ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ WON’T GET FOOLED AGAIN]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
Couple fans of the site were wondering why I didn’t wait a couple days and run this puzzle for April Fool’s. I probably would have, but alas it fell on a Thursday, one of the days I don’t run puzzles. But a quick scan of the calendar shows it’ll be a Friday next year, so for fans of WTF? puzzles, look for something in this space 364 days from now. In the meantime, why not reminisce over last year’s instant-classic here and here.
BTW: why is it that the only day of the year that it’s acceptable to run WTF? puzzles is April Fool’s Day? Just curious.
Anyway, I was blinded by this glaring, unrecognizable ball of light yesterday. And after I collected my senses, I realized it was the sun, something us New Englanders haven’t seen in forever, what with all these sheets of rain we’ve been getting. It appears that the sun is still shining today, so I’m going to make this brief so I can go out and enjoy it. Quick reminder: Boston Crossword Tournament is a week from Sunday. Get thee to it! Also, thanks to all who were able to show their love of this month’s puzzles by hitting up the tip jar. As always, I will give a copy of “Diagramless” to one randomly selected donor from this past week. And even if you can’t give, you can help me immeasurably by telling five people about this site. Thanks.
Share the puzzle. Themeless Monday on deck.
UPDATE: Puzzle was reloaded at 9:35. Thanks.
If you have never heard of rickroll you really must search for “rickrolling” on wikipedia.org. It is hilarious!
“Hey Sailor” (lol) was just the start of some great fun. And a new (to me) Eero! I didn’t get the theme until VASELINE fell. Never heard of salting a toothbrush or RICHRACK. Let me guess – you read about the “Diwali” somewhere and thought that’ll be great with some fair crossings?
Why is 47 across BARS instead of BURL? I’m missing what Bars has to do with Burl Ives.
I learned about DIWALI from “The Office.”
Never heard of the SALTY TOOTHBRUSH gag. An amusing puzzle. Thanks.
I thought my local paper made a typo when I saw the forecast on the front page: 84! I’m outta here (here being my house).
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if you have never heard of rickrolling, you must have missed the most outlandish BEQ gag from last year, which was oddly not on april fool’s either but on MLK day.
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that “Crawl locations” = “BARS” refers to the British term “pub crawls”, i.e. bar-hopping.
By the same token, I’m confused about your Burl Ives reference for a clue of “Crawl locations.”
I printed out the printable version this morning, and on it, clue 47 across was “Folky Ives”. I’m looking at it now, my eyes aren’t deceiving me. Yet on the online version, clue 47 across is “Crawl locations”
Four or five of the clues changed from the version I printed out this morning and the version that is up now.
//www.brendanemmettquigley.com/page/95/
So the puzzle is all about the answers to the 10 clues that are visible in this gif image:
http://fleetwoodwack.typepad.com/files/rickroll.gif
Nothing else?
BTW. your comment posted at the puzzle is a little baffling. Where did you get the clues to the diagramless that you claimed to have solved? E.G., where did you find the clue “Eurasian swallow”?
Finally, why did BEQ tweet clues for puzzles around that time? E.G. Puzzle 20 clues tweeted on Jan 19?
I believe you, Heather. I just hadn’t seen the version with “Folky Ives” in it so I didn’t understand your previous reference. Sorry for the confusion.
In our house, it was the SOAPY TOOTHBRUSH not the SALTY TOOTHBRUSH.
Definitely lost some time there!
Hey, I noticed a repeat a little too late in the game, so I went back to an earlier version of the puzzle and reloaded it. Hence the update.
i think your two questions answer each other. he tweeted a diagramless puzzle with an MLK theme, with four long answers clued as {Martin}, {Luther}, {King}, and {Junior}. a martin, by the way, is a EURASIAN SWALLOW. the tweeting thing was temporary, it seems, but tweeting clues one at a time and then having people try to solve without a diagram was pretty clever, i thought.
ah, ok. I thought I was going crazy!
Oh, Good Lord. I loved the puzzle, will keep SALTY TOOTHBRUSH in mind for next year. (The rigged kitchen sink sprayer was a spectacular gotcha. My husband did use the rubber band to ‘shoot’ me, but fair is fair.) I will have to try a RICKROLL one day….
Or I could just use the trick I played ON MYSELF this morning, when I brushed my teeth with Aspercreme. (Not recommended.) See? Every day is April Fool’s!
I learned about Diwali from the office, not “The Office”. Where I worked at the time, we had so many folks of Indian heritage that we celebrated Diwali instead of Christmas. Plus I’ve heard it in a few other non-crossword contexts as well. I think it’s becoming more and more in-the-language here in the U.S.