ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
Sort of a weird looking grid today. A deceptively-low word count with the NE and SW more open than you’d think. Almost 100% sure this is the first time I tried the stacks with the little three-square cheaters in the corner, unless somebody wants to prove me wrong with a tell-tale link. FWIW: 14- and 56-Across were the seed entries for both of those corners.
Share the puzzle. Continue playing Captain Beefheart in memoriam. New one on Thursday.
Great stacks top and bottom!
I didn’t know Ms. Malkin so couldn’t close out the NE very easily.
What’s 13D??? SNES? Does it refer to the Gabriel/Collins Genesis or the Adam/Eve Genesis?
Pete: The Sega Genesis, vs. Nintendo’s Super NES system.
I know this only from crosswords.
SNES? Didn’t BEQ learn his lesson from the outrage generated by the ELP answer? At least ELP was only 3 letters long.
But SNES was the exception. My dominant impression was great fill. Loved MISSTENNESSEE. It really is right at home in the bottom row. For consistency “TIFF alternative” should be BMP since both are extensions. Or the clue should be changed to “Tagged Image File Format alternative”.
Thanks Amy…neither of my “Genesis” references were on track…I’m going to have to store that one away.
Thanks for the shout out to Huey Lewis and the News!
i disagree. thought SNES was a great entry, and the BITMAP clue seemed fine to me, because you know what? people say bitmap, and people say tiff. nobody has ever said tagged image file format, and nobody ever will.
much less fond of some of the other fill (including, apparently, the seed entry at the top). but the bottom was pretty spectacular.
Took me a while- partly because I started with ATTHELASTMINUTE in 15A, and it checked enough it took me a while to see the error of my ways. I got 51A faster.
As someone who’s been doing computer graphics since, well, probably before most of you had computers, “bitmap” is a generic term to me and I don’t even think of that .bmp stuff. Maybe ’cause I’ve never been an MS Windows user. Still got the word fast and think the clue is OK. I’d say more “contents of a TIFF”, myself. (I don’t think there are any vector tags in the baseline spec, though with TIFF you can do anything.)
I didn’t know 14A, and hesitated on CAINE/REEVE for 41A until I had more checks than the last letter. Also desperately wanted to put something else for 33D, but lucky for me it didn’t fit. That’s what I get for reading Burroughs instead of Verne. Oops.
Eric, I got that one with only ???RT?. A little proud of it.
I see that I’m in the minority here, but I like SNES and got it off of no crosses. I checked xwordinfo and I’m really surprised it hasn’t been used in the NYT, considering the helpful letters and odd positioning. It wouldn’t make me groan like some other crosswordese considering the nostalgia it carries with it. However, I’m most definitely not the prime demographic (under 20), so my opinion is probably moot.
Exactly. “bitmap” is a generic term to me also. I pronounce “BMP” as Bee Em Pee even though it has one more syllable than bitmap. (What about WWW for world wide web).
Took longer on that one than I care to admit, due to the trivia aspect of the clue. Remember the album though. In my case, it was a cassette. Yes, really. Quit yer chuckling. And get offa my lawn!
Freaking awesome grid today, btw.
I got it from two letters as well, though I don’t recall which two…