Apr 17, 2010 Hypercross Puzzle

Awesome! Especially #11.

Yeah! loved the last one.

Very nicely clued! (Well, there is a slight problem with #4. There is no "C" in the item pictured on the lower left, but I knew what you meant.)

[3], that's the British spelling.

very well done Susie.

Five star FUN puzzle !! Thanks Susie.

[3]Either an "S" or a "C" is acceptable, particularly with the bench version.

fun puzzle good job

Well done!

[7] According to whom? I do see that [4] is right; several dictionaries I checked do give the "c" spelling as a British variant of the "s" spelling. But I could find no authoritative source that says that the standard American spelling is anything other than the "s" version.

[10] Try a search. Even the US Patent office has patents listed with the C spelling. While the S is certainly the more common US spelling, the C isn't wrong - considering the rest of the world uses that spelling. No need to be US centric. :P

[10] I know you'll quote the dictionary as the only source, but doing a google search does show manufacturers and hardware stores spelling it with a C.....ACE hardware for example.

Heck, even Wiki lists both (US/British spellings) in the first four words of the definition.

[12] And if you go to that Ace hardware page, you'll find both spellings!

[13] And if you follow the link on Wikipedia immediately after that "c" spelling, you'll see that that the "c" spelling is British and the "s" spelling is American (and Canadian).

[14] And if you go to Dictionary.com and scroll down to the Random House entry, after the definition of the S version, it says "also" and the C version.

So, to say there is no C is not exactly correct.

edit: American Heritage as well

wow, we're really getting into it about the C and S thing, huh? i'm american and think it frankly looks weird with an S rather than a C. i suppose that makes me a Sommunist?

anyway, excellent clues, excellent theme, overall an excellent hypercross! keep 'em comin', Susie! :-D

Nice puzzle!! One tripped me up for a while, but that was totally my fault. :)

I enjoyed this even if I was late and then too tired to do it smoothly. Funny thing about the c/s argument is that I was convinced it was a "clamp" and was trying to fit "lamp" into it!

i was having the same problem [18]! AND i thought that the welch's product was juice. needless to say, that one had me stumped for a bit, lol

having issues with 2.

never mind.

I really liked this puzzle, Susie!

Thanks to [7] and Home Depot, I finally figured out what the item in the c vs s controversy was about! And like [18], I considered "clamp", but know that no matter how crazy those Brits spell, they couldn't have said "slamp".

I am stuck - I have all words and I am even pretty confident about my answers but it is not taking. Even the cross letters are matching so I am puzzled.
As an immigrant I never had the S vs. C issue, that one was obvious to me right away.
Are there any answers which might not be as obvious as they appear?

Love #11!

[24] - I had a similar problem, but I had mis-typed answer number 6. With all these phrases, are you sure there isn't an errant letter in there somewhere?

[1] I agree. 11 was totatlly delightful! Thanks, Susie!

Very nice!

I have always spelled the pic in #4 with a C until I came to live in the US, so being a "bilingual" speller it was no problem for me.

not getting #11. The one anser I can thing of doesn't fit the letter count

Beautifully put together puzzle!

OMG, what a puzzle - the cluing is hilarious!

#4 should never have made it through moderation. If there's the possibility of confusion, use something else. You certainly don't use the wildly *less* common/accepted version of the word. :/

The rest of the English speaking world (incl India and Africa) uses that C spelling. That's a lot of people.......

In the #4 Question (C or S), I am in the US and I have never seen that object with a C. Only it's Homophone has a C and that wasn't what was pictured.

And yet somehow I breezed right past it (without thinking) and got the answer. One of those things that just clicked, I guess.

A quick web search has found some examples. I can only attribute this to the general, American, linguistic
laziness.

I've always used S for spelling the one everybody is fighting about and the C spelling for crime. And I'm from Texas. Maybe he should put minus S or minus C , which ever way YOU spell it. Everybody happy?

I'm with you [37], born and bred Texan American & family has always fixed cars & worked wood & the tool version as shown in the pix has always had the "s", the "c" version is for crime. Like affect & effect, compliment & complement, capitol & capital, asterisk & asterick, larynx & larnyx - OOPS, I forgot there is no such thing as an asterick & a larnyx! MY BAD. Hey, johanna, being from Texas, was the word dinner interchangeable for lunch and/or supper where you come from?

fergit #4 already!
What about #2 & #5??\n.m. got it.
Boy, didn't get the theme until I finished and had to correct my mistake on the homophone heterograph #8

Sheesh what a dope! #4 is NOT jam!!

number 11 was awesome!

[34] AFAIK, the audience here is primarily American. In any case, there are any number of non-confusing ways to clue that.

[36] Thanks. Actually, without the back-and-forth about S-vs.-C, I may well have punted on it...nothing was working for me, in large part because I had yet to specifically identify the grape beverage. ;)

[38] That one causes much confusion in my family as my husband is from Ohio, so dinner is always the evening meal. But, my Moma (who is from Oklahoma) only uses the word dinner to refer to the noon meal. Needless to say, we have shown up very late for dinner with my folks.

[16] I think that would make you a Kommunist not a Sommunist.

You solved this puzzle in 0 seconds and were the 333rd Tanga member to solve it. You earned 5 points for solving this.

1) that doesn't make sense 0 seconds
2) I wanted more points for wasting this much time
3) Homophones without a point are retarded

I'm disgruntled... but I guess enough avoiding work I need to do.

VERY well clued! FUN! FUN! FUN! Five stars for sure!!! :)

[16] I agree...despite being an American (and a good speller if I do say so myself...), I've always spelled it with a C and was more confused by the "- S" cluing that it got changed to than I would have been before the change...

Then again, that clue also tripped me up because it took me waaay too long to figure out that the grape substance isn't juice...

That being said, this was a really well crafted puzzle. Nicely done!

LOVED this one!!

Number 2 and 3 has got me lost! :(

I am so sad I missed this featured! Arnott, you are hilarious! I love your additions. Yey, we make a good team, the Tanganites liked it :)

Just found this one - and loved it!!

Really enjoyed this one!