OH BREEZY LIP

hyperbolize

I must admit tense moments with that one!

And since everyone here seems to be limerick mad:

{b]CONCISE VERSE[/b]

Sorry, that would be:

CONCISE VERSE

coerciveness

So, you're from one of my favorite states...Utah! I love the mountains.

I thought "hyperbolize" might be hard, but then I also know the kind of people I'm dealing with!

Ah! Tea req. U.K.

BTW, MPen, we have decided that unless we note otherwise, it is always 1 word. I just got confused with "grease monkey."

Ah! Tea req. U.K.

Yes, Kalleh, we will all drink tea in London. Great anagram!

Earthquake --------------- rumble, rumble.

Tee us, dude! The foursome is ready to play golf.

desuetude, a nice self-descriptive word, meaning "having fallen into disuse" (or, the state of having had the food removed from your bird feeder? or was that the fancy leather from your blue shoes?)

CALLIGO - a cat with a stuffy nose

CALLIGO

Logical

ORC SWORDS -- one of these often includes an anagram

Did you know that the National Puzzlers' League annual convention just concluded in Cambridge, MA? Will Shortz (crossword puzzle editor of the NYTimes, among his other accomplishments) is the president.

MAGYC R SPORT

MAGYC R SPORT

cryptograms... messages from the grave?


TARTAN CLERIC...Does the minister wear a kilt?

TARTAN CLERIC

recalcitrant - does that really mean hard and unyielding, like a stone?

ELECTRIRIAN

ELECTRIRIAN

rectilinear.... I'm straight! I'm straight!

ELASTIC CHINS - one word

ELASTIC CHINS

I think I'm leading myself down the garden path, but not getting any closer to where I should be going...

NOT A LIMERICK

There's CHALICES TINS
And there's CHILIASTS NEC
Also -ANCES and -ISTICS galore
And there's L I CATCHINESS ("Long Island", to non-New-Yorkers)
ITCHINESS, LAC (if you're alleric to lac, that is)
But I can't think of anything more!


(and lots of other enticing beginnings, but I'm not getting anywhere yet)

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Hab,
Take yourself to the gymnasium and do some jumping jacks... see if that helps you think.

ELASTIC CHINS

Aha! Calisthenics! Nice one!

TITIAN'S COMA (One word, no apostrophe)

TITIAN'S COMA

Thought of CONCOMITANTS and MACHINATIONS but they have too many letters.
Then after chewing on it for a while I see it's MASTICATION!

How 'bout C-CHORALE, the stuttering singers? (Well, it's better than "CHE CAROL," which is what old Cuban revolutionaries sing at Christmas) [Not to be confused with the "O CHE C'RAL" where they had that big gunfight]

C-CHORALE

What singing? I hear nothing...

Cochlear - 'ear that??

STONEY UTENSIL

STONEY UTENSIL

lousy sentient?

I don't think so... argh it's too late.

STONEY UTENSIL

Sententiously

Go to the Xerox to get the USUAL COPYING done in a quarrelsome manner.

USUAL COPYING

That's great, Arnie - Pow!Pow! They pugnaciously met at the Xerox.

SOUP OUT, LUV! - one word

SOUP OUT LUV!

Eat it often enough, out or at home, and you become Voluptuous.

ITALICS OUT, NOT! You can publish in any form you want. (one word)

ITALICS OUT, NOT plus N is

CONSTITUTIONAL

but as it stands it's "non-constitutional"! (that is to say, no "n")

(Jo, I like your picture!)

ARGGGGGGGGGG

I'm so sorry. You are absolutely right.

Here's a new word to un-scramble, since you both have left me wordless..

nimble retina... one word. Keen eyesight.

nibmle retina - interminable


CHORIOPESENT

CHORIOPESENT

I know that none of these are the answer, but they are so much fun.

From the English major comes: poetic shores, with a tip of the hat to everyone who has ever written rhymes to those Dover Cliffs.

A tip of the hat to Michael Moore: Epic Shooter

And to the low brow playboys amongst us: Epic Hooters

CHORIOPESENT

Stereophonic... reminds me of HiFi's and 45 rpm records.. Geez, I'm old.

CHUTE BRATS.... Send all the misbehavin' off the plane

still working on CHUTE BRATS but here are some loose associations so far:

Buttersach - some kind of German pastry?
Bucherstat - speaking of German, tell me about all those books...
Brust cheat - went to Berlin for augmentation surgery
chat buster - flame war
beach strut - "Notice me!" for teenagers
such a Brett - all you American football fans
stretch Abu - Aladdin's little monkey just woke up
starch tube
ratchet bus

You're right, jo, these are half the fun!

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CHUTE BRATS

I admit defeat. I've spent way tooooo much of my Sunday on this one, with about four pages filled with various permutations. I can hardly wait to find out what it really is.

I came up with:

sub chatter -- watch out for those depth charges

cab shutter -- a doorman's work is never done

cub hatter -- Hey! A fan's got to have the right head gear.

butt arches -- no comment

PROGRESS BUT NO SUCCESS report

TREBUCHETS is within one letter of CHUTE BRATS - drop that first E, put an A in its place.

The trebuchet was a medieval catapult, capable of hurling heavy boulders long distances and knocking down fortified battlements, or stone castles, or what have you.

Unfortunaltely there isn't "trabuchet" to be made plural that I know of.

Sigh.

All of your "silly scrambles" (daffy-nitions?) are very witty...

Think Italy! Think food!

Well, if you say it's an Italian food I'll make the letters into a compatible configuration BRUSCHETTA but it's the first time I've encountered the word.

I think you deserve to post the next one too, as I didn't Solve this, really

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Please don't; we'll just work on yours, with gusto.

"mid-brain CE," eh?

I see my post needs some mighty clearing-up, too.

There. Done.

After all, jo, I didn't figure it out it, I made it up a plausible answer that just happened to be correct. You solved the puzzle.

Hab and Jo,

I'm lost amongst the 3 blind mice... and sorry that Hab has never eaten bruschetta... I'm lucky to have Italian neighbors.. Since I don't see another word out there to scramble, I offer:

ALPHA RAIN PEAR... the best pear on the tree after a summer shower

ALPHA RAIN PEAR

Paraphernalia

AUDIBLE PINTS -- Slurping your drink? -- without argument!

ohhhhhhhhhhkay then. I deleted my post. Thanks for letting me play. thought I had a puzzle there after solving bruschetta. Guess I wasn't supposed to play.

Thanks.

Sure you were, jo. INDISPUTABLE-y.

My "midbrain CE" was an inaccurate rendition of your letters, which I think were

I BRAND MICE (if I can hold 'em down)

or something reasonably close.

And which remains unsolved...

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I BRAND MICE

am bride inc (weddings arranged for a fee)
anemic bird (Polly-want-a-transfusion)
bind Crimea (start a war)
birim dance (Chasidic celebration)
camenbiird (orthographically challenged French cheese)

I BRAND MICE

brain medic - I could certainly use one!

iceman bird - Nordic version of Superman.

rabid mince - a dog frothing over the Christmas pies.

I'm lost here.

Why did you delete a post, jo?

I BRAND MICE = MANIC BRIDE - not unlikely!
or perhaps = IAMBIC NERD (that could describe many of us.)

Good Morning!

Arnie, I originally deleted because I thought that Hab was saying since we required a clue to solve that it wasn't really a "true" solve. So my bad... sorry.

As for I BRAND MICE -- well, I rather like Iambic Nerd. That's a truly nifty one. However, the chemistry is all wrong. (that's a clue...) I must admit this is not at all a common word. In fact, it is uncommon enough that I am quite willing to allow Iambic Nerd as the solution if others agree that it is entirely appropriate here. If I don't hear any disagreements by noon or so, I will declare Arnie the winner and let you know what word I had in mind.

No, no, give me a little more time to work on it! Chemistry, eh?

OK, so as not to prolong it _too_ much.

There's CARBIMINED, which would conceivably mean "added a carbimino- group." (Or did you mean the chemist who dispenses medications from a shop?)

And on a more whimsical note, there's MID-CARBINE, meaning halfway between the ends of your rifle.

Somehow I have the feeling that your word is neither of these... :-)

PS: "iambic nerd" is an iambic pair. (Which is itself iambic pentad, too)

carbimined it is.

carbimined it is

It is really?! It was offered more in the spirit of a collection of well-formed plausible-sounding syllables that fit the context of the hint. Just like "bruschetta"!

Anyway.

GOONSMILE (That's a new word I just made up.)

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GOONSMILE


(I guess the goon squad can be happy every now and then..)

However, Hab is creating a NEOLOGISM with his new word.
That was great, Hat Man.

SOAPY PLACE - one word

SOAPY PLACE

Apocalypse

NYLON CACTUS

Looks like it's trying to be ETYMONYM, but I'll have to look it up to see if it's really a word. For the moment it's another collection of well-formed prefixes and suffixes that looks word-like. Should have to do with word names...

And Onelook.com says...

"Sorry, no dictionaries indexed in the selected category contain the word ETYMONYM".

Oh well. It sounded like a word, anyway.

...but there _is_ METONYMY, now that you make me think, though I don't recall what particular figure of speech it is. The opposite of hyperbole, maybe, emphasis by understatement?