Monday, September 19, 2011

Puzzle Idea # 1 -- SNOW REMOVAL

"SNOW REMOVAL"

This is the final entry clued as something like "Winter storm response ... or a hint to -x, -y and -z."

The letters S, N, O and W are removed, one at a time, from commons phrases, creating new wacky phrases.

Also, there won't be dupe letters. So, for example, once "S" is removed from "SHOPPING MALL," there won't be another S in the phrase. Which is why "(S)HOOTING STAR" wouldn't work.

For example:
(S) HOPPING MALL -- Destination for teenage potato sack racers? (11)
(N) xxx
(O) xxx
(W) xxx
SNOW REMOVAL (11)

Obviously, these theme entries aren't set in stone.

Thoughts?

4 comments:

  1. some more fifteens. I'll try to branch out....

    POPGOESTHEEASEL (15) Art supporter loses it?
    HOMEOFTHEHOPPER (15) (Lily pad?)
    INTERBOROPARKAY (15) Brooklyn-Queens oleo?
    (the name is well known in NYC but the parkway was renamed after Jackie Robinson several years ago.)
    ===Dan

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  2. CRASHC(O)URSE (10) "May you hit a light pole?"

    if we do a Sunday,
    BR[O]AD GENERALIZATION (18) "Actor Pitt's always eating and drinking" http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090329151935AAHguKJ
    ===Dan

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  3. ALLKIDDINGAsIDE [14] Court jester?
    COsMICRAYS (9) Romano and Johnson?
    GOLDCOAsT (8) Gilt?
    ===Dan

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  4. I hadn't been paying attention to the dropped letters appearing elsewhere in the answer....

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