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Rendezvous

◆ · By Devoid · Published 2024-04-02T18:24:07.531Z

Meta Prompt
You’ve intercepted a message between two crossword-loving criminals, who send their secret plans to each other by hiding things in their puzzles. Can you find the day (6), time (5), and place (6,5) of their meeting in the grid?
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  • kurtalert solved 2024-04-02T22:04:31.049Z
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  • kurtalert 🤓4:43 · 2024-04-02T22:05:01.525Z
    This was very cool! The short film Rendezvous is amazing, too.
    • Sendhil Revuluri 🤓4:59 · 2024-04-02T23:45:37.460Z
      Barred crosswords are always extra hard for me because (a) there are more squares to fill in and (b) a lot of the squares are unchecked. But I see how the structure really facilitated the meta!
      One nit: In 26D the clue parsed for me as singular when the entry is plural. Maybe revise to “and others”?
      And several confusions:
      • I didn’t get 28D — not understanding why an EXIT sign is unique to a multi-story building.
      • Also 19D — not seeing why SAFFRON “warms the mouth”.
      • There was no way I was going to get 34A (especially with the unchecked square) so I just Googled it.
      • 7D straddled the line between "I learned something new and cool" and "wut".
      • Devoid constructor · 2024-04-03T06:28:09.539Z
        Yeah some of these clues were a bit forced or rushed.
        • 28D — this is partly a dialectal thing but it’s also a bad clue: in Britain, where I’m from, a multi-storey specifically denotes a large type of car park/parking garage with several floors, rather than just a building with several floors in general. I think originally I had ‘sign seen in car park’ or something but I knew that ‘car park’ isn’t familiar to American solvers, so I changed it to ‘multi-storey,’ not realising that that’s just as bad (if not worse)! I’ll change it to something a bit more normal.
        • 19D — this was me getting carried away with the ‘warmer’ mini-theme. The idea is that saffron is a spice so it makes your mouth feel hot, but I’m not actually sure if that’s true at all as I’ve never tasted it.
        • 34A and 7D — these words were largely necessitated by having EIFFEL TOWER stretching across the diagonal. Ignazio Silone is not somebody I’d heard of either, but his name seemed to have appeared a couple of times in the NYT so I figured it wasn’t crazy obscure. With 34A, I am a bit of a music nerd so I did know what it was before seeing it was the only word that fitted, but it’s still a bit obscure. Grids are the thing I find hardest to make, particularly in barred crosswords, which is why I’ve been doing barred metas with hidden words over the last few days to practise.
        Thanks for your feedback, I’m still learning how to write good but original clues for straight crosswords.
      • benchen71 7:07 · 2024-04-03T02:09:38.986Z
        FRIDAY jumped out at me; a slow parse of every set of 5 letters elicited LUNCH; and then a quick perusal of the diagonals revealed the last piece of the puzzle. Nice one!
        • Devoid constructor · 2024-04-03T06:37:44.932Z
          Thanks, Ben
        Play today's daily mini crossword
        1D
        Archetypal horror film made in 1960
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        Across
        1. 2A
          Course taken well in advance by future barrister?
        2. 7A
          Unit of pressure
        3. 11A
          There are _____ días de la semana
        4. 12A
          Name for God
        5. 13A
          Vote in parliament
        6. 14A
          A Room with _____
        7. 15A
          Neck-warmer
        8. 17A
          Irish female name
        9. 18A
          Head-warmer?
        10. 19A
          Animal also called finnock, peel or sewin in various parts of the UK
        11. 21A
          Major ingredient of haggis
        12. 22A
          Letter-shaped pipe
        13. 24A
          ‘Exactly!’
        14. 26A
          Common school subject, for short
        15. 27A
          Unable to hear
        16. 29A
          _____ Winfrey
        17. 31A
          2002 film about the eponymous Mexican artist
        18. 33A
          What might be pulled, or hoped to be broken
        19. 34A
          Ignazio ______, Italian author and politician
        20. 35A
          _____ on to, eventually understand
        21. 36A
          Trois x sept = vingt-____
        22. 37A
          Coastal Polish city
        Down
        1. 1D
          Archetypal horror film made in 1960
        2. 2D
          Cupboard once used to store food
        3. 3D
          Respond
        4. 4D
          Sicily-warmer?
        5. 5D
          Pasture
        6. 6D
          Word before coat or line
        7. 7D
          Plucked Baroque instrument
        8. 8D
          Extended sound of pain, perhaps when one has the 31D
        9. 9D
          Actual
        10. 10D
          Flightless bird
        11. 16D
          Austrian singer known for ‘Rock Me Amadeus’
        12. 19D
          Very expensive spice
        13. 20D
          Deselect on an electronic form
        14. 23D
          Type of small boat
        15. 25D
          Observing
        16. 26D
          NaCl and others
        17. 27D
          Prescribed amount
        18. 28D
          Word on a sign showing the way out
        19. 30D
          Reynolds or Gosling
        20. 31D
          Forehead-warmer?
        21. 32D
          Words before carte or mode
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