Wordplay

TWO gents named Gregory Speck and Burt Bogar are sending info on lexophilia, the love for words: Tune a piano but can’t tuna fish . . . A broken pencil’s pointless . . . Fish in schools take debate ... Calendar thief got 12 months ... When LA smog lifts UCLA . . . Batteries were given out free of charge ... Dentist and manicurist fought tooth and nail . . . A will’s a dead giveaway . . . Her marriage brought a new name and a dress . . . Boiled eggs are hard to beat.

Seen one shopping center, you’ve seen a mall ... Cops found a kindergarten child resisting a rest . . . Entire left side was cut but guy’s all right now . . . A bicycle can’t stand alone; it’s just two tired . . . A hungry clock goes back four seconds . . . He fell onto an up- holstery machine and is now fully recovered ... Their photographic memory wasn’t developed ... Seeing her first gray hair she thought she’d die ... Acupuncture’s a jab well done. That’s the point.

And: If too big for your pants, you’re totally exposed in the end.

QUEENS diner. Grilled cheese and tomato sandwich plus ginger ale, and reader Al Schneider’s check was $94.49. He writes, “They subsequently corrected it but, how many tourists would’ve paid that amount?” Only in New York, kids, only in New York.