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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on December 05, 2009, 10:57:29 AM
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Timely theme coming on the heels of the East Anglian e-mail scandal...
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Little shot? PIC
It covers all the bases TARP [given the newsy theme, maybe TARP should refer to govt. money]
What it takes TWO
Thor Heyerdahl craft RAI [First thought was Kon Tiki but remembered he first sailed Ra I, named after the sungod {there was also Ra II}]
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Glad I got to learn the name for the Punjabi long-grain rice I always eat.
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Like a butterfly in water? seems like the clue calls for a noun, maybe an adjective. The butterfly is a swimming stroke, the name of an action (a noun), and SWUM is a past participle (a verb), so I don't get it. As it stands, SWUM needs to precede the clue to make sense. How would "Like an angry bee" be for STUNG?
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Trattoria order? MANGIA [I don't think the Italian is common enough in our language to be appropriate, but if it were, isn't it the
Italian mother cajoling her family to eat rather than a restaurant employee?]
(Bologna bridge for PONTE, also Italain, is used in many place names and so is appropriate.)