Sunday, June 22, 2025, Ruth Bloomfield and Hannah Margolin

BRINGING A PLUS ONE

One letter has been added to each wedding-related theme answer, and the result has been clued to fit the new meaning. As in,

SHAVETHEDATE - Make a partner's beard presentable for all the photos?
WEDDINGDURESS - Cause of many headaches while planning the big day?
and
GRIFTREGISTRY - Tool for a couple who intend to return everything and keep the money?

It's nice that they were able to do this with so many typical wedding things. My favorite is one of the shortest - CASHBARD (Poet hired to write the couple's vows in flowery verse?)

In other news, I enjoyed the negativity of NONE (Survey option) and "What's broken for a record?" (LAW). And I guess you could add INTER (Lay low?) to that list. Strange C/APs include "Much" for FAR and "Little nobodies" for TWERPS. And we haven't seen ONER (Real lulu) in ages, so that was a nice throwback. And to have it cross EELER is extra fun. 

I always appreciate quotes from Shakespeare, and today we got two: "'OWOE is me, to hvae seen what I have seen': Ophelia" and "'DENY thy father and refuse thy name': Juliet."

Didn't love it, didn't hate it.

- Horace