This will be your last week of Crossword Man for a while. Magdalen finishes her Stonecoast MFA residency today and we'll be back home anon. Yes, this time I joined Magdalen for the final couple of days and experienced some of the public events in the program, as well as downtown Freeport, ME.
Possibly the biggest cultural experience for me was to enter the amazing L.L.Bean stores. They certainly know how to deal with weather, and I took the opp to stock up on a new winter coat, hat and gloves. I'm expecting a lot more of the white stuff this season.
And I should warn anyone heading this way that you can't go two steps without bumping into (1) moose, (2) lobsters. Whoever called Maine the "Pine Tree State" obviously didn't get the memo.
I think I heard "around 80 correct entries" for last week's Sam Loyd puzzle, so KDW is in line for one of our lovely prizes, or can choose to trigger the donation as per the next para. KDW please let us know.
This week, the puzzle is sooooo easy, I'll go with 2,351 - 2,400.
Pardon my being so forward, but 1301-1350 please.
"...plus two others," aye there's the rub.
And even if you reuse a letter, you still are not likely to have two words.
It is hard to find anyplace where one of the terms I think Will wants is written as a single word.
I am a little fuzzy on who wins the Range/Tranche. Are we looking for entries or correct entries?
I never would have suggested it if I thought it would be so difficult.
I would like 451-500. Surprisingly few correct answers last week.
We got two words but one reuses one of the first six letters. Anyone get two words without reusing one of the first six letters? 951 - 1,000 please!
1001 to 1050, please. I have 1 answer so far and several wrong ones.
Joe, I'm with you. I came up with one word that does not repeat any of the letters a through f, but my other answer repeats one of those six letters.
Since the wording to me implies that the "others" must be different from a through f, I assume I'm only half way (or is that half-way?) home.
I'll go out on a limb and guess 1,101 to 1,150.
Phil here again. After a little research, I found "befaced" in a few sources. Granted, "befaced" is hardly a common word and uses only seven letters, repeating one, but it does have the virtue of using only the letters a through f.
Here's another one, this one from 1879: "In going up again to Dijon, it was wonderful to see the old Burgundian country with light-haired people, or at least not black, and the whole country population befaced like Germans, . . ."
But I suppose nineteenth-century references won't work here.
How neat to have won "Pick a Range" again! Please contribute to the Fairfield County Community Fund (specifically to the Taunton Press Newtown Children and Families Fund, if possible) -- a thoughtful and caring choice on your part.
May I please have 901-950 this time around?
1501 - 1550 for the next round...FCCF.
Paul: I am not sure what you mean.
I am going crazy trying to find a second "word" after the easy and fits-all-the-clues first one.
I am going to be ticked if he wants the two word phrase that means a meal.
I guess then it is safe to post that I went to www.dictionary.reference.com.
It told me that there are no dictionary results for "crabfeed."
Now somebody needs to tell me "Of course not you dummy. That's not the word. Ha, Ha. Keep trying."
I'll take 1901 - 1950, please.
you can check your answers against Ross's, by searching in Flickr and seeing if you get the same photographs. I found at least one of them with the tag spelt as two words.
Crabfeed? Of course not you dummy. That's not the word. Ha, Ha. Keep trying.
In fact, crabfeed was my initial guess for my second word.
Thanks, David, I needed that.
I was just about to ask NPR to extend this challenge to a second week when when I finally got the damned thing.
If, of course, it is OK to reuse one of the six.