Sunday Morning Puzzle #89 --- Child's Play?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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This week’s puzzle is a list of words and phrases with something in common. However, in order to find them, you’ll need to add one doublet from the blues and one doublet from the reds to each answer. The blue doublets, the regular doublets, and the red doublets all relate in the same way for each answer. Once you have discovered all the answers, you may use the seven leftover blue and red doublets to spell out the common factor using the same method used in finding the answers.

What is that method? Discover it, and the rest of the puzzle is child’s play.

  1. LE RU
  2. EE LN IO
  3. EA IP IZ
  4. LO PM OP EN
  5. EA LA VM OE
  6. PA NR IA TC OE
  7. AN CW UH WM BO RE
  8. UH EL BS TE RN UR
  9. HI SA MT ER OR IC
  10. AS PN DA RE LA GI OU
  11. EE RO NI WC AI NR RK LO
  12. UO RT EN FR SL OP AW EC
  13. QU MU AB LM AE WR IE EN
  14. EH AS EU TR TR ES AU SN
  15. IU RT TP LE RE HS WE AE ER
  16. OU RT TN TO NS IC AE NN DN
  17. NR UT IS SQ UI AE BN BR AL US SE
  18. RA ZA NZ LN YE DS MA ZI TZ LH AE RP PO SL

AA AD AS BC CA CC CD CM CO FP IR MA MD MS OO PA PB PN RG SB TA WS

AY DE DR EA ED EE ER ET KA MN NL NM RM RN RR SE SN TE TT YT YY

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Maybe this will help:

One of the words/phrases I planned to have on the list, but ultimately did not use was TIMBER WOLF.

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Still no solution…

Where are the quick-witted children this week? Perhaps at play In some TROPICAL RAIN FOREST?

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oops…

There is an error in #17. The red doublet SE was inadvertently left in among the regular doublets.

Sigh.

If only editing puzzles was “child’s play”.

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All right. Some final hints before I let this challenger fall away forever into the Land of the Unsolved:
This isn’t really a complete spoiler but…

*Most of the population of the U.S. (and many folks abroad too) should have had direct contact with the theme of this puzzle —though there have been a lot of changes during the past 101 years.

*I don’t think it is necessary for a solver to be especially experienced with this type of puzzle in order to discover the secret of the doublets.

*The solver who first discovers the solution may go to the head of the class and receive a GOLD star…or perhaps a plate of MACARONI AND CHEESE???

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MAUVELOUS! I was so not going to get this one without that last hint, but now you can TICKLE ME PINK.

Should the third doublet in no. 14 be ER?

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Dang! I made another error. Grr! THISTLE sure teach me to spend a bit more time editing before I post.

Good work Peregrine! You managed to complete the picture despite my errors. Which hint gave the show away? The “Mac 'n cheese”?

I thought one thing that made this puzzle different was that working the longer answers was an easier way to get to the solution as opposed to wrestling with shorter ones. Oh well, I guess if I’m going to stump the SDMB I’m really have to go far out into the WILD BLUE YONDER!

Back to the drawing board!

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From the spoiler box: “during the past 101 years.” Google took it from there.

Don’t be BLUE; this puzzle was a PEACH!