It's great that there's a place for the, shall we say, more unusual crossword puzzles that come to mind every now and then. And MEOW is that place! I trust you will enjoy the unusual grid and are able to find your way to the meta answer, which is a name. (Note that the numbers in brackets are word enumerations and are not meta-related; they are provided to help fill in the uncrossed entries.) Answer and explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=107128#p107128
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lbray53 solved 2022-09-22T12:26:11.869Z
Cindy Weatherman solved 2022-09-22T12:27:25.614Z
Meg solved 2022-09-22T12:31:54.326Z
DIS solved 2022-09-22T12:56:52.098Z
Qmark solved 2022-09-22T12:59:11.583Z
Darth solved 2022-09-22T13:11:34.360Z
boharr solved 2022-09-22T14:02:58.584Z
Hector solved 2022-09-22T14:17:05.213Z
Bbaack solved 2022-09-22T14:55:16.246Z
markhr solved 2022-09-22T14:59:55.202Z
rjy solved 2022-09-22T16:11:47.702Z
oldjudge solved 2022-09-22T19:05:51.565Z
I K Snamhcok solved 2022-09-22T19:32:44.669Z
Bird Lives solved 2022-09-22T20:07:50.732Z
CPJohnson solved 2022-09-22T21:46:07.300Z
SeamusOL solved 2022-09-22T23:26:30.628Z
whimsy solved 2022-09-23T03:28:40.766Z
Wendy S HeadinHome solved 2022-09-23T11:32:40.711Z
Sharkicicles solved 2022-09-23T12:43:14.997Z
edestlin solved 2022-09-23T13:15:29.945Z
MH solved 2022-09-23T15:47:12.301Z
BrennerTJ solved 2022-09-23T17:30:59.171Z
hoover solved 2022-09-23T23:11:29.526Z
Gutman solved 2022-09-24T00:50:35.261Z
Mikey G solved 2022-09-24T05:41:54.237Z
KayW solved 2022-09-24T14:02:29.944Z
woozy solved 2022-09-27T05:59:50.366Z
MrTheHan solved 2022-10-31T19:33:16.528Z
swagdude solved 2022-11-10T16:49:05.422Z
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Sorry about that misdirect. Elements definitely have names, though.
DIS 🤓5:07 · 2022-09-22T12:57:15.355Z
Definitely needed the nudges -- thanks.
Qmark 7:20 · 2022-09-22T13:00:29.580Z
Wow, Ben! That was tough but awesome construction.
I needed the 3rd Nudge to get me thinking chemically...once I saw that the Ps jumped out at me.
Darth 🤓2:53 · 2022-09-22T13:12:20.685Z
I thought it was going to be a name of a person. Hmm...
boharr 3s · 2022-09-22T14:04:44.227Z
As noted in the comments, using "name" as a prompt is practically useless. Everything has name.
rjy 10s · 2022-09-22T16:16:50.262Z
Yeah - my first two answers were SILICON SALLY and SILICONE SALLY, expecting the answer to be a "name" name. Some variants of the "She Sells Sea Shells" rhyme refer to "Sally sells sea shells..."
...tho some references to SILICONE SALLY tiptoe away from family-friendly G-rated crossword conventions
sings "Silicon Sally" (not the other, haha) to "Mustang Sally," adjusting syllables as needed
Bird Lives 5s · 2022-09-22T20:10:28.903Z
I was going to name my daughter Silicon, hoping that it would help her get a full scholarship at Stanford. Then it turned out to be a boy. Silicon is just no a name for a boy.
Bbaack 9:44 · 2022-09-22T15:00:50.711Z
I needed the nudges for this one as well as Google to remind me what I learned in chemistry a long time ago. Nice construction!
rjy 10s · 2022-09-22T17:07:32.362Z
Incidentally - my alternate answer for 1A was INSTITUTIONAL BANK - same number of letters, same first/last letters, just one fewer E. Would've made for a Silicon ion...
Glad you found an outlet for all those wonderful puns!
KayW 8:12 · 2022-09-24T14:06:05.802Z
A very clever puzzle!! Again this week - me, not so much. I too tried PETER PIPER pre-nudges. I lost track of how many atomic-related scientists I tried (LOL Ben can probably see that from the stats). It didn't help that at first pass I counted 13 Ps and Es, and didn't think to recount until this morning. I too was stuck on people names rather than element names - but I understand the need for ambiguity in the prompt.
I thought there was going to be some crazy matching up of all the "shells" now into the 5-by-5 grid and having all the "P"s stand for something. They certainly did, of course, but I was never getting there. In retrospect, I wish I did since I also tutor chemistry, but if you don't see it, you don't see it.
I probably would've went with "7-letter word" on the prompt, since I was a bit surprised that SILICON actually worked! (I'm also assuming 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p2 is in play with the "E"s representing electrons in the corresponding shells!)