A weekly meta crossword on the forum started by member Josh (aka madhatter5). These puzzles are often very creative with solving mechanisms out of the norm and skewing towards the more challenging. Puzzles are posted every Wednesday, and the solution appears the following Tuesday.
Hopefully this will be a much easier go than the last couple of mine. It was never my intent to throw two fastballs low and inside so I am trying to make it up with this fun and, with luck, eminently solvable meta that is free of any rotten tricks!
There will be nudges later for anyone who needs them, and of course anytime by PM.
Have FUN!
ERRATA: 1D SHOULD read Christina, the original movie Wednesday
46D should be Hypocrisy free, not Hippocracy free (on my oath it should not!)
Last edited by DrTom on Wed Apr 05, 2023 4:33 pm, edited 1 time in total.
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges where needed; metas should be about fun, not frustration. Send me what you have done so far because often you are closer than you think!
Cat's out! Thanks for the puzzle: just the right amount of thinking involved.
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Well I would love to take credit for a very educated, though oblique, reference to Swift's writings but it appears I was a Little Off. Hippocracy (a society ruled by horses) made it all the way to the published version when it was really Hypocrisy I meant. It appears I need to be a bit more hyper critical of my own work!!!
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges where needed; metas should be about fun, not frustration. Send me what you have done so far because often you are closer than you think!
Darth wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 11:20 am
The cat is out... and kneading some attention.
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Kneading....DOH!
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges where needed; metas should be about fun, not frustration. Send me what you have done so far because often you are closer than you think!
Dplass wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 1:21 pm
Solved. Thanks for the puzzle!
And thank you for helping make it a better experience. Testers are soooo valuable to the process.
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges where needed; metas should be about fun, not frustration. Send me what you have done so far because often you are closer than you think!
(I've already gotten a lot of mileage out of this little critter and I envision getting even more! )
Thank you Claudia, it would definitely be less a thumbs up without your assistance. I think I may be the only person more familiar with this particular puzzle than you
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges where needed; metas should be about fun, not frustration. Send me what you have done so far because often you are closer than you think!
Yes someone already pointed out that I made an error. Actually, even worse, I knew about it because a tester pointed it out and I THOUGHT I had changed it to the original MOVIE Wednesday, but obviously did not. What a doofus I can be.
NUDGES!I am always willing to give nudges where needed; metas should be about fun, not frustration. Send me what you have done so far because often you are closer than you think!
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