Dec 24, 2010 Hypercross Puzzle

Very nicely done!

Any salt for #6?

[2] They're a normal part of a jacket, not usually covered in fur.

ryanker, you did a great job of relating each clue image to the holiday!

[4] Agreed!

This was a great puzzle - I particularly liked #18 but I have to say it frustrated the bleepity-bleep out of me for reasons beyond the puzzle! First Tanga load issues, then my computer lost its internet connection, switched to the laptop but kept fat-fingering and grabbing for the desktop's mouse! *sigh* It's time to go to bed and wake up on Christmas!! :)

Salt for #4?

[6], think scientific name. If needed, you can Google "vertebrate classes".

By the way, thanks, [3]. I was hung up on the particular "furry" part of it. : ) Searching for "what do you call the furry stuff on Santa's coat" pulled up several jokes I had no desire to read.

any salt for 19?

I'm not getting anywhere on #19 either.

[9], be very precise about what the arrow is pointing to.

[9], [10], this was the toughest for me. Google what you think it is, maybe look at a synonym dictionary? That's what did it for me.

Thank you for the kind words. This is another one that Arnott helped a lot with.

[4] Some of the pics started out very un-christmasy. It took a few revisions to get them all "working".

[12] Thanks, I had already tried that without luck, but I did it again and this time came up with the answer.

[9][10] I had success using the thesaurus on dictionary.com.

[9][10] Luke 2:9

[11], [12], [15], [16] thanks. I had 13 wrong so made it even tougher

Wow, got here over an hour late and still 90th.

Wow, it's almost 2 hours and I was 109th

This was so clever, and beautifully done. Nice Tanga christmas present, thanks! :D

Am I the only one having trouble with #13? Think I have all the rest. Edit: Think I just got #13 but something else is wrong. Drat. Well the edit wiped out my answers and then it took when I retyped. Must have had a spelling error.

This one was kind of tough. Had problems with 4, 5, 6, 13, 15, and 21, but was eventually able to figure them out. #4 was confusing because the answer seemed shorter than it should be. If you use the terminology "class" then technically the answer should have an "ia" and the end of it. As for #5, I was trying to make it past tense.

Wikipedia gave me the answer for #19, also where I went for #6.

[16] Thanks for your help. First time completing a hypercross!
Merry Christmas!

Well done!

You got it! But we're not going to save your answer.
Can anyone tell me why I got the above message when I finished the puzzle?
Kind of disappointing.
Edit: Not as disappointed now I checked and I got the points I earned for the puzzle!

For [2] --- on a suit, there's usually a buttonhole there where you can put a flower.:-)

#2: Blasphemy... The only true version was narrated by Boris Karoff

[23] I see what you're saying about #4. I figured using the "English" version, Vertebrate, instead of the Latin Vertebrata, would point to the correct version of the clued word.

I had a hard time getting #19 too, even though I knew what it should be. It just didn't seem to fit w/ #18. Then I looked a bit closer at #18 and found out that my first impluse of putting the artist's first name in was not what was needed. Once I fixed that, it was a piece of cake!