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Continue, please.

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Originally Posted By: A C Bowden
Gaps in the fossil record encourage creationists to deride Darwinian evolution, but I find their ignorant arguments hard to take. (20)


Take time. (2)

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Take time, breathe. (3)


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Originally Posted By: A C Bowden
Originally Posted By: A C Bowden
Gaps in the fossil record encourage creationists to deride Darwinian evolution, but I find their ignorant arguments hard to take. (20)


Take time. (2)


Because I forgot the (2) or is there something else I should be aware of?

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I'm confuse. I'll join when this gets resolved.


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I'm out. Much ado about nothing.

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Please note (as stated in the OP):

Originally Posted By: A C Bowden
the next person has to use the last word of that sentence as the first word of the next.

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Got this game confused with another: my bad.


Time awaits none. (3)

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None of them work. (4)

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Well, that's embarrassing. Where the heck was I? Superimposing something, I guess.

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Work: the opiate of Pluggers. (5)

(or something like that...)

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Pluggers plug things to stop leaks. (6)

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Leaks must be stopped before floods occur (7)


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Occur, or occur not...there is no Schroedinger. (8)

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Schroedinger, replied the boy,answering the teacher's
pronunciation request (9)

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Request a day off if your dogs are barking mad. (10)

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Mad pseudoscientific theories are commonplace in discussion forums on the internet. (11)

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Internet speeds are quite divine, especially when yours are slower than mine . (12)

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(with apologies to A.A. Milne)

"...Mine has a hood, and I...pull my hood right over my head" (13)

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Head down this here highway, stop by the big tree, and you are there.
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There are some aspects of our universe that the physicists still have no explanation for. (15)

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For more information please dial zero and an operator will be with you shortly; thank you. (16)

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You can tell whether it will rain by looking at the shapes and movements of the clouds. (17)

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Clouds move from west to east here,with the worst being the
destructive cloud known as the tornado (18)


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Tornado season is upon us, if I remember correctly, it's time to batten down the hatches and take care. (19)

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Care to remind me - does 20 words go right back to 2, or do 19, 18, 17, etc. stepwise intervene? (20)

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Revert directly. (2)

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Directly to jail.

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don't learn very well, eh?

Jail is for forgetters... (4)

But I think we're still supposed to be linking end-to-beginning, even at the jump back to start. Oh, well. Maybe next time.

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Forgetters like the mouse's ear. (5)

Sorry, I thought of the game Monopoly and didn't know if I made a correct "sentence."

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Ear is what corn grows on. (6)


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"On your mark, get set, go" - not. (7)


(Could that be the record for shortest letters-per-word?)
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"Go out and find something that may suffice." (8)

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Suffice it to say, the force is with me. 9

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Me own self, I like a snug warm cozy bed! (10)

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Bed bugs bounce behind beautiful Bedouin bandits bagging big baked bagels.

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Bagels are an acquired taste, or in my case an unacquired taste. (12)

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Taste is in the mouth (and nose) of the beholder; a budding skill. (13)

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Skill, to the ear, sounds like a saw; solubrious,serene, sharing it's toothy grin. (14)

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Grin for the camera, folks — Christmas is here, so let us all look suitably joyful. (15)

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