CROSSWORD SOLVER PUZZLE:
[ THEMELESS MONDAY]
PROGRAM: [Crossword Solver]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
If you missed the bonus puzzles I added last Friday, here they are again. New York Times puzzle: [Across Lite] [PDF]. New Visual Thesaurus crossword is here. There, that’s three puzzles for your day off. Don’t say I don’t hook you up, m’kay?
You may be wondering where the ole’ BEQ is writing this post. So I’ll tell you: I’m in the Jersey shore area with Snooki my girls, my sister, and her friends. Let me tell you, it’s been a blast. Work hard, play hard is my motto, when I’m so foolish as to pretend to live life by mottoes. So when I haven’t been barbecuing, downing some beers, or taking a quick dip, I’ve been catching up on a book. Oh, you thought I was still working on “Ulysses” or “Moby Dick”? C’mon, guys. You know I’m never going to finish any of those books. I was talking about working on my man Thomas Snyder’s latest tour de force “The Art of Sudoku.”
Anybody who knows me well knows I’ve run out of superlatives when talking about Thomas and his handmade sudoku. Last time I counted, Thomas has done three instant-classics: “TomTom” his highest watermark, “Mutant Sudoku” his druggiest, and “Battleship Sudoku” the only boardgame tie-in worth mentioning. Add another one to that list, his latest. That brings his batting average of excellence to the .800 range. Mind-scrambling, much like the classic sudokus in this book. It wouldn’t be Thomas if the material wasn’t presented in his trademark funny/elegant/humorous fashion. Yes, I said it, humorous. Somehow, someway, Thomas figured out how to tell stories with these puzzles. It’s been a pleasure to work on them.
Gotta go. Share the puzzle. New one on Thursday.
I got Mutant Sudoku. Even if you don’nt try the puzzles, it’s great to look thru. + Re: Ulysses. For best effect, take a little at a time. Also be sure to look for the famous “Water” page, probably in the chapter of “Proteus”. I take that James Joyce had a wild sense of humor, but he was going about it tongue-in-cheek. + 18A. Since the letters E,R, and G already appear in “energy”, this clue might be a little inappropriate. 16A liked this clue. It was the tv character played by Hugh Laurie. 46D Was going for the suburb of Paris where he died. It might be Paris after all. + Middle name comes from Mad Magazine….’s twin sister publication Panic! (Comics) which ran for about 12 issues. It’s just as good, but got canceled with the “Outrage over comic books causing juvenile delinquency” issue.
I just don’t think I’ll ever get around to “Ulysses.” Sad to say.