pauer: The Fake SMBT

pauer (

pauer) wrote,
@ 2007-12-05 18:37:00

The Fake SMBT
Okay, so here are some crossword entries that would fail the Sunday Morning Breakfast Test, but only if clued in an inappropriate way:

AHOLE [Have ___ in one's head]
AIDS [Helps out]
ANAL [Freud subj.]
PENIS [The ___ mightier than the sword]
PMS [Afts.] or [U.K. leaders]
STD [Norm: Abbr.]

Can you think of others?

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	rpipuzzleguy 2007-12-05 11:59 pm UTC (link)
	CRAP [___ out (lose in a casino game)] CANCER [The crab] As a related aside, it's always amused me that ANO is clued as Spanish for "year", because without the tilde, it means something else entirely. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	pauer 2007-12-06 12:09 am UTC (link)
	Ooh - now I'm really curious about ANO. I took 2 years of Spanish back in the day, but Señora Lang (really) never taught us the good stuff. (after looking it up) Ah, yes. Besides cabeza and mano, I think we left body parts alone. This tangent did make me think of another one, though: POOP [Inside info] (Reply to this)(Parent)

	toonhead_npl 2007-12-06 02:52 am UTC (link)
	So, how many of those have made it into the NY Sun? I'm pretty sure Peter G's used STD and he sure didn't clue is as "standard"... Edited at 2007-12-06 03:23 am UTC (Reply to this)

qaqaq
2007-12-06 03:42 am UTC (link)

See, a lot of these are things I wouldn't use because of the ambiguity. I would never use ANAL or PENIS or CRAP, even with these clues, for the same general reasons I wouldn't use RAPE, even clued as the herb.

I'm always a little iffy about using AIDS and STD and CANCER, though I will if I need to. PMS, no problem. But these are lines that are going to be different from person to person, obviously.

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	ennienyc 2007-12-06 09:39 pm UTC (link)
	You've obviously never had PMS. :0 (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cazique 2007-12-06 03:51 am UTC (link)
	SCAT [Holliday gift?] PUSSY [____ willow] or [Cat nickname] or [Pet name?] (that last one for if you want to really, um, straddle the line) ASS [Donkey] BUTT [End of a rifle] HUMP [Camel feature] COCK [____-of-the-walk] plenty of others, I'm sure... (Reply to this)

crossword_fiend
2007-12-06 06:33 pm UTC (link)

Crossword constructors get a lot of ASS. The word has 367 uses in the Cruciverb database, compared to 841 for super-common ERA. And AHOLE was in the Times, I think, several weeks back (9 hits in Cruciverb).

TEABAG gets 23 Cruciverb hits. BLOW has 30, and EATOUT has 18. FACIAL gets 11. In certain contexts, those are all pretty SMBF-unfriendly. RIMMING gets 2 hits (one golf clue: [Rolling around the edge, but not going in]). And DAM was recently clued as [Dental device] without regard for the only reason many younger adults have ever heard of dental dams.

I believe I have said too much. (And I probably need to order a copy of Crasswords.)

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	1 more pauer 2007-12-07 01:35 pm UTC (link)
	bunghole /bung"hohl'/, n. a hole in a cask through which it is filled. [1565-75; BUNG[1] + HOLE] That is all. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Re: 1 more toycabhorn 2007-12-07 07:07 pm UTC (link)
	Alternate for the POOP entry: DOPE Some others: TITS [Songbirds] JERK [Counterman] PRICK [Stab] BALLS [Stadium supply] EATOUT [DIne on the town] Theme: HIDETHESALAMI - "I only meant 'Keep the cured meat out of sight'..." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ANO toycabhorn 2007-12-07 06:46 pm UTC (link)
	This, unfortunately, is my formal monogram. Much to the delight of SKO and the rest of my family, my mother gave me a little leather box with the letters A-N-O tooled into the lid! Of course, my son - who at that time had no words of Spanish - latched onto it immediately and could claim to be fluent in two syllables... (Reply to this)

	Spitchcock? douglasbass 2007-12-16 01:56 am UTC (link)
	I bet you're pleased with yourself for cluing eel as spitchcock in your NYT puzzle. That's definitely a new clue for eel. Have you ever had a helping of spitchcock? It sounds to me like a new STD. (Reply to this)(Thread)

Re: Spitchcock?
(Anonymous)
2007-12-16 02:42 pm UTC (link)

I was happy that that clue stuck around. :) I was happy my ETCHING clue made it, too. I never have tried spitchcock, or any eel for that matter...that I know of. There was that night at the sushi bar with way too many sake bombs...yeesh.

For the curious, I actually found that clue by putting 'eel' in the definition field of RH2. A very handy little trick for the clueless.

Happy Holly-days,
Pauer

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