Formerly known as the “Sunday Summer Substitute”, editor Cap'n Rick now takes the helm for 'Smooth Sailing Sundays'. As The Commodores sang about Sunday morning, the SSS will focus on easier metas. SSS will also support smaller grids and will mentor new constructors on request. Puzzles released each Sunday around 8am Eastern. Nudges released same day at Noon Eastern. New constructors are welcome.
Thank you all for SSSolving! The meta answer is SENIOR MOMENTS.
Solvers had to notice that there were six “blanks” in the clues, the first letters of which spelled SENIOR.
1. Situations when one really should have known better: ___ in judgment
23. “Every ___ Way But Loose”
28. “No soup for ___!” (Soup Nazi’s proclamation)
51. “If I ___ be so bold …”
58. “Only ___ Be With You” (Hootie & the Blowfish song)
72. “Remind me not to ___”
“But, hey, Team Wennedy,” you protest, “that’s only six letters; what about the remaining seven?”
The large number of clues referring to memory and its loss (we crammed as many in as we possibly could: 15A, 21A, 29A, 48A, 3D, 11D, 32D, 46D, 53D, 56D, 62D) should have prompted solvers to infer that MOMENTS was the second half of the phrase we were looking for.
Wendy Walker wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2023 8:08 am
Thank you all for SSSolving! The meta answer is SENIOR MOMENTS.
Solvers had to notice that there were six “blanks” in the clues, the first letters of which spelled SENIOR.
1. Situations when one really should have known better: ___ in judgment
23. “Every ___ Way But Loose”
28. “No soup for ___!” (Soup Nazi’s proclamation)
51. “If I ___ be so bold …”
58. “Only ___ Be With You” (Hootie & the Blowfish song)
72. “Remind me not to ___”
“But, hey, Team Wennedy,” you protest, “that’s only six letters; what about the remaining seven?”
The large number of clues referring to memory and its loss (we crammed as many in as we possibly could: 15A, 21A, 29A, 48A, 3D, 11D, 32D, 46D, 53D, 56D, 62D) should have prompted solvers to infer that MOMENTS was the second half of the phrase we were looking for.
And surely having the fill in the blank clues be "Lapses which you may want to forget" was not random
Nice one!
If you want help with a meta, feel free to PM me. The more specific you are about what you have and what you want, the more likely I can help without spoiling.
(And if I help you win a mug, I’ll be especially delighted.)
dsbened wrote: ↑Sun Sep 17, 2023 9:09 pm
I'm still a newbie who is trying to figure out how the SSS site works, but is there a place where I can view the completed grid? Plz help!
If you open the CROSSHARE link to this puzzle, you should see a REVEAL option in the upper right, and you can reveal the entire grid.
But here is a copy of the completed grid for this puzzle: