| || gamut, merge, either, knotty, merrymaking.
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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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Well, I don't see that it's a pun, but it is a fun cartoon and a fine sentiment, so appropriate for today.
Merry Christmas!
MERRY CHRISTMAS, ONE & ALL!
"Dilemma, Schilemma!"
Faced with a problem, especially a knotty one,
try to run the gamut of plausible answers.
Among the best ways to "get 'er done"
is to merge all the possibles to just two chances.
Then it's merely an either/or proposition.
Cut fretting, flip a coin, & accept the abscission.
~ OMK
"Baking Merry-Making"
Mom was feeling in a rut,
so of cookies she'd bake a gamut.
Her spirits began to surge
as ingredients she did merge.
They'd be soft, and not at all knotty,
with raisins that would make them spotty.
Neither child was much of a feeder,
but for cookies they'd became a greeter.
So her dairy and berry baking
produced much merry-making.
Her gift was a great success,
and her kids cleaned up the mess.
Clever, clever poem, Ol' Man Keith. You worked in the either/or especially well. I had to go with "neither" since nothing else worked.
Oh, so the kids "cleaned up the mess", eh? Reality gives way to fiction.
And, OMK, you've introduced another word after per?? from yesterday. eg "abcission".
Well, I'll see if I can approach the words from a different angle.
Question? As you know I receive the weeks worth of puzzles on Sunday (insert) and occasionally mention same at CC.
Have I ever "spoiled" in any comment?
Now in here I have thrown out hints especially on the Saturday xword. All I will say is that it's doable with P&P. One clue that perped in was "Field pair", - - - - - -.
The answer perped in but I'm dying to see the explanation.
WC
re. "Spoiled" as in "gave away". Someone asserted same FLN
Wilbur, I don't think you've ever given anything away, though you've come close sometimes.
Just an honest reaction: I prefer puzzles to be a complete surprise, but that's just me, and as I said, you've never given anything explicitly away.
I don't think you've given anything away, Wilbur.
I mean, in one way, we wouldn't know, would we? because we won't be looking for those words in advance.
Plus, as you know, I think you are sometimes too obscure--that even when I actively seek a known word, I cannot see it, buried--er, "embedded"--as it were, in your phraseology.
The word yesterday was "petrichor." Funny, I didn't think of it as new. I thought I was the only one who didn't know it when I first came across it a year ago.
Today's word--"abscission"--yes, I did look that one up, while searching for a rhyme, either for "question" or "proposition," the two words I was juggling to follow "either/or" to end the previous line.
I liked it right away; it makes for a lovely final couplet, doesn't it?
Misty, I could smell the cookies baking while reading your verse. Thank you!
Actually, I could go downstairs to smell our own goodies. I am very lucky to have a wife who LOVES to make all sorts of cookies for Christmas. This year we have seven different kinds. I think my favorites are the chocolate ones with powdered sugar sprinkled over a cracked dome--and the plainest of all, the Snickerdoodles.
I think the kids in your verse would be dee-lighted to clean the kitchen in exchange for homemade cookies.
Hurrah! You were able to include today's solution, but I was not. I can often find a way to hint at it in my poem title. But not today. It wouldn't lend itself to a Spoonerism, nor to a rhyme.
When I settled on the current title, I told myself I was rather making merry in settling for that "What-eveerrr" expression.
But I was kidding myself, wasn't I?
I hope everybody got what they wanted for Christmas.
Or, if you didn't, maybe you already HAD everything--
Right?
~ OMK
Sandy, I overlooked you as a CC silver because you're less active over there. I've mentioned stuff here that I wouldn't say over there. One interesting fact,: I took to listing constructors since they were misidentified but my lists were routinely ignored and no interest was evinced.
No tomorrow I filled box by box. There was some hanging fruit although what's easy for me might not be so for another. Let's see: I can't find one sports question. One obscure proper name.
So clever clues.
WC
Yes, Wilbur, I'm quite timid about posting on the Corner. Not sure why, because they're mostly very nice people.
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