Sunday Puzzle is a regular weekly series. The puzzle party begins Sunday mornings at 9:30 am Eastern time / 6:30 am Pacific time, and you're invited.
But the puzzles in the Sunday Puzzle series can sometimes be a little intimidating to newcomers. So now there's also Sunday Puzzle for beginners to give new people an introductory version of the types of puzzles you'll find in the regular series. Sunday Puzzle for beginners posts Saturday evenings at 8:30 pm Eastern time / 6:30 pm Pacific time.
Tonight's puzzle is a 15-clue JulieCrostic. You'll find the clues, along with an explanation of how to do JulieCrostics and the answers to last week's puzzle, right below the fold.
I was afraid I'd have to miss the party this week, as I was planning to be off traveling for the weekend. But it now looks like I should be home in time to take part. So if no complications have arisen, I should be around when this diary auto-publishes and I look forward to seeing you in the comments.
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
I intended to mention this in the tip jar, but typed the tip jar up just minutes before the diary auto-posted and forgot. Tomorrow morning pucklady will be hosting Sunday Puzzle (and I get to join the solving team). It should be fun, so anyone reading this Saturday night be sure to set your alarm clocks and show up for Sunday Puzzle tomorrow morning!
Part I: TODAY'S PUZZLE
1. one who doesn't tell the truth
2. chalice
3. healthful seasoning
4. corpse
5. digital sound system
6. how the Enterprise was supposed to go
7. impulsive
8. use cooperatively
9. on land
10. created
11. labeled
12. fixes
13. for men only
14. caused pain
15. representatives
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Part II: the rules for JulieCrostics:
Read the clues provided below, then fill in words to match the clues in the appropriately numbered spaces in the diagram.
Each word in a row has all the letters of the previous word in that row, plus one new letter. Write the new letter in the space between the answers. For example, if the answers in a row were TREE, METER, and REMOTE you'd place an "M" in the box between TREE and METER and an "O" between METER and REMOTE.
When you have filled in all the spaces correctly, the columns formed by the added letters should spell out related words. It might be a person's name, such as CHARLES DICKENS (spelled out in two columns). It might be the title of a book or movie, such as GONEW ITHTH EWIND (spelled out in three columns). It might be almost anything. Your challenge is to figure out what the verticals say and what they mean.
As an example, here are the clues for last week's puzzle and the completed answer grid.
THE CLUES to last week's puzzle:
1. Join together
2. Lacking in seriousness
3. A person who rides horses professionally
4. Famous Scott
5. More peculiar
6. Beloved
7. Created
8. Broads or babes
9. Changes
10. Winged creatures
11. Hank McCoy
12. Missing
13. Oracle
14. What a jury is made of
15. Rest
16. Sunrise direction
17. Speed
18. Greek city
THE ANSWERS to last week's puzzle:
1. yoke J 2. jokey C 3. jockey
4. dred O 5. odder A 6. adored
7. made S 8. dames N 9. amends
10. bats E 11. Beast N 12. absent
13. seer P 14. peers O 15. repose
16. east H 17. haste N 18. Athens
Reading the two verticals, you get JOSEPH CANNON. (If you don't recognize the name, see the DKU notes section below.)
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Part III: DKU notes for last week's puzzle
The Sunday Puzzle diaries are intended to be educational as well as fun, so I like to include occasional clues or answers which refer to noteworthy people, events, writings, songs, and works of art which I hope will be of interest to Kossacks. I refer to these as DKU (Daily Kos University) clues.
I'm running late, so just time to type up some very quick notes.
Last week's puzzle had references to Dred Scott, Hank McCoy, and Joseph Cannon.
I expect almost everyone here will be familiar with Dred Scott, a slave who brought a legal challenge to slavery which went all the way to the Supreme Court before being denied.
Many of you will also probably be familiar with Hank McCoy, aka the Beast -- one of the original X-Men.
That leaves Joseph Cannon, who writes an iconoclastic blog entitled CannonFire blog. In general Cannon seems to prefer not being in the public spotlight; but he and his blog were somewhat more visible last week due to posts Cannon made regarding the Anthony Weiner kerfuffle.
Cannon theorized that someone other than Anthony Weiner had sent the crotch shot which caused Weiner so much trouble, and discovered a vulnerability in yFrog which might have enabled an outsider to have done so. (Since Weiner's confession on June 7, most people now accept that it was indeed Weiner who sent the picture; Cannon, however, continues to believe the picture was sent by someone other than Weiner.)