Welcome to Sunday Puzzle. This series was started by the late Julie Waters (then known as juliewolf) back in 2007, and for 10 years it featured new puzzles each week.
In 2017 Sunday Puzzle largely went on hiatus and has been largely absent from Daily Kos for the last 5 years, but I thought I’d bring it back now for at least a month or so and see if people would like weekly puzzles to play with again.
Since cats are often rather puzzling, I’ll try to include at least a few cat pictures each time, along with the occasional bit of music and occasional short video. Maybe even an occasional poll question.
Today’s puzzles are a pair of JulieCrostics. (Julie Waters didn’t invent this kind of acrostic puzzle, but she introduced it to a number of us on Daily Kos who had never seen this kind of acrostic before and got some of us rather addicted to them.)
Basically, these puzzles contain several columns of answer words. (Both of tonight’s puzzles have 3 columns.) The words in the columns form rows of answers, so 3 columns means there are 3 answers in each row. Each answer in a row contains all the letters of the previous answer plus one new letter. (And each answer in a column has the same number of letters as all the other answers in that column.)
When you’ve solved a row, write the answer words into their columns and write the add-on letters in the space between the answer-word columns. When you’ve solved all the rows correctly, the new columns made up of the add-on letters will spell out a word or a phrase which is the answer to the puzzle.
Here’s an example of what a completed puzzle looks like:
lie D idle Y yield
set A east K stake
Max I maxi O maxim
eat L teal S slate
As you can see, the answers for the first row are LIE, IDLE, and YIELD.
IDLE has all the letters of LIE, plus a D, so the letter D was entered in between the first and second columns.
YIELD has all the letters of IDLE, plus a Y, so the letter Y was entered between the second and third columns.
When all the rows had their answers filled in, the add-on letters spelled out DAIL and YKOS. Put ‘em together and you get: Daily Kos.
(If that’s not clear, you can follow this link to a JulieCrostic I posted recently in a comment. Userexists solved it easily, so you can read the solution she posted and see how it’s done.)
All right, let’s get on to tonight’s puzzles. The first one is titled Who would you like to see in the White House?
And no, this is not an invitation to a pie fight. Despite what that title may sound like, this is not an attempt to promote or to disparage any of the people who have run for president in the past or might run for president in the future. (And since the puzzle doesn’t do that, let’s not do it in the comments either.) Just relax, solve the clues, and see what the answer is.
Okay, here are your clues. Have fun solving!
1. A kind of lion, horse, or change
2. Vault
3. Eat lots of food
4. Kind of tape
5. LGBT astronaut who can be found on stamps and coins
6. Strange
7. Crenshaw or Lipinski
8. Paul's first name
9. Facebook spokesperson Zuckerberg, radio talk show host Rhodes, or amazing magician James
10. Dog or rod
11. Multitude
12. (see picture, below)
13. Something in the sky
14. Bean curd
15. Openly disregard
16. Chest wear
17. Snow, fiddler, ghost or hermit
18. Chocolate substitute
19. Jet or swing
20. Hot or love
21. Basket or pipe
Let’s take a short kitty break… This video is only 17 seconds long, so it won’t take long to watch and then you’ll be all set to tackle puzzle # 2.
And here’s today’s second puzzle, a companion puzzle to the first which I hope will be of interest to people on Daily Kos who are from Britain or who are interested in British things. As most of you probably know, Britain does not have a White House where their president lives because they don’t have a president. But they do have a Prime Minister whose official residence is 10 Downing Street. Which leads to the question underlying today’s second puzzle:
Who do you want to see at 10 Downing Street?
And here are the clues:
1. The other Paul's first name
2. Field, sweet, or candy
3. Open disrespect
4. If you haven't already done this, I'd be grateful if you'd take a moment to do this now
5. (See video, below)
6. Yay!
7. Chest muscle
8. The Iliad, the Odyssey, or Paradise Lost
9. Vincent who appeared in more than 100 movies
10. An ox-like mammal found at high elevations and sometimes called hairy cattle
11. Danny who played Walter Mitty
12. Letting air out or letting water in
13. Kal, Jor, and (in Canada) Acura
14. Kind of portrait
15. Not true
16. Inquire
17. Good way to avoid getting COVID
18. Question, check, and trade
19. Minnesota senator, to her friends
20. Clinic or sandwich spread
21. Lovins
22. Someone you like a lot
23. In good physical shape
24. Sainte-Marie or Summers
Time for another kitty picture? Yes, I believe it is!
And there’ll be more cat pictures (and maybe a deer or turkey other friendly neighbor) in the comments below. Please come on down and join in with your thoughts on the answers to the clues and what the add-on letters spell out.