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So I was sitting around yesterday after having caught up on all of my metas for the week, and thought “wouldn’t it be nice if someone created a Mother’s Day meta?” And so I did.

This is my first published crossword of any kind. I have no idea how difficult it is – I think its somewhere around a week 2.5 to 3, but you’ll be the judge of that.

Feel free to PM me with any comments, criticisms, etc. I have a few more in the hopper that I’ve been refining, so if this one works out, maybe I’ll become a regular contributor.


The puzzle is called “Are You My Mother?”, and the meta answer is a five-letter word.



Are You My Mother.pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XO4pN4 ... sp=sharing

Are You My Mother.puz: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lw8X3Q ... sp=sharing


Tom

(Hopefully the above links work, or this is going to be a really short experiment!)

Links work for me! Thanks, Tom. Look forward to diggin into this!

I have step one. Looking for step two and wondering how many steps.
Sneaky!
And I think I have it! Very nice. Will pm.

Nice debut, definitely worthy of further "experiments". I would put it closer to Week 2.

Links work. Nice little meta.

Got it. Fun! I'll PM you to be sure I'm correct.

Very fun/ very nice! Thanks!

TMart wrote: ↑Sun May 10, 2020 4:46 pm So I was sitting around yesterday after having caught up on all of my metas for the week, and thought “wouldn’t it be nice if someone created a Mother’s Day meta?” And so I did.

This is my first published crossword of any kind. I have no idea how difficult it is – I think its somewhere around a week 2.5 to 3, but you’ll be the judge of that.

Feel free to PM me with any comments, criticisms, etc. I have a few more in the hopper that I’ve been refining, so if this one works out, maybe I’ll become a regular contributor.


The puzzle is called “Are You My Mother?”, and the meta answer is a five-letter word.



Are You My Mother.pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XO4pN4 ... sp=sharing

Are You My Mother.puz: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lw8X3Q ... sp=sharing


Tom

(Hopefully the above links work, or this is going to be a really short experiment!)

This one definitely worked out! I really enjoyed it and hope you will do more.

Loved this! I definitely would rate this closer to Week 3 than 2. Great job...more, please!

Great puzzle, Tom! Agree with those calling for an encore!

Nicely done.

Think I have step one too.

Excellent. Thank you!

Very impressed.

Stuck after step 1

Nice! Thanks for the Mother's Day "gift"!

I'm just so impressed and delighted by the quality of the puzzles created by people in this forum. (And a little worried that I'm going to run out of time to do all of them!) There are some seriously smart and talented people here!

(Totally unrelated but I just now noticed Isaac's mask, no idea how long that's been up but hahahahaha omg)

Laura M wrote: ↑Mon May 11, 2020 9:38 pm
(Totally unrelated but I just now noticed Isaac's mask, no idea how long that's been up but hahahahaha omg)

Wow... "[We] see, but [we] do not observe" - paraphrasing Sherlock Holmes, "A Scandal in Bohemia"

With apologies for the delay, here is the link to this puzzle in Excel.

Whew, very lucky to stumble onto the big step. But totally gettable for someone that can access all the meta clubs in their meta bag. Great puzzle!

Late to the party, but I finally got this one. Great puzzle, Tom, I really loved it. Please post more!! Thanks!