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I do appreciate all the clever clues to OREO(S), but I also wish we could have at least a temporary moratorium on the word.

I don't usually comment, but this was such a clever puzzle! It was fun to solve, even though I got the theme fairly early. What a great way to start the day!

Well Sam, you're just a young'un. Twinsets were a staple of the fifties and also veddy veddy British. Read some Golden Age whodunits and you'll find them all over.

Thank you, thank you for the "correct" definition of moot. In my lifetime it has changed from meaning debatable to meaning not debatable. I know Mr. McWhirter would say that is because English is a living language, but it still annoys me. (And John McWhirter is still my favorite language person.)

Thanks for the hints - I really needed them; except I really needed the upper left quadrant which you didn't show! As you said, it just wasn't in my wheelhouse.

Whew! I wasn't the only one who put UP in the rebus circles and then had to go back and replace them with DOWN! Do you suppose that indicates a more optimistic look at life? Or, at any rate, puzzles?

It must be because I grew up in the south, but we always said corn would be "as high as an elephant's eye by the fourth of July".