Sunday Puzzle Blogging: "On Notice" edition

Once again, I'm back to host our regular Sunday puzzle blogging series.  

For those of you participating, please remember the simple rules: don't post answers in subject lines.  Instead, post subjects such as "ACROSTIC 1,2,3" with the answers or suggestions included inside the subject.

I don't have much to say this week.  It's my first official week of being generally unemployed (not a surprise: I've known this was coming since mid-May) which is kind of surreal (not bad or good: just surreal).  This means more time to write puzzles, but also more time to figure out how I'm going to find a new source if income, so, good and bad :)

Puzzle #1 is an easy one, as shown in this photo:

As with many of my puzzle diaries, I will include a few photos.  For each photo, they are clickable links, which lead you to larger versions with more details.  Today's all involve my attempts to capture fireflies in motion.  You can barely spot the fireflies here, but I still managed to get a really nice photo:

Instructions for ACROSTICS:

The rules for an acrostic are simple:  for each row, the answer is  of increasing length, such as a five-letter word, a six-letter word and a seven-letter word.  Each next size word is formed by adding a letter to the previous answer and scrambling.

  In the box in-between each answer, put the extra letter.  I.e., if your answers were:

  ITEMS, MISTER and RED MIST

  You'd place an "R" in the box between ITEMS and MISTER and a "D" between MISTER and RED MIST.

  When you solve the whole puzzle, you will get related words in the down columns.

  From now on, I won't be including the acrostic grid in the puzzles, but instead let you all guess the layout as part of the puzzle.  I.e., if I were to include the following acrostic:

I could reference it as 9 x 4-5-6.   But I might, instead, just let you figure out that the down words are 9 letters long and sort out the 4-5-6 on your own.  In previous puzzles I have consistently kept the word lengths consistent, but I don't promise that this will always be true.  I.e., one set might be 4-5-6, and another might be 5-6-7.  

I may also sometimes do a trick on the down words (such as reversing the order of one, or switching the first names (in one puzzle I used JOHN ROMNEY and MITT MCCAIN as the answers).  I may even possibly use anagrams.

Puzzle #2: this week's acrostic:

1. Yorkshire 96080?


2. Having a developed immunity


3. Satan's locale


4. Pierces


5. Without botox


6. General fish without a shirt?


7. Chad's neighbor


8. Topple your king


9. Rough edges


10. Counterpoint to #1


11. Day of return?


12. Optimistic turn?


13. Bricklayer's clay?


14. Reflectivity (refined)


15. Predictable performance


16. It produces insulin


17. Leave uncertain


18. Pressed


19. Right now it's yellow


20. Lather up


21. Captivate


22. Be smug


23. Fishing vessel


24. Earache


25. Perform


26. Pose


27. If you're trying this puzzle, this may be you


28. Deplete


29. Buzz


30. Clementine


31. Open


32. Features


33. Eager


34. #28 leads here


35. Continues


36. This can come with spaghetti


37. Warning


38. Tell a story


39. Kind of check


40. Part of material for #13


41. Jerry's counterpoint


42. Perpendicular axe


43. Beat swords into plowshares


44. Help #46


45. Generally benign tumor


46. Grain Goddess


47. Review


48. #37, for example


49. Remove


50. Swells


51. Creature of habit


52. Attacks


53. Satisfy


54. Shaker


55. If she's good, she'll do #48


56. Eliminate

Fireworks captured over time:

Puzzle #3: A cryptolist

The goal is to translate the below list to figure out what it's a list of:

CVWLFI
USV CFLEU QIDV
USV QFPZIUV KPCV LC YSVFKLNB SLKGVY
PFGI KI WLANV
USV IQIFUGVEU
USV YVZVE JVIF PUNS
YIOFPEI
YAEYVU OLAKVZIFW
USV GIHLF IEW USV GPELF

Another attempt at fireflies that didn't work as well, but still came out cool:

Puzzle #4: A logic puzzle

Use the following clues to figure out who (Bob, Doug, Ella, Florenza, Martina & Sahib) plays what instrument (Guitar, Piano, Sax, Marimba, Trumpet, Triangle) and likes what style (Jazz, Salsa, Easy Listening, Swing, Blues, & Country/Western):

1. The one who plays a stringed instrument hates easy listening and c&w


2. The piano player loves blues


3. Bob does not play a wind instrument, nor does he play the triangle


4. Ella dislikes Salsa and easy listening


5. Florenza hates salsa, country & western, and swing


6. Bob loves jazz


7. The guitar player loves swing


8. Martina dislikes salsa, easy listening and blues


9. The saxophone player likes neither country & western, nor easy listening


10. Martina does not play a wind instrument, nor does she play the triangle


11. Doug dislikes salsa, swing & blues


12. Florenza plays a wind instrument


13. The country & western lover plays neither guitar nor piano

Fireworks from last night:

Puzzle #5: Geeky trivia

In the TV series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" there is a subplot involving an alternate dimension.  In a later episode, a Vampire version of Willow, one of the show's main characters, from that alternate universe appears in the "normal" Buffy universe.  

In the final season, there is a character who takes on the appearance of many different characters from the show's run.  

Excluding the two scenarios referenced above, (and excluding scenarios in which one character is possessed by a demon, such as Xander being possessed by the Hyenas or Jenny Calendar being possessed by Eyghon) there are at least five actors who have appeared in the series playing more than one character.  At least one of these has appeared as three characters.  Who are these actors and what characters did they play?

More fireworks from last night:

Puzzle #6: Catch Phrases/Whacky Wordies/What Have You

The following are along the lines of what Nova Land calls "Catch Phrases" though I also have seen puzzles along the same lines called "Whacky Worides."  They're all wordplay of some sort to find the solution as suggested:

Catch phrase A: A celebrity, two words, exact phrase yields 6,230,000 hits on Google:

UPDATE: solved

Catch phrase B: A type of bird, two words, exact phrase yields 264,000 hits on Google:

Wound? Allow light: brown & old

Catch phrase C: A common term, two words exact phrase yields 19,600,000 hits on Google:

Catch phrase D: A common term, three words, exact phrase yields 24,000,000 hits on google.

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Catch phrase E: A movie, three words, exact phrase yields 6,650,000 hits on Google.

Catch phrase F: An animal, one word, yielding 10,900,000 hits on Google:

An insect runs off to wed

UPDATE: E & F have both been solved (both answers in one comment)

Epilogue

That's it for the puzzles.  I'll leave you with one more photo, in which I finally managed to successfully capture the fireflies (though I still need work on the technique):