Crossword Clue Game

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These are getting harder to choose - most are pretty decent. But I’m going to give it to Needscoffee for the succinct “Partner of Plenty”. Nicely done. Maybe “Partner o’ Plenty” would be overegging the pudding.

I’ve never heard of the Good Brothers and had to look that one up.

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I thought of the Good Brothers mainly because I remember when they were playing bars in southern Ontario, and you’d see in the entertainment pages of the paper that the Good Brothers were playing this weekend at (say) the Belvedere Tavern on Main Street.

They went on to have a good (pun fully intended) career, made a number of recordings, and would be well-known to country music fans. However, I’ll grant that it would be a tricky clue for any solver who is not a country music fan.

I will add that I also liked “Partner of Plenty.” Got the advertising jingle (“Charlie says, love my Good and Plenty…”) stuck in my head for a while after that. Nicely done, needscoffee!

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Is there a Good way to incorporate an ampersand into the Plenty clue? No. & that’s all for tonight…

“Be good (Stay Well), Bye Bye (Keep Warm) Relax (At Ease), Take Care (Stay Loose).
Adieu mon vieux. A la prochaine. Goodbye until we meet again!"

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If I recall twickster’s advice correctly, you try to avoid using symbols in puzzle clues. If you do use them, chances are that they are there for a reason; such as in a theme puzzle.

Similarly, you try to avoid using “(abbr.)” unless you absolutely must. You indicate somehow in the clue that you’re looking for an abbreviation, usually by using one. So earlier, we had UP. I came up (heh) with “R.R. company,” meaning Union Pacific, but abbreviated as “U.P.”

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Thanks! I really liked @Wheelz’s “James Brown felt it”, but I couldn’t figure out his “Between the uprights” - probably something very obvious that I’m just not seeing.

New word: PLACE

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Regarding “between the uprights,” it’s used in football. A kicker is trying for a field goal or an extra point after touchdown. He has to kick the ball between the uprights in the end zone. Typically, the TV announcer will say, as the ball flies through the air, “Annnnnd–it’s good!” if the kicker succeeds.

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Oh, that explains it. Thanks!

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PLACE:

  1. Exacta bottom
  2. Park on a game board
  3. Archie Bunker’s?
  4. Table setting
  5. St. Charles or St. James
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  1. You might run in it
  2. There’s one for everything
  3. Silver medal, to a horse
  4. TV’s Peyton or Melrose
  5. Disneyland claims to be the happiest one on Earth
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  1. Zero holds this.
  2. Elysian Fields is mythical; Hogwarts is fictional.
  3. Red drop in Google maps.
  4. Position
  5. “Poetry of _______” (Wordsworth specialty)
311
  1. Type of mat or value
  2. Formerly the home for women
  3. This is bumped to leave
  4. Between win and show
  5. Contest winners get this first
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The protocol, as you say, is an abbreviation or irregularity in the clue is somehow involved with the answer. But it actually is “Good & Plenty” candy. Not sure why I initially thought it was “Good ‘n Plenty”, but it’s not like I’ve seen it recently.

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  1. I’ve just seen a face, I can’t forget…
  2. Space, to Sun-Ra
  3. In the sun - to Elizabeth Taylor or Stevie Wonder
  4. Position on a pedestal
  5. des Arts or de l’Opera locale
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Tough choices!
I’m going to pick @Wheelz for first place with:

Runners up include @Spoons

@Knowed_Out:

@Dr_Paprika:

And @RivkahChaya’s

Your turn, @Wheelz!

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Thanks!
Lots of good ones in that round.

Next up:

MILK

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  1. Take advantage of a cow
  2. Dietary distressor of Asian adults
  3. Precursor to curds and whey
  4. Moostache maker
  5. Used to wet cereal
317
  1. Californian Harvey
  2. Repeatedly rip off a rube?
  3. Quik mix
  4. Holstein product
  5. Mammalian nutrition
318
  1. Harvey who was assassinated
  2. Coerce
  3. Poppy extract used in Game of Thrones
  4. Non-saccharide utopian liquid
  5. Tiger’s hard liquor
319
  1. With honey, the Promised Land of Jewish tradition
  2. Kind of Dud
  3. Man or maid
  4. Soy or almond
  5. Don’t cry if you spill it
320
  1. Ad campaign featuring models with moustaches, of sorts
  2. Fresh frappe factor: flat, frothed or foamy?
  3. Human kindness, to Lady Macbeth
  4. The centre of the coconut
  5. Food forerunner, for Little Miss Muffet