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Puzzle : 20170617

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/SatPuz06172017.pdf

Solution for previous – 20170520:

http://online.wsj.com/media/solution_xfactor052717.jpg

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Thanks, syzzie! Another quickie, but wonderfully ingenious.

Thanks syzzie, that was good fun (with a little help). Not quick for me, naturally.

A Scotsman a lizard and a piece of string go into a bar. "What's this?" says the mixologist "a joke?"

You're welcome.

Bar jokes, eh?

http://www.abrsm.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=26451

Thanks, Syzygy, very entertaining puzzle. I hadn't heard the 'movie sign' meaning of 'marquee' before - I'm expanding my North American vocab.

Please could someone parse the clue mattrom refers to for me?
Reversed movie French nobleman read aloud (5)

I get that marquee sounds like Marquis! I wrote in marquee as all the letters are crossed except the Q

Hi Ros,
'Reversed' is the spare word, and as did not know before, a 'marquee' is a sign displayed above the entrance to a theatre.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquee_(sign)

Reversed movie sign French nobleman read aloud (7)

Thank you mattrom

How interesting, about the sign above the theatre. It's only by doing these puzzles I realise how difficult it is sometimes to do those of other countries. To me, a marquee is a tent!

I didn't bother parsing the (4,3) of the clues numbered 5 because it couldn't really be anything else!

Cheers

Cheers syzygy, I'm slowly catching up. Nice concept even if not the most taxing.