Barbara Lin, for a very nice MOnday and Xmas CW that I enjoyed very much !! High above the iconic sign in the Hollywood Hils in letters composed of. In picking the lower flanker for today's specimen I can emphasize the unusual quality of this consonant/vowel sprawl by asking you to imagine our anagram (a good sized display-13-of-the 14 available letters) in which we mentally post the letters for I say "rare" because, while there are too many vowels in the central diag to provide a decent anagram, the flanking diagonals offer a fair distribution of letters. I found today's PZL a joy to work, with the Corner's revelations adding exponentially to its pleasuresĭR: This Christmas Day brings us a rare collection of three diagonals on the far side. Using references to The Night Before Christmas to good ends, we have been given a fine extra present. Our Monday leader, sumdaze, had an enviable job unpacking the Lin XWD for Christmas Day.Īnd indeed it was a fine job, both in what he found and in his performance of it. Here is the proper posting, revised for accuracy: In any case, today's Christmas anagram, while good sized, is only 13 letters. In working with a flanking diagonal, there can only be 14 letters in all. It was published in a rush, without my checking the letter count in claiming a "Jackpot" of the chosen anagram. Murry Christmas Maery and to all the rest of our invisible friends □ Roommates from NYC at University used to argue otherwise. TRU? (A Monday clue woulda, coulda, shoulda, been the usual “Capote’s nickname) NAME TAPE sounds more like an iron-on thingīTW: Where we come from “Mary” and “Merry” are pronounced the same. Guess the use of an 8 (if it’s foggy then 9) reindeerpower sleigh instead of fossil fuel means Santa really does leave a smaller CARBON FOOTPRINT (hoofprint?) Think of KOSHER as meaning “fit or proper” (not genuine) “it’s not KOSHER not to respond to an invitation” and always figured “whippersnappers” were wise ass kids, not TWERPS Seems I recall from chemistry class the term “caustic” technically refers to bases not ACIDs. Finally Popeye GOT THE SACK replaced by PANERA for a FIR�� (or are they PINES □□?) Nothing particularly RIPE about a “Red Delicious” so was going to try tart which wouldn’t perp. …I easily raced thru the puzzle laughing all the way only to come to a screeching halt in the SE corner. Thought Santa was about to leave some coal when he put my STOCKING UP. And thanks to sumdaze for guiding the sleigh through it. Thanks to Barbara Lin for the delightful puzzle to start Christmas day. I always associate "I haven't A THING to wear" with a woman in a walk-in closet flipping through dozens of outfits. It was probably intended to mean "one of the ilk for everyone." Kinda like BOGO doesn't mean BOGO, it means BOGOF(ree). Seems to me that "Men's" and "Women's" are literally UNISEX. I think UNISEX was COINed before we recognized the 22.4 genders (at standard temperature and pressure) that everyone must know and honor. OYOs seem to be cropping up everywhere, but they aren't Conrad's caliber of lodging. Never heard of TRU, I was guessing it was a perfume brand peddled by Paris. NATIONAL PUMPKIN PIE DAY (not in chez Jinx - we're trying Dutch apple pie for the first time today) He was awarded a Bronze Star for his service.FIR, but erased sweeds for SWEDES (UNTIE!)ĬHRISTMAS DAY (it is? guess I'd better go to the store and get something for the DW) He interrogated prisoners of war and civilian witnesses, and participated in fact finding missions to document and prepare evidence for war crimes trials. Following Germany’s surrender in May, 2nd Lt. A skilled photographer, he took snapshots of the camp and other events of his military tour. On April 11, 1945, the unit liberated Dora-Mittelbau/ Nordhausen concentration camp and Rudolph witnessed the horrific conditions. As the unit advanced through France, Belgium, and into Germany, Sichel interrogated those captured. In July 1944, Sichel, now Chief Interrogator, Interrogation of Prisoners of War Team 13, landed on Utah Beach in France, where his unit was attached to the 104th Infantry, the Timberwolf Division. In April 1943, he enlisted in the army and was sent to Camp Ritchie for military intelligence training. In May 1936, unable to return to Germany from England, Sichel went to the US. The protractor is used with a military map with preprinted gridlines to help a soldier figure out location and gauge distance. Plastic military protractor with 3 right angle map coordinators used by Rudolph Sichel, a Jewish refugee from Frankfurt, Germany, who served in the US Army in Europe from July 1944 to June 1946.
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