Nice one, Will! Took me a minute until I started "listening" to the Cs and Ds. Thanks!
MajordomoTom 🤓16:24 · about 2 years ago
same here, and then wanted to find a link between them ... and once I sounded them out, DOH!
ChrisCross 🤓9:21 · about 2 years ago
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 · about 2 years ago
Hard one, but liked it! Was looking for CREW CUTs and DAY LITE and DEW OVERs
Bird Lives 3s · about 2 years ago
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.
Byron 🤓14:23 · about 2 years ago
Clever!
Joe 🤓6:48 · about 2 years ago
Yay! Took me a second.
boharr 2s · about 2 years ago
Clever. Thanks
Qmark 4s · about 2 years ago
Loved it...thanks Will!
I K Snamhcok 2s · about 2 years ago
Very nice. It struck me as, oh, say, Mike Shenk-ish. Like a medium-hard WSJCC. Anyone else think so? Thanks, Will!
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 · about 2 years ago
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 · about 2 years ago
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?