Lions and Lionesses—

The Killer Crossword is an extension of the club meetings. You are not bidding on a badge or paying a fine, but using the little intelligence you have left to attempt to win $10.00. For most of us $10.00 is not worth the effort, but we have enough competitive and anal members to make this online venture a success. Your name will be singled out and you will come forward to receive your money if you succeed. Further, your name will be enshrined on a large club napkin to be displayed at the Installation Night Dinner. Sudoko freaks, go count from zero to nine. We are human. We like words.

This is killer crossword time.

This month's puzzle is terribly difficult! It is uglier than all the financial woes of 2008! It is "homonyms from A to C." Homonyms, all of you from Ophir know, are words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings. This month's puzzle will give you the definition of a word. Your challenge is to decipher the word and then think of its homophonic "twin" and enter it in the spaces. There are no 'filler" words in the puzzle. For example, you may be guven the clue "rump or posterior" and you might think of "butt." You would not enter "butt" but you would enter its homonym, "but." I'd wish you luck but this puzzle is so tough that I am sweetening the pot and adding my own ten bucks on top of the club reward. If you think this is too challenging, get ready for 2009!

Click on a link below to take you to either one of two sites:

1—The Web Interactive site where you fill out a puzzle online. If you are clever enough, you can also print it out when you are done. For the Interactive Puzzle click this icon:

OR...

2—The Hardcopy Walk-Around where you can print off a copy of this month's madness and look cool while working it and waiting for a cab.  For the Hardcopy Walk-around click this icon:

The First and Only Rule

Seeing that we are playing for $money$, here are the rules:

1. First correct hard copy submission to me (TJ), either in the U.S. mail or a face-to-face presentation gets the prize, announced as an agenda item by the prez. Find a way, not an excuse. (Damn, I feel like I'm coaching again!)

2. There are no more rules. Whiners will be fined. If you chose to whine, you will show up in the Mane Thing De-Clawings! All decisions are Final-Final.

Good Luck!