I could sew burlap together and make the opposite of these pants.Q: Think of a hyphenated word that describes certain pants. The first half of the word and a homophone of the second half are synonyms. What kind of pants are these?
Edit: The hidden hint was "... sew bur..." which sounds like SOBER -- an antonym of the words.
A: HIGH-WAISTED --> HIGH, WASTED
Here's my standard reminder... don't post the answer or any hints that could lead directly to the answer (e.g. via a chain of thought, or an internet search) before the deadline of Thursday at 3pm ET. If you know the answer, click the link and submit it to NPR, but don't give it away here.
ReplyDeleteYou may provide indirect hints to the answer to show you know it, but make sure they don't give the answer away. You can openly discuss your hints and the answer after the Thursday deadline. Thank you.
Another kind of hyphenated pants, if you drop five letters, forms a third synonym.
ReplyDeleteThe answer I have is not so much a word as an expression.
ReplyDeleteI had to check a technical detail about homophones to be sure of my answer.
ReplyDeleteThe first attempt at an answer that rang into my head was a phrase for a particular period’s style of pants. When I eventually got the answer, I realized an association.
ReplyDeleteI picture Captain Ahab in corduroy, hunting the great wide wale.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite description for pants, his pants were like a cheap hotel, no ballroom
ReplyDeleteThat is a very old joke. My dad frequently said Levis 501's were like cabaret pants—no ball room. And he's been dead almost half a century now.
DeleteSDB - Was your Dad also a fan of Glenn Miller, and his Make Believe Ballroom?
DeleteI don't know what he thought of Glenn Miller, but I never heard of Make Believe Ballroom before. It doesn't sound like the Glenn Miller sound to me. Must have been prior to his finding his sound.
DeleteYou ever visit Century Ballroom near Seattle Center? Took dance lessons there once- yes ballroom.
DeleteI have been there, but not recently, and I do not know why I was there or when.
DeleteSDB - see https://www.google.com/search?q=glenn+miller+make+believe+ballroom+time&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS887US887&oq=glenn+miller+make&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l3.12750j0j7&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
DeleteI already did that this morning.
DeleteCool.
DeleteIt is not my kind of music. I do like his more popular, later works though. I am mostly into Classical.
DeleteI enjoy anything from classical to modern, with exceptions for opera, rap, and metal. Although Glenn Miller died a few years before I was born, I grew up with, “Big Band,” music.
DeleteOpera is at the top of my list.
DeleteIt’s fortunate there are so many genres. Something for everyone.
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DeleteMy answer’s first word is also homophonic (thankfully fixed the autocorrect feature for that word) for a common English word and for an equally common foreign word. I’m thinking it’s right based on what I see so far.
ReplyDeleteThis puzzle has to be stated appropriately to avoid problems, like a black mark on your record.
ReplyDeleteAnyone remember stone-washed jeans and leg-warmers?
ReplyDeleteAnd, I could never tell the difference between stone-washed and acid-washed...
DeleteI trust that isn't because you were stoned on acid.
DeleteI decided a comment about the suitability of the such pants for a "rainy day" would be too obvious.
DeleteThis brings to mind a "pants" puzzle of the past where Shortz wanted "skorts" as the answer, homophone and all. Never heard of them.
ReplyDeleteI have two answers for today, neither one much better than skorts, but at least they took a little longer to discover than last week's matter of minutes.
I love it when the on-air player does a ducks-in-a-row number and disconcerts the PM.
Will we ever know what got Wordsmythe's pants in a twist this morning?
You might not know the answer when you get there.
DeleteThere's also a simple solution to this puzzle, though there's no homophone involved, the 2 parts are simple synonyms. And the descriptive word can be hyphenated or not. Don't bother Ron, your Cheap Dictionary does it both ways.
I have both solutions.
DeleteMendo Jim,
DeleteI meant to reply to your question earlier but got distracted. You know how it is; wild fires and plagues and political unrest and all that bother. I think this is simply an example of why one should not speak when one's mouth is full.
Yes, it was getting my great wide whale into my ballroom!
ReplyDeleteHere is what I posted earlier this morning on last week's blog:
ReplyDeleteskydiveboy Sun Mar 01, 05:33:00 AM PST
They might be a good buy if they're half-off.
I came up with a defensible answer but I have a feeling it was not the intended answer. I laughed so hard when I found this answer, a doctor might ask why my face was flushed.
ReplyDeleteI think I came up with your alternate as the real answer, if I’m reading the other comments correctly...
DeleteNeal like the verb, Pat hate the puzzle.
DeleteIf one passed on summer pants when one passed on, would they be will-shorts?
ReplyDeleteGood one!
DeleteI have an answer that is actually a pun. I laughed and felt like this couldn't be the answer. I'm tempted to post it just to see if it gets deleted then I'd know it's the answer
ReplyDeleteKindly do not post it.
DeleteAnd thereby piss everyone off if it actually is. Discretion, Clark, discretion.
DeleteI didn't post it because in Will's weird way, this could really be the answer. Thanks for the input!
DeleteThis puzzle would gave been more appropriate on April 1.
DeleteDavid Beckham?
DeleteThis puzzle would be most appropriate even a few weeks later that that.
DeleteThis puzzle is more infectious than Corona Virus; in fact it's Pantages.
ReplyDeleteWhen the answer is announced on Thursday, will there be a drum roll or a trouser role?
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of which, any sign of the Governor calling out the WANG yet, SDB? You never know what to believe in the news.
ReplyDeleteSo far he's letting the WANG hang.
DeleteProbably best. Who needs a congregation of warriors down at the drill hall. Seriously though, good luck out there. Don't forget to duck. (Or is that what Oregonites do?)
DeleteAs I have said before, I don't believe there is luck.
DeleteThen I'll just say - happy landings.
DeleteI expect this will turn out to be the much feared epidemic we knew would come some day.
DeleteIn some order, I recall we were going to get got by bird flu, swine flu, Strontium 90, radiation, MRSA, SARS, AIDS, Ebola, e coli, salmonella, environmental tobacco smoke, and a bunch of other stuff. We'll get got some day; but this one is likely to join the pantheon of also rans by the time Prez Bernie takes the oath of office.
DeleteNot if Mitch and Donnie get their way.
DeleteBernie will probably win the most delegates, but not enough to win the nomination outright. This will mean that the DNC's Corporate SUPER Delegates will block his nomination and we'll end up with Biden... See how it' going HERE.
DeleteThat is my fear too. The Democratic Party never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. 2016 all over again. Trump is in the White House because people wanted change, and Biden does not represent change. Wake up Amerika!
Deletei.e. in regards to luck. Mr. Bloomberg today in his interview considers himself very lucky to be fired from his position at
DeleteSolomon brothers and land in the maintenance department of a new computer division. I just send in my King County absentee voter ballot. I hope you are washing your hands on a regular basis. I used to work at Valley Medical center and I guess they had one case,but not too severe. Guess they were lucky. Not so at Evergreen.
Do you remember the 1957 flu that killed over one-million souls? Me either.
Yes, I remember the 1957 flu very well. My father had it and so did I.
DeleteI dropped off my ballot last week.
I received a note in the mail an hour ago that my youngest brother died 3 months ago. I am now the last one standing. Do I get a lapel pin?
I try to wash my hands after I shake hands. I never get sick, even with a cold any more. Last time was 13 years ago. I do not believe in luck. We are now at 7 deaths here. I am sure it will get much worse world wide.
Now we are at 9 deaths here. Maybe we should be washing our hands for 25 seconds instead of 20.
DeletePlease accept my condolences on the passing of your brother. Having lost my younger sister (my only sibling) nine years ago, I know all too well the feeling of loneliness such a loss engenders.
DeleteMay the memories of times shared console you.
Thanks for the kind thoughts, but I'm fine.
DeleteI lost my sister last year. She was two years younger. Condolences on your brother.
DeleteI felt lucky when my draft number popped up as 96. I turned !-A just after graduation in 72." I was able to be a artful dodger. I guess that was fate.
My classmate drew a seven. His dad was a doctor who wrote him a script. Seems like half the people at my intake had letters. Medical letters.
I also heard -back to Corona- the first responders who went to the place in Kirkland are all in quarantine. That is good about the hand washing. I work in health care and sometimes forget. My son is a fireman. I saw the pict of the long line around Costco at so.center waiting to supply up.
2016 all over again, indeed. Those Super Delegates, and the backroom boys and girls in a contested convention, are Hillaryites. Expect a rematch, Cats and Kittens Guys and Dolls.
ReplyDeleteAfter working successfully all morning on this month's tracks--my small radio gig--and then helping my better half this afternoon with the horses, I was generally feeling capable and accomplished, but I nevertheless still felt leery of this puzzle.
ReplyDeleteSpongeBob
ReplyDeleteIn one episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, he ripped his pants. I thought the answer was "ripped-fit".
DeleteHm, very interesting.
ReplyDeleteI came up with an answer that I thought was probably not the intended one. Rather than relying on blind faith, I dropped by here...
Well, a few people are definitely hinting at my answer, and a few people seem to be hinting at something else but it's quite possible that I'm just not understanding their hints! That happens to me sometimes.
Maizie answers the question:
ReplyDelete"What kind of pants are these?"
with:
"Hot, thirsty, excited, all 3."
Doggedly determination on this pants puzzle.
Pete B's leaving the Pres race:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pete-buttigieg-drops-out-of-presidential-race/2020/03/01/57a3b384-5743-11ea-9000-f3cffee23036_story.html
Wallmart
ReplyDeletekak•is•toc•ra•cy kăk″ĭ-stŏk′rə-sē, kä″kĭ-►
ReplyDeleten. Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.
n. Government by the worst men in the state: opposed to aristocracy, government by the best men.
n. Government by the worst men
>>> as opposed to khakistocracy, government by tan pants that are the color of dust ;-).
I saw that movie" Sisterhood of the traveling pants."
ReplyDeleteWomen were not allowed to wear pants on the US Senate floor until 1993.
ReplyDelete27 years ago, folks!
Our new minister wears pants, because in her Deep South upbringing she was considered not capable of doing God's work if she wore pants. A woman could only serve God dressed in a dress or skirt.
DeleteWomen always wore the pants. The men were just too threatened to admit it.
DeleteWearing pants, no matter one's gender, is more practical if one is on horseback.
DeleteJust about no one wears a skirt while bicycling any more. So why are "women's" bikes still sold, with a frame-weakening lowered or missing top tube? (The high top tube on men's bikes presents a greater threat to the male anatomy, of course.)
Deletejan, Are you skirting the issue? Anyway we don't want to frame this into a discussion of tubular litigation, do we?
DeleteI'm tired of this. We spoke before about yanking my chain.
DeleteFrom an article about Stanford's Adrienne Mayor's The Amazons:
Delete"You suggest Amazon women invented trousers. We often think it was George Sand or Marlene Dietrich who first donned men’s wear.
In some of the archaeological excavations, some articles clothing have survived. The female skeletons are often wearing trousers and tunics and boots, like the male skeletons. In the vase paintings, most Amazons are wearing these wildly coloured pants or trousers. Warrior queens of eastern lands invented trousers so they could take part in the same activities as men. Greeks wear rectangles of clothing pinned together, like a toga. Many ancient cultures wore toga-like dress but they are not horse riding people. If you ride horses you need something to keep you from chafing. Trousers were invented by people who domesticated horses."
The full interview about Mayor's book is here..
But, jan, I'm just a freewheeling kind of guy.
DeleteAnyway, buckle up. It's gonna be a rumpy bride.
DeleteJan: around here I see more than a few women wearing skirts while biking. This is during commute times, not recreational biking. I haven't done a count, so there is no consensus, or prosensus. Biking relatively flat city streets at modest speeds hasn't over-stressed the frames yet.
DeleteMany women also opt to buy "men's" bikes.
From what i remember of Tarzan -Jane never wore pants. Always some kind of a leotrard thing -And if you remember Raquel Welch in 100,000 million B.C. some kind of a fur coat. I think that was one of the first apparrel items. And what tribes in New Guinea do you know where the ladies wear pants? It is much too hot for this northern invention.
DeleteI will now tell you my pant story. I was born at the tail end of WWII and the eldest of 3 male sons. My mother was a clothes horse of the first order. She would purchase several clothing items to bring home and try on to see what worked and return those she did not feel worked. She was always asking me for my opinion, which she knew would be honest, but if I told her an item did not suit her she would pout. I would tell her that if she did not want my opinion then she should not ask for it.
ReplyDeleteOne of my earliest memories goes back to when I was no more than 4 or 5. I was still the only child. My father was sitting beside the fireplace reading while my mother was doing the runway scene in the hallway before her audience of one, namely me. When she came out of their bedroom dressed in a dark pair of straight length trousers like those Marlene Dietrich wore I threw a tantrum fit of the first magnitude. She was obviously excited about her potential purchase, but I was far more appalled at this gender bender display of my otherwise feminine mother.
I put up such a storm of denouncement that I even surprised myself. In fact I was amazed that my father, who was sitting so near by did not even look up from his reading, nor did he tell me to shut the fuck up and behave.
My mother kept on trying to obtain my approval, but it only increased my tirade, which also increased my confusion as to my father's silence. Eventually my mother receded into their bedroom and returned looking as the woman I both knew and expected. I had won.
It was years later when I eventually understood that it was not I who had won, but my father. He did not want another confrontation with my mother, but did not want her to upset the apple cart either. Therefore he was delighted that I was acting as his advocate in his disdain of her sartorial faux pax. Patriarchy had won again.
I am picturing "I love Lucy" episode here for some reason.
DeleteBABY BOOM
ReplyDeleteWell no surprise here. Boris Johnson is not known for his ability to comprehend cause and effect, is he?
DeleteIndeed.
DeleteAnyone here been to Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron? It is the largest island (~~1000 mi^2) in a freshwater body of water in the world. Considering a trip there this summer. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI have an answer that more or less works but is generally not hyphenated and doesn’t seem much like a “Will Shortz, non-controversial, offend no one” type of answer. Anyone else come up with this one?
ReplyDeleteYes (which is also a clue).
DeleteI submitted my answer on the fly without any hemming or hawing. Now this puzzle has come pleated.
ReplyDeleteSew it would seam.
DeleteIn the heyday of mail-order catalogs, your pants might be Penney-sent. (Two homophones, I know.)
ReplyDeleteCOVID-19 has come to Italy, so now Coronavirus is causing a Verona crisis.
ReplyDeleteCorona may be the virus for today, but we shouldn't beat around the Busch. It will run its Coors and soon will be in the Pabst. To appeal to their Bass the fools in Washington claim the press Foster's fear, Budweiser people will get us through. If your arm is swollen from vaccinations, your Heineken take additional shots.
DeleteBy the way, you better have a doctor look at that Molson.
Tuborg or not tuborg.
DeleteAmstel trying to get the puzzle.
DeleteColt anyone shed some lite?
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DeleteNow, it beGuinness.
DeleteBe safe!
ReplyDeleteRight. I already threw out my DVD of Romeo and Juliet.
DeleteAbout an hour ago, I was starting to watch "Hardball" with Chris Matthews and in the first minute he announced that it would be his last show. They went to a commercial break and he never returned.
ReplyDeleteI guess it was a forced retirement because of some recent poor behaviour. Still don't know many details of whatever it was.
Now I see why...
DeleteI've never seen Hardball, and only watched cable news a very few times in my life. Matthews was local to the Bay Area 20+ years ago, didn't care for his politics, never liked his over the top style (John McLaughlin was more entertaining) so good riddance.
DeleteI didn't like his style when he first started up "Hardball" but over the years I started watching him more and more. He was one of the few voices who spoke out against the current wave of the far right drivel.
DeleteHe dug his own grave with his recent behavior, though.
Dude is thatreallytheanswer?
ReplyDeleteI live in a designated national and state historic district in St. Louis. My house was built in the 1800s and has 11’+ ceilings. It’s nice and gives a real sense of spaciousness but the downside is I have to get a ladder out just to change a light bulb or smoke-alarm battery.
ReplyDeleteThose who may seek to solve more puzzles (after solving this NPR offering) may want to mosey on over to Puzzleria! (see Blaine's PUZZLE LINKS).
ReplyDeleteThis week we feature a sly puzzle by skydiveboy titled "Pet a hot dog, burn your hand!" It's tasty as a sandwich slathered with Thousand Island dressing!
LegoPerchedOnPike'sPeakJustSittin'InTheCatbird'sSeatOfHisPants
On my way.
DeleteIf I am in the ball park- this is my favorite sandwich of all time.
DeleteNot sure about that hyphen, but I have an answer that amuses me.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like Elizabeth Warren has found herself in a very delegate situation.
ReplyDeleteAnd the rose is off the Bloom(burg).
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DeleteIt's interesting, Unknown, that you hide behind an even more anonymous name than I do. I don't care if you're "Unknown", but you are totally out of line with your language. It's about time this country adopted a more civil attitude. If you have to use gutter language...I'd suggest you go elsewhere.
DeleteI agree, Clark. Though SDB is wrong, Elizabeth Warren is definitely NOT in a delegate situation. Same with Michael Bloomberg (American Samoa?), though for some reason I don't feel bad about that.
DeleteSDB not rong! SDB making pun: delegate/delicate situation.
DeleteThanks, Eco. I have no problem with political disagreements. But without some courtesy how do we ever get to talk to each other and try to heal the craziness that's gone on far too long?
DeleteBlaine, as your being the founder of this website, don't you have some words about the language that you feel is appropriate?
It is unfortunate that some people don’t know how to disagree, without being disagreeable.
DeleteThanks, SuperZee. Blaine, don't you have a comment to make about using nasty epithets on your website?
DeleteBlaine tends not to get too involved in the spats among the children - we shouldn't really need supervision. He did delete the post, which is absolutely appropriate.
DeleteAnd SDB, Elizabeth Warren is in a LACK of delegate situation. Too bad, she has good policies and doesn't come across as a cranky old man like Sanders. I had to join the Democrat Party to vote for him, I need to switch back soon!
I don't want to spend all my time moderating comments. Please keep it civil. No language please and no direct personal attacks. I'd rather not have to make an edict banning non-puzzle discussion but I'm getting close. Play nice please so I don't have to go nuclear.
DeleteWill Rogers must have been thinking about the Iowa Caucus vote tabulation when he said, “I am not a member of any organized political party — I am a Democrat”.
DeleteRemember, we all just have to get along!
DeleteHand-me-down jeans.
ReplyDeleteThe Warren condition notwithstanding, the real question now that The Empire has struck back is: What do the Bernie Bros do?
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that we have a president who sees himself as emperor.
DeleteOl' Bern doesn't have to worry about Donald I. He has to watch out for the squeeze between HerHillaryness and the Bugeyed Bartender.
ReplyDeleteHigh-waisted pants
ReplyDeleteMy Hint:
Delete"They might be a good buy if they're half-off."
Goodby is frequently said after Hi.
HIGH-WAISTED -> HIGH, WASTED
ReplyDelete> Think of another hyphenated word that describes certain pants. Add one letter to the first half and change one letter in the second half. The new first half of the word and the new second half are both synonyms. What kind of pants are these?
STONE-WASHED -> STONED, WASTED
I didn't mention that they were synonyms of the answer. I also didn't mention that the Tuesday New York Times crossword this week included 48A: On pot: STONED.
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DeleteWhen I first saw your comment I thought you might be referring to Pedal-Pushers. Add a letter to the first word and delete one from the second to get Pedals and Pushes, then replace Pedals with it's homonym Peddles leaving PEDDLES...PUSHES.
DeleteHIGH-WAISTED >>> HIGH, WASTED
ReplyDeleteThere is a third synonym to be found in a hyphenated term related to pants. When you remove the consecutive letters W, A, S, H, and E from STONE-WASHED it leaves STONED. (I wanted to say that when you remove those letters you, “get stoned,” but the double entendre was more than I could bear.)
1. HIGH-WAISTED PANTS
ReplyDeleteIf you are HIGH, you are also WASTED, = drunk or intoxicated.
2. DOMESTIC-MADE pants are pants made in the USA; and, of course, a MAID is a DOMESTIC.
3. BOOT-CUT JEANS.
If you BOOT someone, you also CUT (fire) him. No homophone.
HIGH-WAISTED—>HIGH, WASTED
ReplyDeleteMy clues:
“tracks”—>I actually did plan the month’s music tracks for my radio gig, but “tracks” are also a sign of drug use and being “wasted.”
“leery”—>Timothy Leary, who was notably and frequently “high.”
I considered “high magic to low puns” but thought it would be a waste.
I wrote, “The first attempt at an answer that rang into my head was a phrase for a particular period’s style of pants. When I eventually got the answer, I realized an association.” “Rang” hints at “bell bottoms,” and since I am sixty-nine years old, yes, I did wear those and, I admit, did get high and wasted.
ReplyDeleteI wonder where the notion that homophones must be spelled differently comes from.
ReplyDeleteBoot-cut works.
As does clam-digger (a digger is a kind of clam),
As does trim-fit (what I suspect is what the PM is looking for).
Every definition I've seen says homophones have to be spelled differently, like this explanation.
DeleteHomographs are spelled the same but have different meanings, such as "The old man has a crook in his neck" vs "The old republic has a crook in its White House."
Homonym seems to be an ambivalent term, and can be either a different meaning or a different spelling, or both.
Check a few more definitions.
DeleteLet me know if you can't find a bunch that allow the same spelling.
Yeah, the OED gives no restriction as to (different) spelling.
Delete1. Philology. (Usually in plural.) Applied to words having the same sound, but differing in meaning or derivation; also to different symbols denoting the same sound or group of sounds.
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The American Heritage is likewise permissive:
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One of two or more words, such as night and knight, that are pronounced the same but differ in meaning, origin, and sometimes spelling.
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When those two dictionaries agree, I consider that authoritative.
(I considered 'slim fit' but I don't think they're synonyms -- many people are slim without being fit, and even more are fit without being slim.)
High-waisted → High, wasted
ReplyDeleteThis puzzle has to be stated appropriately to avoid problems, like a black mark on your record. Only 11 states let you get high legally. In 1979 the punk group Black Flag released the EP record Nervous Breakdown, which included "Wasted". I prefer the Camper Van Beethoven version. Flags are used to mark surveys and other construction site elements; standard can be synonymous with both flag and (bench) mark.
You might not know the answer when you get there. If you lived in the '60's you don't remember them.
Alternate solution: bootcut or boot-cut As in oust.
HIGH-WASTED >>> HIGH, WASTED
ReplyDelete<<< See new profile photo for a high and wasted church in Denver, opened April 20th (of course), 2017.
Amazon >>> Who invented trousers?
According to Adrienne Mayor's book, The Amazons, "According to the Greeks, it was powerful barbarian women. . .More than a thousand Amazons are depicted on Greek vase paintings, and most of the warrior women are clad in tunics and trousers or leggings, like those worn by their fellow Scythians. . .
But perhaps even more worrying was the fact that barbarian males and females often wore exactly the same costume: hat, tunic, belt, boots, and trousers. . .
Next, the belief that women had invented the barbarian ensemble of tunic and trousers made the outfit unsuitable for "real" (Greek) men...Trousers were seen as feminine attire...
Finally, for Greek men the most anxiety-producing feature of trousers was probably the garment's androgynous nature..."
Mayor's research is corroborated by the presence of numerous female skeletons clad in trousers.
Fascinating book. And, no, the Amazons did not cut off one breast to be better at archery. Amazons were real; far more interesting to me than the current amazon (Bezos) feature that pops up on every darn DuckDuckGo or google search.
SAT season: 9 more days to Pi Day. Whew!
high-waisted (high = wasted)
ReplyDeleteEarlier this week I said, “I live in a designated national and state historic district in St. Louis. My house was built in the 1800s and has 11’ ceilings. It’s nice and gives a real sense of spaciousness but the downside is I have to get a ladder out just to change a light bulb or smoke-alarm battery.” You might say it’s a high ceiling.
Wasted space?
ReplyDeleteA waist is a terrible thing to mind.
DeleteRipped-fit is another answer. You can get ripped at the gym, which means that you are getting fit.
ReplyDeleteI had thought SHORT-SHORTS>>>>>>>SHORT SHORTZ.....How tall is Will anyway?
ReplyDeleteMy hint was in the italicized words in my Tue Mar 03, 07:07:00 AM PST Sign-off:
ReplyDelete"LegoPerchedOnPike'sPeakJustSittin'InTheCatbird'sSeatOfHisPants"
Pike = HIGHWAY
Catbird seat = STEAD
HIGHWAY+STEAD = HIGH WAISTED
LegoWhoIsNowSittin'InTheBirdDogSeat
After verifying that homophones do not have to be spelled differently, I submitted slim-fit.
ReplyDeleteDitto to that number.
DeleteDid anyone else submit all-holey (wholly)?
ReplyDeleteI submitted HIGH-WAISTED >>> HIGH, WASTED
ReplyDeleteAnd my clue was "Dude is thatreallytheanswer?"
Besides the fact that I lived in California for a decade, where everyone who said "dude" seemed like they were stoned, I also put my clue into <4> <2> <20> characters.
I'm still not certain how "4 / 20" became synonymous with pot, but some young person will have to educate me.
I'm way too old for this.
It's the time (4:20) the Waldos met at the Pasteur statue outside San Rafael High School in 1971 to find, and then smoke, weed.
DeleteMy clue -
ReplyDeleteMy answer’s first word is also homophonic (thankfully fixed the autocorrect feature for that word) for a common English word and for an equally common foreign word. I’m thinking it’s right based on what I see so far.
High = Hi = Hai (Japanese “yes”)
It will be interesting to see if Will disregards some of the alternate answers in the mistaken belief that homophones have to be spelled differently. They do not.
ReplyDeleteI don't think "wasted" and "high" are synonyms in the worlds of either alcohol or hallucinogen use.
Merriam-Webster lists them both:
DeleteSynonyms & Antonyms of drunk - Merriam-Webster
www.merriam-webster.com › thesaurus › drunk
Doesn't change my mind.
DeleteWell Merriam-Webster is the source Will Shortz uses, and it is considered the gold standard by most people in this country, so what do you base your observation on?
DeleteBeen both, big difference.
ReplyDeleteHomofunia, a story and puzzle of a Woman of Words. The blanks in each sentence are homophones, each spelled differently, and consisting of 2 words when a (2) is shown.
ReplyDeleteThere are at least 4 homophones in each sentence, and as this is a lot harder to do than you think, any criticisms of pronunciation latitudes taken will be duly ignored.
During her investigation the aspiring biology student lost __ of a particular -__, and didn't __ that mistake on her web __. What to do? Her father, who saw education and grades as __, was __ in charge of her finances, and a __ report card with bad grades was something on the __ (2) could not tolerate.
As the morning ___ sat on her bottle of ___, she pondered what she would __ about the money that was ___. She could __ her father, or could run away and become a ship's __, but not knowing the __ choice, she decided to try a traditional __. She spent her last few ___ on some herbal ___ to ___, hoping this would help her make ___. She never wanted to be someone who __ herself in some __ office; she wanted to stay away from the __ of people, and hoped she could __ her money for better opportunities.
She decided that before he ___ her report card with all ___, she would ___ the opportunity travel the ___. __ she fled, the fresh __ made her worry she would ___ ___ and never claim her place as ___. Thinking __ the time lost, __ perhaps after pulling on the __ too many times, she realized her place was investigating the __ that is found in the earth.
The fall from grace didn't __ her enthusiasm, and she (with her trusty __), climbed many a __ to __ at geology. This was a __ path, but with her dog __, she was able to navigate the __ (2) led her through, with help from the __ (2) dropped along the way.
She __ through the English countryside, and would ___ her hammer through many a ___; but afterwards her arms raw and __ from the shattered rocks. Soon her life __ took her to investigating rock __, which while __ work at least allows her to enjoy a __ at the end of the day.
She now ___ on rocks, and ___ that her work on ___ will earn her great ___.
Sight, -cyte, cite, site
DeleteBeyond that, I'm afraid your efforts are wasted on me.
In other words: TL/DC
150 correct responses last week.
ReplyDeleteThis week's challenge: This week's challenge is something different. It comes from Joseph Young of St. Cloud, Minn. It involves Pi Day, which is this coming Saturday, March 14 — commonly written as 3/14. That's been designated Pi Day because 3-1-4 are the first three digits of pi. Well, the letters of "Pi Day" also have a curious mathematical significance. What is it?
ReplyDeleteCongrats, Lego!
DeleteCute puzzle Lego.
ReplyDeleteSolved, but I can't seem to settle on a clue.
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