So, did your team win? Well, let's have a picnic potluck anyway.
The first Sunday of every month is Potluck Sunday. This is also the day that Nova gets to become a solver, so yay, Nova!
Speaking of Nova, the gremlins have provided a puzzle this week. As always, I have a Juliecrostic.
Anyway, over the orange puzzle piece for the potluck! Clothing optional.
1 scrape
2 time out
3 supporter
4 more like ink
5 before al follows ship
6 the clue is the picture at the top of the diary
7 captive
8 useful feature
9 relative of mine?
10 scrub
11 originator
12 conceal
13 necklace part
14 dumb by half
15 oblique
16 raw
17 stagger
18 cautious
19 smallage
20 use again
21 rupture
22 a giant for a regal wedding
23 made
24 before baker
25 ain't what she used to be!
26 buy more guns!
27 damaged
28 illegal immigrant
29 Flash, yes, Arrow, no
30 marks
31 freeze-framed
32 bug fixes
33 volatile middle
34 advantage
35 mid-day break
Nova gets some help from the gremlins:
I'm running way behind (as usual these days) -- still haven't had time to write and post a review of the book I'm Glad I Did featured in last week's Sunday Puzzle.
But, in exchange for my writing a clue about them for last night's Sunday Puzzle Warm-Up diary, the gremlins agreed to take over responsibility for coming up with a puzzle to contribute to tonight's potluck. Since Valentine's Day is coming soon, what follows is their notion of a romantic puzzle .
What they did was take 16 lines from a well-known romantic song. They then changed one letter in each line. The change might be the addition of a letter (cat becomes cart), the removal of a letter (cat becomes at), or the substitution of a letter (cat becomes bat) -- but only a single letter was changed in each line.
After changing one letter and thus creating a slightly different line, they then wrote a paraphrase of the altered line (being careful not to use any word which appeared in the original or altered line in the paraphrase). Your challenge is to figure out what the altered lines are and what the original lines were.
Before you start solving, a few words of warning. While the gremlins are only allowed to change one letter in each line, they maintain they are free to make as many changes as they like to punctuation, capitalization, and even word spacing. That could make things a little harder. But the gremlins assured me that while this puzzle might be difficult for people on other sites it should be easy to solve for Sunday Puzzlers.
"Asshole Variety Exists"
by Floor Coverers
Asshole variety exists,
Sex partner. Everything this evening,
Sex partner -- everything.
Humans exactly identical to you and me do romantic relationships poorly now.
Therefore, enumerate males with great attention to detail.
Position yourself nearer; looking for a rod is not to be done.
Define average!
(Ointment doesn't match the definition.)
Sole noise henceforth causing panic
Occurs at time of my crying softly into puzzle-solver's hearing organ,
"French coin makes me very happy
In favor of Medgar-Carradine pairing!"
Asshole variety exists,
Sex partner. Everything this evening,
Sex partner -- everything.
Listener's ears are capable of detecting noises made by Romney and Palin, who care deeply about each other.
Note from me: The Gremlins apparently don't know how to Google. The song was actually written by Not As Much Stick and Dismount from King and Colbert.
Nice and tidy.