Puzzle Description:

Paul Simon...of Simon and Garfunkel, who had the song "Cecilia". (Alt spelling ala Aldege and Niki, via suggestion from David Bouldin)

#1: Thomas Genuine (Genuine) on Jul 20, 2013

Magnificent! :)

thanks Thomas! :)

Tremendous job Kurt,very good likeness.:)

ty ty!

ya know, I just glanced over David's suggestion without sounding it out...wasn't til Kristen wrote the lyrics that 2 and 2 got put together. oddly enough, I heard the song on the radio just the day before and thought to myself, "what a great song! wonder why I haven't heard it in so long?....that'd make a really good name for a baby girl!"

It's an excellent song! I'm glad I could inspire a great puzzle. :)

indeed! thanks, K! :)

no guessing on this one, folks!

prob not all this is necessary, but you've got line logic....then use el to dot c43,r44-50

el on the 2 in c1 dots r36-42,48-50

el on the 3 in r29 dots c30-32 in that row or you violate the 2 in c30

el makes the black in c6r32 the 1 clue in r32(because it can't be the 3 clue), dotting r32,c's 1,3-5,7. after this, line logic has the complete outside finished for sure, and I think the rest of the puzzle. I also used el on the 5 in r12 to dot r12c20-25. I don't think this last one was needed to finish out, but I'll list it anyway

Wow! I'm speechless. Great puzzle.

ty ty, Norma!

Awesome solve! Great puzzle.

After line logic fills in the top, top left, and right sides,

Edge logic on the 5 in r12 makes c20-25 white.
Deep edge logic on the 5 in r12 vs r14 makes c10-12 white,
(LL)
Internal edge logic on the 3 in c10 (vs c11) makes r15-19w
(LL)
Edge logic on the 2 in c25 makes r16 white.
Then LL to finish.

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by infrapinklizzard.

With that chin, it looks a bit like John Travolta.

I thought so too....and Chevy Chase as well! Oddly, Chevy appears in his video, "You can call me Al". Name the song!

thanks for the clarification Joe! you have no idea how much a "?" irks me.....

I agree, Chevy, Travolta & Paul
great solve, Kurt

Great video!
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-gYOrU8bA

I actually do know how much the ? annoys -- see my puzzle 9316 "Ignore the Question Mark" ( http://webpbn.com/index.cgi?id=9316 or http://www.webpbn.com/index.cgi?id=9316 )

Oh and I got rid of my shorthand gobbledygook in #11.

Very fun solve.

There was a particularly tricky bit where IEL helped me place some dots right above the 14 in C7 - I don't remember if I used any other EL but that was the only really tough part for me. Great solve.

solved. end logic. no quess.

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