Hee! I'm filling in again!
The main puzzle this week is an acrostic, which can be found right after the fold. For those in the mood for more, there are also some new Catch Phrase puzzles to be found immediately after the acrostic.
Acrostic fun, and more, coming up right below the fold...
I. Who is this?
The Mystery Image puzzle remains unsolved. Here the image is, again, for anyone interested in trying to identify it:
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II. Sunday Acrostic
Here's the main attraction, the Sunday acrostic. (If that's not enough, there are some Catch Phrase puzzles immediately afterward.)
I still can't do formatting very well, so will just link to Julie's rules for acrostics, from this Sunday Puzzle thread a few weeks back. But I think I've managed to present the clues in a reasonably easy-to-follow format. As you can see, this is a 10-row acrostic. (Honest! I wouldn't lie to you about something like this.) I'll leave it to the puzzle-solvers to determine how many letters are in the answers.
Row 1
1-a: Stark contrast?
1-b: Snap.
1-c: Plane or engine.
Row 2
2-a: Sometimes last.
2-b: Septic skeptic?
2-c: 1960s humor publication.
Row 3
3-a: Kind of throat.
3-b: Comics' Christopher.
3-c: Learner's work.
Row 4
4-a: Proper person.
4-b: Dispersal device.
4-c: Recruit involuntarily.
Row 5
5-a: Before the line?
5-b: Horrify.
5-c: Often rousing.
Row 6
6-a: Unfair if one.
6-b: Moved secretively.
6-c: Good questions!
Row 7
7-a: Volume control.
7-b: Victor, in films.
7-c: Hour, on radio (or television).
Row 8
8-a: Awaken.
8-b: Cat, commonly.
8-c: Difference between night and day?
Row 9
9-a: Deem worthy. (Sounds great!)
9-b: Had too much.
9-c: Having sex.
Row 10
10-a: Lana Fritz
10-b: Informal (so to speak).
10-c: Elektra specialty
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And now... it's CATCH PHRASE time!
For those who aren't familiar with this type of puzzle, here are some examples from last week.
EXAMPLE # 1: oholene
Answer: hole (inside) one => "hole in one"
EXAMPLE # 2: Malecowaliens
w...a...y
Answer: Bull+ETs (over) broad was => "Bullets Over Broadway"
I posed 5 Catch Phrase puzzles last week. Panda figured out that
eht keche
consisted of the word "the" turned around, and the word "cheek" in a different (other) order, for "turn the other cheek", and that
of the
ne
consisted of the words "of the" above the crossed out letters "ne". Since crossing out these letters means there is no ne, the answer is no ne, of the above ("none of the above")
Wayoutinthestix basically figured out
dlb aeye
So that leaves a couple of unsolved items from last week, which I'll list as the first 2 puzzles for this week:
#1: h=Thatcher -on
(The answer is a 2-word phrase; the exact phrase turns up close to 4 million hits on Google.)
#2: Schuylkill Expressway
mon
(The answer is a 3-word phrase; the exact phrase turns up about a quarter million hits on Google.)
And here are two new puzzles to work on:
#3: emate
(The answer is one word, and gets nearly 8 million Google hits)
#4: d kool
t
(The answer is a 3-word phrase; the exact phrase turns up more than 3 million Google hits.)
Have fun! I'll see you in comments.