WINNERS - Random Games #1 (Feb. 12, 2018) The Random Times Crossword Puzzle

Hey Everyone!

Sorry for the delay in announcing the winners of the Random Games #1 - The random Times Crossword Puzzle. I chose a hectic week to start the contests on. This led to me committing the mortal SteemIt sin of losing my password for my new Hive account@randomgames account. So essentially that means I lost 6 Steem which was paid to create the new account, another $7 SBD that is now sitting in the account and is untouchable, as well as another 6 Steem that I lost when trying to create ANOTHER account. That time I just don't know what I did wrong, but it says my password is incorrect right from the first attempt to sign in. Still debating whether to try to create a new account for the games/contests or just run them here on my main account.

In the meantime though I need to announce the winners for week #1. As expected it was a slow week with not a lot of participation. (Although I did expect a few more players) I am assuming as it catches on and the word spreads the number of players will climb.

This week we had two players! They were Hive account@themanwithnoname and Hive account@professorbee. They actually wound up in a tie, missing one answer each. One of them had one wrong, while the other one might have just missed filling in one box on the crossword puzzle. Note, it was one letter of a two letter word. I am betting he just missed filling in that final box, but to be fair it must be marked incorrect.

Rather than breaking the tie in the manner that was explained in the original post I am just going to split the 5 Steem evenly between the two of them.

Below are the answers to the crossword puzzle clues, some interesting facts, and the completed puzzle.

ACROSS

5 - Landlocked South African nation
ANSWER: Lesotho

Lesotho is just one of three landlocked nations to be contained entirely within the borders of a single nation. The other two are both located in Italy. They are Vatican City and San Marino.

6 - Travels by T.A.R.D.I.S.
ANSWER: Dr. Who

In the Dr. Who universe the acronym T.A.R.D.I.S. is short for Time And Relative Dimension In Space.

Source: Pixabay

7 - Mother of Star Wars star Fisher
ANSWER: Reynolds

Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher were Carrie Fisher's parents. Eddie Fisher would go on to marry Connie Stevens and have Carrie's half-sisters Tricia Leigh Fisher and Joely Fisher.

Source: Pixabay

12 - Pope Francis birthplace
ANSWER: Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Pope Francis is the only pope to hail from South America.

13 - Intentionally set fire
ANSWER: Arson

14 - Previous ninth planet
ANSWER: Pluto

17 - Killer roaming streets of Haddonfield, Illinois
ANSWER: Michael Myers

19 - Cardiologist made famous by Oprah
ANSWER: Oz (Dr. Oz)

20 - Largest New Zealand city (pop.)
ANSWER: Auckland

Despite Auckland being the country's largest city, the more centrally located city of Wellington has been the nation's capital since 1865.

21 - Andrew Ridgley duo!
ANSWER: WHAM!

The more famous portion of the musical duo WHAM! was of course George Michael.

Source: allmusic.com

23 - Washington crossed it
ANSWER: Delaware

During the American Revolution, General George Washington led his troops across the Delaware River in a sneak attack on the Hessian soldiers in Trenton, NJ on Christmas night into December 26th, 1776.

Source: wikipedia

DOWN

1 - The Piano Man
ANSWER: Joel

Billy Joel is nicknamed The Piano Man. It was also the artist's second studio album, and most likely his biggest song of all-time.

Source: amazon.com

2 - Current Olympic host
ANSWER: PyeongChang

Source: NBC

3 - 21st U.S. President
ANSWER: Arthur

Chester A. Arthur was the 21st President of the United States.

4 - Bulbasaur and friends
ANSWER: Pokemon

Source: pokemon.wikia

8 - 2009 Best Picture Oscar Winner
ANSWER: Slumdog Millionaire

9 - Super Bowl LII MVP
ANSWER: Foles

Philadelphia Eagles backup quarterback Nick Foles was chosen as the MVP of this year's Super Bowl.

10 - British leaving EU term
ANSWER: Brexit

11 - The Crocodile Hunter
ANSWER: Irwin

Steve Irwin was known as The Crocodile Hunter.

15 - Russian meltdown site
ANSWER: Chernobyl

The Chernobyl nuclear meltdown took place on April 25-26, 1986.

16 - The Iron Lady
ANSWER: Thatcher

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was nicknamed The Iron Lady.

17 - Band-aid jingle composer
ANSWER: Manilow

Barry Manilow not only wrote the songs, he wrote the commercial jingles. He was responsible for the "I am stuck on Band-Aids cause Band-Aids stuck on me", as well as State Farm's "Like a good neighbor...", he has also done popular jingles for McDonald's, KFC, Stridex, and more.

Source: Pixabay

18 - Theo Huxtable's BFF's nickname
ANSWER: Cockroach

Cockroach's real name on the show was Walter Bradley. He was only an occasional character having appeared in just 12 episodes before actor Carl Anthony Payne decided to grow his hair out against the wishes of Bill Cosby. Not surprisingly Payne and his character would soon disappear from the TV airwaves.

22 - Colorful marshmallow holiday treat
ANSWER: Peeps

Source: Pixabay

24 - Seuss treehugger
ANSWER: Lorax

Source: amazon.com

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