Sunday Puzzle for beginners is a companion series to the regular Sunday Puzzle. Sunday Puzzle posts Sunday mornings at 9:30 am Eastern time / 6:30 am Pacific time; Sunday Puzzle for beginners posts Saturday evenings at 8:30 pm Eastern time / 6:30 pm Pacific time.
The aim of Sunday Puzzle for beginners is to introduce people to the kind of puzzles featured in the regular Sunday Puzzle diaries and to provide introductory-level puzzles for folks to practice on.
I'm currently away from home, with minimal computer access, and won't be able to take part in these diaries until I get home mid-to-late September. But thanks to the diary queue system and its auto-publish feature, the Sunday Puzzle for beginner series is able to continue without me until I get back.
I'm sorry I won't be available while the diary is up to say hi, answer questions, and up-rate comments; but most weeks there will be other Sunday-Puzzlers here, such as the ever-delightful pucklady, to greet you and help you feel at home.
Answers to last week's puzzle:
1. biers D 2. biders L 3. bridles U 4. builders
5. walls O 6. sallow H 7. hallows S 8. shallows
9. scare L 10. clears O 11. oracles E 12. escarole
1. places where you'll see dead bodies
2. those who wait
3. restraining devices
4. construction workers
5. barriers
6. unhealthy looking
7. makes holy
8. where the water isn't deep
9. frighten
10. frees from suspicion of wrong-doing
11. soothsayers
12. broad-leafed salad green
The verticals spell out DOL LHO USE -- which, when spaced out correctly, gives you the title of the Joss Whedon televison series Dollhouse.
This week's puzzle:
1. name of a Persian mathematician and poet
2. important
3. musical scale
4. dimple
5. eminent
6. give
7. smile
8. small hard seed
9. win back
10. named of noted sex researcher
11. yours, in olden days
12. highest point
Hints:
1. The Persian word for quatrains is rubaiyat.
10. This researcher specialized in female sexuality.
quick explanation of how JulieCrostics work:
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.