very quickly, it's a combination of two words....

Helps that you know it is a palindrome. Once you put the e in the middle spot there are not many combinations of A, C and R to try at either end.

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Ah! Got it, thanks. Soon as you see it seems so obvious.

Strands #18
“What’s the issue? ”
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Clearly I don't spend enough time in front of the periodicals section.

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The secret of a long life is you try not to shorten it.
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Yeah, I used two hints. I found 6 words before I finally figured out what the topic was.

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?

Strands #18
“What’s the issue? ”
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No issues for me

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“What’s the issue? ”
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took me 3 hints to figure it out

Strands #19
“Animal sounds”
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The secret of a long life is you try not to shorten it.
-Nobody

Strands #19
“Animal sounds”
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Choral / coral stumped me as an assoc with animal…. The rest made sense.

Strands #19
“Animal sounds”
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I only found three on my own :-(



Strands #20
“Romeo and Juliet”
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The secret of a long life is you try not to shorten it.
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Strands #20
“Romeo and Juliet”
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Strands #20
“Romeo and Juliet”
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Bam.

Took forever though.

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Even the sun shines on a dogs ass every now and then

Strands #21
“Lock steps”
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I was thinking parades or canals. Hair care was the furthest from my mind but somehow saw moisturize then lather.

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The secret of a long life is you try not to shorten it.
-Nobody

Strands #21
“Lock steps”
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Strands #22
“Sign language”
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Lots of words that could be sign related, but didn’t count… used a couple of hints to get going.

Strands #22
“Sign language”
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I got three right before I figure out the theme. Unfortunately I know the names of the signs more than the characters they represent so it took a while.

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The secret of a long life is you try not to shorten it.
-Nobody

I bounced around looking and seeing words having to do with to coaching signals, signs of the zodiac, sign language literally, and eventually got images/logos thing...

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“That’s fantastic!”
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meh.....the theme clues suck.

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Strands #23
“That’s fantastic!”
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Agreed. Struggled today even with hints.

Ogre came up and I saw ergo instead.
Dragon came up and I couldn’t see it. Dr.naog? Gonadr? Wtf?

LOL, I was left with POLYCC, took me forever to finally figure out CYCLOPS.

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i found the opposite. yesterday was tough for me. today's was easy. got it in under 10min. got the first clue, then got the solution, then the others followed quickly. no hints. but yesterday was a ball buster.

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Dan Empfield
aka Slowman

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“That’s fantastic!”
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Strands #24
“This is where I draw the line”
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Etch and tracing are not answers....go figure.

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this took me a little longer than yesterday's but once i got a couple it went pretty smoothly. wonder how hard it would be to construct one of these.

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Dan Empfield
aka Slowman