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"What's Up, My Lord?" (Cryptic Mini #000000095)

◆◆ · Por bob weisz · Publicado 2024-06-20T10:00:54.449Z

Constructor's Note
some tough, some funky, some both
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  • riotblob 🤓3:45 · 2024-06-20T11:45:09.770Z
    this is lovely! 3D in particular is an absolute cracker, but it's all good. love the elegance of 2D as well. great puzzle!!
    • bob weisz constructor · 2024-06-20T14:19:34.769Z
      Why thank you!
    • dilly 🤓9:16 · 2024-06-20T11:45:46.301Z
      Love it, 3D is incredible. Took me a good while to parse 4A even after solving it, “grave-y” and “crypt-ic” is really sneaky. Thanks!
      • bob weisz constructor · 2024-06-20T16:33:11.666Z
        Oh whoops, I forgot to leave a comment with the parses! Added one now. Glad you enjoyed! :-)
      • Aaron Riccio 18:03 · 2024-06-20T17:26:22.200Z
        I should not have said your last puzzle was easy! In some cases, it was solely my fault: I kept trying to include [It has] in an even extraction for 1A, for some reason I thought the cookie was the TAGALOG in 1D, and I definitely kept misreading [replacing] in 5A in exactly the deceptive way you intended. To be clear, all of this was great! 4A, when it fell, was satisfying, 3D is the sort of so-good clue that justifies that whole mechanism, 7A is a wonderful surface. I think I quibble a bit with the indicator for 2D, and I don't know [Head Start] enough to fully grok the surface of 5A—but again, those are me problems; you keep putting out wonderful puzzles.
        • bob weisz constructor · 2024-06-20T18:17:31.539Z
          Thank you! Your feedback is always so great. Yeah I keep forgetting that the "of" Hidden indicator isn't totally kosher — I think I first encountered it a decade ago, and loved it so much that I've been using it liberally ever since. I wonder if a ? might be enough to cover the stretchiness? In any case, glad you got it! (oh and Head Start is massive federal program for early childhood services for low-income families. wasn't sure how well-known it is! I have a lot of teacher friends heh)
          • Aaron Riccio 18:03 · 2024-06-20T21:43:08.541Z
            Oh that's great for Head Start then! My wife's a teacher but she doesn't deal with that aspect of admissions.
        • bob weisz constructor · 2024-06-20T16:32:46.345Z
          Answers / parses:
          1A. semi&lit. wordplay: the odd letters ("in odd places") of "TwO aRmS nOt"
          4A. def: "easy money". wordplay: homophone ("broadcasting") of GRAVE-Y ("crypt-ic?" 😜)
          5A. def: "Head start". anagram ("replacing") of GLUE, then P ("a modicum of Putty")
          7A. def: "many fans of dark material" (as in clothing 😉). wordplay: GOT ("Game of Thrones") + remove the middle letter ("disheartened") of "HaS"
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          1D. def: "tongue". wordplay: delete ("dislodging") the first letter ("bit") of "Nougat" from TAGALONG ("Girl Scout cookie")
          2D. def: Legendary producer. wordplay: Hidden Answer ("of") in "taRZAn"
          3D. def: "is this where you [the lord] live?" (the ? is also for the grammar of this clue! 🫠). wordplay: Reverse Hidden Answer in "whatS UP MY LOrd" (i.e., those words "hold up" the answer)
          6D. def: "stomach". wordplay: reversal ("turning") of TUG ("jerk")
          1A
          It has two arms, not in odd places! (5)
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          4
          5
          6
          7
          Horizontales
          1. 1A
            It has two arms, not in odd places! (5)
          2. 4A
            Easy money from broadcasting cryptic? (5)
          3. 5A
            Head Start replacing glue with a modicum of putty (3,2)
          4. 7A
            Game of Thrones has disheartened many fans of dark material (5)
          Verticales
          1. 1D
            Tongue dislodging bit of nougat from Girl Scout cookie (7)
          2. 2D
            Legendary producer of Tarzan (3)
          3. 3D
            What's up, my Lord? Hold up - is this where you live? (7)
          4. 6D
            Stomach-turning jerk (3)
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