Dave Cunningham
July 7th, 2005, 08:44 AM
1. An ice ax. [Widdis] 13 14 no points
2. A covered copper pot which is buried in embers and ashes overnight to cook the contents. [Scott] 13 14 (Lodge) (Barrs) 2
3. The standard monetary unit of Albania, divided into 100 qintars. [Lodge] 2 13 (Madnick) (Schultz) (Stevens) (Crom) 4!
4. Mummy-wrapping fabric [Madnick] 3 6 (Savage) 1
5. An inmate of a Soviet labor camp. [AHD] (Carson) D1
6. The last letter of the Swahili alphabet. [Wetzstein] 8 10 (Madnick) 1
7. _Chiefly Brit. Slang_ To fool around or go about. [Carson] *5 12 2 + 0 = 2
8. A toothed wooden trim. [Savage] 4 14 (Wetzstein) (Crom) (Shepherdson) 3
9. Any of several small coins used in the Middle-East [originally a diminutive of 'shekel'] [Barrs] 2 11 (Abell) (Mayer) 2
10. A cross between a zebra and an elk [Mayer] 9 12 (Wetzstein) 1
11. A machine-gun interrupter mechanism which allows firing through the propeller arc [Hirst] NV (Barrs) (Shepherdson) 2
12. A Polish coin worth one-tenth of a zloty. [Crom] 3 8 (Schultz) (Carson) (Mayer) 3
13. A hack or expedient shortcut in programming that bypasses a problem instead of solving it (from zero effort kluge [or kludge]). [Abell] 9 14 (Widdis) (Scott)
(Lodge) (Shefler) 4!
14. A curse; cursed, damned. [Schultz] 3 12 (Widdis) (Scott) (Savage) (Shefler) (Abell) (Stevens) ^<<<<
Stevens (def lost in shuffle) 3 14 2 DP
Shefler (def lost in shuffle) 13 14 2 DP
Shepherdson 8 11
Making Dodi Schultz the next dealer -- with Tony Abell and Tim Lodge the winners. And me the loser with a D1 on an absurd word!
Dave
DQ, DF
2. A covered copper pot which is buried in embers and ashes overnight to cook the contents. [Scott] 13 14 (Lodge) (Barrs) 2
3. The standard monetary unit of Albania, divided into 100 qintars. [Lodge] 2 13 (Madnick) (Schultz) (Stevens) (Crom) 4!
4. Mummy-wrapping fabric [Madnick] 3 6 (Savage) 1
5. An inmate of a Soviet labor camp. [AHD] (Carson) D1
6. The last letter of the Swahili alphabet. [Wetzstein] 8 10 (Madnick) 1
7. _Chiefly Brit. Slang_ To fool around or go about. [Carson] *5 12 2 + 0 = 2
8. A toothed wooden trim. [Savage] 4 14 (Wetzstein) (Crom) (Shepherdson) 3
9. Any of several small coins used in the Middle-East [originally a diminutive of 'shekel'] [Barrs] 2 11 (Abell) (Mayer) 2
10. A cross between a zebra and an elk [Mayer] 9 12 (Wetzstein) 1
11. A machine-gun interrupter mechanism which allows firing through the propeller arc [Hirst] NV (Barrs) (Shepherdson) 2
12. A Polish coin worth one-tenth of a zloty. [Crom] 3 8 (Schultz) (Carson) (Mayer) 3
13. A hack or expedient shortcut in programming that bypasses a problem instead of solving it (from zero effort kluge [or kludge]). [Abell] 9 14 (Widdis) (Scott)
(Lodge) (Shefler) 4!
14. A curse; cursed, damned. [Schultz] 3 12 (Widdis) (Scott) (Savage) (Shefler) (Abell) (Stevens) ^<<<<
Stevens (def lost in shuffle) 3 14 2 DP
Shefler (def lost in shuffle) 13 14 2 DP
Shepherdson 8 11
Making Dodi Schultz the next dealer -- with Tony Abell and Tim Lodge the winners. And me the loser with a D1 on an absurd word!
Dave
DQ, DF