L Words (Meta)

W--l done! ;) Thank you, Ben.

Lovely Aha! moment. Just when I thought I wasn’t going to crack it. Thanks, Ben.

Very egant.

Happy birthday to Eleanor? And, three Elnathans in one bible sentence -- what's that about? Thanks, Ben!

Week one with lots of homework.

I have to be honest and admit I don’t have the beginning, but EANOR was enough. Something EL? I will ponder.

I had ELP as the prog-rock group (very big in the 70s), which caused me to stumble a bit. Finally caught on. Clever meta.

very clever and slightly (only slightly) devious.

Was briefly thrown by the asterisk in Sagitaurious A* but I got better.

That's my sister and favorite great aunt's name.

Whew - that was a google workout! Once I got the alternate “El-“ words, I tried the correct method, but since I had Eliezar for the third part, I gave up on the (correct) mechanism (Eleaior??). Just started guessing El-names for girls and got lucky on Eleanor. Now I see I should have read a little further in the Ezra verse!

Cute!

Uggh. Got stuck on ELP too. Took a while. And that's with both my mother in law and sister in law being named Eleanor. Cannot believe I didn't see it sooner. Oh well, lovely puzzle, Ben! Thanks.

Nice one! Some day I would like to see Ingrid Bergman from Casa Blanca clued as “La Ilsa Bonita.”

Very fun puzzle thanks you! Sagittarius A* threw me off! I had ?EANO for a while before scanning the clues again and realized I missed the LOTR asterisked clue… whoops … btw I think 67A is a typo?

I also had ELP at first. And i had hoped to see my own personal fictional hero — Kal-El, aka Clark Kent, aka Superman — here, but I’m very pleased to have found ELEANOR, which is my dear daughter-in-law’s middle name. Very nice!

Shortcut it a bit since it was advertised as a week 1, so once I caught on to the EL start and had the five replacements I just jumped to Eleanor. Didn't notice until I came here that the first letters spelled out the rest for me (which would have been useful, since I had to look up the spelling ). Lack of knowledge and less than easy google path made getting the 40A replacement tricky, but eventually I got literal and just typed the clue into google, which produced the correct answer. Neat and tidy in the end, but yeah maybe more week 2 than 1. :) Fun stuff, thanks.

Very nice puzzle! Thank you, Ben! And Happy Birthday, Eleanor!

Very clever puzzle! I thought Eanor was an odd name, and then it finally hit me.

Loved it!!! ELated to have solved! Thanks, Ben!

A very Happy Birthday to your daughter! Mine is also 21 (and three-quarters by now). Also 64A, any relation?

Happy Birthday, Eleanor! (Aren't you glad they didn't name you Wilhelmina -- my first off-the-wall guess!) Thanks for a somewhat challenging but fun puzzle!

Unfortunately, other than for 39A, I had to look up/google all the other themers as the themers were not in my knowledge base. Even still, I needed one more nudge to get me out of my 42A rabbit hole (ELK), after which the answer came immediately. Not one of my more successful weeks.

Happy Birthday to your daughter! Thanks for the puzzle.

Elegant puzzle, thanks Ben!