LOVATTS FEB BIG

Hi Mrs. Greene

Page 16 = David McCallum

Haven't done page 58 yet, but will do it some time tonight and let you know.

Page 58 = Robert De Niro

Regards Dutchy

THanks heaps Dutchy. How on earth do you do the clueless one? Im usually pretty good at them, but cant even comprehend how to do the clueless one, any pointers?

Mostly trial and error mrsgreene
I usually look for a word that has similar numbers (letters) in them and build on from there. In this particular one I spotted, 13-13-18-8-13, and started with e-e-18-8-e, not hard to make a word here. 'eerie' was very obvious. In combinations like that the vowels e and o are oiften used. Once I find what I believe is the correct word I cover all the words in the puzzle with the letters I've got and try to find other combinations. I also use a super word finder book which has 65.000 words in it, they range from two letters to ten letters words, comes in very handy from time to time. Above is my method, perhaps someone else uses a different approach, I'd be pleased if you would put it in print, so we all can learn something.

Dutchy.

Lovatts Feb Big
I do the clueless starhunts much the same as you Dutchy but I don't have a super word finder book, but I have thought of getting one. An erasable pen is also very handy. I enjoy the clueless one first as it's a favourite.
Regards Tuesday

http://ull.chemistry.uakron.edu/jumble.html

Tuesday thats an online word finder and also an injumble site. You just put in the letters and it gives you all possible words, and if you click on it, it will take you to www.dictionary.com with the meaning. It helps me a lot with the stahunt ones, but only if I already have some letters to go off. Isnt good for words with S or ED on the end though. Hope that can be of some use to you.

Lovatts Feb Big
another good site is jumble.org/ does the same as the site you mentioned. also gives the word meanings. I also have 2 Franklin word finders, sometimes one will give me a word that the other doesn't, you also have to check the spelling as it can give you the american spelling.
Am looking for a really good thesaurus at the moment, any suggestions would be welcome
Regards Tuesday

www.thesaurus.com

That is associated with www.dictionary.com, so one click of the button and it takes you from one to the other for the same word! It is american, but has both spelling and tells you which it is.

mrsgreen & tuesday unfortunately you can't pm me (I think it takes 500 posts before you can use that medium) otherwise you could send me your e-mail adresses and I could send you a lot more information to assist you in completeing your queries. I don't want to advertise them all here.

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Thanks Dutchy

Will get back to you.

Lovatts Feb Big
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much appreciated Dutchy

Will get back to you as well Tuesday, there is more work involved then I anticipated.

Regards Dutchy.

tuesday and mrsgreen663 thankyou also for those Hint Sites.
I am sure they will be extremely handy.

Dutchy, I would also appreciate any further information you can provide as well, if it is not putting you to any inconvenience.

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Many thanks.
Regards
EscapePod

And me too Dutchy

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Many thanks

Tigiie

Dutchy

Have just found this thread as I have not been on A2K for a while, was wondering if I could also get the above mentioned info forwarded to my
email address.
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Many Thanks
reddoor

I hope you saved that extremely large email Dutchy

Hi Red Door & Mrs.Green

Have e-mailed requested information. Lucky I had saved your copy Mrs. Green.

Regards Dutchy

Best word help program - free!
Several years ago I downloaded a little program to help with my Lovatts crosswords and starhunts. Since then, I've felt lost if using a computer that hasn't had it. It's called "WordFind".

Its most invaluable feature is the ability to indicate when the same (unknown) letter is used, by the use of a number.

For example, we might only know that 5 is a T and come across this:
5-9-23-9-9. Type into WordFind T1-11 (a dash = an unknown letter), telling it that each '1' is the same letter. Up comes the answer TEPEE.

I like to try to find which number the E is in each Starhunt. It's often quite easy to do as there are USUALLY around 20 (or more) in each puzzle and it's often the last or one-but-last letter in a word (as well as other places, of course). Sometimes the Lovatts people get crafty and include a Starhunt that hardly has any Es in it - but not very often!

Here's the webpage for the WordFind program:
WordFind

Hi Shekeda

Thank you for that information. I use the following site which is similar but has far more possibilities. http://www.onelook.com/

You will get a lot of help from this site doing your Lovatts.

Regards Dutchy.