| leech, adage, fitful, beaver, reflected. |
| abacus, beckon, kernel, wallet, hermit, stocky, work out the kinks.The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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On that summer's afternoon, the pond was calm as glass.
ReplyDeleteThe beaver lodge was being padded with fresh grass.
In the water fish munched on water bugs and leeches,
While the surface reflected clouds and blue sky reaches.
An errant breeze blew fitfully by, bringing with it ripples.
Skater bugs walked on the pond, forming teensy stipples.
Idyllic was the summer day. An adage was aborning,
That he who would be calm, should picture such a morning!
Frantic was the pace at the outdoors market!
ReplyDeleteMerchants beseeching notice, wallets as their target!
They beckon to their stalls, with fruit and fat grain kernels.
Tunics for the men, for wives brocaded girdles.
Beads of abaci are clacking, frenetic castanets.
People curb to curb, no place for pensive hermits.
There are women importuning for kinky assignations,
And stocky men-at-arms to quell any altercations!
Delightful poem, Owen, and a big help to get some of the tough words, like #1, #3, and #5. But I'm having trouble with the solution, and was hoping that other comments might help me out. I keep wanting the first word to be ROCK, but there's no C in the list of circled answer words so that can't be right. And how will three K letters work out in this puzzle? A Sunday challenge.
ReplyDeleteWell, I forgot that our LA Times offers us the answers to the Jumble in the Sunday paper, and although I try not to look at it and keep it upside down, I accidentally dropped it and saw the Jumble answer. I don't know my rock and roll very well, and so I'm guessing the last word in the theme answer is the name of the band of Ray Davies and his brother? Very clever.
ReplyDeleteI love the way the two poems evoked the two contrasting atmospheres: calm and bustling. Solved the two jumbles and then looked for the words in the poems, because that's fun. Found them all except the first two words of the j6 solution. ???
ReplyDeleteThe jumbles themselves came fairly easily. Clue words no problem, and the j4 solution was obvious. The j6 solution looked daunting, but when I saw what the four-letter word could be, the rest of the phrase popped up. Clever, I thought, to use three less-common letters in clues and solution.
Owen, I'm getting used to having the comment site pop up separately. But I do have a problem with not being able to see the Jumble itself on that site, but only the comments. I do sometimes look back at a jumble when I'm writing a comment and it's kind of a hassle to have to go back and forth. Just picking a nit.
ReplyDeleteI didn't bother to work out how to include the first two words, since the key word was in there, and I don't feel obliged to include the little helper words of a phrase. In retrospect, tho, I probably should have, even if just beclause.
ReplyDeleteI guess it depends on how one sees "helper". I thought of that first word as the main verb. But perspectives vary, as well they should.
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