Hypercross: What's the opposite of... (Caution: wordplay ahead)

um....

i've got most of them

can't get the jeans

Got all but the football and the disgusting sound. Help!

what is he doing with the football?

Good puzzle - having fun with this one. :)

[2] are you really looking at the jeans?

4-Something you can do when driving.
Stuck on the asian vendor and the sound?

I do not recognize that wildebeast

[7] The fact that the vendor is Asian is unimportant. I had to use a crossword puzzle dictionary to figure out the sound (I knew what the sound was, but couldn't make the next step without help).

[3] What sound do you make when someone makes a pun?

Fun but can't get the noise and the jeans

[6] of course not, but is seemed a nicer reference word than the synonym of burro

asian: not a buyer but a ...

I'm lost on the car thing, I know the forward, can't get the reverse.

nm, been out of school too long....

Stuck on Butt, Wantad

Still stuck on the football--passing, throwing, tossing, playing?

[12] I think I know the sound, but can't apply it to the theme. grrrr

[15] one of those is correct. wrong tense

[17] this is a no {answer}ing zone

OK, just got the pants clue. Had to use my noggin.

but I still don't recognize that wildebeest.

Is there a spelling issue? I think I have them but it's still calling me sorry.

21 its a Gnu

Any help on the ad?

[21] Three-letter crosswordese.

noise ...groan? cheers

jean... back..front?

The present, the jeans and the sound all have me confuzzled

[23] honestly, I'm not very good with puns because I was raised with very strict ununciation. If I even thought of pronouncing something incorrectly, I got smacked on the hand.

still stuck on:
derrier and wantad

[27] Huh, I can't come up with an antonym for what I'm thinking. But thanks -- I'll get it in time.

EDIT: Got it. [head slap]

OK, if the noise is the one we always here from tanganites regarding bad puns, then I just can't make the jump. I'm thinking the opposites might be manufactured or immature. Point me to the right one?

whew. Got it. Thanks for the salt. Very clever and tough.

[30] Puns don't necessarily involve bad pronunciations.

[29] Consider not the present, but future answers...

[34] about half of these require it.

[36] Actually, and I'm not trying to be contentious, but I don't see a single one that requires awkward pronunciation. They're all homonym. EDIT: homophone (doublethanks, arnott)

Thanks for [37], Arnott! Great puzzle!

[37] that would be the intial word, I'm sure rob is talking about the antonym

[32] I was also thinking in that direction

okay, time for bed

lost on the bottom, pouring and help wanted

gonna try and sleep on it

got all but the jeans

salt for the plain/plane and noise?

you must have an accent then.

Munchausen
the beams of light
the gift
the liquid
and the bovine

all have subtle differences in pronunciation when dictated precisely. If you get the chance, watch "My Fair Lady", it might help show the differences, though in a crude way.

[42] Your math's probably off on help wanted. The bottom clue or the jeans bottom?

[44] colorful beagle foe

I never understood puns. Big ol' mental block. But when I became an adult, the block seemed much easier to just step over.

[46] seat of the pants

[50] Just keep running through the synonyms.

[46] The one I was off on was that red thing with the white spots. I ws thinking the opposite of two. IE five. It fit, so I just moved on.

Um, I got them all but it's not accepting it, what the hell is the problem.

oh, don't get me wrong, it isn't unfair
in fact, I'm quite enjoying this puzzle except for the fact I can't figure out what the wantad is (still) or the fine piece of meat of whence view is ruined by denim.

no seat jeans or butts about it I am stuck

[54] I'll wager you have the wrong answer for the casino implement.

[57] Is the answer not another number?

[56] Maybe you'll find some help in these lyrics?
http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=5184

Of course, maybe not. But they're fun lyrics. :-)

[45] According to my OED: 1-dunno what you're referring to, 2-no alternate pronunciations, 3-ditto, 4-agreed, 5-agreed. Although it's just as easy to argue that the other person is the one "with the accent." Sorry to be a pedant, but I so rarely get to use my OED.

EDIT: Arnott was on top of things at [53].

[55] "Want Ad" is too long. The jeans word is a tasteful, almost prudish description.

Ok, that must have been it. Everyone knows the opposite of two on a dice is five! Except this puzzle. :(

For whatever reason, I can never sell anything using want ads, but I get all sorts of responses when I just have things to take away for free.

[60] thanks for that, though I admittedly would rather be stuck on that than the want add.

For that football thrower, my answer was in re my math grades.... which doesn't really fit with the buyer.... grrr...

[61] pedant away, my wife already does anyways :)

hard won, but fun, thanks arnott!!!

Ok, I'm not getting the jeans-clad butt, the sound, and the ad.

[68] "buyer"? Perhaps that's the root of the problem. Just don't whine about it.

still stuck on noise...grrr...arrgh?????

The noise still has me...

(Sorry, gang. I'm rather a fan of puns. Hopefully my blatherings have been helpful to at least one person.)

a lot of fun. No googling here. Just a lot of ahas. Even with the help at the beginning it was still tough

I thought I had gotten the jean one, but it doesn't seem to be a pun there, and besides, it keeps coming up wrong...

Nevermind, it was another one I had wrong. I did have the jean one right.

I had to plug a couple of these into a crossword solver and go through the results to find the correct answer.

I'm stuck on the ad as well. Not feeling loved.
Is the intersecting letter from the noise clue an a, i or u? I can make all of them work.

Would you believe I NOW am just off to the other puzzles.
(I was a bit distracted with a movie... that's my story and I sticking to it!)

Great puzzle as always Arnott!

(btw - I went with "five" for the longest time too - and had the most difficulty with the "rapt" "give")

So fr I'm getting them, but what is the thing floating in the water in the b&w photo?

Great puzzle! I still have no idea on the sound, though. Very frustrating.

Seems like a good puzzle, but I'm really stuck on the jeans, the tri-plane, and the guy saying Oooh! Pretty sure I have the rest of them.

I've tried a bunch of possibilities for the noise one, no go...

[84] it's not the jeans but what's in them right there.
I have all except the thing floating in the water. WHat is it?!

The noise is what people almost always type after figuring out a "easy" one that is usually a bad pun. Then remember the wordplay here.

[86] - it's definitely something you want to steer clear of.

[86] you may need a sweeper

[88] & [89] Thanks! That did it. Got them all now. That was fun, Arnott!

[84] Who pilots a plane like that? (Think of Snoopy)

Well I finally solved them all, but I really didn't understand the very top down clue (the one with the tri-plane and what looks like Peter Sellers). I used a crossword solver to come up with words that would fit that space.

Found a better crossword solver to get the sound. Great puzzle, even with the less obvious answer for the two :)

Solved, but disappointed.

[93] Thanx, still not happening for me. I have...

_u_t____t

Technically the sound one should have a longer answer that ends in -EN.

[98] Oh crap. lol.
I could not get the Bon Jovi song out of my mind.
This has made me hungry - time for some take-aways!
Thanx Arnott - nice puzzle.