Welcome to Sunday Puzzle -- a weekly opportunity to test your wits and to have some pie-fight-free fun.
Quick comment regarding the title to tonight's diary. Back in June I used Sunday Puzzle Warm-Up to spotlight the then-soon-to-be-published graphic novel March (Book One), co-written by Georgia congressman John Lewis, which tells about his life and his involvement with the civil rights movement.
Since then the copy I had on order arrived, I've had a chance to read it, and it's extremely good. I highly recommend it, and I am planning to purchase the next two volumes (it's a 3-part series) when they come out.
You can read a description of the book and sample the first 13 pages here.
Tonight's JulieCrostic is also inspired by the civil rights movement -- although it may take you a little while to figure out how.
On tap tonight:
* a brand-new JulieCrostic;
* a second chance to solve last week's unsolved Crypto-Gremlin;
* the answers to last week's JulieClassic; and
* the answer to the unsolved puzzle-within-a-puzzle from more than a month ago:
"Arf! Arf! Arf!"
Let's start with the answer to the unsolved puzzle-within-a-puzzle.
Back in the September 15th Sunday Puzzle diary I posted six mystery puzzles. These were all puns on the names of types of puzzles (i.e. puzzles within puzzles).
Five of the puzzles were solved:
1. an angry blood-sucker
ANSWER: a cross tick (acrostic)
2. mother of mother of Paquin, mother of mother of Pavlova, mother of mother of Karenina ...
ANSWER: Anna grams (anagrams)
4. Maggie's husband's astonished admiration
ANSWER: Jigg's awe (jigsaw)
5. concerning public transportation
ANSWER: re: bus (rebus)
6. imitation bird call
ANSWER: pseudo coo (Sudoku)
That left this one:
3. "Arf! Arf! Arf!"
There are two big clues to the solution. One is that the words
Arf! Arf! Arf! appear in quotation marks; the other is that the words
Arf! Arf! Arf! appear in superscript. So we have a quote; it appears to be from a dog; and the dog speaks in superscript.
Okay, when you think of superdog what's the first name which comes to mind? All of you who answered Scooby-Doo or Rin Tin Tin will need to stay after class. The name which should have leaped to mind is Superman's dog Krypto -- making "Arf! Arf! Arf!"
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a Krypto quote (cryptoquote).
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Next up: the solution to last week's JulieCrostic (which was constructed by OkieByAccident and originally appeared in the January 27, 2008, edition of Sunday Puzzle -- the very first JulieCrostic to appear on Daily Kos which was not constructed by Julie herself).
Before I post the answer grid, here's a complete re-posting of the clues. Rows 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 were solved last week (although part of row 4 was solved incorrectly); rows 1, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12 went entirely unsolved.
I've put the clues which weren't solved last week in bold, to make it easier for those of you who were stumped by these to see which answers you're missing.
I think the answers to row 1 (i.e. clues 1 - 3) and row 11 (i.e. clues 31-33) are especially good, so some of you might want to wait on looking at the answers until you've pondered those some more. (I'm sorry we don't have spoiler tags to hide the answers with. Perhaps that can be a feature in DK-5.)
1. Bible feature
2. Scores
3. Daily presence?
4. Famous lake
5. Declines
6. This is one
7. Create
8. Stimulant
9. Deed
10. Bedrock element?
11. Released
12. Keeper
13. Create a sockpuppet
14. A real gas, man
15. Puff?
16. Flavor
17. Allow
18. Laser gem
19. Increase
20. Where to find cold ones?
21. #3, archaically
22. Judge
23. Deface
24. Like Shaq or Wilt
25. Extreme
26. Ran
27. Kansas worker?
28. Booth results
29. Position
30. Cows
31. Judge
32. Equine
33. Economists' concern
34. Tear
35. Burdens
36. Dove competitor
Okay, here are the answers. Don't look if you don't want to know them yet!
arks M marks O Markos
Swan E wanes R answer
coin T tonic A action
Fred E freed N fender
darn O radon G dragon
tang R grant E garnet
rise B biers C scribe
rate L alter L taller
dire A aired O roadie
tans D stand U daunts
damn E maned D demand
race S cares S Caress
NOTE: The verticals spell out Meteor Blades and OrangeClouds -- the usernames of two prominent front-pagers back in 2008 when this puzzle originally posted. I'm as in the dark as the rest of you as to whatever has become of Meteor Blades since then, but OrangeClouds is still around and posting regularly (although she now posts as Jill Richardson).
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Last week I posted a Crypto-Gremlin featuring what I think is a great quote related to the recent Congressional shenanigans. No one solved it last week, so I'm reposting it this week to give folks a second chance at it.
If you're not familiar with Crypto-Gremlins, they're a special kind of cryptogram -- ones which can't be solved by online programs which run through and test out every possible letter substitution, but which can be solved by reasoning and creative thinking. If you're not familiar with this kind of puzzle you can find a detailed explanation of how they work here.
An bye'ud upnewm js'ts cstsly prbn kner ups Oserus ... jr ujseud-yes pymls vnanimously lrebn upsey ups csloyes frlldnezr tymus ups vnanimously tyusbn vyld ups gnooms upsd jsls vnanimouslnezd.
* Iyiy Fylwslm, Ly-Useed
The words in bold are a quote; the unbolded words tell who said it.
The ellipsis in the quote represents the words where we had, which were removed in most printings of this quote in order to make the quote read better. And strictly speaking, the quote would read better (and be more accurate) if the word isvyls appeared in between cstsly and prbn, but the person saying this neglected to include it so I've also omitted it.)
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And lastly, here's tonight's JulieCrostic. As usual the gremlins removed my capitalization, tampered with my punctuation, and bunched the clues into tidy little bundles of 3 without regard to how many clues there actually are in the rows. But all things considered they were pretty well-behaved this week, so you shouldn't have too much trouble. Have fun, and I'll see you in comments.
1. gets it wrong
2. jean and walter
3. island where people don't like to stay
4. more of a gamble
5. gang member
6. jane's fanny
7. franklin or jefferson
8. on the button
9. separate
10. formal father
11. meal
12. tv shows you've seen before
13. members of congress
14. criminals
15. people awaiting transition
16. frogs and fleas
17. what you may be told you've got
18. mass murder site
19. first and foremost
20. ex-provision
21. sheet
22. balls on cords
23. distends
24. votes
25. paddles
26. hot charlie
27. stomping grounds
28. at the heart of an open case
29. anchor
30. brief
31. may be significant
32. first person, perhaps
33. desserts
34. goes well with sugar
35. determines the cost
36. diana edward