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◆ · By damefox · Published 2024-04-10T22:00:51.198Z
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The meta answer is a color.
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- The answer is MAUVELOUS. There are six entries in the puzzle whose clues end with a number in parentheses. Those entries are all Crayola crayon colors (hinted at by 22A and 53A). As hinted at by the title, you need the hexadecimal code for those colors (specifically for the Crayola version - this is pretty easy to find on Wikipedia or Google), and the number in parentheses tells you which number or letter to take from the code. So:17A TIMBERWOLF (6) -> D9D6CF -> F25A RAZZMATAZZ (3) -> E30B5C -> 037A MANATEE (3) -> 8D90A1 -> 939A APRICOT (6) -> FDD5B1 -> 149A OUTERSPACE (6) -> 2D383A -> A59A CORNFLOWER (1) -> 93CCEA -> 9In grid order, the six numbers/letters you get gives you another hex code: F091A9, which is the hex code for the Crayola color MAUVELOUS.Thanks for solving!
- Woo, this was tough! I was confident enough to stick with the mechanism, but the first couple sites I tried turned up wildly varying results. Thankfully, Wikipedia pulled through with the right dataset. (I don't think it's a Crayola color, but I really wanted the answer to be "Oxford Blue"!) Thanks for the fun puzzle!
- Thanks for solving! Yes, that's what I think keeps this puzzle being ready for mainstream, just that Crayola itself doesn't have official hex codes for its colors, so there's some concern people might have the right mechanism but be pulling the wrong string of letters and numbers. Maybe I'll post a link to the Wikipedia page as a hint in a couple days...
- Yeah, I got the wrong hex values by just googling "hex color code razzmatazz" and the like... Fun concept, though!
- AuLeaf 🤓9:00 · 2024-04-11T16:32:46.738ZLuckily I stumbled on this list of Crayola colors and hex values... https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_crayola.asp
- I agree, I was surprised you did not make the hex code be: #002147 but then you would have probably run into the different sites have different hex codes for the same named color. I think benchen71 (or it might have been Josh Rubin, the original MadHatter) had a color code puzzle a while back that a similar thing happened with. Unless you somehow give the reference (which in fairness you did but I ignored it) people will get divergent answers. But it was a MAUVELOUS puzzle just the same.
- Meg 2s · 2024-04-10T22:00:51.198ZVery nice!! I liked figuring out the last step.
- Marvelous!! Great job choosing colors that didn’t sound like colors… razzmatazz was my way in because I wasn’t sure what that was and googled it and the first thing that popped up was the crayons hex code for it… beautifully done!
… I’m going through the list and there are so many of them I’m like “that’s a color?!” Fuzzy wuzzy, inchworm, macaroni and cheese, bittersweet- hoover 8s · 2024-04-11T11:43:55.429ZI'm old, so CORNFLOWER and APRICOT were my way in, led confidently by -OLA -ONS.
- Ditto, when I saw those I knew I had the right idea (though I did not execute it correctly)
- boharr 3s · 2024-04-11T11:50:54.603ZVery nice, thanks!
- hoover 8s · 2024-04-11T11:42:27.978ZOh, that was fun!
- Whoops, I should have tumbled to the CRAYOLA because I saw it and it was in the back of my mind, but I went with "regular" net colors (the tip off I missed was that RAZZMATAZZ Hex code varied depending on where you looked. After I got two non-distinct blues and found them to be wrong I hit reveal and just as I did I thought "hey I'll bet you were supposed to use Crayola® colors" and obviously I was. THat would have narrowed it down. Well, what the heck, I had the right idea. THanks for the puzzle
- whimsy 14:29 · 2024-04-12T02:11:49.914ZBluetiful! (#3C69E7) Thanks, Emma!
- Laura M 🤓7:48 · 2024-04-12T21:13:53.790ZVery clever! Thanks for subbing (for me) for the delayed MGWCC today :-)
- omnilynx 🤓23:36 · 2024-04-14T04:54:05.959ZIn order to make it less dependent on the exact sources, it would be nice to use digits 1, 3, and 5 only, as those are the most significant digits in hex colors. Digits 2, 4, and 6 are more likely to vary.
- Very fun, more like a puzzlehunt! I was going to post "I wouldn't have said no to an asterisk on the OLA clue", but I see I missed the connection with the ONS clue. I laughed at the 6-Down hockey clue, wondering if Will P was your editor.
- He was not, but man, I think I spent 10 minutes on Google trying to figure out if "down a man" and "on the penalty kill" could reasonably be considered equivalent expressions. Still not 100% on that.Thanks for solving!
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Across
- 1ARemove, as wallpaper
- 6AMil. decorations (if you add an "I" after the first letter, it becomes [Things which might be compact])
- 10A"The world is not going to be saved by legislation" speaker
- 14AThe "I" of TIFF
- 15AWords after "Get" or "Movin'," in song titles
- 16AHydrox competitor
- 17ACanine featured in Algonquin mythology (6)
- 19ASee 26-Down
- 20AMaine college town
- 21AElena's colleague
- 22ACray ending?
- 25AGlitz and glam (3)
- 28ABobby Savoy in "The Natural," for one
- 31AClass with a waiting list, maybe
- 32ACool
- 33AClerical title: Abbr. (I definitely thought this was an abbreviation for "messenger," but crosswordtracker.com indicates otherwise)
- 34ACanadian interjections
- 37AMarine mammal of the Caribbean (3)
- 39ABrandy flavor (6)
- 42AAmaze
- 43APennsylvanie, par example
- 45A"Born Sexy Yesterday," for one
- 46AFrench toast
- 48A"Pick another movie"
- 49AAstronaut's destination (6)
- 53ACray ending?
- 54ABartender on "The Love Boat"
- 55A"Everybody ___" (Neon Trees hit)
- 58A___ Walter Alvarez (1968 Nobel Prize in Physics winner)
- 59AFieldmouse in "Redwall" (1)
- 64AThus
- 65AGoad
- 66APoint of concern for linguists
- 67AHanks' frequent romcom co-star
- 68ARegarding
- 69AMartindale of "The Americans"
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- 1DTake a load off
- 2D"OMG stop talking!"
- 3DButt
- 4DNigerian language
- 5DPotential juror
- 6D___ man (on the penalty kill, in ice hockey)
- 7DPlans to wake up in nine minutes, perhaps
- 8D___-de-sac
- 9DCover letters?
- 10DTundra maker
- 11DSetting for a Taylor Swift concert
- 12D"¡___cumpleaños!"
- 13DNovember birthstone
- 18DAlexis's "Gilmore Girls" role
- 21DTwo cents worth
- 22D"Dreams from My Father" author
- 23DTV title on a California license plate
- 24DMake up (for)
- 26D"___ Survey" (19-Across precursor)
- 27DCar sticker no.
- 29DIt's rather constricting
- 30DFrequently, infrequently
- 33DGot together
- 34DLow-budget prefix
- 35D"C'mon, I'll give you a ride!"
- 36DLeaves in, editorially
- 38DFish caught in pots
- 40D66, e.g.
- 41DAnger
- 44DPretty quickly
- 46DThere's one to everything
- 47DRainbow shape
- 48DReflexive suffix
- 49DEdmonton skater
- 50DLoan-sharking
- 51DTundra neighbor
- 52D"No problem"
- 56DSupermodel Heidi
- 57DSlugger Sammy
- 59DNumber cruncher often busiest in Apr.
- 60DHosp. rooms where music is often playing
- 61D"This means ___"
- 62D___ on (goad)
- 63DClassic roadster
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