SUTURES! AH!

Isn't that the new Doctor Seuss book about a dinosaur? THE SAURUS ?

And at the risk of being obvious,
TRY ICON AID if the little pictures on your computer desktop look funny.

TRY ICON AID

Dictionary!

Now, you're in England, you're lonely, your Mum says:

DIAL EVE, LUV!

DIAL EVE, LUV = vaudeville :-)

let's try

AID TRACY - she needs help holding up a Rodin statue

AIR TRACY indeed!

It's that ole familiar word... caryatid! Good one, Hab.

It's a Cockney spelling bee - is that an

AITCH OR INN.... "h" or "n"??

CORINTHIAN

Yes, but will it let U RETRACE ITCH ?

U RETRACE ITCH....back to the Rodin, covered in fleas.

architecture

Please help the thinker

ACE HIS TEST.

BTW I didn't say how impressed I was at how fast you got "caryatid!"

AESTHETICS - (I tried variants of "cachetic" but that's not at all in keeping with our Rodin theme...)

and crossing at least three threads - did you see that book describing sex on the river?
TAY SUTRA

Yes, I impressed myself with caryatid! Believe me, a dictionary was close at hand. How about the Hardy theme? More pats on the back...

TAY SUTRA...... statuary

Did you know they move marble from the earth in
TUNNEL CARTS?

quote:

TUNNEL CARTS?

CASTLE 'N TURN
SCATTER LUNN
LANTERNS CUT
RELUCTANT NS
ANN SCUTTLER
ETRUSCAN NLT

Hmm...I'm not getting very far this way -- can I buy a vowel?

A vowel would not serve to shine a light on...

TRANSLUCENT!

Let's go to the south seas and look at the

CORAL PLAINS

CORAL PLAINS

Now why would you want to smack that baby onion?

rapscallion

Trick me once, shame on you!
Trick me twice, shame on me!
But I learn...henceforth I will be taken in by
NEITHER CON !

NEITHER CON

incoherent

ACNE BOSON ILL

Nice balloons!

My son has a cat named Boson. (D-i-L is a Physics student, you might surmise. And you would be correct.) Used to have one named Fermion, too, but she had a cardiomyopathy and died :-(. Maine coon cats do that, I'm told.

Speaking of being inconsolable. Which I only thought of after writing the little squib above. Strange how these things work, isn't it?!

Now, was that OO, FUTURIST? Or merely DONATE CLINIC ?

Ah, Hab... events were fortuitous and/or coincidental!

Your son is named Dil??

Don't take these toys on the QEII...leave them at home:

ASHORE TOYS

SHE'S ROYOTA
OTHER SAY-SO
HOSEA STORY
THEOSOARYS
HEARTY? SO-SO

still working on it

SOOTHSAYER

a rose by any other name would be

PITS OR CONTAGION

That's very close to

PROCRASTINATING

except of course for too many of these and not enough of those.

INCORPORATING, too.

think of the linking, "a rose by any other name..." and the prev... never mind.

I saw the mention of roses, and I don't know the word for using rose petals to tell the future, but I looked it up and it turns out to be

phyllorhodomancy (divination by rose petals)

But it doesn't have the right letters.

I think I'll sleep on it. That often works.

PITS OR CONTAGION

prognostication!!

Someone else have a turn.. I'm too sleepy after all that work over the crystal ball...

Ah, yes. Oversaturated by fifteen letters. It happens. Nice word. Not to be confused with "prognathism," the very prominent lower jaw...

I came up with this one while juggling letters:

THIS YEAR - probably better applied to five years ago, actually, i.e. 2000

Not-a-hint:

juggling has nothing to do with unscrambling this word.

THIS YEAR

hysteria

DUB PET 'ER'

quote:

Originally posted by arnie:DUB PET 'ER'

add an R and get PERTURBED

as it stands it's PRE-TUBED or B) ERUPTED/REPUTED
or PRE-DEBUT or PURE DEBT or BEPTURED or B.D. EUTERP
or various other wrong answers

I got all those above, as well as TURD BEEP...
Help!!!!

Ack! Sorry, folks, I can't spell!

Hab got it with PERTURBED.

TO BLUEBEARD !
(Don't be so sure, and don't be sure the second time either, because the word is...)

REDOUBTABLE

I worked and scribbled and scratched and doubted... Whew!

EMPTY OR REP

Too close to the original!

PEREMPTORY

Can somebody please cheer up WOEFUL CLAIR ?
(just realized, not in order but each vowel once)

WOEFUL CLAIR

is cheered up by CAULIFLOWER??? There must be something else involved...

I must drink homemade wine because my laundry soap makes

ANEMIC SUDS!

I don't know, I quite like cauliflower. It's one of my favourite vegetables.

Still puzzling...

Two days and nothing productive...time for a hint?

I dined on MISC. SUNDAE whilst taking a MAID CENSUS. I was listening to EDNA'S MUSIC which is not at all like DANE'S MUSIC but definitely SEDAN MUSIC. Such music, when played by SAM INDUCES a MAIDEN CUSS. Growing bored with the sundaes, I ventured onto the more adventurous part of the menu, where I learned that if one on SUMAC DINES they might have to call in the ANUS MEDICS.

Having said all that, I still can't figure out a one word anagram for this. Hint, please?

Sorry, sorry... I also have no idea what word I was scrambling.. I obviously misspelled it... and I did a big clean sweep of my computer desk on Wednesday... so all notes are lost. So embarrassing!

Let's try this:

COOL CRIB... for the movie star's baby, or
CROC BOIL... fun in the swamp.

"...then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen..."
BROCCOLI !

Let's work backwards. Do you think you were still thinking vegetables when you posted MOVIE BEER (oops, sorry, CINEMA SUDS)? Or maybe it was something suggested by the CAU- of cauliflower?

HARK! BOIL!

HARK!BOIL!

That most delicious dish... kohlrabi..

Scientists mixed the sheep with the ocean bird.. a big fowl-up:

BAA HERON

That would be the fellow from Cuba's capital, you know, the
HABANERO.

And I figured out that you had intended to write
ANEMIC SUDO up above.
That means "weak sweat." Trust me. Would I lie to you?

MENDACIOUS -- But I don't believe you for a minute.

When spies sleep on the floor:

CIA LAC COT

(two words)

(PS. "MENDACIOUS" is another of those words with each vowel represented, but only once. Like cauliflower.)

CIA LAC COT

It's a CALICO CAT !

(But if you suffer from Irritable Bowel Syndrome, do you have a CLOACA TIC ? )

A short one for a change:

CRYSTTIL

CRYSTTIL

Strictly...... ! That's NE for you, spare the rod and spoil the child!

My calligrapher friend

USES NIBS..

BUSINESS

(was going to follow-up with KEMONY but that's too easy)

CHIP TEAM - entered in the throwing contest.
Can you MATCH PIE ?

(btw - was it indeed "mendacious" you lost track of a few words back?)

Hab, I don't think it was "mendacious"... still in the dark on my own word! I keep trying to unscramble it w/ and w/o letters... Arrgghh!

Kemony- monkey

MATCH PIE

Emphatic ( I picked that over "empathic")

Have you ever asked the Aleuts to
BE SUNNY ESKIMOS? 2 words..

putting two and two together ...

MONKEY BUSINESS !

I think it may be time to recycle this one:

NANNIES GNASH

Addendum: Well, maybe it's not a recycle. Unless I misspelled it.

Hab,
Two days later... I'm stumped!

Context!

It followed MONKEY BUSINESS...

Actually the letters aren't that thoroughly mixed up, either.


EDIT: Oops! I see I'm the one who's mixed up.

Checked the spelling, and I have misled you. :-(

Try ANNIE'S GNASH instead
(or NANIE'S GNASH, if you like your Brahms).

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SHENANIGANS

Here in Iowa when a farmer is bored he goes out and

PLOWS A CLOD (I don't know if this is one word or two)

I only know this word because of Harry Potter (or, more precisely, Rubeus Hagrid) ! Is it more typically British?

CODSWALLOP

... having Plow'd your Clod, do you now raise veggies and condiments to make into an
HERB'D SALAD ?

Hab, you and your "context" clues..... and I'm so glad to see you misspelled a word! It happens to the best of us!

HERBDSALAD

balderdash... a fun board game!

When you eat with the Lord of the Rings crew, don't you get tired of

ELF DROOL?

ELF DROOL

folderol

O, ROOMY LEFT - I have the whole flat to myself now!

O ROOMY LEFT

Sounds like heaven to me.. what
tomfoolery has happened?

LENDING CUE