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Laura M wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 1:29 pm Beamed up! Less than 24 hours between submissions, weird

That would be an ultra-rare badge!

Awaiting the beam... [Nice one, if somewhat meta-adjacent to mine!]

... and I'm beamed at #202.

Beamed.

Didn't know the wife trivia.

Oh my gosh! I’m streaking! Didn’t think that was ever going to happen!
Beamed and beaming!

ky-mike wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 2:41 pm That took me way too long to see. Thanks to some group solve helpers for getting the right idea out in front.

It is most certainly a week #1 but I wonder if he is deliberately messing with us and intentionally plying with a common frustration one has with metas (usually week 2+s) where you figure the first step is clear sailing and .... you get a mess and you can't figure out what to do with it. I can just imagine matt chuckling "But what if ...."

I'm not beamed yet, but I'm sure I will be. I'll be joining the grumbleyuck crowd. And adding my own yeesh.

Beamed at 136!

I have $14 that says my incorrect WAG was and will be the darkest answer submitted. It'd be sobering if I could control my chuckling.

Beamed!

Solved but is it just me, or is the grammar/syntax kind of non-crosswordy on 57A and 52A?

On the board at #269. Fun one, Matt!

Amanda Hugginkiss wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 4:07 am Solved but is it just me, or is the grammar/syntax kind of non-crosswordy on 57A and 52A?

I think it's some misprints in the PDF, the clues in the PUZ file are correct:

52A: "Gladiator" and "Evil Dead Rise" have one
57A: Shed tears

schmidzy wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:16 am

Amanda Hugginkiss wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 4:07 am Solved but is it just me, or is the grammar/syntax kind of non-crosswordy on 57A and 52A?

I think it's some misprints in the PDF, the clues in the PUZ file are correct:

52A: "Gladiator" and "Evil Dead Rise" have one
57A: Shed tears

Thank you so much for explaining, Schmidzy! I, too, wondered about that.

schmidzy wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:16 am

Amanda Hugginkiss wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 4:07 am Solved but is it just me, or is the grammar/syntax kind of non-crosswordy on 57A and 52A?

I think it's some misprints in the PDF, the clues in the PUZ file are correct:

52A: "Gladiator" and "Evil Dead Rise" have one
57A: Shed tears

On the PDF the clue for 52A is "'"Gladiator" and "Evil Dead Rise"" which is an acceptable but hard clue. The clue in the PUZ file is better.

57A in the PDF is "She tears" which is just a typo that rather regrettably doesn't look like a typo and would be a valid clue for another answer.

Joe Ross wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 6:30 pm I have $14 that says my incorrect WAG was and will be the darkest answer submitted. It'd be sobering if I could control my chuckling.

Inquiring minds want to know…

Beamed.

beamed!

Joe wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 5:13 pm I'm not beamed yet, but I'm sure I will be. I'll be joining the grumbleyuck crowd. And adding my own yeesh.

Beamed!
I see your grumbleyuck and yeesh and raise a gak!