This Saint Patrick’s Day is a special anniversary for me, but I’ll get into that tomorrow. Today, I thought I’d take it a bit easy and show a few Saint Paddy’s Day themers from the New York Times database at XWordInfo.
We’ll start a bit subtle. Richard Chisholm’s long entries above—DUFFY’S TAVERN, FINNEGAN’S WAKE, GILLIGAN’S ISLAND, “MCNAMARA’S BAND,” and HOGAN’S HEROES—all kick off with possessives that feature names of Irish descent.
Same applies to the first names in AJ Sentara’s piece below:
In the Nancy Salomon and Bob Klahn classic below, four groups—ROBIN HOOD’S MEN, U.S. SOLDIERS, GIRL SCOUTS, and DARTMOUTH FANS—are clued as “Thieves in green,” “Fighters in green,” “Cookie sellers in green,” and “Ivy League rooters in green,” respectively.
Peter Gordon’s rebus from a couple of years earlier explores a lot of “green” possibilities from pop culture. A few entries are a bit dated today, such as WEARING OF THE GREEN (a novel) and “THE GREEN, GREEN GRASS OF HOME” (a song), both from the 1960s, and THE GREEN HAT, a book from the 1920s. But it’s easy to Monday-morning-quarterback a project like this—I could say I’d put in GREEN LANTERN and THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT instead, but I know how challenging it is to just pack in so many entries of varying sizes here.
Makes me miss the green pens I used to use as a teenager.
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