CROSSWORD SOLVER PUZZLE: [ START OVER]
PROGRAM: [Crossword Solver]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ START OVER]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ START OVER]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
I finished this puzzle and really liked the final result. But then I noticed one of the theme entries broke what my buddy Mike Selinker so poetically named The Error That Cannot Be Named rule. Mike also told me that I should just live with it. Specifically: because it’s awesome as is. And seriously, are you gonna argue with Mike Selinker? I didn’t think so. And sometimes you gotta say, “what the fuck.”
Share the puzzle. New one on Monday.
I really gotta start waiting ’til I have my coffee before tackling these things.
I noticed the No-Words-In-The-Grid-Shall-Appear-In-The-Clues Rule being broken… and right there in a theme clue/answer. Is that The Error That Cannot Be Named, or is there something else?
5D – One of the most inane name changes (in spelling) to ever take place. Please, Sci-Fi Channel, repent of your ways, or as 33A would put it….
Could somebody explain 26A to me?
It’s the way a win-loss record often appears, as in “The Celtics are currently 7-11 for the season.”
I see that the first letter of the theme clue answers appears directly above the rest of the answer. Is there another intricacy of this puzzle that I’m missing?
Don’t think so, Jack. The answers “start over” (i.e. “begin on top of”) their numbered square.
I haven’t heard of Kcup before (although I’ve seen the little things sitting in other people’s homes, and at the bar)–is it in the language now? And is it a brand name, like Xerox, or more general, like kleenex?
Is the rule broken by the pattern of T/D/T??
I love doing your puzzles on your web site, and will not do them on the facebook “app.”
Great clue for TGIF! That’s one horrible answer to write clues for!
Keurig or some silly coffee-maker fad is going on just now.
Since there are NINE Muses, I put CLIO in the grid and never really recovered. Got all the puzzle but that deadly center area, taking out answers that turned out to be right. ARGH.
Thanks for the shoutout, B. FYI, I didn’t name The Error That Cannot Be Named rule. So you’ve committed The Naming of The Error That Cannot Be Named Error.
Mike
The Error That Cannot Be Named (or TETCBN, because we don’t want to name it) is cluing an answer with a clue that contains the answer, or a significant part of it. So cluing CAT as “Cat-lover’s pet” breaks TETCBN.
Mike