Type-O Personality
◆ · By DrTom · Published 2024-09-11T11:30:28.447Z
Meta Prompt
The answer is an invaluable writing aid
Type-O Personality Intro
We all know what a Type-A person is, but what is a Type-O? Good question and one that, until I made this meta, I knew nothing about. Apparently there is a new “science” coming out of Japan and called Ketsueki-gata. People who have gotten tired of using the non-scientific “what’s your sign” to get to know about possible dates or mates now turn to the equally non-scientific “what’s your type”. Each “type” (A, B, AB, O) has distinctive traits. Interestingly Type-A in both are similar, but the laidback and desirable Type-B in the A, B, C, D does NOT translate to the Type –B in the other.
OK, so what about the meta? This is yet another inspired by, but an easier variant of, a long past Matt Gaffney or Wall Street (can’t remember which) and something I (and I guess others) struggle with constantly. I’d like to believe it is because of my Type-A (Type-O in the Ketsueki-gata he said being very generous with himself) personality but whatever the reason it gave me a meta.
Having me rating metas has proved to be a fool’s game, I almost never get it right, but it certainly won’t stop me. I am saying Calico at most because I feel frequent solvers will spot the “trick” VERY quickly. I’d like to, as always, thank my testers, Super Secret Tester (you know who you are) and edestlin who kept me honest.
Kitten
*CALICO
Persian
Puma
Lion
Saturday (unless necessity dictates) will be nudge day, now go and Ketsueki-gata Type-O or old Type-A this puzzle.
NUDGES:
Nudge 1] The "un-named" tester was Wendy Walker
Nudge 2] The Title serves double duty as a reference to the mechanism and the answer
Nudge 3] I know I often have errors in my clues, but so many, and with Wendy testing?
Nudge 4] Is PAIRS really a compitition and IS Rap a Granmy category?
𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙍𝙀𝙑𝙀𝘼𝙇
Hopefully this one was rather straightforward.
Eleven clues have an obvious typo in them
1A. Skating Compitition
11A. Granmy category
20A.Palce a demand
22A. Passin mention?
27A. Quacks' in a way
40A Lift ups
50A. Output of a modern writers
57A Like fine chese or wine
60A Fail's to pursue
70A Twistie turn
72A Fix ahem again
The first letters of the answers to those clues spell out PROOFREADER, a Typo Personality if ever there was one.
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Nice one, Dr Tom!
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Across
- 1ASkating compitition
- 6AHostess's "laughable" cakes
- 11AGranmy catergory
- 14AMan on the microphone
- 15A60 minutes, for ex.
- 16APark in NYC
- 17AObject you have to strain to use
- 18ATeahouse options
- 19ASonar navigator
- 20APalce a demand
- 21AWine and cassis aperitifs
- 22APassin mention?
- 23ATake-home pay
- 25ASlowly but surely
- 27AQuacks' in a way
- 30A"Tonight Show" permanent host, twice
- 31ATales of olde
- 32AMeasurement made in the field
- 35AMuse of poetry
- 39AConsumed
- 40ALift ups
- 42AGet yourself a bag of grass
- 43ALover of Beauty
- 46ASnoopy
- 47A"Let's go!"
- 48AA "Day's Night" for the Fab Four
- 50AOutput of a modern writers
- 52ANational pastime
- 56AOfficer's address
- 57ALike fine chese or wine
- 58AHBO comedy starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- 60AFail's to pursue
- 64ALong-running NBC skit comedy show
- 65ARelating to a bean's "eye"
- 66AStereotypical police pastry
- 67AHebrew word meaning "hill"
- 68AOuzo flavoring
- 69ADraw out
- 70ATwistie turn
- 71AFamed oil tycoon
- 72AFix ahem again
Down
- 1DWhat you might be offered for your thoughts in Mexico
- 2DMuslim commander
- 3DClinched the game
- 4DWhat you get to report every April 15th
- 5DGet anecdotally angry like a bull
- 6DMake a pawn move
- 7D"___ Majesty's Secret Service" (if the Bond movie were being made now)
- 8DCold-blooded
- 9D"Now I get it!"
- 10DAARP audience
- 11DTorah teacher
- 12DBe of use to
- 13DRichard or Tom (neither of whom are small-minded)
- 22DAroma with a bad reputation
- 24DEmperor of Russia before 1917
- 26D"Wheel of Fortune" purchase
- 27DInside of a "spare tire"
- 28DA way to learn, a way to learn, a way to learn...
- 29DType of communication code
- 33DLike a romantic dinner
- 34DBrazilian hot spot
- 36DExplosive content in a magazine
- 37DPilfered
- 38DHas possession of
- 41DA couple of good lookers
- 44DA place to put things you want to get rid of?
- 45DDiet icon Coca-Cola discontinued in 2020
- 47DGradually rust away
- 49DThe Grand Canyon, for example
- 51DParticipant in an auction
- 52DPour oil over a breast
- 53DHurricane that caused extensive flooding in Pennsylvania
- 54DConvinces
- 55DWhat you can do that requires minimal work
- 59DQuarry
- 61DThe world, to Atlas
- 62DBrownish purple shade with a sickly sounding name
- 63DSit around and gripe
- 65DWitchy woman