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As of this posting, Boswords attendance has stalled at 939 participants. This will not do! Not on my watch, dammit! Look, this Sunday there’s going a very lighthearted but still fun crossword tournament. And as far as I can tell, another opportunity to see some of the members of the puzzlin’ community, even if it is (alas) on a computer screen. Look, we take what we can get. Anyway, crosswords by me, Pahk, Trudeau, Bullock, and Maymudes. Should be fun. So, yeah, let’s get those numbers over 1000, shall we? Do it today.
Looking for more puzzles? The Hub Crossword (Sunday puzzles by me and Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon) and Marching Bands year six have begun. So if that To Do list needs even more puzzles, you know what to do.
Share the puzzle. New one on Monday.
Enjoyed today’s theme! Though after the solve I had to search for the thing implicit in 32-Across.
Always fun to solve one of these puzzles before the attached song ends!
[Put the kibosh on Japanese fashion?]
Fun, and I solved it sans cheating! Thanks, Brendan!
The Wellerman, bitte, beene, nutlets cross is plain awful. Saw something like this last week too. You getting lazy, Brendan?
I have no idea what a crossword tournament is but if it’s important to BEQ then I guess I am in. We shall see.
So I signed up for the Boswords but all I got was a link to last years puzzles and it wouldn’t even open…
Innerbikes? WTF?
I signed up for after party Boswords. My son’s birthday is Sunday so I think it would be rude to compete on the day. Though I had a great time at the earlier one…..over 1000!
the ship isn’t ‘Wellerman’, it’s ‘Billy o’ Tea’
Switch the first two letters. I had to google it.
From what I found on the interwebs, a Wellerman is *a* ship in the shanty, but you’re right about *the* ship. Since Brendan just said “ship”, I think he’s good, imo.
Indeed, the Wellerman is the ship that brings the sugar and tea and rum. It’s named after the Weller Brothers.
BITTE is fine, and WELLERMAN is topical and great! I won’t dispute BEENE, though, and NUTLETS is somewhat obscure.
that’s where I got stuck – I was trying to fit Billy o’ Tea into the space for too long – eg, could its real name be William OT?!