Crossword Clue Game

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  1. Spoil, as dairy
  2. Become suddenly adversarial
  3. At-bat
  4. One good one deserves another
  5. It might follow U
262
  1. Right round, like a record player
  2. Deny, with a blind eye or a deaf ear
  3. Scare the zombie
  4. Move to prevent bedsores
  5. New leaf locomotion
263
  1. Verb sung three times by Byrds
  2. One good one deserves another
  3. Worm’s activity when provoked enough
  4. Impolite to speak out of this
  5. Activity a corpse takes in disapproval
264

Winner is @Spoons with:

The runnersup were very clever:

You’re up again, @Spoons!

265

I was so pleased with myself that my battered brain got this one. Course, that’s because of my Boomer generation.

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Thanks, needscoffee! Some tough competition this time around–I think we’re all getting good at this.

First, the previous word list:

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
cross
capital
face
turn

Next word:

GREEN

267
  1. Kind of bean or screen
  2. Roy Biv’s middle name
  3. Try to drive there
  4. 1988 R.E.M. disc
  5. Augusta jacket hue
268

I’ve added a “Word List for the Crossword Clue Game” thread, so we have a repository for used words. I’d ask the winners to add their new words there, so we don’t clog up this thread with long lists.

See here:

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And the Eventual Grand Prize winner has to use all of the words in a short story to claim the prize (TBD).

270
  1. Whistle Stop Cafe tomato tint
  2. A goddess dressing
  3. Best-Picture Oscar title color, two different times
  4. Anne’s unpolished gables
  5. Bowling Massacre color
271
  1. “Let’s Stay Together” lyricist
  2. When I like traffic lights
  3. Boat shade with honey and plenty of money or runcible spoon
  4. Mile - with Tom Hanks or Stephen King
  5. Primary colour of light
272
  1. Inexperienced
  2. Type of mile Stephen King wrote about
  3. The peace environmental activists prefer
  4. Type of stamp formerly used for trading
  5. Color of eyes jealous monsters have
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Okay, it’s been about 24 hours, so time to wrap this one up. Many great ones again, and it was difficult to choose. First, some favourites:

And the winner is:

I guess we all like them green.

Your turn, Dr. Paprika!

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Thanks. It’s also a Monty Python song.

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The next word is UP.

276
  1. Ed Asner direction in 2009
  2. Break in this direction is not good
  3. Waste time by urinating on a rope in this direction
  4. Superman before he goes away
  5. Acceptable standard compared to a tobacco product
277
  1. Northern Mich.
  2. Throw or foul
  3. American mail without the s’s
  4. Twice and away
  5. Before tick or load
278
  1. You get this in the morning
  2. Soft drink, with 7
  3. Beehive do
  4. Way to be for a challenge
  5. Command from a toddler with raised arms
279
  1. Directional RR co.
  2. Hope your number isn’t this
  3. Where Scotty beams Kirk
  4. How to butter someone
  5. What with which Churchill will not put
280
  1. With “get,” morning task
  2. R.R. company
  3. Where Polly Brown’s puff of smoke went
  4. With “pick,” kind of truck
  5. Preposition