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Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

20. Uncleanliness

(12 letters, _ _ _ _ _ I T A T I O _)

No Google please, I refuse to use it.

Edit: NOSANATATION?

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 2:59 pm

INSANITATION?

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 3:00 pm

No Google yet you're asking people here to give you the answer.

As usual, your logic is fucked and I detest you.

And you've probably screwed up one of the other answers as the one you're looking at here is "Contamination".

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

Slightlyoutofit wrote:

And you've probably screwed up one of the other answers

I don't think so.

5 down. Abominable snowman.YET(I)
6 down. Adjoin. ABU(T)
7 down. Deep sleep. COM(A)
8 down. Comb stoppers. KNO(T)S
9 down. Aleppos's land. SYR(I)A
22 down. "___ bitten, twice shy" (O)NCE

Edit:

Slightlyoutofit wrote:

I detest you.

54 across. Anus like. _ _ OI

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 8:06 pm

Now there was little old me expecting to see a crossword appearing, i did not expect to find a verbal cross words battle between PF and the admin/mods.

What time can we expect to see round 2 Laughing

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

^ He refuses to play me in chess.

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 8:40 pm

I finished the puzzle. It's indeed INSANITATION. Feh.

Why are you reading 2-year old Alaskan newspapers?

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

It was in Thursdays paper, not the Strib or SPPP nor Alaskan, but something a bit more obscure. I save them for the weekend.

Edit: What did you get for 2 down to get the "N"? (2 down - Grassy plain, 5 letters, for those playing at home).

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 11:07 pm

LLANO.

The raccoon cousin is COATI, not SOOII

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

^ Well, hells bells.

Quote:

lla·no (län, ln)
n. pl. lla·nos
A large, grassy, almost treeless plain, especially one in Latin America.

Not quite a Newb Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 41

Quote:

i did not expect to find a verbal cross words battle between PF and the admin/mods.

It isn't the admin/mods, it is just Slightly....they have an odd relationship.

Best not to draw attention to it.

Posted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 11:54 pm

I much prefer a nice meaty Daily Telegraph Cryptic or Toughie crossword, but heigh ho, 'horses for courses' as they say.

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 12:23 am

^^^Me too, actually. I like the Guardian's cryptic.

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 12:29 am

Before I joined this site I was pretty good at such things but now I just don't seem to find the time anymore. All of you cruciverbalists (or whatever the heck you call yourself) enjoy and don't worry about me.

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

I'm a rookie at crosswords. We usually let them sit on the kitchen table over the weekend and let whoever passes by solve a bit of it.

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 1:11 am

Quote:

they have an odd relationship.

Is an understatement.

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 1:17 am

^Once upon a time I was hired to be a 'Sports Information Officer' and part of my official duties included keeping a scrapbook that included anything 'Insert University Here' that appeared in the local rag. Well,after a few weeks of going through old newspapers, I learned that Crossword puzzles were fun and rather easy since the answers are rehashed throughtout the cosmos.

To this day I can look at most of these and do them in my head. The enjoyment has passed me by for anything in North American papers although I will admit that the Cryptics were never my game. I wish that I could go back to a simpler time where I found these things a challenge.

Honestly, I am not being a Prick but after you have seen a thousand of these things the answers all fall into place.

Last weeks NY Sunday Times, which I started this morning,didn't really flow so perhaps I'm not as much of a genius as I thunk I was. Have I been deeducated????

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 3:26 am

Constipation

Baiting Guru Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 12237

Tsnerd wrote:

they have an odd relationship.

He worships me.

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 10:55 am

Pastor Frank wrote:

He worships me.

Six letters, synonym to worship. de--st. Yes it looks about right.

Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2012 1:47 pm

@PF If you are a rookie at crosswords, then you are working them with a pencil.

A true crossword puzzle person works the NY Times crossword in ball point pen.

Unfortunately in this part of the country there is no where to get a NY Times paper. crying

Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 1:10 am

^^^I cut the Sunday New York Times puzzle out of the Sunday Magazine, read the clues once, throw them away, and then sit down with my pen.

I used to roll the puzzle into my typewriter but technology obviated that.

(In what bayou are you hiding? I was able to buy a copy of the NYT in Baton Rouge.)

Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 1:37 am

I quit crosswords without ever starting. My father was fond of the NY Times Sunday puzzle. One one day, we were at the beach and he brought the puzzle but forgot his pen. He did it in his head and then filled it in when we got back to the house. That was the end of it for me.

Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 1:01 pm

lakeside77 wrote:

(In what bayou are you hiding? I was able to buy a copy of the NYT in Baton Rouge.)

Baton Rouge is quite bigger than the little redneck area of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Some of our citizens are lucky to even read the local paper!!! Laughing

Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 1:01 am

^^^Same in New Orleans, where I understand the Times-Picayune only prints three days a week now! I don't know what their puzzle is like, though.