| || messy, sense, uneasy, gallop, lessen lesson.
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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.
12 comments:
FLN: Please accept my condolences, Owen, on your brother-in-law's condition & your wife's commiseration. The pressure on you must be very stressful. Thank you for carrying on as much as you do; be assured we understand when you need to power down.
Today's solution:
Chrism or myrrh oil is often used in sacred rites, including the anointing of the monarch during a coronation.
But when chrism is in short supply, a regular pantry oil is sometimes pressed into service. This is known as a "Wesson blessin'."
~ OMK
Solved this one last night before I went to bed. I see that OMK, as usual is the early bird.
The clues were pretty easy, and all those repeated letters made the solution kind of obvious too. It is a cute cartoon, but (here she goes again!) I though the solution preserves pretty awkward. It's not a phrase I can imagine actually ever being used, and I thought that was one of the points of a jumble. Oh well.
Owen, I hope things look a tad brighter today for you and Bren. And for her family.
That was PHRASE, not PRESERVES. Thought I checked before posting, but obviously not enough.
Owen, I too am thinking of you and Bren's family with much concern and care. Take good care of yourself, and them, and know that you are in our thoughts and in our hearts today.
I had to work on the third Jumble word for a bit, but I got it, and the solution popped up instantly, and I loved it because it fit the teacher's lesson on subtraction so perfectly. I also love that the cartoons feature black men and women and children so often, giving us our broad and varied world not just occasionally but regularly.
Ol'Man Keith, I wondered if the solution with those few repeated letters could be right, but, as usual, your fun gloss confirmed it. Thanks for that.
The uneasiness they'd felt since leaving the Shire
Slipped away gloriously. Bilbo couldn't help but admire
The splendour of Elrond' s home with it's flair
For finery after leaving the trolls messy lair.
Bilbo sensed that the lessons to be learned here
Would be valuable later and it lessened his fear
Of the unknown wilderness. "Pack lighter the Lord advised,
Be ready to flee at a gallop. Be not delayed nor compromised."
WC
Not much trouble with the four J's altht I jotted the letters down and then rearranged. Then besieged by "S"es.
So Bilbo, 13 dwarfs and Gandalf are resting in Rivendell, The Last Homely House.
The uneasiness they'd felt since leaving the Shire
Slipped away gloriously. Bilbo couldn't help but admire
The splendour of Elrond' s home with it's flair
For finery after leaving the trolls messy lair.
Bilbo sensed that the lessons to be learned here
Would be valuable later and it lessened his fear
Of the unknown wilderness. "Pack lighter the Lord advised,
Be ready to flee at a gallop. Be not delayed nor compromised."
WC
Wilbur, your poesy is only eclipsed by your ingenuity. Loved your poem.
I hope you're in a good spot where you are in Florida. Stay safe.
Excellent poem today, Wilbur! Fun to read, and fun to speak.
Just coming back indoors from sunning on the patio with the dogs. What a profusion of colorful flowers! We have had good rains this early spring, and the flora are showing their appreciation.
I am smelling of Rosemary. I sat leaning against a bush of it.
~ OMK
Thx Sandy and Keith. I reread the chapter. Lots in it, esp about a thrush and secret writing, "Durin's day" and secret entrances. Elrond is very wise.
Sorry, not much on Arwen*. Of course, if I finish with Bilbo and go on to Frodo we might have Arwen in the picture.
Yes OMK, it probably, like most previous, is best read aloud (or aloud in ones head).
The real excitement would be Eowyn, the valiant Rider of Rohan whom I mentioned the other night.
WC
here is a letter to the editor I wrote a few days ago. This is just the first half, the second half was about the CC.
Jumble away
If isolation, quarantine, sheltering in place, hunkering down at home or whatever you call your situation is getting to you, I have a suggestion. Try to work the Jumble puzzle (usually on the back of the comics section in The New Mexican); then check out the Jumble Hints blog at jumblehints.blogspot.com. If you didn’t get the solution to the puzzle, there will be hints there in poem form. If you did solve the puzzle, there will be an added puzzle there in trying to identify all the hints, which others tell me is even more fun! There are also links there to sites where you can work the puzzles online. Did you know there are two Jumbles on Sunday? So far as I know, Jumble Hints is the only website on the internet that covers both the four-clue and six-clue Sunday Jumbles.
Only this half got published. I don't know if the rest was cut or if they're saving it up for later publication. Here's the half that got cut.
Then work the LA Times crossword puzzle, and join the online discussions at the Crossword Corner website, https://crosswordcorner.blogspot.com! A different blogger explains the puzzle each day of the week, but the real interest is in the comments, where an entire community of warm and interesting people have formed who use the puzzle as springboard for all sorts of interesting discussions! Newcomers are always welcome, but there are also links to numerous other online cruciverbalist communities if the Crossword Corner isn't quite your cup of Earl Grey. Some, such as those for the NY Times crossword, are a bit too acerbic for my taste, but YMMV - your milage may vary, as they say.
Wonderful Wilbur poem--many thanks, as always for that, Wilbur.
And excellent Owen letter! Wonderful! What hard and brilliant work we see on this blog everyday.
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