ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ SOMETHING FOR NOTHING]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ SOMETHING FOR NOTHING]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
Love the sentiment in today’s puzzle. Love the composer in question too. Love this performance of the composer’s most (in)famous work. More than a little stunning.
Meanwhile, about that picture … I didn’t want to give too much more away for the puzzle (maybe gave away too much with that last paragraph), so I was kinda stuck with what to use. One Google search later using one of the key words in today’s theme yielded this. I don’t know why it did. So let’s just embrace the surreality of it and assume somehow someway they’re connected with each other.
Share the puzzle. New one on Friday.
V. nice. And interesting vertical design–makes a nice change!
PERUSERS! Krushed. I could think only of NONUSERS, which makes no sense, but … I was able to justify it. Also had FLIT AWAY, misunderstanding the meaning of “Move” in that clue. Nice work. Love the sentiment of the Cage quote.
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Not sure I entirely like the way the theme entries aren’t arranged in order, it being a quote and all, but then from experience, getting a quote to fit is far from easy! Gotta love the word JEJUNE though, and the clue for SPOKE!
All I can think of after 1A is Woody Allen’s “Love and Death” and the line “You have the temerity to say that I’m talking to you out of jejunosity? I am one of the most june people in all the Russias”
Also boo for John Cage, Yay for Thom Yorke.
That quote, I think for anybody who’s trying to be creative, speaks volumes.
What are you talking about!? The answers appear in order if you read the order of the down clues!
Nice quote.
This has nothing to do with the puzzle, but for BEQ. I know you will be interested. Maybe it is more than a rumor… http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/09/the_pavement_re.html
Transport is arranged! http://bit.ly/X5R18
Right with you on the sentiment and Cage. A 5-star for me, despite “___ alai”, but then you were just being ironic, right? Dunno about hard though. Not enough rap artists in there for that. Medium for me.
Have to admit, I fast-fowarded the video, but then I’ve heard it so many times.
I think this puzzle represents the ONLY usage of that word I’ve ever seen/heard outside of Love and Death.
I did a down theme, (after having done it across first), because I wanted to use ‘down’ in the title, and was surprised at how the theme answers ended up bunched together, clue-wise/numerically, even though they were separated nicely in the grid.
Quote puzzles are great, imo, although I guess a lot of folks don’t like them.
Like DrBB this was more medium than hard for me (whereas Monday’s was the reverse). Somehow I was sure that 1A was spelled JEJEUNE (too much French, I guess), but I see that you’re correct. Happily I magically got CLASPS at 44D before having to deal with 62A so I didn’t fall into Rex’s trap.
can someone explain the SPOKE clue for me? i’m guessing it’s not to do with wheels, since (on bikes, anyway) spokes connect hubs to rims.
Easier than Mon. for me too. Now all I need to do is check out the video and find out who John Cage is.
So, who was it who told BEQ that you can’t put the quotes of a quote puzzle in the down clues?
Good (medium) puzzle.
Enjoyable — Best quote since the Coltrane puzzle. I knew the word JEJUNE without having any clue what it meant.
This one was originally WAY harder, I had to lose two crap entries, and I think it became a medium. Sorry about that. I’ll put more rap in the puzzles for the future.
I think good quotes make good puzzles. Glad you agree.
In networking terms (either electronically or physically), “Hub and Spoke” implies a central (centric?) service with many offshoots. Dunno if still happens, but FEDEX used to be famous for Atlanta being the main hub, with a zillion ‘spokes’ to other airports. Ergo, one spoke (say “Memphis”) from Atlanta would be an end on that hub.
Or, I don’t know what I’m talking about, and a spoke is really a vector, not a node, and therefore someone else can explain.
I was reading from left to right in the grid. Apparently my brain works different from everyone else. Sorry about that.