thank you so much everyone! Now the waiting begins. I have an app't with Doc on Thursday before my chemo.. i'll know then. it was a comedy of errors... the machine broke, the repair person was in, took the nurse two times to access my port, I dropped my eyeglass case in the parking lot as I was leaving and trying to get my sunglasses out. (Only the case broke)... I met DH as subway afterwards... and DS's team lost their first game yesterday... to the worst team. lol

I, too, think FMW has made too many mistakes to make her story credible. Don't get me wrong, I loved the story at first and eagerly anticipated the next update. But, as a critical thinker, the holes in her story got to be too much for me; many of those holes have been listed in this and other threads. I love a good yarn, but when it's posted as truth it's not fair to us, the readers. Perhaps the story is true; in fact, I hope it is, as I love fairy tales. But if FMW doesn't return to clarify her points or at least continue with the story, well, then I have to believe that she posted a great hoax. She is not trying to con anyone out of anything. I certainly hope not! But she did get an awful lot of offers of clothes and toys, in addition to all those good wishes. I would love to know the real story here - truth, fiction, great hoax, whatever it is.

SATURDAY UPDATE: These are the questions currently open:- Q. What do you call.. #63...a stampede (2,3) - Annie SOLVED: cattle skedaddle #68 ... a jewish deli pamphlet (2,2) - Annie #70...a dog's pants (2,2) - Annie SOLVED: Schnauzer's trousers #71 ... rate candy (1,1)- Annie SOLVED: judge fudge #72 .... transportation for a sandwich garnish (2,3)- Annie #73....make your cohabitant look younger (4,2)- Annie SOLVED: rejuvenate roommate #74...a happy fighting squad (2,4) - Moonie #75... a tree friend (2,3) - Moonie #76 ... guitar lotion (3,3) - Moonie SOLVED: liniment instrument #77 ... ability to move loyalty (4,3) - Moonie SOLVED: locomotion devotion #78...what Mr Trump believes he had at his inauguration? (2,2) - Comtesse #79...a British politician with blood on his hands? (2,2) - Comtesse #80...a more regretful soldier? (3,3) - Comtesse #81...a deep-thinking 4-legged friend? (2,2) - Comtesse #82...a philosophical farm animal? (1,1) - Comtesse ALL NEW PLAYERS WELCOME! Please post all guesses, comments and questions on the other SinisterMinister thread. You'll also find general discussion there, and sometimes extra clues from the setters. Rules of the game are at the top of this thread. Please ask if there's anything you're unsure of. Happy rhyming! :-)

TUESDAY UPDATE: These are the questions currently open: What do you call.... #523...a laid-back creature (2,2) - Jasdip #530... a terrific decision (3,3) - moonie #532 ... the devil as a sideboard? (This might actually be a ~ ... not sure how common one word is.) (1,3) -chibimimi #551 ... a polite animal that's not native to North America (3,4) - Jasdip SOLVED cordial marsupial #556 ...to call up a formal examination of the facts? (2,2) - comtesse #570 ... a street vendor who sells non-filling food? (2,2) - chibimimi ?577 ...Herb with a bad vibe (4,3) - Outside #581 ...judge someone's mental fitness ahead of time (3,2) - Annie ~583 ... Helen Keller could be described as such (2,3) - Annie **587...buy your fare ahead of time for this transportation (2,2) - Annie #591 ... you are miffed that someone made a mess with chocolate candy (2,1) - Annie #593 ... make your ovaries dry up (1,3) - Annie **595 ... daylight shines on currency (2,2) - Annie SOLVED sunny money #601 ... watered down stand-in (2,3) - Annie SOLVED dilute substitute #602... a snifter-full at the ready (2,2) - Annie SOLVED handy brandy #603...it becomes this when the pope attaches a few pages together (2,2) - Annie SOLVED Papal staple #604 ... you wash Mama Sheep (2,1) - Annie SOLVED shampoo ewe #605... take this class to learn how to race cars. (2,3) - moonie #606... to question the prisoner. (4,2) - moonie SOLVED interrogate inmate #607... fearless outlaw (3,3) - moonie ** 608 ... run-of-the-mill tile art? (3,3) -- chibimimi SOLVED prosaic mosaic # or ~ 609 ... elaborate fortune-telling? (2, 4) -- chibimimi #610 ... out-of-time word puzzle? (5,3) -- chibimimi #611 ... childhood disease of a ferret's cousin? (2,2) -- chibimimi **612 ... a ballad about chopped veggies? (2,2) -- chibimimi #613 ... a faux boundary? (4,4) -- chibimimi #614 ... the difference between true north and magnetic north? (4,4) --chibimimi ALL NEW PLAYERS WELCOME! Please post all guesses, comments and questions on the other SinisterMinister thread. You'll also find general discussion there, and sometimes extra clues from the setters. NOTE: ** clues are ones the author considers easier ~ clues use difficult or unusual vocabulary words % clues that use slang or contractions like ain't or somethin' ? clues that are a pun, quip, quirky or humorous Happy rhyming! :-)