| || flood, front, infamy, deluxe, drifted off.
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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.
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Here at Acme Villain Supply
We have costumes to catch the eye
Of any good-guys on the beat
Warn them they will taste defeat!
Your custom logo on the front
Will impress your outlaw bunch
A deluxe version, all bespoke,
You'll hate to hide with a cloak!
It's the clothes that makes a man,
AcmeWear draws a flood of fans!
And since no villain really nice is:
Our line of nefarious devices!
To really shine out in infamy
Can be simple as one-two-three.
This hypnotic headband is a hoot.
Guards drift off, you grab the loot!
(But wait! There's more -- tomorrow!)
Well, probably more tomorrow, but the word selection could make some other topic more relevant.
For any lurkers here, even if you don't work the LATimes crossword, my poem over there today is a companion piece to the one above.
I was thinking FLOAT would be the word. But snoozing needed another. I got the four J's pretty quick.
That's why I don't like CSI's and LAW's - they don't let the bad guys win. At least with Sundance , Jesse and others the crooks had plenty of innings.
And anything goes on Halloween. Re. Yesterday's CC where a cruciverbalist encounter found the conversation drifting to PLINY (The Elder): I've rediscovered Sherlock and in one of his tales " the conversation, which had roamed in a desultory, spasmodic fashion from golf clubs to the causes of the change in the obliquity of the ecliptic, came round at last to the question of atavism and hereditary aptitudes."
The Greek Interpreter
The jumble clues came quite easily, and the clever pun was pretty obvious, once I had all the letters.
I did read the poem on the Corner, Owen, and I think the idea of contrasting the two is inventive and entertaining. Acme must have a very creative CEO.
Am always amazed how you come up with so much poetry every morning, Owen. I'm still not recovered from my troublesome viral cold. I get up and feel okay, but by 10 am or so I'm very tired, and this morning I had to lie down and take a nap. But at least the cough hasn't been at all bad this morning, and that's a relief. As for the Jumble, I had a strange experience. Had trouble with both the third and fourth word, but I instantly figured out what might be the solution. Sure enough--it turned out to be right--even though I never had more than half the letters to work with. The cartoon is cute, but the fellow should really go on a diet. And I would have made their identical caps different colors since his has a white top and hers doesn't. Well, time to get my exercise, and cereal, and get on with my morning.
Tom thought there was something wrong with the gear box on his old manual transmission car.
"I dunno," he told his mechanic, "she sorta shifted soft today. Have a look at it, Pete."
~ OMK
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