Crossword Clue Game

[Spoons]

1. Wrestling’s bad guy
2. Achilles’ soft spot
3. End of a baguette

[Gyrate]

@panache45

Several good ones (but no mention of the Pips).

True, but Gladys still got tagged (twice):

@Rebo

• The Empress of Soul
• She took the Midnight Train to Georgia

@SunUp

Let’s go with HEEL .

1. Spot’s spot?
2. Darn it, knitters!
3. The role of an irascible wrestler

[Spoons]

@Gyrate

True, but Gladys still got tagged (twice):

As long as we’re on the topic (and let’s keep the game continuing) can somebody explain: I’m familiar with “Midnight Train to Georgia,” by Gladys Knight and the Pips, but in the piano books I played from as a kid, it was subtitled as “Midnight Plane to Houston.” Was there such a song as “Midnight Plane to Houston,” and if so, why was it changed?

[Gyrate]

“Midnight Plane to Houston” was the original version. Wiki say:

The song was originally written and performed by Jim Weatherly under the title “Midnight Plane to Houston,” which he recorded on Jimmy Bowen. “It was based on a conversation I had with somebody… about taking a midnight plane to Houston,” Weatherly recalls. “I wrote it as a kind of a country song. Then we sent the song to a guy named Sonny Limbo in Atlanta and he wanted to cut it with Cissy Houston… he asked if I minded if he changed the title to “Midnight Train to Georgia”. And I said, ‘I don’t mind. Just don’t change the rest of the song.’”

Cissy Houston recorded it as “Midnight Train to Georgia”; Knight recorded the same version shortly thereafter with greater success.

[Spoons]

Great, thanks, @Gyrate. I always wondered about that song, given its subtitle. Much appreciated, and again, thank you!

I need to play more piano. I kind of miss it.

[Knowed_Out]

1. Under the head during love
2. Command for dog to follow
3. Part of Achilles that missed his bath

[Rebo]

1. Loaf leftover?
2. Kitten or stiletto
3. Greek’s weakness?
4. Grocery cart spot of mishap
5. What your head goes over when falling in love

[Wheelz]

1. Toothache spot for Old Dan Tucker
2. Unfeeling person, in old slang
3. A flat doesn’t have one

[SunUp]

Y’know, I’ve always wondered why it’s “head over heels” in love. Isn’t that they way things are normally supposed to be? Is this a saying that has some deeper meaning I’m not aware of?

At any rate, we’ll take:

@Gyrate

Spot’s spot?

as today’s winner.

Go for it, Gyrate!

[Gyrate]

Okay then. Um…

Have we done BOARD yet?

[Wheelz]

1. Gathering of directors
2. Word with surf or circuit
3. Monopoly milieu

[Knowed_Out]

1. Place for serving or enlisting in draft
2. Boogie surface
3. Course stiffness metric

[FastDan1]

1. Chairman’s place
2. Type of foot
3. Diving apparatus
4. Iron on?

[SunUp]

1. Surf or skate equipment
2. Enter by gangplank, or the gangplank
3. Examining group

[Spoons]

1. Get on the plane
2. Directors’ group
3. Conductor’s call

[Rebo]

1. 2 x 4
2. Entrain
3. Put up

[Gyrate]

Hmm…strongly tempted by “Boogie surface” but I’ll go with this double clue instead:

@SunUp

Enter by gangplank, or the gangplank

And back to you, SunUp.

[SunUp]

Thanks, Gyrate! And, as a reminder, the words we’ve done before are in Word List for the Crossword Clue Game

So let’s try RULES.

This will probably be my last for a while as I’ll be on vacation next week.

[FastDan1]

1. We don’t need no stinking ones
2. They may be broken
3. Uses an iron fist
4. Before and after are
5. No running!, is one example

[Spoons]

1. Games have them
2. An umpire does this
3. Pro wrestling writes them in pencil