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Bird Lives
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The week closes with enough solvers to bring the total to 63.
50. charbee002
51. SJMcK
52. Snood
53. Mike Fitzgerald
54. LB800
55. ReB
56. CPJohnson
57. JeanneC
58. bhamren
59. SewYoung
60. Sharkicicles
61. jbird
62. sledge
63. Carolyn
The answer, which many people guessed before looking at the first clue, was JEOPARDY.
Eight of the clues and their entries were in the form of Carnac-style jokes. Those clues, and only those clues, ended with a question mark. For example, the entry at 45 Across, EL PASO, was the answer part of the joke, the set-up. Then Carnac holds the envelope to his forehead, tears open the end, blows into it, removes the question, and reads, “What does the coach call when he doesn't want el runno or el kicko?”
But there is another clue that could be also used for EL PASO albeit in a much more straightforward way —1 Across: “City on the Rio Grande.” The grid entry for that clue is JUAREZ. In the same way, the other seven Carnac-style items lead to more literal entries whose initial letters spell out the rest of the answer.
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In the introduction on Monday, I asked solvers to submit their own answers and questions. Here is one of my own design that I couldn’t manage to squeeze into the grid.
LAMINATIONS
The response from the soling public was a tad disappointing. Only two solvers offered their own.
whimsy offered a couple
PETAL
GRIMACE
DrTom contributed enough to crash the system, though for some reason he confined himself to entries in the grid.
PATINA
TEXTED
ELAND
SLEEK
NEUROSIS
PRATTLES
SLIPIN
ANTONYM
KITTS
JEDI
EXILE
DEVOID
And the more PG ones:
EDICT
CACAO
50. charbee002
51. SJMcK
52. Snood
53. Mike Fitzgerald
54. LB800
55. ReB
56. CPJohnson
57. JeanneC
58. bhamren
59. SewYoung
60. Sharkicicles
61. jbird
62. sledge
63. Carolyn
The answer, which many people guessed before looking at the first clue, was JEOPARDY.
Eight of the clues and their entries were in the form of Carnac-style jokes. Those clues, and only those clues, ended with a question mark. For example, the entry at 45 Across, EL PASO, was the answer part of the joke, the set-up. Then Carnac holds the envelope to his forehead, tears open the end, blows into it, removes the question, and reads, “What does the coach call when he doesn't want el runno or el kicko?”
But there is another clue that could be also used for EL PASO albeit in a much more straightforward way —1 Across: “City on the Rio Grande.” The grid entry for that clue is JUAREZ. In the same way, the other seven Carnac-style items lead to more literal entries whose initial letters spell out the rest of the answer.
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LAMINATIONS
The response from the soling public was a tad disappointing. Only two solvers offered their own.
whimsy offered a couple
PETAL
GRIMACE
DrTom contributed enough to crash the system, though for some reason he confined himself to entries in the grid.
PATINA
TEXTED
ELAND
SLEEK
NEUROSIS
PRATTLES
SLIPIN
ANTONYM
KITTS
JEDI
EXILE
DEVOID
And the more PG ones:
EDICT
CACAO
Jay
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edestlin
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Major forehead slap this week. I was torturing the grid looking for embedded literal answers... led astray by my confidence that I'd found the metanism this way:
What theater award is given? Not an OPIE (playing off OBIE) but a TONY (embedded in ANTONY). Another teletubby is PO (found in TOPOT) and perhaps the fog lifts to give you an AHA moment (BAHAI). One might RSVP negatively with NO (STENO). I know a lot more about Dutch Masters (painters and cigars, apparently) than I did before your puzzle. Sigh.
What theater award is given? Not an OPIE (playing off OBIE) but a TONY (embedded in ANTONY). Another teletubby is PO (found in TOPOT) and perhaps the fog lifts to give you an AHA moment (BAHAI). One might RSVP negatively with NO (STENO). I know a lot more about Dutch Masters (painters and cigars, apparently) than I did before your puzzle. Sigh.