I guess I'm the only one who had NOEL COWARD in the wrong place for a while - I didn't quite take in the order in which the clues were given I guess.
I haven't been coming to the comments for a while as I've been finding the puzzles really hard so end up looking up far too many things. Today was better, still not all that many gimmes, but worked from quote to clues quite well. A fun quote with lots of connections with the clues, like a Cyn Morris puzzle.
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This one zipped on by for me - one of my fastest solve times ever, I think. I had lots of gimmes, and lots of correct guesses -- plus all those "yous" jumped right out of the grid to help fill in whatever was missing.
I don't mind an easy puzzle once in a while, though. Like Paul said, it's a nice ego boost. ;)
I particularly enjoyed the three quotations, and trying to remember who said them. NOEL COWARD was an easy one for me, SPENCER TRACY came next, but I needed a few starter letters before ALFRED LUNT came to mind.
Thanks for another great puzzle, EC and HR!
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More appropriate theme for the Tonys than the Oscars! But a fun one today and for me an easy one.
Gimmes for me were EERIE, FASHION, HEROINE, TELETUBBY, AESTHETE, and DUNST. Since I'm not much of a movie/theater buff, it took total backfill to get OYELOWO and ALFRED LUNT.
On the whole, a fun puzzle!
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Great puzzle, with many answers relating to author and book title. I must confess that I also liked it because it was my best time ever for an acrostic! By half. Lots of gimmes.
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not as many gimmes as usual -- LATIN EERIE FASHION. should have had HEROINE if I looked at it! I got Stella Adler and ACTING pretty quickly. The two YOURSELFs helped. All in all pretty fast and a good intro to Oscar night!
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A great quote for Oscar season. As mentioned already, lots of clues and words to enhance it. Started with ROUTINE, HEROINE, ENVIOUSLY, TELETUBBY, and FASHION. Enough to start filling the quote at a good clip (believe in yourself) and add enough letters to get more in the word list; recognize the names. I never can remember what the incense burner is called, but it filled in this time. Great fun!
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This one was lots of fun, and easy-peasy (which the last few acrostics have NOT been for me). I had plenty of gimmes: EERIE, LATIN, ROUTINE, HEROINE, AESTHETE, TELETUBBY, FASHION, THURIBLE, and IVY LEAGUE. I thought of Kirsten DUNST but wasn't sure of her at first, and tried LIDLIFT before EYELIFT. And I needed a couple of letters to remember OYELOWO; knowing how to pronounce it helped in spelling it.
From then on it was a quick back-and-forth to fill in the quote, and great fun watching it appear.
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Yes, this one was a much needed ego booster.
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I find myself wondering about the "'grid length" part of the Constructors' Notes.
For this Acrostic, it was 27x8 = 216. But how would they do 209?
19x11? Somehow that seems much more squarish than rectangular.
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P.S. Never mind.
I just now looked more carefully and saw that there was a solid row of black squares at the lower right corner of the grid.
Funny thing is, I never consciously noticed that before.
OK, so THAT is the answer to the question of how the total number can vary within the range of 209 to 216.
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Jerrold,
Maybe you or another commenter can help me, but am I doing something wrong with square 31? It would seem to be a Y if TheySay is the clue answer. But shouldn't it be an R, in OR, for the quote? Surely it's not OY
More generally, I agree this was unusually easy. But maybe just cuz I was familiar with the Lunt and Coward quotes.
-th
Take a bow, EC & HR! A STELLA performance!
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With this Acrostic they must have set a record for the number of answers that relate to the quote.
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This one took a lot of searching, and not only for those answers about quotations.
My only gimmes were LATIN, FASHION, HEROINE, ADJECTIVES and ROUTINE.
I first had SCARY instead of EERIE, and I got DUNST and AUCTION only from the “crossings”.
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Loved the clue for AUCTION. Although I’ve seen the film several times, I didn’t remember it until I had most of the letters
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