ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ CIRCULAR REASONING]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ CIRCULAR REASONING]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
Super brief post. It’s kind of a weird crossword today. I was basically trying to do something different. Hope you enjoy it.
Oh, and I have a cameo in the episode 12 of “Quiet Desperation,” which is the brainchild of Boston comic/musician Rob Potylo. Basically, it’s a short-form sitcom dealing with Bohemians in Boston trying to “make it.” Rob blurs the lines of reality and fiction because all the principals are real-life comics and musicians who really are trying to “make it.” Anyway, all of the clips are funny as hell even if you don’t know anybody in them. It’s probably worth mentioning that they’re somewhat NSFW.
Share the puzzle. New one on Monday.
So the theme is a Celine Dion song?
That NE corner messed me up bad. Don’t think of vultures as playing “games,” so boo to that clue. Betw. that and not knowing AD REM, BIG BEN was hard to see. Rhyme scheme coulda been many things. BAR could have been several letters. But I persevered. Besides that corner, it was very easy, actually. LEY / ROONEY is a little rough, but who would spell his name ROONEE, really?
MCADOO! Sweet.
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Right on target with the “medium” tag, at least for me. For having 17 (by my count) three-letter answers, the fill was really snappy. That may be one of the marks of a truly great constructor…three letter fill and clues that don’t get the OOXTEPLERNON stamp.
Favorite clue/fill…48A.
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Nope. Rates as an easy BEQ for me. Loved WAITINGGAME for the circling vultures…though out here in Arizona, the vultures circle even after they don’t have to wait anymore.
But Celine Dion? Really.
And now I need just one more person with a time longer than mine and I will FINALLY have made it into the top 50% in time.
Glad to be of service with a longer time. Enjoyed the puzzle very much BEQ. Cruised through everything until the NE corner. Especially enjoyed the middle. Going to see “The Thirty-Nine Steps” next weekend, but have no idea of the plot so that was no help. I like to think if this puzzle had arrived two weeks from now I would have crushed it. Great work as usual.
@Bruce S. I saw it two weeks ago, and there is ZERO reference to Big Ben. It wouldn’t have helped you, I promise 😉 I hope you have the same 2 ladies sit behind you that sat behind me. They were the funniest part of that play.
Fun puzzle with awe inspiring construction 🙂 Is ZAG ever clued in reference to Gonzaga? Just curious. Go Zags! MCADOO is great, even though I have/had no idea who that is. Also, I love the deliberately misleading clue for 9A.
Oh, and also, that video is hilarious. Loved “and also I had some sugar…” Forwarding to friends…
Did you all know that “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” was originally slated to be not a Celine Dion song, but a Meat Loaf one?
Jim Steinman wrote it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_All_Coming_Back_to_Me_Now
Two more Jim Steinman hits meant for Meat Loaf: Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and Air Supply’s Making Love (Out of Nothing At All”. The guy is incredible.
The Pittsburg clue was the evilest one I noted, also like little green man. This was a medium for me. What is up with all the guy’s knowing Celine Dion songs or for that matter Meatloaf?!
Alas and alack! Thank you for being the longer time person…now if only faster people hadn’t also logged in. Being in the top half will have to keep for another day. Enjoy “The 39 Steps!”
Big fan of the circles, especially when, towards the end, they help me figure out the last straggler answers. Many nice clues for standard answers.
Nice puzzle – I particularly liked 40A bringing it all together.
Jim Steinman – writer of the best.bombastic.sing-a-long.guilty.pleasures.EVER. Even if Celine sings it.