PLEBISCITE

or, as they say in the Ukraine,

I MEANT F.O.S.

I MEANT F.O.S.

manifesto

FAINT COLUMN

MALFUNCTION indeed.

I ROAST TENOR - Pavoratti really isn't as good as he used to be, now is he, so why is he making yet another farewell concert tour?

For $$$

Restoration

And for the poor women on the board...

HANDY REMORSE...

I need a clue... I've filled three sheets now. And the best I can come up with is

she done marry.... LOL

Sorry, Jo, it is a medical term...
Think "cramps!"

It can't be middleschmertz

No, it can't be that, whatever it is...

HANDY REMORSE

Cramps, eh?

ER, HYDRAMNEOS - no, that's too much fluid around the baby in the uterus

D-HORSEMANYRE - no, that's putting down the right-handed fertilyzer

REEDS HARMONY - that's a well-tuned woodwind quintet. No cause for cramps there.

ERUCTATION - no, wait a minute, that's burping, not cramping

BOURBOURYGMI - that's my stomach growling

RHEOSMANDERY

--Now we're just getting silly !

It's too late at night. I'll sleep on it some more.

It starts with dysmen..

Got it. Thanks.

Except that Arnie (et al.) may tell you that you left out an "o," because the word ends in "-rrhoea."

Which means it really was "MITTELSCHMERZ" all along, so I'm not up for the next word, Jo is.

(But while we wait for Jo to find this out, let's work on that Providence conundrum known as the
R I ENIGMA )

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Sorry, Hab, but I have a MIGRAINE headache!

Jo, you're next!

Oh, my word was dysmenorrhea.... or, dysmenorrhoea.. according to The Hab. My sad sack American dictionary lists only one "o"..

quote:

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my word was dysmenorrhea.... or, dysmenorrhoea

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Thankfully I've never heard of either.

I'm not sure why it's my turn but...

A PLACID MOSS

(It's your turn because "mittelschmerz" was close enough to "dysmenorrhea" to earn you the podium.)

ADMISSCOPAL - the Church let you in
PLASMACOIDS - little things that grow in your bloodstream
COMPASS DIAL - that'll tell you where to go, all right
SPASMODICAL - comes in short little twitchy bursts!

On the assumption that SPASMODICAL was the target - let me try the next word:

TROTHASE* - the enzyme that dissolves marital commitments


* not related to the earlier "SKIRTASE" (which dissolved kilts) except in spirit

TROTHASE

rheostat

ATOMISE TIN

ATOMISE TIN

estimation

IN CIAO FADO

AFICIONADO

CREAM INLET - a small detail in the land of Milk and Honey

CREAM INLET

mercantile

(What a great old word!)

lambs thick

You know... Lambs thick together because their wool is thicky..!

lambs thick

blacksmith

ALTRUIST LION

ALTRUIST LION

illustration (Finally! I got it..)

MUDCAT A MANIA - 2 words

TUNICA MADAMA - dress worn by owner of a Roman brothel ?

AUNTI MACADAM - she married my uncle the road builder

Aha! MACADAMIA NUT !



OFTEN CONIC

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OFTEN CONIC

confection

LION STUDIOS (MGM?)

LION STUDIOS

Dissolution

I CORN FREE - sign up early for your Saint Patrick's Day beef special (cabbage not included)

Reinforce - I bet you think I forgot about this game, right? I hope there haven't been any rule changes!

Jay Ala, MBA

Jay Ala, MBA

jambalaya... crawfish pie, filet gumbo!

RADARMIGS

Oops, I forgot.. 2 words.

MARDI GRAS !

(This is a repeat, originally contributed by Jerry Thomas, but still appropriate)

'E LOST TIME

E LOST TIME

Mistletoe! Kiss kiss

CUTE FAKIR... I had lots of possibilities with this one.. but I made a good choice...

My goodness, how do you know Mardi Gras is a repeat... ?? I can't remember 5 minutes ago...

It's not Mardi Gras that's the repeat, it's mistletoe!

I trust you won't be irate if I identify this one as FRUITCAKE

While I was mulling over those letters a word occurred to me that I hadn't thought of for a while:

Most people can identify the seven letter-word that contains the letter U three times. (It's unusual.) My word also has three Us, but it's eight letters long and and no other vowels at all:

CUT RUFUS

Hab, I wasn't around last Christmas when mistletoe was jumbled.. Ah ha! Even if I had been here, I would not have remembered... FRUITCAKE does not make me irate..

CUT RUFUS

however, gave me a grand old time! Is it:

usufruct...? a word I use everyday!!


RAINY MOPS... mops that add water to the floor..

USUFRUCT it is. I trust you made a lot of profit from it and haven't damaged the property any.

Rainy mops --> PARSIMONY. Is that what you give the preacher when he marries you?

USE CUT PLAY - We'll produce it, Mr. Shakespeare, but you need to get rid of that fourth and fifth act...

USE CUT PLAY

eucaluptus! Ahh... the sweet smell.. where are the little koala bears? or is that panda bears?

Jell, huh, ala?
"Where are you, honey?"
"Jail, uh, in Alabama..."

Hallelujah!

SROUCH

Did you realize that RIO ROOTA has more vowels than consonants? (harkening back to an earlier challenge)

CHORUS

A GLANCE EVIL will freeze your bones

A GLANCE EVIL turns into EVANGELICAL.

One would like to think the target is the opposite of the presented grouping, and therefore it's called an antigram by purists, who would reserve the term "anagram" for rearrangements which purport to describe their unscrambled selves. The classic example is BEST IN PRAYERS.

(edited to correct spelling/typo)

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BEST IN PRAYERS

The Presbyterians, of course..

HI, CURATES!

EUCHARIST

HAT CRADLE ?

HAT CRADLE

Other than being a hat rack, could be a cathedral.
Never wear a hat during church..!

NETTERS SWIM .. the tennis players also enjoy the water.

WESTERNISM T - golf-ball support, prohibited in Japan
MEN'S TWISTER - super-macho roller coaster
WINTER STEMS - they hold up the holly and the ivy

Westminster (If they moved it to Dublin, would the seats be Abbey's Irish Rows?)


PEKING COLLES "I broke my wrist/on a slow boat to China"

(You can look up "Colles fracture" at www .eatonhand.com/hw/hw020.htm if for some bizarre reason the mood should strike you)

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PEKING COLLES

glockenspiel..
That was tough, Hab!

I did have a Colles fracture of my wrist while trying to roller skate at age 28... it has never been the same.

I RIME TUNA... with luna, and guna, and kuna, and et al...

I RIME TUNA

miniature

CHEAPEN PANTS

I cannot respond. I am still trying to get over my first reaction to the previous jumble, which I read as I REAM Tuna. CW and Asa have finally gotten to me. LOL LOL Oh dear, that poor fish. Sorry for the salaciousness of this post, but I had to share with someone. Damn, that laugh was good medicine.