ACROSS LITE PUZZLE: [ THE BEQ ABIDES]
PROGRAM: [Across Lite]
PROGRAM: [Java]
PRINTOUT PUZZLE: [ THE BEQ ABIDES]
PROGRAM: [Adobe Acrobat]
More than a few people e-mailed me after they did my latest New York Times puzzle citing disappointment. Not that the puzzle was bad, per se. Rather, they felt the puzzle was going in one direction, a rather gonzo direction, only to be pulled to a more traditional way as they worked their way through it. Well, the BEQ reads his e-mail, and the BEQ abides. This puzzle goes out to those who e-mailed.
Speaking of gonzo, please watch with this stunning interview embedded above with crossword answer legend Brian Eno. Wow.
Share the puzzle. New one tomorrow.
Love 63A. Should’ve gotten that one faster. Nobody fucks with the BEQ!
So much win. A puzzle for fanboys and fangirls that wasn’t just fill-in-the-blank. Had TIDE for SCOW and PSAT for LSAT for awhile. Didn’t know HODADS but got it on the crosses. Yay for learning new words!
Quibbles – cuz I always have them. “Day-um” for NEATO? Really? I would have gone with “Peachy keen”. And I thought that you of all people would clue AKIRA as “Katsuhiro classic”.
As for NYT. They don’t call it “Old Gray Lady” for nothing. It’s the mainest of mainstreams and the puzzle has to be acceptable to that audience. I have no problem with that. But I don’t think your best stuff is ever going to fly there. Well, at least not for a couple of decades.
Wow, Brian Eno is a remarkably patient man.
I’ve never seen 55-Across so the theme wasn’t doing much for me, but the clues were more Measium than Medium so thematic ignorance wasn’t holding me back much.
I notified http://lebowskifest.com/ immediately.
Loved the fact that “dude” was smuggled into the puzzle in a song I had never heard of.
But … no F-bombs??? Too bad “Shut the fuck up Donny” is too long. (Supposedly this was a reference to the Steve Buscemi character in Fargo who was always talking).
I’m still laughing at Kurt VonPork. Haven’t printed puzzle yet.
51A alternative clue. “singer/songwriter heard in 55 Across”
Sincerely,
Bunny Lebowski
Great puzzle, BEQ. I had an inkling as to the theme when I saw the title. Once 19A/20A were in, the other theme answers fell immediately (and hilariously). Then it was just plugging in the rest of the (nice) fill. That rug really tied the room together.
Nice one! One of my favorite movies, so this was a pretty smooth solve even not knowing the 20a song.
Wow, it like two hours ago that BEQ posts, “Big Lebowski puz, hmmm” over at RP. Seriously though, what’s your average construction time, if there is such a thing?
What’s a pederast, Walter?