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That's a suitable approximation.

h) zonked

c) Delors. (Jaques)

a) pants = Chinos
b) medical test = Biopsy
c) French politician = (CLUE: former president, sort of) = DELORS (pending)
d) Jewels, trinkets = (CLUE: doesn't end in S)
e) zoo animals = CHIMPS
f) fabric = (CLUE: think upholstery)


2. And a couple in reverse alphabetical order:
g) marine invertebrate (CLUE: commercially harvested)
h) tired - (CLUE: ends in ED.) = ZONKED (pending)

f : chintz

I would never have guessed delors. Chimps and chintz have me wishing I'd thought of them.

Delors, Chintz and Zonked are all correct.

d) is a French word

g) the marine inverebrate isn't edible, but something of the same name and similar consistency is.

d). Bijoux ?. (as in: small but...)

" the marine invertebrate isn't edible, but something of the same name and similar consistency is." [Icy]

I thought of sponge cake immediately

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He-LBIyBUz8

Bijoux and Sponge are both correct, of course.

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I never expected to get even one right answer. I give thanks to the toon who lives in a pineapple under the sea.

[ to eat pineapple sponge cake]

I never would have got some of those, like bijoux. That's a word I never use.

to all here. That one gave me a headache.

BG, I first heard the word 'bijoux' at an impressionable age. My 7th-grade world history teacher got most of his 'info' on the Romans from watching Cinecitta gladiator movies...on Saturday afternoons, at what he called the 'Bijou' (pronounced 'BEE-zhou' over in Etna, PA...

I thought it was such a funny thing to call a run-down cinema with sticky floors...

Yeah, run down cinemas is what comes to my mind as well.

Night at the Bijoux for instance.

Oh yeah! The local drive in was called The Bayou Drive In so I confused bayou and bijoux for a while as well.

'I'm paddling my bateau down the Bijou, to my beloved bayou to eat gumbo...'

Sorry, I couldn't get 'Cajun queens' into that lyric.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yog-cNfqnig

Bijou seems to be a popular name for dinnerware patterns.


http://www.replacements.com/webquote/swibijr.htm
http://www.replacements.com/webquote/picbij.htm
http://www.replacements.com/webquote/myrbijr.htm
http://www.replacements.com/webquote/edjbij.htm

Talk about synchronicity...just after all this discussion and Paul's posting of 'Jambalaya', I heard the same song again.

It's played in the opening of Tig Notaro's 'One Mississippi' on Amazon Prime. We were watching the pilot - the series is coming soon.

I'd recommend it, by the way. But beware of the term 'comedy' - the pilot caused some tears over here.