Jun 05, 2007 Hypercross Puzzle

Hmm, catchy category.

Though I'm stuck on the bone/skull pic, the bird and the bust. . .

The boat was the only one I had to research. Sticking with the theme it was easy to guess at any I was missing out of the rest.

[2] For the skull, think a place where you might find bones (underground).

Any salt on the bird or the boat? The bird particularly is difficult to look up knowing only the first 3 letters.

Edit: Got the boat, need the bird.
Edit 2: Got the bird, thanks. I thought it would be more complicated than that.

Less salty comment.

For the bird, use the theme and a crossword solver to get the answer, I used

www.unscramble.net

I looked up on wiki for the bird but didn't see anything that seemed to fit. . .

The boat. . . I'm not certain how to give salt on that without just saying it.

[4] The answer is obvious. Somebody is in its seat.

[7] Thanks, I've never heard of that bird before. Gotta go look it up.

hrmm i have what appear to be all the right answers but it says i am wrong.

[9]
Check your spelling then, that's likely the issue. I had a problem on one myself that slowed me down.

[10]
I do like them, they are quick and simple, pretty clever too. On days which the easy and/or the hard puzzle turn out to be real stumpers it is nice to have this one to sort of rest my brain for a bit.

Yes, TangaJoe

I like the new puzzles.

[11] yep that was the problem, was trying to fix the wrong one initially.

Including both the second across word and the third across word was a little lazy.

Love em, TangaJoe!

Stuck on the bird and bust ones... :(

Stuck on the music clip...any salt?

[17] 70's musician, has a new name now.

Anyone able to help on the bird or bust?

I have a feeling both are things I've never heard of.

[17] Did a band name search on google and got it right away

I cant find a bird that starts with those letters either
in the dictionary or by pictures. Okay got it, not sure its real though -- found it, its real -- my solution was just a plain guess though.

Yeah, I used oneacross.com with and without "bird" as a clue and got zip. Same with the bust.

:(

For the bust. . . I sort of guessed and then looked it up to determine it was a real person. . . I took the concept or format I suppose you could say of the name Plato only putting in the 'theme'. Not sure if that helps at all.

The bird, well, ummm, apply the theme then don't overthink it. What do you see?

[7] I LOVED that Thurber story!

Great theme, nice fun puzzle....

I'm doing these first to take the heat off myself to be in the top ten...

Finding the Tanga experience much more enjoyable with the pressure off!

and yes [10] TangaJoe I am really enjoying these puzzles, even the ones I had to go looking for...
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I agree with [26] princessproton that it would be nice if the hypercross blogs showed up on the news page also :-)

[22] Thanks. Yup, never heard of him and I just dislike the bird one...made me groan certainly.

[10] These new hypercrosses are a lot of fun, and I like the consistent themes - it makes it way less frustrating to have something to work with when you have no idea about a particular clue.

It would be great if these were also added to the newspage as well.

My only real gripe is that if you edit a comment, it clears all your answers and you have to fill them all in again, but I don't know if there is a way around that besides not editing or using another window.

For the bird, I used the list at http://birding.about.com/library/blalphatypeofbird.htm

No need to solve for the bust - you can easily guess the first 3 letters, and the last letter is solved by other word.

Got the bird--It was the plants that I had a hard time with. Finally got it though.

[29] Roman hand, wasn't he?

[10] LOVE this new puzzle format. Very fun!

For the bird, I entered "catfood". It's not right. lol.

SALTS for the clues folks are struggling with:
The bust used to hang out with Green Hornet and OJ Simpson.
The song wasn't sung by Harold and Maude.
The bones could be used to groom a cat's fur (and may be beneath the answer that fits in the down box connected to this one).
The bird is two animals in one.

(ps. if you haven't seen Harold and Maude, it's a great crazy flick)

The only one I had to research was the bird. I got the bust only because I had already did the across below it and just needed to fill in the theme. I got curious and did a google search accidentally on the same browser page so I had to start all over! LOL

The first crossword solver I used didn't come up w/ the answer but the second one did.

[32] Now THAT'S funny

Once you come up with the "theme" of all the answers, you should be able to get all the answers... or at least the beginning part of each one.

For the bird... it's easier than you think. In fact, you probably don't even need to look up the answer... just type what you see (along with the common theme).

[25] No reason not to like the bird one... it's not like the answer was made up... it's real.

For the boat... just use Wikipedia.

For the audio clip... the answer is the singer's name (first and last). Younger people might have a tough time with this one.

For the bust, once you get the other answers, this one is easy.

For the skulls, people who play D&D will know. Otherwise, I think it's a-maze-ing.

Very fun puzzle.

I tried Catcall for the bird, it didnt work either

Thanks for adding the hypercross blog to the News page!

Very enjoyable.

Lovely. Another one with a broken clue. I really need to start checking that they're all their before i go ahead and solve the rest.

The broken clue was denied entry into the US. (I can't believe i didn't get this the other day.)

I was stuck on #6. That was almost a catastrophe.

? Clue number 1 is a "bad image", I can't even start

For those finding this puzzle recently, for the missing picture on clue #1, look up Yusuf Islam.
Figured it out given salt about about a musician with a new name.

WAY too much time on #10!!

A) What is the theme? + B) what is the general term for what is in the photo?

#1: "Peace Train"