| douse, derby, sonata, intent, "buy-standers".The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
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To serenade is to court, with song and music, too.
But if you're not a poet, will a sonata do?
Is it okay to buy love-lyrics from a friend,
Or as you stand and sing, will it bring love to an end?
Makes no difference how you dress, derby or sombrero,
With the girl you would impress, you must be simpatico.
Prevarication or deceit can douse love at its blooming
An honorable, sincere intent is vital to a wooing!
As you might assume from my extra effort on the artwork, this solution stumped me, so I assume others may need the extra assistance as well. Do not expect this to become standard.
After I gave up on the UClick site, I retreated to the Chicago Tribune subtle hints interface to finish working out the puzzle, and also get an exploded view of the backgrounds.
Your closing couplet reminds me of a cynical saying we actors had in grad drama school--our not-too-funny put down of so-called "method" acting: "If you can't fake it, be sincere."
I dunno, Owen. I'm scratching my head. I feel stupid for not getting why you blew up the cartoon's background detail.
And is the scale a legit riddle or just a comment on the fact that you're working with the drawing's "scale"? I know you said you thought it would be a help for us to get today's solution, but I don't see how.
Do others see this jumble as difficult? I had no trouble getting the answer right away. Not bragging, but it seemed especially easy.
I liked the poem BTW. It seems to carry on (at least partly) with yesterday's very practical dating advice.
~ OMK
So this is very interesting, Owen. Contrary to your problem with the second part of the solution, I was very "occupied" with a four-letter word that I thought was so relevant that it must be part of that long word. But when I realized what three-letter word would be even more relevant at the beginning, the rest of the solution fell into place. I hope that's not confusing. I did have a problem with the third clue word and found it in your poem.
The poem is charming, and does go very well with yesterday's. I hope you didn't think my comment of yesterday denigrated your experiences; I probably fixated on that word "base".
I understand your extra clues for today. Those people sitting comfortably in the background are quite a contrast to the impatient ones waiting in the foreground. But I honestly didn't identify what the woman was holding as a scale, so that was neither help not hindrance.
Thanks so very much for your daily efforts. I look forward to the jumble more than ever before simply because of your poem, and your comments as well.
Well, I had a bit more trouble with this Jumble than others, and needed Owen's poem to help me get #3, which seems pretty obvious once you get it. I did get the three letter opening to the solution right away, but would not have figured out the longer answer without Owen's clever enlargement of the figures in the background. So many thanks, Owen, and nice to get everyone's explanations.
I've said many times before that the background nearly always provides a clue. Today's background tho was exceptionally difficult to make out, so I took some extra effort to enlarge what I thought was exercise equipment and children's toys, and was surprised at how wrong I was!
The enlargement also caught the box, which I hadn't realized was anything identifiable. I doubt that was intended as a clue, but I found it easy to conjecture a connection. The fact that most people in the food court were sitting seemed significant. Was anybody else able to make out what the background was?
The closest I could come in interpreting the background was "Walkers"--not exactly the aid that may have been intended.
Given the word that was needed for the solution--"Standers"--I was tempted to propose that the needed word was actually the prosaic version of the poetic background activity.
~ OMK
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