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!
Owen, You are the perfect poet for this blog. I found some of the answers hidden in your poem sans checking back with the jumble. Now I will study further. Everything is clear now. I got 1 & 2 right off. I hinted the first letter of 3, 4, and word 3 of solution (S). Each time the rest of the words were clear. Word 1 of S came easily after that.
This was a bit tougher than previous ones this week but I managed to eke them out. It's absurd to me that such a word would cause me so much woe. I was certain HIS would be the middle word so wrote that and then DREAM occurred to me and the rest fell in place. Satisfaction!
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He tried to keep in shape, he did,
ReplyDeleteWith chin-ups, push-ups, curl-ups.
He climbed rock walls, on skateboard slid,
Did hiking, camping, outdoor stuff.
He entered body-building shows,
To emcees he was a "tough old bird".
Wearing speedos, no other clothes
He pursued poses you'd dream absurd!
He was in picture-perfect health,
A paragon of prep and pluck.
No malady could slow him down --
Too bad he met that pick-up truck!
Owen,
ReplyDeleteYou are the perfect poet for this blog. I found some of the answers hidden in your poem sans checking back with the jumble. Now I will study further.
Everything is clear now.
I got 1 & 2 right off. I hinted the first letter of 3, 4, and word 3 of solution (S). Each time the rest of the words were clear. Word 1 of S came easily after that.
I had trouble with#3. So, I used what I had and tried to solve the riddle . No THE . Fortunately, #4 supplied the vowels that got me the solution .
ReplyDeleteBut... #3 had 4 circles so that didn't help much . I kept pursuing and tried every crazy combination until I got it
WC
This was a bit tougher than previous ones this week but I managed to eke them out. It's absurd to me that such a word would cause me so much woe. I was certain HIS would be the middle word so wrote that and then DREAM occurred to me and the rest fell in place. Satisfaction!
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