English: Own work made in the style of Andy Warhol (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Visual Description: A fine dining establishment . . . with Jeff and Kathy celebrating in the background.
FUDIL = FLUID, SUIES = ISSUE, ALOPPT = LAPTOP, GLYTEN = GENTLY — Giving us: FUSELATT
Clue/Question: The chef’s new restaurant was this.
Answer: TASTEFUL
Aphrodite (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
(I really like the mock Warhol on the wall! I always preferred Alphabet soup to Tomato soup, anyway! Is today Jeff and Kathy’s anniversary, or something? If so, then congratulations!
I only had difficulty with one clue word, today, and it happened to be “laptop”! I think I will always struggle, some, with compound words. It’s just who yer uncle is! Merriam Webster‘s has the word as first being used in 1984, but I don’t see when they first acknowledged it as such. It is not currently in the ralis95 clue word database, so it’s a brand new word, as far as Jumble clue words go! ralis95 loves adding new words to his database!
The answer letter layout was really great, today. Nothing given away. I can see some of you struggling to get today’s answer. It wasn’t killer, but it’s a clever pun. I wonder if Elegante’s serves a burger??? Be well and do good, friends.) — YUR
PS. I would have given you a picture of Warhol’s Tomato Soup, but it’s copyrighted. Fortunately, the Marilyn Monroe one is of a legal(?) knockoff! Don’t know how the Aphrodite came up, but I never pass up the opportunity to post a lovely tush! — YUR
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LAPTOP threw me for quite some time, before I finally worked my way to unjumble the letters. It’s all in the mindset isn’t it? Can you believe we’re up to 2774 words in the database? – Hoyt must be working overtime!
2774 words?! My question is how many has Hoyt added since starting March of 2011? A lot is the answer.
And, I’m sure “A lot” will probably have to suffice. Not sure if ralis95 has held on to earlier files, or not, but if he does, I bet he *might* be able to come up with some kind of a ballpark estimate.
— YUR
David and Jeff:
Can’t tell you exactly how many were in the database as of the beginning of March, 2011 (I think it was around 2250) – but I do know for sure there were 2370 as of July 19, 2011, when I carried on an email discussion with Hoyt about the sources of usable 5 and 6 letter words.
All y’all do a great job — our puzzlers, our “keeper of words”, and our Unc– who always comes up with something entertaining and interesting. Thank you!
Laptop did take a sec. Nice puzzle!!!
Figured out why Sunday’s puzzle was so hard — I had a L where a C should have been. Misread my writing. I’m feeling much better about my brain! Going through today’s paper now.