You might need to know some of our reader’s names to complete this puzzle. But maybe not.
ACROSS-
1. Chris Christie keeps them all for his own and for his family
5. Antifa travels in them
8. It’s not an Italian salad, it’s a thick painting
9. It analyzes, then synthesizes, the human voice
10. A valve in an opening through a ship’s hull below or near the waterline, typically cool’s the engine. (Sounds dirty.)
12. Forearm
15. This reader isn’t merely happy, she’s _____
18. Staring at Chelsea- Clinton or Manning- will induce this
20. Animal loving reader who sounds like she’s improving inheritable characteristics
23. Linoleum block print
25. Tandem rotor heavy lifting military helicopter
26. Left-wing women are usually….
27. Digital camera
DOWN-
1. According to this reader Michelle has a big one.
2. Pig’s father
3. Antifa are a bunch of……
4. Daryl Strawberry was the Straw that did this to the drink
5. Province in Indonesia
6. Priest threads
7. This reader sounds like she drinks lots of champagne
11. Paper Chase catch phrase word
13. Participles have been seen doing this
14. Sorta autobiographical
16. People usually ended up doing this at Obama speeches
17. A form of leftist parasite
19. The left will try and rewrite this
21. I would gladly take some from Melania, not so much from Michelle
22. Resin paint
24. Rubbery shoe for the laid back
Solution published tomorrow (unless someone nails it in the comments)
None of these are right. Number 5 should clearly be “douche canoes” but it doesn’t fit.
My dad would work every Sunday crossword, taking a crap.
In pen.
Amazed me.
Answers so far (someone help me out!)
1. Chris Christie keeps them all for his own and for his family
5. Antifa travels in them
8. It’s not an Italian salad, it’s a thick painting
9. It analyzes, then synthesizes, the human voice
10. A valve in an opening through a ship’s hull below or near the waterline, typically cool’s the engine. (Sounds dirty.)
12. Forearm — RADIUS
15. This reader isn’t merely happy, she’s _____
18. Staring at Chelsea- Clinton or Manning- will induce this
20. Animal loving reader who sounds like she’s improving inheritable characteristics
23. Linoleum block print — LINOCUT
25. Tandem rotor heavy lifting military helicopter — CHINOOK
26. Left-wing women are usually…. — UGLY
27. Digital camera — DIGICAM
DOWN-
1. According to this reader Michelle has a big one.
2. Pig’s father — BOAR
3. Antifa are a bunch of……
4. Daryl Strawberry was the Straw that did this to the drink
5. Province in Indonesia — either BALI or RIAU
6. Priest threads – VESTMENT
7. This reader sounds like she drinks lots of champagne
11. Paper Chase catch phrase word
13. Participles have been seen doing this — DANGLING
14. Sorta autobiographical
16. People usually ended up doing this at Obama speeches
17. A form of leftist parasite
19. The left will try and rewrite this
21. I would gladly take some from Melania, not so much from Michelle
22. Resin paint — ALKYD
24. Rubbery shoe for the laid back — CROC
Those are the easy ones!
Nope: 9 across is VOCODER, so 2 down is not BOAR
(unless I have 9 across wrong)
2 down is not boar
AA
Beaches (#1 Across)
2 Down
Bottom
16 down: YAWNING
19 down: ANTHEM
Thanks, Plain Jane! That’s what I started with, but….then BOAR didn’t work.
Fur — Is it a particular Pig? lol
Across:
1 – BEACHES
5 – PACK
8 – IMPASTO
9 – VOCODER
10 – SEACOCK
12 – RADIUS
15 – MERRY
18 – NAUSEA
20 – EUGENIA
23 – LINOCUT
25 – CHINOOK
26 – UGLY
27 – DIGICAM
Down
1 – BEAVER
2 – ALEC (ref A. Baldwin’s comment about progeny)
3 – HOODLUM
4 – STIRS
5 – PAPUA
6 – CASSOCKS
7 – CORKY
11 – EARN
13 – DANGLING
14 – SEMI
16 – YAWNING
17 – LEECH
19 – ANTHEM
21 – NOOKY (!)
22 – ALKYD
24 – CROC
^^^ was supposed to be 1 down, not 2 down
Plain Jane — 2 down cannot be BOTTOM, it’s only 4 letters. 🙂
Is 2 down Alec?
8 across: IMPASTO
Uncle Al’s such a smarty pants. 🙂
@PJ – It’s just practice, OCD, and a twisted way of thinking. (-:
Uncle Al for the win!
(You could have snuck them in one at a time, here and there. I was starting to feel like Ralphie with his decoder ring there for a moment. “My brain at feverish pitch…they were coming easier now…” lol)
@AA – Oops, you are quite right, that’s what I should have done. My lame excuse is it’s past my bedtime! I’m sorry.
I used to do the daily paper crossword (in pen) until I realized I was kinda addicted to it. So I cancelled the paper. I do love crosswords.
Oh no, Uncle Al! No harm, no foul!! Maybe Fur will put up another one if we ask real nice, huh? That was fun.
@AA I also love cross words. I managed to get 20 across 😉
(Wild cheering and applause at Uncle Al’s house) Yes!
Thank you, Fur, may I have another?
Across
1 – Beaches
5 – Pack
8 – impasto
9 – vocoder
10 – seacock
12 – radius
15 – Merry
18 – Nausea
20 – Eugenia
23 – linocut
25 – Chinook
26 – Ugly
27 – Digicam
Down
1 – Beaver
2 – Alec
3 – Hoodlum
4 – Stirs
5 – Papua
6 – Cassocks
7 – Corky
11 – Earn
13 – Dangling
14 – Semi
16 – Yawning
17 – Leech
19 – Anthem
21 – Nooky
23 – Alkyd
24 – Croc.
Dang Al’s already got it – all that furious typing for nothing 🙂
@Chalupa — That’ll larn ya fer not refreshin’ your screen! 🙂
You win, too! Plain Jane and I were going to solve it together — we were almost there!
…well, except for about 20 missing words or so.
@Eugenia — haah! That was clever! See, I would have never figured that one out.
Abigail – I was stuck on pig daddy – not to be found on the net. I went with Alec too. I wasted too much time drawing 13 x 13 squares on a piece of paper
I nsver do crossword puzzles. Been thinking about it because I stopped WWF because it got boring. I used to love sudoko but it gave me ring around the fanny. Hee, hee.
Chalupa — haha! I’m not plugged into the waka waka waka of everyday newsjunk enough to figure out some of them. I didn’t draw squares, but I had to rewrite my groupings a couple times. Uncle Al probably sent his to the printer. 😉
@ Uncle Al,
I know you’re twisted, that’s why I like you.
Plain Jane — Then you’re a natural for crosswords. I love any kind of word game — Scrabble (of course), word jumbles, find-a-word, etc. Funny, I was too impatient to learn how to do sudoko.
Aw Chalupa,
I know how you feel. Whenever there is a contest I finally get on line and see sixty entries ahead of me, with every item I think of, someone has already posted and has 50 TU.
I just had a five hour brake job yesterday and it was a crossword marathon so I was ready….printer’s broken….oh well 🙂
@AA – Yes, I printed it. That felt mighty odd because I have been doing crosswords online only for years now. That’s the only reason I go deliberately to the Wash Post any more. Their Sunday puzzle is pretty good.
Chalupa — You had to wait for five hours for brakes?! That sounds like having your gums scraped.
Uncle Al — I was only guessing 🙂
‘night all. Tomorrow I erect scaffold for phase II of The Summer I Painted the House. This is the third time I have painted my house. The first time I was about twenty-two years old, the second time was about twenty years later and I said “I’m not doing this again.” This time I can say with 99.99% certainty that I definitely will not be doing this again. Too bad, really, since I am getting so much better at it and the house is in much better shape, too.
Okay, I will have a Saturday crossword puzzle. By semi-popular demand.
Oh, and yes, UA’s solutions were correct.
It was bad Abigail – new rotors and pads on the front, new pads on the back. The place was swamped. And I skipped breakfast – how long could it take right? lol …nothing but a stack of crappy entertainment magazines and anal New York Times crossword puzzles to pass the time….$700 later I was a zombie at Subway 🙂
Who stays up this late trying to do arcane crossword puzzles???
(Apparently, me, huh?)
Chalupa — Well, that’s one chore you can cross off your list now, anyway. I hate sitting around waiting for stuff and I know the stack of mags you’re talking about. I’m surprised there were any crosswords left for you to work. AND it seems every place you have to wait in has got CNN switched on the tee vee. Ugh.
Fur — “semi popular demand” — that’s a good one. This was fun. Can we pick the theme next time? How about in reverse where you guess the theme or the answer to the question based on the word clues in the puzzle?
If you like puzzles and murder stories then try Parnell Hall series on the Puzzle Lady
http://parnellhall.com/puzzle-lady/
BFH perhaps a word jumble based a picture of your choosing?
I do feel a little guilty asking for more work out of you.
Actually,”douche canoe” fits for all the answers if you write small enough.
@Aaron Burr – Except for the one about the dirty hull water valve. That one would be CANOE DOUCHE. (-:
@Chalupa
$700 and 5 hours for rotors and pads? OUCH! It must be a European car.
I could have done it for 1/2….
Oh – there I am…
Jethro – 2000 Toyota Echo. They said the back pads were a real pain in the arse to switch out.
Abigail – no tv – just the local Sac. rock station playing. Mama used to cut out crossword puzzles for me so I still have a big envelope full of them.
I was stuck on pig’s father too. I kept thinking the answer was “MR DUNHAM”