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Sunday Puzzle Warm-up is a companion to the regular Sunday Puzzle series. The aim 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, in hopes of luring folks to drop by and take part in our weekly Sunday morning puzzle parties.
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The solving team may be a little smaller than usual tonight. Pucklady probably won't be here, as she needs to pick a friend up at the airport right around the time this diary will be going up. But I'll be around to provide help if any is needed.
If you're familiar with JulieCrostics, jump right in. If you're not, an explanation of how these puzzles work (plus an example of a completed puzzle) is included a little lower down the page.
1. bring to court
2. ponder
3. entertain
4. attempt
5. platter
6. late
7. twosome
8. gloomy
9. curved
10. possesses
11. often described as cold or hard
12. Chevy
13. metal-bearing rock
14. protagonist
15. steed
16. famous plaintiff
17. famous Thomas
18. famous code
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 CRAG, CARGO and COUGAR, you'd place an "O" in the space between CRAG and CARGO, a "U" in the space between CARGO and COUGAR.
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.
EXAMPLE OF A SOLVED PUZZLE
clues for last week's JulieCrostic:
1 FINISH
2 FINISHED
3 BLESS
4 BUMMER
5 HOWARD OR WEASLEY
6 ROW OR COB
7 ACTIVIST GROUP, RIP
8 EYE PART
9 COLLECTION
10 CULT
11 ANCIENT PEOPLES
12 CHOOSE
13 MCMAHON AND ASNER
14 SECOND-HAND
15 FIGHTS
16 DESIRED
17 A TYPE OF CHART
18 SOMETHING YOU SMOKE
19 SOMETHING YOU DRINK
20 SPACE
21 ONE MOUNTAIN
22 ENACTMENT
23 WELL DONE
II. answers for last week's puzzle:
1. end O 2. done W 3. endow R 4. downer
5. Ron C 6. corn A 7. ACORN E 8. cornea
9. set C 10. sect L 11. Celts E 12. select
13. Eds U 14. used L 15. duels T 16. lusted
17. pie P 18. pipe S 19. Pepsi _ 20. [blank]
21. Alp Y 22. play T 23. aptly
The verticals read OCCUPY WALLST REET -- which, properly spaced, spells out Occupy Wall Street. (A tip of the hat and many thanks to pucklady for providing this puzzle.)