ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ OH, THE PLACES
YOU’LL GO]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ OH, THE PLACES YOU’LL GO]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
Huge thanks to Amy Reynaldo for the theme.
UPDATE: Forgot to mention the winners of the “All About Steve” DVD. Congrats go to Bruce Sutphin and his calculator story, and to Lon Heuer for the “Joy of Sex” story. E-mail me and I’ll forward your info.
UPDATE #2: I have today’s puzzle in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Go do it here.
Share the puzzle. New one on Monday.
MOONdog was a nice touch! No looney tunes? (I know, it doesn’t fit- loo can’t stand alone)
Fun puzzle.
What, no mention of your CHE crossword today?
http://is.gd/5jKVG
That one was a little tricky, but fun. Off to try this one now.
Didn’t know that was running today. Will link to that once I solve these computer problems.
Yeah, I was just thinking “unusual modesty” 😉
I remember your mentioning this title, with several posited themes, awhile back. Don’t remember this being one of them! Only got it once everything was solved – Ahalol!!! Might’ve given it 5 if I hadn’t solved this puzzle:
13 October, NYT
not too long ago. The title, however, adds a heck of a lot to the humour factor…
PS, I hope the pilots on QANTAS don’t FLYBLIND
PPS, I briefly had ISLANDDJ at 41D. It seemed plausible enough!
[insert blushing emoticon] Geez! Just like Wednesday, I finish, look at the title again, look over the puzz, trying to see the theme. Tick tick tick. F-i-n-a-l-l-y see it. Geez. VERY COOL, and good misdirection, intentional or not. HILLS and the Verizon commercials had me thinking physical location in the wrong way, so then I get to President Adams and my brain locks up.
Love learning new words–thanks for cilbir. Lots of other excellent stuff in this one. Loved the BUG/GNAT cross. Got snagged once again by FETA for PITA. The cluing on 28D was the cleverest I’ve ever seen for CREW. And 47D “Yes, THEY’RE real” caused me to egest coffee through my nose. Thanks for that one.
This is a personal problem, I know, but Sandy UT as a clue drives me crazy. Saved by having run aground on it previously, but still seems OOXTEPLERNONish to me. FIND also seemed stretchy coming from a survey. PLAT, sure, but doesn’t a find result from prospecting or searching?
Not a cavil, just confusion re 14A. My MA orals came after I’d submitted my thesis, and ditto re my defense and dissertation, so I was hung for a bit trying for a prefix. Does the submit/defend order vary by school, I wonder? New one on me.
Thanks for a really fun Friday puzz, Brendan.
Can’t get enough potty humor…thanks Amy and Brendan!
Didn’t figure out the theme until I read the comment thread. Guess this one deserved “number two” stars.
i liked/flew through much of this, but the SE didn’t come together for me owing to ISLANDERS (don’t follow hockey) crossing ETNA (this is a stove i guess?), SEAS (i guess this is a pun, but i don’t get it), and REGS (the R in RDA means “recommended,” which means it’s not a regulation at all), though the latter was guessable; maybe the others should have been, too, but all together i just sat there scratching my head. otherwise solid! 47D was total lolz.
Ok, really enjoyed this, and nailed “tricky” ones like ISLANDER. But I have to cry protest on 51D. I could not ever remember him on the show… so I looked it up. He was on there twice! He was also on Golden Girls once. Why not clue that?! But seriously, if it would have been Ulysses actor Milo. Then yeah. I do understand that when I see Milo in a crossword it is almost always O’SHEA, but two episodes!
I breezed through this one but as often with BEQ’s the theme did escape me. I actually had to do the theme crosses in Gareth’s Oct 13 NYT before it dawned. Very cute, Mr Quigley.
Oh, and speaking of NUGGETS, it didn’t occur to me until now that Alan Freed had the same nickname as the renowned and eccentric NYC street musician of the 60s and early 70s.
Meant to say: thanks to Gareth upthread for the tip!
Brendan, just got done with your CHE puzz, hope it’s OK to post here. Wow, you TOTALLY rock! Field day for English geeks. A perfect Goldilocks puzz, really–not too hard, not too easy, and only fictional bears. Title and theme answers all brilliant.
Slickest clues were 11A “Mule hunting group?”, 22A “Lines about the city?”, 30A “Give the ax to” (I wonder if anyone misread “axe” initially and tried to CAN somebody), and 6D “Protest movement”. Also a couple of nice High Quality Wrong Answer speedbumps along the way–I OUTLASTED 35D in the end, and 50D was wrong from the START.
Didn’t have too many problems with this one. I knew ISLANDER right away only section that took me some time was NoCal with WAH/CREW shoulda filled in SWM with no prob but there you go.
Much more difficult time with CHE owing to only knowing one of the works that made up the theme.
Really dug the CHE too, Brendan — as lit.doc said, absolute candy for us English major types.
Can’t ever think of The Scottish Play without that Blackadder episode getting in the mix. I also have a fairly harrowing, or funny depending on how you look at it, story about The Curse. Nobody died, but there was a cupped hand filled with blood….
By a total coincidence, I had done the exact same theme in a puzzle that I livecasted to several other constructors… AND I STILL DIDN’T GET TODAY’S THEME UNTIL I LOOKED IT UP ON AMY’S BLOG.
can anyone please explain for me ONER for “wizard”? I’m missing something…
@Z, I think it comes from Britslang for doing something in one try. Like an ace in tennis–a serve that the opponent can’t return–would a oner. I think in Britslang it also ref’s someone who’s really good at something, good enough to accomplish whatever in one attempt. So I guess wizards are really good at, well, whatever.
Thanks! I suppose it parallels “acer,” which pops up from time to time but personally I don’t really care for. I am a bit of an Anglophile though so perhaps an exception is in order. Cheers, as they say!