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Who came in first? It's a puzzle! (with cats and a poll) [1]
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Date: 2022-07-24
Welcome to Sunday Puzzle! This series was started by the late Julie Waters (then known as juliewolf) back in 2007, and for 10 years it featured new puzzles each week.
In 2017 Sunday Puzzle largely went on hiatus and has been largely absent from Daily Kos for the last 5 years, but I thought I’d bring it back now for at least a month or so and see if people would like weekly puzzles to play with again. I ran a poll last week to see when people would like the puzzles to post, and 3 pm eastern time was the winner. So here we are.
Today’s puzzles are a pair of JulieCrostics. (Julie Waters didn’t invent this kind of acrostic puzzle, but she introduced it to a number of us on Daily Kos who had never seen this kind of acrostic before and got some of us rather addicted to them.)
For those of you who aren’t familiar with what JulieCrostics look like or how they work, here are the clues to last week’s puzzles and the answer diagrams, which should make it pretty easy to see how they work.
clues to last week’s first puzzle:
1. A kind of lion, horse, or change
2. Vault
3. Eat lots of food 4. Kind of tape
5. LGBT astronaut who can be found on stamps and coins
6. Strange 7. Crenshaw or Lipinski
8. Paul's first name
9. radio talk show host Rhodes or amazing magician James 10. Dog or rod
11. Multitude
12. [picture of a 3-toed sloth] 13. Something in the sky
14. Bean curd
15. Openly disregard 16. Chest wear
17. Snow, fiddler, ghost or hermit
18. Chocolate substitute 19. Jet or swing
20. Hot or love
21. Basket or pipe
And here’s the answer diagram:
sea F safe T feast red I Ride W weird Dan R Rand I Randi hot S host L sloth UFO T tofu L flout bra C crab O carob set A seat W waste
As you can see, each set of 3 clues forms a row, and each word in a row has all the letters of the previous word plus one new letter. Answer to clue #1 is SEA; answer to clue #2 is SAFE, which has all the letters of SEA plus an F; answer to clue #3 is FEAST, which has all the letters of SAFE plus a T. The add-on letters get written into columns between the words they connect.
When you have correctly filled in all the answer words and all the add-on letters, the add-on letter columns spell out the answer to the puzzle. In this case, they spell out FIRSTCA and TWILLOW. Put them together and space them out correctly, and you get: First Cat Willow .
Get the idea? Good! Then let’s move on to tonight’s first puzzle (and I’ll post the answer to last week’s second puzzle in one of the comments so as to leave more room up here for tonight’s puzzles and cat pictures).
Let’s begin...
1. wake up
2. ways to get somewhere
3. longer ways to get somewhere 4. worries
5. one who isn't eating
6. most beautiful 7. look at intensely
8. most naked
9. psychic Raven and brother Cory 10. snake
11. worse, informally
12. a type of hairstyle 13. a pleasant shady place
14. area associated with cheap bars and flophouses
15. facial hair
There you go! That’s 15 clues, in sets of 3. That will make 5 rows. Each word in a row has the same letters as the word before it, plus one new letter. When you fill in all the answer words and add-on letters, the two columns of add-on letters will spell out what I think is the answer to who came in first.
Before we get to tonight’s second puzzle, I think it’s cat picture time. Let me check and see...
All right, time for tonight’s second puzzle. This one’s a bit longer and a bit harder, so let me give you a little help. The add-on letters will spell out 4 words making 3 names. These are names you likely aren’t familiar with, so I’ve included help elsewhere on this page to help you find and recognize them.
Let’s begin again!
1. stomach muscles
2. kind of drum
3. really big empty space 4. sun god
5. dirt
6. ruin 7. where you could see Couric or Cronkite
8. jitneys
9. fundamental 10. kind of music
11. inclined plane
12. period pain 13. where a friendly cat might sit
14. light
15. vise 16. Nixon or Cipollone
17. flatbread or Manchin
18. deck or courtyard 19. scientist workplace
20. thick slice
21. things to throw 22. villainous Doc in the comics
23. hit
24. bakes 25. anger
26. ready to eat
27. kind of minister 28. familiar base
29. (Clue 29 is a video of Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik) x YouTube Video 30. come together 31. this needs to be restored
32. got up
33. saw logs 34. cat, dirt or power
35. bridge
36. growing, hunger and labor
Orange kitty says: Yes, you may admire me. But don’t forget to solve the puzzle. I’m curious to know what the answers are myself.
The answers to last week’s second puzzle will appear in one of the comments below. (But knowing how slow humans are at getting things done, it may take a while for the person posting this to actually get that comment posted...) Meanwhile, here’s tonight’s poll question:
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