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They had "homer" a few days ago.
I only know Homer (as in the Greek tragedy or the main character in The Simpsons).
I didn't think homer would be a word as it's really a name, but it was really the only thing that sounded like it might be the solution.
Had to look it up and apparently it's an American word for an American game mostly played by Americans (homerun, but without the "un") 
Either that or a carrier pigeon.
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It can also mean a fanatic sports team fan who lives, breaths and bleeds for the home team that can do no wrong. (Dang refs got it in for us).
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Homer for homerun is already informal, I think homer for sports fan is informal informal.
That meaning isn't mentioned in online dictionaries anyway 
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Quote: I think homer for sports fan is informal informal.
No argument there and it might be a colloqialism local to where I lived when I would hear it which was the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area of Minnesota (a bunch of homers if there ever were any). 
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It's also a unit of measure used in Biblical times.
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Wow, apparently that's the same word in Dutch.
Never heard of it.
Found it on Wikipedia, but online dictionaries don't mention it.
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haha yes, that one had me stumped for a while. I'd only got one more attempt, I had ?OMER but only letters like M, X, Z .. and H left. I couldn't bring myself to believe the NYT were accepting names as valid dictionary words. I tried H hoping I would be wrong... 
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I failed on HOMER but it told me that proper names are possible. Some time ago the answer was something like COLOR which told me that US spellings are possible, which is not surprising.
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It's all US spelling, isn't it? 
After all, it's from New York Times, not London Times 
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Yeah, same here
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Dished out, left short assembly (8)
Dished CONC AVE
out (around)
left short L
assembly
CONCLAVE
I'll try a hard one tomorrow, methinks ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Time zone trap again today - I had to reinstall one of our vendor's apps this morning first thing - by the time I got to looking for the CCC you had posted the solution. (Not sure I would have figured out the "left short" clue, even though it seems obvious now that you explained it!  )
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And UPS are still using the same methods, judging by the state of every parcel I get from them ...
UPS: Ur Package, Smashed
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I'll never forget receiving a rack mountable UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply) from UPS (shipper). They actually managed to mangle it.
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Dished out, left short assembly (8)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Why have you posted this here, is it supposed to be a reply to some question?
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Nope, it's just spam ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yeah! After 1 hour queue I still only have downloaded 0 byte.... Wtf Microsoft?! 
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Worked fine here: VS2019, 2022preview, 2022 ... all done!
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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Graeme_Grant wrote: VS2019, 2022preview
confused... 17.2 is an update on VS2022 (non preview)... are we talking about the same thing? 
Anyway, trying the installer instead of the update, it is doing nothing either.. 
I am using the Community edition, that might be the problem...
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Yes, we are ... VS2019 also had an update...
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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Installed VS2022 Pro v17.1.6 yesterday without any problems ...
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yeah, yeah, but what about updating 17.1.6 to 17.2?
17.1.6 is like so 2000 late now...
Anyway the problem is known now... 
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