One Word Wonder

Hmm...9 "crosses", 8 clues....???

Edit..and what kind of problems does the carpenter have?
Edit..I give..I'll take another look in the AM

[1] You have to find the 9th clue :-)

(and there IS one...)

[2] well i certainly don't have it...but maybe the carpenter does...

This was a great puzzle! Well done!

Excellent Puzzle :)

One of the clue answers will fit in its cross two ways. Does that matter?

Finally solved. The answer I referred to yielded the same hint to the final answer either way, so it didn't matter after all.

Lots of fun.

still working on getting/fitting the "breeze at your back" and "carpenter's mount" clues.....

hard puzzle

NM....got it with some salt..... didn't think there would be an apostrophe

Awesome Arnott!

Good puzzle! This one nearly kicked mine ...

Thank you for putting in all that effort for such a fun puzzle!

[12] As I said earlier, I did solve the puzzle.

Doing lots of crosswords, I'm very familiar with the ? in the clues denoting a joke....

The problem I had was too many double meanings.... Carpenter could have meant Karen or Richard of the 70s group...and "mount" could have meant mountain.

Gotta stop thinking so much.....but the ? "pun" mark always gets me thinking off-tangent.

Clever puzzle. I totally enjoyed how you used the "Notes" in the "Solution" section.

Nice puzzle.

Regarding your endnote, could you replace the longer outliers and still meet your desired criteria with:

Pallet raiser
Honoree at a baptism

I am not sure where to start. I think I have most of the words but not sure what to do with them. I thought I knew but the monkees song does not fit the pattern for sure - not enough letters.
Any salt would be appreciated.

[18] I'm pretty sure there are two Monkees song that could go in that blank, one of which would be way too short.

Nice one. I kept trying to force the key letters into the extra shape, not noticing their significance. Curse you, Red Baron!!!

Outstanding! BTW, where I live there are multiple pages of laws and rules regulating the answer to this puzzle. And who says there are too many lawyers . . .

I always love Arnott's puzzles, and this is no exception.

Very fun and different, and thanks very much for the peek behind the curtain in your Answer notes section. Very enjoyable and enlightening.

I hope your ass gets feeling better really soon.

I thought I knew what was going on, but I can't get about half of my answers to work.

Anyone that's solved this feel like talking in TG? I'm lost towards the end, but I don't want to post too much salt. :(

Edit: Haha, amazing puzzle! :) The answer threw me a little bit, but it's hard to explain why without heavy salt (I think).

That was Great! Thanks.

Good Puzzle.

Although I had a good idea of how to solve the puzzle, I kept looking at the Shape of the grids and wondering if they didn't spell out a word of some kind. Lots of L's and R's and T's

Regarding the "Notes", I think that's a good window into the puzzle-creation world, as most of us have experienced that level of frustration and churn. I think many of the other puzzle creators can relate to it, while those who haven't done much puzzle authorship may be able to appreciate the frequent difficulty of the process.

Fun one!

Stuck on Needle search venue and resistant to burning.

[29] It's what you wish for your feet to be resistant to burning "Under the Boardwalk". Hope that's not too salty the morning after:)

[29] For the first one - Where would be a really tough place to find a needle?

[29] Where might one search for a needle, proverbially speaking?

And what do you call something that is resistant to burning? (If you still can't figure it out, you might want to ask Kirk Cameron...)

It turns out I did knot have to research the various types of knots.
I enjoyed reading the authors' notes. Thks.

This is my first Tanga puzzle. I have all the clue answers, but can't solve one word answer ... argh.

Thanks for the help!

I think I even have the final answer cross but can't find the one word for it. Trying to Google on that little logo on lower right too and getting nothing. Googling the two "words" I have and getting nothing. If I said "goodbye jpg" am I at least on the right track?

[36] the little logo is the author's signature - an R-knot - and is not part of the puzzle

[36] I'm not sure where "goodbye jpg" comes from, but no, I'd say you're on the wrong track.

The name of the JPG file is a good clue: "Crosshairs"

If goodbye.jpg won't help maybe you might check out hello.jpg for some salt?

[18] wrong Monkey's song. And if goodbye jpg or goodbye rtf or anything with that meaning doesn't make any sense, then I have the arrangement wrong. I think I have all eight cross words correct but I was trying to fit those letters into the remaining grid rather than use them as a clue. Post and Solve. Yep! was trying to fit the letters in the grid with crossed D's.

Was completely stumped and finally had to give up. :-(

I was over thinking the pun and had the wrong word for Carpenter's Mount. "Golgotha" probably isn't a compound word in Hebrew, anyhow. BUT, having that word in the space that the final answer SHOULD have occupied, made some sense, given its shape. Especially since these are all mini "cross" word puzzles.

With that wrong letter and the wrong shape left, I didn't even come close to the final answer. Oh well.

Good puzzle, Arnott!