Sunday, May 17, 2020

ANSWERS: Diamond Rings 2

It's been thirteen days since "Diamond Rings 2" was posted on this blog, and nine people since then have successfully solved it, as you can see in the list below:
  • Cindy Heisler ****
  • Grant Fikes ****
  • Joe Bernard ****
  • Tyler Hinman ****
  • Stephen Potter ****
  • Kevin Orfield ****
  • Mom ****
  • Sam Levitin ****
  • Eric Maddy ****
Now head below the break for the answers as well as a couple solvers' comments!

1) THANK, 2) MELTS, 3) SPACY, 4) CLUES, 5) PAGER, 6) ZYNGA, 7) AWAKE, 8) WORLD, 9) ABHOR, 10) YOSHI, 11) TRYST, 12) AZTEC, 13) KOHL'S, 14) PRISM, 15) BEEPS, 16) ZEVON, 17) SWANN, 18) BELOW, 19) EXILE, 20) NIMOY, 21) SLOBS, 22) IBIZA, 23) NANCY, 24) LOGIC, 25) DREAM, 26) GUMBY, 27) EQUAL, 28) CHIME, 29) COLBY, 30) GROAN


The letters in the rings spell out HE PLAYED RITCHIE VALENS IN LA BAMBA, and the answer to that clue is LOU DIAMOND PHILLIPS

Solver Sam Levitin had this praise to give out: "What a puzzle. What an aha at the end, with the repetition of "diamond". Throughout solving, I was pleasantly surprised that there was as little ambiguity of which letters were shared between words. You must have spent some effort to make the possible overlaps between adjacent words small. I'm impressed."

Patron Tyler Hinman noted that "I just put that very fact in a pub quiz I wrote for colleagues a few weeks ago."

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