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 !!!!!!
“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.”
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.
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
I Mad Am I over 3 years ago
Not a Seven-letter-word… but how about Embattled?
zekepotato over 3 years ago
“torture” is seven letters. “Embattled” is nine.
Steve James over 3 years ago
Bagpipe sound is five letters, “skirl”
wiatr over 3 years ago
I like the pipes. I must have a bit of Scots blood in me.
gopher gofer over 3 years ago
‘noxious’…
amethyst52 Premium Member over 3 years ago
I love bagpipes!
scote1379 Premium Member over 3 years ago
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 !!!!!!
ajr58(1) over 3 years ago
She must be thinking about accordions.
cocavan11 over 3 years ago
“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.”
rmercer Premium Member over 3 years ago
This is going to take at least 11 letters!
[Traveler] Premium Member over 3 years ago
Why do you often see bagpipe players walking while playing? To get away from the noise.
bookworm0812 over 3 years ago
Hey! Be nice to the bagpipes! I love that music!
Bookworm over 3 years ago
Seven letter word for bagpipes playing; D-R-O-N-I-N-G.
cubswin2016 over 3 years ago
Good answer! Good answer!
carlzr over 3 years ago
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.
WaitingMan over 3 years ago
Musical
Waddling Eagle over 3 years ago
The word you are looking for is “Pibroch.”
caring55 over 3 years ago
they are evocative but that’s not a 7 letter word either. funerals, John Wayne movies – —
COL Crash over 3 years ago
Catrape. It’s not a real word, but it works.
kathleenhicks62 over 3 years ago
I like them also-no torture here.
stamps over 3 years ago
SQUANXX
paranormal over 3 years ago
S-C-R-E-E-C-H?
DCBakerEsq over 3 years ago
Bagpipes are just an excuse to wear a kilt.
Ukko wilko over 3 years ago
Skirrel
AnnChovie over 3 years ago
EXACTLY!!!
P51Strega over 3 years ago
M E L O D I C
tinstar over 3 years ago
I’m kinda of lacking a couple of letters, here, but, I always thought the sound a bagpipe makes is, “skirl.”
chinadad99 Premium Member over 3 years ago
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.”
chinadad99 Premium Member over 3 years ago
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.
LenSatic over 3 years ago
“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
oakie817 over 3 years ago
everyone check out the snakecharmer on youtube…heavy metal bagpipes…she is so awesome
mistercatworks over 3 years ago
Squeals
banjoAhhh! over 3 years ago
Ahem. That title is taken by the Banjo, thank you very much.