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Two Can Play At That Game (Meta)

· By benchen71 · Published 3 months ago

Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is an eight-letter game that can be played by two people
We all like to play games, both the board kind (nice!) and the inter-personal relationship manipulative kind (not so nice!) So this meta is for all you game-players out there. Good luck at winning out in the end by finding the answer to the meta which is an eight-letter game that can be played by two people. Answer and explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=117625#p117625
Check out the "Rejected (Non-meta) MOAT Pack" here: https://www.ephesusscroll.com/about/interest4.html. US$5 gets you 10 themed crosswords, most of which were rejected by one crossword publisher or another. Were those editors right to reject them? You be the judge!
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  • Hector 🤓7:16 · 3 months ago
    Nice one. Had to ignore TREE and DELL, but by that point the answer was pretty clear.
    • benchen71 constructor · 3 months ago
      TREE and DELL don't enter into it, because the letter doublings have to work in both directions, across and down.
      • Sharkicicles 1s · 3 months ago
        Isn’t a shitee the recipient of a s***? Like a payee? ;)
        • benchen71 constructor · 2 months ago
          That didn't come up in my dictionary, so I think I'm pretty safe! ;-)
    • I K Snamhcok 1s · 3 months ago
      Fun! Thanks, Ben!
      • Laura M 🤓8:38 · 3 months ago
        Fun, and very impressive construction! But OBIIT threw me off for a while...
        • benchen71 constructor · 3 months ago
          Yes, I tried to use the clues to help you with that particular intersection!
          • Gutman 3s · 3 months ago
            Ditto
            • Sharkicicles 1s · 3 months ago
              I never got to that point (got DOM and backsolved from there) but I learned a new word today!
            • Meg 2s · 3 months ago
              Took a bit of thinking, so good!
              • DrTom 4s · 3 months ago
                I laughed at SHITE
                25DVulgar British word for something of very poor quality (there better be a good reason for this being here!)[-----]
                and a funny coincidence helped crack it for me. A while back I was doing some "constructing" and needed a word to fill SHIITE fit perfectly but I then saw I needed a 5 letter word not a 6 letter...and I had no good reason to include it, so I went a different way. Trouble is that I was not smart enough to see it as a mechanism, while Ben was! At first I thought "well this is going to be random" because I had never heard of OBIIT and there were lots of words that one could double a letter to make a new word. BUT when I got to CHOSE
                52DOpted for[-----]
                and made it CHOOSE then saw I had TWO new words I went back and looked at OBIIT. Fun as usual puzzle from our awesome Aussie.
                • benchen71 constructor · 3 months ago
                  I nearly didn't do this puzzle because of SHITE
                  25DVulgar British word for something of very poor quality (there better be a good reason for this being here!)[-----]
                  . There are almost no I words that you can double the I and still have a real word. I needed to use Latin for the other one!
                  • DrTom 4s · 3 months ago
                    Oh, I think in a universe of TWERK, URINE, PEE and other fill you are allowed a SHITE
                    25DVulgar British word for something of very poor quality (there better be a good reason for this being here!)[-----]
                    , particularly in such a great puzzle. For chuckles I looked up double i words - not much unless you wanted a much longer entry.
                • woozy 🤓8:17 · 3 months ago
                  clever. But what about: TREE, MOORE, SHOOT, SPEED, and CHOOSE? and where is the SS?
                  • benchen71 constructor · 3 months ago
                    Again, the doublings have to work in both directions. So, yes, SHOOT and CHOOSE are included (giving you an O), as is SPEED (it crosses with STEEP, giving you an E), but not TREE or MOORE. The last letter comes from MOUSSE crossing LESS.
                    • woozy 🤓8:17 · 3 months ago
                      Ohhhhh! THAT makes the mechanism much more clever than I thought!
                      ... oh, wait. I'm not sure I understand. DDAY, I get, but OBIIT? Whats that.... Oh, the actual Latin... sneaky.
                      • benchen71 constructor · 3 months ago
                        June 6th, 1944. (It comes up in crosswords often enough, I thought I could get away with it!)
                        • benchen71 constructor · 3 months ago
                          Oops! I didn't parse your punctuation correctly. Yes, given the dearth of double-I words in English I had to resort to Latin!
                  • KayW 🤓6:08 · 3 months ago
                    Very clever!! As always, in hindsight I wonder why I needed the nudges. The title told me EXACTLY what to do. Nice one, Ben. Thanks!
                    • rjy 2s · 3 months ago
                      Really clever construction, Ben. Wish I had gotten the AHA nudgelessly, but man! I spent stupid time on this... thx!!
                      • MatthewL 🤓5:41 · 3 months ago
                        Nice once. Had to backsolve for the "I". Thanks Ben!
                        • Cindy Heisler 4s · 3 months ago
                          I was thrown for a bit because I never caught on that 34A
                          34ANewspaper notice, for short (related to the Latin word for "he/she died" which may or may not be helpful!)[----]
                          was a clue and I needed to look up obiit. And it took me forever to get Dday! Great puzzle, Ben! Thanks.
                          • whimsy 🤓9:05 · 3 months ago
                            I wondered why I kept seeing MOUSSE in the corner rather than MOUSE
                            72A"Eek! A ___!"[-----]
                            ; wasn't just wishful thinking after all! :) Because of the clue, I knew SHITE
                            25DVulgar British word for something of very poor quality (there better be a good reason for this being here!)[-----]
                            played a part, but didn't notice the crossing OBIT
                            34ANewspaper notice, for short (related to the Latin word for "he/she died" which may or may not be helpful!)[----]
                            clue was emphatic also. This was great! (Although I needed early nudges to get me going and later ones to clarify.) Thanks, Ben!
                            • Ergcat 11:04 · 3 months ago
                              Needed the second nudge! I was playing with adding/subtracting/looking at letters between “T O”. I like your mechanism though! Very clever! Thank you!
                              • Capn Rick 🤓6:46 · 3 months ago
                                Nice one, Ben! I needed the nudges, but it's a great mechanism.
                                • ReB 21s · 3 months ago
                                  I was off the beam, looking for word pairs. Came up with AUTOBAHN and TINY
                                  45AVery small[----]
                                  STEP
                                  58DPart of a process[----]
                                  , but wasn't getting much further.
                                  I thus needed the first three nudges to find the right coupling, though two might have been enough if I'd been more patient. (I backsolved for the "I" and thus didn't need the last nudge). Very clever disguising.
                                  • Qmark 4s · 3 months ago
                                    Very nice construction, Ben! I needed the 2nd nudge to get unstuck.
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                                    More impolite
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                                    Across
                                    1. 1A
                                      More impolite
                                    2. 6A
                                      Tech sch. grad
                                    3. 10A
                                      Bringing up the rear
                                    4. 14A
                                      Tennis player, Naomi ___
                                    5. 15A
                                      ___ or less (approximately)
                                    6. 16A
                                      Responsibility
                                    7. 17A
                                      Howled at the moon
                                    8. 18A
                                      College teacher, for short
                                    9. 19A
                                      Prolonged state of deep unconsciousness
                                    10. 20A
                                      From middle C to the C above middle C
                                    11. 22A
                                      Computer operator
                                    12. 23A
                                      Not at school
                                    13. 27A
                                      Whiteboard accessories
                                    14. 29A
                                      German highway
                                    15. 30A
                                      Howard's best friend on "The Big Bang Theory"
                                    16. 33A
                                      Harden, as concrete
                                    17. 34A
                                      Newspaper notice, for short (related to the Latin word for "he/she died" which may or may not be helpful!)
                                    18. 35A
                                      Arby's slogan: "We have the ___"
                                    19. 37A
                                      Daft Punk's genre (abbr.)
                                    20. 40A
                                      "Mrs. Frisby and the ___ of NIMH"
                                    21. 41A
                                      It takes two to do this (which is also a vague hint concerning something you need to do eight times in the grid to solve the meta)
                                    22. 42A
                                      La Scala highlight
                                    23. 43A
                                      Uno, due, ___
                                    24. 44A
                                      Release
                                    25. 45A
                                      Very small
                                    26. 46A
                                      CTRL-ALT-___
                                    27. 47A
                                      CIA operative
                                    28. 49A
                                      Swedish furniture chain
                                    29. 50A
                                      Makes a choice
                                    30. 54A
                                      Princess of Pop, Britney ___
                                    31. 56A
                                      Hymn, "___ deep, deep love of Jesus" (check out Audrey Assad's version - it's brilliant!)
                                    32. 57A
                                      The universe
                                    33. 60A
                                      Mixologist's measure
                                    34. 61A
                                      Car
                                    35. 62A
                                      Leaning
                                    36. 67A
                                      Alleviate
                                    37. 68A
                                      Hurried
                                    38. 69A
                                      Shoe ties
                                    39. 70A
                                      "Something New Every Day" blog (abbr.)
                                    40. 71A
                                      Recipe amts.
                                    41. 72A
                                      "Eek! A ___!"
                                    Down
                                    1. 1D
                                      Steal from
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                                      Home of the brave and land of the free
                                    3. 3D
                                      Dawn to dusk
                                    4. 4D
                                      ___ out a win
                                    5. 5D
                                      Element with atomic number 86
                                    6. 6D
                                      Pre-___ (forestall)
                                    7. 7D
                                      "Sleepless in Seattle" director, ___ Ephron
                                    8. 8D
                                      Cluster of trees
                                    9. 9D
                                      Talks about
                                    10. 10D
                                      "So I will restore to you the years that the swarming ___ has eaten" (Joel 2:25)
                                    11. 11D
                                      By ___ (barely)
                                    12. 12D
                                      Ancient Tigris-Euphrates region
                                    13. 13D
                                      Romanov rulers
                                    14. 21D
                                      Middle (abbr.)
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                                      Cancel, as a launch
                                    16. 24D
                                      Fictional elephant
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                                      Vulgar British word for something of very poor quality (there better be a good reason for this being here!)
                                    18. 26D
                                      Tolkien tree beings
                                    19. 28D
                                      Variant of the Rijndael block cipher (abbr.)
                                    20. 31D
                                      "Amo, amas, ___"
                                    21. 32D
                                      Block-stacking game that can be played by two people (but it's not the answer to the meta nor a hint on how to solve the meta)
                                    22. 36D
                                      Enthralled
                                    23. 37D
                                      "Get Out" actress, ___ Alexander
                                    24. 38D
                                      Informal eatery
                                    25. 39D
                                      Ancient Mexicans
                                    26. 41D
                                      Show on TV
                                    27. 42D
                                      End in ___ (require overtime)
                                    28. 44D
                                      Showed the way
                                    29. 46D
                                      Tried to lose weight
                                    30. 48D
                                      General on a Chinese menu
                                    31. 50D
                                      Medicinal quantities
                                    32. 51D
                                      "Mission Impossible" character, ___ Hunt
                                    33. 52D
                                      Opted for
                                    34. 53D
                                      First courses, often
                                    35. 55D
                                      Song of David
                                    36. 58D
                                      Part of a process
                                    37. 59D
                                      Unofficial computer game add-ons
                                    38. 63D
                                      Eastern "way"
                                    39. 64D
                                      Post-op locale
                                    40. 65D
                                      French musical, "___ Miserables"
                                    41. 66D
                                      "The Waste Land" monogram
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