ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
Test solvers found this one on the harder-than-hard side, so I eased up just a tad. But assured, it’s still a bear. We don’t want all the puzzles to be easy, right? I’ve got more than a few e-mails asking for ruthless Monday themeless puzzles to offset the easy ones that are run in other markets early in the week. If you think these puzzles (today’s or otherwise) are too hard/easy/easium/mard/etc. or you just want to say “fuck You, Quigley,” leave a comment or shoot me an e-mail. Believe me, I’m doing this for you.
Share the puzzle. New one on Thursday.
VOCAB is part of SAT how? I know you have to know what words mean, but that’s true of virtually any test.
EBONICS isn’t a language (I mean, I see that some people claim it is, but … it’s a dialect of English)
Never heard of: FIZGIGS, MENSA (as clued, duh), ONE INCH (!).
IT ISN’T I … rough.
Rest was entertaining. YUKFEST!
P.S. fuck you, Quigley!
Just under 40 minutes with liberal use of the “Check” cheater button translates to right about the right HARD level for me. Loved it. But fuck you, anyway, Quigley!
Yup, just about the right amount of “hard” for me. I’m definitely in that group of folks that want more difficult puzzles on Mondays. Most Monday puzzles out there aren’t worth the time it takes to scribble in the answers.
Unfuck you, Quigley!
Hard but I solved it. Except for FATA/FIZGIGS. I think WIZGIGS is a better name.
UNSHY is a VOCAB DUD.
The real problem with that clue is that “yo” is an adjective, not a pronoun. This clue tries too hard to be a clever misdirect. I don’t really mind the clue calling it a “language,” but I don’t know why.
I really liked it — especially “eyebrow tweezers.” I love having a challenge, even though it takes longer (I have lots of time). I used the “check” AND the “reveal” today — I’m glad that you provide them.
I am just totally glad that your puzzles exist — they are so much fun.
Keep it up 😉
Your puzzles are a great way to begin the week.
Found it easy after clicking “Solution” twice. Quig you, Fuckley.
I had WIZGIGS, too.
Otherwise, great, hard puzzle. (As opposed to the NYT)
Plenty I didn’t know — the ELSA/MRSLATE cross was my last square, and a total guess — but managed to finish anyway. Didn’t understand INTS for pick sixes — never heard that expression until now — and didn’t know FIZGIGS but did know FATA morgana.
Don’t know EBONICS but isn’t YO an interjection, meaning 55D, and not a pronoun?
I’d actually heard of MENSA — they started running out of steam when they named the southern constellations. There’s a table lamp and an ashtray in there somewhere too, I think.
Anyone who says ITISNTI when they mean ‘not me’ can automatically be assumed to be lying.
Spoke too soon. In “yo’ mamma,”, yo is clearly a pronoun.
Very excited when I threw down ISTHATALLYOUGOT for 8-Down with no crosses. It seemed so right…
If you make a really hard Monday puzzle to offset the other puzzles, shouldn’t you make an easy Thursday to offset them as well? I only really say this since I know really easy puzzles are really tough to make. That is my way of saying fuck you Quigley.
ITISNTI was a beatdown for me, and I couldn’t pluck the EYEBROW out of the TWEEZER clue. Didn’t know they differentiated that sort of thing. Oh yeah, INTS… that’s some new slang here. ?
Oh yeah, FU Quigley :), but I take it back for the AHL clue. Broke in with that sucker – go figure.
No, I return the FU to you again, now that I see the freakin’ NASCAR clue. That was rough. And MENSA / MIMER.
I was all set to proceed with the bitchery on VOCAB, then I realized that yes, Vocab is a component of the critical reading section.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT#Critical_Reading
Yo is not a pronoun? Yo crazy!
I love the difficult ones, even when they’re so hard that my brain zaps out and I fall asleep while solving them.
Oh yeah, what’s with INTS?
I like it hard. (No fucking intended.)
Tough but ultimately doable. Some of the answers seem a tad forced (NUTSIER, UNSHY, SCENTER, YEASTED…) but I assume that’s part of what makes it tough. Anyway it took me overnight to replace SPANISH with EBONICS so I got to chew on this one for while, which is a good thing. No FU for Quigley from here.
Oh, and in football an interception (INT) that is returned for a touchdown is called a pick-6.