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For What It's Worth

· By Mikey G · Published 2024-11-09T18:00:35.848Z

Meta Prompt
[Level 3] The answer to the meta is an 8-letter word.
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  • Mikey G constructor · 2024-11-09T18:21:10.356Z
    Answer: GRIDIRON
    Explanation: Per 11-A, we need to find out the ways we can score in the NFL and see what their values are worth! The oblong grid accommodates rows like VESTIGE/CANBERRA and BIKEPATH/TRADING. You'll need the clues here: a glance down the acrosses sees the beginning of the four ways a point is often scored in football (omitting the two-point conversion!): VESTIGE/CANBERRA (Touch, Down); TRIP/MEDAL (Field, Goal), BIKEPATH/TRADING (Safe, Ty), ODD/NAME (Extra, Point). Those four plays are, respectively, worth 6, 3, 2, and 1 points. The correspondingly numbered letters in the entries spell out GRIDIRON, the apropos answer to the meta. My favorite grid remains the crossword type, even so!
    • boharr 2s · 2024-11-09T21:36:03.815Z
      Hike! Thanks
      • Pair O Ducks 🤓6:47 · 2024-11-10T00:57:23.616Z
        Thanks, Mikey! This puzzle inspired me to finally look up what "gridiron" means 😆 I always see it in crosswords, and then forget to look it up!
        • Mikey G constructor · 2024-11-12T18:08:20.978Z
          I literally clued NFL first as "Gridiron org.," and I was like, "Wait, that's the meta," hahaha.
        • Tyrpmom 4s · 2024-11-10T16:51:16.809Z
          I liked it!
          • KayW 🤓7:53 · 2024-11-10T21:38:05.827Z
            OMG I got a sportsball meta! LOL it took me long enough but FINALLY that clue at 11-across leapt up and bit me on the nose. A very clever metanism and a fantastic AHA moment. Actually TWO fantastic AHA moments. Thanks,Mikey!
            • Mikey G constructor · 2024-11-12T18:08:37.536Z
              Three cheers for sportsball!! You did it! Love your enthusiasm and positivity! May both teams win lol
            • whimsy 🤓10:35 · 2024-11-11T13:52:39.529Z
              Gah! I did not see those beginning words of the eight clues involved -- although I recognized some of them were a bit unusually worded. And I knew points were involved but I was thinking we'd be going to a crossword factory instead of a football game. What's a crossword factory? -- well, maybe the place where they make those little wooden scrabble tiles that have tiny numbers in the corners that show their worth! Can you spell BUNNY? --It's worth 10 points!
              Good going, Mikey!
              • Mikey G constructor · 2024-11-12T18:10:23.400Z
                Your posts always bring whimsy, true to your name. I would go to a crossword factory, if it were a thing! Maybe we'd see an ANOA holding an ETUI!
              • kurtalert 🤓5:46 · 2024-11-11T17:17:48.344Z
                Oooooh, awesome. Never would have gotten it without the nudge, but very fun to work through it from there. Thanks Mikey!
                • MatthewL 🤓6:28 · 2024-11-11T21:44:34.972Z
                  Needed the nudges, and an extra hint, but finally got there. Definitely a Level 4 (at least to me). Thanks for the puzzle, Mikey!
                  • hoover 7s · 2024-11-11T22:38:59.395Z
                    Ohhhhhhh! After the mostly mysterious nudges, I saw TOUCH DOWN and FIELD GOAL and EXTRA POINT, but somehow missed SAFE TY and got distracted by 24A clue "overtime" and 25A clue "throw."
                    • Abide 3s · 2024-11-12T05:05:25.410Z
                      Went from a Bear to a Commander. Got it after the math nudge for 11-Across. Hats off to anyone who got there before that. Great puzzle!
                      • HeadinHome 51s · 2024-11-12T05:40:30.295Z
                        Carelessly typed S instead of L for ELI/ALANTE (and I just could not spot it!) so I had to reveal. I got some sideline coaching on this one.. partly my math was bad after the nudge.. though if NFL had been center or bottom right, I think I would have gotten this alone! Nice to do a FOOTBALL puzzle I can actually figure out.
                        • DrTom 4s · 2024-11-11T20:36:37.300Z
                          Wow, very nicely done. I was looking at two things ITS (A GO) and (COVER UP) to see if there were things that went with GO (looked at past tense items, there were at least 8 but they spelled nothing) and things that might be a cover (like OLAY maybe) and what was UP from them. Then I figured that the wording of X across meant something, just in the way it was written and I looked for FG, TD, EP, Safety as words or abbreviations but found none. Had I just been smart enough to look in the clues. The last twist was a nice one, but of course I just did what I was told....
                          • Alex Sisti 3s · 2024-11-12T15:51:57.169Z
                            Wow! Loved it...
                            • Darth 🤓14:00 · 2024-11-15T23:47:56.055Z
                              This was fun, and it gave me a reason to learn something about football. haha Yeah, I only know soccer. ;) Thanks, Mikey!
                              • Meta World Peace 4s · 2024-11-16T13:45:04.016Z
                                Four scores... but so many combinations to go! (https://nflscorigami.com/) Send this week's puzzle to Canton, Mikey!
                                • omnilynx 🤓18:39 · 2024-11-18T04:47:57.439Z
                                  Glad I gave up, never would have gotten that one.
                                  • Carolyn 4s · 2024-11-20T22:53:04.357Z
                                    Very clever. Sorry I didn't figure it out!
                                    1A
                                    King of France
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                                    Across
                                    1. 1A
                                      King of France
                                    2. 4A
                                      Most common Brian in crosswords (probably)
                                    3. 7A
                                      Jared of 30 Seconds to Mars
                                    4. 11A
                                      Org. in which you can score in a variety of ways
                                    5. 14A
                                      How I rarely speak
                                    6. 16A
                                      Finished
                                    7. 17A
                                      Tic-tac-toe win, or message spelled out in my Cheerios
                                    8. 18A
                                      Touch of something that once existed
                                    9. 19A
                                      Down Under capital
                                    10. 21A
                                      Taylor Swift's tour
                                    11. 22A
                                      Current event?
                                    12. 24A
                                      Headed for overtime
                                    13. 25A
                                      Throw on the floor?
                                    14. 26A
                                      When he relaxes in his favorite chair after a long day, ___ goes the weasel
                                    15. 27A
                                      Rizzo the Muppet, e.g.
                                    16. 29A
                                      "Do you saw logs?" "___ than you can imagine!"
                                    17. 31A
                                      Field ___ (outing to an exciting place, like a crossword puzzle factory)
                                    18. 34A
                                      Goal for many an Olympian
                                    19. 38A
                                      Way back when
                                    20. 40A
                                      Neutrogena rival
                                    21. 42A
                                      Edugyan who wrote "Washington Black"
                                    22. 43A
                                      "Awesome!"
                                    23. 46A
                                      Forty winks (though Ginger takes about forty thousand)
                                    24. 49A
                                      He once was a young Ladd
                                    25. 50A
                                      Safe lane for cyclists (I had a pun here, but I'd have to get into gear)
                                    26. 52A
                                      Ty Pennington show: "___ Spaces"
                                    27. 54A
                                      L.L. Bean rival
                                    28. 55A
                                      "___ from the other side / I must have healed a thousand times..." (Adele parody, haha)
                                    29. 56A
                                      As you like it (though my cooking is much ado about nothing)
                                    30. 57A
                                      Extra, like a sock (if you find yours, that would be sock-cessful)
                                    31. 58A
                                      Point out, perhaps
                                    32. 59A
                                      67.5 deg.
                                    33. 60A
                                      Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson's stage name
                                    Down
                                    1. 1D
                                      Gadabouts
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                                      Close lead, in a ball game
                                    3. 3D
                                      "Full speed ahead!"
                                    4. 4D
                                      Center opening?
                                    5. 5D
                                      Pelican in "Finding Nemo"
                                    6. 6D
                                      "Did you see any spotted felines at the zoo?" "An ___ of them!"
                                    7. 7D
                                      Places
                                    8. 8D
                                      Male name that's a church part in reverse
                                    9. 9D
                                      "You know any guys who can sing above baritone?" "Maybe about ___ eleven"
                                    10. 10D
                                      Ball
                                    11. 11D
                                      "Neither you ___ ate the ___ on the sushi" (either blank in the previous sentence - not a pun, but that's a wrap!)
                                    12. 12D
                                      "Hey, I'm driving here!"
                                    13. 13D
                                      What a burden!
                                    14. 15D
                                      Tiebreakers, briefly
                                    15. 20D
                                      Major ending?
                                    16. 23D
                                      "All Things Considered" network
                                    17. 26D
                                      Where you can hang your hat
                                    18. 28D
                                      Tan, for one
                                    19. 30D
                                      Tour de France, e.g.
                                    20. 32D
                                      B+, for one
                                    21. 33D
                                      Nebraska river
                                    22. 35D
                                      "Yum yum!"
                                    23. 36D
                                      "Thank you," in Swahili
                                    24. 37D
                                      Tarry, or a great 1993 Cranberries hit tune
                                    25. 39D
                                      Sunshine State city
                                    26. 41D
                                      It's a cover-up!
                                    27. 43D
                                      Spain's longest river (that's an addled bore, cryptically)
                                    28. 44D
                                      Like the storied piper
                                    29. 45D
                                      "Just playing!"
                                    30. 47D
                                      "I know all matter is made up of small particles: I'm ___-ant about it!"
                                    31. 48D
                                      What you used to be?
                                    32. 49D
                                      Lovelace who built wings at age 12 because she wanted to fly
                                    33. 51D
                                      "Will the critics love this movie about cookware?" "No, they'll ___ it"
                                    34. 53D
                                      Past-tense verb that's an anagram of its present-tense form
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