Boy have I been having a gremlin invasion. Even Kos is gremlinized right now - I can't add an image here like I usually do. The image library is getting a 404 - Not Found.
Anyway, I actually created two Juliecrostics this week using the theme of comings and goings. They even had the same topology - row and column counts and character counts.
I had both puzzles all clued up and then the gremlins attacked.
The gremlins thought two Juliecrostics was too many, so they squished my clues for both puzzles into one set of clues.
At least they kept the order. For each squish-up, the clue for the first puzzle is first and the second one follows. Thank goodness they didn't change the syntax, so each half-clue is still syntactically correct and could stand on its own. As usual, expect the punctuation and capitalization to be messed with. Gremlins love doing that.
Well, I'm taking my cue from Nova and running really late this week. There isn't time to split them back out, so I'll have to publish and wish you all the best of luck.
Nova sent a Spoonerism puzzle too, so there should be a lot to keep everybody busy this week! And that's no April Fool.
But we always love donations to our potluck. If you have a puzzle, riddle or funny saying, post it in the comments and I'll include it in the main diary.
Good luck everybody!
Well, here are two hopelessly gremlinized Juliecrostics.
1 Foot Sue Seattle bright light
2 Embibers Australian horses
3 8 pecks = 2 John Grisham characters
4 Macho lady circumnavigator
5 Inexpert sales incentive
6 Odd egg implements
7 Rent Barack magic, according to Rush
8 Secondhand item more stretched out
9 Kicks back cartoon foghorn
10 Feasts high point
11 Washed out asking Vincent
12 Climate change or holocaust mimics
13 Settles the smart kids
14 Sexy flying machines
15 Competence Stevie woman
16 Mug feather on a hat
17 Put in a lot of punching
18 After falls a fall
19 Flash's park v fortification
20 Refusal came close
21 Dan in Paris Rush Limbaugh, naturally
22 It sounds like Harry and Donna wordily arrive at the destination
23 Lifted up tension predecessor
24 Sabotages the con artist
25 Stitches the info
26 A large group gathered to entangle
27 Lady flies like a dragon treated roughly
28 Big hitcher's quests
29 Scramble comparative state of California reservoirs
30 Card player grammar checkers
31 Became a father sarcastic
32 Increased improved shoes
33 Cow farms interferes
34 Impressive horse piece
35 Chilled out with others
36 After dinner solidifies
37 Beneath some money
38 Incinerated interesting wood
39 Loads a big rock
40 Grunge islands
41 I'm wrong, but I think I see some passages
42 Mental picture names
43 Try to stupefy a smell
44 Icy dessert the sweetest!
45 Lifter up hyphenated Americans
46 Little me
47 Holy books of drudgery
48 Writers block
This is a
Spoonerism puzzle. I took 10 familiar phrases, spoonerized them, and wrote paraphrases of the spoonerized phrase (trying to avoid using any words from the original or the spoonerized version in the paraphrase). Your challenge is to try to figure out what the 10 phrases are.
1. groove on villain
2. really like experimental pre-release version
3. get worms out of the ground
4. use shovel to make a swamp
5. tree in mulberry family set up with fruit
6. rear of Russian plane
7. rabbit that lives on Russian plane
8. tractor-trailer's floor
9. 19th century avians who believed the president should be subservient to Congress
10. quote which Derek appends below comments