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[ElViento]

I like this way of thinking. "Read between the lines" is defined as "read what is implied but not expressed on the surface" (to state the reasonably obvious) by Websters online.

To take the implication from the list.. location & time... and an implication from 'sounds like'...

Sonar? something related to Sonar? .. tried sonar.wav, sonar_detector.wav and sonar_detection.wav. Needless to say, no dice.

[Nightmare Tony]

Gambling. Four to one proposition.

[logjones]

On pausing to think about this...

If we think about this puzzle in terms of a clue that says "sounds like" and one that says "read between the lines" that makes the number of possibilities for the solution to this puzzle near infinite.

I mean if you read between the lines of a word that sounds like another word, you'll be there forever coming up with a zillion different - wrong - rhyming words.

And now I've just tried near_infinite.wav, infinite_possibiliy.wav, vague.wav, etc in case we're supposed to think about the shared vague meaning of those two phrases... None of them worked.

But using these two clues looked at from this angle, vague and its synonyms are all that I can come up with.

[sam]

tried

http://www.ilovebees.com/the_read_lines

with no luck. boo.

[johnny5]

[johnny5]

[KwayZeeyT]

Between seems to be a key word or theme. Going on that, I took the word list and removed all the letters from between... B,E,T,W,N. I though maybe that would leave a code or another word. I don't really see any code in there, but it did only leave 4 words untouched. ACROSS, OFF, AMID, and FROM. Maybe you'll see something I don't.

U _ D _ R _ _ A _ H
_ I _ H O U _
O V _ R
_ _ H I _ D
A G A I _ S _
I _ _ O
A _
A S I D _
I _ S I D _
I _
_ _ L O _
A _ O V _
_ _ _ _ A _ H
_ _ S I D _
A F _ _ R
U _ D _ R
A R O U _ D
O _ _ O
A C R O S S
_ Y
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
A M O _ G
_ O _ A R D
_ H R O U G H
A L O _ G
O U _ S I D _
O _
P A S _
O F F
O P P O S I _ _
_ I _ H I _
F R O M
A _ O U _
_ I _ H
A M I D
_ O
_ _ F O R _
R O U _ D
_ H R O U G H O U _
_ _ A R
_ _ Y O _ D

Edit: I missed AMID.

[sam]

[KwayZeeyT]

I tried <blank>_the_middle.wav where <blank>= one of the four left over words. No luck...

[Clayfoot]

"sounds like" = "in tune" ?

[DeceptaconS]

Well I'm trying a different aproach. I'm thinking about a preposition that sounds exactly alike.

Are there any English words that sound alike but mean totally different things.

Example: Know sounds like no
Although, this doesn't work Know_no , I am trying others.

[coweringomega]

Forgive me for being a bit trouty, but here is what I did to attempt to tackle this puzzle.

I looked at merriam-webster and looked up each word. Each word also had a list of other similar words so I grouped them together.

The only words that I couldn't find matches for in M-W and didn't seem to easily fit in with any other groupings were "From" and "Before". Putting these into the phemon website I got "farm, firm, form, forum, frame, beaver, and buffer" (removing the words that I thought were very unlikely, such as Fermi). None of those word combinations worked.

[CoffeeJedi]

the lines are made up of 10 dashes, the only words with 10 letters are underneath and throughout (ok, now that we have the trout out of the way)
thoughout sounds like 'threw out' but underneath has no such sound alike phrase... still, it might be something

[Monkeyboy]

I've been focusing on the 41 prepositions part for a week now, so I tried to "think ouside the box" and focus on the SOUNDS LIKE portion of the clue, like most people are at this point.

I tried searching for 2 word song titles with the preposition in the title of the song. I then took the remaining word to see if it supplied a viable code...

I nearly had a heart attack when the first six words on the list gave me "T_W_O_T_A_P..." and then it all fell apart then the next four gave me "T_B_T_F" Bummer.

Question: Doesn't the Sleeping princess usually give us an introduction-like commentary in the imbeded puzzles? Did we get one this time around?

[peeveen1]

More fuel for the fire ... I found this:

http://www.languagehat.com/archives/001208.php

This bit in particular caught my eye: