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Naming Rights
◆ · By Wendy Walker · Published 2023-05-21T12:01:17.234Z
Meta Prompt
The meta answer could be a sixth theme entry.
As an avid reader, an English major, and a writer and copy editor by trade, I've long thought that the topic of author names would make a splendid meta. Odds are good you'll need to do some Googling, but if you keep the title in mind, the meta shouldn't be too tough. Here's hoping you enjoy it! Nudges to come later in the day (possibly not within the customary two hours; I'm on vacation, after all!).
Yes, of course there will be a relevant prize.
Thanks to Peter Abide and Al Sisti for all their help and encouragement.
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- BarbaraK solved 2023-05-21T11:10:21.581Z
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Comments
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- boharr 2s · 2023-05-21T12:46:13.517ZNice one
- Meg 2s · 2023-05-21T13:30:12.202ZVery nice! Thanks, Wendy.
- Very clever!! Yes I had to google a few but excellent and fun metanism. Congrats on a fantastic solo debut!
- Qmark 3s · 2023-05-21T14:20:53.397ZFun puzzle...enjoyed the meta...thanks Wendy!
- The cat is out of the hat! Mucho Googling… Thanks Wendy!
- Not as much Googling as I needed to find somebody ending in a "U"! Thanks for solving!
- MatthewL 🤓5:33 · 2023-05-21T14:29:36.037ZVery clever! Thanks Wendy (if that is your real name)!
- whimsy 11:07 · 2023-05-21T15:16:56.226ZWonderful way to start your puzzle constructing, Wendy! Just delightful!
- Hector 2s · 2023-05-21T17:41:38.325ZVery well done, thanks!
- Fun stuff, thanks! Lol @ 5D which is a word I use frequently but almost never see the full abbreviation, so it stumped me (people use kD informally). Read the nudge and thought 'yeah, I was doing that but getting nowhere' and then I finally applied it the correct way :D
- Bob Cruise Director is astonished that I actually knew a science term.
- ReB 4s · 2023-05-21T18:00:53.667ZTime to celebrate with green eggs and ham! Good Sunday appetizer.
- Schmeel 🤓4:54 · 2023-05-21T19:35:33.091ZGreat puzzle! It took me a couple of minutes to sort out my rights, but then I saw it straight away. Thanks!
- Laura M 8:09 · 2023-05-21T19:50:58.662ZNice! I was very confused by 1A though because the pseudonym didn't show up (easily) in Google.
- Yes, that is why I specified the years in the clues. In later editions he published it under his real name!
- Oh, very charming. And not too obvious.
- Bird Lives 5s · 2023-05-21T23:38:10.660ZOn the 21st of May, in a nondescript room, A Muggle sat wondering about noms de plume He said to himself once he’d Googled them all, A meta’s a meta, no matter how small.
- Berto 🤓2:40 · 2023-05-22T02:35:41.735ZWell I learnt something from that! Thank you, Wendy!
- So fun!
- Nice foray into the meta world Miss Wendy! I am ashamed to admit this one gave me some trouble because I went with the First letter of the "real" author's name which gave me nothing, then the pseudonym first letter, nothing. I was trying all kinds of things when I said to myself "Tom if you has "Rights" or "What's Left" or something like that in one of your titles, what would it mean?" Of course then I promptly tried it on the last name of the "pseudo" author and FINALLY, the last of the real name. In truth I did not have to go too far because when I saw the last two letters were SS I thought of the most famous Pen Name I knew of. Turns out I had seen it in a book, I'd even seen it in a Nook, now knowing just where I must look I saw the path and it I took (Oh, am I going to get flagged for "and it I took" ...sentence structure, sentence structure, sentence structure.)
- Tyrpmom 2s · 2023-05-22T20:05:09.025ZHow long did it take to find the U?
- That was the toughest part of the puzzle, believe me!
- Great puzzle - thanks, Wendy! I was stuck for a while because I had "Monk" as the author name instead of Hulse - when I got that part right, it all came together
- Awesome! Had to google all of their real names- not a big literature guy, I had no idea a few of these were pen names. Thanks!
- Thanks, Kurt! Believe me, I had to do a lot of Googling myself to find authors whose pseudonyms met the meta needs!
- Still trying to figure out 1A.
- ReB 4s · 2023-05-23T13:19:54.139ZC.S. Lewis originally published this book under the pseudonym N.W. Clerk, which was just a couple of years before his death. After his death, the book was republished under Lewis's own name and continues to be so identified up to the present. I was not aware of Lewis's using a pseudonym for this book until this meta.
- Hi Lbray53, I didn't realize that he published it under a pseudonym, either -- but was very glad he did because he gave me another letter I needed. It's also a wonderful book.
- Julie bookworm 🤓8:34 · 2023-05-27T03:15:29.407ZWow, I got off to the wrong start on 1A because the real author's name fit the length and I has no idea he'd first published pseudonymously! Managed to back up and get the grid correctly without Google, but definitely needed search help on the meta. Great mechanism!
- HeadinHome 🤓3:32 · 2023-06-01T01:27:43.211Zso fun! how did I miss this one last week?
- Thanks, Wendy! I had two puzzles in a row -- this SSS and the "Postcards From the Edge" MMM the very next day!
1A
Author of "A Grief Observed" (1961)
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Across
- 1AAuthor of "A Grief Observed" (1961)
- 6ASitar selections
- 11APut a spell on
- 12ASlogan in an old Microsoft ad campaign
- 13AHealth insurance company
- 14AAuthor of "A Sudden, Fearful Death" (1994)
- 15AOne of the First Nations in Canada
- 16AWith "in," fix a temporary date
- 17ATricky surfboard maneuver
- 19ASick
- 20AWhen the sun rises
- 21AGround corn flour
- 22AAuthor of "Dr. Phillips: A Maida Vale Idyll" (1877)
- 24ATennis player Arthur
- 27A2013 Lady Gaga album
- 31A___ Omega (sorority)
- 32ASite of Berkshire Hathaway's HQ
- 33AShow logical consistency
- 35ADies ____
- 36AAuthor of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876)
- 37AMisbehave
- 38A___ Cold Brew, trendy coffee drink
- 39AYogurt-based Indian condiment
- 40AStart
- 41AAuthor of "Middlemarch" (1872)
Down
- 1DDance mentioned in "Copacabana"
- 2DOgle
- 3DLengthen
- 4DDefector
- 5DUnit of molecular mass
- 6DMature, as a pear
- 7D"I'll say!"
- 8DCherry ___ ice cream
- 9DWhen Earth Days and Tax Days occur
- 10D____ and Charybdis
- 16DPseudonym, of which there are five in this grid
- 18DDefunct airline of the Big Four
- 21DLike unicorns and manticores
- 23DTop part of a swimsuit
- 24DInfo req. for any banking transaction
- 25DLead to the correct room
- 26DPieces of most drum kits
- 28DSequel
- 29DActing without much thought
- 30DSneak a look toward
- 32D"Ready ____, here I come!"
- 34DEmerald Isle
- 37DExist
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