Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for December 09, 2020

Not a Seven-letter-word… but how about Embattled?

“torture” is seven letters. “Embattled” is nine.

Bagpipe sound is five letters, “skirl”

I like the pipes. I must have a bit of Scots blood in me.

‘noxious’…

I love bagpipes!

The Pipes, The Pipes are calling me Home ! I go to a couple of Highland festivals ever summer unfortunately all were canceled this year , DAMN COVID 19 !!!!!!

She must be thinking about accordions.

“Torture” isn’t a sound. Torture is the infliction of emotional and/or physical pain to punish, coerce, extort, and/or give the torturer sadistic pleasure. Brookins & MacNelly could just as easily have had him say “I need a seven-letter word for the effect a bagpipe brings about.”

This is going to take at least 11 letters!

Why do you often see bagpipe players walking while playing? To get away from the noise.

Hey! Be nice to the bagpipes! I love that music!

Seven letter word for bagpipes playing; D-R-O-N-I-N-G.

Good answer! Good answer!

From the movie Braveheart I learned that Edward I (played by Patrick McGoohan) banned the playing of bagpipes as being subversive. Or maybe he was just musical.

Musical

The word you are looking for is “Pibroch.”

they are evocative but that’s not a 7 letter word either. funerals, John Wayne movies – —

Catrape. It’s not a real word, but it works.

I like them also-no torture here.

SQUANXX

S-C-R-E-E-C-H?

Bagpipes are just an excuse to wear a kilt.

Skirrel

EXACTLY!!!

M E L O D I C

I’m kinda of lacking a couple of letters, here, but, I always thought the sound a bagpipe makes is, “skirl.”

Brookins and MacNelly missed this one. The reply in the first panel should have been, “Hmmmmmm”; then the second panel could feature the questioner’s reply: “Thanks.”

Or, taking the Brookins / MacNelly approach, the answer should have been, “Bagpipe.” Of course, that was probably what the author of the crossword puzzle had in mind.

“These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.” — Alfred Hitchcock

everyone check out the snakecharmer on youtube…heavy metal bagpipes…she is so awesome

Squeals

Ahem. That title is taken by the Banjo, thank you very much.