Sunday, February 1, 2009 GRID-IRONY, Puzzle by Victor Fleming and Matt Ginsberg, edited by Will Shortz SUPER BOWL SUNDAY (81A. Setting for the answers to the 10 starred clues). This Sunday’s crossword is best left to the fans of football. Without a working knowledge of the sport’s terminology, one might have some difficulty in scoring a touchdown, er…solution -- much less becoming enthused over this gridiron special. The ten entries involved, with their “ironic” clues -- BALL CARRIER (33A. “Airline for Lucille); HASH MARKS (40A. *Corned beef stains?); TWO MINUTE WARNING (62A. *Caution when boiling a 60-Down?); PASS INTERFERENCE (100A. *Chaperon’s job?); TIGHT ENDS (118A. *Tersely edited epilogues?); NEUTRAL ZONE (130A. *Where everyone wears beige?); ILLEGAL MOTION (3D. *Rolling past a stop sign?); EXTRA POINT (16D. *Added comment?); OFFENSIVE LINE (77D. *That dress makes you look fat,” e.g.?); FALSE START (91D. *Onset of a lie?). The remaining puzzle is an over-sized grid containing a half-time parade of all-over-the-place crosswordese. Two links: 107-Across, They put on shows, AIRERS and 60-Down See 62-Across, EGG. Incidentally, videotapes of the telecasts of the first two Super Bowls are not known to exist even though they were telecast by both NBC and CBS. Sports Illustrated has reported that the only existing footage of the first Super Bowl is a two minute clip of the game. In the early days of television into the 1960s, copies of TV broadcasts were routinely wiped (erased), in part due to videotape being prohibitively expensive, but mainly because it was thought no one would want to watch something they had already seen and were in on the outcome! True gridiron irony! ----------------- For today’s cartoon, go to The Crossword Puzzle Illustrated. For the complete post, go HERE.
02.01.09
GRID-IRONY
Sunday, February 1, 2009 GRID-IRONY, Puzzle by Victor Fleming and Matt Ginsberg, edited by Will Shortz SUPER BOWL SUNDAY (81A. Setting for the answers to the 10 starred clues). This Sunday’s crossword is best left to the fans of football. Without a working knowledge of the sport’s terminology, one might have some difficulty in scoring a touchdown, er…solution -- much less becoming enthused over this gridiron special. The ten entries involved, with their “ironic” clues -- BALL CARRIER (33A. “Airline for Lucille); HASH MARKS (40A. *Corned beef stains?); TWO MINUTE WARNING (62A. *Caution when boiling a 60-Down?); PASS INTERFERENCE (100A. *Chaperon’s job?); TIGHT ENDS (118A. *Tersely edited epilogues?); NEUTRAL ZONE (130A. *Where everyone wears beige?); ILLEGAL MOTION (3D. *Rolling past a stop sign?); EXTRA POINT (16D. *Added comment?); OFFENSIVE LINE (77D. *That dress makes you look fat,” e.g.?); FALSE START (91D. *Onset of a lie?). The remaining puzzle is an over-sized grid containing a half-time parade of all-over-the-place crosswordese. Two links: 107-Across, They put on shows, AIRERS and 60-Down See 62-Across, EGG. Incidentally, videotapes of the telecasts of the first two Super Bowls are not known to exist even though they were telecast by both NBC and CBS. Sports Illustrated has reported that the only existing footage of the first Super Bowl is a two minute clip of the game. In the early days of television into the 1960s, copies of TV broadcasts were routinely wiped (erased), in part due to videotape being prohibitively expensive, but mainly because it was thought no one would want to watch something they had already seen and were in on the outcome! True gridiron irony! ----------------- For today’s cartoon, go to The Crossword Puzzle Illustrated. For the complete post, go HERE.
Sunday, February 1, 2009 GRID-IRONY, Puzzle by Victor Fleming and Matt Ginsberg, edited by Will Shortz SUPER BOWL SUNDAY (81A. Setting for the answers to the 10 starred clues). This Sunday’s crossword is best left to the fans of football. Without a working knowledge of the sport’s terminology, one might have some difficulty in scoring a touchdown, er…solution -- much less becoming enthused over this gridiron special. The ten entries involved, with their “ironic” clues -- BALL CARRIER (33A. “Airline for Lucille); HASH MARKS (40A. *Corned beef stains?); TWO MINUTE WARNING (62A. *Caution when boiling a 60-Down?); PASS INTERFERENCE (100A. *Chaperon’s job?); TIGHT ENDS (118A. *Tersely edited epilogues?); NEUTRAL ZONE (130A. *Where everyone wears beige?); ILLEGAL MOTION (3D. *Rolling past a stop sign?); EXTRA POINT (16D. *Added comment?); OFFENSIVE LINE (77D. *That dress makes you look fat,” e.g.?); FALSE START (91D. *Onset of a lie?). The remaining puzzle is an over-sized grid containing a half-time parade of all-over-the-place crosswordese. Two links: 107-Across, They put on shows, AIRERS and 60-Down See 62-Across, EGG. Incidentally, videotapes of the telecasts of the first two Super Bowls are not known to exist even though they were telecast by both NBC and CBS. Sports Illustrated has reported that the only existing footage of the first Super Bowl is a two minute clip of the game. In the early days of television into the 1960s, copies of TV broadcasts were routinely wiped (erased), in part due to videotape being prohibitively expensive, but mainly because it was thought no one would want to watch something they had already seen and were in on the outcome! True gridiron irony! ----------------- For today’s cartoon, go to The Crossword Puzzle Illustrated. For the complete post, go HERE.
