As a student I always hated pop quizzes because I felt they were more punitive than instructive, and as an educator I felt the same way. However, as a crossword constructor, well that's a different story. The idea just popped into my mind, as so many…
Well you've had beers, celebrated Moms, and dropped acid so now it is time to sit back and say nothing. This was directly inspired by a past meta, not sure if it was a Gaffney, Shenk or Birnholz but I "borrowed" at least a part of the mechanism. That…
Who doesn't enjoy an outing? This may end up being a trip down memory lane, and hopefully not the trip from hell. You won't find the answer in a Rick Steeves guidebook, that's for sure.
When the Captain asked me for a Smooth Sailing Sunday Solve (wait is that too many S's?) I could not resist. What I had to resist is trying to Tom this darn thing up. It is VERY hard to do what the Captain does; make a fun, interesting, challenging…
How utterly fitting that two "tea-totalers" like us should do a puzzle like this. I suppose you can say we were trying to make you hoppy? This took the Captain's supreme skill at grids since the Doctor was out when it came to filling. It should be…
You know the old saying about a group on monkeys and the works of Shakespeare, well apparently if you give me a computer and enough time to just be silly, a puzzle emerges. There is no meta answer, there is really no good sense to this except that I…
Well, I'm back. I hope this title and prompt are clear enough. I don't know if they're cloudy or right, but if you PM me with questions on what you think you should do hopefully I will only have ayes for you dear.