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Solve the clues to fill in the grid! Type in the answers to the clues on the right side of the Hypercross puzzle below. Clicking a thumbnail image will enlarge it. You can Tab through the clues while the image is enlarged. You can also click on the first space of a word in the grid to view the clue for that word. If two words begin in the first cell, click the cell again to view the downward word. Be sure to check your spelling! Click on the "Check your Answers" button when you think you’ve got them all.
46 Comments
bcgrote
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:04 PM |
Aww, you didn't use 42!!!
BigSlick
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:06 PM |
#48 has 1 too few letters! What spellin' ya lookin' for?????
Edit: oh, that spelling (the wrong one, as far as I know it)
Arnott
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:07 PM |
Whoo hoo! Got 'em all without looking anything up!
Kidding, of course. Had to look up every one of them :) And is that last one spelled wrong?
EDIT: For #48... I found "IE" on the 'net, but the puzzlemaker used "Y"
BigSlick
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:06 PM |
[3] Yes it is. :-(
slog
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:07 PM |
Thanks [3].
Too many typos lately :(
tinal89
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:07 PM |
[3] ditto
CWarrior
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:09 PM |
Turn left.
Hope2002
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:09 PM |
Last one is spelled differently the places I looked.
yelowflower
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:10 PM |
[5]I am not a puzzlemake, but I do enjoy solving puzzles...and typos make it not much fun.
ie is correct
thanks for the salt [2] told me which one to mess up lol
other than that one little thing, a really nice puzzle thanks
kirklimon
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:11 PM |
as the name implies a race to the finish... i even crashed trying to load wikipedia!
bcgrote
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:11 PM |
And 48 is spelled differently than official sources....
stufuller
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:13 PM |
You solved this puzzle in 0 seconds and were the 63rd Tanga member to solve it
grant5
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:13 PM |
try 48 with a y, not ie
davey
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:13 PM |
So I'm just supposed to find them and see how fast I can type???
katsquints
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:14 PM |
sorry everyone. I did miss spelling on that last one. I tried so hard to recheck everything before putting it in. I am not sure how to correct or if I should at this point?
QurqirishDragon
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:15 PM |
I am getting tired of this theme. at least one per week, it seems. Soon I WILL be able to do these without looking them up.
renfurdson
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:17 PM |
Typo fixed. (and clue moved)
Arnott
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:20 PM |
[16] LOL. Well, it is topical these days. Wait until baseball starts and we get more mascots! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
nrkii
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:23 PM |
UGH, you fixed it while I was solving it, so it didn't take my solution. Starting over now.
Arnott
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:29 PM |
[9] Yelowflower, while I'm totally with ya - typos can, indeed, be no fun - this one was pretty easy to figure out... and hard to catch if you don't know the subject matter.
I know if I were gonna publish this, I wouldn't have known it was wrong from just looking at it. And I can't imagine Aaron has the time (nor would most of us) to double-check every single puzzle that gets published.
Especially the Hypercrosses. I think you can eyeball them, sure, but you basically have to trust the writers, I think. And in this case, it doesn't help that it's the very last clue :)
AND... it got fixed. Pretty quickly. Nor did it stop you - or me, or most of us - from solving it, right? Not like that deathly Cryptopix one from the other day - that was unfortunate.
Anyway... sorry for the soapbox. As a guy who spelled lizzard with two Z's, maybe I'm a little too sensitive :)
-Dave
p.s. Um... and shouldn't Yelowflower have three L's in it?
Arnott
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:31 PM |
[19] Sry, nrkii... I was basically responsible for that fix. Didn't mean to mess you up.
n8uredude
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:31 PM |
ARRRGGGG....this is one I could have easily gotten a top 20, but with the typo ended up being inside the top 100.
jtotheh
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:32 PM |
How do I keep getting exactly 101st on Hypercross?
Philana
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:34 PM |
I thought I had everything right, but it told me I wasn't correct. So I double-checked everything. Still not right.
I finally realized that the puzzle had been changed in the meantime, so I had to reload and enter everything again.
The decision to change a puzzle while people are working on it was NOT a good idea!
gst
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:37 PM |
Sorry, while I appreciate the effort, this is not a puzzle.
big bore.
Murdoctor
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:52 PM |
*yawn*
loserkid7182
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 07:55 PM |
i have all but #5. and cant seem to find the answer. any help?
Arnott
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 08:02 PM |
[24] Yeah, it's a tough call. But I suppose you're right - especially if the typo is easily gettable. Maybe they should have waited until much later to fix it.
I gotta say, though, the one time one of my puzzles had a typo, I NEEDED to fix it immediately, just for my own peace of mind. It's a pretty terrible feeling, so I can sympathize with the puzzlemaker here.
Seems a bit harsh to come down on someone for trying to fix something everyone's complaing about. Kind of a sucky no win situation.
epaz
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 08:04 PM |
First, thanks for putting in the time to make a puzzle in the first place!
However, I agree with [25] & [26] -- there's nothing to _solve_ here. And if you can't fill in the blanks by identifying the numbers, It's just a question of how well you choose your keywords, and how quickly you can type.
comishcraig
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 08:06 PM |
[15] you should have just left the mistake. I was finished with the puzzle when I read the clue to the mistake. I corrected it and you must have changed the puzzle so no matter what I did, I couldn't solve the puzzle unless I refreshed. When I did, I lost all of my answers and had to start over again.
Arnott
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 08:16 PM |
[30] Not katsquints' fault. I notified Tanga and they corrected it.
scoutmom
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 08:24 PM |
I know people grumped and grouched katsquints - but I LOVED this puzzle!
Philana
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 08:51 PM |
[28] Yes, it was a tough decision... to fix a simple typo that everyone seems to have figured out how to get around, or to mess up everybody who is currently working on the puzzle.
It's hard to hit a moving target! From now on, whenever my initial solution isn't correct, I guess I should refresh the page and enter all the answers again.
steve
Posted on Mon Mar 10, 2008 08:33 PM |
As someone who recently had a horrific typo in a puzzle, I'll not fault that any. This one at least was pretty easy to get early on. Though the fix early on in the evening messing a few people up was unfortunate.