed he had mastered an early video game installed there was not telling the truth

- ---. -- - ---- - ----- ---- ------ -- -----.

Click here for June 22's solution

06/21/2018

World Geo/Languages

Clue

Twitter meme for those following the travails of the captain of the Nautilus as he fails over and over again on his test to get into the high IQ Society.

- -- ----- --- ----'- -

Click here for June 21's solution

06/20/2018

World Geo/Languages

Clue

When famed bullfighter Rodrigo is asked what airline he flies, this is his answer.

---? ---- ~ --------!

Click here for June 20's solution

06/19/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A sort of formally blunt comment from one man at a reception to another, turning away from their conversation in favor of having one with one of the female guests of honor.

---, - ----- ---, -- -- --- ----.

Click here for June 19's solution

06/18/2018

Entertainment

Clue

The vibe was that harsh, grim,desolate hip-hop music animated the feelings of impending disaster among the vermin.

----: ----- ---- --- ----- ----' ----.

Click here for June 18's solution

06/15/2018

Miacellaneous

Clue

A philosophical chicken, having noticed all her other barnyard mates bed down, muses on whether the farmer or anyone else had given the order to do so.

--- -- -- -------, --- -
--------, ----- - ---?

Click here for June 15's solution

06/14/2018

Entertainment/Food/Business

Clue

Elvis' daughter made a wager that the jerk who cut her off driving a Pathfinder liked to have his food flavored with a minty herb common in Italian cooking.

---- --- -- --- -- - ------ --- -----.

Click here for June 14's solution

06/13/2018

Miscelaneous

Clue

A District Attorney cries out in anguish over how a female police officer had, confidently subdued the perp, but by zapping him mercilessly, as of the devil.

" ----- ---- ----, ------- --
- ----- ---," -- ------.

Click here for June 13's solution

06/12/2018

USA Arts/USA History

Clue

Dorothy manages to get a message to her German grandfather, telling him that "over the rainbow" the powers that be had curtailed the airtime of the scourge of O'Reilly and his like minded network buds.

- --- -- "-- ---- ----" ---
-- ---- -- ---, ---.

Click here for June 12's solution

06/11/2018

USA Geo/Food

Clue

I, a cook at Annapolis, toss to Morton and his crew who make deliveries for us, a turnover filled with cheese and cold cuts and vegetables on pizza dough, as it was hated by the men.

- --- ----'- -------- --- - ---- ------- ---------.

Click here for June 11's solution

06/08/2018

Science/Food

Clue

The son in a mother/son research team suggests that they toast first, instead, when she suggests that they dig on the hog's quarter that she had cooked to celebrate their history making synthesis of genetic material in sheep.

--, ----'- -- -------- --- --- ---- ---, ---.

Click here for June 08's solution

06/07/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

If you are going to go ballistic over someone's bad driving, better watch out that you don't burst a major artery.

-- ---- ---- ------ -----.

Click here for June 07's solution

06/06/2018

Business/Food

Clue

A crusty old sailor I noticed at a big German software firm rhapsodizes as he was confronted with a buffet containing varieties of Italian dishes made form large rectangular strips of pasta.

---- - ---- - --- --
---, "--, --- -----, --- -- --------?"

Click here for June 06's solution

06/05/2018

World Geo/Food

Clue

I tell a young woman that a vast lot of impudent, insolent pricks who are so angry can just go to hell.

------, - ----- -- ---- '- --------- -~-----, ---.

Click here for June 05's solution

06/04/2018

World Geo/Food

Clue

Clue: (Category = Food) A contestant in a sashimi eating contest describes the moment he had to give up, after consuming the equivalent of approximately 10 yellow fin tuna.

- --- ---- ---~--- ---.

Click here for June 04's solution

05/31/2018

USA Geo/Food

Clue

A West Pointer saw nose mucous in the Chinese soup he ordered.

---- ---, ----- - -----, -- -------.

Click here for May 31's solution

05/30/2018

World Geo/Business

Clue

Do not allow in the woman we had called, a foolish Saudi woman who lives in Australia and works for a Japanese car manufacturer.

--- -- --- -- -------- --
------, - ------ ----.

Click here for May 30's solution

05/29/2018

World Geo/Food

Clue

I tell Olivia that disgusting, repulsive, highly offensive moths heighten my excitement in the wetlands we are exploring.

---- ----- ---- -- ----- -- --, ---.

Click here for May 29's solution

05/28/2018

World Geo/Food

Clue

Listen to me, don't let that sad sack from Mecca into our watering hole where we specialize in a wide variety of Spanish appetizers, one that grandmother took a flyer on, hoping to make it go.

----, --- -- ---- --- --
- ----- --- - ---- --- --.

Click here for May 28's solution

05/25/2018

Mathematics/History

Clue

Scams perpetrated by an Eleatic in ancient Greece wherein he convinced young people to give him their shaved ice treats , as they would never be able to finish them anyway, needing to eat half, and then half of what was remaining, then half of that remaining part, thus never actually being able to consume the whole thing.

--- ---- ---- ----.

Click here for May 25's solution

05/24/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A young female soldier tells how she is feeling depressed and is becoming insane at being vilified over leaving her unit without permission.

---, - ----- --------, ------ - --, ----.

Click here for May 24's solution

05/23/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A woman is encouraged to have the courage to say "no" to her normal routine in casting her ballot, always the same, but to turn to the extreme and drastic, to go against the norm..

----, ---- -- ---- ----; ---- -------.

Click here for May 23's solution

05/22/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

My Lord, Lena, tearing up, wasn't crazy when she married a schnauzer?

---, - ---- ---- ------ --- - ---?

Click here for May 22's solution

05/21/2018

World Geo/languages

Clue

A Spanish woman wonders wonders if she failed to say "good-bye" as she left and is embarrassed about it.

-- -, ---- ----, ------ --
-, --- ---, ---- -- "-----."

Click here for May 21's solution

05/18/2018

Sports/USA Geo/Food)

Clue

I tell former MLB player Martinez of the Yankees. Mariner, Devils Rays, and Cardinals circa 1990-2005, that I ate a Fairbanks version of a dish of greens with slices of Tibetan ox and flakes of tuna.

----, - --- ------ --- ----- ( --- -- --.)

Click here for May 18's solution

05/17/2018

Languages/Business

Clue

Now a Lyft fan, a Frenchman relates his poor experience with the Big Dog in the space.

---- ---, --'- ---- - ----. ----, -'- ------.

Click here for May 17's solution

05/16/2018

Sports/Entertainment

Clue

What you call Oculus Rift as part of an entertainment package made for a luxury motor home for Sylvester who is a New York baseball player.

--- --'- --'- -- ------.

Click here for May 16's solution

05/15/2018

Aporta/Science

Clue

A star San Antonio Spur guard relates how, while vacationing with his girlfriend at the beach, he had difficulty getting the words out when he noticed that a tidal wave was looming.

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Click here for May 15's solution

05/14/2018

Entertainment/Business

Clue

A member of the firm which handles the retirement account for a member of an early punk rock band( "Blitzkrieg Pop") tells a colleague it has come back from the dead after having taken a dip in a down market spell.

-- ------ --- - -----.

Click here for May 14's solution

05/11/2018

Entertainment

Clue

When Ray and Deborah's twin boys were born, their dad made this vow that they would be well educated.

-- ------ --- - -----.

Click here for May 11's solution

05/10/2018

USA Geo/Food

Clue

In a national cooking festival where all the state winners competed against each other, an entry from Chicago which used a Nabisco cookie as its base and combined it with elements of cuisine and methods from an alien ship, was deemed sensual to the point of almost being illegal.

-- ------, -------- --- -----: ------- -----!

Click here for May 10's solution

05/09/2018

USA Government/Geo

Clue

The police in Los Angeles were astounded at the scam they uncovered involving the selling of nuts which had supposedly been made by the space agency and were calories free.

"-- --- ---- -------" --- ---- --- -- -- -- ---.

Click here for May 09's solution

05/08/2018

HistoryGovernment/Food

Clue

An aide to Israeli PM Shimon tells him how he irritates a representative of Hellman's who had come to try to get them to buy sandwich spread.

-----, - ----- - ---------- ---.

Click here for May 08's solution

05/07/2018

World Geo

Clue

The number by the group composed of 3 women from Rome and 3 from Guatemala was struck from the program celebrating the Vietnamese New Year.

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Click here for May 07's solution

05/04/2018

Languages

Clue

"In actuality", Enid puts a stop to risque, alluring behavior.

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Click here for May 04's solution

05/03/2018

Arts/Languages

Clue

"The Rime of the Ancient mariner" explained by a student to his German grandfather.

- ----: ---------'- ----- -----, ---.

Click here for May 03's solution

05/02/2018

World Geo

Clue

With respect to who it was that spewed all that hate ate on us, Latter Day Saint, it was the Catholics. Always was and always will be.

-- -----? ----, ------. ----.

Click here for May 02's solution

05/01/2018

Entertainment/Business

Clue

I told a Spanish man that when I went "over the rainbow" I was absolutely in love with my cell phone service.

"----, -- -- - ------ -------," - ----.

Click here for May 01's solution

04/30/2018

World Geo

Clue

With respect to who it was that spewed all that hate on us, Latter Day Saint, it was the Catholics. Always was and always will be.

-- -----? ----, ------. ----.

Click here for April 30's solution

04/27/2018

Government

Clue

You should pay attention to the fact that in the rib eating contest at a delicatessen in Vegas one of the judges, the PM of Israel, really lambasted the establishment over the quality of some barbecue I had put my money on.

----: ---- ------ -- - ---- ( - --- - --- --.)

Click here for April 27's solution

04/26/2018

USA Geo/Sports

Clue

At an auction of used New York baseball locker room paraphernalia during the era when it had a minor league team, reps of this small western city, whose named means a small hill arising from flat surroundings, decided not to bid on the ice bath device.

-----, ------- --- -- -- --- ---.

Click here for April 26's solution

04/25/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Police captain angrily reports how patrolman Tim became certain of his collar, albeit by being ruthlessly, devilishly efficient in zapping the suspect.

--- ---- ----, ------- -- - ----- ---, ------!

Click here for April 25's solution

04/24/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Two naturalists noted that the doe and the buck cleansed themselves in the river before mating.

---- ---- --- --- ---- -- -----.

Click here for April 24's solution

04/23/2018

World Geo

Clue

Rodney is told to really get the motor running on the new jointly owned business making and repairing medium sized orchestral string instruments

-- --- --, ----- ----------, ---.

Click here for April 23's solution

04/20/2018

World Geo

Clue

Young Ara, given the task of choosing the procession's formation, gave no thought whatsoever to this one.

- --- ----- --- -------- -- ------ -------.

Click here for April 20's solution

04/19/2018

World Geo

Clue

Having reached the rank of Royal Master of Tires and retired after years of long service on government vehicles in Mumbai, 9 gentlemen find themselves having fallen on hard times. A legislator speaks up in Parliament on their behalf:

--- ---- ------- ---- ---, -----.

Click here for April 19's solution

04/18/2018

World Geo/Food

Clue

Emily is questioned about her assertion that the high ranking Turkish official is a connoisseur, a gourmet when it comes to leftovers.

--, -- ---- ---'- - ----------?

Click here for April 18's solution

04/17/2018

Languages/Botany

Clue

My "psychic" Mexican aunt, haughty now that she thinks she is such an expert on dwarfed Japanese plantings.

---- ---, ---- ----- ------ -----.

Click here for April 17's solution

04/16/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A madam refuses service to a group of men who confess to being way behind on their bills and want credit.

---'- --- ---- --- -- ---- ---.

Click here for April 16's solution

04/13/2018

USA Entertainment/Science

Clue

The machines are coming: a very fast piece composed by an electronically enhanced human/machine named after a famous jazz singer.

"-------" -- ------ ----.

Click here for April 13's solution

04/12/2018

USA Miscellaneous

Clue

Iggy is told that the shoulder length mink wrap perfectly suited Angela.

-----, -------- --- ---- ----- ----.

Click here for April 12's solution

04/11/2018

USA History/Government

Clue

NYC detective's note to himself ca. early 1980s, that in the drug investigation, the mayor himself had witnessed suspect Robert in the bathroom cleaning cocaine dust from his hands.

-. ---- --- --- ---- ----.

Click here for April 11's solution

04/10/2018

World Geo/Entertainment

Clue

[Unable to afford individual sets?] People in a far West African country who lived in small hamlets have to share a single game system to play Mario Bros.

------- ----- --- ------- ---.

Click here for April 10's solution

04/09/2018

Entertainment[NSFW]

Clue

In a never aired [for obvious reasons] episode of an early 70s TV doctor show, a young boy tells his mom that that when he and his teenage sister were at the doctor's office for a checkup she...gratified the doctor orally.

--- ---- -----, --.

Click here for April 09's solution

04/06/2018

Entertainment/Language

Clue

Japanese Cousin of a Sea World killer whale laments to her about being stuck in a crummy high school swimming pool, but seems resigned to his fate.

-- -----, - --- -- - ----------. -- --.

Click here for April 06's solution

04/05/2018

Business/Religion

Clue

Vincent's retirement vehicle grew and was inspired by biblical principles as laid out in a relatively recent modern translation.

------'- --- --- ----- -- ---.

Click here for April 05's solution

04/04/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Terse line on a resume regarding previous experience:managed a small, but deluxe, grocery store on the moon.

--- ----- -------- -----.

Click here for April 04's solution

04/03/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Landlord to tenant indicating that he believes it is nonsense that he cannot pay the rent by the agreed on date.

-- ----- --- -- ----? ---!

Click here for April 03's solution

04/02/2018

USA Geo

Clue

Repeating the question, the principal answers a student who has asked if there are any careers he recommends avoiding: namely, toe tapping dance in the style of the Pennsylvania Dutch.

----- -'- - --- --? ----- ---.

Click here for April 02's solution

03/30/2018

Arts

Clue

Co-owner of a tattoo shop tells his partner that an excellent artist of theirs had gotten mad at a customer, an itinerant seasonal worker, and cut him up pretty badly.

-----, - --- -----, -- --- ------ - -----.

Click here for March 30's solution

03/29/2018

Entertainment

Clue

What Loretta Lynn said to her husband when she was going to try out a new song for him inspired by their new young one, but leaving out the part about where his temperament was to be overly curious.

---, -- ---- ----, ------ ---- ---- ----.

Click here for March 29's solution

03/28/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

As they stalk the often gloomy, depressed cult leader who typically preaches apocalypse, one member tries to encourage another to act to take him out while he has stopped to take a leak.

---, ---- -- ----- --------- ----.

Click here for March 28's solution

03/27/2018

USA Geo/Entertainment

Clue

Cry from Lassie calling for medical aid , as he and Timmy ride the New York subway and witness a man kill his own brother.

----------! -----! ---! ---!

Click here for March 27's solution

03/26/2018

Government

Clue

Roger, the attorney for a "psychic" on trial for fraud, embarrassed at the dressing down he has just gotten from the judge, is now in agreement with judge's order that his client is to refrain from making any public statements about the case.

--- --- ------ --- -- ---- --- -----.

Click here for March 26's solution

03/23/2018

World Geo/Food

Clue

Unfortunately the college dorm version of a classic Italian dish with chicken that I touched failed to feature its luscious signature sauce made with a wine similar to port if Madeira.

----, ----- - ------ ---- -- ---- -------.

Click here for March 23's solution

03/22/2018

World Languages

Clue

A Frenchman tells how very disappointed he is that Ivan came to stay for a while.

"---- --- -- --, ---- -- - -----," -'- ------.

Click here for March 22's solution

03/21/2018

Business/Entertainment/USA History

Clue

In a time warp fantasy, a legendary Dodge city lawman retires and decides to get a job with Sony servicing early video players. After taking a proficiency test, he speaks to the press, shaking his head about how poor a job he feels he did.

---, "- ------- ---- --- --- --."

Click here for March 21's solution

03/20/2018

Sports

Clue

The confidant and business partner accompanying ex Yankee Jeter is his friend who plays Baseball in Houston, and who is extremely drunk.

----- -------'- -- -----, ---------.

Click here for March 20's solution

03/19/2018

World Languages/Food

Clue

A Mexican man exults at the extremely velvet, smooth, yet spicy braised pork dish, which he finds delicious.

--- -----, ---- --------! ---!

Click here for March 19's solution

03/16/2018

World Geo/History

Clue

Maureen's dinner companion complains to her that is was a big mistake to order the "leftovers" on the menu[which seem to have given her food poisoning]...and now needs a bathroom really bad.

--, ---- -----!...--------!

Click here for March 16's solution

03/15/2018

World Geo/History

Clue

Guiding principle of an Islamic woman: Iraq despot's Uday and Qusay, practically subhuman, anger her as they are emblematic of a headlong panic as her religion descends into perversion of its ideals.

-----: ---- ------ ------- ---
--- ----- -- - --- ---- -- ------.

Click here for March 15's solution

03/14/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Good grief, mother, a minister riding on an incline at a skateboard park hit a canine head on.

---, - --- -- - ----, --, --- ---- - ---.

Click here for March 14's solution

03/13/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Text sent by the writer of an alternate viewpoint essay for the West Point newspaper to its editor, one of the highest ranking of all the students at the academy, letting him know that he had dropped off his piece in the paper's mailbox.

---------, --- -----, -- --~--.

Click here for March 13's solution

03/12/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

An Audubon Society devotee is asked by a waitress if he would like his steak rare.

--- ------, ------?

Click here for March 12's solution

03/09/2018

Food and Drink

Clue

A beer snob is disappointed at the Boston craft brew instead of his favored imports. What are we coming to?

----, - --- ----- -- --, -----, - --- ---.

Click here for March 09's solution

03/08/2018

Entertainment/Arts

Clue

An unkind assessment to U2 lead singer of the art objects for sale in a flea market stall operated by Yoko.

--- -----'- ---'- -----, ---, ----.

Click here for March 08's solution

03/07/2018

Entertainment/Food and Drink

Clue

A crime lab guy emphasizes to the detective that actress Campbell's genetic material was not found on the highball made with Seagram's whiskey that was found at the scene.

----'- ---, ----'-, --- -- ----- --- -----.

Click here for March 07's solution

03/06/2018

USA Government

Clue

When George H.W. Bush had gotten a little sideways with his chief of staff, a rival for the position speculates on whether he has been axed.

------ -- ------'- ----- ---?

Click here for March 06's solution

03/05/2018

Government

Clue

Do you understand me, when it comes to taxes you don't mess around with the government as they are unyielding in their rules.

---? ---, -- -- -----!

Click here for March 05's solution

03/02/2018

Science

Clue

A colleague informs his friend, an anthropologist of somewhat high rank, that he is chasing an evolutionary dead end in studying specimens found in a German valley in 1856.

----, --- --- ------- --.

Click here for March 02's solution

03/01/2018

Entertainment

Clue

Gilda Radner offers a drink to this woman, visiting the SNL set before Gilda goes on famously to impersonate her.

- ----, ---- ----?

Click here for March 01's solution

02/28/2018

World Geo

Clue

In a move of extremely bad judgement, swaying about haphazardly from intoxication, 9 guys urinated into the river near Luxor in such quantities as to raise its level.

--------- ---- (-----), ---- --- ----.

Click here for February 28's solution

02/27/2018

World Languages/Geo

Clue

When Trump's daughter arranged for the president of Mexico to visit with them and supporter Sarah Palin in Wasilla over the Christmas holidays,the prez tried to dissuade her, leaving her this unsigned note.

-- -- -------, ------, --?

Click here for February 27's solution

02/26/2018

World Languages/Geo

Clue

Complaint of a young man from Oman that the French girl who he considers his girlfriend thinks of him as a baby.

-- ----, --- ----, -'- -- ----- ---.

Click here for February 26's solution

02/23/2018

Government&History

Clue

Press release by an aide of the choice by the Mayor of New York, circa 2016,of his physician-to-be.

--. -- -- ------ -- -- -------.

Click here for February 23's solution

02/22/2018

World Geo/Business

Clue

A veteran airline CEO scolds a young whipper-snapper of an investigator at an FAA hearing after a series of mishaps, denying that any of his captains gave any thought whatsoever to drinking Russia Vodka.

-- ----- --------. -- -----, ---.

Click here for February 22's solution

02/21/2018

World Geo/Entertainment

Clue

Gino's wife pleads with her Jewish husband one Friday night that they forego their traditional day of rest because she wants to watch her favorite musical group on TV, as they may sing some of her favorite songs, "Money Money,Money," "Dancing Queen," "Fernando," etc.

-- -------, ----, -------? ----'- --.

Click here for February 21's solution

02/20/2018

Sports/Business

Clue

I tell Sidney that my girlfriend's use of a cologne popularized back in the day by Joe Namath just does not at any time bother me.

--'- ----, ---, ----- ---- ---- -------- --.

Click here for February 20's solution

02/19/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Now that I have waked up, I tell Ira that I will copy Ava on a message about the proposal for immunity, not knowing the exact word to use.

------, - -- --- -- ---- (--------?), ---.

Click here for February 19's solution

02/16/2018

Arts/USA Geo

Clue

Central matters requiring a decision for the government of a Central Florida city which can be more easily be learned by a applying lessons learned from "Yertle the Turtle."

-------- ----- ---- ------.

Click here for February 16's solution

02/15/2018

USA Geo

Clue

This man, forcibly removed from office over his ideas regarding Florida's vast natural wetlands area, wrote a piece for the newspaper giving his side of the story.

------- -- ----- --- ---------- -- ~ --.

Click here for February 15's solution

02/14/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Awesome, chill, gnarly Robert, even though he couldn't speak, perfectly executed his vision of a combination delicatessen / cultivation center for flowers, trees, shrubs, etc.

---- ---, ---, ------ - ---- --- ---------.

Click here for February 14's solution

02/13/2018

Sports

Clue

Comment from Dallas Cowboy Randy White when his teammate, who had crouched next to him as they lined up in the Doomsday Defense of the mid to late 1970s, farted.

--- ----, ... - ----?!

Click here for February 13's solution

02/12/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

The lords of the manor issue a statement saying that they are having a sexy young slave girl do the repairs on the borders of their robes.

-- ---- --- ----, - ------, -- --- ----.

Click here for February 12's solution

02/09/2018

Arts

Clue

In a scene Jules Verne decided to leave out of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the captain is in port attending a retirement seminar run by a team of female financial planners when he realized that he was not putting away nearly enough to be comfortable in his golden years.

----: ----! --- ---- --- - ----
---- ---, --, -----?

Click here for February 9's solution

02/08/2018

Sports/USA Geo

Clue

It was not true that when a New York baseball team decided to auction off its training room equipment, a city in Southwest Montana tried to get one of their whirlpool ice baths.

-----, ------- --- -- -- --- ---.

Click here for February 8's solution

02/07/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A question to regarding whether the assistance wood shop teacher Alvin provided for the project involved one of these.

--- --. -- --- - ------ --- ---?

Click here for February 7's solution

02/06/2018

Business

Clue

The commanding officer of a naval base in the early 1960s tells his wife Sue that he is putting restrictions on where she can drive her new luxury Studebaker.

---, - ----- ----- ------ -------.

Click here for February 6's solution

02/05/2018

USA Geo/Food

Clue

After bitter, frank, painfully open campaigns that left everyone on edge debating whether to ban the sale of the meat of young calves, a Southern California city managed to say out of the way of an all out pitched battle over it.

--- -- ------ - ---- ---.

Click here for February 5's solution

02/02/2018

USA geo/Tech

Clue

The guy who just graduated from the University of Tennessee Chattanooga is going to get a job at an internet startup trying to discover patterns or relationships by collecting, searching through, and analyzing large amounts of information about blue jeans wearing and buying habits using computer files at Levi's.,

--- -- ---- ---- ----- -- - ------.

Click here for February 2's solution

02/01/2018

History&Government

Clue

How Trump would likely describe a big soiree at his home, in overblown prose of course.

- --- ~ - ~ ---- --------!

Click here for February 1's solution

01/31/2018

History/World Languages

Clue

Poetic image of the horrifying fireball at Alamagordo that was the product of the Manhattan Project at this lab in New Mexico.

-- --- - ---: --- ------.

Click here for January 31's solution

01/30/2018

Tech Business

Clue

An order to clean a large soup serving bowl noticed by Ruth, who is undergoing tests to determine her expertise in running cameras to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems.

---- ------ ---- -------- ---- ---.

Click here for January 30's solution

01/29/2018

Sports/USA Geo/World Languages

Clue

Describing a Mexican woman from Bozeman visiting a former Boston Red Sox Shortstop.

---,. -------- -- -----'-.

Click here for January 29's solution

01/26/2018

Sports/World Geo

Clue

I question Japanese wrestlers on why I should not pass on to the authorities my concerns about the incident.

--, ---- - --- ----- -- ----- -- --, -----?

Click here for January 26's solution

01/25/2018

Food

Clue

Response of a man to his dinner companion who had recommended the sheep dish and asked whether it had agreed with him, saying, unfortunately not, and he was going to need an antacid.

-----, ------ --- ---. ----, ----.

Click here for January 25's solution

01/24/2018

USA Government

Clue

A New Mexico US Senator whose father was also a congressman and Secretary of the Interior tells a friend he can fix the ticket his friend got for driving high.

---, - ------ - -----: -------.

Click here for January 24's solution

01/23/2018

History

Clue

A client of attorney Robert at the Nuremberg trials comes clean and tells him that he was the head of one hell-hole of a concentration camp.

---, - ------ - -----: -------.

Click here for January 23's solution

01/22/2018

Arts/Business

Clue

So the man noticed that the retirement investment vehicle involving modern art was a scam, did he?

-- --- - ------ -- --- ---, --?

Click here for January 22's solution

01/19/2018

Food

Clue

A contestant on "Chopped" comments that his competition's Italian dessert with coffee and liquor-soaked layers of sponge cake alternating with mascarpone cheese and chocolate is crazy good, the only entry which is a huge, powerful threat to his winning, so he is going to damage it.

--------'- -- ----. --------. - --- --.

Click here for January 19's solution

01/18/2018

Business

Clue

Lee and his wife have been having a lot of problems with contractors doing work on their house, and have had to let several of them go. She tells him that it is her opinion that they should also get rid of the drain cleaning service they have hired.

---, ----, ---, ----~------, - ----.

Click here for January 18's solution

01/17/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

Daddy's sick. [It was something he ate, a(n)] piece of candy on a stick that was way beyond its sell by date.

--- ---. --- --------.

Click here for January 17's solution

01/16/2018

Business

Clue

A man whose car has had a flat near a factory which grinds grain tells the proprietor what his problem is and how he was reconsidering the wisdom in buying cheap tires instead of a name brand.

----, ------. - -------- "-- -------" -----.

Click here for January 16's solution

01/15/2018

Business/TV

Clue

Boy to his Dad when he discovers that his Ronco Pocket Fisherman and Bottle and Jar opener didn't quite work as advertised.

------ --- ---, ---.

Click here for January 15's solution

01/12/2018

Food and Drink

Clue

Comment by a vintner after he heard about the disaster of having his sweet, dark-red wine left on the table, practically unopened, at the wine show.

--, ---- ---? - -----------!

Click here for January 12's solution

01/11/2018

Entertainment/Sports

Clue

Mimicing a famed nursery rhyme, this palindrome and pun is about how a famed New York Giant linebacker is told the story of a young girl whose young male sheep was run over by the District attorney Hyman.

'--- ----. --- - ------ ----(----), --,
'--- - -- -- "----" --.

Click here for January 11's solution

01/10/2018

Sports/World Geo/Languages

Clue

Yankee teammate of "Country" Slaughter tell him that he has seen some fresh banned reading material in from China or Japan or somewhere.

--, --- ------- -------- - ---, ----.

Click here for January 10's solution

01/09/2018

History/World Geo/Entertainment

Clue

Nat is told that an alien characterized Derek, a hire on their company's computer systems in the capitol of the Byzantine empire, as a) a colossal drunk, and b) one on whom they were throwing their money away.

-- --- - -----, -------------- ----
-- --, ---, ---------, - -----.

Click here for January 09's solution

01/08/2018

Sports/Entertainment/World Geo

Clue

TV host and comedian Howie is told that the star of the Harlem Globetrotters did not consider going to Mexico because of the exchange rate, but had his eye on Saigon.

------, ----- -------- -- ----. ----- ---.

Click here for January 08's solution

01/05/2018

History/Sports/Entertainment

Clue

[Some of you will be old enough to remember this.] Line of dialogue from a play in which a Uganda strongman reacts quizzically as he is watching the exciting finish of the Oakland Raider/New York Jet football game on November 17, 1968, as it was cut short for a movie.

---: --,..."-----?"

Click here for January 05's solution

01/04/2018

World Geo

Clue

The secretary to an Islamic sovereign asks the guest who has come to see him to have a seat, as he is present but now in the throes of lovemaking with a member of his harem.

---. ------ -- --. -- ---- --.

Click here for January 04's solution

01/03/2018

USA Geo/Tech/Food

Clue

What I said to a relative of an Austin Texas computer maker who had become a Japanese style wrestler, when I discovered that the burger joint we were eating at had left off my favorite condiment.

----, ---- ------- ----, -'-- -- -------.

Click here for January 03's solution

01/02/2018

Miscellaneous

Clue

A report to Emily that the union representing emergency transport workers had surrendered in its long contract fight with the hospitals.

-------- -----, --.

Click here for January 02's solution

01/01/2018

World geo/Food and Drink

Clue

Officials in the largest city in the United Arab Emirates publicly identify the source of a spreading craze on a military installation there, namely a popular American beer.

----- ----- - ---- -----: ---.

Click here for January 01's solution

12/29/2017

History

Clue

Von says "no" to seeing Ms. Peron because she is too prone to want to want to vary far from the missionary position in the bedroom.

--- ---------- ----- --- -----.

Click here for December 29's solution

12/28/2017

Sports

Clue

Advice to Federer from his coach to abstain from hitting so many volleys and use his powerful ground strokes in many rallies.

--- ------, -----, -----.

Click here for December 28's solution

12/27/2017

World Geo

Clue

A 1960s diplomat explains to an aide, in staccato fashion what's going on. That he's heading to an area of danger, intrigue, dissension, and instability. Highest priority. To North Viet Nam where things are tense.

---------? - --- ----.
----. -- -----. ---- --.

Click here for December 27's solution

12/26/2017

Arts / World Geo/ Food and Drink

Clue

When The Nautilus surfaces near the far eastern end of the Mediterranean, the captain's second in command suggests to him that the crew be given some of the dark, heavy malt beverage brewed in a major Israeli city nearby.

----, --- ---- --- -- ---?

Click here for December 26's solution

12/25/2017

Tech / World Geo

Clue

A colleague of Robert points out to him what he has found, a variety of festive conferences on writing sequences of computer instructions in abbreviated form, all to be held on the largest of Spain's Balearic Islands.

---, ---, ------- ----- ---------!

Click here for December 25 's solution

12/22/2017

Geography

Clue

A Swedish freshman cadet at Texas A&M University is ordered by a stammering upperclassman to get the mascot of their hated rivals and serve him up with plenty of sauce.

---, -~--- -~-~----.

Click here for December 22 's solution

12/21/2017

Arts/Entertainment/World Geography

Clue

The police in Los Angeles were blown away by a scam involving the selling of these, falsely advertised to be " calorie free and just like the astronauts eat."

-- --- ---- ------- --- ---
--- -- -- -- ---.

Click here for December 21 's solution

12/20/2017

Arts/Entertainment/World Geography

Clue

Are you embarrassed, Jay, to discover that the man you made the Moroni joke about is not Islamic, but a member of the priesthood in Salt Lake City?

---, ----? --. ----, --, ---, - ------ -----.

Click here for December 20 's solution

12/19/2017

Arts/Language

Clue

Mixing Italian and English, a maestro reminds his orchestra to "watch the stick."

---- ----: -----.

Click here for December 19's solution

12/18/2017

Arts/History

Clue

A disgruntled former member of a Roman Catholic prelature, featured in Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code, suggests that homemade, makeshift bombs be lobbed into their headquarters to get their habitually drunken leader.

---- ---- ---- ---- ---'- ---.

Click here for December 18's solution

12/15/2017

Entertainment/History/Geo

Clue

I feign to Diana knowledge of certtain banned material peculiar to or characteristic of language.

--------- --------? ---, --?

Click here for December 15's solution

12/14/2017

Entertainment/History/Geo

Clue

B movie actress Kathleen Stark, better known by her nickname and her relationship with Prince Andrew in the early 1980s transported a hot pepper to this country, the home of the Himalayas,

--- -- ----- - -------- ----.

Click here for December 14's solution

12/13/2017

Government/World Languages

Clue

Having had just about enough from a young whipper-snapper at at Federal Reserve Board meeting in the 1990s, the chairman lashes out at the young man using a disparaging term indicating that he is not Jewish and saying that his suggestions have no chance ever to be adopted.

"--," --------- -----, " --'--, ---!"

Click here for December 13's solution

12/12/2017

miscellaneous

Clue

I tried out a tiny bit of French when I was speaking to my friend as I was describing what my very unhappy reaction reaction would be at the Baseball Hall of Fame's introduction of a lifesized 3-D display of wax figures noting the misdeeds of McGuire, Bonds, Clemens et al.

"---- --- - --: - '---- -------," -'- ------.

Click here for December 12's solution

12/11/2017

miscellaneous

Clue

A young woman who expected to be at her coming our party described how she awoke sunburned, naked and muddled and confused, but still breathing, to see a surgeon looming over her holding a tool and about to amputate her leg.

--------- ----- - --- -
---, - --- ---- ---- ---.

Click here for December 11's solution

12/08/2017

miscellaneous

Clue

An instrument used by a lisping dentist for extractions.

----- ----- ----.

Click here for December 08's solution

12/07/2017

Arts

Clue

A man exclaims in surprise at the gift he got from his girlfriend, a soldier named Maureen, a HUGE book about and titled for the French satirical magazine struck by Al Qaeda terror attacks in 2015.

------, -------- ---- -----, -- --!

Click here for December 07's solution

12/06/2017

Arts

Clue

In a line of dialogue from a play, supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience, Diana basically says " I told you, everybody hates liver."

-- ( -----): -----'- -------, - ----.

Click here for December 06's solution

12/05/2017

Entertainment/USA Geo

Clue

A lively dance of Bohemian origin, but with more of a long easy stride, and popular near Denali.

-- ---- -----.

Click here for December 05's solution

12/04/2017

Entertainment/Arts

Clue

Note left by an American Singer/Songwriter ("A Sorta Fairytale") explaining that taking the ideal pleasure drug from Brave New World was causing her to deteriorate.

---- ----, --- -- ----. - ---.

Click here for December 04's solution

12/01/2017

History&Government

Clue

A really good friend of Justice Antonin Scalia relates that he sees the judge's son, a real devotee of psychic phenomena.

- ---- ----'- ---, ---- ---.

Click here for December 01's solution

11/30/2017

History&Government

Clue

Line of dialogue from a novel wherein a war veteran is serving a thin boiled soup in a chow line, and he warns a Spanish Surrealist painter away from it, characterizing it as downright Dickensian.

"- -----," ----- - ---,"----- -----, ----."

Click here for November 30's solution

11/29/2017

History&Government

Clue

Headline in a1966 newspaper: both Hanoi and Saigon name Maureen, ( who worked at Mission Control in Houston) to be a liaison and go between.

---- --- --- (---- ) -- -- ---------.

Click here for November 29's solution

11/28/2017

US Geo/Entertainment

Clue

I noticed that Timothy always books various hotel rooms during the time of Charleston South Carolina's spring arts festival, but, interestingly at each one he becomes a virtual recluse.

------- ------ ---, - ---, --- -- ----- ---.

Click here for November 28's solution

11/27/2017

World Geo/Sports

Clue

Anna, a blood relative of mine, doesn't care for people smoking pot around here.

--- ---- ------- --- -- --------.

Click here for November 27's solution

11/24/2017

World Geo/Sports

Clue

I violently attacked the spinnaker on this woman's boat.

-----'- ---- - --------.

Click here for November 24's solution

11/23/2017

World Geo/Sports

Clue

What should be the title of a biography of an eight time tennis Grand Slam Singles winner who is now married to Steffi Graf.

------'- ----.

Click here for November 23's solution

11/22/2017

World Geo/Sports

Clue

Words of a travel agent while telling "Lew Alcindor" it would be crazy if he didn't snap up the deal on a vacation to Tijuana and Mexicali.

-- ---- ----, ------, ---!

Click here for November 22's solution

11/21/2017

Entertainment/Government/Sports

Clue

A motorcycle jumper extraordinaire, attending a banquet given by America's space agency gets a splitting headache and is told that the guest of honor, Kenyan and US Collegiate star runner Henry has something he can take for relief.

----, - ---- ------- ---- --- -- -----.

Click here for November 21's solution

11/20/2017

Business

Clue

Melvin tells how he is totally against the controversial diatribe someone had written arguing against the plan under which our company's capital stock would be acquired by the employees.

---- ------- -, ---, ------.

Click here for November 20's solution

11/17/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Girl tells her boyfriend that it is childish to sign on again at the delicatessen and that she would fight it.

-------! ---'-, -----!
- ------. --~--.

Click here for November 17's solution

11/16/2017

World Languages

Clue

After the dust up in the Moms Over Forty Soccer League game in Barcelona, one of the players explains to the referee what happened: one of the women, Rosemary, offered a woman on the other team poison so that she could kill herself, as she was such a fat pig.

------- -- --------, ---, --- ------- ---.

Click here for November 16's solution

11/15/2017

History

Clue

A viral infection with painful, inflamed, sore, harsh symptoms felled s frat boy: in Operation Desert Shield ca. 1991.

--- --- --- -- ---: ---- ---.

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11/14/2017

World Languages/Geo/History

Clue

A budding Latin I student show off his skills as he describes how he feel in love with a nurse on a trip to see the Colosseum, an event which caused some note in the local press.

--- --, ---- - --- -- ----.

Click here for November 14's solution

11/13/2017

Sports

Clue

Pooh! Els or Banks is irate at a woman in a detox unit?

---! ----- --- -- - ---- -- -----?

Click here for November 13's solution

11/10/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

A terse note of irritation sent by Von, who owned a small business, to his father who was in charge of hiring, after they had seen a man who had interrupted the interview by asking if e-cigarettes were OK at the company when the job ad had clearly said that was against company policy.

-- ----- - ----, --. ~ ---.

Click here for November 10's solution

11/09/2017

Tech

Clue

The Second Law of the Undead, which basically says that since they don't evolve [I guess ] they are stuck using an old outdated PC operating system designed especially for them.

-. ------- --- --- --~-.

Click here for November 09's solution

11/08/2017

Sports/Science

Clue

After a Mexican man queried hospital staff about how NBC football analyst and booth partner of Curt Gowdy had been transferred to Houston for cancer treatment, he was corrected about who drove him there.

-- --., ----'- ------- ---- -- -- --------.

Click here for November 08's solution

11/07/2017

Arts/Sports

Clue

Amy, either one of two great arts institutions in New York City, both of which go by the same moniker, or one of its pro athletes, may grow weary of being rashly bold and reckless.

-------- ---, ---, --- ---.

Click here for November 07's solution

11/06/2017

USA Geo/Business

Clue

I introduce Ilana to the caretaker of my large estate house in Central Florida , a man who also keeps me supplied with plenty of Mexican beer.

-----, ----- ----- ------ --- ---.

Click here for November 06's solution

11/03/2017

Books

Clue

Vincent and others are charged with developing a new translation for a popular version of the Bible and they are discussing a particularly thorny passage where the committee is going to have to vote on what is the best way to go. Vincent thinks that all is set for the vote, but he is a questioned about whether or not that is true.

------, ---- ----'- --- ---- --- -- ---?

Click here for November 03's solution

11/02/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Laboratory director Ira is OK with a kind of mocking, irreverent atmosphere, but draws the line at people actually hooking up.

--- -- - ------ --- --- -----.

Click here for November 02's solution

11/01/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Mother's job is sort of a throwback to the old days, as an attendant in railroad car, just like me.

-- -- - ----- ------, -- - --.

Click here for November 01's solution

10/31/2017

Food/World Geo

Clue

Kitchen helper tells the head chef in a restaurant on the banks of the river separating Poland and Germany that unfortunately there aren't any of these because they had been tossed into the river;

--, -- ----'-, ----, --- -----.

Click here for October 31's solution

10/30/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Evelyn's boyfriend tell her that he has an almost religious reverence for the early 8 track she is holding.

--, ----- --------'- ------, ----.

Click here for October 30's solution

10/27/2017

Business/Legend

Clue

A Himalayan beast of legend is finally spotted, doing sever damage to some luggage. "It" is asked to stop.

--, ----. -- ----- --------- ---.

Click here for October 27's solution

10/26/2017

Entertainment

Clue

A prominent rapper had been placed in charge of cleaning up after the picnic, and he went around collecting the plastic utensils, but only found knives and forks.

-----'- -- -----, --- --- -- ------.

Click here for October 26's solution

10/25/2017

Entertainment/World Geo

Clue

While at the barn on a farm where milk cows are raised, McGarrett questions his right hand man about whether they had discovered the haul from a burglary which had been smuggled in from Aleppo. And if so, to put it onto the seat farmer uses to milk the cows.

----? -----, ----? --- -- -- -- - ----- -----.

Click here for October 25's solution

10/24/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

I ask Rosemary of she really does want me to leave a gratuity for that waiter, that guy who had a massively bad smell coming from under his arms.

--, -- --- --. ------ ----?

Click here for October 24's solution

10/23/2017

Sports/Entertainment

Clue

A young man who is sort of a sexist questions a friend, surprised that women also like to play a popular football video game.

---, ----- --- ------?

Click here for October 23's solution

10/20/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Angry words whispered by a man to his wife upon realizing that their hostess was too uppity to provide his favorite movie theatre candy as snacks when they came to dinner.

----! -- --- ----?

Click here for October 20's solution

10/19/2017

Food Entertainment/World Geo/Languages

Clue

TV Food Channel host is informed that the crazed "luna"tic Curtis is not a native of this country on the Arabian Peninsula.

---, "----"------ ----'- -- -----.

Click here for October 19's solution

10/18/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

When Stuart brought his car in to the body show to have it thoroughly cleaned and for minor repairs to improve its appearance, he left a box of Krispy Kremes in the car. When he got the car back they were gone, and he tried to blame the manager Eli or the guy who had worked on his car. Reporting this to the owner, he gets this rebuff in denial:

---, -- -------- -- --- --- ------.

Click here for October 18's solution

10/17/2017

Arts

Clue

I think that Lee had tunnel vision with regard to the levy he wanted on publishing any expressive lyric poem,

--- ------- -- -- --- ---, - ----.

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10/16/2017

Arts/Business

Clue

What you might call it when an attendant at the concession stand at a performance of "The Pirates of Penzance " storms down the aisle and takes back a Starbucks steamed espresso from a patron who had skipped the line to pay.

-------- ----- ----.

Click here for October 16's solution

10/13/2017

Miscellanous

Clue

These five people made a business out of finding, nurturing, and then selling mongrel felines who would would have been homeless scavengers if not for their intervention.

-----, ----, ----, ---, --- --- ------ ----- ----.

Click here for October 13's solution

10/12/2017

Miscellanous

Clue

Good grief, Nan. I wanted a word that had the SAME meaning.

--! ---, ---, -- -------!

Click here for October 12's solution

10/11/2017

USA Geo

Clue

(1) A top notch company which owns and finances income producing real estate in"The Biggest Little City in the World." (2) Unfortunately, I note that they use lots of their income to buy high grade marijuana.

(1)---- --- ---- ----. (2)---- --- ---, - ---, --- ----.

Click here for October 11's solution

10/10/2017

Entertainment/Food

Clue

When a young TV doctor asks his friend how his sister's trail mix making was going, he friend says this, indicating that all is well.

--- -- ----, ----? ---- ---------.

Click here for October 10's solution

10/09/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Von's Dad tells him that he noticed that the motto his grandfather had coined for his Harvard alma mater, suggesting that truth is to be found in wine and drink, was just a parody.

"---- -------" ---, - ---, ------, --- --.

Click here for October 09's solution

10/06/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

The frat guys are betting on whether the various brothers will come to the party stag or with a date. One of them says to Lewis that he agrees with him that Greg will have one.

----, -----, - ----- ---- - "---- ----," ---.

Click here for October 06's solution

10/05/2017

World Geo

Clue

I tell a female friend of a Dallas basketball player that we were pretty rough on him for their choice to go trick or treating dressed as Barnabas Collins.

---, -- --- ---'- ------- ----.

Click here for October 05's solution

10/04/2017

World Geo

Clue

A woman in bed with her polite, refined boyfriend, an Olympic sprinter who lives in a desert of Southern Israel, asks him to turn over.

-------, ------- ----- ----- -----.

Click here for October 04's solution

10/03/2017

USA Geo

Clue

A proud Tuscaloosa boy brings home his intended, a recent college graduate and home grown girl with children, and thusly introduces her to his mother.

-- ------- ----, --, -- ----.

Click here for October 03's solution

10/02/2017

Entertainment

Clue

"Mr. Kot-ter" is going to cure the leather on his carryall.

---- -- --- - -------.

Click here for October 02's solution

09/29/2017

Food and Drink

Clue

Give him room to breathe! A crazy recently hired headwaiter passed out (probably too much of that dark Jamaican liqueur made with coffee beans, rum, vanilla and sugar.)

---! - ------ -' ---, ---, ----
----- ( --- -----.)

Click here for September 29's solution

09/28/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

The bottom line is that Timothy is reeling, whirling, absolutely transfixed by the vegetable he has just eaten and, in fact, fallen in love with.

---: --- -----, ---- -- -------, -------.

Click here for September 28's solution

09/27/2017

Business/USA Geo

Clue

A Florida State student introduces himself to the Founder of Space-X.

----, -'- ----, - --------.

Click here for September 27's solution

09/26/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

What I say when I ask several friends to wander over while they are out walking, aimlessly.

------- ----, ------, ----, --.

Click here for September 26's solution

09/25/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

What those of us in church do when we realize what a horrible mistake it was when we hired the new preacher.

-- ----- -- - ---.

Click here for September 25's solution

09/22/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

I tell Maximilian that I am the featured author at a huge book signing with my heroic, majestic novel that I wrote waking early every morning to get down to business.

---, - ----. --'- -- ---- - ---, ----- -- --- --.

Click here for September 22's solution

09/21/2017

Sports/World Geo

Clue

Sy, who plays professional baseball in NYC, is establishing a rigid set of social distinctions to govern behavior and privileges in the locker room.

--- -- ---- - ----- ------.

Click here for September 21's solution

09/20/2017

Tech

Clue

Place on the internet where my sister can go as a refuge, a pleasant place to get away from it all.

---' --- -----.

Click here for September 20's solution

09/19/2017

World Geo

Clue

A South American pack animal animal relegated to a petting zoo at a local shopping center owned by the Luft family tells Tina how he just feels used as some kind of prop and sadly yearns be running wild.

-- ---- -- - ---- ( ----'- ), - ---
- ------- -----, ----, ----.

Click here for September 19's solution

09/18/2017

Business

Clue

Introductions all around at a big business conference featuring past, present and future : McDonald's CEO to JP Morgan's. Wang Computer's founder to eBay chairman.

---, -----. --, -------.

Click here for September 18's solution

09/15/2017

Medicine

Clue

Response from a doctor half confirming his patient's self diagnosis when he had asked," Am I crazy, or am I missing my large intestine?"

-- ----. -- -----.

Click here for September 15's solution

09/14/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Suppose I Irepair it for you. Will you give me tickets to the game?

--- -- - --- --?

Click here for September 14's solution

09/13/2017

US Government/History

Clue

At the Supreme Court's annual softball game against the clerks circa 2014, one of the justices said this as he came up to bat with ducks on the pond,ready to plate a run with a hit.

-, ------, --- ---.

Click here for September 13's solution

09/12/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Pay attention: I'd lay money that the little Parisian cafe/restaurant gets sued in civil court.

----: ----- ----- - --- --.

Click here for September 12's solution

09/11/2017

World Geo/Food and Drink

Clue

Line of dialogue from a play set in Ireland where in a miscellaneous native pub patron there makes fun of Edward's order of a common American beer.

--------: -- --'- ------ --- ---?

Click here for September 11's solution

09/08/2017

Business

Clue

Re the issue of which credit card company we should choose to handle payments, watch me: Master Card. Not their chief rival.

-- - ----: ---- ----.

Click here for September 08's solution

09/07/2017

World Languages

Clue

Boss at an advertising firm, showing off a little Spanish, suggests aside an entire year to get done a brocuyrea bout a coral reef area.

-- -- ----- ----- -- ---.

Click here for September 07's solution

09/06/2017

Language/Sports

Clue

What "Nomeaux" is,to a Dodger baseball fan in the mid 1990s, made up by him for Cajun Day.

-- ---- -------.

Click here for September 06's solution

09/05/2017

Tech

Clue

A woman tells her her friend that she can send requests to men to call her with just a very low resolution photo.

---, - ---- --- -- --- ---------.

Click here for September 05's solution

09/04/2017

Entertainment/World Geo

Clue

A friend tells this "Oklahoma!" girl that the advertisement she has crafted to celebrate Islams' holy month was ridiculous.

----- ------- --, ---------.

Click here for September 04's solution

09/01/2017

USA Geo

Clue

Simple description of Atlanta, Georgia's transportation system, at least in part.

-----'- - ----.

Click here for September 01's solution

08/31/2017

World Geo

Clue

Suggestion to alphabetize the small restaurant/nightclubs of the European style located in this Central African country, but serving for Russian expatriates living there the good old home cooking that they were used to as they recall the days on the frozen tundra.

---- -------/----- -------.

Click here for August 31's solution

08/30/2017

World Geo

Clue

What I said to my Mother about our trip to Spain, wherein I curse it's largest city, the low point of our trip, in a fit of anger.

-, --, ---- ------, - -----. ---- --- -- -!

Click here for August 30's solution

08/29/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Describing Obed, who worships The Flying Spaghetti Monster and is courteous, gracious and charming albeit overweight and a gullible fool.

----------- ----, --------, - --- ---.

Click here for August 29's solution

08/28/2017

Entertaiment

Clue

Kuryakin's partner never considered wearing a short sleeved pullover sports shirt.

---- -------- -- -----.

Click here for August 28's solution

08/25/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

What you might call the student body president at an underground cemetery converted into a college.

---- -- - --------.

Click here for August 25's solution

08/24/2017

Science

Clue

When soldier Tino complains about the quality of the water his unit had to drink, his CO slangily lets him know that considering that the unit had been pretty bad at their jobs recently, it was what they deserved.

----, ---- ---- ------ --- -- --.

Click here for August 24's solution

08/23/2017

Science

Clue

Response to this request: "Give me examples of two chemical elements."

--------, -.-., -- ---.

Click here for August 23's solution

08/22/2017

History/World Languages/Food

Clue

What a boy said to his uncle from Acapulco on the occasion of a visit to them in the 1920s from the head of the Soviet Union, reminding him that he should start cooking breakfast, hominy, as their foolish obstinate guest was just waking up, and that he should really get a move on to be sure the food was ready.

----: -- ----. -- ---, --. -- -----
---- -- ----. ------ --- ----.

Click here for August 22's solution

08/21/2017

Food/Entertainment

Clue

Celebrity chef Paula, in this line of dialogue from a play, tells Emily that there is no pleasure in arguing with her over the menu,but really there should not be containers of Pringles and not many customers like melted cheese and bread for dipping.

----: -- ----. -- ---, --. -- -----
---- -- ----. ------ --- ----.

Click here for August 21's solution

08/18/2017

Entertainment/Medicine

Clue

"Thelma" borrowed the car from "Louise" and went to the drive thru at the hospital to get her brain wave activity checked.

----- -- -- --- -- ---.

Click here for August 18's solution

08/17/2017

Science

Clue

When the big time party goer got drunk and fell down passed out at the frat party, a physics major suggested that they used a long steel bar a la Archimedes to get him up, It almost works, but someone lost their grip. So this suggested was made, to try it again.

-- ~ ----- - -------.

Click here for August 17's solution

08/16/2017

Nature

Clue

A man rejects the "vision" his psychic had had in which she had seen a wildebeest wearing blue jeans coming into his life.

----, - --- ---- -- ---------.

Click here for August 16's solution

08/15/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

An outer space alien gossip.

---- --- --.

Click here for August 15's solution

08/14/2017

World Languages/Entertainment

Clue

After a young country singer duo had been turned away by a record producer, Scruggs, who had been studying German, sent his partner back in to talk to them to try, above all, to make the case against the company's argument for not picking them up. This is what Scruggs said.

---- - --------, -----, ---- -----.

Click here for August 14's solution

08/11/2017

USA Geo/Entertainment

Clue

A captain of industry in a large Southern Ohio city chides actor Cage in this line of dialogue from a play.

---------- -----: ---, ---!

Click here for August 11's solution

08/10/2017

World Geo/History/Slang

Clue

I tell Nan that US Rep Darrell, Chair of the Congressional Oversight Committee comes off hilariously in this tale of the time he and his staff visited the birthplace of St. Francis in Central Italy.

- --- -- ----, ---, -- -- ------ ----.

Click here for August 10's solution

08/09/2017

USA Geo

Clue

Someone tells Lee that in his opinion the remains of Castro are being held, isolated in a town he just made up, roughly somewhere between Amarillo and Brownsville, which is remote and just seems to be a long way from everything.

---, -----'- -- ----- ---, --, ------- - ----.

Click here for August 09's solution

08/08/2017

USA Geo

Clue

Name for a potential clothing line for informal everyday wear befitting the Southern California lifestyle of the United States.

--/--- ------.

Click here for August 08's solution

08/07/2017

Arts/Entertainment

Clue

It is not true that this star of "Roots" gave a massage to the composer of "Bolero."

----- ------ --- --- --- -----.

Click here for August 07's solution

08/04/2017

Business

Clue

I noted that Stuart, although mad, agreed silently with me when I lambasted the quality of the fare at Krispy Kreme.

--- ------, ----, - --- -- - ------- ------.

Click here for August 04's solution

08/03/2017

Arts/Business

Clue

Diana was asked if the art work in an early twentieth century style often expressing nonsense, irrationality, and bourgeois protest, anti-art to some, was based on an advertisement for this, which had been seen by [her assistant] Ada.

---, - ----, --, - ---- -- - ----~--- -- --- ---?

Click here for August 03's solution

08/02/2017

USA History

Clue

Did Los Angeles notice now much of a threat to safety Alec the ambulance attendant was? Are you kidding?

--- ---- -- --- ------ -- ---!!!!?

Click here for August 02's solution

08/01/2017

USA History

Clue

Note left for former OJ Simpson prosecutor by her boyfriend after she stomped out accusing him of not liking her artwork of inlaid stones, in which he protests that she has it all wrong.

--, ------.---- ------! ~ -----.

Click here for August 01's solution

07/31/2017

World Geo/Entertainment

Clue

Being totally unyielding in his opinions Ara, a Hanoi "Jack McCoy" wannabe, is also an informing scoundrel.

------- ---'- - ---, --- ---.

Click here for July 31's solution

07/28/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Suggestion to Emily that she refrain from saying things to me like, "The early bird seldom knocks twice" or " Give him an inch and he'll rush in where angels fear to tread."

--, -- --- - ----- -- --.

Click here for July 28's solution

07/27/2017

USA Geo

Clue

[When I was driving from Spokane to Seattle] I noticed a team of Transportation Department employees putting up new road signs.

-- ------- ---- - ---.

Click here for July 27's solution

07/26/2017

Slang

Clue

Del hired a redneck with a new college degree whom Nathaniel eyed [with suspicion.]

--- --- -- -.-. ----- --- -----.

Click here for July 26's solution

07/25/2017

US History/Geo

Clue

Describing a hitchhiking right wing idealogue, author, and movie maker D'Souza to a group of people from a subculture favoring dark themes and melodies in music and a dark and morbid aesthetic, as he told them where in Oklahoma he needed to get to.

------ -- -----: ----.

Click here for July 25's solution

07/24/2017

USA History

Clue

I am pretty very impressed with the movie I produced and directed about how our 16th president, melancholy though he could be, was really excellent in an aggressive, tough, intimidating way, as suggested by the slangy title.

- ---- "--- --- --- --- --- ------?!"
---- -- -.

Click here for July 24's solution

07/21/2017

Business

Clue

Ann fantasizes about vacationing with her girlfriend using peer-to-peer short term lodging.

---, ------, '- -------!

Click here for July 21's solution

07/20/2017

Sports

Clue

What mid fifties-70s major league player Francona, who is also the father of the current Indians manager, yelled to his infielders as he called them off on a short popup to right field.

---- --- --!

Click here for July 20's solution

07/19/2017

USA History

Clue

Harsh words of reproach to the inventor of bifocals who was so drunk and drinking so fast that he could hardly catch his breath.

-- --- ---, ---, ---------. ---!

Click here for July 19's solution

07/18/2017

Government

Clue

Agent Dias relates how Cyrus, a newly newly minted college graduate and CIA operative, chewed him out after he had told Emily not to use an unlicensed taxi.

-- --, ---, --- -- --, ----, - ---, --
- ----, "--, -- -- ----- ---."

Click here for July 18's solution

07/17/2017

USA Geo

Clue

Do not lose track of West Pointer Edward; stay near him, observing him from all angles while I think about what to do about him.

--, -- ----- --, - ----- - ----- --.

Click here for July 17's solution

07/14/2017

Sports/World Geo

Clue

When a man thinks he has won $10,000,000 in a horse race, and has his friend point out that it is really only about $150,000 as the winnings had been posted in Indian Currency, a friend points out his error.

---, -----'- ------.

Click here for July 14's solution

07/13/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Having finally made her choice, a woman says this to her date who is about to leave because she can't make up her mind about what kind of tea she wants to order at the restaurant.

---. - -------. ---- -- --.

Click here for July 13's solution

07/12/2017

Government/World Geo

Clue

A scam perpetrated by the nomadic small statured Africans who run a workout facility that is actually a CIA front.

----- ----- --- --- ---.

Click here for July 12's solution

07/11/2017

Arts

Clue

Lilliputians' view of their oversized guest.

--------, ---- ---.

Click here for July 11's solution

07/10/2017

Food&Drink

Clue

Line of dialogue in a play wherein a girl discovers that she is supposed to provide drinks and snacks for her father's buddies when they come over, so she asks if perhaps she could prepare for someone, say hot peppers stuffed with cheese, or perhaps a frappe of rum, coconut, pineapple juice.

---: --, --- - ----, ---, --- ---
- -------- ------? ---- ------?

Click here for July 10's solution

07/07/2017

History

Clue

When a friend in the 1970s referred to Uganda's Amin in the past tense as if he were no longer in power, I corrected him, referring to his gruesome, revolting reign that I had seen.

--- --- -----? --, ----! -----, - ---.

Click here for July 07's solution

07/06/2017

Sports

Clue

Website devoted to all the activities of 1980s Philadelphia 76er point guard and 4-time NBA All-star Cheeks when he decided to get married.

-----.--.---

Click here for July 06's solution

07/05/2017

World Languages

Clue

The government in Spain outlaws lovemaking in vaulted recessed areas within the country's cathedrals.

------ ----- --- -- -- ----.

Click here for July 05's solution

07/04/2017

Government/USA Geo

Clue

Maverick brass at a Los Angeles army base countermanded orders from the Chief of Staff in Washington.

-- --------- -------- - -------.

Click here for July 04's solution

07/03/2017

Sports

Clue

With the national championship on the line, and behind by 1 point with .1 seconds left on the clock, ambidextrous Evelyn is to shoot two free throws. A fan explains to his wife Nina why the opposing team in the lead just called time out, giving her time to stew over which hand she would shoot with and the enormity of the situation.

-- ---------- -- -- ----, ----.

Click here for July 03's solution

06/30/2017

Science/World Geo/Entertainment

Clue

Business selling the colorless fluid part of blood, opened by Mr. Malone when he sold "Cheers" and moved to St. Morittz.

---'- --- -------.

Click here for June 30's solution

06/29/2017

Technology

Clue

When a man hears from his friend, local warden Dominick, that there are job opportunities for guards who will monitor dial up access to the internet by the inmates, he is excited about it and asks for a job.

----- ------? -, - ------? --- --, ---!

Click here for June 29's solution

06/28/2017

Entertainment

Clue

A man is told that Samuel was the victor in a ski race at as Aspen hill and is now a celebrity.

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Click here for June 28's solution

06/27/2017

Entertainment

Clue

Comment from someone surprised to hear that Mr. Douglas' handyman on Green Acres was the father of repurchasing this modern version of "gotcha" which involves infrared-sensitive targets.

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Click here for June 27's solution

06/26/2017

World Geo/Business

Clue

A salesman at Payless tells his customer, a Jamaican who follows this religion which has always been conceived as a way of life for and by people of African descent, why he can't fit him.

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Click here for June 26's solution

06/23/2017

World Geo

Clue

A geologist yells at his buddy that on the countryside of thus African nation bordering Nigeria there are no mineral deposits that can be mined for a profit.

-- ---, ---, --- -- --------.

Click here for June 23's solution

06/22/2017

Government

Clue

A Texas A&M University frog hunter tells Margaret what he does to them.

---, ------ ---'- ----?

Click here for June 22's solution

06/21/2017

Government

Clue

Olivia is a diehard conservative who thinks the "death tax" is immoral. After her friend hears Olivia goes on a tirade about it the friend sends a text wondering why. But she makes a typo, causing the text to autocorrect, accidentally creating the palindrome below that Olivia in turn cannot fathom: why in earth anyone would think that her body ink picturing her country home would be a bad thing.

---, ------ ---'- ----?

Click here for June 21's solution

06/20/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Begging to be lavishly entertained, Sid's friends ask him to pass out the brewskis.

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Click here for June 20's solution

06/19/2017

Business

Clue

I get the well known Dutch pale lager, do I?

--, --, ------- ----- --- --.

Click here for June 19's solution

06/16/2017

Entertainment

Clue

A woman who accompanied her "Roots" star friend to an auction and watched him continue bidding on on an expensive piece that had gone way beyond its estimated value, responds in the negative to Diana who had asked if he ever finally chickened out and quit.

--, --, ------- ----- --- --.

Click here for June 16's solution

06/15/2017

Business

Clue

I tell Emily how the men's cologne salesman really irritated me.

--, ---- --- --- ------- --.

Click here for June 15's solution

06/14/2017

History/Food

Clue

The mother of the man who piloted the plane which dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima lathered sauce and juices onto the meat of the large mollusk she as barbecuing for a West Pointer.

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Click here for June 14's solution

06/13/2017

Sports

Clue

Back in 1982 or so it is reported to the San Diego Chargers quarterback that is was a more senior game official that front office man Stuart had proposed a cash bribe to.

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Click here for June 13's solution

06/12/2017

Arts

Clue

In a [thankfully!] deleted scene from Pagliacci, the clown explains to his pal Salvador that one final thing he does not care for in the magic show they have gone to see is when they do coin tricks. [WHY HE SPEAKS IN THE THIRD PERSON AND IN SOUTHERN USA COLLOQUIALISMS IS ANOTHER MIND TWISTER.]

----, ----- ------- --- -- ---- ---, ---.

Click here for June 12's solution

06/09/2017

History/Science

Clue

When Bin Laden needed to make bronze he found he had the copper but was short on the other needed ingredient, so he asked asked one of his henchmen to get some, and the fellow replies that he already has someone working on it, namely the woman by whom he has children. [DON'T ASK ME WHY THEY ARE SPEAKING ENGLISH, ESPECIALLY LIKE THIS.]

---, -----? -- ---- ----'- -- --.

Click here for June 09's solution

06/08/2017

Business/USA Geo

Clue

Helping the police, actor Norton is requested to sketch a bunch of reckless, criminal soft drink salesmen who terrorized him.

---- --------- ---- ----, ------.

Click here for June 08's solution

06/07/2017

Business/USA Geo

Clue

A rep for a drive-in restaurant had been speculating about whether this San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles had enough economic activity, and. concluding that it didn't, questions councilwoman Deirdre on whether she agrees that it could use one of his franchises.

----, ------'- -- - --------.
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Click here for June 07's solution

06/06/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

After enduring a screaming fit following a fender bender with one of his rivals leaving the calf roping competition, a cowboy tries to calm things down by politely informing him that if he doesn't control his temper he could burst an artery.

-- ---- ---- --, ----- ---, ------ -----.

Click here for June 06's solution

06/05/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

The head county prosecutor asks his assistant Sy to evaluate the writing assignments he had given to one of his assistants, Bo, who even though he turned them in after the deadline, had produced an excellent product.

--, ------ --- --'- ----, ---
---- ------, ------.

Click here for June 05's solution

06/02/2017

World Geo

Clue

A tourist in Lima, angry at having had his rear end lacerated, nevertheless gives no thought whatsoever to having it taken care of there.

----, -- ---- ---- ------ ------ -.

Click here for June 02's solution

06/01/2017

Entertainment

Clue

Someone tries unobtrusively to tell Lani and Patricia, that they can see what happens when you turn a guitar amp up to eleven by watching this group.

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Click here for June 01's solution

05/31/2017

World History/Geo

Clue

Holy cow, a proverb attributed to the prehistoric Greek civilization flourishing in and around the southern part of this sea near Crete!

----, -- ------ -----!

Click here for May 31's solution

05/30/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

When we found out that for a fee one could reserve a place during the church service for couples with very young children who might need to be changed, well, after we stopped laughing out butts off we signed up for a whole year in advance.

-- -------, ----, --- ------ ---.

Click here for May 30's solution

05/29/2017

World Geo/Languages/Business

Clue

Von is told that he will not be able to use his "Blue" Cross health coverage when he visits this elongated Mexican state bordering the Caribbean.

-- -------- "--------," ---.

Click here for May 29's solution

05/26/2017

Entertainment

Clue

Exclamation to Reginald from a friend when they visit Mork on his home planet and they see a familiar grocery store.

---, ---'- ------!

Click here for May 26's solution

05/25/2017

Entertainment

Clue

Newspaper headline announcing that a New Jersey University had been selected to be the repository of the original jottings taken by Muhammad as the archangel Gabriel dictated the word of God to him.

----- ---- ------- --- ----- -----.

Click here for May 25's solution

05/24/2017

Entertainment

Clue

Comment from TV chef Paula when she is informed that she was responsible for making the evening meal for the cat, indicating that she intended to go all out and had to have cooking vessels to perform the task.

---- -- -- ---- -----'- ------? ---- - ----!

Click here for May 24's solution

05/23/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

I tell the headmaster that Tino and I noticed that sickly pallid Iris may have had a hand in the mischief at least to a certain extent.

---- ' -, ---, ---, -- - ---
- --- ---- --- -- -- --.

Click here for May 23's solution

05/22/2017

Business/Entertainment/USA Geo

Clue

Response to Lonnie who is trying to recall a famous auto race in France, after hearing him go. " The 24 hours of Paris. No, the 24 hours of Nice. No, the 24 hours of Bourdeaux. No,......" for long enough.

--, -- ---- -- ----, ---.

Click here for May 22's solution

05/19/2017

Business/Entertainment/USA Geo

Clue

A woman who shares a name with supermodel McPherson and who had been named queen of Mexican Fast Food in this city, the southernmost in Palm Beach County Florida, in this palindrome which is also a pun on the named of one of the local restaurants.

----, ---- ---- -----.

Click here for May 19's solution

05/18/2017

Arts

Clue

A good friend of the composer of "William Tell" is concerned about what he considers to be his friends unseemly, dirty, illegal marijuana smoking and encourages him to give it up.

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Click here for May 18's solution

05/17/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Evelyn is told that in a game of poker this guy has a devilish drive and passion, filled with spite and malice.

-----! -------'- ---- -----, --.

Click here for May 17's solution

05/16/2017

Sports/Business/Entertainment

Clue

What Dorothy said to Cowboys #88, as she told him how tremendous online shopping was over the rainbow.

---, ------ -- ------.

Click here for May 16's solution

05/15/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

[I guess I won't be getting a date with her because] Hot hot hot Ana noticed that I was pretty much the bottom of the barrel. Darn it!

------ --- --- - --- - -----. ---!

Click here for May 15's solution

05/12/2017

Entertainment

Clue

Harsh, hysterical reaction from a dear friend of actress Lamarr, upon seeing the star's fake leather couch, which she likens to bat shit.

--, ----! --, -----! ---------, ---?

Click here for May 12's solution

05/11/2017

Sports/USA History

Clue

It seems that there was a Civil War re-enactment taking place at the Daytona 500. One of the organizers expresses regret that one of the star race drivers, who won this event 4 times, chewed out a student from a local military academy who was performing the part of a confederate solider in the re-enactment.

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Click here for May 11's solution

05/10/2017

Entertainment

Clue

I am told that Emily, a niece of Morticia and Gomez, is one crazy girlfriend , I tell Rae.

-- ------ - ----'-, ---, --- --- ----.

Click here for May 10's solution

05/09/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Why I never again wanted to go to eat at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Aston: filthy cooking vessels.

---- --- ---- - --- -- ------.

Click here for May 09's solution

05/08/2017

USA History/Geo

Clue

Stopping at a way station on hi way up Pike's Peak, which would later be named after him, this explorer is asked by the proprietor if he is sure he doesn't want to have the axles on his wagons greased.

-- ----, -------?

Click here for May 08's solution

05/05/2017

Sci-Fi

Clue

I reflect on how much pleasure I got out of visiting alien spacecraft and lounging back in the captain's seat.

-- --- -- --, - ---, -- - --- -- ----.

Click here for May 05's solution

05/04/2017

Geography

Clue

A consortium of markets for cured, then smoked, brisket, run by a group of Brahma devotees from Calcutta who have relocated to the mountains in Switzerland, cheer at regulations promulgated by the National Institutes of Health.

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Click here for May 04's solution

05/03/2017

Business

Clue

When the aliens visited the US, they decided not to stay on their ships for the most part, but to rent rooms at from a prominent economy hotel chain noted for its name and which would make the accommodations easily findable from the mother ships above. Their rental agreement was known as the:

--- ---- --- -----.

Click here for May 03's solution

05/02/2017

Entertainment/Nature

Clue

Testing facility for yellowfin tuna recipes located in the "South Pacific."

---- --- --- ---.

Click here for May 02's solution

05/01/2017

Entertainment/Business

Clue

The king's daughter, who had joined a troupe doing variety skits between acts at the local theatre, demanded that she be provided with lanolin based skin care products which are one of Proctor and Gamble's billion dollar brands.

"--- -- ----," ------- ----- -- ----.

Click here for May 01's solution

04/28/2017

Arts

Clue

Cancer researcher's kind of "in your face" comment to his arch rival telling him that he had broken open the secret to preventing a common type of cancer originating in epithelial cells.

--, -----! - ----- ---------. ---!

Click here for April 28's solution

04/27/2017

Arts

Clue

When Tom, a prominent playwright wrote and directed a new play, it contained a seance scene, the spooky sounds of which he thought would be better conveyed if done live by a stage hand by beating into with kitchen utensils rather than using the theatre sound board. In a rehearsal he stopped because he said he could not hear the sounds at all. The chastised stage hand responds that he had indeed made the required noise.

"--- -- ----," ------- ----- -- ----.

Click here for April 27's solution

04/26/2017

USA Geography

Clue

I tell Patricia that on today's walk around the streets of a Central Florida city, I note that a food truck business, owned by several female college students and specializing in leftovers from the college cafeteria, is on the verge of opening.

---, --- -- - ------, -----
---- ---- - --- -- ---.

Click here for April 26's solution

04/25/2017

Entertainment

Clue

Description to Mr. Luft of the rapid spread of cities way into the surrounding countryside, using a Star Trek reference for effect.

---- ------, ----, -- ---- ---- -----.

Click here for April 25's solution

04/24/2017

History&Government

Clue

A mean tempered, tough, intimidating troublemaker makes the case to Syria's president for hiring his mother as well as he, since they are just alike.

-- --, -----, - ------, -- - --.

Click here for April 24's solution

04/21/2017

Science

Clue

Calvin, taking part in a drug efficacy study, thinks and hopes to himself that he is not a part of the control group in the double blind study, as he is feeling much better and wants it to be the real thing, actually working.

"-, --," --- --------, " -- -------!"

Click here for April 21's solution

04/20/2017

Arts/Business

Clue

Headline from an article in a financial help magazine, alerting readers to a scam involving retirement accounts invested in visual art which often gives the viewer the impression of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibrating patterns, or of swelling or warping.

- ------: -- ---.

Click here for April 20's solution

04/19/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

I tell my sister that right up until the very end [ of his employment in actions which presumably got him fired ] Edward very often ceases doing tasks assigned to him.

-- ----, ---, -- ------- - ---.

Click here for April 19's solution

04/18/2017

Entertainment/US Geo/Sports

Clue

A policeman is informed that a burglary may be taking place near Arrowhead Stadium at a business which sells waterproofed protective canvas coverings and is named after a nursery rhyme character, as the door is slightly open.

---, - ---- -----'- -----,-.-., ---- --.

Click here for April 18's solution

04/17/2017

History/Food

Clue

Edward made hot chocolate from a recipe he found in "The Little Red Book."

-- - --- ----- ----.

Click here for April 17's solution

04/14/2017

History&Government/Business/Food

Clue

After his defeat in the 2012 presidential election, Gov. Romney decided to shake things up for Christmas dinner by having Italian, A diner guest questions him on it, and his choice of where to buy, the food section of a major clothing retailer?

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Click here for April 14's solution

04/13/2017

Technology

Clue

In a future Congress where debate is moderated by Apple's personal digital assistant, a representative stands and makes a plea that the ballots not simply be cast along party lines.

- ---- -- ---- ---- ----, ----.

Click here for April 13's solution

04/12/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

A total social misfit and incompetent dressed in earth tones is told to try again to join the two pieces of metal together.

-------- --, --- ------- -----.

Click here for April 12's solution

04/11/2017

Entertainment/USA Geo

Clue

A too vague announcement regarding a folk singer's album ("Lemon Tree") autograph session in the 14th Street Union Square station in New York City.

----- ------- -- -- ---.

Click here for April 11's solution

04/10/2017

Sports/History/Arts/USA geo

Clue

Incredulous, an Arkansas resident of a town named after a mythic Spanish city of gold and immortalized in verse by Edgar Allan Poe, tells Yankee Alex Rodriguez and Leonard that a guy names Nils who has known ties to Mideast terrorists has been spotted working out in a local club.

-- ---. -~---, ---, -- ----
---- ---- -- -- -- -- ------ ---.

Click here for April 10's solution

04/07/2017

Food

Clue

Mister as you sure you want to take a chance and eat that entire hunk of semi-hard, open textured cheddar cheese?

---- ----- -----, ---?

Click here for April 07's solution

04/06/2017

Sports/Business/World Geo

Clue

The woman in charge of personnel at an appliance manufacturer gave no thought whatsoever to hiring the guy from the Canal Zone whose parents named him after a famous boxer.

----- -- ----- --------
-- ---------- ---.

Click here for April 06's solution

04/05/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Negative response to someone who wondered if, when Rik, a military academy student, visited Manhattan, he got scammed by a three card monte game

--, ----- --- ------- - ---.

Click here for April 05's solution

04/04/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

The seven of them had gone out to eat, but an argument had ensued and Enid had had her feelings hurt, so she left and decided to walk back to the hotel instead of take a cab, while the rest remained, some carrying on with dinner as though nothing had happened and others unable to eat, remorseful at the unfortunate turn of events.

--- ------- -- ----- --
- --- ---- ---- -- -----.

Click here for April 04's solution

04/03/2017

History/Sports

Clue

A description of how a Gnostic woman who composes songs for her sometimes disapproved of, unlawful sect often implores Pete Maravich not to slurp his soup.

"------," ------- ------- -------
---------- - ---, "---."

Click here for April 03's solution

03/31/2017

Food/Entertainment

Clue

A woman in The Hamptons, finding that she is missing a common sweet extract she needs for the cookies she is baking, panics and asks her husband Von to get some from their next door neighbor, the "Barefoot Contessa."

-- -------! ---- ---, ---!

Click here for March 31's solution

03/30/2017

World Geo/ Education

Clue

It seems that there was quite a buzz around a high school in New Rochelle, New York, as a rumor spread that the upcoming Advance Placement exam would be held near a famous beach in Rio, [ which was quite exciting, of course], but in an " I wouldn't lie to you" statement, the counselor confirms to the students that the rumor is wrong and that the exam will be at the local college instead.

----, -- -- ----, -- "-- -------."

Click here for March 30's solution

03/29/2017

Math/Science

Clue

A waitress tells the owners, her Mexican uncles, how colleague Nina was blown away by what she saw as the the ridiculously large 31.14159% gratuity.

-- -- --- -- ------ ---, --/---,
-- ---- ---, ----.

Click here for March 29's solution

03/28/2017

Business

Clue

A man tells his boy that he is quite overeating on takeout pizza.

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Click here for March 28's solution

03/27/2017

World Geo

Clue

Ira, coming from from Budapest right after had been made a citizen, is certain about one thing, his competition, Putin associates.

---- --- -- --- -- - ---, ------ ------.

Click here for March 27's solution

03/24/2017

Sports/Business

Clue

Words spoken on Christmas morning by his parents to a young boy who would grow up to become a defensive superstar for the 1990s era Dallas Cowboys, as he gazed upon the sea of toys he wanted, like He-Man, Thomas the Tank Engine, Hot Wheels, Rugrats, and Cabbage Patch Kids, to name a few.

---- ----, - ------ ----.

Click here for March 24's solution

03/23/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

These days you won't see this fellow on the LA --> New York flight that leaves very late at night.

--- ----- --- -- -- ---~---.

Click here for March 23's solution

03/22/2017

Entertainment/Arts/World Geo

Clue

After Captain Hook's sidekick had beaten himself up pretty badly over his poor job of investing the Captain's booty, the captain tried to cheer hm up by reminding him of his good decision to invest in the farming of large flightless Australian birds.

----, ----- ------ -- -- --- ----, -- -----.

Click here for March 22's solution

03/21/2017

World Geo

Clue

A poor, sad sack of a boy in Columbia sold this flower after he had already sold it to someone else, but it was returned.

---- ---, -----, ------ - -----.

Click here for March 21's solution

03/20/2017

World Geo

Clue

An veteran solider tells his daughter Emily of the time when, injured on the battlefield, he thought he saw his unit's Swedish born medical officer, just as if he actually had all his faculties, even though he was really totally out of it.

----- --- - --- -- -- -----, --.

Click here for March 20's solution

03/17/2017

Business

Clue

Terse note from a client to his broker, irritated that the latter had not included any real estate in the portfolio despite his having been asked to do so many times.

-- --- - -.-. ----, - ---------. ---!

Click here for March 17's solution

03/16/2017

Sports

Clue

It seems that Ohio State football coach circa 2015 was chasing Edward, who he felt had discourteously defamed him with lies, along a railroad track in a handcar. But even though an obstruction on the track caused his car to wreck, the coach got him anyway.

--------, ----- --- --- ---- ---- --.

Click here for March 16's solution

03/15/2017

USA Geo/Sports/Business
Response from a friend to Lonnie, a college basketball player in Salt Lake City, that instead of the usual, they consider some "Louisiana Fried Chicken."

--, --- -- --- -------, --- ---.

Click here for March 15's solution

03/14/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

Order from a public figure to an aide to strongarm a publisher over the sheer irritability and peevishness emanating from an enemy in the print media by suggesting that the stories may be actionable.

------ ---- -- ---. ----- ----.

Click here for March 14's solution

WORD UNIT TODAY

03/13/2017

Miscellaneous

Clue

A 60s hipster says that the fellow at the right side of the photo is exactly correct and his comments are perfectly relevant.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

Click here for March 13's solution

03/10/2017

US Geography

Clue

Stuart's mother exults to him at being so proud that her son was a college student at a branch of the University of Texas, in a city where, when visiting him, it would be easy to get in a trip to The Alamo.

-'- - ---- ----, ---, -- -!

Click here for March 10's solution

03/09/17

World Geo/Tech/Science

Clue

On a business trip to Des Moines, Lew has asked a group of local businessmen and farmers what the region's consensus outlook is for the price of crude, and they tell him that they think it will fluctuate a lot.

----, ---- ---- - ------ ---, ---.

Click here for March 9's solution

03/08/17

World Geo/Tech/Science

Clue

A variety of plum tomato grown in Marrakesh.

- ------- ----.

Click here for March 8's solution

03/07/17

World Geo/Tech/Science

Clue

A man needing to use video editing software tells a Middle Eastern friend that the bottom line is, the prospect of having to use Apple's product makes him want to puke. That it's an order of magnitude worse worse than anything else.

---, ------. - ----- -- ------. ----- ---.

Click here for March 7's solution

03/06/17

Miscellaneous)

Clue

Turmoil in the ranks of cola manufacturers.

---- --- ----.

Click here for March 6's solution

03/03/17

Language

Clue

What words like AMOEBAE, EVACUEE, and SEQUOIA have.

---- -' ------.

Click here for March 3's solution

03/02/17

Food/World Geo

Clue

This girl thought the sweet dark-red wine was from an area warm to hot and moist year-round, often with the sense of lush vegetation.

---- ---- --- -- --------.

Click here for March 2's solution

03/01/17

Food/Mythology

Clue

As they sail on in the quest for the Golden Fleece, Jason responds to crew member Alvin who had asked for rolled oats, brown sugar, nuts, dried fruit, in a bowl of milk for breakfast, telling him that have none.

--, -- ---- -- -------.

Click here for March 1's solution

02/28/17

World Geo/Languages

Clue

A Latin I student visiting Italy and the Colosseum exults at the smell of love in the air.

----, ----! ----- ----!

Click here for February 28's solution

02/27/17

Entertainment/USA Geo

Clue

When "Billy" doesn't want to go to school, this is what he tells his mother.

----, --- -, -------, --.

Click here for February 27's solution

02/24/17

Entertainment/USA Geo

Clue

As the roof of a prominent subway line in New York begins to fall, someone yells to a folksinger riding the train and singing "Lemon tree" to get out and take as many people as he can with him.

----~--! ---, -----! ----!

Click here for February 24's solution

02/23/17

Entertainment

Clue

A cab driver whose girl friend Eve has been selling methamphetamines out of his vehicle suggests that one or the other of his passengers, actor McGregor or gossip columnist Barrett, help him ditch the goods in the river early the next morning.

---, ---'- ---- -----, ---- --
----, -- ---- --- -- ----- --.

Click here for February 23's solution

02/22/17

Food

Clue

Lester, a waiter, expectorated on the teenage girl who had left a $1 gratuity when paying for the table of 6 with a bill of $150

---, --- -- - ---, ---- -- - ------.

Click here for February 22's solution

02/21/17

Food

Clue

A comment/question from a non-fan, aghast at the prospect that Sidney is going to again purchase some of this putrid stuff:

---- --- --- --- -- -- -------?!

Click here for February 21's solution

02/20/17

World History/Geo

Clue

A Egyptian man living in the capital of Turkey tells his former country's president circa 2010 that his grandmother treated him as if he were a homeless panhandler.

-------, ---- --- - --- -- ------ ---.

Click here for February 20's solution

02/18/17

Entertainment/World Geo

Clue

You probably didn't know that the librarian in "The Music Man" later went to med school and become an obstetrician. The later during the Six Day War she volunteered to fight. Instead of being nerdy and meek, she became fanatically militant and violently aggressive as she fought in the desert. This palindrome is a news report about that.

-- ------ -- - ----- -----.

Click here for February 18's solution

02/17/17

History/Language

Clue

Comment regarding a prominent American economist, that his suggestions ( hearkening back to an ancient Greek statesman and his code of laws) can can be pretty severe, harsh, even cruel, certainly not ones destined to make him the life of the party.

--------- -- -. -----. -- ----.

Click here for February 17's solution

02/16/17

World Sports/USA Geo

Clue

Allen is told that this woman, a member of the West Point softball team who played the same position as her hero, a Brooklyn Dodger stalwart catcher of the 1950s, and claimed that she played with his his same flair and style, did not, in fact. It was all a scam.

--, ---- -- ----- - ---:-- "----- ----------."

Click here for February 16's solution

02/15/17

World Geo/Arts

Clue

His Indian business advisor tries to get Mozart to invest in a hydroelectric plant near Bombay by telling him that the money will be great.

---, ------ ---, -------. ------!

Click here for February 15's solution

02/14/17

Miscellaneous

Clue

After someone asks the ship's captain if the presence on the crew of a young woman named Reba was a harbinger of changes to come in sailing crews, he responds in the negative that it was just a one time deviation from the norm.

--, - --- ---- --- -- ----------.

Click here for February 14's solution

02/13/17

Miscellaneous

Clue

It was the domestic servant/laborer who kept the killer whales for the tycoon who I scoffed at angrily, not personally, but at ANYONE who would do such a thing to such glorious animals.

----'- ---- --- - -------, ---- -- - ----- -----.

Click here for February 13's solution

02/10/17

World Geo

Clue

Sue us told by the boss at the travel magazine that he is going to put a cap on, no more than that, he cannot stand, stories on the cultural environment and vibe of this, the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia.

---, - -----, - ----, ------ -------.

Click here for February 10's solution

02/09/17

Miscellaneous

Clue

I don't think I want to be around these two women, one very angry, the other contemptuous and mocking.

-- -- ----, --- ---- --------.

Click here for February 9's solution

02/08/17

Miscellaneous

Clue

Perhaps the least popular item in Mr. Stratton's bakery.

--------'- ---- -----.

Click here for February 8's solution

02/07/17

Fod/Emtertainment

Clue

As Ed is going to eat at a restaurant run by singerAni Di Franco, he is told that he should order the absolutely delicious, decadent savory egg dish she concocted using mild, hard, yellow cheese and cooked in a vessel which has leftover traces of the aroma of a popular simmer citrus drink made with licorice, which had been made in it earlier. He says it it the best!

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02/06/17

World Languages

Clue

Question to Ahmad, keeper of the Sultan's concubines, asking him for a little heat in the morning as it is unpleasantly cold and damp.

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02/03/17

World Languages

Clue

A devout member of the Cistercian order of Christian monks asks his superior if he should not bad mouth some recent converts to the order, recent graduates of the University of Texas, who not only do not observe the vow of silence, but regale themselves late into the night like the frat boys that they were.

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02/02/17

World Languages

Clue

Prominent English lawyer Bret politely denies that he is crazy, just furiously, extremely intense.

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02/01/17

History/Geography

Clue

Headline in a New jersey newspaper when a university in South Orange was granted possession for its archives of a trove of the original handwritten papers that Muhammad produced as he was receiving the word from God.

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01/31/17

Entertainment

Clue

When his wife accused him of getting senile and forgetful, racing Hall of Fame trainer Bud, who trained Spectacular Bid to 2/3 of the Triple Crown in 1979, asked her for proof, examples of his lapses. In this palindrome she cites his recent trip to the grocery store were he was supposed to get both cantaloupes and their favorite furniture polish, but didn't, even though they were right there on the list.

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01/30/17

Entertainment

Clue

When a prominent TV chef discovered that she was supposed to make the evening meal for the cat, well, she didn't just open a can, she said she was going all out and couldn't do it without equipment, cooking vessels, etc.

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01/27/17

History

Clue

Words of disgust from a major rival to Yuri when he heard from his friend Ira that he has lost out to his competition to be the fist man in space.[Don't ask me why they are speaking English]

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01/26/17

Miscellaneous

Clue

"The Queen of Gospel," a fixture of the civil rights movement, and Diana cooked an absolutely perfect ham at the church social.

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01/25/17

Miscellaneous

Clue

It is little known but true: after his army days in Viet Nam, Lieutenant Bill Kilgore of "Apocalypse Now" fame went to work for the College Board. Many years later when they were considering a proposal for an Advanced Placement exam in the common markup language used for creating web pages, he put his foot down, and suggested that the project be blown out of the water with what he so fondly remembered smelling from his Nam days. And the sooner the better.

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01/24/17

Miscellaneous

Clue

The owner of a business which specializes in very unusual projects on behalf of clients gives one of his employees a choice of assignments for the day, take back a hydroelectric project which the owner has failed to pay for, or release a herd of does and bucks being illegally held by a spaced out drug user.

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01/23/17

USA Geo

Clue

I tell Dee that I am certainly going to seriously consider my boyfriend's offer, in a note he left me, to go hiking in the mountains located in northwestern Wyoming just south of Yellowstone National Park.

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01/20/17

History/World Geo

Clue

Billing for a major debate in the 1960s, a one on one no holds barred battle royale between Mona and the Chinese premier over his role in destabilizing Southeast Asia.

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01/19/17

World Geo

Clue

A young girl questions the role she has been given in the movie based on the Depp Water Horizon debacle, to be sure that was what was intended.

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01/18/17

World Geo

Clue

Rosemary is told that she has made a huge mistake, one for the ages, in her concoction for an episode of Chopped.

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01/17/17

World Geo

Clue

A confidante of Amin in Uganda in Uganda questions the sanity of some of his friends who have suggested that he forward on to the leader the foul, filthy reports of furious anger by Amin's staff.

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01/16/17

US History/Arts

Clue

Emily is told that the famed Washington DC socialite and "hostess with the mostest" really regretted her purchase of several painting by a French pointillist impressionist, one of whose paintings was made into a Stephen Sondheim musical.

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01/13/17

Miscellaneous

Clue

Compared or in relation to the medicinal drip into Iva's arm.

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01/12/17

Miscellaneous

Clue

Describing a military academy student so drunk that he was even unable to take a crap.

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01/11/17

USA Geography

Clue

Question by a student in Columbus, Ohio as he sat in a chair getting some ink: a Buckeye on one arm and Script Ohio on the other, wondering how it was going.

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01/10/17

World Geo

Clue

Holy cow, it's a proverb generally believed by and about the people who live on this arm of the Mediterranean between Turkey and Greece.

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01/09/17

Sports History

Clue

Edward is told that Derek, a pale, solemn, wise looking man with round glasses was once a victor in the mile run at The Millrose Games in Madison Square Garden.

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01/06/17

Business/World Geo

Clue

The name of a joint venture between a telecom giant and a Los Angeles university, located in India.

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01/05/17

Food/Entertainment

Clue

Salvador, stocky of frame and looking like he can really pack it away, son of Brian's( Roxy Music) brother, decided to have an additional hero sandwich.

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01/04/17

Government

Clue

It seems that Emily has an aging friend who likes to drop LSD. Since it has become unaffordable for someone living on a fixed income, Emily wonders if perhaps it could be considered "medicinal" and covered by the government. Patiently and tenderly the friend responds in the negative.

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01/03/17

Business/Government

Clue

I tell my Dad that Tim Cook and company have really angered the folks at the firm they hired to assist them with their obligations under a federal law that establishes minimum standards for pension plans in private industry and which provides for extensive rules on the federal income tax effects of transactions associated with employee benefit plans.

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01/02/17

History

Clue

Friends of a Roman emperor give him this signal as they take leave. meaning,...

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