Crossword Clue Game

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A lot of good entries. But my favourite was by Wheelz with “Command from a toddler with raised arms”. Nicely done! You are UP next!

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Thanks, Dr Paprika! I enjoyed that one, if I do say so myself.

A question of order, as this is my first win: Do I pick the next winner, or is that Spoons’s prerogative? I’ve seen it both ways in this thread.

The next word is…

PEPPER

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You choose the winner Wheelz.

  1. St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Martin
  2. Tony’s squeeze
  3. Shower with small projectiles
  4. The Yang to salt
  5. Mexico exports 23.6% of this to the world
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  1. Dr of drink
  2. Art of the saxophone
  3. Sgt. of lonely hearts
  4. With Jack, cheese
  5. Police Woman played by Angie
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  1. Once accounted for 70% of the international spice trade
  2. Common condiment, only indigenous to Kerala
  3. Sargeant “going in and out of style”
  4. Chili heat source
  5. Added to salt, for grazing or graybeards
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Pepper has been added to the Word List.

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  1. Baseball game?
  2. Anaheim or Fresno
  3. Doctor of 23 flavors
  4. Sergeant of song
  5. Black or white
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Okay, it’s been about a day, and I have to get to work, so here goes.

Some faves:

I was hoping somebody would think of Pepper Potts, one of my favorite MCU names. I did not think of Pepper Martin. I should have. Nice.

Of the Sergeant Pepper references, I like this one best (despite the misspelling :grin:).

And the winner, because a) I didn’t get it at first and b) it would have made for the most diabolical clue in an actual crossword puzzle:

Next!

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Thanks, Wheelz! PEPPER was a good word, and there was a lot that could be done with it.

Okay, the next word:

ROYAL

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  1. Missouri slugger
  2. Straight flush, ten the lowest card
  3. Lorde lament: “we’re otherwise”
  4. Shortened name of “Short Shorts” fame
  5. Crowned cola characteristic
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  1. Adjective for Snoopy’s Guardsmen
  2. Before Crown, a cola; after Crown, a whisky
  3. Pain descriptor
  4. Shade between sky and midnight
  5. “Down in the Boondocks” crooner Billy Joe
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  1. Member of a Kansas City team
  2. Degree of neck pain
  3. Type of battle that has no sides
  4. Tense that makes singular plural
  5. Jelly fit for a queen
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Time’s up! First, a couple of favourites:

And the winner is Dr. Paprika, with this:

Congratulations, Doctor, and give us our next word.

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I really liked the Wheelz one that Spoons highlighted.

The next word should give you a lot of options. The word is GOOD. (What’s the good word?)

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Thank you!
After I posted, I wanted to revise it, though: “Before Crown, a soft drink; after Crown, a hard one.” (I don’t think that’s allowed. :grin:)

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Like I said, it was one of my favourites. And a revision would have been fine, as long as it was just a change in wording, and not a totally new or different clue.

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  1. Service partner
  2. Word before God or dog
  3. James Brown felt it
  4. Between the uprights
  5. As you like it?
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  1. One with “services”?
  2. With “the,” TV doctor
  3. Actor Matthw
  4. Band of Canadian brothers
  5. Precedes morning, afternoon, and evening
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  1. Partner of Plenty
  2. Local boy makes this
  3. The bad and ugly companion
  4. A hard-to-find man
  5. Hitchcockian evening?
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  1. What Carol Beach York thinks of Charlotte
  2. Type of wife Julianna Margulies played
  3. The last drop of Maxwell House
  4. Type of place Eleanor Shellstrop went to
  5. Enemy of the great