ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
There’s been an avalanche of puzzles on the BEQ.com, lately. Let’s get the old ones that might have slipped through the cracks out of the way first.
In the odd chance you missed the bonus puzzles I posted last Friday, here they are again. The Visual Thesaurus is here, and the Wall Street Journal is here: [Across Lite] [PDF].
No doubt you’ve already marveled at today’s themeless offering? Right? Look at that moneygrid, baby! I’m a little miffed about having to use that cheater at the end of 31-Across, but what are you going to do? Think thick, that’s what I say every now and again. Hope you enjoyed it.
If those weren’t enough, I have a new Hard, never before published Sunday-sized themeless puzzle available starting today. Just like the weekly Monday puzzles, only, you know in a 21x instead of a 15x. Every single person who can donate $10 to the BEQ tip jar will receive a copy. This offer lasts until January 7, 2011, then the puzzle’s gone, forever. Do it now.
Share the puzzle. New one on Thursday.
Heard of umpteenth, never umptieth. Really like the 45D clue. Only two threes and great fill throughout. Really enjoyed it, but more MARD for me.
Mitch, that’s because Alan spells his last name with an “e”.
I got everything but “maillot”, but I’m not very fashionable.
Oops, it IS “umptieth”. My bad.
So Patrick B. gives us ten puzzles and a meta for $10, and you’re offering just one? …What’s that? Today’s is the two-hundred-eighty-fourth free puzzle on this site? Say no more! Thanks and happy holidays BEQ…
11:06, pretty tough. BYE WEEK is my favorite entry.
That was neat. I’ve seen “nisei” in a gob of puzzles lately, so was glad to see a different word for 29A. Hate to waste all those years studying Japanese.
Took me forever to remember 36D, but I realized that’s because I’d heard OMC’s version more recently than the original and couldn’t nail the song down from the lyric until I mentally heard it in Newman’s voice.
For some reason, the intersection of “Fox News” and “asexual” cracks me up.
And I had the wrong Whopper in mind for 43A for the longest time. I know you were trying to confuse me and it worked. Didn’t help I’d thought of “Vassar” for 43D first until I read down further.
I think its time to call it a day with these Monday Hard puzzles, we don’t seem to get along. This one I got a quarter done befire I screamed “Uncle” needed lots of help to finish it off, that ain’t fun.
What’s old fashioned about a bar tab?
@Tuning Spork
Isn’t “old fashioned” a name of a drink?
Umptieth, maillot, and 2 of the Downs were complete WTFs, as it were.
1/2 the time spent in that upper-right circle of hell.
Fun in the rest of the grid though. Nice one.
Well slap my ass and call me Sally, so it is! Never heard of it.
2 oz bourbon whiskey
2 dashes Angostura® bitters
1 splash water
1 tsp sugar
1 maraschino cherry
1 orange wedge
http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink407.html
Nor have I ever heard of Angostura bitters.
From it’s a Mad,Mad,Mad…World:
Jim Backus is piloting a plane –
Backus: Now get back there and make me an old fashioned
Mickey Rooney: Should you drink while you’re flying?
Backus: STOP KIDDING AROUND AND MAKE ME A DRINK!
When I bartended, I probably made three a month and all for the same guy. However, I put Angostura in my G&Ts and it makes them even more delicious.
As far as some of these answers, I’m with David. This one kicked my ass.
Uh-oh! BEQ is human after all.
46A: Kemo Sabe (or qui no sabe) was Tonto’s name for the LONE RANGER. It was NOT Tonto’s name
OOPS! My bad!
It seems that both of the dynamic duo were fools. Tonto translates to IDIOT, which is what I feel like.
It took me all day to find a bottle of Angostura bitters, but I am now on my second Old Fashioned.
In a 12 oz. glass I’ve got (in order):
2 sugar cubes
5 dashes Angostura bitters
1 orange slice, 3/16″ thick
1 lemon slice, 3/16″ thick
(mash above ingredients)
2 oz. (2 shots) Jim Beam
3 ice cubes
topped off with Polar seltzer
2 maraschino cherries (with stems)
all stirred up
Yummy.
Well, I actually solved this whole puzzle WHILE ON MAJOR DRUGS…so it took a while, as I kept nodding out….but UMPTIETH is ugly; knew maillot (these used to look good on me) but PAREN? And STRIKE as 1/3 of a turkey– this is not baseball slang I’ve ever heard (and I checked with hubby, who is Even Older than I am, and he doesn’t know it, either.) Enlightenment welcomed.
8A…very timely. Can you spell Julian V’s last name?