Dec 08, 2007 Hypercross Puzzle

Is this a plea for our fruit back?

Those were fun. I had never heard of 3 of those :-D

I'm stuck on 3 of these...any salt for the green prickly thing, the big yellow tomato looking thing and the red raspberry looking one?

I'm stuck on that bright yellow one... any salt?

google images helps

Argh. I am stuck on the fruits on the screen and the yellow tomato thing.

[3]If you search for the attributes of the green prickly thing, you will find it. Do you mean the last one or the actual raspberry in the other case?

All done... now I need a steak!

[6] The last one...still cant find it!!

[2] same here. knew a couple of them by other names that seemd to fit. Maked finding those three I didnt know a little difficult

[8] search for the attributes, the outside and inside colors.

and I thought it was called star fruit.

awesome rose art! I wish I could do that.

[11] It is called starfruit. Must be a common name.

I'd never heard of the yellow tentacled one before (and I've been to Asia). Had to google it.

Several of these seem to have several names...

[4] Believe it or not, the one that looks like an octopus is a relative of the lemon.

the green one had two different names ... it took me a while to find the other one

I have googled my behind off and can't find the green pimply one. And the common name doesn't fit. Any more salt?

NM finally found it. There are a LOT of names for this one.

finally! Thanks for the help cherylo!

this puzzle is horrible. sorry to say.

This is just stupid. Three fruits that no one has ever heard about, and at least one of them isn't in any crossword solver I can find. Lame hypercross.

Still can't find the ugly yellow fruit!

[20] Try thinking about the guy some monks worship

[21] Thanks! That did it! Some of those were a little too obscure for my tastes!

and hints on where to look for the green bumpy thing, I havent been able to google it into much of anything

[23] try searching google for green bumpy fruit, you'll find a link to a bunch of different exotic fruits (not citrus fruit).

[21] Thanks for that salt - I would have never found that one without it.

That was painful.

What is the Ipod thingy?

edit: [15] of course *slaps forehead*

the iphone is a fruit... if it were a fruit what would it be?

Thanks [14]
Man the iphone threw me

Wow, that green bumpy one took a bit of researching.

[11] I'd never heard it called anything else, either.

[24] Tried that search string, even added "-citrus" which dropped the total hits from 25,700 to 22,900. Still searching, but having no luck.

Edit: Ok, finally got it... Odd puzzle, odd in that there was no real challenge other than finding out the names of some obscure asian fruits.

is anyone else having problems with the puzzle accepting the answers?
I've gone through and i'm 99.9% sure everything is dead-on right, but its always "sorry, that's not correct" would anyone give me a hand with checking answers?

Pretty much a Google-fest. Two points for crossword solvers on this one.

[33] I'm in the same boat, more or less. I have identified the fruit correctly, and the names I chose all fit perfectly together, but it says I have something wrong. And I don't really care to put any more serious effort into this.

EDIT: Ok, a 9-year-old just pointed out an alternative spelling (changed one vowel) and it worked. But, to be fair, she also thought I was spelling "banana" with one "n" too few.

33...same problem. Can't figure out what's wrong.

d'oh ...of course! Thanks [28]

[33], [35], [36] Same thing. I can't figure out what has an alternative spelling.

Edit: Found it finally. The thing that is also a star fruit, the word used has alternate spellings.

any salt for the yellow tomato looking thing? I have everything else.

It's more orange. I searched for yellow tomato like fruit and found the answer.

ckpete thanks for search string. Holy cow that was an odd one.

That was......painful.

So I looked at the iPhone and thought it was meant 'orange'. Which made sense, because that's the service provider in France. Only there are one too many letters. Then I realized it was much simpler than that.

This puzzle apparently caused a lot of consternation, but I think it was good. At least as good as today's buildings of the world, which I also enjoyed. Maybe I just like it because of how much I watch Iron Chef, but honestly, those fruits aren't so obscure.

[44] Not obscure? Says you! I've never heard of a few of these. They are NOT common to people in the United States!

Finding 4 of these turned out to be a google-fest...with the green, spiky one turning into at least a 30 minute search.

Salt on #7 (green bumpy/spiky one)....it is a compound word....the first part of it is a common male name, the second part is the theme of this puzzle. According to one web page..it is an Asian fruit, and has a yellow skin whose flavor is comparable to that of a banana.

Salt on #4 (yellow-orange tomato)... it comes from trees in the genus Diospyros in the ebony wood family. (you might want to google some or all of this wording.)

Salt on #3 (yellow tentacles)... another name for it is a "fingered citron". The name this puzzle wants is the name of an Asian religious deity's part of the body.

Salt on #12. Google the words "star fruit". You'll find it's proper name.

Salt on #10 (red circular berries)... Popular in China, Japan, and southeast Asia. I've heard the word "nut" appended to the end of it in Mothra movies. It is part soapberry family of evergreen trees,

Hopefully this will help future solvers.

[45] That was very nice of you. [Edit: Deleted rest of message in which I thought I was being clever and witty, then realized I was sadly mistaken.]