ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ TIGER TRAP]
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PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ TIGER TRAP]
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Another puzzle ripped from the headlines. Raise your hand if you get your news from BEQ puzzles.
I wish it were so, but today’s puzzle wasn’t ripped from the headline in the above picture. Now that is a headline. Gotta love the Onion. So crass. So eye-catching. So funn–
Hey now. Wait a minute! Is that a …? Why yes! Yes it is! It is a BEQ mug on the bar! And hang on! I know I’ve seen that gentleman before. Is that … Tuning Spork? It certainly looks like him. Oh man! It is. Here’s another (stealth) entry in the BEQ fan photo essay, and I almost missed it! Everyone, meet someone else who uses all three names: Robert Warren Jones. Take it away Robert:
“Here I am at The Windmill bar and restaurant in Stratford, CT. Wednesday night is Texas Hold ‘Em night and I had some time to kill as I awaited the arrival of the other poker players. My BEQ mug is at my side as I work on one of your very early Onion puzzles. You were quite young at the time as evidenced by the crossing of QUISP and QUAKE in the lower left corner.”
Quite young? I was probably 33/34-ish when I wrote that one! No matter. I love the photo. How many bonus would Robert get if he left the mug at The Windmill and demanded all his drinks be served in it? 100? 1000? Too many to count? Oh, and uh, there’d better be a PBR in that BEQ mug. Just saying. Anyway, Robert gets a “Diagramless” book for his bravado. Everybody else: keep those candid shots coming!
Share the puzzle. New one on Monday.
Figured the LEVER (on the keg?) took a beating at a beer bash.
Never heard of BAC. Thankfully, I *had* heard of UCHITEL.
And you’re welcome 🙂
rp
PS clue on LIE = full-on Win
Yeah, I should probably mention that Rex alerted me to the amazing coincidence of the names. http://is.gd/5chGc
It didn’t help me that those women have the hardest names to remember, and spell. I like the LIE!
BAC = blood alcohol content.
OK, so this week’s easy BEQ puzzles all require an obsessive attention to tabloid-ready names that aren’t remotely inferrable if you haven’t been following the stories closely. I knew 20A, but the other women? They have weirdly spelled first names and/or uncommon last names (like Wednesday’s couple). This gives today’s puzzle the air of a quote puzzle in which the quote’s half in Hungarian.
B’NAI BRITH and QUINTUPLE are lovely, but there weren’t enough such entries to grab me today.
I’m with Amy, if you need that many crosses to get a name, something isn’t right…
Nice to see another puzz not bounded by the NYT’s shelf-life (read “marketability”)requirement. Almost (almost) felt bad that I knew the salacious theme details.
Briefly held up by 16A, UBI. Thought the interrogative was QUO, as in “domine, quo vadis?”. Latin 101 was a long time ago. Had a “Read the effing clue” moment on 57D coming up with flatscreen manufacturers making 72″ x 53″ screens… Also wrote in OF AGE too quickly at 51D. Never found an easy puzz I couldn’t make arbitrarily harder.
What Amy said, with the extra brain freeze of having EMBED at 48A, and thinking that BENJE was a perfectly fine name for a guitarist in a band I barely know, which lost me ~2 MINs. I couldn’t even correctly parse 28A: I googled to ensure that I spelled the names right while struggling with EMBED, and guessed KALI KAMOQUIN.
I liked the LIVER clue.
Ditto on the LIVER clue.
Here I was thinking you’d finally written a puzzle about cuddlecore.
You’d need a 25×25 grid to include all the women Tiger’s ever had sex with.
You could call it “The World’s Most Hornery Crossword.”
No idea on this one. I just haven’t memorized the names, much less the spellings of the names, of all the women Tiger has bonked. 43A had me wondering if he might have porked Eugene V. Debs, but it turned out to be one letter short.
I thought I had it all figured out but mucked up UBI/BBQ and ALI/LEGAL/EXILE (had exist).I purposely memorized NORDEGREN because I knew it was going to be coming around and UCHITEL is cute even with those sunglasses so I’ve been checking her out. Don’t tell the wife, please no evidence on my cellphone, mind you.
Kudos have to go out for the timeliness of the puzzle.
haven’t read a single story about whatever it is tiger woods has been up to (extramarital sex, from the looks of it), so this was a perfectly legitimate puzzle for someone who wasn’t me.
I thought that this was just plain funny. And easy enough that I could do it with my right hand while eating a sandwich with my left hand in 9 minutes between meetings. Fun for a Friday.
Interesting coincidence with the letter count, I guess, but I’m one of those who was trying desperately to avoid all the hoopla… Are people seriously that surprised that the guy is human. Just because he’s good at golf… There really is only 1 perfect role model in this world, that’s all I’ll be saying. Anyway, as others have mentioned, those people have the craziest names if you weren’t paying attention!
You are diabolical, but a wizard. I’ve consciously avoided listening or reading about Tiger’s transgressions in favor of stuff that really matters in my life – getting to that point where the head can really explode from TMI – so I couldn’t do very much of the puzzle without looking up the names after a certain point, including the wife’s. Had no effing idea what even one syllable of those women’s names were. Nonetheless, a thing of beauty. I will always applaud everything you do that is not something the Times would.
And now numerous sources are reporting that no. 4 in Florida and no. 5 in Las Vegas are waiting in the wings. Is this when we trot out the adjective “Chamberlainesque”?
Incidentally, I like “Uchitel” because it’s the word in several Slavic languages for “teacher”.
Eek, there’s more? With the names already revealed in time for this puzzle, can the vowelless mistresses be far behind?