CROSSWORD SOLVER PUZZLE: [ SHINERS]
PROGRAM: [Crossword Solver]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ SHINERS]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ SHINERS]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
Well, lookee here, yours truly showed up in an article written by my man Michael Sharp Rex Parker. It’s about (what else?) crosswords, and specifically how music influences me and my work. (Two other guys are mentioned in there as well Natan Last and somebody named Ben Tausig). Anyway, it’s good stuff, but what I wanna know is, when’s the director’s cut of said interview coming out? There was loads of Grade A material left on the cutting room floor. Maybe it wasn’t crosswordy-enough, or indie-rockish enough? Oh well, I’ll just have to save it for my memoir.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that if BEQ circa 1986 knew that I’d appear in a magazine with Jesse “The Mind” “The Body” Ventura on the cover, his brain would explode.
Share the puzzle. New one on Monday. NY Times subscribers: look for my puzzle this Sunday. I’ll post it here when it’s live.
This is a great theme, and the clues for a bunch of words – the fun, the ordinary, and even the unpleasant stuff – are a generous topping of awesome sauce. 3D and 32A win.
The box with “51” in it should be empty. 6A should say “Bazooka Joe, for example” (Interesting trivia note: some of the intentionally inferior comic strip art for BJ was drawn by an ex-“Tijuana Bible” artist. + 3D is a great clue that reflects on the overuse of OBIT in XWPs. 25A This SQPDL was not registering till the “EYE” was factored in. Overall, figuring out the gimmick was a tantalizing task.
@James, 6A is correct. The name of the 6A brand was Bazooka, not Bazooka Joe.
Not a big fan of the Shiner brand, but this has to be one of my favorite themes ever.
Very creative theme. MAN IN TH[E YE]LLOW HAT having a black eye was genius. Had Gun for Bazooka for a while.
Please help me out. I am trying to see how I stack up against elite solvers. I assume I am going up against the best, so if I am in the bottom third of these standings, where does that put me nationally, regionally, locally, ( I am in Mississippi) or what?
Subscribe to the NYT puzz online (while continuing to come here twice a week, of course). The puzzle page has a stat feature that tracks the times of everyone who opts to solve against the clock. Thus I know that I almost never quite make the top hundred.
Also, be sure to do the ACPT online each year. Twenty bucks, I think, and those stat’s are indeed broken down by region etc.
WTF. As long as I’m actually (virtually?) here, instead of just lurking, yo–@BEQ: did your WAR ON DRUGS puzz in “Sex, Drugs, & Rock ‘n Roll Crosswords” the other day (why do blog app’s nuke italics ‘n stuff?), and would like to know if that most excellent quip was your own or some other wag’s.
if you mean this puzzle:
http://www.brendanemmettquigley.com/2008/12/puzzle-2-david-cross-zinger.html
then the quip is by comedian david cross.
Thx
Awesome theme. One of your best puzzles ever.