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Shut, as a door
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On the ___ (fleeing)
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City of northern Vietnam located on the western bank of the Red River
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Like many bathroom floors
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Early Beatles label
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Expectorated (in Australia)
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What everyone wants at the table
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World Cup cheer
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Spike Jonze movie starring Joaquin Phoenix
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45 across
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"___ Macabre" (Saint-Saens work)
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Greeting in Rio
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41 across
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Nicholas II, for example
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Belgian instrument maker Adolphe ___
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Looking at
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End of a French movie
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Military meal
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NaCl in Paris
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Hajj destination
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Another French friend
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See 9 across
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Where an F1 car might make a stop
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Organised excursions
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John follower
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Caffeine-rich nut
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African fly
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Wordy British ref. work
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___ and jerk (weightlifting event)
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Stage hogs
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French friend
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Angle symbol in trigonometry, often
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"2001" computer
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Data, briefly
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Agitate
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Eat in style
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Schedule abbr.
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What crosswords have for their across, down, and (on the odd occasion like this one) up entries
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Novelist ___ Rand
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"___ Always A Woman" (Billy Joel song)
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Attacked / 29U. End a phone call
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Russian mountain range
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Italian salami city / 31U. Phrase heard upon entering a department store elevator on the ground floor, and a hint for what you will need to do to find the answer to the meta
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Three-dimensional spiral shape that has nothing to do with the meta
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Coup d'___
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Video-game console maker that made the number 2600 famous
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"I am ___" (classic Eowyn line from the movie)
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Auctioneer's warning
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Latifah Alattas' moniker, ___ Spira / 40U. Make a complete hash of things
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Taj ___
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Feudal worker / 43U. What characters in horror movies should never, ever do
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Fiscal exec / 48U. Type of magic that will almost certainly involve sleight of hand and misdirection
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NBC sketch show
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Regain consciousness / 53U. "___ on aisle three" (loudspeaker message in a supermarket, perhaps)
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Less friendly, as a reception
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Bowler's challenge
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"Game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose" (Churchill)
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List ender
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"Dallas Buyers Club" Oscar actor Jared ___
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"Straight away!"
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Prefix meaning "half"
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Light brown
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Lasting mark
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Cuts wood / 66U. Almost pull off a crime but make one teeny, tiny mistake
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Letter after pi
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Winter hrs. in Denver
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Into The 3rd Dimension (Meta)
◆ · Por benchen71 · Publicado hace alrededor de 1 año
The answer to the meta is a 1900s play that was made into a 1930s movie
This "week 4" puzzle is the result of a restless night's sleep. Now, I am quite certain no one will have heard of the meta answer, which is a 1900s play that was made into a 1930s movie, so Google will be needed. But I think I've given you enough to get you there. (I hope!) Answer & explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=168540#p168540
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!
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Clever mechanism! I think obstacles will include the nontrivial googling, the semi-unusual left-right ordering, and the non-US meaning of "third floor."
The "ground" floor in 31U was a big clue in that direction.
For me the hard thing was googling. I was sure the answer had to be "PASSING UP" but that darn pesky reality got in the way again (surely the universe can retroactively create a 1900s play when it fits the meta so well). I found a page on wikipedia of films based on plays but due to the formatting I misread it and didn't get to the full list at the bottom.
Yep, that's why the meta hint explicitly mentioned "ground floor"! :-)
MatthewL 🤓6:37 · hace alrededor de 1 año
Oy. That was all kinds of difficult. Maybe needs to be upgraded to Level 5. Got step 1 right away, but then tried about a bajillion different ways to apply the clue at 31D (and at 9A) before finally hitting on the right thing. More like work than fun (I jest). Thanks for the puzzle, Ben!
HeadinHome 🤓8:45 · hace alrededor de 1 año
Loved this even though I’ve never heard of the movie. Figured out I was on the wrong floor by thinking about 20A (SPAT is the same in US .. why would he…?)
I didn't intend that, but I'm glad it helped! The US version of the NIV has "spit" used for the past tense (eg. Mark 7:33), but I've always wondered how widespread that usage was.
HeadinHome 🤓8:45 · hace alrededor de 1 año
And yes, most versions in US are “he spit on the ground and made mud…”
HeadinHome 🤓8:45 · hace alrededor de 1 año
Yes - I think Americans use either for the past tense. I’ve always said “I spat it out” or “Mom! she spat on me!” … but it could be a localism because our family heritage is Appalachian (Scots-Irish). Definitely we would never say “she spat up” (for vomited)… that would always be “she spit up.” Language is weird.
Very tricksy! I thought of Nella Larsen's excellent novel "Passing" which I believe has been made into (multiple?) film(s?). But that of course didn't fit the prompt. Not familiar with this film, do you recommend it?
And that's why everyone should know this movie! ;-)
Berto 2s · hace alrededor de 1 año
I was so close! I started writing down G-N-I-S and thought “what nonsense is this!?” And then when nudged back down that path I could only find the 2021 film - gah! Will have to remember this title for charades (put it alongside Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines!!) - thanks Ben!
Meg 4s · hace alrededor de 1 año
Finally found PASSING and then went to IMDB. The nudge about floors in Australia was helpful. Was there a different path?
You found the intended path: once you get PASSING going BACKwards on the THIRDFLOOR you have all the key words of the title and Google should get you there.
Laura M 🤓8:23 · hace alrededor de 1 año
I had it all except for the ground floor thing, I can't believe I missed that... But yay Jerome K. Jerome! I'm not sure that Three Men in a Boat makes it into my top ten favorite books (there's a lot of competition) but I enjoyed it a lot when I read it several years ago, after reading Connie Willis' sci-fi/time-travel classic To Say Nothing of the Dog (also recommend!).
Found the mechanism about a quarter of the way through the grid (when I tried to enter CLEAN UP for 53D). But executing it gave me gibberish so I figured I was doing something wrong. Even when I anagramed to PASSING I couldn't turn that into the answer via google. Eventually got told that was the right track and went back to google and eventually found it. Very cool and original mechanism. :)
hoover 5s · hace 12 meses
I went too far. Step 1 was I took the circle letters and solved the Up clues in the 3rd dimension. Step 2 was I found the matching words elsewhere in the grid. Step 3 was I took the CLUES for those matching words and tried to do something with them... Rabbit holes included noticing TADA, A-ONE, ADO, OF in the leftover letters of the entries, as well as OTEMO is METOO anagrammed.
KayW 🤓9:46 · hace 12 meses
LOL fourth time is the charm:
PASSING UP
PASSING
(both of those because googling movies made from plays wasn't giving me anything)
PASSING OF THE THIRDFLOOR BACK
THE PASSING OF THE THIRDFLOOR BACK
Very creative metanism, Ben! I kind of knew what to do but was not aware of the difference in floor-countings. Thanks!