What do Glenn Close, Rush Limbaugh, and Star Trek have in common? If you don't know, you can find the answer below.
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.
Each week Sunday Puzzle for beginners features an introductory version of the types of puzzles you'll find in the regular series, plus the answers to the previous week's puzzle.
Today's puzzle is a 16-clue JulieCrostic. You'll find the clues right below. If you don't know what a JulieCrostic is or how to work one, don't worry; you'll find a complete explanation of that right below as well.
Part 1: today's puzzle
1. main attraction
2. wheelbarrows
3. people who pretend to be who they're not
4. fair attraction
5. kind of ant
6. kind of eel
7. kind of sauce
8. kind of name
9. false front
10. lassos
11. a person who comments on this site
12. most deficient
13. pace
14. very big
15. what right-wingers talk show hosts are good at
16. kind of beauty
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Part 2: 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 LIAR, GRAIL, and GARLIC you'd place a "G" in the box between LIAR and GRAIL and a "C" between GRAIL and GARLIC.
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.
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Part 3: The clues and answers for last week's puzzle
(a) THE CLUES to last week'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
(b) THE ANSWERS to last week's puzzle:
1. liar G 2. grail C 3. garlic
4. body L 5. Dolby L 6. boldly
7. rash E 8. share O 9. ashore
10. made N 11. named S 12. amends
13. stag N 14. stang E 15. agents
The verticals read: GLENN CLOSE.
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What do Glenn Close, Rush Limbaugh, and Star Trek have in common?
Part 4: DKU notes
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. These are known as DKU (Daily Kos University) clues.
There weren't many DKU items in last week's puzzle, but there were a few.
DKU note # 1. The answer to the acrostic last week was Glenn Close. Most of you are probably familiar with Glenn Close as an actress. Among the films she is famous for are The World According to Garp, The Natural, The Big Chill, Fatal Attraction, and Dangerous Liaisons.
She is also a very accomplished stage actress, and has been much-praised for her performances in Sunset Boulevard, Death and the Maiden, and Barnum, among others.
And she is currently appearing in an intriguing television series, Damages:
The series revolves around the brilliant, yet ruthless lawyer, Patty Hewes (Glenn Close), her protégée, Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne), and the law firm, Hewes & Associates (located in New York City). Each season features a major case that Hewes and her firm takes on, while also examining a chapter of the complicated relationship between Ellen and Patty. The series is also known for its depiction of the season-long cases both from the law firm's point of view and from the target's point of view. The series has attracted many stars to play characters on the side against Hewes, including Ted Danson, William Hurt, Marcia Gay Harden, Martin Short, Lily Tomlin, and in the series' upcoming fourth season, John Goodman....
Damages has received critical acclaim and numerous television awards, including a Golden Globe and several Emmys.
But Glenn Close has done other good work as well. Here's a video I hope you find worth watching:
(Hat tip to Colorado is the Shiznit and her diary The Mental Health of America for that video.)
DKU note # 2. Clue # 6 ("how the Enterprise was supposed to go") is a reference to the introductory voice-over from most episodes of the original Star Trek television series:
Space: The final frontier
These are the voyages of the Starship, Enterprise
Its 5 year mission
To explore strange new worlds
To seek out new life and new civilizations
To boldly go where no man has gone before
DKU note # 3. And lastly, the answer to clue # 1 in last week's acrostic was LIAR. In these Sunday Puzzle for beginners diaries I generally try to use fairly straightforward definitions and synonyms for most of the clues, so I clued that:
1. one who doesn't tell the truth
But in our companions series, Sunday Puzzle, we often engage in a bit of good-humored tweaking of certain folks on the right-wing side of things. So if I'd been cluing this for a puzzle there, the clue might have read:
1. Rush Limbaugh
We often try to include at least one Rush Limbaugh clue in the Sunday Puzzles. Last week pucklady outdid herself -- managing to include not one, not two, but three Rush Limbaugh clues. If you didn't see last week's Sunday Puzzle diary, check it out!