FROM A TO Z: [ PDF]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Reader]
SOLUTION: [click here]
We’re starting off 2014 with a variety puzzle, the ole’ standard A To Z form. These are fun to make and I will be publishing a few of them in the soon-to-be-launched Word Play magazine. It’s all word variety puzzles, without any standard crosswords, lovingly edited by Eric Berlin and Ian Livengood. All the modern-day titans of puzzle-making are represented in the first issue. Should be a blast. Anwyay I was hoping it would have hit newstands already so I could have announced the title while running this puzzle, but alas, the launch date was pushed back to February. No matter. I’ll remind you in a couple of weeks.
Oh, so today’s marks the electrifying conclusion to the 2013 year-end BEQ drive. Thanks to all who were able to tip, the outpouring of support meant an awful lot to your humble puzzle maker. Remider: this site shall always remain free and you should feel no obligation to give ever. I repeat, Always. Free. Period. But, tipping is the right thing to do. So, if you haven’t given yet, but would still like the two bonus Sunday-sized puzzles, this is your last chance. A $10 tip gets you one themed and one themeless, both 21x. Perfect to do in between the Chiefs/Colts and Saints/Eagles games on Saturday (assuming you’re Dan Feyer-fast). Oh yeah, one randomly selected donor will receive a years subscription to the AVCX club. Yeah? Yeah. Make it happen.
While we’re on the topic of the AVCX, my latest puzzle for them (a bonus puz co-authored by the recently married Francis Heaney) is up. It’s exactly what you’d expect a puzzle co-written by Francis would look like. Get to it. While yr. there, check out the puz by my bros Patrick Blindauer and Ben Zimmer. Good stuff.
Oh yeah, after you hit up the BEQ tip jar, throw a couple clams Matt Gaffney’s way and sign up for his meta extravaganza, will ya?
Happy New Year everybody. Let’s make it a good one. Share the puzzle. New one on Monday.
How can I subscribe to Word Play magazine?
Why would my printer not print this puzzle? It keeps saying Hardware Error 0502, but it printed something else when I tested it — just not this puzzle. I’d love to do it — Do you have any idea why this is happening?
make sure you have a pdf reader (Adobe Reader, Foxit, or similar). Then try it again. If all else fails, reboot and try again.
I “found” you a couple of months ago. Great stuff and a lot of fun!
But here’s my first comment: What are newstands? 😉
Easy, as advertised. One question: given that all squares do not have crosses, isn’t it possible in theory to have wrong answers imbedded in this type of finished puzzle with no way cross checking answers?
Thanks, Doug, for trying to help, but my printer only prints the top half, the puzzle not the clues. So I think I’ll get a friend to print it for me because it looks like fun —
This was fun 🙂
For anyone else with the printing problem – I tried to display the puzzle from Firefox, and I had the same problem as Sybil (only the top half displayed). Try a different browser; it opened fine in Internet Explorer for me.
Looks to me like GOOF could have been accurately filled as GOON. And PEEK could have been accurately replaced by PEEP. I don’t think that makes a slightly alternative finish “wrong” per se.
Altria (Phillip Morris) hasn’t owned the maker of 23 in years. But a good concept anyway. Not as hard as it looks at first.
–Braze
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