Colby Hawkins
Brooklyn
I think it would be helpful when dealing with a puzzle with shaded squares such as this one, that the shading shows when a word is active (blue). As is, you must go off the word to see the shading and then go back to work on the word.
"Amp" is short for "amplifier". An amp is not a speaker, but it may contain one or more.
Clue 51A should have been "Parts of cassettes", not "Parts of cassette players"
Maybe I'm being too picky, but a dot doesn't complete "i". It does however complete "ı".
@B Um, no. "Maybe" means "may be", not "may contain". An amp can never be a speaker.
The end of a headphone cable is a plug. A jack is a receptacle for the plug in a device.
And another thing. I don't get "Sexy growl". I don't see how the answer phonetically sounds different from what a lion does. Wouldn't y be better in place of w?
Very clever and cute puzzle! Thanks!
My blood pressure would have been lower had I read 52 across first.
I've never heard "bop" defined as a catchy tune.
"They've really thrown down the gauntlet!" means "they've issued a true challenge". How does that correspond with the answer (which I guessed out of desperation and which I presume I'm not supposed to state here)?
To my knowledge, "nor" is not a Boolean operator.
I got it, but I don't get it.
For a few days now, the choice of left-handed in printing does not "stick" - I must re-enter it each morning. As of today, the left-handed print prints right-handed.
I like to print the left handed version of the puzzle. The setting for left handed doesn't stick anymore as of about a week. Can you fix it? Thanks.
@B "it may contain a speaker, and thus there may be a speaker on the stage." "Be" and "contain" are not synonyms. The clue says "Speaker on stage, maybe". That means that the answer for this space IS (not contains) an example of a speaker on stage. Valid answers might be orator, lecturer, woofer, tweeter, etc. An amp, however, is never a speaker in any circumstance, so the clue cannot describe its answer and is therefore invalid.
@Stef "it may contain a speaker, and thus there may be a speaker on the stage." No, it's not. A speaker converts electrical impulses into sound. An amp produces those electical impulses, although what we refer to as an "amp" may be an amplifier that is situated in a cabinet that contains 1 or more speakers.
@Colby Hawkins "No it's not" Sorry, this was unclear. Just because an amp on stage may entail a speaker on stage, it doesn't mean an amp is maybe a speaker, which is what the clue says.
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