Here's another meta for you in which most of the challenge will be completing the grid. (If you're doing this one on paper I highly recommend that you use pencil!) The answer to the meta is an obtrusive noun. Answer & explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=192192#p192192
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Lance 2s · hace 4 meses
This was quite clever! I could not figure out for the life of me how ER was not correct in 43A, or that ODE did not fit for 44A (though ER did fit in front of ODE!) and so I knew something goofy was going on. Well designed!
Meg 2:08 · hace 4 meses
Very nice!
hoover 3s · hace 4 meses
Oh thank goodness! I thought I had to find alternate answers for BADPR, OTTO, UBER, etc.
yeah, that was my first instinct as well, but I quickly abandoned it
whimsy 20:53 · hace 4 meses
Very cute, along with the concept! Loved the "seriousness" of the "big words" and textbook drawing matched with the light-hearted idiom!
Enjoyable -- Thanks, Ben!
DIS 🤓19:30 · hace 4 meses
Pretty cool when it's totally baffling and then it clicks. Thanks!
imontoo 2s · hace 4 meses
Thank you for the heads up to use a pencil!
Clever, Ben. Thanks!
Bird Lives 3s · hace 4 meses
Nice one. I've seen this kind of thing in non-meta NYT puzzles, but they didn't have the added difficulty (difficult for the constructor) of having the out-of-line letters spell a word. Bravo.
Carolyn 4s · hace 4 meses
Lots of fun!
InAJelly 13:36 · hace 4 meses
Good one! Got stuck on the first two themers for a bit thinking they would be "SELF FORMATION", "TROLL REMARKS", but knew I had them wrong after I got the 3rd one. MOAT crossed!
Well that was a ride! I got caught up in that two of the "oddities" I solved at first were UB ER and ER ODE so I was sure ER figured into it until I did more of the puzzle. Then I saw that I was having to go around things to get to where I wanted to be and the inferred obtrusive noun DETOUR made sense (something sticking out so I had to DETOUR around it). When CROSSHARE rebuked me I tried again, this time taking the "unused" parts of the three "odd" entries PR UB CE which my mind quickly filled in as the "sticky out" PROTUBERANCE (my wife HATES that I can do that on Wheel of Fortune, I often have the answer WAY before any of the contestants - "crossword training", I tell her), then I went back and looked. I had a tough time at first because I had GTP not GTT (long and complicated reason) so I was doing a "What, is the British spelling of PROBLEM now PROUBLEM like COLOR/COLOUR!" But saw my mistake and there were the missing letters. I liked the meta even if I did not like the fill and its PROUBLEMMAKERS
lbray53 3s · hace 4 meses
It took me a bit (after submission actually) to figure out the serpentine fill for 19A, 36A and 58A. I had to go back to the title. That is when I noticed the true elegance of the puzzle.
Busy day for me, but I managed to complete the puz in several sittings as I kept it in the background while I worked. Gotta have "priorities" you know. haha Thanks, Ben.
MatthewL 🤓14:21 · hace 4 meses
You were entirely correct -- grid very challenging, meta, not so much. But a lot of fun was had along the way. Thanks for the puzzle, Ben!
Didn't have time to get to this yesterday, so just getting around to it. Can't say it was fun to fill the grid--too many entries I had no idea about. The meta itself only took a minute or two (after I scanned through the clues once to look for an alt to BADPR, it was the next thing I tried). Cool idea, and the answer is very clever. :) Thanks.
ELSavage 🤓10:49 · hace 4 meses
You were right, the grid was harder than the meta. Had to figure out the mechanism to finish the grid, and then it was just a matter of what to do with the odd bumps.
Enjoyable -- Thanks, Ben!
Clever, Ben. Thanks!