I was working on the crossword, and the clue was "Tour De France racer". This should be easy, I thought, "Lance Armstrong". But it was only four letters. Four letters! What racer in the TdF could be well enough known to be a crossword puzzle answer and be only four letters!
Peña? Maybe. Mayo? Possibly. Lotz, Loda, Velo, Piil I rejected as too obscure for the crossword puzzling public.
The answer was, of course, "B-I-K-E".
D'oh!
-- Warm Regards,
Claire Petersky Please replace earthlink for mouse-potato and .net for .com
"Claire Petersky" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:1cwCb.378583$275.1227202@attbi_s53...
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I was working on the crossword, and the clue was "Tour De France racer". This should be easy, I thought, "Lance Armstrong". But it was only four letters. Four letters! What racer in the TdF could be well enough known to be a crossword puzzle answer and be only four letters!
Peña? Maybe. Mayo? Possibly. Lotz, Loda, Velo, Piil I rejected as too obscure for the crossword puzzling public.
The answer was, of course, "B-I-K-E".
D'oh!
-- Warm Regards,
Claire Petersky Please replace earthlink for mouse-potato and .net for .com
"Claire Petersky" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:1cwCb.378583$275.1227202@attbi_s53...
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I was working on the crossword, and the clue was "Tour De France racer". This should be easy, I thought, "Lance Armstrong". But it was only four letters. Four letters! What racer in the TdF could be well enough known to be a crossword puzzle answer and be only four letters!
Peña? Maybe. Mayo? Possibly. Lotz, Loda, Velo, Piil I rejected as too obscure for the crossword puzzling public.
The answer was, of course, "B-I-K-E".
D'oh!
-- Warm Regards,
Claire Petersky Please replace earthlink for mouse-potato and .net for .com
I was working on the crossword, and the clue was "Tour De France racer". This should be easy, I thought, "Lance Armstrong". But it was only four letters. Four letters! What racer in the TdF could be well enough known to
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E-D-D-Y
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GREG
or (Le) MOND
Not to forget ANDY and RAUL.
or maybe just FAST (or VITE. I don't suppose they were looking for VELO) -- mac the naïf
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E-D-D-Y
"Claire Petersky" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:1cwCb.378583$275.1227202@attbi_s53...
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I was working on the crossword, and the clue was "Tour De France racer". This should be easy, I thought, "Lance Armstrong". But it was only four letters. Four letters! What racer in the TdF could be well enough known to be a crossword puzzle answer and be only four letters!
Peña? Maybe. Mayo? Possibly. Lotz, Loda, Velo, Piil I rejected as too obscure for the crossword puzzling public.
The answer was, of course, "B-I-K-E".
D'oh!
-- Warm Regards,
Claire Petersky Please replace earthlink for mouse-potato and .net for .com
Note to both of ya: try again. Here's a clue - add more letters.
Pun? Joke? Whaaas' dat?
:-)
Well, ok then. But that word does get misspelled often - even by frequent posters here (sorry, Bruce! heh.), so it's an easy mistake to make to assume it was again. You don't have to look too far to find it... First I thought it was a play on Merck, the pharmaceutical giant, which many around here might think was a more appropriate answer for the puzzle question. So there ya go.
-- tanx, Howard
"Danger, you haven't seen the last of me!" "No, but the first of you turns my stomach!" Firesign Theatre
I was working on the crossword, and the clue was "Tour De France racer". This should be easy, I thought, "Lance Armstrong". But it was only four letters. Four letters! What racer in the TdF could be well enough known to
Quoted message said:
Quoted message said:
E-D-D-Y
Quoted message said:
GREG
or (Le) MOND
Not to forget ANDY and RAUL.
or maybe just FAST (or VITE. I don't suppose they were looking for VELO)
