| || unify, cover, atrium, ferret, far cry from it.
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The opening poem contains all the words (or variations of them) from today's Jumble.
Comments are welcomed!
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My cuz Roy's fave hooch is a shooter a' hard rye.
Dumb git, he don't ever try nuthin' better.
~ OMK
Bilbo was a far cry from his Hobbit hole
The little atrium in the hill he'd lived his whole
Life in cozy comfort. Smaug had ferreted out his scheme
He'd run for cover. He'd won the dwarves esteem
Balin and Dwalin dashed over all in a rush
Their leader stood apart, behind him the wily Thrush
Bilbo knew as a group they had be unified
But Thorin was wont to be pride personified
Cryptic clues:
Make as one /by purging/ uniformity.
Blanket // someone else's song.
Sunny place /for/ three of you in A.M.
Search intensively /for/ rural route in foot lengths.
Distance away /is/ arc in fry from I.T.
(Sorry I'm so late, wrote last nite but neglected to post before I went to sleep. Not feeling my best after falling Wednesday. No injury, but still feeling achy.)
Woohoo! Woohoo! Got all four Jumble words with hardly any work, and after playing with the letters for just a minute or two, got the solution! Woohoo! Then came to see if I could find all the words in Wilbur's poem, and there they were, along with the solution--also verified with Ol'Man Keith's gloss. And then, for further confirmation, got to enjoy Owen's help. A great Jumble, with a fun complicated cartoon, with the babies crying in the back, the elder couple in front of them looking frustrated, while the folks in business class were able to snooze or read or chat. Like all the different hairdos on everyone, and the colors make the cartoon even neater!
So sorry to hear about your fall, Owen, and so glad there were no injuries. But take care of yourself and get some rest.
It's amazing, isn't it, how you can get stuck on something quite simple? I could not for the life of me come up with the third clue. And this even though I figured out the solution and knew the three letters it provided. D'oh! Liked the solution, by the way. Don't believe it, though; babies'crying carries quite far.
Wilbur, I've never read The Hobbit (or seen the whole film) so a lot of your references go right over my head. But I enjoy your storytelling nonetheless.
And, Owen, it's still a good thing that I can read your clues for pleasure and not help; I need help deciphering them!
Your lines roll off the tongue, Wilbur.
I liked especially the momentum of your first verse, and enjoyed finding the extra rhyme (when spoken aloud) in the second.
~ OMK
Thanks Owen, Misty and Sandy. I finished two xwords then showered and my 915 alarm went off. I had to get to a ten am mtg. So jumble away I went. If Betsy didn't have me slicing apples for the conures I'd've made it.
Sandy, it sounds like the second Hobbit movie is the one you missed. Bilbo's whole raison d'etre is to burglar from Smaug's treasure.
He sneaks in and, as you've read, a windy palaver goes on with riddling. Smaug is clever. He realizes Bilbo's mission and who's helping him. As I mentioned, during the flattery Bilbo managed to get Smaug to reveal the weakspot in his armor*. Hence the third movie: "The Desolation of Smaug".
But that didn't make it into rhyme.
Ps. Owen, hope the healing from the fall goes quickly and well for you.
Thanks, Wilbur.
0wen, 👍 👍
Cryptic solutions:
UNI(formi)TY
Double definition
TRI U < AM = ATRIUM
R.R. < FEET = FERRET
ARC < FRY + FROM + I.T. = FAR CRY FROM IT
Wilbur -- you got the J6 covered for Sunday? Want me to do the J4, both, or neither?
And good luck with Saturday's 4th word. No way you'll ever fit that descriptor of the Millennium Falcon into the Hobbit!
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