Hello, puzzlers! I don't know which I like better, puzzles or potlucks. Luckily, once a month, I get to host a potluck and I don't have to make potato salad!
For new visitors, the first Sunday of every month, everybody gets to create a puzzle for Sunday puzzle. The excellent bonus is that Nova Land, our venerable puzzle master, gets to be a solver.
Like every potluck, we never know what we are going to have on our table. And if everyone brings a potato salad, er - Juliecrostic, all the better!
I'll start off with a Julie of my own, with a first for me, a gif clue!
Over the orange puzzle piece for the Maytime potluck table.
A Juliecrostic to start off:
1 free
2 con man
3 more hefty
4 similar to an assassin
5 crest
6 more experimental
7 lorded
8 Lauren or McCartney
9 Disraeli
10 bothers
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12 shaving
13 watch
14 sting
15 pot or point
16 enduring
17 student's nightmare
18 sources of power
19 Will Rogers
20 spritzes
21 followers
22 A British drink: hot curdled milk with wine
23 active Kos members
24 pickets
25 garden tool
26 a type of machinery
27 Lightening follows when John Travolta sings
28 disagree
29 parts of a movie
30 rents again
31 clean
32 someone who is paying attention
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34 gets smarter
35 part of a buck
36 choke
This one comes from Nova's gremlins!
I didn't have time to compose a new puzzle for tonight's potluck puzzle party but the gremlins dug up this puzzle (from a 2011 Page-A-Day puzzle calendar) which they thought we might enjoy:
Each set of three clues below leads to a single, squashed-together answer that hides a flavoring. For example, if two of the three clue answers were BALSA and GEM, you could put them together to get the “answer” BALSAGEM containing the (unclued) flavoring SAGE. When you remove SAGE and close up the space, the leftover letters spell BALM, which would be the answer to the third clue. The three clues in each set are presented in random order. Can you piece things together and identify the hidden flavorings?
a) director’s cry, riverbank residue, Havana’s country
b) laid-back, to the point, sleeper’s headrest
c) suffer mental anguish (over), Ringo of The Beatles, magnitude
d) visitor, open insult, conjecture
Heres's one from sny!
Some words have been arranged in columns. Figure out the pattern, and
suggest new words to fit into the columns.
Pad |
Onion |
Bath |
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Checkers |
Oven |
Sauna |
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Cat |
Toast |
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Cat |
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And another from Nova Land!
Rastafarian puzzle!
Rastafarians beg for monthly answers.
What kind of answers?