Welcome to another Saturday night Sunday Puzzle Warm-Up party.
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 36-clue JulieCrostic;
+++ a preview of one of tomorrow's puzzles; and...
+++ exciting news about a Sunday Puzzle which has remained unsolved for 4 1/2 years!
1. First, the exciting news! Please look at the picture below (the one contained in the Sunday Puzzle Warm-Up logo):
The very first puzzle I posted here, 4 1/2 years ago, was the riddle of Who is the woman in the picture? and What is the original source of this image?
The puzzle went unsolved. (Even I didn't know the answer. That's why I posted the puzzle; I was hoping someone here might be able to figure it out and tell me.)
Well, this past week the puzzle was solved! The image has been located and identified. I'll re-post the puzzle, along with the answer, in tomorrow's Sunday Puzzle diary.
That will be 23 hours from now. (Sunday Puzzle will post tomorrow at 8:30 east coast / 5:30 west coast.)
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2. Here's a preview of another puzzle which will be in that diary:
Anomurin drewbr, esim proverbs!
Think you can crack that code message? Come back tomorrow and find out!
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3. In the meantime, here's tonight's 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.
1. BDCEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
2. kind of horse
3. joint US-Canadian Air Force group
4. river, nation, or athlete
5. kind of tide
6. take public transit
7. ventilated
8. traveling crew member
9. Chinese mountain, Italian river, or Southeast Asian person
10. soft drink
11. not shy about speaking out
12. recessed space
13. find fault
14. Marvel's conqueror
15. what a cat may look at
16. making a request
NOTE: the originally posted clues for row 4, crossed out above, don't work. Here is a new set of clues which do:
13. pale
14. masturbate in England or Australia
15. as good as a nod
16. getting up
17. digit
18. prestigious school
19. famous
20. what you can do at Act Blue
21. occupied a chair
22. cereal
23. does and bucks
24. fragmented hulled grain
25. what Ernesto was more commonly called
26. salacious person
27. place located between mountains and the Pacific Ocean
28. over-used expression
29. Garfunkel
30. fictional plantation
31. shrine
32. rope
33. soldiers
34. one more thing Romney doesn't do well:
35. cast
36. gesture
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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. 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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GRID FOR LAST WEEK'S PUZZLE
1. ----- [ ] 2. ------ [ ] 3. -------
4. ----- [ ] 5. ------ [ ] 6. -------
7. ----- [ ] 8. ------ [ ] 9. -------
10. ----- [ ] 11. ------ [ ] 12. -------
13. ----- [ ] 14. ------ [ ] 15. -------
16. ----- [ ] 17. ------ [ ] 18. -------
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ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLE
rains T trains A tsarina
paper A appear L apparel
caper M camper D cramped
crane M Carmen W crewman
wades Y swayed I wayside
Dukes B busked N debunks
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The verticals read TAMMYB ALDWIN -- which, properly spaced, spell out Tammy Baldwin, a Hell To Pay candidate for the Wisconsin senate.