ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
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PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ THEMELESS MONDAY]
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All BEQ, all the time. We got four BEQ puzzles this week: two regularly scheduled on the blog Monday and Thursday, with the Times on Tuesday and the Onion on Wednesday. Phew. Links to them here when they’re live.
UPDATE: New York Times puzzle: [Across Lite] [PDF]
UPDATE: Onion puzzle: [Across Lite] [PDF]
If that weren’t enough, the Visual Thesaurus puzzle’s up too. Go get ‘it.
Still haven’t had enough puzzles? Can I recommend Patrick Blindauer’s seasonally-challenged “Summerfest“? Ten puzzles for $10. Seems like a sweet deal. Or, if you missed it on Friday, Michael Sharp had a guest guest puzzle on this here blog.
This last one’s off topic, but just slightly. Ben Zimmer (he of the On Language column/Visual Thesaurus fame) brought to my attention that the actor playing bass in the above video was supposedly a crossword constructor. According to the They Might Be Giants FAQ, Mr. X “retired from music and currently writes crosswords for the Daily News.” I’ll open the question out to the audience: anybody recognize the man?
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This was more medium than hard for me. But can someone explain the answer to 39D?
67A = an all-time favorite clue/answer.
Think dates
Thanks!
Re: 65-Across, I’m pretty sure that BAMBI was also the top draw of its year (1942) yet lost money.
I know for sure that it lost money in it’s first run (but made oodles in it’s second run after the war), but I’m finding conflicting information about whether or not it was the top grossing film of ’42.
http://www.filmsite.org/boxoffice2.html
Hmm. It’d be nice to straighten this out as I used a very similar clue for BAMBI a few months ago. (Though I didn’t call it the “only” film to do so.)
I submitted a puzzle to NYT with HACKASHAQ as a theme answer….declined!
While I have all confidence in you, I have to ask whether having “OKs” (20A) and “Did OK” (53A) both in the grade is, for lack of a better word, OK? Felt awfully close to the same “word”. While solving kept thinking that one or the other had to be wrong.
Sorry “Did OK” = 53D
Or maybe I have a mistake in the puzzle I don’t realize.
Seemed medium/mard. Left side was strangely easy for me. SWEETJANE was a gimme and the rest came as fast as I could type. Right side wasn’t as quick and evened out my time, though. Love HACKASHAQ, didn’t love ONEMONTH. There are differences on which number (month or day) goes first, and I was taught the other way from most of this country so that tripped me up.
Is EYECREAM plural?
55A isn’t really right, right? California penal codes explicitly aren’t 10-codes and don’t even have 10s in them. I got the “code” part and filled the rest after some checks.
I don’t recognize HIM, however, when I went to a play at a local regional theater last month and read the names/info on the musicians, one was ACPT champ Dan Feyer. It felt like my little teeny brush with crossword greatness.
Felt more like measy to me, but had lots of personal gimmees – favorites being SHERA and SWEETJANE. I liked the first stack of 9’s a lot.
1A + 67A = Happy solver. Only here do the two ever meet.