ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ BOYS CLUB]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ BOYS CLUB]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
Keeping this one brief as we’re in the tail end of the move (honest to God, this is the last time I will be talking about this move) … and … it’s summer already? Where’s the year going?
This puzzle is another classic I’m re-running. Hope Time Out doesn’t care. Or the solvers. I guess I’ll know if I see people burning effigies of myself.
Speaking of rerunning Time Out puzzles: I am pleased to announce that I’m yet another person in the long line of bloggers who transformed their blog into a book deal. The superstars over at Sterling will be compiling the greatest hits from my 15 month stint at Time Out New York and we’ll be filling in the gaps with work from this here blog. It’s title: “Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n’ Roll Crosswords.” Guaranteed to offend, or at the very least throw a shock into the puzzling system. It’s due to drop in the fall of 2010. (2010? Doesn’t that sound like a lifetime away? Is that really next year? When did we suddenly get to all these science fiction-sounding years?) Anyway, I’m psyched. You should be too.
By the way: I’m still negotiating the line in the contract that says I’m supposed to overdose just before the book’s published in order to drum up some cheap sales. I’ll let you know how that one goes.
And, I’ll let you know how the movie rights go as well (negotiations have begun). We’re pretty sure we can get Don Cheadle on board to play me.
Okay, enjoy this one (those who’ve never seen it before). New one on Wednesday, I swear! D.C. peeps: hit me up and let’s party. Liz and I will be down there starting tonight.
Way to go, babe… That’s what I’m talking about!
Condo! Book deal! Hooray!
Today’s poll is missing the option of having Christopher Lloyd play you as an old man.
If you clue the original phrases with an XY slant, you could have the following, which amuse me but perhaps nobody else:
17A. [Big ball for men?]]
49A. [Will Cather novel?]
10D. [Supporting reproductive rights for men?]
25D. [Football and baseball star becomes all man?]
I loved the “Put a price on freedom?” clue. Very good.
Nice one. I thought solving it the theme seemed slightly straight forward to be a blog original. Nice to see I was right.
In DC, eat crab cakes.
Found the crossing of DELES and SELLE too obscure (but then, DELES is probably some crosswordese I haven’t picked up). SAY AH was an “!” moment, as the clue had me thinking of the cops. Everything else was great and I liked the layout of this one.
@AndyReaser: Crab cakes are Maryland fare. For truly local DC fare, go to Ben’s Chili Bowl for a chili half-smoke.
Deles, stets and selle. Best of luck on the book deal, sounds like loads of fun.
Thanks.
Hmm… not sure I’m sold on the all man cluing. This was just a straightforward add an XY theme.
Thanks.
Hmm… are you saying my older puzzles are straightforward? Or are the blog puzzles more gonzo?
I will admit that SELLE sucked big-time.
Thanks TinaB.
I think I’m saying both. I like the old puzzles just fine, and I would say in the NYT world, yours certainly tend to be on the hipper side of things, but it’s still a part of the NYT solar system. This Time Out one skews cooler than the NYT, but it’s in the Time Out solar system.
But the ones you make for the blog… shit man, you just don’t give a fuck.
And I mean that in the best possible way.
I’m picturing either Eric Stoltz, Jim Gaffigan or Zach Galifinakis to play you. Or a cross between the three.
Whoever plays you, you should get a cameo as the bartender who supplies the dude playing you with a never-ending steam of PBR.
Well, according to the poll, Cate Blanchett is winning in a landslide.
I like it!
Congratulations on the book deal!