LENDING CUE

indulgence

Angry mountain, Pennsylvania style? IRATE POCONO

IRATE POCONO

cooperation

If you have a bunion, do you go to

A TOE CLINIC?

I'm sinking in my LITIC CANOE...punctured by my ICC TOENAIL

Hint: to make friends, to get along...

CONCILIATE - nice one. Full of red herrings: -tion, -ance, -tial, -ical...

How about that city in middle US,
CONCILIATE, ND

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CONCILIATE, ND

coincidental... Good one, Hab!

When the NASCAR autos overheat, you have an

INDY RESPITE... Ahhhhh!

INDY RESPITE

Serendipity

Hope I'm doing this right...

CATALOGUE

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CATALOGUE

coagulate

and how about

COAGULATE + TRN

COAGULATE + TRN

Congratulate

Wow, that took me far too long! But it was simple, logical AND CHEEKY

Welcome, Braket!

AND CHEEKY

Hackneyed...

Have you been to the bakery for
EARTH BREAD?

EARTH BREAD

Threadbare

Thanks KHC. I've never been to that bakery, are you one of ITS GROUPIES?

That's PRESTIGIOUS, sure enough!

Have you ever been moved by a TEGLO SPRITE ?

TEGLO SPRITE

a poltergeist....

If one did move me, I would hope to be in Norway, surrounded

BY TALL CARLS (2 words)

BY TALL GIRLS

Crystal Ball (Lucy and Desi's widely unknown daughter?)

TURGID TEA

TURGID TEA

GRATITUDE

Don't get caught in a hurricane and have your
RAFT UNGLUE!

How did By Tall Carls become By Tall Girls... ?

RAFT UNGLUE

ungrateful

BROILING RICE (I know it's a bad habit, but it would be futile even to _try_ to fix it)

BROILING RICE

incorrigible.. (That would be Kurt, in The Sound of Music..)

Need a treat for your dog? That would be Wolves R Us..

LUPUS CUR NOUS

LUPUS CUR NOUS

unscrupulous

A PIE HOUR (wonderful news for a little boy!)

I wonder - is this the shortest English word with all five vowels once each? And a pretty high vowel-to-consonant ratio, too.

A PIE HOUR

euphoria for anyone! Chocolate cream for me!

Now, what is the financial shape of that
LILIES CASE ACCT?

LILIES CASE ACCT

Ah, yes, pertaining to the affairs of one John Scott Eccles, late of Wisteria Lodge: Ecclesiastical. Assuming I've spelled it right.

Re: EUPHORIA - I was hoping to be able to hint "You'll have a tremendous feeling of exultation when you solve this!" But you're too good, so I didn't get to use my clue...

EVIL BANTAM

EVIL BANTAM
All roosters are sassy devils! I think, perhaps not...maybe so..

ambivalent

Jackson combined Arm and Hammer with vinegar..

BO, SAD MIXTURE

BO SAD MIXTURE

Can your right hand not know what your left hand is doing if you're
ambidetrous? [speaking of words with all five vowels once each...]

...and, by the way, could you take off for your honeymoon in a
MARTIAN LIMO ?

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.... Ha!

MARTIAN LIMO

A lean, green, flying machine... taking me to
matrimonial out of this world experiences.

Two lobes, two nostrils, two eyebrows.. it all falls into
PIERCED DUET

PIERCED DUET

decrepitude

I might be wrong, but this may be the MANKIEST clue ever...

Hmmm. Well, we've got SKINMATE and INKMATES STEAMNIK and TASKMIEN and all kinds of things one could make manky definitions for...

I'm off to the barber. Thinking about it in the chair should be productive, if I'm not mistaken.

Will you get a hairball if you INGEST THREAD ?

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What about working out my word? Or did that haircut take off more than hair?

Come, Sir, look at the last word of my "SKINMATE" post !

DATING HESTER

For Arnie: MANKIEST
Solved by Hab: mistaken (before he left for the barber chair)

DATING HESTER... Hmm
INGEST THREAD.... Doesn't sound like fun

straightened.... Hab had his curls tamed in the barber chair!

The Hardy Boys have a
CLUE: OILY SMUT

CLUE: OILY SMUT

meticulously

'A' INTERPOSED

A INTERPOSED

desperation

POUNCE! R.I.P.

POUNCE! R.I.P.

Quilled to death by a porcupine... Ouch!

One needed some ammunition..
CORN PEP GUNS... or a stiff drink!

COPPERSNUNG
CONGRUPPENS
SPROGENPUNC
PORSCUPNEGN
SCUPPERGONN


You sure you got enough vwls in there?

Your last jumble is almost it! Similar to a muscadine...

SCUPPERNONG ? If you say so! (It can also spelled scuppernog and scuppernogg, I find, and they all mean a variety of grape, presumably the same one.) I must confess I never heard of it; only picked on the "scupper" part because we've recently had National Talk-like-a-Pirate Day.

Must also ruefully acknowledge that muscadine is another word I'm learning for the first time. Is that the grape whence comes muskatel?

Onward!

PAINTER: TINTORE... Durn. Ran out of letters. We'll just have to make do with these.

scuppernong is in Dictionary.com.... and what we've always called them. Cousin to muscadine... Homemade wine made from both fruits... You really need to travel south, Hab.

PAINTER TINTORE

interpretation

Got diabetes?
MAIL TO INSULIN

MAIL TO INSULIN

It makes ILLUMINATIONS but I don't usually think of making "illumination"
into a plural! Maybe if you're a photographer or an artist, I guess.

With a few small changes you get
MAID TO ISSULIN,
which is another matter altogether. (Would I lie to you?)

MAID TO ISSULIN

dissimulation


Look after street?
SUCCOUR AVE

SUCCOUR AVE

You'd have thought a street would be on the straight and narrow, but this one is
CURVACEOUS

To help you get back there, ask the
AFT GUIDE

I just finished Bill Bryson's Notes on a Small Island.. he talks of "illuminations"... Christmas lights.

AFT GUIDE

fatigued... and I am so sleepy..

But G.I. Joe likes the order to
MAUL DOGFACE

Notes from a Small Island!

MAUL DOGFACE

camouflaged

I didn't do it, so he, I GUESS, DID

DISGUISED

Did I guess?!

Preserve the French language! Use only
LE PURE MOT !

Ou est le petrol?

PETROLEUM

The herring boat is ablaze:

SEINER FIRE!

SEINER FIRE

refineries

IRRESOLUTE FOP

Arnie, I'm stumped...

POSTERIOR FUEL?...... Help!

I got that too, and when you burn it in the aft chimney you use the
POSTERIOR FLUE. But that doesn't help any more than the other,
showing that there's no fuel like an oil fuel.