Sunday Puzzle for beginners is a companion series to the regular Sunday Puzzle.
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 can't be here 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.
Just jump down below the DK squiggle and you'll find a new JulieCrostic, directions on how to do JulieCrostics, and the answers to last week's JulieCrostic. Have fun!
PS: 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.
Clues for this week's puzzle:
1. you and me
2. fresh
3. become less
4. commercial
5. fruit drink
6. helper
7. note
8. 1002
9. known for screaming
10. what I see in a mirror
11. shade tree
12. like most of Sean Hannity's talking points
13. silver
14. joke
15. criminal group
Answers to last week's puzzle:
1. iron G 2. groin I 3. origin
4. lice A 5. Alice M 6. malice
7. sped I 8. spied O 9. poised
10. mote L 11. motel N 12. molten
13. veer S 14. verse E 15. severe
Clues to last week's puzzle:
1. laundry tool
2. where kicks are generally unwelcome
3. often the first story of comic book characters
4. cooties
5. restaurant owner
6. ill will
7. hurried
8. what Nathan Hale did
9. balanced
10. small particle
11. place to sleep
12. liquefied by heat
13. swerve
14. poem
15. strict
The verticals spell out GAILS IMONE -- which, when properly spaced, reads Gail Simone, a noteworthy writer of many fine comics (including Birds of Prey, Secret Six, and Wonder Woman).
Simone's career in comics began after she coined the phrase women in refrigerators to bring attention to the poor treatment of women in comics. (If you're not familiar with the phrase, it's worth learning about.)
how to solve JulieCrostics
Read the clues provided, then fill in answers 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.