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BEQ Stock Themeless Grid #1, I think. If not the most popular pattern, certainly at least a major go-to, I reckon. But is it art though? You tell me. Now, the seed entry for this one didn’t make the final cut of the grid, so you’ll have to look for that one sometime in the future. (It’s a nice feeling, knowing I’m “paying myself forward,” at least work-wise.) Well, there’s not really that much more to say about this one other than I hope you like it.
Share the puzzle. New one on Thursday.
Nice puzzle; lots of good stuff in this one. I had a hard time getting started, but got 37A right away and that opened up a whole bunch of stuff going in the other direction and it was smooth sailing from that point on.
Why your seemingly weekly obsession with excrement? Did you have toilet training issues growing up?
Huh? What in this puzzle had anything to do with excrement?
11D, although not clued as such. Regardless, I can do without such material. Not the least bit enjoyable.
Michael and Bob, if you don’t find these puzzles enjoyable, go elsewhere where standards are acceptable to you. I and many other solvers find them challenging and interesting and wait anxiously for each week’s new batch. Thank you, Brendan.
Brendan is a talented fellow, whose puzzles I will continue to solve. All I’m saying is that there are just a few entries I’d rather not see.
I could have worded that sentiment better.
“Horseshit” is pretty much everyday vernacular which I have heard said both in meeting rooms of major corporations and by moms at the mall. It has been everyday vernacular for at least 30 years. These protestations remind me of my mother wincing at the expression “I don’t give a damn”. Her hand wringing was an anachronism.
Good puzzle. As far as 11D, BEQ never said he subscribes to the NYT’s cherished “breakfast test,” which is one of many reasons the NYT puzzles are frequently dull and lifeless.
AMEN
I didn’t ‘get’ 22 across. What does EPT stand for here? Thx.
The word “shit” appears in one form or another in clues or answers on an almost weekly basis. If you don’t see this as an excrement obsession, I can’t help you.
I could very well see it as an excrement obsession, just not necessarily his.
Some company that makes rapid urine home pregnancy tests.
Not only did BEQ have toilet training issues, these crosswords he creates are merely a defense mechanism. He’s repressing homosexual desires— {no longer cruising]. Manifesting in an obsession with reproduction and fertility: the gods PAN, AMOR, EGGed, ROE, EPT, and the STUD HORSE in the corner proves my case. If you don’t agree with me look up JAZZES = (etym.) semen.
Brilliant puzzle! and thanks Michael Hertzberg for opening my eyes. I will study BEQ’s puzzles more closely in the future. Who knows what clues to his psyche are lurking within?