Wendy S HeadinHome solved 2021-12-09T14:11:30.405Z
DrTom solved 2021-12-09T15:34:32.986Z
andeux solved 2021-12-09T16:30:42.873Z
CPJohnson solved 2021-12-10T14:04:27.035Z
LisaT solved 2021-12-10T17:00:17.043Z
LB800 solved 2021-12-10T23:55:16.342Z
V solved 2021-12-11T03:06:17.957Z
Qmark solved 2021-12-25T22:00:19.491Z
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Meg 3s · 2021-12-06T13:20:17.383Z
That was excellent! Thanks!
FrankieHeck 🤓6:09 · 2021-12-06T14:08:00.506Z
Great meta!! I'm over them.
Gutman 4s · 2021-12-06T14:47:14.970Z
Mine saw Le Pont Neuf
I K Snamhcok 2s · 2021-12-06T16:11:00.200Z
Terrific puzzle, Jay! WSJCC or MGWCC worthy, if you ask me. I also like the 13 x 13 size.
boharr 7s · 2021-12-06T16:16:55.127Z
Terrific puzzle. I also like the grid size.
DIS 🤓6:03 · 2021-12-06T17:18:23.467Z
Very nice!
Laura M 🤓8:18 · 2021-12-06T17:56:36.173Z
Loved it!
Holmes 🤓18:38 · 2021-12-06T18:55:12.501Z
I guess I'll never understand metas... unless someone would kindly explain how they arrived at the answer?
OddBear 4s · 2021-12-08T00:09:02.705Z
I assume only people who have solved the meta can read these...
SPOILERS BELOW if not!
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55-Across hints at 6 answers that can be ended with "oon" (title hints at this). Synonyms of these are found in the grid. If you take the first letters of these synonyms in the order they appear in the grid, you get a word that you can add "oon" to (which is a special trip).
Holmes 🤓18:38 · 2021-12-08T02:24:30.035Z
Thanks for the excellent explanation, and I have no idea how you think your way past the oon step. Looking for synonyms and then putting together the first letters never dawned on me! My "puzzle brain" must be severely underdeveloped!
OddBear 4s · 2021-12-09T00:15:38.302Z
I've seen 50+ of Matt Gaffneys metas so I've picked up on some common patterns like those. I had no idea what to look for at first either!
You're correct that you can only read these after solving (or giving up and revealing if the constructor has allowed that)!
Also FYI, you can surround a spoiler with || on either side to hide it until it's clicked, like this.
OddBear 4s · 2021-12-10T00:05:17.482Z
|neat!|
MamaEllen 2s · 2021-12-06T19:58:47.874Z
Fun one!
whimsy 🤓12:32 · 2021-12-06T20:24:25.426Z
Challenging and fun!
Bbaack 17:17 · 2021-12-06T22:02:50.575Z
Very clever, especially to work all that into a smallish grid!
OddBear 4s · 2021-12-08T00:04:27.233Z
Very good meta!
kymike 3s · 2021-12-08T21:25:16.229Z
Nice one. Needed the clues to get me thinking straight.
Wendy S HeadinHome 5:46 · 2021-12-09T14:18:12.912Z
FUN GRID, and did not see the mechanism until the clues came to muggles. A very fine meta challenge! Surprised at one of the keys being a DOWN entry (had to backsolve to find that one because i just wasn’t looking at the down answers having found five across answers). I always like it when the mechanism has to be applied to the meta word too (here, adding the common ending to the 6 letters found, to make the complete answer). Bravo!
||on either side to hide it until it's clicked, like this.