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Visual Description: “Hurry In!” sale at the auto dealership.
CSAFR = SCARF, MUAES = AMUSE, ATRTWH = THWART, DUPITN = PUNDIT — Giving us: AFSEWTNT
Clue/Question: When the dealer lowered the prices on the sports cars, they . . .
Answer: WENT FAST
(I enjoyed all of the clue words! They were all well-scrambled, but I was able to get them very quickly today. This would be a good one for Richard to come in with a sentence that uses all the words. I really like “thwart”, and I used to like “pundit” . . . until just about everybody became one. But for me, today’s answer was super obvious. No fault of the answer letter layout! It just wasn’t that much of a challenge today. If you’re in, or are going to be in, the path of hurricane Irene please take all necessary precautions. I was out fairly early this morning, getting things that we needed anyway, and I feel like I avoided the rush. Everybody keep their fingers crossed that we don’t lose a chunk of the Washington Monument! Apparently, Tuesday’s earthquake put some significant cracks in it, and officials are worried. Check in with the elderly and the shut-ins, and try to have some kind of communication plan for your family and loved ones. Take care, friends!) — YUR
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Unclerave's Wordy Weblog 
couldn’t get pundit. and the thing is that if I’d really followed through on my plan B “make smaller words out of the letters and then build”, I got have gotten it from “pun.” next time.
Where is 8/27? I have been working on it today and have the following:
weave, awake, garlic, shoddy and final answer of dead giveaway