Welcome, puzzlers to another Sunday Puzzle Potluck. This month, our puzzle table is truely loaded with bounteous goodness!
We have a Juliecrostic from science, and his are always challenging and delightful. I have a Juliecrostic, too as well as a Bad Translations. Nova has brought a One-off. And there is even a Puzzle-in-a-Poll. So, jump over the orange puzzle piece and dive in!
Here's a Juliecrostic from science!
1. Addendum
2. another 1
3. often downloaded
4. helmet wearer in comics
5. Offer
6. something to flip
7. Home of Hope
8. Awesome
9. Orson
10. Many of us are one of these
11. Greek Letter
12. Red State
13. Old Disc
14. Rare skin Disorder
15. Too thin! Gross!
16. Type of fiction
17. Tuber
18. Date of two massacres
And here's my Juliecrostic:
1 cryptic insider college spawns governments
2 golden eye
3 delights
4 baloons
5 Where Joan of Arc is buried
6 fisherman
7 GOP meteorologists
8 hired again or quit
9 Alexanders Hamilton and Pushkin had this in common
10 desired
11 honored
12 throbbed
13 claims
14 compares
15
16 moving on tiptoe
17 Billy Goat, Little Bastard or Superman
18 origin
19 makes good
20 yokes
21 antiquity
22 bad golfer
23 yummy chocolaty pastries
24 comes with 23
25 space nine fryer
26 up to all deliberate demon
27 loathe
28 serials
29 living relative of Nicola Tesla
30 sailor
31 nobel
32 when you hear hoofbeats, it's likely this
33 cell
34 voila!
35 yesterday at Homan Square
36 gland
37 panache
38 a chewing out
39 Boehner (I'm starting a new Sunday Puzzle meme with this clue)
A Slightly Different Kind of One-Off
Here's a One-Off puzzle which recently appeared in this year's Page-A-Day puzzle calendar. They took the titles of 8 Oscar-winning movies, changed one letter in each word of the titles, and then re-arranged the altered words. Here's what they came up with:
1. HUNT LOCKET TIE
2. WISH THY WINE DONE
3. STORK WENT WIDE
4. MAY RUIN
5. DAILY MASS DROVING
6. HOVEL GRIND
7. DEEP TOE HUNGER
8. SHE BEAT OUT YEATS ON "LIKES"
Some Bad Translations
What films are the source for these bad translations of famous quotes?
1 I think I've decided this week not a homeless person. (1980)
2 You can buy all our lives, but what is free! Free! (1995)
3 You can get something in your head. (1983)
4 Pills drug court stand. (1956)
5 Lord, you're struggling! This is war! (1964)
6 That is, children in the evening. That music. (1931)
7 When I read about your life stop and look around if you want and if You don't do that. (1989)
8 Oddly enough, Molly, is love itself. (1990)
9 I was bored. (1984)
10 The people, the life, the meaning of life, man. (1933)
Puzzle in a Poll link. Don't click the link until you've make your vote/guess!