TYPEWRITER

As for your side question, well, here is my best answer!

WLOYBZ, which, by the way, is one of my favorite words!

Gotcha.

Well, cucuracha is cockroach, which was your original word, and the connection between cockroach and typewriter (all in lower case) was provided by Don Marquis

BLOWSY

WITENEST

I believe "blowzy" can be spelled either way, and I chose the more British way (I think!).

As far as Archie and Mehitibel, we took our kids to it, and we all loved it!

WITENEST

TWENTIES

APRTAUROBMEL

This might be hard, simply because of the length. If you need hints, let me know.

PERAMBULATOR

DEMEANORP

[faceisred](didn't even think to check for z or s, just wrote it down without even looking. Hopelessly Westpondian, I fear)[/faceisred]

I am impressed that you didn't even need a hint, Hab . I don't think I would have gotten it.

BTW, Where is Arnie these days??? It seems to be just you and I (I or me? ) here.

ACHYRIGLO

It's I, and it's oligarchy. Perhaps general interest is waning. Although I could have fun doing these all day. (In my darker, more introspective moments I accuse myself of showing off. "See how smart I am," I keep trying to convince myself.)

SHEEERY

EDIT: see below

[This message was edited by haberdasher on Thu Dec 18th, 2003 at 12:43.]

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"See how smart I am," I keep trying to convince myself.)

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No convincing necessary!

I'm still working here....I lept with glee thinking it was "Hershey", but then my head fell.

The problem with only 2 of us is that I always feel as though I am "on"! BTW, I know that arnie works with schools, so maybe he is on a holiday break? Anyway, I miss him!

See? Not as smart as I think I am. I've misspelled it: one E too many. It's not SHEEERY after all, but
SHEERY.

But it's still not Hershey. (I would never give a proper name without a warning attached.)

HERESY?

How about an occupation shared by railroaders and electricians?

WRIFSHATTCC

Witchcrafts ???

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Oops!

See? Not as smart as I think I am. I've misspelled it: one E too many. It's not SHEEERY after all, but
SHEERY

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Ohhhhh! Here I spent an hour giving a presentation, while my mind was elsewhere, thinking of "sheeery." Obviously, I am hooked!

ANATELS

I would have thought 'witchcrafts' too, but if it's used by electricians and (railroad) engineers it's more likely SWITCHCRAFT.

I'll have to work on ANATELS some more.

SEALANT

Hmm.

For the snow-and-ice victim:

RENT-A-SALT

(or maybe that's "for the captain in need of a crew for a short voyage")

.... it's probably not a proper English word...

Let's try ===> ASLIGHTINGLYNOROOTORSO

It looks as if it's trying to be "oto-rhino-laryngologist" but I'm going to have to go back and count the letters...

Yes. The mental hook/hint somehow was the ...GLYN...

I can't believe you got that, Hab, without even a hint! You definitely deserve the W.E. (Wordcraft Emmy) for that one!

BTW, Jerry, "switchcraft" was just fine; Hab came up with it, again without a hint (Grrrr!). Besides, "witchcrafts" worked as well (I think; e.g. "During the Middle Ages, witches worked with all sorts of 'witchcrafts.'" On second thought, maybe not. )

So, Hab, do we have another word? [maybe a little easier than otorhinolaryngologist?]

I'll work on it, but I do have the feelimg my leg is being pulled!

Meantime, try

RENT-A-SALT

Hab, maybe you could make RENT-A-SALT easier for us if you write it in some other language ..... in other words ....

Indeed!

Polymorphonuclear ???? Not sure.

SCUDFENO

Polys: beautiful! And nice anagram of it, too. I was working on "neurophthalmoscopy" but that didn't make it on several counts.


SCUDFENO = unfocused but it would need a second U. Still working on it.

(spelling error edited out)

[This message was edited by haberdasher on Sat Dec 20th, 2003 at 15:36.]

Now I'm confused. But no, I don't want any hints.

DICTNFONE

"CONFIDENT," he said, hesitantly .....
.....[ SCUDFENO appears to be CONFUSED ] .....


YULESOCKET

[This message was edited by jerry thomas on Sat Dec 20th, 2003 at 19:11.]

I don't want to be a cheater, so I will leave this one to Hab or anyone else (Where is that Arnie??). Someone we all know and love gave me a hint!

I come to the conclusion that my brain throws around Latin word fragments much better than Greek ones. Whatever that means.

WEATHERV

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WEATHERV - Whatever that means.

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You omitted the comma.

ILUDICROUS

MUSIBLE

And an early RYMER STARCHISM to all. Somehow here it already feels like Friday and I missed the whole thing.

JIBGELSNELL

Hint #1 ==>

Hear the sledges with the bells -- silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
As they sing out their delight
In the icey air of night
And the stars that oversprinkle all the Heavens seem to twinkle with a crystalline delight,
Keeping time time time
With a sort of Runic rhyme
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells bells bells bells bells bells bells
From the tinkling and the jingling of the bells! -- E. A. Poe

Now, that was hard!

MANABPIHI

A bit of cross-threading?

MICEARUMPA

PARAMECIUM

SCIROCCOIMP

Speaking of cross threading, GGGONE = eggnog (before it goes out of season)

microscopic

DAILY HO !

holiday!

DOGBRAIN

Boarding (Dogbrain was quite good! )

COLEMEW

WELCOME

NOTSMIRCHED

christendom

ITALIANTONNER

international

DOULIAGE

(crossing to the original word/pattern thread)

dialogue

EMU OOLONG Clue ==> An extinct, conversationally handicapped, flightless cuppa tea.

[This message was edited by jerry thomas on Sun Dec 28th, 2003 at 9:26.]

And besides, shouldn't it be "sinversationally handicapped" because there's no give-and-take here?

CUNVIDEO

(Would that describe a "nullogue"?)

[This message was edited by haberdasher on Sun Dec 28th, 2003 at 13:43.]

...if I have a Roget's and someone just gave me another one, do I now have two THESAURI?

(I'll give someone else a chance to get the word you really meant rather than give the next scrambled letters.)

Edit: No I won't. Add an O and make another all-five-vowels-one-time-each word. OK, there it is: SEQUIOA, and DIALOGUE, and now THESAURIO

[This message was edited by haberdasher on Sun Dec 28th, 2003 at 19:58.]

I had been doing a little cross-threading, and I had meant thesauri. Is there another word there?

I have been working on "thesaurio," and I don't know that this is right. However, the only word I could find was the English spelling of authorise. Is that right?