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Solve the clues to fill in the grid! Type in the answers to the clues on the right side of the Hypercross puzzle below. Clicking a thumbnail image will enlarge it. You can Tab through the clues while the image is enlarged. You can also click on the first space of a word in the grid to view the clue for that word. If two words begin in the first cell, click the cell again to view the downward word. Be sure to check your spelling! Click on the "Check your Answers" button when you think you’ve got them all.
42 Comments
Murdoctor
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 07:15 PM |
Tricky... easier once you get the theme.
Thosw
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 07:16 PM |
Guildenstern, is that you?
DrParty06
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 07:17 PM |
very nice puzzle
dajagr
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 07:21 PM |
Funny, when I started out, my mistakes were laughable.
nrkii
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 07:30 PM |
I did this earlier, but now that I've come back to look again, my answers don't show up.
Also, is anyone besides me ready to give up on these hypercrosses now that the scrolling is SO AWFUL?
ldrod_okc
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 07:33 PM |
Wow, that's one I actually figured out myself. Once you get the central theme it gets easy.
ethnosax
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 07:36 PM |
Awesome awesome puzzle!! I totally love this one, as I love any Hypercross with a literature theme. A great a-ha moment, and then fun fun fun til the end. Newsradio clues make me smile.
Thanks much, llta, and may you favo(u)r us with many more.
davey
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 07:40 PM |
Great hypercross ... surprising that this theme hasn't been used before - it's a good one!
jjcool
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 07:40 PM |
neat puzzle. Just wish there woule be some protocol for numbers in these puzzles.
cherylo
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 07:45 PM |
Where does the system tell you what place you got and your time under the new regime? I've been looking...
ETA: Doh. I forgot. No stats for hypercross.
DNewfield
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 07:46 PM |
I can't figure out the leftmost across, and I've looked through lists of these...
DNewfield
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 07:48 PM |
Of course, posting is the way to figure it out. Always 2 seconds too late.
gordon1018
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 07:58 PM |
I like it
Ilta
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 08:03 PM |
hey all. glad youre enjoying it! more to come.... someday!
Arnott
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 08:06 PM |
GREAT clues, lots of fun. Thanks.
Berix
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 08:28 PM |
Thank you Doctor Who for helping me get the theme! :)
ceara
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 08:32 PM |
Very easy. Nice.
Rastus
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 08:38 PM |
[5] Tanga Monkey. Scrolling down to see the clues is bad. It discourages me from wanting to work on the puzzle.
laniwalk
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 09:16 PM |
too obscure and annoying
timotab
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 09:38 PM |
loved it
travelocity
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 09:41 PM |
[19] Uncultured brute.
kswitz
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 09:51 PM |
I love puzzles that let me rely on my theatre background. :) Although it took me a while to get two of them.
breity
Posted on Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:51 PM |
The answer to the one with the "Tone & Sweat" guy made me crack up. Thanks for that. :-)
Legomancer
Posted on Fri Nov 30, 2007 05:09 AM |
[19] I agree. Why not use a writer people have HEARD of.
rray46231
Posted on Fri Nov 30, 2007 05:25 AM |
the news radio one is hilarious
Tawnos76
Posted on Fri Nov 30, 2007 06:25 AM |
It would be better to have the clues showing up on the side like they used to. Having to scroll down constantly is getting old fast.
Ilta
Posted on Fri Nov 30, 2007 07:05 AM |
To the people talking about scrolling, I agree, as does TangaJoe, who said they're working on fixing that a few puzzle threads ago.
TIMMAY
Posted on Fri Nov 30, 2007 08:14 AM |
Good one!
Fez
Posted on Fri Nov 30, 2007 08:28 AM |
Great puzzle. I can't figure out the left most across either.
Schwade
Posted on Fri Nov 30, 2007 09:25 AM |
[29] wiki helps
I like this one, despite the fact that I NEVER spell the longest across right.
fnord
Posted on Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:44 AM |
Wikipedia's giving me no help for the left most across, either.
Whew, finally got it. The only entry that, while fitting the theme, doesn't exactly match the others in execution.
Love the theme, though. Finally some use for that information I've been storing around for a while.
Firestone
Posted on Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:07 AM |
Great, great puzzle.
robrizob
Posted on Fri Nov 30, 2007 11:08 AM |
Some excellent clues in this one.
Fez
Posted on Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:55 PM |
ugh. I think I have it solved but I have something misspelled.
Swanny
Posted on Fri Nov 30, 2007 01:18 PM |
haha, I think this is the first time i've gotten the theme from the title alone
saintomer
Posted on Fri Nov 30, 2007 01:23 PM |
Had the 'about' ones mixed up for a while. Good puzzle.
Swanny
Posted on Fri Nov 30, 2007 01:32 PM |
Excellent puzzle!
Thosw
Posted on Fri Nov 30, 2007 02:29 PM |
Why did it take me 19 hours to figure out the title of the puzzle? I thought it was a theater term. Sheesh!
comat0se
Posted on Fri Nov 30, 2007 02:50 PM |
I thought this puzzle was actually pretty crappy... it was simple, but that doesn't make it good. The bathroom guys one, there is no way in hell you could get it without the theme. And the Cheerios box? please...
cthulhu
Posted on Fri Nov 30, 2007 04:01 PM |
[39] "there is no way in hell you could get it without the theme"
So figure out the theme and use the theme to solve it.
nbast
Posted on Fri Nov 30, 2007 04:22 PM |
I have no clue on the bathroom guys.
Ilta
Posted on Fri Nov 30, 2007 06:47 PM |
[31] [39] [41] Fair point on the bathroom guys not being *exactly* consistent and therefore generating confusion. That was the first clue I made and the puzzle topic drifted slightly as I continued; it was posted before I had time to go back and change it. I hope it didn't throw you too much -- as a bit of salt, perhaps "of" would have been better than "from."
As for the other complaint (many are too hard to get without the theme) the goal was to make a few clues that were possible regardless of theme-getting, and a few that wouldn't rely on image ID, and have that be enough to generate an "aha" that would lead to the rest, with a bit of wiki-searching if necessary. I think the consensus is that this is what happened for many, so I stand by the puzzle as a whole.
I'm interested to hear peoples' opinions about the "1 of 2" (etc) clues -- was that clear enough? Without proper numbering it's a bit tough to link two clues. I could have made them into big mega-clues but I dislike those, both aesthetically and from a solver's perspective (ie not enough to go on if you only get one part). I always crossed them with each other to help avoid excessive click-searching; did that help?
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