Triplet of Triplets

◆ · Por Mikey G · Publicado 2024-11-30T18:00:18.074Z

Meta Prompt

[Level 2] The answer to the meta is a 20th-century novel.

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KayW solved 2024-11-30T18:28:44.334Z
Darrell solved 2024-11-30T18:47:27.633Z
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Mikey G constructor · 2024-11-30T18:00:18.074Z
Answer: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES

Explanation: This puzzle revolves around a triplet of triplets, and 2/3 of each is in the puzzle! Three across clues are duplicated in the downs, and a different entry answers each. We have Bronte sisters EMILY and CHARLOTTE, Male Clue surnames PLUM and MUSTARD, and 1934 Best Actor nominees POWELL and MORGAN. We take the missing element in each, in the order the across clue appears, and we have ANNE GREEN GABLE, a thorough nudge to seal the deal and recognize the final novel as the adorable, heartwarming 1908 "Anne of Green Gables" by Lucy Maud Montgomery, whose birthday is 11/30, that of this puzzle's release!

A few things here: I desperately wanted to call the puzzle "Kindred Spirits," and the clue for THREE would've been slightly adjusted, but it wasn't quite strong enough. The "kindred spirits" nod remains, and it's one of the ideas central to the book. You puzzlers are some kindred spirits of mine, after all! Also, regarding the Oscar nominees: it is considered protocol that the year of nomination is for the year the film is released, even though the awards (and the nominees themselves) are given the following year. Starting with the awards given out in 1934 would make you realize we're off by a year. Wildly, back in the day, there were only three Best Actor nominees for a time - and, yes, of course Gable had to be nominated. Can't win unless you're nominated first!
KayW 🤓6:09 · 2024-11-30T18:33:27.685Z
LOL this TRIPs the light fantastic, Mikey. Very clever, and all those puns are just what I need on a chilly day. Thanks!
Carolyn 2s · 2024-11-30T19:00:37.306Z
Nice one!
Qmark 2s · 2024-11-30T19:16:20.515Z
Fun one...thanks Mikey!
hoover 2s · 2024-11-30T18:54:39.351Z
Eye of newt and toe of frog, this was a fun one! The title really gives away the mechanism, especially after you see the second duplicate clue. Also, I started to fill 18D with MRGREEN but it didn't fit.
boharr 2s · 2024-11-30T20:03:25.734Z
Nice one. Thanks
HeadinHome 🤓12:30 · 2024-11-30T19:59:29.532Z
Okay - had to google the 1934 (though if I had thought about it longer, with Brontë and Green, could have backsolved!). Fun one!!
- Mikey G constructor · 2024-12-05T07:01:04.432Z
  Yeah, I tried first to find another triplet for Gable, and there was something about actors nominated three times in the '30s, but I think there's actually four. Thanks for solving!!
Berto 1s · 2024-11-30T19:50:43.036Z
Thanks Mikey!
Dave C 3s · 2024-11-30T21:23:34.951Z
I enjoyed it.
Tyrpmom 2s · 2024-11-30T21:20:00.200Z
Fun. Thanks.
SJMcK 🤓9:11 · 2024-11-30T22:46:54.530Z
Easier than a 3, I thought
kurtalert 🤓3:31 · 2024-12-01T00:32:01.728Z
Terrific - nice and smooth, thanks Mikey!
JHSeeman 3s · 2024-11-30T21:28:55.965Z
Great puzzle for a chilly afternoon with a glass of bourbon to take the edge off.
woozy 🤓12:03 · 2024-12-01T01:58:43.231Z
Okay, THREE so take the third letter of each triplet emIly chArlotte anNe. Cool a book authored by an IAN muStard, plUm, grEen. With a co author of a SUE and the third coauthor is . RWB? An monagram? Don't know. Maybe just the missing ones NEB. Neb? What's that? Maybe taking the third letter was overthinking it. ECA, MPG, MPG, so two internet video formats but what is ECA? Maybe just the missing ones? AGG? Agriculture? OH, NO! I'M STUCK! OH, NO! I'M STUCK! OH, NO! I'M STUCK!. What can I do with the nine names? Or with the three missing names: ANNE, GREEN, GABLE, ... oh.
- Mikey G constructor · 2024-12-05T06:59:37.086Z
  I feel like a broken record whenever I say it, but your solving monologues are a gift.
whimsy 🤓18:49 · 2024-12-01T02:01:11.616Z
Something funny -- I got a little picture notification at the bottom of my screen (there's probably a name for it) that I noticed earlier today that informed me that it was Mark Twain's birthday! I wonder if they're kindred spirits. Fun puzzle! When I got Anne, I thought it was going to be a title that started with "An ..." so I was initially bummed out to get a "G" rather than a vowel next. But then I wasn't. Thanks, Mikey!
- Mikey G constructor · 2024-12-05T06:59:49.167Z
  Oh, cool! You bet!!
DrTom 2s · 2024-12-01T17:30:28.930Z
Well kindred spirits are certainly not rare on the Muggles forum. I almost got distracted by the shiny letter and then double letter triplets (3 of course) of which there are nine (well 11 if you count Charlotte and Uproot) but it spelled nothing and then I looked at my scribbled and saw GREEN ANNE GABLE and of course it clicked. Thanks for the puzzle Mikey, and the puns. Especially liked the Tapir one. I might have to watch Anne again
- Mikey G constructor · 2024-12-05T07:00:16.618Z
  I haven't seen an adaptation of it yet! Loved the book so much when I encountered it last year. Thank you for being such a kindred spirit!
MatthewL 🤓6:02 · 2024-12-01T22:05:44.256Z
Fun one Mikey! Thanks for the puzzle.
Darth 🤓13:03 · 2024-12-01T22:28:46.282Z
Nice! Good things come in 3's. Thanks, MikeyG.
DavyGravy 2s · 2024-12-01T22:24:55.680Z
I liked all the puns - regardless of whether I solve!
DIS 🤓6:20 · 2024-12-02T16:25:13.724Z
The puns are hell, but the meta is Avonlea.
Clark E. Tripe 🤓6:50 · 2024-12-03T17:43:27.170Z
Loved the mx, Mikey! Nice!
Bird Lives 3s · 2024-12-05T03:38:34.805Z
Ah, Christmas colors -- Green Gables and Kind Red Spirits.
- Mikey G constructor · 2024-12-05T07:01:14.511Z
  Oh, wow, that is good.
- woozy 🤓12:03 · 2024-12-05T16:43:55.999Z
  Ah, and "Red or Green" is the new "state question" of New Mexico which is supposed to put us in mind of "Gold and Silver" the (translation) of Montana's motto. Silver and Gold are also Christmas colors and also metals in alloys. Putting us in mind of the famous work of self-reference: Egbert B. Gebstadter's "Copper, Silver, Gold: An Indestructible Metallic Alloy". Meaning the missing key is COPPER as in David Copperfield. But that's 19th century novel, not 20th, but Barbra Kingsolver's did a derivation of it Demon Copperhead and that averages to 20th century. Copperhead is, of course, and snake found in the grasslands. So obviously the answer to this meta is Gebatadter's (other?) work "Giraffes, Elephants, Baboons: An Equatorial Grasslands Bestiary", which must qualify as a novel as it is a work of fiction.
Meta World Peace 8s · 2024-12-07T02:48:51.636Z
Yes, Mikey--"kindred spirits" is a perfect description of the crossword crowd!

Play today's daily mini crossword

Brontë sister

Horizontales

1A
Brontë sister
6A
Honey ___ (cereal whose mascot is Dig 'Em Frog)
12A
"Leaving my lecture on polynomials already?"
14A
"It Started in Naples" actress Loren
15A
David, notably
16A
Wandering
17A
You can bank on it!
19A
Encircles
20A
If you don't study your rhino relatives, your knowledge might ___ off
24A
Self-deprecating congressman Mo who wrote "Too Funny to Be President" in 1987 (middle letter is an "A")
26A
Versatile kind of tire (or how often Mikey puns)
28A
Switch positions
31A
Male surname in a typical game of Clue
32A
Short change?
33A
Jazz home
34A
314-15-9265, e.g.
35A
Aquatic creature that needs to come out of its shell already
37A
Bouillon or soup mix brand (but I brought neither ___)
39A
"Could you ___ study for your law exam already?"
40A
Palindromic title
42A
Save for later, in a way: Abbr.
44A
You often recall them for scent-imental reasons
46A
Chat, informally
51A
Recipient of a 1934 nomination for Best Actor
52A
Go around
53A
The excited broadcaster is live right now! He's walking ___
54A
Number in a triplet (whose members might be called kindred spirits, perhaps)

Verticales

1D
Music center?
2D
Bon ___ (witty remark) (so that rules me out)
3D
Rose-rose link
4D
Kit and caboodle
5D
Less-than-desired response to, "So, who's cleaning the house today?"
6D
157.5 deg.
7D
Recipient of a 1934 nomination for Best Actor
8D
Don't get fooled when it arrives!
9D
Brontë sister
10D
Sort
11D
HS exams that went all-digital in 2024
13D
What you might get if you ask for a ten back?
18D
Male surname in a typical game of Clue
20D
Spigots
21D
Contraction in a Shakespearean title
22D
Drop abruptly
23D
Surreal ending?
25D
"Methinks thou ___ protest too much" (about all my puns)
27D
PC brand whose name contains a playing card
29D
Lioness voiced by Moira Kelly
30D
"___ Come Undone" (1992 book by Wally Lamb)
33D
Link letters
35D
Resident from Mogadishu
36D
Pull from the ground, like weeds that somehow KEEP COMING BACK (ahem)
38D
"Just to ___ few..."
40D
When an atlas gets tired, it has to lay down for a ___
41D
End of a buck?
43D
A "Time" mag. cover story in 1984 called it "Santa's hottest gift"
45D
Camera type, for short
47D
High degree?
48D
That's not even close!
49D
"You don't have to write that you 'engaged in the ingestion of comestibles' - '___' is enough!"
50D
"How'd you do on the quilting exam?" "Got a ___"