About two weeks ago, I posted my Vwllss Crsswrd contest. Here are the results!
Wordy Wednesday 304: Fill-In Crossword 7
WORDY WEDNESDAY #302
PATHFINDER 16 (answer)
Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:Bo & Becky Green **
Bryce Herdt **
Eric Maddy **
Joseph Bernard **
Kevin Orfield **
Mark Ballinger *
Mary Maynard **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Stephen Potter **
WORDY WEDNESDAY #303
PATHFINDER 17 (hint)
As of this writing, 8 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #304
FILL-IN CROSSWORD 7
The answers in the crossword below are clued alphabetically by length; you must figure out where they belong. The unclued shaded entries will spell the final answer, a song title.
Much ____ About Nothing
Fore’s opposite
Mature
Winglike part
Boxer Muhammad ____
Certain snake
WNW’s opposite
A Greek letter
Role for Keanu Reeves in The Matrix
At this time
Square ____ in a round hole
Certain rodent
Number of frames in a game of bowling
Tic-tac-____
4 LETTERS
Actress Hathaway
Entryway
Greek god of sexual attraction
Makes a mistake
Large-leafed flowerless plant
Actress Dunham
Fail to win
Possesses
Religious denomination
Lovers’ quarrel
Quiznos offerings
“. . . and a partridge in a pear ____”
Banks of Coyote Ugly (2000)
Desire
6 LETTERS
Grand ____ National Park
Item on the end of a pencil
Aplenty
Part of a threat: 2 wds.
Student at a school designed to get you ready for college
Part of U.S.S.R.
COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* What's a 5-letter word for "Dickens character who taught children how to pick pockets"?Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!
Contest: Vwllss Crsswrd (easier version)
It's been one week since I posted the harder version of this vwllss crsswrd. If you haven't solved it yet, here's the easy version with answer enumerations:
PDF version: CLICK HERE
PUZ version: CLICK HERE
You have until 11:59 PM Central time on October 18, 2019. Remember, up to three randomly-selected winners will win a copy of my board game TAILITS. Good luck, and yappy solving!
PDF version: CLICK HERE
PUZ version: CLICK HERE
You have until 11:59 PM Central time on October 18, 2019. Remember, up to three randomly-selected winners will win a copy of my board game TAILITS. Good luck, and yappy solving!
Wordy Wednesday 303: Pathfinder 17
WORDY WEDNESDAY #301
ANACROSSWORD 19 (answer)
Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:Tyler Hinman **
Bo & Becky Green **
Bryce Herdt **
Eric Maddy **
Kevin Orfield **
Mark Ballinger **
Sam Levitin **
Stephen Potter **
WORDY WEDNESDAY #302
PATHFINDER 16 (hint)
As of this writing, 9 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #303
PATHFINDER 17
This puzzle contains a word suggested by patron M. Sean Molley. Support me on Patreon at the $5 per month level and solve the monthly Patron Puzzle for a chance to suggest a seed word for a future puzzle, or at the $20 per month level to suggest one seed word every month!In this puzzle, each answer starts in the correspondingly numbered square, goes in some direction, and makes one or more right-angled turns as it winds through the grid. When you have finished, every letter will be used in exactly two entries.
Rearrange the letters in the shaded spaces to get the final answer, an 8-letter word.
2 Having lessened mental faculties due to old age (6)
3 ____-in-itself (5)
4 Michigan city in which Domino’s Pizza was first founded (9)
5 ____: The Lost Empire (2001 Disney film) (8)
6 Whipping boy (9)
7 Certain guitar accessory (4)
8 Related to the mouth (4)
9 “Kiss from a Rose” singer (4)
9 Agitated with anger (8)
10 Skeptic who demonstrated that Peter Popoff was getting revelations not from God, but from his wife via radio (5 5)
11 Sesame Street’s grouch (5)
11 Synopses (8)
12 Bean who hosted a 1985 pilot of the game show Concentration (5)
13 Tom’s rank in David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” (5)
14 Warns (6)
15 Sighting in a farmer’s field (9)
16 “Soulful ____” (Young-Holt Unlimited hit) (5)
17 Certain courtroom employee, briefly (5)
17 California city where Petco Park is located (3 5)
18 Devour (6)
19 Inflatable mattress (3 3)
20 Guns N’ Roses guitarist (5)
21 Word before “industry” or “cheese” (7)
22 Rand McNally offering (5)
23 Chemical in tobacco (8)
24 Bombed (10)
25 A type of heron (5)
26 Massachusetts city named after a city in England (9)
COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* What's a 6-letter word for "Student at a school designed to get you ready for college"?Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!
Contest: Vwllss Crsswrd (harder version)
Today is my father's birthday! To celebrate, here's a puzzle that has no relevance to that fact whatsoever. This puzzle was submitted to Outside the Box, but rejected with the suggestion that I use a lower word count than 70 next time. (Consider this a public service announcement to those of you out there who want to write their own vwllss crsswrds. . . .)
Remove all instances of A, E, I, O, and U from the entries before entering them in the grid. (There are no Y's.)
Send your completed grid to the above puzzle to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com before 8:00 AM Central time on October 11, 2019 to get two entries the contest. At that point, an easier version of the puzzle will be posted with answer length enumerations. Solve that version of the puzzle before 11:59 PM Central time on October 18, 2019 to get one entry in the contest. Up to three randomly-selected winners will win a copy of my board game TAILITS. (You can only win one prize, even if you get two entries in the contest.)
Good luck, and yappy solving!
Remove all instances of A, E, I, O, and U from the entries before entering them in the grid. (There are no Y's.)
PNG version:
PDF version: CLICK HERE
PUZ version: CLICK HERE
Send your completed grid to the above puzzle to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com before 8:00 AM Central time on October 11, 2019 to get two entries the contest. At that point, an easier version of the puzzle will be posted with answer length enumerations. Solve that version of the puzzle before 11:59 PM Central time on October 18, 2019 to get one entry in the contest. Up to three randomly-selected winners will win a copy of my board game TAILITS. (You can only win one prize, even if you get two entries in the contest.)
Good luck, and yappy solving!
Wordy Wednesday 302: Pathfinder 16
WORDY WEDNESDAY #300
PENT WORDS 60 (answer)
Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:Joseph Bernard **
Mark Ballinger **
Bo & Becky Green **
Bryce Herdt **
Eric Maddy **
Jay McConnell **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
WORDY WEDNESDAY #301
ANACROSSWORD 19 (hint)
As of this writing, 8 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!
RYAN FALEY'S 250TH PUZZLE!
Fellow blogger Ryan Faley has hit the big 2-5-0 milestone. Be sure to solve his 250th puzzle and give him some congratulations!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #302
PATHFINDER 16
In this puzzle, each answer starts in the correspondingly numbered square, goes in some direction, and makes one or more right-angled turns as it winds through the grid. When you have finished, every letter will be used in exactly two entries.Rearrange the letters in the shaded spaces to get the final answer, an 8-letter word.
2 ____ and dangerous (5)
3 Humorous American poet (5 4)
4 A city in Michigan (3 5)
5 ____ Worth, Texas (4)
5 Skin (5)
6 Sight in many a science classroom (8 5)
7 ____ and choose (4)
7 Preserve, perhaps (6)
8 Decorated (7)
8 Allegorical 1945 novel (6 4)
9 Overused cliché (5)
10 Happens (6)
11 Item controlled by a mouse (6)
12 Hunk (4)
12 Where audio recordings are made (6)
13 Big Fat ____ (2002 comedy) (4)
14 Country singer ____ Kaye Booth (4)
15 Hairlike organelles (5)
16 Pertaining to the organization of complicated operations (10)
17 The world’s longest venomous snake (4 5)
18 Herb with yellow flowers (9)
19 Me and Earl and the ____ Girl (2015 film) (5)
20 Former capital of Turkey (8)
21 Watch What Happens Live with ____ Cohen (4)
22 Partitioning wall in a ship or aircraft (8)
23 Tube that carries air into and out of the lungs (7)
23 Compliant (9)
COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* What's a 9-letter word for "Michigan city in which Domino’s Pizza was first founded"?Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!
Wordy Wednesday 301: Anacrossword 19
WORDY WEDNESDAY #299
HEX PATHFINDER 20 (answer)
Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:Mark Ballinger **
Bo & Becky Green **
Bryce Herdt *
Jay McConnell *
Kevin Orfield **
Mary Maynard **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Stephen Potter **
WORDY WEDNESDAY #300
PENT WORDS 60 (hint)
As of this writing, 9 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #301
ANACROSSWORD 19
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35
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36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70
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71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98
Note: The symbol † indicates headlines from The Babylon Bee, the "trusted source for Christian news satire".
† “The Bee Explains: ____ Vs. Republicans”
† “Federal Government Launches ____ Campaign To Pay Off $20 Trillion National Debt”
“Hollaback Girl” singer Stefani
† “Benny ____ Masterfully Knocks Down Audience Members Arranged In Notoriously Difficult 7–10 Split”
Blazing fire
What Bill Clinton claimed not to do with marijuana
† “Dave Ramsey Releases 'Should I Buy This?' ____ 8-Ball That Always Answers 'No'”
Shines, as a shoe
† “‘My Preferred ____ Are Thou/Thine,’ Explains KJV-Onlyist”
† “New Progressive Bible Prints All References To Pride In ____ Colors”
Stephen of Office Space (1999)
Actor Connery
Irish ____ (dog breed)
____ butter
An organ in the digestive system
The Girl with the Dragon ____ (2011 film)
Brightly-colored tropical fish
Virtue’s opposite
With The, ABC talk show
Wishing ____
Dog breed that sounds like a Devo song
COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* What's an 8-letter word for "Bird a plastic version of which is a popular lawn ornament">* Patron Puzzle #63, which will be delivered exclusively to Patreon supporters ($5 or more per month), is a Words Without Friends.
Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!
Wordy Wednesday 300: Pent Words 60
WORDY WEDNESDAY #298
FOXGERYPTICS 15 (answer)
Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:Bo & Becky Green **
Bryce Herdt **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
WORDY WEDNESDAY #299
HEX PATHFINDER 20 (hint)
As of this writing, 7 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #300
PENT WORDS 60
1 Concern for Al Gore / The Mediterranean, for one
2 Ideas / It may be pierced
3 Slowly moving mass of frozen water / "Gloria in excelsis ____"
4 Glowing hot coal / Aired again
5 Certain marine mollusk / 2003 comedy starring Will Ferrell as Buddy
6 "The Sheik of ____" (song sung by The Beatles) / Spooky
7 Not on time / Google's web browser
8 Happens / ____ of Dogs (2018 film)
9 Texas city that calls itself the "Storybook Capital of America" / Ginger ____
10 Fail to have / Texas city in which Friday Night Lights takes place
PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* More frigid
* Chemist Marie
* Arias who played Jerry on Disney XD's Kickin' It
* Landlady Helen of Three's Company
* Calm
* Eyes amorously
* ". . . for ____ waves of grain. . ."
* Vertices, as of a graph
* Support Your ____ Sheriff! (1969 Western)
* "What's it all about, ____?" (Cher lyrics)
* Certain hardwood tree
* ____ the Riveter
* Unit of weight for precious stones
* John of tractor fame
* Hand-to-hand fight
* Red condiment in a Mexican restaurant
* Smilla's ____ of Snow (1997 movie)
* Sports Night creator Sorkin
COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* What dog breed sounds like a Devo song?Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!
Wordy Wednesday 299: Hex Pathfinder 20
WORDY WEDNESDAY #297
PATHFINDER 15 (answer)
Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:M. Sean Molley **
Mark Ballinger **
Bo & Becky Green **
Bryce Herdt *
Kevin Orfield **
Mary Maynard **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Stephen Potter **
WORDY WEDNESDAY #298
FOXGERYPTICS 15 (hint)
As of this writing, 7 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #299
HEX PATHFINDER 20
In this puzzle, each answer starts in the correspondingly numbered hexagon and winds through the grid, starting in the indicated direction. When you have finished, every letter will be used in exactly two entries.Rearrange the letters in the shaded spaces to get the final answer, a 7-letter word.
2E Singer/actress Merman (5)
3NE What one might do on a stack of Bibles (5)
4SW Indifferent to pleasure and pain (5)
5W Book after Nehemiah (6)
6E Like a bachelor (6)
6SW Substance at a hair salon (7)
7W The Postman Always Rings ____ (5)
8NE "She's cheer captain and I'm on the ____" (Taylor Swift lyric) (9)
9W Competent (7)
10SE Cold drink favored by Kermit the Frog in memes (7, 2 wds.)
11E Projection in a church (4)
12E Game in which a maximum break is 147 (7)
13SW Actress Stone (6)
14SE Medical swelling (5)
15W Flock females (4)
16E Barack Obama, politically (8)
17SW Japanese word literally meaning “empty hand” (6)
18E Word before “charge” or “perception” (5)
19SE Occasional (8)
20E Fire ____: Three Houses (2019 Nintendo game) (6)
21W Item depicted on Israel's coat of arms (7)
22NE 1999-2006 TV series popularly associated with characters talking while walking (11, 3 wds.)
23SW Sensational promotion (8)
24NW Use a rudder (5)
25SE Song in the opening of Shrek (7, 2 wds.)
26NE Not terribly pleasant to look at (6)
27E Regain consciousness (6, 2 wds.)
28E Knight’s defensive covering (5)
29E Surname of an Italian banking family (6)
29E Wind instruments with keyboards (9)
30W “The Freshmaker”, according to an old slogan (6)
31SE False god (4)
32E Home city to the NBA’s Kings (10)
COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* What's a 5-letter word for "Support Your ____ Sheriff! (1969 Western)"?Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!
Wordy Wednesday 298: Foxgeryptics 15
WORDY WEDNESDAY #296
SECTION SIX 29 (answer)
Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:Mark Ballinger **
Bryce Herdt **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
WORDY WEDNESDAY #297
PATHFINDER 15 (hint)
As of this writing, 8 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #298
FOXGERYPTICS 15
Insert a single letter in each space of each grid so that each grid's five rows and five columns spells a word from left to right or top to bottom (including the letters outside the grid).Arrange the letters in the shaded spaces to form the final answer, an eight-letter word.
COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* What's a 7-letter, 2-word answer for "Song in the opening of Shrek"?Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!
Wordy Wednesday 297: Pathfinder 15
WORDY WEDNESDAY #295
PENT WORDS 59 (answer)
Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:M. Sean Molley **
Mark Ballinger **
Tyler Hinman **
Bryce Herdt **
Kevin Orfield **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
WORDY WEDNESDAY #296
SECTION SIX 29 (hint)
As of this writing, 5 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #297
PATHFINDER 15
In this puzzle, each answer starts in the correspondingly numbered square, goes in some direction, and makes one or more right-angled turns as it winds through the grid. When you have finished, every letter will be used in exactly two entries.Rearrange the letters in the shaded spaces to get the final answer, an 8-letter word.
2 Crane in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (7)
3 Pertaining to a cow (6)
4 Martha’s ____ (8)
5 ____ tectonics (5)
6 Thomas Edison’s middle name (4)
7 Starbucks offering (4)
8 Long-running NBC soap opera (4 2 3 5)
9 Jasmine’s tiger in Aladdin (5)
10 Starbucks offering (5)
11 Metal Gear ____ V: The Phantom Pain (5)
12 Atop the ____ Wall (video series in which Linkara reviews comic books) (6)
13 Mend (4)
14 Killer whales (5)
15 Completely occupy the attention of (7)
15 One on this planet (9)
16 High-pitched sound like that of striking a crystal goblet (4)
17 Jezebel’s husband in the Old Testament (4)
18 Florence ____ (herb) (6)
18 Large-eared fox (6)
19 Hit song for The Clash (4 3 6)
20 Badgering (9)
21 Sleeps noisily (6)
22 Close to the ____ (4)
23 “King of the Wild Frontier” Davy (8)
24 Dunham of the HBO series Girls (4)
25 Supreme council of ancient Rome (6)
26 Sales promotion you might have to mail in for (6)
27 There’s one on each side of the throat (6)
COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* A pair of Foxgeryptics!* Patron Puzzle #62, which will be delivered exclusively to Patreon supporters ($5 or more per month), is a pair of Codewords.
Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!
Patron Puzzles for Philanthropy: Magnum Opus Snake Crisscross
This update to the Patron Puzzles for Philanthropy initiative is to announce the Magnus Opus Snake Crisscross! It's yours for a charitable donation of US$5. It's just one single puzzle, but it's huuuuuuuuuuge, with over 300 entries waiting to be solved. Don't know what a Snake Crisscross is? Wordy Wednesday #262 is a pretty good example of one. A bit too difficult? Here is the easier version, and here is the answer. If you enjoyed that puzzle but wish it were much bigger, then give the Magnum Opus Snake Crisscross a try for many hours of entertainment! You will get four files: a hard version of the puzzle with no snake boundaries given, an easy version of the puzzle with all snake boundaries given, a list of all 300+ clue answers, and the filled-in solution grid.
As a reminder, this is a charity initiative. Please e-mail me (glmathgrantATgmailDOTcom) a copy of your charitable receipt to my local food bank, the Food Bank of West Central Texas, to receive this puzzle pack. (It must be a new donation, dated no earlier than one day before you email me.) Click here for a list of all of the puzzle packs in this initiative. Happy solving!
As a reminder, this is a charity initiative. Please e-mail me (glmathgrantATgmailDOTcom) a copy of your charitable receipt to my local food bank, the Food Bank of West Central Texas, to receive this puzzle pack. (It must be a new donation, dated no earlier than one day before you email me.) Click here for a list of all of the puzzle packs in this initiative. Happy solving!
Wordy Wednesday 296: Section Six 29
WORDY WEDNESDAY #294
PATHFINDER 14 (answer)
Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:M. Sean Molley **
Mark Ballinger **
Bryce Herdt **
Kevin Orfield *
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Stephen Potter **
WORDY WEDNESDAY #295
PENT WORDS 59 (hint)
As of this writing, 6 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #296
SECTION SIX 29
This puzzle's grid has six rings and six sections. Each ring contains a series of words placed end to end, reading either clockwise or counterclockwise; all the words in a given ring will read in the same direction. Ring 1 (the outer ring) contains six answers that read clockwise; the starting spaces are numbered in the grid. Clues for the answers in the remaining rings are given in order, but their starting points and direction are for you to determine. The sections (separated by the heavy lines radiating from the center) will help you place the inner rings: in a given section, each ring segment contains all but one of the letters in the next segment outward. In other words, a section's outermost segment contains six letters; the next segment inward contains five of those six letters in some order; and so on, until only one of the original six letters remains.Arrange the letters in the six starred spaces to form the final answer, a 6-letter word.
1 Popular sci-fi TV series: 2 wds.
2 Lawyer Dershowitz
3 Teflon, for one
4 A Christian sacrament
5 Singer Presley who may or may not be dead (if you believe tabloids)
6 Nut in some pies
Ring 2
* Letter
* A city in Los Angeles County
* Big name in test preparation
* Tragic Shakespearean king
* Basic unit of computer data size
Ring 3
* Grocery shopping aid
* It loves company
* Approximately correct
* Cocoon
Ring 4
* ____ sore
* Ready ____ One (2018 movie)
* "Happy as a clam", for example
Ring 5
* Astronomer Johannes
* ____ gel
Ring 6
* 29 Knuts, in the Harry Potter universe (or an agricultural tool)
COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* What's a 5-letter word for "Jasmine’s tiger in Aladdin"?Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!
Wordy Wednesday 295: Pent Words 59
WORDY WEDNESDAY #292
VANNA'S ON STRIKE! (answer)
Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:Bryce Herdt **
Jason Boomer **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin *
WORDY WEDNESDAY #293
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 9 (answer)
Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:Mark Ballinger **
Bryce Herdt **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
WORDY WEDNESDAY #294
PATHFINDER 14 (hint)
As of this writing, 6 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #295
PENT WORDS 59
1 ____ Cheetah: Too Cool to Fool (1992 video game) / Game, ____, and match
2 Wily / The last book of the Old Testament
3 Wilson who played Eli Cash in The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) / Old Testament heroine
4 A weasel relative / American anthropologist Margaret
5 Related to the kidneys / Prevaricating
6 Inuit dwelling / Fisherman's wicker basket
7 It may be alphabetical / A religious doctrine
8 Claim to be true / Value of a penny
9 Inventor Nikola / Increase in a salary
10 Head lice treatment brand / Country in the United Kingdom
PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Christian apologist William Lane ____
* Ore deposits
* Bedard who voiced the title character in Pocahontas (1995)
* Spiral-horned antelope
* Autumn flower
* Shoestrings
* Exactness, as in a mathematical proof
* 1999-2004 TV series about a vampire with a soul
* Deranged excitement
* A group of eight
* Motif
* Neighbor of Saudi Arabia and Oman
* Aired again
* ____ rule
* Canadian singer-songwriter Furtado
* Not at all wordy
* Camping shelters
* Game played poorly by patzers
COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* What's a 4-letter word for "Lawyer Dershowitz"?Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!
Wordy Wednesday 294: Pathfinder 14
WORDY WEDNESDAY #291
TOUCHWORD 14 (answer)
Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:Mark Ballinger **
Bryce Herdt **
Michael Avanessian **
Patrick Jordan **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Stephen Potter **
WORDY WEDNESDAY #292
VANNA'S ON STRIKE! (hint)
As of this writing, 2 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #293
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 9 (hint)
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WORDY WEDNESDAY #294
PATHFINDER 14
In this puzzle, each answer starts in the correspondingly numbered square, goes in some direction, and makes one or more right-angled turns as it winds through the grid. When you have finished, every letter will be used in exactly two entries.Rearrange the letters in the shaded spaces to get the final answer, an 8-letter word.
2 Become silent (4 2)
3 A toothbrush brand (5)
4 By the ____ of one’s pants (4)
4 Jewish Passover service (5)
5 Come into conflict (7)
6 Singer ____ Del Rey (4)
7 ____ of Exile (online role-playing game) (4)
7 Emulated a pastor, perhaps (8)
8 ____ Libre (2006 comedy) (5)
9 Mountain lion (4)
10 Japanese board game (5)
11 The Last ____ (da Vinci painting) (6)
11 Certain resin (7)
12 Fallacious reasoning, for example (7)
13 Steal merchandise (8)
14 Highest (9)
15 Army building where people eat (4 4)
16 A hair care brand (7)
17 Soft mineral from which a powder is made (4)
18 One using a phone (6)
19 ____ care (6)
20 “It Is Well with My ____” (Christian hymn) (4)
20 Substance associated with Nickelodeon (5)
21 Associated with birth (5)
22 Josh who played Principal Max Anderson in Billy Madison (6)
23 Russian ____ (2002-2003 game show) (8)
24 Sesame Street’s Telly, for one (7)
25 Defective automobile (5)
26 Actress Brenda who appeared in 255 episodes of Days of Our Lives (5)
26 2009-2010 sitcom starring Jay Harrington as the title character (6 3 3)
COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* What's a 5-letter word for "Bedard who voiced the title character in Pocahontas (1995)"?Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!
Wordy Wednesday 292: Vanna's On Strike! & Wordy Wednesday 293: Snake Crisscross 9
WORDY WEDNESDAY #290
PENT WORDS 58 (answer)
Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:Mark Ballinger **
Bryce Herdt **
Michael Avanessian *
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tina Martin **
WORDY WEDNESDAY #291
TOUCHWORD 14 (hint)
As of this writing, 7 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!
FIFTH WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH = DOUBLE WORDY WEDNESDAYS!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #292
VANNA'S ON STRIKE!
It’s the bonus round, and it seems that our beloved hostess refuses to turn the letters (er, turn them on) unless she gets a bonus, too.
WORDY WEDNESDAY #293
SNAKE CRISSCROSS 9
This puzzle's crisscross grid contains entries which read across and down as normal; these words are defined in alphabetical order by length under the heading “Crisscross Words.” The grid also contains a number of “snakes”: areas which follow a single clear path. Each of these snakes contains an entry which snakes from one end of the path to the other. These entries are defined under the heading “Snake Words”, and are also clued in alphabetical order by length. You must determine how the grid is divided into snakes; no two snakes overlap.Arrange the letters in the highlighted cells to form the final answer, an 8-letter word.
3 LETTERS
Con ____ (1997 film)
Ketchum of the Pokémon anime
Consumed
Lamprey, for one
Poetic preposition
____ Shorty (TV series)
____ bygones be bygones
Spoil
Candy associated with collectible dispensers
Remy, for one
Decay
Item that shows a piece of merchandise’s price
Chess master Mikhail
Short-sleeved shirt, for short
2000 pounds
Monthly electronic music and hip hop magazine
Mad About ____ (1992-1999 TV series)
A school of Buddhism
4 LETTERS
“____ Me Maybe” (Carly Rae Jepsen song)
Coca-____
Website on which a new species of urchin was discovered in an auction
Adventure Time protagonist
Bug in a circus
____ liquor
Long pole on a ship
Like a busybody
One October birthstone
Matured
____-deaf
5 LETTERS
Lost: 2 wds.
It doesn’t pay
Two strokes below par
____ Kitty (Sanrio character)
Non-clergy
Regretting
“Trick or ____!”
6 LETTERS
"The only thing we have to fear is fear ____" (FDR)
Holt of Dateline NBC
____ post
7 LETTERS
Its capital is St. George's
Shirley’s partner
Mammal with a suicidal reputation
8 LETTERS
Teacher
Show whence the catchphrase, “Good news, everyone!”
9 LETTERS
Sponsorship
10 LETTERS
Rickety old car
SNAKE WORDS
5 LETTERS
Come ____ at the seams
Former British Parliament member Nancy Witcher ____
Marshy American wetland
Boston hockey player
Former European coin
Like Keebler’s mascot Ernie
Pianist John
Japanese mattress
Croc’s relative
Like some anesthetics
It was awarded the George Cross by King George VI
ESPN analyst Taylor
Super Smash Bros. ____ (GameCube fighting game)
Becomes dim
Lariat
Exxon rival
Mike of boxing fame
Certain hotel employee
6 LETTERS
A European peninsula
Author Hemingway
Christian ____ (2014 romantic comedy)
Medieval catapult
One who downloads movies illegally, for example
7 LETTERS
Walmart employee
Holy month of Islam
Certain circus prop
9 LETTERS
Pertaining to the heavens
COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* What's an 8-letter word for "Russian ____ (2002-2003 game show)"?* Patron Puzzle #61, which will be delivered exclusively to Patreon supporters ($5 or more per month), is a Pathfinder.
Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!
Wordy Wednesday 291: Touchword 14
WORDY WEDNESDAY #289
CRYPTICROSTIC 6 (answer)
Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:Adam Weaver **
Bryce Herdt **
Ryan Faley **
WORDY WEDNESDAY #290
PENT WORDS 58 (hint)
As of this writing, 5 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #291
TOUCHWORD 14
In a crossword, words cross each other; in this puzzle, they merely touch. More specifically, every letter shares an edge with at least one identical letter either immediately above or immediately below. The top and bottom rows are considered adjacent. (You can think of it as a diagramless, cylindrical Share-A-Letter puzzle.)Arrange the letters in the shaded spaces to form the final answer, an 8-letter word.
2 Carry a fetus / Early
3 Exam / ____ Up (2006 movie) / ____ cheese
4 Campsite sights / Non-permanent employee / ASAP
5 Flat representation of the elevation of an area: 2 wds. / Certain musical form
6 Real estate with separately-owned units, briefly / Suave / Board game related to pachisi
7 Nation that borders Cameroon and Libya / Certain piece of headwear / Escape
8 Click repeatedly, as someone’s teeth in cold weather / 1995 film about a pig / Impolite
9 A type of sculpture / Former car manufacturer that was headquartered in Trollhättan / ____ compactor
10 Austrian composer Johann / Doing some activity: 2 wds. / Clean
11 Swamp / Stay home for dinner, perhaps: 2 wds. / “____ My Hair” (Willow Smith song)
12 It might surround a castle / Up to ____ / Familial association
13 ____ or Die! (1988 video game) / Miner’s tool / One who won’t join a labor union
14 Saturday Night Live offering / A Great Lake / Automobile that carries passengers for a fare
15 The ____ Life of Zack & Cody / Like some questions
COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* My dumbest puzzle in a while. I'm sorry.* What's an 8-letter word for "Show whence the catchphrase, 'Good news, everyone!'"?
Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!
Contest: Fill-In Crossword (RESULTS!)
About two weeks ago, I posted my Fill-In Crossword contest to celebrate the 11th anniversary of my blog. Here are the results!
Wordy Wednesday 290: Pent Words 58
WORDY WEDNESDAY #288
TOUCHWORD 13 (answer)
Here is the answer to this puzzle. If you still wish to solve it yourself, please go here for the normal version of the puzzle, or here for the easier version of the puzzle. Here's a list of people who solved it:Mark Ballinger **
Bryce Herdt **
Patrick Jordan **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
WORDY WEDNESDAY #289
CRYPTICROSTIC 6 (hint)
As of this writing, 5 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #290
PENT WORDS 58
This puzzle contains a word suggested by patron M. Sean Molley. Support me on Patreon at the $5 per month level and solve the monthly Patron Puzzle for a chance to suggest a seed word for a future puzzle, or at the $20 per month level to suggest one seed word every month!
1 A Pokémon or a monster in Hebrew folklore / "____ Man" (hit song for The Village People)
2 Nullifies / Arsenic and Old ____
3 Made graffiti, perhaps / Akin to
4 Young ____ (spin-off of The Big Bang Theory) / ____ Lanka
5 Like some eyes / Ctrl+V function
6 Romantic couple / ____: The Last Airbender (2005-2008 cartoon)
7 Somber / Out of the ____ (not in the know)
8 Skin care brand / Not verbose
9 Beyond sufficient / Make the ____ (1989-1991 Nickelodeon game show)
10 Hooded snake / Bury, as a dead body
PENTOMINOES:
* HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* THE OTHER HALF OF THE FINAL ANSWER
* Goof ____ (1992-1993 Disney cartoon)
* Expert
* Irritate
* Lee of the rock band Rush
* Detroit's NFL team
* Jewish Passover service
* Spaghetti, for example
* In the lead
* Fall guys
* Tree associated with Canada
* ____ Garden (restaurant chain)
* Make changes to
* One weber per square meter
* Uncanny
* ____ full o'Nuts (coffee brand that has no nuts)
* Xevious developer
* Proposition in a mathematical proof, perhaps
* Pinky and the ____
COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* What former car manufacturer was headquartered in Trollhättan?Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!
Wordy Wednesday 289: Crypticrostic 6
WORDY WEDNESDAY #287
TOUCHWORD 12 (answer)
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Bryce Herdt **
Patrick Jordan **
Ryan Faley **
Sam Levitin **
Tina Martin **
WORDY WEDNESDAY #288
TOUCHWORD 13 (hint)
As of this writing, 5 people have solved this puzzle. Haven't solved it yet? Here's an easier version. Send your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com within the next week to appear on the solvers list and be recognized for your puzzle prowess. Good luck, solvers!
CONTEST: FILL-IN CROSSWORD!
Here's a new contest where you can win fantastic prizes. Good luck!
WORDY WEDNESDAY #289
CRYPTICROSTIC 6
The answer is two words enumerated (3 8).
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58
__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81
Buoyant car insurance mascot surrounded __ __ __ __ __ __
by lava, beginning to tremble 15 25 32 63 09 68
Chortle at the Spanish expression of disgust __ __ __ __ __
14 69 26 45 22
Color in comic character __ __ __ __ __ __
77 48 73 07 02 29
Crazy Irani man is one who opposes predestination __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
38 16 66 28 49 06 72 10
Creature from "Press Your Luck" is very theatrical after end of show __ __ __ __ __ __
18 08 53 71 12 40
Foolish ending to haiku: "Northwest is empty" __ __ __ __ __ __
44 35 05 60 70 80
Frankenstein’s assistant follows voltage with force __ __ __ __ __
30 78 50 56 81
Hectored terrible Democrat around actor Richard __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
39 13 61 36 51 20 58 55
I have The Police's lead singer taking in __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
nitrogen and playing the stock market 34 27 59 42 01 17 11 76 79
Prohibit articles with fruit __ __ __ __ __ __
37 75 57 46 54 65
Shake annoying child in fight __ __ __ __ __ __ __
33 74 41 52 23 03 67
Smooth small herb __ __ __ __ __
47 43 62 04 21
Tailless bird with sticky substances __ __ __ __
64 31 19 24
COMING NEXT WEEK. . .
* What's a 5-letter word for "Goof ____ (1992-1993 Disney cartoon)"?Submit your answers to glmathgrant[at]gmail[dot]com. Until next time, keep on living, and yappy solving!
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