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FAXING IT OVER NOW This one is not a particularly common phrase. It's the last Wheel of Fortune puzzle I have - for now.

Very close. It's something that doesn't get done much these days.

It is a difficult one with a number of solutions. The actual puzzle was DOZING OFF.

I was watching an episode of the TV program In Search Of Monsters (Foxtel Animal Planet channel) which related to the Wendigo. I looked this up on the internet, and while it is a creature of native American folklore which has an isatiable hunger for human flesh, I also read this: As a concept, the wendigo can apply to any person, idea, or movement infected by a corrosive drive toward self-aggrandizing greed and excessive consumption, traits that sow disharmony and destruction if left unchecked. Ojibwe scholar Brady DeSanti asserts that the wendigo "can be understood as a marker indicating... a person... imbalanced both internally and toward the larger community of human and spiritual beings around them." Does this remind you of anyone?

It's basically like a crossword puzzle, where the clues are the type of puzzle, eg. place, person, phrase, food and drink, around the house, etc. In the first part of the program, you spin a wheel to determine a cash prize or special, such as a trip, or $1 million, or you could spin up Bankrupt, where you loose what you have accumulated. To lock in the prize, you have to guess a letter. If correct, the letter is placed in the puzzle. If not, you forgo the gift. When there are sufficient letters revealed, you can choose to guess the puzzle. After a number of puzzles, the person who has accumulated the highest prize money goes on the the championship round, which is what I post here. If you can guess the final puzzle, you take home what you accumulated, plus the final prize, which may be $40,000 or a car. It's pretty much a guessing game, not a knowledge quiz. It has been running for over 20 years, in multiple countries.

It fits, but the phrase, again, is a bit more whimsical. That's why it's so hard to win the large cash prizes.Answer these last tough puzzles, and you could win a minimum US$40,000 in addition to what you earned getting to the final.

Trump has opted out of the one on one with Albo and is returning to the US early, possible because of Iran's plea for help to end the situation with Israel. Albo will only get to speak to him at the leader's dinner.

Jerry is correct. There is no requirement to know the foreign words or spelling, it was simply to see how many foreign numbers were listed. Remember, you only get 30 seconds to lock in your answer.

Sorry, try again.

Yes Spacey, you are both right.

Correct. Both had 4 goes, crosses won and were last to play, so noughts were first.

Spying, or rather having a deepfake made, is the reason I am resisting Facebooks blackmail demand for a facial video "for identification purposes". Without it, I am locked out of Facebook. The annoying thing is, the PC's they want to be able to identify me on are old recycled desktops with monitors that don't have webcams. That means no DJT updates, no quickies, no silly pictures, and the brain teasers I have on file are running out. And I miss my trivia quizzes to keep the old grey matter ticking.

Correct again, Marty.

Correct Marty. The position of each ball from the centre matches the hour position on a clockface. X = ?

The solution is GOOFING OFF.

AUKUS: America saving us from ourselves

A little more whimsical than that.

Then the new Exhibition Building in Docklands was named Jeff's Shed, even if a nickname.

Do you think the Republicans will be shredded like the Libs were?

Correct.

Brian Wilson, founder and lead singer of the Beach Boys, has died aged 82.

Ignoring Jerry's crude attempt at humour, no-one hazard a guess?

Here's a radical thought for the Random Thought thread. Instead of those Buy One, Get One More ads, why not Buy One, Pay Half the Price?

The protests are spreading to Chicago and Dallas.