Last night, I thought up a fun crossword puzzle clue. Once upon a time, I had made a couple of L&C-related crossword puzzles. Unfortunately, I no longer have any place to host such puzzles. (This site is the closest I will come to joining any social media sites.) But I wanted to share this one clue, for your amusement.

Clue: I'm a fowl place, but remove my middle and flip my ends and I become fair.

Any guesses?

I'll end with some spoiler space, so that if anyone posts an answer, subsequent readers won't accidentally see it.

Joy,
Lynn

p.s., I purposely did not state how long the answer was, but if you wish a hint, consider where this clue is posted. If no one guesses the answer in a day or two, I'll provide some spoiler-tag-protected hints, including the length of the answer.

Just for future reference, Lynn - this forum comes with a handy spoiler tag, since the upgrade, which saves you having to type in space fillers. Somewhere. <g> I've never had need of it so I can't figure out how you access it, but I'm sure someone out there will know.

LabRat

Thanks LabRat, but I don't think the spoiler tag would do what I want. I wanted to have the space to prevent readers of my post from accidentally seeing subsequent posts. The spoiler tag would be to hide part of one's own posts.

Joy,
Lynn

No, my thought was if you asked those trying the puzzle to use the spoiler tag on their guesses there would be no need for you to type out a spoiler space. The suggested answers would be hidden.

Wouldn't that work for you?

LabRat

Hi LabRat,

It would, but I didn't want to make work for others by asking them to do something when I could use the old-fashioned method myself. However, our correspondences basically take up enough room to negate the need for the spoiler space in my original post, so I'll go ahead and delete that space.

Thanks,
Lynn

Ah - okay. Glad to have been of help, one way or another. <g>

LabRat

No takers? Was the clue too hard or is no one interested?

Here are some hints, in case it was the former:

Hint #1: Hint #2 (answer length): Hint #3:
If no one gets the answer by this time tomorrow, I'll go ahead and post it (spoiler protected), along with the explanation.

Joy,
Lynn

Complete silence. I'm guessing no one is interested, but in case I am mistaken, here's the answer and the explanation:


So there you have it. I hope somebody found this clue to be at least somewhat enjoyable.

Joy,
Lynn

Not that I wasn't interested, just that I was clueless! Lol

Hi Susan,

Thanks. It's nice to know that there was at least one person interested.

Joy,
Lynn

Yeah, I've been trying to figure it out to no avail.

I kept trying to figure it out, too, but my brain wouldn't cooperate.

Too difficult for me too, Lynn. This is why I don't crossword. I can never get the clues. I was thinking it had something to do with air, and the fowl place being sky. But I couldn't think of a word with fair in it with the middle removed.

Yes, sadly, your fowl place has branched out to other countries.

There is a KFC at the Badaling section of the Great Wall of China. I relented for the sake of my hungry, complaining son, so we stepped inside to order. They were out of chicken. I am serious.

I thank you four for chiming in. I feel better now.

Groobie, I guess there's a reason they abbreviated their name, even beyond their probably not wanting to tie the chain down to being identified with one state from the U.S...

My favourite fast-food-in-another-country story is this: First, let me say that I dislike fast food in general and McDonalds in particular. But when I went to Scotland once, I couldn't resist eating at a McDonald's... Fear not, though, it wasn't part of the chain. It was a McDonald's Brothers' butcher shop and I had a bridie.

Tempus isn't the only one who appreciates irony, I guess.

Joy,
Lynn