Jumble Spoiler – 12/05/12

Rock Climbing (Photo credit: Adam THEO)

Visual Description:  The high cost of indoor rock climbing places.

ALEEG  =  EAGLE,  PARMC  =  CRAMP,  OSTEER  =  STEREO,  INOSOP  =  POISON  —   Giving us:  EECRPSTEPIS

Clue/Question:  The rock climber saw these when he went to buy new climbing equipment.

Answer:  STEEP PRICES

(Not bad.  No new clue words, today.  Jumbling of some old favorites was adequate.  Answer letter layout was good, but not great.  Maybe the answer was just a little too obvious.  I don’t know.  Nice drawing.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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Cryptoquote Spoiler – 12/05/12

Map of Phoenician and Greek colonies at about 550 BC (with German legend). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”   —   Maurice Switzer

(Who was probably paraphrasing Twain, who likely paraphrased Lincoln, who likely paraphrased Johnson, who likely paraphrased the scriptures, that likely paraphrased the Greeks . . . and so on, and so forth.  I don’t want to short-change a Native American, but who the heck decides who and what is quotable?  This is fairly close to plagiarism, in my book.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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