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Going Too Far puzzle for you today. For those that need a refresher on the rules for this crossword variety puzzle, here you go:
Twenty-six of the answers in this crossword are too long and won’t fit in the spaces provided. Each of these answers will either begin or end in the gray square immediately before or after it. When the puzzle is done, all the gray squares will have been used exactly once, and the letters in them (reading left to right, line by line) will spell out a quote by Garrison Keillor.
Easy, right? Dig in.
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The eldest Von Trapp child is Rupert. Clue should’ve been eldest female Von Trapp child
Really nice work! I hate to think how hard it must have been to get the “hidden” message to work.
“Clue should’ve been eldest female Von Trapp child”
If we’re talking about real life, the eldest daughter was Agathe. And yes, the oldest child overall was Rupert.
But it’s obviously asking about The Sound of Music. In the Broadway production and in the movie, there is no Agathe, there is no Rupert, and Liesl is the oldest child. Expecting solvers to know the names of the real life Von Trapp children – the names of all seven children were changed in the musical, along with ages and gender – is a stretch.
Shouldn’t the clue for 50A be “State of BARING all”?
44a, Boba should be interstellar, “…in a galaxy far, far away…”
Tell that to the NY Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/24/arts/television/star-wars-boba-fett-disney.html
The SI unit of magneticflux density is the tesla. In CGS it is the Gauss. NYTimes puzzle May 11, 2025.
A question about your New York Times puzzle that was in today’s Seattle Times: Why was it called “Power Grid”? I usually get stuff like that, but not this time.