Happy 200th post to me. I feel like that's a lot.
So, being the crossword fanatic that I am, I tend to get somewhat upset with myself when I can't finish the daily puzzle in the paper. Such was my luck with yesterday's crossword.
Now, a strategy of mine is to save the ever-frustrating first/last name clues for very last...as a means of logical deduction and idea-elimination since I can almost never guess those correctly. I feel like the clue is always some obscure actor or actress from the 1960's B&W era (although I was REALLY lucky and it somehow came to me in a Raven Baxter-inspired vision that a six letter word for a "Morning Train, singer Easton" was...Sheena. Sheena Easton, picture it Ryan, picture it!...yeah yeah yeah, that sounds right! And it was. Score.).
Anyway, the clues (and of course they were geographically intermingled together in the puzzle so that no progress could be made unless I guessed at least ONE) that I could-not-for-the-life-of-me fathom were:
1. 5 letter word for razor sharpener
2. 4 letter word for beach bird
3. 3 letter word for habitual drunkard
4. 4 letter word for on the waves
I couldn't even sleep; the clues were warping my mind. Back and forth I would scurry through the alphabet putting consonants with vowels while filling in the blank boxes with letters to see if it could form a word that didn't even have to sound real, I just needed something...my, oh my it was a night from hell. And hell is where the clues were created.
Anyway, thanks to the crossword answers in today's paper I now know the answers to these clues but NEVER would have guessed them...ever.
Answers:
1. Honer
2. Tern
3. Sot
4. Asea
(I'm almost positive that some of those words went through my mind, and dreams, last night but, uhhh, do any of those words sound real to you?)
