We are giving Nova Land a break today and letting him join the puzzlers!
Sunday Puzzle posts weekly, generally at 9:30 am Eastern time / 6:30 am Pacific time, and features puzzles suitable for group puzzle-solving.
We also have a Sunday Puzzle for Beginners on Saturday nights at 9:30 pm Eastern / 6:30 pm Pacific for people who want to learn what this is all about in a gentler manner. But even if you feel shy, don't worry, come in and just post chatter. That's pretty much what I do and I have lots of fun, too!
Well, I only know how to make one kind of puzzle - a Juliecrostic - so today, you get two of them! The first one is a warm-up.
Both puzzles and the title are related.
For new puzzlers, here is how our Juliecrostics work:
The rules for an acrostic are simple: for each row, the answer is 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 answer and scrambling.
In the box in-between each answer, 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 related words in the down columns.
A completed acrostic might look like this:
Leap over the squiggle for the real thing:
Warm-up puzzle:
1 She butchered the national anthem
2 Spent
3 Gingham
4 Pale
5 What LOLCATS do
6 Myrtle's favorite thing
7 Get a brain!
8 Ross
9 Man of mettle
10 The You Tube clue
11 Hill
12 Baby
13 Seaman
14 Moreno
15 Root, third and fifth
16 Lost
17 Rush Limbaugh
18 There are seven of them
19 Valises
20 Stops here
Well, that was easy. I bet you guys solve it in 15 minutes or less. Now, here is the other one (Bwahahaha):
1 Divided
2 Mine, mine! You can't have any!
3 Keeper
4 Arithmetic member
5 Pills
6 Weasels
7 Schwarzeneggers
8 Trader
9 Oh, dear. Once again the clue is Rush Limbaugh
10 Came close
11 Ramblers
12 Snarfer
13 Nevada ruckus
14 These measure the hardness of diamonds. And who knew you could even DO this to a diamond?
15 Sometimes it's extraordinary
16 Excessive
17 Break
18 Verses
19 S S
20 Meddles
21 What some parents think their child is
22 Maddest
23 Settling again
24 Master of nothing
25 Important
26 Minerals
27 Protects
28 Passion
29 Nerve cell
30 Give up
31 Open
32 Meetings
33 Magazine: _ __ Times
34 Charlie's Tourettes
35
36 Son of a gun
37 Comas
38 Boy Scouts
39 Sorry, Puzzlers, I have to go there once more: Rush Limbaugh
40 Storage
41 Skimpiest
42 Circus equipment
43 Samples
44 Demi Moore movie
45 Biblical plant
46 Restless one
47 Shipped
48 Terrified
49 Two colors
50 Liquid offering
51 Ending
52 Debt
53 Ride
54 Great-grandfather
55 Hooker
56 Extra
Here is my inspiration for today's puzzles
(Past this point be spoilers, matee)
Spoiler link!!
And here is the reason for the puzzle title
Although, personally, I prefer the original.