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Word Salad; or Meta Niçoise

◆ · By woozy · Published 2024-12-19T19:00:27.424Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a colorful sentence
Another retaliation meta. But retaliation for what? I won't tell you.
Nudges: There are 11 things to find
Think singular and plural, and verbs and ... it's a legitimate fully formed sentence
ADORE is not part of the metanism for... well, reasons.
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  • hoover solved 2024-12-19T20:44:32.002Z
  • Hector solved 2024-12-19T21:48:13.233Z
  • benchen71 solved 2024-12-19T22:42:58.033Z
  • KayW solved 2024-12-20T01:40:21.799Z
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  • Pair O Ducks solved 2024-12-21T11:57:35.524Z

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  • hoover 2s · 2024-12-19T20:44:57.259Z
    Whew! That was a little harder than I thought it would be! "Nice" comeback!
    • benchen71 🤓5:25 · 2024-12-19T22:44:05.791Z
      I saw BLANCHE and ROUGE almost straight away; the rest followed swiftly. But I did study French for 5 years, so that definitely helped!
      • whimsy 9:05 · 2024-12-20T02:04:27.509Z
        A few entries trying to get the wording exactly correct and then hit on it. Thanks, woozy!
        • KayW 🤓5:20 · 2024-12-20T01:45:30.831Z
          Touché ! Je ne parle pas français. But I saw enough to get started and lucky for me there's google translate for the rest. Nice!!
          • hoover 2s · 2024-12-20T14:07:50.242Z
            Same!
          • woozy constructor · 2024-12-20T00:43:18.408Z
            So there are 11 entries that mean something entirely different in French. (By mistake there is also ADORE which ... means the exact same thing in French, but as it doesn't mean something different it doesn't count. Taken together these words are LES DENTS DU CHAT SONT BLANCHES ET SON SANG EST ROUGE which gives the meta answer "THE CATS TEETH ARE WHITE AND HIS BLOOD IS RED"
            I accepted CAT'S TEETH and TEETH OF THE CAT, and HIS and ITS. And I accepted the French but I intended for the answer to be in English.
            I originally intended to have PIED and PAS and NESTLE (N'EST LE, which would have involved constructor's license a little beyond what is acceptable) but I like how what I have is a very smooth parse.
            • woozy constructor · 2024-12-20T15:34:30.789Z
              I initially translated it it as HIS blood because I had mistakenly assume the masculinity of the word SON reflected the masculinity of the word CHAT/cat (why it didn't occur to me that in english we'd say "its" I have no idea; maybe because my two cats are both boys) and I forgot that in possessives are basically adjectives and would reflect the gender of the object possessed-- not the possessor. So it was SON because of the SANG/blood which is masculine. (In French the SON/SA difference is of the endings but in english the his/her/its difference is in the root; in German they do both so they have about 8 or 12 possessives based on the gender of the possessor (root) the gender of the possessed (first ending) and the declination of the possessed (another ending)).
              Log story short-- I added ITS/HIS/HER options to the acceptable answers.
            Play today's daily mini crossword
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            ___ Schwab; tire retailer chain
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            1. 1A
              ___ Schwab; tire retailer chain
            2. 4A
              Fender benders
            3. 9A
              James Garfield's, Linus Pauling's, and Kurt Vonnegut's fraternity
            4. 11A
              The social organization for people who play that game with racquets and nets for money
            5. 12A
              "I'll be there __ ____ __ I can"
            6. 14A
              Informal little talk
            7. 16A
              Reg. in Can. that includes London, Toronto, and Ottawa but not Thunder Bay or Sault Ste. Marie
            8. 17A
              Marisa of "My Cousin Vinny"
            9. 19A
              Disinclined to do much dating
            10. 21A
              Instructor in many introductory courses
            11. 22A
              What makes a computer work
            12. 23A
              Cherish
            13. 25A
              Would a big fan of witch-craft be called a ___ nut?
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              Dips briefly in hot water
            15. 28A
              Yak
            16. 30A
              Foot-operated cymbals
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              One more thing in a letter
            18. 33A
              Alien who phoned home
            19. 34A
              Male child
            20. 35A
              Rum cakes
            21. 37A
              Durable wood that is one letter off of a greenish blue duck
            22. 39A
              Musically intoned
            23. 40A
              Ruler with unlimited authority
            24. 45A
              Boston's winter hous
            25. 46A
              Bathroom tissue
            26. 47A
              Makeup for the cheeks
            27. 48A
              Prt. of 22A
            Down
            1. 1D
              Milky prefix
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              "'Nihilists! Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism at least it's an _____'"
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              A palindromic request for navigational charts because the dead princess has misplaced the firm tinned meat: Maps! Di lost soild ____
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              Russian affirmative
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              Latin epsilons
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              Can. Prov. where you can find Baddeck, Whycocomagh, Port Hawkesbury, Yarmouth and Halifax
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              Used as a function word to indicate movement or an action or condition suggestive of movement toward a place, person, or thing reached
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              Meh
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              Infernal writer
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              What's collected by the revenue service in America
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              If you have to ask, this is the answer
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              Bluish Green duck that is one letter off of a durable wood
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              State known for potatoes
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              Mischievously playful like a ... curved support? I don't get it
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              Amy Winehouse hit that I have never heard
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              "Well, don't just stand out there! Come __ __"
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              Latin etas
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              Small ammunition
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              Greek H's
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              Imply
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              Consumed entirely
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              Flower that Robert Williams Wood found analogous to the Chimpanzee: " Observe how Nature's necromancies Have clearly painted on the [.....] These almost human counte-nances, In yellow, blue and black nu-ances. The face, however, seems to me To be that of the Chimpanzee, A fact which makes the gentle ____ Appeal no longer to my fancy."
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              USAF NCOs
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              Toffee bar
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              Sweetie-pies
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              @
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              Boulder's st.
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              1 3/4 in.
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              Silver on the table
            30. 44D
              Cook's holly; endangered tree endemic to Puerto Rico
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