Rowrbazzle!
◆◆ · By woozy · Published 2 months ago
Meta Prompt
The answer to this meta are some animals that appear in this puzzle's subject occasionally; not as often as other animals though.
Gosh a Mickle! Dickel-Pickle! Gee Willy-Wobbles! Dog my Cats! and Rowrbazzle!
This is an homage to a subject I love. As such this puzzle definitely requires specialized knowledge. If you have that specialized knowledge this will be a 1 or 1.5. If you don't have that specialized knowledge this is a 5 and you will have to google. It should still be a solvable puzzle though. But very hard.
I give no apologies as this puzzle is for lovers of this subject. As I usually only get a dozen solvers or so, I imagine this will be a puzzle for just me. But I had to do it. I just did.
(It's a pity that this puzzle is so specialized as I think this is one of my better and cleaner grids.)
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- Answer is TOADS. If you google comic strip in swamp you are sure to hit something talking about Walt Kelly's "POGO". Read a post or a wikipedia page or two and you will see some names of the main characters, probably Albert, Churchy LaFemme, and Howland Owl, at least. You will recognize those as entries in the grid and you will realize we probably need to find characters in the grid. Do a bit of research and you will find Beauregard Bugleboy and Mam'zelle Hepzibah. [Sorry, about FLO15DProgressive Insurance spokesperson[---]. That was not part of the meta but their may (or may not) by a minor bug referred to as Flo. Sorry. Sometimes entries slip in.] 60A60ACritters (and a clue to the meta)[-------]tells you that ANIMALS60ACritters (and a clue to the meta)[-------]are clue, so you ask yourself what animals the characters are and they are:Churchy - TurtleHowland- OwlAlbert- AlligatorBeauregard- DogHepzibah- Skunk.Now, hopefully in getting caught up in research you didn't forget this is a meta and the single most basic and most common thing you should always try first with metas is take initial letters and see if they spell anything. In this case they spell:TOADSFrogs as minor characters appear frequently. Toads are not as common but they do occasionally. Frogs are often referred to as hoppy-toads and the distinction seems... er, amphibious.
- whimsy 20:07 · 2 months ago"If you google comic strip in swamp..... " Or we (at least some of us) could have just checked out your avatar:) Thanks for the puzzle, woozy!
- DIS 🤓8:01 · 2 months agoI knew Albert was an alligator and used Wikipedia for the rest. Fun puzzle!
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Belief in God
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- 1ABelief in God
- 6ANegating prefix
- 9AWhat those vertical bars code
- 12AOverly pious
- 14AFirst three community cards in Texas hold 'em
- 16AFrom the seventh planet
- 17A"------ Other Poems"; Allen Ginsberg poetry collection
- 18AThinks is true
- 20AHome to The International Dateline Hotel
- 21ABelched
- 24ASliced
- 25AOzma when she was a boy (or the advice we'd give him?)
- 28AImportant location for this puzzle's theme
- 31AQueen Victoria's consort
- 34AWiped out
- 35AChocolate Syrup that was George Costanza's ATM code
- 36AA million of these make a km
- 37ADeranged Trickster god's weights (cryptic)
- 41ARecovery program
- 43A"----- Fables"
- 44AConfederate General who attacked Fort Sumter
- 48AMetal favored by Nick Chopper
- 49AShakespeare's bday mo.
- 50AAlkali battery material
- 53AEsteemed
- 56ABiblical name meaning "my delight is in her"; wife of Hezekiah.
- 60ACritters (and a clue to the meta)
- 63AGem state capital (and state)
- 64AThin cut of steak
- 65AEdray owersflay atthay avehay ornsthay utbay ellsmay eryvay icenay
- 66AQty.
- 67AAustralian parrot (nestor notabilis)
- 68AThe creator of this puzzle's theme
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- 1DTwo fold
- 2DRubber Ducky serenader
- 3DLess cordial
- 4DJewish holiday known as "Feast of Weeks"
- 5DIt attaches my head to my body
- 6DUnspecified ordinal
- 7DCry of discovery
- 8DSmall salamander
- 9DHis constant relates energy to frequency
- 10D----- durée ("long duration"); view of history that extends beyond human memory
- 11DRevise
- 12DYoung critter
- 13DCharlemagne's domain
- 15DProgressive Insurance spokesperson
- 19DHamman, for example (but not a sauna apparently)
- 22D8D8DSmall salamander[----]'s offspring
- 23D---- as in "Dumb"
- 25DWhere to put things at a bar?
- 26DU.N. agency that establishes work standards (initialism)
- 27DWhere we used to find 2D2DRubber Ducky serenader[-----](before HBO acquired him)
- 29DVictory goddess who gives her name to a missile and a shoe
- 30DGuy who sits on a potato pan according to a palindrome
- 32DOff white
- 33DHeavy long-barreled gun formerly used for hunting big game in southern Africa
- 36DWise men
- 38DPlace to park
- 39DCharity organization led by Sister Guard N. O'Pansies and Sister Bella Donna Summer BDSM; Sisters of the ----- of --------- ----------
- 40DA U-turn from NNS? (That's the government for you)
- 42DNorse goddess of the underworld
- 43DBody fat
- 44DYellow fruit that is hard to stop spelling once you get started....
- 45DThagomizer supposedly, but not actually. However strigiphilus garylarsoni is, in actuality
- 46DProducer of esthetic endeavors
- 47DSouth African antelope
- 51DArchangel mentioned in "Paradise Lost"
- 52DWinner of the Beauty Contest dedicated to the 12th letter
- 54DFirst responder
- 55DUnlit
- 57DBoston Elevated Railway; abbr.
- 58DProfessional organization for building planners in the United States
- 59D"I am appalled you would do that" in a text
- 61DFalsehood
- 62DHealth resort
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