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I Can See Clearly Now

· Por Capn Rick · Publicado 2024-01-01T05:01:40.876Z

Meta Prompt
The meta answer is a good look for solvers.
Comprobando datos de juego anteriores…

Tabla de clasificación (actualizada cada hora)

  • benchen71 solved 2024-01-01T05:49:15.873Z
  • Cindy Weatherman solved 2024-01-01T16:13:38.225Z
  • Meg solved 2024-01-01T16:14:30.575Z
  • Hector solved 2024-01-01T16:49:15.820Z
  • DIS solved 2024-01-01T22:04:51.394Z
  • heidi solved 2024-01-01T22:14:11.525Z
  • MatthewL solved 2024-01-01T22:36:19.972Z
  • lbray53 solved 2024-01-01T22:52:37.720Z
  • Mwoychick solved 2024-01-02T03:37:29.399Z
  • I K Snamhcok solved 2024-01-02T13:48:43.846Z
  • DrTom solved 2024-01-02T14:20:10.515Z
  • Alex Sisti solved 2024-01-02T15:29:15.735Z
  • HeadinHome solved 2024-01-02T15:52:05.913Z
  • Berto solved 2024-01-02T18:04:01.071Z
  • whimsy solved 2024-01-02T21:25:31.267Z
  • BarbaraK solved 2024-01-03T01:44:34.737Z
  • DCBilly solved 2024-01-03T14:23:30.124Z
  • Pair O Ducks solved 2024-01-03T14:27:33.547Z
  • LarsCaine solved 2024-01-03T14:56:07.506Z
  • Darth solved 2024-01-03T15:08:29.902Z
  • dannyvee solved 2024-01-03T15:27:25.073Z
  • markhr solved 2024-01-03T15:59:39.768Z
  • Cindy Heisler solved 2024-01-03T17:09:54.471Z
  • LB800 solved 2024-01-03T17:11:22.819Z
  • woozy solved 2024-01-03T17:44:10.061Z
  • michaelm solved 2024-01-03T18:33:50.525Z
  • Mr Tex solved 2024-01-03T19:20:41.745Z
  • CPJohnson solved 2024-01-03T19:21:40.449Z
  • Bird Lives solved 2024-01-03T20:08:39.094Z
  • KayW solved 2024-01-03T21:25:06.941Z
  • hoover solved 2024-01-04T01:52:59.178Z
  • JM solved 2024-01-04T01:58:39.769Z
  • jbird solved 2024-01-04T02:47:32.841Z
  • SamKat9 solved 2024-01-04T04:07:47.934Z
  • Jeremy Smith solved 2024-01-04T07:03:55.957Z
  • Philip Chow solved 2024-01-04T15:00:05.593Z
  • rayyandroid solved 2024-01-04T18:24:51.819Z
  • Sharkicicles solved 2024-01-04T19:41:00.641Z
  • minimuggle solved 2024-01-05T01:16:05.856Z
  • andeux solved 2024-01-05T05:23:09.893Z
  • edestlin solved 2024-01-06T21:29:31.036Z
  • BrennerTJ solved 2024-01-06T23:21:35.771Z
  • Danny K Bernstein solved 2024-01-07T02:27:52.101Z
  • Max solved 2024-01-11T20:52:57.178Z

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  • benchen71 2s · 2024-01-01T05:49:39.540Z
    Nice one. I loved the way you used the song!
    • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-01-01T13:09:40.498Z
      Thanks, Ben. Hopefully it will be "clear" to others as well. 😄
    • Hector 🤓6:08 · 2024-01-01T16:50:09.096Z
      Cool. I was thinking we should remove the letters RAIN from the grid and see what was left. Took a while to reverse that. Fun! Thank you.
      • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-01-01T17:59:43.292Z
        Thank you, Hector. Yep, "the RAIN is gone". 🌦️ 😁
      • DIS 🤓6:51 · 2024-01-01T22:08:15.356Z
        Well done! I needed the hint, since I fell into the trap you set by pretending it was about eyecare. Someday I'll learn.
        • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-01-01T22:42:03.319Z
          Good job, DIS! Yeah, I had to lead people away from the song.
        • MatthewL 🤓6:12 · 2024-01-01T22:40:56.090Z
          Finally got it -- just had to keep poking at it. Stumbled onto the RAIN thing fairly quickly due to the lyric in the title, but took me foreeevvvver to find BAHRAIN and GERAINT (that one, I had to backsolve for). Nice puzzle, Rick! Way to being the new year.
          • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-01-02T00:03:26.593Z
            Thanks for solving, Matthew! Yeah, I figured that BAHRAIN and especially GERAINT would be tricky to spot.
            • Sharkicicles 2s · 2024-01-04T19:42:26.302Z
              I got BAHRAIN pretty quickly, but figured that GET was symmetrical so it had to be SOMETHING... GERAINT is a new one for me, and I just brute-force backsolved that one with Google.
              • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-01-05T01:01:32.784Z
                Thanks, Sharky. Yes, GERAINT and ENID (usually clued as "Wife of Geraint") have been around crossword puzzles for a long time. They've been becoming more and more obscure, so I thought I'd try to freshen them up a bit. 😁
          • Mwoychick 7:35 · 2024-01-02T03:40:25.133Z
            Thanks, Cap'n - it took me some time to see it, but a lot of fun throughout the process. Definitely a good "aha" when what I needed to do clicked, and then a merry chase to the solve
            • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-01-02T13:34:09.112Z
              Thanks, Mark. Glad you enjoyed it. It's turning out to be one of the tougher puzzles I've made.
            • DrTom 4s · 2024-01-02T14:29:44.144Z
              Wow, great, and very difficult puzzle. Early on I thought, "hey that is the start to a song, I'll bet...", but I was trying to remove the letters RAIN either where they appeared together or in total - BIG mess. Then I got caught with trying to add to the end or beginning as I "usually" do with a Cap'n; nice changeup. I should have suspected with some of the odd answers. Actually I did with NAURU and that was the one that finally helped me. I saw it doing a nudge request and then Meg confirmed that I was on the right track but not to get locked into a simple addition. You know, when I saw BARS clued musically with this group a flare should have gone up, and ENID...well you might see an archaic reference like that in a DrTom, but never a Cap. Excellent use of the words Cap, and what a way to start the year!
              • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-01-02T17:47:46.850Z
                Thanks for the nice comments, Tom. Glad you enjoyed it!
              • HeadinHome 🤓4:22 · 2024-01-02T15:56:45.450Z
                I was another one who was removing the letters of RAIN from the grid. For a good number of entries, this left only one letter (or that one letter repeated, as in LIARLIAR). FWIW, I thought the answer to THAT meta was getting a little bit close to sunglasses (though of course it never was going to have an A, with RAIN removed… ). This was really fun to figure out once someone corrected my method! I even grokked GERAINT thinking that sounded like something from an old epic (it rang a bell)… though maybe I was thinking of Gawain. ANYhoo… kudos on a great first puzzle of 2024.
                • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-01-02T17:49:15.421Z
                  Thanks, Wendy. Yes, removing RAIN would make for another good mechanism. Thanks for solving!
                  • benchen71 2s · 2024-01-02T22:53:38.722Z
                    ... whereas I was thinking of The Witcher, but that's Geralt! :D
                  • Berto 🤓5:14 · 2024-01-02T18:06:36.398Z
                    Didn’t see BahRAIN or GeRAINt but figured “BAMIG” was missing something lol. Definitely Beaming now I’ve seen the full metanism! Thanks Cap’n!
                    • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-01-02T21:29:33.109Z
                      Thank you, Berto. Yeah, those 2 themers were the trickiest for solvers to find.
                      • hoover 3s · 2024-01-04T01:53:41.359Z
                        Me three
                      • whimsy 🤓10:02 · 2024-01-02T21:32:21.115Z
                        Wow -- a toughie! I needed that flashback nudge! I was glad that Geraint rang a distant bell for me too, Headin', and that the whole puzzle didn't turn out to be in Olde English or something! :-) Thanks for the challenge, Cap'n!
                        • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-01-03T01:05:30.124Z
                          Thanks, Claudia! Glad you enjoyed this toughie!
                        • DrTom 4s · 2024-01-03T05:44:48.109Z
                          I just know that if I asked Rick - why in the world would you pick an obscure Knight of the Round table as part of a meta, was that somehting that had to happen, he would answer (and my sincerest apologies to Ira Gershwin):
                          Geraint, necessarily so
                          Geraint, necessarily so
                          The things that are better
                          You'll find in a meta
                          Geraint, necessarily so
                          • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-01-03T13:56:42.229Z
                            Ha ha! Good one, DrTom! And you're correct that I kinda had to use Geraint and Enid to make things work out.
                          • Darth 9:01 · 2024-01-03T15:11:14.971Z
                            Tough one for me. I needed the first Wed. nudge to get me to think of the song lyrics. Nice challenge to start the year. Thanks, Rick.
                            • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-01-03T15:31:21.281Z
                              Thanks for hanging in there, Darth. It's an oldie, but hopefully one that's familiar to most people.
                            • Cindy Heisler 2s · 2024-01-03T17:14:27.139Z
                              I thought of the song immediately. I couldn't find where to take away rain and then I tried adding it to the beginning of grid words which, of course, didnt work. Finally caught on after a muggle nudge. Good one, Cap'n.
                              • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-01-03T18:01:39.115Z
                                Thanks, Cindy. Glad you enjoyed it!
                              • woozy 19:17 · 2024-01-03T17:46:21.809Z
                                Woofh.... evidence indicates I got "the one that got away" (although I have no memory of it) so I should have been able to get this. But I didn't.
                                Not sure how to backsolve the E and N and ... or I'll just read the other comments.
                                • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-01-03T19:09:10.030Z
                                  Thanks, woozy. Check out the shared clues for ENID and NAURU.
                                • michaelm 🤓7:36 · 2024-01-03T18:46:43.108Z
                                  Beaming now, but spent yesterday/today red as a beet, dry as a bone, blind as a bat, mad as a hatter, hot as a hare, full as a flask. That's what a great meta (and anticholinergic toxicity) will do to ya! Thanks for the nudges and SOS Cap'n. You just keep getting better and better!
                                  • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-01-03T23:31:11.885Z
                                    Thank you, Mike! Man, I had no idea that my little meta could elicit so many similes! I feel another puzzle coming on! Cheers!
                                  • KayW 🤓5:37 · 2024-01-03T21:25:45.533Z
                                    Beautiful!! Needed the nudges to see clearly
                                    • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-01-03T23:32:24.588Z
                                      Thank you, Kay. I'm glad you enjoyed my meta. It was a bit tougher than usual for me.
                                    • Bird Lives 2s · 2024-01-04T03:30:58.333Z
                                      Excellent puzzle, lousy solver. Even when I got the idea that RAIN had to be brought back in, I at first thought it would be at the beginning of end of the entries. I think there actually is something called a "rain table."
                                      • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-01-04T13:26:29.592Z
                                        Thanks, Jay. Yes, this was another one of those "combine" with grid entries mechanisms. "The One That Got" was also more difficult to solve.
                                      • SamKat9 🤓9:25 · 2024-01-04T04:08:19.552Z
                                        finally got it, very cool, thank you!
                                        • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-01-04T13:27:18.192Z
                                          Thanks, Sam. Glad you liked it.
                                        • Philip Chow 8:02 · 2024-01-04T15:09:14.800Z
                                          knew the song thanks to claritin commercials... had BAMIG for the longest time... figured the E had to be esme or enid so spent awhile googling salinger characters and idylls of the king characters until i got it... thank goodness for ctrl+F... thanks for the puzzle cap'n
                                          • Capn Rick constructor · 2024-01-05T00:58:26.916Z
                                            Thanks for solving, Phil. Who says you can't learn a few things while solving meta puzzles, right? Poor ENID was getting tired of always being clued as "Wife of Geraint". 😄
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                                          "God ___ America"
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                                          Horizontales
                                          1. 1A
                                            "God ___ America"
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                                            Dutch cheese
                                          3. 10A
                                            Latin 101 verb
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                                            Very, in music
                                          5. 15A
                                            Infamous Roman emperor
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                                            Whistle blowers
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                                            Freeway exits
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                                            On the rocks
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                                            Profound
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                                            New spouse's acquisition, at times
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                                            Colonial wigs
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                                            "___ the ramparts..."
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                                            Carved gem
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                                            1997 Jim Carrey movie
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                                            Daredevil displays
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                                            Golden Rule word
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                                            Org. for entrepreneurs
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                                            Japanese beer brand
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                                            "___, humbug!"
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                                            Taking five
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                                            Understand
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                                            "___ Gay"
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                                            Historical period
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                                            Hard or soft follower
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                                            Mislead
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                                            Meets again
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                                            Southwestern lizards
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                                            Mythical bird
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                                            Hampering
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                                            Shoving
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                                            On the briny
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                                            Concerning
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                                            Actress Anouk
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                                            Bell sound
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                                            Orderly
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                                            Forrest Gump's C.O.
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                                            Fill to excess
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                                            Dept. of Labor division
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                                            Put off
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                                            Future atty.'s exam
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                                            Salinger girl
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                                            Japanese beer brand
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                                            Ebert's old "At the Movies" partner
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                                            "Idylls of the King" character
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                                            Winter solstice mo.
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                                            Colombian cornbread
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                                            Old computer peripherals
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                                            Taxing
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                                            Docile and deferential
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                                            Without ___ (pro bono)
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                                            Recipe amts.
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                                            Maya Angelou's "And Still ___"
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                                            Put a new price on
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                                            Lunar features
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                                            Greased
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                                            Moronic
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                                            Playwright Fugard or Massachusetts town
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                                            "Six-pack" muscles
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                                            Bother persistently
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                                            Yonder
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                                            Locations
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                                            Diameter halves
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                                            Anger
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                                            Island nation
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                                            Carousel riders?
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                                            Kansas' biggest city
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                                            Pacific weather phenomenon
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                                            Margarita option
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                                            Choreographer de Mille
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                                            Largest continent
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                                            Fellow
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                                            Anti-fur org.
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                                            Website with film profiles
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                                            Actress Patricia
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                                            Hereditary unit
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                                            "Go team!"
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