[HINT: 1996]
19. might be fixed 20. kind of person inclined to vote for Trump[HINT: they're often full of -- well, look at an answer which is 2 rows down. **]
[** ¿ssǝnƃ noʎ pıp ʍoɥ ˙sɹǝʇʇǝן ɹnoɟ ǝʌɐɥ sǝop oʇ pǝɹɹǝɟǝɹ pɹoʍ ǝɥʇ 'sǝʎ]
21. kind of top
22. hide 23. lie 24. gas jerker 25. westerns 26. looking good! 27. done against dying light 28. look which may accompany 27 29. giant bush? 30. argue loudly Additional hints: ǝsɐɹɥd pɹoʍ-oʍʇ ɐ sı ɹǝʍsuɐ ǝuo puɐ 'suoıʇɐıʌǝɹqqɐ ǝsn sɹǝʍsuɐ ǝʌıɟ 'sɹǝʇʇǝן ןɐʇıdɐɔ ǝʌɐɥ sɹǝʍsuɐ xıs. Welcome to Sunday Puzzle, a weekly series for people who enjoy mental exercise spiced with politics, humor, odd bits of trivia, and the occasional furry animal.I'm running late (as usual these days) this week. I did manage to put together a JulieCrostic to post tonight, but was worried that it might be a bit short for a Sunday evening puzzle. No problem, snickered one of the gremlins, and they proceeded to construct an additional JulieCrostic for tonight's diary...
But, as part of their concern for the environment they simply appended their puzzle to mine rather than making it a separate entry in the diary. Do you know how much space discarded diaries take up in landfills! one of them howled in outrage. Every unnecessary line needs to be removed! They refused to even consider letting me edit the diary to separate the two puzzles. So I guess you'll need to figure out for yourselves where one puzzle ends and the other begins.
All 30 clues, for the two puzzles combined, are at the top of tonight's diary. If you're familiar with what JulieCrostics are and how they work, jump right in. If you're not familiar with JulieCrostics here are some NOTES FOR NEWCOMERS:
JulieCrostics are a special kind of acrostic puzzle, named in honor of Julie Waters who started the Sunday Puzzle series here back in 2007. If you're not familiar with how JulieCrostics work you can find a detailed explanation at the bottom of last night's Sunday Puzzle Warm-Up.The clues in the Saturday night warm-up puzzles are generally pretty straightforward. But if you're new you should be warned that we have mischievous gremlins who like to tamper with the Sunday night puzzle clues. In particular you should keep in mind:
* you can't trust the clue capitalization; * you can't trust the clue punctuation; * sometimes you can't even trust the word spacing.
Because of this, some of the clues may be hard to crack, and you may not understand at first how a particular answer fits the clue it's an answer to. But the answers actually do make sense, once you look at them the right way. If you have any trouble understanding how an answer fits the clue, please leave a comment and I or one of the other puzzlers will try to provide an explanation.
The gremlins also like bundling the clues into tidy little groups of 3, regardless of how many answers there actually are per row. If the number of clues doesn't divide evenly by 3, they add a space-filler clue or two at the end to fill out the final bundle. If you see a clue at the end such as nothing to see, that could well be such a clue. A small request: please don't put any any spoilers in the comment subject lines. Use the subject line of comments to identify what your comment will be about but keep any guesses as to clue answers or the verticals confined to the comment itself. That way folks who are still trying to crack a clue for themselves won't inadvertently see the answer before they're ready to see it. Thanks!