Jan 19, 2010 Hypercross Puzzle

I cruised right though these until I hit 16 and 17. I guess I'm not getting them because I still haven't got the what the theme is.

Need salt on 8 please.

Edit: Thanks! Hubby came to the rescue two seconds before I hit refresh!

[2] What's the name of that application?

I can't get all the answers either...

[1] Theme... if you put one of two words in front of each of the answers... it works.

[2] Microsoft Office Program Name

Salt on [12], [16], or [17]?

Finished it, have no idea what it means though.

Edit: Ah, I see now. Cute.

Some tricky stuff in there!

Not sure I've heard #12 before, but the rest are great and they are all nicely clued. Thanks jebediehard!

I like #16 & #17 a lot!

My best finish at 35th. I found this one pretty straightforward except for the last two clues.

[4] Thanks with the theme. That helped.

for 12...all those arrows are pointing...
for 15...how do you clean a chimmney?
16 & 17, just use the theme and maybe google.

[9] i got the first part. i can't figure out a 4 letter word for the second part. :(

Fun one! Thanks jebediehard!

[2] It is what it is; just say the.....
[1] Sorry, I don't know how to salt these without saying too much.
As for the theme, #9 is key.

[4]Thanks for the salt... once i figured out the 2 words, it became very clear to me. Came in 67th.

i got them all except #16... I swear i've tried every fitting 4 letter word....

I got the answers, but still have absolutely no clue on the theme...Ok, I looked back over it and got it

No idea on the theme, and lost on those last 2.

i'm stuck on those last 2 as well... and the old guy... he makes no sense to me.

I'm glad my salt on the theme helped alot of you. Too bad I still can't finish without #16. Gonna try leaving and coming back.

The last two are phrases and involve the two theme words.

[17] If you get the them words... the old guy makes sense

Any Steve Martin fans here?

I like the way #9 works - as things pass through, they seem to be transformed from one condition to another.

finished it, thanks to the theme [4], but otherwise 16 and 17 make no sense to me still....a guessing game with the theme as a start...except for 16 and 17 it was a good puzzle

now that i have the answer for #16... i would have never gotten that on my own since i've never heard of it.

Very unique way to clue #16 & #17 jebediehard. Kudos!

If anyone is still stuck on #16 and #17... an Olympic event and the title of a 1988 movie, use [4]'s helpful hint of theme words to get the answers. Hope that helps and is not too salty.

Thanks [4] for the theme......took some time to solve 17, but the rest I got pretty quickly.

[16] #9 is your best clue for the theme.....think of two adjectives that describe items that go in or come out of #9, then follow [4]'s instructions. The last two follow the theme.

[19] i see the theme words and see how they apply to some of the clues but not all of them. i managed in the top 100 of the other two puzzles so i guess i cant complain that this one is leaving me behind. i'll try again later. lots of daylight left on this side of the world!

[1]really? What's #4??
===got it.

Boy #16 & #17 make NO sense...got'em from spelling.
can jebediehard please explain?

Salt for clues 16 & 17 (which I figured out before I got the theme :P):
Count how many there are, and think about what else has that many. Look for patterns (beginnings or endings), and figure out what to omit and/or include.
Once you see it, it's quite elementary.

thanks for all the salt out there. i finally got all the answers but still have no idea how it relates!! Some days it makes sense and some days it doesnt. i still enjoy working it all out.

Hard, but fun! The last 2 took me forever, but everything finally fell into place. All the answers come out in the wash....

no idea how you get 8, 16, and 17. The salt helped.

FUN! Another great hyper, jeb.

Sheesh.. I got it... Finally...

I figured out #17 without salt but mistyped it (too early this morning I guess) which made me miss #12. Got #16 from the Olympics salt and google but still don't see it in the clue. I like the idea behind those 2 clues and the cleverly hidden theme though.

I know the theme and still don't have the last two even with all the salt... maybe I need to go back to bed! I even know what words are missing from the list...

edit - walking away certainly helped, and knowing they were phrases... thanks

Any salt for #4?

For #16 and #17, the words on the right are all part of an ordered set, but they have been altered in a consistent manner.

For #16, the yellow semi-circle at the top is a clue to what they are, as well as the order they are in.

For #17, look at some of the longer ones, and you should notice what they rhyme with.

Once you figure out the original words from each list, you then need to figure out the methodology used to alter them, and derive the missing entry.

[4]
[20]&[25]

most helpful for 16 for me.
no clue how to use the picture, just ended up using salt and guessing.
Getting the theme finally helped it make sense.

any salt on #4? I think i have the theme down and i have answers to all of the other clues (thanks to [20] and many others), but #4 just doesn't come clear to me.

Edit: meant to say #4, not #2.

[40] - describe what you see in the picture, don't overcomplicate

I'd heard of #16 as a weight lifting excersize, and it's in the Rocky Horror Picture Show song "I Can Make You a Man." I never figured out what the actual clues were.

#17 would've taken me months to figure out by the clues.

need salt for #8 i think

I get the arrows for #12, and I get the theme. I can't make anything sensible fit for the second word.

Waiter, I need more salt. :(

rough but good

[44] I had a tough time with #12. When it occured to me that the first part of the clue could be plural, it helped a lot.

thanks [41] I was making #4 way too hard. And [46] that helped me get it too but we are not saying the final answer is plural. It's a baseball term.

wow....finally got it after being racked for a few days...nice puzzle

aah, clue nine switches the theme (notice the half and half background). I was so confused.

Got 16 thanks to the salt....still don't have any idea what it is....?