TOY SERUM IS

mysterious

Debauched OLD SUITES?

I wanted to make it SOLITUDES but your presentation makes it
DISSOLUTE

I BE TRAINED !
(I.E., I TEND BAR)

I BE TRAINED !

inebriated

Paris Hilton's Net sex tapes? UNLIT EROTICA

What's that you say? Paris Hilton wears fishnet stockings?

RETICULATION

And Old MacDonald had a SOUP, E-I-E-I-Q
(I never said I cquld spell)

I had to look up equipoise to make sure it was a word.

What's this about fish nets? SO SOPPIER

Sorry; I should have referred to one of Shu's "words from G&S" threads.
(KATISHA:
Oh fool that fleest love's hallowed joys
Oh blind that seest no equipoise...)

PORPOISES are indeed SO SOPPIER.

ODIPENTO - appallingly, a standard usage these days

ODIPENTO

optioned

He was described as LATE INDEED

LATE INDEED

DELINEATED

(...like Tom Brady at the last Superbowl?)


Moving right along - what do you get if you mate a BULL and a MARE ?

I don't know, but I can't think when it's raining.... let me get my umbrella up and then I can think about an answer...

Then, I have to figure out how to tell my AGNOSTIC TWIN that I hated how he decorated my house.

Aha! He put up the wainscoting !

(Ten dictionaries in onelook.com have it with two "T"s, vs. seventeen with only one)


They say houses get to be like people - did yours like it, or did the
INN RECOIL ?

Ten days andnot even a gluess? Time for a hint, then. But it's not a direct one, he said, skirting the issue; that's just puffery.

INN RECOIL

OK, if you really want an answer it's crinoline.

These set DINERS PUNNING

UNDERPINNINGS

On another tack completely: what do

GALA ARTS CHAMPION
and
YES, MY REAL ONE

have in common?

Answer: they are two of Stanley Kunitz's favorite words. He used to run through the woods declaiming them out loud, because he liked the way they sounded.

The link is to a trailer to a documentary about him. It's about eight minutes long*, and will give you the answers if I typed it in correctly. (If not, Google it or go directly to YouTube; the name of the movie is Stanley's House.) Needless to say, they're not your usual everyday words, but I have confidence that you know them.

Edit: *(the trailer, that is)

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I got the first one,

phantasmagorical

but I can't figure out the other one to save my life...

(tried to post this earlier, but my machine froze)

They're toughies; you should get a gold star for getting even one of them.

The other is also Greek-rooted rather than Latin, and like so many hard anagrams begins with a vowel.

(Kunitz' word was actually "phantasmagoria," btw. Mea culpa. And you shouldn't consider it failure if you get it by watching the trailer, either.)

P.P.S. and did you notice - both phantasms are double dactyls.

Two-week hint: perhaps I was being too charitable in assuming you know the word?

Three-week hint: It has the perhaps dubious distinction of having undergone an amazing linguistic transformation, from seven syllables and twelve letters in the original to one syllable of four letters in modern English!

(I'm being this recalcitrant to giving the solution only because I gave a link to the answer with the original presentation!)

"Alms for the poor?"

What would you call that kind of activity? (answer here)

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The answer is here; scroll down to the end.


Truth in washing? VERI-LAV

VERI-LAV

revival

Bored pen salesman? SELLS STYLI

SELLS STYLI
listlessly

TRUMAN SILENT
(that was music to some people's ears)

TRUMAN SILENT

instrumental

STEAMY KILN

MISTAKENLY (...resisting the temptation to write "misteaknly")

RAW MOTHER

RAW MOTHER

Well, if you are going fishing you might need an EARTHWORM, however, if you are a dog you might have a HEARTWORM. (or I guess the multiple, heartworms, 'cause they travel in packs...)

BOLD BOOT MUSICIAN

BOLD BOOT MUSICIAN

discombobulation !

TYRCIAL

Bonus question: TRYICAL + A = ??