ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ MAKING A CASE]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ MAKING A CASE]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
Today, I’m off to do the 35-Across. It’s my first one, so expect a full report on either Monday or Wednesday. I guess it all depends on how burnt out I am after this weekend of 48+ straight hours of puzzling. Who knows? Anyway, wish me luck.
I’d first read about the 35-Across in “Games” back in 1991. (Found it on the web here.) It sounded like my kind of thing. Hell, I grew up in the suburbs of Boston, so maybe, just maybe someday I’d get to it. But other things got in the way and the excuses piled up: all the years spent in a band, the “lost decade” wherein I pretended I wasn’t really a member of he puzzling community, etc. Well, excuses no more. My condo is in the shadows of M.I.T., so I’m within stumbling distance of the contest. Emphasis on the word “stumbling.” No way I’m catching cat naps on the campus floor, thank you, when my own bed is just around the corner, thank you.
You might be asking, who’s on your team, Brendan? Regular readers of the blog might know the name of puzzlemaker Eric Berlin (he invited me to join his team “Palindrome”). And in a weird aligning of the planets, I happen to find myself on the same team of an Eric Albert, the author of said “Games” magazine article that sparked my interest in the hunt in the first place. Wowza. Looks like I’m on a winning team too as evidenced in the list of past winners on the wiki page. (Pressure’s on, gulp.)
Before I go: could the powers that be out there please make this band famous? Thanks ahead of time
Share the puzzle. New one on Monday.
hey sherlock, what about 12-down? 😛
Good luck, BEQ!!
Nice puzzle, but I can’t figure out the theme??
Christ, I think I remember that article. Good luck.
I guess the theme has to with the 35-Across? Or maybe just “making a case” generally.
The long answers contain BODY, ALIBI, MYSTERY, DICK and WEAPONS. All we need is a MOTIVE and we can wrap this up nicely.
Love the subtlety of the theme answers. Very refined and dignified (with the exception of the puzzle’s subtitle), as mysteries should be! I assume you’d like Oh No Ono to become famous for their very crossword-friendly name? Love it.
Man, this Mystery Hunt thing is hard. I’m doing it for the first time this year too (albeit remotely, from Canada).
I have got to get me on a Mystery Hunt team in the future. Such a cool event. I think I first heard about it on this episode of This American Life: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1229
This puzzle was on the Easy side of Medium for me. The NE was the toughest section for me, but Roker helped seal the deal.
Thanks for the puzzle, BEQ. Have fun at the Hunt.
Re, 32D clue, should City be city?
Especially when 32D’s a village.
Easium with pockets of mard in NE and SW (sounds like a weather forecast). I’m not a constructor, so I’m uncertain re the propriety of two know-it-or-don’ts (11D, 12D) crossing another (25A) in NE. Had to google “Tunnelbane” for OSLO, which gave me AL_O_ER, at which time my ear vaguely recalled hearing that name, but…
I miss MST3K. I over-thought “Built and stacked” (“nooo, it’s just *gotta* be slant”). And my favorite clue was “Fish-eating bird of crosswords” (reminded me of “Constructors’ favorite cookie”).
Best of at MIT.
I got Naticked in the SE by the horse/protagonist/Gibby cross cluster f**k. Other than that corner it was on the easium side. Going back a puzzle I’d never heard of VAMPIRE WEEKEND until Wed. and then they were on Craig last night. Not a bad group. Slightly reminiscent of The Moody Blues.