ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ NO KIDDING]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ NO KIDDING]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
Now how about that contest? Sure: we got 103 entrants, the same as last time. When was last time? Try October 23 of last year. How'd we go so far without a contest? Beats me. Note to self: write more contest puzzles.
Since I like clilffhangers, lets go over the contest puzzle before I announce the winners. After solving last Friday's puzzle, you got the riddle: WHAT CAPITAL IN / EUROPE IS MADE OF / TWO CONSECUTIVE / MEN'S NICKNAMES? The answer, if you haven't figured out already with the picture I posted, was London. And just to drive the point home, the answer to 2-Down {Chaney of horror movies} was LON and the symmetrically opposed answer at 57-Down {___ Nelson who on 4/7/10 became the NBA's all-time coaching leader in victories} was DON. LON + DON. QED, BEQ, PBR me ASAP, etc.
Pretty much everybody got that one right, however, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention two other alternative answers. David Plotkin writes, "my friends Priscilla and Martina reminded me that the capital of Kosovo would be an acceptable answer if a similar riddle was made regarding female nicknames." Alas, I'm not going to make that puzzle. Now, if I were to award points for dropping super-obscurities, Mike McCormick would win in the meta-meta reference department. He writes, "German footballer Klaus 'Lis' Lisiewicz and big-balled singer [AC/DC's] Ronald 'Bon' Scott want a little honorable mention love." Consider the honorable mention mentioned.
I almost considered running a picture of Bon Scott instead of London, whatever.
So, without further ado, here are your five winners: Bunnee Butterfield, Edward Gurowitz, Rod Odlehoeft, Hollie Schmidt, and Scott Weiss. They'll get either anything they want from the BEQ.com store, or anything I don't want from my condo. Congrats to all.
Share the puzzle. Times puzzle later on today. New one on Friday.
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