A cute Thursday theme today, with clue words that need to be parsed with diminutive endings, as in:
Shoveling? - GENTLENUDGE
Martini - VENDINGMACHINE
Bandito? - PINKYRING
Sublet? - FINGERSANDWICH
Rockette? - GRAINOFSAND
Cute, right? That PINKYRING took me the longest, because I didn't remember that TYR was the "Norse god of war." Just so you know, he's the god of war, and Thor is the god of thunder and strength.
As usual, answers with initials - like ACUNIT (It might drip onto an urban sidewalk, informally) and DRHOUSE (Titular solver of many a medical mystery in 2000s TV) (to be clear, the show was called "House," but it's fine) took longer to res in for me. And for "Country whose name comes from the Latin phrase for 'Red Sea,'" I kept wondering why I didn't know a country with a name like Marerubrum, but it turns out that the etymology of ERITREA is, in fact, Greek. OOPSIE!
But still, I enjoyed it.
- Horace
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