"Make It Count" - July 2021
- MamaE
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Pending confirmation, but pretty sure I’ve got this one solved.
Hooray! Confirmed!
Hooray! Confirmed!
- Just puzzling it out here in Delmarva
- Jeremy Smith
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- mattythewsjpuzzler
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- boharr
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- KayW
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On the board.
One thing I'll say about Pete's puzzles, I usually learn something along the way. But I'll say no more til post-deadline
One thing I'll say about Pete's puzzles, I usually learn something along the way. But I'll say no more til post-deadline
Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 metapuzzles created to help raise money for cancer-related charities. It is available at CrosswordsForCancer.com.
- ky-mike
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Not familiar with the meta movement. Had the answer sitting in front of me about an hour after the puzzle came out, but didn't realize it until I got back into it this evening. Maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks.
- hcbirker
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My experience exactly. It was staring at me for what seemed like hours.
Heidi
- Dannyvee
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- Bird Lives
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I too had to be educated. I had the right strategy, but my limited cultural knowledge prevented me from seeing what I had.
Jay
- iggystan
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Didn't see this right away, but it finally came to me. Nice construction and I learned something new. Safely on shore. (Now if I could only see the WSJ meta...)
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- m5rammy
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Ugh. I think I may need to ask for a hint-let.
I found something, but it's not going anywhere.
I'll let it percolate a little longer ...
I found something, but it's not going anywhere.
I'll let it percolate a little longer ...
- Cinny
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Like others, I had it long before I realized it. Learned something new, as well. Happy to have solved this meta and the Red Herring!!
Cindy Heisler
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I figured out the first step quite fast, and reading other's comments I might even have the answer already but I just can't see it.
What's throwing me off is the word "movement". In music, movement can mean a ton of different things. Don't even know what to Google for.
What's throwing me off is the word "movement". In music, movement can mean a ton of different things. Don't even know what to Google for.
- m5rammy
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Finally! Thanks to a nudge.
I was super close, but one of the pieces was a incorrectly parsed, so unsolvable.
I was super close, but one of the pieces was a incorrectly parsed, so unsolvable.
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Now the comments above make sense.
I have RIOTGRRRL written down in five minutes or so but I dismissed it as gibberish, and tried to find a different answer for hours. Argh, this one hurts.
I have RIOTGRRRL written down in five minutes or so but I dismissed it as gibberish, and tried to find a different answer for hours. Argh, this one hurts.
- MikeM000
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Wow... I did not finish this one but was not expecting that answer. Since I didn't submit I couldn't express my amazement that IRONORE wasn't clued toward "the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".
- sharkicicles
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Guessing this is one where my age was a big help in solving- I feel older or younger solvers may not have immediately realized the answer.
- KayW
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I can speak for this older solver. I had the answer spelled out pretty quickly but dismissed it as pure gibberish. Well, to be perfectly honest I had RITOGRRRL written out because apparently I can't even count this week. But I finally consulted the wonderfully helpful @Wendy Walker, who told me to look at what I had right in front of me. And wonder of wonders, when I typed RITOGRRRL into google, it helpfully prompted RIOT GRRRL BANDS.sharkicicles wrote: ↑Tue Jul 13, 2021 12:25 pm Guessing this is one where my age was a big help in solving- I feel older or younger solvers may not have immediately realized the answer.
Never heard of it.
Contest Crosswords Combating Cancer (CCCC) is a bundle of 16 metapuzzles created to help raise money for cancer-related charities. It is available at CrosswordsForCancer.com.