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Follow the clues to fill out the blanks! Fill our your answers to the clues on the right side of the Hypercross puzzle below. You can also click on the first letter of a word on the puzzle to view the clue for the 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 are all done.
73 Comments
pantsman
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:12 PM |
There seems to be a spelling challenge...
dajagr
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:12 PM |
Pretend you're not Italian when you're having lunch.
Philana
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:13 PM |
I can't figure out the balloons.
blahmcblah
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:13 PM |
Everything but the Teletubby.
steph_frolin
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:13 PM |
Have them all, spelling checked, not working...
threehojos
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:14 PM |
teletubby????
hatemachine
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:14 PM |
[3] what's in them?
Skittlebrau
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:15 PM |
well I must be spelling something wrong.......
maybe the owl one>?
Philana
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:15 PM |
[7] Thank you!
Philana
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:15 PM |
[7] Thank you!
hatemachine
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:16 PM |
try spelling the meat a different way
defrancesco1
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:17 PM |
teletubby?
Bearcat89
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:17 PM |
BOO! I cry foul! I was sure that the use of Oscar Meyer was a clue as to the desired spelling!
Skittlebrau
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:21 PM |
the teletubbys were named tinky-winky, dipsy, lala and po.... if that helps
blahmcblah
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:19 PM |
That term isn't listed in my thesaurus under nonsense :/
Kilgore
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:21 PM |
what am I spelling wrong?
Skittlebrau
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:23 PM |
[16] the same thing I am it would see....
tried two spellings for the oscar meyer....
and a bazillion spellings of the owl one.....
tlmitch7
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:24 PM |
Even knowing the names of the teletubby isn't helping me figure it out, it's the only one I have left, grr.
NM: got it, but I still have something else wrong.
juledhook
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:23 PM |
I know I have them all and I know they're right, as well as I'm sure they're spelled right. Frust.rate.ted.
Kilgore
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:25 PM |
i've change them the popcorn one, the oscar one, the owl one...
Skittlebrau
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:25 PM |
[19] I totally agree...
[18] what do the word bubble represent?? (hint....I am doing it about the spelling on this puzzle! %$^#&*@)
blahmcblah
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:26 PM |
As far as I can tell, those magic words together are a synonym for something else that's listed as nonsense, but it's not the same thing as *being* nonsense. I've never heard that term used like that before. Other than that, I thought it was awesome.
Alba
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:26 PM |
[13] Agreed.
steph_frolin
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:28 PM |
I agree on the clue for the lunch meat being tricky, had I not confirmed the owl I'd be changing it. Fun.
Skittlebrau
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:29 PM |
anyone who has gotten this....TG on the spelling of the owl one? so I can cross it off my list?
metafor
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:31 PM |
[18] is swearing customary?
metafor
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:32 PM |
I think it's the owl that's giving me the problem....any salt?
scarver
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:34 PM |
[27] what does the owl say? (use your see and say if you can't remember).
QurqirishDragon
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:34 PM |
I have found that using Word as a spell-check helped with the owl and the meat.
[21] When you talk like that, what is a "G" rated of saying what you did?
[22] F-speed, F-sheep also falls into that category.
willco
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:35 PM |
yeah...that's bad with so many variations of spelling for so many answers.
Skittlebrau
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:37 PM |
spell check passed both of them for me... along with all the other words....grrr....
Pony
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:41 PM |
The luchmeat spelling hung me up a bit, but otherwise I really liked this one. :)
jewelia
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:43 PM |
They were all spelled the way I spell them when they refer to nonsense--we only used the Italian spelling for the meat product, for example.
If someone's stuck on spelling, feel free to TG me and I'll try to help.
Fun puzzle, cyn--again!
davey
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:44 PM |
[32] - that one was especially tough since it's Oscar Meyer and I'm sure we all know the jingle.
Fun puzzle though.
cyncat
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:49 PM |
Yikes!!! Sorry, I didn't mean for this puzzle to be frustrating. I guess slang is not a good subject.
Thanks to those who liked it.
warrenzevon
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:49 PM |
Oscar Meyer has a way but they don't spell it with an...
Skittlebrau
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:56 PM |
[35] even with the spelling problems I had, it is a fun puzzle with a nice
A-HA! hook when you get the theme. Sorry if I implied I didn't like it:)
(I got my first top ten the other day, and now I have the rush and get cranky too easily!)
BTW: my problem occurred in the meat spelling also... so I think that must be a lynch pin for this one.
dajagr
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 07:52 PM |
I flipped a mental coin and got the lunch meat right on the first try, but I debated over it briefly before entering it and knew that if it didn't take, I'd be going back to fix things. One idea that might have helped would be to have another word cross that answer so that only one of the spellings would have fit. (By coincidence, the the word crossed on two of the three letters that are consistent for both spellings.)
RPMiller
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 08:00 PM |
I have them all and spell checked, using the correct spelling of the non-meat. It says something is still wrong. Anyone that has solved want to check my answers?
amaries80
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 08:01 PM |
nice puzzle once you get over the spelling issues! Fun!
cyncat
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 08:08 PM |
[38] Thanks for that advice. Whew! Now I'm glad I abandoned the idea of including "gobbledygook", "malarkey", and "rigmarole"! Can you just imagine what a greater mess that would have been? :)
cyncat
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 08:09 PM |
[39] Yes, please TG me.
Skittlebrau
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 08:18 PM |
[41]using those in this puzzle would have violated the Geneva Convention.
cyncat
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 08:22 PM |
[43] lol
dajagr
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 08:31 PM |
[41] Yeah, none of that skimble-skamble. It's Greek to me. :)
sylvia
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 09:17 PM |
any salt on the telly tubby?
Squirlwfleas
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 09:23 PM |
Hi everyone! I'm a Tanga newbie here...
This was a fun puzzle!
I was so excited to find one that I knew the majority of the answers.
The Oscar Meyer one had me stumped for a bit - used the spelling as was on the package - which is defined as the actual meat.
Hope this isn't too much salt - but when you are so sure you've solved the puzzle and it won't accept...here goes...
there is another way to spell this that fits in line with the puzzle theme.
slbaxter
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 09:34 PM |
That fixed it for me [11]. Thanks.
AveOscuro
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 09:37 PM |
It's all Greek to me!Great puzzle cyncat!
steph_frolin
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 09:40 PM |
[47] Welcome!
AveOscuro
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 09:49 PM |
Shoot... didn't realize that dajagr had already used the greek reference :(
cyncat
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 09:49 PM |
[46] The teletubby's name rhymes with the garden tool. The answer to the clue is a couple of rhyming words. Use the "milder" word for what the bubbles suggest.
sylvia
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:00 PM |
Thanks cyncat... that finally did it!!!
cyncat
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:14 PM |
Well, this has been one memorable night.
Yup, the sun, the moon, and the earth all lined up for a while.
So did bologna, bologne, and baloney.
Never did I expect that all the mumbo-jumbo that I put together in a silly hypercross would come back to haunt me tonight.
Thanks, everyone, for being such good sports.
I'm glad some of you enjoyed it.
spoofme
Posted on Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:36 PM |
Yay! my very first Hypercross finish!
revchewie
Posted on Thu Feb 21, 2008 12:00 AM |
Other than spelling difficulties with bologna, a nice easy puzzle. Thanks cyncat.
And thanks also cyncat as this puzzle gave me STU!
blahmcblah
Posted on Thu Feb 21, 2008 01:14 AM |
[54] cyn - I'm sure most people enjoyed it - I know I did. The only thing that frustrated me was that abracadabra mumbo-jumbo. If only I'd seen that awful Bette Midler movie, I might've found that one with the teletubby a little easier.
Arnott
Posted on Thu Feb 21, 2008 06:18 AM |
[54] Hey, cyncat, don't backpeddle too much :)
While there are various spellings, the one you used is definitely the correct one for this puzzle.
"Bologna sausage is generally made from low quality scraps of meat cuts. That is the origin of the slang word baloney, meaning 'nonsense'"
That said, you probably should have clued this one differently. I feel like the puzzle "syntax" of "blanking" out a word means that the answer IS that word. Especially if it's not part of a bigger rebus or anything. I also suspect that many here have probably never seen the word "baloney" spelled out in that context. And the fact that both answers are the same number of letters was unfortunate.
You probably should have avoided this one, just in case. The frustrating part of any Hypercross is not knowing *why* your answers are wrong... or which ones, for that matter. And if you're not familiar with "baloney," then you have no idea it might be the problem. Again, especially if the clue points you to "bologna."
But, to all you frustrated solvers: sure, cyncat could have maybe made some better choices... but this *and* the owl clue are the correct words, spelled correctly for the theme of this puzzle. Believe me, I feel your frustration, but don't be hatin' on the spelling :)
[41] I would have LOVED those words - I was actually looking/prepared for "malarky" as well as "hokum" and "blarney" :)
All in all, still quite fun.