NOTE: one of last week's mystery puzzles went unsolved. I've re-posted it at the bottom of this week's diary so that you can have another crack at it.
I'm away for the next few weeks, so Sunday Puzzle is on re-runs. But these are truly classic re-runs: the very earliest JulieCrostics posted on Daily Kos as constructed by Julie Waters herself. The one in tonight's diary dates from January 2008 and is pretty amazing!
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 has been doing a Songfest Celebration this summer. Each week there's a new puzzle, the answer to which is the title of a noteworthy song, plus there's 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 checking out some of the Warm-Up diaries.)
Okay, enough talk from me. Are you ready to match wits with Julie? If so, come on down!
The puzzle featured in tonight's diary is the 5th JulieCrostic which Julie posted at Daily Kos. (You can find the first, second, third, and fourth at the links provided.)
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 4-5-6.
Clue # 2 was originally a picture clue, but unfortunately the link no longer works so I substituted in a verbal clue. The rest are as Julie wrote them.
I'll be waiting to catch a Megabus when this diary posts so 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. Where a sentence can begin and end.
2. Twilight
3. Morass; quagmire
4. Drat!
5. Rudy's campaign is circling this
6. Raid
7. Gas or duct.
8. Tend to
9. He's mad, I tell you, mad!!!!
10. Worm or ticket
11. Crows like to take small pieces of this
12. Cloak
13. Position at head, behind?
14. Why we go to court
15. Flow
16. Age
17. Trainee
18. #12, in other words
19. Spring or passage
20. Very quickly
21. Composed in a poetic manner.
22. When I did this to write this clue, I got a blank
23. Dowitcher, for example.
24. Mosey
25. Language, literature or history
26. Type of well, case or lift
27. Parody
28. Type of home or stop
29. Howard's end
30. Someone on guard duty.
UNSOLVED!
Last week I posted six mystery puzzles. These were all puns on the names of types of puzzles (i.e. puzzles within puzzles).
Five of the puzzles were solved:
1. an angry blood-sucker
ANSWER: a cross tick (acrostic)
2. mother of mother of Paquin, mother of mother of Pavlova, mother of mother of Karenina ...
ANSWER: Anna grams (anagrams)
4. Maggie's husband's astonished admiration
ANSWER: Jigg's awe (jigsaw)
5. concerning public transportation
ANSWER: re: bus (rebus)
6. imitation bird call
ANSWER: pseudo coo (Sudoku)
That leaves this one still to be figured out:
3. "Arf! Arf! Arf!"
Have fun, and I'll see you next week!