ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
Happy Birthday to BEQ.com
Happy Birthday to BEQ.com
We could probably stand to have fewer clues about obscure rock bands (too bad)
Happy Birthday to BEQ.com
Okay, it turns two this Wednesday, but who’s counting?
Share the puzzle. New one on Thursday.
42A and 17A were faves among many great clues/answers. Really, really, wanted ARSE. But then you knew that didn’t you? Yes, BEQ knew.
LOL at the lyrics.
Doh! is supposed to be mitchs. But, then again…
6D was wonderfully deceptive and a thing of beauty.
17A, not so much so…
Happy Birthday BEQ.com…and many more!
From the Deborah Solomon interview with Das Racist in yesterday’s NY Times Magazine:
“Earlier this year, you released your first two albums ‘Shut Up, Dude’ and ‘Sit Down, Man,’ both of them mixtapes available as free downloads. What’s the differences between a mixtape and an album?”
“Suri: It’s a semantic thing. Mixtapes are free. Historically, mixtapes did not feature original productions, although with the rise of the Internet and the fall of the major labels, they have moved towards mostly original production, which makes the term obsolete”
For someone who knows NOTHING about rock music, old or new, or much other music either, I have to say I like BEQ. Weird but true. And, I almost always post on the Leader Board to make the rest of you feel good! (My time includes many hits on “check all letter” and “reveal”).
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, BEQ.
DNF for me based on the cross of METROPCS and ORSE. I had no idea on either of those. Never heard of MetroPCS here in Chicago, but at least CTA was a gimme 🙂
Happy Birthday, BEQ.com. Many, many more.
happy bloggiversary, bro.
Those Das Racist mixtapes are Hysterical.
2 years! That makes you a grizzled veteran in blog time. So congratulations.
Sigh, I got thoroughly and completely stuck in the NW. And I ended up with ARSE for 5-D. I’ve never heard of METROPCS which of course means it’s not well-known enough to include in a puzzle :-). Also, reading the clue for 29-A as Capital-E Capital-I instead of Capital-E Little-L didn’t help. I convinced myself that EI was Electronic Intelligence and put NSA in there. I have now changed my clue print font in Across Lite to Times New Roman!
I was just slow in general today. Doesn’t help that I didn’t stop the clock when I finished and had to guess a bit on the actual time.
I like the word “sexpot” much better than “cougar”, personally, though I guess the former has an icky anatomical taint to it, though. (Heh heh, she said “taint”.)
Even with “??adish”, it took me a while to get 3D. Tried PINION for 58A before I saw 40D. Also PRECEDE for 43D until I tried 63A.
Yay! Happy Blogiversary!
65-A. What a perfect way to end the puzzle.
Happy Blogday!
Put the wrong vowel in 65-A:
END SCENE.
(That’s your present today.)
Thanks for all the puzzly goodness :).
I must be learning. Getting better at the hard ones.
But I filled in Tin Star for “Head” band which just totally threw me off.
Happy 2 years.
I’d like to remind the faithful that “ZIPLESSFUCK” was an entry nary a week ago.
CHAH!!!
Nobody else wanted AT THE DISCO for Panic______? Hell, it even started with ATT…but too few spaces.
Happy 2 years, BEQ!
FYI, 57A, Comcast does not offer DSL
Another nice one! Almost got fooled by ARSE but changed it. Happy B-Day!
Dear Brendan,
Don’t know if you remember me or not. I was the full-time publisher of a new-music magazine which you were once kind enough to submit a letter to. Lovely note it was. (I have turned the project over to someone else who has advanced it to a high-quality looking vehicle and I can only hope we can continue to support it.)
At any rate, I find your Times puzzles in a class of their own (always clever and enjoyable to tackle) and your website is fantastic. I gather you are a 24-hour a day puzzler/marketer, so you may not be the person to contact for my question, but you are also no doubt aware of the many resources now available in the field, more than ever for certain.
I am working on a puzzle book, now about half-done, to run about 140-150 pages. My crosswords are not at all in a class like yours, so I have decided to use a clever title and collaborative pseudonym and fill the pages with lots of word games, limericks, which I enjoy, word history (malapropisms, spoonerisms, puns, misprints, dangling participles,etc., etc.) and sections giving tips on how to construct crosswords, diagramless, cryptics and acrostics. I even have a tutorial which exactly follows my construction of a short acrostic.
What I will need, and this is where you come in, is someone to help me proofread (and also edit) my pages. I don’t have to tell you how important utter accuracy is in this field. If you are interested- and I know you are buys so I will not set a tight deadline – then we can discuss payments and all of the other matters related to such a project.
If you can give me your postal address again (my old address book succumbed to thievery of my online identity a while ago) I will be glad to put you back on our NMC mailing list or use it for other matter.
By the way, thanks so much for that CD you sent me that you produced. I was delighted to hear some really lovely tunes on that album, not particularly fashionable among rock groups.
thanks again
barry