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All I can think of is that the investigators were "fishing" for something that wasn't there (the "ghost")--in this case, Hughes misappropriating tax dollars.

I thought it was a talk balloon around his name. I was not rooting for him either. I may be an old grouch, but I'm not crazy about contestants who try too hard to be "fun." I was glad Lindsey was able to achieve second place going into FJ. I agree she should not have gotten credit for "Boise, Idaho" though. I wonder if it was pity on the judges' part, since she looked as though she was going to be a total disaster in the early part of the first round.

I could have sworn the Coca Cola font appeared in FJ before, so I was surprised it was a TS. I was right, but I was shocked by how long ago it was: June 19, 2008. The clue was "Registered in 1893, this product's trademark is written in the Spencerian script of bookkeeper Frank Robinson." (Source) There was also a question about its "Georgia green" glass bottle almost a year ago.

I was almost certain that FJ would be a TS tonight; you'd have to be a movie buff to remember that Mae West not only acted but wrote. I was amused at the thought of Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf writing "spicy scenes." Dorothy Parker wasn't a bad guess though. I thought David would last longer; he was so dominant in his earlier games.

It's vanilla, apart from the mix-ins.

To commemorate the end of summer, I finally bought a scoop of Baskin Robbins Beach Day. The blue color was a bit weird--not sure if it's supposed to be the sea or the sky--but it was otherwise great. It had milk chocolate caramel "turtles" and graham crackers.

I recently tried mandarinquats, a cross between a mandarin and a kumquat. They're more like the latter in that you can eat the peel. Delicious!

Nora Joyce, wife of James Joyce.

Do they use the money to pay their children's tuition to Hudson University before flying off somewhere on Oceanic Airlines?

I did not expect to know FJ last night, since I know next to nothing about the world of finance. But as a New Yorker, I got Bowery right away. Joe DiMaggio did ads for the bank in the 70's and 80's.

I'm the same; I'll bake multiple cakes in a week but put off making a pot of soup for myself--maybe because I like to think about baking making others happy. I also like the exactitude of baking and the fact that I'm not expected to tinker with the recipe.

I was disappointed that nobody knew Roz Chast; I love her work! I also knew figuratively, prohibitionist, pulchritudinous, and carbohydrates. FJ was right up my alley, but I thought it might be hard for non-classicists. Obviously Ovid is better known than I thought.

I don't know about making me a better cook, but there are three YouTube channels that I really like: The Anti-Chef. He started out cooking from Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking and has since branched out to other classic cookbooks. You really root for the guy to try again when he screws up. B. Dylan Hollis specializes in cooking retro dishes, especially desserts, both good and bad. You need some tolerance for his cutesy vocabulary, like calling baking powder "floof powder" and eggs "eggies." Cooking the Books. Another channel specializing in dishes from vintage cookbooks. Anna, the cook, is much calmer than Hollis, and she doesn't treat food trends of the past condescendingly.

Thanks for the exact phrasing. I guess one could argue that cookies aren't a staple of afternoon tea the way scones are, but the rest of the clue definitely fits. I thought of joke on Frasier: Frasier tells the waitress at his favorite coffee shop that when she serves a biscotto to his blue collar dad Martin, she should call it a "cookie." (Of course, Martin knew the correct name, having worked with Italians.)

I can't find the exact wording of the clue, but would "cookie" have been an acceptable answer instead of "scone"? It's also of Dutch origin, from "koekje" ("little cake').