THE PUZZLE CORNER: OCTOBER 17, 2020

😎FUN FACT

The Easter Island statues are more complete than people realize, with bodies below ground level.

RHYME TIME⌛

The clue to something is below, but no matter how long your answer is, each word within it must rhyme. Ready?

A great tire sale?

BEFORE AND AFTER

Two separate items share at least one word, and so can be combined to create something new. Based upon the clue below, do you know what the new thing is?

A predator’s breakfast leftovers each morning?

We’ll reveal all next weekend but for now, let’s open up THE ANSWERS BOX📦 and discover the results from the October 11, 2020 Puzzle Corner.

COMMON BONDS

The items in each subset below have something in common. Do you know what it is?

01. {The Mood Ring, the Thigh Master} and we’re not sure both can be considered fads.

Both were invented by the same person. (Josh Reynolds)

02. {Andrew Ridgeley, Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou} = the group WHAM! Panayiotou was George Michael’s real name.

TRIVIA TIME⌚

What is Floccinaucinihilipilification? (And yes, it IS spelled right.)

The formal term for the act of estimating or declaring something as worthless.

BACK IN OPERATION!

It was a rough, emotionally exhausting experience; but I have returned from attending my mother's funeral and other family matters.

The Free Choice E-zine now resumes operations!

Barring anything unforeseen, our regularly scheduled features will continue at their normal times.

The Week In Review (news) and The Puzzle Corner this coming Saturday October 21, 2017. While The Week In Review will be living up to its name and starting fresh news coverage from Sunday, October 15, 2017; The Puzzle Corner WILL include the answers from the September 30, 2017 edition, which was the last one posted before things got interrupted.

The Sunday Funnies will resume October 22, 2017 with Waxy Dragon, who would have been next in the hosting rotation before I had to put everything on hold to deal with the personal situation.

I would like to thank everyone for their time, patience, understanding, and loyal readership of this E-zine.

ONWARD!
Lee Houston, Junior
Editor-In-Chief: The Free Choice E-zine
17 October, 2017

THE PUZZLE CORNER: OCTOBER 17, 2015

FUN FACT
A human being is born with almost 300 bones in their body, but by adulthood, the number diminishes to 206!

COMMON BONDS
The items in each subset have something in common.
Do you know what it is?

01. {mer, agua}
02. {lucht, aria}

TRIVIA TIME
While in most countries, "shhh" is a request for quiet, what does it actually mean in Germany?

We'll reveal all next weekend. But for now, let's open up THE ANSWERS BOX and discover the results of the October 10, 2015 Puzzle Corner.

THE LETTER SHUFFLE
We're trying something different today. Clues to three different words are listed below. If you answer the first two correctly, their letters can be rearranged to spell the answer to the third clue. Ready?

(Hurt) + (Kingdom) = (significant)
(Abuse) + (Realm) = (measurable)

TRIVIA TIME
By what former name did we used to know Belize?
The British Honduras