ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
UPDATE: I was away from my computer for the last three days, so I was unaware of the problem with the grid. It is corrected now. Thanks.
How awesome is that picture? Judi Dench solving a crossword, in the Guardian, no less, while taking a break shooting what appears to be that crappy mini-series “Cranford.” I love, love, love that picture. Don’t ask me how I stumbled upon that pic. Let’s just acknowledge its awesomeness and move on.
Okay, fine. Since you asked. Why’d I run the pic? “Cranford” is one of Liz’s umpteenmillion inside jokes that she’s constantly dropping. Why “Cranford?” Don’t ask. It’s too long and intricate a joke, I’ve ceased understanding it. No matter. Liz checks my site out, even if she doesn’t solve any of the puzzles. But I suspect she’ll love that Judi Dench is doing a crossword. Some weird full-circle shit going on here.
And no, the joke doesn’t involve BEQ in a bonnet or that sort of thing. I know: a lot of you’d like to see that.
Moving on: I’m a little behind in chiming in on the amazing themeless work that is now regularly appearing in the Washington Post on Sundays. If you haven’t done any of them yet, eight are at your disposal, just go here and get at them. They’re so smooth and well done, it’s no surprise, really, when you consider the team behind them: all three of the Crossword Jesuses, Trip Payne and Karen Tracey with Peter Gordon calling the shots. Anyway, I can’t throw out enough superlatives from them, so instead I’ll drop this: they’re so good, I’ve been trying to emulate them on the Themeless Mondays series lately. Yeah, sure, my stuff is still very BEQ-esque. But since imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I would hope any involved with the Post Puzzler who comes here would feel the love.
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Shouldn’t the 39d clue be “Shows…”?
Excellent puzzle as always, but you need to check the spelling on 67A.
yeah. and 46d doesn’t really make any sense with “partook.” and most importantly, the answer to 67a is misspelled. but brendan’s out of town, so these aren’t going to get fixed. which is a shame, since a lot of this puzzle is really really good.
Friday, April 23 puzzle: PLEASE explain what “oneself oneself” is.
repeat oneself. *hight hat*
the typo was kind of funny, since i had COPY EDITOR at 65A for a hot second.
What am I missing? Is DWAYNE WADE incorrect?
Had ‘macho up’ first for sacks up, which really slowed me down in the SW, since I put it mime for SIGN. NW was the last to fall. Took forever to get 1a, and ‘could be’ instead of IT MAY BE didn’t help.
10d was just mean!
Actually, BEQ spelled it right; his parents got it wrong.
[Parents who do that to their kids are a pet peeve of mine…..]
DWAYNE WADE is the “correct” answer in the puzzle (with the crosses), but the actual basketball player is spelled DWYANE WADE.
“…the actual basketball player is spelled DWYANE WADE…”
Raelly? I can’t beleive taht!
iPad came this morning. First thing I did on it was this puzzle. Speed solvers will need flexible thumbs!
Yes, I might have aced the puzzle, had it not been for the missing “S” at 39D. I had “Sucks Up” as in “Suck It Up” because of the singular, but I was not comfortable with it. Had the clue used “Shows”, I would probably not have put “Sucks Up”. That connotates ass-kissing or sycophantic behavior,and is exactly the opposite of showing courage. To be honest, I wasn’t familiar with the term “Sacks Up”, but it makes more sense in the context of showing balls.
Just have to mention that “lith,” I assume meaning lithium, is not an SSRI. It is an elemental metal used mainly for bipolar, not depression.
LITH refers to Lithuania, a Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR, as clued), not lithium, which, as you say, is not a SSRI
Is that prescribed in Lithuania?
wow, who knew dwyane wade’s name was spelled that way. i would’ve made the same mistake as BEQ.
I was proud of my sports fan skills for actually entering it the “right” way at first thinking “ooh, nice tricky BEQ entry, *that* will trip Amy up!” Alas, not to be!
SMOOTH JAZZ seems an apt name for this puzzle. I put in DWAYNE without a thought to seeing it spelled differently. ERVIN Satana escaped me until I had the V.
Same non-errors here. (39D, 46D, 67A)
I guess the only question is whether BEQ sacks up about the fact he renamed Dwayne Wade.
And she’s doing it in pen!
When I got stuck enough to resort to Check All, I had 39A MIME, 10D PSYCHOTIC (which I quickly corrected to TRAUMATIC), and 34A PEES. Once again ran afoul of the dread TID vs. TER issue from just a day or two ago. Also, 9D’s clue said “Bill”, not “Carl”.
Zombies eating my brain.
In addition to what others have remarked re 67A, 39D, and 46D, I’ve gotta add a big WTF re 44A PONE. I grew up in Denver, lived for a time in Phoenix, and have spent the past 18 years in Texas—Tex-Mex territory all—and I practically live on the stuff. Never even seen pone on a menu. Never.
the bizarre spelling of his name is pretty much the *first* thing i remember knowing about d-wade, back when he was at marquette. i knew he was destined for the all-typo team before i realized he was going to be a fixture on the all-NBA team.
i just want to give a shout out to the clue at 1A. best clue i’ve seen in months, massive aha. and also to 8D. love that movie, love that line.
What’s more upsetting, the missing S in the clue to to 39D or the birth certificate of Dwyane Wade? C’mon, birthers, back me up on this one!
Quite late to this party, but I came here to seriously PROTEST two things: (a) usage of ‘partook’–just wrong! and (b)the PONE entry as ‘Tex-Mex.’ You wouldn’t even be able to get away with this one as ‘Southern side-dish.’ It’s just cornbread, period. I had RICE in there for the longest, making it CHEER instead of WHOOP, and ultimately did not care enough to straighten it out. ‘Reveal’ is so helpful for these moments. Can only assume BEQ was in a hurry to get out of town….
It’s not even Tex-Mex when I add jalapenos to my cornbread; it’s just jalapeno cornbread. Bostonians got no business a-tall slinging around words like PONE. Mutter, mutter….
Typos be damned, I am stroking the tip jar for SMOOTHJAZZ and SACKSUP! Agree the clue for 1-A was All-World.
So I get that it’s SACKS UP. But why is it ANO?
Got to agree with most of the above points…. PONE, partook, lack of an S (I too had MACHOUP at first). Took a while to sort through it all. (I’ve never heard of WADE so I was OK with that one). Plus, I’m still wondering about YOWEE, and as deneb hinted at, Julio is a MES not an ANO. Am I missing something?
@jae
From one July to the next is a year; so @deneb, since the months are in Spanish then the year would be ano (with a tilde over the N…)
BTW, I have a really good recipe for cornbread (thin and crisp-crusted, essentially a pone) but you have to have a seasoned cast iron skillet dedicated to your cornbread making… elaine.walizer@gmail.com
@Elaine — Thanks, followed by “Doh” and a head slap!
How many clues and entries change to change DWAYNE to DWYANE?
Oops. And I thought the missing “I” was just another part of the lapse 🙂
Back to my previously muddled state…
Lots, apparently. I didn’t download this one until Thursday, and I’m mystified about the confusion over “SACKS UP.” In the version I did, 39d is KATRINA!
Seriously now … not one person complained that “Rocky Road” is not a brand of ice cream, but a flavor and style? This is not the first BEQ puzzle that could have used an editor.
Not that I don’t enjoy most of BEQ’s puzzles if not all of his cluing but errors make me appreciate editors.