Dec 09, 2007 Hypercross Puzzle

Got the theme, but these are tough!

"Fountain-Mountain-Hairy Guy" is my favorite game ever!!!!

(in my excitement, it posted twice!)

These are quite tough... and some are REAL stretches.

I thought it was "Fountain-Mountain-Hairy guy on a Couch" no wonder I didn't get it!

Can we change our in-house term of "Salt" to "Fountain-Mountain-Hairy Guy"? It has quite a ring to it.

Excuse me, I need some Fountain-mountain-hairy-guy on the you're fired clue..

Yup! Has a nice ring to it!!

The order on some of these is sort of specious. I'm still struggling with a few, including the card/ham one, the you're fired one, the bird, the high heel, and the scantily-clad gal. At least I got the theme!

[Edit: Aha! I got the fired one. That wasn't a gnu, as I originally suspected it was.]

It's the Trevi Fountain if it helps anyone. Sorry if this is too salty, I haven't figured that one out yet, so I wouldn't know.

[8] The card could have been clued with a person facing the other way.

It helps to identify the animal in the "you're fired" clue, and the type of bird in the bird clue.

Those drinks by the scantily-clad gal are non-alcoholic.

EDIT: And, on a sidenote, I just hit exactly 10000 points! Woohoo!

[8] dajagr, it's more than just the heel we are to look at

Anybody know what kind of bug that is?

Congrats Murdoctor!

[11] It's a dung beetle. Except that's such a dirty name to use.

[8] - I got the card/ham one because I found an answer that fits ... I still don't really get it. The scantily-clad gal is Cher if that helps. The you're fired one is clever, but that large hand kind of threw me off for a while. Good luck with the rest of them.

wOOt Murdoctor, and many 10k more!

Even knowing the theme doesn't help a lot... some are good and some are plain painful. :)

These are terrible clues.

[10] If I'm reading things right, did the scantily-glad gal often appear when it was sonny out?

[8] Salt for the you're fired one pls?

at least a grain on the kind of animal...

Fountain-mountain-hairy-guy on the drinks please

[20] It's an African animal, so it can't play on the range with the deer. (And it's a specific type, too.)

[21] Usually lemon drinks. Sometimes lime. Occasionally orange. Often kool.

These are sure tough and some are a little too far out

These are sure tough and some are a little too far out

[21] Doesn't have a 'board'

wow...I'm lost on this one. I think I know 2 answers....but the rest!! UGH!!! tough puzzle!!

Any fountain-mountain-hairy-guy on the wing?

[Double Post]

Sorry this puzzle is so difficult! Once you know the theme, it might be easier to find the answers among a list of possibilities. None of them are obscure at all.

I think there were some better options out there for some of the clues, especially the dude covered in fur - some of these were more of a stretch than I've ever seen before

I'm still hung up on the bottom right two.

[27] Not just the wing. What is it a wing for? That made that one hard for me. Plus you have to change the order.

[31] I wouldn't have gotten the last down so easily if I hadn't used the background picture in a puzzle of mine. It's not a marsh.

For the other one (with the leg if that's the one you mean) the background is general, the leg more specific. The background is not a musical.

[33] Thanks. I brute-forced them (sort of), but I see how yours work in retrospect. I always thought the background image in the last down was...vinier and muckier. Oh, well.

[32] Thanks I got it, but still don't know why it works. Thanks for the F-M-HG

I really thought those were margaritas.

[30] I didn't want to head for the obvious imagery ... guess I might have gone too far in the other direction. At any rate, since each answer is constructed more or less phonetically, if you know the theme you should be able to figure out the answers with a partially decoded clue.

That was a lot of work for 20 Tanga points. Especially considering that the points are worthless other than for bragging rights.

finally got them all. awful clues or at least awful pictures for the clues.

That was frustrating.

[36] Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for some Tanga salt. Some people say that it's a fountain-mountain-hairy-guy, but I know it's TangaMonkey's fault.

Does it matter who it is jumping rope? Coz I got nothin'. :-)

any fountain-mountain-hairy guy (FMHG) on the guy coming out of the nose? Also I'm really hung up on the ham?

[41] you made my son and I laugh!

[42] You need the first name of the guy coming out of the nose.

[42] Yes. It's the first name of a character played by the guy, and he's not jumping rope, but....

[42] The character's name is important. Think bad TV, car, cops, moonshine.....

[46] And don't forget very short shorts.....nice.

As cheesy as the show was, the movie remake with Johnny Knoxville was worse.

[47] Yes, they are named after her! I forgot about those. But she wasn't my focus.

Oh, no wonder. I was trying to use the *actor's* name and not the character's name (sorry if that was too salty). Thanks, folks!

Now to figure out the wing-cargo-train-o'-doom....

All I can say is wow. Some of those are very large stretches, and all of them are major groaners.

[51] I miss Milk Duds!

Any FMHG on the name of the guy coming out of the nose. I have nothing.

[53] he was in Cannonball Run.

[53] He used to hang out with Burt Reynolds.

[53] He was in Cannonball Run.

Edit: Wow; slow on the draw!

Okay, figured out wing-cargo-train-o'-doom, thus completing this puzzle. As for the now-completed puzzle... yeesh.

[57] Yeah, pretty painful.

Thanks for the help

Thanks for the help

Between reading about the FMHG and me telling my wife that I sat there saying "wench margaritas" to the computer for 10 minutes, my wife has been laughing hysterically! Horrible puzzle, but we have not laughed this hard in quite a while!

Alright I'm going crazy. I needs some fountain-mountain-hairy guy on the fountain mountain hairy guy. I know the name of the fountain and the mountain but it's not coming together. I need help so I can go to bed.

[62] It's not the name of the mountain, but a mountain range, and think of the guy's covering as him wearing something made from an animal's hair. The answer isn't exactly how it sounds out, but it should help you to get it.

Excuse me, barkeep. Do you know how to make a Wench Margarita? SLAP!

What did you call me?

[63] Thanks that was my first thought but I spelled it wrong then got distracted by the Matterhorn.

[65] So you got it then?

Regarding the guy in the clue with the fountain and mountain, I was thinking of a word that describes his body that isn't the word "hairy." I was not thinking "hair suit," although amazingly that works too.

[66] I got that one. the only one I have left is the bird over the pond. But I seem to be getting dumber as it gets later. I feel a real need to get this done tonight. it has to do with my OCD. So any FMHG on the bird. Please, I'm tired and pathetic.

Never mind.Got it.I hate right now.

Any help on the Seagull/marsh?

Stuck on the last one down. Is the type of bird significant?

[69] It's not a marsh. Think cranberries.

OK. Refresh everybody. I updated some of the clues that were giving people trouble. (Remember the ones you solved before you hit the button!)

[69] It's not a marsh. Think cranberries.
Thank you! Saved my bacon.

The updated ship clue is much clearer. I'd never have gotten 'L' from the train, and I was stuck on "pterodactyl" for the wing. =)

Is that Aunty Em in the 10th image? Need FMHG on that one and the bug-cow.

[75] Refresh. There's a much clearer clue now. But you were right!

[76] Oh, finally got it. Was looking for something more classic to go with the rest.

These were terrible clues. In particular, the bug/cow and the FMHG were real stretches.

The mysterious african herd beast is called the Eland

[79] Thanks for the salt! Now I just need the Indian woman...

Dear Lord, I got the easier version and it was still unpleasant. We'd had a run of fairly good puzzles recently; did TangaMonkey decide to back to undertested, slightly broken puzzles, for nostalgia's sake?

a term is coined tonight. FMHG. One day will rival lol or rotfl. Didn't get the puzzle, but got the term.

That was some hill! Some of these were tough but I got a good laugh.

[52] LOL! Glad you liked that one. I try to include at least one "forehead-slapper" in my hypercrosses.

I see several of the clue pictures here have been changed since last night... some distinct improvements.

Still lost on the leg. :(
Is it "background" + "leg" or "leg" + "background"?

I thought it was fun. Fair? Pretty close. Some great groaners, though. And the coinage of the FMHG term is Brilliant! Brilliant!

[85] background + leg

[87] Thanks.

[85] go really general with the background. The clues this morning are much clearer.

[85] the background would be clearer if there were a fat lady singing....

[33] Edit yourself, way to salty for you to post on this.

any help on the woman teh bug/cow, and the fountain mountain harry guy? those are all I have left.

One problem is that several of these depend on pronouncing things with a particular accent. Words that sound nothing alike in other accents. Like the Indian lady, and the one with the lamb.

[92] you're chasing meaningless things

I finally got 'you're fired,' but I still don't quite get it. I did a search for other animals in the same family as what I thought it was (and other clues posted here confirmed I had the right animal family), but I don't see what works.

This is a great puzzle with some very interesting clues. They can't all be easy. [92] this is the best clue in the puzzle. find the name of the fountain and the name of the mountain and that should be enough.

Never mind. I suddenly had an "aha" moment. I wasn't getting the animal wrong, I was getting the hand wrong!

Sorry for the double post. This can be removed.

I think I've got them all except for the bug/cow. I really need a salty fountain mountain hairy guy to finish this up!

Nevermind, got it after I posted. It's not a steer, that's BS.

I got teh FMHG, but I still need some help on the other two.

[94] huh?