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Kulea 🤓14:05 · about 1 month ago
Haha, taking me back to the 70's. Not sure whether "Brothers" was clued somehow, but took a guess based on the "Doobie".
I am not sure what helped me the most with this solve. The fact that I was in college in the early 70's or the picture of Snoop Dog in an Easter Bunny suit when I opened up my computer this morning.
Boy. That took me way longer than it should have. (or maybe just the right amount of time. I did wonder why 15A avoided the obvious clue but then I figured we just wanted to avoid the obvious.
Ha ha! Thanks, Mike. We were both surprised when we looked a the calendar and saw that it was also Easter. I'm hoping that Jesus is more than just alright with our offering today.
Fun one. Pretty much knew where this was going at 1A. Fun fact (well, at least to me) -- The Doobie Brothers was the first rock concert I ever went to. So a fun call back. Thanks for the puzzle, Wendy and Rick!
I learned some new words today: Hay, Skunk, and the off-topic SauceBox. I still can't find the E-word. ENDO? ELO? ELK? Anyway, great fun. (One of my wrong answers is from hitting Enter instead of Shift.)
I'm glad the "other Duck" was able to help you out, schmidzy.
whimsy 16:15 · about 1 month ago
Took me this long because, of course, I'm not familiar with a single one of those terms. All this got me wondering if toke is derived from Alice B Toklas. Thanks for a fun one, Wendy and Rick!
Yeah, it would've been pretty ironic if we hadn't included a few Easter eggs on Easter Sunday. :)
ReB 🤓25:48 · about 1 month ago
Got the theme right away, but had to dragged kicking and screaming from there to the answer. I was only faintly aware of the Doobie Brothers. Same reason I don't do MMMM, my preferred musical genres run a very different direction. Very cleverly done, though.
Saw the date, the title and the BLUNT and knew who it had to be. I have a vague recollection of seeing this puzzle before, but that may just be what a fool believes. I'm a child of the 60's and, of course, drug oriented so I've heard them all but there was a long train of them runnin kind of a zig zag through the puzzle.
Question, were MAR and MARA also subliminal hints?
Sorry I did not get to posting earlier, I was doing some baking....
Glad you enjoyed it, DrTom. Wendy and I had a lot of fun creating it. As for MAR and MARA, um... sure... those two entries were absolutely intended to be subliminal Easter eggs (said as I update my notes for Saturday's reveal).