Homonym Swap
17. Financial support at Kitty Hawk?: WRIGHT AID.
43. Siblings sharing a ceremony?: RITE BROTHERS.
Swap Wright and Rite:
Rite Aid - The drugstore chain.
Wright Brothers - Wilbur and Orville.
29. Remove italics from text?: RIGHT LETTERS.
59. Contact a fictional pirate?: WRITE HOOK.
Swap Right and Write
Write letters.
Right hook.
How clever was that ? Swap the homonyms for humorous effect. Not puns. Not malaprops. Not juxtapositions. What is the word I am looking for ? Is there one ? The best term I could come up with was homonym swap. Does that sound
Across:
1. Zippo: NADA. Notta lot you can do with this answer... Perhaps, "You are welcome" (Spanish): de ____, or "Blue Book Org.":
5. State of irritation: HUFF.
9. Produce carrier: CRATE. Liquids carrier: Barrel.
14. Historic British school: ETON. For the elite.
15. Plains native: OTOE.
16. Indy participant: RACER.
19. Skybox setting: ARENA.
20. Up to, casually: 'TIL. Until
21. Sticky: ADHESIVE. Adhesive as an adjective rather than as a noun..
23. Tie the knot: SAY I DO. Wed.
25. Runs like mad: DASHES. Very few trick-or-treaters last Thursday. Just 16 or so children. Returned a 250 count bag of snack sized candy bars. Have just under half of the 90 count bag left.
33. "All __ Jazz": THAT. Roy Scheider and Jessica Lange starred. Bob Fosse directed the semi auto-biographical work. Dr. Nina wanted Fosse last Friday for the musical revue clue.
35. Zones: AREAs.
36. "The A-Team" actor: MR T. Mr. T as Sergeant Bosco Albert "B.A." (Bad Attitude) Baracus.
37. Bread served with tandoori chicken: NAAN.
38. Met highlights: ARIAs.
39. Spelling contests: BEEs.
40. Some iTunes downloads, briefly: EPs. EP in Music
41. Cal. entries: APPTs. Abbr in the clue. Abbr in the answer.
42. Have an inclination: TEND.
46. "... because you don't want to cross me": OR ELSE.
47. Up-to-the-minute: LATEST.
51. In seventh heaven: ECSTATIC. Downy Wrinkle and Static Remover spray will make your garments ecstatic.
55. Women's rights activist Nellie: BLY. Nellie Bly: Rabblerouser and Pioneer in Investigative Journalism
56. Battleship barrage: SALVO.
61. Fuss over feathers: PREEN.
62. Stare at creepily: OGLE.
63. Balm ingredient: ALOE.
64. Change, as a will: AMEND.
65. They're often loaded: SOTs. WC Fields persona.
66. Continuity problems: GAPs.
Down:
1. Semiaquatic salamanders: NEWTs.
2. Skylit courts: ATRIA. And here I thought they were heart chambers.
3. Lacy place mat: DOILY. Let's check ETSY to see if any are available.
4. With 58-Down, "Life of Pi" director: ANG. and 58. See 4-Down: LEE. Ang Lee. Roger Ebert's Review
5. Ballpark treat: HOT DOG. Show off.
6. State that celebrates Pioneer Day: UTAH. July 24th. New to me.
7. Pâté base: FOIE. French for liver.
8. Govt. agents: FEDs.
9. Fancy scarves: CRAVATs.
10. Hardest to come by: RAREST.
11. Whiz: ACE.
12. Notable Downing Street address: TEN.
13. Important span: ERA. Or, abbr for Earned Run Average in baseball stats. I already miss watching and listening to MLB games.
18. Seen enough: HAD IT. I'm done.
22. Think tank products: IDEAs.
24. Tehran's land: IRAN.
26. Dudes with fab abs: HE MEN. Stepping on He Man and Battle Cat in your stocking feet is no pleasure.
27. Slipped up: ERRED.
28. Fast Atl. crossers, once: SSTs. Super Sonic Transports. BOAC and Air France.
30. Horn-honking Marx: HARPO.
31. Country singer Travis: TRITT. Long haired country boy. Hard to pick from so many great songs.
32. Chow line?: LEASH. Loved this clue.
33. Piglike forest dweller: TAPIR. 8 fascinating facts you should know about tapirs
34. Swiftness: HASTE.
37. Successor to Claudius: NERO. It's all Roman to me.
38. __-ski: APRES. After ski. Perhaps spritzers or Glühwein in the chalet.
39. Second to none: BEST.
41. Hurry off and hide: ABSCOND.
42. Hunt down the source of: TRACE.
44. Gridiron complement: ELEVEN. Football. American rules football. Eleven players on the offensive side of the ball. Eleven on the defensive side.
45. High society types: ELITEs. The A-list.
48. Deadly African virus: EBOLA.
49. Single-master: SLOOP.
50. Small fry: TYKES. "Fry” may have been derived from the Middle English, Anglo-French frie, which means “to spawn.” Eventually ”frie” became “fry,” the term and denoted offspring, young animals, or members of a group." - Disappearing Idioms .com on "Small fry."
52. What Noah counted by: TWOs.
53. Constellation named for a mythological ship: ARGO. Now I get it.
54. List: TILT. Misdirection. In this case, list means to lean to one side. Simple yet effective one-word clue to potentially lead you astray for a moment.
56. Place for a retreat: SPA.
57. Usher's offering: ARM. Offer your right arm, holding it at 90 degrees, to the eldest woman in the group. If you aren't sure which one is the eldest, don't ask.
60. Folklore crone: HAG.
Check your answers against this grid:
Note from C.C.:
Here is a picture of little Agnes with her brother Bill on her left and brother Jack on her right. She said they were standing in front of a WWII Memorial. We can't get a clearer picture, but you can still see her cute dress, shoes and flowers.
49 comments:
Good morning and hey there TTP. I found this to be a fun Wednesday with a nice variation of the sound-alike theme. I imagine there have been earlier puzzles focusing on the "right" sound but I liked it.
The rest filled nicely. I wonder if we are ready for STRANGER THINGS GIRL?: ELEVEN .
Thanks, Gary, and Thank you, Tom, for your help.
FIWrong (not Wright). bRACE (as in find and confront) + bEND. The theme was good, but 17 and 43 could have been more distinct with a clue of "Financial support for architect Frank Lloyd".
When the wolf said, "I'll HUFF and I'll puff",
He thought that he'd said enough.
But first TWO little pigs
ABSCONDED from their digs,
And the third one had the RIGHT stuff!
When Freemasons plan for a RITE
They want to do everything RIGHT.
But to keep it profound
There's NADA they WRITE down,
But recite it as would a stone-WRIGHT!
{A-, B+.}
Good morning! (Third time is the charm...)
Yay. D-o got the theme, and even figured out the pairings. Yeah, I know, even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and then. Had to change JUSTIFY to LETTERS before I'd snapped to the trick. Otherwise, this was a smooth solve. Thanx, Gary and TTP.
FOIE: Last week New York City joined California in banning foie gras over animal cruelty concerns.
EP: In my ute most albums were available as a single 33-1/3 platter or as EPs, consisting of 3 45s with two songs on each side.
T-o-T: We never buy candy for Halloween. The houses here are too far apart for efficient begging. Everybody goes to the development up the road where McMansions are stacked side-by-side, 8-10 feet apart.
IM, which brother is responsible for the notorious meat grinder incident?
Fun puzzle today thanks Gary Larson.
FIR. In spite of the double meaning misdirections .
Caught the theme altho WRIGHT AID still puzzles me.
Had RANDY but it played havoc with the theme so changed it to TRITT.
D O. I’m about 50% in catching the theme.
FLN desper - otto. You had my DW doubling over in stitches at your comments on self checkout.
She said de ja vu about my first attempt to negotiate the self check out . At times I’m still frustrated when something new tries to drag me into the 21st century.
Cheers
Solid puzzle today. Ecstatic, Salve, adhesive, & cravats made for what a later in the week reviewer would call sparkly fill. Finished in under 8 and one-half minutes.
Got the theme easily, but didn’t realize the nuance of the swaps until I read the review. Very clever!
A few too many common crossword fill in words, like ETON, ALOE, etc, but overall a nice puzzle.
I don't know anything about country music, so not knowing TRITT, struggled with the T in APPTS because I still can't figure out what Cal. is short for in the clue: California? calculation? Calcium? And is the APPTS appointments, appartments (half French spelling?)
Owen, I was sure your first poem would have a tapir in it.
Oas, Rite Aid is a pharmacy chain.
Calendar and appointments, Kazie.
D-O, next year I'm buying two or three of the 80 count boxes of Welch's Fruit Snacks and will give each child two or three apiece.
Thanks, TTP!
Clever theme - though I didn't get the pair of swaps until I read your blog TTP- always fun to expand my appreciation! RIGHT LETTERS made me smile.
Thanks TTP and Gary!
Just finished reading last night "The Summer Before the War" by Helen Simonson about WWI-
(she also wrote "Major Pettigrew's Last Stand") - which was enjoyable. Seems like more books are coming out about WWI to balance out the plethora of books about WWII. But it makes me glad I grew up in the US compared to the UK - they seem to like to keep people in their class structure and it's not easy to move out of it!
FIW with the sloppy pencilo EBOLi and not catching it at GiP. Erased gmen for FEDS and had to fix ELeTES. I blame staying up late watching Kentucky become the top-ranked basketball team by beating Michigan State, combined with decaf. Kinda wish UK had lost by a few points, and I hope that Coach Cal can keep them hungry for improvement.
A cat (or cat boat) is also a single-master. They are easy to sail, but aren't as efficient upwind as SLOOPs.
FLN: -T, when I lived in Texas, restaurants in dry precincts also issued "private club" memberships that allowed them to sell alcoholic beverages (to alcoholics). Still had to be 21, though.
Thanks for the fun puzzle, Gary. My favorite was LEASH, too. And thanks to TTP for the fun review. I didn't get the pairs 'til you 'splained it.
Thanx non in my neighborhood
Musings
- Along with the fun themers I really liked “Chow line” & “Fuss over feathers”
-TV and movie dramas seem to have many scenes where someone leaves in a HUFF
-My calendar last month had 12 substitute teaching “APPTS” @ $140/day
-I’ve HAD IT with the robocalls that start with a perky little female voice
-Two podcasts From the WRIGHT Brothers onward
-It seems everything you say and/or do today can be TRACED back to you
-ELEVEN? Count how many are on each side at this small school game
-List to the left? A real estate agent who sells only to communists :)
-Nice picture, Irish!
Good Morning,
Thanks, Gary, for some early morning fun. I made most of the mistakes others made with TRACE and TEND and Randy Travis.
Thanks, as always Owen, for your clever self.
Very cute IM. Time flies doesn't it?!
Thanks, TTP, for another fine tour. Moreover, thanks for enhancing the theme, which I found today in its basic form. Tah Dah!
Have a fine day today, sun or not.
Good morning everyone.
Average difficulty; FIR. No searches needed. Interesting theme to execute, but fun to work on. Ample perps.
TAPIR - Is an odd-toed ungulate whereas a pig is even-toed. The snout does look a bit porcine.
PREEN - Our chickens PREENED themselves a lot, but they still looked unkempt when they were done. They did like to do a dust bath.
TYKE - Cute picture of Agnes.
RIGHT - German recht, Dutch rechter. Navy starboard (side). (Rudder commands are 'right' or 'left'.)
Off to play some bridge.
Good Morning:
I don't recall a homonym theme that had the extra layer of nuance that this one has. Quite clever symmetry, I'd say. I had Snit before Huff and, like Owen, Bent before Tend which was corrected by entering the proper fill of Trace (Hunt down the source of) not Brace. I join TTP and Jinx in picking Chow Line=Leash as a favorite. The solve was easy and quick and most enjoyable.
Thanks, Gary, for a mid-week treat and thanks, TTP, for entertaining and enlightening us, as usual.
DO @ 6:55 ~ The meat grinder menace is Bill, the one on my left. He is also the one who hid my beloved Fuzzy Wuzzy in the refrigerator, on more than one occasion.
Have a great day.
Pity the fool...er...me...who DNF. Put adherent instead of "adhesive" which worked with the first 4 perps. Should have completed the perp walk.
Only Travis country singer I am familiar with is Randy which was obviously incorrect.
So my 31 down 41 across WAG was a bust.
Always wondered how "Nero fiddled while Rome burned" There were no violins in Nero's time (call me a liar but maybe a lyre?) Also except for some apartments houses for the poor most of Rome was stone construction.
Could Captain Hook write back if he was left handed? "Smee, take a letter!"
Siblings sharing a ceremony...a Bi-mitzvah?
Otherwise this was a "right" fine puzzle
Worked as a bouncer in a Phoenix bar called Mr. Nice & Nasty's. There was a skills and strength contest in L.A. for bouncers that I was invited to. Winner got ten grand and a role in a television series. Circumstances at the last moment prevented me from going.
The winner was Mr. T. He went on to fame and fortune. I went on to become Mr. Nobody. Damn!
Hola!
Thank you, Gary Larson; I liked this theme and could have used pen to solve. My one WRITE over was TRACK/TRACE.
Hand up for LEASH and PREEN as favorites.
It's nice to see NAAN instead of the abbreviated nan.
inanehiker:
I love Helen Simonson's books and have read both of them. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand was a book club selection.
Irish Miss:
Thank you for sharing that photo. Nice.
Owen:
I really liked your second one.
TTP, thank you for your Wednesday WRITE-up.
Have a splendid day, everyone!
Pamela Schoenewaldt is another good author. I read When We Were Strangers and have ordered her other two which I look forward to reading.
Our next book club choice is The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton if anyone is interested in that.
Great theme puzzle today, however a doily is not a place mat!
A doily is a decorative mat usually placed on a table or, dresser as a decoration ; not for food.
Jerome:
You may not have won the competition but you did not lose it. Mr. T would have kicked your ass. Mine too if I was there to help
TTP, FLN. You said you're using Ally Bank. So do I. I use their Payments|Bill Pay feature for the folks I would normally pay by check. Once set up, they appear in my payees list. When I get an invoice, I go to the Ally website, fill in the amount, and Ally sends 'em a paper check. Ally even pays the postage. I use it for the water bill, lawn service, dentist, etc. I only write a few checks per year, for property taxes and gifts.
d-o:
I bank at the credit union and they pay my bills in the same way: send a check or electronically whenever possible. My church donation is withdrawn from my credit card as is car insurance and some donations.
I rarely write checks, usually for gifts although the last wedding gift was on a fund site so even that is now a rarity.
This may go down as my favorite Wednesday puzzle of all time--thank you so much, Gary. I got everything without any problems with my only snag at the TRITT/APPTS cross, that also puzzled Kazie and others. But the rest was just wonderful. I got the theme after I put in WRIGHT AID and RIGHT LETTERS, and didn't hesitate for a second when the Sibling clue started out with RITE. And, of course, I loved seeing Captain Hook get a WRITE HOOK. But my favorite clue was the same as everyone else's: Chow line=LEASH. Dusty would laugh at that one, if dachshunds laughed.
C.C. how nice of you to post that sweet picture of Irish Miss. Lovely.
Have a wonderful day, everybody.
I liked this puzzle. Like others, I saw the homonyms but didn't perceive the swaps. Very clever indeed. Hand up for liking "Chow lines."
Good wishes to you all.
Fun theme, but puzzle skewed old, thankfully.
Fun puzzle, totally missed the swaps. (Tx Blog...)
& there were a couple of headscratchers...
I thought Leer b/4 Ogle, but waited for perps b/4 inking.
Creepy got me side tracked, is this creepy to you?
I am sure Yellowrocks will chime in, but my learning moment
was "abscond" is not just steal.
It's one of those words that could be felinely felonious...
Hmm, knitting seems to be a hobby of my age group,
I wonder what would happen if I took up making doilies...
Well, hope to be back L8r
for some more Apres Puzzle!
Oh, I forgot!
The Star Ledger listed (not tilted)
the clue for 7D as:
P%otZ base
?????
(hmm, maybe they did tilted it...)
Again, I sent off (another) complaint that there
use of standard font is making foreign clues undecipherable...
I also mentioned they were ignoring my pleas to return the Constructor & Editor
names to the puzzle.
Based on my Sunday Paper Delivery Fiasco,
(which they responded to immediately, and still screwed up)
I can only assume that their silence to todays complaint
means that they (again) moved it upstairs, to the department of ignorance...
Sheesh! I only asked them Why? This time...
Anywho, Apres Puzzle,
Wright Aid had me do a little research... No H.S. Diploma?
I dunno, they must have gotten "some" help from somewhere...
Rite Brothers?
I dunno, i was an only child, but this seems like a brotherly rite...
Right letters got me sidetracked....
Oh, this explains everything!
I post this Write Hook link because the foreplay one was horrific and would never has passed the breakfast crowd...
P.S.
A curious thing happened when I clicked on my link for Doilies
on my Ipad, I got a completely different link pic from what I get on my PC.
this is what I see on my PC
It has never occurred to me,
nor would i expect,
that the chosen links i present for you
might take you somewhere completely different
depending on the medium that you view them on...
This is something that may make my Schtick obsolete...
I will be re-evaluating my participation in the Apres Puzzle from now on
as I would not want you to see something I did not intend,
Sincerely,
Cross Eyed Dave
Ta ~ DA!
A cool pzl from Mr. Larson, enjoyable from top to bottom.
It seems to be pretty popular throughout the Corner today. Yes, it was "easy," but that isn't enough to explain popularity. It required a degree of thought, and there were nice payoffs when we found the right fills.
The "Chow line?" clue was particularly well-liked.
~ OMK
____________
DR: One far side diag.
The anagram names a tasty dish, an edible version of a “date drug,” sometimes eaten to induce amnesia. I mean an…
“ERASER PIE”!
I am back from a week in Sedona, Arizona, for work. With a few extra days in Phoenix as well. In Lucina territory. Where exactly are you, Lucina?
Here I was with my co-worker/friend Madeleine on our way climbing up Cathedral Rock in Sedona.
Not a long hike, but a bit slippery in places. A very beautiful place to explore. Very similar colors and formations as seen in parts of UTAH.
I very much enjoyed the theme today. Very creative. I am a huge fan of the WRIGHT BROTHERS. DW and I were recently at the WRIGHT BROTHERS family home and workshop which is now in Dearborn, Michigan.
Here I was with my family as a young teen in the KITTY HAWK area, including the WRIGHT BROTHERS monument.
Only unknowns today: TRITT and BLY
From yesterday:
I was intrigued at how many said they never use an ATM. I first left home in 1976 and opened a bank account in Boston where I had started school. That bank had the first ATM I had ever heard of. I think it is a wonderful invention.
It is also super useful when I am travelling in another country. So helpful to be able to withdraw from my account and get local currency.
Wonderful photos, Picard. Thank you. I live in south Scottsdale which is directly east of Phoenix.
I agree about using ATMs in a foreign country. It's really convenient and saves a trip inside the bank which can be intimidating if one doesn't know the language. I recall being gleeful the first time I received the proper denomination in every country I visited.
Hi everybody.
Thanks Gary Larson. Lots of clever stuff that has already been commented on. I am in awe...
From last night, I use a credit card regularly. I pay it off when they send me an invoice. I never pay any interest on an unpaid balance.
I like ATMs though I don't use them that often since I get paid in cash for tutoring and seldom need any extra cash.
I don't use self checkout at the supermarket. I guess I enjoy being waited on whenever possible.
Along with Irish Miss, I don't have a cell phone either. My wife is addicted to hers; I think she values it more than a computer or a TV.
I just saw Tulsi Gabbard on The View. I didn't know much about her until recently but I am coming around to liking her.
Husker Gary: I'm with you in disliking all the robocalls. The bots are getting better and better at simulating an opening conversation with a real person. I have finally given in to call screening. I won't patronize a contractor, handyman or other company that uses a robocall to advertise.
CED, all of your links have always seemed OK to me. Of course I don't know what you actually intended.
~ Mind how you go...
JASON HAIR PICKS. How could I resesit. Thank you CED
Now that I look at the picture, those are Guitar Picks.
Also, I like the ARGO CSO
Desper-otto, Thanks !
I didn't know that was available.
I was hoping the last theme answer would be writesmee, it would need a different clue tho😀
Hi All!
What a wild-Wednesday puzzle! Loved it even though I also missed the second bit of the theme (I caught a glimpse of it but the idea never fully formed) so, thanks TTP, for THAT lagniappe.
WO: ExSTATIC
ESPs: TRITT, BLY, TAPIR
Fav: I did like Chow line but I liked Singer-master better. I kept thinking "What do they call master tapes for 45s", "WIFE wouldn’t be the master of a single person", or "WIFE is my single master(?)"
{A, A+}
Fun DR. //ERASER PIE could also be one that deducts calories :-)
Welcome back Picard! Nice to see you kazie!
Lem - The guitar picks are also the hockey masks worn by Jason in Friday the 13th series.
IM / D-O: wait, what? I missed something. What meatgrinder incident? [I assume funny 'cuz it's notorious(?)]
Nice pic IM.
CED - I see both links on my PC. One link goes to the Barrel chairs and then other to the doily car.
Speaking of doilies, Mom sent us four that she finished over the summer. She always sends them with her bees' honey which she always sends when sending something else. This time the 'something else' is a framed oil of Maternal Grandmother. I'd not seen her face / that picture in 35 years. Grandpa made the frame.
//Mom is youngest of four. Her sisters ABSCONDED with all Grandparents' photo-albums.
Cheers, -T
What a great puzzle!! I saw WRIGHT AID and RITE BROTHERS and thought they could be swapped, but never saw the others. So clever!! Thanks Gary.
I loved AREAS above ARIAS. Not sure why . It just pleased me.
I also loved the Ship at 53D above List. TILT isn’t quite the same but near to SLOOP I saw a pleasant nautical theme. jinx??
TTP, thanks for the tour.
Owen, A plus, A plus!!
FLN, IM thanks for asking. I do seem to be posting so I guess all is well.
Anon T @ 6:49 ~ The meat grinder incident involved curious little me, (Age 2), poking my finger into an opening in an old-fashioned, clamp-on meat grinder, and my villainous big brother, (Age 5), turning the handle and lopping off about 1/4 of my right index finger.
IM - that's not humorous at all! Ouch! -T
Ok, I think I now know what happened with the doily link,
& how to possibly avoid it in the future. But it is important
that anyone who hot links should know of this peculiarity.
Here is the exact copy of the link that I originally used:
https://ww3.foundshit.com/pictures/cars/doily-car.jpg
However, pls note:
The https://ww3.foundshit.com was printed in black,
the rest, /pictures/cars/doily-car.jpg was in grey!
My PC reads the entire address, black & grey, but the Ipad only reads the part in black,
leading it to the main website only & not the individual picture.
God knows what a phone or other interface reads...
If you hot link, be aware that if any part of the URL is in grey,
certain devices will not see it, & will be directed to the main page
of the website only.
I will be watching my links carefully in future.
(If I remember...)
(Jeez, I can't remember what I had for breakfast...)
Wow, all these posts in .doc that never got "posted". And, I'm running out of juice on this phone and may miss another.
I was thinking of the "list" as the place knights joust or TILT. Then I wanted it for inclination and decided the same answer wouldn't be used twice.
And… Yes, I really miss baseball. NFL, NBA don't cut it but there were two good college bball games last night. How 'bout that Maxey?
IOWA?, OHIO? nope? Oh UTAH. Did you see the descendents of the Mormon migration of the late 1800s caught in cartel ambush? Here's the Wa Post article
Posting
WC
Carol and I FIR in 46:31 min. We have been solving each CW, but haven't posted lately.
Thank you Gary Larson for this easy peazy Wednesday CW.
Thank you TTP for your excellent review.
Ðave
Good evening, folks. Thank you, Gary Larson, for a fine puzzle. Thank you, TTP, for a fine review.
Got through this easily. Caught the theme, but not the word swap. I should have looked more carefully.
IRAN was easy.
I can't think of any words I did not know. That is really odd. Made the puzzle go more quickly.
Anyhow. It is now almost midnight. I was at a Royal Arch meeting tonight, and its went for a long time.
See you tomorrow, almost today.
Abejo
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CED - I think it's just a function of the site not the font you linked in. I cut and pasted the whole link https://ww3.foundshit.com/pictures/cars/doily-car.jpg into notepad and then back into Chrome... The site still took me to the barrel chairs. It's not on you, Bro.
WC - caught part of the awful story this morning on NPR and read fuller detail in the paper tonight. Thanks for the article explaining the southern migration / why they weren't in UTAH.
D4 - Nice to see you and Carol chiming in.
And now for something completely different:
Thwarting cyber-attacks daily, I fear one day our company will need PR to have a script for the press. Someone has created a pre-packaged "How we got hacked" excuse generator. [LOL but, if you're offended by the F-word, don't click].
Cheers, -T
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