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Bird Blind
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2022 12:52 am
by woozy
So here's one about bird watching.
The grids a little tough and I have no idea if the meta is easy or hard but themers are at least easy to find.
The answer to the meta is.... something.
https://crosshare.org/crosswords/kiTCvM ... bird-blind
Re: Bird Blind
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2022 9:23 am
by Cap'n Rick
Holy cow! Confirmed on Crosshare! Thanks for the workout,
@woozy!
Re: Bird Blind
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2022 3:36 pm
by Meg
Crosshare confirmed. I spent some time with the answer without realizing it was the answer, but that’s how we roll in the metaverse. Nice construction!
Re: Bird Blind
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2022 3:42 pm
by whimsy
Got all the pieces of the grid in place and from there it was a whirl -- Fun!
Thanks, woozy!
Re: Bird Blind
Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2022 7:21 pm
by edestlin
Oof that grid chewed me up, but the meta (with some Google) made it a satisfying puzzle. Nice job, woozy!
Re: Bird Blind
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 8:22 am
by benchen71
Good one. Tricky grid, which is what we've come to expect from a woozy puzzle. But the meta was really good. Your best yet!
Re: Bird Blind
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 8:45 pm
by woozy
By the way.... How many does does it say to the reveal? As the creator it... doesn't actually show me. I've been publishing my crosswords privately and making them public later but I don't know how that effects the hide the reveal for a week.
Re: Bird Blind
Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 9:07 pm
by whimsy
woozy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 28, 2022 8:45 pm
By the way.... How many does does it say to the reveal? As the creator it... doesn't actually show me. I've been publishing my crosswords privately and making them public later but I don't know how that effects the hide the reveal for a week.
Just went to check it for you but it doesn't show once you've solved, which makes sense.
Re: Bird Blind
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 2:09 pm
by hoover
woozy wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 12:17 pm
Should I be giving nudges? I'm sure everyone who was ever interested in this has gone but ... nudges are fun.
We're not
all gone. Some of us were just really lost until we came back to find these nudges.
This was a metanism I hadn't seen before.
Re: Bird Blind
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 3:10 pm
by woozy
Okay, reveal.
This is our bird blind:
It allows us to look through the first, third, sixth and ninth letter and blocks out the rest.
This is our marshland:
So when we look at the clues with Latin names for bird genera through the birdblind:
we see the birds:
(The across birds are HAWK, IBIS, SWAN, TERN and WREN. The down birds are DUCK (which I wasn't able to show graphically at the same time as IBIS as the unblocked ninth letter in IMBECILES is a blocked fifth letter of DRUGSCOOK) and LARK (which I wasn't able to show simultaneously with TERN for a similar reason).
The clue with the (faux) Latin Phrase "Metam Resonsum" is our "Meta Answer"
If we don't look through the bird blind it is
WHITENING
But through the bird blind it appears as
WING.
And WING is the answer.
Re: Bird Blind
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2022 6:21 pm
by benchen71
Very cool metanism!
Re: Bird Blind
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2022 1:55 am
by madhatter5
Wow that is brilliant