Re: It's Not the Rose
Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 2:06 pm
40A was just a stupid joke on my part - didn't work out
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APPROVE? I LOVE it, I did (just as Josh predicted I would) kick myself in the butt for not solving it. I was going way too far afield. I IMMEDIATELY knew it was columns not ROWS (ROSE) from Josh's title. I unfortunately thought that the FLOWER was going to be MISSISSIPPI or RHONE, or even ERIE CANAL! I tried the place the car was made combined with the country (by the way I am a Lithuanian who drives a BMW so of course I figured there had to be a link), the letters horizontal and then vertical, the opposite of that. Never once did I just think of CAR NATION and you would think I would.madhatter5 wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 10:56 am Solution:
The title was meant to get you to look at the columns (i.e. not the rows) of the grid. You will find that eight such columns feature the name of an automobile, followed by the name of a country.
The answer is therefore CARNATION, a solution which I hope meets with DrTom's full approval.
Happy Fourth to all the Americans out there
Now that IS odd - I was just humming that song to myself yesterday, having no relation to the META. I was thinking, I ought to put up a picture of someone in tan shoes with pink shoelaces and see who would get he reference, obviously you would have.
Poor @DrTom, you must be having a bad day to not see this groaner:DrTom wrote: ↑Mon Jul 05, 2021 1:44 pmNow that IS odd - I was just humming that song to myself yesterday, having no relation to the META. I was thinking, I ought to put up a picture of someone in tan shoes with pink shoelaces and see who would get he reference, obviously you would have.
However, I am afraid you ahve me at the disadvantage over the rose colored Ford...what would we have?
Petals to the metal
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Nothing but Mr. Lincolns
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