ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ THE GOOD DOCTOR]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ THE GOOD DOCTOR]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
Head’s up: the posted puzzle above is a double re-run. It originally appeared in Time Out four years ago. And then, again, two years ago, in my bird-brained attempt of tweeting a crossword, one clue as a time, with the intent that it would be solved as a diagramless. And if you don’t remember that stunt, don’t ask.
Tweeting one clue at a time so it forms a crossword to be solved as a diagramless … hmm … sounds like an M.I.T. Hunt puzzle.
Um, yeah. Anyway …
Since you asked: Francis Heaney’s team won the Hunt this past weekend. Yeah, his team won last year, which meant he should have helped run the thing this year. But my man was too busy writing his book to contribute to the puzzles for this year’s hunt. So, Francis joined a new team, with Patrick Blindauer and a bunch of other brainiacs, and promptly won it again. Not a surpise: Francis is hypercompetitive and a mad genius. I’m pretty sure that’s the first time somebody has won the M.I.T. Hunt in consecutive years, but if I’m wrong, let me know in the comments.
Francis will be going for the three-peat next year when he ducks out of the puzzle writing, again.
I was planning on doing a post-mortem on some of the puzzles I solved, some that I think the fans on BEQ.com would enjoy, and some that I thought were just so supremely dickish that I just had to vent about them in an on-screen forum … but I’m still burned out. I need a little more time away from puzzles. So, my full report, with links to said puzzles coming on Thursday.
In the meantime, share the puzzle.
I knew that I had done this puzzle before when I got to EURASIAN SWALLOW. I wish I could find its original posting so I could reuse my comments (if any). But maybe not. You can’t solve the same crossword puzzle twice. Not because the puzzle changes but because you change.
For me it would be hard enough to come up with 15-letter phrases for each part of Martin Luther King Jr’s name, let alone put them in a crossword puzzle.
I saw the picture, read the first clue, and confidently entered MLKJR. Oh well.
For the record, it’s a rare puzzle that I can remember a week after I’ve done it. So repeats don’t bother me much.
Pretty devilish on 1A and 46D. Liked it, yeah, medium’s about right.