| skulk, uncle, faucet, plenty, tune ups. |
| enough, gossip, fibula, stereo, herbal, verify, sight for "soar" eyes.
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
Do not explicitly reveal any of the actual answer words until after closing time, but embedding them surreptitiously in comment sentences is encouraged.
9 comments:
She had a favorite uncle, Max
When he came, he would bring snacks.
The only time she'd taste of cake,
Tho her parents had plenty on their plate.
With Max, she'd play at being spies
Skulking and hiding from glaring eyes.
They'd splash each other in August
With a hose to the garden water faucet.
He was her only break from cruel parents
Whose love for her was not apparent.
They were stern and freely used a switch
To tune up their nasty little witch.
Hi. You have come for the tour, yes?
As if that were a wild guess.
Enough babbling, let's get on with it.
A clapboard house is here on exhibit.
Large, but not a mansion, quite.
Not an eyesore to outward sight.
But within was a site of gore,
Splintered bones, and blood galore.
The piano, a fibula on the strings,
They had no stereo for family sings.
The couch, still stained to verify
This was where Father was to die.
Here's the pantry, smelling herbal,
Where out, Mother's life would burble.
Here's the woodlot, whence came the ax
Gossip says I used for eighty-one whacks.
Hi, Owen. The daily jumble, j4, was easy-peasy. Okay pun.
Having a lot of trouble with the j6. It's complicated by the fact that I've been watching the Wimbledon men's final. Now in 5th hour, 5th set, with Federer at double championship point. Djokovic just came back to 40-40. Crossing my fingers he can still win. YES! Djokovic just broke Federer to the it up again at 8 games all. If they play to 12 games all, it finally goes to a tiebreak.
You can see how distracted I've been. Sorry for the off-topic paragraph, but I may never solve j6 today.
Ok, match is over. By the stats, Federer did better on all but one measure, but the saying is that champions find a way to win and Novak Djokovic came through at the crucial moments and WON! 4 hrs, 55 min., it went to 12-12 in the 5th set, necessitating a final tiebreak. Historic match.
I had enormous trouble in the j6 with clues 3 and 5, and finally went to your poem, Owen. Given all the letters, the solution came, but not easily.
I read the j6 poem with some shock and then realized that Lizzie Borden was the speaker. Great job, Owen, at eliciting the distasteful situation. Should be a stronger word than distasteful, but I can't think of one at the moment.
And did you get that Lizzie was also the subject of the j4 poem? Uncle Max was my imagination, but IIRC, the treatment by her parents was in the ballpark. Or should I say tennis court?
You can say ballpark or tennis court or whatever you want.
I didn't pay as much attention to the j4 poem as I should have, and missed that connection. Maybe because of 'Uncle Max'. It was the 81 whacks that lit the light bulb in the j6, remembering, "and then she gave her father forty-one."
I'm still looking for OMK, Misty, and Wilbur to show up. Late Sunday; I hope there's still plenty of time.
Sorry I'm so late, Sandy. I was laboring through the CC and finally got to the J6 from the newspaper.
I too had a lot of trouble. 3-6 were all tough, FIBULA esp. I finally got them all and jotted down all the letters.
Ic FIRST for First. Nope, I had to try something else. Getting SIGHT FOR led to the solve. Saturday xword tough.
Great depiction of the famous Lizzie Borden massacre. The trial was bigger than O.J. - at least in Boston.
She was acquitted as I recall.
WC
Chose.
Wilbur, in case you don't get back to the Corner tonight, I apologized for my error. That fifth set lasted over two hours!
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