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· By Capn Rick · Published 2024-03-10T05:02:45.440Z

Meta Prompt
The meta answer is a famous ship.
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  • Susan solved 2024-03-13T18:49:20.646Z
  • Bird Lives solved 2024-03-13T19:07:53.975Z
  • Qmark solved 2024-03-15T17:54:41.206Z
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  • Cindy Heisler 2s · 2024-03-10T12:03:26.095Z
    Third submission is correct. I kept trying S S Minnow. Good thing I get more than one try. Nice start to my Sunday morning. Thanks, Rick!
    • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-03-10T13:09:17.163Z
      Thanks, Cindy. I just added "SS Minnow" as an acceptable answer. Shoulda thought of that earlier.
    • Mikey G 🤓5:03 · 2024-03-10T12:47:19.886Z
      If you have any more puzzles, let minnow!
      • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-03-10T13:10:12.926Z
        Thanks, Mikey. "Isle" definitely let you know. 😁
        • DIS 🤓8:04 · 2024-03-10T19:26:23.017Z
          Howell you get in touch?
          • rjy 1s · 2024-03-12T19:23:56.368Z
            I assume just get in touch with his cat, Marianne, I think…
        • LarsCaine 🤓9:31 · 2024-03-10T15:57:39.068Z
          😂
        • Mwoychick 🤓7:37 · 2024-03-10T13:18:00.996Z
          Thanks, Cap'n Rick - very nice!
          • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-03-10T15:19:10.661Z
            Thanks, Mark. Glad you liked it!
          • Darth 🤓8:43 · 2024-03-10T14:33:55.140Z
            I knew something about this puzzle was a little fishy! :-) Thanks, Cap'n!
            • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-03-10T15:19:45.672Z
              Ha! Good one, Darth. Thanks for solving.
            • Dave C 2s · 2024-03-10T14:42:07.851Z
              My wife thought that it must be SS something with 6 letters and Minnow was the first thing she thought of.
              • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-03-10T15:21:12.477Z
                Thanks, Dave. Yeah, the answer wasn't too hard to guess. Piece of cake, right? 😄
              • Alex Sisti 2s · 2024-03-10T15:11:35.827Z
                Mary Ann... sigh.
                • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-03-10T16:03:29.454Z
                  I was a Ginger guy myself, Al. 😄
                  • Sharkicicles 3s · 2024-03-11T20:31:29.950Z
                    With the Cap'n on this one...
                    • Alex Sisti 2s · 2024-03-11T23:12:58.106Z
                      Noooop. It was Mary Ann (vs Ginger), Jeannie (vs Samantha), Betty (vs Veronica), Bailey (vs Jennifer of WKRP) and Emma Peel (vs Honey West). Oh, and more recently, Erin (vs Pam).
                • MatthewL 🤓5:12 · 2024-03-10T15:50:34.250Z
                  Nice one Rick. Had to backsolve for the I, but otherwise pretty, ahem, smooth sailing. Thanks for the Sunday fun!
                  • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-03-10T16:52:38.849Z
                    Thanks, Matthew. Yeah, ICING was tricky. I think the flavor was MINT, though. 😁
                  • JHSeeman 4s · 2024-03-10T16:54:32.066Z
                    Fun way to spend some time on a Sunday. Thanks Cap'n
                    • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-03-10T17:23:13.626Z
                      Thank you, John. Glad you enjoyed it!
                    • KayW 🤓5:10 · 2024-03-10T16:35:41.911Z
                      Nice one! I suspected this answer from the start but decided to take the three-hour tour to make sure ;)
                      • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-03-10T17:26:38.042Z
                        Thanks for solving, Kay! Glad you enjoyed the "tour".
                      • kurtalert 🤓3:37 · 2024-03-10T17:07:28.148Z
                        Fun one - thanks Rick!
                        • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-03-10T18:40:51.262Z
                          Thank you, kurtalert!
                        • ajk 🤓6:25 · 2024-03-10T17:05:59.846Z
                          lol this was the first thing I thought of before I even attempted the puzzle (as I'm sure it was for others). 😂 Needed all the nudges (well, really just 3 and 4). Tried looking for entries that would be clued by the SS words, but never thought to do the reverse. Also tried looking above the starting letters of SS (Start Up), but obviously 20D put the kibosh on that pretty quickly. Once I knew from nudge 3 which alternates to look for I got a bit muddled. ICING and ONION were clear, bit I initially had WOOD for secluded place, and BLTS for the waiter's offering. Also wasn't 100% on WRAP. And since I was very unsure of my old comic knowledge, NANCY might have been FRAN/DEREK/SAUL, etc. Nudge 4 got me out of BLTs, but then I thought maybe the coffee urn was implicated. Then I somehow forgot (!) that there were six letters, and managed to find UNION in the rest. Apparently the USS Union was a thing, so tried that, even though I think I knew it was wrong. Finally, I decided that WRAP was solid, which meant presumably NOOK had to be the secluded place, and if NANCY was right that gave me ?INNOW and then MINT jumped out. Phew (I did submit SS Minnow, so thanks to those that paved the way there). 😂 Fun idea, and great start to the reboot! Thanks.
                          • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-03-10T18:42:55.497Z
                            Thanks, Alan. I see you took the "3-hour tour" as well. 😄
                            • ajk 🤓6:25 · 2024-03-10T19:07:04.767Z
                              😆
                            • hoover 4s · 2024-03-11T21:07:02.353Z
                              I had a little trouble with the waiter, too. URN, BLTS, ONION (until I skipped ahead to the next one and used ONION for that), ... I only got it by backsolving for _INNOW.
                            • Laura M 🤓8:37 · 2024-03-10T20:39:00.484Z
                              Loved it, thanks!
                              • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-03-10T22:05:32.123Z
                                Glad you enjoyed it, Laura.
                              • Tyrpmom 🤓9:11 · 2024-03-10T21:26:13.171Z
                                No nudges necessary. Fun one.
                                • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-03-10T22:06:37.195Z
                                  Thanks for solving, Tyrpmom.
                                • ReB 8s · 2024-03-11T00:45:36.682Z
                                  I had a hard time seeing alternate clue answers (which was one of the mechanisms I tried), so needed the nudges to tell me that I had to look harder. I did need to backsolve for the M after determining how to order the letters. Well done - though a bit choppy
                                  • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-03-11T02:01:04.470Z
                                    Thanks for solving, ReB. Yes, this one was a bit choppier than intended, but I'm glad you saw it through!
                                  • Philip Chow 🤓6:09 · 2024-03-11T01:51:44.479Z
                                    fun puzzle thank you!! i had MNOW and had to backsolve for the I and N... my IN to the puzzle was noticing how very vague the clues to your themers were... why would the cap'n clue it that way if he didn't have to?! central across is a very nice touch to the rebranding!
                                    • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-03-11T02:08:09.870Z
                                      Thanks, Phil. Yeah, I have to admit that I kinda built the puzzle around the central entry, and that resulted in some "creative" cluing elsewhere. Thanks for solving. Now I have to finish your latest meta which was very nicely constructed!
                                    • whimsy 🤓9:57 · 2024-03-11T15:45:09.189Z
                                      Like Alan, I struggled with getting the precise match-ups. For a while I had SHRUG rather than WRAP, and I considered (Little) Dot as the cartoon character. (As an aside, DEREK and ONION are the bullies in the current "Curtis" comic strip.) Finally had everything but the M but was so self-confused at that point, I headed for bed. Sometime during the night, I woke enough to "know" I would come back this AM and find MENU somewhere in the top of the grid even though I didn't recall filling that in as a computer-related entry. OK, MINT, please Garcon for my julep. (And that's a reminder to constructors to start working on your Derby theme puzzles! :-)) Thanks for keeping me busy, Cap'n! (Much better than swabbing the decks!)
                                      • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-03-11T17:44:09.548Z
                                        Thanks, Claudia. Looks like you took the 6-hour tour. :) I tried for a while to get MENU to work up top, but it wasn't meant to be.
                                      • hoover 4s · 2024-03-11T21:04:11.267Z
                                        That's where I thought it was going to be going, but I needed some nudges to get me there.
                                        • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-03-11T22:30:00.550Z
                                          Thanks for solving, hoover!
                                        • DrTom 4s · 2024-03-11T19:32:16.488Z
                                          Funny because the moment I saw it, and knowing your fondness for GI. I almost entered SS Minnow without solving. Then I got caught up in matching up all the S's from words NOT of the SS (there are 15) with their entries. I should have KNOWN from the cluing for SHESHED that it was too generic since I was expecting "Momma's domain" or "Where Surfside Sally keeps her seashells". But, coulda, shoulda, woulda...another tight grid with fun clues. Thanks Rick.
                                          • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-03-12T00:53:58.672Z
                                            Thanks, DrTom. Yeah, it was another GI meta for this "Skipper". Glad you liked it.
                                          • michaelm 🤓9:31 · 2024-03-13T15:55:14.782Z
                                            Thanks, Cap'n! Beautiful and thoughtful as always. BTW, the wikipedia page for GI contains some wild factoids. Among them: The final day of filming the pilot was Friday, November 22, 1963, the day of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.[12] The cast and crew learned of the assassination late that morning, Hawaii time.[12] Between the filming of scenes, they crowded around a radio listening to news bulletins.[12] A reminder of the tragedy appears in the opening sequence of the show's first season, when the theme song is played. As the Minnow is leaving the harbor and heading out to sea, an American flag flying at half staff can be seen in the background.[12][13]
                                            • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-03-13T22:14:24.315Z
                                              Thanks for solving, Mike, and thanks for sharing that info with us. I'm definitely going to look for that flag at half staff.
                                            • Bird Lives 3s · 2024-03-13T19:17:21.783Z
                                              Oops. I hadn't realized that the new, improved SSS was up and running till someone mentioned it on the Tuesday Zoom. Perhaps like others here, my first try was letters up from the S and S starts. That led to gibberish, and besides, one of themers was a Down. I saw a couple of the alternates. ONION and NANCY, and when I saw NOOK, I knew it was Cap'n Rick meta history repeating itself, and I backsolved my way from stern to bow.
                                              • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-03-13T22:17:32.829Z
                                                Thanks, Jay. Yes, we set sail a week ahead of schedule. Glad you were able to backsolve (like a few others) to the answer.
                                              • Qmark 3s · 2024-03-15T17:56:40.235Z
                                                Had to let this one simmer for a few days...and looked at the first 3 nudges to confirm what I had done so far...was finally able to avoid being stranded on the isle! Thanks Capn Rick!
                                                • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-03-15T19:53:00.518Z
                                                  Thank you, Qmark. Glad you avoided the stranding!
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                                                Coffee dispenser
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                                                  Coffee dispenser
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                                                  Reggae relative
                                                3. 7A
                                                  "___ a March hare"
                                                4. 14A
                                                  Secluded place
                                                5. 16A
                                                  Warm article of clothing
                                                6. 17A
                                                  Cringed
                                                7. 18A
                                                  Rat Pack leader
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                                                  "Better Call ___"
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                                                  Labor Day mo.
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                                                  Original Dungeons & Dragons co.
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                                                  Hockey infraction
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                                                  Peach centers
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                                                  Fly like an eagle
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                                                  Period
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                                                  "Bill and ___ Excellent Adventure"
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                                                  Fictional sleuth Drew
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                                                  Person-to-person
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                                                  "___, humbug!"
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                                                  Piece of cake
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                                                  Madhouse
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                                                  Pats on the back
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                                                  Yankee great Jeter
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                                                  Diner orders
                                                24. 44A
                                                  Play about Capote
                                                25. 45A
                                                  Chemical suffixes
                                                26. 46A
                                                  Kukla and Ollie's friend
                                                27. 47A
                                                  Satiric news source, with "The"
                                                28. 49A
                                                  Cushion
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                                                  Fireplace fuel
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                                                  Colored
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                                                  Greek vowel
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                                                  Hunting dogs
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                                                  Bagel flavorer
                                                34. 58A
                                                  Comic strip character of old
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                                                  Oval
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                                                  ___-mo replay
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                                                  Install, as carpet
                                                Down
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                                                  Trojans' sch.
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                                                  Greek letter
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                                                  Story in the paper
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                                                  "I don't know" gesture
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                                                  Ship's backbone
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                                                  Tack on
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                                                  Things of value
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                                                  Doesn't attend
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                                                  Money maker
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                                                  Simile center
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                                                  Costner role on "Yellowstone"
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                                                  Lung structure
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                                                  Like van Gogh's night
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                                                  Actor Connery
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                                                  Something a waiter might bring
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                                                  Bachelor's last words
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                                                  Swindles
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                                                  Phnom ___, Cambodia
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                                                  Indian address
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                                                  Dorothy's dog
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                                                  "The Lion King" lioness
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                                                  Seeps
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                                                  Barnes & Noble e-reader
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                                                  Smithereens
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                                                  Envelope abbr.
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                                                  Rather unfortunate
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                                                  Greek pita sandwich
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                                                  Catch some rays
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                                                  Oust from power
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                                                  Tooth covering
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                                                  Phone button
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                                                  "Jane Eyre" author
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                                                  April 1 victims
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                                                  Surpass
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                                                  Butterfly catchers
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                                                  Finish filming
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                                                  Get well
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                                                  CBS forensic drama
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                                                  Radiator sound
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                                                  Color TV pioneer
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                                                  Cloud's place
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