It's the first Sunday of the month, which means it's potluck puzzle party time here at Sunday Puzzle. If you have a puzzle you'd like to share, post it in comments and we'll paste it into the diary.
Recently we added a new feature to Sunday Puzzle: every week at least one puzzle features a vagina in the clues or the answers. Two weeks ago the quoted text in the cryptogram included a vagina. Last week one of the JulieCrostic answers was vagina. How many vaginas can you find this week, and where are they?
When you find out, post the answer in comments. (And if you live in Michigan, consider writing House Speaker James Bolger and some of the other Republican legislators to let them know, since it seems unlikely they'll be able to figure it out on their own.)
In addition to this morning's Where's Vagina puzzle, there are a couple of cryptograms on the potluck table, plus a Puzzle-In-A-Poll. Pucklady will be posting a JulieCrostic, and plf should be along in a while with some Lost In Translastions. Have fun, and I'll see you in comments!
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Crypto-Julie
In this cryptogram the letters A, E, I, O and U have been replaced with asterisks. That means it can't be solved by mechanical cryptogram-cracking programs; but it can be solved by human intelligence.
T## n#sav e#t va#v va# i#lva#le, va# s#t-i#ea#le #gb va# u#gb#n#gv#d#ev ul##p#h##be #l# #i#n#'e e#ol#v r##c#g; va#t #g#ls#h# b#n m#v#le u#l n#l# va#g #i#n# a#ne#du #m#l o##db. #u va# L#c#id#o#ge d#e# va#e va#gs b#ec#v# va##l u#ln#b#id# u#g#go##d #bm#gv#s#, id#n# va# o#ge#lm#v#m# #ov#m#eve ra# cl##bdt r##l v-ea#lve i##l#gs va# r#lb "EO#LT."
-- Z#e#ca O#gg#g
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Crypto-Gremlin
In this cryptogram, letters have been added to make sure each word begins with a consonant (or consonant sound) and ends with a vowel (or vowel sound). If you're not familiar with Crypto-Gremlins, you can find complete rules for Crypto-Gremlins here.
Cla'rk ulni nl ubrk Ybnnl Plymkc spkvbna. Ok'ea hi fltl spkinlpk. Rbmb Ebmuidlpk. Sobmi. Hbmvbi. Ok'ea tkkml rkpc ullva gina spkinbmuk fltec. Orkpekie.
-- Jlk Tbvkml
Here's my (pucklady's) Juliecrostic, but it has nothing to do with vaginas.
1 Beatles venue
2 hurry
3 card game
4 papas
5 most distant
6 hairdos
7 Jews who immigrated to London from the Netherlands during the latter part of the 19th century (Hi,Peter!)
8 And Ladders game
9 Thus! And again, thus!
10 brothel (this is as close to a vagina as you are going to get from me (well, without dinner). And I've been wanting to use this as a clue since, um, forever!)
11 Paul Weasley
12 zzz, loudly
13 This is a geographical point in Svalbard. And no, I've never heard of Svalbard before, either, but the country code is SV. If it has a country code, it must be a real place, dammit. And, it does have seven national parks! (The things you learn when you are trying to find fits for odd letters.) The funniest thing is, when you Google this, you get pictures of drunk people in parkas.
14 concerned
15 memento
16 true
17 aware
18 for sale, at consumer prices
19 dependent. Also, Chekov's ship in Star Trek.
20 inside