54. In BOXeS crossword
The December issue of Scientific American, with my annual two-page crossword puzzle, is on newsstands now.
PDF downloads of both the ORIGINAL and a HARDER version, as well as the answers, can be found here: In BOXeS.
The HARDER version lacks some visual elements that are present in the ORIGINAL (same as the magazine) version, but is the same otherwise.
November 21, 2007 at 4:00 pm
As a physicist, I find myself forced to write the atomic symbols in mixed case; as a solver, I find that looks really weird. Other than that little brainmelt, I greatly enjoyed this puzzle!
November 21, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Thanks, Rhu/nmHz!
Even though they look odd, upper & lower case symbols just seem right, don’t they? I used them for the answer grid.
November 26, 2007 at 9:34 am
Thanks Pat for the link to the SciAm puzzle–this is the third year I’ve enjoyed your offering there–along with the Sun’s Wacky Weekend Warrior, it’s become something I look forward to every year.
On the other hand, it also makes me say to myself “My, does time fly….”