{"id":1094,"date":"2015-07-21T00:38:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T00:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2015-07-21T00:38:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T00:38:43","slug":"cryptic-acrostics-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/cryptic-acrostics-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cryptic Acrostics #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I wrote about my enjoyment of cryptic acrostics <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=262\">here<\/a>. Click that link if you don&#8217;t understand what they are or want to refresh your recollection. Yesterday I finished another one in my Super Crostics book (author: Thomas Middleton). I thought I&#8217;d share with you a few of the definition gems (with explanation provided).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: courier;\">Approving a strange day tour after fifty. (9 letters)<\/span><br \/>\nAnswer: LAUDATORY (take the letters in DAY TOUR in a &#8220;strange way&#8221;, i.e. mixed, and place them after L, the Roman numeral for 50, to get the answer, which means approving.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: courier;\">Rogue! to knock an onion!(11 letters)<\/span><br \/>\nAnswer: RAPSCALLION (to rap someone is to knock him, followed by scallion, an onion).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: courier;\">One hundred in defective department of learning.(7 letters)<\/span><br \/>\nAnswer: FACULTY (Roman numeral C placed in FAULTY).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: courier;\">Depressed? Fire a nerd (2 words, 7 letters)<\/span><br \/>\nAnswer: SAD SACK (SAD=depressed, SACK=fire, as an employee, SAD SACK = a nerd).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I wrote about my enjoyment of cryptic acrostics here. Click that link if you don&#8217;t understand what they are or want to refresh your recollection. 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