Say Nothing
◆ · Por DrTom · Publicado hace 12 meses
Meta Prompt
What most people feel the title means
Well you've had beers, celebrated Moms, and dropped acid so now it is time to sit back and say nothing. This was directly inspired by a past meta, not sure if it was a Gaffney, Shenk or Birnholz but I "borrowed" at least a part of the mechanism. That is only tacky if I don't say I did that, so now the only thing tacky is the puzzle itself.
This should be no more than a Calico for the vast majority of solvers therefore:
Kitten
CALICO
Persian
Puma
Lion
My testers were ajk, KayW and lbray53 who besides making sure this was not a flight of Tom fancy also gave me some valuable feedback on clues and possible pitfalls. They thankfully did not take the advice of the puzzle and all said something. Now I hope all of you will say something like "Cat's Out!"
Nudges Friday if necessary
FRIDAY NUDGES:
Nudge 1] Well for once the "Title" isn't everything. BUT the nudge clue 67A sure is!
Nudge 2] Did you notice that the long answers (presumably the themers) are all exactly 10 characters long?
Nudge 3] There are 4 of these "themers"
Nudge 4] The meta answer is 8 letters
B I G N U D G E] The answer is 8 letters long, there are 4 2 x 5 letter word answers, do what 67A tells you to
The Reveal:
There were 5 theme answers (the long ones) and each was composed of two, rather forced, 5 letter words.
Clue 67A said "Defendants who want to say nothing will often take the ___"
That obviously ties in with the Meta title, and gives a hint towards the solving mechanism.
Looking at the 5 theme answers and taking the fifth letter of each word:
CORG(I)CLAI(M)
BEIN(G)ELIH(U)
HAIT(I)CRAW(L)
ABBO(T)ALLE(Y)
I'M GUILTY - the meta answer
For a graphic representation of the solve go to:
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Este es un crucigrama meta o de concurso. Para presentar tu respuesta, primero termina de resolver la cuadrícula (o revélala si te trabas o si la resolviste sin conexión).
Thanks, Tom!