Jasdip, this is a repeat.

This is a repeat. But the bonus is not. And I think I actually got it!

Let me know if this is a repeat

Not a repeat for me - and it's a lot harder than the last one!

Got 'em all...

Not a repeat for me! I've only got a couple so far.

Lacking A3

I need B3 and I'm not sure about the Bonus.

if its a repeat i missed it the first time. missing a bunch.

I just looked at it and don't have time to figure puzzles now but this is new to me. Never saw it before.

I haven't seen this one before, but some of the parts are similar to some we've had in the past.

I'm not getting A3 or B3. If A1 is what I think it is, it's backwards of how I've always said it. And I have a couple of answers for D3, Similar meanings, just said differently.

One answer jumped out at me immediately for the bonus, but I don't think it is right, have to give it some more thought.

Rusty

I don;t do very well with the words within words so I'm missing a few. I'll come back later to them.

I don't have A2, A3, B2 or B3.

Just looking at this for the first time and have all except for the A's. Will come back in a bit after untangling a work "puzzle"....maybe this will seem easier then!

I just got B3.

So then, blfenton, solve B2 the same way.

And I still don't have any of the As. Trying to make A2 into something with the word I see, but not getting there. Hmmm...

No ideas for A1 & 3 here either.

Also stumped by B3, D1 &3.

I sort of think I know what the bonus is...

Ahh - just got B2. Thanks to letters and more coffee. If I need a cup of coffee to figure out each of the ones that I'm missing you all know what I'll be doing for the rest of the day.

I just got B3!

I've come up with a 'maybe' for A3, but B3 is still Greek to me, anyone have a hint?

Rusty

Missing A2 and B3. Couple possibilities for D1 and I’ll have to decide what’s best before reading solution. Haven’t read this thread as I don’t want hints yet.

For those of you still guessing.......here are the answers.

Crossing the t's and dotting the i's

Last of the Mohicans

Clarinet solo

Wind beneath my wings

Pardon me

Ian Fleming

Peace on Earth

High intensity

Reverse Psychology

Get off my back

Very intense

Separate Ways

and

Within easy reach

Hot dog! although, I also had ”part ways”, “parted ways”, and ”ways apart”. If this were Jeopardy, I think I’d get points for those, doncha think?

And whew, I got B3 just in time.

I never did get A3. Sigh. Shouldn't that SO be down at the bottom?

Missed the mohicans and fleming altogether, had parted ways

I didn't get A2 or A3 = The Last of the Mohicans means absolutely nothing to me. I would never have gotten that. But in other news - I finally got the bonus! Yea!

Who or what is an Ian Fleming? ? ? No wonder I couldn't get that one! Did get all the rest, even though I've always said A1 as 'Dot your I's and cross your T's'. And the correct bonus answer jumped out at me almost immediately, but it didn't and still doesn't, seem to fit. Oh well, , , , ,

Rusty

Ian (or E in ) Fleming wrote the James Bond novels.

I agree that dot first and cross second is the norm.

Missed the mohicans and fleming altogether, had parted ways

Same here.

Embarrassed to say I never did get the As....and having a "duh!" moment now that I see them. They weren't really that much harder than the others, but I suppose that's why we love these - always something to think about. Thanks, Jasdip - hope you had a fun birthday!

i cross my T’s and dot my I’s. I feel like if I did it the other way everything would come out backwards.

Rusty, Ian Fleming also wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

Sometimes I cross my Ts and dot my i’s. Sometimes I dot my i’s and cross my t’s. I never thought about which comes first!

No wonder I've never heard of Fleming, not a fan of James Bond, at all! Nor have I ever given any thought to who might have written Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Just one more reason I like these puzzles, seems I learn something new with each one. That's part of the fun of them!

Rusty

"Last of the Mohicans" is a historical novel written by James Fennimore Cooper way back when. I believe it was part of a series. I remember it being part of one of my literature classes, but I don't remember what grade I was in. It's also been made into a movie, and I think there is a fairly well known painting that was inspired by it.

Rusty

Rusty, i thought the same thing, and it took me forever to get A1 because i wasnt thinking that way. i never got A3 either. The SO/solo part just never came to me. I was pretty distracted with other things Sunday and never really got ’into’ this puzzle but it was still fun to spend what little time I had on it.

Anybody who was a fan of M.A.S.H. might also know 'The Last Of The Mohicans' because Hawkeye claimed to be named after the main character from it. That was the only one in line A that I figured out.

The clarinet thing totally escaped me, as did the Ian Fleming thing. I know who that is, but it never occurred to me to guess a proper name.

The T's and I's thing is just not clear to me. Those aren't dots, they're periods, IMPO.

D1 doesn't make sense to me either as a clue.

We love MASH, and it is on every evening locally from 6 ro 7. So that’s why the Mohicans title is in my head.

My son plays the clarinet, so I got that one though I wasn’t sure about it.

One thing I’ve learned with this puzzle, is to flex my brain. It took me awhile to get the Ts and Is one: once I stopped thinking of them as periods, and instead as dots, which is what periods are, I got it.