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September 16, 2009

CROSSWORD #122 & a quick one

ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ SOMETHING FOR NOTHING] 
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]

PROGRAM: [Java]

PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ SOMETHING FOR NOTHING]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]

Love the sentiment in today's puzzle. Love the composer in question too. Love this performance of the composer's most (in)famous work. More than a little stunning.

Meanwhile, about that picture ... I didn't want to give too much more away for the puzzle (maybe gave away too much with that last paragraph), so I was kinda stuck with what to use. One Google search later using one of the key words in today's theme yielded this. I don't know why it did. So let's just embrace the surreality of it and assume somehow someway they're connected with each other.

Share the puzzle. New one on Friday.

Posted at 09:04 AM in Hard |

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