MADness—the Blog http://minaday.com/blog The semi-regular journal for the MAD About Movies site, with more on movies, and other things too. Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:15:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Gram Cracker Puzzles: Final Edition http://minaday.com/blog/2011/12/05/crosswords/gram-cracker-puzzles-final-edition/1320 http://minaday.com/blog/2011/12/05/crosswords/gram-cracker-puzzles-final-edition/1320#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:13:43 +0000 John Farmer http://minaday.com/blog/?p=1320 Gram Crackers
Cracker Pack #16  

    

I’ll have a new post up on the MAD front page soon with more to say about movies, puzzles, and the site.  Really.  In the meantime, let me bring to your attention the 16th—and final!—installment in the MAD Gram Cracker puzzle series.  I have enjoyed playing around with the form and seeing what I could cook up each month.  I do hope that you’ve enjoyed them too on the solving end.

The December set is at the usual spot, the MAD Puzzles page.

One last note, a hearty and sincere “thank you” to Dan Feyer, the two-time reigning champ of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, who has provided invaluable service over the past year-plus test-solving the puzzles before they went live.  Thanks, Dan.  You are now released from duty.

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Cracker Pack #15

    

Another month, another pair of puzzles.  A bit more open ’round the edges this time.  Enjoy!

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Cracker Pack #14

    
The new set of puzzles for October are in.  Where?  Here.
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Cracker Pack #13

    

Feeling lucky?  Here’s #13 (scroll down).

Though the site has been dormant—on hiatus, for the time being—the puzzles continue, and will through the end of the year.

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Cracker Pack #12

    

I have been busy with other busy-ness, and sorry for the lack of posts here and on the front page.  Meanwhile, the puzzles continue.  You can find the pair for August here.

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UPDATE:
Yes, we have a link.

 

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Cracker Pack #10

MAD-GC-10A_grid     MAD-GC-10B_grid

You may have noticed a lull around here lately.  The staff is working to fix that, and we hope to have more news soon.  Meanwhile, the puzzles keep a-comin’.  Get yours at the MAD Puzzles page.

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Cracker Pack #9

MAD-GC-9A_grid     MAD-GC-9B_grid

The May puzzles have arrived.  You’ll find them here.  Have fun.

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Cracker Pack #8

MAD-GC-8A_grid     MAD-GC-8B_grid

Hard to tell these two apart.

Still, they’re puzzles,
Identical puzzles and you’ll find,
They laugh alike, they walk alike,
At times they even talk alike –

You can lose your mind,
When puzzles are two of a kind.

There is a reason the Gram Crackers for April are a few days early.  Find out more at the MAD Puzzles page.

]]> http://minaday.com/blog/2011/04/01/crosswords/i-sometimes-get-my-left-and-my-right-mixed-up/1274/feed 1 Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) http://minaday.com/blog/2011/03/23/movies/elizabeth-taylor-1932-2011/1265 http://minaday.com/blog/2011/03/23/movies/elizabeth-taylor-1932-2011/1265#comments Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:59:05 +0000 John Farmer http://minaday.com/blog/?p=1265 Sad news today, and little time to say more than this:  she was one of the biggest stars in the history of movies.  Elizabeth Taylor died this morning, and she leaves behind many great moments, the best of which will outlive us all.

For more on her death, and her life:  her obituary, and A.O. Scott’s remembrance.

(For other clips and comments, you could run a search on the MAD About Movie front page, like this.)

A Place in the Sun (1951)
George Stevens, director
Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift

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