The coin in the street would be in the

intersection, where you would be hit by a car!

HUG OTHER AFRO

That would be THOROUGHFARE !

How about sending the military abroad?

RA OUTBOUND (but eschewing the cloverleaf, since we're talking of thoroughfares and intersections)

RA OUTBOUND

It would probably be ROUNDABOUT

Probably not A TIN STREET

Yes, well, that one was rather aimed at you, Arnie!

A TIN STREET

Interstate


Looking elsewhere for inspiration...

The accountant wanted to know the mean of a stack of numbers, so he

AVERAGED IT

AVERAGED IT

My monkey grass is variegated...

Bond, James Bond, is an example of

DE SPY CLICHE

(duplicate post; deleted)

DE SPY CLICHE

Psychedelic

I won the fight handily, therefore

I TROUNCE
(It's also the abbreviated liqueur COINTREU)

I TROUNCE

A neurotic might say he was

NAILING GERM

NAILING GERM

Nothing worse than malingering!

Have you seen the NRA reports of Boy Scouts and firearms?

CUB GUN MISC

CUB GUN MISC

succumbing

HATPIN MURT is better

HATPIN MURT

What is that? Death by hatpin from the haberdasher?

You will die TRIUMPHANT?

When you see the pearly gates, does your
ENTIRE PAST flash before you?

No answer yet, and lots of fun combinations to make of ENTIRE PAST,
but it occurred to me that if you replaced one T with a D you would have
PEDESTRIAN...

ENTIRE PAST

Saint Peter, judging by the context.

Instead of washing out my mouth with soap and water,
I EAT LYSOL

I EAT LYSOL

Take away one L, replace it with a P and an R, and make EPISTOLARY.

For what it's worth.

I EAT LYSOL

loyalties...?

Sorry, I forgot to put 2 words on my Saint Peter jumble!

Let's go to the movie at the
RIALTO, YES!

RIALTO, YES

Isn't that ROYALTIES?

Try a little non-sugar sweetener in your tiny coffee

ASPARTIM

ASPARTIM

I'll have a pastrami on rye, please.

The cook at the skate center is fired!
CHEF RINK ICED... 2 words.

CHEF RINK ICED = Fried Chicken
(No ... wait ... you're KHC, not KFC)

MAUDING ZERO

MAUDING ZERO

I have pigged out! gourmandize....

Music happens!
PIANO OCCUR

PIANO OCCUR

My cup runneth over - CORNUCOPIA

You know, of course, that the University of Havana has a
CUBAN DEAN

The Havana U. probably has an abundance of Cuban Deans!

Barbie's cutesy friend has a restaurant with a

KIP PIP MENU!

KIP PIP MENU

pumpkin pie, but I reckon it's a load of CARKING TRITE ROT (three words, hyphenated).

Nice one, arnie - TRICK-OR-TREATING !

Have you heard the song about it by NAT "KRANJ" COLE ? (two words, one apostrophe)

JACK O'LANTERN....

The moon is full over the cows and their

LUNAR PASTURE!

SUPERNATURAL

and don't forget

SEXY SENATOR R.

SEXY SENATOR R.

extrasensory... perception!

Where is that annoying, mischievous brat? Why doesn't he contact us?

SLY BRAT CALL

CRYSTAL BALL

(edited to correct misspellling)

Notwithstanding Senator R., don't ever call

BARBARA A CAD

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BARBARA A CAD

abracadabra

In a similar vein: HI, BIG SERB!

HI, BIG SERB

gibberish

It's all a gas, especially if you invoke your
NEON-NESS

NEON-NESS

Nonsense!

Karen and Richard had an
ARIA DUO JOB........... hogwash!

two words - OUIJA BOARD !

Bring everyone else's crystal ball, but if you don't like him,
FORGET HIS

Forget his FORESIGHT! He's no mind reader!

My Uncle Eddie talked and talked about the past, as he

HID THINGS.

HINDSIGHT

Cinderella, dismissing would-be suitor:
NOT PRINCE? I GO!
but she knew that already

(and Roger Rabbit with a lance would be a PIERCING TOON)

She knew he was not a prince.. precognition

Sleeping Beauty was a
SCREEN EPIC..for it's time.

SCREEN EPIC

prescience

Do they shave their legs?
GILLETTE FOR NUN

GILLETTE FOR NUN

Fortune-telling

CANARY C. OLIVE

addendum: NICE CAVALRY, O?

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CANARY C. OLIVE

was talented in clairvoyance.

I opened a hostile oyster... and found an

ARMED PEARL.... 2 guns and 2 words..

ARMED PEARL

Palm reader

HEARTY OSSO

HEARTY OSSO

soothsayer... saying it soothingly... you will die tomorrow!

I first learned to crochet with

EASY YARN... but it was difficult.

(apologies for reusing SOOTHSAYER, especially 'cause it's only since August 17...but it did fit the context!)

EASY YARN
Don't say it! NAY-SAYER

Where did the wood come from that was made into Pinocchio?
GIPETTO'S ACORN

(Correction: 'S for 's)

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Finally! I think I have it... 2 days of pencil pushing and re-arranging!

PROGNOSTICATE... so easy, once it's solved.

The lost cow was happy... he was finally stabled
AMONG HAY!

AMONG HAY is "mahogany," he said woodenly.

Sorry for the repeat with PROGNOSTICATE (did you realize it was another repeat? PROGNOSTICATION has also been used before, again on August 17). What may have contributed to its degree-of-difficulty is the need to put aside the distracting possibilities of -tion and -ing.


Moving right along: I sense a strong attraction to
UR-MAGNET

(edited for clarification)

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I did not realize repeats... UR MAGNET... took awhile. Don't know why!

ARGUMENT

My "seeing stone" is not working.. I have an
INEPT AMULATE

INEPT AMULATE

Take out an A [rearrange to INEPT AMULET] and get
PENULTIMATE
If I take out an E,T and MANIPULATE the letters enough...

I better keep on looking.

PS. But just in case I don't get it before the end of the day let me offer that
the rill at the head of the Loire is ICI STREAM
and
arborists haul their logs away in TREE VANS.

Whichever you prefer. Or maybe both.

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Hab, you are correct, as always! I can't type..
it s/b INEPT AMULET.... penultimate. Working on yours!

Ici stream..ARMISTICE Day
Tree vans ..VETERANS Day
and my birthday! Those were too easy.

No more Social Security??

FICA CRIES

FICA CRIES

sacrifice

TINIEST TOUR

TINIEST TOUR

restitution

Philosophically unacceptable. BURP, KANT