Once again, it's the First Sunday and time for a potluck.
Halloween has come and gone and now we are into Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). That would be all of us under a GOP Senate.
To start, Commonyms: what do these things have in common?
Here are easy ones I made up:
a A Nativity scene. Hannity, Savage and Limbaugh. An association.
b The Chicago Tribune on Nov 3, 1948. Dick Morris. My clocks this morning.
c The Voynich Manuscript. The fox. Sarah Palin.
Ok. Here are some harder (?) ones I stole from Thinkable Puzzles:
1. A Sprinter - A City - An Icehouse
2. A Beetle - A Fox - A Rabbit
3. A Toe - A Carpenter - A Finger
4. A Basketball - A Turkey - A Christmas Stocking
5. Chicago - Smokey - Yogi
6. Easter - Christmas - Virgin
7. Draw - Fade - Slice
8. Yellow - Scarlet - Cabin
9. Toilets - Eyes - Trash Cans
10. Finger - Oil - Latex
Here is today's Juliecrostic from me:
1 9 Jeremy flat
2 Where Alice Paul was in November, 1917, instead of voting
3 Advocates
4 Mary Ann Cotton
5 Arranged
6 Addicts
7 Lands behind dikes
8 Grandeur
9 Red, amber or weather
10 Market
11 Artist studio
12 Most quick
13 Disney attractions
14 Old restaurants
15 Repeal
16 Ponder
17 Bode Miller
18 More frail
19 Bone disease
20 Treatless ones
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22 Masters
23 Hammerers
24 Bowels
25 Virginia devil county
26 Gawked
27 Made friendly fun of
28 Member of the Hilda family
29 Invasions
30 IHeart Pandora
31 Household utensil with a detachable handle
32 Fossil
33 Emerged
34 Logic
35 Eye parts
36 Loves
Here is a Word Ladder puzzle from Nova:
Halloween Word Ladder: get from TRICK to TREAT in 7 steps.
T R I C K
_ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
T R E A T
I assume most people are familiar with word ladder puzzles, but anyone who doesn't know how these work can find complete instructions -- plus quite a bit of interesting background information -- here. (Did you know that Lewis Carroll claimed to have invented this kind of puzzle? I didn't.)