I haven't heard the phrase CLOSEBUTNOCIGAR for quite a while. It feels like it was more popular in my youth, but it seems like it's still recognizable. Any younger readers out there want to chime in and say whether or not they have ever heard any of their contemporaries use it? Apparently, it came from the fact that carnival games used to give out cigars as prizes instead of plush animals. And for some reason, in my head it is being said with a voice like that of W. C. Fields. Perhaps because my brother used to say it to me in that voice when I was little. :)
TRAGICOMIC - Like a film that's both sad and funny
CHERRYGARCIA - Ben & Jerry's flavor honoring a jam band legend
MAGICREALISM - Genre for Gabriel García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
CRAIGSLIST - Online marketplace with a "barter" category
All good.
SGTS for "March V.I.P.s?: Abbr." confused me until I read it again ignoring the capital M, and then I got in step. And I thought "Take out a small part of one's savings, say" was an odd clue for DIPIN. I mean, sure, it is used that way... oh fine!
I would have preferred "propaganda" instead of ARTS as the modern answer to "Lincoln Center focus." Too soon?
- Horace
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