WWTBAM Bored

Here is what the completed crossword from my March 26 QoD looks like:

http://www.angelfire.com/ky3/nellylunat ... sword.html

NellyLunatic1980 wrote:Here is what the completed crossword from my March 26 QoD looks like:

Hey, do you have clues available for the rest of the puzzle, too? I've had the partially completed grid sitting here on my desk since I saw the original QoD, awaiting the chance to finish it!


(Sorry, I can't help that I am a crossword geek. I attended my first ACPT this year, in Brooklyn, and now do at least 4-5 of them almost every day since then.)

ACROSS

1. Fmr. name of Universal Records
4. Some instructions start with this
9. Compress (down)
13. Warning broadcast org.
14. Choreographer Twyla
15. Diva's solo
16. East German?
17. Eagle's home
18. Cash drawer
19. A type of cream you eat
21. Public restroom enclosure
22. Fewer
23. "You've got mail" ISP
24. "Stop!", to a pirate
26. Wesley Clark used to command it
28. Simulated special effects
31. thirtysomething star Ken
32. It precedes eleison
33. End of a ball?
34. Gun rights
38. Noah's boat
39. First name of a Wonka worker, perhaps
40. Anise drink
41. Slangy greetings
42. First name in conservative talk
43. “Dome” or “turf” starter
45. Printing measures
46. Bullets
47. Plantlike organisms in the water
49. Soulja Boy’s hip-hop dance
53. Roseanne, before she was Mrs. Arnold
54. Paradigm
55. Denver-to-Green Bay dir.
56. Swedish furniture brand
57. Tee
58. Up, in the fourth dimension
59. Head of France?
60. Specks of dust
61. You lose it when you stand up

DOWN

1. Catty remark?
2. Moola
3. Italian wine region
4. Ear bone
5. Believer of a god
6. Nets (a paycheck)
7. Priss
8. Mimic
9. Marked for life?
10. Common computer font
11. Pepper grinder
12. _____bearer
20. Dallas suburb
21. Shiny fabric
24. Oldsmobile model
25. Football brothers Michael and Marcus
26. Dryad or nereid
27. Length x width
28. Creve _____ (St. Louis suburb)
29. Thompson's journalism
30. Division word, mathematically
31. _____ can you see...
32. European footballer Gert
35. Sally Field’s Oscar-winning vehicle
36. Pour water over
37. It keeps you running
43. Unit of currency, perhaps
44. Extracts metal from ore
45. Heron
46. Loathsome IRS action
47. _____ of Fry & Laurie
48. Large pond
49. Arty NYC district
50. One of three squares a day
51. Paquin of The Piano
52. Not ebb
54. Modern abbr. for the press

Thanks! Nice, fun puzzle (maybe a Tuesday, I'd guess).

Very nice. Despite my complaints the other day I am in awe of people who can put together an entire puzzle. I just enjoy doing them.

Where did you come up with Gert Kams? Estonian national team player who only plays in the Estonian domestic league is pretty obscure.

Am I being a blockhead on 58 Across? I don't get how "ANA" is "Up, in the fourth dimension".

Oh, OK. I just looked it up. "Ana" is the opposite of "kata" in the fourth dimension. I did not know that.

Fair enough.

andrewjackson wrote:Oh, OK. I just looked it up. "Ana" is the opposite of "kata" in the fourth dimension. I did not know that.

I never heard of those terms, either. Too bad WWTBAM doesn't indulge in obscure mathematical trivia or this might show up as a high-level WWOQ some day.

Wikipedia says Charles Howard Hinton, the mathematician who coined the words, also came up with "tesseract".

And he invented a gunpowder-powered baseball pitching machine!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_%28mathematics%29