Joni Mitchell's song "Both Sides Now" is a beautiful song with amazing lyrics full of deep melancholy. On a personal level, I actually have a childhood memory of my father playing the guitar and singing this song. Only problem is I misheard the lyrics and thought he was singing about looking at both sides of clowns, which didn't make much sense to me at the time! And now the song (and not that memory!) has inspired this meta, the answer to which is a 7-letter word. Answer & explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=178941#p178941
Check out "The MOAT Mini Pack of Marching Bands" here: https://www.ephesusscroll.com/about/interest4.html. US$5 gets you 7 Marching Bands which, hard enough on their own, now contain metas too. And once again there's a mega-meta!
Comprobando datos de juego anteriores…
Tabla de clasificación (actualizada cada hora)
Berto solved 2024-09-10T06:40:22.680Z
Tom Wilson solved 2024-09-10T08:58:21.840Z
rjy solved 2024-09-10T11:59:36.336Z
Pair O Ducks solved 2024-09-10T12:39:30.185Z
edestlin solved 2024-09-10T13:23:08.372Z
lbray53 solved 2024-09-10T13:46:03.177Z
LarsCaine solved 2024-09-10T14:05:11.407Z
boharr solved 2024-09-10T14:10:42.792Z
markhr solved 2024-09-10T14:31:47.149Z
DCBilly solved 2024-09-10T14:51:48.240Z
woozy solved 2024-09-10T15:50:38.908Z
Hector solved 2024-09-10T16:48:20.048Z
DIS solved 2024-09-10T17:06:14.794Z
DrTom solved 2024-09-10T17:08:08.416Z
Meg solved 2024-09-10T17:40:51.219Z
Cindy Weatherman solved 2024-09-10T17:45:30.271Z
hoover solved 2024-09-10T17:54:28.485Z
Laura M solved 2024-09-10T18:22:24.921Z
I K Snamhcok solved 2024-09-10T18:47:49.984Z
KayW solved 2024-09-10T20:11:37.769Z
Darth solved 2024-09-10T20:37:24.186Z
CPJohnson solved 2024-09-10T20:49:27.960Z
Cindy Heisler solved 2024-09-11T00:51:50.504Z
BarbaraK solved 2024-09-11T01:52:43.840Z
HeadinHome solved 2024-09-11T02:50:27.270Z
Tyrpmom solved 2024-09-11T04:09:10.808Z
SJ solved 2024-09-11T14:15:43.942Z
Mr Tex solved 2024-09-11T20:41:16.390Z
kurtalert solved 2024-09-11T21:52:58.757Z
heidi solved 2024-09-11T22:02:49.081Z
Carolyn solved 2024-09-11T23:06:59.939Z
Avlan solved 2024-09-12T06:17:21.475Z
JM solved 2024-09-12T14:19:52.305Z
MatthewL solved 2024-09-12T14:54:29.366Z
ajk solved 2024-09-12T16:12:47.163Z
omnilynx solved 2024-09-12T17:32:20.630Z
Tim solved 2024-09-12T19:54:54.256Z
William Phillips solved 2024-09-13T01:38:53.105Z
frostyjhammer solved 2024-09-13T03:41:04.969Z
Kulea solved 2024-09-13T07:03:27.833Z
Qmark solved 2024-09-13T11:58:48.952Z
Sharkicicles solved 2024-09-13T15:49:35.033Z
Johnny Luau solved 2024-09-13T16:33:12.403Z
Danny K Bernstein solved 2024-09-13T19:23:28.645Z
whimsy solved 2024-09-13T23:51:41.726Z
lukadisgre solved 2024-09-16T12:51:48.245Z
axmszr solved 2024-09-20T06:39:42.510Z
Morendil solved 2024-10-27T21:28:21.522Z
Comentarios
Inicia sesión con Google para dejar un comentario tuyo:
Ooh... Tough one. Was stuck on COOL DAY FOR DIMBUS YC RUELIN' for a very long time. DIMBUS rhymes with nimbus and maybe I should switch to last do letters half way through and get MY ETTH NREW IN POER YD DAN PICK. Dan picks at something? Eventually the DIM/LIT ate at me and the Bus? Truck? Bus? and what the heck is YC to ... BUSY eventually knocked through.
Very nice! I was looking for a song/lyrics with called COOL DAY FORD IM BUSY CRUEL IN when it hit me, "Hey that is seven words!!!" I had a heck of a time with FORD and IM until I ran through the puzzle the 10th time and saw ANTI and realized it could be FOR and DIM when, contrarily, the light went on. Fun solve.
Well done. My rabbit hole was that the two Queen tracks you mention were A- and B- sides of the same 45 (so I thought maybe we were looking for a song that took up both sides of a 45).
(Freddie Mercury was pissed that every fan dollar spent on his masterpiece was split with Roger Taylor, who wrote the B-side.)
There it is! I got Step 1, but then went to Google to search for Joni Mitchell lyrics... Then I remembered NIGHT and IDLE in the grid, and I knew what I needed to do from there. ;D Thanks, Ben.
HeadinHome 🤓1:17 · 2024-09-11T02:56:17.623Z
Phew… I was worried I was going to need to know a lot of songs and their B sides! I’m still not sure where the “E” is coming from… Exit? (All the others are opposites; EXIT doesn’t seem like the opposite of IN). But 6 out of 7 was enough to get to the finish line. Thanks!
Very nice. Took me a while to notice COOL DAY FOR DIM BUSY CRUEL IN, and then I got hung up for a while with the fact that many of these have synonyms or could be alternate answers for clues- like CRUEL/EVIL, DAY/FRI (both part of TGIF), etc. I thought it was going to be taking like- maybe the first letters of synonyms, the last letters of antonyms- or vice versa- continuing with the "both sides" theme. Took me a while to shake that path- EVIL and FRI really had me hooked!
Carolyn 3s · 2024-09-11T23:08:19.952Z
Clever! Took a bit of thinking and looking, but nice AHA.
MatthewL 🤓8:24 · 2024-09-12T14:55:24.670Z
Needed the nudges, but finally got there. Thanks for the puzzle, Ben!
Definitely needed nudge 3, but got it fairly speedily after that. Once I realized that the words didn't form a sentence I went looking for alternates. Initially paired CRUEL with EVIL but eventually figured out the opposites idea. Had to backsolve the U, but that wasn't too tough. Fun aha, once I had a clue how to start. Thanks. :)
omnilynx 🤓10:16 · 2024-09-12T17:34:33.656Z
This one went pretty smoothly for me, didn't even need nudges! Maybe because I already liked that song.
Qmark 3s · 2024-09-13T11:59:57.021Z
Thanks Ben...no nudges needed.
Sharkicicles 2s · 2024-09-13T15:50:35.155Z
Needed the letters nudge but fell pretty quick after that. Thanks Ben!
whimsy 🤓10:20 · 2024-09-14T00:00:35.693Z
Needed the last nudge and worked backwards from that. And speaking of working backwards, I concentrated on the "longs" at first -- I took the end of the second entry in those rows, and brought it around and finished it with the beginning of the first entry. So I got RA/DIO, ERR/OR, READ/OUT.... before that broke down. At least the Crossword Rabbit might have been proud of my efforts..
Thanks, Ben -- intricate construction, but tough for me!
lukadisgre 🤓6:44 · 2024-09-16T12:52:12.342Z
Took me embarrassingly long, but thanks for introducing me to a nice song!