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Wrote the second of the theme answers down on the backs of one of the many many (cryptic) puzzles that I stuff in my jacket pocket. Figured that was a fun answer that I could do something with. My first thought was to go a certain way, and with a bit of sleuthing, made me realize I had just done that theme last year. Gotta love it when that happens. Also, good thing I came up with a new spin on it.
For those looking for more puzzles, may I recommend Patti Varol’s “Women of Letters?” You know the drill by now. Donate to a charitable cause, get some puzzles. Everybody wins. This go-around it’s all women. Women constructors, women’s charities. Some heavy hitters in there too. Coincidentally three of my faves: Lynn Lempel, Zhouqin Burnikel, and Andrea Carla Michaels. Anyway, enough of my babbling, help ’em out, will ya?
Share the puzzle. New one on Monday.
great 1-across clue
Can’t get Mr. Happy Pencil because Across Lite considers the correct entry into the first square of 58A to be wrong. Oddly enough, when you click reveal, it fills in the same correct answer it previously rejected.
I noticed this too. I dropped the PUZ file to script and reloaded it in Across Lite, and it took that square as correct. So probably something isn’t quite right in the software that BEQ uses to generate his PUZ files. Or you’re on an old version of Across Lite that has a bug. Hard to tell for certain.
Any one in Hawaii who refers to you as “Haole” will not greet with “aloha,” more likely a middle finger and f### off.
I had the same problem, so I did the puzzle again with the Crossword Solver app. Oddly, it accepted that character quite nicely. So I am flummoxed.
Not true! It depends on the context.
Is nothing sacred to you, BEQ?! I thought you had hit rock bottom when you shoved REDNOSE into all those boxes back in December, and then just a few weeks ago with those greetings hanging off the puzzle, but this??? That-that-that NUMBER in 58?? They’ll be coming for your word-crossing license, BEQ, mark my words!