From the 2014 Page-A-Day puzzle calendar:
The three words in each row can all precede the same word to form three common phrases or compound words. Those three answer words can then precede the same word to form three more common phrases or compound words. Can you get them all?
1. earth, den, surrogate: ______
2. dance, hardwood, ocean: _____
3. error, instant, text: _______
Final word: _____
Welcome once again to Sunday Puzzle Warm-Up -- a weekly Saturday night opportunity to have a little fun and to warm up your wits for the regular Sunday Puzzle.
The theme for the past few week's puzzles has been Books Worth Supporting -- books worth reading, worth buying (for yourself or as gifts for friends) and worth recommending to your local library. Answers have included Ms Marvel: No Normal (reprinting the first 6 issues of a very well-done comic book series about a 16-year old Pakistani-American) and Generation Why (reprinting the next 6 issues); March: book two (the second of three volumes in which John Lewis recounts some of his experiences in the Civil Rights Movements); Barnaby (a reprinting of Crockett Johnson's excellent 1940s comic strip); and Woman Rebel (Peter Bagge's graphic novel biography of Margaret Sanger).
Tonight is a little different. I'm away from home and won't be able to get home until Sunday morning (and won't have computer access tonight, so will not be able to take part in tonight's puzzle party). The answer to tonight's puzzle will tell you what I'm doing.
Here's tonight's puzzle. If you're familiar with how JulieCrostics work, you can jump right in; if you're new and don't yet know how JulieCrostics work, you can find complete instructions in the bottom part of the diary.
(Also if you're new, a request: please don't post any answers or other spoilers in comment subject lines. Instead, please put any guesses at possible answers into the comment itself. Thanks!)
Tonight's puzzle has 5 rows, with 3 answers per row.
1. beam
2. ask for help
3. garden, house or beach
4. school of whales
5. newspaper item
6. chose
7. transgress
8. hissy fit
9. civil rights protest
10. journal
11. plod
12. distance and division
13. kind of light conservatives tend to dislike
14. funny Eric
15. coast
For the benefit of anyone new to Sunday Puzzle, here are instructions for solving JulieCrostics.
In JulieCrostics you are given a set of clues, such as these:
To solve the puzzle, figure out the answers to the clues and enter them into a grid of rows and columns, like so:
All the rows in the grid will be the same length (i.e. have the same number of answers). All the answers in a column will be the same length (i.e. have the same number of letters). And the words in each column are one letter longer than the words in the column to its left. That's because each word in a row has all the letters of the word before it plus one new letter.
For instance, if the clues for a row were
1. say what's not so
2. resting
3. concede
then the answers might be LIE, IDLE (= LIE + D), and YIELD (= IDLE + Y)
Write the added letter in the space between the word which doesn't have it and the word which does. For the row in the example you'd write:
1. LIE D 2. IDLE Y 3. YIELD
When you have solved all the clues and written down all the added letters, the added letters will form columns that spell out a message of some sort. It might be a person's name, it might be the title of a book, it might be a familiar phrase, or it might be a series of related words. Your challenge is to solve all the clues, fill in the vertical columns, and figure out what the vertical columns mean.
In the example given, the verticals read DAIL YKOS. With proper spacing and capitalization that spells out Daily Kos!