&lt;p&gt;SUMMARY &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ready for some crazy crossword clues? The hosts discuss some clever ones, like &quot;Hula hoop?&quot; (3 letters). Also, is the correct term jury-rigged or jerry-rigged? Why are Marines called Gyrenes? When someone points out the obvious, do you say &quot;Duh!&quot; or do you say &quot;No DUH!&quot;? And what, pray tell, is in a cannibal sandwich?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FULL DETAILS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grant shares some diabolically clever crossword clues. Have at &#039;em: Hula hoop? (3 letters). A city in Czechoslovakia? (Four letters). Want to try more? Check out these clues here and here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.crosswordese.com/ccotm.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://barelybad.com/xwdcuteclues2002.htm&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hankering for a cannibal sandwich? An Appleton, Wis., woman has fond memories of raw ground round steak on top of rye bread, topped with salt, pepper, and onion. She wonders if it&#039;s a regional dish.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When someone points out the blindingly obvious, a listener might respond with Duh! There are other options, too, including No duh!, Doy!, and Der! Grant creates an online survey to find out which terms people tend to use.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you&#039;re not yet old enough to understand homophones, you can wind up with some funny misunderstandings. Martha shares a listener&#039;s story about avoiding cotton candy as a child, fearing that it was literally made of cotton.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a quiz based on descriptions of characters in novels. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Something that&#039;s repaired in a makeshift, haphazard fashion, is said to be jury-rigged. Martha discusses the expression&#039;s likely nautical origin and Grant tells how a different term, jerry-built, led to the variation jerry-rigged. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Crazy crossword clues, Round 2: &quot;Letters from your parents&quot;? (3 letters) and &quot;Sound elicited by an electric can opener&quot; (5 letters).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An officer from Camp Pendleton is curious about Gyrene, a slang term for &quot;Marine.&quot; Grant says it may derive from the Greek word for &quot;tadpole.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Martha relates a story from a listener in Valdosta, Ga., about her four-year-old&#039;s misunderstanding of a homophone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Need to type something in Linear B or Mayan? Want to make Japanese emoticons? Now you can. Grant explains why the release of Unicode 6 has many word lovers doing the happy dance.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When speakers of foreign languages try to adapt their own idioms into English, the results can be poetic, if not downright puzzling. A Dallas listener shares some favorite examples from his Italian-born wife, including &quot;I can put my hand to the fire,&quot; and &quot;The watermelon isn&#039;t always red on the inside.&quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Crazy crossword clues, Round 3: Cover of the Bible? (2 words). Source of relief? (7 letters).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When did the word slick become a positive word meaning &quot;cool&quot; or &quot;excellent&quot;?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donate&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Email: words@waywordradio.org&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Phone: &lt;br /&gt;United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673&lt;br /&gt;London +44 20 7193 2113&lt;br /&gt;Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donate&lt;br /&gt;Site: http://waywordradio.org/&lt;br /&gt;Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/&lt;br /&gt;Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/&lt;br /&gt;Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/&lt;br /&gt;Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/&lt;br /&gt;Skype: skype://waywordradio &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Copyright 2011, Wayword LLC.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;
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