XWord Muggles Forum

Welcome to Muggle Meta Mondays! This is my first stab at an MMM puzzle. I hope you enjoy it! I would rate this one as a pretty firm couch (firm couches are easier to get off of, right?), or if you want a more quantitative measure, hovering around a Week 1 on the MGWCC scale. (For a more difficult meta, try Will's Weekly Meta from yesterday.)

Talk_to_the_Hand.puz
Talk_to_the_Hand.pdf

The answer to the meta is a two-word phrase. PM me your solution by 4pm on Sunday. Have a great week!

Go Damefox! Look forward to tackling at noon.

Congrats on your first MMM. Cannot wait to try it out.

Off the couch!

My favorite clue: 4D. I love a good variety cryptic nearly as much as a good meta.

Congrats, damefox, on your first MMM!

Awesome. I'll go with a very fun week 1.25.

Just started the grid; 5D was a gimme but wouldn't have been five days ago.

C=64 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 12:04 pm Just started the grid; 5D was a gimme but wouldn't have been five days ago.

LOL!!!

I think I'm off the couch after overthinking it for a little bit!

Pretty sure I solved it, but it looks like my PMs are getting stuck in my Outbox? I'll wait and see before sending a third PM.

C=64 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 12:32 pm Pretty sure I solved it, but it looks like my PMs are getting stuck in my Outbox? I'll wait and see before sending a third PM.

PMs stay in outbox until the recipient opens it. In which case it moves into your sent

spotter wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 12:39 pm

C=64 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 12:32 pm Pretty sure I solved it, but it looks like my PMs are getting stuck in my Outbox? I'll wait and see before sending a third PM.

PMs stay in outbox until the recipient opens it. In which case it moves into your sent

Grazie!

🛋

C=64 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 12:04 pm Just started the grid; 5D was a gimme but wouldn't have been five days ago.

I actually wrote that clue before last week's WSJ Contest - 20A in that puzzle was a gimme for me!

Off the couch. Fun puzzle. Thank you.

Fun one! 30D, while not a gimme, was a lot easier than it would have been a few weeks ago.

Nice job, damefox! Could easily see this as a themed WSJ, Monday or Tuesday. Very polished feel to the grid / cluing, etc.

joequavis wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 1:09 pm 30D, while not a gimme, was a lot easier than it would have been a few weeks ago.

I'm glad you mentioned this clue, because I went to look at it to remind myself what is was, and frustratingly there is a typo in it that I didn't notice because my French is not as good as it used to be. It should say, "La classe de danse," not "La classe de dance." Doh! This is in no way related to the meta though.

joequavis wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 1:09 pm Very polished feel to the grid / cluing, etc.

Agreed -- although I got Naticked with 29A/11D/26D, the fill was very clean.

damefox wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 1:17 pm

joequavis wrote: ↑Mon Aug 10, 2020 1:09 pm 30D, while not a gimme, was a lot easier than it would have been a few weeks ago.

I'm glad you mentioned this clue, because I went to look at it to remind myself what is was, and frustratingly there is a typo in it that I didn't notice because my French is not as good as it used to be. It should say, "La classe de danse," not "La classe de dance." Doh! This is in no way related to the meta though.

Sadly, I'm not nearly cultured enough to have noticed that. And I probably only would have noticed had I needed to Google it.

Off the couch. Thanks damefox for the meta.

I enjoyed the clue for 29D (we just watched that movie last night!) and 4D.