Jumble Spoiler – 12/30/15

Cropped screenshot of Max Baer Jr., Nancy Kulp and Sharon Tate from the television series The Beverly Hillbillies (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Visual Description:  Small town medical concerns.

CLEEX  =  EXCEL,  TAPRA  =  APART,  LICCIN  =  CLINIC,  TONKYT  =  KNOTTY   —   Giving us:  EEAPICNT

Clue/Question:  The doctor would eventually feel at home in the new town, if he had enough – – –

Northern Exposure (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Answer:  PATIENCE

(Reminds me a little of that show from the ’90s, Northern Exposure!  I always liked that show.  It was another of those fish out of water tales.  Sorta like The Beverly Hillbillies, or Third Rock From the Sun, but it was an hour long semi-drama.  And, instead of it being a family from elsewhere, trying to understand conventional American culture, it was a – mainly – conventional American – a nice Jewish boy from Brooklyn – trying to understand a quirky, but fairly diverse, rural Alaskan town.  It starred Rob Morrow, as newly minted Dr. Joel Fleischman, and Janine Turner and John Corbett.  Lots of fun characters on the show!

All of today’s clue words are old friends, and only two of the jumbles are coming up as new.  Not sure if I mentioned this before, but “knotty” is one of those words that spells out alphabetically.  The answer letter layout wasn’t obvious to me.  The cartoon’s dialog and the clue/question set up the answer very well.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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Cryptoquote Spoiler – 12/30/15

Screenshot of Audrey Hepburn from the film Charade (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Let’s face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.”   —   Audrey Hepburn

Cropped screenshot of Audrey Totter from the trailer for the film The Postman Always Rings Twice. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Audrey Landers as Val in A Chorus Line: The Movie. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

(So far, for as long as I’ve been posting these spoilers, Ms. Hepburn is the only quotable Audrey used.  No quotes from Audrey Meadows, Audrey Smith, Audrey Pulvar, Audrey Totter, Audrey Long, Audrey Peters, or Audrey Landers???  But for now,  I’m cool with the cake quote.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

 

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