Well, Samdarlin', fortunately my beauties (there's a clue for you!) are recovering nicely, BUT the clue which was so stupid was: Fermented. The answer was: yeasted! I don't have the stupid book handy at the mo', but as I recall the crossover words weren't that difficult. I'll look tomorrow, though I should be working instead!**bg**

THANKS for all of the links, too! I'll never get any work done now!

Q, I think you were going somewhere with that - a valiant effort, at the least!

Amos, I didn't mean that yeast and foment were related, only that I would have to find the equivalent of "yeasted/yeasting" for "foment" as the idjits who used it for "fermented!"

Hmmmm...how about a Mudcat cxwrd puzzle?