Not sure on #1
Edit: ah, PZ got it
2/7
crystal pistol
older boulder
bingo lingo
tennis menace
scary query?
soccer locker
The answer to each clue is a pair of two-syllable rhyming words, like FUNNY BUNNY.
Some good answers to #5 that aren’t the official answer. There’s is a closer rhyme than scary query
Eerie query?
Right
2/6
A
KEYPAD
HUBCAP
ADULT
EARLOBE
I don’t get number 3 for 2/7. Is that the name of a church basement? Or am I misinterpreting the question?
That is where the game is usually played. The first part would have been sufficient.
And not sure the new rhyme is any better
Yeah, I was wondering about that. It is a far better rhyme the way I pronounce both words, and in how the internet says you’re supposed to pronounce both. But I know I’ve heard people pronounce scary a little closer to query than I do.
2/7
The bingo part was obvious to me. I couldn’t come up with a rhyme for it.
Correct! I found this one hard. I was able to get only one of them and still couldn’t get the others even when I knew the other letter.
I answered scary because it actually rhymes with query. I might have come up with eerie if the thing was supposed to go with something like weary.
Then you definitely pronounce query differently from me.
Anyway, yeah, the official answers for 2/7 were
crystal pistol
older boulder
bingo lingo
tennis menace (which seems like it also might not be exactly a rhyme for everyone)
eerie query
soccer locker
four got much easier when I stopped reading the second word as Treat
Tell that to Dennis!
02/08/2002 Split Ends
In this crossword, you are given the first and last letters of each word (six-letter words across and five-letter words down). To solve, fill in the central letters using the randomly ordered clues.
Clues: soil * provoke * on the nose * freight train unit * soldier’s injury * marble source * bitter
I don’t see the puzzle (first and last letters)
