CROSSWORD SOLVER PUZZLE:
[ THEMELESS MONDAY]
PROGRAM: [Crossword Solver]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
This mind-ripping photo appeared in my inbox yesterday. That dashing fellow at the desk would be yours truly and, believe it or not, I’m twenty-one in that picture. Amazing. I look like my voice just started cracking and shaving was still a few years out. Come to think of it, both were probably true.
Thanks to old friend Ron Kleiner, of Concord, NH, for this one. Ron writes:
I saw on your website that you’re looking for pictures of people doing your crosswords. I don’t have one of those. But, I do have a picture of you creating one of your crosswords. That has to be worth a bunch of bonus points, right? This was taken your senior year at UNH in [name removed to protect the innocent]’s room at our Woodsides appartment. If memory serves, the puzzle you’re creating in the picure is the first one you sent off to the NYT. (That’s my dictionary in the picture).
First off, I’d like to repeat, not my room. Therefore not my saxophone. Or my drug rug. Just had to get that out of the way.
Secondly, I call in question whether or not I am actually making that first NY Times puzzle, because I can guarantee I made it over Christmas break 95/96 back at the folks’ place. But, I can safely say that by senior year, I was mailing in each and every class I’d enrolled in (“Desire in Film” was one of the classes I took spring of 96. Seriously). And I was probably concentrating more on puzzle making than doing any sort of classwork. So, it’s quite likely this is an early BEQ in action shot. Wow.
I went back and forth over whether or not I should have posted this one. But, then I thought, back in the mid-90s it was the vogue thing for bands to run pictures of the band members as children (See: Sebadoh). And seeing as this picture was probably taken in January 1996, and I look like an adolescent, it seems sort of oddly appropriate. (Note: I own seven Sebadoh CDs. And we wonder why I look like a pencil-necked geek in this picture?)
Share the puzzle. New one on Thursday.
Childhood friends of BEQ, please post more pictures!!
Terrific puzzle today — one of those where I knew very little outright, but I could figure it out (with a few “revealed” letters and many “checks”).
of all the mind-boggling tidbits in this post, the one that jumped out at me is the 7 sebadoh CDs. i bought one (harmacy, also from annus mirabilis 1996) and it kinda sucks even though i really liked that one song (“ocean”).
This was the toughest for me in several weeks. You got me on Rubik for 1D…surely that wasn’t intentional misdirection? Needed the reveal in the NE. Tough.
Oh yeah. Saw them on the “Bakesale” tour. Opening bands were Bunnybrains and Versus. Versus certainly gave Sebadoh a run for their twerpiness money.
Yeah, I had RUBIK for a while at 1-D, and really wanted 10-D to be BULLSHIT. Northeast was a killer.
Add me to the “Automatically Wrote ‘RUBIK’ for 1D” club.
Maybe the only thing that saved me in the NE was that 20A couldn’t be ATE since 3D was OUTATE.
Had to deal with a lot of excruciating “pairings”, probably a lot more than typical. Could be a record. %%%%%%%%%% 30A was either MAD OR HAD. 27D, PLACEDTO or TRACEDTO. 23A HERE or MORE (both wrong). 27A TERSER or DENSER. 3rd and 6th nonants gave me fits but finally solved it with one error. Also thot 1D was RUBIK. Thot “Shane Setting” was IOWA. 10D thot you were going off with this clue, like you did 2 weeks ago.
I’d never heard of Qdoba. The price one pays for living in the boonies, I guess. A truly evil puzzle, though. Thanks for the workout.
You outdid yourself on this one. Took me a long frustrating time, but I got it!
Jen and I had trouble NE, too, and did not understand the warhorse fill in 10D. Could someone help out this clueless couple?