Saturday, April 25, 2026

Saturday, April 25, 2026, Sam Ezersky

OK, so, if you bend your head to the left and look at this grid sideways, you can almost imagine that it is meant to represent an IOMOTH (Showy insect with dark eyespots on its wings). 

IOMOTH

See what I mean? No? Harrumph. VERYWELLTHEN!

"Start of an old request for advice" (DEARANN) was tricky, and I was fooled, yet again, by "Driving necessity" (GOLFTEE). And how about "feel seen" debuting yesterday, and FEELHEARD (Be validated for vocalizing one's opinion) debuting today! Nice. 

Personally, I prefer the word "murse" to MANBAG (Guy's carryall), but I am not, sadly, the one who gets to name everything. 

Remember LEGGS eggs? Mom used to knit covers for them and make them into Humpty Dumpty-like characters. 

What else? I don't know from DOCOCK (Spider-Man foe with metal "tentacles," familiarly). Oh wait, is that short for Doctor Octopus? Who comes up with these things? Oh right... the one who gets to name everything.

I keep seeing PRAGENCY (Image editor, informally?) as some weird misspelling of "pregnancy," and INFLIGHTWIFI (Air traveler's connection) never works for me. Of course, I never pay for it ... maybe that has something to do with it. And finally, "Helpful pointer, say?" is cute for SEEINGEYEDOG, but they're usually German Shepherds, aren't they? 

Still, a fun, challenging Saturday. Just like we like.

- Horace 

1 comment:

  1. I see the moth, kinda. And I'm not familiar with DOCOCK either, but I bailed on Marvel movies a long time ago; not a fan of multiverses or long, drawn out battles or of everyone having superpowers. I use the INFLIGHTWIFI on my ever-more-frequent Jet Blue flights, but it's free and fast and usually works quite well. I find it strange that one uses it in airplane mode, but there you go. I enjoyed DRUNKTWEETING, even though I never did it. Other stuff was tricky, but fun, like LEAK and ENNE (where I entered EttE at first), and PENALTYKICK, where I wanted overtime or tie, but couldn't make either work.

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