Okay, so, OkieByAccident sent me an acrostic and I haven't solved it yet, but it looks like fun. I'm going to stop doing the grids for acrostics and just use one as a sample, and describe the structure.
The pictures included here are two more light drawings and one landscape long exposure night shot. As usual, clicking on the photos gives you larger versions with details about the shot. These were done at an orchard near where I live which gave me permission to use their property.
As usual, please do not just post answers. Post subjects such as answer for acrostic #1, 1,3,5 or hint for acrostic #2 and then include your answers in the comment body.
The rules for an acrostic are simple: for each row, the answer is a word of increasing length, such as a five-letter word, a six-letter word and a seven-letter word. Each next size word is formed by adding a letter to the previous letter word and scrambling.
In the box in-between each word, put the extra letter. I.e., if your answers were:
ITEMS, MISTER and RED MIST
You'd place an "R" in the box between ITEMS and MISTER and a "D" between MISTER and RED MIST.
When you solve the whole puzzle, you will get two related words in the down columns.
From now on, I won't be including the acrostic grid in the puzzles, but just to describe the structure. I.e., if I were to include the following acrostic:
I will reference it as 9 x 4-5-6. For the two related words, I may sometimes do a trick on the down words (such as reversing the order of one, or switching the first names; in another puzzle I used JOHN ROMNEY and MITT MCCAIN as the answers, or even possibly anagrams).
Okay, on to the puzzles.
Puzzle #1: Acrostic by OkieByAccident, 12 x 4-5-6:
- Bible feature
- Scores
- Daily presence?
- Famous lake
- Declines
- This is one
- Create
- Stimulant
- Deed
- Bedrock element?
- Released
- Keeper
- Create a sockpuppet
- A real gas, man
- Puff?
- Flavor
- Allow
- Laser gem
- Increase
- Where to find cold ones?
- #5, archaically
- Judge
- Deface
- Like Shaq or Wilt
- Extreme
- Ran
- Kansas worker?
- Booth results
- Position
- Cows
- Judge
- Equine
- Economists' concern
- Tear
- Burdens
- Dove competitor
Puzzle #2: Acrostic by Julie Waters, 8 x 5-6-7:
- King's realm
- Low on the totem pole
- How you might describe Data
- Extract
- Like Jay Leno, in more ways than one
- Path of descent
- What grievances are, at Festivus
- Collected
- It's packed
- An important key
- Was not, conditionally
- Tanager or Grebe, e.g.
- Diminish
- Owner
- System of behavior
- Whack
- Fate
- Falling in love can be #19, but it can be this.
- Part of a euro
- Hexapoda
- Reservoir
- Ratted out
- Someone doing work like #3 might be this.
- #24, again
Just a quick note: I won't have time to do puzzle blogging next week, so WayOutInTheStix will be hosting the puzzle blogging next Sunday. Thanks for the fill-in.