PCC#14 "Places, Everyone!"
■ · Por Philip Chow · Publicado 2023-11-02T13:34:37.438Z
Meta Prompt
[Level 1] Meta prompt: The answer to the meta is the name of the city where I'll be spending the next week on holiday
hint 1: there are quite a lot of names and books in the puzzle
hint 2: the literary characters and corresponding books (see 46A) share something in common
hint 3: where do all these novels or books take place?
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Poppins who said "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down"
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Horizontales
- 1APoppins who said "a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down"
- 5AAmenity at many luxury hotels
- 8AVows exchanged at weddings
- 12ANovel thought
- 13Ahttps://crosshare.org, for example
- 14ADeal with tough times
- 15A"Never Gonna Give You Up" singer Astley
- 16APlace of refuge, like the attic for Clarissa in "Mrs. Dalloway"
- 18AEnding for Power or Gator, in drink brand names
- 19ABashful
- 20AFlashy jewellery, in slang
- 21ALeader of India's Salt March
- 23AFrozen treat whose flavours tend to taste more intense than ice cream due to less butterfat content
- 24ACosmetics businesswoman Lauder and co-founder of her eponymous cosmetics company ___ Lauder
- 25AJames Bond creator Fleming
- 26AGreet silently
- 27AJones with a diary who said "It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces"
- 30A"Tea for ___" ("No, No, Nanette" song)
- 33A___ Angeles, CA (this is not the meta answer... although if the meta asked where I went last week for vacation, then LA would be the correct answer... it's also why I missed last week for publishing a new puzzle I apologise to my loyal fans)
- 34AWhizzes along
- 38AHotel magnate Conrad, or his great-granddaughter Paris
- 40A___ Knope (Amy Poehler's "Parks and Recreation" character)
- 41AGranddaddy of digital computers (or actor Michael of "Harry Brown" spelled backwards)
- 42A___ se (Latin phrase for "by itself")
- 43ALinguistic suffix with "morph" or "phon"
- 44ASymbol of affection tied on the monk's hood with a gold pin in "The Canterbury Tales"
- 46ANovel, for example (which includes a setting: the time, place, and environment in which a story occurs)
- 47ALike the lama, but not the llama, in an Ogden Nash poem
- 48ADrinking spot like O'Connell's, where Archie and Samad spend much of their time in "White Teeth"
- 49AActress Steppat of "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
- 50A___ and feathers (punishes, old-style)
- 51ASatnav suggestion, for short
- 52APaddington ___ (Marmalade-loving character)
Verticales
- 1DVision of a distant oasis, perhaps
- 2DBrand of sneakers that Will buys for Marcus in "About a Boy"
- 3DLike some developments
- 4DShaggy ox of the Himalayas
- 5DOmakase offering that may include toro (fatty tuna) and uni (sea urchin roe)
- 6DSay grace before a meal, for example
- 7DFurry extraterrestrial in a 1980s sitcom
- 8D"___ Your Name" (Beatles song)
- 9DGray who said "I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose?"
- 10DNot dismissing outright
- 11DOne with the power to release the kraken, presumably
- 17DScrooge who said "Bah! Humbug!" to anyone who dared to wish him a merry Christmas
- 19DHolmes who said "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth"
- 22DNY Times Daily Wordplay columinst/editor Amlen
- 23DRunning ___ (joke that keeps being repeated)
- 25DTSA agents check them
- 28DCharged particle
- 29DWhat websites make you agree to when you register: Abbr.
- 30DBet ___ (risk everything)
- 31DActress Ryder of "Edward Scissorhands"
- 32DTwist who said "Please, sir, I want some more"
- 35DRepeated cry in Buster Poindexter's "Hot Hot Hot"
- 36DCocktail that may be "bottomless" at brunch
- 37DQuidditch position responsible for catching the Golden Snitch, in the Harry Potter series
- 39DAsian units of weight and anagram of "slate"
- 40DLeave alone
- 42DSulky expression
- 45D"All Things Considered" broadcaster
- 46DYou might wear one when eating lobster