I enjoyed Footprints's crossword so much that I
started fooling around with this last night, and before I knew it I was done,
or at least nearly done. So here's another one.
I decided to adhere to the standard
New York Times-style format: 15x15, with antireflective symmetry. Enjoy. The answers are at The First Fantastic E2 Crossword Puzzle (solution).
Notes:
- A few answers are kind of stretches, because I couldn't make anything else fit. Go easy on me, it's my first crossword. It's hard to make all the horizontals match up with all the verticals and still be words.
- For non-US crossworders: standard crossword convention is that an answer will follow the form
of the clue, so if (say) the clue contains an abbreviation, so may the answer. A question mark
at the end of a clue serves as a sign that there is something tricky about the answer: it is a play on
words, a bad pun, something like that.
- Even though I checked them twice, I have almost surely made a mistake in numbering the clues, so /msg me with problems.
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Across
1. Part of notable E2
aphorism, with 58 across
4. Organizer type
9. They make
pizza boxes
12. Horny E2 Conflagration loc.
13. Recommendation sans signature (abbr.)
16. /msg?
17. Instructs the
teachers, sometimes
18. Bad news for a fighter pilot
19. Famous
Paul
21. A game, as
sensei would have named it?
25.
Boot
26. They are noteworthy for their
speakers (abbr.)
27.
Topological troubles
31. Incompressible
datum
32. Music
standard that doesn't upset the
RIAA
33. Old
net encoding scheme, with '-13'
34.
Bovine prophecy
35. Video quality meas.
36. Our chief coder, if he had appeared in the
Canterbury Tales
38. Bad sentence separator when
speaking in public
39. Needed to create a
writeup
41. the ends of
freshmeat and
slashdot, but not
everything2
42. Not. in
measure theory, or
animated movie ender
43.
Kevin Smith character
45.
Hard drive catalogs, to some
47. You aren't a little short for a
marsupial editor?
48. Lots of
cools will help with this
49. It's why we're here
50.
Memory, of a type
52. Not everyone does it to
factual writeups
54. Where that nice
wizard is
55.
Phantom Tollbooth hero
58. Part of notable E2
aphorism, with 1 across
62.
Simplify, Simplify, Simplify! result
64. Dark, dangerous & on the
X-files
65.
Porcine gathering host
66. Popular
scripting language
67. Type of remains for an
editor
70.
Logical operation
71. A
pedant can prevent you from doing this to him/her
72. lacking a certain color
73. The first shall be last?
Down
1. Most
unfortunate administrative nickname
2.
New Mexico's 51
3. the way in which i can make an appearance before part of
the power structure of E2
4. Sometimes it comes before
Linux
5. "
Your node sucks, fool!"
6. A rather
clean object access protocol
7. Where I left my
guitar pick, maybe
8. Amtrk.
9. New
John Lasseter film:
British politician CRUSHES ENEMIES!
10. You're
one, but you're not the same
11. Negatory, in
Niece
14. Loc. for some
M-noders
15. Still a manner in which some of us can
suck
20. Not equal to itself, according to the
IEEE
22. All writeups begin this way
23. Way to annoy
wharfinger after "neither you"
24. Supplicant request to a
god
28. What the
node tracker does to your writeups'
rep
29. What
buns are made of, sometimes
30.
Dai-un's Memory is one
34.
jaypea may address you this way
35. When a bunch of people really dig something
37. Account of an
E2 gathering, ______ by various noders
40. Most
obtuse, to
everyone
44. Least
obtuse, to
noether
46. Two noders' nics
50.
LPGA Golfer ________ Klein
51. Noder with nic showing lack of
respect
53. Not Dum
56. Screwed up even more than by
greenhouse gases?
57. Kind of
physics
59. Poor soul who operates a data terminal (abbr.)
60. Goes before
nail and
I
61. Our first try at this was 69. Did we get there? Of course we did.
62. Option when buying "
The Matrix" on DVD
63.
ECM analogue in
Neuromancer
68. Org. for an addiction other than
E2
69.
Larry Wall creation, before
Perl