Welcome to Sunday Puzzle Warm-Up, a weekly opportunity to have a little fun and to get your brain in gear for the regular Sunday Puzzle.
These warm-up puzzles are intended to be new-puzzler-friendly. So if you've never tried Sunday Puzzle before, and are scared to dive in the deep end, come on and dip your toes in here.
Let's get the party started! Here are the clues for tonight's JulieCrostic.
If you're familiar with how JulieCrostics work, have at it! If you're new and don't yet know how JulieCrostics work, you can find complete instructions in the bottom part of the diary.
Tonight's puzzle has 5 rows, with 3 answers per row.
1. in more pain
2. place to go to relax and have fun
3. less tall
4. go in
5. complete
6. beginner
7. storms
8. Piercy and Simpson
9. Marlene Dietrich and Steffi Graf
10. acquire knowledge
11. undecided voter
12. not specific
13. birds and LaRouchies
14. :::
15. express sympathy
NOTE: I'm typing this up very early Friday morning because I'm about to take off on an overnight pruning trip. I hope to be back Saturday evening before this diary posts. If there's an auto-tip jar rather than a personalized one it probably means I'm not back yet -- but I think y'all should be able to solve the puzzle pretty easily without my presence. Have fun! (And even if I'm not back in time to take part in tonight's diary, I will be here for tomorrow's Sunday Puzzle and look forward to seeing you then.)
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For the benefit of anyone new to Sunday Puzzle, here are the
instructions for solving a JulieCrostic
In JulieCrostics you are given a set of clues, such as these:
To solve the puzzle, figure out the answers to the clues and enter them into a grid of rows and columns, like so:
All the rows in the grid will be the same length (i.e. have the same number of answers). All the answers in a column will be the same length (i.e. have the same number of letters).
The words in each column are one letter longer than the words in the column to its left. That's because each word in a row has all the letters of the word before it plus one new letter.
For instance, if the clues for a row were
1. say what's not so
2. resting
3. concede
then the answers might be LIE, IDLE (= LIE + D), and YIELD (= IDLE + Y)
Write the added letter in the space between the word which doesn't have it and the word which does. For the row in the example you'd write:
1. LIE D 2. IDLE Y 3. YIELD
When you have solved all the clues and written down all the added letters, the added letters will form columns that spell out a message of some sort. It might be a person's name, it might be the title of a book, it might be a familiar phrase, or it might be a series of related words. Your challenge is to solve all the clues, fill in the vertical columns, and figure out what the vertical columns mean.
In the example given, the verticals read
DAIL YKOS. With proper spacing and capitalization that spells out
Daily Kos!