Taking One for the Team
- Bird Lives
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Taking One for the Team
In anticipation of the football game next Sunday, the prompt for today’s MMM is:
The answer is an entertainer at a past Super Bowl Halftime show.
Some Googling may be necessary, depending on your knowledge in various categories. As for difficulty, FanDuel lays this one at 2½.
Thanks to @Abide for test solving and wise counsel and to @Joe Ross for making the theme-designating asterisks easier to distinguish from quotation marks. He has also upgraded the font you see in the .pdf below from Roboto to Nunito Sans for what our typographical team assures us is a more professional look.
Taking One for the Team
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The answer is an entertainer at a past Super Bowl Halftime show.
Some Googling may be necessary, depending on your knowledge in various categories. As for difficulty, FanDuel lays this one at 2½.
Thanks to @Abide for test solving and wise counsel and to @Joe Ross for making the theme-designating asterisks easier to distinguish from quotation marks. He has also upgraded the font you see in the .pdf below from Roboto to Nunito Sans for what our typographical team assures us is a more professional look.
Taking One for the Team
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PUZ
spreadsheet
Jay
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Thanks to Jay @Bird Lives for stepping in last-minute with this puzzle, then his patience, counsel, & willingness to edit while we all worked out the font issue.
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Off the couch. Till Sunday. Thanks for a clever puzzle, Jay.
And thanks to @Joe Ross for the work on those asterisks. So eye saving.
And thanks to @Joe Ross for the work on those asterisks. So eye saving.
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67A .... well, that's cheery... hopefully I might have solve this meta by then.
(I think I have the key, but I can't get it together.)
(I think I have the key, but I can't get it together.)
Stinky Pinkies!
My Entry to the May 2024 CrossHare Midi Contest
Not a meta, but, yeesh!, that was tough to create.
My Entry to the May 2024 CrossHare Midi Contest
Not a meta, but, yeesh!, that was tough to create.
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Really don’t know what to do with this one. I see some things that sort of have commonality, but some are just ???. Intrigued. And waiting for a nudge.
UPDATE - got a little nudge from @boharr … still took quite a while, with some lists in front of me and lots of searching searching searching. And a few extra guesses on Crosshare.
OTC and now I need a nap!
UPDATE - got a little nudge from @boharr … still took quite a while, with some lists in front of me and lots of searching searching searching. And a few extra guesses on Crosshare.
OTC and now I need a nap!
Last edited by HeadinHome on Mon Feb 05, 2024 4:24 pm, edited 2 times in total.
The other Wendy.
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Same here... a rabbit hole or two, but myriad dead ends. Time for the set-it-aside-and-come-back tacticHeadinHome wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2024 2:53 pm Really don’t know what to do with this one. I see some things that sort of have commonality, but some are just ???. Intrigued. And waiting for a nudge.
Ray
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Off the couch! Surprised myself!!
Check out "The MOAT MEOW Mashup Pack" here. US$10 for 14 metas that don't always abide by the "rules" of the game: asymmetry, 2-letter words, uncrossed letters, who knows. And this time there's a mega-meta!
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Is it just me or has the TAB key stopped working on CrossHare after the grid is complete? *VERY* annoying.
Stinky Pinkies!
My Entry to the May 2024 CrossHare Midi Contest
Not a meta, but, yeesh!, that was tough to create.
My Entry to the May 2024 CrossHare Midi Contest
Not a meta, but, yeesh!, that was tough to create.
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CrossHare has been doing some interesting things… yesterday it dumped a few of my answers out and I had to fill the in again. ?
The other Wendy.
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I can’t do anything about technical difficulties at Crosshare. But I can offer help with other difficulties. Apparently the Fan Duel handicappers were way off in their assessment of difficulty. They’re raising the point spread.
Traditionally, Wednesday is Nudgeday (yes, we have traditions here at the MMM), so I may be jumping offsides, but since some people seem to have gotten off to a false start or no start at all, here are a couple of early nudges.
Traditionally, Wednesday is Nudgeday (yes, we have traditions here at the MMM), so I may be jumping offsides, but since some people seem to have gotten off to a false start or no start at all, here are a couple of early nudges.
Jay
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OTC. Superb !
Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 metapuzzles created to help raise money for cancer-related charities. It is available at CrosswordsForCancer.com.
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Pretty sure I have it but Crosshare will not allow me to submit. I solved on paper and now cannot get to the page where I select reveal puzzle and then go to the submission page.
EDIT: Once I revealed the nudges in Crosshare I was able to see the grid and reveal to get to the submission form.
Great puzzle Jay!
EDIT: Once I revealed the nudges in Crosshare I was able to see the grid and reveal to get to the submission form.
Great puzzle Jay!
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That happened to me once over this weekend. All in all though I've gotten a lot out of crosshare so I shouldn't complain too much.HeadinHome wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2024 4:25 pm CrossHare has been doing some interesting things… yesterday it dumped a few of my answers out and I had to fill the in again. ?
Stinky Pinkies!
My Entry to the May 2024 CrossHare Midi Contest
Not a meta, but, yeesh!, that was tough to create.
My Entry to the May 2024 CrossHare Midi Contest
Not a meta, but, yeesh!, that was tough to create.