ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
I’m vacation, so this is absurdly abbreviated today. Thanks.
I made this grid from the bottom up, starting at 57-Across, snaking my way up to the NW corner. When I got there, well … Let’s just put it this way, that chunk underneath squares numbered 1-6 was a bitch mother. Note to self: never, ever make a grid that way again.
Share the puzzle. New one on Thursday.
I have to admit 16A and 18A – and not knowing 12D – kept me ‘puzzling’ for longer than necessary.
Is “ENL” an abbreviation for “ENLISTEE”?
Definitely hard. 31D and 33A were faves.
Don’t get 38A…?
How is 26D plural?
Possibly the hardest one yet … at first I thought the clues were unrelated to the answers.
Mitch — I’m pretty sure PDs stands for police departments (the fuzz). I guess their HQ is kind of considered a box.
Very tough. Too many googlables for my taste but dude is on vacation. Me – I wouldn’t have bothered at all, so I was just happy to get a puzzle today. Muffed the “V” in the AAA team/Scottish mountain cross. Loved “Where to find rocket” and laughed at the DIRTYJOKE.
Some wreckage at the crossings of 12D, (are you kidding me, BEQ?), 16A (which was a beast to parse), and 20A (see 12D note). Top-right ground me to a halt in a pretty good solve otherwise. Had to get my educated-guessing-mojo going to finish that corner.
Gotta say, as tough as you said the top-left was to clue, the 2D clue was awesome, and a big boost to polishing off that side. Pretty damn good drummer too, with those 2 foot pedals and all.
Much respect to the parallel #3 hit cluing in the puzzle. Nice touch. Also the 33A clue, very sneaky.
Very crunchy offering to start the week.
Place to find rocket – SALAD. Can someone explain this to me?
@Sandy – I guess it’s another name for arugula: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_(vegetable)
that’s a new one for me, too…
What Howard said about the upper right corner. Not sure I’ve managed to parse 16A. Is “mil.” military and enl for enlisted (as in, not an officer)? If not then I have no idea what it means.
@Sandy, Toby
I grow a lot of arugula, and ‘roquette’ or ‘rocket’ is sometimes in the seed catalogs.
@Joe B
Our daughter works for the Corps of Engineers as a civilian; her e-mail address ends with ‘dot mil.’ You got it right. Enlisted personnel join, or enlist, and might be promoted in time, becoming NCOs, but officers are ‘commissioned,’ meaning appointed (literally) by POTUS. (Said the old Army kid. My dad was an artillery officer, so 1A was a nice gimme.)
SW was really hard! Great puzzle.
I’m new – how to find answers for
#77?
Doh, never mind.