L Words (Meta)
◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2023-09-05T06:00:38.913Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a girl's name
Here's a "week one" meta for you; it includes 5 clues with a leading asterisk which should hopefully bring the difficulty down a bit! I had some fun putting this one together. I trust you will enjoy solving it and seeking the answer to the meta, which is a girl's name. Answer & explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=141509#p141509
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- Hector 2s · 2023-09-05T13:53:32.883ZHappy birthday to Eleanor? And, three Elnathans in one bible sentence -- what's that about? Thanks, Ben!
- Indeed, this puzzle was constructed to celebrate my daughter's 21st birthday!
- SamKat9 🤓8:47 · 2023-09-06T01:29:11.986ZHa, I thought the same thing
- Very egant.
- Meg 2s · 2023-09-05T13:39:02.251ZLovely Aha! moment. Just when I thought I wasn’t going to crack it. Thanks, Ben.
- boharr 3s · 2023-09-05T14:02:22.013ZWeek one with lots of homework.
- I had to schedule this one as a "week 1" because this is the week of my daughter's birthday! I think it's actually more of a week 2 or 3.
- Tyrpmom 2s · 2023-09-05T14:44:01.735ZI have to be honest and admit I don’t have the beginning, but EANOR was enough. Something EL? I will ponder.
- Tyrpmom 2s · 2023-09-07T00:06:45.689ZI didn’t read the intro, so I didn’t know the asterisk in 17A17ASagittarius A*, for example[---------] was not thematic. Oops.
- markhr 🤓9:20 · 2023-09-05T16:08:06.417ZI had ELP as the prog-rock group (very big in the 70s), which caused me to stumble a bit. Finally caught on. Clever meta.
- very clever and slightly (only slightly) devious.Was briefly thrown by the asterisk in Sagitaurious A* but I got better.That's my sister and favorite great aunt's name.
- My blurb specified "leading asterisks" deliberately! ;)
- HeadinHome 🤓15:33 · 2023-09-05T17:41:55.265ZWhew - that was a google workout! Once I got the alternate “El-“ words, I tried the correct method, but since I had Eliezar for the third part, I gave up on the (correct) mechanism (Eleaior??). Just started guessing El-names for girls and got lucky on Eleanor. Now I see I should have read a little further in the Ezra verse!
- MatthewL 🤓5:29 · 2023-09-05T18:04:04.990ZUggh. Got stuck on ELP too. Took a while. And that's with both my mother in law and sister in law being named Eleanor. Cannot believe I didn't see it sooner. Oh well, lovely puzzle, Ben! Thanks.
- Carolyn 2s · 2023-09-05T18:03:59.976ZCute!
- JM 10:54 · 2023-09-05T19:04:57.838ZNice one! Some day I would like to see Ingrid Bergman from Casa Blanca clued as “La Ilsa Bonita.”
- Very fun puzzle thanks you! Sagittarius A* threw me off! I had ?EANO for a while before scanning the clues again and realized I missed the LOTR asterisked clue… whoops
… btw I think 67A67ACasablanca's Lund[----] is a typo?- Yes, I corrected the clue when someone suggested the original clue ("Mrs. Sacha Baron Cohen") was wrong. Trouble is, the replacement clue ("La ___ Bonita") was also wrong. I've since edited it again!
- I K Snamhcok 🤓11:56 · 2023-09-05T20:26:57.588ZI also had ELP at first. And i had hoped to see my own personal fictional hero — Kal-El, aka Clark Kent, aka Superman — here, but I’m very pleased to have found ELEANOR, which is my dear daughter-in-law’s middle name. Very nice!
- Shortcut it a bit since it was advertised as a week 1, so once I caught on to the EL start and had the five replacements I just jumped to Eleanor. Didn't notice until I came here that the first letters spelled out the rest for me (which would have been useful, since I had to look up the spelling
). Lack of knowledge and less than easy google path made getting the 40A40A*Man of learning in Ezra 8:16[-------] replacement tricky, but eventually I got literal and just typed the clue into google, which produced the correct answer. Neat and tidy in the end, but yeah maybe more week 2 than 1. :) Fun stuff, thanks. - Ergcat 🤓11:13 · 2023-09-05T23:23:27.908ZVery nice puzzle! Thank you, Ben! And Happy Birthday, Eleanor!
- SamKat9 🤓8:47 · 2023-09-06T01:28:37.948ZVery clever puzzle! I thought Eanor was an odd name, and then it finally hit me.
- Berto 🤓3:48 · 2023-09-06T02:17:58.979ZLoved it!!! ELated to have solved! Thanks, Ben!
- Laura M 🤓6:07 · 2023-09-06T02:30:48.260ZA very Happy Birthday to your daughter! Mine is also 21 (and three-quarters by now). Also 64A64AOriginator of Glinda, Kristin ___[---------], any relation?
- No relation, at least not unless you go back many generations. The name is Cornish, btw.
- whimsy 12:36 · 2023-09-07T01:41:52.323ZHappy Birthday, Eleanor! (Aren't you glad they didn't name you Wilhelmina -- my first off-the-wall guess!) Thanks for a somewhat challenging but fun puzzle!
- ReB 5s · 2023-09-08T00:05:31.082ZUnfortunately, other than for 39A39A*Middle East airline[---], I had to look up/google all the other themers as the themers were not in my knowledge base. Even still, I needed one more nudge to get me out of my 42A42A*Short prog rock band name[---] rabbit hole (ELK), after which the answer came immediately. Not one of my more successful weeks.
- Cindy Heisler 2s · 2023-09-08T13:31:34.136ZHappy Birthday to your daughter! Thanks for the puzzle.
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Release without warning, as an album
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- 1ARelease without warning, as an album
- 5APolice alerts (abbr.)
- 9AMovie with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore
- 14AEmerald Isle
- 15AClose a door hard
- 16ACowboy contest
- 17ASagittarius A*, for example
- 19AExtraterrestrial
- 20A"I cannot ___ lie"
- 21A*"Stranger Things" character
- 23ANoah's boat
- 25AWork group
- 26AMembers of an organized group of criminals
- 31AWhere you have a reasonable chance of running into a US senator
- 35AGerund finishers
- 36AMineral that scores 1 on the Mohs scale
- 38ABattery terminal
- 39A*Middle East airline
- 40A*Man of learning in Ezra 8:16
- 42A*Short prog rock band name
- 43AStage name of rapper and record producer, Sudan Ameer Williams
- 45ATiny fraction of a min.
- 46AHunter's garb, for short
- 47AMonty Python member, John ___
- 49AAction that accompanies "D'oh!"
- 51AWindows shortcut key
- 53AI find your text quite funny
- 54A*Elven-ring wearer in "Lord of the Rings"
- 59ABallet leaps
- 63APipe unclogger
- 64AOriginator of Glinda, Kristin ___
- 66ABugs Bunny line, "___ a stinker!"
- 67ACasablanca's Lund
- 68AFascinated by
- 69ADough-rising ingredient
- 70APlace for a chapeau
- 71ASmall earring
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- 1DAmount owed
- 2DRub the wrong way
- 3DSpoken rather than written
- 4DWhere you might be forced to endure dodge ball
- 5DVolcano output
- 6DSnow-clearing vehicle
- 7DIsland east of Java
- 8DProcess, as ore
- 9DTake a taxi
- 10DLama, for example
- 11D"Garfield" dog
- 12DFortune-teller
- 13DA whole lot
- 18DNintendo racing game, "Mario ___"
- 22DTook charge
- 24DLow-carb diet
- 26DImpersonate
- 27DBasketball's Shaquille ___
- 28DA bit below one's best effort
- 29DWater from the sky
- 30DLead guitarist of Guns N' Roses
- 32DPalace dweller
- 33DSwelling caused by trapped fluid
- 34DFamous fabulist
- 37DPitikwahanapiwiyin, for example
- 40DNike slogan
- 41DOSX scheduling software, previously
- 44DStraight lines that cut a curve in two or more parts
- 46DNarnia's creator
- 48DGo astray
- 50DJudo school
- 52DLawful
- 54DBenChen71 greeting
- 55DGrammy winner India ___
- 56DSinger, ___ Del Rey
- 57D"The King's Speech" actress, Jennifer ___
- 58D"___ we forget"
- 60DCamper's shelter
- 61D"___ Brute?"
- 62DWearing footwear
- 65DScottish denial
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