Hypercross: Spelling bee

Not completely comfortable with 9, and even 10, but the rest of them work fairly straightforwardly.

not getting 9

some of those were harder then I expected. #3 could have been clued better. I liked #9 the best. That was the last one I figured out.

NVM
Post n solve

[4] They are what you think they are. The spelling is drastically different, though.

I can't seem to get #2. I think I know who she is, but it's not helping.

For the record, I think #9 is the best one.

Any help with 11 and 3?
-I think I have 2 wrong too

2 has me stumped

[7] for 11, think of a British bus stop

[7] #3...you're looking for the action represented and then apply the puzzle theme.
#11 They do this in England a lot. Also...do you have a Netflix account?

[6] kg m^2 / s^2

[6][8] Think electricity

[11]

Uhh?

#12 is, alas, just plain wrong. And I'm not thrilled with #9 either. But, mostly: haven't we seen this Hypercross theme before? (Often?)

any help on 12?

[15] It holds the cradle up.

Am I the only one not getting the chickspeak? (21)

[15] When it breaks the baby will fall.

[15] Use an alternative pronunciation of the word represented by the picture.

...OK, to be clear: #12 is an illustration of the wrong pronunciation of that word. It should show a man bending forward at the waist.

Can't find my error. Can I TG someone?

I think some of the problem here is that several of these words are triple homophones

[16] Nope. I'm also missing 21, I think.

Found out that I had a singular on 10 instead of a plural.

[23] Ah. That was it. Thanks!

I had issues with 12 as well.

Any help on 21 would be greatly appreciated!

I don't want to be stingy with the salt, but I am stumped on 9.

#9 and #21 for me also. halp!

I don't have them yet and I don't know my mistake, but if I have 21 right, I'm reminded of an overly thrifty husband and his wife standing among a bunch of chicks and she says, "Listen, they're talking about you. They're saying '*****, *****'" As for 9, I think it's referring to the small body of water. Perhaps you have a fish one in your yard. You kind of have to apply a little bit of an accent to get the word in the puzzle. I think my problem is #3, but I'm not sure.

Edit... Figured it out. My clues for 9 and 21 are correct.

[29] That did it! Thanks!

It turns out I had #9 entirely wrong.

Everything looks correct, but I still don't have it. Anyone around that I could TG?
[31] TG sent

And can I also point out the irony here? The official Tanga grammar and spelling police is the creator of this puzzle.

[31] sure!

I feel I have them all. But it won't take. size!!!!!

[21] #3 is a triple homophone, but only two variants fit the blanks, and you can tell which to use once you get the cross words

Yeah... I'm not happy with 9, either, but at least one website out there claims they are, in fact, homophonous... I wonder what regional dialect you need to have for that to be the case.

Ah well. 97th anyway, and with the new point structure, that's vaguely meaningful.

seems even if some have more than one homophone only one will fit. still won't take for me.

[11][13] #2 If m/s^2 is acceleration, and mass times acceleration is force, then what is mass times force? That's your m*kg^2/s^2. I felt this could have been clued better because I was trying to think of homophones for onyx and stuff.

#9 My problem with this clue was that it wasn't very clear what the body of water was. From that angle, I thought it was a bend in a river rather than an enclosed pool of water.

#12 The answer is a homophone of the homonym of the item pictured. I hope no one was a homophobe. See [19].

#21 Yeah, I totally did not get this until [29] all but gave it away.

Could have been a fun puzzle, but some clues just made it frustrating instead.

Is it safe to post?

I agree with others here that some were clued poorly. #9 & #12 in particular. Otherwise, a good effort.

(For those of you who have conspired to have my posts removed, feel free to do so again.)

this is plaguing me now. trying to figure out what I have wrong.

#6 someday they will be done within and hour? yes?
#7 I think I have finally hammered out? possibly I'm wrong. yes?
#9 Well, what I came up with just seems wrong in so many ways. I feel no security that I have it correct.

[39] I think it's finally safe to post whatever help anyone out there can give those of us that keep shaking their heads back and forth! =)

finally!

thanks!!! you know who you are. =)

For #9, use the homophone of the homonym. (Boy, wouldn't that be a difficult theme.)

OK, I agree #12 is no good (I blame the mods for not yelling at me :) )...but I still like the rest. As far as seeing this theme before [14], I created this puzzle before seeing any of those puzzles. Is it really inconceivable that several people have the same idea for a puzzle? Irony [32]? Where are the spelling and grammar errors in the puzzle Beave?

Good one, confusing at first, but once you get the idea, it's a lot of fun! #9 is tough, but solvable with some thought. The clue in the comments that helped me was to think of a body of water with fish in it. Once I had solved #4, #19 and #21; it all fell into place. Thx, hatemachine!

This is a fun, challenging hypercross. Much better IMHO than a zip through it, easy, peasy one. Or should I say funner.

I come to Tanga to make my brain hurt. Love a challenge. And like everyone else will whine (or wine) after I've exhausted my current brain power which is relative to what is going on around me at the time (kids, conversations that NEED to happen right at puzzle time release or my own intellectual inadequacies - aack!).

Basically I love it when a puzzle maker adheres to the initial statement under their username: wants to stump you with this................

hatemachine. you did just that. mission accomplished. loved the trip, got off track a bit, when I finally asked for directions I reached the destination. =)

[19] Or the answer should instead have been another word for "boyfriend"...

help on #14?

Edit: nm got it. Thought it was a sled :)

What I meant was that I thought that it was amusing that the title was "Spelling Bee" but none of the words are spelled as they are presented in the pictures. I did not mean "spelling and grammar police" as an insult, it's a term that I use to refer to my mother all of the time and I mean it in a funny way.

Whew!

got it.

#12 notwithstanding (it was b-a-d) this was a good hyper puzzle.

[43] -- I didn't mean to suggest you were copying anyone. I have no doubt that you came up with the theme independently. I was just grousing about the fact that it's, well, a little commonplace.