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PCC#14 "Places, Everyone!"
■ · By Philip Chow · Published 2023-11-02T13:34:37.438Z
Meta Prompt
[Level 1] Meta prompt: The answer to the meta is the name of the city where I'll be spending the next week on holiday
hint 1: there are quite a lot of names and books in the puzzle
hint 2: the literary characters and corresponding books (see 46A) share something in common
hint 3: where do all these novels or books take place?
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- the long-winded clue on BOOK and the title word "places" would hopefully lead you to figure out that we should focus on where these novels took place. The following books all take place in London: Mary Poppins, Mrs. Dalloway, Bridget Jones Diary, Canterbury Tales, The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Christmas Carol, Sherlock Holmes, Oliver Twist, About a Boy, White Teeth... and so I'm off to London ta-ta!
- merlinnimue 🤓4:14 · 2023-11-02T14:33:49.253ZTa for the puzzle, have a smashing time
- FrankieHeck 🤓4:17 · 2023-11-02T19:17:12.978ZHave fun and mind the gap!
- Thanks and enjouy!
- Thanks I see you may have spotted some Easter eggs with some of the cluing
- Neathery 🤓4:33 · 2023-11-04T18:35:15.694ZThanks!
- boharr 11s · 2023-11-17T18:48:42.497ZThanks.
- Fun, I tired to make to far too difficult by looking for the setting, place, time, etc. . I spent way too much time on the New Year's/London tie in (Bridget Jones, White Teeth) but then London came up in soooo many things and I went back and saw it was just the city I needed. Luckily I did not go down the tube! I assume the two Rick Astley references were because that earworm video was filmed in London? Just going through the clues there must be a dozen or more that reference London in one way or another, good job!
- I know that feeling of overcomplicating things I do it all the time when I try to solve metas... I knew Rick Astley was an English singer but did not know that the music video was specifically filmed in London - so that was an unintentional easter egg. The URL was just for Rickrolling purposes
- From the "more than you ever wanted to know" department (courtesy of Wikipedia): The video "Never Gonna Give You Up" was filmed in London, largely around Freston Road in the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Since being uploaded to YouTube on 25 October 2009, the video has received over 1.4 billion views and 16 million likes; it surpassed the 1 billion views milestone on 28 July 2021.
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Poppins who said "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down"
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Across
- 1APoppins who said "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down"
- 5AAmenity at many luxury hotels
- 8AVows exchanged at weddings
- 12ANovel thought
- 13Ahttps://crosshare.org, for example
- 14ADeal with tough times
- 15A"Never Gonna Give You Up" singer Astley
- 16APlace of refuge, like the attic for Clarissa in "Mrs. Dalloway"
- 18AEnding for Power or Gator, in drink brand names
- 19ABashful
- 20AFlashy jewellery, in slang
- 21ALeader of India's Salt March
- 23AFrozen treat whose flavours tend to taste more intense than ice cream due to less butterfat content
- 24ACosmetics businesswoman Lauder and co-founder of her eponymous cosmetics company ___ Lauder
- 25AJames Bond creator Fleming
- 26AGreet silently
- 27AJones with a diary who said "It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces"
- 30A"Tea for ___" ("No, No, Nanette" song)
- 33A___ Angeles, CA (this is not the meta answer... although if the meta asked where I went last week for vacation, then LA would be the correct answer... it's also why I missed last week for publishing a new puzzle I apologise to my loyal fans)
- 34AWhizzes along
- 38AHotel magnate Conrad, or his great-granddaughter Paris
- 40A___ Knope (Amy Poehler's "Parks and Recreation" character)
- 41AGranddaddy of digital computers (or actor Michael of "Harry Brown" spelled backwards)
- 42A___ se (Latin phrase for "by itself")
- 43ALinguistic suffix with "morph" or "phon"
- 44ASymbol of affection tied on the monk's hood with a gold pin in "The Canterbury Tales"
- 46ANovel, for example (which includes a setting: the time, place, and environment in which a story occurs)
- 47ALike the lama, but not the llama, in an Ogden Nash poem
- 48ADrinking spot like O'Connell's, where Archie and Samad spend much of their time in "White Teeth"
- 49AActress Steppat of "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
- 50A___ and feathers (punishes, old-style)
- 51ASatnav suggestion, for short
- 52APaddington ___ (Marmalade-loving character)
Down
- 1DVision of a distant oasis, perhaps
- 2DBrand of sneakers that Will buys for Marcus in "About a Boy"
- 3DLike some developments
- 4DShaggy ox of the Himalayas
- 5DOmakase offering that may include toro (fatty tuna) and uni (sea urchin roe)
- 6DSay grace before a meal, for example
- 7DFurry extraterrestrial in a 1980s sitcom
- 8D"___ Your Name" (Beatles song)
- 9DGray who said "I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose?"
- 10DNot dismissing outright
- 11DOne with the power to release the kraken, presumably
- 17DScrooge who said "Bah! Humbug!" to anyone who dared to wish him a merry Christmas
- 19DHolmes who said "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth"
- 22DNY Times Daily Wordplay columinst/editor Amlen
- 23DRunning ___ (joke that keeps being repeated)
- 25DTSA agents check them
- 28DCharged particle
- 29DWhat websites make you agree to when you register: Abbr.
- 30DBet ___ (risk everything)
- 31DActress Ryder of "Edward Scissorhands"
- 32DTwist who said "Please, sir, I want some more"
- 35DRepeated cry in Buster Poindexter's "Hot Hot Hot"
- 36DCocktail that may be "bottomless" at brunch
- 37DQuidditch position responsible for catching the Golden Snitch, in the Harry Potter series
- 39DAsian units of weight and anagram of "slate"
- 40DLeave alone
- 42DSulky expression
- 45D"All Things Considered" broadcaster
- 46DYou might wear one when eating lobster
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