Welcome to the first Sunday Puzzle Warm-Up of 2013!
Sunday Puzzle Warm-Up is a light and casual Saturday night puzzle party to have some fun and to get the brains in gear for Sunday night (when the regular Sunday Puzzle, with more difficult puzzles, goes up).
This weekend is not only the first weekend of the year, it's also the first weekend of the month. Which means this Sunday will be time for the monthly potluck puzzle party. OldPhart has contributed a holiday greeting puzzle, I've contributed some One-Offs, pucklady will be providing the JulieCrostic, and there'll probably be plenty more. So if you like puzzles and have any you'd like to share, mark your calendar for tomorrow night, January 6, 2012 at 8:30 EST / 5:30 PST and come to the party.
But that's tomorrow night. For tonight, there's a new 21-clue JulieCrostic you can use to warm-up on. Plus, for those who find the JulieCrostic too easy and would like an additional challenge to tide you over until tomorrow night, there's a new Crypto-Gremlin waiting for you as well.
Puzzle fun awaits! Come on down and join in...
First, here's your new Crypto-Gremlin:
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Mockdroid
NOTE: If you don't know how
Crypto-Gremlins differ from regular cryptograms, click
here for full instructions.
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And here, for your Saturday night enjoyment, is 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. went down
2. storage containers
3. benediction
4. circle
5. twist
6. circuitry
7. hurries
8. suck on a breast
9. second showings
10. colleague
11. admire and clean oneself
12. ask forgiveness
13. criticizes
14. Mice Cubes are good ones
15. meal
16. box
17. what you probably prefer your cat not do
18. settles a debt
19. a ruminant
20. inhibit
21. affectionate
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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 7 rows with 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.
An example of how this looks is provided below.
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last week's puzzle:
1. 2012 follower
2. magazine which turned 60 earlier this year
3. Union follower
4. revved
5. made a diagram
6. Tar Heel State
7. bathroom
8. give a quick look
9. Minor or Major constellation
10. becomes hysterical
11. part of psyche
12. noise
13. Ms. Fossey
14. do not, in Scotland
15. away from the coast
16. word of agreement
17. soldiers
18. communicate with the hands
19. scorch
20. viewing
21. courteous expression when texting
22. plaything
23. rotten or decayed
24. sycophant
25. present times
the answer to last week's puzzle:
AD M Mad E Made P amped P mapped
NC A can S scan I Canis P panics
id N din A Dian N dinna L inland
si G GIs N sign E singe E seeing
ty O toy D doty A toady S todays
The verticals read
MANGO ESAND PINEA PPLES -- which, spaced out properly, spell out
mangoes and pineapples.