There are several other Jumble blogs, but the ones I checked all started off by listing the answers. In this blog, answers can be either hinted at or masked by burying them in comments. No overt spoilers!
All hints are in the comments!
All hints are in the comments!
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Sept. 30, 2018 Sunday
|| capon, sorry, unsaid, redeem, depression. || hyphen, ensign, cloudy, gerbil, warmth, madder, searched high and low.
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The Cratchit home was a sorry place, Often depressed by an empty plate. Today they left it unsaid As on a capon they fed, But redemption glowed from every face!
A catch of collective nouns can be fun to study. Take a look at these examples, all warm and fuzzy:
A horde of gerbils frolicking in a field of grass, Released from cages by the fourth-grade class. A madder of painters, or would-bes at least, Have erected their easels for a visual feast.
A choir of singers search for their scene, Sopranos high, basses low, the rest in between. A gaggle of ensigns wave semaphores, Exchanging messages, from ship to shore.
A menacing cloud of gnats circle overhead. Our only satisfaction -- in a month they'll be dead. Exploring a glossary shows a collective of nouns, Singular and plural, hyphenated for compounds.
Delightful poetry above--giving us a real Sunday pleasure, Owen. Many thanks.
I got all but one of the puzzle items, and had to cheat to get the missing one and the solution, which pretty much eluded me. Thankfully, the LA Times offers an upside down solution to the Jumble on Sundays, so I now know the whole thing. Wishing you all a good day searching for the answers if your paper doesn't have them.
Wow! Two great poems. I love the way you can twist the words into the forms you need, Owen. The daily jumble was pretty easy. But Sunday wasn't. Clue word four made me work a bit, but all six became clear after some thought. The solution was a poser, though. What I did was to try to figure out the longest word. Past tense of what appropriate verb? Trial and error brought it out and the remaining letters fell into place shortly. Whew! I didn't even try to work hints into my comment today.
It took forever to get the riddle. Then I wrote all the letters down and noticed GH. Bingo. The six * six not that much trouble. Now, how is Owen going to combine all these different words. Let's go back to the beginning and look.
Well that was an interesting approach Owen took . The bull by the horns one might say. An Ensign being similar to a 2nd LOUIE*, I can see seasoned NCO's calling them that.
I need a scratch pad, my newspaper doesn't provide enough space for all my attempts to solve the riddle . It was the second word which got the 4th word which finally got the long one .
I just reread and you did indeed get all six plus the riddle. #1, most cleverly .
| capon, sorry, unsaid, redeem, depression. |
| hyphen, ensign, cloudy, gerbil, warmth, madder, searched high and low.
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The Cratchit home was a sorry place,
Often depressed by an empty plate.
Today they left it unsaid
As on a capon they fed,
But redemption glowed from every face!
A catch of collective nouns can be fun to study.
Take a look at these examples, all warm and fuzzy:
A horde of gerbils frolicking in a field of grass,
Released from cages by the fourth-grade class.
A madder of painters, or would-bes at least,
Have erected their easels for a visual feast.
A choir of singers search for their scene,
Sopranos high, basses low, the rest in between.
A gaggle of ensigns wave semaphores,
Exchanging messages, from ship to shore.
A menacing cloud of gnats circle overhead.
Our only satisfaction -- in a month they'll be dead.
Exploring a glossary shows a collective of nouns,
Singular and plural, hyphenated for compounds.
Delightful poetry above--giving us a real Sunday pleasure, Owen. Many thanks.
I got all but one of the puzzle items, and had to cheat to get the missing one and the solution, which pretty much eluded me. Thankfully, the LA Times offers an upside down solution to the Jumble on Sundays, so I now know the whole thing. Wishing you all a good day searching for the answers if your paper doesn't have them.
Wow! Two great poems. I love the way you can twist the words into the forms you need, Owen.
The daily jumble was pretty easy. But Sunday wasn't. Clue word four made me work a bit, but all six became clear after some thought. The solution was a poser, though. What I did was to try to figure out the longest word. Past tense of what appropriate verb? Trial and error brought it out and the remaining letters fell into place shortly. Whew!
I didn't even try to work hints into my comment today.
It took forever to get the riddle. Then I wrote all the letters down and noticed GH. Bingo. The six * six not that much trouble.
Now, how is Owen going to combine all these different words. Let's go back to the beginning and look.
WC
Well that was an interesting approach Owen took . The bull by the horns one might say. An Ensign being similar to a 2nd LOUIE*, I can see seasoned NCO's calling them that.
I need a scratch pad, my newspaper doesn't provide enough space for all my attempts to solve the riddle . It was the second word which got the 4th word which finally got the long one .
I just reread and you did indeed get all six plus the riddle. #1, most cleverly .
WC
* See Sunday xword re. Taxi
I'm rather fond of how I worked madder in. I didn't know till today that it was the collective noun for painters, from the red pigment in oil paints.
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