Cover art for The Invisible Man Pocket Penguin Classics 2009
Thursday,
November 5, 2009Puzzle by Patrick Blindauer, edited by Will Shortz
A note accompanies this amusing get-out-the-invisible-ink Thursday crossword: “When this puzzle is completed, one letter of the alphabet will appear 22 times. Shade in its square everywhere it appears. The result will be an image suggested by 36-Across.”
The note refers to the letter S with 36-Across being
THE INVISIBLE MAN (1897 novel subtitled “A Grotesque Romance”). A pixel-esque stick figure is the result, invisible unless one highlights the letter S in some manner -- best lightly! SSSSSSS (25D. 1973 horror flick about a doctor who turns his assistant into a cobra), forms the torso of the invisible man! Here’sssssss Wikipedia!A few more links -- APOLLO (45D. New York theater on the National Register of Historic Places, with “the); MARINE (11D. “Battle Cry” soldier); DO-RAG (10D. Headwear banned by the N.F.L. in 2001); GENIE (26A. Canadian Oscar); HOLST (42A. Composer of “The Planets”); OSTIA (34A. Port of ancient Rome); LUKA (47D. 1987 Suzanne Vega hit); ROSES ARE RED (18A. Start of a lover’s quatrain).
I now vanish! -- wait!, one last look -- HERE!-----------------
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