Babble: Archived Puzzle for Wednesday, September 9, 2020

12:03 am

Gillie

en8

12:04 am

harpjane

found a murder insect

12:05 am

harpjane

and volcano poker words

12:06 am

harpjane

nice harp, Billie!

12:06 am

Gillie

ty

12:07 am

jessmom

pe7

12:09 am

JoyOh

Is there a way to look up yesterday’s “ps” words? I went to archives and it showed the chatterbox.

12:10 am

origami

Yes. When you click on the archives and select the day, there is an option to view the word list.

12:11 am

jessmom

you should be able to see it later, but it hasn't posted yet

12:11 am

jessmom

i reloaded the page, and the link was there

12:12 am

JoyOh

Thank you, i knew I had seen it before and was confused why I couldn't see it now. Question answered, thanks again
!

12:18 am

licketySplitAUS

Clues are up

12:27 am

harpjane

Thank you lickety

12:34 am

maccafixx

an 7/36?

12:41 am

grannyrose

compound word. picnic pest + grizzly, brown or polar

12:43 am

maccafixx

ty grannyrose!

12:44 am

grannyrose

yw

1:12 am

dizgrannie

FWs

1:35 am

harpjane

what are the stats for the L please?

1:35 am

Lizlin

lo 6/24

1:49 am

harpjane

thanks good night

5:45 am

pabtrek

entran ce
trance
etna
ante
lopper
pear
pent

5:45 am

pabtrek

pier

5:46 am

pabtrek

oops sorry wrong box. Guess I need coffee.

5:47 am

MollyL

You get the JMC award for that. She once copied and pasted her entire word list into the chat.
: D

5:50 am

pabtrek

Have coffee now, should be safe. :
)

5:50 am

pabtrek

:)

6:57 am

wvteach

stats for single P in top row pls

6:58 am

BzznBea

pl4.6

6:59 am

wvteach

thnx

7:00 am

wvteach

ho

7:00 am

wvteach

ho

7:00 am

wvteach

ho

7:00 am

wvteach

ho

7:26 am

MollyL

♪It's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas♫

8:04 am

BzznBea

I'm sitting here with one word left...ARG!

8:10 am

gramma

zznea, do you want help?

8:13 am

BzznBea

A7, please?

8:14 am

hokie carla

ha! the day I get an a7 that you can't find, I better play the lottery

8:14 am

hokie carla

which A is it from?

8:15 am

BzznBea

The A in the second column

8:15 am

MollyL

Against Winnie the Pooh

8:16 am

MollyL

Wrong, it is picnic pest + Winnie

8:16 am

BzznBea

Damn!

8:16 am

gramma

picnic pest and grizzly ----

8:16 am

hokie carla

strange word

8:17 am

BzznBea

Thanks all.

8:17 am

MollyL

Strange words are the Enable word list specialty.

8:17 am

hokie carla

no definition on the provided link? you don't say

8:18 am

MollyL

Looks like it is another word for the animal that starts the same and ends in eater

8:18 am

hokie carla

ah

8:24 am

BzznBea

I thought the big words were dificult today.

8:27 am

BzznBea

I am off to see what trouble I can get into. See you all tomorrow.

8:27 am

hokie carla

bye bea! stay out of trouble!

8:29 am

hokie carla

I'm struggling to reach halfway on each tile. I would say this is a tough grid, but then ru might call it easy. :D

8:34 am

hokie carla

fearce - scared to be awesome

8:39 am

Mubner

tough grid

8:41 am

hokie carla

I am only 60% finished after 1st pass

8:46 am

Mubner

Seems like the smaller ones are more challenging. Enough brain scrubbing for now

8:46 am

hokie carla

yep, they usually are. less words means weirder words

8:50 am

rururocks

doesn't seem to be that bad to me yet

8:50 am

hokie carla

LOL

8:50 am

rururocks

found the 8 right off too :D

8:52 am

hokie carla

not me

8:55 am

rururocks

you should have seen the 8 coming in hokie :D

8:56 am

hokie carla

hmmm

8:57 am

hokie carla

checked the stats from the flip

8:58 am

rururocks

literally "WHEN you came in" :D

8:58 am

hokie carla

ooh, got it

8:59 am

hokie carla

still was reading it differently in my mind and wasn't sure how your clue fit :D

9:04 am

rururocks

20 left.. now a little tougher

9:05 am

phaeton

ty ru...stats for the O pls

9:05 am

hokie carla

I have 28 left

9:06 am

hokie carla

still need 3 7's

9:06 am

rururocks

or 5 x 2

9:06 am

hokie carla

odd, I have or6

9:07 am

phaeton

ty

9:09 am

rururocks

you're right one is a six

9:09 am

rururocks

sorry

9:09 am

hokie carla

what do you think my missing i is?

9:10 am

rururocks

in6/18?

9:10 am

hokie carla

I have one of those

9:10 am

hokie carla

and 2 5/10

9:10 am

rururocks

in5/10?

9:11 am

rururocks

well then in4/4

9:12 am

hokie carla

ah, I can never get that word

9:12 am

hokie carla

5th column gray!

9:16 am

rururocks

1st, 4th, and 5th column grey here

9:16 am

rururocks

having trouble with that a in the second row .. missing one

9:18 am

hokie carla

an7?

9:18 am

hokie carla

only because bea couldn't find it

9:18 am

rururocks

i don't have that.. would you clue it?

9:19 am

hokie carla

picnic pest + fozzie or winnie

9:19 am

hokie carla

oh, I also have 4th col gray, just didn't say it when I finished the 5th

9:20 am

rururocks

thank you

9:20 am

hokie carla

but I still need 4 F's, 1 A, 1 E for 1st col

9:20 am

rururocks

i know we've had that one before

9:20 am

hokie carla

you're welcome

9:21 am

rururocks

i have all the f's and e's and a's now

9:21 am

hokie carla

I believe we have too because once molly told the def. it seemed familiar

9:21 am

hokie carla

I still need 2 A's from 2nd col too

9:21 am

hokie carla

and 6 B's! this grid is so hard

9:22 am

hokie carla

and 6 C's!

9:22 am

hokie carla

and several other words - 26 left

9:22 am

rururocks

i'm down to two c's and one is a four i'm ashamed to say

9:23 am

rururocks

one seven now

9:23 am

hokie carla

I had a cl4 that was a little weird

9:23 am

rururocks

finished.. nice grid

9:24 am

hokie carla

I think I've tried crannie more than once, even though I know it's cranny

9:24 am

hokie carla

NO IT'S NOT!

9:27 am

hokie carla

well, I'm not that good at this, so unless hurshy shows up, I'm going to have to go to the list

9:34 am

rururocks

two cl4 one a babblet

9:34 am

hokie carla

yeah, I have both those. went to the list. currently working on the ce's

9:35 am

hokie carla

always forget UK spelling

9:38 am

hokie carla

is cr7 a regular word?

9:38 am

rururocks

got to get to work homie.. big work day for me.. have a good day and good luck

9:38 am

MollyL

Carla, there is always someone who will say "nice' or "easy"
: D

9:38 am

hokie carla

thanks, have a good day!

9:38 am

rururocks

yeah it's a regular word

9:39 am

hokie carla

true, molly

9:39 am

rururocks

i like easy :D

9:40 am

MollyL

Or "fun" (that one kills me)

9:40 am

hokie carla

wow, missed a bird that I always get

9:40 am

hokie carla

sometimes they are fun. but that is not this day.

9:40 am

penquis

i find that smaller grids are rarely fun for me....hello all....

9:41 am

hokie carla

same. and hi

9:43 am

penquis

i am down to 20 and out of patience.....going to list....

9:43 am

rururocks

(puts more xanax in the PB)

9:43 am

MollyL

I'm not sure I would call cr7 "regular"

9:44 am

hokie carla

note to self: take everything ru says with a grain of salt

9:46 am

hokie carla

omg, I tried the madagascar mammal earlier JIC as I usually do when there's a c. and I know there are alt sp.but couldn't remember.

9:47 am

hokie carla

2 left that I skipped, cr7 and fr6

9:47 am

rururocks

hokie'

9:47 am

rururocks

hokie is going to need blood pressure medicine with that much salt :D

9:51 am

hokie carla

looked up the fr6 - of course more british spelling

9:54 am

MollyL

Madagascar mammal?

9:54 am

MollyL

Oh te6

9:55 am

hokie carla

yes, ta6 in this case

10:03 am

hokie carla

looked up the cr7, not really in my vocab

10:04 am

penquis

i am down to 2.....that cr 7 and na 6 (second one)....

10:05 am

penquis

one....you can guess which....

10:06 am

hokie carla

cr7?

10:06 am

penquis

yes...

10:07 am

hokie carla

oh, it's like a notched leaf, easy peasy

10:08 am

penquis

not a word i use, I guess....

10:08 am

MollyL

Seriously? Notched leaves are like a general topic of conversation? Easy peasy?

10:09 am

hokie carla

/sarcasm

10:10 am

hokie carla

for anyone that needs a clue, it's similar to (one letter off) burning a body

10:10 am

penquis

found it....we have had it before.....i am done...

10:11 am

hokie carla

we've definitely had it before but I wouldn't call it regular

10:11 am

hokie carla

I am going on a bike ride. have a good day, y'all!

10:12 am

penquis

bye carla....

10:13 am

72 Temple Owl

81 words and not one 7...strange little grid.

10:14 am

MollyL

We have had lwei before, but I wouldn't call that regular either.

10:14 am

penquis

not a regular word, no....but i usually remember lwei for some reason....

10:15 am

penquis

i had the day free so I was hoping for a big grid...

10:16 am

72 Temple Owl

ok now have one, when i saw the phrase notched leaves i got it. sad.

10:17 am

72 Temple Owl

18 for later. it's a lazy day here but i need to start packing up the ktchen for the painter.

10:20 am

penquis

bye, TO....

10:24 am

penquis

i am heading out as well....*waving to the lurkers*....

10:32 am

hurshy

heidy ho good neighbors

10:33 am

dianedecoder

hi, hurshy

10:34 am

hurshy

hi ms decoder

10:34 am

dianedecoder

:-)

10:37 am

hurshy

woot, i found the 8, and Es Exterminated!

10:39 am

hurshy

funny that you can be a miscreant but you cannot be a creant

10:41 am

hurshy

phantoms: cafe, carafe

10:53 am

hurshy

funny people were talking about cr7 being one of their last words, that's the only 7 i actually got! anyone want to tell me what any others start with?

10:54 am

hurshy

i thought i could make a horse a cl7, from the cl4 noise the hooves make, but no dice

11:01 am

bichon

cr 6/21, pls

11:03 am

hurshy

i'm going to cr6 a beautiful sculpture

11:03 am

MollyL

Why am I not surprised that Hurshy got the word others took all grid to find?

11:03 am

hurshy

or painting or whatever

11:03 am

hurshy

but i didn't get any OTHER 7s, which it sounds like other people did. so i'm not better, i'm just weirder

11:03 am

MollyL

*Looks up* I didn't say that

11:04 am

bichon

ty hurshy

11:06 am

hurshy

Rs Routed!

11:09 am

hurshy

so... yeah... any other 7s?

11:11 am

periwinkle

I only have an7

11:12 am

hurshy

well that's a 7, so, that's good!

11:14 am

hurshy

all i can think is antenna tho

11:15 am

periwinkle

found the cr7 too

11:15 am

periwinkle

there is a pe7 but I do not have it

11:15 am

bichon

peri, clue, pls

11:16 am

hurshy

for cr7, you just stick a new letter in fourth position in your cr6

11:16 am

MollyL

Pe7 sounds like what goes in a cigarette lighter (the gas that fuels it)

11:16 am

periwinkle

cr7 ends in nickname for nathaniel

11:16 am

hurshy

idk if you meant that or the an7

11:16 am

hurshy

thanks molly

11:17 am

bichon

ty peri

11:17 am

periwinkle

ty Molly

11:17 am

periwinkle

what is the last 7 please?

11:17 am

periwinkle

I have an, cr, and pe

11:18 am

hurshy

could you clue the an7?

11:19 am

MollyL

Picnic pest, grizzly

11:20 am

hurshy

ah thanks. the one that ends lion i remember, but this one not so much!

11:20 am

periwinkle

hurshy do you have all the 7's now

11:21 am

hurshy

no, i don't have whatever the other one is that you don't have

11:21 am

MollyL

7's an, ce, cr, pe

11:21 am

periwinkle

ty looking

11:21 am

hurshy

aha, ce

11:22 am

hurshy

thanks molly

11:22 am

hurshy

5 words to go now

11:22 am

periwinkle

have 2 ce6 but not ce7

11:22 am

periwinkle

39 here

11:23 am

hurshy

it's probably a word for the area of something, like a hec**** of land, only this is 100

11:23 am

periwinkle

ty Molly and hurshy

11:24 am

MollyL

Hurshy, the walking dictionary

11:25 am

hurshy

well that's just my guess

11:25 am

hurshy

cannot confirm as dictionary.com is not working

11:26 am

hurshy

she says, as if there aren't any other online tools to use...

11:26 am

hurshy

yes, i am correct

11:26 am

MollyL

It's one hundredth of an are, whatever an are is

11:27 am

hurshy

well it says the ce7 is one square meter, and an are is 100 square meters

11:28 am

hurshy

and the hec**** is 100 of those, so 10,000 square meters!

11:29 am

hurshy

and a conversion search tells me that a hec**** is about 2.5 acres, then

11:29 am

hurshy

ok, i'm down to TIN (or NIT)

11:30 am

moolingwa

hidey hodey all

11:30 am

hurshy

hiya mool

11:30 am

moolingwa

hey hursh, happy Wednesday

11:32 am

hurshy

remember in Winnie the Pooh when it was Windsday? :D

11:32 am

hurshy

the blustery day

11:34 am

hurshy

IN

11:34 am

hurshy

N

11:35 am

hurshy

done

11:35 am

moolingwa

congrats, I've got 54 left...just started

11:36 am

hurshy

zipping right along

11:37 am

moolingwa

yeah, seems reasonable so far

11:40 am

moolingwa

20 to go...

12:46 pm

clg47

37 for me

12:55 pm

hokie carla

it is not reasonable for mere mortals

1:02 pm

MollyL

Hmm, some Star Trek reference that I can't figure out

1:03 pm

Dianne

Help with the an 7/36 - please.

1:06 pm

MollyL

Picnic pest, grizzly

1:07 pm

Dianne

I don't know how I missed that - thanks so much/.

1:09 pm

clg47

good clue MollyL, I always look up the meaning for a word I am unfamiliar with and guess what it's a 'Do You Mean?' or 'no results found.' ugh!

1:09 pm

hokie carla

not me - I don't really know Star Trek

1:10 pm

HarryHood

google it - it's an aardvark!

1:10 pm

HarryHood

google it - it's an aardvark!

1:10 pm

HarryHood

I'm so excited I typed it twice.

1:10 pm

moolingwa

that's my default answer for any unidentified word...it's an aardvark!

1:11 pm

HarryHood

or a kookaburra

1:11 pm

moolingwa

no, there's only one kookaburra

1:11 pm

HarryHood

keep me cockatoo cool kurt

1:11 pm

moolingwa

either that or it's some body part or obscure reference to insects

1:11 pm

HarryHood

or something like that

1:12 pm

moolingwa

I guess there's those botantical terms too

1:12 pm

moolingwa

and burmese dresses

1:12 pm

Aussieme

keep me cockatoo cool, fool

1:12 pm

HarryHood

ty aussie :) glad somebody knows the song

1:12 pm

Aussieme

(not calling you FOOL hARRY, THAT'S HOW THE SONG GOES)

1:12 pm

moolingwa

one wonders why you'd want a chilled sulphur crested...but to each their own

1:13 pm

Aussieme

Oops, shouty capitals, apologies

1:13 pm

moolingwa

sometimes you just have to be emphatic

1:16 pm

HarryHood

33 to go. bbl.

1:22 pm

moolingwa

10 left here

1:25 pm

hokie carla

ru said it was easy, you got this

1:25 pm

moolingwa

oh, okay :)

1:25 pm

moolingwa

9 :)

1:26 pm

moolingwa

four of them are 4s so that's encouraging

1:26 pm

hokie carla

he also told me one of the 7's was a regular word, when the rest of us disagree

1:27 pm

moolingwa

I have three 7s, and none of them are regular

1:27 pm

moolingwa

8 to go

1:27 pm

hokie carla

I think I still had 5 4's when I went to the list and some of them I should have gotten.

1:28 pm

moolingwa

last two words I've gotten were 4s...7 to go

1:30 pm

Aussieme

well, I found my way into the en8 :)

1:30 pm

moolingwa

that really captured my attention aussie

1:32 pm

Aussieme

I also see we have a phantom goose today

1:35 pm

moolingwa

honk if you see it

1:36 pm

Aussieme

honk honk

1:36 pm

moolingwa

you found the brant?

1:37 pm

hokie carla

what tiles do you have left, moo?

1:39 pm

moolingwa

F, R, A, N, T and O

1:39 pm

moolingwa

aka NOT FAR

1:42 pm

hokie carla

the o has a real word and then one not in my vocab but we've had before

1:44 pm

hokie carla

the N is probably the one that is a former Carolina Panther that lives/d in my neighborhood (see, not giving it away)

1:48 pm

moolingwa

I know what you means

1:48 pm

moolingwa

and yes, it was

1:48 pm

hokie carla

HA! did not expect you to get that one

1:49 pm

moolingwa

He was a Jaguar tho I thought

1:49 pm

hokie carla

I played a tennis league with his (ex?) wife, who I think was a panthers cheerleader at one point. she is super nice.

1:49 pm

moolingwa

Had him on my fantasy team in the late 90s or early 2000s don't know for sure

1:49 pm

hokie carla

pretty sure he started here, maybe ended his career at Jax

1:50 pm

hokie carla

I think he played college at UNC, maybe NC State

1:50 pm

moolingwa

could well have, stopped following football many years ago

1:50 pm

hokie carla

I did fantasy football and baseball when I had a job pre-kids.

1:51 pm

hokie carla

looks like his name actually has a vowel on the end (still in the grid though)

1:53 pm

hokie carla

appears he played for the Chargers, the Jags, and then only one season at Carolina. but he grew up here in my county, so I guess that's why he settled here.

1:53 pm

moolingwa

yeah, makes sense

1:54 pm

hokie carla

so, 6 left or you found more while I was blabbing on

1:54 pm

moolingwa

5 to go

1:55 pm

moolingwa

got the one we've been babbling about

1:55 pm

moolingwa

trying to find the two 4s I have left

1:57 pm

moolingwa

got the T...four to go

1:58 pm

hokie carla

madagascar?

1:58 pm

moolingwa

no, had that one

1:58 pm

moolingwa

it was a four

2:04 pm

hokie carla

my last F was a tricky spelling but you should get that

2:41 pm

cybernan

hi everyone - late start today, so it's nice to see some familiar "faces" here :)

2:45 pm

cybernan

guess I spoke too soon

2:53 pm

hokie carla

hey nan, I'm just in and out, working in my sewing room/office on this rainy day

2:53 pm

hokie carla

moo must've had to do actual work

2:54 pm

hokie carla

will be glad to clue anything

2:54 pm

cybernan

sorry about the rain -- sunny and hot here - staying in the A/C

2:55 pm

cybernan

just finished the first run through

2:56 pm

cybernan

will probably need help later though, ty

2:58 pm

moolingwa

still 4 left here

2:58 pm

hokie carla

well, the rain is keeping the temp to 75F and it's a light rain, so I'm okay with it.

2:58 pm

moolingwa

41 here last I looked

2:58 pm

hokie carla

back up to 90 there yet, moo?

2:58 pm

moolingwa

snow is mostly melted tho

2:58 pm

hokie carla

41F?

2:58 pm

moolingwa

couple more days and will be back in 80s

2:58 pm

moolingwa

yeah

2:59 pm

cybernan

hi mool

2:59 pm

moolingwa

hey nan, happy Wednesday

2:59 pm

crosshair

15C or 59 american here atm. Howdy my babble friends. :)

2:59 pm

Kaplan the Magne

Did we ignore/Albert Gore?

2:59 pm

moolingwa

More like 5C here :)

2:59 pm

cybernan

hi crossy

3:00 pm

cybernan

31C here

3:00 pm

hokie carla

I am fine with the metric system for distance, but I still think F is better than C for temp.

3:00 pm

hokie carla

IDK, Kap. Is that some kind of poetry?

3:01 pm

hokie carla

or is he in the news? I don't follow the news right now.

3:01 pm

moolingwa

well I've lived half my life with C and half with F....C makes a lot more sense to me, but I use F because of where I live

3:02 pm

hokie carla

my youngest (who is 18 today) is a bit of a math genius so we made him do all the conversions when we went to Canada last year.

3:03 pm

moolingwa

9/5 + 32 from C to F, or -32 5/9 going the other way

3:03 pm

hokie carla

maybe F would make more sense to me if you learned it first, moo

3:03 pm

hokie carla

yeah, I knew 9 was involved somehow

3:03 pm

hokie carla

sense to you, not me

3:04 pm

NANCY

pe 7 please

3:04 pm

cybernan

only news we watch now is the BC covid update and our local evening news. All of our news channels seem to be dominated by the American election and I have had fake news, sensationalism about who is corrupting what and the lyin' king to last a lifetime

3:04 pm

hokie carla

it's chemistry, nancy!

3:05 pm

hokie carla

helpful? not to most people

3:05 pm

NANCY

a subject i am very bad in

3:05 pm

moolingwa

Well I think you could objectively argue that C being based on freezing and thawing of water, using 100 degrees of separation, makes more sense than Fahrenheit's (with a mild fever) of using human body temperate as the 100 point

3:05 pm

crosshair

I am the last of a dying breed with it comes to the metric system and the old imperial measurement system. here we changed over in 1978, I believe, and now, some 42 years later only the metric system that our young people know and practice. I am percetly comfortasbl;e bouncing back and forth between the two systems, but even at this later stage of my life fish will always be measured in pounds and inches, and beer will forevermore be in pints!

3:05 pm

moolingwa

not that I'm really invested in the argument either way

3:05 pm

NANCY

know the first four letters but cant get the last 3

3:06 pm

hokie carla

uh, ****-up rage + meth***. horrible clue

3:06 pm

NANCY

got it hokie ty

3:06 pm

moolingwa

2.54 cm to an inch ~1.6km to a mile, 2.2lb to the kg

3:07 pm

NANCY

not a horrible clue

3:07 pm

moolingwa

The gallon to litre measurement is more complicated, because it depends which gallon you use

3:07 pm

cybernan

cr 7 please?

3:07 pm

moolingwa

fluid ounces is a curious one

3:07 pm

hokie carla

BTW, when we were in Canada, the youngest was sick so the oldest & I bought a thermometer while we were out and then when I took his temp, it came up in C so then he had to convert it to F for me, while he had fever and chills.

3:07 pm

moolingwa

do you know what the bumps are on castle walls nan?

3:07 pm

crosshair

yes, the american gallon has 3.78 litres while the old Canadian gallon had 4.11 litres.

3:07 pm

hokie carla

nan, like burning a body but change a letter

3:08 pm

hokie carla

or a notched edge of a leaf, nan

3:09 pm

bichon

re6/24, ols

3:09 pm

cybernan

ty everyone

3:09 pm

moolingwa

to give money back

3:09 pm

hokie carla

I can get by on distance based on knowing a 5k race is 3.1 miles, but I don't like to do it.

3:10 pm

hokie carla

it's really weird driving a car in Canada because you look down and the speedometer makes you panic until you realize it's km per hour

3:12 pm

crosshair

lol. I think cars for the U.S market have the MPH on the outrside of the display and the Kph on the inside, and with the cars for the Canadian market it is reversed. Digital displays can be adjusted to display either one.

3:12 pm

hokie carla

exactly

3:13 pm

crosshair

What does bother me is when I drive a beautiful classic car and I have to do conversions in my head constantly when driving. :)

3:13 pm

hokie carla

drive a lot of those?

3:14 pm

bichon

ty mool

3:14 pm

crosshair

Have driven quite a few in my lifetime so far.

3:15 pm

moolingwa

ah, there's my last 4

3:15 pm

crosshair

A 1964 Impala, an old Ford Galaxy, and a 1973 Chevy Vega--oh, also a old Chrysler Imperial.

3:16 pm

moolingwa

oh, there's the o

3:16 pm

hokie carla

what was it moo?

3:16 pm

moolingwa

2 to go

3:16 pm

moolingwa

r4

3:16 pm

hokie carla

I don't reckon I've ever driven a car older than me

3:17 pm

moolingwa

Not sure I have either for that matter

3:17 pm

moolingwa

I've driven tractors older than me

3:17 pm

hokie carla

my mom had a cool 70s Jeep Cherokee but my brother wrecked it before I was driving. still wasn't older than me though.

3:18 pm

hokie carla

I don't reckon I've ever driven a tractor either

3:18 pm

crosshair

wait till you get behind the wheel of a Model A or similar vehicle. Many of them are gravity feed with the fuel tank, and you have to turn a inline valve, then retard the spark, set the throttle and choke, as well as a whole host of ther things we do not even think of anymore when starting a vehicle.

3:18 pm

moolingwa

driven tractors, forklifts...hydraladders (aka cherry pickers)

3:18 pm

moolingwa

boats

3:18 pm

hokie carla

I think I have driven a car without power steering and that's a lot of work

3:19 pm

cybernan

lol - any cars older than me are in a museum :)

3:19 pm

crosshair

My Vega had manual steering and brakes. :)

3:19 pm

hokie carla

I have driven boats!

3:20 pm

hokie carla

I never knew a cherry picker had a real name

3:21 pm

hokie carla

I drove a snowmobile once in Canada. I guess some little motorcycles and ATVs too, but that's it.

3:22 pm

cybernan

need to get some lunch - bbl

3:22 pm

hokie carla

well, I've also driven our 40' motorhome

3:22 pm

crosshair

lol. I grew up in the north. Knew how to drive a Kitty-kat snowmobile and a 12 foot aluminum boat before I could ride a bicycle. :)

3:23 pm

crosshair

The boat, with a 9.9 hp outboard motor came more naturally than anything else. :)

3:24 pm

hokie carla

I grew up in the appalachian mountains but was somewhat a "city" girl compared to my cousins that lived the farm life.

3:27 pm

Uneaixoise

Hey Crossy!!

3:31 pm

Uneaixoise

Clue for en8?

3:33 pm

periwinkle

what you go thru to get into an area

3:34 pm

crosshair

Howdy, Une! :)

3:35 pm

periwinkle

hi crossy, hi all

3:35 pm

bichon

CROSSY!

3:35 pm

crosshair

Howdy, Peri. :)

3:35 pm

crosshair

Howdy, Bichon! :)

3:36 pm

Uneaixoise

Tx Peri!!

3:37 pm

periwinkle

yvw Une

3:37 pm

hokie carla

going for a run (walk) in this drizzle. have a good day, y'all!

4:02 pm

moolingwa

two to go

4:02 pm

moolingwa

a 6 and a 7

4:35 pm

hokie carla

a 6 and a 7 or A6 and A7?

4:35 pm

hokie carla

75F but 97% humidity - don't worry, guys, I am still alive. that was rough though.

5:26 pm

moolingwa

well that answered one question :)

5:31 pm

moolingwa

I am missing one 6 and one 7

5:31 pm

cybernan

hello again to everyone still lurking :)

5:32 pm

moolingwa

hey nan, wb

5:34 pm

moolingwa

1 to go

5:35 pm

moolingwa

f6

5:51 pm

cybernan

want a clue?

5:51 pm

cybernan

*!*~*!*

5:54 pm

cybernan

on my way - hagd everyone and stay safe :)

6:59 pm

dan2bit

finito! thanks carla, hurshy lickety and all cluers

7:21 pm

Uneaixoise

Congrats!

7:24 pm

Uneaixoise

Fw!!

7:28 pm

swmbo

fran e

7:36 pm

mkg

ok i dont see any clues i can get. the en 8: i would love a clue please.

7:37 pm

swmbo

the kind of exam you write to get inot university or some other school

7:38 pm

mkg

got it. ty very muchg. great clue.

7:38 pm

mkg

how about some sevens please? ty

7:39 pm

swmbo

well I have only 2 of the 4 7's

7:40 pm

mkg

clues and stats welcome swmbo

7:40 pm

swmbo

an7: the picnic pest plus the bee hive robber

7:40 pm

mkg

ty. got it. what a word.

7:41 pm

swmbo

ce7: take the word for a penny and add a word for existence

7:41 pm

swmbo

apparently it is another word for the similar creaure who eats the an3

7:42 pm

swmbo

I am working on finding the cr7

7:43 pm

mkg

ce penny is 4 letters. to exist is 2 letters. missing a letter.

7:44 pm

swmbo

I am, you a**

7:45 pm

mkg

ty swmbo i have that one but it is six letters. ?????

7:45 pm

mkg

ok now i got it. ty ty ty

7:45 pm

mkg

polce

7:46 pm

mkg

oops osrry

7:46 pm

mkg

sorry

7:46 pm

swmbo

penny = 4 letters, plus "I am, you a**"

7:46 pm

mkg

need the p word for third column P please. also stats.

7:46 pm

mkg

ty got it

7:47 pm

mkg

also need o word please. ty

7:47 pm

swmbo

or5: or + word to cut off

7:48 pm

swmbo

Or6: decoraive in a complicated way

7:48 pm

mkg

ty. got the or six.

7:49 pm

mkg

still need the p word for third column p. ty

7:49 pm

mkg

oh just got it now. sorry. ty anyway

7:50 pm

swmbo

cr7: similar to a word for the top edge of a castle's outer walls

7:51 pm

swmbo

pe&: rhymes with ethane

7:51 pm

swmbo

pe7 that should be

7:52 pm

swmbo

pl4; the sound a stone makes when you throw it inot the water

8:09 pm

bigbirdboss

ta 6 please?

8:14 pm

swmbo

ta6: what you get when you sit out in the sun + a three letter word that rhymes with deck

8:15 pm

swmbo

I am struggling with 5 words left. Too stubborn to leave it and go to bed

8:15 pm

bigbirdboss

tysm I actually looked for that word but looked in the wrong direction

8:16 pm

bigbirdboss

Can I help?

8:16 pm

swmbo

re6, I just cannot find

8:17 pm

swmbo

the re6/18

8:17 pm

swmbo

down to 3

8:20 pm

bigbirdboss

re double letter + chew minus second vowel

8:21 pm

swmbo

chew minus the second vowel? HMMMM

8:22 pm

swmbo

OMG I was sure I'd tried that one before!!!! Thanks so much! I am off to bed :)

8:22 pm

swmbo

I'll stay for one more clue. Anyone?

8:23 pm

bigbirdboss

yvw

8:26 pm

Trifioso

count for the lower row e please?

8:26 pm

swmbo

et4

8:26 pm

torgone

en8/45, et4/4

8:27 pm

Trifioso

ty

8:27 pm

Trifioso

I always miss that one! And hello dear torgone!

8:27 pm

torgone

Heya Trifs!

8:27 pm

swmbo

I'm off TTFN

8:28 pm

Trifioso

I am so happy the kardashians are going away - yeah!

8:29 pm

torgone

Niters swmbo

8:31 pm

Trifioso

how are you tor? safe I hope?

8:33 pm

Trifioso

for the record, I HATE gender reveal parties, and feel quite justified now

8:43 pm

torgone

I'm fine. The fire never got close to me. Small pockets are still going.

8:43 pm

Trifioso

i am glad to hear

8:44 pm

torgone

faena

8:44 pm

torgone

Oops

8:48 pm

Trifioso

thank you! great clue!

8:49 pm

torgone

My pleasure ..

8:52 pm

Trifioso

i should be working, but I needed a babble break

10:27 pm

origami

Hi folks

11:33 pm

Marc Freeman

an7, please?

11:37 pm

grannyrose

an7. picnic pest + grizzly, brown or polar

11:38 pm

Marc Freeman

thanks

11:38 pm

grannyrose

yw

11:48 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

hi all, here for my last 5

11:52 pm

grannyrose

hi Gwen. doable, you have 9 minutes

11:52 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

oh yeah, 2 to go

11:54 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

finito

11:55 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

my latest strategy is to leave myslef one word, a 4-letter word, to be my last word, so the second-to -last word is always the hardest to find

11:55 pm

grannyrose

WTH BOOK DOCTOR GWEN !!

11:55 pm

grannyrose

ugh, WTG OF COURSE.

11:56 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

tanx granny

11:57 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

shall we guess the next grid? 211

11:58 pm

grannyrose

499

11:58 pm

dizgrannie

333

11:59 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

nice guess!!

11:59 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

both of em

11:59 pm

pigeonman

175

11:59 pm

grannyrose

will prolly be 15 mwahhh

11:59 pm

Book Doctor Gwen

NOOOOOO!!!

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