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06/01/2023
USA Government/Geo
Clue
A Hawaiian haberdasher relates that [it may be a while because] his current customer, a local politician is crazy bewildered, and very senile.
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Click here for June 01's solution
05/31/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
Ana informs the authorities at West Point that a professional ball player from Houston corrupted the morals of [her son] a student there.
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Click here for May 31's solution
05/30/2023
World Geo
Clue
A man angry and sarcastic towards his former dear wife, take the opportunity to tell her, as he signs the divorce decree that he also cannot stand her new boyfriend, taking a swipe at his Southeast Asian heritage and Biblical name.
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Click here for May 30's solution
05/29/2023
Entertainment/Food and Drink
Clue
Tasked with providing entertainment during the prologue of a tennis tournament Nadal organized a march through the city featuring the spoiled children of famous hip-hop performers, an event that was universally panned.
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Click here for May 29's solution
05/26/2023
Entertainment/Food and Drink
Clue
A fellow excoriates his pal for the lame brain idea of serving a boiled immature soybean dish at a movie snack bar.
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Click here for May 26's solution
05/25/2023
USA History/Food and Drink
Clue
A Jan.6 detainee laments to his girlfriend that he never intended to be a part of the breach or was a part of the cabal planning it, but that he just got swept up in the action with vapid promises of extra hoppy beer if he went along.
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Click here for May 25's solution
05/24/2023
Business
Clue
Lyft CEO asks his secretary to snottily decline an old school overture from a competitor to do a deal together.
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Click here for May 24's solution
05/23/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
I couldn't decide on whether the situation called for me to be disgusted or to double over in laughter.
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Click here for May 23's solution
05/22/2023
History/Geography
Clue
Base Russian leader on the eve of the Ukraine invasion, indicating that he needed to dubiously escalate tensions to the point of actual armed conflict.
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Click here for May 22's solution
05/19/2023
History
Clue
A few World War II buffs made sure that we were treated to [film of] massed crowds celebrating the end of the war in Europe.
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Click here for May 19's solution
05/18/2023
World Geo
Clue
Motto of a Shite B&B.
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Click here for May 18's solution
05/17/2023
Business
Clue
A brokerage firm head denies that he intervenes when one of his traders engages in wild back and forth trading on options to sell a particular stock.
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Click here for May 17's solution
05/16/2023
World Geo
Clue
You're telling me, my boys, that your plaintive cry toward the government in Rome, actually while you were there, was not a distress call?
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Click here for May 16's solution
05/15/2023
Fod and Drink
Clue
THERE ARE NO WORDS: a cry of sorrow about the greens and cured pork sausage first course a customer has been given.
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Click here for May 15's solution
05/12/2023
Fod and Drink USA Geo
Clue
A business franchising exciting rides on a cable down from a high perch in Phoenix, Tucson, Flagstaff, etc. serves very substandard Domino's knockoffs at its snack bar.
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Click here for May 12-'s solution
05/11/2023
Business/Entertainment
Clue
Suggestion to a young woman the she dress up for Halloween as a sexy, alluring Love-a-Lot one of these.
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Click here for May 11-'s solution
05/10/2023
USA Geo
Clue
[Already on edge after a gun scare,] the passengers on a New York City subway were again alarmed when rodents escaped from some sorority girls [ who were using them for a psychology experiment.]
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Click here for May 10-'s solution
05/09/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
Sailboat manufacturer Salvador, whose latest model boats' waste systems were faulty and leaching out into the water, angrily orders that the situation be fixed.
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Click here for May 09's solution
05/08/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
Warning by a frat head to his brothers to be wary of using sleeping pills being hawked by a fierce rival Kappa Alpha , as it is a scam.
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Click here for May 08's solution
05/05/2023
Business
Clue
An advertising slogan for a popular brand of Mattress, indicating not only that it was restful, but ultra peaceful as well.
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Click here for May 05's solution
05/04/2023
Food/World Geo
Clue
The CEO of a Lima beverage company expresses anger at the fact that the drink they are known for, a sweetened riff on "the astronaut's drink," has yet to be bottled.
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Click here for May 04's solution
05/03/2023
History
Clue
A Russian in the post WW I years ventures his opinion to an English journalist that the country's leader is a foolish failure.
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Click here for May 03's solution
05/02/2023
World Geo
Clue
Take heed: I will continue to wager forever that the Louisiana city with the most to offer, the elephant in the room, will get the project.
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Click here for May 02's solution
05/01/2023
World Geo
Clue
Depravity at CitiField: Mets mascot is consumed by sinister thoughts.
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Click here for May 01's solution
04/28/2023
World Geo
Clue
Is that right or not? Is it sorry you are expressing there at having visited Italy?
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Click here for April 28's solution
04/27/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
Suggestion to photoshop an image which involved a wardrobe malfunction.
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Click here for April 27's solution
04/26/2023
Arts/Entertaiment
Clue
Response to a man named after a Genesis character about what the big stir is about, namely the absolute obsession of an A. A. Milne character for honey.
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Click here for April 26's solution
04/25/2023
World Geo
Clue
When a grad student arrives at 10:00 AM to volunteer at the synagogue, the rabbi informs him that the cleaning crew he was part of, organized by Eve among her graduate assistant bud, had already been there several hours earlier.
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Click here for April 25's solution
04/24/2023
Government
Clue
Magistrate Roger, embarrassed at having made a mistake in this area before, will soon say yes to a writ preventing so-called psychics from speaking out on issues in the trial of one of their own.
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Click here for April 24's solution
04/21/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
A cop tells his partner to break arrest the fellow pretending to be a celebrity and selling his autograph, as he is sure it is a con job.
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Click here for April 21's solution
04/20/2023
Business/Science
Clue
The CEO of a firm investing in metals futures is irritated that broker Laci, given her current mindset, has very unorthodox views on the prospects for a silvery metal, atomic #50.
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Click here for April 20's solution
04/19/2023
USA Geo
Clue
A West Point student government leader got the student government to pass a resolution requiring every student to know the location of every bathroom at the academy.
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Click here for April 19's solution
04/18/2023
USA Geo/Sports
Clue
A middle distance runner going to college in Troy, New York curtly responds to a fellow track participant at a meet who had wanted to know what event he was doing next and where he was from, indicating that next up were his heats.
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Click here for April 18's solution
04/17/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
Comment from a young woman to her mother who had bought her clothes too large for her small, under 5' 4" frame.
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Click here for April 17's solution
04/14/2023
World Geo
Clue
Peruvian financial mogul who made his money in ancient Roman dress and in a chain low key French restaurants over which he reigned with a heavy hand, frightening the employees responds to an accusation that his businesses in the capital will fail for lack of fuel, pointing out that they are importing it from Spain and Portugal.
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Click here for April 14's solution
04/13/2023
Arts/Entertainment
Clue
Now we know why Vladimir and Estragon were kept waiting: their anticipated visitor was getting advice on how to get high energy club dancers by going to a small west African French Republic for training.
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Click here for April 13's solution
04/12/2023
Food/Government
Clue
A South Texas fellow urges a visiting Congressman to toss a spicy cheese filled hot pepper appetizer into his mouth and chow down.
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Click here for April 12's solution
04/11/2023
Arts
Clue
I deny to an official that I have blown up a [lesser known] highly rated flower painting, a deviation from his normal Impressionist lilies.
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Click here for April 11's solution
04/10/2023
Arts/Entertainment
Clue
Positive response by winnie the Pooh, trying to act cool, when asked by his friend, " Understand what I said?"
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Click here for April 10's solution
04/07/2023
Business/Food&Drink
Clue
Worried about meeting production goals expected of its most recently hired workers, a Japanese watch maker decides to make them more comfortable by bringing in a variety of cakes, pies, cookies, etc., to make them feel better.
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Click here for April 07's solution
04/06/2023
Entertainment
Clue
Laci is informed that the [long lost] CD whose name indicates it contains groundbreaking music with a "noir" flavor from jazz piano royalty.
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Click here for April 06's solution
04/05/2023
History/Geo/Tech
Clue
An internet cultural item invoking similarity to a Middle East conflict, as tensions flare in Croatia.
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Click here for April 05's solution
04/04/2023
History/Geo
Clue
When a prominent Boston silversmith order coffee for the shop from the eastern part of a California wine region, [shop manager] Ava from Tokyo countermands the order.
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Click here for April 04's solution
04/03/2023
Entertainment
Clue
Comment from Mr. Spock who was in charge of a science lab, noting that colleague Lana saw him / it as never give up, and suffused with logical reasoning despite the baudy, risque atmosphere it was famous for.
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Click here for April 03's solution
03/31/2023
Entertainment
Clue
Alerted that I would see it and be disgusted, I suppose what I just witnessed was an indication that a NY radio celebrity was acting in the role of an uncouth young woman.
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Click here for March 31's solution
03/30/2023
Entertainment
Clue
When Rosalind comes into the saloon, she [bats her eyes and] asks for a freebie from the masked man wearing a cape who is doing temporary duty as a bartender.
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Click here for March 30's solution
03/29/2023
USA Geo
Clue
Ada, an EMT in the New York subway calls in for help, identifying herself and angrily reporting a body not moving which she suspects to be the murder of a woman whose children are present.
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Click here for March 29's solution
03/28/2023
Arts
Clue
I describe my latest novel, long, with tales of heroism, but also quite funny.
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Click here for March 28's solution
03/27/2023
Entertainment
Clue
Occasionally one can find Jewish actor of "Fiddler" fame vacationing on a tiny out of the way island.
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Click here for March 27's solution
03/24/2023
Science/World Geo
Clue
Comment when a Jamaican stumbles on a farm growing human body parts.
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Click here for March 24's solution
03/23/2023
Food
Clue
One guy to another in disgust at a soybean based snack made at the movie theater: a real failure.
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Click here for March 23's solution
03/22/2023
Tech
Clue
Christopher is implored not to spend too much time on a Chinese video app.
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Click here for March 22's solution
03/21/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
One teenager's comment to another that the folks whose house they had just toilet papered took a forgiving, kids will be kids, no biggie, attitude toward the whole thing.
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Click here for March 21's solution
03/20/2023
History
Clue
Quote in the autobiography of a pirate whose, wounded and unable to access medicine, barely audibly says that what's best for him is his favorite booze to ease the pain.
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Click here for March 20's solution
03/17/2023
History
Clue
Regarding Russia's leader? Well, the general sense I'm getting is that he wants to ratchet up the pressure.
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Click here for March 17's solution
03/16/2023
Entertainment
Clue
A recording studio boss laments to his assistant that the guy causing all the trouble is a former hip-hop hotshot they had tried to work with had to let go , who is now hanging around all the time trying to leech off of them.
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Click here for March 16's solution
03/15/2023
Science/USA Geo
Clue
A branch manager at an investment firm is angered when he discovers that as of late, broker Kyle has been discussing taking out his angered frustrations over his poor investment recommendations by discussing chancy retirement accounts invested only in tin with his clients.
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Click here for March 15's solution
03/14/2023
Science/USA Geo
Clue
It was like being hooked on drugs, as the city fathers in Central Florida in the late 1940s could not tear themselves away from their new, huge computer, the first programmable, electronic all purpose machine developed at The University of Pennsylvania.
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Click here for March 14's solution
03/13/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
A worried caterer is concerned that the vessel to hold the pies, cake, custards, etc. will not support the weight.
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Click here for March 13's solution
03/10/2023
World Geo
Clue
An ethnic group of the Central plateau in Mali was not fooled when an interloper dressed using dark eye make-up and pale skin colouring, dark clothes, and bulky metallic jewellery, and wearing classical Roman dress which he purchased in Dublin, pretended he was a deity.
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Click here for March 10's solution
03/09/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
Wonderng from time immemorial: does it disgust me or lay me low with laughter?
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Click here for March 09's solution
03/08/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
Lament from a cop when he realizes that the guy he has arrested is Alvin the hot shot quarterback at the local private boys school [and that he will now likely be ineligible to play, ruining the teams chances.]
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Click here for March 08's solution
03/07/2023
Geography
Clue
in a snarky comment one of the poor folks in a small hamlet near Laredo complains to Mayor Dias about how the wild and crazy lumberjacks just across the river lived like a king.
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Click here for March 07's solution
03/06/2023
Busimess/Hostory/Food & Drink
Clue
A restaurateur is aghast at the note he was sent by the Speaker of the House in the early 1980s, agreeing with those who do not want him to be serving venison at a meeting with TexasInstruments lobbyists.
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Click here for March 06's solution
03/03/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
Cursing, I rue to my friend Timothy that I made a mistake when, angered even more, I absolutely exploded.
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Click here for March 03's solution
03/02/2023
Science/Business
Clue
Pamela's response to her mother who had asked how her new job installing custom blinds and shades was going, indicating that she was fully trained as was now an expert with her own pet nickname around the store.
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Click here for March 02's solution
03/01/2023
Science/World History&Geo
Clue
I tell Uganda's leader that ratings for our PSA to educate the people about how to calculate the circumference of a circle fell off
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Click here for March 01's solution
02/28/2023
Sports
Clue
A golfer wonders to his girlfriend who is caddying whether he might finally defeat his long time rival in a match play event, assuming a short putt is conceded on the final hole.
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Click here for February 28's solution
02/27/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
Comment from a woman during a round of date comparison, contending she definitely was the winner since Otto had been very sexy and came with plenty of Beefeater's.
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Click here for February 27's solution
02/24/2023
Entertainment
Clue
When Loretta Lynn's husband is coaxed by a friend to join him in a dubious caper, she tries to persuade him to turn the offer down.
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Click here for February 24's solution
02/23/2023
Science/World Geo
Clue
An epic novel by a former US tennis star about idiotic Nan and her flirtations with Mideast terrorists.
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Click here for February 23's solution
02/22/2023
Science/World Geo
Clue
A cry of interest at a debate between 2 apocalyptic scenarios, one from Viet Nam , the other from the bible.
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Click here for February 22's solution
02/21/2023
Science/World Geo
Clue
As an afterthought in an note to his friend and personal Physician Andrew, Salvador want to be sure that arrangements have been made to sequence his genome.
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Click here for February 21's solution
02/20/2023
Science/World Geo
Clue
I inform a colleague about my upcoming trip, to see a very small, almost impossible to find, parasitic louse in Venezuela.
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Click here for February 20's solution
02/17/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
I tell a friend that, as the property line dispute with my neighbor has again flared up, I see that I didn't handle things very well.
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Click here for February 17's solution
02/16/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
A woman having a party is urged to prevent several people from attending, and last but not least, Eli, an alien known for sexual groping.
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Click here for February 16's solution
02/15/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
Baby sitting a snarky unpredictable temperamental child in the family room sent already crazed Dani over the edge.
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Click here for February 15's solution
02/14/2023
Sports/USA Geo
Clue
Skeptical headline in The Globe when the Red Sox inked an All-Armed Services player.
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Click here for February 14's solution
02/13/2023
Food and Drink
Clue
I nastily trash talked the lack of success of my opponent in the competition involving golden-colored beers with a well attenuated body and noble hop bitterness.
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Click here for February 13's solution
02/10/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
When the drinking fountain bowl was made from a chamber vessel that had originally been used for urination, no one wanted to drink from it.
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Click here for February 10's solution
02/09/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
Bottom line in a report about misuse of vehicles at West Point. A female Hispanicprof regularly diverted their use to joy rides for a student's dog.
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Click here for February 09's solution
02/08/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
So did that guy hit his head on the doorknob when he fell, or what?
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Click here for February 08's solution
02/07/2023
Entertainment/USA Geo
Clue
Brusque editorial response from the film critic for the University of Alabama student newspaper after it had received many letters complaining about his review of the Cate Blanchett movie featuring her as a symphony director. He isn't budging.
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Click here for February 07's solution
02/06/2023
Entertainment
Clue
As they are exploring an alien planet, a member of the Star Trek landing party warns Mr. Spock that the commotion they hear is the danger of being caught by the oncoming police.
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Click here for February 06's solution
02/03/2023
USA Geo
Clue
Title of a novel featuring a lone nurse in Nevada bucking the establishment.
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Click here for February 03's solution
02/02/2023
Food and Drink
Clue
Catherine's date suggests that she remain seated, as he will refill her drink, double checking that she wanted a French brandy.
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Click here for February 02's solution
02/01/2023
Entertainment/Sports
Clue
I note that actor Joe( "My Cousin Vinny") makes fun of the swords I got in an eBay auction by gesturing as if holding one.
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Click here for February 01's solution
01/31/2023
Arts/Business
Clue
A man who is being forced out of the country relates sorrowfully that he saw someone else it was happening to, a nun who has been tied up so that she can't walk.
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Click here for January 31's solution
01/30/2023
Arts/Business
Clue
I tell a friend that the woman who has inherited a French pastry business sericing the space agency is someone I have named as an ET.
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Click here for January 30's solution
01/27/2023
Arts/Business
Clue
A student comments to his teacher that the violin melody they hear coming up as they shop in a prominent clothing store is a work by an Italian master.
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Click here for January 27's solution
01/26/2023
Food
Clue
A chef calls a halt to food preparation in his kitchen when he notes that Alvin, his regular guy for preparing the cabbage based side dish, has switched jobs with Ava.
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Click here for January 26's solution
01/25/2023
USA Geography
Clue
Describing a grotesque, attention grabbing strike against my quiet grandmother by the powers that be in Oklahoma City.
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Click here for January 25's solution
01/24/2023
Geography/Food
Clue
As if his prayers had been answered, a man exults at a barb-q joint run out of a synagogue at the edge of a famed Rio beach.
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Click here for January 24's solution
01/23/2023
Geography
Clue
Explaining to his buddy why he was no longer with the Mexican girl who had been his blind date while on vacation in Hawaii, a guy from Rome explains that his ethnicity and obesity was a turnoff to her.
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Click here for January 23's solution
01/20/2023
Geography
Clue
A taxi driver in Dublin alerts his fare who he suspects to be on the way to pulling a prank, that they are almost there and that he should get some local spirits ready to consume.
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Click here for January 20's solution
01/19/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
A soldier tells his platoon leader that he is sure with every fiber of his being that he is the right one to go ahead and explore for chinks in enemy defenses.
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Click here for January 19's solution
01/18/2023
Geography/Government
Clue
A NASA chief of the International Space Station crews disagrees with its most senior member, Stuart, telling him that the trainees form the Middle east must get jobs elsewhere in the organization.
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Click here for January 18's solution
01/17/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
A dignified, courtly tenant on the lord's manor uses his ink skills on a young girl.
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Click here for January 17's solution
01/16/2023
Geography/History
Clue
My unwell sister, banished a la Napoleon, barely survives working in her yard to plant flowers in new containers upon request, anything to keep her going.
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Click here for January 16's solution
01/13/2023
Arts/Food
Clue
Researching before appearing before the Supreme Court, a junior partner tells the lead attorney that Justice Iris studied in Austin, Texas for her BA and for 12 weeks at Fort Benning to earn her officer stripes.
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Click here for January 13's solution
01/12/2023
Arts/Food
Clue
Advice to an Irishman to stay away from Ford's Econoline Vans for sale there and to use ride sharing instead.
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Click here for January 12's solution
01/11/2023
Arts/Food
Clue
A hipster queries his ink parlor employees, surprised that no one in the shop is capables of a scam involving their pretending to be able to draw shells, vermicelli, etc.
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Click here for January 11's solution
01/10/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
Angry comment from a navy MP that not one of the suspects they had apprehended in the string of lighted sign vandalism, all easily captured as they fled, unable to ride bicycles very well, was a low ranking commissioned officer from the nearby base.
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Click here for January 10's solution
01/09/2023
History/Science
Clue
When a client discovers that his life savings has been invested by Ponzi practicing Bernie into futures on a malleable, silvery metallic element that occurs in igneous rocks, he reacts like this:
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Click here for January 09's solution
01/06/2023
History
Clue
Eleanor is told that Sheriff Masterson, finding something to do while awaiting a change of stagecoach at an aptly named terminal reflecting its owner's name and providing poker games, took a seat to play, very well equipped to take the other guys' money.
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Click here for January 06's solution
01/05/2023
Science/World Geo
Clue
A young man tells the Mideast ruler that his dad had seen through the request to factor 151 as the trick question it was.
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Click here for January 05's solution
01/04/2023
Food/USA Geo
Clue
Should I go ahead and take the caviar they had already asked for over to the tech university in Troy, NY even though they had let us know that they hated the previous batch?
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Click here for January 04's solution
01/03/2023
Miscellaneous
Clue
A warning to the techies to stop what they are doing as there is a huge cybersecurity leak.
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Click here for January 03's solution
01/02/2023
Entertainment/Sports
Clue
A boxing champ character in an American comic strip is asked whether it is appropriate for him to be smoking.
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Click here for January 02's solution
12/30/2022
USA History/Science/Entertainment
Clue
As I leafed through the book, did I just see a lot of 3-D images of optical illusions, essential for my understanding of the culture of the largest island within Indonesia?
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Click here for December 30's solution
12/29/2022
USA History/Science/Entertainment
Clue
President Reagan's first Treasury Secretary is told that in August or so a telepathic Star Trek TNG humanoid, sitting in his car, not moving at an intersection, sees a brightly colored fruit-eating bird atop the signage.
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Click here for December 29's solution
12/28/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Comment to a rocket pioneer who had complained when the boss banned his canine form the premises even though he was "super cool," wherein the boss says it was really because he was foaming at the mouth.
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Click here for December 28's solution
12/27/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
A camp counselor delivers his bottom line: horrified at the thought of such a young boy taking the watercraft out all by himself, and banning it.
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Click here for December 27's solution
12/26/2022
USA Geo
Clue
A sense of doom overshadowing an event at a SOuthern California animal park at an attempt to be very impressive, but turned out to be dated a rather pathetic.
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Click here for December 26's solution
12/23/2022
Sports
Clue
Pit boss at Indianapolis speculates on the fact that his driver refused to come in for fuel and a tire change.
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Click here for December 23's solution
12/22/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Drunk on my ass, I was speculating to the personnel director about whether Derek was a candidate for the job.
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Click here for December 22's solution
12/21/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
[Not having been able to find suitable replacements], unfortunately we had to re-up the credentials of those dorks.
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Click here for December 21's solution
12/20/2022
USA History/Sports/Entertainment
Clue
Advice from father to son about who to trust( his grandmother, famed Kenyan distance racer Henry, and President Reagan) and who to try to irritate ( bad bad guy Brown of song.)
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Click here for December 20's solution
12/19/2022
USA Geo/Food
Clue
My comment when hearing that I have qualified for a cooking contest in Hawaii where I will change the recipe of my stuffed pasta to make the accompanying sauce spicier.
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Click here for December 19's solution
12/16/2022
World Geo
Clue
When she arrives in Dublin Vera is warned that is against the law there to daydream about sex.
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Click here for December 16's solution
12/15/2022
USA Miscellaneous
Clue
I tell my girlfriend that when I and, surprisingly, my buddy Greg went out in our primitive watercraft, just the two of us and our beer, it was my belief that it was a serene experience regardless of what brand we had.
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Click here for December 15's solution
12/14/2022
USA Miscellaneous
Clue
The dispute between the owners over inventory, is that what is what is causing the brouhaha at the bait shop?
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Click here for December 14's solution
12/13/2022
USA Government
Clue
What is the best indication of the government agency backing off on our theory of climate change? Theri more frequent canceling of wine samplings to show the effect climate has on that industry which I have begun to see.
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Click here for December 13's solution
12/12/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
The large cask holding the after dinner sweets( heavy!) is not well enough reinforced.
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Click here for December 12's solution
12/09/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
If we are going to explore the narrow cramped chasm, we should not bring our trained does and bucks as they fart too much. Amirite?
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Click here for December 09's solution
12/08/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
This fellow, unable to find his way among the goings on on the collar war, is a simple-minded soldier.
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Click here for December 08's solution
12/07/2022
Entertainment
Clue
What media mogul Griffin,early in his career said as he attempted to strongarm a standoffish competing record label to do a deal with his own, Panda Records.
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Click here for December 07's solution
12/06/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Cop Salvador relates how he had unfortunately irritated a perp by identifying him as an angry young woman needing help.
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Click here for December 06's solution
12/05/2022
Food
Clue
The forecast as of early morning is for production of trail mix to be at its highest level yet of inactivity.
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Click here for December 05's solution
12/02/2022
History/Food
Clue
When Patricia learns that her friend. Mrs. Peron is not feeling well, she says she has just the remedy, her signature Italian food dish.
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Click here for December 02's solution
12/01/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
A defense lawyer explains to the District Attorney why there was a steady stream into the courtroom from Uber Eats all due to his eager, animated client, hated #1 in his class at West Point whom he has repeatedly warned.
--, -- -------, -------- --- ----- - ---'- -------- ---.
Click here for December 01's solution
11/30/2022
Arts
Clue
Instruction to continue a whaler crewman's drastic punishment for consorting with a Viet Namese prostitute who was hated by the captain and who wanted to deprive her of business.
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Click here for November 30's solution
11/29/2022
USA Geo/Food
Clue
The guys involved in a scam involving oval shaped tomatoes in a Central Florida city have no ethical sense whatsoever, and it's not over, very much present tense.
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Click here for November 29's solution
11/28/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Revolt against the king when he levies a dastardly duty of .3 cents per pound on beer imports.
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Click here for November 28's solution
11/25/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Deleted story from Genesis, wherein one of the residents angrily complains to God about how his sandwich establishment is overrun by rats, angering his customers and so how can this "heavenly garden" be so described.
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Click here for November 25's solution
11/24/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
A precinct captain who can't get basic supplies for his unit reveals to his wife Edna that it's crazy, but Internal Affairs has been granted a bevy of perks,like a new car, a licorice liqueur flavored egg creation, citrus drinks, a Roman costume, new Apple computer products and semi-soft Dutch cheese.
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Click here for November 24's solution
11/23/2022
USA History
Clue
Donald Trump's angry outburst to his first defense secretary for getting him into a landfill business that has a lousy balance sheet.
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Click here for November 23's solution
11/22/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
I really am collecting back taxes on a colony of clothing optional poets.
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Click here for November 22's solution
11/21/2022
EU Geography
Clue
An American vacation in Europe with his congressman Tells him how embarrassed he was for skiing so badly in the mountains of Switzerland but hopes to make it up by water skiing better on a river in Germany.
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Click here for November 21's solution
11/18/2022
Arts
Clue
In a line of dialogue from a play based on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the captain is overwhelmed when he ges financial advice form several female estate planning experts and realizes that he must start putting away a lot more if he is to retire comfortably.
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Click here for November 18's solution
11/17/2022
World Geo
Clue
The proprietor of an inn in the mountains of Switzerland lets a customer know that the first thing on the agenda is a big game hunt nearby, and that it will be done in record time.
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Click here for November 17's solution
11/16/2022
History
Clue
An aide to a Ugandan strongman is told to procure a wooden idol for the leader to pray to.
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Click here for November 16's solution
11/15/2022
Food&Drink
Clue
The head of the manor angrily excoriates his cook / indentured servant about making the gumbo too slimy with overuse of these pods, indicating that he will have to set some boundaries regarding its use.
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Click here for November 15's solution
11/14/2022
World Geo
Clue
The presence of a man from Sicily who lives at the base of the volcano and is known to be a cruel tyrant is enough to cause "Ed" not to even want to begin to play poker opposite him.
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Click here for November 14's solution
11/11/2022
Business/Tech
Clue
A hipster dietician makes a recommendation about what to have for breakfast.
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Click here for November 11's solution
11/10/2022
Business/Tech
Clue
Teenager Alexander, friendly, pleasant and outgoing, relates his nickname at the tech company he works for, big in cyber security, cloud and distributed computing.
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Click here for November 10's solution
11/09/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Rita leaves a note for her friend Ava, saying that she cannot walk in the parade because of a ligament tear in the knee.
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Click here for November 9's solution
11/08/2022
World Geo
Clue
I would like to point out that a titled British woman angrily stated that a prominent British public school is in deep trouble.
"---- --------," - ----, ---, -------, -'- ----.
Click here for November 8's solution
11/07/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
A marketing rep at a Japanese motorcycle company is told that their proposed advertising in the 5/1 issue was rejected because it was too risqué.
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Click here for November 7's solution
11/04/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
As far as bucks and does go, Evelyn, this guy is really an expert, knowing everything about raising them.
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Click here for November 4's solution
11/03/2022
Geography
Clue
So the sisters have organized in Viet Nam. Well, well.
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Click here for November 03's solution
11/02/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Hard headed Robert is not returning my phone calls, however this action points me toward taking action.
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Click here for November 02's solution
11/01/2022
Tech
Clue
Describing the situation when non-hearing Ilsa's digital phone assistant began answering her question in a way very familiar to her, and how eager and excited it made her when she saw it.
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Click here for November 01's solution
10/31/2022
World geo
Clue
A Muslim whose name translates at "chosen one" is quuestioned on his choice of girlfriend, am obese woman, Sumner, who is freaked out at the sweets buffet: can she really be alluring?
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Click here for October 31 solution
10/28/2022
Food and Drink/Geo
Clue
The Jamaican driver for the local beer distributor in Norway's capital tells a proprietor that he has not brought any of the Canadian beer he has asked for because it remains unpopular there.
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Click here for October 28 solution
10/27/2022
Food and Drink
Clue
What's in the cooking vessel, mister? It is an egg. met, vegetable concoction, citrus infused that I see in the process of being made.
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Click here for October 27 solution
10/26/2022
Food and Drink
Clue
A person tells their friend Russell that seeing as the wines wines created predominantly from pinot noir grapes pretty much guaranteed that they would sneak small sips whenever possible.
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Click here for October 26 solution
10/25/2022
Geo
Clue
A Mideast bureaucrat who has a relationship with Mabel, a foxy woman he met going to school in Tuscaloosa, opines to the country's ruler that her having been caught only partially clothed is not really against the law.
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Click here for October 25 solution
10/24/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Moniker for a street in town where one can troll up and down looking for these flowers or a quickie in the back seat or a smokable free base form of cocaine.
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Click here for October 24 solution
10/21/2022
USA Geo
Clue
A spokesman for the family tells how they avoided sitting on the bench with a very short, mad, pale nature worshipping sailor who was in awe of the church they were in in West Texas.
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Click here for October 21 solution
10/20/2022
History/Geo
Clue
An Irish woman exclaims to her girlfriend Eleanor about the scandal that erupted in the 1890s when it became known that The Pope saw, her, an old girlfriend of his, bare chested.
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Click here for October 20 solution
10/19/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Comment asking for agreeemnt on the elaborate intricate and embellished bronzing effort of a woman who had been to the beach, speculating on the exact color she achieved.
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Click here for October 19 solution
10/18/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
A boss excoriates his all male office on a flower decoration choice they thought he would like, indicating that they were a big no-no.
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Click here for October 18 solution
10/17/2022
USA Geo/Business
Clue
Noting that the dinner plans to cook at home before going to see a play in NewYork had been hasty and not well thought out, one of the guests suggest to another, Sidney, that they lobby for going out to eat in a popular place right in the theatre district.
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Click here for October 17 solution
10/14/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
I politely suggest, in a friendly wager to my pal that one night 9 rodents discovered one of these growing in a dumpster.
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Click here for October 14 solution
10/13/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
See Solution.
Click here for October 13 solution
10/12/2022
Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
A Peruvian man exclaims in disbelief to his girlfriend, Patricia, about the rumor that Lin-Mamuel Miranda is bringing his hit show to their capital.
---, --! --- ---- "--------" -- ---!?!!
Click here for October 12 solution
10/11/2022
Business
Clue
A group of nature worshippers holding a meet and greet in a prominent mall clothing store apologies for the food it had catered from a well known seafood chain, as it contained storinger pathogens that caused food poisoning.
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Click here for October 11 solution
10/10/2022
USA Geo
Clue
Normally very quiet, Tana spoke up and outlawed sexual activity in the tents set upa t a New York State prison to celebrate Native Americans Day.
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Click here for October 10 solution
10/07/2022
Business
Clue
A sales manager for a prominent kitchen storage products company assesses the suitability of a prospective salesman who is crude, has body odor, and is, unfortunately, just the bottom of the barrel of the recruiting class: NOT FOR THEM.
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Click here for October 07 solution
10/06/2022
World GeoGepgraphy
Clue
With flair and panache, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher worshipped a man stricken very ill with chills, sweating and fevers after a mosquito bite, and who is named after a son of Ruth in the Bible.
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Click here for October 06 solution
10/05/2022
Sports
Clue
A New York baseball player, a woodworking buff who had had a stay in the hospital, asks on of the nurses to sketch for him the instrument he noticed being carried by one of the doctors who had just performed an amputation.
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Click here for October 05 solution
10/04/2022
History/Gepgraphy
Clue
One Spanish government official tells another that re the plan to annex a Mediterranean island where Napoleon was banished, even though most people think it is not a worthwhile venture at all, he is pretty sure it can be done.
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Click here for October 04 solution
1003/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
I tell my friend Lonnie that, having nothing to do, one morning I went for a walk on the grounds of a medieval fortress where I really had this happy spiritual feeling com over me.
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Click here for October 03 solution
09/30/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
A restaurant owner's phone assistant responds in the negative, rudely, when asked for the umpteenth time whether the salmon based caviar he wanted had been ordered again.
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Click here for September 30 solution
09/29/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
I tell my girlfriend that a married Muslim woman I know, who runs a brothel and is very pretentious about her art, has taken the alley cats I was taking care of.
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Click here for September 29 solution
09/28/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Clue: (Category = Miscellaneous) (1) Aging oilfield equipment (2) Aging Bishop of Rome doing cocaine.
(1) ------ ---------. (2) ------ ---- -----.
Click here for September 28 solution
09/27/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Evelyn appears at the house of Edward and introduces herself as the hairdresser Ned had hired to do the long locks of his strong-willed daughter.
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Click here for September 27 solution
09/26/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
It is regarding some now unfashionable religious painting that a Nevada dork, pretending he is a dealer, is sniffing around the museum about, that idiot.
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Click here for September 26 solution
09/23/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Line of dialogue in a play wherein a woman who is running a criminal scheme and the FBI's forensic accounting team arrives to investigate the records. She tells her mother the receptionist to tell them she has gone and her assistant Gregory to get rid of the evidence, as she curses to herself for getting in so deep.
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Click here for September 23 solution
09/22/2022
USA Geo
Clue
The commanding officer at West Point comments on a student he has had to discipline, but who he knows has a great family heritage, is full of energy and enthusiasm, is smart and in whom he feels he sees all the qualities he is looking for.
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Click here for September 22 solution
09/21/2022
History/Geo
Clue
A UN diplomat raises his voice talking to his sister about The United States' ambassador Vera's insistence on voting again about a successful incursion into a low lying area by Islamic forces of Iraq and Syria.
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Click here for September 21 solution
09/20/2022
USA Geo
Clue
I tell my colleague Salvador at our Madison Ave firm one final thing, that the print ads for a campaign to attract East Coast residents to visit a prominent city in SE Washington about halfway between Portland and Seattle, were mainly running in a Long Island newspaper.
----, -- -- --- -- ---- -- ----- ----- ---- -- ------- ----, ---.
Click here for September20solution
09/19/2022
Food&Drink
Clue
A huge fan of certain popular New york City hot dog stands is very upset at learning that one had been blasted apart by a young woman of a mafiosos family who had just had her coming out party.
----! ------'- ------, --, -- - --- ------- ------!
Click here for September 19's solution
09/16/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Comment from a gun range owner to his sweetheart Evelyn, who has come to shoot, wondering if she wanted to use what she usually shoots or would like to try a couple of other varieties of handgun.
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Click here for September 16's solution
09/15/2022
Food and Drink
Clue
I see the awful food on my regimen, a hamburger containing aromatic wild seeds related to licorice.
---- - ---- ----, -----, ---, -- - ------ - ---- --.
Click here for September 15's solution
09/14/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Words from the back seat upon seeing a cannabis dispensary.
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Click here for September 14's solution
09/13/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Experiencing the serenity of the extremely bright lunar night, a normal regular occurrence, and then making fun of a companion's continued insistence that it must be due to aliens.
--, -- ---- -- -----, ----. -- ----...--, ----- ----? --!
Click here for September 13's solution
09/12/2022
Food&Drink/USA Government
Clue
A man tries to convince his friend to vote against his incumbent Florida senator because he was cavalier and uncaring about damage that the senator's policies had done to the state's industrial operations of a traditional Polynesian food made from taro.
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Click here for September 12's solution
09/09/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
A crossword solver laments his inability to finish because he could not suss out the answer to a clues which referred to netting to catch a whale.
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Click here for September 09's solution
09/08/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
A young Chinese lad who claimed that the horse he bet on won by a large margin is corrected: it was just the opposite.
--, -- -----? -, ---, -- - ----, --, -- ---!
Click here for September 08's solution
09/07/2022
Arts
Clue
A policeman describes his discovery that the fellow he pulled over, named after a Genesis character and nothing more than just a weed user who lives for pleasure, had now been made out to be some crazed guy in a poem.
----, - ---- ------- - ---- --- -- ---, ---- -- --- ----, ------.
Click here for September 07's solution
09/06/2022
Food&Drink/World Geo
Clue
It is suggested to two cops that everyone get together and make a molasses based liquor popular with Japanese warriors with ingredients obtained from China, Russia, India, etc., just as had been suggested by Stella who had just been arrested.
----, --, ---'- ---- - -------'- --- ---- ---, -- - ---- ------ ----.
Click here for September 06's solution
09/05/2022
Food/Languages
Clue
This is how at a woman of Hispanic descent relates when she made her exit after she notes that the non-citrus, non-cantaloupe items on the sweets table at her uncle's party look limp and are all past their sell by date.
--, -, ---- ----, - --- ---'- -------- --
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Click here for September 05's solution
09/02/2022
USA Geo
Clue
One guy explains to another the name of his new restaurant in Pennsylvania's capital, touted to get you your food FAST, and seems very excited about it.
"---------- --'- ---- ----," ---. ---!
Click here for September 02's solution
09/01/2022
Arts/Geography
Clue
Partners with the captain of the Pequod and a fellow from Belgrade for a new Mexican fast food restaurant, I advise the latter prevent the former from signing a lease on a property in Viet Nam that we frankly thought he had already forgotten about.
----, ----, - ----- ---- -------- ---- -------.
Click here for September 01's solution
08/31/2022
World Geo
Clue
Irate, and embarrassed, a Catholic sister who runs a Cub Scout group in Old Mesopotamia condemned her boys for the fight they got into with rivals at the base of a local hydroelectric facility.
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Click here for August 31's solution
08/30/2022
World Geo
Clue
This fellow, nattily dressed, is not fond of the living quarters at the private boys school he is attending on a prominent Greek island.
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Click here for August 30's solution
08/29/2022
USA Geo
Clue
Someone points out to an eager young freshman girl that a crypto-creature is standing juxtaposed to a crazy big shot in the opera in New Haven, CT.
---- ------, - ----'- -------- ----'- --- ----.
Click here for August 29's solution
08/26/2022
USA Politics
Clue
He came upon a burdened, a mad guy who claims to be a Republican? Who cares?
-- --- - ----, --- ----, -----? ---.
Click here for August 26's solution
08/25/2022
Food and Drink
Clue
I warn hauntingly hot Diana, a barmaid, to be careful and not fall down when she walks through the light colored lager on the bar floor.
"--, - -----, ---- -- -- -------," - ----.
Click here for August 25's solution
08/24/2022
World Geo
Clue
A nattily dressed man is told that woman of the evening Pamela belts a weak loser from Dublin who is is now in a state of near-unconsciousness.
---- ---, -- - ------ ---, - ---, ---- -- ----- ---.
Click here for August 24's solution
08/23/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
A Palindromic "to-do" list.
* Strive harder
* Tase that lunk, Russell.
* Fire secretary
* Look up an address
* Give Dad my guarantee
* Reset trip odometer
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Click here for August 23's solution
08/22/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Irate at a video demonstration which he felt showed him in a very bad light, senile Emil came out of ths ahdoes and towered threateneingly over Adam.
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Click here for August 22's solution
08/19/2022
Food and Drink
Clue
A senorita tells her sister that indeed she is anxious and asks her to get her an espresso with steamed milk at Starbucks, and is excited because it is so sweetly delicious.
--, --------! -- --- ---- -----... ---, -------, ---!
Click here for August 19's solution
08/18/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
At a reunion of Medal of Honor recipients where an obstacle course competition between teams of three was featured, the tem finishing fourth could not believe it and their captain said this:
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Click here for August 18's solution
08/17/2022
Arts/Business
Clue
A man is told that the music starting to play throughout the retail store Near St. Pete an hour before closing at ten o'clock is violin music by a well known Italian composer.
------ -- - --- ----- -- -----, -- -- ----, ---: -------- ----.
Click here for August 17's solution
08/16/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Ava, referring to herself in the third person, ref;lects on how she raised her voice to the others on the trek she leads to refrain from lovemaking during their stay camping along a river between two mountains.
"--- -- - ------," - ----, "--- -----."
Click here for August 16's solution
08/15/2022
Entertainment
Clue
An SNL exec suggests a skit making fun of an entire government unit in Wasington devoted to ascribing unexplained phenomena to flying saucer
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Click here for August 15's solution
08/12/2022
World History
Clue
Lewis leaves a joke-y note for his buddy who is about to embark on a trip to Rome and who has asked what they wear there.
----, ---- --- -----, ----. ~ ---.
Click here for August 12's solution
08/11/2022
Sports
Clue
An aging basketball player nearing the end of his career rues how he has become a pariah upon failing to make an easy layup that would have won the game, angry at himself, even.
----! --------, ------, --- -- - ----, -'- - --- ----- -------- -------.
Click here for August 11's solution
08/10/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
A melancholy, depressed, senile fellow who has no friends or family gives a boy advice on how to end a prayer.
"------ -- ----, - ---," ---, ---, - ---, ----- --- -------.
Click here for August 10's solution
08/09/2022
World Geo
Clue
The head of referees tells the league commissioner Lewis that he had weeded out one candidate from the Mideast whom he considered Satanic.
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Click here for August 09's solution
08/08/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
In a punny headline it is reported that an opinion service head found that in general does and bucks when running fastest do it this way, when all four feet go off the ground in each stride.
---- "------," - ---- ------.
Click here for August 08's solution
08/05/2022
World Geo
Clue
I contemplate the discovery that my vehicle has been stolen and rant to my Jamaican friend about it.
"--, -- ---?" - --------. "--! ------, ---?"
Click here for August 05's solution
08/04/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Ill-advised comment from a guy facing a mountain of debt about how he is trying to get out from under it.
------- - --- -- - -------'- ---.
Click here for August 04's solution
08/03/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
A new female prison head remarks on how she has had to endure various incidents of suggestive touching as if she were a coming of age girl, treated roughly, as a piece of meat.
-'-, ---- -- - ------, ------ -- - ---, ------, ---, -- - ------.
Click here for August 03's solution
08/02/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
The district attorney is told that it is just terrible that the dog still barks excessively, the guess being that he didn't get her fixed to try to solve the problem.
--, -- --- ---- - ---. --- --- - ----, --? -- ---.
Click here for August 02's solution
08/01/2022
World Geo
Clue
A reluctant description of a lodging chain spanning the United States, concieved by Emil, and in which only one sect following Muhammad is allowed to stay.
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Click here for August 01's solution
07/29/2022
Sports
Clue
Bio of a star tennis player.
------'- ----.
Click here for July 29's solution
07/28/2022
Entertainment/USA Geo
Clue
Arthur nominated a morose song stitching together several short stanzas from great songs on ARRIVAL into a repeated slogan for his organization for his club at The University of Alabama.
--- ----- --, - --- --- ---- --- ------, -- - ---- ------.
Click here for July 28's solution
07/27/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Blown away and all color having drained from my face at the news that there was never any plan to build the waterway that I had invested in, I speculated that I had been scammed.
-- ----- --------, --- -- ---, ---, - --------, "-- ----? - ---?"
07/26/2022
Myth
Clue
When a wizard of eld offers to take the family on a vacation, his wife weighs in with her insistence that she only insists that the manor house he is renting be nice, not seedy, and not far away from all the action.
---, ------ -----'- --- - ----, ------.
Click here for July 26's solution
07/25/2022
Entertainment/Geo
Clue
What's the bottom line on why we are excited to headline the rock concert in Canada's capital? Because people are again, as they always do, beginning to talk it up, including how much electricity it is going to take to pull it off.
---: ---, --'- - -------- -- ------ ---, ----- -----.
Click here for July 25's solution
07/22/2022
Geography
Clue
A Bucharest native's motto recalling both the heartbreak associated with his upbringing as well as the love of his country.
-------: ----/----.
Click here for July 22's solution
07/21/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
I am disappointed and flabbergasted that this somewhat unattractive woman I am corresponding with at the sandwich shop was a minister, born sometime on the late 1980s.
---'- - ----- ---- - ------ -- - ---- - ---------- ------?
Click here for July 21's solution
07/20/2022
World Geo
Clue
Unlike the locals that I worked with in an Italian research facility, I [not prone to let things go] reported an idiot to the authorities.
-- -----, -- - ----- --- - --- -- - -----.
Click here for July 20's solution
07/19/2022
Food
Clue
Line of dialogues in which a man [who had eaten some very spicy Italian food] erupts at his sexy girlfriend when he finds that she has no mints to hide the repeating after taste on his breath.
"--," ----- -----,"--- ---,- ---- -- ---- ------ ----."
Click here for July 19's solution
07/18/2022
World Geo
Clue
A Spanish travel agent trying to get a yes or no answer out of an electricity pioneer, regarding suggestions like climbing Mount McKinley and seeing an opera at La Scala.
--? --? ------? -----, ------?
Click here for July 18's solution
07/15/2022
Business
Clue
A prominent USA real estate firm, fully cognizant of the[ scam going on in] unusually shaped pieces of property, nevertheless was told not to pass on the information when I told them about it.
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Click here for July 15's solution
07/14/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
A woman agrees heartily to her husband Cody's suggestion of Amy as obstetrician.
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Click here for July 14's solution
07/13/2022
World Geo
Clue
In the opinion of a young lass, the guy from Italy who I observed as he was stun gunned into submission before taking his college entrance exams often lived in a jumbled state of chaos.
-- ----, - ----- - --- ------- --- --- --- -- - ------ - ---.
Click here for July 13's solution
07/12/2022
USA Geo
Clue
A parent questions her high school senior whose only college application was to study in Austin, Texas.
-----, -- -- --?
Click here for July 12's solution
07/11/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
A jerk who is assailing and questioning the scientific necessity of the International Space Station is recruiting this young woman for his team.
-- --- --------- --- -- ------- -- ---- ---.
Click here for July 11's solution
07/08/2022
Entertainment
Clue
Using a Star Trek reference, the rapid movement far into the suburbs, one so fast as likely to kill the inner city.
---- ------ -- - ----- ---- -----.
Click here for July 08's solution
07/07/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
A woman who is a PI relates how her Italian boyfriend refuses to make love to her on a dead end street that she had recently reconnoitered.
--- -- - ---~--~--- - ----- ---- -----.
Click here for July 07's solution
07/06/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Halting confessional regarding a man's partying into the wee hours, which includes porn, debauchery, liquor, etc.
---- ----- ----? ----, --,... ----, ---- -----, ---, -- --.
Click here for July 06's solution
07/05/2022
World Geo
Clue
A resident of Mumbai exults at having discovered a rare magenta seaweed on which he can make a lot of money.
--- ------ ----? ------!
Click here for July 05's solution
07/04/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
A police officer says he has nothing in particular to do and volunteers to get Dave,arrested at a sandwich shop white on the run from a scam, ready for arraignment
--, --- - ------- ----, ------ -- - ----, -- ------, - ---- -- - ---?
Click here for July 04's solution
07/01/2022
Food&Drink/Government
Clue
A prominent "squad" member visiting central Florida is offered hot chocolate.
---, ----- -----?
Click here for July 01's solution
06/30/2022
Food&Drink/Entertainment
Clue
A man suggests that his actress friend Blanchette not get up, that he will go get the next round of drinks, verifying that what he wanted was a Courvoisier.
---. - --- --, ----, -- -- --- -....------ -- --?
Click here for June 30's solution
06/29/2022
Food/Entertainment
Clue
Reaction when the murderesses of the Cook County jail realize that their matron has smuggled in the wrong kind of tomato for them.
--- ----, ---- ------.
Click here for June 29's solution
06/28/2022
Food
Clue
A man whobrandshimself as having a Ph.D. in Mexican food, both soft and crunchy, introduces himself at a social gathering to meet other people.
---, -'- - ---- --- -- - -----.
Click here for June 28's solution
06/27/2022
Business/World Geo
Clue
Ambassador in Hanoi to his wife in the late 1990s, griping that his assistants had taken out the full sized Mitsubishsi he had forbidden them to use and in addition it was not necessary that they even USE a car.
---, --! ---- ---- --- ----- --- -------- - ----: -- ----.
Click here for June 27's solution
06/24/2022
USA Geo
Clue
When her hometown nicknamed Beantown relaxes some restrictions on vice issues, Dorothy tells her friend Lewis that he is not exactly laughing hilariously at it, in fact it makes him cry.
----, --- ------ -- -------- --- -'-, ...-, ---, ---(---!) ----, ---.
Click here for June 24's solution
06/23/2022
Tech
Clue
Note from a networking consultant to Texas Instruments saying that the poor performance he witnessed of their linked PC system was probably due to its being so old, and that they should take it out behind the barn and shoot it.
-- --- -- --- ---------- ------: ---- --- - ---, --.
Click here for June 23's solution
06/22/2022
Sports/Business
Clue
It is permitted for Eva to enter the natural underground facility where I house Roger Penske's vehicles and sit in them, turn on the engine and listen to it purr.
--- --- ---- --- ---- ---- - ---- -- - ----.
Click here for June 22's solution
06/21/2022
Food
Clue
Negative reaction with emphasis, to a boy who had offered to trade a sweet potato for a container of mayonnaise.
--. -- -- --- --- - --- -- ----. --, ---.
Click here for June 21's solution
06/20/2022
Art/World Geo
Clue
Darn it, even more pathetic than we thought was the brouhaha that has come to light caused by a Londoner at The Museum of Modern art in NYC, that despicable creep.
----, ------, - ----'- ---- ---- -----! -------!
Click here for June 20's solution
06/17/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Always large, hence his nickname, Antonio describes how he is getting even larger: ordering food online is so easy.
---------- -, --- ----: -~----.
Click here for June 17's solution
06/16/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
A man residing in Somerset County England confirms to his friend Lewis that he has indeed found the love of his life right there in his home town.
----, -----, - ---- ----, ---.
Click here for June 16's solution
06/15/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
In a line of dialogue from a play, Evelyn haltingly tells her boyfriend how angry she is that even though she got to keep all her gratuities, it was not enough to make ends meet, in particular, to buy food.
--: ----! -,..., ------- ----, --, - ------.
Click here for June 15's solution
06/14/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
I tell a woman that the current rumor is that Rona is critical of a mutual male friend's attempt at psychic powers, very much frowned on since he is a Sunni.
---, --- ---------- --- -- ----- ---- ----, - ----.
Click here for June 14's solution
06/13/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
The lord of the manor house congratulates his ehd of security for hiring sexy, alluring guards.
---, --! --~--~-- --------!
Click here for June 13's solution
06/10/2022
Entertainment
Clue
Comedian Skelton is told to make fun of a boy, melancholy Alan, for going out with his binoculars and looking for exotic avains.
---, --- - --- ----, - ---, -- - ------.
Click here for June 10's solution
06/09/2022
Science/World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
Common stimulants used by the crew of a one masted sailing ship out of the Beatles' hometown? Detestable! It is not allowed.
--- ------ --------- -----? -------! -- -----.
Click here for June 09's solution
06/08/2022
Sports/World Geo
Clue
A woman visiting Venezuela's capital to do a magazine spread photo shoot laments to her German grandmother the disappearance of the guy at the racetrack who could help her pick winners.
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Click here for June 08's solution
06/07/2022
Government/World Geo
Clue
Two fellas, crass and boisterous, uncouth, insensitive battle scarred vets of conflicts with a prominent Mesopotamian city-state, plundered it of valuables.
----, --- ----, --- ,- --- --- ------ --.
Click here for June 07's solution
06/06/2022
Government
Clue
An opposition party member in Britain speculates on whether the leader of the opposition party now in power, embarrassed at disclosures of his having consorted with femmes fatale, would now be opposing bringing a censure measure to the floor of Parliament.
--- ---, -- -- ------ -- ----- -- -----, - ------?
Click here for June 06's solution
06/03/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
In a line of dialogue from a stage adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, the captain queries the female members of his crew about their insistence on having no dishes all containing starchy sugary compounds which they consider unhealthy.
----: -- --- ------- --- --- ---- ------, -----?
Click here for June 03's solution
06/02/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Stuart gets an oral report from the medical examiner that the item that was tested again for genetic evidence which suspect Fiona had told them would certainly point to her brother in fact implicated her, and that there was no doubt about it.
---, "---'-'' ---'- ----- -----. --'- - -- --- ---- -- ----.
Click here for June 02's solution
06/01/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Comment by a man who had been corresponding with a woman at a sandwich shop indicating that he could deal with the fact that she was she was rather plain looking, but when he found out she was a minister born in roughly in the mid to late 1980s, that was just too much.
---'- - ----- ---- - ------ -- - ---- - ---------- ------?!
Click here for June 01's solution
05/31/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
When a guy visits his friend, one of Santa's helpers, and complains about being cold, he is told that he should have worn his sheep's wool jacket, and he admits that it never occurred to him to bring it.
------? - -------- -- -----, ---.
Click here for May 31's solution
05/30/2022
USA Geo
Clue
The manager of a commercial establishment Lake Erie in Ohio which offers health and beauty treatment through such means as steam baths, exercise equipment, and massage sarcastically notes to his assistant Otto that new hires recently have been observed to be dumber and dumber, a phenomenon he had heard was occurring elsewhere in the chain.
--- ----- ----, ----, --- -- --- ---------.
Click here for May 30's solution
05/27/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Robert is told that Kenneth, a centenarian and then some, in a public service video spot celebrating and encouraging tree planting, had a very respectable time of 550 seconds in a 1,000 meter run.
---, --- ---, -- -- ----- --- --, ---, --- - ---- --- --- -.
Click here for May 27's solution
05/26/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
A man tells his assistant Tana summarily escort out a colleague turned enemy doctor who he had such an argument with that he charged him.
----, --- -- -- - --- -- - --- --.
Click here for May 26's solution
05/25/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
What did the guard at the manor call the burly District attorney who came for a visit: ...unknown as he was not wearing his badge.
------- -- -- --~---'- ----:???? --- -- -------.
Click here for May 25's solution
05/24/2022
World Geo
Clue
Ramon is told that the guy who owns the business renting space to dock boats is not a lazy, slow-moving Middle easterner whose country borders the Persian Gulf.
-- ------ -----'- - ---- -----, -----.
Click here for May 24's solution
05/23/2022
Government
Clue
The chair of a committee In Brussels shuts down the imprecise, all over the map testimony of a woman making a presentation.
-- ------- -----, -----.
Click here for May 23's solution
05/20/2022
Sports/USA Geo
Clue
A family member of the king and queen, agog at his first glimpse of a famed upstate New York racetrack, alerts his girlfriend Tara to combine several bets into one and do it as soon as possible now that he has obtained permission to do so from the family.
"- --, ----! ----! ------!," ------- -----, ---- -- --------.
Click here for May 20's solution
05/19/2022
Religion
Clue
A Cardinal from the progressive wing of the Catholic Church complains to his assistant that the current uptight, control freak meticulous to a fault Pope now in office was not at all what the college thought it was getting.
-- ---- ------- --- -- ----, ---.
Click here for May 19's solution
05/18/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Remark from Deirdre to Edward as she looks over the pre-nup he has presented her, finding it unfair, but ultimately agreeing.
"--------- -- --," ---- --'- ----, "--- - ---- --, -----."
Click here for May 18's solution
05/17/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
A woman wonders to her friend about her idiot boyfriend who insisted on eating when they went to make love, not knowing what to do about him.
---, - ---'- --- ---, ----: ----- . ------ -- - ---?
Click here for May 17's solution
05/16/2022
History/Geo/Food and Drink
Clue
Russia's president [majoring in the minors, considering Ukraine, etc] again has his stenographer take a memo cursing and complaining to Enid, his personal contact at a company in Germany's Ruhr region, whose last batch of juice made from unfermented crushed fruit was awful, wondering if they had gone insane.
---------- -----, "-------, ----, -- -----, ---- --," ----- -- -----.
Click here for May 16's solution
05/13/2022
World Geo
Clue
Questions for a man from Bangkok as to his unwillingness to accept unusual lunar activity as in Isaiah Chapter 34 as a harbinger of doom.
-- ---- -- ------, ----? ------- ----?
Click here for May 13's solution
05/12/2022
Tech/Business
Clue
Michael, an Austin, Texas computer guru, is told that a woman from the dealership had called and that he needed to bring in his Escalade to fix a factory defect.
----, - -------- -----, ------: --- ------.
Click here for May 12's solution
05/11/2022
World Geography/Arts
Clue
North African Muslim Samuel is informed that some comrades living in the capital of Canada who had given up their religion went to an ink parlor, run out of Tomas' residence in a boarding house, Opal observed, to commemorate it.
---- ---, ------'- ----- --------- --- ---- ---- --- -- -----' ----.
Click here for May 11's solution
05/10/2022
Geography/Business
Clue
In a line of dialogue from a play Bret, the chief executive of a German town whose title befits his thoughts, is very enthusiastic to Emily about McDonald'a coming to town.
------------- ----: --, --, -- ----!
Click here for May 10's solution
05/09/2022
Geography/Business
Clue
An Omaha buyer/seller of futures in Tibetan oxen, someone who was recognized by his peers to lead his organization made good on his appointment by stopping the rough, crude atmosphere in the trading pit.
- -------- -------- ---- --- ----- --- ---.
Click here for May 09's solution
05/06/2022
Food and Drink/Entertainment
Clue
In a deleted scene from The French Connection, Detective Eddie observed that the head of a local brothel bootlegged so much anise flavored liqueur that it required a huge fleet of ships.
---- ----- - ----- --- --------- -- -- ------ ---- -------.
Click here for May 06's solution
05/05/2022
Twech/USA Geo
Clue
An employee of a high tech Austin, Texas company apologizes to the boss for his tardiness, explaining that his cab had trouble starting and then broke down during the early morning alarms calling for help nearby.
---- --- -'- ----, ----. -- --- - ---- ------- '--- ---.
Click here for May 05's solution
05/04/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
One female employee to another, agreeing that the salesmen who threw the party trying to get their business got way too frisky, and the offenders should be kicked out.
-- ---, ---- ----- --- -- - --- ----! -- ---- '--!
Click here for May 04's solution
05/03/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
After losing my wallet, I am called by a soldier who says he will meet me at Jason's to return it. When he shows up, I note that he is absolutely huge and seems to be on drugs. As I approach, he bolts. My wife calls to ask if I got it back. Here is my reply:
--, ---- -- --, -- ------ -- - ----, - -------- --, ---.
Click here for May 03's solution
05/02/2022
History/Food and Drink
Clue
Paul Tibbets, who piloted the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima offers his mother a beer brewed in Texas in exchange for a hearty helping of bratwurst sausage uncut by Hawaiian root vegetables.
- ---- ---- ---- --- - --- -' ----~---- -----, -----?
Click here for May 02's solution
04/29/2022
Miscllaneous
Clue
Palindromic definition: (1) Light or (2) Inexspensive
--- - ---.
Click here for April 29's solution
04/28/2022
World Geo
Clue
Vacationing in Pristina in the center of The Balkans, a traveler answers a question about how his trip is going, indicating that things are satisfactory.
------'- --.
Click here for April 28's solution
04/27/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Boy meets girl. Alec, an obnoxious idiot. Ana, young, alluring , and just delightful. Setting: a hospital emergency room waiting area. He describes when he first laid eyes on her.
-- --- ---- -- -- --, - --- - -----, - ---- ---- ---.
Click here for April 27's solution
04/26/2022
Food and Drink
Clue
Having been banished from Eden, a murderer ends up on the doorstep of a brothel where his newly minted recipe for a dish of rice, saffron, chicken, seafood, etc., cooked and served in a large shallow pan, was deemed to be absolutely crazy, abrupt, off the wall different from any previous concoction like it, by the proprietor.
"------ ----" - ----- --- --- ---, - -------- ----.
Click here for April 26's solution
04/25/2022
USA Geo/Tech
Clue
I will wager that in the late afternoon/early evening, an Austin, Texas computer guru saw a broken down cab near a dumpster.
----, -- --- -- - ----- ---, - ---, --- - ---- -------.
Click here for April 25's solution
04/22/2022
USA Geo/World Geo
Clue
Patrick is corrected to indicate that indeed there will be opening soon a Polynesian themed /Mexican food joint in Florida just north of Pompano Beach.
---, -- ---, - ---- ---- ---- --- -- -- ---.
Click here for April 22's solution
04/21/2022
USA Geo/Food and Drink
Clue
As we drive I point out to my companion the best ever palace we can go to get squid delicacies, a place in a chain only on interstate highways and named for a book of the Bible.
----, ---, - -------'- -- ---------! ----!
Click here for April 21's solution
04/20/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Swathed by the fiery awesome sunset, as the light fell I saw an omen.
---, --- ---, -- ------- - --- - ---- --, ---- ---- ------.
Click here for April 20's solution
04/19/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
I tell my sister that while waiting for cars to clear at an intersection I noted The Evil One, and he currently seemed very much NOT DEAD.
---, -----, ----, - ---- ----- -- - ---- ----, - ----- -- --.
Click here for April 19's solution
04/18/2022
Languages/Food and Drink
Clue
A father teaching his very young precocious kid Latin reveals to him how he is going to lose weight: eating Romas.
----, - --, ---, "---" ------ -- ---- --.
Click here for April 18's solution
04/15/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Question from dermatologist to his patient who had canceled his appointment for laser removal of a troublesome pimple.
---'- - --- - --- ---?
Click here for April 15's solution
04/14/2022
USA Arts/World Geo
Clue
A Russian fellow relates how he felt that, yes Beantown was similar to a Venezuelan city he had visited, a not altogether unpleasant experience.
--, ------'- - -------, --- -- ---.
Click here for April 14's solution
04/13/2022
USA Arts/World Geo
Clue
"Darn it, even worse, the commotion at the NYC Art Museum is a despicable fellow from Leeds running around naked."
"----, ------, - ----'- - ---- ----, -----, -------!"
Click here for April 13's solution
04/12/2022
USA History/Geo/Sports
Clue
When he goes to a karaoke bar in a Nevada city in the 1990s a man points out to his companion, Ron, that so far the lineup of singers, the US Attorney General and an 8 time tennis major winner whose heyday was the 1970s and early 1980s, was not very good.
---- -- ------- --, ---, -- -------.
Click here for April 12's solution
04/11/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
As a DA chosen by my peers as motivating and persuasive, I tear into that derogatory, mocking, guy as I bring him up on charges.
----- ---------, - -------, - --- ---- ----- ---.
Click here for April 11's solution
04/08/2022
Food and Drink
Clue
When you hear me at 1:00 AM marching around the block playing my small military band flute, it reflects upon the fact that I had more than my allotted 4 glasses of Beefeater's, and was three sheets to the wind.
----- ------ -- - ----: -, ----- ---.
Click here for April 08's solution
04/07/2022
Arts
Clue
This woman joined the bandwagon and wrote a lyric poem praising the Biblical Eve as the embodiment of humanity in a composition which avoids the letter "i."
----- ----- --: -- -~---- "---, --- --- ------,"
-- -- --- --------.
Click here for April 07's solution
04/06/2022
USA History
Clue
What former Republican Minnesota governor and perennial presidential candidate's staff called his bouts early morning indecision.
----~------- -------- -- --- --.
Click here for April 06's solution
04/05/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
A friend points out that since Diana has now chosen an assumed name to keep her incognito on her ocean voyage, she has finally left.
"--- -- -- -----, -- --- ----," --- -----.
Click here for April 05's solution
04/04/2022
World Geo
Clue
The owner of a fleet of cars tells the man he employs to keep them in good shape to deliver bullets to his mother.
----, -- ----- --- -- -- -----!
Click here for April 04's solution
04/01/2022
World Geo
Clue
It was a heavenly experience when this French guy saw the spectacular views from their Sienna as they drove in the mountains of South America, as well as of his girlfriend Nan, prompting him to kiss her.
---- ------ --- -- - --- -- -----. -------!
Click here for April 01's solution
03/31/2022
Sports&Entertainment
Clue
Words of a Shark tank entrepreneur way way before he became rich, when he was challenged to fold by a buddy in their low stakes poker game, indicating he was still in and upping the ante to a whole dollar.
--, ---- ----- -- --: - ----, -----.
Click here for March 31's solution
03/30/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Maxwell is identified as the platoon leader during the battle who radioed in saying that, proud and confident, as of early morning he stood atop a prominent piece of high ground.
--- -- "----, - --- - ---- -- --- --."
Click here for March 30's solution
03/29/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Incorrect: the rumor about being paid to come dressed like this is a scam.
--, "---- -- -- ----'-" - ---.
Click here for March 29's solution
03/28/2022
Food & Drink/Business
Clue
Headline in a newspaper wherein the powers that be for a Kraft-Heinz flavored drink mix are reported to be upset at the papers deep dive into their alleged shady operations.
----~--- ------: -- --- ----- ----.
Click here for March 28's solution
03/25/2022
Entertainment/Current Events
Clue
A "Kill Bill" villain exults at having subdued a conspiracy theorist.
---, -'- -~--- -- - -------! ------!
Click here for March 25's solution
03/24/2022
USA Geo/Entertainment/Sports
Clue
A chef exults at the prospect of a cooking competition in Hawaii in which the theme is to do a Hawaiian take on an American ballpark classic, and he decides that he will do a variation on an stuffed pasta version of it he was already familiar with.
---! -- ----! - ---- -- ------- --- ---!
Click here for March 24's solution
03/23/2022
USA Geo/Entertainment
Clue
Porky Pig's girlfriend went on a tirade and got rid of a place where ROTC students at the University of Texas at El Paso gathered to drop LSD.
------- ---------- - ----- ---- ---- -- ----.
Click here for March 23's solution
03/22/2022
Food & Drink/Entertainment
Clue
In a delicatessen dressed in costume as a Bond villain, mild mannered Daniel noted that the idiot owner was selling tuna fish, but labelling it as cod.
------ ------ -- -- --- - ---'- ---- --- -- ---- -- - ---- "---."
Click here for March 22's solution
03/21/2022
Food & Drink/Entertainment
Clue
A blue cartoon character tells his french friend that he has sworn not to drink bacardi and the like ever again.
-'- - -----, --- --, ------- ---, --- -- ----, ---.
Click here for March 21's solution
03/18/2022
Food/Transportation
Clue
A couple is told that they can get decadently delicious Italian sandwiches from a delivery van.
--- -- - ----- -----, ----, ----.: -------!
Click here for March 18's solution
03/17/2022
Sports
Clue
A father instructs his son to make catcalls at the opposing pitcher, a KC Royal Cy young winner in 1989, who he considers to be an evil idiot.
--- ----, -------- ----.
Click here for March 17's solution
03/16/2022
History/Science
Clue
An obnoxious Ph.D who had been hired by the comic strip company was given the job of putting all the words in several overly long ones in alphabetical order.
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Click here for March 16's solution
03/15/2022
History/Science
Clue
Complaint of a cave man about a flatulent big cat.
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Click here for March 15's solution
03/14/2022
World Geo/Food
Clue
I relate what a legendary catastrophe it was when Rosemary tried to spice up her dish based on tuna, mayo and hard boiled eggs with a ground spice from Indonesia, creating a formula that had an Amityville-like disaster
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Click here for March 14's solution
03/11/2022
World Geo
Clue
The mayor of a Scottish town tells a newspaper reporter that the entire town is in a state of disbelief refusing to believe that its best chefs lost a cooking contest to a group from Denmark.
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Click here for March 11's solution
03/10/2022
Arts
Clue
An English speaking gallery owner in Paris in the early 1800s tells a colleague, in 20th century slang, that in order for their upcoming show to really gin up excitement and be a success the gallery would take a chance on an up and coming fellow [who would go on to become pivotal in landscape painting.]
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Click here for March 10's solution
03/09/2022
Arts/World Geo
Clue
Insanely eccentric about Il Trovatore, Madame Butterfly et al, Trevor, a manager of the bankrupt Hanoi company that produced them, enlisted Grover to fend off the repossession of all their assets with a taser.
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Click here for March 09's solution
03/08/2022
Food
Clue
Lewis[because he has laryngitis] passes a note to a clerk at the sandwich shop saying that no, he had not come to pick up a friend who worked there, but his was their last order of the day done online, for a hearty Italian sausage sandwich.
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Click here for March 08's solution
03/07/2022
World Geo
Clue
A woman fondly recalls how she was wooed/disrobed by the Italian man she had been flirting with.
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Click here for March 07's solution
03/04/2022
Geography/Languages
Clue
The headmaster of a private school for boys in Indiana informs a German extraterrestrial (?) whose son is applying that having relations with the girls at the school [next door] is forbidden and always will be.
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Click here for March 04's solution
03/03/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Comment to a dog owner indicating that the dog's incessant barking is a sign he has not yet been fixed.
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Click here for March 03's solution
03/02/2022
Food&Drink/Business
Clue
I tell Dee that I pay particular attention to a male friend's list of the best local drive-ins where you can sit in your car, enjoying a drink of espresso-based coffee drink that prepared with steamed milk foam, and at the same time listening to their loudspeakers play a song by Andy Beck that is the same name as what you are drinking.
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Click here for March 02's solution
03/01/2022
World Geo
Clue
Do you understand that in Brazil's largest city things come to standstill during the lavish evening marijuana smoking parties held by a university scholar whose parents named him after a WW II general.
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Click here for March 01's solution
02/28/2022
Entertainment/USA Geo
Clue
Rancor and vitriol form a man to his girlfriend, a UT Chattanooga grad and Latter Day Saint, as all she wants to watch are romantic comedies.
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Click here for February 28's solution
02/25/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
When Ronald asks whether their mutual friend Rik's girlfriend is pleasant, I respond that, well, not exactly now, as she is daft, overweight, and always interrupting.
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Click here for February 25's solution
02/24/2022
Business/History
Clue
A fellow complains to his used car salesman that the car service he used only sent him a small, wimpy quintessential late 20th century lemon from Eastern Europe, hardly the great thing he was expecting from the manly British brand of four-wheel drive, off-road vehicle as an example of what he wanted.
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Click here for February 24's solution
02/23/2022
Arts/Geography
Clue
A Dublin writer tells his friend from Cardiff, that he has made good on his promise to produce a poem praising a huge clan of his countrymen, albeit one that was universally panned.
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Click here for February 23's solution
02/22/2022
History
Clue
An advisor to Uganda strongman Idi, laments to a colleague that he is angry and just cannot fathom what the leader is thinking
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Click here for February 22's solution
02/21/2022
Entertainment/Arts/History
Clue
When the Simpson family visits Rome and goes to St. Peter's this is how the Pope refused Bart's sister's request when she found it too warm for her taste.
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Click here for February 21's solution
02/18/2022
USA History/Geo
Clue
Result when the Obamas cede the choice of where to vacation to their older daughter who changes the plan and decides that in the morning they will go skiing in Colorado.
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Click here for February 18's solution
02/17/2022
Sports
Clue
Having been touted as a remarkable player who would surely lead the team to victory, Diana turns out to be too old to keep up, embarrassed at all her mistakes and has been pulled from the game.
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Click here for February 17's solution
02/16/2022
Entertainment
Clue
On an episode of "The Avengers" Steed relates how his sidekick noticed him napping after having also put himself in harm's way to solve the case they were working on.
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Click here for February 16's solution
02/15/2022
Arts
Clue
A petite young woman announces, with emphasis, to her friend that she has reached her goal weight, and is just blown away by it.
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Click here for February 15's solution
02/14/2022
Arts
Clue
In slang a Brit is made fun of for misconstruing the the 4th note in the solfège system for C Major for the third, and thus having no musical ear at all.
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Click here for February 14's solution
02/11/2022
USA Geo
Clue
A woman is told that the very best vacation area is in the mountains northeastern Pennsylvania, so [book there] and accept no seemingly acceptable similar areas.
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Click here for February 11's solution
02/10/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Ana remarks that her friend Diana has now embarked on her cruise now that she has settled on a pseudonym to sail under.
"--- -- -- -----, -- --- ----," --- -----.
Click here for February 10's solution
02/09/2022
Sports/Food
Clue
Describing a NY Yankee first baseman of old who made himself into quite a chef, as adept as anyone at traditional or Chinese cooking methods.
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Click here for February 09's solution
02/08/2022
History/Geo
Clue
Aghast reaction at a request to jointly rent and therefore guarantee the rent on a room in a boarding house in central Florida for soldier Alvin of North African extraction who is a follower of Q.
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Click here for February 08's solution
02/07/2022
Arts
Clue
Describing a painting by a Spanish romantic painter and printmakerof the 18th/19th century in which the subject matter is a Greek fabulist in the lotus position.
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Click here for February 07's solution
02/04/2022
Entertainment
Clue
An exclamation at hearing that perhaps the world's foremost juggler would be coming to perform, and that it was a must see.
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Click here for February 04's solution
02/03/2022
Science/Food and Drink
Clue
Deborah is willing to wager that at the facility looking for aliens, the striking flavor of the hors d'oeuvres from marine crustacean delicacies that chef Bret has made are beginning to wane.
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Click here for February 03's solution
02/02/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
An editor at a French lifestyle magazine points out to the corporate MD that he suggested to Enid, a grandmotherly model in an advertisement, that to lose a few pounds she should switch to fish.
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Click here for February 02's solution
02/01/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Thieves! Stop everything, they have stolen all our logon and password identification in a huge data breach!.
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Click here for February 01's solution
01/31/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
An obese man ranting at other drivers is encouraged [by a passenger] to be careful and not to burst an artery.
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Click here for January 31's solution
01/28/2022
Science/World Geo
Clue
When a Mideast ruler ordered that his 131 guards get into a rectangular formation I tell him that my Dad, one of the guards, said it was not possible.
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Click here for January 28's solution
01/27/2022
Science/Languages
Clue
A Spanish woman is asked whether mutual friend Ivan has gone to the Red Planet for a vacation.
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Click here for January 27's solution
01/26/2022
World Geo
Clue
Salvador, producer of a variety show is given one final instruction, to fire Lewis from Italy, who is without moral fiber, and also has such an off putting, melancholy demeanor.
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Click here for January 26's solution
01/25/2022
Food and Drink
Clue
The room is all abuzz with whispering as it is revealed that the newest offering from Bacardi contains a smattering of liqueur derived from anise.
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Click here for January 25's solution
01/24/2022
Business/History
Clue
Arthur, advertising head at Proctor and Gamble, decides on an advertising slogan derived from a banned song of 1st century Jewish and Christian sects, to be repeated over and over in commercials for its popular laundry detergent
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Click here for January 24's solution
01/21/2022
Business
Clue
I ask my friend Anne this, trying to confirm who the maker of her new van is.
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Click here for January 20's solution
01/20/2022
Government
Clue
I speculate on whether Britain's head of government, embarrassed that he had been caught inflagrante with a female staffer, will now be against legislation barring such seductresses from the Parliament chamber.
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Click here for January 20's solution
01/19/2022
Arts
Clue
Comment to a friend who was offering Sunday afternoon tickets to a play in a prominent theatre in Houston about the backstory of TKAM which focuses on the cruel childhood of Tom Robinson's accuser, Miss Ewell. Thanks but I have already been to a production.
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Click here for January 19's solution
01/18/2022
History&Government/Food&Drink
Clue
In a line of dialogue from a play, Stuart[US ambassador to China] is surprised as the Chinese premier declines his offer of hot chocolate, and offers him and his team palm seed pods to drink from instead.
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Click here for January 18's solution
01/17/2022
Government/History/Business
Clue
In the opinion of George W's wife it is Gino who often prevents smoking marijuana so close to a dealer selling Outbacks, Foresters, Crosstreks, Ascents, etc.
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Click here for January 17's solution
01/14/2022
Nature/Entertainment
Clue
I admit being stumped by the crossword puzzle: in one ntry I could not come up with a term for hauling in killer whales, something I had never heard of.
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Click here for January 14's solution
01/13/2022
Entertainment/Food and Drink
Clue
A blue cartoon character swears, with emphasis, to his French friend that he is never ever going to partake of any sugar cane based alcoholic beverages.
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Click here for January 13's solution
01/12/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Currently thinking out loud as I was drunk, I asked my boss if we were to consider our quest to hire Derek away from the competition victorious.
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Click here for January 12's solution
01/11/2022
Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Eve is told that William, who owns apartment buildings, can help her in the crossword with the answer for 7-A, the term for a left winger who works for an Israeli airline.
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Click here for January 11's solution
01/10/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Hey, bud, I lost weight. OMG!
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Click here for January 10's solution
01/07/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
During the period when police used stun guns a lot in the United States, the data shows that ink parlor renditions of same showed their diabolical nature.
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Click here for January 07's solution
01/06/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
News reporting that the ambush [ of their enemies] set in motion by the palace was not at all evil, and that the king and queen were blase to the point of boredom over the reaction.
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Click here for January 06's solution
01/05/2022
World Geo/Government
Clue
Horrors at the lawyer whose advice to the child star was to take his compensation in Japanese currency, which resulted in a huge FIT problem. Fire him!
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Click here for January 05's solution
01/04/2022
History/World Geo
Clue
I tell a friend that I have the lead in a new play about an overweight, foul smelling, slow-witted, anti technology, unethical Italian who gets up early every morning.
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Click here for January 04's solution
01/03/2022
Miscellaneous
Clue
Reason not to trust sociology professor Ara? He is outwardly calm and easygoing, but harbors a fanatic, extremist worldview.
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Click here for January 03's solution
12/31/2021
World Geo/Languages/Business
Clue
I tell my French friend that I was totally obnoxious when confronted with the need for a COVID vaccination at a Japanese car dealership in "Lower California."
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Click here for December 31's solution
12/30/2021
Sports/Tech/World Geo
Clue
Text from a man who had been staying in an inn in Germany's industrial region, whose rooms open all to the outside parking, to the aliens who were pet sitting for them, that he had left a small amount of food for their aging male cat who was a companion to their very old one.
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Click here for December 30's solution
12/29/2021
Sports/Tech/World Geo
Clue
Very mad, a bicycle race director tells how he again called a participant from Australia's capital, and, realizing he had used an outdated term, clarified that he actually used his iPhone.
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Click here for December 29's solution
12/28/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Iris, the head of the coming out pageant for young ladies, i stold that a great number of them were forceful, energetic women.
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Click here for December 28's solution
12/27/2021
Entertainment/Tech
Clue
A woman is told that In an episode of "Bonanza" Dan Blocker's character,[time-travelling], is very turned on by the voice in his i-Phone.
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Click here for December 27's solution
12/24/2021
Arts/Style
Clue
I tell my friend that I do pay attention to the statement my guy is making by sporting his hair using braiding and plaiting thin narrow strips to form geometric patterns on the scalp ,and done in a highly ornamental style
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Click here for December 24's solution
12/23/2021
USA Geo
Clue
A Sea Scout attending college in New Haven, CT tells the gut he is riding with to turn quickly into the campus bookstore as it is promoting its new policy allowing one to make a deposit and set aside items for Christmas.
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Click here for December 23's solution
12/22/2021
Entertainment
Clue
A man waffles to rocker Sewart on his opinion of a spirited, fierce woman, a former wife of a member of a prominent heavy metal band, who is sexually attractive, yey has a distinct case of B.O.
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Click here for December 22's solution
12/21/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
I tell a friend that I must not get too excited and play it cool, hoping to negotiate even higher, when I see the message offering way more than I ever expected for my team of oxen.
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Click here for December 21's solution
12/20/2021
Business/Food and Drink
Clue
Anita is told that Dominick, the Ph.D. brewmeister of strong full-bodied beers and a devotee of vintage autos, is trying out an early Henry Ford car.
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Click here for December 20's solution
12/17/2021
Food and Drink
Clue
I explain my new regimen to lose weight: a branded breakfast cereal, ova, a popular energy drink, the meat of several birds ( cut the monosodium glutamate) and Italian-style ice cream.
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Click here for December 17's solution
12/16/2021
Business/Entertainment
Clue
A fellow at a Madison Avenue firm is told [by a partner] that a prominent Japanese camera maker pre its merger with Minolta didn't care much for and indeed gave little thought to the campaign he had come up with to pair its camera commercial with an underwear ad featuring actor Al ( The Godfather) in his "Calvins."
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Click here for December 16's solution
12/15/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
I tell a woman I know that it is my understanding that her son's college residence hall had so many silly, stupid, inept students that it had to record the names in alphabetized groups according to level of inanuity.
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Click here for December 15's solution
12/14/2021
Business
Clue
When a bunch of guys on vacation have engine problems with their Toyota van and take it in for service at the dealership, they give this woman who worked on it a very high rating/review, scoring it 9 out of ten stars.
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Click here for December 14's solution
12/13/2021
Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
I tell a on time host of THIS OLD House that I detest a very popular show featuring an on air demonstration by Brett, a haberdasher from French Polynesia as he fits people with hats.
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Click here for December 13's solution
12/10/2021
Science/History
Clue
The title of a book about a prominent 19th century scientist and natural historian and how it influenced the life of a Third Reich henchman.
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Click here for December 10's solution
12/09/2021
USA Geo
Clue
Response to Mr. Ott who had objected to crazy Robert, his grandmother's personal trainer, who had taken her on a run, saying it was no more than a mile and that he did it so she could get a glimpse of some Yale students who had come to town for a cross country meet with the U. Michigan team.
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Click here for December 09's solution
12/08/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Waitress Enid is questioned about the motive behind her drastic decision to try to get customers to order small herring-like fish packed in oil.
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Click here for December 08's solution
12/07/2021
World Geo
Clue
The supervisor of the heads of the various synagogues under his jurisdiction denies that some of them spent a lot of time frequenting local watering holes where barbecue was served.
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Click here for December 07's solution
12/06/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Sad sack Antonio, the guy we arrested, tried to sneak his scouts into the jamboree without paying ahead of time.
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Click here for December 06's solution
12/03/2021
USA Government
Clue
Motto of TSA airport crew which specializes in finding marijuana in the lining of the clothing of smugglers.
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Click here for December 03's solution
12/02/2021
Arts/Entertainemtn/World Geo
Clue
A Saigon man completely gaga over Verdi, Puccini, etc made contact with a blue muppet to tase the person who had come to take back his car for failure to pay back his loan.
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Click here for December 02's solution
12/01/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
I point out that the hamburger I am eating is an awful food choice for me trying to lose weight.
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Click here for December 01's solution
11/30/2021
USA Geo
Clue
Headline in Times when the police department of a California city simply implodes under scandal.
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Click here for November 30's solution
11/29/2021
USA History/World Geo
Clue
Lee reveals to his boss that Sheriff Masterson has gone to a traditional Jewish circumcision ceremony.
"---, ---, -- - ----," --- --- --,"-- -- - ----."
Click here for November 29's solution
11/26/2021
USA Geo
Clue
A frontiersman tells his buddy that he sees no particular strength or bravery in his Plains Indians opponents charging in full traditional feathered headgear, laughing at the prospect..
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Click here for November 26's solution
11/25/2021
Arts
Clue
It was a reknowned sweets baker Edward, not an assistant at a law office, who found for a West Pointer quinteessntial art wrok by Man Ray that his girlfreind Lara had been considering, but was worried about not being able to find.
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Click here for November 25's solution
11/24/2021
Science/Food
Clue
A appetizer consisting of a strange combination of lunch meat, tropical fruit and a seafood delicacy made by this fellow who is involved in looking for alien life in the cosmos.
---- ----'- ------ ----- ------ -----.
Click here for November 24's solution
11/23/2021
USA Geo/Food
Clue
Patrick is politely corrected, in that he is told in fact that a drinking establishment serving Mexican food WOULD be opening in a southeastern Florida city.
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Click here for November 23's solution
11/22/2021
World Geo
Clue
A member of a prominent UFO religion is told that the leader does like it sembers to use a popular acne medication.
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Click here for November 22's solution
11/19/2021
World Geo
Clue
I dispute to Emily the notion that several University of Texas students bron into a minority tribe in Rwanda but having emigrated to Scandinavia, and overly admiring of themselvesgot after me with foul smelling Ronald.
--, -- ------ ---------- -- ------ --- ------ --- -- --.
Click here for November 19's solution
11/18/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Order from Chief Loan Officer at a bank to his employee to begin making plans to acquire the collateral from a man, wealthy but a druggie, who had pledged both his hydroelectric facility and a shipment of iron alloy from the man's cargo ships, either of which would pay off the loan.
---- --- -- -----'- ----- ---- - -----.
Click here for November 18's solution
11/17/2021
Entertainment/Business
Clue
A prominent American rapper, audio engineer, record producer, and businessman, speaking on the 3rd person tells [potential new financial advisor] Abraham Moss that it is a shame that his previous advisors, considered formidable; excellent, uncompromising and admired in the industry had caused him to lose money, mainly by selling cattle futures at the wrong time.
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Click here for November 17's solution
11/16/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Jailer Rosemary is told to harangue the suspect about his offensive, (sulfurous maybe, of the devil) aroma.
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Click here for November 16's solution
11/15/2021
World Geo
Clue
Edward is encouraged to severely rebuke an unpleasant woman who works for an intergovernmental alliance in Brussels on their outing to view ornamental plant grounds laid out for public enjoyment and recreation.
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Click here for November 15's solution
11/12/2021
World Geo
Clue
It is not surprising that Vivian, highly embarrassed, has gone up a Biblical ,mountain [to pray.]
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Click here for November 12's solution
11/11/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
When I discovered that the inland waterway I had invested in in fact had no actual plans to build it, all the color drained from my face as I was struck with dread and feared that it was all a scam.
-- ----- --------, --- -- ---, ---, - --------, "-- ----? - ---?"
Click here for November 11's solution
11/10/2021
Sports/Arts
Clue
A client who has hired an artist to do something suggests that the subject be a not very flattering work, in the soft colors of crayon, of him trying to make a face to look like a famed Panamanian boxer who held world titles in 4 different weight classes.
---'- --- ----- -- - ---- ------.
Click here for November 10's solution
11/09/2021
mISCELLANEOUS
Clue
A suspect describes how it made him sick to his stomach when he and his companions were collared after having been followed to a sandwich joint because of misidentifications by the proprietors of flower shops in the area.
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Click here for November 09's solution
11/08/2021
World Geo/History
Clue
In the 1990s a man points out to his grandmother that he has spotted a guy living in the capital of Turkey, none other than the brother of Egypt's president whom he despises.
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Click here for November 08's solution
11/05/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Line of dialogue from a man being questioned by cops about an attack on a farm, wherein the man agrees that a male sheep and its tiny mate were victims, but not the horse or any of the flying mammals around.
"----, - ---- ---, --- --- ---, -- ----, - ----," - ----.
Click here for November 05's solution
11/04/2021
Government/Food and Drink
Clue
An employee of the USA's main medical research agencyinforms a friend that he is going to try to lose weight by having for lunch only 2 pieces of a Japanese dish featuring rolled rice and raw fish and vegetables.
----, - -- --- --- ----- --- -- ---- --.
Click here for November 04's solution
11/03/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
One final thing, a young sultry grad student is irate at Salvador.
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Click here for November 03's solution
11/02/2021
Languages
Clue
A poor Latin I student frustratingly to his mother the teacher as he tries to remember the first person plural of "to Love" by trying to conjugate the word, and getting it all wrong, even repeating himself, and even including the imperative form.
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Click here for November 02's solution
11/01/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Clue: (Category = Entertainment/USA Geo) The minister brother of Disney's long time CEO/Chairman was recognized by ObamaCare as being in the role of nursing a West Pointer back to health.
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Click here for November 01's solution
10/29/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
WORD UNIT today. Not sure what to call these, but some of the words are heteronyms or homographs, same spelling but different pronunciation. Clue: (Category = Miscellaneous) A man wonders if his girlfriend, now very happy and a speaker at meetings to discuss what goes into the curriculum, is elated over his female deer.
__ __ __, __ __ __ __, __ __ __, __ __ __?
Click here for October 29's solution
10/28/2021
World Geo/Arts
Clue
While visiting a large Indonesian island west of Java and south of the Malay Peninsula, did I notice an book that was considered a "have to have," containing 3-D pages of modern art?
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Click here for October 28's solution
10/27/2021
Arts
Clue
To make a play on words: it is such a revolutionary yet calming hobby to pursue. So, let's see who has the cajones to do so.
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Click here for October 27's solution
10/26/2021
Entertainment/Medicine
Clue
A flippantly cocky and assured 1950's comedian is told that Lewis is under the weather with tonsillitis caused by the treptococcus bacteria.
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Click here for October 26's solution
10/25/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Three Palindefinitions:
(1) Mucus: _ _ _ _ _' _ _ _ _.
(2) Nickels: _ _ _ _ - _ _ _ _ _.
(3) Oscillate: _ _ _.
Click here for October 25's solution
10/22/2021
Languages
Clue
I tell Susan that having already been surprised so many times by our situation in Paris, I was all out of "My Gods."
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Click here for October 22's solution
10/21/2021
Science
Clue
A question to a woman as to whether the mistaken stir over possible aliens was the result of an electromagnetic signal that was misinterpreted by the space agency.
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Click here for October 21's solution
10/20/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Bullet point on a resume indicating that the applicant had experience managing an especially large convenience store on the moon selling food items.
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Click here for October 20's solution
10/19/2021
Business
Clue
A knighted Brit who is considering investing in a company is warned not to take a chance , as it seems that their idea of capital expenditures is to buy beer and brainstorm.
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Click here for October 19's solution
10/18/2021
Science
Clue
In surveying how much she lost [in the robbery] the owner saw that it was very much, a trillion grams worth.
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Click here for October 18's solution
10/15/2021
Food and Drink
Clue
Shock that a meek, unassuming Emily Asti has concocted a drink using rum, ale and a semi-hard cheese. especially that cheese part.
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Click here for October 15's solution
10/14/2021
Business
Clue
An insurance giant is questioned about the advisability of providing coverage to a guy's boat when he claimed that the world would again be flooded completely.
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Click here for October 14's solution
10/13/2021
Sports
Clue
The emotions come flowing out from an aging NBA player whose bad free throw effort caused the team to lose: disappointment, anger, depression, the hatred of the fans, etc.
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Click here for October 13's solution
10/12/2021
Sports
Clue
A race car driver tells his girlfriend that, referring to his team owner's, he will take to heart his insight about the kinds of situations during the race when it would NOT be a good idea to come in for fuel, tires, etc.mansplaining the terminology for her.
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Click here for October 12's solution
10/11/2021
USA Geo
Clue
A dean at Troy, New York technological research university exults as he is hammered by emotions, but the bottom line is that he is blown away when he gets an advance look at the school's ranking, the best possible.
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Click here for October 11's solution
10/08/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Rats! What a shame, a creamy dessert made from eggs, milk, sugar and ruined by potato pancakes!
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Click here for October 08's solution
10/07/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
A sales rep coworker of Maureen exults at the incredible family room she had, large enough to hold 9 of the presentations that they made to clients.
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Click here for October 07's solution
10/06/2021
Entertainment
Clue
When a high school drama teacher suggests doing a 60s counter culture musical, the principal questions whether it is appropriate, speculating that it is untouchable, the third rail of school productions.
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Click here for October 06's solution
10/05/2021
World Geo/Language
Clue
Wicked Ana's positive, as is Alvin, that Lewis saw one of Putin's entourage survived [the attack.]
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Click here for October 05's solution
10/04/2021
World Geo/Language
Clue
A snarky figure of speech was used to describe the immoral use of outrageous Italian sandwiches in prison.
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Click here for October 04's solution
10/01/2021
World Geo
Clue
At an auction a potential bidder describes how the next item up, an antique wine bottle found at the base of a Sicilian volcano, is even more unlikely to be bid on by her than the previous item up.
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Click here for October 01's solution
09/30/2021
Food&Drink
Clue
In a terse movie review, former nBA great Ginobli describes what a stellar performance it was by Meryl in a movie shot in North Africa, that she is the best, hitting the screen like a tidal wave.
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Click here for September 30's solution
09/29/2021
World Geo
Clue
It is suggested to Dara that it is well known that in Ireland Mac, a West Pointer, was having trouble making friends because he was strung out on dexedrine.
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Click here for September 29's solution
09/28/2021
Food&Drink
Clue
Having been interrupted as he was giving dictation, the bass resumes, asking his steno if she is ready and telling her what he wants to say next: that he and his grandmother had recently eaten Indian flat bread and palm tree fruit.
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Click here for September 28's solution
09/27/2021
USA Geo/Food&Drink
Clue
A health department employee asks the boss if Rosemary had shut down the operations of a Florida watering hole/Mexican food place he had reported because it was dirty.
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Click here for September 27's solution
09/24/2021
World Geo/Food and Drink
Clue
A woman whose father emigrated from Japan and whose mother from islands off the coast of Scotland to a win producing area of California is asked which heritage is behind the the coffee she has made.
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Click here for September 24's solution
09/23/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
An alluring temptress extols her queenly image and describes how she wooed and knocked the socks off of a guy who worked at the local mine and was sitting in the bar drinking beer.
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Click here for September 23's solution
09/22/2021
USA Geo/Tech
Clue
That scam to sell superchargers for internal combustion engines in a Central Florida city is vicious and savage.
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Click here for September 22's solution
09/21/2021
Entertainment/Business
Clue
When iris learned that she and her co-workers in the music department of a trendy NY 5th Avenue store( specialty: music that combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues.)had to work overtime) she gave them a piece of her mind, didn't she?
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Click here for September 21's solution
09/20/2021
World Geo/Nature
Clue
SO, when regulations in this huge city in SW Columbia outlawed growing marijuana plants, Iris decided to raise a lavender hued species of woody flowering plant common to woodland areas.
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Click here for September 20's solution
09/17/2021
World Geo
Clue
A Cardinal confides to Ana that despite all the contingencies they studied, having a new pope who was fussy and orderly to the max was something they hadn't contemplated..
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Click here for September 17's solution
09/16/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
A restaurateur laments his new employee a ne'er do well whose job it was to make the salad menu, chalking it up to his senility.
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Click here for September 16's solution
09/15/2021
USA History
Clue
An avid collector of historical memorabilia describes how his employees were taking a look at important handwritten records President Lincoln took as he was assessing the progress the South was making during the Civil War and which had just become available on an online auction house.
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Click here for September 15's solution
09/14/2021
Food and Drink
Clue
Testimony in court denying that a foxy waitress had fallen on a tavern floor wet from a spilled pale ale with considerable but balanced malt and hop character.
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Click here for September 14's solution
09/13/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
The boss is told that [prospective hire] Laci, mysteriously evil, unless she changes her ways, is just too extremist to take a chance on.
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Click here for September 13's solution
09/10/2021
Sports
Clue
Apothecary Ned is told not to dispense any drugs to a Shakeperean beauty as she elopes with Othello.
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Click here for September 10's solution
09/09/2021
Sports
Clue
The classic emblem of Salvador, a drug addict ex-boxer's, world championship which he used as collateral for a loan, was taken back when he couldn't repay.
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Click here for September 09's solution
09/08/2021
Business
Clue
Lament from one employee to another at the mall shoe store that tonight they will also have to put up with [the craziness associated with] the buy one pair get one for 50% off sale on thsese, which will last til past midnight.
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Click here for September 08's solution
09/07/2021
Business
Clue
A detective relates how a visiting colleague from Hawaii who likes his weed has the feeling that the man they have arrested and are beginning to arraign is not really guilty, just an idealistic reformer often looking to improve the system.
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Click here for September 07's solution
09/06/2021
Business
Clue
The director of a TVcommercial for a Japanese auto company asks hi assistant Diane if he heard right, that the idiot woman in the shoot had stated that she wanted the last take to be tossed in the trash.
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Click here for September 06's solution
09/03/2021
Language
Clue
Brit soldiers in a war zone think that the very new to the job 9 young women who are charged with keeping their jeeps and such in good order are, frankly, not as good as the grizzled old veteran plumber they have.
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Click here for September 03's solution
09/02/2021
Food/History
Clue
Comment to a gentleman that the changes initiated in the recipe for the English named version of a popular Spanish rice dish by Richard III were gigantic, perhaps, dangerous, even for a king.
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Click here for September 02's solution
09/01/2021
Food/Geo
Clue
A Laugh-In comedian of note is told that an online brokerage house, embarrassed, used an old rotary phone to call up an Islamic holy man who lived in Australia for a second time.
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Click here for September 01's solution
08/31/2021
Food/Geo
Clue
It is with great style and enthusiasm that I negotiate an exchange of my edible starchy tuber for a container of a beer with a bitter flavor and higher alcoholic content with a resident of the Yucatan Peninsula.
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Click here for August 31's solution
08/30/2021
Food/Geo
Clue
Detective Mae was told by the head of the temple that there was not even a single one of their holy men who frequented the local wateringhole/BBQ joint in the wee hours after midnight.
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Click here for August 30's solution
08/27/2021
USA History/Geo)
Clue
Remembering Roswell, a comment about the ruckus over a supposed sighting of an alien ship at 9:00 PM at a Standard OIL CO. station in an artsy town in New Mexico's high dessert.
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Click here for August 27's solution
08/26/2021
World Geo/Science
Clue
A Swedish fella leaves a note for his mother telling her that he has heard that the YMCA in the capital city where they are staying has replaced its mattresses with new viscoelastic polyurethane ones.
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Click here for August 26's solution
08/25/2021
Entertainment/USA Geo
Clue
At the present time here is no legendary crypto-creature over there in the area where we are doing the job.
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Click here for August 25's solution
08/24/2021
Entertainment/USA Geo
Clue
An assistant to "The Godfather" noted that when he took the star's car to a local car wash named after the city at the western terminus of Rt. 66, they paid no attention whatsoever to cleaning the floor mats.
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Click here for August 24's solution
08/23/2021
History/Geo
Clue
Stuart takes action which greatly pleases angry Vladimir, but unfortunately it angered the inhabitants of the archipelago across the Bering Seas from his country.
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Click here for August 23's solution
08/20/2021
Sports
Clue
Opinion voiced to Japanese tennis sensation Osaka who questioned what she had just seen on the TV, namely a public service announcement for a political action committee devoted to promoting animal welfare.
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Click here for August 20's solution
08/19/2021
World Geo
Clue
I tell overweight Sol that according to myth, I and my compadres were exiled a la Napoleon, not knowing where we were before finally triumphing.
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Click here for August 19's solution
08/18/2021
World Geo
Clue
A Muslim attorney did the bidding of a spirit angel which took animal form, didn't it?
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Click here for August 18's solution
08/17/2021
Arts
Clue
An artist tell his grandmother that he is astonished at the peculiar and highly irregular result that at a charity raffle the prize was his edgy work emulating Da Vinci of a Valley Girl with an enigmatic smile.
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Click here for August 17's solution
08/16/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Ned is told that before the cleaning crew gets going at the synagogue, Anita a member of the crew sits alone contemplating what for her is a paradise, basking in its pristine beauty.
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Click here for August 16's solution
08/13/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
A man tells his grandmother what he has been doing: (1) Following the clothing optional crowd [ as a PI}, (2) making sure underage organ players do not get into a bar, and (3) hitting up prejudiced members of an organization of soil and crop experts for their dues.
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Click here for August 13's solution
08/12/2021
World Geo
Clue
Did this dark skinned fellow, almost elf-like, who has the same name as a book of the Bible come from Bangkok as I surmised?
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Click here for August 12's solution
08/11/2021
Tech/Entertainment
Clue
Incredulity at the fact that Ivan is an expert at fixing particular brand of 3-D motion picture cameras.
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Click here for August 11's solution
08/10/2021
World Geo/Food
Clue
Unfortunately, embarrassed Ronan got angry when forced to retrieve from Ayan a sweet delicate onion she had already begun eating but which belonged to an Islamic holy man.
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Click here for August 10's solution
08/09/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
A young eager farmhand warns another, veteran Red, that he is chancing an argument with the owner over his just going through the motions while milking the cow rather than by really doing it in style and giving it all he could.
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Click here for August 09's solution
08/06/2021
USA Government/History
Clue
Did I notice that the rules were often winked at when it came to the behavior of Paul, a former US Senator from Nevada, circa early 1980s?
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Click here for August 06's solution
08/05/2021
USA Government/History
Clue
A man who has been challenging the reform of marijuana laws asks his sister if SCOTUS pre O'Connnor will not in its infinite wisdom agree with him and demand that a legalization law be struck down.
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Click here for August 05's solution
08/04/2021
Food/Arts
Clue
Comment from an ink parlor artist when his customer asked how the image of his favorite dessert, which features as a base creamy layers of espresso-soaked ladyfingers, is going and has to admit that he has messed it up.
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Click here for August 04's solution
08/03/2021
Business
Clue
Len, is told by a fellow platoon member that Eve, yes, even her, sat dispirited, at a prominent convenience store chain outlet after having abandoned her post.
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Click here for August 03's solution
08/02/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
A woman with a palindromic first name, who is very sensuous and alluring works in the mines.Try to picture it!. Way to go!
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Click here for August 02's solution
07/30/2021
Food
Clue
Comment of a man who rues he is about to go off his diet when he is offered a sinfully delicious milk,egg, and sugar dessert laced with a traditional Jewish fried, filled dumpling snack.
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Click here for July 30's solution
07/29/2021
Sports/World Geo
Clue
Tim the new new chef at the restaurant at a famed Scottish golf course, site of many Open Championships, is told in no uncertain terms that his idea for a special cold dish of leftovers would be inappropriate, even if heated up, because it just didn't fit their image.
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Click here for July 29's solution
07/28/2021
Food
Clue
I tell my sister that his dish invented by Ira the chef is an improvisation on various agricultural product leftovers.
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Click here for July 28's solution
07/27/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Query from the "females are better chefs" contingent at the restaurant that Ed had been the one to redo all the spoiled cakes and pies, in spite of all of his anxieties.
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Click here for July 27's solution
07/26/2021
Entertainment
Clue
Little Joe tells his girlfriend that his hulking big brother has fis obsessed by the voice in his phone.
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Click here for July 26's solution
07/23/2021
Entertainment
Clue
Enthusiastically, a crazy Comedy Central host enlisted a "cute, furry little monster".from Sesame Street to tase an opera star.
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Click here for July 23's solution
07/22/2021
Religion
Clue
Having taken excessive flak from the other animals in the garden, Adam rails to God about the presence of disease carrying rodents in the sandwich shop he has started which are damaging other animals and crops.
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Click here for July 22's solution
07/21/2021
Worlfd Geo/Entertainment/Food
Clue
When an anthropologist studying the Korowai of New Guinea, is fed a Mexican food like dish consisting of a venerable exercise queen he remarked on how non fatty the dish was.
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Click here for July 21's solution
07/20/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Scathing, angry cursing comment form a producer auditioning a variety show to Reggie who wanted to recite poetry, that he must quit, and that his material was so bad, so there were no openings for him to get.
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Click here for July 20's solution
07/19/2021
Religion
Clue
Angry at having been banned a singer blames it on mystical esoteric knowledge acquired in the Garden of Eden in The Fall.
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Click here for July 19's solution
07/16/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
A line of dialogue from an animal fantasy book wheein a cat rejoices at having stolen a watercraft for a ride by himself with his lover unchaperoned by his owner, a young woman.
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Click here for July 16's solution
07/15/2021
World Geo
Clue
A State Department employee quizzes his boss about whether he has been named ambassador to Peru as he seems to have stumbled on the news ahead of time.
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Click here for July 15's solution
07/14/2021
Entertainment/Science
Clue
A man tells his boy how back in college, as an enemy of those who got to train for space flight, intense, crude, unsophisticated, like a Boone's Farm lush, he was aware of their "social clubs" devoted to metallurgy.
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Click here for July 14's solution
07/13/2021
Sports/World Geo
Clue
A woman leaves a note for a star Argentine footballer who also captains Barcelona, that she had had a flirtatious moment with another player who generally rides the bench for a team out of the capital of Ukraine.
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Click here for July 13's solution
07/12/2021
Government/Business
Clue
A friend of a Georgia Senator first elected in 2021 tried to get him to commit as to his view of the market, as to whether we are in an environment of stocks outperforming bonds, or vice versa, finally getting the answer that it is the former and then thanks him.
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Click here for July 12's solution
07/09/2021
USA Geography
Clue
A travel agent throws out a couple of other suggestions when her fist two, NYC and the Copacabana or Boca Raton, Florida are rejected by the client: maybe to Detroit to see The Pistons play, or to the mountains in Pennsylvania?
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Click here for July 09's solution
07/08/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
I am willing to wager that Daniel noted the spotty, sometimes good, sometimes bad employment of a spot for a trash can wielded by his rival at the advertising company.
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Click here for July 08's solution
07/07/2021
Entertainment/Science/History
Clue
Science minded town council members in Dodge City instruct the sheriff not to rely on the pseudo-scientific tenets of a Caribbean religious practice in hs investigations as it was banned by the town's charter, and to repeat his study without it,
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Click here for July 07's solution
07/06/2021
USA Geo
Clue
Let's bring in some fresh air to the handful of plots of land Pam stole but then allowed her hometown, the capital of Oregon,to use as a place where people can walk their dogs.
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Click here for July 06's solution
07/05/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Mobster tells the boss that if he fails to deliver [bootleg whiskey] even though he has plenty of mrn to do the job, he will be hated for it.
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Click here for July 05's solution
07/02/2021
Entertainment
Clue
A devotee to the max of all things related to music systems for cars is asked to give up Patricia's player for her 8 tracks immediately.
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Click here for July 02's solution
07/01/2021
USA Geo/Languages
Clue
Text from a college French major saying that he will be leaving Tuscaloosa to transfer to Kingston to continue his studies.
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Click here for July 01's solution
06/30/2021
Food and Drink
Clue
All that racket you hear is this guy again complaining about his wife not getting cantaloupes and &Up at the grocery store.
---'- ----: " -- ------? -- ----- ---- ----?"
Click here for June 30's solution
06/29/2021
Arts
Clue
The sailors on the Nautilus, docking in modern day Japan in the mid 2010s, tell the captain that they are only ogling the [beautiful] female entourage of the prime minister, but will not be paying them for favors at all.
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Click here for June 29's solution
06/28/2021
Aets
Clue
A reporter stumbles as he describes a meeting as the men gather round as a disturbance of proportions fitting this legendary king seems to be brewing, the king's disappointment with the deterioration of the kingdom's overhead cable transport system.
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Click here for June 28's solution
06/25/2021
Food and Drink/USA Geo
Clue
Flummoxed by the popular marine flatfish being served at the jamboree,( ordinary, unexciting, unappealing), I thought long and hard about the group of boys transitioning from Cub Scout to Boy Scout in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
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Click here for June 25's solution
06/24/2021
Business
Clue
Brother, did Olivia see that Edward, the nincompoop who cheated her at a Japanese car dealership, refused to acknowledge it!
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Click here for June 24's solution
06/23/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Actress Campbell, let go from her job at a famed but now closed resort in the Catskill Mountains in New York, rested in a chair at a convenience store[contemplating what to do next.]
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Click here for June 23's solution
06/22/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
The sad sack son of fashion designer Calvin.
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Click here for June 22's solution
06/21/2021
World Geo/Nature/Entertainment
Clue
Actor Guinness is told that a lover of flightless birds observed that a complete chaotic mess threatened the capital in Vientienne.
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Click here for June 21's solution
06/18/2021
USA Geo/Government
Clue
On the docket of cases to be considered by the Supreme Court: The state of Vermont's lawsuit against the the University of Texas school which trains civilians and enlisted personnel in order for them to gain a commission as officers in the armed forces.
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Click here for June 18's solution
06/17/2021
Languages
Clue
Thus, I, a Spanish woman. speculate on whether my current feeling of embarrassment is because I forgot to say "goodbye.."
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Click here for June 17's solution
06/16/2021
Business
Clue
Although his staff disagreed with him, a Pentagon bigwig gave a well known brilliant West Pointer the job of seeking out opposition research on Elon Musk's cars from a former employee who had gone rogue.
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Click here for June 16's solution
06/15/2021
World Geo
Clue
A woman expresses good wishes to her manly Aussie date telling him that the evening was compelling, engrossing.
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Click here for June 15's solution
06/14/2021
World Geo
Clue
Defying an order not to complain, a curator at an East coast art museum laments the institutions' showing of pieces from several arrogant, affluent expatriates from across the pond.
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Click here for June 14's solution
06/11/2021
History
Clue
English note smuggled out of Russia during the revolution in 1917 by a citizen to his sister living abroad, realizing that the situation was dire and that the new head of state was mindless and really bad news, and then asking for help.
-- ------! -- ----- -- -- ------- -----, ---. ---!
Click here for June 11's solution
06/10/2021
World Geo/Food and Drink
Clue
The manager of a Los Angeles bookstore tells a woman from Tijuana that they are stopping to feature, reducing the price, and putting on the super sale table, just like every other bookseller in town, a large [poor selling] book about the history of a Scotch whiskey.
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Click here for June 10's solution
06/09/2021
History
Clue
Tara noticed that Argentine president Juan, wearing this, was actually faking being a member of the press, and was a disloyal fink..
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Click here for June 09's solution
06/08/2021
Arts
Clue
[A museum director] indicates to Sy that, indeed, he should not pass along his warning about the [possible theft of their edition of ] a Homer classic.
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Click here for June 08's solution
06/07/2021
Government/Food
Clue
Quick Italian meal for agents doing airport screening.
- --- ----- -----.
Click here for June 07's solution
06/04/2021
Entertainment/Business
Clue
A woman tries to entice her friends Emily into coming for a visit, using the added enticement that it is that month that the shoe store always puts its throwback Hullabaloo dancing footwear on "Buy one, get one for hals price."
--, --'- ---- --~-- ----- ----.
Click here for June 04's solution
06/03/2021
World Geo/Science
Clue
A Serbian woman double crossing her biotech employer, having met an extra terrestrial with an earthly name who has the expertise needed, served him up to their main competitor.
---- ----- --- ----, -- -----, -- ---- ------.
Click here for June 03's solution
06/02/2021
World Geo
Clue
Casting agents describe to a [film's producers ] how they decided not to offer the role to a mad, irreligious man who was auditioning for the small part of an extremely surprised sailor sitting in a church in a major Ukrainian city.
-- ------ -- -- ----- ----- -- -- ----- --- -- -- ------ ---.
Click here for June 02's solution
06/01/2021
History
Clue
A fellow Al-Qaeda member to the boss who is holding a large book, wondering how it's going. And his response that it is the biography of the women who fathered his children.
" '---, -----?"
"-- ---- ----'- ----."
Click here for June 01's solution
05/31/2021
Arts/World Geo
Clue
I tell my grandmother that I saw an Islamic militant woman who shares the name of a TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD character and who recently graduated from college in the narrow passageway between two tall buildings swallowed in her traditional dress.
-- ------ -------, ---, - --- --- -- -- ----- ---- - -----.
Click here for May 31's solution
05/28/2021
Sports/World Geo/Food
Clue
A Jewish holy man who led his football team while in high school was the proprietor of a barbecue joint specializing in ribs.
-- ----- --- - ---- ---~-~-.
Click here for May 28's solution
05/27/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Swen reported on the flowery aromas of the spiced ale or mulled wine often traditional at Christmas.
----: ------- --- -----, ------, -- -------, --- ----.
Click here for May 27's solution
05/26/2021
World History/languages
Clue
A man, a la Julius Caesar, describes to his friend how it was more than luck that he conquered the lovely, heavenly Violet.
--, ----, ----, ----: --, ------, ---.
Click here for May 26's solution
05/25/2021
World Geo
Clue
Describing herself as both angry and looking and acting undignified, a woman curses at herself for being stranded God knows where in the desert in the Middle East.
---- --, ---- -- -----, ----- -- --- ------. ---.
Click here for May 25's solution
05/24/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
I will assess the eligibility of the sexy, shrewish fox Nan, whom I ran into in one of the outbuildings of the debate hall, to enter the contest by taking her to bed with me.
------ ----- ---, (-- ---- - --- -- -- -----), - --- ----.
Click here for May 24's solution
05/21/2021
Tech/World Geo
Clue
I tell my friend Timothy that, adopting an Indian alias, I run a con selling bootleg Apple computers in a raucous, rowdy laboratory.
---, -- - ---- -- - ----- --- - --- ----- -- ----.
Click here for May 21's solution
05/20/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Totally intoxicated by all the pies and cakes I consumed, I take off my clothes andI conceal myself below my bed, finally feeling calm.
------- ------, ----- - --- - ----, -----, ----, --- --------.
Click here for May 20's solution
05/19/2021
World Geo/Sports/Food
Clue
In a line of dialogue from a play. this Mexican woman, completely nuts, cheers and tells an Italian fellow who lassoes calves in the rodeo how much she adores her meal of highly prized mushrooms, Mexican beer and a rounded Dutch cheese in a red wax coating.
--- ----: ---, -------, -----. ---- - --, ---, - ------ -------, ------, --- ----!
Click here for May 19's solution
05/18/2021
Arts
Clue
Advice to Nathaniel on where to obtain a wind instrument for their Swedish friend.
---, -- -- --- --- - -----, -- -- ----.
Click here for May 18's solution
05/17/2021
Arts
Clue
A man is told to work the flower beds dressed outrageously in women's clothes, a la erotica author AnaĂŻs.
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Click here for May 17's solution
05/14/2021
World Geo
Clue
A home architect describes how his associate Laci has designed a bathroom future invented in France but never popular in the US, but that he put the kibosh on it as an absurd idea.
---- -------, - ---, - -----: --------.
Click here for May 14's solution
05/13/2021
Mythology/USA Geo
Clue
The woman who heads up a Tempe, AZ campus' organization of student democrats can be described as monstrous, Gorgon-like, with a stare you would not believe.
--- --- -- -- -- - ------.
Click here for May 13's solution
05/12/2021
Arts
Clue
I don't think that considering "Paradise Lost" a total piece of trash was a factor in this woman's rising through the ranks in her university's Engllsh department.
--- ----~------ --- --- ----- -----.
Click here for May 12's solution
05/11/2021
Tech
Clue
A new hire whose desk was far underground at a Titan missile facility asks for assurance from his boss that he will be able to access the internet with no lag using his old ISP/web portal.
---- ---- -- - ----? ------ --, ----, --- -- -- - --- -----.
Click here for May 11's solution
05/10/2021
Miscellaeneous
Clue
A feeble sad sack, embarrassed, I sag with weariness.
---- --------, - ----, ---. -- -----.
Click here for May 10's solution
05/07/2021
World Geo
Clue
Breezy short pieces of data regarding a Middle Eastern chickpea dish hawked by vendors along the river leading to Cairo are meant to convey just what the Egyptian government wants Damascus to hear.
---- ----- -- ---- ------- ---- ---- -----.
Click here for May 07's solution
05/06/2021
Arts
Clue
[After retiring from coaching and broadcasting] a former KC Chiefs head coach will devote his time to raising awareness against trophy hunting for bucks or irresponsible use of marijuana.
-----'- -- ----- ---- ------- -- --- ------.
Click here for May 06's solution
05/05/2021
Arts
Clue
in a comment to Ronald who was handing back scores that his music composition students had done, the author who had forgotten to put his name on his piece identifies it by its title about 9 battlefield medal of honor recipients and its key.
---, -'- - "---- ---- ---- ---" -- - -----.
Click here for May 05's solution
05/04/2021
Food/Nature
Clue
This guy, drunk, ate classic Bar-B-Q from the meat of a flightless bird.
----- -------- ---- (----:---), ---------.
Click here for May 04's solution
05/03/2021
Business
Clue
What was the brouhaha at Tesla between the boss and his CFO? Seems the financials didn't add up.
---- ---? ----- -- ---- ---.
Click here for May 03's solution
04/30/2021
History/World Geo
Clue
Even though he is wicked and actually of low social class, this tough, intimidating fellow lives like a king in his small town in Syria because he has the same name as the president,
----- ----- - ------ -----, - ---- --------.
Click here for April 30's solution
04/29/2021
World Geo
Clue
A Scottish woman is told that her town refuses to accept the results of the international cooking competition in which the actual winner was from near Copenhagen.
--- -----'- -- - ------, ------: ------ ---- ---.
Click here for April 29's solution
04/28/2021
Science/Tech
Clue
Describing this woman, who made it easy for Trevor to rise through the ranks of the group which designed the vehicle exploring the Red Planet.
---, ------'- ---- -- ---- ----- ----.
Click here for April 28's solution
04/27/2021
World Geo/Food
Clue
A Jamaican rejects pasta imported from Port Au Prince as a real nothingburger.
-- ---- ----, - ----- ----, ---.
Click here for April 27's solution
04/26/2021
Arts/Entertainment
Clue
Advice from the concert organizer in a small hamlet to a local who will turn pages for comedy pianist Victor that the performer will have a royal air about him and will play very fast in a performance.
-----, ---- -----'-- -- ------- --, --------.
Click here for April 26's solution
04/23/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
A Caribbean brand of alcoholic drink made from fermented sugar cane or molasses and combined with tropical flavors? Cure for bloating? Strange. Well, in the recommended prescription it is pretty brutal.
--- ---? ----- ---? ---. ------- --- ------.
Click here for April 23's solution
04/22/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Noting the increased activity of our crude, uncouth enemy's troops getting new tattoos, it seems to be an indication that we are battling again.
--- --- ---- -----, --'- - ----- -- ---.
Click here for April 22's solution
04/21/2021
Business
Clue
A man who had lost a ton of weight asks his wife Amy to get rid of all of his previous size of very form fitting swim suits.
--, ---- ---, ---, -- ---- -------.
Click here for April 21's solution
04/20/2021
Business
Clue
Alvin, in an offroad race calls in from his TITAN PRO-4X Crew Cab which has become bogged down in an unrecognizable area in a muddy area after his own dumb mistake, saying that his good fortune had run out.
---- -----. -'- ------ --, -- --- -- ----, ----. ---.
Click here for April 20's solution
04/19/2021
Entertainment.USA Geo
Clue
Latinish motto for the Harvard Lampoon, indicating that their work is the harbinger of truth?
------ -------.
Click here for April 19's solution
04/16/2021
History and Government
Clue
A reporter tells his assistant to send a note to let Mr. Romney know he needs to wrap up his interview responses because he is on deadline with his large NYC employer one of whose publications is famous for Person of the Year.
--- "- ---- (----~----) ----, ----. --- -- --."
Click here for April 16's solution
04/15/2021
World Geo/Science
Clue
A Tibetan Buddhist teacher outlaws intimate relations among the faithful while a fever produced by a parasite transmitted by mosquitoes was afoot.
--- -- - -------- --- - ---- -----.
Click here for April 15's solution
04/14/2021
World Geo
Clue
Comment from a journalist covering a brewing competition, that he would put his money on Anais from Minsk with her hopless, high alcohol content brew from a recipe unearthed at an archaeological dig in ancient Mesopotamia.
----, ----------- -----'- -- --- --- --.
Click here for April 14's solution
04/13/2021
Arts
Clue
When a Cambridge/Oxford literary don is asked what he feels should be on any list of monsters from Greek Mythology, he leaves a note saying that at the very least this one, counterpart to Charybdis, should be.
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Click here for April 13's solution
04/12/2021
World Geo
Clue
I tell my mother that Amy, detested by all at the delicatessen,and from Bangkok like me, noticed this fellow with a biblical name who was being followed while taking orders to customers for take out.
---, ------- -- - ----, - ---- -- - ---, --- ------ ------ -- - --------, --.
Click here for April 12's solution
04/09/2021
World Geo
Clue
One final thing that distresses Salvador about his trip to Egypt was not being able to visit the high dam on the Nile.
----, ----- ----- -- ---.
Click here for April 09's solution
04/08/2021
Entertainment/History
Clue
A close associate of "Anakin Skywalker" does a double take when he hears that he has been chosen to send a cablegram [of demands] to Earth's leaders at the World Economic Forum.
--, ----, -? ---- - ---- -----?
Click here for April 08's solution
04/07/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Maureen responds in a mocking, sarcastic way when it is suggested that she put up the money to satisfy the demands of the kidnappers.
-- ------, "-? ---- ------?"
Click here for April 07's solution
04/06/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Short tongue in cheek note from a councilman in Vero Beach Florida, suggesting a new slogan for the town, hoping to attract the spring break crowd.
-- ----: ---- ---- -------.
Click here for April 06's solution
04/05/2021
Food and Drink/USA Government
Clue
Nathaniel, a US Navy watchstanding officer on a ship is offered Indian food by the steward.
--------, ---, --- ---?
Click here for April 05's solution
04/02/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
However, this very large dog was a perfect choice for this very large guy.
--- - ------- --- ---, - ---.
Click here for April 02's solution
04/01/2021
Food and Drink
Clue
A youngster exults to his parents when he notes that at the various event venues at the Olympics he can get his favorite drink, one usually advertised in a pitcher with a smiley face.
----~--- -- ------! ----!
Click here for April 01's solution
03/31/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
After Ira has fallen for a girl who works at Starbucks, a friend tells him that he should dump her since her college entrance exam score was so low.
-- --- -------'- ---- --- -- ---'-, ---, -- "--, --."
Click here for March 31's solution
03/30/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
A terse note from a woman to her online dating service letting them know that her most recent date was a big nothing, and that it looked like prospects for Mr. Right were not in the offing based on who they had matched her up with so far.
- ----, --------. -- --. -----. ~ ---.
Click here for March 30's solution
03/29/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
As an enemy of an enemy of a rude, crude lass, I have been alerted.
------, - --, - --- -- - --- -- - ------ ---.
Click here for March 29's solution
03/26/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
This woman, hardly alluring, crazy and certainly not likely to turn any head, is wise to her grandmother's lies.
------, -- -----, -----, -- -------, -- ---- ----.
Click here for March 26's solution
03/25/2021
USA History
Clue
A young woman is told that this man, working at a legendary New York City restaurant, angrily drew up the alphabetical listing of all the people, places, etc. referenced in a book about the USA's early 1970s presidents's schoolboy days.
------, -- -- ---- ------- ----- -~-- -----, ---.
Click here for March 25's solution
03/24/2021
Science
Clue
A detective asks Stuart, the head of the crime lab, whether the genetic evidence in the case and found on his murdered frat brother still pointed to his [former girlfriend] Fiona, even after retesting, and whether that was the final say in the matter.
---, ---'- ---'- -----? -----? --'- - -- --- ---- -- ----?
Click here for March 24's solution
03/23/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Incredulity at the suggestion that to followers of Muhammad the worst thing any animal in the Class to which humnad belong can do is to smoke marijuana.
---- -- ----- ------ --- -- ---?!?
Click here for March 23's solution
03/22/2021
Entertainment/Food and Drink
Clue
Quick! get out of here. If they ask why you left, tell them you needed to go out and get breath mints.
----! ---- ---`----.
Click here for March 22's solution
03/19/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
POST ANIMAL HOUSE NEWS: Eric Stratton, now working for the District Attorney's office, a guy Ada had a sexual relationship with, consumed a popular sweet Italian liqueur.
"-----," - --- --- ---, -- ---, --- -- --------.
Click here for March 19's solution
03/18/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
A surgeon comments to his mother about how funny it is that he feels extremely nervous while going under the knife himself.
--, ------, -- - ----- -- -- - --.
Click here for March 18's solution
03/17/2021
History
Clue
Enthusiastically, excessively interested in all the statistics, in her home city in Florida, Lana was quite a supporter [of her baseball team] that I know.
---- -- - ---. ----, ---- ---, - ---, ---------- --- - ----.
Click here for March 17's solution
03/16/2021
History
Clue
The wife of the explorer for whom the Americas got their name tells him, lovingly, that she doesn't want ANY setbacks or difficulties, even minor ones, in their plans.
-- -------, ---- ---, --------, ---.
Click here for March 16's solution
03/15/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Ida is snapped up to try to restart a low quality trade newspaper devoted to Juul and the like that I had dissolved and given up control of.
- --------- -~--------- --- - ----- ---- ---.
Click here for March 15's solution
03/12/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
A man posts on social media how much he really likes Maureen.
---, - -- -- --- --!
Click here for March 12's solution
03/11/2021
Food/World Geo
Clue
A man whispers to his mother suggesting that she limit the use of a creamed filling of Hormel "meat" in her Viet Namese dish baked in a pastry shell.
--, ----! ------ - ----- ----'- ----.
Click here for March 11's solution
03/10/2021
Entertainment/Science
Clue
In a deleted line of dialogue from Jurassic park, a worker tells companion Edward that he had such bad BO that even the fiercest of their animals noticed it and reacted.
---: -- - -~--- - --- ----- -- ----.
Click here for March 10's solution
03/09/2021
Business/Entertainment
Clue
Sister of a "Music Man" girl slangily tells her that it was ridiculous that their Dad thought a good new place to live was at a local hotel.
-----, ------ -- --- -- - ---, ---------.
Click here for March 09's solution
03/08/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
I tell the gentleman that I walked in out of the rain, embarrassed, angry at the delicatessen, and had a bowl of miscellaneous meat and veggie leftovers on a bed of flowers.
---, -- -, ---, ------, ---, ------ -- - ----; ------- --- ---- -- ----.
Click here for March 08's solution
03/05/2021
World Geo
Clue
In a line of dialogue from a play a travel agent tries to get Ed to decide where he wants to go on vacation, suggesting, perhaps to see the opera at La Scala, or climb Mt. McKinley, or perhaps to visit the desert in Southern California.
--- --: -----, --? ------? ------?
Click here for March 05's solution
03/04/2021
Food/Languages
Clue
A French "psychic" crows to his friend and seeks validation that he was exactly right in predicting the chefs feted in a contest in Cleveland to come up with recipes using the underground stem of the taro; that he was the best!
-'- - ---- -- ---- -- ---- --- --------, --? ----, ---!
Click here for March 04's solution
03/03/2021
USA Geo
Clue
A woman who was not recognized by the man speaking to her tells him that perhaps he remembers her as a student at Duke, UNC, or NC State where she led the modern Pagan Witchcraft Society.
---, -- --- - --- - ------, ----.
Click here for March 03's solution
03/02/2021
Arts/History/Tech
Clue
A message being reviewed by Captain Queeg saying that an alliance formed in 1949 and headquartered in Brussels had just acquired one of the world's first general purpose programmable computers.
-----, ---- --- -- -----.
Click here for March 02's solution
03/01/2021
Sports/Language/Arts
Clue
Comment from a guy playing golf with erotica's Anais as caddy, explaining his previous throwback request saying that he didn't want a niblick either.
---, -.-., ---, - ---- ----.
Click here for March 01's solution
02/26/2021
Sports/Entertainment
Clue
The Japanese style wrestling champion at an army installation speculates to himself whether he should have chosen a dance in the style of Gene Kelly for the talent show, as abuse was heaped upon him.
"-- ---?" -- ----- - ---- ----, ---- --.
Click here for February 26's solution
02/25/2021
Sports/Business
Clue
Former San Antonio Spur guard Ginobli [now involved in real estate] tells how he prevented 9 agents at a prominent national real estate company from instigating an absolute tidal wave of home repossessions.
-, ----, ---- ---, ---- --- -- - ---- -------.
Click here for February 25's solution
02/24/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
In a note the manager of a fine lodging establishment in Iraq named after a prominent Meopotamian city-state tells his Spanish bartender that they are going to take chance and flout a rule against serving hard liquor to women by giving the current guest some "White Label.
---., -- ---- ----- --'- ----: -- ---, - ------.
Click here for February 24's solution
02/23/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Clue: (Category = Miscellaneous) A palindromic to-do list:
* Do some sketching
* Leave home
* Watch youtube videos of soccer's famed #10 of Santos
* Urinate
* Place [baby] Ed securely in his car seat.
* ----
* ------
* --- ----
* ---
* ----- ------
Click here for February 23's solution
02/22/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
After the trial was over a mafioso don wonders to his wife whether his arrogant disloyal former associate had in his testimony to the prosecutor weaved a fictional tale making himself look good.
--! --- -- ------ --- ---- - --, ---?
Click here for February 22's solution
02/19/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
When her friend Pam speculated on how awful her extreme camping venture must have been because of the lack of any "facilities," a British woman responds in the negative indicating that that is a wacky idea as she is used to blazing new trails, having new experiences. exploring the unknown.
--- ----? --, -, ---, -- - -------, ----.
Click here for February 19's solution
02/18/2021
Food/Business/Entertainment
Clue
The Barefoot Contessa is introduced to an Italian fashion designer of note.
---, --. ------.
Click here for February 18's solution
02/17/2021
Food/Business
Clue
An order to Anna to prevent tomorrow's planned delivery, like a gift from heaven, of a prominent brand of refrigerator full of fruit[ to the refugees.]
----, ------ --- ----- ------ -----.
Click here for February 17's solution
02/16/2021
Sports/Food
Clue
A fireballing phenom of the Oakland A's who won the Cy Young and MVP awards in 1971 tells how he called a state of emergency when he observed a container of a Southern nougat-like candy made from egg white, corn syrup, and sugar, that he was expecting to have to finish his meal, but which which was extremely near going bad.
--, -------- --- - -------- --- -, ----, ---, -------. ---!
Click here for February 16's solution
02/15/2021
World Geo
Clue
An eastern European woman whose name means "peace" and now resides in Dublin noted that to her the solemn pledges of fealty to her new country written into its constitution were examples of the "right way" or natural order of things.
----- ----- --- -- -- ----- "---."
Click here for February 15's solution
02/12/2021
World Geo
Clue
The commander of forces fighting a Northern Italian city in the Middle Ages yells to a lieutenant that they have been conned into attacking the castle walls.
--'- - ----, ------ - ----- -------, ----.
Click here for February 12's solution
02/11/2021
Arts
Clue
Owner of an ink parlor in a city where the Nautilus has docked tells his wife that he is able to serve the crew by always remaining in the present, not dwelling on any past mistakes or worrying about the future.
--, - --- -- ---- --- --- ------ -- - ----.
Click here for February 11's solution
02/10/2021
Misellaneous
Clue
Alvin sees his wife weighed down, arms full at the department store and speculates as to whether she is shopping for Christmas with the idea of the store setting them aside in exchange for a deposit, to be paid for later.
"------- --- -- ------- - ---?" -------- --.
Click here for February 10's solution
02/09/2021
Sports
Clue
Fed Cup captain in the late 1990s speculates on whether his star player Monica is too exhausted to be of much usein the upcoming match.
----- ---, -- ----- -------? - ------ --.
Click here for February 09's solution
02/08/2021
World Geo
Clue
Obese Sara can hardly believe herself when she thinks she sees a dreadlocked member of a Jamaican religious movement on TV.
--- - ----------- -- ---, - --- ---- ---?
Click here for February 08's solution
02/05/2021
MMiscellaneous
Clue
A detective says they have arrested a depressed, spoiled sports team ace who has run away from a local private boys' school.
---, - ----, - ---- ----'- - ----, ----.
Click here for February 05's solution
02/04/2021
Sports&Games
Clue
A fellow bridge player warns a friend looking for a partner to reconsider taking on Dee, as her record in bidding and bringing home 6 and 7 level contracts is bad.
---? --- ------ ----- -'- ------.
Click here for February 04's solution
02/03/2021
Entertainment/Food
Clue
When Oscar winner Robbins takes Oscar winner Berry on a date, he tells her that he is actually very good at a Spanish dish of a Spanish dish of rice, saffron, chicken, seafood, etc,. that she thought was beyond his skills.
--, -----, --- -- -, ---, -- ------, ---.
Click here for February 03's solution
02/02/2021
Science/USA Geo
Clue
An aide to West Point teacher Abtaham tells him that one of the top notch students, even though drunk on his butt in bio lab, was able to find the one-celled animal in his microscope.
---, - ---, - ------ --- ----- --- -- ------.
Click here for February 02's solution
02/01/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Alas and alack, a feline devotee of Mexican food has lost its voice!
---, --. ---- ---'- ----!
Click here for February 01's solution
01/29/2021
Entertainment/USA Geo
Clue
A woman whose last name is the same as a man's first name is told that ultra cool American actor, comedian, talk show host, writer and producer Hall had now come to the attention of the powers that be in the capital of Iowa.
--- -------, --. ------, --- ---- --- ------' -----.
Click here for January 29's solution
01/28/2021
Business
Clue
Ahmad is told that this fellow who lives in a grotta uses a Hoover or a Dyson to clean up, not some off brand.
------- ---- ---, -----, - ---- ---.
Click here for January 28's solution
01/27/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
Are you really leaving a gratuity for our waiter who had such bad underarm odor?
--- --. ------?
Click here for January 27's solution
01/26/2021
History
Clue
When appointed as a US Marshall, this legendary Western figure is encouraged not to rely on the banned use of pseudo-scientific, mystic beliefs in his investigations.
-----, ---~--, ---.
Click here for January 26's solution
01/25/2021
Entertainment/Tech
Clue
In a line of dialogue cut from screenplay for "The Godfather" Stuart expresses surprise and disappointment to Corleone that he cannot watch one show with him on TV and record another.
---: --, ----! -- ----? ----!
Click here for January 25's solution
01/22/2021
Sports/USA Geo
Clue
A man explains to his son that the cause of the riot was not hatred, exactly, it was just when the relentless, unending spirit of the Arizona State fans collided with the anger of the USC fans when the Trojans lost the away game in the final seconds.
--, ------ ----- --- --- -- ---, ---.
Click here for January 22's solution
01/21/2021
History/Sports&Games
Clue
I tell my sister that the boxer who won the bout all the while demeaning and belittling his opponent and now sports the spoils of victory is condemned by just about everybody the way things stand.
---, - -------'- ----- ----, --'- ------- -- --.
Click here for January 21's solution
01/20/2021
History/Sports&Games
Clue
Indifference to a motocross pileup.
---, ------ ------.
Click here for January 20's solution
01/19/2021
History/Sports&Games
Clue
Ira began to wonder about a prominent computer networking company of the 1990s , now defunct, supporting the efforts of another, also now defunct , which he considered quite a chancy move.
------ -----, --- -------- ---, - ----, ---------?
Click here for January 19's solution
01/18/2021
History/Sports&Games
Clue
I ( playing 1:e4, e5 2. Nf3, Nc6 3:Bb5 .. as white) and following Bret in a chess challenge to Soviet leader Andropov in 1983, really am disconcerting him.
- ( --- ----- ) ----- ---- ---- --- ----.
Click here for January 18's solution
01/15/2021
Entertainment/USA Geo
Clue
A friend leaves a note for experimental and ambient music impressario music Brian, disappointed that on his recent trip to the US he had not returned with tattoos of the Alamo, or a longhorn steer or an oil well or something.
-- ---- ---- ----- ----? ----. ---! ~ ---
Click here for January 15's solution
01/14/2021
Arts/USA Geo
Clue
Curt response from an art appraiser who reports in the negative on the authenticity of an Impressionist painting of ballerinas hanging in the statehouse in Des Moines as it is a modern forgery, having been artificially treated to make it look older.
-- ----- -- - ---, ---( ----'-): -- -- ----.--.
Click here for January 14's solution
01/13/2021
Arts/SPorts
Clue
[Having become a poetry maven, I suppose] a former Cleveland Browns and San Diego State quarterback howled again at a woman whose name is based on an island which in Greek myth was the home of Apollo and Artemis, about how irritated he was about the just not quite right lyric poems he was reviewing.
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Click here for January 13's solution
01/12/2021
USA Geo
Clue
A prominent Indiana University took a haughty royal tone as it again retweeted a post about beer drinking on campus.
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Click here for January 12's solution
01/11/2021
World Geo
Clue
I correct my Scottish friend who had misidentified my cooking vessel as his, the one that was cooking spuds on the range.
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Click here for January 11's solution
01/08/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
A defense attorney wonders to her husband and law partner as they review the trial transcript, whether a turncoat witness who carried himself with more personal importance than is warranted had put one over on the District Attorney.
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Click here for January 08's solution
01/07/2021
Miscellaneous
Clue
You're wrong, that story telling me that Deron, CEO of a Las Vegas gambling establishment is embarrassed about the mishap is a scam.
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Click here for January 07's solution
01/06/2021
History
Clue
Even an ancient fabulist isn't immune to criticism, as Eleanor is told to mount a campaign to object to his Facebook message.
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Click here for January 06's solution
01/05/2021
World Geo
Clue
Refugees fleeing North from a huge storm in the Mediterranean seek shelter in a mainland grotto.
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Click here for January 05's solution
01/04/2021
Entertainment
Clue
One classic actor of the early to mid twentieth century noted that another was not mesmerized by a performance by a country singer with an amusement park named after her.
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Click here for January 04's solution
01/01/2021
World Geo/Business
Clue
I tell my grandmother that my current state of mind, stemming from being lost in thought daydreaming over some Irish poetry, was of an impending disaster for Texas Instruments[my employer.]
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Click here for January 01's solution
12/31/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
A stylish gentleman judging a brutal competitive flower planting contest is asked if crude contestant Ned made fun ofa sad sack spineless foe from Dublin.
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Click here for December 31's solution
12/30/2020
Food/World Geo
Clue
Excuse me, I will not be subjected to an invasive company mandated course of treatment involving a starchy Hawaiian vegetable, no I won't, so there!
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Click here for December 30's solution
12/29/2020
Geography/Nature
Clue
A man planning a Traditional Jewish Passover feast is told that they have acquired the rights to do it at a Las Vegas vacation spot just off the strip and named for this plant:
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Click here for December 29's solution
12/28/2020
Entertainment/Food and Drink
Clue
When Belle finds out that the local who is her suitor has asked her to dinner and and has decided to serve venison, she tells him that she is thinking about a variety of red wines , but not that of the Vitis vinifera variety, and seeks his approval.
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Click here for December 28's solution
12/25/2020
Arts/US History
Clue
Props for a newly developed rapid fire gun in a madcap comedy play centered around the US Civil War.
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Click here for December 25's solution
12/24/2020
World Geo
Clue
A French business owner laments to his wife that they had no income at all, not even from their Japanese subsidiary, nor , heavens, was any expected.
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Click here for December 24's solution
12/23/2020
World Geo
Clue
Nathaniel, injured by a poisonous snake, was in the capital of Jordan I noted to a Sherpa, a member of this ethnic group.
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Click here for December 23's solution
12/22/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
A parent expresses great surprise when he learns that in the skit his son's Cub Scout troop is going to perform, their leader Deborah will play the part of a sick sheep.
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Click here for December 22's solution
12/21/2020
Sports/Entertainment
Clue
A typical young guy and NFL fan speculates on the lack of desire to play a football video game with him by girls he has wined and dined, even though they seem embarrassed at that stance.
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Click here for December 21's solution
12/18/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
How's my reception on my wireless phone network? Well, where are periods of long pauses and reverberation as my voice bounces back at me.
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Click here for December 18's solution
12/17/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
In a contest to see who can make the best carbonated beverage from scratch, one contestant notes that his main rival is using a few aromatic seeds from the parsley family which have a hint of a licorice flavor.
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Click here for December 17's solution
12/16/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
So,if it isn't Lewis, smelling of rank, sinful illegal activities!
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Click here for December 16's solution
12/15/2020
Sports/World Geo
Clue
Response form a judge at an art show when he notes what he considers absolute rubbish: the unfortunate appearance of pieces made by subjecting the paint to the fluttering wings of certain flying insects, indicating that he doesn't even think they belonged in the show.
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Click here for December 15's solution
12/14/2020
Sports/World Geo
Clue
Describing a famed New York Yankee first baseman who is as skilled at as anyone in the kitchen, whether using traditional or Chinese frying vessels.
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Click here for December 14's solution
12/11/2020
Arts/World Geo
Clue
The board of La Scala directs that its staff begin a program of rotating performances at regular short intervals at a venue in the shadow of the Matterhorn.
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Click here for December 11's solution
12/10/2020
World History/Geo
Clue
A Southern US woman bemoans to a girlfriend she is very fond of that there is not one virile gent with stones in the whole room.
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Click here for December 10's solution
12/09/2020
World Hostory/Geo
Clue
Feeling comfortable now? You idiot! This Mexican guy has recruited a whole host of men ( recruited from a Mideast terrorist organization) carrying weapons.
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Click here for December 09's solution
12/08/2020
Science/Nature
Clue
Each of a couple of flightless birds, having heard that there was an alligator lurking at their watering hole, see lots of other animals around and comment that there must be nothing to worry about.
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Click here for December 08's solution
12/07/2020
Entertianment/World Geo
Clue
Am I right, When the Viet Namese New Year's celebration comes around I notice that talk show host O'Brien is helping celebrate by joining in with seven other people to sing?
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Click here for December 07's solution
12/04/2020
History and Government
Clue
The president of the USA remarks on how, embarrassed and frequently agitated, unable to sleep, he still has faith in his senior ministers, a great group of people.
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Click here for December 04's solution
12/03/2020
World Geo/Sports
Clue
An associate is flabbergasted at the Commissioner of the NFL in the 1990s over a scandal involving using league funds to get some of their stars on a tour of Europe out of jail.
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Click here for December 03's solution
12/02/2020
History
Clue
We decided not to do any more business with them because, good grief, we found that they held people as slaves during the Holocaust.
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Click here for December 02's solution
12/01/2020
Sports
Clue
A woman partnering with Anne to back a new work by Puccini in Austria wanderers of they can get their money back as she wants nothing to do with a production that just seems to be going through the motions.
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Click here for December 01's solution
11/30/2020
Sports
Clue
An agent for an NBA basketball official tells his client that the proposal made by leagues in Europe was not as generous as what he now had.
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Click here for November 30's solution
11/27/2020
Sports/World Geo
Clue
Daniel, a marathoner relates how disappointed he was to have to do an event in ancient Mesopotamia without his beloved Nikes, having to wear a competing brand.
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Click here for November 27's solution
11/26/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
A Thanksgiving hostess tries to allay the fears of Dee who had brought "sweet potatoes," (disclaiming them as being a not inspired choice),telling her it was always something she could use.
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Click here for November 26's solution
11/25/2020
Entertainment
Clue
At a break in rehearsals for "The Sound of Music," the man playing Von Trapp notices that a couple of the actresses including his beautiful counterpart lead seemed faint so he suggested that someone go over and make sure at least one of them got some air, as they seemed immobile and dazed mentally.
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Click here for November 25's solution
11/24/2020
Sports
Clue
Rosemary, the newspaper publisher is told that their head sports guy cut his teeth on, was engendered from his experiences in college covering Alabama football.
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Click here for November 24's solution
11/23/2020
USA Geo/Arts
Clue
Can the alien ships discovered by SMU students in Dallas be something that the music department can use in its upcoming Verdi and Puccini productions?
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Click here for November 23's solution
11/20/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
If you want to assist us, make every effort to be gracefully flexible AND sexy.
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Click here for November 20's solution
11/19/2020
World Geo
Clue
An astronomy buff from Muscat on the Arabian Peninsula is delighted, referring to himself, to hear that he has a chance to participate in an orgy, and says that he is all in, the more debauchery the netter.
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Click here for November 19's solution
11/18/2020
Entertainment
Clue
A fellow from Glasgow had stolen money sent to Edward, an aging despicable fellow helping finance the South in the Civil War.
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Click here for November 18's solution
11/17/2020
Entertainment
Clue
The conductor of the orchestra that will accompany pianist/ comedian Victor in the concerto is forewarned that he will try to set a blistering pace.
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Click here for November 17's solution
11/16/2020
Arts
Clue
Edward, a teaching assistant going for his MFA is very disappointed when the University decides to sell off a painting by a prominent pointillist from its permanent collection.
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Click here for November 16's solution
11/13/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Frustrated, exhausted, not knowing where he, and drunk on top of it all, a man being hectored reluctantly agrees to join two pieces of metal in a low-melting alloy, based on lead and tin.
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Click here for November 13's solution
11/12/2020
Sports
Clue
Margaret is given a thumbs up on the instructor she has drawn for her civil law 101 class at law school.
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Click here for November 12's solution
11/11/2020
Sports
Clue
Comment from a real estate lawyer to an all time great NY Giant linebacker that the document showing his ownership rights to 9 undeveloped pieces of property unfortunately had been taken in a burglary.
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Click here for November 11's solution
11/10/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
A boy politely explains to the church's pastor's wife how his mother cursed and was abusive to 9 elders from the church who had come to lecture and pray over her right in their family room.
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Click here for November 10's solution
11/09/2020
Sports
Clue
When a business rep for tennis champ Rafa came into the Spa Store and did not see the model that they had wanted to buy, the owner indicates that he and his young assistant had squirreled one away for him.
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Click here for November 09's solution
11/06/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Thus it was that Laci showed [the press] all the capabilities for administering first aid that were available at all the venues being used [by the Olympics.]
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Click here for November 06's solution
11/05/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
I observe that hauntingly, dangerously beautiful Ida who runs the greasy spoon does not allow the use of a common amphetamine.
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Click here for November 05's solution
11/04/2020
Food
Clue
I wailed loudly to the breakfast chef when I discovered that my hearty egg dish was soaked in a fruit drink suffused with a licorice flavored liqueur before cooking.
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Click here for November 04's solution
11/03/2020
Entertainment
Clue
It's strange. but during his physical in "Midnight Cowboy" Rizzo's doctor was ,ost interested in his daring new hair style.
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Click here for November 03's solution
11/02/2020
World Geo
Clue
Indeed, I am pretty much chillaxin' over the mistake we made regarding that woman roaming the mountains with her family in Switzerland.
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Click here for November 02's solution
10/30/2020
Food
Clue
A soldier tells nis NCO, who was trying to fix a New York Jets football game how he had tried to bribe one of the players , who was very mad about it, with a free Uber and and one of the officials with a goose liver delicacy.
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Click here for October 30's solution
10/29/2020
History
Clue
A girlfriend of Mrs. Peron tells her that her new lover does not go for much experimentation in the bedroom.
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Click here for October 29's solution
10/28/2020
Entertainment
Clue
A comedian relates how after having been invited to dinner at a prominent rapper's house, he was being brave in his routine by satirizing him and ragging on the dinner of leftovers he was served.
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Click here for October 28's solution
10/27/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Patient to his MD evidencing his great distaste for a classic fish oil extract as malevolent and vile.
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Click here for October 27's solution
10/26/2020
Entertainment/Food and Drink
Clue
I tell British actor David( "Around the World in 80 Days"), redundantly, that as no other wine producer had shown up for the competition, I was victorious.
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Click here for October 26's solution
10/23/2020
Sports
Clue
Deirdre, tasked with taking measurements of a former Dallas Cowboy quarterback for a new suit, was incredibly nervous and scared.
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Click here for October 23's solution
10/22/2020
History/Food
Clue
A A guy questions his girl Dee, on how splendid the soiree at the Trump compound was, as he had gotten his fiill of cheap noodles when he was in college.
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Click here for October 22's solution
10/21/2020
World/Arts
Clue
At the museum a painting of small islands in the Tiber near the capital was displayed next to several hellish pieces of visual art based on illusions, extolling love and done in the subdued colors of a chalk like crayon.
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Click here for October 21's solution
10/20/2020
World Geo/Food &Drink
Clue
Response from a VERY precocious baby to a young Columbian woman who was making nice with the baby asking him what he was drinking from his bottle.
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Click here for October 20's solution
10/019/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
A girl protests to her mother's idea that she break up with her boyfriend because he was ugly to her about her weight, telling her he thinks she is sexy anyway and inadvertently punning on where they met, in the whirlpool.
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Click here for October 19's solution
10/016/2020
History/Government
Clue
In a line of dialogue from a play, the physician to NYC Mayor circa 2020 tells a political opponent that the rude,, indecent story going around about the mayor is batshit crazy.
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Click here for October 16's solution
10/015/2020
Food
Clue
Reply to Rae about how to cook a popular game fish: in a shallow vessel with bursts of intense heat to form a crust.
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Click here for October 15's solution
10/014/2020
History/Business
Clue
Although she should have known better, Emily, more than anyone else unwittingly smuggled for Arthur a popular bottled water up and and down a river, the site of a prominent WW I battle in France.
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Click here for October 14's solution
10/013/2020
Entertainment/Sports
Clue
Actor McGregor is told by the editors at Sports Afield that the scratch and sniff advertisements will come to and end beginning with the issue out middle of next week.
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Click here for October 13's solution
10/012/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Name of a church social group for seniors that meets over breakfast and is as much about gossip as studying the scriptures.
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Click here for October 12's solution
10/09/2020
Food/Business
Clue
A man encourages his friend to hurry up and select the chic, saucy white heron dish that is now available at Marcus Samuelsson's famed Harlem restaurant.
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Click here for October 09's solution
10/08/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
A boy questions his mother at the seeming inability of [his brother] Sol to understand what was going on, a feeling he shared.
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Click here for October 08's solution
10/07/2020
World Geo/History
Clue
Terse response back to philosopher Kierkegaard warning him not to have sex with with hot young woman he had met vacationing in Nassau.
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Click here for October 07's solution
10/06/2020
USA Geo
Clue
A college student in Hamilton, New York tells a prof that he would bet his pistol that the small restaurant on campus risked going out business by continuing to serve leftovers and table scraps.
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Click here for October 06's solution
10/05/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
When two girls with the same name riding a tandem bicycle came into the delicatessen to ask for help in changing a tire but were told that the store was too busy to help them, their becoming extremely snarky about it did not help them at all.
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Click here for October 05's solution
10/02/2020
Arts
Clue
In possible the worst editorial decision ever made an editor suggests that the firm may not want to take a chance on this new "Harry Potter" thing, as the author was an unknown with no previously published works.
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Click here for October 02's solution
10/01/2020
World Geo
Clue
Statement issued by the NY Transit Authority giving a religious group pushing the three fold nature of God permission to let them make a presentation in the vicinity of, strike that, actually ON, the line which dates back the the origin of the NY subway system.
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Click here for October 01's solution
09/30/2020
Arts/History
Clue
A Jules Verne captain is told by some of his crew members that they are going to snatch up the sophisticated, wordly women who work for a fixed regular payment for an ill mannered, impolite young woman who was part of a paramilitary group prominent in Belfast in the latter part of the 20th century.
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Click here for September 30's solution
09/29/2020
Arts
Clue
Director Laci is questioned about her choice to begin the play with act two, a move that definitely did not conform to normal practice.
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Click here for September 29's solution
09/28/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
In Los Angeles a woman with children who is an army deserter, after she had eaten, slandered a member of the top brass at her base.
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Click here for September 28's solution
09/25/2020
Food and Drink/World Geo
Clue
I tell my Jamaican pal not that I am indifferent to it, but that sweet red wine from Lisbon paired with Mexican food is an absolute disaster.
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Click here for September 25's solution
09/24/2020
Food and Drink/Science
Clue
A police lab tech texts a young female detective telling her that the wine glass at the crime scene had no traces of the victim's favorite Italian brand, or was of any genetic value.
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Click here for September 24's solution
09/23/2020
Business
Clue
Yoko's business manager instructs an assistant to copy her on the email detailing news that The Tuttles of Orange County New York plan to build a Beatles tribute bike.
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Click here for September 23's solution
09/22/2020
Business
Clue
One stock broker to the next as he hails gains of his recent purchase on share of The "Amazon"of China.
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Click here for September 22's solution
09/21/2020
Food
Clue
Parents' instructions to the babysitter, that rather than let the child get upset, just give in if he demands to eat Mexican food.
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Click here for September 21's solution
09/18/2020
USA Geo
Clue
Officials in one of New York City's boroughs investigated an organization that colludes to keep up prices of a mostly green ornamental mineral by following the crazy tattoo habits of its leaders.
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Click here for September 18's solution
09/17/2020
USA Geo/Sports
Clue
In a line of dialogue from a play about a prominent US marathon race on Patriot's Day, competitor Patricia tells a resident who had asked if she was going to run, answered "No, sadly" because it was cold and windy and no warming was in the forecast.
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Click here for September 17's solution
09/16/2020
Business
Clue
A woman who won the "telephone company's" beauty contest suggests that she be referred to as emblematic of a cultural phenomenon as her picture is constantly shared on social media.
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Click here for September 16's solution
09/15/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Keith is told that his girlfriend Gina does not to make love while wearing her lingerie.
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Click here for September 15's solution
09/14/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
An eclectic group were passengers in a (very large) watercraft of Inuit origin which can be folded up: 2 women named Edna, a soldier Ron, a family member of the ruling North Korean government, Kay, and a silly fool.
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Click here for September 14's solution
09/11/2020
Language
Clue
After Pat, visiting a nomad in his railroad boxcar, had speculated negatively on his host's ability to provide some suds for refreshment, she gets this surprising answer, delivered with a Southern colloquialism,as he heads toward his keg and spigot for an admittedly Irish off brand.
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Click here for September 11's solution
09/10/2020
World Geo
Clue
Although most saw him as an obese fool I viewed this biblically named devotee of The Flying Saghetti Monster as quite charming and dshing.
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Click here for September 10's solution
09/09/2020
Arts/History
Clue
I tell Evelyn that I am smearing the view on help for the poor espoused in the writings of Objectivist philosopher Ayn.
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Click here for September 09's solution
09/08/2020
Food and Drink
Clue
Stuart motioned with his head that he wanted toroidal deep fried breakfast sweets made from spaghetti dough, ...that idiot.
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Click here for September 08's solution
09/07/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
I tell famed opera singer Bert to pass on my alert about impish children who like Latin music.
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Click here for September 07's solution
09/04/2020
Food and Drink
Clue
Even though he has fled to a star system approximately 31 trillion meters ( 3.26 light years) away, Ira still will have to stand trial on sexual assault charges , won't he?
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Click here for September 04's solution
09/03/2020
World Geo/Fashion
Clue
A line of dialogue from a play in which angry Timothy notes to his girlfriend that he is sporting his new suit from one of London's top drawer tailors, and then curses at discovering a blemish on it.
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Click here for September 03's solution
09/02/2020
World Geo/History
Clue
Report to a Swedish [journalist] that this island of the Tuscan Archipelago and famous in palindrome circles does not think that FoxNews, MSNBC, CNN, FNN,Bloomberg TV, ESPN News, or any others like them are slanted communistic in their reporting.
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Click here for September 02's solution
09/01/2020
World Geo/Arts
Clue
Heed the fact that when polled on who they thought would win the Oscar for best documentary, the citizens of this Northern Ireland province went overwhelmingly for their countryman Bret who chronicled the unmasking in Egypt of his enemy who had been trafficking in fake modern art ( he had been photocopying it.)
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Click here for September 01's solution
08/31/2020
Arts
Clue
When the all male stenography pool visited the Louvre and were irked that the crowds were so bad, I pointed out to them that they could easily and quickly see a grouping of famous water lily paintings.
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Click here for August 31's solution
08/28/2020
Food/Business/History
Clue
Describing a woman whose sons are members of an Irish paramilitary organization, followed to a Jason's near the boat docks.
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Click here for August 28's solution
08/27/2020
Sports
Clue
Sign to Indy 500 driver telling him that not only is it the absolutely perfect time during the race to come in, but that when he does he can get some absolutely perfect weed to smoke.
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Click here for August 27's solution
08/26/2020
World Geo
Clue
Take a look at the historic places in Brazil's second largest city where on the docks there are often huge parties, taking advantage of the hot weather.
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Click here for August 26's solution
08/25/2020
Food/Cooking
Clue
When I demurred it was concerning my objection to using the maximum amount of this common cooking extract possible in the recipe.
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Click here for August 25's solution
08/24/2020
Food/World Geo
Clue
A rather moody, distant native of Naples, having been tasked with designing a container worthy of holding prickly pair delicacies for sale is told in no uncertain terms to really get it perfect this time.
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Click here for August 24's solution
08/21/2020
Science
Clue
A college student who is a member of ΔΤΔ is told by the professor who runs a psychology research facility on campus which has a reputation for raucous behavior that he scared some of the subjects [when he came into the lab early in the morning and turned the lights on.]
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Click here for August 21's solution
08/20/2020
Food
Clue
Plan for huge fruit pies to be served in the dining car of a computer/internet enhanced overhead trolley system.
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Click here for August 20's solution
08/19/2020
Tech/Business
Clue
Stuart tells everyone that he is embarrassed to be using an Apple product instead of a PC and that he feels he has been ostracized.
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Click here for August 19's solution
08/18/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Question from a member of a strange religious group with a slavish veneration for its leader and whose ceremonies revolve around regular gatherings where each member brings a covered dish, regarding their skipping his house in the rotation.
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Click here for August 18's solution
08/17/2020
Sports
Clue
When Ms. Williams faded during the stretch is a match when she fell sick, she offers this suggestion to sportswriter Sol who suggested a lack of fire in her belly, suggesting that she just need to take it easy and recover from her illness.
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Click here for August 17's solution
08/14/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
A [failed, down and out] race track tout snatches up a bit of pocket bread that tourists had been feeding to the only remaining white heron [at the zoo.]
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Click here for August 14's solution
08/13/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Surprise spoken to an auburn haired fellow when a young child, a waif, has gone abandoned in London and the public has not yet been apprised of the situation by the media, police, etc.
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Click here for August 13's solution
08/12/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Adele is apprised that the rough. crude conditions arise from the brouhaha associated with conflict began with an alien invasion.
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Click here for August 12's solution
08/11/2020
US History
Clue
Headline in a Norfolk. Virginia newspaper upon the Battle between the Monitor and The Merrimac at the Battle of Hampton Roads in the first meeting of ironclad warships.
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Click here for August 11's solution
08/10/2020
Business/World Geo
Clue
Listen, that orange flavored drink whose recipe was made his own by a prominent billionaire/philanthropist based on aromas he found in Lima while visiting South America has a hint of rose petals , doesn't it?
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Click here for August 10's solution
08/07/2020
USA Geo
Clue
Resembling the devil in every way, an Alaska prosecutor is really something to see in action in person.
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Click here for August 07's solution
08/06/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
When I went on a long and difficult outing my friend and he began to take on too much color and said" I don't suppose you have anything for sunburn,” my response amounted to this.
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Click here for August 06's solution
08/05/2020
History/Entertainment
Clue
After Nixon's VP told him he should watch this wild, exciting, fantastic 80s sci-fi film starring Jeff Bridges, Nixon leaves him this note, indicating he did not find it so.
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Click here for August 05's solution
08/04/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
A prince who really wanted to deliver a speech to the kingdom tells his friend Stuart that he was able to overcome the serious doubts of the King and Queen, which he considered to be absolute nonsense.
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Click here for August 04's solution
08/03/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
I did not tread the same roads in live as did the annoying, spoiled nigh demonic child star who specialized in percussive dancing.
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Click here for August 03's solution
07/31/2020
World Langiages/Geo
Clue
I note that the best examples from the archeological dig I viewed in a Mideast desert, which purported to be written back in ancient Rome, were actually much more modern, as evidenced by the language.
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Click here for July 31's solution
07/30/2020
Business
Clue
A woman whose own name contains the name of a fashion magazine she edits outlaws advertisements containing provocative images.
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Click here for July 30's solution
07/29/2020
Business/World Geo
Clue
The commotion is a neighbor yelling at her husband about what's missing from his trip to the grocery store: cantaloupes and the sort, and no 7Up, Sprite, Mountain Dew, Slice or whatever.
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Click here for July 29's solution
07/28/2020
Entertainment
Clue
[ As a part of a ""hire the vets" campaign] a "Roots" actor was able to get jobs for an additional 9 decorated vets working at a rock crushing plant.
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Click here for July 28's solution
07/27/2020
World Geo
Clue
The Islamic fundamentalist who had just graduated university in a Yemen port city, the most amazing jewel of a woman a man could ever have hoped for, glowered irate as I concealed the whereabouts of her traditional dress.
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Click here for July 27's solution
07/24/2020
Food
Clue
Katherine, a delicatessen owner emphasizes to her boy that she is not turning up her nose at the new type of bread roll, one with a distinctive Japanese hint, and that she had in fact sold some.
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Click here for July 24's solution
07/23/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Having always wanted since my youth to spend some time bronzing out in the sun, but afraid to, I tell a friend obsessed/interested its ill effects that I am finally going to give it a try as I am weary of worrying about it.
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Click here for July 23's solution
07/22/2020
Tech
Clue
In addition, each of the two pictures I took of myself with my phone are enhanced by a new Apple feature whereby my pre-loaded skin tone was used to adjust the photos in case they came out looking too dark or too light in the picture.
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Click here for July 22's solution
07/21/2020
Food
Clue
A man at a restaurant tells the waiter that since he is exhausted, his mouth is watering for caviar along with his main course.
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Click here for July 21's solution
07/20/2020
Arts
Clue
The sailors on The Nautilus, clamor at their captain about the ruckus as they are invaded by aliens.
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Click here for July 20's solution
07/17/2020
Entertainment/Food/World Geo
Clue
Reaction when David, a Criminal Minds character, prevents the team from eating Mexican food,..sad. But then when he tries to ban pot?.. Dirty pool!
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Click here for July 17's solution
07/16/2020
Business/World Geo
Clue
Did the accountants at Texas Instruments have a sudden moment of inspiration and clarity when they found that they could reduce their tax bill by shifting operations to Viet Nam?
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Click here for July 16's solution
07/15/2020
Sports/World Geo
Clue
Given a chance to take back her biting remarks about the organizers of the Italian Open tennis tournament in the early 1990s, Monica refused to do so, bottom line being, it was an awful experience.
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Click here for July 15's solution
07/14/2020
World Geo
Clue
I question whether the noisy clamor I heard in a German industrial city was some kind of evil, as opposed to just being some kind of ridiculous absurdity as my friend thought.
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Click here for July 14's solution
07/13/2020
Arts/Entertainment
Clue
Description of Van Helsing's nemesis in a comedy routine in the style of Desi Arnaz//Ricky Ricardo.
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Click here for July 13's solution
07/10/2020
World Geo/Languages
Clue
A woman is told by someone having seen, on the way to breakfast in Italy, a billboard encouraging people not to say "love you" in an angry manner.
--, -----, --- ------- - --- - ---- -- ----: "-- --- ----."
Click here for July 10's solution
07/09/2020
Arts/World Geo
Clue
Describing a hidebound negative attitude toward a painting in an eponymous brownish-orange color, even questioning its aesthetic value and whether it should be hanging in the museum, as its subject matter is offensive: a Middle eastern woman with a breast exposed.
"------" - ---. ---? ---, - ----- ---.
Click here for July 09's solution
07/08/2020
Entertainment
Clue
Buckwheat/Eddie Murphy expresses surprise, then acceptance that the person he is speaking to has taken his [toy] shark to Amy.
-- ---- --- -- ----? ----.
Click here for July 08's solution
07/07/2020
Entertainment/USA Geo
Clue
Lines form a biography of a 60s folk singer Lopez describing 2 jobs he had before he got famous: helping install repurposed church benches for seating and cleaning the floors, both in the New York City subway.
(1)----- --- ---- -- ---.
(2)----- ----- -- -- ---.
Click here for July 07's solution
07/06/2020
History and Government
Clue
A new law student is told that Nina, his teacher for his first civil law class in law school, is the best, enthusiastic and highly popular, a stand out from the rest.
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Click here for July 06's solution
07/03/2020
Food
Clue
Megan is told by the waiter that the appetizer she was contemplating, an eponymous Dutch semi-hard cheese flaked with bits of beets, rutabagas, radishes, etc., was a guilty pleasure, highly esteemed, and could be made upon special request.
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Click here for July 03's solution
07/02/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Headline next year in The Times Picayune emphasizing that on December 2 liquor sales will end in the city.
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Click here for July 02's solution
07/01/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Even though they are situated in the shadow of the castle and live at the beck and call of the royalty, you can tell by looking that neither their garden flowers or any of the inhabitants share in the wealth of the kingdom.
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Click here for July 01's solution
06/30/2020
Arts/Entertainment/Food
Clue
(1) Domino's aides.
(2) Everyone in the office is dieting!
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(1) ----- -- ----.
(2) ----- --- -- ----!
Click here for June 30's solution
06/29/2020
Arts/Entertainment
Clue
Cool cat Pooh tells a friend that he understands, sympathizes.
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Click here for June 29's solution
06/26/2020
Sports/USA Geo
Clue
When Emily asks her boyfriend where he had gone to see the very best in college basketball, he tells her, definitely that it should be North Carolina, Durham or Chapel Hill, or maybe Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Click here for June 26's solution
06/25/2020
Entertainment
Clue
What Sammy Davis, Jr. said to Sheriff Masterson as he is about to meet a soldier, namely that he is not going to pretend to be anyone other than his own genuine self.
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Click here for June 25's solution
06/24/2020
Arts/Tech/Nature
Clue
Since it knew that he raised Angora goats, his phone gave Dr. Jekyll's alter ego this answer for a simple way to [polish tarnished silver]: rub it with this.
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Click here for June 24's solution
06/23/2020
Entertainment/Business
Clue
In a short note a board member of a giant media company with theme parks all over the world is encouraged to really go after the Japanese tourist market.
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Click here for June 23's solution
06/22/2020
Science/Business
Clue
Newspaper headline heralding the public outing of shenanigans in the plan under which a local company's capital stock was acquired by its employees, alerting the public to its unwise investments in a company producing inert gases.
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Click here for June 22's solution
06/19/2020
Entertainment
Clue
A Star Trek series alien notices about to go through the intersection notices the octagonal warning just in time to avoid his cruel destiny.
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Click here for June 19's solution
06/18/2020
Tech /Fashion
Clue
Put this woman's hair back up when we get into the ride share we ordered.
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Click here for June 18's solution
06/17/2020
World Geo
Clue
Comment when a local Arab military chief challenges two women of the same name who have accused him of crimes against dogs, saying basically, if you think so, get a law enacted against it.
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Click here for June 17's solution
06/16/2020
Arts
Clue
A confession from a classical music critic that he may have been wrong, after hearing 'Rigoletto."
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Click here for June 16's solution
06/15/2020
Entertainment
Clue
A hipster fully agree with his mother that there is no one better at a line dance that was derived from the Cuban carnival dance of the same name and became popular in the US in the 1930s and 1950s.
----! - --- -- --- -- - ----- ----, --.
Click here for June 15's solution
06/12/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Vera told her three friends that she was going to get a boob enhancement job so that she would be more likely to get jobs in commercials. After she did, one of them sees the result and tells the other two, Nina and Dana, that "boy did she ever!"
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Click here for June 12's solution
06/11/2020
Entertainment
Clue
I tell my superiors that I see a drunk, "supposedly first rate" starship captain was in actuality, sad, aging unsuccessful misfit, as was noted by a Starfleet Academy student.
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Click here for June 11's solution
06/10/2020
World Geo/Sports
Clue
A British artist bristles at the command that he not paint images glorifying The Sport of Kings.
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Click here for June 10's solution
06/09/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
A woman tells her son not to play bland, gentle hip hop songs for Eva, a bullfighter who lusts after Rodney.
--, ----- ------- ---, --- -- ----, ---, - ---- ---. ---.
Click here for June 09's solution
06/08/2020
Entertainment/Food and Drink
Clue
When a famed American gospel singer went to see Les Miz, and she was confused as to the actions of Fantine's daughter, some explained to her that it was because the young one was in a cloudy mental state having had too much of a particularly designated licorice based liquor.
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Click here for June 08's solution
06/05/2020
Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
A German woman leaves a note for actress Thurman who has been relegated to kitchen duty [while on a movie set] telling her that this is something she needs to know how to tie for various purposes.
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Click here for June 05's solution
06/04/2020
Niscellaneous
Clue
A man who works in silver and pewter once observed some idiot's vegetable sponge clean Timothy's mother, who is no longer alive.
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Click here for June 04's solution
06/03/2020
Sports
Clue
Each of two guys on the a long, narrow, flat-bottomed sled and from whom I was collecting taxes are going on about how they are haranguing some clothing optional friends.
"------- - ---," -- ---- ------------ - ---.
Click here for June 03's solution
06/02/2020
World Geo
Clue
In a line of dialogue from a play a character describes himself to his grandmother as vile and hated and existing by roaming the breezy, arid steppe east of Damascus.
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Click here for June 02's solution
06/01/2020
World Geo/Language
Clue
A Brit's exultation at the prospect of being able to have a molasses based drink from an ace Japanese warrior and his part of the world, complete with an offer to a friend to have a small amount himself.
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Click here for June 01's solution
05/29/2020
World Geo/Nature
Clue
Communist Chinese androids angrily reject an extract from a common yard weed with white hairy seeds that Edna ships to outposts along China's boundary with Russia.
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Click here for May 29's solution
05/28/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
A woman questions her friend who has set her up with a blind date, angrily telling her that he is surely no hunk, and is in fact a dweeb, the the bottom of the barrel.
"------" -----? --, ----. -----. ---!
Click here for May 28's solution
05/27/2020
World Geo/Arts/Entertainment
Clue
When is was necessary to get actress McClanahan of Golden Girls to the opera at La Scala, [after racking their brains] someone had an aha moment and figured out that they could hire a stretch Town Car to get her there.
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Click here for May 27's solution
05/26/2020
World Geo/Business/Tech
Clue
Question to a prominent fashion designer as to whether Nathaniel had likely agreed at another time to buy a human like automaton from the Dalai Lama.
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Click here for May 26's solution
05/25/2020
World Geo/Science
Clue
A German city's signature dish for sandwich shops made from insect larvae is hated , as it taste's like bat shit.
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Click here for May 25's solution
05/22/2020
USA Geo/Food
Clue
When I went on a rather pathetic, lackluster arduous outing with the walking club in an Oklahoma city I hydrated with a popular brand of bottled water.
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Click here for May 22's solution
05/21/2020
USA Geo/Food
Clue
Irritation by a non-meat eater at the evil disappearance of a large shipment of fruit drink in Alaska possibly diverted to make a pudding like dessert?
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Click here for May 21's solution
05/20/2020
Science
Clue
Response of a woman who owned a store selling a devicr which uses an inert gas to to wash [parts of the body] with a granular cosmetic preparation in order to remove dead cells from the skin's surface, when asked what she did for a living.
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Click here for May 20's solution
05/19/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
The boss laughs it off as no big deal when his assistant tells him that the woman he has just hired is a druggie, LSD no less.
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Click here for May 19's solution
05/18/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
TODAY' GUEST PALINDROMIST IS MY BROTHER, DON EMMONS
Stuart, a film editor, disdains brevity.
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Click here for May 18's solution
05/15/2020
Entertainment
Clue
Negative answer to the question," Did country's Loretta borrow that synthetic polymer nightgown?"
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Click here for May 15's solution
05/14/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Adam here tells how he besmirches, befouls the deplorable, sloppy declaration that his mate has just made with such confidence [about the snake.]
--, - --- ---'- --- ------------.
Click here for May 14's solution
05/13/2020
World Geo/Languages
Clue
Edward's aunt from Barcelona tells how she made him a Polynesian rum-based cocktail.
-, - ---, ---- -- - --- ---.
Click here for May 13's solution
05/12/2020
Arts/Business
Clue
A munchkin who works at a fulfillment center Over the Rainbow, tell his boss that he is to deliver [a refrigerator] made by a prominent manufacturer to Dorothy and needs help on the directions.
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Click here for May 12's solution
05/11/2020
World Geo
Clue
A suggestion from a Brit that the management of the streetcar system near the Leaning Tower select PSAs which encourage a reduction in deer hunting, or, better, responsible use of marijuana.
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Click here for May 11's solution
05/08/2020
Entertainment/Sports
Clue
Snapping him back from having been misdirected, a Cockney magician finishes a magic trick he was performing for the former Cassius Clay.
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Click here for May 08's solution
05/07/2020
Business
Clue
Indifferent reaction of police to random, deliberate violence done at a motorcycle dealership.
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Click here for May 07's solution
05/06/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
A farmer stare into his field and thinks to himself about a forlorn female sheep standing in the rain and imagines having it for a hearty meal with broth and vegetables.
---'- - --- --- - ------ -- - ----.
Click here for May 06's solution
05/05/2020
Entertainment
Clue
Having gone through a recent spate of sluggishness preparing meals submitted online, a delicatessen owner makes changes and then has a huge one submitted to see how they do, and it is quite successful, so he announces he is ready to start winning [the lunch time crowd] again.
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Click here for May 05's solution
05/04/2020
Entertainment
Clue
A recent hire at Nintendo is informed that to be designated as the one to have to deal with fools from a rival game manufacturer screaming insults at them, just something all new hires have to go through.
--, - ---- -- -------'- - ----'- --- --- ------.
Click here for May 04's solution
05/01/2020
World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
A person trying to help out a group of soldiers who have taken unauthorized leave in the 1980s to Canada's capital city for a little fun tells them that things are a little dead at the moment and the best she will be able to do for them is to watch Buck Owens and Roy Clark on TV at the home of her friend Toni.
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Click here for May 01's solution
04/30/2020
World Geo
Clue
Wherein I confess to having continued borrowing on new credit cards to make payments on mountains of debt.
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Click here for April 30's solution
04/29/2020
World Geo/Nature
Clue
I tell my grandmother that right up the very end of my bird watching days near Galway I would discover a variety of small birds inhabiting [abandoned] eagle nests.
-- ---- -- --- -- -- ---- -----, ---, - --- ---- - ---.
Click here for April 29's solution
04/28/2020
World Geo
Clue
Headline in a monastery newsletter when a monk of the Reformed Cistercian Order, who was in a fraternity and ROTC in college, was cast in a play as a University of Texas at Austin student.
-------- --- -- --- - -~--- ----.
Click here for April 28's solution
04/27/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Angry at having already been disrespected by a man saying that her nursery plantings contained no irises, this woman tells him in no uncertain terms that they can be found in a plot off to the side.
"---, -- - ---- ------," ----, ------, -----, "-- -- ----."
Click here for April 27's solution
04/24/2020
World Geo
Clue
A hirsute sharpshooter named Samuel had no intention of doing training in this Middle east country ( under the auspices of this Palestinian Sunni-Islamic terrorist organization operating in the area.)
---, - ----- ------, -------- -- ---- -- ----- ( -----.)
Click here for April 24's solution
04/23/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Response to Ronald who had suggested that my flight from Kigali International Airport to Logan must have been exhausting, indicating that it could have been a lot worse.
--, ------~------ ---, - ---, --- -- ---, ---, ---.
Click here for April 23's solution
04/22/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Answer to the question "What's the bottom line on how you know we are winning the battle?" indicating that it is because we hear the enemy waking up regularly in the middle of the night and the sounds of the bugle playing at the burial ceremonies.
---: --- --'- - ----- -- --- ----, ----- -----.
Click here for April 22's solution
04/21/2020
Entertainment/Science/Sports/Business
Clue
Actress/Mathematics writer Mckellar or Indy car driver Patrick slangily expresses to her mechanic surprise that the Cadillac she will be driving will actually have functioning air conditioning, it having been out of commission for several days.
-- -- ----? -'--, ------, -- -- - ------- -----?
Click here for April 21's solution
04/20/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
A woman is encouraged to re-setup a prank on which a rubber snake is compressed in empty containers of Pringles.
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Click here for April 20's solution
04/17/2020
Tech/Business
Clue
Possessing a specially equipped phone which can deliver a directed electric shock, a man gives a final instruction to it to zap comedian Salvador who is performing nude with his stock in trade routine of irony, sarcasm and ridicule against various acts of folly.
----, ----, ----- - ---- -------- ---.
Click here for April 17's solution
04/16/2020
Tech/Business
Clue
With this statement a father with old fashioned ideas about roles for girls sums up his orders to his daughter Ana, who is angry about it, to give up her idea of working for NASA or Space X, considering the idea to be malarkey.
-- -----, ---- ---, --- --------- ---.
Click here for April 16's solution
04/15/2020
World Geo/Tech/Languages
Clue
Iris, Mr. Dias' wife to husband after they had arrived in Barcelona for vacation and the jet lagged husband wanted to get a bit of shuteye but she wanted to hail a ride share and get to the sightseeing.
"----, ---, - ------ ------ ---: ---- ----," ---- ----.
Click here for April 15's solution
04/14/2020
World Geo/History
Clue
Enid is told how Ned had to put up with utter stupidity and slow-wittedness from members of an early Jewish sect about how to brew decaffeinated coffee.
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Click here for April 14's solution
04/13/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
A well hidden defense against submarines, a system used by a single-masted, fore-and-aft-rigged sailing vessel to befoul the vicinity with disgusting sewage.
-----'- ------ --- ------ ---------.
Click here for April 13's solution
04/10/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
A man characterizes atheist Eve to his good pal as a worthless, inferior vehicle for promoting their organization's lofty ideals.
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Click here for April 10's solution
04/09/2020
History/Entertainment
Clue
Cries of anger, shock and fright to friends about infamous paranormal murders on Long Island, complete with speculations about whether they were extra-terrestrial in nature.
--, -----, --! ----, ---! ---, -- ---------- ------! ----?
Click here for April 09's solution
04/08/2020
History
Clue
Ancient Chinese wisdom: No angry sailors allowed.
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Click here for April 08's solution
04/07/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Both were disgusting, the conditions at the delicatessen and just reading about them in the health inspector's report.
-- - ----, ---- ----, ---- ----.
Click here for April 07's solution
04/06/2020
Sports/Geography
Clue
A late 20th century daredevil is encouraged to pry concessions out of a potential sponsor using the success of his Mexican/Polynesian tavern in Florida which was complete with carved images of Polynesian gods.
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Click here for April 06's solution
04/03/2020
World Geo
Clue
A rustic Southwestern US Man of Mexican-American heritage relates to his boy how as he looked for jobs throughout Russia, China, India, etc., he contemplated that they did not consider him or any of his fellow country men at all.
---, ---- --------, --- - --------, -- --------.
Click here for April 03's solution
04/02/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Maureen is asked to get a towel and clear away the water from the overhead cable car, dramatizing it as an act if great suffering, as it was really slow dimwitted Londoner Ian's job.
--, --- ---- --- ---, - ---, -- -- --- -- ---------.
Click here for April 02's solution
04/01/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
At this time, Diana observed that, it having been sufficiently lighted to be able to see well, it was a cash box that Lewis had told of being high bidder on.
---, --- --, -- ---- --- -- -- --, -- -- - ---- --- ---- --- ---.
Click here for April 01's solution
03/31/2020
Entertainment
Clue
Calvin's detective partner tells him that the solution to the homicide can be found by examining this, found in the gang's Los Angeles headquarters.
-- ---- ----- ----'- ------ ------, ---.
Click here for March 31's solution
03/30/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
A District Attorney muses about her defense attorney opponent Theodore who seems easily put off by her arguments, seems to plan to call no one to the stand in the trial, and who has had delivered to her a dozen long-stemmed red ones just prior to closing arguments.
--------, ...-- --------- -------, ... -----
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Click here for March 30's solution
03/27/2020
Entertainment
Clue
After we had been invited to a prominent rapper's home for dinner and had been served leftovers, pretty much everyone was too afraid to speak up and make fun of him for it, but not me.
------, - ------- -----, ------ ----.
Click here for March 27's solution
03/26/2020
Entertainment
Clue
Disgust that normally level headed Thomas, recreating a Hitchcock thriller has fiendishly added flying mammals to an already frightful shower scene.
----'- - -----, - ------ --- --- - "---," ----- -----, ---- -----? -------!
Click here for March 26's solution
03/25/2020
Entertainment/Food
Clue
Comment by the server as he brings breakfast to The Divine Miss M and her friend Edward, he having ordered a hearty egg/meat vegetable dish and she only a glass of fruit juice.
--, -- --------; -----, --------.
Click here for March 25's solution
03/24/2020
Business
Clue
Line of dialogue from a play about the purchase by Adolph of the New York Times, wherein his Swedish friend questions whether it is such a good idea, or a scam, the paper not exactly making a lot of money, and questioning if this is even a business he wants to be in.
----: -- ---- ---, ----. - ---. ----?
Click here for March 24's solution
03/23/2020
Science/Arts
Clue
The Nautilus' anthropologist informs the captain that [after the threat] the crew had placated the 7 females they had encountered [on a remote island] and who had been worshiped as surviving early missing links on the branch of the evolutionary tree leading to humans.
----, -- -------- ----- ----, ------ --- -----.
Click here for March 23's solution
03/20/2020
World Geo/Food
Clue
Anger by flush faced Ronan at a disgusting directive to wrestle away from Ayan a green onion she stole from an Islamic holy man.
-----, -- ----- -- --- -- ---------'- ------- ---- --- --- --- ----- ---.
Click here for March 20's solution
03/19/2020
Arts/Food
Clue
French writer de Beauvoir is informed of the disgusting,repulsive forecast for the trail mix to be produced at a local delicatessen, malignant and spiteful it is.
------, ---- ---- --------- -- -- ---- -- - ----: ----- --.
Click here for March 19's solution
03/18/2020
Entertainment/World History
Clue
In a [very strange!!] fantasy play appears this line of dialogue wherein Buffalo Bill introduces Barbara Streisand to the President of Haiti.
----: ----, -- -- ---- ---.
Click here for March 18's solution
03/17/2020
World Geo
Clue
A play on words she heard in a French city bothered my grandmother.
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Click here for March 17's solution
03/16/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
On the other hand a cute young thing who works in a raucous research facility I was in charge of is someone I met while in the whirlpool.
--- -- ---- -- - ------ --- - --- - --- -- - ---.
Click here for March 16's solution
03/13/2020
Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
A Ricky Gervais character is informed of the death of big rig driver Edward from Sarajevo who was severely overweight.
-----, --------: ----- ------ ------- --.
Click here for March 13's solution
03/12/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Listen, the small cafe we were discussing did not even consider the wines I had wagered would win the tasting competition.
----, ------ -------- -- ----- - --- --.
Click here for March 12's solution
03/11/2020
World Geo
Clue
A new member of a faith teaching the essential worth of all religions and the unity and equality of all people, reveals how embarrassed he is, sitting in a small wooded valley and knowing that Owen had murdered Isaiah, a recent summa cum laude college grad, the boyfriend of Anita.
---, --- - ----- -- - --- -- - ----, - ---- ---- ------ -----'- ------, - -- ------.
Click here for March 11's solution
03/10/2020
Arts/USA Geo
Clue
Comment by a curator of a prominent Madrid museum to a visitor from Nevada who had hoped to see works by a well known 20th country abstract artist, sculptor and collagist who is considered a deity in the visitor's home town, only to be told that they were no longer there.
----- -----, ---, -- ---- --- ---.
Click here for March 10's solution
03/09/2020
Entertainment/World Geo/Food and Drink
Clue
A Brooklynite tries to get the attention of actor Lugosi to tell him that across from the New Haven freshman is a Himalayan crypto-creature.
--, ----, ----'- -------- ---- ---.
Click here for March 09's solution
03/06/2020
Arts
Clue
I tell my grandmother that in the poem we were jointly writing some instances of immorality and wickedness crept in, something I saw right as it was happening.
---- --- -- -- --- -- --, ---, - --- ----.
Click here for March 06's solution
03/05/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Note left for Nils by Maureen, astonished at the uncomfortable sad state of affairs that Anissa had gotten herself into through her own ill-considered actions.
---, ----, ------'- --- -- - -----. ~ --.
Click here for March 05's solution
03/04/2020
Science/World Geo
Clue
A scientist tells his assistant that he has found some molten rock remnants, admittedly only a tiny bit, but that at least it is evidence of their theory that the area around County Cork once had volcanic activity.
---- ----, ---. ----- --'- ----, -------.
Click here for March 04's solution
03/03/2020
Entertainment
Clue
A line in a review panning the enthusiastic star of a festive special presentation featuring female impersonators.
---- ----'- ---- ----'- - -------.
Click here for March 03's solution
03/02/2020
Food and Drink
Clue
Sara, angry concerning her meal, that she cannot get her favorite sandwich, which includes pork strips, with a glass of red wine right from the spigot, lashes out.
"-- ----: -- --- -- ---," ---- ----, " -- ----- ------?"
Click here for March 02's solution
02/28/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Is it not true that in these times a few [doctors] will berate the conglomerates behind therapeutic use of LSD to the greatest degree?
---'- ---- --- ------- ---- ------ ---- ---?
Click here for February 28's solution
02/27/2020
Entertainment/Sports
Clue
A neighbor of distance swimmer Diana [knocks on her door] at 3 in the morning, basically telling her that the weekend is over, he's got to go to work in the morning, and she needs to quit blasting Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath.
----. ------, ----. -- -----.
Click here for February 27's solution
02/26/2020
History
Clue
Exultation at finding a compact disc containing orations of a famous Roman, done with uncompromising dedication to be true to the original.
-------- ------ --! ---!
Click here for February 26's solution
02/25/2020
Food/World Language/Arts
Clue
An Italian woman explains in English how she feeds a famous opera singer with classic fare on a regular basis in order to work off a debt.
'---- ------- - ----- - ---------- -----.
Click here for February 25's solution
02/24/2020
Food and Drink/Entertainment
Clue
Deep six that idea for a movie [you propose] about dark, cynical, fatalistic puppets going wild, drunk on anise flavored liqueur.
-- ----------- -- -- -------- ----, ----.
Click here for February 24's solution
02/21/2020
Business
Clue
I teased my ride share company about [my driver's inability to avoid] the large vulture [that crashed into the windshield.]
-- ------- - --- ---- ----.
Click here for February 21's solution
02/20/2020
World Geo
Clue
Nathaniel is told that it was with an overpowering dread that in the frenzy caused by the appearance on an alien ship that the people in a small Iranian village saw a giant emerge.
---, -- --- -- - ------, --- -----, ------ --- -----.
Click here for February 20's solution
02/19/2020
World Geo/Languages
Clue
Description by a German-American of a strange man who emigrated from the Balkans to Wrocła, as it is known in Western Poland on the Oder River.
-------'- ------- ----.
Click here for February 19's solution
02/18/2020
Sports
Clue
A woman recalls how, dressed in her most fetching outfit at a sandwich shop she inflamed the urges of a Star Trek TNG Lieutenant Commander android who she saw as very manly.
-- - ----, --------, - --- ------ ------ ----.
Click here for February 18's solution
02/17/2020
Sports
Clue
A member of a climbing team queries leader Timothy about a the decision of a young woman, who had given up her coming out party to participate, not to complete the climb up Everest even though the low visibility weather had cleared.
---, ---- - --- --- --- -- --- ----- -- ------?
Click here for February 17's solution
02/14/2020
World Geo/Food
Clue
A Chinese man asks his friend Enid if she would like to go out for some variety of sandwich: hot dog, Italian sandwich, hearty hero? Or to stay at home and eat in their personal sacred temple.
- ---? - ------, ----? ------ ---? -- ---- --, -- - ------?
Click here for February 14's solution
02/13/2020
Food
Clue
Darn it, small thin pancakes like these use a filling which includes a spiny-finned freshwater fish in a creamy dessert whose base is eggs and milk?
----, ---- ------ --- ----- -------?
Click here for February 13's solution
02/12/2020
History
Clue
I identify myself as the film maker who directed a movie about our melancholy 16th President who, despite that, was quite exceptional, and indicate how pleased I am with my work.
- ---- "--- --- --- --- --- ------!" ---- -- -.
Click here for February 12's solution
02/11/2020
Food
Clue
Instructions to the baby sitter to give in to any whim of the kid when it comes to eating his Mexican food supper.
--, ----- -- --- -- -----.
Click here for February 11's solution
02/10/2020
Business/History
Clue
Comment from an investor who discovers that his money was invested with Ponzi man Bernie and realizes that it's all gone.
--, --- -- -- ------? -,----, -- -- ----.
Click here for February 10's solution
02/07/2020
History
Clue
Let's mention the way things went with the long hard fought negotiations to reduce nuclear weapons as being [a] sublime [effort of the goodness of mankind.]
---- --- -- ---- -- ---- -- ------.
Click here for February 07's solution
02/06/2020
Language
Clue
A Scottish boy disagrees with [his nanny] young, unmarried Ada, who had panned [the movie] using one slang term to describe another, [fearing that she would not understand.]
---, ---- ---, ---- -- --, -- ------, - ----.
Click here for February 06's solution
02/05/2020
Business/World Geo
Clue
It is unfortunate that when Etta from the mountains of Western Russia visited Elon at the gigafactory in Nevada, the VPs showing her around irritated her as they were extremely insensitive and ill-mannered.
-- ----- ---- -----, ----, ------ -----' ----.
Click here for February 05's solution
02/04/2020
Tech/World Geo
Clue
When this woman was participating in a sit in in the capital of Viet Nam, her phone detected that her personal information from when she used to live in Alaska was on the device of a promiscuously dressed woman trolling the streets.
---- --- -- - ------------- - ----- ----'- ---- ---- --- ----'.
Click here for February 04's solution
02/03/2020
Tech
Clue
Disgust with this idiot who's posted a nude pic of himself on a well known dating site.
----'-, - ----- --- --- -- ------, - -------!
Click here for February 03's solution
01/31/2020
USA Geo/World Languages
Clue
A jilted Latino tells his boy that he is wise about many things, but his pitiful efforts to reconcile with his former wife way up east in Augusta have been quashed, and then suggests that they leave.
---, - ----- - --, ----- -- - --- -- -- -----. -------.
Click here for January 31's solution
01/30/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
HARD OF HEARING? Mister, I did not put the elite Russian horseman into jeopardy, only the robe worn by the man's clergyman.
---- -------, ---? - ---- -------, ---.
Click here for January 30's solution
01/29/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Looking for evidence after reports that Vera's delicatessen food was laced with small flies, the health inspector found it right there on the menu.
-- - ----, ----'- ----- ----- --- ---- ----.
Click here for January 29's solution
01/28/2020
miscellaneous
Clue
A manager in Rome distinguishes himself from the natives who are willing to put up with idiocy and hijinx in their tech facility by indicating that he called a particularly stupid offender on the carpet.
-- ----- -- - ------ ---, - --- -- - -----.
Click here for January 28's solution
01/27/2020
miscellaneous
Clue
A tax collector reacts in horror to his boss Vera he when learns that the local flower shop he must go collect from is clothing optional, as it makes him want to throw up.
-------- - --- ---, ----, -------? - ----!
Click here for January 27's solution
01/24/2020
World Geo
Clue
A sad sack, convinced he is isolated because he is so little regards by his peers, sinking into insanity in a German industrial city curses to Sol about how he closely questions and tries to verify the truth from inquisitors who are immorally trying to extract information from him.
---- -- -------, ------- -- ---, - --- ---- -------- -- -----, ---- -- ---!
Click here for January 24's solution
01/23/2020
World History
Clue
A TALE OF THREE DESPOTS: One verifies to a second how he plowed his car into a third.
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Click here for January 23's solution
01/22/2020
World Geo/Tech
Clue
I tell Ronald that I have noticed that a song about a crazy old Norwegian relative coming to visit is #1 in music downloads.
"----- --- --" - ---- -- - ---- -- ------, ---.
Click here for January 22's solution
01/21/2020
USA Geo/Entertainment
Clue
For use in his book of experiences in the New York City, a folk singer prefaced each of the 10 chapters in his book with a short literary sketch with illustration about an encounter he had with a soldier on the subway.
----- --- --- -- --------- -- ---.
Click here for January 21's solution
01/20/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
A very drunk West Pointer who was irate at the actions of some Midshipmen who broke items being delivered to him witnessed them being severely scolded as they crossed over a hydroelectric facility.
--- -- - -------- ---, - ------ --- ----- --- - ---- ------- -- - ---.
Click here for January 20's solution
01/17/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
The older he got the more Stuart held boorish ill-mannered oafs in esteem.
---, -----, ---- ------- -----.
Click here for January 17's solution
01/16/2020
World Geo
Clue
Rod is informed of a mix up in Mr. O'dell's status, as he, a Reno resident, is thought to be dead according to the state, whereas a minister only considers him a boorish sexist salesman.
---, ------ ------ -'---- - -------. ---. --- ------ -'---- - ---, - ------.
Click here for January 16's solution
01/15/2020
World Geo
Clue
Having walked out, irate at the cup of decaffeinated coffee she had been served at the conference, Anais from St. Petersburg was discovered taking a walk at the local hydroelectric plant.
--- -- - -----, ------- ----- -------- -- - ---.
Click here for January 15's solution
01/14/2020
Food/World Geo
Clue
Ronald is informed that people in The Eternal City are madly in love with cheap noodles right out of the package, with nothing added, as they make an excellent cleanse.
--, ----- ------- -- -- --, -- ----- -----, ---.
Click here for January 14's solution
01/13/2020
Entertainment/USA Geo
Clue
A Korean MASH unit corpsman with a sixth sense is told of Arthur, straight from West Point, who, sunburned and naked, would go out and ride the waves unnoticed when he was feeling disappointed and dissatisfied.
-----, --- ---- ----------, - ----- --- ------ ----- -----.
Click here for January 13's solution
01/10/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
It is for sure that the women of extraordinary beauty and charm [at the beauty pageant] gave no thought whatsoever to the [ruckus when the ] demon actuated/dominated canine [ran across the stage.]
--------- -- -------- -- --------- ---.
Click here for January 10's solution
01/09/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
A recently discovered remote tribesman describes how his band of ferocious, wild, uncultivated brothers are weighed down with having to haul precious jewels for a local gem miner and that their numbers are dwindling.
-- -----, -------, ---- -------- ---, --- ---.
Click here for January 09's solution
01/08/2020
Arts
Clue
In order to do a theatre project which would be like a religious experience, Diana contemplated staging a classic Samuel Beckett play.
-- -- ---, -- --------, --- -'- -- "-----."
Click here for January 08's solution
01/07/2020
Entertainment
Clue
Right up to the end I was very often able to steal billions and billions of binary digits from an idiot Inuit tribesman.
-- ---- - --- ----- ---- -------- - ---.
Click here for January 07's solution
01/06/2020
Entertainment
Clue
An aerobics class instructor calls out instructions to Miss Piggy and Bert and Ernie.
----! ---- --, -------!
Click here for January 06's solution
01/03/2020
Miscellaneous
Clue
Bottom line on the advice given to a man being honored tonight, not to act all exultant and prideful about himself, at least to keep it to a minimum.
--- --- ---: --'-- -----. ----- -----.
Click here for January 03's solution
01/02/2020
Entertainment/Business
Clue
Insisting on being paid in Japanese currency instead of dollars, a diabolical fellow actor Coleman observes did not live well at all.
--- -- ---, --- ----- - -----, ------ -----.
Click here for January 02's solution
01/01/2020
Entertainment
Clue
Happy and at peace with himself, a prominent guitarist ( Hall and Oates, SNL Band) used great love, care, and affection on a lyric poem extolling the virtues of a daytime talk show host.
------ -- ----- -- -- --- -- -- -------.
Click here for January 01's solution
12/31/2019
Food
Clue
The chef at a delicatessen describes how he was unsuccessful at his dish featuring a luxurious sauce made with onions, garlic, herbs, mushrooms, heavy cream, oil, butter, and the wine the sauce is named for, perhaps because he paired it with the cheapest of noodles.
----, ( ----- ) - ------ -- - ---- - ---- -------.
Click here for December 31's solution
12/30/2019
Business
Clue
Phrase on the business card of a prominent financial news expert and prognosticator.
-'- - --- -----.
Click here for December 30's solution
12/27/2019 Guest Palindromist today: Don Emmons
Arts
Clue
The ultimate bard? I select a Roman.
"--" ----? ----, - ----, --- -.
Click here for December 27's solution
12/26/2019
USA History/Geo
Clue
[During the Civil War], the commander of the Confederate forces did not take the opportunity to bring on board a West Texas chef chef who was very good at prepping potatoes.
-- --- ------ -- -- ------ ------.
Click here for December 26's solution
12/25/2019
Business
Clue
Salesman Stuart tried to ply his prospective clients into letting him demonstrate his products by bringing in Krispy Kremes, but it didn't work.
---- ------ -- -- --- --- -- -----.
Click here for December 25's solution
12/24/2019
World Geo
Clue
Well, well, well, who's surprised at the conceit of those Swiss connoisseurs of long, loose-hanging dresses, usually brightly colored or patterned, worn especially by Hawaiian women.
--, ------ ------ ----- ----!
Click here for December 24's solution
12/23/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
Reply from the boss to his assistant who has recommended someone for the position they want to fill, someone the boss thinks is superb and well worthy of an offer.
------- --------! ---'-!
Click here for December 23's solution
12/20/2019
World Geo
Clue
A citizen in Poland tells my mother that he wants no late night carousing, general dirtiness, hard liquor, prostitutes, etc, in the inn she was building, as it was too uncultivated and unrefined for the image he wanted.
------'- ---- -- -- ----- ---------, -----, ---, --- -- - ----- ---: --- ---.
Click here for December 20's solution
12/19/2019
World Geo/Sports
Clue
Circa 2000, an official warns an executive of a now defunct Indy Car Racing organization that the condition of an Alaska track built in the style of a famed French racing track which they had won in a raffle and where they were planning a race was bad for the organization's image as it was pretty awful now. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champ_Car )
--- ---- "-- ----" -----, ---, --- ---- ----'- ----, ----- ---.
Click here for December 19's solution
12/18/2019
World Geo
Clue
It is not true that Ira, who lives near the Trevi Fountain, would refer to a bureaucrat of Imperial China as an idiot.
--, ----- ---'- ---- --- --- -------- - -----.
Click here for December 18's solution
12/17/2019
World Geo/Nature
Clue
A museum curator questions the decision to bypass his institution for upcoming showings of an artist's feature work on African cats created while the artist was in residence in a West German industrial city.
---'-, --, --- ----- --- "---------" - ---- ---?
Click here for December 17's solution
12/16/2019
USAGeo/Food
Clue
Chicago food merchants gather to choose a picante sauce made in their state to enter into a competition, rejecting, as the worst possible entry, one made by and for local delicatessens but laced with marijuana.
--, --, --- -----, ---- ------- , -------- ------- -- ---- ------.
Click here for December 16's solution
12/13/2019
World Geo
Clue
Demeaned, defiled Nan I noticed, the object of scorn, and therefore irate about it, hid out in the mountains of South America, not even wanting to get out of bed.
------- --- - ---, -------, ----, --- -- -----, ----.
Click here for December 13's solution
12/12/2019
Entertainment
Clue
What Iris, a fertility expert, is trying to do is to help Mia through her pregnancy so as to preserve their family's bloodline which goes way back through County Cork and Galway, but is in danger of dying out.
---'- ----- ----- -------'- ----' ---.
Click here for December 12's solution
12/11/2019
Entertainment
Clue
A man tells his girlfriend that several, he's not sure of the exact number, almost pearly drops of fresh morning condensation brushed him like a soft kiss one morning in Stockholm.
--- ----, ------ ---- ----( ----, ---? ) -- ------ - ---- ---- --, ----.
Click here for December 11's solution
12/10/2019
Sports
Clue
Future 1950s Dodger star Duke witnessed a crazy lunar event where the moon turned blood red, as he, a top student, was drunk on his ass at military school, but it
was not of prophetic significance.
-- ----, - ------ (- ------ --- ----- ) --- - --- ------ ----.
Click here for December 10's solution
12/09/2019
Entertainment
Clue
Cabbies who work for actress Campbell ( Scream films) are hard working, energized, and steadfast, often roaming the streets very early in the work day for customers.
----'- ---- --------- ----- -- ---, -- -----.
Click here for December 09's solution
12/06/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
I observed that [in an act of love and humility] a young woman left her debutante ball to minister to the needs of 9 additional wounded soldiers [in the VA Hospital.]
------- -- ---- ---- ---- --- - ----- -- ---.
Click here for December 06's solution
12/05/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
Comment regarding the persistent, repetitive hum heard while sitting in alien ships, temporarily not in use while refueling.
--, ---- --- -- -- - --- -- - --- -- ---- ----.
Click here for December 05's solution
12/04/2019
World Geo
Clue
[A private detective] reports to this woman that a wealthy Persian is in an Uber in Omaha, Nebraska in traditional dress.
-------, - ------ -----'-, -- - ---- -- -----, -----.
Click here for December 04's solution
12/03/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
A man is about to excoriate a resident of a huge church as being anti-progress/anti-technology, not to mention stupid and foul smelling, until he realizes that the fellow has Mexican fast food to offer, when he hesitates and changes his tune.
--, --------- -------, ----- -------,.....--, -----?
Click here for Deceember 03's solution
12/02/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
Comment from the police chief who said that reports that the military academy student Arthur's apprehension was not illegal or the result of not following proper procedure were a lie.
--, ----- ---'- "------- ------- ------" ----- - ---.
Click here for Deceember 02's solution
11/29/2019
Arts/Sports
Clue
A racetrack tout tells how he has found a horse, well bred and named after the author of The Three Musketeers, which is good on a sloppy track, which is in the forecast for the upcoming race.
--- ----- ----- -- - ------ - ----.
Click here for November 29's solution
11/28/2019
Entertainment/USA Geo
Clue
A new college student in Chattanooga, Tennessee lambastes his idiot dorm mates for wanting to watch another movie like SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE, YOU'VE GOT MAIL, CLUELESS, WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, etc.
--- ------! -- --- ~ ---!
Click here for November 28's solution
11/27/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
Timothy is irate that at the movie about Southern California's attractive and seductive female teaching assistants, on a mission to ultimately bring disaster to men who becomes involved with them, all except one seem to be overweight.
"------, --- --- --- -- -- ----- ------ -- ---?" --- ---, ---.
Click here for November 27's solution
11/26/2019
Food
Clue
When his customer asks how the tattoo was going of his favorite Italian dessert, the artist admits he has made an error.
-------- --- ------? - --- --.
Click here for November 26's solution
11/25/2019
Entertainment
Clue
[In a rejected scene from the 1972 novel by Ira Levin set in an idyllic Connecticut town] a local vet, in charge of bedrooms affairs, outlaws conventional, trite, unoriginal lovemaking, in a move that I see Lana had wagered would happen.
--. -- ---- ----- (---- --- -- --, - ----) ----- --- -- --------.
Click here for November 25's solution
11/22/2019
World Geo
Clue
A business in Southeastern Europe whose customers are mafioso who want tattoos of their criminal exploits erased, with a pledge to complete silence with respect to the authorities.
---- ------ --- --------.
Click here for November 22's solution
11/21/2019
USA Geo
Clue
Emergency! New Santa needed in now trendy Lower Manhattan neighborhood!
--~-- ---- -- -- ---! -, ---!
Click here for November 21's solution
11/20/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
A minister whose wife led the congregational singing questions her lack of preparation for the Sunday service, including even which songbook to sing from.
-- ------ --------? -- ----, -- ---?
Click here for November 20's solution
11/19/2019
Business
Clue
One woman said to another that she should under no circumstances buy less than 100 shares when purchasing stock, or in fact engage in any transaction for less that the usual number of units sold.
"--'-- --- ----," ---- ---- ------.
Click here for November 19's solution
11/18/2019
Medicine
Clue
Doctor's note on a patient's chart that 6 o'clock in the morning marked the time when blood flow to the inflamed area was at is most stagnant.
----~------ -- --- --.
Click here for November 18's solution
11/15/2019
USA Geo
Clue
A woman tells her friend in an unsigned note that she does not plan to ignore her husbands dalliances in Providence in a nearby state.
---, --- -- ------- - ----.
Click here for November 15's solution
11/14/2019
Language
Clue
Myra is told told the light was very low in the bird house, which made Donald Trump's ex-wife reluctant to go in when she noticed it.
--- -- ---, -- ------, ----, ----- ---, -----.
Click here for November 14's solution
11/13/2019
Arts
Clue
A former NY Philharmonic conductor gave no thought to it whatsoever when his trousers began to come apart at his left inside thigh.
-----, ------- -------- -- ---- ---- -- ---.
Click here for November 13's solution
11/12/2019
Entertainment/World Languages
Clue
Angry at a member of ΔΤΔ, a U2 front man showed anger/irritation toward Adam.
--- -- - ----, --- ---- -------- -- ----.
Click here for November 12's solution
11/11/2019
Business/World Geo
Clue
A man assessing Vera's company with offices in England, Scotland,Wales, and Northern Ireland reports to Ned, who is considering buying the company, that there is a huge number of outdated inventory categories.
---, ---- ----'- -- ---- --- ----, -----.
Click here for November 11's solution
11/08/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
Viewing the huge, angry fight between foolish silly Trevor and a bunch of alien ships led an observer to this conclusion.
-- ----- -------- ------ ------ -- ----.
Click here for November 08's solution
11/07/2019
Entertainment
Clue
Spencer of the BAU is informed that Levi, possibly disoriented ( or maybe not wanting to be found?) is a GI with over 20 years of service.
----, ---- (-------?) ----'- - --- -------.
Click here for November 07's solution
11/06/2019
USA Geo
Clue
This California city in the San Joaquin Valley is transfixed by the presence of a street preacher who is on the run from indentured servitude at a local winery.
------'- ---- -- ------ ----.
Click here for November 06's solution
11/05/2019
Sports/History/World Geo
Clue
A Son of the Confederacy, Bo, unrepentant, is the one who stole former tennis great Monica's purse at gunpoint when she was visiting The Colosseum.
--- --, -----------, -- -----' ---- ------.
Click here for November 05's solution
11/04/2019
Food/World Geo
Clue
A man's comment to his wife as he comes home for dinner, disappointed when he can tell from the smells that he would not behaving cured pork roast or a lighter Middle Eastern meal of hummus and falafel.
-- --- -- -- ---- ------ -----, ---?
Click here for November 04's solution
11/01/2019
Arts/World Geo
Clue
Things were gritty at the societal levels populated by strange artists in the capital in bohemian Poland,
------ -- -----, ----- ------ --- ---.
Click here for November 01's solution
10/31/2019
Sports&Games/USA Geo
Clue
Commentator disses to his broadcast partner Ronald the drive by Timothy to a six no-trump off 3 aces at the collegiate bridge championships, which seemed to doom the team from Boston.
---'- -- -- ... ------- ----, --. ------- -- ---.
Click here for October 31's solution
10/30/2019
World Geo
Clue
Cry of cursing anger at Yoko et al, when she appeared at the gala with U2 and they were accompanied by several pygmy chimps.
----, ---------- -- -- -----.
Click here for October 30's solution
10/29/2019
World Geo
Clue
A Mideast potentate is told that it was not a violation of the law to entrust goods to the flea market store in hopes that the store would sell them, in exchange for a percentage of the sale price.
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Click here for October 29's solution
10/28/2019
Food/World Geo
Clue
A man exults to his grandmother about a compendium of places in Luanda, the capital, and other cities in this West African nation where Mexican fast food can be obtained.
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Click here for October 28's solution
10/25/2019
Science/World Geo
Clue
No flower shop in a large Southwestern Columbia city has a flower like this, but bred to have equal areas of black, white and orange.
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Click here for October 25's solution
10/24/2019
Science
Clue
Ronald who works at the supermarket in the seafood department, is told to stop what he is doing and fix the pricing strip, which consists of a series of parallel lines of varying width which can then be scanned at checkout, for the crustaceans.
--, ---- ----'- -------, ---.
Click here for October 24's solution
10/23/2019
World History/Geo
Clue
A confidante of the Russian president relates to his boss that he decided to stir things up a bit, cause a little trouble, by getting a tattoo of a topless lady while attending a flashy showy soiree at Trump's Palm Beach resort.
-----, - --- - ---, - ---~-~---- -------- ---- -- --- -- --.
Click here for October 23's solution
10/22/2019
Arts/Food
Clue
A cooking school chum of erotica author Anais relates to her how he is sick to the point of exhaustion of several retired male professors who are critical of his efforts at making small Italian sandwiches filled with meat, cheese, vegetables, etc., something they are already good at.
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Click here for October 22's solution
10/21/2019
World Geo
Clue
Things are peaceful up a mountain arising from this Israeli port city, kept quiet by organized crime bosses devoted to an Orthodox Jewish spiritual revivalist sect.
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Click here for October 21's solution
10/18/2019
Government/Geo
Clue
A UK space official denies being in charge of provisions for their planned settlement on the moon and for the choice of an official breakfast food which had been shopped out for bids and which a Northern Ireland town jumped at the chance to fulfill, instead giving a member of Bret's staff the credit.
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Click here for October 18's solution
10/17/2019
Arts
Clue
A prominent New York museum produces and offers for sale in its gift shop a print made from original Green Eggs and Ham artwork.
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Click here for October 17's solution
10/16/2019
Business/USA Geo
Clue
A new Tesla employee, a Florida State grad, introduces himself to the Chairman who is a on a tour of the Gigafactory.
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Click here for October 16's solution
10/15/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
Being a stick in the mud about getting all the papers graded quickly and correctly, one of the professor's teaching assistants muses silently over the appropriateness of the profs tapping the keg just as they all had gathered to work as the sun goes down.
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Click here for October 15's solution
10/14/2019
Entertainment/US History
Clue
What you might call a SNL skit lampooning Rick Perry's performance during the Republican debates in 2011.
----- -- "----."
Click here for October 14's solution
10/11/2019
USA Government
Clue
I relate how I noticed its relationship to the space agency when I was in charge of a laboratory noted for its irreverent, mocking, abusive hijinx.
-- - ----, -- --- -- - ------ --- - --- - --- --- -- ----.
Click here for October 11's solution
10/10/2019
Business
Clue
A man cries out to Evelyn to help him throw up as he fears he has consumed some poisonous Grey Poupon.
----! ------, --, - ----- -------!
Click here for October 10's solution
10/09/2019
USA Geo/Entertainment
Clue
A freshman is irritated, indeed, it makes him sick, that at his Dallas, Texas University they place a cap on the how many vinyl records he can have in his dorm room.
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Click here for October 09's solution
10/08/2019
US Government
Clue
Spokesman for a new generation of overweight US astronauts speculates on whether their being accepted into the program was indicative of a change in focus away from the physical aspects of the job.
--- -- ---- ---- ---- -- --- -- -------, --- -- - --- ---?
Click here for October 08's solution
10/07/2019
Entertaknment/World Geo
Clue
Richie Cunningham advises his buddy not to hold a painting of a Turkish hat in such esteem.
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Click here for October 07's solution
10/04/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
The proprietor of a manor house, in an exasperated tone, tells her gardener Bo that he is planting the creeping vines too far from the house.
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Click here for October 04's solution
10/03/2019
Entertainment/Business
Clue
Yoko noted that the supposed retirement income vehicle specializing in visual illusions, but which one could never tell if they were really invested or not, was a con job.
- ------ --- --- --- --/--- -- ---.
Click here for October 03's solution
10/02/2019
Entertainment
Clue
Reply of a young Japanese boy to his judo instructor that the source of his fanciful, dreamlike musing was playing Super Mario Bros. or The Legend of Zelda.
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Click here for October 02's solution
10/01/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
The cry of a depressed, irate, condemned female soldier who is on the run.
---, - ------ --------, ------ - --, ----.
Click here for October 01's solution
09/30/2019
Arts/Science
Clue
As he looks at an oscilloscope, the choir director sees a jumbled mess instead of a sine wave pattern and kisses the chances of the group's being able to sing together goodbye.
-- --------. ----- ------.
Click here for September 30's solution
09/27/2019
Entertainment
Clue
Would you like a suggestion to make your puppet show better? Heighten its grimness and somber look with feelings of disillusionment, pessimism, and despair.
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Click here for September 27's solution
09/26/2019
Business/Tech
Clue
How one might summarize the status of a company which wanted to launch its website, but discovered during a meeting that both the graphic representation of its name, and the ability to get access its site were not ready.
-- -- ----, -- -- -----.
Click here for September 26's solution
09/25/2019
Entertainment
Clue
Dolly insists on sticking to country music on her show as she nixes the idea of inviting Jay-Z.
--- ---. --- -- "------."
Click here for September 25's solution
09/24/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
Describing a supposed festive occasion complete with entertainment that was lackluster and fell well short of the event the previous year.
----: ----'- - -------.
Click here for September 24's solution
09/23/2019
Science
Clue
It is unlikely we will all be singing together as the sound waves we are emitting are not even close to being derivative of a simple trig function.
-- --------. -----, ------.
Click here for September 23's solution
09/20/2019
Business
Clue
Stammering mention of a popular sleep device.
-~----~-- -~--------.
Click here for September 20's solution
09/19/2019
Arts
Clue
A poet is non-committal regarding whether the naked folks in his poem are sexually attractive to devotees of pleasures of the flesh.
-- ------- -- ---: --- ---------? - -----.
Click here for September 19's solution
09/18/2019
Business
Clue
An exclamation of excessive dither and anxiety after hearing that they are running out of the favorite Mexican beer at the mansion on the estate, only to learn that to was just a put-on.
-- ------? ----- -- - ----- -- - -----! ...-, ---?
Click here for September 18's solution
09/17/2019
World History
Clue
An example of being under pressure during talks to limit nuclear weapons: one woman, frustrated at what she was sure was a con job by her opponents finally can't take it and irately rejects the proposal.
-- ------ -- ----: - ----, ---- -- - --- ----, ---, -- ---- ------- "--!"
Click here for September 17's solution
09/16/2019
World Geo/Food
Clue
Describing an Italian city in the throes of overpowering anxiety and terror at the boring, monotonous routine the city's grilled sandwich makers had fallen into.
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Click here for September 16's solution
09/13/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
Rae is told by her brother that despite great billboards and TV spots, their friend's father's ink parlor had made not one sale, and that the business was a financial disaster.
-- --- ----, (--- - ----- --- ---, ---) --- --- ---- - ---.
Click here for September 13's solution
09/12/2019
Science
Clue
One way to describe sexual cannibalism in certain spiders and praying mantises.
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Click here for September 12's solution
09/11/2019
Social Media
Clue
Since I don't have any kind of social media account, it is not possible that I am responsible for the harassment, you weak, slow-witted fool.
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Click here for September 11's solution
09/10/2019
Food
Clue
Disbelief that this had been voted "Fruit of the Year."
-- --- - ------ ---!
Click here for September 10's solution
09/09/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
Erno who has just, surprised himself with having had sex with a beautiful redhead and wanting to hook up again, thinks about and hopes that he can easily find her using the "previous call" feature on his phone.
---- ---- -------, "-- --- --- -- ------?"
Click here for September 09's solution
09/06/2019
Entertainment/Food
Clue
Closed captioning text from an episode of "The Avengers" in which Emma tastes a lunch meat cum tropical fruit cum crustacean delicacy from chef Bret and, finding it repulsive, curses.
----: ----'- ------- ~ ----- -------? (-----.)
Click here for September 06's solution
09/05/2019
World History
Clue
TENSE DIPLOMACY: During taxing negotiations about limiting nuclear weapons, a woman positive of a sneaky ploy by the opposite side, becomes irate and finally can't take it any more and rejects their offer out of hand.
-- ------ -- ----, - ----, ---- -- - --- ----, ---, -- ---- ------- "--!"
Click here for September 05's solution
09/04/2019
World Geo
Clue
Evidencing weariness and frustration that he may never get one, a man tells Rene that he desires, nay, loves the idea of getting a dachshund from a variety raised in the vicinity of Trevi Fountain or the slopes on Sicily.
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Click here for September 04's solution
09/03/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
What I said as I saw the female sheep standing out in the rain. the one who sensed that she we going to butchered and used for a hearty goulash with vegetables.
---'- - --- --- -- ------ -- - ----.
Click here for September 03's solution
09/02/2019
Entertainment/Business
Clue
Arthur, a descendant of the host of a hugely popular variety show in the 1950s-60s, is shown how the per share price tells the unfortunate story of the aliens' investment in funds investing in "Au" stocks as an inflation hedge.
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Click here for September 02's solution
08/30/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
An order to track down a sneaky, cowardly snitch, malicious in all respects, and yet woebegone, who will even prevaricate while praying.
-- -- ----- - ---- -------, - --- ---, ---, ----, - ---- -- ---.
Click here for August 30's solution
08/29/2019
World Geo/Sports
Clue
A Russian wrestler, having upset several Japanese favorites to win a Tokyo tournament questions the ethics of a young woman who was running the tournament and had dug a hole in the ground to hide the prize money which had already converted from the yen for him.
-- ---- - ------ ---- -- ------, --- -- -----?
Click here for August 29's solution
08/28/2019
Food/World Geo
Clue
The meat producing segment of ancient Rome's agriculture was able to sidestep the push that everyone be thrilled to go meatless.
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Click here for August 28's solution
08/27/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
Having gotten all his paperwork ready, Abraham again sent off for the after purchase refunds he had been promised on the caviar he bought.
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Click here for August 27's solution
08/26/2019
World Geo
Clue
Thus we saw that municipal ordinances in the Columbia city prevent us from growing marijuana, so we decided to grow a pale violet flower.
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Click here for August 26's solution
08/23/2019
World Geo/Arts
Clue
An Italian man who lives and works near La Scala really goes off on his wife in their messy divorce action, denying paternity of child Bret, refusing to support her, and accusing her of being wicked, cruel and an idiot.
---! ---- -- -- ----! -- ----- -------, ----, ------- ----!
Click here for August 23's solution
08/22/2019
Arts
Clue
A sailor on the Nautilus questions his captain, who had led a poetry seminar on board, about whether the pleasure seeking characters in this emotionally charged lyric poem were female.
----, ---- --------- -- --- ---- -----?
Click here for August 22's solution
08/21/2019
Entertainment
Clue
A woman comments on her realization that when she lost weight she lit up the interest of a British rocker who began with the punk band Generation X.
--, ------- - --- --- ------ ----.
Click here for August 21's solution
08/20/2019
Business/World Geo
Clue
Plan for huge fruit pies to be served in the dining car of a computer/internet enhanced overhead trolley system.
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Click here for August 20's solution
08/19/2019
business/World Geo
Clue
As a man in Canada heads to an Exxon branded gas station that also now sells marijuana, he says this in response to "Why are you going there?"
-- ------- ---- ---.
Click here for August 19's solution
08/16/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
Same letters, different punctuation: A woman in the 1950s leaves a note for her man 1) wondering if he wants to watch some prime time TV with her after dinner or 2) letting him know that their lovemaking was taken to new heights this evening.
(1) _ _ _ _ _ _, _ _ _ _? _ _ _ _ _ _ _? - _ _ _ _.
(2) _ _ _ _ _ _, _ _ _ _, _ _ _ _ _ _ _! - _ _ _ _.
Click here for August 16's solution
08/15/2019
History
Clue
Comments of a diplomat who is astonished at what he considers a crazy assault that is being leveled against the agreement among the Allies at the end of WW II concerning military and political matters relating to reconstruction in Germany and the ETO.
---! ---- --- - ----- - --- -- -------.
Click here for August 15's solution
08/14/2019
Business
Clue
In a comment with double meaning, a sales manager for electric generators looks out over his stellar inventory and his group of energetic hardworking salesman and contemplates with alarm the large number of sales call they have to make, showing off the product.
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Click here for August 14's solution
08/13/2019
Business
Clue
An oafish pompous manager at Jason's, a national chain, who had been tailed as a suspect but then dismissed by a lumberjack hunting for communists, was attacked.
---- --- - ------ --------, -- ----, --- --------.
Click here for August 13's solution
08/12/2019
Entertainment
Clue
With these words the grandfather of a good friend of Richie Cunningham says that even though he is old, he is putting an end to his grandson's cocaine use.
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Click here for August 12's solution
08/09/2019
USA Geo/Sports
Clue
Text from a man to his friend named after a Viking explorer whom he was supposed to meet in Chicago, now disoriented because he ended up at a Bears game, not where he wanted to be.
-'- -- ------- -----, ----. ----. ---- -- -.
Click here for August 09's solution
08/08/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
It's crocodile tears as a man tell his friend Bret about how his sister complains about her whiny idiot supervisor.
---, ----. ---' ---- -- --- ------ ----.
Click here for August 08's solution
08/07/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
An Eclectic Road Race.
Ken in an Armani suit, Angie, I, Reed, Nan, and eerie Ignatius in AM ran a nine-K.
Click here for August 07's solution
08/06/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
I saw that at the VA hospital, there visiting and comforting 9 medal of honor recipients as they lay recuperating is a young woman who was giving up her coming out ball to be of service, as she had done several times before.
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Click here for August 06's solution
08/05/2019
World Geo/Food
Clue
Valerie is told that there is extremely high demand for the wide variety of sandwiches mad from meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie at the Greek cafe set in the local YMCA.
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Click here for August 05's solution
08/02/2019
Entertainment
Clue
What Andy Dufresne felt after he slipped and fell, crotch exposed, as he straddled a pipe, depressed, on his escape from Shawshank Prison
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Click here for August 02's solution
08/01/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
Possible answer to the challenge,"Name at least two chemical elements."
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Click here for August 01's solution
07/31/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
In rather flowery language, a PE student familiarly tells his coach Arthur he must disagree with his order to exercise today.
-- ---, -- - ---------- ---, ---, -- --- - -- ---.
Click here for July 31's solution
07/30/2019
Arts/World Geo
Clue
English words of an Italian highway patrol officer radioing ahead that the stretch luxury auto he has stopped headed toward La Scala had yielded marijuana during a search.
---'- -- - ---- -- ----- - ----.
Click here for July 30's solution
07/29/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
Deathbed comment as he expires from a man to his sister's daughter after being shot, indicating that he never himself considered using a gun in the petty quarrel gone bad.
----, -----. - -------- -- ----- -- ----.
Click here for July 29's solution
07/26/2019
Entertainment
Clue
Brief news item about the press's making fun of Supervising Agent Emily's staging an all out assault by federal law enforcement over a dispute at a fondue party.
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Click here for July 26's solution
07/25/2019
Entertainment
Clue
Isn't it true that a single woman was able to correct our descent into the hell-hole of a mess I got us into again?
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Click here for July 25's solution
07/24/2019
Entertainment
Clue
Look out for being ensnared by ideas and songs of Kanye or Jay-Z which will suck the life out of you.
------! --------- -- --, - --- --- ---.
Click here for July 24's solution
07/23/2019
USA Geo
Clue
A NY detective orders that the Dade County fellow arrested on charges of kneecapping strangers for no apparent reason be readied for the traditional walk past the media to the courthouse, past the media.
------- ----- ------, - ----.
Click here for July 23's solution
07/22/2019
World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
The entertainment chair for the convention of long haul truckers being held in the mountains of Switzerland tells them that he will see to it that there will be no Marcel Marceau imitators this year.
---- ---, - ---- -- - --- -- ------ -----.
Click here for July 22's solution
07/19/2019
Arts/Myth
Clue
Princess Diana to a Robin Hood charcter re her oinion of a British literary heorione: more darling than ever but absorbed in suspicion about Mr. Rochester.
-- -- - ---- ----. ----: ----- --- --------.
Click here for July 19's solution
07/18/2019
World Geo
Clue
Though the wide spout pitcher we saw displayed on the benches at a synagogue in a large Ukrainian city had been sitting unbid upon at the silent auction, we decided not to bid either.
-- ------- -- -- ---- ------ ---- ------ -- -- ------ ---.
Click here for July 18's solution
07/17/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
The current pregnant state of several of the zoo's gorillas and chimps has changed the gloom and doom mindset of the committee charged with solving gestation problems to one of elation.
------- ---- ------- ----- ----.
Click here for July 17's solution
07/16/2019
Entertainment/Tech/Sports
Clue
A high school boy snarkily asks for a bribe from Coach Foy to participate in gym class, and wonders if it is a popular soft drink.
-- -- ------, ---, - -----?
Click here for July 16's solution
07/15/2019
Entertainment/Tech/Sports
Clue
I punked an Austin Texas computer legend or a long time Boston Celtic by tricking them into going here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
---- -- -- - ----------.
Click here for July 15's solution
07/12/2019
Entertainment/USA Geo/Pseudoscience
Clue
When the Long Island Medium gets to Los Angeles for a show and discovers that her powers have really left her, she texts her friend in a panic and lets him know that she needs help in a big way.
-- --! ---! --- -----! -------! ---! - ---!
Click here for July 12's solution
07/11/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
When Salvador calls a friend and asks her "wassup?" she woman laments her date and the fact that they are up at all hours drinking and stuff.
---, - ---- -----, -, ---- --- -- --. ----.
Click here for July 11's solution
07/10/2019
World Geo/Business/Food
Clue
Question from a Domino's takeout guy to his friend, a customer in Bolivia about where, generally, his order was to be delivered.
-- --- ---, ----- ---?
Click here for July 10's solution
07/09/2019
World Geo
Clue
An order to encourage the organization of an unruly riotous group recruited by Otto and dressed in military camo to vigorously assail immorality in the mountains of Switzerland.
---- -- ----- ---- --- ---- --- -- ------- ---- -- -- ---.
Click here for July 09's solution
07/08/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
A scientist relates to his mentor that in the research facility he frequented, one which was very wild with irreverent, scurrilous behavior, he put an end to marijuana use.
--- --- -- - ------ --- - --- -- - ----.
Click here for July 08's solution
07/05/2019
Business/Food and Drink
Clue
A well known British painter tells how at about 9AM in Rome one day he sold several of his celebrated works, but only the water colors and pastels.
-------- --- --- ---- - --- -- ----, -- ------ -- ---.
Click here for July 05's solution
07/04/2019
Business/Food and Drink
Clue
Tim's line in a play telling Ed who has been complaining nonstop about the food and service he gets at an Italian Chain, yet keeps going back, to write a bad review on their site if he is so pissed off about it.
---: --------? --- ---- ----- ------, --, ------!
Click here for July 04's solution
07/03/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
I think we should hire the excellent prospect that you recommended!
------- --------! ---'-!
Click here for July 03's solution
07/02/2019
Tech/World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
A huge rock concert in Canada's Ontario province whose electrical needs would be sufficient to provide energy to approximately 700,000 homes for a year, easily enough to be provided by the flux capacitor.
-------- ------ ---.
Click here for July 02's solution
07/01/2019
Tech
Clue
What you might call it when the evidence of your own eyes contradicts what your smart phone tells you.
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Click here for July 01's solution
06/28/2019
Entertainment
Clue
Comment in an interview with Martin Milner about his experiences on the 1960s TV show Route 66, when he was asked about his co-star, indicating that he tended to be something of a scene stealer and overactor.
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Click here for June 28's solution
06/27/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
Fraught and haggard at being imprisoned by cannibals in 4 stages: (1) Fattened up, (2) Worshiped as God-like. (3) Mentally and physically debased, and (4) Eaten as a last course.
-------- --- -- --- ----~---
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Click here for June 27's solution
06/26/2019
Entertainment/World Geo/Nature
Clue
A spokesman for a U2 star denies that his client brought his bird with a distinctive sound when he went to a birthing ceremony eight days after his Jewish friend's son was born.
--- ---- ---- ------ -- -- ----.
Click here for June 26's solution
06/25/2019
Business
Clue
Who cares if there is a huge motorcycle gang war resulting in much carnage.
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Click here for June 25's solution
06/24/2019
World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
The female owner of a chalet in the mountains of Switzerland who is renting out a room to several guys who came for skiing warns them that she likes to play Megadeath, Ozzy Osborne, Iron Maiden, etc. into the wee hours.
----, -- ------ ---, - ---- -----.
Click here for June 24's solution
06/21/2019
World Geo
Clue
A Jamaican judge indicates that as for himself he will no longer use classes in Eastern enlightenment as part of his sentencing.
-- ---- --- - ----: ---- ----, ---.
Click here for June 21's solution
06/20/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
A brief hurried message from the boss to Alec, commiserating with him about the fact that his interoffice rival Maureen had been granted the chance to work from home as he had not.
- ------, ----, -- --- -- --- - ---- ------.... -----. ~ ----.
Click here for June 20's solution
06/19/2019
Arts
Clue
Mid morning Impressionist rivalry(?) wherein Edouard says he cannot stomach the work of Claude as he views it then.
----- -----? -- ------ -- --- --.
Click here for June 19's solution
06/18/2019
Tech/Sports
Clue
The general manager of Elon Musk's gigafactory notes to Alvin that when the Dodgers' starting lineup comes for a visit, a car has been allocated for them to test drive.
--, --- ----- -- ---- --- - ----- -- - -----.
Click here for June 18's solution
06/17/2019
Science
Clue
A fellow exults to his, friends two of whom have the same name, at his excitement at getting tickets so close to the stage for a concert featuring Steven Tyler, et al.
-- ----, ---! -- ----! ---------, -----!
Click here for June 17's solution
06/14/2019
Science
Clue
Order from a physics professor to demagnetize the very talented man who he had just brought on board and who had now been calmed down after the accident with the electromagnet
------- - ------ - -----, --- --------.
Click here for June 14's solution
06/13/2019
World Geo/History/Math
Clue
Japan's all time home run king shows a very positive attitude in cooking a Mexican food dish made of fish and the meat of a songbird.
-- --- --: ---- ------/--- -----.
Click here for June 13's solution
06/12/2019
World Geo/History/Math
Clue
When Aristotle Onassis needed to hire a domestic and was sent several unsatisfactory candidates from a nearby Mediterranean island, he speculated to aide Ira on why they all had to be so obese.
--- --------," -- -- ----- ----'- -------- ---------- ---, ---?"
Click here for June 12's solution
06/11/2019
World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
An unsigned memo from Lieutenant Tragg to the prosecutor on "Perry Mason" about their upcoming lunch, requesting no Peruvian food at a restaurant named after the capital, because it is too spicy.
_ _: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _: _ _ _ _
_ _ _ "_ _ _ _." _ _ _!
Click here for June 11's solution
06/10/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
This woman latched onto one of the girls at the coming out ball for dressing like a cocktail waitress.
----- ------- - ---, --- ------.
Click here for June 10's solution
06/07/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
Ruing the fact that bad things happen to good people, a woman laments to her friend that her newborn may not survive.
----, -----: -- ---- --- --- ----.
Click here for June 07's solution
06/06/2019
Tech
Clue
A man says the idea that a deer can tell another is interested in a same sex relationship just by the vibes it gives off is a load of crap, and a NE Pats Quarterback concurs.
--, ---- ------, -.-. -- --, ----- ------ --.
Click here for June 06's solution
06/05/2019
Tech
Clue
A member of the tenants association suggest to fellow member Alvin that they again lobby building superintendent Stella for wireless internet produced by Texas Instruments.
--, ---'- ---- -- -- ---- ----- ------.
Click here for June 05's solution
06/04/2019
Arts
Clue
A renowned opera star notes a rival who is live streaming on Facebook.
---, --- ---- --- -- - ----- ----.
Click here for June 04's solution
06/03/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
After a nerdy guy had been razzing the performers mercilessly, a security guard ask him whether he really wanted to get into it with the bull riders or bronco busters or whatever?
---- ----- ---, ---- ---?
Click here for June 03's solution
05/31/2019
USA Geo/Science
Clue
One of the city fathers of a Central Florida city reports that its being able to get time on an early electronic general-purpose computer was addictive like a narcotic drug,
C17 H21 NO4.
-----, -----'-, - -- -------.
Click here for May 31's solution
05/30/2019
USA Geo/Food and Drink
Clue
An irate comment from a young man in Alaska who likes his Beefeater's simply over ice, at the thought of adding flavoring with a twist, an act he considers essentially immoral.
"---- ---," ----- - ---- ---, "- -------- -------?! ---?"
Click here for May 30's solution
05/29/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
Not one Peruvian soldier felt surprise at the low lying clouds reducing visibility.
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Click here for May 29's solution
05/28/2019
Food/Business
Clue
Abe pleaded with operating room nurse Delia to help hm put an end to the uproar that the recent spate of admissions was due to injuries caused by aliens.
"-----, -- --- -- --- -----," --- ------.
Click here for May 28's solution
05/27/2019
Food/Business
Clue
Diana, en exec at a prominent US real estate firm, is told that the company's decision to invest betting on the fall in price of an eponymous Dutch semi-hard cheese was not very smart.
--, ---- --- ---- --- -- ---- --- ------.
Click here for May 27's solution
05/24/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
Here's an example of why I think the Apollo crew member might be capable of mass murder, the way he, a constant complainer gripes about a triviality, the screen image he had to click on to order leftovers from the NASA cafeteria.
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Click here for May 24's solution
05/23/2019
Food/World Geo
Clue
Words of irritation from Giada de Laurentiis when she discovers that in an Italian food cook off her dish had been jointly awarded first place along with one from French Polynesia.
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Click here for May 23's solution
05/22/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
Young lady, to hell with that huge group of irate, insolent, impudent, contemptible jerks.
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Click here for May 22's solution
05/21/2019
World Geo
Clue
Sworn promises by her ancestors in Galway were to Irina an indication of their fealty to an ancient universal code of human conduct.
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Click here for May 21's solution
05/20/2019
USA Geo/Sports
Clue
When NBC decided to air a cake/pie/cookie competition in the arid conditions of California's Zip Code 92332, and send its football announcer Al Derogatis to cover it,this nervous, agitated woman drove him there. This palindromic PUN explains all.
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Click here for May 20's solution
05/17/2019
#MeToo
Clue
A young woman relates to her friend Deborah the sorrows she carries after having been bothered by Edward getting too close for comfort.
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Click here for May 17's solution
05/16/2019
Entertainment/Food?business
Clue
Andy tells his best bud from Shawshank that when he gets spice blends for basting meats at the supermarket he never considers this one particular brand.
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Click here for May 16's solution
05/15/2019
World Geo
Clue
A Mideast watering hole near El Tor on the Gulf of Suez is soon to be off limits for members of the House of Saud.
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Click here for May 15's solution
05/14/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
Those looks of us seemingly lost in thought are probably an indication that I am toting up the days receipts I dream we can reap from selling the masterworks we can sell after we sack and pillory the library.
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Click here for May 14's solution
05/13/2019
World Geo
Clue
Crotchety, foolish old Dana, from a well known peninsula in the Mideast, acts too much like those guys from Toronto and Calgary.
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Click here for May 13's solution
04/26/2019
Clue
Nan gets this negative reply after she suggests that sometimes the Strategic Air Command is hesitant or reserved in expressing what it is that it really wants.
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Click here for April 26's solution
04/25/2019
Entertaiment/Science
Clue
Yawning reaction to the killer whale show at Sea World.
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Click here for April 25's solution
04/24/2019
Business
Clue
Edward is told that a prominent New York City retailer specializes in showy, pretentious, and often spurious items for photogs.
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Click here for April 24's solution
04/23/2019
History
Clue
Lewis leaves a note for his boy telling that the "prophetic quatrain collection" he is so enamored of has about the same predictive power as randomly tossing darts, and is a big nothing.
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Click here for April 23's solution
04/22/2019
Sports/History/World Geo
Clue
Mother, a real golf fan, noticed that the fertilizer used at the Master's was derived from the dung of seas birds whose habitat is a South China Sea land much in the Cold War news of the 1960 Presidential debates.
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Click here for April 22's solution
04/19/2019
Sports/Business/World Geo
Clue
Formula One driver Ayrton is asked if he want to go to Howard Johnson's for dinner while he is in South Africa for a race.
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Click here for April 19's solution
04/18/2019
Food and Drink/ Entertainment
Clue
Quentin Tarantino orders a bartender to halt filling his glass of a classic Boston brew since his favorite actress/companion has noticed that there is an exciting, wild, darker malt beverage that she sees.
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Click here for April 18's solution
04/17/2019
Entertainment
Clue
After he retired from playing Tarzan on TV, the actor got a job in Carson City working for the state assessing the quality of socks with a multicolored diamond pattern sold there.
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Click here for April 17's solution
04/16/2019
US Government
Clue
Suggestion from a staffer of Mike Pence that they try to sell the paintings purchased for his office because they irritated him.
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Click here for April 16's solution
04/15/2019
Business
Clue
A bunch of grandmotherly types, incredibly loyal to a Japanese car company and dependent on it for its dividends providing their retirement income, tell how they love to pile into their Pathfinder and go around performing the song they wrote protesting double taxation of their company.
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Click here for April 15's solution
04/12/2019
Entertainment
Clue
A Doonesbury character is told that not one of his 33 1/3s contained any songs by Fats Domino, or James Brown, or Bo Diddley or Gladys Knight.
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Click here for April 12's solution
04/11/2019
USa Government/History
Clue
What GHW Bush yelled when he caught his Chief of Staff toking in the West Wing.
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Click here for April 11's solution
04/10/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
A man tells his sister to whom he has sold his often prone to flooding inn that Tomas can be counted on with no training whatsoever to take care of the problem if it ever occurs again.
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Click here for April 10's solution
04/09/2019
History/Business
Clue
Classic philosophic question of Palindrome Land regarding an ancient ascetic Jewish sect which still has some members who work at General Electric.
-- -- ------- --- ---?
Click here for April 09's solution
04/08/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
A man disagrees with his mother telling her that Damon the so called gourmet is devilish, morally low, and ill refined as is shown by the fact that his cooking specialties are restricted to leftovers.
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Click here for April 08's solution
04/05/2019
USA History
Clue
What one might call the 1995 Courtroom of Judge Lance Ito regarding the confusing "what the hell is happening" atmosphere and back and forth regarding the genetic evidence presented in the OJ SImpson trial.
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Click here for April 05's solution
04/04/2019
Entertainment
Clue
After arguing about it, an enemy of James Bond angrily tells his boy that he the father is going to enroll him in softshoe lessons to music with morbid , dark themes and aesthetic. that are traditional in the family.
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Click here for April 04's solution
04/03/2019
USA Geography
Clue
Twin brothers, separated shortly after birth, both of whom were given a middle name of their father, and by coincidence each chose to go by that middle name, one an outgoing Dallas resident, the other a withdrawn Nashville resident.
(1) ------, -- ---------
(2) ------, -- ---------
Click here for April 03's solution
04/02/2019
Entertainment
Clue
Unused line from the Movie "Carrie" in which we see understand the how and why of the dance going from fun and full of energy to full on demonic: she was hitting the Beefeater's.
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Click here for April 02's solution
04/01/2019
SPorts/Food/Geo
Clue
Comment to "John"a fellow volleyball team member from Italy who mainly plays the front line, chiding him about the perfunctory salad dressing he had made of oil, vinegar and seasonings.
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Click here for April 01's solution
03/29/2019
USAHistory&Government/Botany
Clue
Question to Watergate judge re his selection at the florist when he couldn't make up his mind.
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Click here for March 29's solution
03/28/2019
History&Government
Clue
A Russian minister tells his boss that he has brought for 9 guys in generate excitement for the proposal.
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Click here for March 28's solution
03/27/2019
Sports
Clue
Here is the thought that went through my mind when I saw this pro basketball player who the press had reported missing from the Philadelphia team's training camp.
--, --- --- - --- - ------ ----?
Click here for March 27's solution
03/26/2019
USA/World Geo
Clue
When a knight named for the Piedmont wine making region of Italy where he is from goes to visit a University in Hamilton New York, he is warned that it is dangerous and he should carry a gun.
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Click here for March 26's solution
03/25/2019
Entertainment/World Geo-History
Clue
A Star Wars villain is encouraged by an aide to continue to keep/move the details of their goods exchange with the ancient capital of Assyria, now opposite Mosul on the Tigris River, closer to the vest.
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Click here for March 25's solution
03/22/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
The junior partner in an air conditioning business with his father tells how occasionally, but not on any regular basis, his dad is really dissatisfied with the job the son does installing units.
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Click here for March 22's solution
03/21/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
Mr. Egan queries about whether he made a mistake by selling a Hewlett-Packard computer system he found in the large shipment that had been delayed at the warehouse.
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-- ------ ----- ------- - ---?
Click here for March 21's solution
03/20/2019
Food/History&Government
Clue
Alvin practically jumped across the room to get at a Spanish dish made by overweight Yasir, prepared by simmering together chicken, seafood, rice, vegetables, and saffron and other seasonings.
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Click here for March 20's solution
03/19/2019
World Geo/USA Government
Clue
When the members of the Supreme Court went to Saigon in the 1950s to interview potential expert witnesses regarding a lawsuit involving putting in grass lawns, they find their man after having bypassed the first eight they interviewed.
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Click here for March 19's solution
03/18/2019
Science/USA Government
Clue
A man responds to his Scandinavian friend about the new job he has taken, director of press relations at NOAA for tidal wave related matters.
----, - --- -- ------- ----.
Click here for March 18's solution
03/15/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
Outraged reaction by a debutante to a nasty next round of hazing, canine sex, dreamed up by by a group of former participants.
"---," - --- --------, " --- --- - ---?"
Click here for March 15's solution
03/14/2019
Arts/World Geo
Clue
Goodness gracious, the way he sees it, I'm showboating.
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Click here for March 14's solution
03/13/2019
Arts/World Geo
Clue
Invoking a deity from his mythology in a mild oath, an Athenian tells his girlfriend how he really doesn't care for Gilbert and Sullivan, as evidenced by his bad review of the production they are seeing.
---, ---- ---. - --- - "--------." ----!
Click here for March 13's solution
03/12/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
I saw that when an additional 9 brave men died in a plane crash, a cockpit instrument for each one was saved as a commemorative.
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Click here for March 12's solution
03/11/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
A rock guitarist tells a woman he knows how surprised he is that his favorite, absolutely insane amplifier's getting a little long in the tooth is an indicator of the declining fortunes of the band.
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Click here for March 11's solution
03/08/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
The boss at the bedding store tells his the supervisor of his territory that he in #1 in getting people with good credit to buy on credit.
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Click here for March 08's solution
03/07/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
It is a clever way to intercept illegal marijuana to storm the stations along the railed public transport at the airport.
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Click here for March 07's solution
03/06/2019
Sports/World Geo/ Food and Drink
Clue
A Mexican American woman relates how she noted he uncle's custards which had no citrus or cantaloupe and which was in danger of going bad, so she said her goodbyes and left.
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Click here for March 06's solution
03/05/2019
Sports/World Geo/ Food and Drink
Clue
Famed Czech long distance runner Zatopek is told of the he fuss and bother turned crude and brutal, relating to the battle between 7Up, Sprite, Fresca, Upper 10, etc. in an Alaskan town.
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Click here for March 05's solution
03/04/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
Deborah is told how, thinking of his days in combat, Edward feels their full weigh on his shoulders and that they have brought pressure on him, opening old wounds.
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Click here for March 04's solution
03/01/2019
Sports/World Geo
Clue
Each of a group of highly ranked West Pointers together adamantly relate that, for example, the halfpiper who consistently gets the most elevation on his jumps is the one he saw from Lagos.
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Click here for March 01's solution
02/28/2019
Sports
Clue
In a sarcastic remark a female Indy car and NASCAR driver feigns surprise and joy in that the Cadillac that she has rented for the day has air conditioning that actually works, having been burned several times in the past.
-- -- ----! -'--, ------, -- -- - ------- -----?
Click here for February 28's solution
02/27/2019
Entertainment/Food
Clue
What's that, you say that her foray into movie theatres has allowed Nan to corner a segment of the market for snack food based on steamed soybeans?
--, ------ ---- --- -- ------- -----?
Click here for February 27's solution
02/26/2019
Miscellaneous
Clue
One waitress leaves a note for another speculating about whether their co-worker Rona, embarrassed and crying her eyes out had been let go because of the takeout order she botched.
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-- --- --- ---- ----- ---.
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Click here for February 26's solution
02/25/2019
Sports/World Geo
Clue
A doubly alliterative palindrome in which Lewis is told that a former Yankee slugger followed a private teacher of cooking methods for a tuber of the Pacific Islands who was employed at a Trump golf course sandwich shop.
----, -~--- ------ - ---- -----
-- - ---- -- -----, ---.
Click here for February 25's solution
02/22/2019
World Geo
Clue
A woman who can't wait to get up to her hotel room in Israel for her liaison with Levi, abruptly says so long to him when she finds that his manservant will not allow them to make love right there in the lift.
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--- -- --- ---- --------.
Click here for February 22's solution
02/21/2019
Science/Entertainment/World Geo
Clue
Rocker Brian, unyielding in having the opposite opinion, is told that Dara, a US soldier geologist working on Sicily gave no thought whatsoever to the prevailing framework, assumptions,and methodology commonly accepted in studying volcanoes.
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-- --------, ------- ---.
Click here for February 21's solution
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.
--, -, -- - ----, - -------- -- ------, ------.
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.
--! ----- ----- --- -- -- ----- -----.
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.)
-- -------- ---- -- -------- --, ---.
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.
----, ------------ ---- ----
----- ----- -- -- -----.
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.
---, - "---" -- - ----, ---:
- ---- --- ---- - ---!
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!"
------, ------- '---! ---? ----! -- -------!
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.
--'- - ----- ------ ----- ----, --- ----.
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.
-- ------, ----- -- - --- -- ------ - ---.
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.
-- ------, ----- -- - --- -- ------ - ---.
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.
-- -------, --------- -- -----, ---
---- -----, ----, -------- ----.
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.
----, -----, ----- ---- -- - ------------ ----.
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.
--, ---, -------- - --, - ------ -- ------ --.
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.
-----'- --- -- --------.
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?
---'- ----- ---- ----- ---- ---- - ------- ---?
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.
-- ------- ----- ------~-------- ------ -----.
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.
-- --- ---- ------- --- -- ----------.
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.
------, -- - ------'- ----, -- - ------ --.
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.
-- ---- --. -----~---- ------- ---.
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?
--- --- ---- - ---- --- -----?
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.
--- -- - ----, - ------ ------ -- - ---.
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.
----' --------- ------ --
----: "-----! ------- --, --."
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.
----'- --- ------ - ---- -------- - ---.
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.
----, -- ---------- --- --- -- ----'- ----?
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.
"---, - - ---- ---, --------
----- -----," - ------.
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.
"----, --- -- -- ----," - ---- ---.
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.
"-----," -------- -, ---------, "-----
---------- -- -------?"
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.
"----, --, --- ---?" -----
--- ------- ------.
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.
-- -------- ---- --- --.
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.
--, ------ -- ---- --- --
--- ------ ----. ---!
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.
--? - ---! -- ------! - --
- ------ -- ------ - --.
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.
"----, --! ------ -- -- ----," -, -----, ----.
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.
-- ------ -- ----- -- - ---.
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.
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Click here for September 28's solution
09/27/2018
Entertainment
Clue
Wondering if actor Richard's poetry is sufficiently pious.
-- ---- ------ ------ ---?
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.
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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.
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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.
----- -------- - ---- ------ ------'- ----.
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.
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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.
---- ---'- --- --- ----
------ --- -------- --.
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.
--- -- ---- -- - ----: - --------,
---, - -------- -- - ------ ---.
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.
---'- -------- --- '-' ----- --.
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.
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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.
-------, -, ---- ----, ------ --, ---.
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.
---: ----! ---- - -------- ------ ----
----- - ----- -- - ---, --- ---.
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.
-- ----, -- ---- ---, --- -- ------ ----.
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:
---, -- - --- - ---- --- ---, ---- -- ----.
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.
----------, ---, ---- --- -- -----, ---- ----.
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.
---, - ---- -- ---- ---- ----
--- - -----.... -- ----.
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.]
---- ---~-~---- ---- -------.
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.
---- -- ----- ------ ---'-
-----~--, -----, -- -- ----.
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.
---, --, --- -- ------- ---
--- ------, -- --- -------.
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.
------- -- ----- ---------, -----,
---, --- -- - ----- ---.
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.
-, ----, -------, "----, -------!"
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.
--- --- -- -----/------ ------.
Click here for May 07's solution
05/04/2018
Languages
Clue
"In actuality", Enid puts a stop to risque, alluring behavior.
-------- ----, -- ----, -----.
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.
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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.
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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 a 1966 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.
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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.
--- --- --- -- ---: ---- ---.
Click here for November 15's solution
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,
--- ------- -- -- --- ---, - ----.
Click here for October 17's solution
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.)
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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.
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09/27/2017
Business/USA Geo
Clue
A Florida State student introduces himself to the Founder of Space-X.
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09/26/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
What I say when I ask several friends to wander over while they are out walking, aimlessly.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?"
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09/14/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
Suppose I Irepair it for you. Will you give me tickets to the game?
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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.
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09/12/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
Pay attention: I'd lay money that the little Parisian cafe/restaurant gets sued in civil court.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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09/01/2017
USA Geo
Clue
Simple description of Atlanta, Georgia's transportation system, at least in part.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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08/28/2017
Entertaiment
Clue
Kuryakin's partner never considered wearing a short sleeved pullover sports shirt.
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08/25/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
What you might call the student body president at an underground cemetery converted into a college.
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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.
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08/23/2017
Science
Clue
Response to this request: "Give me examples of two chemical elements."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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08/15/2017
Miscellaneous
Clue
An outer space alien gossip.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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08/07/2017
Arts/Entertainment
Clue
It is not true that this star of "Roots" gave a massage to the composer of "Bolero."
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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07/31/2017
World Geo/Entertainment
Clue
Being totally unyielding in his opinions Ara, a Hanoi "Jack McCoy" wannabe, is also an informing scoundrel.
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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."
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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.
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07/26/2017
Slang
Clue
Del hired a redneck with a new college degree whom Nathaniel eyed [with suspicion.]
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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.
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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.
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07/21/2017
Business
Clue
Ann fantasizes about vacationing with her girlfriend using peer-to-peer short term lodging.
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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.
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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.
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