Well, science and I have now passed our tenth anniversaries as Kossacks. sny, you beat us by a long shot, otherwise this week's puzzle answer would have been "TEN YEARS A KOSSACK". (Hint. It isn't. That should reduce the possibilities somewhat.)
I know where I was when I signed up. I was on vacation, sitting in an internet cafe near Times Square and someone on DailyKos WAS WRONG!!!! I had to end my lurk status IMMEDIATELY to respond to that idiot!! Well, ten years later, here I still am. But I am no longer on vacation, and no longer in New York. Peter Flom, however, still is (in New York, vacation status unknown), even though he is rarely a puzzler these days. So I made him a clue!
Visitors to Sunday Puzzle, the first Sunday of every month is our Potluck Sunday. Everybody is a puzzlemaster. Anybody can bring a puzzle, riddle or anything else to the puzzle table. I've started things off with a Juliecrostic, but you can add to our puzzle feast by sending me a Kosmail or posting your puzzle/riddle/whatever in the comments and I will add it to the puzzle diary.
So, what is a Juliecrostic?
Julie Waters was our founder. We've named these puzzles in her honor. Here is her description of how these puzzles work:
The rules for an acrostic are simple: for each row, the answer is of increasing length, such as a five-letter word, a six-letter word and a seven-letter word. Each next size word is formed by adding a letter to the previous answer and scrambling.
In the box in-between each answer, put the extra letter. I.e., if your answers were:
ITEMS, MISTER and RED MIST
You'd place an "R" in the box between ITEMS and MISTER and a "D" between MISTER and RED MIST.
When you solve the whole puzzle, you will get related words in the down columns.
And here is her puzzle, complete with her colors.
So, over the Kos candy corn for this month's puzzles.
Warmup Quickie: What does this mean?
TTTTIIIIMMMMEEEE
AB DE
My Juliecrostic, and I swear, I wrote this before Saturday's puzzle.
1 plf515 followers (Peter, we miss you!)
2 bigger maker
3 salesman
4 traveling with boundaries
5 firing up
6 getting back
7 denounces
8 I see nothing (shh)
9 bums
10 damaging
11 returning guns
12 oleo
13 medical instruction
14 GOP clown car, unless the RNC can stop them. So far, the RNC is being successful.
15 robin
16 Rush Limbaugh
17 rain boots
Here's a puzzle from Nova Land:
Summer's not quite over yet...
The gremlins don't seem able to let go of summer (or Summer Songfest) this year. So even though we're already a couple of weeks into autumn, the gremlins insisted on contributing one more Summer Songfest puzzle.
For those of you who took part in the Summer Songfest warm-up puzzles last summer and this summer, tonight's puzzle shouldn't be too hard. What the gremlins did was take the first 20 lines from one of the spotlighted songs, change one letter in each line, and write a paraphrase of the amended line (being careful to avoid using in the paraphrase any word which appears in either the original or amended line being paraphrased).
As usual with One-Off puzzles, the one-letter change may be either the addition of a letter (cat becomes cart, the removal of a letter (cat becomes at), or the substitution of a letter (cat becomes bat).
While the gremlins are only allowed to change one letter in each line, they maintain they are free to make as many changes as they like to punctuation, capitalization, and even to word spacing. And knowing the gremlins, I suspect they took full advantage of that freedom. Still, with a limited number of songs to choose from, it shouldn't be too hard for you to figure out which song the gremlins selected and to translate their paraphrase back to their amended lyrics. Have fun!
Billboard announced multiples of a Batman villain;
Furthermore, identity had been a controversial cartoonist.
Illustration is non-jewish person
With tranquilizer which it's within your power to tranquilize.
Christmas and New Years sheltered from sunlight
One particular bridge hand, very blue, also tiny.
Peculiar: an occasion when Kent Allard
Is able to plunge from one end of shopping center to opposite end
Plus put on false appearance of what has changed
Of liquid discharged by person reading this
Um, this male simply works as redcap, although
This male comprises all prostitutes.
One imposter beneath single road illuminator
Has highly developed abs, plus is putting on different clothes while flying.
"Set fire to intersection!"
Thus this male continues to be umpire
Apprehending everyone human --
People urinating without realizing it.
Write legal determination in this space
Contained by his urine.
Oh, and here are some Commonyms from Thinkable Puzzles. "Commonyms" are a set of objects that have something in common.
1. Bird - Board - Berry
2. A Basketball player - A Baby - A Soccer player
3. A Rock Band - Traffic - A Copy Machine
4. A Pirate Ship - A Mailbox - A School
5. A Bomb - A Kiss - A Flower
6. A Waitress - An Iceberg - A Tongue
7. A Potato - A Storm - A Needle
8. Steam - Bird - Bubble
9. Brick - Swiss - Blue
10. Rubber - Gum - Cork