Lol. I got stuck on the peso in the fourth themer, but after the others I knew I had to look further and saw the Peruvian coin in there. Thanks for the fun puz.
MatthewL 🤓7:23 · 2024-01-15T16:55:17.922Z
Fun one. But putting PESO and SOL right together was a bit confusing. Took a minute to sort that out. Thanks for puzzle!
Loved the tie-in with “money doesn’t grow on trees” and the playful title doing double-duty!! Sol is new to me… I used Naira in a puzzle once and thought to myself this is not great fill but went with it anyway and someone commented on it so it stuck in my mind - fun puzzle thank you!
Ergcat 17:29 · 2024-01-15T17:19:47.033Z
That was fun. I found 5 currencies in the 4 long across answers… Naira; Euro; Won; then Peso and Sol in “bagpipesolo” . I thought I was looking for NEWSPAPER so I guessed that before going in search of it in the down answers. When I couldn’t find any more currencies, I guessed NEWS.
The “Peso”/ “sol” may confuse others!
Thanks for the mind workout for Monday!
Ran into the same South-of-the-Border money troubles, but went out on a limb, made the correct guess, then came here and realized what the confusion was.
Loved so many of the clues; thanks for the puzzle, schmidzy!
Carolyn 3s · 2024-01-15T20:55:40.057Z
Yes, PESO tripped me up as well. In addition, I found a few other currency abbreviations that made me try NEWSPAPER at first. Lots of fun!
Here’s the kicker, when you google: “symbol for peso” the first hit you get is Mexican peso which is $… HOWEVER when you google “peso symbol” (which is what I did) the first hit you get is Philippine peso which is ₱… so depending on how you google it, you might have trouble finding that missing “S” with the intended mechanism
imontoo 4s · 2024-01-16T00:20:13.280Z
Good one to start the week. Thanks for the puzzle!
kymike 11s · 2024-01-16T00:18:13.849Z
No idea how to get to the answer. Just a wild guess based on something that popped out at me.
HeadinHome 🤓1:18 · 2024-01-16T00:47:34.137Z
Peso nearly tripped me up, but I was already thinking NEWSPAPER so I googled the money list and looked under the S’s! Fun puzzle, cute title, and what a great double-duty GROW ON TREES is doing!
Sally H 12:38 · 2024-01-16T01:45:32.919Z
Nice!
SamKat9 🤓13:31 · 2024-01-16T02:09:31.429Z
Great puzzle! I too got confused with peso next to sol lol
Really fun. I had PESO instead of SOL like many others, and thought maybe the answer would actually be NEWSPAPER somehow- and, with paper being the slang for money, it would have been kind of a double meaning to the theme/answer.
Good thing I tried plain old NEWS before I wasted an hour trying to find currencies in here for SAPER to fill out the remaining letters necessary to complete NEWSPAPER!
Thanks Schmidzy (or “Pairo” as the case may be). The first one was WON, but then I saw PESO and EURO. NAIRA was the hard one but I think I have seen it before. When I got NEWP I knew I was wrong and needed an S. Your title led me in the right direction, nice start for Monday.
Cindy Heisler 4s · 2024-01-16T18:07:46.435Z
I knew Euro and Peso (which didn't count, anyway), but I needed Google for the others. Great title! Thanks, Schmidzy!
Bird Lives 3s · 2024-01-17T15:53:59.115Z
The comments on the forum made me think I had missed something. PESO after NEW made me think that the something was S_ PAPER. I was wrong. It was indeed that simple.