THEMELESS MONDAY: [ ACROSS LITE][ PDF]
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Our printer ran out of toner last week and instead of you know, going down to Best Buy and getting a replacement (or better yet, ordering one on line so it just appeared on our front stoop), we just left the thing idle. I mean, big deal, it’s a printer. How often does one actually print things out nowadays? Turns out I print things out constantly. Lately I’ve been solving weird British cryptics and lunatic fringe variety puzzles almost exclusively, and last I checked almost none of them are available for on-screen solving. So yeah, it feels a little old school, but here we are. My pockets are usually stuffed with papers with crosswordy-type puzzles on them. I’ve mentioned all of this before. None of this is new. Anyway, so last week, printer-free BEQ meant puzzle-free BEQ … and it was an interesting stretch of time. At first I thought I would have enjoyed the break. And I guess that did happen somewhat. But by the end, okay day two, I could feel the withdrawal kicking in.
What can I say? I’m an addict.
Share the puzzle. New one on Thanksgiving.
Crossvvord Puzzles having reached their apex of excellence in the last tvvo decades. And you have to consider that vve’ve had them for slightly over a century. i Predict vve’ll get one or tvvo more good decades of them until something starts to give.
GMAB!!!
What are “efgrit” and “peptane”? For the latter, I think you were aiming for “pepsin”, which is generated through pepsinogen cleavage.
You may have been fooled by the congratulatory message that comes up when you fill in every square. Unless anything has changed, those words were “esprit” and “peptone.”
PS: I don’t know why that message persists in coming up regardless of whether the squares are filled in correctly.