Do you like puzzles?
Do you like a little light socializing on a Saturday evening?
Do you like electing more and better Democrats?
Sunday Puzzle Warm-up is a companion to the regular Sunday Puzzle series, which features puzzles suitable for group solving. These Saturday evening warm-up diaries feature somewhat easier introductory puzzles to get folks warmed up for Sunday (and to try to lure in new folks).
Tonight: a new 18-clue JulieCrostic ...
NOTE: If you're not familiar with JulieCrostics, don't panic! An explanation of how they work, and an example of a solved puzzle, are provided directly below tonight's puzzle.
Tonight's JulieCrostic has 6 rows with 3 answers in each. Here are the clues:
1. showers
2. teaches
3. Russian empress
4. cardboard
5. seem
6. clothing
7. escapade
8. tent inhabitant
9. had a rough period
10. lifting device
11. Sandiego
12. male boater
13. goes into the water
14. convinced
15. things often fall by this
16. Wopat and Schneider
17. performed music on the street
18. fact-checks
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How to solve JulieCrostics
For those of you unfamiliar with this kind of puzzle, what you do is solve the clues and write the answers in rows. In tonight's puzzle there are 3 answers per row.
Each word in a row contains all the letters of the previous word, plus one new letter. Write the added letters in the space between the word which doesn't have it and the word which does. The vertical columns created by the added letters will spell out a word or phrase.
Helpful hint: from now through election day, the answers spotlight Hell To Pay candidates.
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As an example of how it works, here are the clues, grid and answers to last week's puzzle:
CLUES TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLE
1. mislay
2. infiltrators
3. tidbit
4. runs away
5. religious figures
6. Italian sausage
7. swamp
8. excavator
9. annoying creatures
10. get up
11. lift
12. nests
13. fury
14. extent
15. plant place
16. bundle
17. chart
18. notwithstanding
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GRID FOR LAST WEEK'S PUZZLE
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ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLE
lose M moles R morsels
lams A lamas I salami
mire N miner V vermin
rise A raise E aeries
rage N range D garden
bale T table I albeit
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The verticals read MANANT REVEDI -- which, properly spaced, spell out Manan Trevedi, a Hell To Pay congressional candidate in Pennsylvania's 6th district.