TAKE TWO
Greetings! It's Horace here again, after two fabulous weeks of reviews from Frannie and Colum. Thanks, you two! :)
Today's revealer is WORKSWITHOUTANET, and when parsed differently, as the clue asks us to do, it becomes "works without an 'et.'" Now, believe it or not, I figured out that the "Take Two" title meant that two letters had to be taken from each clue for it to make sense, but I didn't realize that the two letters that had to be taken from each clue were always E and T together. But that's exactly what needs to be done.
It's a fun trick, and I don't know if it was that, or if I'm just a PEABRAIN, but clues like "Stands" (STOMACHS), "Draws" (ALLURES), and "What the Beatles never did" (REUNITE) took me far too long. And I thought "Lines on which music is written" was almost too obvious, but no, they wanted STAVE instead of the more common "staff." And then there were clues like "Rapper with the 2011 hit album 'Ambition'" (WALE) (is that like the movie - Wal-E?) and "One of South Africa's official languages" (TSWANA) that needed every cross.
On the other hand, we just saw TOSCA at the Met in January, so that was a nice gimme, and the amusing "Do some backup dancing?" (TWERK) didn't fool me for a second.
I like the three little three-word answers YESICAN, ASIAM, and IAMSO.
I like a trick like this, and this was a fun Sunday.
- Horace
Thanks for the shout-out to your Dad, Horace. I've been thinking about him and wondering how he's doing.
ReplyDeleteDUH on me! I finished the entire puzzle without a clue as to the theme...until I actually *read* the title and the reveal clue. What a really, really fun puzzle, which I enjoyed solving, and enjoyed admiring after the penny dropped! (Talk about your PEA BRAIN!)