Do you like puzzles?
Do you like a little light socializing on a Saturday evening?
Do you like pictures of adorable kitties?
Well, two out of three ain't bad.
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.
Tonight is kind of crazy here, with a large gathering which I need to be assisting with. But I'll check in comments periodically to say hi and to provide any help if needed.
I'll be leaving for Maine on Tuesday and will be up there until September raking blueberries, so tonight will be my last night of live participation in these warm-up diaries for a couple of months. But I will be participating on a pre-recorded basis. I've queued up diaries to last until I get back, and these should post automatically at the usual time. So if you enjoy these Saturday evening puzzle parties I hope you'll continue to show up.
All right, enough about the future. If you'd rather live in the present, tonight's puzzle is waiting for you just below the nurple.
If you're familiar with JulieCrostics, jump right in. If you're not, don't worry; an explanation of how these puzzles work (plus an example of a completed puzzle) is included a little lower down the page.
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1. cereal grain
2. singing voice
3. ring-shaped reef
4. fat
5. Deighton or Wein
6. incline
7. not native
8. Jerry's friend
9. time period
10. hearing aids
11. all-night dance parties
12. antagonistic
13. vapor
14. men only
15. former CIA director
16. seal
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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.
Clues to last week's puzzle:
1. frond
2. before birth
3. an armada
4. something you might hand out
5. language and liberal
6. drinking apparatus
7. heavy and holy
8. garment which conceals breasts but not vaginas
9. Wonder Woman opponent
10. got up
11. kind of hose
12. abandon
13. wear out
14. put into words
15. writer of the first critically acclaimed western
16. tornado
II. answers to last week's puzzle:
1. leaf T 2. fetal E 3. a fleet L 4. leaflet
5. arts W 6. straw E 7. waters E 8. sweater
9. Ares O 10. arose K 11. soaker F 12. forsake
13. tire W 14. write S 15. Wister T 16. twister
The verticals read
TWOW EEKS LEFT -- which, properly spaced, reads
two weeks left. That was the amount of time I had left last week until blueberry season; now we're down to one...