ANTIC TESS

scantiest ??
cattiness ??

The seagull has a new swimsuit:
WING THONG

On the principle that the correct answer is what's in the upper-right-hand drawer of my desk, you should keep trying. Ain't no rhythm in "scantiest" anyway, and even less in "cattiness".

WING THONG is NIGHTGOWN.

And when you finish with ANTIC TESS let's continue on with
E.E.G. INGLE a nook in your brain wave?

ANTIC TESS

Well, if you eschew CATTINESS, and precision in speech requires TACITNESS, you might end up with the SCANTIEST of answers.

and speaking of scantiest, that is a great quality in a NEGLIGEE

now a jumble in honor of the day:
A drunken poet might be referred to as

A RHYMED SOT

...still one more for ANTIC TESS. Think Carmen!

I give up on Antic Tess! I only found the 3 that Jo listed..

The missing anagram is CASTINETS

Except that it is spelled CASTANETS..
No wonder we couldn't figure it out.

Here's one of 10,000 googlehits with i-castinets.

On the other hand, there are 1,090,000 ghits with the a-spelling...

Wonder where I got the i-spelling from?

Probably some grey fluff got into your head by mistake.

Now, it's on to:
A RHYMED SOT

Happy MOTHERS DAY from a rhyming sot!

I've heard of squeezing melons, but who wants a

MUSHY MERCHANT?

(You only let Mother's Day stay up for 25 minutes!!??)

MUSHY MERCHANT is Chrysanthemums

And before we leave Mother' Day, let's sit back and enjoy the
BENT CALORIES

Jo posted A RHYMED SOT on Sunday, but I didn't work on it until after we solved CASTINETS...

and of course all those rhymed sots bent their calories at the gala CELEBRATIONS

How do you make the party better?

ADD FETE, ERNEST

ADD FETE ERNEST

defenestrated

I was surprised to find out that the incident involving the death of Jan Masaryk when he was-pushed-or-fell out the window in 1948 was not just the Defenestration of Prague but in fact the _third_ Defenestration of prague. There was one in the 1600s and another in the 1400s!

Get your garbage haulers at the
DRAY SHOP

An apology is in order, I think: this one's a repeat. The first time it appeared as

POSH YARD

I think I'll crash this party...

POSH YARD

rhapsody

Now here is mine:

Oh dry foal

Now that I am here, can I entice a couple of you to post a sentence for the En-Titled game?

Oh dry foal

foolhardy

I UPHELD CURT

(never got very deep into LoTR, so I'll have to forego the ENT-itled thread this time)

Aw, heck! But good job on foolhardy.

I UPHELD CURT

pulchritude.... Beauty is only skin deep.

Have you visited Graceland?
PURE ELVIS

PURE ELVIS

Two answers:
Pulverise
repulsive

Count Dracula BIT AORTA

BIT AORTA

abattoir

Isn't that the place where they use ULTRA-HUGE HOSES ...

ULTRA HUGE HOSES

So sad to think of slaughterhouse...

Be happy to go to
HOTEL SIN

HOTEL SIN

Holstein

Survival of the fittest? I GAS LOSERS

Take away one S and you have SERAGLIOS

I GAS LOSERS

glossaries

Does anyone else see the
BIG HOARY BLIP on screen?

BIG HOARY BLIP

bibliography

E-RETAIL (where artists sell their work, after having created it here)

[Excuse-in-advance] ( If AORTA BIT was OK, I feel I can use this one )[/excuse]

E-RETAIL

atelier

Manager's MEMOS RILE wait staff.

MEMOS RILE

sommelier - he really knows his wines!

NO CRUISE, SON (so does he!)

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NO CRUISE, SON

connoisseur

My little boat won't move. One has to
TUG MORE.

TUG MORE

gourmet

UM, DRAGON? Eats everything, indiscriminately.

UM, DRAGON

gourmand

Going out West, and... well...
ME RENT RANCH

ME RENT RANCH

Trencherman

Goggled airman? OWLISH FLY

OWLISH FLY

by way of WOLLYFISH to FOWLISHLY (zero g-hits) to WOLFISHLY...

USE FIRST

USE FIRST

surfeits

One really needs a RAIN COVER on the grill when cooking meat.

RAIN COVER

Carnivore

Breakfast painter? TOAST RENOIR

TOAST RENOIR

restoration

Lots of enticing presentations for this. I like to contemplate the flavor of
RIGANOLI

RIGANOLI

original

I have me MATES RECIPE for burgoo..!

MATES RECIPE

masterpiece

Harvesting the grapes with a VINE MACHETE?

quote:

Harvesting the grapes with a VINE MACHETE?

That's a fine ACHIEVEMENT indeed.

Have you seen the pictures in the dairy industry's new risque magazine?
NAKED COW LEG

NAKED COW LEG

acknowledge

I have two stoves at home. I am
BI-OVEN.. Shhh, don't tell.

BI-OVEN

You're bovine? Never!

Is the H in hotel ASPIRATED?

ASPIRATED

That'd be DISPARATE, which is its apart-side.

How about ARTZES, which is like craftzes, only not the real thing?

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ARTZES

ersatz

Make Rod LAVER TOE the line!

LAVER TOE

elevator

Perhaps downing a couple of CORAL TEAS will also give you a lift.

CORAL TEAS

escalator

Keep insects off the baby with a
NETTED PRAM.

NETTED PRAM

department

Your second-hand car isn't such a bargain; I NOTICED RUST

NOTICED RUST

destruction

I only gave a short wave good-bye:
MINI TOODLE

MINI TOODLE

demolition

I'm not a bodysnatcher - I ROB SPLEENS.

I ROB SPLEENS

And do it in a responsible manner!

Barbie has a country estate, and, as always:

HER TOY TOWN.