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Nominative Geography (Meta)
◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2024-01-16T05:00:45.691Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a book by 69 across
I had this meta idea in my notes for a while now, so I don't recall what the seed was. It was a stretch to get all of the required pieces into the grid, but then I went and made it into a pangram! I hope I haven't made the grid too difficult as a result; I've tried to provide some additional help where it might be needed the most. The meta should not be too difficult, though. The answer to the meta is a book by 69 across. Answer & explanation: https://xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=154440#p154440
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- SamKat9 16:03 · 2024-01-16T06:13:10.256ZVery cool puzzle and construction. I love this book!
- Fun puzzle, and not too hard once I let go of my presuppositions about what "Nominative" meant. Love this book!
- JHSeeman 2s · 2024-01-16T14:16:33.370ZLots of fun. to a minute, but then jumped off the page. Thanks for the fun puzzle and meta
- Adam Doctoroff 🤓4:22 · 2024-01-16T14:46:16.607ZThanks Ben!
- MatthewL 🤓8:10 · 2024-01-16T15:14:18.125ZWonderful! Great cluing and a great metanism. Thanks for the puzzle, Ben!
- whimsy 16:21 · 2024-01-16T16:45:14.007ZAnd to think that I saw it when I was considering Mulberry Street... Worth the grid for the meta -- Thanks, Ben!
- HeadinHome 🤓3:28 · 2024-01-16T17:05:47.453ZCreative meta idea! The one that tipped it for me was PLASTER — even when doing the first part of the grid, I though “hmm… that would be even more apt if he’d used “plaster of Paris”! Curious as to why you didn’t just use “place” as the meta answer… am I missing some more Seussical content? Thanks for the fun!
- Ergcat 16:34 · 2024-01-16T17:27:49.965ZFun solve! I loved this one! Thanks, Ben!
- imontoo 2s · 2024-01-16T17:42:00.320ZA favorite which we read often to our child.
- Very impressive. It's hard even to think of many other "* of [city]" phrases that a solver could be expected to find familiar.
- I was trying to think of a few myself: Treaty of Ghent, Edict of Nantes, Colossus of Rhodes, Isle of Capri, Lady of Lourdes...bt there are not that many that people would recognize immediately. Ben would have had to been thinking on this for a while to get the right set up for letter combination. The vowels are probably the hardest.
- Very nice!But I’m surprised by the map you chose for the map for the cover pic. Would have thought something with this orientation would be more your speed
- hoover 2s · 2024-01-16T20:22:34.708ZFell down a shallow rabbit hole with "Egyptian flower" -> NILE and "scottish hat" -> TAM, but I dug my way out. Nice one!
- Dave C 30s · 2024-01-16T22:27:04.508ZFun. My wife guessed this would be the answer before we started filling in the grid.
- Fun one, thanks. Solved pretty quickly, so not sure what my way in was. But I think it was purple rose of CAIRO.
- Laura M 🤓11:27 · 2024-01-17T00:22:49.139ZFun! I did find the mechanism, but this would have been my guess anyway :-)
- Carolyn 3s · 2024-01-18T00:55:02.760ZVery cute! Enjoyed it.
- Qmark 5s · 2024-01-18T13:07:20.683Zfun idea, Ben...thanks !
- ReB 4s · 2024-01-21T18:44:58.007ZNice puzzle, couldn't get to it until today, and needed some nudging to rev up the mental engines.
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Across
- 1ATake possession of
- 8ASubmit, as a contest entry
- 14AContinued for a loooooong time, like news coverage when there really isn't anything new to say
- 15ABon Jovi song, "You Give Love A ___"
- 16ABuilding material probably used in a lot of French architecture
- 17A"Fast & Furious" franchise protagonist, Brian ___ (played by Paul Walker)
- 18AMedical breakthrough
- 19AMake a formal statement at a wedding
- 21APosed a question
- 23ACastle pinnacle, a good perch for ravens that, according to superstition, protect the English Crown
- 24ALowest point
- 27ATakes care of
- 31AFord in the 2005 movie adaptation of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
- 34ADirector, Cecil B. De___
- 36ACome down like ___ of bricks
- 37APasses, as time
- 39AWhere to borrow a book or scroll if you lived in Egypt in antiquity
- 42A"Star Trek" navigator
- 43AProtein-building acid
- 45ASpar in a ring
- 46AInside info, that just might pay off down the track
- 49AThe Jetsons' dog
- 51AIt's blocked by a cream with an SPF
- 53ANightmare location of film, for short
- 57AEgyptian flower left outside in a Prince movie?
- 62ADuchess's husband who presents awards at the drop of a Scottish hat
- 63AImmediately, or at the very least very quickly
- 64A1987 Pet Shop Boys hit
- 66ACombinations of two areas (the answer includes a letter that made this puzzle into a pangram, which has absolutely nothing to do with the meta!)
- 67AMade like a horse, vocally
- 68AFigaro, in a Rossini opera set in Spain
- 69AAuthor of "Fox in Sox" and other classic children's books
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- 1DPet protection org.
- 2DNot quite a B but still slightly better than average
- 3DSubatomic particle (or a Ferengi in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"; actually, now that I think about it the sort of solvers who would know the latter clue would probably also know the first clue!)
- 4DInvisible
- 5DAcronym for all network-connected appliances everywhere
- 6DWished undone
- 7DInfinitive form of the verb that conjugates "je suis, tu es, il/elle est ..."
- 8DLong-tailed, colourful parrots
- 9DObject of one's affection, perhaps?
- 10DWhere you can find the cochlea
- 11D"Lift Every Voice" author, ___ Guinier (an anagram of NAIL, in case that helps)
- 12DChatted online
- 13DRomulan played by Eric Bana in the 2009 reboot "Star Trek"
- 15DNecktie made of string
- 20DKey combination that every Windows user knows all too well: ___-ALT-DEL
- 22DRiver blockages
- 25DKick the bucket
- 26DCasablanca's Lund
- 28DShot in the dark
- 29DMatador's opponent
- 30DBlack gemstone
- 31DFit together, like a well-functioning team
- 32DWriter Ijeoma ___ (hidden backwards in COULOMB)
- 33DChemical compound consisting of an ionic assembly of positively charged cations and negatively charged anions
- 35DYalies
- 38DPrearranged conspiracy
- 40DBank account earnings, for short
- 41D"Don't ___ us, get to the chorus" (Berry Gordy, Jr. quote)
- 44DHam go-with in a bread scroll
- 47DHospital tube used to administer fluids, for short
- 48DHave a bias toward
- 50DSomething not wasted on the young (but their time will come!)
- 52DPound sounds / canine comments / lab reports, etc...
- 54DDragon voiced by Eddie Murphy in "Mulan"
- 55D"Gray ___ are gonna clear up..."
- 56DTakes care of
- 57DMr. ___ (Coca-Cola's response to Dr. Pepper)
- 58DSuffix that joins to pet- to form a flowering plant
- 59DMotorola flip phone from 2005
- 60DTrig. function that doesn't use radians or gradians
- 61DAnagram of 7 down that is one letter short of a poetic word for "everlasting"
- 65DBro's sib
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