Rarify rarefy8/27/2023 ![]() What's next? Words that make sentences? Words that get written down? Words that spell words? Words with letters that have STRAIGHTEDGES. I thought it was a little testy for a Tuesdee, too. Since Jeff Chen is one of the titans in this sport, I would have liked to at least stay awake, let alone be impressed. Sorry.Īnd those lines Rex was going on about didn't show up on the online puzzle. It was only when I looked at it in PuzzAzz that I saw what he meant. I guess it improves things a bit, but not nearly enough. I'm too bored to write anymore and this entire comment is drowsing me, so that's it for me.įor whatever reason, I doubt I'd be offended by them like OFL, who hasn't posted an Alfie pic in too long! ![]() Hope you all enjoyed this one because somebody's got to. Wordplay theme, playing on the word STRAIGHTEDGE - simple theme appropriate for Tuesday, and Jeff put a lot of thought and energy into how to present it (read his comments on XwordInfo). He had 10 consonants and one vowel to work with and I think he chose the liveliest answers of what was available (again, you can see the possibilities in XwordInfo, in Jim Horne's comment), except for, maybe, FRED MERKLE. I'm not surprised we have a mini-theme of double E's (6), given the one-vowel theme, and there's another mini-theme of theme-answer-wannabees: Straight-edged words that weren't long enough to be grouped with the big boys (EBB, ERR, END, LEE). I pretty much ripped through this, but didn't miss the lovely and/or lively BEER GUTS, CLEAR CUT, LEAPFROG, DOG PILE (as clued), FEEL FREE, and RATCHET. ![]() ![]() I like having RAREFY and RICE CAKE in the same grid, as the latter, in my mind, seems to be made mostly of rarefied air. ![]()
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