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Rotating S-Y-M-M-E-T-R-Y (Meta)

· By benchen71 · Published 2021-11-30T05:00:38.144Z

Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a thing that has rotational symmetry
This was a fun puzzle to envisage and then try to construct. That said, the first version I came up with was waaaaay too hard. After implementing the suggestions from a couple of test solvers, this edited version should, at the very least, be doable without nudges. There might still be a challenge or two in completing the grid, so good luck (or good googling!) The answer to the meta is a thing that has rotational symmetry. Answer and explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?t=1322&p=75663#p75454
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  • noneuclidean 13:58 · 2021-11-30T08:57:47.038Z
    had to stare at it for quite a while but got it eventually :) good one
    • benchen71 constructor · 2021-11-30T10:44:27.910Z
      First solver! Well done.
    • markhr 🤓26:50 · 2021-12-01T00:40:13.787Z
      Nice brain teaser. Well done, Ben.
      • boharr 4s · 2021-12-02T16:26:51.856Z
        needed a shove
        • Laura M 🤓20:43 · 2021-12-04T01:53:13.957Z
          Got it only with the nudges (and needed all of them). I tried so many ways of interpreting the title and the instructions in the clues but never hit on the right one! Very clever puzzle but I was just not on the right wavelength.
          • Bbaack 20:23 · 2021-12-05T01:16:57.218Z
            I also needed the nudges for this one. I kept rotating individual letters around their x or y axes, but got nowhere. Clever concept, thanks for the puzzle!
            • Gutman 4s · 2021-12-05T15:43:23.852Z
              Got stuck trying to do geometry. Needed the hints.
              1A
              First four letters of the trigonometry mnemonic
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              Across
              1. 1A
                First four letters of the trigonometry mnemonic
              2. 5A
                Palindromic tracking device
              3. 10A
                What was cast for Jesus' linen cloth
              4. 14A
                Unsurprising acronym for the Institute for Middle East Understanding
              5. 15A
                Original voice of Disney's Cinderella, ___ Woods
              6. 16A
                "___ so much as comes near, so help me, I'll mace him!"
              7. 17A
                Destination of the ship of fools?
              8. 19A
                Slit for a coin or token
              9. 20A
                Yosemite Sam: "I'm the meanest, roughest, toughest ___ that's ever crossed the Rio Grande!"
              10. 21A
                Small car, useful for short trips
              11. 23A
                Scots for "easy" (var.)
              12. 25A
                "How could you stoop ___?"
              13. 26A
                "He's the one!"
              14. 30A
                Mist on the ocean
              15. 33A
                You are here
              16. 34A
                Australian cars have four of them
              17. 36A
                Floridian airport code
              18. 37A
                Do in, as a dragon
              19. 38A
                Fit together really well, like they were made for each other (and a hint to what happens if you apply the puzzle title to two pairs of entries in the grid)
              20. 39A
                Italian actress from the 19th and early 20th centuries, Eleonora ___
              21. 40A
                Spy novelist, ___ Deighton
              22. 41A
                See 41 down41DGame company responsible for 41 across[----]
              23. 42A
                Place in the Gospel of John where John was baptising
              24. 43A
                "Don't make him run, he's weak-___"
              25. 45A
                "You're a better man than I am, ___!"
              26. 47A
                When repeated, the start of one of the sayings from the Cross
              27. 49A
                Type of rage induced by a performance enhancer
              28. 50A
                How the wise men came
              29. 53A
                Semitone below G
              30. 57A
                Bellyache or type of fish
              31. 58A
                Colour of one of the words written by the hand of God on Belshazzar's wall? (then apply the puzzle title into 17 across17ADestination of the ship of fools?[----------])
              32. 60A
                State of the Jazz
              33. 61A
                Big name in foil production
              34. 62A
                Native people of Northern Japan
              35. 63A
                Lock openers
              36. 64A
                Bad traffic time (but in an SMS, perhaps)
              37. 65A
                Explosives
              Down
              1. 1D
                Hill under which fairies live (anagram of DISH)
              2. 2D
                Melville book (that crops up in crosswords all the freaking time!)
              3. 3D
                Take the ___ (steer)
              4. 4D
                What Archie said to Jughead about who shouldn't be on the girls' basketball team, perhaps
              5. 5D
                The sun ___ in the east (but Shakespearean)
              6. 6D
                Full set
              7. 7D
                "___ Evan Hansen"
              8. 8D
                ___ Horribilis (what many of us are enduring at the moment)
              9. 9D
                "Rudolf, the ___ reindeer..."
              10. 10D
                Capital of Portugal (but in Portuguese)
              11. 11D
                Author's exclamation when their writer's block ended?
              12. 12D
                Jug of wine and loaf of bread accompaniment
              13. 13D
                Den or burrow of a badger
              14. 18D
                Coffee with just a dram o' whiskey
              15. 22D
                Pub beverages
              16. 24D
                "Watch what you're doing with those elbows - I don't want to be ___ the face!"
              17. 26D
                Electric car company
              18. 27D
                "Jump" band, Van ___
              19. 28D
                What the fisherman found mouldering in the bottom of a fishing boat? (then apply the puzzle title into 11 down11DAuthor's exclamation when their writer's block ended?[----------])
              20. 29D
                "Me and ___ mouth!"
              21. 31D
                "___ was led to believe."
              22. 32D
                First American in orbit, John ___
              23. 35D
                Happen again
              24. 38D
                Ares
              25. 39D
                Tie in a race
              26. 41D
                Game company responsible for 41 across41ASee 41 down[-----]
              27. 42D
                Person who discriminates that I am more conscious of as I get older
              28. 44D
                Nodes of the body
              29. 46D
                "There is ___ in love" (1 John 4:18)
              30. 48D
                Belonging to Roald or Sophie
              31. 50D
                Clothing brand name that always makes me look twice
              32. 51D
                Evaluate, perhaps with stars
              33. 52D
                "Oh, that's ___, coming from you!"
              34. 54D
                Like
              35. 55D
                Monthly payment
              36. 56D
                +
              37. 59D
                Reversal of "hot"
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