One downside of doing crosswords in pen is that occasionally things go badly.
Sometimes they go very badly:
I did this puzzle as a delightful middle ear infection systematically took over most of my rational capabilities. After I'd finished maybe half of it, I took two Vicodin, prescribed earlier that day but not needed, somehow, until this puzzle started to go bad in the lower left corner.
Eventually I had to lay down my sword and admit my defeat by the southwest corner.
I had something ridiculous that I can't remember for Noted Venetian army general, eventually arriving at the correct OTHELLO after a couple of reinkings. But Ingredient in some chips went from SILICON to OREGANO (and perhaps something else), and I never came up with the correct answer, OLESTRA (I think; guess I should check the answers?). Also wrong was my answer to Something great, informally (AWESOME); I think the answer might be ALLTHAT, but I'm not sure. More toward the center, I wrote in the pretty-darn-dumb answer QUEXATL, a truly Thanospecific word as far as I can tell, via Google (I was trying to think of QUETZAL, which is a bird, not a Language of central Mexico. What is that one, anyway?).
Also couldn't get 51 Across, Magellan visited it (VENUS), even with three crossings.
Pass the Kleenex.
Sometimes they go very badly:
I did this puzzle as a delightful middle ear infection systematically took over most of my rational capabilities. After I'd finished maybe half of it, I took two Vicodin, prescribed earlier that day but not needed, somehow, until this puzzle started to go bad in the lower left corner.
Eventually I had to lay down my sword and admit my defeat by the southwest corner.
I had something ridiculous that I can't remember for Noted Venetian army general, eventually arriving at the correct OTHELLO after a couple of reinkings. But Ingredient in some chips went from SILICON to OREGANO (and perhaps something else), and I never came up with the correct answer, OLESTRA (I think; guess I should check the answers?). Also wrong was my answer to Something great, informally (AWESOME); I think the answer might be ALLTHAT, but I'm not sure. More toward the center, I wrote in the pretty-darn-dumb answer QUEXATL, a truly Thanospecific word as far as I can tell, via Google (I was trying to think of QUETZAL, which is a bird, not a Language of central Mexico. What is that one, anyway?).
Also couldn't get 51 Across, Magellan visited it (VENUS), even with three crossings.
Pass the Kleenex.
Language of central Mexico: Nahuatl
Posted by: Seb | 2009.01.06 at 11:49 PM
only someone born in mexico who lives in germany but is really french would know the answer to that one
Posted by: Thane Plambeck | 2009.01.07 at 10:59 AM