nice puzzle! i guessed it based on the title and prompt but went back to find the intended mechanism... "crystal radio" is new to me and i didn't know that an option button is called a "radio button" so loved learning that... i'm a creep... i'm a weirdooooooo...
rjy 2s · 2023-10-22T14:52:18.049Z
A quick word association from the title took me to a pretty solid click for the answer - turned out correct! so on to backsolving… (wish I had better self-discipline than to submit the answer without showing my work!)
Woo hoo!!! This geezer got a new-fangled band name without interwebbing (and yes, 80's is "new-fangled" to some of us). Thanks for a perfect Sunday morning meta.
Hector 🤓7:05 · 2023-10-22T15:16:58.455Z
Great band and fun start to a Sunday. Thank you!
SamKat9 🤓7:12 · 2023-10-22T15:16:26.911Z
I enjoyed this puzzle! And I was a big fan of Radiohead as a teenager ;)
needed the third nudge, even though I'd noticed CRYSTAL and HAM radios already, so really shouldn't have needed it. :D Loved the 27A clue Fun stuff, thanks
Well I was all over with this one. HEAD start, well LOGIC - use your head, BLEED - head bleed (sorry, professional hazard), USE - goes with LOGIC, NEURON - in your head. Looked for letters under or over H (Head start), ditto C (cranium start). Finally thought about bands from the 80's in Britain and RADIO (on air) HEAD - (HEAD start) seemed a natural. So I got it right then looked for the way to do it right. If it had been the 70's I'd have gone with Wings or Flock of Seagulls. Thanks for the Sunday 1A!!
Laura M 🤓8:18 · 2023-10-22T19:19:52.960Z
Nice puzzle, thanks! I'm not a huge fan (the only song I know is 48A) but still it's a well-enough-known band name that it came to mind immediately.
Jeremy Smith 3s · 2023-10-22T19:39:36.921Z
Fun one! The duck picture with the straight key is hilarious. As ham radio operator of 47 years, I don't recall ever having a CW QSO with a duck before.
whimsy 🤓11:04 · 2023-10-23T04:09:27.050Z
Echoing KayW -- and thinking that playing Connections helped me with this one.
Kinda old for the band (and was rather busy with a newborn in '85, which was the year they formed as I found out when google-confirming.) But was able to come up with the name as soon as I realized radio.
Thanks for this fun puzzle that I could solve, Pair O'!
JHSeeman 2s · 2023-10-23T14:21:54.008Z
Loved it...as an OLD RF guy...the minute I saw "On Air", "Crystal" and "Ham"...knew it.....
Thanks for the great meta/puzzle.
Just getting to this today, and it took a minute (and a second look a the title) because 27A was new to me.
Sondheim praised them. He said their music was harmonically iinteresting, far more so that most of the rock/pop out there.
For years, I've been wanting to make a joke using "Kaypro computer," but I've never been able to get it right, and besides most people are either to old to get the OK part or too young to get the Kaypro part.
ReB 3s · 2023-10-23T18:40:14.867Z
After the first two nudges (which just repeated what I'd already figured out), my brain clicked into gear and I realized that it probably wasn't a coincidence that each of these four first words could be combined with "radio" to form two-word phrases. I decided to google for "80s british bands radio" - and that did it. Nice Sunday puzzle.
Qmark 3s · 2023-10-25T17:07:37.686Z
Travelling this week so got to the puzzle late...SSSolved with no need of nudges...thanks!