Prominent Features (Meta)

Thanks, Ben!

Thank you for the fun solve and the gettable meta!

Fun one. Went down a different path for a while, but finally saw it (U Boat was my way in). Thanks for the puzzle, Ben!

Been a while since literally the first thing I tried worked. Saw JPEG right away and was off. Did get briefly stuck with U-BEND instead of S-BEND, but figured it out soon enough. Fun one, thanks.

Thanks! Enjoyed it.

Seemed easier than a Persian.

Very nice one, Ben thanks! And boy did I make that harder on myself than I had to. In case you are wondering how I managed to get several incorrect entries this time... I missed one of the asterisks and as luck would have it, that was the S. JUT OUT made perfect sense to me and I was flabbergasted when that wasn't right. I tried every which way to find an additional step before someone suggested I review the clues for more asterisks. Doh!

Very enjoyable. Thanks.

This was awesome! Thanks Ben!

Had to remember how I solved it the first time...and made the same mistakes!

Thanks for the puzzle...and the week off Ben!

The "WWII Danger? But that's U-Boat and we just had boat..." was the obvious getway.

That not obvious gateway that should have been a gateway was the "Hey, I got that corner entirely without looking at the down clues! Better double check so the clues for 8D, 9D, 10D which are JOY, PRS, (hmm not sure what that is suppose to be) and GET. So the clue to JOY... Maybe something let "Jesu, as per a man's desiring, perhaps" perhaps... wait? "Man to be"? What the heck..."

You see, there is a problem with a little too much knowledge. In my early life I was a plumber so I ran into a lot of P BENDS (or traps) on sinks and such and in later life in the medical world so I know about microfold (or M CELLS) that transport antigen to the underlying mucosal lymphoid tissue for processing and initiation of immune responses. So I got JUMP OUT, which you have to admit might be a good answer.

That was fun!

A bit easier than you rated it. Calico or slightly plus but not yet persion. Would have been tough but doable without the asterisks. That'd be a persian/puma.

Loved the visual on the opening page. It made me think about, what is a word for a prominent chin? And that was after I had already found the actual answer.

I was a U-bender but what with seeing the bevy of beauties and their chinny-chin-chins, I happily twisted and turned my answer to an S. Thank you, Ben!

O-RING did it for me.

How do the pictures of the actresses relate?

This was an amazing puzzle! To get the specific words pairs in the same lines in the right order AND get that center down long entry? Wow.

Even with the nudges, I struggled to see where you were going. I don’t know how people do it. Sigh.