Beekeeper Crosswords

Puzzle #137: “Medicine Show”

keeper — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:05:39 +0000

Let it never be said that we here at Beekeeper Labs never take you anywhere. Last week we went to the disco. This week, it’s off to see our friendly snake oil salesman at the traveling medicine show. It’s guaranteed to cure what ails you, or you’ll get back double what we charged for the puzzle. (Warranty void in some states. Always read the fine print even when it doesn’t say anything useful. Fnord.)

Title: Medicine Show
Difficulty: Thursday
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Puzzle #136: “Dance Fever”

keeper — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:30:42 +0000

As promised last week, we have fixed all problems (technical and otherwise) which were preventing us from supplying you with a tasty weekly crossword. We’ve been scheming all week to try to come up with a splendiferous theme to justify the wait. What we came up with, however, is mostly just….odd. However, it does contain your RDA of bad puns, obscure references, geography lessons, FLAs (we don’t like three letter abbrevs much, but we can groove on four), and such like.

Title: Dance Fever
Difficulty: Thursday
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No puzzle for Feb 25

keeper — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:03:29 +0000

Sorry folks, but it looks like there won’t be a puzzle this week. Things were going well, and this weeks puzzle was 80% finished, when I found that there was a fundamental, unfixable flaw in the theme. We care about quality here at Beekeeper Crosswords, even more than we care about our schedule, so we’re going to drop back 10 yards and try to come up with a particularly good puzzle for next week, rather than make you suffer with a broken or rushed puzzle this week.

Puzzle #135: “Chill”

keeper — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:18:14 +0000

Perhaps this week’s puzzle is inauspiciously named. After all, it has been quite chilly enough in this part of Western PA without any encouragement from your faithful puzzle provider. Nonetheless, it is what it is — and what it is is a reasonably easy, and yet charmingly annoying Wednesday-level puzzle. So put on a warm jacket, brew yourself a nice cup of tea, and prepare to “chill”.

Title: Chill
Difficulty: Wednesday
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Puzzle #134: “That is to Say…”

keeper — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:54:17 +0000

Title: That is to say….
Difficulty: Thursday
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Puzzle #133: Old Uncle Fred’s Tech Support

keeper — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:12:26 +0000

When my family heard I’d been having computer trouble, they immediately sent Uncle Fred to take a look. You see, Fred’s ’bout 90 years old and they say he can fix anything. If you’ve got a shotgun with a bad barrel, he can fix ‘er up good as new. If you’ve got a ‘57 Chevy with a bad carburetor, Fred’ll have it purrin’ like a kitten. If those dang kids have broken the dial on your TV set, he’ll jigger up a replacement, no problem. I’m not so sure he’ll do as well with my Windows PC, though. You see, last I heard, Fred still thinks a vacuum tube is an attachment for his Electrolux….

Title: Old Uncle Fred’s Tech Support
Difficulty: Thursday
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Puzzle #132: “Talking Smack”

keeper — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:51:41 +0000

Title: Talking Smack
Difficulty: Wednesday
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Puzzle #131: “Share of Salt”

keeper — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:26:39 +0000

Title: Share of Salt
Difficulty: Wednesday
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Puzzle #130: “One Dollar”

keeper — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:12:10 +0000

The title of the puzzle is “One Dollar”, but if you order right this minute, we can give it to you for the low, low discounted price of…. What’s that? We’re giving it away for free? Oh! Well, I guess I can’t offer you a discount then. Never mind. One the other hand, this week’s puzzle gives you 33% fewer “d”s than last week’s. Can we market it as a diet puzzle?

Title: One Dollar
Difficulty: Wednesday
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Puzzle #129: “Warped”

keeper — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:12:05 +0000

Title: Warped
Difficulty: Thursday
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