Crossword Clue Game

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  1. A duet with Soul
  2. Celine Dion’s will go on and on
  3. Rock group that skipped a beat
  4. Mine belongs to Daddy, according to Cole Porter
  5. Either it’s in the right place, or it isn’t in it
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  1. They sang about a barracuda
  2. Liberal’s hemorrhaging organ
  3. Hope to die if this is crossed
  4. Even though your brain is the source of memory, this organ gets credit
  5. Eaten out when jealous
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There’s still time left. But this ain’t gonna be easy.

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These are some cryptic clues from today’s Globe and Mail. Since these are genuine clues, they are not about a specific word. So they are much harder. I will give the original clue, a biggish hint and then the answer. The goal is to understand the answer. You don’t have to get any of these - they’re hard!

  1. Amazed - and so is the organization (10)

Hint: There are ten letters in the answer, and ten letters in “and so is the”. This suggests an anagram.

Answer: Astonished, meaning amazed.

  1. Series of street calls (7)

Hint: If any word has a common abbreviation, it is fair game. Here, street=ST, followed by a word meaning “calls” to form a word meaning “series”.

Answer: STRINGS

  1. Strongly disapprove of what a model will do after work (6)

Hint: What verb describes what a model does? Add a couple letters to get a word meaning to disapprove.

Answer: OP + POSE

  1. A row about a youth in Arabian tale (7)

Hint: This is a well known Arabian character. A name formed by a short synonym for “a youth” followed by a short synonym for “row” or “noise”.

Answer: A + LAD + DIN

  1. A once-rough sea (5)

Hint: This is an anagram of two words in the clue which total five letters.

Answer: OCEAN

  1. Packed as a precaution (2,4)

Hint: A precaution? Just - - (2 letter word, then 4 letter word which is a type of lack).

Answer: IN CASE

  1. Teacher confused by area of France (7)

Hint: Anagram of “teacher” forming a metric unit of area

I struggled with this one.

Answer: HECTARE

  1. It’s essential to a cad and a liar (7)

Hint: An anagram of “cad” and “liar” forms an unusual synonym for “essential”.

Answer: RADICAL

  1. A hall put up for Muslims’ worship (5)

Hint: An anagram of two words that total five letters.

Answer: ALLAH

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This one is hard. I like Spoons “part of an organ recital?”, needscoffee “Either it’s in the right place or it isn’t in it” and Knowed _Out’s “eaten out when jealous” to a similar degree.

But I’m going to give it to Knowed_Out. Congratulations.

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Thanks Doc. In keeping with the holiday spirit, the new word is DRESSING.

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  1. Room where an actor prepares.
  2. Paul Newman & Hidden Valley both make it.
  3. Gown for a man.
  4. Gauze for a wound.
  5. “_____ down” (scolding).
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  1. Vinegar oil, for food from the soil
  2. Window — , a front or facade
  3. Have on Hallowe’en habit
  4. A gown to bed down
  5. Ranch, Roka or Russian - for rocket?
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  1. Seeing the salad do this made the tomato blush
  2. Cross-________ (in the styling of Harry Styles)
  3. Oyster or chestnut
  4. French, Italian, or Russian
  5. Stuffing, when it’s not stuffed
230
  1. Donning garments
  2. Theatre room
  3. Green Goddess
  4. Caesar’s demand
  5. Ranch not involving cattle?
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Hard to decide between these two, but @needscoffee’s made me laugh. You’re next!

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Thanks - of course, that’s from the old joke - “Why did the tomato blush? Because he saw the salad dressing.”

Previous words:
cat
nun
ghost
Bruce
America
coffee
deposit
stock
tape
paper
shadow
count
chicken
stand
step
frank
middle
drive
stream
case
scratch
clear
finger
table
spirit
blind
escape
heart
dressing

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New word: CROSS

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  1. Monkey on Jesus’ back
  2. Don’t make Mommy this
  3. Randall Flagg’s Nadine
  4. Con man’s double
  5. What these words do
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  1. Vampire’s bane
  2. Single one of these is holy. Doubling them means treachery.
  3. Do this with fingers to legally lie.
  4. Occur to, with “mind”
  5. Position eyes to convey confusion.
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  1. Follows Red, Blue, Criss or Charing
  2. An ankh
  3. Traverse the ocean
  4. Yacht rock god sails out
  5. We won’t deal with that bridge yet
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The trouble with cryptics is that they can be very cryptic.

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  1. “Walk” to an actor.
  2. A Labradoodle is one.
  3. “______cut saw” against grain.
  4. “______-eyed” (esotropic)
  5. Roman tool of execution.
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Ah, the Globe and Mail. Canada’s national newspaper. We had a subscription to the Globe ever since I can remember, when I was a child in Toronto.

On Fridays, the Globe published last Sunday’s NYT puzzle. Saturdays through Thursdays, I had a hard time getting up in the morning, and so did my mother. But not on Fridays. Then, we would try to beat each other to the front step, to get the Globe, and the puzzle, at ungodly hours of the morning. (Which, to us, was like 7:00 AM.) First person there got first chance at the crossword puzzle.

On Fridays, I had to be at high school by 9:00 AM. Mom had to be at work by 10:00 AM. She had an extra hour to work the puzzle I had to leave behind. Unfair!

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These competitions are funny. In high school, my buddy and I would go to the library and get the two papers they received. We’d compete every day to see who could finish the Jumble the fastest.