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Subject: Re: Help explain this clue: "Choose a filling for pastries"
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 03:20:11 -0700
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by: HenHanna - Tue, 26 Mar 2024 10:20 UTC

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

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