And speaking of slowdowns, I hit a couple today, first of all by starting with FANTASYfootBALL where BASE was wanted - sports is never my best category. I also entered 'tourbus' in place of BUSTOUR - a much better match for the clue ("Sightseeing on wheels"). I ended up with a time of 6:09, notable only to me because it is the same as the address of my first dorm in college. [Gee, she really OPENSUP when she writes on a Sunday evening, doesn't she?]
Any ROMANCELANGUAGE is much more my cup of tea, so I enjoyed the ad hoc Latin bits like ETAL and ALUM, but the presence of both OPUS (singular) and OPERA (plural) was the NICEST. Also, BTW, Horace, it looks like the plural of 'uxor' is uxores - hope that doesn't come in *too* handy. :) I very much enjoyed the C/AP "Enter en masse, as a car" (PILEINTO). BUTTONUP, LOPE, and COIFFEUR are also nice.
The answer to "Question to a suspected culprit" amused me, as I imagined police agents on the British crime dramas we watch asking each suspect, "WASITYOU?" What confessions would then ENSUE? Stay tuned...
~Frannie.
LOL! You know, Frannie, it was Dave, not either of my other two brothers who brag about how well they did in Latin, who came out with uxores on the Zoom call. Hah!
ReplyDeleteAnd speaking of that, nice call on OPUS and OPERA being in the same grid. They supposedly don't like to have repeated words in the same puzzle. Hmph.
Lastly, this mention of uxor, uxores (f.) and opus, opera (n.) seems to go hand in hand with the information I got from my Latin teacher last week, which is that third declension nouns are by far the most common in Latin.
p.s. 4:04 for me, after much backspacing to correct typing errors. I was in Chapin my first year, so the whole time/dorm thing didn't work out for me. :)
DeleteDitto on FANTASY FOOTBALL, and then WAILING WALL, sheesh! Oh, well...5:59 for me.
ReplyDeleteFully! I made the exact same two mistakes!! But I kept my fingers moving and escaped in a decent 3:14. Hey, it's PI!
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