Cryptoquote Spoiler – 02/14/19

“Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of earth.”   —   Emily Dickinson

(My brain hurts!  She makes love sound like a math equation!  No wonder love can be so confusing!  Just kidding, folks.  Love is an eternal force of the universe.  Don’t try to fight it.  Accept it.  Embrace it.  Harness it and champion it, for the good of mankind and the world.  Happy Valentine’s Day, friends!  Be well and do good.)   —   YUR

PS.  Some online sites have the last word of this quotation as “breath”.  Why?  I know not.  I like it better with “earth”.   —   YUR

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Jumble Spoiler – 02/14/19

Visual Description:  Washington Square Arch meetups.

POMHO  =  OOMPH,  LEYID  =  YIELD,  YALVEL  =  VALLEY,  EEWIDV  =  VIEWED   —   Giving us:  OOYEVLYVED

Clue/Question:  The pigeons had been married for years but were still – – –

Answer:  LOVEY–DOVEY

(Supposedly, pigeons mate for life.  But, it’s kinda up to the hen to resist the advances of the more dominant cocks.  Because the cockier cocks always want a little more.  Ain’t that always the way?!  But, by and large, they do mate for life.  I basically know squat about pigeons, but this is what I read.

We have a brand new clue word today, in “viewed”.  Our old pal, ralis95, will have to update his world famous clue word database once again!  Its jumble “eewidv” gave me the most trouble.  I didn’t try all that hard to solve it, and backed into it.  The cartoon caught my eye.  The jumble “pomho” is new but we’ve seen both “leyid” and “yalvel” before.  The answer letter layout was a fine 10-letter jumble, but being Valentine’s Day the answer did kind of jump off the page.

Great cartoon of lovers under, and atop, the Washington Square Arch, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.  It’s one of the more iconic locations in NYC.  A great place for a rendezvous.  I hope that everyone has a Happy Valentine’s Day.  Be well and do good, friends.)   —   YUR

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