Quern music puzzle
That was coupled with no clue for the PPPs 39d, 50a, 34d, 61a, 47d. My only fill there was SPILL & LSD for 37a & 40d. Tough going moving from E to W but with only the SW ending up a no-go without some cheats. I think I would have rather the revealer not made any mention of a "pun," per se, and left it at "quip." I think "quip" sort of sums up what this was. The clues to SLEET, PYRO, BOSUNS, and INGOTS.ugh. Some of the clues felt really forced too. I kept waiting for the big PUN reveal.but I didn't ever get it. I got a "the" here, a "detective" there, and once I got "grilled," I figured it had something to do with being "cooked." It didn't fall into place because I knew the quip (like a Disney song), but just because I was able to piece it together grammatically. That's pretty much how I solved this puzzle. But at the beginning, it's just you and 1000 blanks. From there you just keep entering random words until a familiar Disney song emerges and then, of course, you just fill in the lyric. You enter a word, and if it's in the lyric, it fills it in. It's kind of an addictive site with all kinds of quizzes and games.but one of the games is to figure out a Disney song starting with nothing but blanks for each word. I'm probably wrong.which makes me a Pun Rube, a title I am more than happy to bear.Īs for the complete and utter randomness of the quip that takes up so much real estate in the grid, it reminds me of puzzles on the website /games. I could be wrong, but double entendre doesn't seem like a pun to me. To me a pun is something like a "punny yolk." Or when a joke is two-thirds of a pun: P-U. Rex pointed out probably the reason why this "punny quip" didn't even strike me as a pun. Maybe it's true that I don't like puns because I don't quite understand them. And Mom's (my avatar) middle name is DEEMS. I liked sussing out the parts of the sentence. But, hey, I can be pretty feck when it comes to remembering things. We've talked about these words a ton here, but if RUTH was among them, I don't remember it. How had I not gotten the email that RUTH is a noun? (I looked it up you can have some ruth for the poor schmuck but you can't ruth him.) This is really interesting. So the quip was fine, but the clue for RUTH upstaged everything for me. I can't be the only one to have "crime" suspect first, right? And I was thinking "gorilla" first for ACT LIKE. Most of the time with acrostics, I'm unfamiliar with the saying, so whether or not it feels made up makes no difference.Īnd I never would have had that thought about ending the joke with GRILLED. In fact, now that I think about it, I really, really like figuring words out based on how they could work in a sentence. And over here could be an IN or IF." I like this third factor - what kind of word could go there based on its position in a sentence. Sure, quip puzzles don't seem to be way up on some people's list of a great time, but I enjoy uncovering the quote for the same reason I like acrostics it's fun to squint your eyes and think, "Hmm. I almost gave up before finishing the northwest but finally saw AJAR and GORILLA. I don't know the stand-alone usage of "PRIME," but maybe this interpretation adds to the punniness? You be the judge. a couple of people (in emails) have floated the idea that "PRIME" is some kind of substantive adjective for meat (e.g. I'll confess I'm not up to date on all the different astrophysics prizes there are out there (?) but if you give me 33A: Bruno _ Prize (astrophysics award), the answer better damn well be MARS. It's like a malfunctioning joke-bot wrote this. But instead the punny quip just steps on the "joke" and then keeps on walking. when the detective started grilling him"? Something like that. the "grill" part really really really needs to come at the *end* for this to be a proper joke. KNEW HE WAS COOKED AFTER HE WAS GRILLED." stop. Seriously, the entire last part of this quip is arbitrary and anticlimactic. I'm no joke-teller, but isn't it somewhat poor form to have your laugh word, your "punch line," come in the *middle* of your joke. PRIME appears to be there just to make the letter count in the answer come out right, and. I have to wonder (out loud, partly because it's kind of my job) how made-up a punny quip can be. This is how I feel about punny quip puzzles. I couldn't tell you who cooks the best liver because I don't eat that stuff. those with cutesy alliterative clues) aren't my bag. This specific incarnation of this type of puzzle is not for me, but you knew that as well. This type of puzzle is not for me, but you knew that. I can't write about this in any way that I feel good about, so I'm going to keep it very brief.