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oldjudge 3s · 2023-04-02T13:22:17.795Z
Great idea, Will!
TMart 🤓11:35 · 2023-04-02T13:29:49.717Z
Fun one! Thanks, Will!
Bird Lives 3s · 2023-04-02T13:42:21.224Z
I seem to have gotten here quickly. Must be the pitch clock. Also that this one was not as tricky as last week's, but still clever.
ChrisCross 🤓9:21 · 2023-04-02T13:37:44.104Z
Whew. That was very interesting, but I felt pretty certain when the idea for the final answer came to mind. I have a feeling this is going to play out as a challenging and not a medium.
hazmat 🤓8:32 · 2023-04-02T13:39:25.164Z
Hard one, but liked it! Was looking for CREW CUTs and DAY LITE and DEW OVERs
Good Sunday answer. Unlike last week's agony, I got the correct inspiration very quickly. You never know from one week to the next...
KayW 🤓7:07 · 2023-04-02T17:43:49.363Z
Clever!! Thanks Will!
MatthewL 8:28 · 2023-04-02T18:34:10.662Z
Fun puzzle, Will! Thanks.
Carolyn 2s · 2023-04-02T20:09:40.224Z
Yay! My first thought worked out for a change, although at first fill I imagined CRAWDAD for CRAYFISH17ACrustacean in Cajun cuisine[--------]. Thanks for the Sunday delight. Go Aztecs!!
MajordomoTom 🤓16:24 · 2023-04-04T00:11:21.629Z
mine was CRAWFISH at first
too crazy, I guess, and wrong pronunciation to boot
Why did you you write down CREE and DOUGH on your paper? I wrote down AY, (r)AY, EEE, I, EW, U? but nothing that could reasonably ever turn into anything.
Fun, and as per usual, inventive Meta. I went sooo many different ways until I finally mentioned to someone that CREE and DOUGH would be perfect if only there were clues about Indians and money and they said. "well why don't you try it anyway?"
TerminatorX 🤓10:00 · 2023-04-05T20:20:28.524Z
I originally submitted CREED under influence of the "well, they're a band people listened to on CDs in their heyday" train of thought.
Katiedid 🤓6:52 · 2023-04-06T03:34:52.047Z
Fun one! And not too difficult. Pronunciation puzzles can be tricky. I don't pronounce the answer CREE DOH, but I see it's actually the first one in the dictionary. Also we eat crawfish here (yum!), so I had to change it to crayfish when I checked the downs.
Why? I tried sounding out the sounds of the words beginning with the Cs and the Ds and a for crAY, dAY, crIE, dEE, crOW, dIE, crEW, dEW but that doesn't yield anything and I don't see how it yields CREDO.
Oh. Now I get. But... Is finding thing by omission natural to people? I get that some people would think that way but surely only a minority would think to look for sounds that are missing?