Thursday, November 30, 2023 David Goldberg, Matthew Goldenberg
Sow's Ear to a Silk Purse Eric Bernhardt Bernie's Blues 2020 It's often said that "you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear", but our soloist Eric Bernhardt does exactly the opposite in his rift above called Sow's Ear to a Silk Purse . And so too do our new team of constructors for today's puzzle: David Goldenberg and Matthew Goldenberg . They do this by taking the nicknames found in five fictional themers and fancifying them with formal first names . Here are the resulting fills, followed by the names their friends call them ... 18A. Formal name of a tech business?: DOROTHY COM . Nickname: DOT COM . A dot.com is a company that does most of its business on the Internet , usually through a website on the World Wide Web that uses the popular top-level domain ( TLD ) ".com". As of 2021, .com is by far the most used TLD, with almost half of all registrations. 23A. Formal name of a bun...