Jun 03, 2008 Hypercross Puzzle

I redid the grid to make for more crossing letters, hopefully that will help ('course that means the comments won't match the clue numbers, sorry). If you're still stuck feel free to send me a Tangagram, I'd be more than happy to help.

What if at 12th I don't success, I just plain suck?

[2] LOL! (And I don't success, either.)

Whoa and groan...straightforward in places, not so in others, but in the end got it to work.

[4] Please, sprinkle some salt, so epaz and I can suck on something tasty.

While I try to think of some....Consider the theme and look at the picture....#6 is the one that got me started.

edit: Is #3 as differently-spelled as I think it is?

#3 looked strange to me also, but did work.

I'm getting something strange for #3.

Remember there is only 1 of every item in the picture....that might be needed to help some fit.

I'm stuck on #2. Is there a different pronunciation or something?

[13] Ignore the S at the end

[16] There is in the image .... thought folks might be a bit too literal with what they saw....

[14]-[16] Thanks! I guess I'm stuck on something else. Hmm...

edit: Thanks again, all! Finally got it, and yeesh!
The clue for #4 did make me smile, though. :-)

re-edit: The numbers changed! I mean #3.

I can't make any sense at all out of #12. And guessing is frustrating, since I might have anything else misspelled.

Too many different spellings possible in this puzzle...

Still stuck on #2 and #9 (I think I have the rest). #12 was a bit of a stretch - probably.

edit: I think I have #9 now...

For #2 see [15].

I saw that, and totally did not get it. :(

edit: NM, NOW I get it - but must have 12 wrong (or something!)

The one that held me back was #6. It's spelled like the brand. If that doesn't do it, TG me what you've got.

[24] Thanks. And: Oh for cryin' out loud.

It's a nice idea for a hyper, but there's a lot to be annoyed by here. (edit: I've removed the rest of this somewhat harsh post.)

...I have no idea who that is in #11. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

I must admit I sometimes work just from the thumbnails, especially if the picture is pretty clear. That led me astray looking at #4. I had to open the picture to realize what it wasn't.

[27] lol! #4 is the one that clued me in to the theme. As i was thinking "My! That can't be a X" <click> "Ohhhhh, it's a Y"

[27] LOL... I can only imagine!

I got answers, but they aren't taking... Not sure on a couple though... too many options.

0 seconds, hardly. Was on at 5:30 with this trying various spellings. Finally clicked!

Spellings are a real problem. This is not consistent either as names or objects. Not a fun puzzle

Can anyone help me out with who's in #11? (And I'm not getting anything useful out of #10 either...)

[33] for #11 - she's from Friends.

For #10 it is exactly what you see in the picture. I know it won't seem right, but that's it.

Well, I've filled in the grid, but it's still not taking...

...I give up. I've tried too many combinations, and I'm sick of it.

Er, I meant #10 was the one I can't make sense of. Honestly, this puzzle is just plain terrible, and I'd be perfectly fine with someone just telling me the [censored] answers so I can get on with my life.

[36] TG sent.

Thank you, [37]. It turned out I'd spelled *four* of them "wrong". Add to that the reasonable-but-wrong "Alair" for the animal's home...

When you add to this the fact that the initial "A" sounds are sometimes the a in "fat", sometimes the one in "fate", sometimes the one in "father", sometimes a schwa--really, there was *nothing* good in this puzzle. Approving it was a crime against all good sense.

this is crazy...I've got all viable names, but I can't get it to work for the life of me! Can I get a TG someone?

So not worth the 5 points. :(

Took forever on the "tum" one (brain freeze), and my son gave it to me in about 2.5 seconds, and surprisingly everything else fit--TG me for salt/answers as needed...

4 and 8 are pretty unusual. Typing what they are works though so dont overthink those 2. (one starts with D and one starts with L)

Gotta agree with [38] on the pronunciation problems. There's no way to get the fact that all the names start with an 'A' unless you read each clue as "I am looking at a <blank>" where <blank> is the clued object and A+<blank> is the answer name.

Very, very tricky but fair, I think, as long as all the names have the same 'a' sound that you would make while saying that sentence!

The fact that some of them are not pronounced that way (the tums one is the most egregious) makes it too unfair. How was I supposed to know from Johnny, James, and Rose that I was looking for first names that start with A?

Once you pile on some unusual names and use lesser common spellings for some of the others, it gets pretty rough.