#word-puzzle

#word-puzzle

Our cartoon caption was lost in a blizzard! Solve the clues to help us find it. Each answer is seven letters long and curls around one of the numbered spaces in the grid, as shown below: The numbered space will always contain either the first letter or the last letter of an answer. The remaining letters will curl either clockwise or counterclockwise, exiting or entering the central hexagon through the gap in the bolded border.

New Pears every day at noon! (Weekdays, Eastern time.) This is Pears Game 101. The longest word in Game 100 was INEFFICIENT.

Today's puzzle is for pros. Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase or name in which the first word starts with P and the second word starts RO-. Ex. Slow-cooked beef dish often served for Sunday dinner --> POT ROAST 1. 1970s craze involving a stone you were supposed to water 2. Small place in a house where guests can freshen up 3. Course around the neighborhood for delivering the Times, the Herald, the Post, etc.