AH, GRAB KITTEN

Breathtaking!

Here's one you won't see too often:LIGATION
(No, not GILATION, meaning "turning into a monster")

(no solution) x (48 hours) = hint time

Haberdasher's Rule: If an anagram is really hard to unscramble, it probably begins with a vowel.
In this case it's a vowel at each end.

LIGATION

intaglio

MAOIST'S PUN

MAOIST'S PUN

Hmmm..
recognize bad feelings: SPOT ANIMUS
works of art on smoked paper: SPUMATIONS
I love my dog: MUT PASSION
I Go Pogo - NOT: ANTI-POSSUM

What's that? You say I'm making wrong
assumptions?

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I LOVE STINE - didn't Jule write the best musicals?

I LOVE STINE

television

NEAT COEDS

NEAT COEDS

anecdotes

Lots of two-worRd phrases to be made from these letters, but I like best

TENNIS DECAL
DECENT SNAIL and
ICELAND NEST

TENNIS DECAL et al

clandestine

This sort of thing DENIGRATES ME

DENIGRATES ME

Interestingly, with a tweak here and there that can be twisted into "disparagement."
I couldn't get a majority to accept that, though, and we had to settle for a
DISAGREEMENT.

On the other hand, we did agree on RACCOON DEN "C".

RACCOON DEN C

concordance

CHALK VOE

HAVELOCK Ellis' writing might make you think he was a pornographic LOVEHACK...

Hab,
HAVELOCK was the word I was going for...

Do you have another jumble?

VILE! ECH!

Is there a relationship between "concordance" and "Havelock"? I don't know of one, offhand.

Is there a required relationship between the two words? I'm flummoxed.

VILE ... ECH

vehicle

IF WHO USEE

Is there a required relationship between the two words? I'm flummoxed.

Doesn't have to be, but sometimes one can be found. In this case I wondered because I think of Havelock as a person's name, capitalized and therefore sometimes flagged as such, and I speculated that maybe there was a certain Havelock who might have compiled a well-known Concordance of the Bible, making you think of him for that next anagram. Or something like that.

Ignore me, I do sometimes blather on.

"IF WHO USEE" is Housewife.

I see my highlighting in blue doesn't look that good against this background.

LUV, ARCHIE

quote:

I see my highlighting in blue doesn't look that good against this background.

Also, I imagine, for those who are colour-blind.

Archie,
I was reading a Civil War history where the soldier had havelocks and housewives, if they were lucky.

LUV ARCHIE

vehicular

What to do with the traitor?
DO ICE HIM

Learn something new every day. At least I hope so.

From M-W online dictionary, 10th Edition:
"Main Entry: have·lock
Pronunciation: 'hav-"läk, -l&k
Function: noun
definition:a covering attached to a cap to protect the neck from the sun or bad weather
Etymology: Sir Henry Havelock"

Moving right along:

DO ICE HIM

homicide

REDAUNTAGE

REDAUNTAGE

This forum is guaranteed to teach something new.

When doing algebra, one cannot
IGNORE PI.....

IGNORE PI

change an I to an N an enjoy Dom PERIGNON
or just change into something more comfortable, perhaps a
PEIGNOIR...

Meanwhile, I entreat you, make a PIER MOUNT with a PURIM TONE from a TURNIP, MOE!

PIER MOUNT

importune

Red flags when I opened the gas bill today! Heating this house is

COSTIN' too much $$$...

TOCSIN - I knew that word rang a bell somehow!

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(ringer alert)
From The Mikado, Act 2:

MADRIGAL: YUM-YUM, PITTI-SING, NANKI-POO, and PISH-TUSH

Brightly dawns our wedding day;
Joyous hour, we give thee greeting!
Whither, whither art thou fleeting?
Fickle moment, prithee stay!
What though mortal joys be hollow?
Pleasures come, if sorrows follow:
Though the tocsin sound, ere long,
Ding dong! Ding dong!
Yet until the shadows fall
Over one and over all,
Sing a merry madrigal--
A madrigal!

Fal-la--fal-la! etc. (Ending in tears.)

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Moving right along:

HOLE, PART

(Edited to insert blue insert)

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Hab, I'm so glad that tocsin made you happy!

HOLE, PART

A plethora of bells...

Be careful...
UP AT ICY pond.

UP AT ICY

paucity

GREEN MARS

P.S. I looked this up to make sure, and to my surprise it doesn't mean what I thought it did, and indeed may be a relativey esoteric word.
(That's trying to be an apology, not a hint.)

Quack, Quack, Quack

MERGANSER

Quick! Get the Tums, for this

MENU SO ACID

Note one each of all five vowels.

I know one of the Hawaiian Islands is named Maui; is there a SECOND MAUI somewhere else?

[edit:spellling errror)

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MENDACIOUS (it came to me this morning, as I was just lying there)

PITA ALLA ____ - eclectic dining; just fill in your favorite cuisine

PITA ALLA

palatial

Have you seen the new guy at McDonald's?
BIG MAC HUNK.... proper

BIG MAC HUNK

Buckingham (speaking of palaces, of course)

FIDGET, ARI

FIDGET, ARI

gratified

Miss Turnip Queen, 2006
BE SUPER ROOTS

BE SUPER ROOTS

Obstreperous

LATEST LIE

I observe it also makes SEATTLE, L.I. Which it isn't.

LATEST LIE

satellite from Seattle... and Long Island

Do you answer the phone when
FADO RINGS?

Do they call non-favorites INFRADOGS at the Olympics?

You could add an H and get DRAGONFISH if you wanted to.

But the answer is really SANGFROID, he concluded cooly.

The IDEA RANG a bell, anyway.

I have instructed the gardeners to check DRAINAGE in the GARDENIA bed.

Did you know that Betty Grable was the LAST PINUP of WWII?

GARDENIA is in my upper right-hand desk drawer, but DRAINAGE cerainly fits the conditions too. Just out of idle curiosity, do you know what made you continue looking after you got the first solution?

...a SUPPLIANT at thy feet I kneel (Iolanthe, Act II)

G.E. RITUAL

G.E. RITUAL

ligature

You know how those crazy geologists love
FUN GYPSITE!

Hab, I was at a wedding shower recently where we played those silly games.. make words out of other words. One of the words was "gardenia", from the wedding bouquet...I already knew it spelled drainage, too. Just luck for me!

FUN GYPSITE

stupefying

advice to an emotional poker player -
ANGRY? FOLD!

ANGRY? FOLD!

Such a peaceful word... dragonfly

Can't see at night? Look at me..

ME BEE BULB

ME BEE BULB

Oh, Fumble, you have bumbled...(MAD Comics #5, or thereabouts)

BUMBLEBEE

DEAR, GAZING

DEAR, GAZING

aggrandize

Who invented the
BIOME DRYER?
That would be an Englishman.

EMBROIDERY
(also "moire derby"!)

TCH! SCISSOR 'T! (hyphenated, most of the time)

TCH! SCISSOR'T

cross-stitch

Shall I sail the boat to a shallow beach?
NO, DEEP INLET

NO, DEEP INLET

needlepoint

Cheerful cow? A SUNNY MOO

A SUNNY MOO

How are we supposed to know who submitted that one? He wants to be ANONYMOUS!

LABOR LEG

We interrupt this program to bring you this special news update:

ZZ...DRAB L.I.
(Long Island is boring.)

We return you now to our regularly scheduled broadcast.

LABOR LEG

While Hab was enjoying a bit of bargello stitching, he was interrupted by a NE
ZZ DRAB L.I. -- blizzard

Obviously, he still has electricity!

On Air France, they do a quick check of the undies:
BRIEF EN VAC

CABIN FEVER?

The snow is melting quickly.

OLTAGE

Yes to Cabin Fever...
gelato ??

See any snowmen?
Going to Weight Watchers will just
RUIN DOTTY.

ROTUNDITY

Gelato is good, but I had in mind something even smoother.

OLTAGE (it'll all be tied together when you get it, he said musically)