The 6-letter word ENDIVE has an E for its first letter and a V for its fifth letter. Can you think of another common 6-letter word which has an E for its first letter and a V for its fifth letter?
E N D I V E
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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 in Sunday Puzzle for beginners you'll find: introductory versions of the types of puzzles you'll find in the regular series, to help you gain skill and confidence in your puzzle-solving abilities and to help prepare you for our Sunday morning parties.
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 (along with an example of a solved puzzle) right below as well. Come on down and have some fun!
Part 1: today's JulieCrostic
1. person who's as good as you are
2. person who's an outcast
3. person who's an acrobat
4. person who's out of jail
5. levee or embankment (especially in Europe)
6. writer of Buffy, Angel, and Charmed stories
7. ass (but not Rush Limbaugh!)
8. no longer part of a team
9. neckwear
10. places on the web
11. stop
12. disagree
13. love
14. place to buy things
15. encourage
16. sweetly decorated
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Part 2: last week's puzzle
1. STAR C 2. CARTS O 3. ACTORS E 4. COASTER
5. ARMY O 6. MORAY N 7. MORNAY C 8. ACRONYM
9. POSE R 10. ROPES T 11. POSTER O 12. POOREST
13. GAIT N 14. GIANT H 15. HATING B 16. BATHING
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-wing talk show hosts are good at
16. kind of beauty
The verticals spell out CORN ONTH ECOB -- "corn on the cob". (Which is something I'll have, out of my garden, in a few more days; the silk is starting to turn color now.)
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Part 3: 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.
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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.
However, last week's Sunday Puzzle for beginners was very light on DKU clues. Okay, there was a reference to what right-wing talk show hosts are good at (hating) but I don't think anyone here needs to be told that.
So class is letting out early tonight. (There will be an interesting DKU note in the regular Sunday Puzzle diary tomorrow, though.)
See you in the comments section!