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HenHanna <HenHanna@devnull.tb> wrote:

On 3/24/2024 8:02 PM, Joshua Kreitzer wrote:

This is from Games World of Puzzles, February 2024. The puzzle is
"Beginnings and Endings" by Patrick Berry.

The clue is: Choose a filling for pastries (Hyph.)

and the answer is: POP-TARTS

The explanation given is: (opt + parts)

I see how OPT means "choose", and POP-TARTS are "pastries", but I don't see how "a filling for" can give both PARTS and an anagram or container indicator. "Filling" could be a container indicator, of course, but that would mean that "for" would have to be used to define PARTS.

--
Joshua Kreitzer
gromit82@hotmail.com

"Beginnings and Endings" -- refers to Switching (internal Spoonerism)

filling is a part of POP-Tart

Opt-Parts --------> Pop-Tarts

(MSWord Clone) WPS office -- a place to talk about this???


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