PUZ, June 2018

[Glenn9999]

The puzzle for Monday June 4.  As always copy and save to an ANSI text file and load up in Across Lite. 

<ACROSS PUZZLE V2>
<TITLE>
LA Times, Mon, Jun 4, 2018
<AUTHOR>
Roland Huget / Ed. Rich Norris
<COPYRIGHT>
© 2018 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
<SIZE>
15x15
<GRID>
COME.SHOE.IPODS
ABET.CELL.NOLIE
JETstream.CLARA
USE.RED.SHRIVER
NESTEA...IOS...
...HamsterWHEEL
ABOUT.OWNED.TAI
REVS.BROOD.DARK
TEE.NATAL.AISLE
STREetsmarTS...
...LOO...OSCARS
LALANNE.EOE.NEO
ORANG.MIXMASTER
MAZDA.ALAI.ESSE
BLESS.GAME.EYES
<REBUS>
MARK ;
<ACROSS>
__-as-you-are party
Wedge or pump
Apple's Touch and Nano
Help with a robbery, say
Phone in a purse
"I kid you not"
Wind current that affects weather patterns
Barton of the Red Cross
Purpose
First rainbow color
First Peace Corps director Sargent __
Lipton rival
Apple mobile platform
Pet rodent's exercise gadget
Concerning
Held the deed to
Mai __: cocktail
Guns, as an engine
Nest of chicks
Turkey meat preference
Top worn with jeans
Birth-related
Numbered supermarket section
Good survival skills
Brit's bathroom
Filmdom awards
Longtime TV fitness guru Jack
Job ad letters
"The Matrix" hero
Sumatran ape
Sunbeam brand ... and a literal hint to the circled letters
Miata automaker
Jai __
Latin being
Sanctify
Clue or Risk
Peepers
<DOWN>
Bayou cuisine
More than plump
Doles (out)
UFO pilots, presumably
Riot, in the funny way
Take to heart
Rio greeting
Shade trees
Narrow, exclusive group
Refined manner
Norwegian royal name
Desperate, as straits
Char on a grill
Halloween trick alternative
Put on the payroll
In this way
Alphabetizes, say
Time for semiannual clock changes: Abbr.
__ Gay: WWII bomber
Vowels after zetas
British nobleman
Facebook thumbs-up
Part of MFA
Borscht basic
Partner of "done with"
Relay stick
Brake rotor
Nightlife sign's light source
On the briny
African antelopes
Dorm pal
Unable to sit still
Baseball Hall of Famer Pee Wee
Tender spots
Bausch's partner
Asia's vastly diminished __ Sea
Lie idly (around)
Periodical with a URL
Reason to study
Dockworkers' org.
Match, as a bet

[phil262]

[Badir]

Okay, I couldn't get the June 4 LAT puzzle from the archive page, so I came here.  I'm sorry, I haven't done this before.  How do I 'save to an ANSI text file'?  I tried saving to a text file with a '.ANSI' extension, but that didn't work.  What should I do?

Thanks,
David

[phil262]

An ANSI text file is just a fancy name for a generic text file with a .txt extension

[Badir]

Thanks!  It's weird, though–it works with the puzzle as a '.txt' file, but if I change it to '.puz', then it says it's corrupted and won't load it.  And when I tried to save as '.puz', it saved as '.txt'!.

[Glenn9999]

An ANSI text file is just a fancy name for a generic text file with a .txt extension

Yeah.  I'm just saying that to distinguish from a Unicode text file.  It's in the way the characters are saved.  It may handle Unicode though, but I haven't tried it.

Thanks!  It's weird, though–it works with the puzzle as a '.txt' file, but if I change it to '.puz', then it says it's corrupted and won't load it.  And when I tried to save as '.puz', it saved as '.txt'!.

The general process is you copy what I have in the post out to a text file in Notepad and then save it (say as lat180604.txt).  Then you load that file up in Across Lite, where you can save as a PUZ file.