1. flying insect, first name of Moslem boxer; short for merchandise, crawling bug that cuts leaves; to connect two strings, moronically simplistic noise a bear makes, orange flower often found by country roads.
?, ?; goods?, caterpillar?; Tiger Lily?
2. baby sheep, number after one; long corridor, second word of stupid kid’s show on Nickelodeon; opposite of me; metal container but used negatively; ? ; letter after A, first part of phrase meaning to realize what you should have done
Lamb, two; hall?, ?; you; can’t; ???; B, ?
3. First word of book by Herman Melville Hall; fun opposite of work.
WAG - ForePlay?
4. Number after 6, tiny particles of dirt; Raggedy’s last name, opposite of her, last word of our current missile campaign against Iraq, mass dwelling larger than a town.
7, dust?; Animosity
You’re not a threadkiller, IThinkNot. Just a brainkiller.
Titanic - even the score, thrash thoroughly, fish prefix Lusitania - British cans, tag term, chemical suffix, affirmative Andrea Doria - Conjunction, a Perlman; something to slam, first word clue redux Edmund Fitzgerald - SDMB big shot, pitcher place; effervese, east central German city, metaphorically in winter =
Well done! I still wasn’t close, even with the hints. I was thinking arses, instead of loo’s, and was on the wrong track with fist instead of door, etc. If I’d gotten one of them, I might have done better with the others, knowing the theme was naval disasters.
Who’s Ed? And, where does the gerald part come from?
Ed refers to our belovedEd Zotti, editor of The Straight Dope. Gera is a city in east-central Germany, and when one is old, one is said to be in the winter of his years; hence, Gera old = Gerald.
Hey, doing puzzles clears the cobwebs out of your brain, Davebear. And don’t feel bad, I have a tough time with IThinkNot’s puzzles too!
Davebear: You’re right on with Tigerlilyand Animosity. Good job! “ForePlay” it isn’t— but it is Play. However, if you know music, you can figure out the artist’s names… <hint hint>
Alpha Centauri - puppet alien, sound of relief; dollar part, metal source, email topic abbr. Betelgeuse - an Arthur, dictate, fruit product Sirius- heat quickly, Eistein formula result, metallic suffix Arcturus- circle part, sightsee, inclusive pronoun Toliman or Pollux?- like a foot, light unit
I think I need one of those high-powered pressure washers. I used to do puzzles all the time. Then I stopped. Why I stopped is another of the many things I do not know.
Well, maybe if you hadn’t stopped doing puzzles, you’d remember why you stopped doing puzzles. I need to sit down.
But first, since this is Callahan’s Place, a toast:
I used to work at the shore every summer when I was younger. Unfortunately the water was quite polluted which made the small fish the seabirds ate quite toxic to them, and every day there would be dead seabirds on the beach. My job was to scout the beach from end to end and pick them up and carry them off to the incinerator where they’d be destroyed, for health reasons. I did this for over ten years, and you know, I felt badly for every single one of those birds…
