Tag: Midi

Get Your Beer Here

Enjoying a Beer Lao on the Mekong River, Luang Prabang, Laos, March 2024

Words: 42 (11×11)

Average Length: 5.05

Whenever I travel to a new place, I try a local beer – solely as research for my travel blog, of course! I keep an online photo album of the beers; currently there are 53 pictures, and I intend to add to that on my upcoming trip to the South Pacific.

Cracking a cold one isn’t necessary to enjoy this puzzle, but the grid might put you in that kind of mood.

I just found out I misspelled 19D – it’s short one “n”. This was due solely to negligence, not to over-imbibing in any of the theme answers. Just think of it as a light beer. Forgive me!!!

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Tags Beer, Medium Difficulty, Midi, Themed crossword

Midi

Of Courses

Post author By Jeff
Post date November 6, 2024
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Words: 30 (9×9)

Average Length: 4.60

This is not the puzzle I’d hoped to post today. Feeling optimistic a couple of days ago, I had a midi ready to go celebrating my country’s stepping back from the brink. Instead, we jumped feet first.

So here’s an anodyne puzzle with no political content. Life, for now, goes on.

Ω Ω Ω Ω Ω

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Tags Medium Difficulty, Midi

Midi

And Then It Hit Me

See 1 Down (Mykonos, July 2014). Not that kind of Greek house!

Words: 28 (9×9)

Average Length: 5.00

The two top row entries were the seeds (so to speak). My favorite clue, though, is 21 Across.

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Tags Crossword, Medium Difficulty, Midi

Midi Themed

Flour Power

Post author By Jeff
Post date March 26, 2024
1 Comment on Flour Power

Not 9 Across. Steam engine, Isle of Man Railway. Photo taken July 2022.

Words: 36

Average Length: 4.67

My wife loves to bake (I specialize in consumption), and we watch a lot of baking shows. My favorite is the Kids Baking Championship, where 9-12 year old kids make me feel like at least part of our future is in good hands! In addition to creating spectacular treats, they toss around terms like 11 Across with abandon. After looking it up, I figured I’d create a midi around a basket of French pastry. (Best solved with a strong coffee or some 26 Across.)

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Tags French pastry, Kids Baking Championship, Medium Difficulty, Midi, Themed crossword

Midi Themed

Pay Them!

Post author By Jeff
Post date March 20, 2024
1 Comment on Pay Them!

See 1 Down. This is Max, one of our two pups.

Words: 28 (9×9)

Average Length: 5.29

I didn’t start out intending to make a plea for equitable pay for teachers, but it’s a message that can’t be emphasized strongly enough. Teachers are front-line workers facing steep odds, including the risk of being fired for informing children about any number of issues that shouldn’t be controversial but somehow are in our narrow-minded nation. They are life preservers and life enhancers, and they should be compensated accordingly!

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