The Citadel

My friends forced me to listen to Life Of A Showgirl while giving me a lift last night.

The track about her boyfriend's penis is the first song I've ever heard from her that was catchy enough for me to listen to it all the way through. Perhaps I was merely allergic to Jack Antonoff's production on ...

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Strands #661
“Gather around”

Yellow was way too hard for me today.

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Puzzle #927

When they said "pass it along" I thought the subject was going to be something else which is legal in New York.

Strands #659
“Pass it along”

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Puzzle #925

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Puzzle #924

Today's gram was shaped vaguely like the thing it describes. Not sure whether that was supposed to be intentional or not.

Strands #657
“All the trimmings”

D'oh... finally a blue round comes up that I know quite well. I'm a fan of one of the blues but I ended up putting it in the purple bucket by mistake.

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Puzzle #923

Strands #656
“On the chopping block”

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Puzzle #922

Strands #655
“Natural remedies”

From now on I'm going to automatically assume the hardest category is blue. It was near impossible today for me as usual.

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Puzzle #921

Strands #654
“Out of line”

Purple was the usual tortuous muck typical of this puzzle.

I didn't know one of the blues and had to research it.

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Puzzle #920

Strands #653
“Let me count the ways”

Yay... a not horrible puzzle from Ms. Liu today.

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Puzzle #919

I nearly had an episode trying to guess the spangram today. Nice of them to match up the colours though. This has been a Filmways presentation, darling.

Strands #652
“Palette episodes”

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Puzzle #918

Blue was harder than purple again for me today. It had a tenuous link at best.

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Puzzle #917