33A: "Break points?" for ADS --- why the question mark? It's not a pun. It's not a strained meaning. Many break points are arrived at after deuce. I held off writing in the A for a long time because it couldn't possibly be right.
Can ADS be legitimately clued as a reference to advantages in tennis?
They've beaten us down over the years with ADIN, so I simply assumed so without looking it up. NI3 does support it: ad[2] is
Etymology: by shortening
: ADVANTAGE 5 <ad in> <my ad>
Thanks to the postings here, I now understand that perhaps the pun was supposed to be about an ad being something that happens at the point of a commercial break, or being the point of having a commercial break, but that seems even weaker.
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Date: 2006-11-09 05:50 pm (UTC)Can ADS be legitimately clued as a reference to advantages in tennis?
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Date: 2006-11-09 06:40 pm (UTC)They've beaten us down over the years with ADIN, so I simply assumed so without looking it up. NI3 does support it: ad[2] is
Thanks to the postings here, I now understand that perhaps the pun was supposed to be about an ad being something that happens at the point of a commercial break, or being the point of having a commercial break, but that seems even weaker.