Posted By: curly
Puzzle. Oct. 16(Hint) - 10/16/13 07:33 AM
Each clue provides at least two hints to the answer: Ex: Long John Silver learned the hard way not to use a fish as a shoe bottom. Answer: Sole. A sole is a fish, and a sole is a shoe bottom.
-1.Jacques pondered the lone stick of crispy potato. Would it be enough to feed all the baby fish he had bought in Paris? 6,3
-2.Ralph hoisted sail, glad to have his own ship at last. His cargo of cinnamon would be well-guarded by his trusty dog, who would sound an alarm should pirates approach. 4
-3.Matilda sighed as she toyed with her breakfast of sausages and a light, fluffy batter cake. She would never be able to pin down the Mayor of Brussels on any issue. He would just talk circles around her and never give a direct answer. 7,6
4.Thomas laughed as he danced the night away. Hank had been a wonderful lover, but far too uptight. He'd been such a drag! Now that Thomas had run off, leaving Hank behind, he had nothing to hold him back. 3,7 g-- a-----n
-5.Tilly played her piccolo skillfully, trilling away in her top octave. She even managed that passage in Mahler's second symphony, with a note four octaves above Middle C. The Symphonic Society was so pleased with her playing that they paid her a bonus of ten crisp new hundred-dollar bills. 4,5
-6.Mona pictured the smiling face of Juan Valdez as she poured her cup of java every morning. 6,3
-7.Arabella was the most obsessive-compulsive Girl Scout ever. All the kindling for her campfire had to be laid out in perfectly symmetrical pairs of twigs before she would pull out her box of fire lighters. 5,6
-8.Sir Stephen suited up carefully in his armor. The many overlapping slips of metal gave him flexibility while protecting him from both sword and arrow. Meanwhile, his wife, Lady Ludmilla, pondered when the postman would arrive with her new shipment of dishes. 5,4
-9.Sylvia finished her online shopping for dormant tulips. She was happy to see that it wouldn't cost much to ship them, since they were not at all heavy. Suddenly the room went dark. Another power surge had burnt out every filament in the room. She would have to replace the sources of illumination in all her lamps. 5,5
-10.Silas gloomily pondered his water-damaged loom. Now that the boards were swollen out of shape, he could never get the lengthwise threads to line up properly! 4
-1.Jacques pondered the lone stick of crispy potato. Would it be enough to feed all the baby fish he had bought in Paris? 6,3
-2.Ralph hoisted sail, glad to have his own ship at last. His cargo of cinnamon would be well-guarded by his trusty dog, who would sound an alarm should pirates approach. 4
-3.Matilda sighed as she toyed with her breakfast of sausages and a light, fluffy batter cake. She would never be able to pin down the Mayor of Brussels on any issue. He would just talk circles around her and never give a direct answer. 7,6
4.Thomas laughed as he danced the night away. Hank had been a wonderful lover, but far too uptight. He'd been such a drag! Now that Thomas had run off, leaving Hank behind, he had nothing to hold him back. 3,7 g-- a-----n
-5.Tilly played her piccolo skillfully, trilling away in her top octave. She even managed that passage in Mahler's second symphony, with a note four octaves above Middle C. The Symphonic Society was so pleased with her playing that they paid her a bonus of ten crisp new hundred-dollar bills. 4,5
-6.Mona pictured the smiling face of Juan Valdez as she poured her cup of java every morning. 6,3
-7.Arabella was the most obsessive-compulsive Girl Scout ever. All the kindling for her campfire had to be laid out in perfectly symmetrical pairs of twigs before she would pull out her box of fire lighters. 5,6
-8.Sir Stephen suited up carefully in his armor. The many overlapping slips of metal gave him flexibility while protecting him from both sword and arrow. Meanwhile, his wife, Lady Ludmilla, pondered when the postman would arrive with her new shipment of dishes. 5,4
-9.Sylvia finished her online shopping for dormant tulips. She was happy to see that it wouldn't cost much to ship them, since they were not at all heavy. Suddenly the room went dark. Another power surge had burnt out every filament in the room. She would have to replace the sources of illumination in all her lamps. 5,5
-10.Silas gloomily pondered his water-damaged loom. Now that the boards were swollen out of shape, he could never get the lengthwise threads to line up properly! 4
