Enigmarch, Day 11: BRIDGE
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tahnanSpeed writing may not be my strength. (Which is ridiculous, given the number of NPL conventions where I wrote a puzzle the night before.) But I'm working on it.
Bridge Over Troubled Letters
One thing I often explain to people about puzzles is that you can always adjust them to make them easier or harder. The example I use is a crossword clue for a five-letter word, which can be very vague and thus hard to solve (as the two-word sequence of letters below), or very specific but not well-known and thus possibly hard to solve without references (as the three-word sequence, though properly it needs a word repeated a few times).
Anyway, if you want to get across those troubled letters, you'll probably need something connecting one side to the other.
The connections, in no particular order, are: Body part • Box • Dishware • Disinclined • Dog • Drug • Farm activity • Furnaces • Furniture • Game piece • Location • Theme word • Wander • Watch
And the answer checker is here.
Bridge Over Troubled Letters
One thing I often explain to people about puzzles is that you can always adjust them to make them easier or harder. The example I use is a crossword clue for a five-letter word, which can be very vague and thus hard to solve (as the two-word sequence of letters below), or very specific but not well-known and thus possibly hard to solve without references (as the three-word sequence, though properly it needs a word repeated a few times).
Anyway, if you want to get across those troubled letters, you'll probably need something connecting one side to the other.
- In the depths of some caves you can find nocturnal birds. (6-4)
- A prickly bush is no place to take a leisurely walk. (7-5)
- It's rare for the central female character of a book to be a wading bird. (7-5)
- The general movement is for things to start a few hours before noon. (5-3)
- Jane Fonda's niece must have looked lovely when she got married to Danny Elfman. (7-5)
- Veronica's friends in a 1980s dark comedy were the kind of people who aggresively criticize others. (8-6)
- Where the king lives, things move at their own speed. (6-4)
- When putting things away on an airplane, make sure there are no hanging straps that might sway back and forth. (7-5)
- If you make something new, critics are bound to give it a number of stars. (6-4)
- I have negative reactions to most poetry. (7-5)
- Everyone should use a rectangular computing device, if they are in possession of the skill and means. (6-4)
- I wonder how many Americans of a nationality associated with a day in mid-March work for an organization associated with a day in mid-April. (5-3)
- We'll need something more tapered as a prop for this play by Nobel winner Harold. (8-6)
- The creature's offspring lifted up one animal-like foot. (5-3)
The connections, in no particular order, are: Body part • Box • Dishware • Disinclined • Dog • Drug • Farm activity • Furnaces • Furniture • Game piece • Location • Theme word • Wander • Watch
And the answer checker is here.