I'm away for blueberry season until September, so Sunday Puzzle is on summer re-runs. But these are truly classic re-runs: the very earliest JulieCrostics posted on Daily Kos as constructed by Julie Waters herself.
If you're not familiar with what JulieCrostics are and how they work you can find a complete explanation, along with introductory puzzles and examples of completed puzzles, in our companion series Sunday Puzzle Warm-Up.
Julie loved music and was an accomplished musician. In her honor Sunday Puzzle Warm-Up is having a Songfest Summer, with puzzles spotlighting some great songs. Each week you'll get a new puzzle plus a YouTube clip of the song featured in the previous week's puzzle. So even if don't need any puzzles to practice on, you might still enjoy dropping by.
But enough talk from me. It's puzzle time! If you're ready to match wits with Julie, come on down...
In the early days of Sunday Puzzle, Julie revealed the word pattern at the start. Tonight's puzzle has 10 rows, each row has 3 answers, and the word lengths are 5-6-7.
I won't be able to take part in tonight's diary, but if you have any difficulty solving the puzzle you'll find all the answers in next week's diary.
1. Commit a base act?
2. Dependable
3. Drunk
4. Exchange
5. Rant
6. Exude
7. Type of Grebe
8. This person does #4
9. Experienced
10. Unit of measurement
11. Steering Bar
12. Exactly as it appears
13. Distance
14. Trough
15. It hosts the Danube and the Rhine
16. Like NYC or Chicago
17. Titian
18. Pacific theater?
19. Demean
20. Surrounded
21. Submarine
22. Outline
23. #24 can leave this behind
24. Fissile container
25. The usual, please
26. Paul's letters
27. Stone working
28. Sometimes a king?
29. Uninhibited
30. Crystalline Compound