Went in expecting 'SO,' so MAU SOL EUM took slightly longer to come into view than it should have ( 28D: Commence hostilities).

The 'L' part of SOL always surprises me, no matter how many times I see it written out. Everything else was pretty straightforward. Up top, I don't know / didn't remember CHAOS as a place (8A: Source of Erebus and Gaia, in Greek myth), and always throws me, as my first idea for a synonym is always 'DANG!' So even with -K in place, ASK didn't come right away. ROO instead of OWL ( 67D: Pooh pal) and DDE instead of IKE (69D: Two-time opponent of 32-Across). Which reminds me-that damned SW corner (and, to a lesser extent, the NE corner) killed me a little. Once I finally broke NOW I KNOW MY ABCS open, I put it all together. I thought maybe the western notes would be a mirror image. Even after I'd gotten the note / rebus thing, I had no idea what was going on song-wise, since I had only the eastern notes (broke through at ISE RE 24D: Rhône feeder) and couldn't / didn't sing them so had no idea what they represented. I thought the puzzle was actually pretty dang easy except for the whole center area. But thematically this one just feels like a miss. And I'll take ambitious over yawny (which many puzzles have been of late). Plus, the notes actually *did* (by the end), help me to get one of the answers (the SOL in SOL AR, to be exact) ( 44D: Kind of power), so fun was had. Now, neglecting the fatal thematic flaw, the grid is not bad, and I always enjoy a rebus. Symmetry would be blown, but at least those damned eastern notes would have something to do. Maybe you could shove YOU ARE in there somewhere. but what about the end notes? Again, great idea, but just Not There in the execution. and TWINKLE TWINKLE, which really only gets you through DO DO SOL SOL. sort of, and NOW I KNOW MY ABCS works perfectly (in that you sing it to the tune of the notes on the left side of the grid), but then there's those notes on the right. That’s all the words that I didn’t know from one page of the book.An ambitious train wreck. So ‘annals’ is a word that encompasses ‘historical records’, so when you say ‘recorded history’ in conjunction with ‘annals’ you are literally saying the same word and its definition? The redundancy is too high! Its over 9000! Is this even right Nigel? “ Goodafternoon, I am Nigel Penismightier, and today we are going on an African safari through the historical records of early recorded history, in the annals of Timbuktu’s recorded history…”. I’ve always heard/read this word in conjunction with this phrase, “In the annals of recorded history…”. I adduce, ‘if the glove don’t fit, you must aquit!’.Ĭomments: I already know this word and figure I put it here for evaluation. He knew nothing”.Ĭomments: The kid in me loving this page in the book 😛 “ I would like to make adduce. How he came to this realization, he did not know. It was at this moment he realized he had acrophobia. “ Tea and crumpets, Nigel, is the acme of British afternoon snacking”.Ĭomments: Obviously phobia means ‘fear of something’, but I wouldn’t have guessed ‘acro’ would be a root for something ‘high’ or ‘tall’ or what have you.

“ My light-saber seems to accrete and become brighter every time a fair jedi maiden passes by “.Ĭomments: Always wondered what this meant whenever I watched a Looney Toons cartoon back in the day. “ I told you to go into your inventory screen, go to armors and accouter Flaming Poisonous Icicle Dragonlord Helm of Audacious Alacrity.”Ĭomments: Never would I have guessed this to mean ‘grow larger’. 🙂Ĭomments: Pronounced as ‘a cooter’? The kid in me just giggled when I said this out loud. Based on each words definition I will try to use it in a sentence. All words will be coming from The 4000 English Words Essential for an Educated Vocabulary. By doing so I hope to commit these words to memory and maybe you can too if you had not known them already. In an effort to help me learn new words (and help reach my goal of blogging once a day, everyday), I am going to choose words from one page every day to blog that I did not know or wasn’t clear on its definition.

Acme playwords