Four Ampers&s
About the Puzzle
This one ran in June of 2015 and is one of the better puzzles we've run, I think. In the paper we used ampersands (&) but this online version takes the rebus approach.
Active Square
- Arrow keys:
- Move active square.
- Enter/Return:
- Next square.
- Backspace/Delete:
- Delete input from active square and move to previous square.
- Ctrl + C:
- Cheat on letter.
- Ctrl + R:
- Toggle rebus entry.
- Ctrl + E:
- Toggle errors.
Active Clue
- Tab:
- Next clue.
- Shift + Tab:
- Previous clue.
- Shift + Right Arrow:
- Next unsolved clue.
- Shift + Left Arrow:
- Previous unsolved clue.
- Spacebar:
- Toggle direction.
- Escape:
- Escape puzzle.
Well done!
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Across
- 1 Strawberry's field?
- 5 Attacks, as a dog
- 9 Accelerator at CERN used to discover the God particle
- 12 "___ and Frayed" (Rolling Stones tune)
- 13 Jesus in the Quran (var.)
- 14 Unit of corn
- 15 "Gone With the Wind", for example
- 16 The Snow Queen of "Frozen"
- 17 Virus that kills an avg. of 36,000 Americans each year
- 18 Someone from the Wolverine State
- 20 Animator Avery, creator of Bugs Bunny
- 21 Miner's find
- 22 A lake across the Pond
- 24 Longtime quarterback in Green Bay
- 27 Feature common to Florida and Oklahoma
- 30 The #2 name for a baby girl in 1980
- 31 Like sushi
- 32 The world's largest organization for the advancement of technology (abbr.)
- 33 Snoopy's brethren
- 35 Common yoga pose, informally
- 36 Model of electric car from Nissan
- 37 Unit of electrical resistance
- 38 Letter used by some fraternities
- 40 Loving nickname of third baseman Pablo Sandoval
- 45 Frasier Crane's friend and producer
- 46 Frankenstein's assistant
- 47 Informant
- 48 Be indebted to
- 49 State bird of Hawaii
- 50 Wounded ____ (South Dakota creek)
- 51 Director Anderson
- 52 They follow effs
- 53 Seals the deal (with "up")
Down
- 1 Where a rose has its thorns
- 2 Southwest Native American tribe
- 3 Rocker Clapton
- 4 Most populous city in Alaska
- 5 Invasion
- 6 Sailor's mirage, maybe
- 7 Set of decisions that can be cited as precedent
- 8 Mrs. Marsh in "South Park"
- 9 Like 10% of humanity
- 10 Golfer Irwin, the oldest US Open champion
- 11 The hardest part
- 19 Anger
- 23 Singing rodents
- 24 Like the Beatles
- 25 Soul, to Parisians
- 26 Defaces
- 27 Mas' partners
- 28 Someone born between July 23 and August 23
- 29 Instrument that measures brain waves (briefly)
- 31 Someone displaced by war
- 34 Hockey player in SoCal
- 35 "Weird" Al Yankovic movie
- 37 Hulking monsters
- 38 Cawing corvid
- 39 Mr. Hockey
- 41 Less than few
- 42 Sheet of glass
- 43 The first Apostle
- 44 Eagles on par-threes