Sometimes things are weird. On the show my wife and I were watching on the tube tonight, a couple was playing MINIGOLF - and lo, here it is as the theme of Monday's puzzle! Yes, it's MINIGOLF, with a "tee" on one side of the grid, a "hole" on the other, and a diagonal path from tee to hole, bouncing off grid edges and black squares to get there ("specular reflection", as we geeks would put it), with the entire path consisting of the letter 'O'. Cool!!
The middle row, containing the "tee" and "hole", also serves as the revealer : HOLE INONE SHOT. This alone, for me on a Monday, is worth the price of admission - such fun construction! We also learn, further down, that MINIGOLF's origins are in SCOTLAND, in 1867, for ladies only. Trust those Scotsmen to one-up us Canadians on the year of our confederation!
MUTTONCHOP makes an appearance today, as a cut of meat and a facial hairstyle. I always associate MUTTONCHOPs with old Scotsmen. There I go, follicularly profiling...
Not much else of note to report today, not that this puzzle needed anything further - no clever QMCs or anything like that. Very enjoyable puzzle - LOADSOFFUN, I dare say - especially at the end when the bouncing path of the "golf ball" was revealed.
-philbo
Yes, I loved this puzzle. In addition, the app gave me a fun animation of the golf ball taking the track necessary for the hole in one.
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