I'm away for blueberry season, with minimal internet access, until about the third week of September.
But Sunday Puzzle is still here every week for your puzzling pleasure. Pucklady will be hosting a potluck puzzle party the first Sunday of each month; Villanova Rhodes will be providing her delightfully devious JulieCrostics on the third Sunday of each month; and I've queued up re-posts of some of the earliest JulieCrostics for the weeks in between.
Julie Waters started the Sunday Puzzle series in October 2007, and a special kind of acrostic puzzle (named JulieCrostics in her honor) quickly became the Sunday Puzzle feature item.
If you're ready to journey back in time and match wits with Julie, come on down below the orange squiggle...
Julie originally posted this puzzle on February 24, 2008.
If you're new to Sunday Puzzle, you can find a detailed explanation of how JulieCrostics work in any Sunday Puzzle Warm-Up diary (as well as an introductory puzzle to work and an example of a solved puzzle).
Back in the early days, Julie used to tell us what the word-length pattern for the puzzle was. But since you folks have gotten pretty expert at team-solving these things, the gremlins insisted that I shouldn't include that information this time.
1. Strength
2. Dense mass
3. Works.
4. Educate
5. Myocastor
6. Bullish
7. Like a cat.
8. Protector who needs to be #7.
9. Jupiter Probe, Launched in 1989.
10. Drain or fade
11. Alpine cottage
12. Squeaky
13. Inscribed disc.
14. Protected by links.
15. A common numerical system.
16. Enlist
17. What you might give a teacher.
18. Join up, again.
19. Quite a turn.
20. Reshape
21. A kind of plot?
22. Vermont's #1
23. Fake fly
24. Coastal port of Sicily
25. Grotesque
26. Measure
27. A kind of block
28. Hold on to
29. Encourage
30. Through #12 #3, we can #29 the growth of these.
Next week is
potluck puzzle Sunday, so be sure to be here for that. And the week after I'll be back with another JulieClassic and the answers to tonight's puzzle. Meanwhile here are the answers to
JulieClassic # 9:
lame B amble D blamed
abet L bleat O oblate
glee A Eagle U league
dare C raced B braced
deli K liked L killed
pier C price E recipe
tees R steer C resect
acne O ocean R cornea
rats W warts E waster
mate N meant S stamen
bans E beans T absent
cafe D decaf E deface
Gobi N bingo D boding
tact I attic C tactic
deal G glade O age-old
cape H peach R preach
hero T other M mother
ears H shear O hoarse
cash E chase R search
case R scare A Caesar
this O hoist N Shinto
Dame N amend T tandem
The verticals spell out BLACK CROWNED NIGHT HERON and DOUBLE CRESTED CORMORANT -- two of the many birds which Julie loved to watch.